Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage

The company’s tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon. Xbox experienced a strange outage earlier this week. Not only were the platform's online services unavailable for almost an entire day, but even games on physical discs stopped working for some players. The company's technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, explained that the outage was caused by problems at an external licensing service. And if your gut reaction is that discs should still be playable even when web services are down, you'd be right. Today, Van Vliet told The Verge that those license check issues should not have...