Episode 406: Phil NOT of the future

About this episode

Phil Spencer's retirement from Xbox and Microsoft leads to major industry changes, alongside updates on Sony's Spider-verse and Mortal Kombat 2.

In massive gaming news, and I MEAN MASSIVE! Phil Spencer has retired from Xbox and Microsoft and his #2 Sarah Bond resigned as well, as a questionable new CEO takes the reigns. Plus Sony plans to reboot their wider Spider-manless Spider-verse after its utter collapse, no more morbin time? Mortal Kombat 2 got a Johnny Cage filled trailer and Valve is getting sued by the state of New York and as Jackie Chiles would say: "It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!"

Topics covered

• gaming
• Xbox
• Sony
• Spider-man
• Mortal Kombat
• Valve
• lawsuit

Keywords

• Phil Spencer
• Sarah Bond
• Spider-manless Spider-verse
• Mortal Kombat 2
• Valve lawsuit

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Xbox, Spider-man, Mortal Kombat 2

Books & works: Spider-manless Spider-, Mortal Kombat 2

Places: New York

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