#260 | Xbox Ends 2025 in a Scary Spot...

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Video Games, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Xbox has seen a lot of changes in the last two years and that's putting it lightly. Everything from a disconnect with their own base to price hikes galore has led to a near complete disenfranchisement with the brand. Today, the Dukes gather and do their best to scrounge up the positives in a relatively down year. What shined so brightly in 2025 for Xbox? Well, I'm glad you asked... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pursi!
0:01.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus,
0:03.0	Percy Jackson and the Olympians returns.
0:06.0	For the key to our survival, you must quest to the sea of monsters.
0:10.0	The epic saga is back for an all-new season.
0:15.0	Save Grover.
0:16.0	Every myth.
0:17.0	Save camp.
0:18.0	Needs a legend.
0:19.0	That's what real heroes do.
0:21.6	Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
0:24.5	New season exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.6	18 plus subscription required, T's and C's Apply. The
0:40.3	The Salutation, everybody. It is Maddie here today. Welcome to episode, I think. Don't trust my math.
1:09.3	Cog just watched me do in real time. Episode 260 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast. As always, I'm joined by man dressed for the occasion. Like this shirt, Lord Cognito. How are you doing today, good sir? For those, let's move forward on this year, man. Well, I'm doing good. I'm doing good, but just I'm in the hamster wheel. I'm in the hamster wheel. I'm just each day, just what we got to do, what I got to get through. Yeah. You know, what is priority? And, yeah, just trying to just truck it along. If I survive this week, it will be a major accomplishment. Yeah, I agree. I agree.
1:45.9	For those who don't know, this is our holiday recording. So the episodes you're listening to this
1:51.0	week and next week are stashed ones. We're recording this on December 9th. How about that?
1:56.0	So greetings from the past. Hope you're doing well. Everyone's enjoying their holiday season, maybe some time off. But Cog and I are currently in the hamster wheel. We both have six shows this week to do. I did. Someone's on on Monday. I just reported with Jake and Skill Up. Nice. We're doing this. Yep. We have another holiday DD. Yep. Then we have a regular D.D. Yep. And then we have Brad's
2:21.2	game of the year episode. Yes. I'm like, like fuck. And to be fair, Dustin gave us the warning
2:27.4	well in advance, but we did. We were on the wheel. There was no stop in that wheel. And here we are
2:32.9	crunching it down at the end of the
2:36.1	deadline. Yes. Throw that. Plus, I got two Lords afterdarks, two extra IOPs, two events
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