#255 | So... That Xbox Showcase Was DIFFERENT...

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 239 minutes

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Summary

As was originally reported, Xbox brought out a Partner Preview in November. It was chockful of everything strange like a co-op alien shop simulator or a thuggish rabbit beating up baddies to more traditional first person horror titles. The catch was that every game we saw throughout was a Play Anywhere title, a program that many of Xbox's players still yearn for the platform to leverage more. All in all, the Dukes enjoyed the show, especially given it dropped ahead of the biggest show of the year in the Game Awards where announcements are typically prioritized. Beyond that, we dive deep into the Valve rumor mill. Half Life 3 is everywhere! Is it finally happening and are the Dukes believers? We get into that plus updated thoughts on the Steam Machine now that we've had some time to digest the triple-whammy Valve hit us with last week. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://www.shopify.com/duke Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:13:32 - Discussing The Game Awards nominees0:31:43 - The myriad of Half Life 3 rumors0:36:54 - Valve’s focus for the Steam Machine0:51:16 - Xbox Ally is exceeding expectations0:55:09 - Xbox releases game publishing documentation to the public0:59:26 - Obsidian has yet to use generative AI1:03:17 - Activision caught using AI generated assets in Black Ops 71:12:01 - Bethesda responds to Fallout 4’s anniversary issues1:28:04 - Krafton is now the publisher of Hi Fi Rush, but there’s a catch1:31:37 - New comments by Sarah Bond on Xbox’s future1:37:18 - PlayStation was indifferent to market shrinking in Japan1:46:07 - Where is Yoko Taro?1:48:58 - A new Ratchet & Clank game got revealed1:56:42 - Don’t call it a Concord comeback2:00:35 - Silent Hill Townfall’s release date leaked2:02:15 - Ubisoft canceled Splinter Cell for xDefiant2:10:02 - Red Dead Redemption 1 gets next gen update2:10:56 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 reaches 4 million sales figure2:13:38 - First look at Zelda movie2:14:27 - Death Stranding is getting an original anime on Disney+2:17:16 - Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass2:19:42 - What We’ve Been Playing3:11:50 - Xbox Partner Preview 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.
0:32.6	It is Maddie here today.
0:34.9	Welcome to episode 255 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast.
0:40.7	It's your favorite froggy host. Your boy is sick again. And yeah, I mean, can't take two episodes
0:47.3	off, guys. I mean, you're stuck with this. I'm sipping on some throat coat to open things up here.
0:52.4	Check that out, man. Throat coat is ready. Yep, ready to go. As always, I'm joined by the man who beats down sicknesses, Lord Cognito. How are you doing today, good sir? I don't know about beating down, but I've been surviving. I'm not beating down. You're beating off. Yeah, pause. Well, it was a good birthday. It wasn't that adventure. Well, how do these two connect? Hang on, no. Visit Ohio. Hey, hey, hey, I was thinking about Ohio. I got, good memories, man. I got to figure out a way to get back. So much fun. Tell me about your birthday, though. It was a big weekend for you. Yeah, it was big. It was big. Shout out to my cousin, who my younger cousin, he shares to say birthday as me. So we usually have this weird thing where it's like, my birthday was Saturday, but we should do like a pre-birthday where we celebrate together and do something for each other?
1:44.8	Because we know both of us are going to be wrapped up on our individual day.
1:49.4	Right.
1:49.4	So it was cool, man.
1:51.1	It took me to this like super dope Asian fusion spot.
1:55.6	And, oh, my guy was in Midtown.
1:57.9	I was like, man, this is kind of bullshit.
1:59.6	I'm seeing like, actors and actresses here. Oh, really? You could tell this is the pop-up spot. When you know it's a spot when it doesn't have a storefront telling you what it is. Yeah. So my cousin gives me the details. So I go, so you got the bousse out front. So I'm like, yeah, I'm here. He's like, what you're here for? So I said, you know, here, I'm here. You know, right?
2:21.0	Yeah, Ver know, here. I'm here. Yeah, birthday resident. Who? I'm like, my cousin, Marcus, this, what's his last name? I'm like, I got the same last name as me. Like, what did you tell? I showed you my ID. Like, he did, you could tell they was not letting any riffraff up in this spot.
2:35.0	So I was like, what type of spot?
2:36.4	He got me at.
2:37.0	I go in there.
2:37.9	It's like elegant.
2:39.2	People taking pictures, got their dates.
2:41.0	They significant others on the wall with these amazing like, almost like Asian art and architecture.
2:48.2	So I'm sitting there.
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