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. Master Chief, out.

Welcome everyone to episode 517 of Podcast Unlocked. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show.

I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined by the usual crew Miranda Sanchez. Hello.

Hi, hello. Stella, Sean, how are you?

Good. It's still so weird to hear that I'm like an official person on unlock, but hey,

hello, you'll get used to it. It'll be good. Destin Ligary, give us a phrase.

Yeah, there it is. There it is. Well, I want to thank Stella and Destin for holding down the

fort last week while Miranda and I were on assignment. We'll be able to tell you about what we were

doing last week, next week. So until then, I'm not taking any further questions. That's the end of it.

But we got some notable releases this week. I wanted to cover off real fast before we get to the

heart of our conversation this week. Shocker, it's about Halo again because we're seeing some Halo

campaign. Yes, if you haven't seen the six minute campaign overview trailer, pause this podcast

right now and go watch it. But the quick things I wanted to mention, Marvel's Guardians of the

Galaxy is out and it is great. Says IGN.com marks eight out of 10. I know I shouldn't be surprised

at this. I guess it's the Avengers factor that's kind of lower at everybody's collective expectations

here from squares, Marvel related efforts. But this is the Ida Smauntryl team responsible for the

DSX games, the most recent DSX games. So really looking for I got to add that to my list of games

to play now, which gets progressively longer at this time of year. And then speaking of eights,

not an Xbox game, but it is a Microsoft first party game. If you're a PC gamer with a pretty decent

gaming rig, Age of Empires for also an eight out of 10 as well. So don't miss that. That does a

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