Xbox Live went down for the second time this week

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service went down again for the second time this week. Issues first began popping up some time after 7PM ET on Friday, with Down Detector indicating sharp spikes in user-reported connection problems and Microsoft later confirming Twitter that it’s “experiencing issues” with matchmaking, Party Chat, and Looking for Groups.”On Sunday, Xbox Live experienced a similar outage that lasted more than two hours.