2/25/2026 In this episode Aaron talks about the End of an Era at Xbox: Phil Spencer Retires, Sarah Bond Resigns, and PlayStation closing BluePoint Games. Also covering a story on Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios on potentially tracking critics via some sort of scoring system for sake of credibility of reviewers.

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Episode Recorded: 2/25/2026

Links from this episode:
This is an Xbox:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/11/14/this-is-an-xbox/

Phil Spencer statement:
https://x.com/XboxP3/status/2024951211129254314?s=20

Asha Sharma:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/20/asha-sharma-named-evp-and-ceo-microsoft-gaming/

Swen Vincke:
https://x.com/LarAtLarian/status/2016288892765536766?s=20
https://x.com/LarAtLarian/status/2016880822704369820?s=20

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