Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Stream VOD from earlier this week (Tuesday Feb 24) doing a deep dive on some gaming topics:
1. Matthew Ball's Deep Dive into the state of the game industry 2026
2. Phil Spencer's Retirement and the new head of Xbox

This is edited to remove breaks/dead air time and also the end of the stream where I did a video react session, so it's just the game discussion portion.
Streamed live at twitch.tv/countesslita

Some articles:
gameinformer.com/2026/02/20/phil-spencer-is-retiring-xbox-president-sarah-bond-is-leaving-and-microsofts-coreai-head
https://bsky.app/profile/tomwarren.co.uk/post/3mfdbbhvsy22k

Game Industry Slides (not mine):
issuu.com/ballmatthew/docs/gaming2025_vee10?fr=xIAEoAT3_MzMz

Timestamps to get to the meat:
0:00 Hello and welcome, random chit-chat
11:50 What we're going to talk about today. Phil Spencer Retiring
28:50 State of the Game Industry Slides
1:31:00 long tangent about Wuthering Heights and 50 Shades happens here
1:38:00 Back to gaming
1:56:00 We're debating these slides a lot. Is Roblox really that popular or are people just idling in it?
2:19:30 Back to Xbox starting with Seamus Blackley's POV
2:40:00 Sarah Bond Statement
2:43:00 Phil Spencer/Asha Sharma Statements
3:00:00 Ok I'm just hating on MS now
3:05:00 Also Asha Sharma made some weird statements about birthrates?
3:12:20 AI discussion, ending

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