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Hello and welcome to the official Xbox podcast, the only podcast that comes from inside Xbox.

But this time we are inside Xbox, inside Gamescom.

We are at the Xbox booth at Gamescom.

There are a lot of games to play, but one has really caught my eye.

That is, there are no ghosts at the Grand, which you might remember being revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June. And I'm pleased to report that it is playable here, and it is exactly as wild as it looked in that initial reveal. And I am joined by writer and game director Anil Glendinning. Hi Joe. Hello. And lead gameplay developer Jack

Conroy. Hi there. Hello. And we are going to talk through this really weird, exciting,

strange, different game. I think a lot of people came out of that initial reveal and basically

had a response of, what the hell is this? So I'd love for you to talk me through

exactly what you're making here and how it all fits together. That's a great place to start.

Yes, the trailer that we originally showed a large cross-section of the game, but everything

that we showed is all in the game and it's all in service of the story. In the game, you play as an

ordinary American guy, a guy called Chris David, who inherits a dilapidated British seaside

hotel, but not everything is as you would expect at the hotel. Now, we're not saying there

are ghosts there, but there's definitely something lurking under the surface. So during a game,

you will renovate, decorate, meet characters.

Well yeah, I think we deliberately tried to make the trailer a bit confusing and try and

try to throw people off.

That's why it starts with the decoration and then goes further more and more into the

supernatural and the confusing.

The demo reflects how much we have to show and have to offer, so it's not just the singing and the confusing. The demo reflects how much we have to show and have

to offer. So it's not just the singing and the decorating. It's the moving around the town,

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