OK so things were going well wrong yesterday. I ended up apparently in a game with some friends, saw one of them shoot somebody, to which I radioed 'nice kill'. For him to reply he wasn't even in the game! But someone with his tag was, and was doing ok too.

Later that evening, a host migration went weird, my gamertag dropped out of the game, but I was still playing. As Aquasomeoneorother. With a completely different loadout (that I've never used!). Grenades weren't exploding, I was seeing 3 of the same player, all kinds of wrong. So dashboarded lest anything terrible happen.

Checking XBL service status this morning though, and at time of writing they've got:

Service Alert
We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.
(http://support.xbox.com/en-gb/pages/xbox-live/xbox-live-status.aspx)

Posting for awareness... typical Microsoft, a technically valid piece of information but contextually useless. What problem? What's the issue? Tw@s.

Edit: I wonder if XBL is being attacked... Friend of mine just reminded me that yesterday he logged into his xbox with auto-sign in and connected to XBL as someone else, not even in a game.

Hmm - further digging:
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/24144/LulzSec-Reportedly-Targets-Xbox-Live-Account-Info/

DAMN YOU CRYTEK!!

I had problems connecting to Xbox Live yesterday, but I think that was due to the new internet connection I've just got installed. Just had to remove my LAN cable from the modem up into the secondary wireless router and then I could login fine. So dunno, could be that there was something wrong with xbox live that got fixed at the same time I switched the cables.

I was playing last night. I had no problems sign-in or gamertag wise.