• The Weekly Stuff #497 - Doctor Who Season Premiere & Xbox Studio Closures

  • May 14 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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The Weekly Stuff #497 - Doctor Who Season Premiere & Xbox Studio Closures

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  • Doctor Who returned this week for its new season (Series 14, Season 1, or Season 40, depending on who you ask), the first full run starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor and Millie Gibson as companion Ruby Sunday. And the first two episodes were a ton of fun, particularly the formally off-the-wall “The Devil’s Chord,” which proves returning showrunner Russell T Davies is taking the show in a very different direction than anything we’ve seen before! But before that, we have to talk about the awful news from Xbox, where we learned Microsoft’s game division is closing two beloved studios: Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin. It continues a terrible trend from Xbox that keeps pushing the console maker in worse and worse directions, the culmination of a long series of frustrations we’ve been tracing for most of the lifespan of this podcast.

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    Time Chart:

    Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:06:58

    Stuff: 0:06:58 – 0:24:18

    Xbox News: 0:24:18 – 1:06:27

    Doctor Who Reviews: 1:06:27 – 2:37:19

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