Agenda:

**FIRST HALF**

- Xbox closes down several studios, including Tango Gameworks, makers of Hi-Fi Rush

- Internal memo states they want to redirect resources to Bethesda games as they 'more likely to be successful'

- Matt Booty said they need more 'small games that win awards', ya'know, like Hi-Fi Rush

- Sarah Bond was asked about the closure of Tango and gave a spectacularly wordy non-answer

- Hi-Fi Rush was stated, by Xbox, to have exceeded "all key metrics"

- Game Pass growth has dramatically slowed, but is still massively profitable

- CoD is coming to Game Pass day one

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy went to Warhammer World and stuff

- Warhammer announcement

- Bryan has been watching all the movies

- Monkey Man

- Godzilla Minus One

- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

- Pulp has continued with Stellar Blade

**FILLER**

- EA looking at putting (more) ads "thoughtfully" in games, after being asked by stakeholders about it.

- Straus Zelnik claims Roll7 and Intercept games were 'not shuttered' despite literally no one working at the studios any more

- Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed: Shadows

- Lots of controversy about the two protagonists, the fact it's up for pre-order already (with multiple tiers) despite there being no gameplay available for it yet and there's a season pass (it's a single player game)

- Square Enix changing it's approach; aiming to have games spread across more platforms (including Xbox)

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