IGN team members in Europe could access core services, such as the PlayStation store, Friends list and game servers. Team members in Australia were unable to access the features. Both Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network services began suffering connectivity and functionality issues on December 25. Users were experiencing issues from accessing online games and features, inability to sign in to complete service outages. Both services had sporadic moments of varying functionality during the outage period with respective support teams providing continuous updates explaining efforts to investigate the issues and restore services. Core functions - connectivity, online multiplayer, and access to the online store - on Xbox Live were restored for Xbox One yesterday after Microsoft stabilized the service on Xbox 360 several hours earlier.
