This is the final episode of the show. It's been a fun experience and a good lesson in content creation and time management. Thanks for all the support you've given me.

This week we had a lot of news concerning the Activision Blizzard deal as well as the New Super Mario Bros Trailer was released at New York ComicCon. We hear from CDPR as they announced all of the projects they are kicking up and why I think that may be a bad idea as well as my thoughts on Overwatch 2 now that it's out and what will Gotham Knights be like?

This week in the Xbox Wrap Up we take a look at the games coming in Oct for Games with Gold and PS Plus Essentials. I share my experience with playing Grounded available now on Gamepass as well as Deathloop. I have a breakdown on Overwatch 2, what you can expect with its launch next week and the delay news of Skull and Bones. There's some shotgun news at the end about E3, The Last of Us show, and Google Stadia shutting down. Contact Info: Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/capt_logun Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheXboxWrapUp Gamertag: CaptainLogun Keelhauled Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/5VRabwR

This week we saw some pretty large leaks from hackers and instead of focusing too much on that, I wanted to chat about the latest partnership with Xbox, Nvidia, Tencent, and Logitech. There's new hardware is an interesting choice and not one that I think many people will want to pick up but we'll have to wait and see. There was a nice quality-of-life update to the Xbox consoles this week as well as a change to the Xbox Elite controller. Some games came out on Gamepass as well as a reminder to pick up Portal 2 through Games with Gold. Contact Info: Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/thexboxwrapup Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/capt_logun Gamertag: CaptainLogun Keelhauled/Xbox Wrap Up Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/5VRabwR

Lots of showcases to cover this week as we had Disney + Marvel Games Showcase, Ubisoft Forward, Nintendo Direct, PlayStation State of Play, and the Tokyo Gameshow to talk about. Really it seems like the industry is moving forward three months in terms of announcements and releases, learning that they can still have a good holiday season with typical sales but a better first quarter if they push titles out to February. Here is the link to an interesting article about game leaks in the media. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nobody-really-wins-when-a-video-game-leaks-opinion

This week in Xbox news has Jim Ryan calling the deal with Call of Duty "Inadequate" and I have to say I'm not impressed. There are some updates out now to Xbox Party Chat as well as some possible future updates to the Home Screen. Xbox is releasing a new addition to the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller and it's not the Series 3. There's a Game of Thrones Series S sweepstakes going on till Oct. (https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1567899359630467072). There's also good and bad news for Cyberpunk 2077 and former Square Enix studios will be able to make future Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

This week we have some bummers coming from 343i as well as Naughty Dog as fans are disappointed with the state of updates for Halo and the Collector's Editions showing up damage for The Last of Us Part 1. Some good deals this week and we find out that The Calisto Protocol may have zombies both in the game and out with their work culture.

This week in gaming news we have to deal with Sony waking up and choosing violence, Saints Row being middling scores out the gate and all of the major announcements from GamesCom this week. I'm really excited about some of the stuff that's coming as well as some confirmations on hardware and software in the coming year. There are also a fair amount of rumors going around about other companies looking to purchase EA and how accurate those rumors actually are.

We are in the calm before Gamescom and Xbox are ready to show off more about the games that are scheduled to come out in the next year. It'll be a six-hour stream with different teams coming on to talk more about the games they're working on. We got a good heads up for fans of Call of Duty and how you can preorder to get early access to the campaign a week prior to the standard launch. Dragonball Z is invading in Fortnite and I've really enjoyed it. There's a great video talking more about Redfall that came out and how that might be the biggest game from Bethesda for me. For once we're not talking about Bobby Kotick or NFTs.

This has been an exciting week in gaming news for Xbox as Sony tries to say how bad the Activision deal will be for them, and Xbox tries to downplay what a 68 billion dollar deal will do to the industry. Also, we got confirmation that two countries are currently testing an Xbox Game Pass family plan. What will that mean for you and how can you capitalize on it? Logitech and NetEase are looking to create a streaming handheld for Xbox Game Pass, Nvidia GeForce Now, and a lot more news in this week's episode of the Xbox Wrap-Up. Links: https://twitter.com/TheXboxWrapUp https://twitter.com/Capt_Logun