Ubisoft apologises to Assassin’s Creed 2 purchasers who found themselves unable to play due to attacks on the verification servers, offering free game downloads in exchange for their forgiveness. More »
The PlayStation Network has been giving readers a bit of trouble today, so we dropped a line to Sony to get the down low on the down time, most of which should be behind us. More »
Xbox Live has just successfully completed an entire day of downtime. Unfortunately, the current uptime isn’t quite as successful, with missing games, failing downloads, and unredeemable code issues abounding. More »
At the time of this writing, Xbox Live is currently down. Turning on your Xbox 360 will give you a ‘signed into Live’ message, but then the system will idle for a bit (as seen above) and return to the sign in message. This of course follows Monday’s background update meant to help prepare for the switchover to the New Xbox Experience in November, and the multitude of problems that followed. The US Xbox 360 support site currently lists Live status thusly:
Users will not be able to connect or log into Xbox LIVE. We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Patience, my friends. I’m sure the issues will clear up soon enough. In the meantime I urge my friends to stop IMing me to complain that they cannot play Call of Duty 4 online.
[Thanks Rodney!]
Update: Larry Hryb, director of Xbox Live, tells me that the engineers have figured out what’s wrong and are working on a solution.
