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The Xbox News Looks Really Bad - WAN Show June 19, 2026

6/20/20263 hr 42 min

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Clips

Drinking Big Mac Sludge
Why Buy, Then Gut?
Game Pass Hurts Sales
Xbox Vision Rug-Pulled
Paying Makes You Care

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    Hi, Diva. It's Rachel.

  2. Linus Sebastian· Host0:01

    And Jordan. Yeah, hi. Quick question Why are you not spending your Venmo balance? Yeah, we're concerned.

  3. Speaker 10:06

    You can, like, buy stuff with it.

  4. Linus Sebastian· Host0:07

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  5. Speaker 10:09

    And earn cashback on eligible purchases.

  6. Linus Sebastian· Host0:11

    Mm, you love purchasing eligible things.

  7. Speaker 10:14

    So the money your friend sent you yesterday, that's today's ramen or rideshare or eye patches.

  8. Linus Sebastian· Host0:18

    The skincare kind, not the pyro kind.

  9. Speaker 10:20

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  10. Linus Sebastian· Host0:30

    Welcome to The WAN Show. We have a wonderful show lined up for you guys this week, but it does have to start with some bad news. Remember some of the trepidation that we had about Xbox's new leadership? Well, it looks like things were going pretty good for a bit, and then now, boom! Rug pull. Back to the bare floor trepidation we had before. Things are not looking good over there right now, with rumors of potential studio closures or divestments or even spinning off Xbox entirely from Microsoft. Uh, there's some good news this week, though. Illinois may become the first US state to ban drivers from wearing smart glasses. Seems like a smart move. What else we got?

  11. Luke Lafreniere· Host1:21

    Uh, the Steam Workshop was used to spread malware, and, uh, Stop Killing Games,

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