The Winners from Xbox’s Partner Showcase (Fall 2025) – Unlocked 716

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

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The Winners from Xbox’s Partner Showcase (Fall 2025) – Unlocked 716We recorded this week's episode live immediately following Xbox's Fall 2025 Partner Preview showcase, where we got updated looks at known quantities like Reanimal, Tides of Annihilation, and 007: First Light. But we also got a number of reveals from intriguing new games like Erosion, Echo Generation 2, Vampire Crawlers, and more. Enjoy our reactions! 00:03:17 - Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard 00:06:28 - Tides of Annihilation 00:09:37 - Erosion 00:14:02 - Echo Generation 2 00:18:55 - Armatus 00:24:23 - The Mound: Omen of Chthulu 00:27:01 - Dave the Diver - Official Xbox Launch 00:28:54 - Crowsworn 00:31:49 - 007 First Light & Roadside Research 00:40:37 - Total Chaos 00:44:24 - Reanimal, Cloverpit, Raji: Kaliyuga, & Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.1	Now, finish this fight.
0:14.7	Master Chief, out.
0:19.4	What's happening, friends?
0:20.7	Welcome to Unlocked. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show. We're coming at you live here right now. It is 1031 a.m. Pacific time here on November 20th, 2025. We're live immediately following the Xbox partner preview for the fall that we just watched. I'm joined by Miranda Sanchez and Michael High. I'm always good to see you both. Let's just dive right into it. First, just top line thoughts and then I want to hear each of your favorite game from this because I thought it was pretty good. Miranda, your thoughts?
0:50.3	Very European. I think there's a lot of games like just different parts of Europe.
0:57.0	Not necessarily just, oh, I guess it's a part in your preview.
1:01.0	Not necessarily just there, but I also took away that David Turner and Vampire Survivors
1:07.2	are a turtle, even though it was a new vampire survivors technically known to it.
1:10.0	But those games, they just keep coming up up that's not that it's bad I'm
1:13.1	just like it's you again I know you yeah apparently the vampire crawlers is a
1:18.6	spin-off not a sequel is what our news team has got clarification on there for
1:23.2	anybody wondering wait exactly what was that? Michael, your top line thoughts?
1:29.7	I'm trying to, listen.
1:31.4	My takeaways is I'm getting an Aston Martin car and I get to assassinate M&M in Hitman,
1:37.6	allegedly.
1:38.7	So great showcase.
1:40.6	No, I'm just kidding.
1:41.1	I think the, I think, hopefully folks set expectations that this was not going to be a, you know, first party banger of a lineup that they pretty much said straight up. It's called the partner showcase for a reason. It reminds me a little bit of the state of play that we had recently to where it's a lot of third party stuff stuff because you can imagine that a lot of the biggest names are saving their announcements probably for the game
2:05.9	wards at this point and that's where you'll probably see some of the some of the quote-unquote
2:10.5	headliners but it is cool to see that um i guess lesser-known developers and uh more games that can use a bigger stage have a showcase.
2:22.3	And then seeing things continue on with support such as Hitman with a new elusive target.
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