Games Analysis episode: Should games cost around $80 plus tax? Have publishers earned this? 

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Week# 8: Should Games cost $80?

Welcome to Xbox On, a podcast with one host, about one console, Xbox. I am said host, Jesse DeRosa, and on today's episode we'll be talking the latest Xbox news for the week of July 17, 2025 including, following the bombshell news of massive Xbox layoffs we head for a slower week of smaller stories and dive deeper into our thoughts on the recent shift that is beginning to take shape at Xbox. All that and more!  

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00:35 Opening Banter
02:51 New Game Releases 
15:25 News
47:35 What I've been eating 
53:40 What I've been playing
1:08:36 Listener Comments 
1:31:32 Outro
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Episode 320: Where Do We Go From Here? - Xbox On Podcast

Layoffs are never easy. While much of the attention often rests on those who leave, the impact on those who remain, and on the leaders who guide them is equally profound.  To explore this critical dimension, we are honored to welcome Dr. Anil Verma, Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, as our distinguished guest on today’s podcast episode. Dr. Verma shares insights from his research, “The Other Side of Layoffs: What Leaders Must Do Next.”

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What Leaders Should Do After Layoffs | Dr. Anil Verma from Rotman School

On WBAL News Now at 6, after coverage of President Trump taking questions in the Oval office, WBAL's White House correspondent Christopher Salas and ABC News political director Ben Siegel talk about the Trump Administration laying off 4,000 federal workers in the continuing federal government shutdown.  

WBAL News Now in Depth Trump Admin Orders Layoffs In Shutdown

The Trump administration pushed forward Friday with plans to fire federal employees amid the government shutdown, directing reductions-in-force at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Housing and Urban Development, among other agencies. Prior to and during the current shutdown, the White House repeatedly threatened to lay off additional federal workers in a bid to further its efforts to shrink the size of the government. The Trump administration maintains Democrats are to blame for the shutdown, though Democrats contend that a spending bill from Republicans — who control all levers of power — wouldn’t adequately fund health care. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, posted on X early Friday afternoon that the “RIFs have begun,” without offering additional details. An OMB spokesperson told FedScoop the RIFs began and are “substantial.”  In a preview of his discussions with Vought last week, President Donald Trump said in a post to his social media platform that they would target “Democrat Agencies,” calling them “a political SCAM.” According to a court filing from the Trump administration late Friday, at least 4,100 federal workers across eight federal agencies may have been sent RIF notices, with the bulk of the staff reductions at HHS, with 1,100 to 1,200 workers impacted, and the Department of Treasury, with 1,446 workers impacted. 

Deploying artificial intelligence requires taking on the right amount of risk to achieve a desired end result, a National Institute of Standards and Technology official who worked on its risk management framework for the technology said on a panel last week.  While federal agencies, and particularly IT functions, are generally risk averse, risks can’t entirely be avoided with AI, Martin Stanley, an AI and cybersecurity researcher at the Commerce Department standards agency, said during a FedInsider panel on “Intelligent Government” last week.  Stanley said: “You have to manage risks, number one,” adding that the benefits from the technology are compelling enough that “you have to go looking to achieve those.” Stanley’s comments came in response to a question about how the federal government compares to other sectors that have been doing risk management for longer, such as financial services. On that point specifically, he said the NIST AI Risk Management Framework “shares a lot of DNA” with Federal Reserve guidance on algorithmic models in financial services. He said NIST attempted to leverage those approaches and the same plain, simple language. “We talk about risks, we talk about likelihoods, and we talk about impacts, both positive and negative, so that you can build this trade space where you are taking on the right amount of risk to achieve a benefit,” Stanley said.

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Federal agencies impacted by Trump RIFs during shutdown

A candid riff on adulthood money math and modern lifestyles: Javito and Welly F break down why “fun” costs so much now (hello, $17 cocktails), the myth of stability, the 50/50 debate vs. real community, minimalism as stress relief, and how bonuses, layoffs, and government shutdown theater shape our choices. From Houston nights to Vegas prices, iPhones to perfectionist lighting, the fellas keep it honest about living within your financial prime, doing what actually makes you happy, and not mistaking vibes for viability. Quick, conversational, and quotable—classic No Boundaries.

Episode 336 | "Minimalism > Stress: Choosing Peace over Payments"

Amazon and Microsoft, two of some of the largest US based companies, are floundering in the gaming space. 

Maybe that's okay.

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Week# 17: You Can't Buy Your Way Into Gaming

When a pair of high-profile internet outages took down large chunks of the internet last month, the events briefly brought hundreds of organizations to a near-halt and prevented millions of users from accessing core services for everyday business needs. From Starbucks to crypto exchanges to the messaging app Signal, the outages rippled across nearly every sector, shining a spotlight onto the country’s — and even the government’s — reliance on a mere handful of cloud service providers. In the wake of those incidents, watchdog groups are calling on federal regulators to scrutinize the role that massive cloud companies like Amazon and Microsoft play in owning and maintaining much of our collective backend IT infrastructure. Meanwhile, technology and cybersecurity experts point out that, because of financial and business realities, there are very few alternatives to the large companies that now dominate the market. The Amazon Web Services outage began Oct. 19 and lasted into Oct. 20. According to Amazon’s post-mortem, a single software bug in DynamoDB — the system that manages website addresses, along with efforts to repair it — caused all services in the Northern Virginia region that relied on the tool to go down for 15 hours. Just over a week later, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform experienced an outage impacting several of its services. According to Microsoft, an “inadvertent tenant configuration change” occurred in Azure Front Door, the company’s content delivery network. The outages exposed just how fragile the country’s digital infrastructure is and showed the risks of letting a few companies hold so much power. As a result, some groups are urging federal regulators to address the issue.

Federal agencies would be required to report artificial intelligence-related layoffs to the Department of Labor under a new bill from a bipartisan pair of senators. The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act from Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., calls on agencies and major companies to deliver quarterly reports to DOL on the impact AI has on their workforces, detailing job cuts and displacements. Hawley said in a press release“Artificial intelligence is already replacing American workers, and experts project AI could drive unemployment up to 10-20% in the next five years. The American people need to have an accurate understanding of how AI is affecting our workforce, so we can ensure that AI works for the people, not the other way around.” The bill would also require agencies and companies to report hirings that can be “substantially” credited to AI, as well as the number of individuals they are retraining because of AI. There’s also a callout to keep track of open positions an agency or company decided not to fill because of automation.

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The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.

Brad is first joined by Sarah Jones, Editor in Chief for Politicus USA.
The two discuss the newly released emails between disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, referencing Donald Trump spending hours with someone who Epstein calls a "victim" at Epstein's house.  Epstein also refers to Trump as, "the dog who never barked."

Then, Brad is joined by Dr. Robert Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm, and a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
The pair examines new data showing that monthly U.S. jobs cuts surged to a 22-year high in October, and new polling showing that 54% of voters blame Trump for the current economy vs. only 21% blaming Biden

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New Epstein Emails Say Trump Spent Hours with Victim; October Monthly Job Cuts Surge to 22-Year High

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