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What's up, everybody, and welcome to the official Xbox podcast. It's the only podcast coming to you from Inside Xbox. I'm Josh, and I am so excited about today's episodes because we get to talk about two big franchise that I'm a big, big fan of. And today, we're talking about Hell Divers 2, releasing on Xbox Series X and S, and if that IP wasn't big enough for you, we're also bringing the world of Halo to Hell Divers in one hell of an epic fashion,

which is pretty cool. So let's dive in as we have two special guests today. We've got Corinne Robinson,

the Halo franchise development director from Halo Studios. And then from Arrowhead Studios,

we have the game director himself of Hell Divers 2, Michael Erickson. Michael and Corinne, thank you both for being here. Thank you, glad to be here. Yeah, thank you, Michael, for joining us as well from overseas. I appreciate you dialing in. It's a little late for you, but thank you so much. Now, today we're going to be talking about hell divers. This is huge. It's a big deal for

coming to Xbox fans have been very excited. I've put a couple hundred hours in hell divers.

I've put like 25 years into Halo. So it's kind of a good little marriage here of both of these

amazing IPs. So when we're bringing this over and when we're thinking about how these kind of interact,

I want to set the stage first, Michael with you with like, maybe this is a lot of people's first glimpse into

Hell Divers outside of maybe a few TikTok clips. So could you explain to us what is Hell Divers

do? What's the game? What's a little bit of lore here that fans are about ready to walk into?

I guess you could say it's like a four players, MMO,VE. Of course, you can be one player, but you can be

play with up to four players where you play with the community against alien terrorists all

across the galaxy. And you spread managed democracy at gunpoint. It's a game that's like a very

high intense system-driven, cinematic, epic, unpredictable, emergent, like 90s movie action simulator, you could say.

It's proven to be way more than I even thought it was when we launched the game, just based on how the community has sort of interacted with the game since we launched it.

We have a few things that we do that we're really happy with.

One of them is that it's very easy.

It's like role play in our game together with the community.

We treat our game sort of like a tabletop role playing game

where we have a game master who has a bunch of levers that game master can pull.

So we have like this narrative that we've laid out,

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