#185 | The Game Pass Aftermath

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 201 minutes

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Summary

A rather peaceful July continues on as we dig through the aftermath of Xbox's major changes to Game Pass. For starters, we now have clarity on the wait for Day 1 games in the service at the standard tier and those who remain will be seemingly waiting a long time for their shiny games to arrive. Furthermore, Xbox is potentially pulling out of regions like Europe, Africa, and the Middle East when it comes to their consoles. With all these parts of the business shifting in real time, many are trying to predict where Xbox will be at the end of all these changes. Well, much of it hinges on Call Of Duty which is tying its beta to Game Pass subscribers. Indeed, it's a different Xbox we're looking at in 2024! Does this new Xbox consider Crash 5 important enough to resurrect? How cutthroat shall they be with 343 in their next Halo? There is quite a bit to discuss, so enough briefing and let's get to chatting! Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:16:10 - Microsoft Rewards not fueling Game Pass? 0:19:23 - Amazon is now selling a Xbox Streaming bundle 0:31:09 - Microsoft releases dynamic Xbox 360 blades background 0:37:26 - Forza Horizon 5 has reached 40 million players 0:44:35 - TMNT: Mutants Unleashed gameplay revealed 1:00:23 - Yakuza developer announcing their next game at Tokyo Game Show 1:07:15 - A sequel to Aliens Fireteam Elite leaks 1:09:36 - Deadpool controller 1:11:09 - What We’re Playing 1:49:51 - Crash Bandicoot 5 1:57:38 - Day 1 Game Pass clarification from Jez Corden 2:04:59 - Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 beta details 2:09:46 - Xbox marketing is possibly exiting some regions 2:16:10 - Xbox GeForce Now integration available now 2:18:24 - What's going on with Halo's future? 2:39:04 - Microsoft is reportedly moving on from their DEI teams 2:52:50 - Leaving Game Pass soon 2:54:22 - Game Pass Pick Of The Week 3:01:34 - What system do we grow our game library on? 3:12:48 - Wrap-up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The I'm going to Salutations everybody it is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 185 of
0:37.4	defining Duke and Xbox podcast as always I am joined by the man who will happily take your Microsoft reward points and not change the program on you.
0:47.0	Lord Cognito, how are you today good sir?
0:50.0	Keep trying to keep the status quo. It's been busy, man.
0:55.0	It's been busy, all bad.
0:57.0	It's a lot.
0:58.0	You know what you got like, you're so busy, but it's actually a lot of kind of good things going, but it requires a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of kind of good things going but it requires a lot of work a lot of time a lot of attention
1:05.4	Getting pulled in like a thousand directions you try to give everybody love to can't give everybody love so anyone who's been reaching out to me and
1:13.1	we're like, you know, what's up?
1:13.9	He ain't respond.
1:15.0	That's why it's telling things going on,
1:16.9	but it's all love.
1:18.0	Trying to get back to everybody.
1:19.3	But yeah, just in the mix, man.
1:20.8	What about you?
1:21.2	What's going on?
1:22.1	Doing all right? I'm busy myself just I wouldn't say
1:25.9	getting pulled in a million directions but July it's weird like when things are busy it's
1:31.2	for obvious reasons right like when doing June for example, like just a ton of trailer, tons of things to cover.
1:36.2	July and August are busy in their own unique ways I've realized in that numbers go down because there's really nothing to talk about they just no
1:44.0	announcements no showcases like we're just all waiting for the holiday period so like all
1:48.2	my gaming channels typically struggle in these next two months and so the way
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