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Hello and welcome to the official Xbox podcast.

We've got a special episode for you today coming off of a lot going on here at Xbox.

We just announced our double feature Xbox game showcase and Gears Ede Direct coming this summer.

Killing the online multiplayer pottery party brawler from Double Fine.

I can't believe I got that. It's out next week. And pressing content creators just got hands-on previews of Forza Horizon 6 for the first time. That's a lot and I'm nearly out of breath. So it's really good that I've got friends of the podcast. Now with the new title, Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty. Welcome, Matt. Hi, I'm super impressed you rattled off the multiplayer pottery party brawler.

Online multiplayer party party. You know what? When you think about it, it gets to be too much.

It's a genre that's heating up. Exactly. First of its kind. We're in early.

Yes. Well, I'm so glad to have you here because I feel like we didn't just have seven hours of a meeting together in showcase planning. It just wasn't enough.

We did, but it was a good meeting. It was. I should let people in on that. We did yesterday review all of the trailers for the upcoming showcase. It's probably one of my favorite meetings of the year, I think.

For sure. It's just cool to see the teams. There's some stuff that's really done, some stuff

that's not done, some stuff that's amazing, some things that needs little work. But it's the reflection

of all the work that the teams are doing. And we all get to come together. It's a great point of

the year where everybody's working together on one thing, which is always a lot of fun. And I just like the let's put on a show aspect of it, right? It's a lot of fun. Absolutely. A whole group of people come together, first party, third party, everyone's kind of coming in an effort of how do we surprise and delight our audience. Are there secrets we should spill about the planning process of showcase?

I don't know what that. I'll say How do we surprise and delight our audience? Are there secrets we should spill about the planning process of Showcase?

I don't know what that.

I'll say that we've got the gears direct coming, and after seeing that, we've probably got like a full 30 minutes, which is really great.

And I don't know, I just, I love everybody in that studio the work they're doing I'm excited about

the game and it's just we're going to have a full 30 minutes of stuff to see it yeah absolutely we

aim to deliver and it was great I was just at the coalition filming the direct we wrapped on that production

and just a really wonderful team very passionate about what what they do, very talented, with everything that they do.

And I want to talk about them and I want to talk about all the other studios.

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