An Xbox outage has been preventing some games from launching since last night.
After a PS5 outage last week, now it’s apparently Xbox’s turn for problems, weeks after a massive wave of layoffs. …
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Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
… Outages like this, however, are showing the potential downside of a system that ties authentication requirements even to physical copies of games. The outage follows major layoffs at Xbox that were announced earlier this month. …
Psychonauts 2 Studio Double Fine Hit With Layoffs Amid Divestiture From Xbox - Kotaku
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Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages
… Following the major AWS outage last October , James Gosling, the lead designer of Java, who left his role as distinguished engineer at AWS in 2024 , said in a LinkedIn post that the company's focus on revenue generation at the expense of everything else resulted in layoffs to teams that didn't dire… …
Microsoft Reports $1.7 Billion Drop In Xbox Revenue For The Year
… Now He did not specify what that means By Rebekah Valentine Published July 29, 2026 Xbox Says Recent Outage Shouldn’t Have Screwed With Your Physical Games And Promises A Fix You should be able to play your disc-based games offline By Zack Zwiezen Published July 29, 2026 Microsoft Word Now Contains…
Xbox service is down, with outages meaning players can't play any digital or physical games, after similar PlayStation Network issues last week
… In the case of Microsoft, they've also arisen following sweeping layoffs across its gaming division . …
Critical Xbox Bug Has Been Fixed, Microsoft Says
… Van Vliet also promised Xbox players that the platform holder is working to improve reliability across the board, as well as roll out some "great new features" and "quality-of-life systems updates." Outages of this kind are uncommon but certainly not unheard of, although this one occurred at the wo… …
Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs
… This particular set of layoffs is very different than the mass layoffs we have been seeing at major studios across the industry for a while now. …
Xbox's devastating July was inevitable - Engadget
… Xbox blamed the outage on issues with a licensing service outside of Xbox, and CTO Scott Van Vliet, who took over the role in May , called it an " unacceptable situation ." Van Vliet later told The Verge that the issue shouldn't have affected the ability to play disc games on Xbox consoles, explain… …
PlayStation will be dropping the 'PSN' and 'PlayStation Network' branding in 2026
… Similar News Stories Ubisoft hits another studio with layoffs, 100+ employees offered severance packages Sony drops PSN login requirement for select singleplayer PlayStation PC games PlayStation Network outage: PSN servers offline for 17 hours and counting Sony offers PlayStation gamers compensatio… …