Game Souk 57 | July 30th 2026
Earnings week set the tone for this episode of Game Souk. The team broke down Microsoft and Meta, the widening debate over when the industry's enormous AI capital spending will pay off, and a run of products from the biggest tech companies that the panel questioned whether anyone actually asked for, from Meta's camera glasses to Apple's facial recognition smart home hub to Xbox ads.
Game Souk airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode:
Xbox begins testing an ad supported cloud gaming tier, with ads front loaded before one hour streaming sessions, as…
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