Xbox Live down intermittently — here we go again

While Xbox Live was up and running for many people today, the service is once again collapsing under crushing demand.

Many people are complaining that they can’t access games like Destiny or other online games on Xbox One and Xbox 360. Microsoft has updated its service site to acknowledge that problems. In addition to people having troubles accessing games, many people are finding it difficult to play multiplayer matches in games that use matchmaking to hook you up with other people. Xbox Live went down on the morning of Dec. 25, and the cyberattacker group Lizard Squad took responsibility for it. But the band of Internet vandals explained earlier today that it stopped its barrage because of a donation of lifetime memberships to the file-transfer site Mega courtesy of that place’s boss, Kim Dotcom.