Gamers worldwide experienced widespread outages on Tuesday due to a major Microsoft Azure disruption.
Players reported being unable to sign in, play online games, or access Game Pass, with Xbox's Live Core Services, Purchases and Content Usage, and Social and Gaming functions all listed as down.
Microsoft confirmed the problem on its status pages, saying that Microsoft 365 services were also affected due to the ongoing Azure issue.
The company directed users to follow the @AzureSupport account for updates.
Author's summary: Xbox and Minecraft down due to Azure outage.