{"id":15563,"date":"2022-05-16T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T15:30:36","slug":"df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/blogs\/df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"DF Direct Weekly talks Nintendo&#8217;s next-gen challenges and the big Xbox gaming outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage_62826e1c1aba0.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage_62826e1c1aba0.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-big-xbox-gaming-outage_62826e1c1aba0-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been talking\/warning about it for a long time &#8211; usually in the context of game preservation &#8211; but the recent Xbox game outage has certainly justified our concerns. Online DRM, the need to have an active internet connection to verify that you&#8217;re permitted to play the games you own, has been a hot topic for some time now. There&#8217;ll come a point in the (hopefully) far-flung future that authentication servers won&#8217;t be available, making today&#8217;s games unplayable. What we didn&#8217;t quite expect was a gaming black-out in the here and now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2022-df-direct-weekly-talks-nintendos-next-gen-challenges-and-the-xbox-gaming-outage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DF Direct Weekly talks Nintendo&#8217;s next-gen challenges and the big Xbox gaming\u00a0outage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15566,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions\/15566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}