Jerrad Wyche returns catch up with Max about the state of Xbox and dissect the 2024 Xbox Summer Games Showcase.

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Show Notes Welcome

• MFP10 - “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” with Jerrad Wyche

A Lot Has Happened with Xbox

• MFP13 - “Go Back to Daddy Microsoft” with Tomas Franzese
• FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s Acquisition of Game Giant Activision – The Washington Post
• Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox Employees – The Verge
• Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks – The Verge
• Xbox Spends Tango Gameworks’ Budget on Redesigning Xbox Game Cases
• Inside the Making of Redfall – Bloomberg
• Four Xbox Games Going Multiplatform – Xbox Wire
• Activision Announces Elsewhere Entertainment
• Xbox Announces The Initiative at E3 2018
• Touching the Spider: A Conversation With Ken Levine – Sacred Symbols
• Netflix’s Bioshock Adaptation

Xbox Games Showcase 2024

• The Showcase Itself
• Every Announcement and Reveal

DOOM: The Dark Ages

• Mick Gordon’s Statement about DOOM Eternal’s Soundtrack
• Bethesda Doubles Down

State of Decay 3

• Inside The Microsoft Studio Behind State Of Decay 3 – Kotaku

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

• Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal
• Fable Legends Announcement Trailer
• Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Renamed

Metal Gear Solid 𝝙: Snake Eater

• Virtuos, the dev behind MGSΔ
• Delta Might be MGS3’s Twin Snakes Moment

Perfect Dark

• MFP36 - “I will be Flabbergasted” with Logan Moore

Indie Block

• Redwall books

New Hardware

• Xbox Teasing Next Gen
• Phil Spencer Interview with Ryan McCaffrey

Gears of War: E-Day

• Reinventing A Mad World: Why Gears of War: E-Day Represents the Future of the Series

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