Phil Spencer Talks Game Pass Growth | Callisto Protocol Cancelled in Japan | XBL: UK - Epi #34.
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Good evening all, and welcome to another Episode of XBL: UK. On tonight's Episode catch @ReddersTV, Ima_Gh0stbuster, TheGInna & BmG as they sit down and talk about all the biggest gaming news to come out of this past week. Topics tonight include:
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer has claimed that scrutiny of its proposed Activision Blizzard deal is ‘fair and warranted, but said he's confident regulators will approve it.
- Xbox Game Pass growth is ‘slowing down’ on console, Phil Spencer has claimed, "because at some point you’ve reached everybody on console that wants to subscribe".
- Phil Spencer talks more about Project Keystone. "Keystone was something that we were incubating internally. In late spring we pivoted to working with Samsung. I still have the prototype... will we do a streaming device at some point? I expect we will, but it's years away"
- Microsoft has failed to reach its internal Xbox Game Pass subscriber growth target for the second year in a row.
- The Callisto Protocol has been Cancelled in Japan.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s disc is just 72MB of nothing. It's a dummy disc, so you'll have to download 100GB+ to actually get the game
- God of War's director has bemoaned retailers allegedly selling copies of Ragnarök ten days early, leading to spoilers on social media.
- SEGA claims the Sonic franchise has surpassed 1.5 billion sales and downloads with free-to-play looking likely to make up the bulk of that figure.
- November’s Xbox Live Games with Gold titles have been announced.