Xbox Game Studios Update With Craig Duncan | Official Xbox Podcast
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Official Xbox Podcast
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, we sit down with the head of Xbox Game Studios, Craig Duncan, to discuss Avowed, South of Midnight, multiplatform releases, Fable, and more!
00:00 Introduction to Craig
03:01 Avowed
06:09 South of Midnight
07:55 Ninja Gaiden 4
09:54 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
11:09 Doom: The Dark Ages
12:04 Multiplatform Releases
14:13 Fable
17:49 Outro
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| 0:00.0 | Games in this podcast range from E to M. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to the official Xbox podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm here with a very special guest today. |
| 0:08.6 | I get the great pleasure of introducing you all to Craig Duncan, our new head of Xbox |
| 0:13.6 | Game Studios. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to Xbox Studio, not to be confused with your Xbox Game Studios. |
| 0:19.8 | So I'm in charge of this as well? |
| 0:21.5 | I think you could be. |
| 0:23.3 | I didn't realize that. |
| 0:24.5 | We don't make games here. |
| 0:25.7 | Good to see you too. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes, we don't make games here. |
| 0:28.1 | We do make games marketing here as well as this lovely podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | So yes, thank you so much for joining the podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | I do want to start with kind of giving the community a little bit of context |
| 0:38.0 | about your very storied history and career in games. You've been in games for two decades. |
| 0:43.9 | So you've seen a lot. You've seen the ups and downs of the industry, the literal ups and downs. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. You've also been lauded where you were studio head at Rare for many years. You've been |
| 0:53.2 | lauded for your work there. The studio culture, obviously you shipped Rare many years. You've been lauded for your work there. |
| 0:54.4 | The studio culture, obviously you shipped Rare Replay. You've been in charge of Sea of Thieves for |
| 0:59.6 | its millions, aka seven years, that it's been ongoing now. And you actually have been working |
| 1:05.5 | with Ninja Theory and Compulsion before this new role. So you've been around the block, as they say. |
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