# Xbox promises that the causes of the recent outage, which rendered even game discs unplayable, have been fixed

> Xbox says it has fixed the issue at the heart of the major service outage suffered in July. Chief technical officer Scott Van Vliet, who initially offered an explanation as to why so many services were affected,…

- **Source:** [Eurogamer](https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-july-outage-issue-fixed-cto-update?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a7c65822cec0f9d75b4bdd1)
- **Published:** 2026-08-12
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Tags:** #playstation #xbox
- **Canonical:** http://localhost:4321/a/6a7c65822cec0f9d75b4bdd1

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