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Hello Darkness My Old Friend – Unlocked 746

6/18/20261 hr 56 min

All of Xbox's good energy and community goodwill instantly evaporated as the honeymoon phase for new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma came to a quick end this week. Her new publicly released memo talked of a "resetting" of Xbox and narrowing profit margins, which has resulted in reports of multiple Xbox studios being either shut down or perhaps spun out independently. We discuss Xbox Game Pass's role in Xbox's problems, Xbox's mismanagement of its studios and franchises over the years, and so much more.

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Clips

Studio Spin-Off Bombshell
Let Others Reboot Halo
Fears Of Forced AI Development
Diversity On The Chopping Block
Whiplash And Quicksand Metaphor

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  11. Miranda Sanchez· Host0:59

    [gentle music] My worry is when they're looking at speed, coming from an AI background with other people at the top who have AI backgrounds, their answer's gonna be, "Well, if you can, if you can't do it this fast, you just need to use AI." Like, you just need to use AI. Like, that, that's something that I genuinely worry about, uh, for a number of reasons that I don't think we necessarily need to get into here. But part of that worry is, like, you know, I was just in an interview with the coalition. It was a group interview, but someone asked, like, "Hey, was there any

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