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According to Downdetector, users began complaining about the app shortly after 3 a.m., Sept. 3.

Xbox has confirmed that it’s currently experiencing what’s been officially deemed a “major outage” affecting Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Xbox 360 systems, and more – including web services and cloud gaming.

Fortnite went down for players on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch on August 28, blocking logins and matchmaking. Downdetector reports spiked as players hit network errors, frozen loading screens, and random disconnects trying to get into the lobby. Complaints piled up quickly on social media as well, with players on X asking whether the…

Xbox is telling every console owner to install a mandatory update by August 17, 2026, or risk running into the same bug that locked players out of games they already owned last month. The update closes a hole exposed by a July 26–27 outage that Xbox’s own chief technology officer, Scott Van Vliet, called “unacceptable”…

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.…

UPDATE 5:30 p.m. ET:Xbox says it’s “making progress on recovery” and that “most players should be able to launch titles and complete purchases again.” However, it warns that, “Some may still see occasional failures as we finish up.”

PlayStation Network status became a major concern on July 24, 2026, when a broad outage disrupted account access, online gaming, the PlayStation Store and other network-dependent features. The incident lasted for roughly eight hours before most services returned, according to Game Informer’s live outage report, which tracked Sony’s official service indicators during the disruption.

Earlier today, a massive PlayStation Network outage took services offline for thousandsof gamers worldwide, leaving them unable to sign into their accounts. Per reports on social media, this impacted the PlayStation Store, downloaded games, and any games that require a PlayStation Network connection.

On July 24, PlayStation Network experienced a major technical outage. Thousands of users around the world were unable to log in to their accounts, access the PlayStation Store, and play digital copies of games that require a network connection.

In a sea of bad headlines for PlayStation, a big network outage probably isn’t going to help.