The Most Horse-Powerful Podcast On The Internet, The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 159. This week Sean played Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Ryan played Crysis Remastered.

Cleaning the Garage

Our Pre-Order Experience

Blaze Knight @BlazeKnight0923 - Were you guys able to secure pre-orders? If so, did you order any games with the pre-order?

xero sKill @xerosKill1 - I got a Series X after nearly 40 minutes stuck in the cart screen and verifying address and payment from Microsoft. Lots of loading and a few error prompts, but I made it to the finish! I will be modifying my order later to pay for it using Microsoft credit.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Extra Mile will be up on Friday!

The Playlist

Ryan: Crysis Remastered, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Demo

Sean: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Halo 3: ODST,

Braking News

Microsoft has acquired ZeniMax Media, as well as all of their game divisions! This includes Bethesda Game Studios, iD Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Online Studios, Alpha Dog and Roundhouse Studios, as well as their associated IPs. Phil Spencer stated after the announcement was made that Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop will honor their exclusivity agreements and that exclusivity will be determined on a case by case basis. All Bethesda games will be coming to Game Pass and all new Bethesda games will launch day and date with Game Pass going forward.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/welcoming-bethesda-to-the-xbox-family/

Seumas MacIsaac @FamousSeumas - So, Xbox brought Bethesda. Do you think that means we'll see just Xbox exclusives from Bethesda or timed exclusives? And which Bethesda games are you looking forward to playing on Game Pass?

Xbox Game Pass hits 15 million active subscribers! This number is up from the 10 million reported back in April of this year!

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21449219/xbox-game-pass-15-million-subscribers-microsoft-growth

Xbox Design Lab is temporarily shutting it’s doors on October 14th and will relaunch sometime next year to bring new updates to the service, including customizing of new controllers. We also got the announcement of pricing for the new controllers which will cost $59.99 USD, as well as a new Shock Blue controller and a reamped USB-C Play and Charge kit.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/introducing-next-gen-xbox-accessories/

Twin Mirror, the next game from Dontnod has a release date! It will launch on December 1st, 2020!

https://www.ign.com/articles/twin-mirror-december-release-date-announced

The Carpool

Todd Oxtra @toxtra - What do you see as the roadmap for first party in 2021? Any third party surprises?

Joseph Moran @MrBadBit - Last week we saw a low amount of PS5D for preorder. Sean claimed that this was deceitful way to up sell consumers on a PS5. This week we saw the same thing this week w/ the Series S. My question is will Sean keep that energy?

Plugs

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