Gamers worldwide experienced widespread outages on Tuesday due to a major Microsoft Azure disruption.
The outage affected parts of the Xbox network, Minecraft, and other Microsoft services, with players unable to sign in, play online games, or access Game Pass.
Microsoft 365 services were also affected due to the ongoing Azure issue.
Microsoft confirmed the problem on its status pages and directed users to follow the @AzureSupport account for updates.
Author's summary: Xbox and Minecraft services were down due to Azure outage.