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Former Xbox Exec on the Past, Present, and Future of Xbox – Unlocked 700

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IGN

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Former Xbox executive Greg Canessa – creator of Xbox Live Arcade – joins us for our 700th episode to share some awesome inside-baseball stories from his days at Xbox. He also talks about his perspective on Xbox today from the business side of things (including his thoughts on the Activision-Blizzard acquisition), as well as how he feels about Xbox's future. You're not gonna want to miss this one! This weeks episode is Ryan McCaffrey, Michael Higham, Greg Canessa, Parris Lilly, and is Produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on Unlocked episode 700, our special guest is Greg Knessa.

0:06.7

He's the guy that created Xbox Live Arcade with his team at Microsoft in the early Xbox days.

0:13.8

And he's worked all across the industry at Blizzard, at Popcap, at Google, all kinds of places.

0:20.6

He's got a ton of industry knowledge to share from Xbox's early days.

0:24.9

We'll talk about what he thinks of Xbox's more recent activities.

0:29.3

So much to cover.

0:30.2

Stay tuned.

0:31.1

This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117, and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked the world's number one Xbox podcast.

0:41.8

Now finish this fight.

0:45.5

Master Chief out.

0:49.8

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0:56.0

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1:03.0

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1:07.0

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1:12.1

F1 the movie, only in cinemas, June 25th. What's happening, friends? Welcome to Unlocked. It's IGN's

1:21.0

weekly Xbox show. Episode 700. They thought we'd never get here. Here we are. We're still going strong. My name is Ryan McCaffrey.

1:30.7

I've been here for 640 something of these. I don't know what the exact count is. Anyway, I am very happy to still be here, still doing this podcast, talking Xbox with everybody every single week here on IGN.

1:46.1

And I'm joined by my usual co-host Michael Hyam Michael

1:47.9

Happy birthday by the way this week

1:50.0

Yes, thank you, thank you

1:51.6

I'm celebrating my

1:54.4

Redacted birthday

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