Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode:

• Meta's new $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription and rate limits on its Ray-Ban smart glasses, plus privacy concerns around the always on super sensing feature

• The content creator use case for smart glasses and where the category actually makes behavioral sense

• Microsoft's Xbox restructuring and layoffs, and Asha Sharma's memo stating that the business today is not healthy

• The end of the Phil Spencer era Game Pass strategy and subscriber growth that fell short of internal targets

• Microsoft refocusing on platform scale IP with Minecraft from Mojang and Candy Crush from King, plus Minecraft as the original home of UGC creators

• Roblox overhauling 2D clothing with higher upload costs, ID verification, a subscription requirement, and a creator revenue cut from 70% to 30%

• Roblox phasing out R6 avatars, classic faces, and 2D clothing, and the community backlash over moving away from its own nostalgia

• Kalshi losing its bid to block New York gambling enforcement, and the CFTC versus state fight over prediction markets

• A lighter close with Eliza's Roblox game Slay: Dress to Survive frog update and World Cup weekend

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Produced by: Jacob Hollabaugh

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