New VideoGamer Podcast #11 - Creating the Xbox with Seamus Blackley

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4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

After a small hiatus, VideoGamer sits down with Seamus Blackley, the creator of the Xbox, to discuss his storied career across the decades. From working on super colliders to creating physics in System Shock to the development of the original Xbox, Blackley looks back across the evolution of gaming.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States. So, how are you doing?
0:26.6	You know, since you begin recording, your video is no longer sinking.
0:32.0	Oh, it's like out of sync with my voice?
0:35.2	No, now it's sunk up again.
0:36.3	All right, it caught up.
0:37.1	Okay.
0:38.6	It's having trouble.
0:39.8	It makes it, it, it, it, when the, when the lip sync is wrong, I think, especially if
0:45.3	you've been developing games or movies or something for a long time, it will
0:49.0	distract it to the point where your brain will actually break because no much.
0:53.3	Like, okay, what's the problem?
0:54.4	What's the delay?
0:55.1	Why is the renderer slow?
0:56.1	What's happening?
0:56.7	What's audio broken?
0:58.2	Is it a driver?
0:58.9	What is it?
1:00.7	It's Google.
1:02.6	Blame Google for everything.
1:04.7	Yeah, blame Google for everything.
1:05.9	Super good.
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