In what’s turning into a bad week for gamers, the Xbox Live network is down – just a day after the PlayStation network suffered a prolonged outage. Xbox users are widely reporting problems accessing the Live service, preventing them from playing certain games and accessing online matchmaking.

Gamers who are looking to sign on to Xbox this morning may be surprised to find that the servers are currently down. Here's what to know.

The Xbox team is currently dealing with a number of network issues, affecting things such as player sign-in, game launching and the ability to join parties.