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Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

#244 | It was almost SAVED... - The Truth On Perfect Dark

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9947 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 233 minutes

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Summary

Today in news that we wish we never knew about: Xbox's reboot of Perfect Dark was nearly saved! Their dance partner? Take Two Interactive who serves as publisher of Rockstar. Yes, indeed, a recent report states that these two were working out a deal similar to Xbox selling off Tango Gameworks alongside the Hi Fi Rush IP to Krafton in order to help the company. Unfortunately, a falling out between both sides occurred over an IP ownership dispute. Now, Perfect Dark is doomed to sit in "IP Jail" with many of Xbox's other abandoned properties. At least Banjo has some company now. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:02:40 - Health Is Wealth0:23:57 - Our preview philosophy0:35:17 - Is The Outer Worlds 2 hate overblown?0:50:30 - What games should you play soon?0:54:23 - Call Of Duty is entering the movie business1:00:49 - Gears Of War Reloaded numbers are in1:12:16 - Helldivers 2 is the #1 paid game on the Xbox store1:23:23 - Grounded 2 seems to be doing very well1:28:52 - 007 First Light impressions1:36:14 - PlayStation 6 will be a handheld?1:48:20 - Epic responds to Unreal Engine 5 concerns2:02:20 - Ubisoft’s 2026 and 2027 games2:10:54 - What's going on with Cyberpunk 2077?2:14:25 - Kojima event may show off OD2:17:05 - What We’re Playing3:10:24 - Perfect Dark was nearly revived3:28:05 - Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass3:40:56 - 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 Salutations, everybody, it is Maddie here today, and welcome to episode 24 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast. Today, I'm joined by

0:41.6

00 Cog agent in disguise. Lord Cognito, how are you doing today? Good sir. Tired.

0:48.9

There we go. One word. It's just, it ain't been the greatest week. But, you know, we're trying to get through. We're trying to get through just life, family, dramas. Oh, no. Always drama. It's always drama. And I'm just like, all right. You know what everything happens at one time? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's one of the weeks. I was just like, I just got to get through it, man.

1:12.2

I'm just trying to power through.

1:13.6

But I would have that hanging in as best I can, a lot of cool stuff at the late end of the month trying to prep four. Good good, good, man. What about you? Sam's going on what you, man. Oh man, just a lot of reviews this past weekly we were talking, you know, Hell is Us,

1:26.6

lost suicide, a little Kronos, the New Dawn impressions. this past weekly we were talking, you know, Hell is us, Lost Soul aside,

1:28.8

a little Kronos,

1:29.7

the new dawn impressions,

1:31.7

just a lot all at once.

1:34.3

And it's not really going to slow down

1:35.8

this month.

1:36.3

September's the big month.

1:38.8

But I'm really happy with how

1:40.9

both channels are kind of performing

1:42.4

because I'm kind of in this doing whatever I feel like doing pocket. I like that. Nothing's been explosive, but it's all been good. And the engagement's been good. And there's been good comments. And so it's been fun, just kind of being a bit more of a free agent. So I've been having a good time with it all. But yeah, it's been busy. I'm definitely with you. I'm tired. Uh, because, you know, it's a good type of tired, though. I love reviewing games and breaking them all down. And we'll do that. Certainly this episode, I think the main segment for this show in a otherwise kind of slow week will be about what we're playing. And so I've got a lot to share there. But yeah, a little fatigued. I also got back into baseball cards a little bit here. Yeah. I got this Alonzo. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. It's a summer superstars. One of these are worth anything, by the way. I just kind of have really fallen in love with baseball. Because I think it's like the, actually this will answer our right in. Let's just dive right. This is all right. Yeah, we really do have one here for help as well.

2:37.0

So let's just dive right.

2:34.3

This is all right.

2:34.8

Yeah, we really do have one here for help as well.

2:37.1

So let's just dive and do it.

2:38.3

It's from Raisin who's been on fire lately. Raisin, you've got some great write-ins. You've been here in the show very often lately, but I try to reward those who are just consistently, you know, thinking of the good questions, engaging in good faith.

2:50.3

Brazen, thank you.

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