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Thanks for 25 Years, XBOX Players — From Wolfenstein 3 and Halo Firefight to Classic XBOX Games on PC: Everything Announced Today

Microsoft published this on 13 November 2026. Below is what our monitor is reading from Xbox Live’s own status feed right now, and how the servers have held up lately.

Checked 13 Nov 2026, 10:20 GMT·Re-checked every 5 min·Source: operator feed

Xbox Live servers right now

Operational

Announcement published	13 November 2026, 01:00 UTC
Uptime we measured	100% over 7 days
Last disruption	12 Oct, 4h

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What the announcement says

Twenty-five years after the very first XBOX launched, Team XBOX came home to Seattle, the city where it all began, to close out our eight-city FanFest tour. The celebration has always been about you. Every achievement, every midnight launch, every friend you made along the way: that’s what built XBOX. So before anything else, thank […] The post Thanks for 25 Years, XBOX Players

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Announced by Microsoft on 13 November 2026. Source: news.xbox.com. We quote a short extract for identification and link to the original.