The Most Horse-Powerful Podcast On The Internet, The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 119. This week Sean played Shovel Knight: King of Cards and the first hour or so of Control. Ryan played Untitled Goose Game.

Cleaning the Garage (AKA Housekeeping)

GOTY is next week!!! Submit your top 3 and we’ll read them on the show!

Introducing The Roundabout - Celebrating 15 Years of Xbox 360! Starting Monday, December 16th!

The Playlist

Ryan: Untitled Goose Game

Sean: Control. Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Forza Horizon 4: The Eliminator.

Braking News

One of the ways Microsoft kept the Xbox Series X a surprise. In rehearsals Phil Spencer read a fake script about Game Pass. The first time he mentioned Series X was during the live show. https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/the-game-awards-viewership-geoff-keighley-streaming-broadcast-1203446839/

New games coming to Xbox Game Pass today (December 19th)!

The Witcher 3

Pillars of Eternity

Life is Strange 2: Episode 5

Untitled Goose Game

Ori and the Will of the Wisps may run at 120fps on Xbox Series X?https://www.windowscentral.com/ori-and-will-wisps-may-run-120-fps-xbox-series-x

The Carpool

Joel{aka} Falcon @JoelakaFalcon - Besides games pass ultimate what would be a great gift to pair with a new #Xbox

BravesB via Discord: Will we see an Xbox Elite Series 3 at launch with Series X, with an included Share button?

BoboHotep @TheBoboHotep: After seeing the reveal of the X Series a couple questions come to mind. Where do you think the X Series will come in on price? Since its such a sophisticated looking machine, do you feel that they will release special editions of this console during the next generation? Baaaaw!

Todd Oxtra @toxtra: What is your ideal launch plan for Xbox Series X/S/?

Reveal milestones

Early 2020

E3

X020

Inside Xbox

Pricing for each series. New accessories. New features.

Joey Craig @SkywardKing: Will Sean buy me an Xbox Series X on launch day? Serious question. Do you think there will be a new Banjo Kazooie on Xbox? If so, where would you want to see the series go? #XboxDriveGang

Blaze Knight @BlazeKnight0923: Which genre's of games do you two gravitate towards when deciding what to play? For example, I am big into turn based strategy games and horror games.

Cruise Control - Topic of the Show

Donnie Reece @PlayinNintendo via Discord

Do you think streaming can / does adversely affect your enjoyment of a video game? It's obvious that you're great at streaming, stick to your schedule, have a lot of interaction, but I was watching you play Control last night (my personal favorite game of 2019) and the constant interaction with the chat and questions and conversation appeared to me to be taking away from the focus the player (you in this example) should maybe have on the game?

I guess you could even tack on are there games that are better suited for streaming vs. personal enjoyment. A la, WWZ which is just awesome blow stuff up with friends fun. Also, are there any games you're planning on not streaming, such as TLOUII ?

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