Not sure if connected or anything, but I find it odd that the day after the Fed goes dark for a while, Xbox Live, one of the most popular Online gaming services has also gone down and is still down hard:
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status
The timing is just... weird, but I have no other theories aside from this being one hell of a coincidence...
Must just certain regions because it has worked fine here since 3 pm-ish. I'm in PA.