After last week's debacle of Xbox Live being down on the same day as Halo: Campaign Evolved suffered errors that prevented people from its early access launch, you'd think they would calm down at Xbox, right?
Well, you'd be wrong because Xbox Live has once again suffered an outage that's been preventing people from logging into their profiles, accessing their games, and launching them, as confirmed by Xbox's X profile this morning.
We are aware that some users are encountering errors when attempting to sign in, see your game library, or launch games. Our engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue. For updates, please follow along here or on https://t.co/Ehlmwc7gX0.July 27, 2026
According to Xbox Live's Status webpage, currently its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, App & Mobile, and Games & Gaming functions are unavailable thanks to outages, but Xbox's engineers are currently working on fixing them, and they'll let players know once they're back up as soon as possible.
Faith in digital media has been heavily shaken in recent weeks, what with Sony discontinuing games and pulling 500 movies from people's accounts without refunds.
With these recent debacles at Xbox, it's adding more fuel to the hot debate about whether piracy is the only way to preserve and own games without being shackled to online servers prone to system failures or DDoS attacks that could permanently damage them.
A debate that has drawn the attention of not only high-profile game developers like Hideo Kojima but also politicians to boot, like France's presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, both of whom have a negative opinion of a digital-only future where nobody truly owns anything.
In the meantime, as this debate rages on, we'll keep an eye on Xbox Live and let you know when it turns back on so you can get back to playing games.
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