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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Halo Infinite's development and post-launch rollout has experienced some turmoil to say the least, and it looks as though another casualty has happened in the form of the game's split-screen co-op campaign mode being canceled. While the the loss of the mode is a blow to some, is it ultimately the best move to give additional resources toward more widespread content within the game? Plus, Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed's newest entry, Activision Blizzard gets confirmed for Game Pass and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Halo Infinite Forge Mode Gets November Release Date, But Split-Screen Co-op Cancelled: https://bit.ly/3wP9STz🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Assassin's Creed Mirage Is Real And Ubisoft Has More To Share About It Next Week: https://bit.ly/3CV28Dg🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Call of Duty, Overwatch, and Diablo are coming to Game Pass: https://bit.ly/3R43Vu1🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Gamescom, the biggest gaming conference in the world, is back again and with it Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live show. What announcements stuck out and make an impact? Also, we finally (kinda) get an update on the Activision Blizzard acquisition. We discuss these and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Xbox Boss Phil Spencer 'Feels Good' About Activision Blizzard Acquisition Progress : 'We Couldn't Be in a Stronger Position As a Standalone Company': https://bit.ly/3TiLS4F🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. It's an airing of grievances on this week's show, as the guys discuss some of their biggest letdowns and disappointments in the last decade of gaming. Was Halo 5's marketing as deceptive as we all remember it to be? Did Fallout 4 close the door on the RPG style fans knew Bethesda for? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Acquisitions continue to be a main topic of conversation throughout the games industry, and with more and more entities investing in gaming, it doesn't look like that's going away anytime soon. With that said, one pillar of the gaming industry is back in the conversation surrounding it: EA. Is the third party giant next to become part of the consolidation movement, given new statements made by the company? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️EA CEO Responds To Acquisition Rumors: 'We Couldn't Be in a Stronger Position As a Standalone Company': https://bit.ly/3Qfvhwn🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Overwatch 2 is set to launch this fall, and with it, its new free-to-play approach. While the barrier to entry has been lowered for fans to get in, if a new player survey offering potential pricing to be any indication, is the monetization of the title already off to a bad start? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Overwatch 2 Survey Asking About $45 Skins 'Not Indicative Of Final Pricing': https://bit.ly/3ORdLxj🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Rockstar Games, developer of mega hits like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and more, has been experiencing an evolution to become a better and safer work environment for its employees. With these updates come new updates to also one of the most anticipated games of all time: Grand Theft Auto 6. So just what does a GTA game in our current society look like? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Rockstar Games Cleaned Up Its Frat-Boy Culture — and Grand Theft Auto, Too: https://bloom.bg/3cLuh4I🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. With the recent delays of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the cancellation of two more projects, and the questionable states of Skull & Bones, Beyond Good & Evil 2, and more, the question must be asked: What is going on with Ubisoft? Also, Travis gives his review in progress of the Steam Deck, Mike airs some of his current gaming grievances and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Ubisoft's Bad Luck Streak Continues With Delays, Cancelations, Cost-Cutting: https://bit.ly/3z1Izp9🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Respawn Entertainment has seen massive success in both the multiplayer and single player spaces recently, with the incredibly successful Apex Legends and critical hit Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. With new job postings, it looks like the EA studio may be bringing their multiplayer giant to the single player space in the future. We discuss the potential new single-player Apex Legends title, Supermassive gaining new ownership, early Steam Deck impressions, and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Respawn working on new single-player FPS game in Apex Legends universe: https://bit.ly/3ANAMxM🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Nordisk Games acquires Supermassive: https://bit.ly/3RykoY4🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. With sources confirming that plans for remasters of Grand Theft Auto 4 and Red Dead Redemption have been iced to give focus to the development of Grand Theft Auto 6, is it justifiable for fans to expect an update on the game within the next year or two? We discuss the status of Rockstar Games, GTA 6, and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV Remasters Shelved After GTA Trilogy Debacle: https://bit.ly/3AvxcZa🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Rockstar's killing "major themed content updates" for Red Dead Online as it focuses on GTA 6: https://bit.ly/3usWkvK🗞️📰
    📰🗞️The Famous Halo 2 E3 Demo Will Soon Be Playable Thanks To 343: https://bit.ly/3aqdZxl🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. With the massive success of FromSoftware's franchises over the past decade, including most recently Elden Ring, it's natural to wonder: what's next? It sounds like we may soon know. Also, are microtransactions coming The Master Chief Collection? Are you excited to finally get to try co-op campaign this month in Halo Infinite? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Miyazaki says From Software’s next game is ‘in the final stages of development’: https://bit.ly/3OSAsBJ🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Halo: Master Chief Collection Could Add Microtransactions Soon: https://bit.ly/3OY6g8t🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Halo Infinite’s campaign co-op preview kicks off in July: https://bit.ly/3NzKeYg🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. While its predecessor found critical and commercial success, it looks like a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 remake isn't currently in the cards with Activision. Will anything change in terms of Activision's approach to remakes with the looming acquisition by Microsoft? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning! 

    📰🗞️Tony Hawk Confirms Plans for Pro Skater 3 + 4 Remake Were Abandoned After Blizzard Merger: https://bit.ly/3NuMpg5🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Johnny Cage actor may be teasing the next Mortal Kombat game: https://bit.ly/3tW0OLb🗞️📰
    📰🗞️“Real-life” horror and gore inspires The Callisto Protocol: https://bit.ly/3xLi5rD🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase has come and gone, and provided us with a deep look at what players will be able to get their hands on (as of now) within the next 12 months, and centered primarily on gameplay. Was the long wait for Starfield's gameplay pay off? Does the schedule of day one Game Pass titles help the back half of 2022 in a meaningful way? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Summer Game Fest Showcase 2022: Everything Announced Including The Last of Us Remake: https://bit.ly/3QeMJBW🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. The summer season of video game announcements and showcases is now underway with the Kickoff show of Summer Games Fest now in the books. We look back on the announcements, including the Last of Us being remade and coming to PC, as well as our frustrations with overt monetization in free to play titles like Diablo Immortal. We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Summer Game Fest Showcase 2022: Everything Announced Including The Last of Us Remake: https://bit.ly/3QeMJBW🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. After the delay of Starfield and Redfall, I think it's time we check in on the state that Xbox Game Studios are in, what the current road map looks like, and what we can expect to see at the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase. We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️The State of Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, and Activision Blizzard King: A breakdown of all the Confirmed Projects, Leaks, and Rumors for the Future of Microsoft Gaming: https://bit.ly/3aqRwQA🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. It looks like Microsoft is officially working on a new piece of gaming hardware: a streaming device similar to that of a Chromecast. Are you in on the concept? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone': https://bit.ly/3NAAEFd🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Raven Software QA Workers Officially Vote to Unionize: https://bit.ly/3GvdU79🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. With the success of so many tentpole gaming experiences like Fortnite, Destiny 2, and more, is there any reason to not release a major, AAA live service game free to play? Let's take a look at the state of free to play games in 2022. We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Fall Guys Going Fully Free to Play Alongside Xbox and Switch Release Next Month: https://bit.ly/3sMvHBc🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Bethesda officially announced that both Starfield and Redfall have been delayed until the first half of 2021. What does this mean for the state of both titles, and the current line up of releases for both Microsoft and Bethesda? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Starfield and Redfall Delayed until 2023: https://bit.ly/3sw2tpS🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. To no one's surprise, Microsoft officially announced that they will once again host another Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase this June. With some of the year's biggest releases coming from Xbox and Bethesda, like Starfield and Redfall, and future titles like Fable, Perfect Dark and more, it's time to sit down and make some predictions for what the show could bring us. Will we see Bethesda double down on Starfield's release date? Will we see any new surprise announcements from Xbox? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase Announced for June 12th: https://bit.ly/3yh7974🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. Overwatch 2 is starting to roll out its first public beta test, and being our local Overwatch expert, Travis was able to go hands on with it and has some initial thoughts. Also, Microsoft confirms its doing another joint conference with Bethesda this summer, a potential hold up could be on the horizon for the Activision Blizzard deal, and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Activision Blizzard Stockholders Approve Microsoft Acquisition, But Questions Remain: https://bit.ly/3EWdvtH🗞️📰

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  • Join the Bonus Accessory crew every Friday as they dive head first into all things Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, & PC gaming. It's been over two years since the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, and while it seems like it won't be the last time we hear from the franchise, what does the outlook and timelines look like for the rest of Valve's software IPs? Well, if one of Portal's co-writers had his way, the third game would already be in production stated in a new interview. Will we ever see the return of the physics-bending puzzle game, or is it too far gone at this point? We discuss this and more on the newest episode of the Game Pass Gamecast! Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a show when they drop every Friday morning!

    📰🗞️Portal Writer Says He Wants to Start Portal 3 Because He's 'Not Getting Any Younger: https://bit.ly/3rK4MoZ🗞️📰
    📰🗞️Halo Infinite Dev Reveals 3 New Modes Coming in Season 2: https://bit.ly/3K5T3HR🗞️📰

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