Xbox Talks #40 - Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, and Halo Infinite have all been busy this week!

Xbox Talks #40 - Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, and Halo Infinite have all been busy this week!

Show notes

Xbox Talks is recorded live on r/XboxSereisX with real users as guests!

Join Kevin, Anthony, Mikey, and Jay as we discuss our/your top indie games of all time and touch on some of the week's top stories including...

  • Microsoft will keep Call of Duty on Sony platforms "as long as there's a PlayStation out there to ship to"
  • Microsoft takes a $100-$200 loss on all Xbox Series X|S sales
  • More than one million players have already embarked on an incredible journey in A Plague Tale Requiem!
  • Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: Pentiment, Football Manager 2023, Somerville, and More
  • Phil Spencer acknowledges ‘it’s been too long’ since Xbox’s last big first-party game
  • Halo Infinite "fell short" on post-launch content, says Xbox exec
  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Is the Fastest Selling Call Of Duty Game Ever, Made $600M So Far
  • Atomic Heart release date confirmed : Februari 21, 2023
  • Microsoft's Halo Warthog Ride-On(power wheels) Has Already Won Christmas
  • Kojima rejects ‘ridiculously high’ acquisition offers to stay indie
  • Congratulations to klbx67t12 - who won our first ever 'community pumpkin carving contest' with their work "Mask of Miraak from Skyrim"
  • The Xbox Store will soon be better at notifications for Wish List sales and more. Xbox is testing new Store notification settings with Xbox Insiders
  • $239.99 Series S Black Friday deal at Costco
  • 'Epic Didn't Really Know What to Do With the Franchise,' Cliff Bleszinski on the Gears of War Sale to Xbox
  • Xbox's Matt Booty: Grounded Has Topped 13 Million Players
  • Microsoft Gaming CEO Excited For 2023 Xbox First Party Lineup, Future Hardware & Partnerships
  • Elden Ring datamine suggests potential DLC leaves space for 30 new bosses
  • Andrew Walsh joins Playground Games for the upcoming new Fable game
  • Subnautica gets surprise Game Pass leaving soon date (nov 15)
  • Fallout 4 is getting next-gen version in 2023
  • Age of Empires is Coming to Xbox Consoles
  • Persona 5 Royal is currently the highest rated game on Xbox gamepass!
  • After 4 days, Persona 5 Royal is ranked #12 on Gamepass Most Played list in the US
  • Retailers are still selling physical copies of Overwatch even though it no longer exists
  • "It's incredibly sad Minecraft still isn't optimized after almost two years of the XSS and XSS "
  • Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Says Price Hikes Are Coming, But Not Until After The Holidays
  • Xbox’s Phil Spencer says the metaverse is a “poorly built video game”
  • Xbox Game Pass growth is ‘slowing down’ on console, claims Phil Spencer
  • Rocksteady co-founders and studio heads Sefton Hill & Jamie Walker have decided to leave the studio
  • Sims 5 Playtests Start October 25
  • Electronic Arts GmbH, located in Rheinauhafen in Germany, has announced it will no longer sell physical copies of its games ... games like FIFA & Battlefield can only be bought digitally."
  • Disney: No IP is off limits to indie developers: SVP of Walt Disney Games explains why the entertainment giant is looking to work with indie creators
  • MW2 Physical Disc only has 70mb of data on it
  • Phil Spencer confirms at WSJ Live that Xbox Game Pass is profitable for Microsoft. It's around 15% of gaming revenues for Microsoft
  • Xbox total revenue numbers best ever for a Q1, per latest Microsoft earnings report

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