Xbox Live is experiencing issues for the third time in a month

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is currently experiencing issues affecting online multiplayer, the company has confirmed. “We’re aware that some users may have trouble joining parties or playing online multiplayer & our teams are investigating,” Microsoft said in a tweet. Xbox Live’s status page shows that “Social and Gaming” and joining parties on Xbox One are affected at the moment. Down Detector indicated a spike in user-reported problems shortly before 2PM ET.

This is the third time in less than a month that Xbox Live has experienced notable problems. Xbox Live went down for more than two hours on March 15th and had a multihour outage on March 20th.

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