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Hello and welcome to podcast unlocked episode 556. It is August 9th today. We are recording.

I'm Rita Sanchez hosting today, filling in for Ryan McCaffrey who is out sick, but joining us is the same panel you had last week, including me as your host, but joining us also from away, also really quickly.

Before we say hello to everybody, please note that we may sound a little different. We may look a little different if you're watching because we're back on the studio.

We're starting some studio recording. Welcome in joining me in the studio in San Francisco is Stella Stella. Welcome.

Hi, and then joining us remotely is Taylor Liles. Hi, and doesn't look great.

Hey, everybody. Welcome. Welcome. Yeah, so it's great. Yeah, yeah, we have this really cool industrial theme. It's all green and I was like, Tang, I can like dress to this isn't me great.

So just just a production note that if you do notice like, oh, you guys are just like maybe a little delay or something. We're still too fine tuning everything, but I think we're pretty good to go. We can see everybody. It's nice. I'm like, oh, I can see everybody.

Even though we're so far away, but now me and Stella are closer. So hopefully when we do get Ryan back, he will join us in the studio. So please look forward to that. And of course, if you do watch. Hello, and if you're a listening.

Hello, and you're ears, but you know, it's a different. It's a different kind of hello. Just imagine me waving you to you. But yeah, so today on the show, we have plenty of news to go over.

And of course, plenty of games to talk about as well. So let's jump right on into it.

Our leading story this week is about the Xbox series S. So one that I don't think a lot of us have actually had a lot of hand time hands on time with. I know I haven't.

I've always wanted to see one because I'm kind of jealous of the folks who have a really cool travel kit for their Xbox series us.

I don't think it's really practical for me also because I just don't go anywhere. But it's always such a cute console. And I think it's just such a perfect gift.

But the big news here is that it's getting performance boost, which is really cool to see the support for the series S as this is such a great point of entry for Xbox.

We don't have a PC or if you're just kind of getting into the game's ecosystem to begin with. So this was asked by the by the spot it excuse me by the verge.

The latest game development kit frees up hundreds get hundreds of additional megabytes of memory for the Xbox series as game developers.

And quote, this gives developers more control over memory, which can improve graphics performance and memory constraint conditions.

Microsoft's game dev team noted in July are assuming the June game development kit video. Well, this should help provide a much needed boost to the Xbox series us.

It will take time for developers to optimize games. And of course, there are no promises for the games that are already on the series as to get new sort of improvements to their overall performance.

Either way, though, you know, more memory is really important and of course allows the developers to do more with the games on series us, which I think are already doing really good.

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