Phil Spencer

  • Discussing the Xbox business podcast

    Taken from episode 398 of the Tanked Up podcast, Ben relays the recent episode of the Official Xbox Podcast. This is where Xbox laid out their stall for bringing some games to other consoles and also talked about some other not-as-important stuff. Lucy and Aadil react to the news...
  • Next Gen Will Be In A Solid State

    It’s E3! Microsoft have given us the first details on the shape of their next generation offering, coming in late 2020, titled Project Scarlett. Since I did write down some thoughts on the details Sony released, in a Wired article, about the PS5; I thought I should do the...
  • Wheelchairs Coming to Xbox Avatars

    A comment from Seamus Blackley on Twitter about the possibility of avatars including wheelchairs has all but confirmed they will be arriving soon. The original Xbox creator posted a question on Twitter aimed at Phil Spencer asking – Not long after both Phil Spencer and Mike Ybarra responded with the news that...
  • Xbox Unveils Project Scorpio

    Phil Spencer’s final announcement of the Xbox conference was the reveal of the powerful Xbox Project Scorpio. As part of the Xbox drive to make gaming available to everyone, whichever way they want to play, the new console is primed for 4K and Virtual Reality. Bringing supercharged specs to...
  • Phil Spencer Congratulates Naughty Dog and Shuhei on Uncharted 4

    Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, has once again lived up to his ‘nice guy’ reputation. He sent out a tweet this afternoon to both Naughty Dog and Shuhei Yoshida congratulating them on the “amazing work” of Uncharted 4. While it may seem to many to be just...