Hi, it's Larry Herbexboxes, Major Nelson. Welcome to the official Xbox podcast. Like, subscribe, ring the bell, do all that dance and join us. And when you do that, you get to have some Xbox news and gaming information joining me today over on the left hand side. We've got Jeff Rubenstein. Hi, Jeff. Hi, thanks for phoning it in Larry. What does that mean?

And Kelly Lombardi over there. I just look everybody does that and you always so just are going to give you a little behind the scenes. When I don't do that, Jeff is always like, you got to remember you got to let I'm like, look, we just they know what to do. This is I know this is a smart audience. They don't need me to tell them what to do. They're going to do it. So welcome. Yes, Jeff. Go ahead. I can tell you. Smash those buttons, kids. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you, Kelly. You see, Kelly, you can say smash those buttons. When I say,

it, it sounds, you know, hello, fellow kids, you can't say that anymore. That's what I would tell them. We are we are back on video this week. We've been audio for the past couple weeks. I've rebuilt my PC. And of course, Kelly joined us video few, but last month, but she's back now for a few shows. This is this is a kind of our final is show of the year. We're doing a live show next week, next Friday at one o'clock Pacific. That's four o'clock Eastern. We are going to be in studio. Rebecca's going to come back.

Number 16, the traffic return of Rebecca. Yeah. So she's back. Yeah. So we're excited to be and and normally we're going to be in live in studio. So we're going to do a live stream. And then, of course, if you, you know, you can pick it up on all your podcasts platform. So that's the beautiful part about it. Right. Right. Okay.

What are we all playing this week? Gang, Kelly. You're our special guest. Let's get you. Let's get you in first. Have you been, have you been refurbishing houses and flipping houses and setting up deck doors?

Yeah. I'm taking a break from my interior decorating. And I have been playing the new Disney Dream Light Valley update. Okay. So they had like their, I don't know if you would call it a winter update, but they added some new DLC, some new characters that you can go recruit for your village.

Lots of fun new player quest, things like that. So I have been loading in pretty much every day to like do my daily is check to see what's in the store. Clear all of the night thorns. I always call it nightshade. I'm like, that's not the right one.

Yeah. And so it's really fun to have some new quests to do and seeing some new characters in the game. It's kind of like, oh, I know them. So I've been having a lot of fun.

Good. I feel like that game is really carved itself a niche. Like when it was first coming out, people were like, I don't know what to expect. Yeah, what is this? And then, and then very much getting into it.

Yeah, I was like, yeah, I'll check it out. And then, you know, cut to, I'm like, I've max leveled my character really weekend. Now what? So yeah, it's definitely something that people really got into and like spent a lot of time in like, I was like, oh, I'll just casually check it out. And next thing I know online.

And it's a clear way gamehouse. Is it not?

That's why that's it, Jeffrey. Get it in there. Gamehouse. Yeah, get it.

And the DLC is free as well. So it's just an update and big fan. All right. That's fun. What am I? You know, it's, I was really excited. Halo team dropped a surprise update this week. They're December update, which had a bunch of stuff. Jeff. I don't know if you've got the whole list.

I do actually, yeah, me being prepared. It seems like the big, the big request delivered. I think a little bit earlier than was originally promises the custom game browser. Yeah. And so that allows you to, it works out really well with, with forge as well. And so you can, you know, pull together, you know, look for certain games on certain maps that you want to play. That's what I did last. I played one last night that was like, like a level from Mario.

And it was, I was playing with a couple of people from three, four, three. There's, there's, I mean, kudos to the community because they are, they've taken forge as you would expect and wrap their arms around it. And they are, they are very quickly, very quickly. Yeah.

We are speaking with the forge team. And I think they've, there was always the expectation that the community would, would deliver really awesome content. I think that the speed at which people can velocity.

Ripped with the tools, which are, you know, significantly more advanced. And there's so many more things you can do with them over, let's say, Halo 5's incarnation of forge that it was like, wow, already, you know, so that's really cool to see. Did you play on the pit?

Or I did the version of the pit. I did. Yeah, classic Halo 3 map. One of my favorites. I spent so much time in that one, but it, it, unfortunate. I did not come out as a victor, but I did enjoy it nonetheless.

So if you're looking for that game in the custom game browser, it's the map has been reborn as Imperian beginning with an EMP.

And it's a reimagining of the pit with some refresh just aesthetics.

There's also complimentary cosmetics. All present armor cores are now available to all players. Those are the things upon which you build, add all the pauldrons and knickknacks and other other things like that. All 10 cadet coatings have been added to existing armor course.

Anyway, you're going to want to check out Halo Waypoint. There's lots of quality of life improvements that have been requested. There's, there's a ton there full patch notes and everything, but a nice surprise for the Halo players.

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