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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the official Xbox podcast. My name is Tina Amini. And I'm here with my two illustrious fellow co-hosts of the show Malik and Jeff. How are you two doing?

Lustuous what a word. Great. Great. I don't even know what it means. I'm assuming it's a compliment. Yes, it is a compliment.

My quite prestigious, quite talented co-hosts if I had to use a fissaurus on the fly.

You are a polycyllabic host. So right. Oh, my God.

All the SAT words. Yeah. Awesome.

Useful stuff in the real world.

Indeed. We've got a lot to get through today, including an interview later between Jeff and Brian Gerard, community director at 343 Industries about Halo Infinite's fifth season called Reckoning, which is coming out next week on October 17th.

There'll be some content around the new mode, forge updates, a couple other things. Are you looking forward to it, Jeff?

Yeah, actually went out to 343 last week to see some of the stuff that they're working on. And I was like, hey, Brian, can you be on the show next week?

And he agreed immediately. So excited to talk more to huge week for Halo between the announcements at the beginning of the week.

And we've got the world championships here that are going to be starting tomorrow. So exciting times.

Yeah, you have to get me started on Halo, by the way, because I could go on for a whole episode. I am in love with Halo. And of course, Brian Gerard, aka sketch, the community knows him as that. Just amazing.

And does he still have the beard in the hair? Because I feel like that was a look over COVID. He had a long hair and the growing pandemic beard.

Either way, we'll say that.

Which Brian would sketch.

Exactly. We can only tease so much without spoiling it all. That's right. That's right.

Well, we'll get to some other news later. But as always, we like to kick it off with what we're playing. And I'm not even going to let you to speak just yet, because honestly, I am so excited about what I've been playing.

There's been so much. We've talked about this over the last few weeks that's been out there. So I'm still playing cyberpunk. I'm still playing Starfield.

I'm still playing Payday. I'm still playing Lies of P as all of these games of Rapidfire come out. But two new games I haven't talked about on the podcast just yet are Assassin's Creed Mirage. And one other I'll save it for after my rant about how much I'm enjoying Mirage.

I love this game so much. Honestly, if you don't know the basic premises, Basim's origin story. He was introduced in Valhalla if you played the last Assassin's Creed.

So it's kind of an origin story of a little bit of around the hidden ones versus the order and you're kind of uncovering what exactly the order are up to you don't know what it is, but you know they're evil and this kind of journey validates that.

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