Game Junk Episode #263: Phil Spencer is Out at Xbox

About this episode

The episode discusses the departures of key figures at Xbox and various game announcements and reviews.

We discuss the major departures of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond from Xbox plus the announcement that Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games and we also check out Virtual Boy, Cairn, Neva: Prologue, God of War: Sons of Sparta, Lunar Remastered Collection and demos for Darwin's Paradox, Replaced and Mina the Hollower.

People in this episode

Host: Game Junk

Topics covered

• Xbox departures
• game announcements
• video game reviews
• game demos
• Sony news

Keywords

• Phil Spencer
• Sarah Bond
• Xbox
• Sony
• Bluepoint Games
• game reviews
• Virtual Boy
• God of War
• demos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Xbox, Sony, Bluepoint Games

Products: Virtual Boy, Cairn, Neva: Prologue, God of War: Sons of Sparta, Lunar Remastered Collection, Darwin's Paradox, Replaced, Mina the Hollower

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