Senior Executive Editor at @IGN. Car guy. Friend to dogs everywhere. The "DMC" is because I used to own a DeLorean. Yes, really.
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10 months ago I was in the parking lot of the veterinary cardiologist crying tears of sadness. My Boxer, Daisy, had been diagnosed w/serious heart disease at just 3 years old.
Today I cried there again, but out of joy. Defying all odds, she is CURED. Normal ♥️ size/function! 🥲
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Here it is: episode 200 of Ride the Lightning, my weekly @Tesla podcast, featuring a 1-on-1 interview with @elonmusk! We cover a lot of ground in the hour-long conversation, including the Tesla Pickup, Model Y, Roadster, Semi & more! Give it a listen here: traffic.libsyn.com/teslapodc…
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2024 is a really f'n weird year in console gaming:
Nintendo has basically punted on the entire year of big games b/c the Switch 2 got pushed to 2025.
Sony has ZERO first-party *franchise games this year.
Microsoft finally has lots of games dropping but keeps stepping on rakes.
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Oblivion Remastered is now over 100k concurrents on Steam and still rapidly rising. It's been less than 3 hours. MANY people are still at work and haven't downloaded/played yet. Plus, this doesn't include Game Pass players. Or PS5 players.
This thing is gonna be HUGE.
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Xbox next ~2 years:
-Halo Infinite
-Forza Horizon 5
-Hellblade 2
-Redfall
-Starfield
-Fable
-Avowed
-Gears 6
PS5 next ~2 years:
-Horizon FW
-GOW Ragnarok
-GT7
-Spider-Man 2
-KOTOR remake
-Ghostwire Tokyo
-Forspoken
-Wolverine
Bottom line: Forget the "war." Both consoles ROCK.🤘
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Part of me died seeing this account post this, LOL.
Master Chief comes to PlayStation.
Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5 next year, rebuilt and modernized with 2-player local co-op and 4-player online co-op: play.st/4oAYnr5
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Extremely disappointed in Xbox’s total no-show at #TheGameAwards. If Microsoft wants to start winning back mindshare this generation, they’ve got to show up to the year’s biggest event.
Xbox supposedly has a huge 2023 for us, so why didn’t we see ANY of it tonight?
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I respect the heck out of Phil, but constructive criticism time: their messaging is almost ALWAYS reactive rather than proactive. Their brand is in a constant defensive state.
It's been this way since 2013. It makes them look weak, honestly. Sony and Nintendo aren't like this.
We're listening and we hear you. We've been planning a business update event for next week, where we look forward to sharing more details with you about our vision for the future of Xbox. Stay tuned.
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From the people that brought you the $650 five-year-old Xbox Series X and the $1000 handheld gaming PC, comes…
$30 per month for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate! WHO’S EXCITED??? /s
We went from $17 to $30 in 14 months, LOL.
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LOL it's now SEPTEMBER and we don't have prices for any of the FOUR next-gen consoles launching in two months (or less, if Sony decides to sneak the PS5 out in late October ahead of the Xbox).
Someone blink, for the love of god. People need to plan their Fall gaming budgets.
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HBO’s Silicon Valley throwing some subtle shade Facebook’s way on the Season 5 premiere. 😂😂😂
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This is our last pic together. You were the best & you will be with me forever. Thank you for everything. RIP @MaggieTheBoxer 8/28/06-5/8/17
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I'm grateful to have gotten a Switch 2 at launch and I'm having fun with Mario Kart World, BUT...
Switch 2 has gotta have the worst day-one launch lineup for a home Nintendo console ever, right? It's truly just Mario Kart, ports (Cyberpunk), and next-gen patches for older games.
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So basically, Sony's exclusivity deals on Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo were them f*cking around.
Microsoft buying Bethesda – thus making sure Sony couldn't do it again with Starfield, Elder Scrolls, or anything else Zenimax has – was Sony finding out. ign.com/articles/phil-spence…
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Been up since 3:30am after Daisy woke up coughing w/labored breathing. Took her to emergency vet & a chest X-Ray shows a very large heart w/fluid in her lungs. Heart failure. She’s getting more tests now.
Any good karma/vibes you can spare, I could use ‘em now. A better moment:
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I massively regret the $597 (including tax) that I spent on the PSVR2.
I love great VR game experiences & I was so excited that Sony was doubling down w/a truly powerful second-gen headset, but they burned me. There are no games. It already feels dead. Look at the layer of dust!
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Holy crap they actually DID have the guts to delay Halo Infinite! They'll take a LOT of crap for delaying Halo Infinite, but in the end it's the right move. They cannot afford another potential Halo 5-like debacle. So I say, good on 343 here: ign.com/articles/2020/08/11/…
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Please, please spare me all of your "Exclusives are bad for the industry" takes, Xbox fans. I'm commenting on what I see. FF16 is a huge get for Sony. It's a business.
If Xbox had trotted out anything remotely this big as exclusive you'd be celebrating it LOUDLY.
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Here’s Cyberpunk 2077 running on a Plaid Model S and its 10-teraflop Ryzen infotainment system, right now.
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Good. Give Vince control over more things at EA and stay the hell out of his way. His track record (Medal of Honor 1, CoD 1, 2, MW, MW2, Titanfall 1 & 2, Apex Legends, Jedi Fallen Order) suggests he should be overseeing as much non-sports stuff as possible at EA.
Respawn CEO Vince Zampella will take over EA's DICE LA studio with plans to expand and launch an original, unannounced game. bit.ly/35gcglK
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I've got the real Xbox Series X! Can't show you the UI or anything else...yet. But it's all coming. Stay tuned!
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No Elder Scrolls 6 on PS5. As expected!
But guess what? If the tables were turned, Sony would do the EXACT same thing. In fact, everyone would EXPECT them to and there wouldn't even be any question about it. ign.com/articles/the-elder-s…
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DOES ANYONE AT @insomniacgames EVER SLEEP? SPIDER-MAN, MILES MORALES, RATCHET & CLANK AND NOW WOLVERINE? HOLY SHIT YESSSSSSSSSS
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Perfect Dark was the BEST demo at Xbox's best Showcase ever last year. I refuse to believe this is a creative decision. I have to imagine it was a financial one, given how much time/$ has gone into it & how much more it needed. Embarrassing for Xbox IMHO.
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The fact that EVERY game here is in Xbox Game Pass is incredible. That's NUTS. #XboxGamesShowcase
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Just canceled Disney+ after finding out that the price is being jacked up from $80 per year to $140 per year at my renewal in November.
Quite honestly, almost doubling the price isn't worth it for me. Aside from the occasional Star Wars show, I don't really watch much Disney+ 🤷♂️
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It's batshit insane to me that Turn 10, a studio that's LITERALLY never shipped anything less than a GREAT game (Metacritic receipts attached) – is being reduced to, perhaps, a support studio with these cuts. What an absolutely brutal business gaming is.
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The last thing I need at the start of a crazy-busy week like this are distractions. You know, cool things I can’t help but stop what I’m doing and start playing w...
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Fable looked so good yesterday at the #XboxShowcase that I’m seeing a ton of people saying, “I wish they’d shown gameplay.”
That WAS gameplay.
We are starting to find out what insane non-car stuff ForzaTech is capable of in @WeArePlayground’s brilliant hands. 👀
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Indiana Jones & the Great Circle is, IMHO, the best Xbox exclusive in years. I absolutely adore it so far, as has everyone else I've talked to about it.
We discuss MachineGames's latest dub in spoiler-free detail on this week's new episode of Unlocked.
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Not only is MachineGames's entire history & expertise in making 1st-person games, but if they had made Indiana Jones entirely in 3rd-person, the discourse would be absolutely TOXIC today with Sony fanboys downvoting & comment-bombing the trailer, calling it an Uncharted clone.
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The Xbox 360 glory days were long enough ago now that there's an entire generation of gamers who weren't even alive for/were too young for it. It's never been cool to them like it was to us.
If you're Microsoft that's a really big problem to overcome. Only A+ games can fix it.
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New column from me on @IGN. It's called:
Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox's Soul.
I talked to two longtime Xbox employees and included their thoughts in this as well as my own in trying to parse through this crazy week. I hope you'll give it a look! ign.com/articles/phil-spence…
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I was wrong to drink the "current-gen won't hold next-gen back" Kool-Aid. I've talked to enough people now. It might make sense for some games, but not AAA, system-seller kinds of big-budget productions.
Cut bait on the old hardware. I wanna see what the new stuff can do.
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Good god my mentions are absolutely TOXIC this morning after posting two Series X game previews that <checks notes> *don't even mention PS5 in the slightest.*
Guess I'm going to have to start making more liberal use of the "Mute this conversation" button when sharing my work. 🙄
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Disney has done approximately a 10,000x better job of selling me on their streaming service than Apple has so far.
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HALO INFINITE MULTIPLAYER OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT THAT LOOKED SO GOOD. HNNNNNNNNNNG #XboxBethesda
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In 21 years, no Xbox game has ever meant more to me than this one.
There have been amazing games & big cultural moments in Xbox’s history, but if you ask me it’s never been better than this right here. This is the pinnacle of Xbox so far. Wish I could go back & relive this era.
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Gears 6 is a prequel??? Whoa!!!! 👀
I’m all-in…and I guess we won’t get any resolution to that cliffhanger at the end of Gears 5.
That was the best Xbox Showcase ever. Bar none. #XboxShowcase
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Halo Infinite
Perfect Dark
Fable
Starfield
Elder Scrolls 6
Avowed
Hellblade 2
Everwild
Forza Motorsport
Gears 6
State of Decay 3
Flight Sim Xbox
etc.
While almost none are coming out anytime soon (sigh...), Xbox's AAA first-party drought looks like it might FINALLY end this gen.
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Gamers know. Game industry people know. But I imagine most people outside the games industry – I'm talking about execs in movies, TV, etc. – have no f'in idea what is going to descend upon pop culture on May 26, 2026.
Rockstar has posted a job listing for Grand Theft Auto 6 that initially called the highly anticipated title "the largest game launch in history," which no one could argue with. bit.ly/4mYgMOg
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I'd like you all to meet someone. This is Daisy. She's an 8-wk-old Boxer who will join our family on Monday. Maggie would no doubt approve 😊
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LOL. My first time ever grapple-jacking and THIS is what happens. I LOL’d. 😂 #HaloInfinite
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Oh my god Microsoft owns Bethesda AND Obsidian now.
TEAM-UP RPG LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Microsoft must be watching these Oblivion numbers and absolutely foaming at the mouth over how huge The Elder Scrolls VI is going to be when it finally drops (assuming an asteroid hasn't hit the Earth and killed us all by then).
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Xbox gets a lot of crap, but between the excellent Xbox Developer Direct in January & the killer Xbox Showcase in June, they have ABSOLUTELY had better showings than PlayStation this year. Zero question.
(The ID@Xbox showcase & Partner Showcase were decent, but not stellar IMO.)
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Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen returns to my @Tesla podcast, Ride the Lightning, for an hour-long interview this Sunday at 9am ET/6am PT. We talked a LOT about Cybertruck, plus next-gen Roadster (!), the new steering wheel option on Model S & X, and more!
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Credit to Xbox — I called them out last year for not showing up to this major industry event, and this year they SHOWED UP.
Xbox won 3 #TheGameAwards and had 2 kickass reveals plus an excellent gameplay trailer for Hellblade 2.
Keep this momentum going, @XboxP3 and team!
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People left Xbox in droves last gen because Microsoft couldn’t consistently get either a quantity or quality of exclusive games onto their platform.
Their strategy now that they’re finally getting those exclusives is to…stop making them exclusive? 🤷♂️ ign.com/articles/indiana-jon…
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You are not ready for Light No Fire from @NoMansSky. I met w/Sean & the team this morning & it’s like an inside-out No Man’s Sky. It’s one giant 1:1 scale planet in which you can experience life & adventure ANYWHERE with your friends. 👀 Sean is insane to do this. #TheGameAwards
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Your tax dollars at work. 🙄
The FTC has filed an appeal challenging the recent verdict in the Xbox Activision Blizzard merger case that denied a preliminary injunction. bit.ly/3XOFyEJ
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F the Naughty Dog leaker. It's such a kick in the dick to not only players who will/might/already had it spoiled for them, but to your coworkers who've worked so hard with you. Maybe management DOES deserve a middle finger, but why shank the people you bled with on this project?
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So where was I last week?
At 343, playing @Halo Infinite! And I'm going to tell you about it all month long through #IGNFirst.
Yes, I played the campaign. A lot of it. But we kick off the month of coverage with a reveal of a new MP map: 'Streets'. Enjoy!
ign.com/articles/halo-infini…
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It is time!
Into the Starfield I go…
IGN’s Starfield review (not by me) will be posted on Thursday, August 31 at 9am PT/12pm ET.
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Finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales over the weekend & enjoyed the heck out of it. Great writing, great message, & it was just FUN. I love this Spidey universe and can't wait to see where it's going. Bravo @insomniacgames. P.S. Whatever artists/animators created *this*, YOU ROCK!
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I see a clip of Unlocked with me talking about the Series X launch lineup is going around in various fanboy circles.
Allow me to own what I said: yes, I think the launch lineup is weak. Great variety, sure, but no must-play games.
Xbox, 360, & XB1 all had better launch lineups.
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The Xbox 360 had so many great exclusive blockbuster games that LITERAL WIDESPREAD SYSTEM MELTDOWNS – the Red Ring of Death – didn't slow down console sales or people's love for the Xbox 360, even when they had to go through 3, 4, or 5 systems because of it.
Think about that.
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Tomorrow at 9am PT/12pm ET on @IGN it will finally be time for @HavokRose's 11-minute, 30-second hands-on video preview of Halo Infinite's campaign. I hope you'll watch – or read the longer, 3000+ word text version. Better yet, do both! 😁
No story spoilers in either one, FYI.
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It just looks like it's PISSED OFF, in a most awesome way. 😎🤘 Bravo, @elonmusk and @woodhaus2. #BringOn2022
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Every major platform has gotten (or is about to get) an absolute monster RPG this year:
Switch: Zelda TotK
Xbox: Starfield
PS5: FF16
PC: Diablo 4, Baldur's Gate 3
2023 has been an awesome year for all genres, but has 2023 blessed RPG gamers the most so far? 🤔
Discuss.
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I think this is literally as close as you can get to winning a #WorldSeries without actually doing so. Unreal. That was an incredible 7-game series. Congrats to the Dodgers.
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Look, I'm already on record as saying I'm gonna trade my launch PS5 in for the Pro SOLELY for GTA6. I care about GTA6 that much.
But IMHO Cerny didn't sell it that well. It was basically "Stuff in the background looks clearer!" with better framerates. And $700? YIKES.
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If you're curious about upcoming video games with lightsabers in them, then tomorrow is going to be a good day for you, and the start of a very good month.
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Hey let's talk about something more positive:
Indiana Jones looked DOPE. You could see a LOT of the studio's Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay DNA in there.
Troy Baker does a heck of a Harrison Ford, and kudos to Bethesda for spending the $ to license Ford's likeness.
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If a 5,000lb sedan is pulling these numbers off, the new Roadster is going to basically time travel, isn't it @elonmusk?
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OK this is actually pretty sweet. Is there a Halo 2 version of this?
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Xbox fans are DYING to celebrate a masterpiece-level exclusive like God of War. Thing is, though, it took Sony 10 years to get to this point where their 1st party is firing on all cylinders. This work started in PS3 era. Xbox can/might get there but it's going to take a long time
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Good lord this is the worst list of GOTY nominees ever.
This isn't The Game Awards' fault (which IGN, among others, nominates), but just how 2024 shook out.
(P.S. I'm in the "expansion packs shouldn't be nominated for GOTY" camp) ign.com/articles/the-game-aw…
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10-17 hours to finish Assassin's Creed Mirage is music to my ears. We really need to get back to valuing quality over quantity in this industry: ign.com/articles/how-long-is…
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DEBATING putting Call of Duty in Game Pass? Shouldn't they have run the numbers on that BEFORE spending $69 billion?
Also, a price hike is not going to be stomached by gamers unless the big-first-party-game pipeline goes from "drip" to "steady flow":
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EXCLUSIVE: Hidden-camera footage of Xbox executives trying to stay professional as they watched the $700 price reveal during the PS5 Pro livestream:
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Microsoft sent me an Xbox Series X and a Series S!*
(*They're dummy units for display only, so I photographed them next to a bunch of other consoles. Take a look at the image gallery at the link! You'll see a couple of really neat touches on each system.) ign.com/articles/2020/09/10/…
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I woke up still frustrated about Xbox's "presence" at #TheGameAwards last night. So I wrote an opinion piece about it on my flight home from LA this morning.
Here's why I think Microsoft's Game Awards no-show was a slap in the face to Xbox players: ign.com/articles/xboxs-game-…
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So @elonmusk is already the real-life Tony Stark. Am I the only one who thinks he could TOTALLY be the real-life John Hammond if he wanted to as well? Would anyone be shocked if Elon announced he brought back the dinosaurs and was opening his own Jurassic Park? #LifeFindsAWay
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If Sony's "woe is me" lobbying campaign is actually successful – all over one game! – I could see Microsoft ultimately making things much worse for Sony by going at them on their home turf: buying Square Enix, Capcom, Atlus, etc. 1/x ign.com/articles/the-ftc-is-…
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The Xbox 360 was such an awesome console with such phenomenal first- and third-party exclusives (not to mention all the great stuff on Xbox Live Arcade) that not even the Red Ring of Death could slow it down. Think about that for a moment.
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If Larian can't get Baldur's Gate 3 running well in split-screen on the Series S, it's time for Microsoft to start bending the rules on S/X parity. If you're Microsoft you need to get BG3 on your platform ASAP.
We talked about this in more detail on the brand-new Unlocked.
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Excited to chat with @notaxation next week. It's been too long.
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