Xbox's Cloud Gaming and remote play services are seeing excessively long load times as holiday demand hits servers.

Xbox Cloud Gaming, the service that lets gamers play Xbox games on phones, tablets and other devices, has been down since Thursday, according to the official Xbox Support Twitter account. It does appear that the service is slowly coming back on, but it's not at 100% yet.

Xbox Cloud Gaming, an online service that lets gamers play hundreds of console games on phones, tablets and other devices, has been down or reportedly inaccessible for a number of users across the world.

If you've tried to use Xbox Cloud Streaming and experienced issues loading games or unexpected disconnects, you're not alone. Microsoft's game streaming services has been experiencing issues since Thursday and is still not totally back online 24 hours later.

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