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32:11This comes from Xbox wires, Xbox, Xbox wire post by Jason Ronald, the VP of next generation Xbox, the homie and Ian LeGrow, corporate VP of Windows and devices. Beginning today, which was yesterday, we're excited to share that Xbox Mode will begin rolling out in select markets to Windows 11 PCs, including laptops, desktops, and tablets, bringing a console-inspired Xbox experience to more players than ever. Whether you're playing on a high-performance desktop, a gaming laptop, or a Windows handheld, Xbox Mode makes it easier to jump into your games. It adds another way to enjoy games on your PC with a controller-optimized full-screen experience that's built for play.

32:49Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience now with availability expanding to more players over the next several weeks. With Xbox mode, you can browse and launch games using a controller optimized interface. Jump back and forth between Xbox and Windows 11 desktop whenever you want. Access an aggregated game library, including the full games catalog from Game Pass and installed games from leading PC storefronts. They're not saying it, but that's even epic. because Xbox mode is built on Windows you still get the flexibility and openness of PC gaming while enjoying a more immersive and streamlined way to play since first introducing Xbox mode which was formerly known as full screen experience on Windows handhelds we've been listening closely to player feedback and continuing to evolve the experience across the devices blah blah blah you get what's going on Mike you seem kind of like hey this doesn't really matter too much I mean it's not a big one for me as I have not gotten on my PC yet but I'm excited to see it It's been something that they've been working on for some years now, right?

33:47Ever since they created the Xbox app on PC, the goal has been to unify the look across mobile Xbox consoles and PC, right? And we've seen that slowly roll out. And it really feels like now this right now is like their time of like, hey, let's finally get this done, right? We have the Xbox ROG ally. We've shown people like what it can look like. We're now unifying that with PC. We'll see with Project Helix, of course, Like there's going to be a uniform look that they want to achieve where it feels like when Tim sits down to play wherever he wants to play, you will understand and know exactly you're with Xbox.

34:23You know what you want to do. Unifying my PC library with other things as the Xbox RG ally guy right now. I love that. Right. I like kicking it out and seeing, hey, here's some Steam games that you've downloaded. You want to jump right into them. I like that a lot. It's not big news to me because I guess I'm so into it already. but I've been very critical of the Xbox PC app and its growth. And it's interesting right now where we're now making more of a commitment to console players to have conversations still about PC mobile. Will we see that slow down or will that still stay in pace with console?

35:00Because, you know, we've had a big conversation this past year. The moment you dropped exclusivity now with like a console that is in third place trying to regain its strength again. where are we at and when we talk about pc it's like not many people like steam they love steam yeah it's hard to get people off it is yeah i mean that is the big thing right and it's like i think that the conversation here i do think that this is like a bigger deal quote unquote than like you seem to be saying however i'm really happy it's not our story number one because it was for a while when i was building this show you gotta say that's where i'm at uh i do think that the push here them renaming the full screen experience to xbox mode all of these little changes it's just adding up to like okay cool like we're starting to get rid of a lot of my my little the little niggles that i have with with xbox you know what i mean like the tiny little stuff that's like not really a problem but it's like when there's big problems and there's all these other things it's like this just feels like a mess the mess is starting to get cleaned up i do wish that we were at a place that the mess could be just cleaned a lot quicker like i could just look away and look back and it's done because like you think about the the wrong ally right like that came out it kind of just felt like the alpha version of what this is it does seem like we're getting more updates than ever from xbox like in terms of um os and and the the software of it all so that's good but at the end of the day it is still windows i think that that is a problem and uh we're gonna have to see how this all shakes out but i will say that big picture mode on steam and the way that it has advanced over the years we're at a point that it's awesome it just works And I think that it does.

36:36You always are talking about how PC gaming is starting to take over more and more of the market share. And I do think that modes like this are a big part in convincing some people that don't want to play at their desk. They use their computers for work. They want to leave their desk at the end of the day and play on a TV. And it's things like this that I think are going to sway even more people and also give the gamers that are already playing on PC another way to play. right um to your point too little too late why would people leave steam when it already has all these things if that's where the library is but for the people whose libraries on xbox that have been in the xbox ecosystem for decades at this point they're making moves yeah hopeful i mean it's also an app that we're talking about that started in like 2019 right tim it's like steam has been around for decades xbox jumping into the pc space has been there for quite some time but like working on this app it's not like oh i can compare you to a 20 year old application now you're still working on this but it'll be interesting to see where we go five years from now what is this look what is the mantra what are we talking about right am i still on mobile trying this are are we still on pc what's up with the blizzard app we still have we still have blizznet out there as well blizznet don't talk to me about blizznet what are we doing with things tim what are we doing uh what we're doing is updating the xbox logo places you want to see this show me that xbox logo let's check it out i really like this xbox logo yeah here we go so asha sharma the dynamic today we said dropping today the new logo is now in dynamic backgrounds profile background rounds and gamer pics this is an interesting one i get i get it's easy to look at this and laugh yeah be like what are we fucking doing here but i do think it's an example for better or worse but i'm gonna put this in the better category asha's out here in these streets man she is on social media and people are saying what they want and if they can make it happen quickly they're doing it right there's big big decisions that need to be made about exclusives and what console means and all that stuff they're working on that stuff but game pass like we got we got to do some things i can do something now they made the change of call of duty cool let's get ahead of it i've seen so many people when they announce this logo be like i want a dynamic background i want it and here it is cool it's celebrating the little wins in a large space that usually would be filled up with just not celebrating these small wins, right?

39:00It's like, hey, this is awesome. The new logo looks great. It feels fresh. It feels clean. Seeing it on a dynamic background, that's an easy win. That should be kind of like a day two process all the time for stuff like this. But it is, hey, we're celebrating that. And that's the positive. It's usually negative when you talk about Xbox. So it's nice to be like, hey, let's even talk about just like the small wins right now. The smallest wins possible. Game Pass went down in price. Sure, it's still more expensive than what it was, but you know what? That's a win. Hey, we got a new logo. That's a win, right?

39:31Like, let's just keep building these wins, and then we'll get to the big wins, which is console exclusivity, your favorite games, where they're going to be. It's Xbox 25. Let's try to put some focus on that and celebrate 25 years of Xbox. Let's do it. A lot of great games to look back on and celebrate. A lot of four gigantic titles to celebrate coming out this year. Mm-hmm. Story number three. Story number three. Final Fantasy VII director has already completed over 40 full playthroughs of the third game. I don't want to hear this. This is insane, Tim. I read this and I was like, all right, dude.

40:06This is from Ollie Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Final Fantasy VII fans are eagerly awaiting news on the upcoming final installment in the remake trilogy, but if you're worried or anxious about the status of its development, then a recent comment from director Naoki Hamaguchi might bring you peace of mind. We recently interviewed him and asked how the third game's progressing, and to our surprise, he confirmed that he's already completed over 40 full playthroughs. That's quite an accomplishment, but we imagine it's probably necessary to ensure the experience works as intended and doesn't contain any nasty surprises.

40:35Here's what he had to say. We're very excited about how the game is currently progressing. I've already completed over 40 full playthroughs. I can't wait for as many people as possible to experience the game for themselves and myself, and the team are working very hard to ensure that we can create an unforgettable gameplay experience. Then there was an interesting thing, and this is where I brought it. and they're like, it might be coming sooner than people might think. With large-scale titles like this one, it's common for a long gap to exist between the first and second installments. However, because they were ports, we decided we could deliver them without leaving much of a gap.

41:09Of course, he's talking about Remake and Rebirth finally making the console jump to other systems, including the Switch 2, where we had Remake Integrate come out earlier this year. We have Rebirth coming out next month. so interesting there. We want to capitalize on this cadence and moment to tie the experiences together without any gaps from remake to rebirth to finally the third installment that lies beyond them. So if you think about that, they're saying that they want the gaps to be similarly sized and we're talking about January to June. June to December? Wow, Tim. I don't know. I mean, that makes it fun.

41:57Because we've had two stories like this where they've come out and be like, we're playing this game. We're having a blast. All right, well, we're ready to play this game too. Like, let's get to that point. And it does feel imminent, right? It does feel like we're going to talk about this. Within this year, we're going to see some sort of trailer. We're going to know kind of like, hey, this is kind of the date or at least window it feels like by the end of this year. we'll be feeling like that i am still shocked that we didn't get the title reveal at game awards last year like i thought that was such a slam dunk prediction it just made so much sense but in hindsight i'm now looking at it i'm like oh this half of the year has been about promoting seven remake and rebirth right the different ports and they've been going so hard on that and again excellent ports with multi-platform support these things run amazing on the switch too what a win for them right the goal is a multi-platform launch all platforms at the same time for number three right and then talking about closing the gap like i do think there's a higher chance than ever that that's the case what was sony's deal back in the day was the exclusivity for all three we do not know mike we do not know you but we will find out yeah you would assume it is you would assume but perhaps things changed maybe square could have bought that out because they're like we need this thing to sell more there's a lot of doubt who knows my prediction right now though is with all of this i think lay it on me rebirth came out i want to say end of january or end of february end of february i think that this that part three will come out end of february 2027 i think that's a great call tim yeah i think maybe we get teased this summer we probably get the date in the fall and then yeah this comes out springtime yeah there we go story number four the battlefield movie creates a bidding war between netflix sony and other major studios this from comes from kate onder at ign a handful well the chat saying jay jay cats quest saying january 31st 2027 is the actual 30th anniversary of final fantasy 7 that's right in line i mean come on come on a handful of major hollywood studios are going to war over the rights for the upcoming Battlefield movie.

44:12According to a new report from The Wrap, five key studios are in a bidding war over the film. Netflix, Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal, and Amazon MGM, which is really interesting. This is the movie that we talked about a couple days ago, potentially directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who we know from the Mission Impossible movies, the recent Mission Impossible, which is awesome. He was also a producer on Top Gun Maverick. You take those things, you take Battlefield, and Michael Jordan. Yeah, a little bit of Michael B. Jordan into that. We got a win, right? The interesting thing here is. We got a win, yeah.

44:48I'm not a believer in this. How so? There's nobody that you attach to Battlefield that makes it known, right? Call of Duty, you know soap. You know ghosts. Shut the fuck up, Mike. You know these people. Oh, my God. Battlefield has none of that unless you go bad company. But, like, there's no gamer out there that's going to be like, that's my ride or die guy. Yeah. Every Battlefield is just some private military corpse or Battlefield hardline out there. And it's just like, yeah, this is Battlefield. Like, this movie, no. No, Tim. Here's the thing. I just love that you bring up Soap and Tavish in any positive way.

45:25Soap, Price, Ghost, they're all iconic Call of Duty characters that anyone could be like, no, that guy. I wouldn't go that far. Okay. I wouldn't go that far. I don't know about that. But there's like, there's, I get your point. Yeah. I don't think that that's putting butts in seats in any way, shape, or form. I agree with you that Battlefield has less to work with. I think that's a good thing. I think Battlefield, you don't need it to, you're not adapting shit. You're adapting war. It's a war movie with, directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Yeah. That has a way higher, with Michael fucking B. Jordan, that way higher chance of success.

46:01Call of Duty. Call of Duty. Having said that, Call of Duty does seem to be lining up pretty well, too. I don't remember the details on that side. but one thing I do love this year, The Impossible is happening, Street Fighter the movie Mortal Kombat 2 the movie, the fighting game Titans both have movies are we getting Battlefield and Call of Duty the same year? That would be nuts too, that would be crazy just for the fun, that would be insane I mean, when we go back to this story, right it's in a bidding war because everybody wants known IP, right, especially the two names attached to it as you brought up are heavy hitters as well, but like of course they're going to have a bidding war for Battlefield the movie, it's like Like, it's known.

46:37We're in a video game. Like, everybody wants video game movies right now. Those two names attached to it. Yeah, the pot is, like, it's simmering right now. I don't think the final product will be, like, this is the greatest war movie ever. But I do expect, like, some good stunts out of it for sure. Some good moments. I don't know, man. And Christopher McQuarrie, I trust. I love that, too. So much. I love that. Oh, my God. Way more than Soap McTavish. I'll tell you that. Soap, Ghost, Price, you know them. Yeah. But see, that's the problem, too, is I think that, like, open slate, like, of Battlefield, that's just like all that movie needs to adapt is things blowing up and destructible.

47:15My favorite word, levolution. Levolution. High scale vehicles. Michael B. Jordan. Like, that's all they got to do, right? They're not going to piss people off like, oh, man, they didn't get this right. They didn't get this right. Call of Duty, you put Soap McTavish and Ghost in that, there's going to be people be like, he's too short. You know? Story number five Oh, I'm so happy we're getting to this one Thanks to Musk vs. Altman lawsuit It's now public record that Gabe Newell emailed Elon Musk to get his pal Hideo Kojima a tour of SpaceX and open AI This comes from Sean Prescott at PC Gamer In 2018, Hideo Kojima visited Valve to talk about Death Stranding Based on emails now public thanks to the ongoing Musk vs.

47:58Altman lawsuit Kojima and Gabe Newell seemed to have hit it off if they weren't already buddy-buddy After the meeting, Newell promised to introduce Kojima to people at the then-still-not-known OpenAI, and also to Elon Musk. Musk, of course, owns SpaceX, and Kojima has well-known ambitions to go to space. I want to let everyone know right now, that's the part of the article I read that I'm like, this is going in the show. Hideo Kojima, this is the email that leaked, okay? Hideo Kojima, parentheses, Metal Gear series, a real visionary in our field, was here at Valve talking about his new game, and he mentioned the importance he places on future work in AI.

48:33Newell wrote to Musk in late October 2018. Quote, I said I'd be happy to introduce him to the people at OpenAI and spoke enthusiastically about the work that team has done with us. I'm not sure how involved you are with them nowadays. The second thing is he was talking about how much he wants to go into space, and I offered to introduce him to you. He'd love to get a SpaceX tour. And then Musk was receptive, saying, sure, it'd be great to meet Hideo Kojima, and he's welcome to see the rocket factory. No problem. Send him my email. so all of that insane you think about kojima none of it is surprise in fact i think i first learned about ai in like the scary sense metal gear solid 2 i was late to adopt to terminator and all that stuff so yeah like i was like all right cool yeah kojima's been there you know where he hasn't been though space um so this is a crazy thing um in by 2020 kojima's desire to visit space still hadn't been fulfilled.

49:28In an interview with Jeff Keighley, Kojima said that he wanted to visit SpaceX with Newell, to which Elon Musk replied, you're welcome anytime. So, there's a quote from Kojima that I need to read everybody, alright? Quote, If I could have just one wish in my life, if I could cast a magic spell and make anything come true, without hesitation, it would be this. I wish to go to space before I die. It doesn't have to be anything as extravagant as a trip to the moon or mars i would be satisfied with only a brief orbit just beyond earth's atmosphere where i can gently brush against outer space i would give up anything to make that wish come true my current place is a game designer which i've built up for 45 years i'm even prepared to throw away my family or my own life that is how powerfully i or rather we yearn for the cosmos wow

50:23wow that's powerful wow get this man to space ASAP I feel it I felt that quote I feel it

50:39well next time you see him ask him if he's been to the rocket factory that's like so like super evil Henry bring him to the rocket factory

50:54bring him to the rocket factory bro

51:00oh my god oh my fucking so next time you see him you have to ask him now here's the thing as i read all of that out loud it was even more insane than i expected yeah um because i read a couple and i was like i'm just gonna go for this read the final line you know it what i'm prepared to throw away my family or my own life yeah yeah that's when you know it's real like he gets a call ring ring hideo it's time next week we're going to space i need you to leave your family he goes goodbye everyone i love you and this never comes back like i'm having a moment right now where i'm like did i just read some fucking like copy pasta shit like was that real and like it's credited to his book, The Creative Gene.

51:44Like, I need somebody to verify that this is real, because that's crazy. Without hesitation, it would be this. Take him to the Rocket Factory, Mike. Oh, man. If Kojima made it to space, that would be such a big deal. But if I wanted to know about something way smaller, where would I look? Tim, we'd keep it small. Let's go to the last news story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about uh first off we have pac-man snack breaks oh it's a new animated series premiering on pac-man day uh this comes may 22nd dope so yeah if you need some more pac-man in your life watch the backyard sports animated series yet no one yet i love you say yet as if there's any chance i need you to watch it tim yeah it's good yeah the description for this is saying uh pac-man snack breaks is a new animated series uh where pac-man heading to new pack city new pack city pack city bitch pack pack city bitch damn uh then next up we got our first look at lois griffin in fortnight saw it saw it i saw that rogers the one that posted this he was really excited um there she is you hyped this is a must-have character fortnight this is this is a high on the characters i need right now Dead or Alive 6 last round is going to cross over with the King of Fighters 14.

53:09Mai Charanu and Kula Diamond from the King of Fighters 14 are coming to Dead or Alive 6 last round as collaborative DLCs alongside the newly enhanced stage Lost Paradise Aboro. This is happening on June 25th. Everywhere. All platforms. And then cut the music please, Kevin. Another sad one here to end out. Oh. I'm on the way from the side before I say it.

53:38Hold on. Sorry. It's a little bit more complicated than that. The music's like really built into the system. I mean, you can just cut the Wii news. There we go. Well, that's a different statement. Hold on.

53:50Hold on. That is a different page. Hold on. Let me go back to this. Oh, man. The whole button. It's a button. It's a button. It's a lot of buttons. A lot of buttons. It's a lot of buttons. We laugh at the level of technology that we have. It's insane here. Sorry, one more time No, I know Yeah, I know, but it's just I had to go back and turn it back on Got it Nice little reset Pace Media puts the final nail in the coffin Of a storied gaming legacy The AV Club has laid off its full-time Gaming editors as it's refocusing Its resources on its core strengths Of movie and TV They said, we regret the AV Club couldn't be a home To expanded video games coverage Once again, the company wrote in a statement uh this is a huge bummer obviously another very talented group of people losing their jobs um they av club covered video games in a very unique way i feel like the the their writing was uh from a very personal perspective this is uh a another huge hit to the industry you hate to see it i am so sorry about this um but yeah let's get to you're wrong to see what we got wrong today people are going to say Mike it's not blizznet it's battle net got it

55:08oh my says Tim said my sheer and new but it's pronounced my sheer a newy there we go oh

55:25someone said the way I pronounced something was a slur and I apologize for that if that is the case obviously did not mean to do that and then uh jetpo says mike have you played danganronpa yet it's really good i'm getting pulled everywhere tim i'm trying to you know pander to the audience the best i can a lot of people say play the audience a lot of people say play danganronpa um shadow of the colossus is on there the last guardian wind Waker for my birthday, possibly, Tim. Could be the move. Oh my God. Mike, you're living such a good life. That's crazy. This weekend, I gave you all the games that I already want to play, but this weekend, I want to play a dope fighting game campaign that I've never played.

56:10I've played all the Mortal Combats and Injustice. I'm not going to play those. I'm thinking it could be Tekken. A lot of people say that Tekken is a lit campaign, and I'm thinking about playing... I just want to play a fighting game campaign. tech and eight is a great place to be a lot of fun over the top as hell music is insane have you downloaded it yet no oh what are you playing it on i would play it on like pc or xbox whatever yeah i don't know if this is gonna i don't think the experience will do this on playstation okay when you like blade over different games like music plays from the game i love that yeah i will never uninstall tech and eight for my playstation 5 just because every time that i turn on all the music hits so goddamn hard and i'm just like i just need to live a little bit you know you're gonna have a good time that's all yeah i'm getting pulled all over the place i don't know what danganrompa is besides the teddy bears yeah it's like it's a maybe it's a maybe i got a big list i'm going through it all i'm proud of you thank you thank you what oh i love it from the darkness over there there's lights on us so it's like kind of hard to see over there barrett's just right behind the camera did not know it he just was murder mystery i got return of the obama dan i want to play i'm all over the place with games i'll be there i'm i'll be there everybody thank you so much for hanging out with us actually let's get to a couple super chats before we end here um come up a bomb this is my watay and zelda fund for Mike.

57:39What is that? Watte and Zelda fund. Oh, thank you so much. Oh, water. Probably water. Thank you so much. Thank you for that super chat. And yes, you are now funding me to play the next Zelda game. I appreciate that. Wind Waker. I was going to go Twilight Princess on him. Now I go Wind Waker. I mean, you're going to do both. If you're this in, like you're in. I'm already so deep in. Oh man, you're getting cultured. I love it. Jameson Peter says has Mike beaten Twilight Princess I know it's an unpopular opinion but that's my favorite oh you know I actually don't think that that's an unpopular opinion okay I think there's like a there's a handful of Zelda games that being someone's favorite is like an incredibly valid opinion like there's I think the ones I think Ocarina is like the only exception of like because of how revolutionary it was it gets the most conversation but I do think that like especially in terms of the word favorite it's like you know there's hey there's arguments to be made for uh bajora's mask ocarina wind waker twilight princess i'd say almost equally uh joshy frog says should we project hail mary kojima and see what game he sends us that was the most insane thing i've ever read space at the end of it all does he get the space I want to believe.

59:02It feels like he'd be a perfect candidate to just send him up to the orbit, let him get up there, and then come on down. Yeah, let him get Barry's. Remember when you made fun of Justin Bieber? He said, oh, thank God he's got YouTube premium. I can't imagine ads right now. Come on. Aaron Ambrose says, good morning, Tim and Mike. Mike, I just got to let you know that our Adelaide Crows had a one-point win in the AFL. I'm big in Australia. Keeping an eye out on the AFL. you know that could become the mayor of perth one day he says that i'm big in australia i look over bare to just shake it his head big in australia big in australia everybody uh aaron lime says capcom's cooking konami's picking up come on sega hey make a game coming soon the sega make a game okay super sega make a game crazy taxi um let's hey here we go the final one kyle jones saying invincible versus just came out it's a new fighting game with uh with the story mode but i saw only last like an hour okay oh my god i gotta get on i gotta get on my invincible bs it's time to watch yeah i dropped it okay during the first season middle break never went back it's time to get back on second season okay with the break yeah yeah um whichever one had the long ass break where i was like what are we doing here well there you go everybody that was games daily for what it's worth we had some good times we had some bad times we had a lot of laughter we did have a lot of laughter he said i'll leave my family tomorrow and a chance to go to space can somebody please verify if that's real i need to know he'll leave work and his family i own the book i need to when i get home i'm gonna look at that uh anyway we're about to do an awesome games cast please stay tuned for that until next time i love you all goodbye