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UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET:Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said his team has traced today’s outage to the failure of a licensing service that “Xbox depends on.” That triggered sign-in scenarios to fail, followed by “many scenarios that require an entitlement check…such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own,” he tweeted.…

It happened two times in two weeks: First Sony’s PlayStation Network, then Microsoft’s Xbox experienced significant outages. Monday’s Xbox outage was particularly galling for users, since many Xbox games these days require authentication

Psychonauts developer Double Fine Productions was among the five studios spun off from Xbox as part of its ongoing restructuring, and while it (thankfully) avoided closure, the divorce has forced the team to make cuts. Specifically, the studio has announced the departures of 23 staff members.

I am known to be a lover of survival games. It’s important to understand here that I don’tmeansurvival horror or survival crafting or all the other genres that call themselves “survival” when they’re more about running away from zombies or punching trees. To me, a true survival game can have someof those elements, but the…