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Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

#238 | Xbox Backs Down - The Outer Worlds 2 PRICE DROP!

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9947 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 198 minutes

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Summary

Hell has frozen over! Xbox has moved the price of The Outer Worlds 2 down to $70 after fan backlash. What does this mean for the future of Xbox's lineup and the games industry as a whole? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:21:27 - Health Is Wealth0:35:02 - Clarifying the Fable rumor0:39:57 - MachineGames has multiple projects in development0:42:09 - Contraband lives on0:47:26 - Xbox is working on next gen cloud gaming0:49:54 - Starfield ACTUALLY gets an update1:02:37 - Xbox is adding a play history tab1:05:18 - Oblivion Remaster's Virtuous Studio sees layoffs1:17:08 - From Software has ANOTHER game on the way1:21:14 - Ubisoft on why Star Wars Outlaws failed1:31:53 - Saber Interactive reveals Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival1:35:17 - Battlefield 6 reveal happening this week1:37:39 - Splitgate 2 unlaunches1:42:50 - What We’re Playing2:23:39 - The Outer Worlds is $702:51:39 - No Rest For The Wicked is skipping Xbox3:05:24 - Game Pass Pick Of The Week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Thank you, everybody.

0:32.4

It is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 238 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast today. As always,

0:43.1

I'm joined by the man sporting the right shirt for this episode. Lord Cognito, how are you doing

0:49.4

today? Good sir. It's going on. Big black rock hitty. Yes, sir. It. It'll feel good. It'll feel good. A fresh off the plane from Ohio. I saw some people in the Discord saying how dare Cog willingly go to Ohio. So how did it live up to the hype for you? You got the football hall fame and everything like that. How was, did you go to a baseball game? Do you have a chance to do that? Yeah, got a chance.

1:11.2

God, it is, bro.

1:12.8

Let me tell you.

1:14.1

Shout out to my people that was teasing me. They were like, what the hell is going on in Ohio that you got? And I'm like, vacate. They think I'm going to say something exotic. Yo, you go to Kankoo. Now I'm going to Ohio. Look, man, shout out to my best friend Paul.

1:10.7

And it was great to just reconnect

1:12.9

because, you know, he's been going through now going to Ohio. Look, man, shout out to my best friend, Paul. And it was great to just

1:29.6

reconnect because, you know, he's been going through a lot. I've been going through a lot.

1:33.4

And, you know, since COVID, like, one of our traditions was what we call a sports

1:39.1

pilgrimage. You pick a city, you know, and then you feed everything around the city, what's

1:43.9

they're known for, but also a sporting event. And then you do the nightlife. And we do like a weekend getaway. So we used to do all the cities, you know what I'm saying? Vegas, Pittsburgh. So anything that had history and stuff like that, then we wasn't know. So Ohio was always on the list. And actually, this was supposed, this trip was supposed to happen before I got hospital.

2:18.4

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. So this was, this is a full, this is emotional for me. That was the trip. Your boy almost. Remember the pneumonia, the verticulitis, the o'clock, the COVID, trying to hit me with the triple play, get me out of here. So this is the appreciative of life. We've redoing it. And then, you know, me and him since we haven't seen each other a while, we've got, we actually, you know, hung out less. So it was dope. So we got out there. So first stop was, or the trip was Columbus. And Columbus is cool because you got, it's like, you know, big, I consider like the big college town. You got Ohio State. You know what I'm saying? University there, all the college and stuff like that.

2:34.8

Shout out to, I believe it's called the Tavern Cafe.

2:38.5

I'll get the official date, bro.

2:41.1

This was like one of the best burgers I've had in my life.

2:45.8

And everything about the whole vibe was just, it was just cool.

2:50.7

And it had like going to spot.

2:52.4

They had like little arcade machines in there.

2:54.7

You know what I said?

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