With me being out for this weekend (and thank god, five hours?!) the legendary Rand Al Thor19 joins Nick and Jesse to talk through all the carnage of this week in the XboxEra Podcast Episode 261!
Beyond talking through the lastest games, the podcast crew sit down and chat about all of the latest in news from across the industry. GTA6 has been delayed into May of next year, games media takes another blow with the decimation of Polygon and the PG-13 Fandom restrictions placed on Giant Bomb.
EA lay-off a bunch of developers, and according to popular rumour, cancel a potential Titanfall game….but maybe that’s okay, because it was another extraction shooter. Ubisoft tease a Prince of Persia Lost Crown follow-up, and Microsoft raise prices on hardware and software.
It basically all kind of sucks, and the crew spend a whopping five hours talking about as well as taking questions from our amazing Patreon Community. If you value having an indepedent publication focused on your favourite platform, consider supporting XboxEra directly via patreon.com/xboxera.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Going live for the XboxEra Podcast Episode 261!
00:14:58 – Intro
00:16:56 – Hi everyone!
00:22:05 – What have we been playing? Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
00:34:12 – Jesse has been playing stuff he can’t talk about like Revenge of the Savage Planet and Doom The Dark Ages
00:35:35 – Arc Raiders
00:45:40 – Marathon Closed Alpha
00:49:55 – Nick’s new room and South of Midnight (we go on a bit of a pricing tangent with studio freedom)
01:04:35 – Gears Tactics (plus bonus Cloud quality discussion like xCloud vs GeForce Now)
01:11:25 – Community Question #1: Ass4ssin – Can Expedition 33 win GOTY? Should Sandfall stick to this genre?
01:18:47 – Apple pisses off a Judge and pays for it
01:36:08 – Superchat about acquisitions
01:39:18 – Nintendo sues Genki for the Switch 2 mock up
01:43:29 – Switch 1 gets the Switch 2 system update (Digital sharing chat)
02:03:00 – Make sure to buy some CTRL! http://www.drinkctrl.com/xboxera and use our code “xboxera” for 10% off!
02:03:50 – What happened to Xbox Game Pass Family Share plan?
02:04:35 – EA cancels a Titanfall game and lays off staff
02:11:16 – Polygon bought by Valnet and suffers layoffs. Giant Bomb meddled with by Fandom and loses Grubb, Minotti and Ryckert
02:15:41 – Wait…a Prince of Persia Lost Crown sequel?!
02:18:53 – Ready for more Assassin’s Creed?
02:24:40 – Xbox made a lot of money, so to celebrate they raised all their prices!
02:59:55 – Grand Theft Auto IV delayed to 2026!? That is so surprising!
03:05:12 – Community Question #2: Emargonaut – How is the GTA6 delay going to affect the landscape? 03:22:39 – Name A Game
03:38:20 – Patron Shout (buy Console Wars!)
03:34:40 – Travel tangent
03:50:00 – Superchat about 2026 Xbox Games
03:58:23 – Community Question #3: 99ruken – A rant about Xbox pricing before asking…will Starcraft come to Xbox?
04:03:16 – Community Question #4: ItzFinn – 2 theses about pricing and independent media
04:16:16 – Community Qiestion #5: CJAD93 – Rand, what do you love about Nick?
04:18:03 – Community Question #6: Good Old Collingwood – Rand, stop fighting with Jez!
04:24:45 – Community Question #7: PoderickPayne – What game are you looking forward to the most in 2025?
04:31:30 – Community Question #8: Hytham G – Star Wars questions
04:40:08 – Community Question #9: DidactBRHU3 – Andor question (massive TV and movie tangent) 04:57:55 – Community Question #10: PianoBlack – Fable or Gears E-Day?
05:00:30 – Wrapping up
05:04:55 – Ciao for now!
