Trying to Make Sense of the Xbox Studio Closures – Unlocked 644

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Another devastating wave of Xbox layoffs results in the closure of three Bethesda studios, including the makers of last year's shadow-dropped hit Hi-Fi Rush and the decorated developers of Prey. We do our best to make sense of the move from Microsoft, a company that has spent the better part of the past decade trying to add talent and get more exclusive games on its platforms. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unlockd Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.6	that ours is not a loving god, and we are not its favored children.
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0:27.0	This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 1-17, and you're listening to Podcast, The World's Number One
0:36.9	Xbox Podcast.
0:39.0	Now, finish this fight. Master Chief out.
0:44.0	What's happening friends?
0:49.0	Welcome to Podcasts Unlocked.
0:50.0	It is Igen's weekly Xbox show here for May 7th as we record this today here in the year
0:56.8	2024. This is episode 644. I'm Ryan McCaffray as always and I'm joined by Stella Chung how are you?
1:05.0	Good excited to well not really excited to talk about things but I'm I'm
1:11.0	revved up to talk about it.
1:13.7	Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
1:15.6	Destin Ligari, hello my friend.
1:17.4	Hi Ryan.
1:19.0	Well, yeah, there's, as you can tell,
1:21.3	exuberance is at a bit of a minimum today. These are shows we don't enjoy doing but this is you know
1:27.8	We're lucky enough to come here and talk about video games and this is the the bad side of it this week. We're going to talk about the bad side of it this week. We're going to talk about the not
1:36.2	good Xbox news that you've probably already heard about and we've got plenty of
1:40.5	thoughts here. But first I did want to share some good news about the cool things
1:46.3	happening this summer there is going to be fun to be had I do promise you we have I G.'s big gaming and entertainment event coming up in just a month's time in Los Angeles,
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