What’s Left of/at Xbox? – Unlocked 748

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🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Join the IGN Discord https://discord.com/invite/h2T45nkkm6 Another dreadful week of Xbox news brings reports that State of Decay 3 may get canceled and developer Undead Labs might be shut down, with Arkane and its Marvel's Blade project potentially suffering the same fate. We give our reactions, and also discuss how we'd "reboot" Xbox around its biggest franchises, as it's reported that new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to do. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:46 - State of Decay 3 Might be Cancelled 00:24:07 - Development on new The Elder Scrolls & Fallout 00:52:59 - Xbox Might Cancel Blade 01:04:34 - Hideo Kojima’s OD 01:21:13 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ryan, you mentioned that, hey, maybe this game just isn't where it needs to be and it's in a rough state and they can't like, they can't do anything with it.
0:10.0	If such is the case, and there's a vote of no confidence as you mentioned, if that's the case, that is also a failure of Xbox as a publisher.
0:17.0	100%.
0:18.0	Because, yeah, because as I mentioned last week, I was talking about, you know, games not being successful.
0:23.6	Like, yes, maybe there's a, maybe the game just doesn't have appeal to a wide audience
0:28.6	in the way that Xbox wants, but that's a failure of stewardship.
0:31.6	And if you're the publisher, your job, the reason why you get, why a lot of these people
0:36.6	in high positions get paid a lot of money,
0:38.3	and the execs are in leadership positions is to be the stewards of these studios.
0:43.0	Keep these projects on track.
0:44.2	This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117, and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked,
0:51.5	the world's number one Xbox podcast.
0:57.6	Now finish this fight.
0:59.9	Master Chief, out.
1:03.8	What's happening, friends?
1:05.3	Welcome to Podcast Unlocked.
1:07.0	IGN's weekly Xbox show. It is episode 748.
1:10.2	We're releasing it on July 2nd, 2026 recording on July 1st.
1:15.3	My name is Ryan McCaffrey, joined once again by Michael High. And what up, sir?
1:19.3	Yo, Viva Mexico!
1:22.1	It is World Cup time, which which is only makes this all the more amazing our guest this week. So Miranda, unfortunately,
1:29.9	she would also be here in addition to MC Fixer. I'm representing from Miranda right now.
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