Xbox Live service has been restored after facing long hours of outage and celebritiy singer and avid gamer Snoop Dogg noticing Xbox and Microsoft via his Instagram account asking them to make amends to the service quickly before users start moving to PlayStation.
The restoration was confirmed by Xbox Support team on its Twitter account, “The issues should now be resolved! Please be sure to power cycle your Xbox console before trying to connect again.”
Features like in-game matchmaking, leaderboard, Game DVR, cloud storage and finding friends online; all were affected by this outage. The Xbox Live Status page indicated these features as being limited at the time.
The console attacks have been frequent news with Phantom Squad, the hacker group claiming to take down the Microsoft servers which affected the Xbox Live service last month via the DDOS (distributed denial of service) method. Not only that, PlayStation’s PSN was also down for hours last week. In 2014 too, both the services were out of order during Christmas holidays with Lizard Squad taking responsibility of the attacks.
Microsoft has not said what caused Xbox Live to go offline.