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What's happening friends? Welcome to podcast unlocked. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show. Of course this being episode

584 for March 1st. We're already in a march. I'm Ryan McCaffrey here at the IGN San Francisco studio alongside my long-time co-host and friend Miranda Sanchez. How are you?

Hi, I'm doing well. It's a weird and maybe like one of the shortest introductions we've ever had. Yeah, it's just us. Yeah, this is it. It's fine.

Destin is busy changing diapers. We wish him and his wife the best. And Stella is doing me a favor actually by attending a preview event for an upcoming game.

So yeah, it's just the two of us this week, but it's fine because it's nice to mix it up. You know, we can just have a nice little back and forth. Maybe we'll argue at some point about some video game thing.

Okay, we don't have to we'll see what happens, but there is a lot to talk about this week. There is actually and then when I was going through your show.

This morning and I guess last night as well, I was like, dang, we have. There's just so much that's happening and some of it. I didn't even realize had happened because there is so much and some of it just kind of quietly has like slid into the new cycle.

I know. And I was like, you guys thought you got away with not talking about this, but you did and we caught it. Except not me until just now.

Yeah, well, we're yeah, there are there are just a lot of topics to cover. But first a quick housekeeping note, our February IGN first with Star Wars Jedi survivor is complete.

Huge thank you to Mitchell Saltsman for being the editorial lead on that and just crushing it, giving us tons of great content. He and I both went down to respawn.

I did put up if you do like unfiltered, which only pops up like rises from the grave every every once in a while now.

Because I just tired of doing them remotely and will only do them if they're in person. So Stig Osmos and the game director had him actually in here. He came up here, which was super nice of him to do.

That is up today. That is up right now or either on video or in the on the unfiltered podcast feed. If you still if you still subscribe to that one, you should see it pop up. But that was a really fun conversation. It's his second time on unfiltered. So we didn't have to bother with any of the. Let's talk about your whole career thing.

It was a great like I thought it was a fun conversation just about all right. Let's talk about the development of a Star Wars sequel. Yeah, like what you know the expectations of that and you know when this first one sells huge like what does that get you from Lucasfilm and EA. So check that out. If you want to hear a little.

You know behind the scenes developer stuff of what it's like to make a AAA Star Wars game. And then our March IG and first we'll kick off next week. I want to start with something from the very end of last week Miranda. Because this you and I have not had a chance to talk about this. I I saw I was seeing a ton of feedback to this on Twitter.

Most of it was pretty aligned. So I want to get your take. And that is from the Sony state of play. Yes, we're going to talk about a PlayStation thing only because that was the home of this extended gameplay reveal or gameplay deep dive on suicide squad kill the justice league.

The game we've been waiting for its rock studies first game in eight years. It's coming out in well now two and a half months. So it's getting pretty close.

I don't want to color this. I just want to go right to you here. What did you think of that that extended gameplay demo of suicide squad.

It was as expected based on what we've heard from it. And I think in that I was a little maybe disappointed and that may be unfair because I think game studios and teams of course are allowed to make what they want to make whether or not that's a good director from somewhere else or whatever it may be, you know, the games are still a business.

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