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.

Now, finish this fight.

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What's happening friends? Welcome to podcast unlocked. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show episode 598.

Ahead of the Xbox showcase coming up. It is June 5th, 2023 as we record this. I'm Ryan McCaffer your host for the past 11 years and hopefully plenty more after that to my left, your screen right. Stella Chung. Hello.

Hello. I'm so excited to see everyone. It's a remoran I'm going to miss you. But I think this is the first time we've had this whole panel on in a long time.

It's been a minute and unfortunately it's going to be a minute more as poor Miranda will will have to run the guides team from home won't be joining us in LA for our live episode after the showcase which we'll talk more about in a second.

But I guess with that I'll throw right to Miranda. We've been talking about her. Hello Miranda.

Hi hello. Yeah, this isn't me my first time since I've worked at IGN that I'm not going to be at the E3 adjacent event. So it's a little weird and I think you didn't have me until this week that I'm not really sad. I was like, man, I'm going to see everybody. What a bummer.

But there's a ton of really important work to get done. So unfortunately I'm going to have to be on the home team this year.

We can blame Nintendo and Blizzard primarily for this correct. Yeah, thank you. But I was a thank you.

Yeah, also thank you because Diablo 4 is my life now. We'll talk more about that in a minute and Justin Ligary. How are you my friend?

Bam, I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, I tweeted this weekend. How are Zelda and Diablo this good and people like don't forget Street Fighter 6.

Like there's just so many amazing games to play just right now. And the rest of the year there's even more coming. So yeah, I was right in there.

Yeah, I game of the year short list. I just finished it right before Diablo arrived. So yeah, we're we're eating good right now.

So yes, this is unlocked 598. We are going to be the as you can tell the schedule is off. We recorded normally we're a Wednesday show.

We post up around the end of the day, Pacific time on Wednesday. Last week, I think we were Tuesday this week. We were posting up on Monday next week or keep working our way back in the in the week.

We'll be live with you Sunday. So our next episode will be a live episode. We will be with you immediately before and immediately after the Xbox and Bethesda showcase and starfield direct combo double feature.

Those things are happening back to back. So tune in. Watch us live on IGN.com. Twitch.tv slash IGN YouTube.com slash IGN.

Pretty much anywhere that you watch IGN, you could watch our pre show. Then the conference and the starfield direct and then our live reaction and analysis post show immediately after.

So it's this Sunday June 11th our pre show starts at 9 30 a.m. Pacific. That's 12 30 p.m. Eastern time. So maybe a little late breakfast for you on the west coast.

Lunchtime East Coast. Join us. Now on that note, a little a little nice little update from Aaron Greenberg, our friend who heads up all things marketing at Xbox today on Twitter as we record.

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