The Deal Is Done! Microsoft Owns Activison, Blizzard, King - Kinda Funny Xcast Ep. 159

Kinda Funny Xcast: Xbox Podcast

Kinda Funny

Leisure, Games, Entertainment News, Video Games, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mike, Parris, and Gary are joined by special guest Jules Hardy to discuss the close of the Activision, Blizzard, King deal and what it will mean for the future of Xbox. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping The Xcast posts each and every Thursday at 6 am on youtube.com/kindafunnygames and podcast services. Share the news about our Epic Partnership...Use Epic Creator Code: KINDAFUNNY on all Epic store and Epic in-game purchases (like Rocket League and Fortnite) to help support Kinda Funny! Thank our Patreon Producers For October: JedimasterDeadpool & Delaney Twining Check The Dashboard - - Activision/Blizzard/King Deal Finally Done! - The work has started to bring ABK games to gamepass. - Call of Duty - Ads - Mobile focus - Halo Infinite Season 5 Deets / Impressions - Starfield Sells Well! Shout Out To Pete Hines! Community Questions! - The beat cinematics team in the business, responsible for all the dope Diablo and WoW cinematics, are now an Xbox team. If they were to make a trailer for another Xbox franchise, who would you want to be first up? - Parkes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What would you do if you had the freedom to be anyone or go anywhere without limitations?
0:04.9	Start your journey and experience for yourself the feeling of total freedom when you game with Alienware.
0:10.3	Alienware is your portal to new worlds where limits don't exist and the only rules are the ones that you decide to make.
0:16.7	Defy boundaries and start gaming now at Alienware.com.
0:20.5	Next trend gaming is built with Intel Core i9 processor.
0:30.0	What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of the kind of funny ex cast your home for all things Xbox of course
0:55.7	I'm one of your hosts Snowbike Mike and today I'm joined by both of my gaming dads and a very special guest
1:01.9	We've been having so much fun in the studio. It's Jules Hardy joining me today Jules. How are you?
1:07.3	I'm really good. I'm having the best day. This is like the coolest day out. I'm having so much fun. I love these things the smoke machines
1:14.7	Yeah, yeah, we're very strange and real that smoke machines for a podcast. It's a really cool combo
1:19.7	You know it's very audio heavy podcast, but you know what really important to have visual things during an audio podcast
1:26.2	Super important now Jules. Of course we're going to get to know you
1:31.2	Before we started the podcast you and Gary were talking about playing games on cassette tapes. Yeah, can you take me back? What's up with that?
1:39.4	So do you want what's up with the history of video games? Okay. Yeah, so you never heard of the spectrum never it was like a massively popular console
1:46.8	Okay, we said only in the UK then why doesn't the spectrum wasn't very popular? Commodore 64 more so I mean through the whole
1:53.4	You know you have to remember this is why I find these people so frustrating. Yeah
1:58.1	I'm so glad you're here to have another bridge that can understand me when I'm talking about
2:04.0	Shit, there is like a little bit, you know before Mike's time and also British
2:09.7	We have a very different path. Yeah, and Jules are back me up here in the UK
2:13.1	We have a different path, but we had a different path in the 80s and 90s
2:16.4	Games it was less about the Nintendo and say you're a more about the spectrum the Commodore 64
2:22.2	Or if you were unlucky the Amstrad
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