Over a thousand gamers complained about not being able to join Xbox's party chats on Friday, prompting questions about whether there were issues with servers.

If we go back to this time last year, we mentioned how then-Xbox boss Phil Spencer was "excited" about the ongoing rollout of ...

UPDATE 10/29: Xbox services have been restored. The issue impacted Microsoft services in general, not just Xbox. Original story follows. Xbox is currently experiencing major technical problems, ...

Editors' Note: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate offers a slew of benefits, including a massive game library, diverse device support and both PC and console games. Nifty features like the ability to play on ...

Microsoft’s (MSFT) Q4 2024 earnings report included an update on its gaming division. Xbox content and services posted a massive growth number for the quarter, which was almost entirely driven by the ...

Microsoft has big plans for its new Xbox Music service when Windows 8 arrives on Oct. 26 and Windows Phone 8 a few days later on Oct. 29, but if you’re a gamer and you’d rather not wait, it’s actually ...

The Xbox Partner Preview unveiled a bunch of games coming over the next several months and beyond, and many of them are bound ...

It feels like any video game console you pick up is going to need to come with an online subscription service these days. With so many big games having online multiplayer and other online features ...

TL;DR: A major Microsoft Azure outage has disrupted Minecraft, leaving players unable to login, and hit Xbox as well as Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft is actively investigating these issues and ...

March 3, 2025 at 7:25 ET: Reports of Xbox outages appear to have gone down. Xbox Network is still down for some in the UK, but the spike shown on DownDetector indicates the network's availability is ...

Tyler Shipley is an editor for GameRant who has been writing for the team since 2021. Tyler has a degree in English from the University of Toledo. Some of his favorite games are platformers, but he ...