It looks like Xbox Live is down ... and no explanation has hit our mailbox yet. Most people can sign into Xbox Live, but are unable to play any online games. As soon as we hear why Live went down or when it'll be back up we'll pass along the news. Hopefully it won't be too long as we've yet to see a long term outage, but prepare for the worse. Until then you can always play some Geometry Wars.Update 3: It looks like Live is up (as of 1:55AM EST) and running ... or so for our little test. We were able to host and join a ranked game of Gears of War successfully. We haven't received official confirmation that it's up and running, but it looks to be fixed.
Update 2: For overnight coverage and status updates on the Live outage please visit Major Nelson. On the left side of his blog, below his gamercard, he's keeping a log of information he has received about our little Live crisis. You can do it Xbox Live techs, we have faith!
Update 1: According to Xbox.com, the matchmaking aspect of Live is down. If you're experiencing issues with certain game's offline features (Gears of War), simply disconnect your Xbox 360 from the internet. Pull the plug or rip off the wireless adapter, then you'll at least be able to play campaign. Stay tuned for more updates as they filter in.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:20PM
headwoundcity said...
tear, no more Warzone....and on my day off too! Well I guess I WILL take my girlfriend to dinner.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:21PM
MisterFuhrman said...
Thank you for posting this! I was about to go insane thinking my xbox is messed up.
By the way, I finally got to the host screen on Gears, but alas, nobody showed up to play.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:26PM
Tig said...
This is probably completely unrelated, but the guitar hero website is also down as of 10:30 eastern time.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:29PM
Keith said...
So it wasn't just Gears of War. Hmm....
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12-27-2006 @ 10:30PM
Machiavelli said...
It's the end of the world! Really I thought I was banned to play any games due to my crappy rep...
25% preferred, 75% avoided. Mostly all about communication when I rarely talk in the game.
At least I'm not the only one... just when I renewed my subscription too, how lucky am I?
Highly unlikely but maybe now all games will support 1080p...who knows I just hope for a quick fix.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:34PM
Josh said...
I was wondering what was up today. I haven't been able to go into matchmaking in COD3, NBA Live 07, or Halo 2 for nearly 8 hours now
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12-27-2006 @ 10:35PM
chops said...
could the fact that the halo beta is up and running have anything to do with it?
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Major+Nelson
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12-27-2006 @ 10:37PM
Soapy said...
I can't seem to play single player in Gears.... SINGLE PLAYER!!!! Is it only me or because of XBL???
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12-27-2006 @ 10:40PM
Steve said...
Nope, no one can play Gears single player without unplugging your 360 from the router. Lame, Epic. I've never seen an online service take down a single player game...
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12-27-2006 @ 10:41PM
James said...
Xbox.com --
Xbox Live is currently experiencing issues with Matchmaking. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and Thank You for your patience.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:44PM
chops said...
people are experincing problems but major nelson is playin pimps at sea (h3 beta) as i type this.
go figure...
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12-27-2006 @ 10:50PM
Machiavelli said...
Apparently there is a problem with matchmaking so says on Xbox.com
Who monitors Xbox Live?
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/trixie/xboxundercover/xboxundercover-xoc.htm
Some more interesting speculation
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 728.HK) and China Netcom (NYSE: CN; 906.HK) confirmed on December 27 that Internet users in mainland China are having difficulties visiting websites outside of the Mainland due to the earthquake near Taiwan, reports Eastday.com. The earthquake damaged at least six of Mainland's optical networks leading out of China, said the report. Instant messaging (IM) tools Skype and MSN messenger were down as well.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200612/200612280011.html
An earthquake in southern Taiwan on Tuesday night damaged an undersea optic cable, causing serious disruptions to international phone lines and Internet connections in Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
The earthquake estimated at 7.1 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey shook the ocean floor 23 km southwest of Hengchun, southern Taiwan at 9:26 p.m. on Tuesday. At least six undersea optic cables connecting Korea, China and Japan, Hong Kong and Macau, and mainland China, Hong Kong, the U.S. and Europe were cut off, causing communications interruptions on Wednesday.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:50PM
Machiavelli said...
God Damn X-Mas noobs gezzz yall ruined it for all of us...
Called tech support and the problem is (according to the person on the phone) is that the servers cannot sustain the volume of users on XBL. In other words, they were unprepared for the number of players during the holiday. No real ETA for this to be resolved, but suggested trying every hour.
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12-27-2006 @ 10:53PM
Ken said...
What!? I can't play SINGLE PLAYER on Gears of War?
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12-27-2006 @ 10:55PM
jarg said...
There was an earthquake in Taiwan earlier today that disrupted Internet communications. It may be related, but I'm not sure.
I love Geometry Wars, although the time I had my highest score (about 340,000) I wasn't connected to Xbox Live because my ISP was having connectivity issues, so it did not save my score on live, that sucks.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:13PM
Don Wilson said...
You don't realise how great XBL is until it's down like this.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:23PM
Ken said...
It looks like you can play Gears of War (single player) by just signing out of Xbox Live -- no need to disconnect from the network.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:24PM
Scott said...
$14 - Unhook your 360 from the internet (ethernet cord or wireless adapter. That seems to solve most folk's problems.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:27PM
Ozyman666 said...
I guess it doesn't affect BFMC. I've been playing it most of the night.
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12-27-2006 @ 11:48PM
Keith said...
@ 19 : BFMC Uses EA servers. That's why it isn't affected, if it were on Microsoft servers it would be down.
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