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New Xbox CEO Kills Copilot AI – Unlocked 740

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's another busy week of Xbox news as new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues to make moves, shaking up the Xbox leadership team and killing Xbox's Copilot AI program in the process. Plus: we geek out over Yakuza developer RGG Studio's new showcase – presented by Microsoft – for its new game Stranger Than Heaven. Plus: Mixtape is a 10 out of 10 and on Game Pass right now, the rest of what's hitting Game Pass over the next week, and more! 00:00:00 - Intro & Stranger Than Heaven Showcase 00:16:17 - Mixtape Review Discussion 00:18:44 - New On Game Pass (Outbound, Wuchang, Mixtape & More) 00:23:08 - Xbox's Copilot AI program is Dead 00:38:36 - Xbox Game Dev Update & Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of Podcast Unlocked is presented by Invincible Verses, available now on Xbox

0:06.7

series consoles, PlayStation 5, and PC. Invincible Verses is a brutal 3V3 tag fighting game

0:14.2

from Studio Quarter Up, Skybound Entertainment's first in-house game development studio, where you

0:20.4

can play as your favorite

0:21.7

characters from the Invincible Universe. This game is designed to let you become a superhero

0:26.9

in the bloodiest fight in the universe made by a dev team of fighting game veterans and with the

0:32.7

direct input from creator Robert Kirkman. Invincible Verses is full of the visceral, bloody combat and authentic depictions of destruction and chaos that Invincible fans know and love.

0:44.3

Plus, a story by the creators behind the hit TV series.

0:48.3

At launch, the roster includes 18 playable fighters, including Invincible himself, Mark Grayson, plus Omneman,

0:56.3

Rexplode, and more.

1:01.0

Tim Allen, another key core AI staff member will join. Olds will get that. Fellow

1:08.5

Olds will get that reference. We'll join Xbox to lead experience design.

1:14.0

This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117,

1:18.6

and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked,

1:21.8

the world's number one Xbox podcast.

1:25.2

Now, finish this fight. Master Chief out.

1:33.0

What's happening, friends? Welcome to Podcast Unlocked. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show coming

1:38.3

at you here. A little later this week. It is Thursday, May 7th as we record. We're going to try

1:43.1

and get this out to you as soon as we can after recording. We held off because of Microsoft's sort of developer show that they debuted this week, so we'll talk a little bit about that later. But for the time being, let me introduce my friends, you love them, you know him. Michael Hi, I'm, what's up, sir? Howdy? I don't know if everybody loves me, but I like to think that at least half the people out there do. And you know what? I'm perfectly fine with that. Take 51%. That's all you need. Just the slim majority that love you. But everybody loves Miranda Sanchez. That would be really nice if they did. I don't think that's true.

2:17.9

And that's okay.

2:18.6

Not everyone has to. We all have different opinions. That's great. I think we can all evil and out as people, though. We're all pretty generally good. We're all good with each other. At least everyone here. We all like each other. Have a great time. You are best. Yeah. This one is episode 740.

2:34.8

We got plenty to talk about this week.

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