It's not just you, Xbox is down again, and physical games aren't safe either

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The Xbox network outage started at 5:30am ET on Monday, and hours later Microsoft still hasn't said what's causing it or when it'll be fixed. Downdetector spiked with thousands of reports before Xbox's support page caught up and confirmed the issue.

By 8am ET, Microsoft posted an update acknowledging the outage was dragging on: "Just checking in on the game library, sign-in, and game launch issue," the company wrote, adding that engineers were still working on it.

– XBOX Support (@XBOXSupport) July 27, 2026