Something going on with Live?

Microsoft's award-winning Xbox Live service has been consistently reliable since its launch way back in 2002. But unusually, today it seems to be suffering from a huge disruption as gamers the world over are reporting issues playing multiplayer games of Call of Duty, the Battlefield 3 Beta, Gears of War 3, FIFA 12 and many more.

Joypad lock ups, system crashes, greyed out menu options and a complete inability to play anything online are all symptoms I've personally experienced across a wide range of games since earlier today.

To confuse matters further, however, Xbox Live partys seem to be unreliable and communications are all over the shop.

With no official statement from Microsoft explaining this outage, we can't help but wonder whether something untoward is going on, particularly after the recent PSN outages.

More as we get it.

Party chat was a joke at times last night

I reckon someone broke something while getting the system ready for the fall update......ejits...

oh great and here was me about to jump online tonight!!

I had issues with Party Chat yesterday, thought it was just me, phew

Matt