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

and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked, the world's number one Xbox podcast.

Now, finish this fight.

Master Chief, out.

What's happening, friends?

Welcome to Podcast Unlocked.

It's IGN's weekly Xbox show.

A new year. Same show, New Year. It's 26. I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined as always by Miranda Sanchez. Miranda, how are you? I'm good. How are

you? Happy New Year. Yeah, it's been a minute. It's been about three weeks since we got on here

and recorded anything together. We pre-recorded a couple things for the holidays.

And Michael is at CES.

Michael Hiam, of course, he will be with us all year long, but not this week because he's on our

hardware team, our tech team, and he's got the E3 of the tech world.

I mean, CES always was bigger than E3, so it should really be, maybe that should flip that phrasing around. But E3 of the tech role. I mean, CES always was bigger than E3, so it should really be,

maybe that should flip that phrasing around, but E3's dead anyway. It doesn't matter.

But he's at CES. And we are very pleased to welcome our old friend, Paris Lily, from Gamer Tag

Radio. How you doing, Paris? I'm doing great. Happy New Year, and thank you so much for having me back on.

Really appreciate it.

It's great to start the year with you.

And let's just start before we, because this is, as you probably already gathered from the title of this episode, this is not going to be the usual literal fun and games episode of this show.

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