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Not again!

Another week brings more misery to Xbox 360 owners as the huegly successful online gaming service has hit more trouble.

Thousands have flooded social media site Twitter to complain about the server issues, which first started earlier this afternoon.

"Sometimes I wonder why we have to pay to play online when half the time we can't even go online," one user said of the Microsoft owned online service.

Xbox confirmed the outages on its website.

The gaming giant posted a message on its Xbox Live Status page, which currently lists the Core Services available to access as Limited.

"Hey Xbox members, are you having a hard time signing into Xbox Live?," the post read.

"Our engineers are aware of the issue and are getting closer to a fix. Thanks for your patience while they get things back to normal!

"We’ll update you as soon as we have new info."

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This is the second major outage to hit the Xbox servers within the past month.

Xbox 360 users faced days of problems with the paid-for service earlier this summer, with many complaining about the frequency of the issues on Twitter.

Many have demanded refunds from Microsoft, although it remains to be seen whether the Redmond firm will offer any form of compensation.