Microsoft stepped up to the next-gen plate properly last week with their Xbox Showcase. The event was headlined with a major game, Halo Infinite and then wrapped up with the reveal of Fable. But what’d we think of the show and the games themselves?

Also on the show:

Mini-Direct Announcements From Nintendo

Carrion Is Awesome

Gabe Newell Is Stuck In New Zealand

Hosts:

Dylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladil

Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobley

Ciaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingo

Episode Timecodes

INTRO

00:10 - Hello

MAIN TOPIC

01:05 - Xbox Showcase Thoughts

12:50 - All The Games In The Showcase

REVIEWS/PREVIEWS

01:11:25 - Carrion Review

THE NEWS

01:14:15 - Gabe Newell Is Stuck In New Zealand

01:17:40 - Logic Is A Full-Time Streamer Now

01:24:50 - Nintendo Direct Mini - Why?

OUTRO

01:34:00 - Goodbye

Resources:

Eurogamer

’Forza Horizon 4, Ori and the Will of the Wisps Getting Xbox Series X Optimisations This Year’

Kotaku

’Everything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Direct Mini’

’Everything Microsoft Showed During Todays Xbox Showcase’

’Gabe Newell Has Been In New Zealand For Months Because of COVID-19’

VG24/7

’Logic Quits Rap For Multi-Million Dollar Twitch Deal’

Arcade Couch Credits:

Music by: Dylan Blight

Art by: Cherie Henriques

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