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This is the Xbox cast

Hello and welcome to the Xbox cast regular show

Here your host Carlin Lee and we are here to tell you all about the this week in Xbox

The go go the dub dub dub I'm tripping over my words today because I'm too excited the fact that we are back after a week's break

Yet and the fact that my legs feel like they're going to fall off

Mr Lee how you doing?

You're so old. I'm good

I'm good. I'd be football tonight and I'm not dying. I'm still going to say I like that

I like me going to football. They're not dying. It's a good to good plan. It is a good way to be I was playing on Saturdays

I'm not died. So that's good. Fantastic. I appreciate you're not dying

Yeah, thanks bro. Thanks bro. You got you bro

So this last week I apologize. I was in Wellington doing an a cyber security conference. How did that go? What did you learn?

How did you learn how to cyber?

I did lots of cybering

so much cybering

All of my own in Wellington only evening adults are cybering

Oh, yeah, that's good. So now you've happened to the Pentagon

It was really funny. So it all the way through at the kept putting QR codes on screens and lots they would say

So there's a QR code to get to this if you trust it

Every single time I put on a QR code and I was like that is amazing. I don't know how many people actually scan them

I thought that's hilarious because that was a whole thing, but um

I want to say what they do in the US

It was like a hackers conference doing in

Um, um, oh, death code death, death hat, uh, death hat something dark hat

I'm sure it's defcon

Defcon no defcon something else. No

Um, but the whole thing is do not go there with your phone because it will be hacked

Yeah, everyone goes with burners

And I'll guarantee they have QR codes defcon. There you go. Defcon. It's not defcon. Are you sure it's defcon?

Okay, yeah, def space con the hacking conference. I was right. Yes

Okay, defcon def space gone

Um, uh, yeah, so they'll turn it off with the burner phones

You can guarantee there's QR codes everywhere

Um, yeah

It's fantastic yeah

The best thing to come out of decons is um those

Like oh yeah, here we have the super secure phone with the latest patches

And it takes eight minutes to get complete control of it

Mm-hmm. Well, they have competitions, don't they? Yeah, they have competitions to hack stuff

So cool

There's big prizes and they have like special badges

The badges this year had like um, you've programmable LEDs on them

So you can put anything like these LED things

Got the faces and games one put probably put doom on it, you know, all that and it's cool

Such a cool bunch

Yeah

So now you've learned all of that power sable warfare you've hacked into the Pentagon

So it's so you can't sit there going okay, so give me information. I want information

I don't talk to any other companies because all the companies do is I get your information and then bug the crap out of you

Basically, yeah, yeah, and then say oh you've got a really good chance of winning the

I saw how to scale at a Lego set or something

Well, I never win those crap like it's just not worth it

So I did I'd basically sat in this room with all these guards during the conference stuff the whole time

I didn't involve we're going to talk into any of the

The plebs doing selling stuff

great

It's pointless it's complete part. I remember when I first did um tech it I done every single thing I signed up for every single thing

Yeah, when one thing at all was like me

But ticket was different because you'd go to the different places and they're like

Have a pin have this have this and like you get

Yeah, but that was they would give you pens and stuff at the polls

I don't want to carry the crap like I don't really need that crap

So what they said was most issues of people with the wrong with really low powered password low level passwords

No to a fa or devices of default passwords on every password on

That's still the biggest issues out there

All right, I might go on back 10 years is that is it still the same issue

They were like because one of the guys like I write a report every year

I'd really love a report where I write this zero day came in and it was really cool

And it was like I'm not really cool because I've got hacked but it was really cool is a lot of that

I was like that would be awesome

Is that I want to write some interest not like people please change your passwords

Send on to a fake and change your default password from admin admin like it just do the basics

He says some people get attacked

Every single time or as person click on a link still people click on links. It's the biggest thing. This is users

So on the second day we were like mid got to midday because I'd get back to from Wellington

It was like four or four and a half hour drive

And the boss turns me at one o'clock. He goes

I'm gonna go. I'm like yeah

We sat the whole morning and it was repeating everything with the day before exactly the same information

We're like the 15 ninth worst

country in the whole world for our levels of

security

Bad like the you a Canada's one UK's 20 Aussie's forty US's for three and we're 59

Like that's terrible

But that was that kept repeating that over and over again everyone had it in all the talks

Well, that's what the point we're like let's get out. Yeah, you're you're not in the top 50, which is great

No, we want to be in the one

Number one

I thought you meant number one was like the worst like super easy. No

No complete opposite. No one. They've got this shit. They've got the doc ducks in a row

They know what they're doing. They have security

They probably don't get hacked by someone change on the password on them or something

The users know not to click on random links that come through in their email

Yes, that's right. Yeah, whereas we're 59

Okay, no that is shocking

Yeah, so that's it and we we came out with like a list of things to do and a lot of it is just reminding people to stop it

Stop it stop clicking on links change your path stop using the same password for every single account. It's just

Yeah, route route

S H S H. I was always looking. What was that for? I'm unify S H S H

Yeah

Yeah, so it was interesting. It's actually really good to hang out the boss and got my buddy

Like we want to see you guys both it all's hang out and it's good fun. Yeah, they're really good fun

So that was fun to do but the information wise it was like I yeah

Nothing that surprising really did you see jethrow?

I did not know I did see you might not oh you might know

Do you know them? No, you probably don't know them. I did see two people used to work with though both of them are left one lived and filled in now

He was down there one guy works at mr apple

That's quite funny. I was like

He was wearing a suit this guy like he always used to wear like a black tea. He's a saffron

So he wears black t-shirt black chat black jeans

That was his outfit and about every single time I saw him and slightly too long hair like it's a bit too long

And a slightly messy goatee and he looks like slick in his like fitted suit and his real nice like shave properly shave

Decent hair cut a little bit gray, you know, it was like

I was like I just didn't I didn't know clock it. I didn't clock him. He's all right Liam like like oh

He's okay. That took me second to catch him. I was like he's nice. That's quite funny

Yeah, that's cool. Someone's decided to move up in the world

Yeah, he's on business now just lots of repertoire like he's you know, he's a proper security guy though. He does no shit. He is good

Fantastic

Yeah, he's always good to annoy. He's quite funny because he always a bit of it's like you know in some people

Talked you they're kind of almost not quite talking to you. Oh a little bit sarcastic when they talk to you like the so kind of if you consider almost like

Head that sort of aura around him was just funny

Why am I wasting my time on this pleb exactly you plebs. That's actually yes. That's always wanted to annoy him. Hi

Yeah, I have a problem. I

Have a problem. I think I've broken something

Yeah, fantastic

Love it

Yes, that's good. Good to get away. Yeah, it's always nice hang out with the bus

Yeah, it's good. It was fun

Yeah, we don't see

Legs are falling. I'm out. I'm done. My legs are falling off. That's it. I'm out. I'm done. My legs are falling off

We can just get rid of them. Go cyber. Yeah, no, I need to get metal legs. This is nonsense

Oh, man, I've got a weaker you got weaker the more exercise you do doesn't it's not supposed to work all that

No, it's not yeah, I need to go I did I tell you I need to go for an MRI on my back

I

You made a glass

Well, I'm so strong that each time I do something my muscles rip off my skeleton

That's a brilliant. I like it. Yeah, I'm so strong. I keep hurting myself. Yep

It's like yeah, no, my muscles are just too strong. They just keep breaking. Hmm. You're supposed to just kind of handle it

No

But no need to go for an MRI because I remember I told you I got set sciatica in my legs. Hmm. I remember it well

Yes, so when I'm running because you can sit still. Yeah

When running and I'll lose

lose power in my legs when I'm running

Can that lose power in your legs? Yes

So you know when you when your leg is gone to sleep and you trust stand on it

You can feel that it's there, but like you can't kind of push off to move forward

Hmm, I think of that you're running running running and suddenly you get that feeling of just like weakness on your leg

And then right and then it comes back to normal run run run run run. It's a trap. No, isn't it must be trapped? No, surely

Yeah, that's that's what they're saying

It's like yeah, when you start losing power in your leg like I am the doctors go right

We need to go do an MRI because that's not a good sign

You're like in disk is slept knowing one of your nerves or something like that. Yeah, something is going on

But MRIs are not covered by ACC so we're avoiding that for now

Well, just do me to do it. Maybe I can make 3d print your one

That'll be great. It's just a bunch of a bunch of x-ray stuff, isn't it? Isn't just radiation?

Is it radiation? That's that's been really fast

Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah, just put a bunch of magnets. That's been really fast. That'll be a nice

Yeah, cool

Because yeah, I don't yeah, it's not covered by ACC and it costs $450 to get one

So

Avoiding that and just running instead

You know exactly running away from that. Yeah running away from our problems

Ah

But anyway, I will sit here and grin and bear it while my legs lowly fall off

You're definitely doing it

I watched a video on the guys act running is the most natural thing in the world if you have pain running

Do something about it because it should not hurt to run and I was like okay, it hurts to run time to go to the doctor

And the doctor's like right you need an MRI

Because things are not going well, but the good thing is that remember when I hurt my ankle last year

Not quite this time last year hurt hurt my ankle. I think you was distorted in the movie

Yeah, I remember like sports while up to the south of my head

That's right. Yeah, so you say hurt

But yeah, so mana injury the doctor a mere a mere flesh wound. Yes, just a scratch

To the doctor has come back after like I've gone through you know

Ultrasounds and x-rays. I think I was done as well and all sorts of other stuff

There was done and all these tests that they had me do the doctors come back saying so I went off to some specialists

And I talked to a couple of my friends and they talked to a couple of their friends and basically

People have spoken to people and we've come back with what we think has happened to your ankle

Is like while you're running the tendon that runs down the outside of your ankle and attaches underneath your

Your arch. Oh, yeah, yeah grabs under your heel. Yeah, like grabs you around the heel like somewhere on the arch

That they thought that there were tears in that tendon and they weren't far off because what they think happened is the tendon stayed attached

but split

Cool

So where it attaches apparently it attaches to do two different places where it attaches

It stayed attached, but where the pressure point is it's split up the tendon up my ankle

Which why it which what swallowed up so much

But basically they think that yeah, it's split and then she says and now and I said it's mostly okay

So she goes okay, so two things could have happened the tendon could have healed and come back together and formed itself as one

Or it stayed split and just had scar tissue on either side to heal it

Yes, okay, so your body because it's kind of got used to it

Yeah, so the body's kind of just healed around it

But they say this is probably what happened is your tendon split and it split up your leg

Do you think they use chat GDP to work the site?

110% she asked people they asked chat GPT

They asked other people other people asked chat GPT

And eventually the AR came back with something that sounded plausible and they go hmm that fits everything that he was saying

So yeah, I'm got any marathons but top for the next year

Well, I've got one on my may 17

44 kilometers

Cool

I don't think I'm gonna make it

No, I think you need to get some running done

Does anyone take you like six 12 months to get warmed off in this?

You can in theory go from couch to finishing a marathon not not

Getting best time, but finishing crossing the finish line in a steaming pile of of

Just destroyed legs in 12 weeks

Oh, there you go. You've got like eight weeks. Yeah, and I'm already

And you're broken and I'm broken. I can barely do two Ks Lee. It's shocking

So yes, we're we're going to continue running until either I get wheeled off to the MRI against my will or

I get to finish the marathon

Even thought if you get run over by a car, do we get an automatic free MRI?

Is it worth doing that? Like do I actually fall in front of somebody's car or a bike or something?

Hmm

What are the stairs at work? You know that ACC should work

There's not ACC here in Australia and there's no health cover at all

There's health cover in inverted comments, but if you hurt yourself

Midi-ke

March pay how do we feel today guys should midi-ke pay for this the best we can do is laugh

Okay, awesome. So it's like the US basically. Yeah, if you in a calendar year though

If you spend over like a thousand five hundred dollars on medical fees out of pocket

Then for the rest of the year everything midi-ke would cover is free

That seems okay, so it's a five hundred dollars a year to get in a health cover basically yes

And teeth and dental is not coveredly because Australia classifies teeth as a thing called luxury bones

It's the same here. Yeah, same it's also cool shop because you got no TV can't eat you die surely

Well, they don't say that that's luxury bones. It's bones that are a luxury because you can always just buy a cat food

Hmm, that's right just soup

Cat food and a straw no one's stopping you

That's right

But anyway, we have an Xbox podcast to do enough about Carl's ailments

And the fact that tendons can apparently split and still be attached

The doctor was talking to telling this to me and I'll just keep going no no

Please stop talking because she got into quite graphic detail about how it happens and what it's like

Well, that's so when they kill you know you say your kill is this tight. Yes

When that goes it actually just curls off into like a board, isn't it kind of just stretches off and kind of goes off inside your leg

Yep

So when you see people playing a football and they just drop on the deck and know as near them you like

Yeah, that's Eric Elise

Because it lets you if they say it feels like I've been shot the sort of people say because it just goes last snap

And then all the tendons just go

Yeah

Yeah, not great

So be really careful because you don't you're pleased to go that's like six months out

No, that's more than six months. I think for me

Well, it's three months in a moon boot and then three months off of rehab

And then maybe another six months of actually getting back to where you were fitness wise like it's it's not great

It's not great. Don't don't do it. Keep stretching your counts

And that that's the one thing that I said to the doctor when I first hurt my ankle was like it felt like as I was running someone through a wet tennis ball

Right at the ankle you know when you're playing stingers

And someone gets a wet tennis ball and as you're running away throws it and it hits

So right into your ears and your Achilles then it was actually because that sounds like an Achilles injury almost

It's a backier leg. It was there's definitely the side

Yeah, Achilles, but yet

It felt like someone had taken a wet tennis ball and just thrown it as hard as I can at my ankle and it just went

Wack and I was like ah

Instant that's the tendons going and loosen himself off of the bow and that's what that is

Yeah, I'm tearing all the splitting just deciding to part ways with each other

Yeah, okay enough Xbox Xbox

No, let's do the charts charts. Well the charts is charts, isn't it?

Yes, it is the charts and I know but it's I feel like it's like the beginning

Right

Focus focus

Let's do this thing

Have you seen Crimson Todd stuff?

Crimson desert it looks really cool. I haven't really watched much. There's a trailer here. Oh

Are you going to watch anime let me

so

Co crimson tight

Uh is the second biggest

Second biggest Xbox game this year

Man, that's pretty good

Game pass oh second biggest the game with the game without game pass. Oh interesting second biggest out

Without game pass interesting man, that's good news

He's got a uh

Scottish ingot on there with the

Have you played this at all oh

Is it Japanese? No, no, it's not it's by the same guys that did black desert, which is an MMO

Um, they came out a while ago

Because I feel like it has a very Japanese fighting start to it. It does

It's kind of like dragon's dogma also in a way

But no, this is very cool

Oh those things to fly there's trains there's jumping about

There's a rocket shipping

Yeah, there's a game you should play on an infam

Yeah

It looks very cool. Oh, there's all sorts isn't it? Yeah

I heard a rumor that they're trying to make this into an MMO and then just gave up because it was like actually

Let's just keep a single player

Hmm

It's good. I like it first person

It looks very cool

Huge and gorgeous fantasy world. So what was the biggest selling then?

Doesn't say okay

All right, okay, let's get in charge. I'm just curious because I've kind of been seeing it everywhere people were very excited

So I just want to get nosey

For night in Minecraft is what positions

Look at cod dropping away slowly

That's kind of interesting. Wasn't cod top for

Ten days

Basically Microsoft brought active vision cod stop drop. Let's start dropping off the charts

Well, cod the latest one is not very good from what I've seen new

No

No people's sick of it. Roblox is four

You say five is five, which is where it normally hangs out rocket leaves doing really well robo six x is

Seven arc ranges at eight, which is good to see arc range to hang that batter food has leaped on place

Same with my car rivals also delete single place. How divers has gone up before

The 15 models for the rising five or 16 people were very excited about six coming out this year, so

So I think was in the charts for the first time for a while I think because of

Game pass last last week. So that's cool 18 now crimson does it in at 19

Was that it? Oh, no, and mbl the show 26 is a new entry at 28

It's kind of it. There's not much else going on devil's dot plays. Destiny's

Gone from one place to fall. That's gone down also marathon is a reentry of 33

Interesting. Oh, it's not. No, it's not. It's a stuck where it is. Sorry. No, it's stuck where it is. See of these you rarely see something stick where it is

That's kind of interesting. Yeah, mostly of these

Hey, sorry, see of thieves as a reentry. Yeah, see if he was a reentry. Yeah, but have a look at the publisher for see of thieves

It is guy a guy industry

That's not Xbox game studios

You think it's a mr

What do you think they've now handed see of thieves over to these guys to kind of not sons yet, but just keep going

Comes and tiger second. There's no guy injuries in industries

Hmm

Yes, oh based on the service or there's no much company into an equal to guy in social with the CFE's

No, that's a good spot. Oh, interesting. I think someone is messed up

Oh, there are secondary publisher apparently

Don't know why the chart devoted to those

Oh, yeah video games guy

Hmm interesting

How weird yeah

There's no CF is there void water so maybe they're not allowed

Yeah, don't know that's weird

You could say

Yeah, they've got five games here, but none of them are actually CFE's

Hmm

Maybe it's a mess time

Interesting. Oh, well, but right at the top it says it did a delight hasn't been published by five of our games almost a decade behavior publishes it

So maybe they've been having issues

Interesting

Yeah, since when is minecraft and CFE's published by guy industries? Yeah, oh, yeah

Maybe the charts a bit mucked up

Yeah, I think so here. It's almost kick some finish and done

Yep, don't kick things you shouldn't kick is the motto

Yes, leave it alone. There's nothing wrong with it

Okay, well good spot

Weird very weird right news is stuff

News and stuff. We've got a reason about news. I think there's still some episodes in the last week

So we may we may pick and choose what we do

yes

So in

But it's like 40 hours or so. There's the new Xbox partner preview

Are we excited? Did you know that?

Are we excited?

Well

Got updates to stalker too

Stranger than heaven

There's a whole there's actually oh, no, there's no video. Oh, there's a video. That's really cool

We don't actually have this video of a countdown on it

Friturize

Oh, that's disappointing. Oh, yes

So what it says here's so case and a new first showcase and a new CEO Asha Sharma

It'll be yeah, that is gonna be interesting to see

Hmm because there's no film film. It does talky stuff, doesn't he? Yeah

Hmm

However, the showcase take a lot of profession time most likely in the works previously leadership

Yeah, okay, so it's on first day 26 for 2020 26 26

At 10 in Pacific 1 a.m. Eastern six 5 p.m. UK and like four a.m. or six a.m. New Zealand. Yep

Three a.m. Aussie. I guess. Yeah. Yep. That sounds about right

So we're not watching it

So interesting. There's actually will be shown stranger in the heaven as far as game mentioned developed by

Raiha gag dokoku studio

Yeah, no, just rolled off the tang me, didn't it? Oh, yeah

Ascribed as a detective game setting the 20th century Japan. That's all we know

Updates to stalk it to excuse me anything at this stage. It says yeah

Is that one game past? I was talking to you off the left. No, I think and I might still be

I thought it was leaving um because people were kicking off because it's not fixed yet

And they were saying or you're going to fix it and then take it off game paths also. Oh, yeah fix it and then put on PlayStation

Yeah, one stands out for me is expanse a Cyrus reborn

Yeah, I'm so looking forward to this game

Yeah, yeah

So here goes what mass effecty

Yeah, this this game is on my fantasy critic the expanse a stylish reborn

You keep saying it's never coming out coming out Lee they're going to have a surprise announcement

Would be up the whole of your fantasy cricket is oh cricket it's fancy um critic

Critic not cricket um

Everything you pick is really low rating so you're going to kill all these games

No, no, they're all going to be really good at finding games are aren't very good

They're all going to be uh

Sleeper hits you'll see a syrupa on me. It's going to come out. It's going to be 91 out of 100 isn't your predicted level like last at the moment

No, it's not

There's all communist Lars

I can log into it. I might log into it

Kyle zero

So far you've got zero so far what I'm actually projected is uh 48

Which is 10

Yeah, but you'll see these games are sleeper. It's Lee just just to give you a little bit level here

So Os there's only a three games release. He's already at 40 points

Mine is going to be amazing a sari tree born. It's coming out. It's 99 out of 100

Have you got any games coming out at all? I've got two games coming out next month. Yes

Then we'll see then we'll see

I've got my SPI for high came out that'll be giddy breaking that go quite high. We'll see what those games

Maybe maybe not

Maybe we know maybe someone or utter review about it that is less than a

Still a right. Okay. Yeah

With all your clouds

They don't call me the cloud master for nothing

They don't call you. That's right. Uh, so Seigo is confirmed for this event

So we'll be looking at if I for for that next mainline sonic game. Oh

Yeah

Because there's some sonic stuff coming out, isn't it? And that's yeah, so I don't know. Are we excited?

Well, I'm excited for the expense

Spence yeah, but otherwise, I don't know

It seems

Like they're doing something because they feel like they have to do something

Not because there's something to show

When do they do one last year?

Is it the same time?

Good. Why do my copy and pace not work in the slightest and that was interesting

Are you running Linux? Is that the problem?

I am running Linux. Is that a problem for you?

Is this on your running Linux on your streaming machine at the moment?

I'm running on my phone. There's whole things running through my phone. Oh, that's exciting

Yeah, man. You go to one heck of conference and suddenly the entire podcast is just running through your phone

And it's slowly melting

It's not no, it's amazing. It's all fine because you've got it in the

Just jealous

It's actually in a fridge outside as well like I can't have in the house gets too hot

Right next story

So we vaguely maybe could be impressed

We'll wait and see because there's arches first one so see what she gets up to

We wait and see if some give me something good about stalker and the expense and it'll be a good solid be out of tin

That's right. Yes, good work

Xbox mode is now officially rolling out while console players will start to see their cloud safe synch status

So yeah replacing the full screen. What do they I saw the wording here?

It's quite funny. It's very typical Microsoft with the names of stuff

I used to be called it it used to be called next was really rounded is Xbox full screen experience

So what it used to be called? Yeah, what an Xbox nothing like calling it exactly what it is or XFS FE

Yeah, it's a no just the Xbox mode yep, you're booting to Xbox mode. Nice and easy

It does yes, and this one this funny though because steam has a steam big picture mode

So I can see where Xbox was coming from when they did full screen experience. Yeah, just annoy

steam

It's on alpha. Sorry, I'll skip headring for now

And there's also the thing about cloud games sync which I'm very confused about

So you can now see the status of your cloud game

Synch

Ah, I see it says synch next to it

So you know when you finish what do you do if it's not synced? That's what I want to know

And I think then you start up your Xbox and get it to sync

Is it to do with planar PC then going to my Xbox and making sure it's actually the latest one on it?

Yeah, yeah, we're going to cloud so playing in Xbox play a new way game when you exit it

Yes, it's supposed to upload your save to what a Microsoft call it

I've got a funny name for it like foundry or something

It uploads to Microsoft foundry and then foundry is basically like you remember when you're setting up remote desktop

And you have to deal with your fix profiles

Hmm. Yeah, it's basically that

Just just a little bit of like you know, you have like a

PTSD

Lashback from mom. I just felt like someone just kind of went and stabbed me

Just a little poke in the back of like I remember that you you remember like I'm sorry. Remember those terrible days

I remember Citrix is worse so because Citrix is cool. How you fix Citrix sometimes is a restarting the service

What does that fix it? No idea. Just fixes it. That was all I asked that question. No, no, just fixes it. Just accept it fixes it

Don't ask questions, but it's not

It's just known. It's no issue of citrus whatever version was like I know you just restarted the service fixed it

Yeah, but why no

You want to figure it out? Yeah

Can I trigger my synced to download the latest version for playing it?

Ha probably not

It just it just shows you that there's a problem. It doesn't give you an option to fix the problem

That that would be ridiculous. I mean come on now. No one wants to fix a problem. They just want to know that there is a problem

Yep, I

Makes myself two more games announced for X-Watt's Game Pass titles for April and May

Well, we're getting into it. April and May is quite a far away. Oh, April and May. Yeah, I know

That's what I dropped things and oh yeah, so vampire crawlers and subnautica too

Oh

Which is interesting because the guy got fired

Because he wanted 250 million for bonuses or not. He wanted his team wanted 250 million for bonuses for subnautical one

And then they goes just fired him basically

It's not given bonus. Then they had to give him his job back

Yeah last week and now he's got his job back all of some subnautical tools comes out

Yes

And there's also to do is like

Licensing and stuff because he owned certain things in subnautica that he had presented or whatever

And so he was like, well, then you can't release a game if I'm not here

See I thought he's just being like they're just being doucheers towards him

So they fired him and then went, oh, we can't fire you

Because you actually know what you're doing. So we can't do anything now until you come back

No, no there 100% were being douchebags to him

And he also managed to have some leverage

Which is not it has a watchdog time or something like if you can employ me. I can't give you this password

Yeah, it would be a shame if there's kill switch where to go off that needs me to sit at my desk and press the button with my thumb every so often

And vampire callers, which is a casual turn-based deck builder with road like elements, which you'll think

I think I've got vampire callers on my

Fantasy critic. I think I've got vampire callers on my fantasy critic. Oh, what's coming to Game Pass

That's gonna come out with a hammock

Not necessarily means a lot of people play it, which mean could people go. It's not very good

It's based around vampires survivors universe

There's a demo from the store already

nice

And it's received some great reviews

Brave reviews here we come

Mate you've got 48 points possible projected and so far you've got zero

I'm batting my time. It's called strategy

How'd you do last year? Would you come last year? I think I came third. We're second. Oh

Okay, oh, so this is a this is an unusual situation to be in for you. Yes, it is

I mean no, no, this is going exactly to play

It's like as I planned

So yeah, let's go two games. Is that something or cuz it's fun. I'm not okay. Have you played it?

Yeah, cuz it's at a really easy way getting lots of points. Oh, yes. Have you played it in VR?

I have not got access to VR

I'm not worried. Terrifying. Terrifying in VR. Terrifying

That doesn't mean anything though. I was watching a movie and you were jumping so we're watching a movie. It wasn't that jumpy

That's a scary movie

Yeah, a little bit

A little bit scary

Xbox series X is getting its first dashboard update in ages quick resume upgrade and include it

Oh, that's a lot of trust in you better

Oh

Okay, so it's getting more fresh refinements including ability to add more groups to your home page new color settings

Improvements to the export series. It's quick resume. The quick resume features is actually kind of interesting. So yeah, you get more groups

You can group your stuffs

Nice, however, it's campaigns are finished. I'm sure they had that in series what Xbox one though, didn't they?

Yeah, they did. I made so many groups. I know groups for everything

I remember all the groups. Yeah, they're more colors great

Uh, quick resume is interesting. So what you can do for games you can disable quick resume for some games

Nice finally

Really handy for games like a multiplayer games because they just don't come back again. Do you have to crash from each time?

Yeah, so you might as well just have them turned off

Um, I thought a game we were playing on time might have been like destiny or something just did not like quick resume

I destiny doesn't lack it. See off thieves doesn't lack it

Yeah, so just hey look infinite

So mostly yeah or multiplayer games don't lack it and exports guide profile badges

Oh

Well, this is cool. This is cool

Yeah, profiles highlight highlights multiple

Moments and milestones across the players exports journey now when you open profile

If you don't have a place profile in the guide, you'll find five most recently unlocked badges

Making them easier spot while browsing profiles. Okay, so you can see it on the top there they got

So two things with these badges one

This was something good all major Nelson highlighted to the team to do back in 2014

You can't rush this

It's only taken 12 years

And second level

Could this be an introduction to how to Xbox making badges if you've a hundred percent of the game kind of like Sony's platinum trophies

Because if these are the top far the the most recent five badges you've earned

When are you going to earn other badges unless they're forgotten you've completed

Because currently there's nothing is it there's no there's no recognition of feeling like it's season finishing a series or some of that would be cool

Yeah, there's like there's no

They tried to do a lot of stuff around the achievements with the Xbox one launch, but the community didn't really enjoy most of what they did

Like they had those timed achievements for events that were with zero points

Was basically just to go on your game is called to go game a card to go look. I took part in this achievement

You got your did you get your one for buying the Xbox one didn't you? Yep, I got my day one achievement

But yeah, so if Xbox one is going towards a you know platinum's or badges for completed games this could be a first step

Also question

How long do you think they've been sitting on this update waiting for Escher to come on to come on board

So that they could be like look the new CEO things are changing new dashboard update

Always it mage and else in the background

Either way, I did like to do that. I'm trying to think of a really good segue to Starfield. I can't think of one

Yeah, it would be the long lines of games that you've forgotten about

Hold up. They're still doing stuff. What science couldn't do. So anyway huge update or the game's best version to date

Uh professor's worst kept secret is no longer secrets reveal the Starfields coming to land on April 7th on PlayStation 5

Before dual sense haptic feedback while pro performance mode and ProVisual modes all for those

For PlayStation 5 pro can't say it hurts me. That's my brain

So they get in higher frame rates

Also is new DLC coming out at the same time

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If you change if you change season position, you have changed the position. You need to put yourself back in the middle of the game

So you've done some stuff

Try don't need to go

That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so cool

So I was gonna say the segway you could have done is

Games you wish you had finished and are still bad during you

How's that for us?

Brilliant. I had like five minutes to think about it while I was getting the document

So there's a new update to Starfield

Oh, yes

Yeah, because it's coming out on PlayStation 5 they decided to not only give it dual-sense haptic feedback

And performance mode and ProVisual mode

And higher frame weight they also decided to give a DLC to the to the PlayStation guys too

And Xbox and PC at the same time

So

So wait, so okay, I knew that there were rumors about Starfield going to PS5

But we did the announcement

When was this announced?

Oh recently

March 17

Man

That's like last we've been

Last week, yeah

Interesting

Oh man, Microsoft keep shooting themselves in the foot

You know if Asha wanted to look like she was doing something

You could have just been like

So we were gonna release Starfield on PS5, but we're just holding steady

Just to see what the what the fans of Xbox actually want

But you know that nothing's changing. She's there to bring AI out into

Helix that's all she's there for

Yeah, yeah, the new pro pilot Xbox

Yep, that's all she's there for nothing out and all tall

We'll listen to your fans. Don't worry. Yep, nothing is changing though

Nothing is changes. So anyway, so there's the three lanes update is coming out overalls the games

Off to criticize space travel

Yeah, I don't think this I guess I don't really think the space travel is that just criticize

There's a bit slow I guess maybe that's the issue. I think they were going for like a you know space Odyssey

2001 Stanley Kubrick movie. Is that space travel in that movie very slow?

Yes, so now that doing is it

So now in this a new a non-event outside of something across new location is to be a random side place

Three lanes that add depth to the perhaps under the area of the base game back to hardware to begin. Okay

Space show is now is now so much more than a glorified loading screen or transition screen developer

Cruise modes or players can look a lot onto a destination stand-up exit cockpit while all was monitoring the rival to serve destination

Using the player's compass in time you can chat in that tiny chat to companion set your out your inventory

Also be stand by the window watch wanders space by cool. That's quite nice

Yeah, so I'm sure it isn't a perfect passive three lanes ensures a bunch of new anomalies and events in space

Uh some option called loot

Uh, it might be the event of a nature does

All right, if any of the events does不好 during cruise mode, you're alerted to which point you return back to the cockpit manually

Resume control of the ship

Uh, and add a new field of view to the space travel to count about that many shipbuilders

Corrections of players are far exceeded what they've imagined in terms of scale. Yeah, that's kind of cool

Yeah, there's some awesome stuff, isn't it

Oh

Uh, it's

Also, they've got there's new boost also it's um boost weapons variations thanks to instructions of ex tech

bestex predominantly introduced new terran amada DLC

Um, confirm that it's lootable across star stuff as well. These next text is what venture ladder players prefer a customized weapons

Far beyond previous limitations. There's no sort of weapon tier for extra

Ah, this is a new legendary rack components kismit, which is one of the legendary perks that added the chance to triple the size of the guns and magazine

Case upon reloads one win one example of any snatch

I'm sorry to say. No, this is all very cool kind of improvements that they're making to staff yield

Mm-hmm

Exxon also be used to upgrade armor ship modules and more

Uh, there's new shipbuilding equipment optimization options interesting new outlook outpost outpost items

Uh, it says there's also a cute guinea pig companion and exposure

Uh-huh an action figure playset figures a unique bus plus a new pet in the form of a creature known as a millowale

Apparently rewards list tied to a quest add to the freelance update cross out cross outpost storage is also being added

That's a nice little quality of life improvement. That is a good idea. Yeah, that's really cool

It says professor and it's all it says in that picture on white sister. Surely it should take a little bit of

Feather's done. Here's a picture of the theater

Uh, new game plus as well

Ah

Isn't the whole point of starfield new game plus

So in stepping through unity triggers gain new game plus but it can be frustrating even or you get behind

Now though players can use the quantum entanglement device which allows you to store most things in the game

With some quest related exceptions the device is located at the lodge just drop off what you want to keep step for unity

By tiny rich lodge and store again, you'll find everything stored

See that's what they're doing differently. So you can if you want use the quantum entanglement device

Cool. Well, that's cool

Yeah, uh, yeah, and three languages totally free to everybody playing

us

Uh, and then now when we lift the lid slot in the terranomada DLC with the caveat that professor didn't want to show much out the fear of spawning his brains

Uh, it's compared in scale to the DLC of chapter space

Hmm. It's a totally different kettle of fish

Oh, chat space response to players feedback after request flooded in for a classic professor quest set within a single location

The mother is far more spawning larger larger set entirely within space

Not completely robot frets as a new characters locations question rewards. Yeah, so it's quite decent

Uh

Uh, a decent update looks like

Plus and all it took was them needing to go to playstation to do this

That's right

What's good as terranomadas only ten bucks? Oh, okay, or 40 40 New Zealand, but 10 us if you brought the premium past

Does that do you get it or do you have to still pay for

If you only have the base version of the game, you know, you have to if you got premium you don't pay for it. Okay, good

It's ten bucks if you haven't got premium so

Yeah, this kind of kill, isn't it? Oh, that's that's a really bad pitch

Well

There you go. So good news. I didn't show any of that to listeners

That's because I've broken so I turned off

Oh, maybe in a year or two's time Starfield will be worth revisiting

Hmm

Hmm. Oh, I might just move that March game pass update to the it

Okay, good idea. Is that last nice. Let's get that last uh

Ah, this is this is excellent. Who would have been

This is funny

Funny or soul destroying oh

Oh, yes, Microsoft confirms the co-pilot AI has come to exports mere weeks after sits new CEO said gaming division will avoid solar solar slot

Hey, cool. What do I suck at this game

Uh confirm that game will get

It's getting it whether anywhere else but or not in 2026 so this year

And you'll be able to ask a important timely questions like when does game pass instruction expire while midgame

Exciting notes. So it's kind of interesting this because I saw a lot of people complaining saying it's gonna destroy

Or break all these people that made these YouTube videos and all this information. They've got out there now

Because it's gonna pull on that it's gonna go to the YouTube and go. Oh, this is how you can believe this game

How do you play Starfield like you go there

But people are gonna gain the service system by creating all this crappy YouTube videos

Which has said answered to how to do this and it's just not it's just ads or it's just porn or it's just

Yep, yep

And people are not impressed like they're just it's gonna wreck that whole system

Did you see the video that came out when they announced this because they announced this at GDC

GCS right. Yeah, they had a bunch of developers in the room when they announced it and we're showing it off

And these devs were laughing at this. We're going. We're not implementing this in our game

This is useless. This is

Why exactly when you play a game you want to experience what it's like to go over that mountain to find that gun

That's like crap. This is an amazing gun

Like I'm glad I stumbled upon this side quest to find this gun

To experience this thing and if you're using copilot you're gonna be like oh copilot's gonna be like

Oh by the way in order to get this cool gun

You got to go visit this person and this is how the story's gonna play out and these are the answers you need to give

And like it completely destroys the

Advertisement but you say that but isn't it optional though?

Totally it's optional. It's not just gonna be there the whole time. Yeah, it's not gonna sit up pop up

It's not gonna be clippy is it surely. It's not gonna be stuck the whole time going

I see you're about to do this mission. Do you want me to tell you or you should go and talk to this guy?

It's not gonna do that isn't surely. I don't know

But I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to have it like that, you know

It's forcing in there. I see you writing a letter

Yeah, they're basically you're shooting someone in the head. You should shoot them in the chat so it kills them quicker

Or it'll just like you were aiming at their head and you missed get good scrub

Okay, that's right. Do you want some how will that slide before you don't seem very good? Yeah

I don't know it's it for now you have to invoke it

But I don't I see a future where no one is using this AR Slop

And Microsoft again, we're like right. How do we force people to use it that we can put on our

Quarterly report to the shareholders player engagement with gaming co-pilot up 400 percent

Mm-hmm

You know, they're gonna force it on you somehow

Yes, I'm just reading this funny it like Amazon Rufus AI so Amazon classics you buy sort of Amazon

And then for weeks after that it goes are you say you bought like I don't know

A hair a toothbrush or something like hair some product like you buy ones and don't buy very often

Yep for weeks afterwards like oh do you want to buy another toothbrush? Do you want to buy another toothbrush?

Do you want to buy a toothbrush? You want to buy another toothbrush? I'm like but what toothbrush? Well don't buy another toothbrush

Like when you buy a toilet seat

It's like people who bought a toilet seat also bought all these other toilet seats. Oh never toilet sheet. Yeah, I don't think they did

So that's yeah anyway, that's funny. So yeah, but interestingly what happens? I think it's gonna go badly

Oh, yeah, I have no faith in Microsoft anymore. No, and I'm 100% sure they're gonna force us on you like

If have you opened up the game bar lately on Windows?

I don't use game bar Windows. I do it now though. What is it? Um L Windows key G

G you know that's off tonight is it?

Windows key that doesn't work. Hi, here we go

Do more with settings. Oh my god. Look now. Thank you for the first thing that pops out. There's copilot

That's really slow, isn't it? Yeah, it is it

Oh

We can't see anything that you're sharing because I think it doesn't do overlay. No, I'm not sharing

on purpose now. I was just curious what it looked like in this terrible, isn't it?

Really? So

So this is interesting

So when you go to the game bar

I have set copilot not to open. I've turned copilot features off in the game bar

And I've removed the widget from the top menu that you get because game bar is actually really cool once you start using it problem

I've turned this off and after each time you close

That game bar and reopen it the first thing that pops up in the center of your screen gaming copilot

Every single time no matter now because the shittings are off. It's because it knows you didn't mean so not all

So it's just checking. Wow

It frustrated the living day lots out of

This game bar is really cool when you use it

But oh, it's not do that

It's forced copilot on to you

Solar slot

Solar slot all it is

Uh, this is interesting. So this is bunch of gdc software

Probably because you spent like a couple of weeks talking about a new Escher

Oh, yeah, I guess yeah

She disappeared she came in she just started like she hasn't ridden much since she's did it her first day of talking

Yeah, she's been very quiet

Uh, Xbox just watch out the most excuses game devs used to skip platform

Uh, remember we talked about this a few times last year moving you before as well

About people saying it takes ages to get through to Xbox or they take ages to sign us off

They take a it's just really slow process. Oh, it's actually games in there

With it onboarding stuff for that. So they've actually supposedly fixed it now major

Changes the Xbox development faster onboarding public tools free backend services, which is kind of cool

Through play fab foundation mode

Play fab that's it

Yeah play fab. Yeah developers

So it's now so much faster to become a different

Let's become a different developers to skip just fine new tools to help them scale the games across multiple platforms

Uh, yeah, so before I had the process to set up the dev

Could took around 30 days before that took several months come over there saying there's one big dev was like

We just we couldn't in the woods give up. We're just too hard when they tried to get to in contact with Microsoft support

And then I think support flows their accounts for something and just

This method he gave them the runaround

Microsoft says developers can get working Xbox development environment about 30 minutes. No

Yeah

That's pretty good. Cool. Yeah, it's really cool

Uh, yeah, in the back in the past and most it slowed down but paperwork become an Xbox partner

Way to the contracts we've sent generators sent in process. That's now changed export screen. It's just automatically

generated

Cutting handling time by no more than 90 percent

Uh, so now the development documentation is fully public which means no longer needs to become a partner just to read how the platform works

Uh, developers can install it with a single command using the windows packet manager

Nice get that's cool

Uh, Xbox games are standard x64 projects like pc which means processes far closer to regular pc development used to be

class

Yeah, there's a provide a hundred open source examples how to integrate Xbox features in the game

Into a game

Fantastic

It says isn't it. It's really cool. And foundation mode is a new play fab offering

offering now so gdc 2026 gearing Xbox developers access a core play fab services now if like me you're not developer

Know what that means. I did just research. Okay, so it's a backend service of infrastructure

The money morning games online like multiplayer matchmaking leaderboards and stuff like that. Oh, it's also owned by a Microsoft and on those uh

Until now as a paid service costs obviously stack up quickly to be known how big the game is and do all that

Now the potential service to foundation mode the service now through to devs shipping games on Xbox

Uh, providing tools like multiplayer matchbreaking networking cross-labeled board

Awesome. It's free. It's great

And this is this is really good for indeed devs as well. Like just jump

A hundred percent especially when they go and build on a steam and then they get it across to Xbox really easy and have cross-save

Brilliant, like that's awesome. Yeah, and there's a Microsoft also said that the way developers get ready for helix

Is to basically build an Xbox play anywhere game

I don't even want to talk about it. It's a PC. It's not Xbox. Yeah, don't talk to me about it

But it's like if you the what they said if you build a game for Xbox PC then you've built a game for Xbox helix

Because it's a PC. Yeah, it's not an Xbox anymore. That's a problem

But yeah, interesting. Hopefully it also means that we get a lot more devs

On the Xbox but then why would you do that? Why not just build it for steam? Why not bother? Just doing the same. Yeah

Yep

That's a very fun line. Like you know, why build for Xbox if you can just build for steam and it'll work on the next Xbox

And Linux as well at the same time

Yeah, true and steam does all the heavy Linux lifted lifting for you. Yeah

I'm sorry, that was that was quite mean

So we wait and see

Yeah, we'll wait and see. Yeah, uh, yeah, so it's really cool. It is great that it didn't this so especially for now because helix is going to be not two years away

227

No, 27 of course of RAM cost of hard disk is gone either way

So it's kind of broken everything isn't it for a bit? Indeed, hasn't

Uh, so maybe when the ass falls out of AI the prices will get back to normal again and then we'll get helix

We just need to wait for uh that to happen

Yeah, it won't be long but what was going to happen when everyone realizes I'm actually a cost to run AI and account making any money

Hopefully

Uh, this is Xbox campaign vanishes overnight as Microsoft begins to build for what's next

Yeah, the official website no longer shows this is Xbox

This wasn't Xbox funny

Maybe we should get some cuts that said this wasn't Xbox

Yeah

This wasn't Xbox

Haha

Uh, yes gone cap通 page gone

Blint

There's not much to say really up and it's hilarious because we just took them here to this whole browser out the whole

Aventos incoming

Yeah, it was crazy, like it who thought it was a good idea. Hey guys. Look at us hardware. We have actually this

Hardware is nothing special because everything is this hardware. Why isn't this hardware selling?

I'm shocked. I'm shocked to understand that it did not work out for them.

You know, one thing that annoys me is that Microsoft could easily stop putting its foot in

its mouth if it just sat down and spoke to one fair. Just one person who actually likes

the Xbox brand. They go, right, brand and Bob, you play Xbox every so often. What is wrong

with Xbox? What do you like about Xbox? And even if he's just a Call of Duty casual,

you know, that jumps on every night to play one game with his mates, he will have some

really decent feedback from Microsoft about what to do with Xbox. It's not that hard.

Didn't they used to have a service like that for people playing Xbox? They say killed.

It's all in the feedback hub. Yeah, it doesn't work that it's a feedback

hub. I was broken or turned off or ignored. Yeah, it's ignored. But the new Microsoft

blog post has given me a good case of HOPIUM. Come on, then. Tell us, tell us a little

bit. Tell us a little bit. Tell the class. Tell the class, please. Well, the blog post

about revitalizing Windows 11. Oh, yes, yes. To basically say, actually, we made a few

mistakes with Windows 11. Our bad. We're rolling back this and this and this and this

and we're going to do this and this and this and this. And I was like, oh, this is giving

me some hope. Didn't they say they're going to make it run faster and use less RAM? Yep.

Yep. And also, now you need 16 gigs run Windows 11. It's insane how big it's got Windows

Windows is like SQL for some reason. You give it RAM. It'll use the RAM. It's crazy.

It's absolutely. We've had a great all our PCs and work because they're running out of

this ram all the time. Excel just goes no. This wasn't that crazy. I'm on 16 gigs on my work,

laptop and I'm struggling. I've got 32. I'm okay. I'm 32. I uses like 24 gig it does.

Yeah. This is insane for me. I'm using like browsers, basically, the most of the time.

Everything is like web-based and it's still using 24 gigs of RAM.

24 gig of RAM, yes. It's insane. Absolutely.

So Microsoft pushing some hope to Windows 11 or saying that they're going to do it. Do you think

it's because everyone's is turning Linux now and going or Linux works as well as Windows?

Why would I run Windows? I think it's it's it's a two thing like it's a two-fer. A two-fer.

One, Linux has gotten really good with gaming and suddenly everyone's going,

actually, I don't need to put up with Windows if I want to play game. And two, it's

Microsoft. Everyone calling the Microsoft, I think, has heard the egos quite well.

That hurts their soul, doesn't it? They can tell that really hurts them.

Because then they delete the Discord channels that they're deleted.

Because everyone just say Microsoft, they went like starting banning people for saying Microsoft.

Yep. They've tried to ban the Microsoft Word and then everyone rows up and they start

banning it slowly differently. And then they start banning people and everyone's like,

well, banry, I don't give a crap. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah.

And then they locked down the Discord and yeah, it was a whole big thing.

But I think Microsoft calling them Microsoft has really hurt their soul. They're like,

oh, my word, I can't believe we're getting into this.

But it's wrong for making reaction to it. It's like taking the mic here, calling your names.

Ignore it. It goes away. React to it and it will just continue to build.

But not just that. It's like, I think the fact that deep down, they know that they are turning into

Microsoft. I find it interesting. I don't think they care. I'd never thought they're really cared.

Because they're basically trying to sell it, that's all they want to do.

Sell, sell cloud services. And however they sell it, they don't give a crap how they sell it.

Yeah, but the Microsoft is starting to permeate business.

But that's, yeah, that's, that's probably the issue is it's actually, yeah, affecting sales almost.

Even the guys at work are calling it Microsoft.

And just like, these are the guys that would are building stuff on Azure and they're calling it

Microsoft. So next time they come to say in three years, time, whatever, when they go, right,

it's time to renegotiate your Azure licensing. The guys are going to be like, no,

because we all refer to it as Microsoft. What are you guys doing to not make it?

That's right. Yeah, that's right.

And what they do is they're adding more slop to every single service, which means people

have got more Microsoft. Complete. You will pay for AI. I don't want it. No, but you're

going to pay for anyway. Yeah, if you don't want it. We wait and see. Windows 11, if they

iterate on their promises that they've made and actually deliver, I think we might be in a

golden age for Windows. Because there's a sound bike. We all know that this has just been

the dark ages for Windows. Just been shocking. But they don't care. They don't care at Windows.

That's why it's done that. Yeah, but they do now allegedly. Yeah, we promise we care again,

guys. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I have hope. Yeah. Here you go. Here's some hope,

for you. Microsoft confirms next year Xbox code name project helix. We'll be powered by custom

AMD system on chip featuring FSR diamond Xbox mode. Also come into Windows 11. Interesting.

What is well, we know about the last book because that's actually is now coming out Xbox

mode. Yeah, this is from March 12, so this is last week that two weeks ago. This would have been

last week's news. Interesting that they're going AMD again. Yeah, but we knew that,

though, because they said they're trying to be a contract with them, don't they? This is what

you get saying. That's going to come out because they're trying to be a contract like it. Yeah,

I don't think contracts mean anything anymore. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, that they've got to do

AMD, but I would still be like, come on, guys, let's do something different. Because yeah,

they're going to have a custom chip working with AMD's, you know, fabs that they've got going,

but I still think if they want to make a really big differentiator between themselves in PlayStation,

I got to do something different that AMD's

but the building Windows machine, though, so they can't make it too different. It still has to work

with Windows 11. Yeah, that's true. That's probably the problem.

Oh, no, but anyway, if it's R, you know my feelings about if it's R, I know, fuzzy graphics.

Cheating, it's not real. It's not. No, it's, no, it's just fuzzy. Just make it blurry and make it look

nice. Yeah, basically, make it blurry and just tell the frame counter that it's getting 200 FPS when

it's getting more, because it's now blurry. So the next gen ray tracing performance, right,

we'll name drop the next gen DirectX 2, which is now be referred to the new new iteration,

iterations, sorry, DirectX 12. That ships on PC's now. So that's good. We're getting 12 on Xbox.

Didn't we have 12 before? But it doesn't support a lot of the latest features.

Namely work, graphs, let the GPU itself drive code it. Yeah, I'm ahead of you, mate. I knew

this question was going to appear. Look at that. I actually read this article in everything. Let me go.

Yeah, it's a rely on the CPU that has used GPU. That's basically the difference.

Custom ADMC's AMD silicon would support this alongside natural or neural, sorry.

Texture compression AI and also combined DirectStorage and STD, so sorry, STD,

SSD to GPU. That's kind of cool. The DirectStorage stuff is really good,

the hard drive works, that's cool. Yeah, and that's coming to PC as well, DirectStorage.

I heard that, yeah. Which would be really... I thought it was a special hardware, though. Isn't it a

special hardware? As long as you got an NVME drive, it works. And theory. Oh, oh. Oh, I thought

it was a different bus. Okay. No, no, no, no, as long as I think it's as long as you got it's

PCR, PCR4 and 5 supported. And the problem is, most cheap NVME drives are on PCR3 still.

So that's... Gotcha. You mean Gen3? Yeah, Gen3.

Gen3 is this... My air conditioner on my laptop's got Gen3, which is like three gigabytes.

Yeah, three, three seconds. I think compared to like four or five or six for Gen4 and Gen5.

Yeah, Gen5 is maxing out at like nine gigs a second. Nine, isn't it? Yeah. So, yeah, I think

that'll be very cool to come to PC, the DirectStorage, because that's like instant resuming of games,

like how the Xbox is. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so fast. Be slow as part of your hard drive, so it's really

cool to get that back. And the fact that graphics will stream direct from hard drive,

SSD to your graphics card. Also, it... So how big of these games are going to be then?

You're going to install one game on your laptop, and that's going to be it until you

uninstall it and reinstall the new one. But yeah, it'll be really cool, because it completely

skips the RAM, the CPU, and it just goes straight into the graphics card memory.

Do you think this will help the cloud gaming stuff then? I don't know so much, actually,

because the... What's the slowest part about cloud gaming is the latency. Yeah, the internet.

So I don't think this helps cloud gaming so much, because it's all the latency.

I think this is for local games to make them really, really sharp. Yeah, true. I was just

wondering if it would actually take out having the hardware side of it, just having a more direct

access to the hardware. Well, if I remember something else in the way, all their servers and stuff

that go running those racks. Use less power, maybe, because it just goes straight. But the cloud

gaming is just custom Xbox Series X and... Yes, but if they can make it out of PCs,

surely that's a bit better. They don't need to have the custom series Xs and Xs.

They don't have the customer service, exactly. Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.

Yeah, which would be pretty cool. Have a bunch of nooks. Have a bunch of nooks.

Yeah. And just replace until with AMD.

What's the MSI's in? MSI want? Yeah, so this is...

This is cool, I guess. We shall see. I don't know. I'm on the fence, so I'll see the price.

Yeah. And if it's our... I wish we could turn it off. I mean, we were at the stage now where

a console should be doing native 4K 60 FPS minimum, you know.

But they do. We have games either, they do that. Yeah, but you've seen some of those games that are

running on the Series X that are like, we do 1440 60 FPS. But if you want quality, then it's like 4K 30.

And honestly, just we need... We're at the point now, 2026, 27, where you could do...

Look at a 5090, for example. That surely can do 4K 60 easily.

But you should be able to think it's the programmers that the devs...

They might work involved in making the 60, 120 FPS game.

Yeah, I think it's two things. One is that the devs are lazy.

No, I think it's just a lot of work. I wouldn't say lazy. I'll say it's a lot of work.

It's a lot more work, making it 120 FPS to make it 60 FPS or 30 FPS surely.

No, I don't think that it's that much work. I think it's more work to optimize it to get to the

point where it can do 4K 120. But I think that's lazy devs. And then I also think the hardware,

even though the series X is still super powerful, it's still a relic of its time.

Yeah, it's not got a ton of memory. But then why don't you make a pro mode,

like they do with PlayStation, with a pro mode, just chuck more RAM at it, what do you help with?

Yeah, I mean, the one thing I do hope that comes out of this is that they use AMD's X3D technology.

Oh, yeah, what's this? I don't know what this is.

Oh, so the fastest gaming chips are the AMD X3D versions, which basically means that on the CPU,

they've stacked extra cache in a 3D. So rather than have the chip and the RAM or the cache to the

side, the cache is stacked kind of like a little tower. It's microscopic, you can barely see it,

but it's how you've gone from 64 megs of cache to 256 megs of cache on level one type thing.

Remember, like when you bought a CPU, it was always 120 megs.

Oh, yeah, I was looking at it. It was like 12k. Well, I just have a 2X back in the day,

and it was like 12k or something of cache, yeah.

And the X3D allows the stacking of the cache, the memory chips on top of one another,

and allows the information to flow up and down these chips in a special way.

And because you have more cache on the CPU, games really lack it.

You don't need to have heaps. You just need to go from 64 to 128 for games to jump up like 20 if he is.

So, to my memory, as RAM built into the CPU on the Xbox, it's still separate.

It's still separate because it's shared RAM and VRAM, remember?

That's what I'm at. So because obviously Apple and now place everything system on chip,

Apple isn't it? The RAM's built into the CPU, which is why it cannot be great.

You basically buy a Mac, and it's that forever. It's not looking to be upgraded.

Wouldn't that make sense to what's to do the same thing?

It has, in a way, it's basically, if you looked at the exploding diagrams of the series X,

it basically is the super large system on a chip.

As you've got the CPU, and then you've got your RAM modules,

soldered onto the actual motherboard around the CPU,

but those RAM modules also work as VRAM.

So with Project Helix, the thing that they're going to have to work with,

because it's in our PC as well, is yes, they're going to have to look at how Apple's done their

system on a chip, because Apple's RAM is the same VRAM. It's the same thing.

So you get a 48GB RAM that's basically got 48GB of VRAM,

a virtual RAM, or graphics card. So with Helix, with your RAM, thank you.

So they're going to have to do the same thing, and basically make an AMD chip that's

an in, basically, an Apple chip on steroids.

But there's a lot of space, and there's more of a decimal than this, because Apple

make them for their laptops, don't they? Yeah. So cooling-wise, and everything,

got to be easier, surely, just to go and track all together.

Yeah. The problem is that Intel tried to do this with their 12th generation,

X86 chips, so this is how normal computers run, X86, whereas Mac is on ARM chips,

and they found that it worked really well, but because it was Intel, they got to lots of heating

issues. And nowadays, if AMD go down the route of having this, this, this,

sock the system on a chip, and do it the way Apple does,

Eric and we could end up with a really powerful machine, that's probably half the size of the

series X. It's risk as well, isn't it almost? It's like, it's basically limited

construction set, so that means it's better. It's a bit differently made chip.

Doesn't have to do everything, does it? It just does what it's doing.

And that's what I was hoping they would work with AMD for, because AMD is also going down the

ARM chips. They're also making ARM chips for like servers in there. They've AMD made a custom

ARM chip, but the reduced and drug-instructed sets that basically just run games.

You could have so much power. No, but wait, well, how are we going to get XO on,

um, Xbox? Yeah, no, exactly. That's, that's where it falls apart. And that's probably why they're

sticking with X86. Yep, you're going to get edge, you're going to get XO, you know,

it's all the stuff that's going to run on the Xbox. You're going to have co-pilot.

I didn't. Yeah, no, there's a lot they could do, but it's going to be interesting to see what they do.

Hmm, it will be here, yeah, yeah. And when it comes out, if it comes out, how much is going to cost?

Do you just buy PC because of your cheaper? Yeah. Do you just buy Linux? No, because of your cheaper.

No, that's all stuff. All by PlayStation.

That'll be interesting. You can play all the games on your PlayStation and it's a reasonable price

and why you buy PlayStation and play all the games you want. Yeah. And then you can get a stick

of that says, this is an Xbox. This is an Xbox.

Rejoice, Microsoft's Xbox backwards compatibility program. It's coming back this year.

Well, it's missing to keeping games from a four generations Xbox Playboy. This is also

some GDC. Yeah, $25.3 this year for Mr. Xbox.

There are no, no, it's the back to the car. I don't know. They haven't actually said anything

over there that's coming back. Yeah. So I don't know what they're actually bringing, but I think there's

a whole bunch of games that people kind of wear one bag. So it's kind of cool. And I think the Xbox

mode stuff really helps because it means it can be a PC game rather than having to be an Xbox game.

Doesn't make sense? Like it doesn't have to be so compatible with Xbox. Yep. Yeah.

That'll be very cool to see what they do. And especially if we can start getting Xbox 360 games

working on PC. So that's what they're talking about here. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's working on making classics Xbox 360 titles playable and Windows 11 PCs,

which means they're more accessible for the project Helix stuff. So that's possibly what they're

looking at. That'll be very cool. Because imagine you put an Xbox 360 on a modern computer,

like you could just pump the graphics. Yeah. Because it was quite surprising how much they

were pumping them in. It wasn't it? Not the compatible ones are coming back. Yeah. And I mean,

the 360, it wasn't a slouch. It was really good. It's time. Yeah.

Yeah. That's cool. That's fun. We should wait and see, but that's quite a fun.

We're actually coming to the end of the news, which is also actually caught up on other news.

Yeah.

IGN of FanFest 2026. I have this story about. What was this? February 26.

Oh, okay. We were possibly going to talk about this because a bunch of games from FanFest.

What have we cared about them? And immediately I see bustimulated 27. So obviously we are.

Yeah. So this is a roundup of all the Xbox. Reveal some IGN of FanFest and February.

We didn't talk about it at the time. We left it from last week.

Might go for it real quick. We have anything to hear jumping out. Power of similar to

Adventure Time Pack. Exciting. Lego Batman legacy of Dark Knight. Do trailers.

May 29th like games comes out. Kind of looks fun though.

Oh yeah, that looks great. Because I was a whole. Did you see the one with the the Joe

who going through the the museum? Which is a scene from one of the movies. It's kind of fun.

Spring painting and the phone and stuff around.

I didn't know he, man, of the master universe, Dragon Pearl of Destruction was coming out.

That's exciting. That's exciting.

That's it. Dragon is dead.

I don't know. Mexican ninja. That sounds weird. Does he wear some braids?

I don't know. He's wearing that.

Missful Hunter looks cool, but it also looks like a, a Soulslark.

Oh, Fantasy R. Fancy Action Extraction by RPG. What does that mean?

Very good question.

It's not like, um, was it Rainbow Six Siege?

Was Mystic. Mystic Rainbow Six Siege.

That's four player co-op. Looks like fun.

Cool. Belle White was a very interesting look to it.

I don't know. Belle White is a new, very controversial, but again,

uh, oh, Medieval Open World. Oh, I did hear about this actually.

Medieval, Medieval Open World RPG coming out.

We've established expanding your assessment, liberate the land,

assistive villages, recruit others to your cause.

Learn more about life than you had to leave behind around your forces.

Okay, so it's quite intense. What's it doing?

Oh, Medeskin Ninja. No, he literally just wears some bra, okay, cool.

Right. Love it.

Not very ninja, though. It's more like a sword person than Ninja.

Yeah.

Much of Kusius and Yreddor.

No, what did you call me?

Oh, yeah, okay. It's just a hack and slash.

Literally a classy old school hack and slash there's.

Yeah.

Okay, so it's possibilities to 27, power wash two, back my dark tray.

All that actually, that trailer is the one from the one where

what's the face of the Joker's causing trouble.

Dragging his dead player's master yard of killing gods as a mortal successor.

Fight through diverse sets of lands.

Pre-unit classes acquire loot and choose the darkness like it.

Must be like a souls like or something, doesn't it?

A road like, yeah, okay, hack and slash road like.

Kill him, we know about killings, we'll try that out.

We are tomorrow, which is some weird strange machinery strategy.

Carms confidence, voices, guide you for a series of assignments.

Weird.

Interesting.

Sprawl zero, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, tomorrow.

Sprawl zero looks like lots of guns.

Yeah, it reminds me a lot of fear.

Do you ever play fear?

Fuck it dead.

You should play fear.

S o e dot a dot r, isn't it?

Yeah, that's how it's pronounced.

Yeah, number one and two terrifying games, man.

Survive a brutal cyberpunk city,

collapsing at a murderful rule, cult, fanaticism.

Use your grand two gloves, gravity gloves,

augments and also a 40 weapons across those stands.

Nice.

So it's like classic FPS, it does say 2000s FPS classic, yeah.

Yeah, great.

Just shoot stuff, load up.

Sometimes that's all you need.

I know, yeah, it's just what I miss out on hacking,

like you just jump in, kill stuff.

Mission finishes in 15 minutes, get an exhibition, just do that.

Yep, just kill things, move on to next place.

There's like 12 missions, all done,

six hours, seven hours and all that.

Yep, easy.

What do we need?

Cool, fun.

E-man, Master of the Universe Dragon, Pearl of Destruction.

Oh, wow, it's a Tiger Slash.

Like the O' Teenage Mutant Ninja Toes or...

It looked terrible.

Yes, it's exactly what it's expected to be.

Yeah, Shakira, was I known?

Was he called Shira?

Shira.

Shira, not Shakira.

It's been a while since I've seen any man.

Oh, yes.

I've been excited for the movie.

So, you know.

Oh, yes.

I don't know, I'll watch it probably, but I'm excited and not sure.

Excited is a lot, there's a stretch.

It's a lot of emotion.

Yeah, it's a lot of emotion.

I'm interested to see how they can destroy it.

Yes, we're doing it.

Yep.

This is some...

So, this one here, this sure is a lot of crafty and tight one.

So, it's a bit of lots of weird monsters and spooky stuff.

Weird monsters and spooky stuff.

Necrophosis, full consciousness.

Looks a bit disgusting as well.

Another like crafting one.

Nightmarish realm, full of grotesque forms,

anonymous visuals, solving, unnerving puzzles.

Stage tour?

How many is there?

Oh, that's a fake one.

Stage tour is a modern rhythm action game

from Red Octane Games, which I told you about in 2026.

That's what they say.

Yeah, that's what you do.

Necrophosis, necrophosis.

It looks very much like spawn.

That's spawn?

It's gone.

It's gone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that weird look to it.

Someone's writing a guitar.

Stage tour has a guitar.

Yeah, nice.

It's like, it's like a hard guitar hero all over again.

Brilliant, bring it back.

More, more of these games, please.

Yeah, yeah.

Fantastic.

Yep, this is exactly that.

Yeah.

Hmm, cool.

And then backyard baseball, some sort of cutesy baseball game.

Yep, what more do you want?

Yep, cutesy baseball game.

Or is it, is it actually an adventure?

Hmm, not sure.

Okay, cool.

It's good stuff.

And finally,

Mark's was going to pass change.

Oh, was this one right?

This is from ages ago.

They actually talked about this in,

in Discord today.

We're talking about Xbox Change and Game Pass.

Yep.

And there's the, the, the site of the reported.

Oh, Tom Warren reported that Game Pass

in the future could add more photo quality services to

including EA Pay, EA Play, Fortnite,

crew, and soft plus to the,

yeah, and also room.

I don't know.

I'm not sure if they're going to, I don't, I wasn't going to,

I wasn't sure about this because it kind of came up and disparate very quickly.

Yeah, maybe it was something that they're mentioning,

but no plans yet.

And this is pretty asher taking over as well.

So we're interesting to see, because I mean, it's,

they got to find more ways to squeeze money out of you.

And especially, like I was saying in the Discord, premium is 15 a month and

ultimate is what, 30 a month?

There's a big gap there.

47, right?

I sort of pay here.

47, New Zealand, but I mean, 30, 30, American.

Yeah, it's 10 bucks difference, isn't it?

Crazy.

All right, it's a 10 or 15 dollars.

No, no, it's not.

It says on there, it says 16, 95 for premium, apparently.

That's a, we're not by 10 percent 10 bucks.

We're from 20 to 30, didn't it?

Not ultimate.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Okay, so this is the final bit game pass.

Resident Evil 7 headlines packed a second half of March,

disco, silent, like a dragon, more dragon.

So there's some really good games in here.

Dreamworks, Gabby's dole house ready to party.

Is that the game you were talking about?

What game?

The games that coming out.

Dreamworks, Gabby's dole house ready to party.

Oh, yeah, you know, it's definitely there.

South of Midnight's coming to premium, I guess,

let's be on the rest of the ready.

The altars is also coming to premium.

That's kind of cool.

disco, silent, finite, current, it's also coming to premium.

Like a dragon, infinite, well, it is also coming to premium.

Absolume, a solium.

It is also coming to premium.

Nova Roma is not, it's only coming to ultimate.

Long dark is coming to premium as well.

Biohazard Resident Evil 7, Biohazard is coming to premium.

Barbie Horse Trails, exciting.

Is coming to premium too.

CloudSkyro is also coming to premium.

And about Final Fantasy 4 is also coming to premium.

Yeah, it's a good, really good selection of games.

Actually, we're all solid games.

Yeah, it's solid premium month.

Solid premium month, yes.

If I say it's premium, it's already an ultimate.

All comes as ultimate anyway.

But I'm just kind of paying attention to the premium ones

because that's what I can't right now.

Yeah, everyone's just on premium.

Cool, I'm done.

It's being done.

Nice.

Well, before we get into the new games,

we need to tell people about April Achievement Challenge

because it kicks off this time next weekly.

Doesn't really, geez.

Yes, it's April already.

I'm sure the years are getting shorter.

No, I'm definitely sure they're getting shorter.

But yes, April Achievement Challenge is back.

Signups are live in the Discord.

Definitely check that out in Discord.

Sign up if you haven't yet.

It's going to be a great year.

And what more can we say?

April Achievement Challenge.

It's the thing we do every April.

I suppose with Lee realising that April's coming next week,

he hasn't got a plan.

You don't have a strategy yet?

I did sign up for it.

I did sign up for it.

Nice.

Are you going to compete on steps?

Are you trying to get some achievements?

Some TA ratio?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Can I do it on my bike?

Can I have some drift on my bike?

You have to play games, unfortunately.

It's like a proper game, though, on the bike.

Well, you've got to play games.

You've got to get some achievements.

You've got to get your steps up.

I'm actually thinking.

I might actually dig this out.

Thought he was in this.

Ah, yes, that's an excellent idea.

Because the park of it games has far up the phone.

Play some games over the cloud.

So, yes, April Achievement Challenge.

Get into our discord and sign up, guys.

You have a week.

Yep.

Do it.

Now.

Come on, Kiwis.

We've got this.

New games, Mr. Lee.

Kicking off with a game that's near and dear to your heart.

In fact, it's you.

No, I see this game.

I see this game and my heart just,

kind of just,

will do, will do, will do, will do, will do, just kind of.

It almost shrinks.

With joy.

It shrinks.

It's a game that has come back into your laugh, Lee.

It's the reunion you never wish.

You never knew you needed.

Laugh is strange to the union.

Oh, you're already making me yawn.

I haven't seen it yet.

Yeah, no.

You guys know that we are huge fans of Laugh is strange, yeah?

Hella.

Hella fan.

Hella fan.

And, you know, this is now,

what goes on in this.

Just a dark rest a little bit.

As an, I don't want you to hear this anyway.

And can we help you?

Store assistance is available 24-7.

Chat's now.

What is the store assistant?

Probably copilot.

I'm a system pal, but I know.

How can I help you shopping sport?

What can I do for you?

Tell it, give me an Xbox for cheap.

Can I have, it doesn't work.

I can't write it in there.

It's Laugh is strange.

If they're older, things happen.

I don't know.

If you like Laugh is strange.

The first one.

This is Max and Chloe back together again.

We're all ours because honestly,

it's just going to be bad.

That's what I'm talking about.

The AI assistant doesn't work.

Just a course.

Well, if that AI assistant took you on a bit of a roller coaster,

this next game is definitely going to take you.

It doesn't like it if I play videos at the same time.

That's what it's all about.

I see.

Next game coming out here.

There's roller coaster, Takuen Classic.

Classic, it's hilarious.

Look at this.

This is the original game.

The best one, though, was Transport Tycoon.

Hands down.

I will fight anyone for this.

Interesting.

Interesting.

Lee's making some claims, guys.

You're wrong if you don't think it's right.

Roller coaster, Takuen Classicly.

This game was written in Amiga,

so they could run on a potato.

Potato.

I think I played this game.

Everyone played this game.

It's a classic for a reason.

I love this map.

There's a map here.

Sorry, a maze here.

I'm sure that person is stuck in that maze forever.

The whole point is to trap everyone in your

theme park forever.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, just keep going.

Because don't you have to build food for them,

and then drinks for them,

and then toilets for them, and seats for them,

and all sorts of stuff, as well.

Yes.

Did you ride...

Was it later when the product you could ride

the actual stuff you make?

You could do it in this one, could you?

I don't think you could do it in this one.

Yeah, I think it was Roller coaster, Takuen 3.

That was the one that you could hit them out in,

or you could do the first person view.

That's when you hear the screaming,

and then the explosions, because someone's died,

because the Roller coaster was not that great.

Or the best thing you could do is build a Roller coaster

that launches people into the park next door,

and then your rating on your park goes up

because people are having so much fun,

and the park next door after the shatters,

because everyone who goes into that park does.

I did not know this was a thing,

but that's amazing from the back.

Because they pay you to go on the thing,

you get money out of them anyway.

Yeah.

And then you launch them in the neighborhood.

And they're not complaining, because they're not in your park.

Yep, they die, and someone else is park,

it's not my problem.

I love it.

Never mind, I'm the one that launched them.

Oh, good.

Okay, that was a moment.

This next game,

does even more of a moment.

Meow moments.

Oh.

The celebrating myth and machine.

This is one of those hidden cat games.

But instead of the everything else coloring in,

when you find them,

it just colors in the cat.

Why?

It's, it's on sale, Lee,

but $2.39.

Sounds like a bargain.

It is.

It is.

I don't understand, though.

What's the point of the game?

Like, just click on people.

Oh, look, I've found a cat, click on them.

Was that literally the point of the game?

Cat hard and seek.

Just.

People like that sad that they have to play these games

on their PC, they can't play.

They're not Xbox.

Like go and buy a book, color in a book.

Lee, if you thought that was a catastrophe,

the next game is going to be music to your ears.

This is musical memory, cats matching band.

This is, honestly, just a dead.

Who thought, who, at what point do they think cats

and computer games was the thing?

Who thought this was the thing?

Cats and the internet are a thing for some reason.

Like, I don't know why.

But anyway, cats, yeah.

It's a memory game.

It's not even, it's like a mobile game.

Yes, no, it's 100% a mobile game.

I just put it in there because I wanted to cat games.

I feel like we might need to have a meeting after this.

About your role in this podcast.

Lee, if you don't like these games,

then you can catch the bus.

Because the next game is the bus.

Like, it's just called the bus.

They're called the bus because it is a bus.

Not a bus is the bus.

It's the bus.

It's the bus.

It's the bus.

Yep, it's a, it's a bus sim.

Authentic Berlin routes at a true one-to-one scale.

A large detailed map of Berlin with more than 200 stops.

There's Berlin bus lines,

many varied and interesting Berlin landmarks to discover.

Can you guys don't know it's set in Berlin?

There's officially licensed buses

in these different bus tabs

with a total of 20 variants.

Isn't this game just ticking all your boxes, Lee?

I'm not sure what's happening.

I'm just trying to work out.

Why?

Because we've got bus similises 27 came out in Game Pass.

Why would you play this game?

What does it bring to the party?

It doesn't bring the bus.

It really does.

You're not playing bus simulator.

You're playing the bus.

You just like saying the bus, don't you?

It's a stupid name for a game.

It's because it's German.

German is a bit confused by words.

I can promise you guys if you think we've dug ourselves a hole,

we're not even close.

Because the next game is a whole digging master.

I'm just going to let that one sit.

You kill me.

Yes, you dig a hole.

Like...

I know, no, no.

You don't need to explain.

It's okay.

I think you've dug yourself a big enough hole today.

What's the most?

I don't know.

This is a cool game.

You dig a hole.

It's like off the castle.

You dig a hole and then you uncover secrets as you dig deeper.

So it's actually not just a game of digging holes.

There's other things going on.

But you dig a hole.

I just...

You're enthralled as what you are.

But if that doesn't...

That doesn't peak your interest.

The next game is Project Songbird.

Which actually looks really cool.

Oh, I was about to say.

I have much of just given up on games about what I was about to say.

Like, they've just gone...

We don't care.

Is it going to be really some PlayStation at the same time?

Yes, it's fine.

Project Songbird is a first person cinematic narrative psychological horror game

from Connor Rush and his studio Fire Games.

Behind the critically, critically praised games,

Summerland, and we never left.

It's a four to five hour narrative to keep you hooked and guessing until the end.

A very interesting graphics, which look cool.

A ranged and melee combat with upgradable weapons.

A stellar voice cast.

With the woman who voiced what remains of Edith Finch, which is quite cool.

And Wolfenstein Youngblood.

Jonas Scott, who did Dying Light 2.

And Alexis Lee, who did Persona 3 and Demon Slayer.

Okay.

And the graphics look really cool.

Like, it's got a very interesting starter, doesn't it?

Yeah, people with long arms or monsters with long arms is interesting.

Yeah.

And the fact that it's, you know, four to five hours,

get in, get out again.

Yeah, it's good.

Okay.

I can't see you playing this, though, because it looks a bit scary.

Yeah, that looks very scary.

I'm not going to play.

It's for other people to play.

I recommend you play this.

It's just not me.

Well, if that wasn't easy delivery, this next game is even easier.

Because this is easy delivery code.

Now, this isn't interesting.

I don't know.

They're fantastic.

In the best way.

This game wasn't on my radar.

Until people were like, it's actually very cool.

Easy delivery code.

Is a relaxing driving game.

Definitely.

You can't game again.

No, no, no.

Lee, this is a game.

This is one of these games that are actually going to be good.

I just...

It looks like...

Oh, what was the destruction?

Derby level graphics.

From back in the 90s.

The graphics look shocking, yes.

But apparently this game is very creepy.

Oh.

Dun-dun-dun.

Are you sure?

Yep.

I was reading a review on it in the gas act.

This game actually got underneath the skin in ways.

He was...

I am so confused by this game.

It looks like graphics straight from the 90s.

Very much, um...

What's that game alone in the dark?

Hmm.

Hmm.

So, yes.

And last.

On our listly.

Is a game you can cry about.

It is called Screamer.

How cool was that?

Cryosat is.

No, good tears.

It's a racing game.

And I'm pretty sure it's one of the racing games you showed off.

Yeah, it is.

The beginning of it.

Which looks very cool.

Perhaps I've done this thing where they've doubled up on the pictures on it.

Which is lots of fun.

That's right.

Because...

Being attention to detail.

We don't do that much.

Well, we don't do that yet either.

Which is fun.

It's a truly in-dollar company though.

Yeah, that's true.

I wish we were.

Yeah.

It's a racing game.

It's got cool kind of soul-shaded graphics, kind of anime style as well.

Hmm.

I like it.

Yeah, it looks cool.

It's fun.

Like a fun game.

Another FPS we were looking at just earlier.

Like 2000 FPS.

It's a bit like that, isn't it?

Like that.

Yeah, a need for speed style, yeah.

Yep.

Something that's not taking itself too seriously.

God, just get in there.

There's no races.

Have a ridiculous stupid corny storyline.

Yeah, we don't care.

Like, oh yeah, we're going undercover to just ban the mafia.

And we somehow need to raise cars to do it.

Excellent. Let's do it.

Perfect. Let's do that.

Love it.

Bring on the pretty girls and the NASCARs.

That's all we care.

I have green underneath it.

And spinning wheels.

Purple.

Purple broke.

Green.

Green makes you go faster.

I don't know.

Purple makes you float.

So yes.

That's the new games.

Yeah, the story mode trailer now.

It looks terrible.

Brilliant.

There's a reason to race.

And there's cars.

And it just looks great.

It just looks fantastic.

It does. It really does.

Really cool.

It's a reasonable price.

60 US.

Yes.

What is that in actual real currency?

150.

What?

Why are you not taking the Australians?

I know we don't do that anymore.

We don't do that anymore.

Need help.

How much is this?

I'm going to use AI game.

Look at you go.

New Zealand.

Does it even know what page I'm on?

And it works out the fact that it's what game wrong.

Does anyone talking about?

Does it wear a New Zealanders?

The game's screen.

It's available pre-order.

Starting at 60 US.

That's not what I said.

Well, you don't know if you can't see it.

Can I drag this around?

No.

NZD price.

I love how they say it.

We love more digital.

The store assistant is powered by AI.

So surprises and mistakes are possible.

Oh, brilliant.

The game's screen is available for 60 bucks.

Pre-order.

Price is a very based on platform currency.

And currency conversion for New Zealand.

You can check more details.

You can find the price for your region.

The screen with product page.

Let me know if anything else I want to do.

And I said, NZD price.

Do I need to speak slowly?

The low-class price of first-screen man is not available at this time.

I'm going to click on the link.

I've clicked on the link.

Does it take to New Zealand?

No. See, it just took me to loop back to the US page.

$120 New Zealand.

Oh, there you go.

What?

I told you.

How do people in New Zealand afford games?

I thought spending $100 on a game was shocking.

No, we don't just buy games.

Or we steal them.

You just have a back.

US, you buy a bike.

You buy a back.

So if I did so much is it 60 bucks, isn't it?

It's 60 bucks US.

It should be $100 New Zealand.

It's actually $120.

It's insane.

They do the same for the hardware as well.

They go, oh yeah, that.

Because how much is the Xbox Series X is like?

I don't know.

So it's like $5,450, isn't it?

$500 US?

$1,000.

That's why I'm concerned when they say $1200 US.

Which I think the new Xbox is going to be.

That's $2,000.

$2,000 straight.

But they always add another little bit on top.

So I think it's going to be like $2,000, $2,000 or something here.

Oh, weird.

Yeah.

Oh, well, that's the games.

That is the game.

Screamer looks cool.

It looks like it's about 10 hours game.

Yeah.

I mean, it looks really fun.

Just like turn your brain off race.

I'm going to end it off on a good one.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you couldn't go any worse, I guess.

I don't know.

You tried really hard.

That was really trying hard to be bad the whole way through.

Any good games this month?

Sometimes.

Sometimes the laugh is strange in the way

that it gives you these meow moments.

You need to stop now.

Try it.

We've already lost all the listeners for the day.

So, you know, is it because it's the end of the podcast?

And you're like, I don't care anymore.

People don't listen now.

Yeah.

If anyone makes it to the end of the podcast, it's probably a miracle anyway.

Yeah, no.

So if they make it this far, they deserve exactly what they get.

We should get out of here then.

That's the case.

Right.

Thanks to everyone who's hanging out in the chats, in the live streams,

anyone who's reading or listening to this podcast later.

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Whatever the game is called.

And, yes.

You know, you follow your job.

You'll want to do this, bring games in.

You can't even remember the name of the game, so you bring in.

I bring in games to annoy you.

Once I've annoyed you, it raises from my brain.

It's just gone.

It's done this job.

It's out now.

The brain cell has received more information than I've moved on.

Yeah.

Do you have one brain cell for the games?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

How did you know how to work?

Yes.

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