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Xbox experienced a strange outage earlier this week. Not only were the platform’s online services unavailable for almost an entire day, but even games on physical discs stopped working for some players. The company’s technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, explained that the outage was caused by problems at an external licensing service. And if your…

Many Xbox owners could not play on Monday. After engineers cleared the problem, the division’s chief technology officer explained what broke. Scott Van Vliet said an external licensing service that Xbox and several partners rely on began failing late Sunday night, and the fallout spread from there.