Xbox’s Brutal ‘Reset’ + Who Bought State of Decay 3 and Senua? – Unlocked 749

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🗓️ 9 July 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The axe has fallen at Xbox, and while the result is thousands more job losses, the silver lining is that no studios are being closed. We try to figure out who might've bought Undead Labs (State of Decay 3) and Ninja Theory (Senua), as well as what the now-independent Double Fine might be working on. Plus: Game Pass's failures and how it might evolve moving forward, and more! 00:00:00 - Intro & Xbox Layoffs 00:20:52 - Future of State of Decay 3 00:30:21 - Future of Ninja Theory 00:35:39 - Future of Double Fine 00:41:56 - Future of Bethesda 00:58:39 - Physical Discs & Project Helix 01:11:30 - Future of Game Pass 01:30:05 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	about how crazy it is that you went through a list of like so many of the most kind of like
0:06.4	formative video game studios that that have effectively created the fabric of the industry as we know
0:12.5	it and we grew up playing all of their games and we're sitting here being like, nah, they're
0:16.1	broke, they can't do it, they're broke.
0:17.6	Like it's just crazy to me.
0:20.1	This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117, and you're listening to Podcast Unlocked,
0:27.1	the world's number one Xbox podcast.
0:30.7	Now, finish this fight.
0:34.4	Master Chief, out.
0:38.8	What's happening, friends?
0:40.2	Welcome to Podcast Unlocked IGN's weekly Xbox show.
0:43.6	This is episode 749.
0:45.6	It is for July 9th, 2006.
0:49.2	We are recording on July 8th, 2026, which I feel like we have to mention every week now because things
0:57.9	happen so quickly and sadly, terrible things happen almost every day in the world of Xbox.
1:05.0	And so we need to just preface this by saying if something terrible has happened by the time
1:09.2	you hear this, it may not have happened
1:11.7	yet as we're recording. I'm Ryan McCaffery, as always here, joining you, hosting you for
1:17.1	podcast Unlocked. Miranda is unfortunately under the weather. Michael Hyam is on assignment,
1:22.8	so I am pleased to be joined by two folks, one of which you've seen recently and one of which
1:28.3	it's been far too long.
1:30.1	Both guys I adore.
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