Xbox Opens Up On Activision's Future - What's Next?

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 223 minutes

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Summary

After almost two years of going back and forth on every layer of this deal, it is finally complete. Xbox owns Activision Blizzard King and have massively expanded both the IP as well as talent under their possession. Now, the real work begins! As Phil Spencer says he's going to begin visiting all these teams, gamers have many burning questions! What is the future of exclusivity for the many upcoming Activision games? Will Xbox dig into the massive backlog of titles at their disposal? How will the integration of Activision games in Game Pass work? With a sense of finality, we can begin to answer those questions. That wasn't the only massive news this week as Bethesda's Pete Hines is leaving Bethesda after spending 24 years there. With Will Shen out too, many are wondering if it's time to worry about folks jumping ship. The Dukes are here to settle things down. Otherwise, we dig into Halo Infinite's resurgence, Starfield being one of the best selling games of the year, and much more! Start hiring now with a $75 sponsored job credit at https://www.indeed.com/duke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Defining Duke, an Xbox podcast is brought to you by, well, you.
0:05.0	If you want to learn how to support the show, go to Patreon.com slash Last Stand Media. The Oh, So,
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0:32.0	you know,
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0:40.0	. . . . . . . . Salutations everybody it is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 146.2 of Defining Duke and Xbox Podcast.
0:57.0	Today I'm joined by my unmuted co-host Lord Cognito.
1:01.0	There's a bit of backstory to last 40 seconds of our life.
1:04.4	Should we go into it?
1:06.4	Let's get into it.
1:07.4	Talk about what happened.
1:09.4	That's so podcasting in motion right now.
1:11.9	Professional podcast. Now, man, I'm doing better. I'm doing
1:14.0	doing better. I'm doing better. I'm doing better much better. You know, you know, as most of you already know on
1:19.0	Twitter I kind of I've been fairly transparent with stuff that's been going on with me and this week was a very anxiety-filled week because I knew everything was building to this moment so I don't know if we're going gonna get into it or whatever.
1:33.8	Yeah, we're gonna I'm gonna let the audience know.
1:36.8	I'm gonna get a nice heart to heart here probably in the opening 20 minutes beyond the medical
1:42.0	we're gonna talk with our audience
1:43.4	transparently that's a stuff weighing on my heart that yeah I'd like to talk about so
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