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27:53Again, all about celebrating this. I think that this is such a wonderful moment. And on top of it, we were just giving them props for$20. The way that they've handled this, so cool. It's also on Game Pass. like for all of that to be true is just such a insane moment in video games when the world is falling apart around us right and like we've had so many misses so many canceled games so many like failed uh situations happening like so much bad stuff and this year we got expedition 33 coming out not at full price and being as goddamn good as it was we have hollow night silk song we have big surprises like blueprints like this is cool man like there there is a light in the darkness every once in a while when it comes to video games.

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33:04And we're back. Shout out to Matt Piscitella in the chat. You'll love to see it. Very, very cool stuff. And what a day to tune in to kind of funny games daily. Hi, Matt. Nice to see you. Thanks for tuning in. Tim, during our break, I wanted to see kind of like the Steam charts. How many people are playing this right now? So I went over to SteamDB to look up Hollow Knight Silksong. Currently 478 ,000 in-game right now. Almost half a million players for the all-time peak almost 10 minutes ago. I'm sure that number will be rising throughout the day into Friday, throughout the weekend. Of course, there's Xbox, there's Switch, there's PlayStation 2.

33:40Congratulations, Team Cherry. Insane, dude. These are crazy numbers. Keeping the numbers going, I want to talk about y 'all because y 'all are amazing right now. We have over a thousand people watching Andy play the Hollow Knight Silksong on Twitch while we're here with 1.8 thousand people watching how to buddy games daily. Y 'all are the best. All right. After this, go support Andy. Hang out on the stream. It's going to be a great time for everyone. But before we get to everything else, let's get to story number three. Valve trademarks Steam frame. This comes via Wario 64 and a gaming leaks and rumors.

34:12Reddit post. Super Chat, let me know. What would you want out of a Valve console slash tower? Wario tweets, Valve trademark Steam Frame intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing, video game consoles, video game accessories, namely controllers for video games. One for computer hardware as well. Post notes that these were filed on September 2nd, 2025, two days ago. The Steam Frame trademark registrations intended to cover the categories of computer hardware computer networking hardware computer peripherals hardware and computer software for the reproduction processing and streaming of audio video data text and multimedia content uh the registrations intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing video game consoles accessories namely controllers for video games so a lot of stuff just kind of like going through a bunch of the different categories of video game hardware right so i feel like this is them kind of continuing to make advancements in the space obviously we had the steam machines back in the day that didn't really work so well the world is ready for it now and i feel like they have proven that with the steam deck how popular that is starting to be how popular having that docked with your tv is all the different options you have to play games uh via the cloud and all that stuff and they have their they're moving to vr right They have their controllers, and the likelihood of them coming out with a Steam console of some sort, a Steam box of some sort that you can have on your home entertainment system, is incredibly likely given their push into SteamOS.

35:52They're pushed into how their ecosystem has evolved way beyond just being a storefront and game developer publisher studio, right? Yeah, of course, Tim. I mean, when we talk about Steam, you talk about the big storefront, that is. you also talk about just kind of this big cultural push towards PC gaming. I always yell at you that the kids scream for a PC now over the console. And I know we're a little divided on that, but like there is this moment right now in 2025 of like Steam is kind of the dog right now. Steam is the big dog that everybody wants to be a part of and to see them, you know, it's a trademark.

36:25We'll see where that goes. But if you and I can fantasize, right, it is. how do you now take that PC and put it at the, you know, home big television in your sofa in your living room and say, Hey, Steam is right here. All of those games that your kid buys over there, you can play it right here. All the functionality of a PC could be right there. And TVs are already very close to that. Home consoles are very close to that, but there's something that's missing. We all know it. It's like when you're on your PC, there's something that's missing from that experience. And like, when you think of 2025 gaming, people want to have everything at their fingertips and if steam can somehow figure that out if xbox can figure that out people want that in their living room absolutely yeah and yeah i think it's a very interesting time obviously as we see xbox make their moves from kind of the other direction right a console towards pc focus obviously microsoft's been on pc forever um but really taking it more seriously like it's been a slow build but it's been steady and consistent as well and we're at the point now that clearly they are their future is the pc side not the console side yes that is incredibly clear that is they're straight up saying that and all of the choices and decisions and the way that they're marketing even like the xbox ally acts like that is the direction they're going steam going the other direction is interesting because what's it even mean to be a console these days and i think that they have the benefit of obviously everything I was saying before of the install base of people that just use steam as their storefront of choice and the flexibility.

37:59And like, you know, it goes back to the iPhone versus Android. Like obviously iPhones are incredibly popular, but so are Androids because of the flexibility and because they offer more tinkering and speak to a different audience. That's been PC gaming versus console gaming since its inception. We're at a point now that I think everything's leveling out where more people are technically able to be interested in what used to be tinkering stuff, but is now just kind of so accessible and so easy to wrap your head around. And the technology's there that everything's kind of level in a way that I imagine that all steam needs to do is just put out a box that plays steam games and just works.

38:41Cause that's been the thing about consoles. They just work. You plug them in and they just work and PC gaming. That's not the case. Um, and I feel like they're there. I think that it's like if they were to do this, this will not be a Steam Machine situation whatsoever. It will be a hit. But on top of that, we gotta talk about the VR thing because I feel like this, what they're talking about here of all the controllers and accessories and stuff, like they're not giving up on VR either. Interesting, Tim. Yeah, I didn't think of VR. I was going to ask you about VR. My mind kind of went even further in the future of like, when will I see Steam start to creep into my phone or my mobile devices, right?

39:17You see Xbox making a push towards mobile. Steam is just so big. That storefront is so big that I do see in 20 years, you know, 30 years, Steam is going to be everywhere. You'll be able to play it on any device, right? My storefront will come with me. But yeah, VR, Tim. Real quick, real quick, because I want to say, Zach Johnson's saying, I'm sorry, but people don't know how to tinker. To be clear, I feel like tinkering, like the things that people would have to do before, is just part of the experience now because even the console sides become more PC. like the every the amount of menu options in a console game of even having to choose different graphics presets and all that stuff it's there it's rare that we play a game and you just don't get to do that booting up astro unless it's a nintendo game but play an astro bot and i'm just not even giving you performance versus quality options and stuff that is a rarity i feel like more and more games have equalized to this point of like giving players options it feels like there's endless options and every time i boot up a new game it is endless options and it is greg asking andy to come to his desk every time tinker with it and change it mike looking at roger going what are all these settings what do i really need to change what is x y and z there we went from five different video settings to there's a basic and an advanced video setting that's how deep we are in to tinkering on just a basic level right not even into the computer side of messing around as well on that side.

40:42There's a lot going on there for sure. Yeah, when's the last time you turned on a video game and didn't have to mess with sliders? You know what I mean? Your boy Mike is messing with everything every day now. I want to be the guy that's just a simple plug-in-and-play dude is right, Tim. I see that, so we'll just keep going. I like to imagine I am the however, just give it to me however it is. I want to be that guy. That's not the world we live in anymore. It is, hey Mike, you got NVIDIA DLSS on right now? Oh, no, they got four other options. You got to figure out what works best with that. Oh, you want motion blur?

41:14You want all this on? It's like you have to spend 10 minutes and tinker away to get the best out of your performance. And is it the best or is it just what you think might be? Hopefully, maybe. We'll see. What's the best to your eyes, Commander? Yeah, exactly. I don't know what's happening. But VR, Tim, since we're just going to keep going, because I assume we're just going to keep going, they'll fix that in the background. I think. Tell me about VR. What are you seeing there? You really think Steam, they haven't given up with that? I don't think so. And I also don't, I don't like talking about VR, but just because like VR to me is a thing that I feel was not adopted by enough people and both consumers and in terms of experiences that developers were creating that made it worthwhile and made it a must need thing that personally, I'm way more interested in the AR XR side of things.

42:05And the, the VR to me, I'd like, all right, cool. I'm really into the novelty of it, but it is just a novelty. But I do think that there are, there's a lot of potential with it. And when it does get downsized enough, like I feel like there is a lot of room for major wins there, but I never think it's going to be like, oh, this is the new way people play games or anything. But I also just don't see Steam giving up on it because I just see Steam gaining more and more traction and power in every tech space, period. And so when they do have, again, I keep saying this, but the ecosystem of the store and their studios and just all the power that they already have, it's like, why not be market leaders or at least sharing the market dominantly in every form of tech that has anything to do with video games, right?

42:52Right. I totally agree, Tim. And when I think of VR, there are two options. It is finding a headset that will work with Steam to play the VR titles that they offer, or, of course, meta and that headset over there, right? And so it's like you only really have two kind of viable routes that you're going to take. I prefer the meta because there is no cords. That's where I want to be. But you get a certain power, and you get a lot more options from the Steam storefront. And, yeah, I agree. I don't think they're leaving VR behind. It will be interesting of do they continue to iterate on their own headset right we talk about the valve index vr kit five years from now 10 years from now is there a second headset are they going to continue that i don't know but i mean they're also talking about accessories and controllers right i feel like that's the other thing too is like method of input and and just steam kind of overall owning the the concept of the video game space that can be applied to the vr side a home console side the steam deck side like it's going to be very interesting but again i also think we're at this like precipice of xbox coming the other way and uh just mobile gaming all types of gaming are converging where gamers are going to more and more expect that things just work the way you expect them to and that means no proprietary bullshit and no well it works this way here and that way there we're still there and i think that will always be there to an extent and there's always going to be outliers nintendo's going to a nintendo and that sucks i wish that they wouldn't do that it's also why they work because they do just do their own bullshit but i am very interested in a world where you can just play a playstation controller on a steam machine playing an xbox game and it's like we're already there but just it working even easier i think is is what i'm hoping for at that convergent point is gamers, and gamers just want a game.

44:44They want frictionless gaming. They want to be able to look at something, pick up something, and just play, and that's a lot of these companies new vision and mantra is like, well, we have to meet the gamer where they are, and we have to give them the very best, and yeah, Steam could do anything they want, and they're going to see that, and they're going to say, well, we want to continue to produce massive buku dollar bucks, right? And so we got to continue to give all of our players that, and so yeah, great call, Tim. There's a lot of cool stuff there yep let's move on to story number four something that you marked out for earlier today when you read this tomb raider live action series to begin filming in 2026 sophie turner confirmed as lara croft this comes from joe otterson at variety the tomb raider live action series and amazon prime video is getting ready to shoot the series adaptation of the video game franchise is set to begin production on january 19th 2026 in addition amazon mgm studios has confirmed for the first time that sophie turner will star as lara croft the show was originally greenlit at Prime Video in May 2024 when Turner's involvement first reported in November that year.

45:44The show was first reported as being in development in January 2023. As previously reported, Phoebe Waller-Bridge will serve as creator, writer, and executive producer. But now, Chad Hodge has boarded the show as executive producer. And yeah, a whole bunch of stuff here. Quote we got is, I'm so excited to announce the formidable Sophie Turner as our Lara alongside this phenomenal creative team, Walter Bridge said. It's not very often you get to make a show of the scale with a character you grew up loving everyone on board is wildly passionate about lara and are all as outrageous brave and hilarious as she is get your artifacts out croft is coming uh turner's the latest high profile access to take on the role of croft the globe trotting adventurer was previously portrayed on screen in two films by the goat the angelina jolie and another by alicia vikander i'm thrilled beyond measure to be playing lara croft turner said she's such an iconic character who means so much to so many and I'm giving everything I got.

46:40They're massive shoes to fill. Massive. Can we show the shoes?

46:51I'm wearing the whole outfit, everybody. They're massive shoes to fill following the steps of Angelina and Alicia with their powerhouse performances. But with Phoebe at the helm, we are all in very safe hands and I can't wait for you all to see what we have cooking. And then Greg says, if this news catches you off guard, I remember that it kind of leaked when Sophie showed up jacked on Instagram a few months ago. And yeah, we've been seeing that she's been getting into absolutely insane. Jacked is right. So, Mike, you popped off. Tim, stunned by this news. Shocked. Excited. Because, like, when I think Sophie Turner, I think of a great time.

47:29Do you? Game of Thrones. Okay. Sansa Stark. Sansa. You know? Yeah. She was the queen of the North. She was taken over and it just brought me so much joy. Yeah. I don't know if that's Tomb Raider though, Tim. See, there's a piece of me that loves Sophie Turner for the work in Game of Thrones and the memories that I have. And just thinking about her and that cast and that crew. Yeah. When I think of Tomb Raider, the issue is, is we have an American Idol Kelly Clarkson situation. The first time was so good that it's hard to replicate and follow it up because Angelina Jolie was Tomb Raider. She is Tomb Raider.

48:02She was so good that it's just like, I just can't picture anyone else. Yeah, it is interesting because to your point, Angelina Jolie, in many ways, nailed it. Nailed it. For what that era of video game movies was and what that era of Tomb Raider was. I do think that there's something special. She does deserve the shout out. And then Alicia Vikander as well, I think really nailed the Lara Croft Tomb Raider reboot vibe, right? That movie, I think his biggest fault was its time of release and that it literally was a one-to-one just remake of the game. And it's not like that game is as revered as Last of Us.

48:46That was, you know, people, Last of Us Season 1 specifically, people are just like, oh man, why do this? It's just the same thing. And so with Tomb Raider, I feel like, you know, part of the novelty of playing these big blockbuster games like an Uncharted or a Tomb Raider and all that stuff is that you're playing the blockbuster movie. When the blockbuster movie is just based on the game that had set. It just gets a little bit meta in a way that I think kind of takes away some of the magic. Good movie. Totally. It's what a plane movie. You watch that shit in a plane. You're going to have a good time.

49:15As Greg normally says, this is a video game that deserved a sequel. Well, that movie, I think, would have been better if we got a sequel, and we would have iterated on that and worked on that. But we are in a different age of taking video games to the screen now. We're in a better age now. We're in a better time. It's incredible, man. I keep saying this, but we are at a point that it is more likely that video game adaptation will be good than bad. And I'm not saying amazing, but I'm saying good. And we've seen a lot of cases of that at this point. There's been some duds. Borderlands comes to mind.

49:45but in terms of Tomb Raider I it's always a weird one for me I don't know where Tomb Raider's place is in the world as an IP both movie TV wise and gaming wise like it's tough they have reinvented themselves and the last run of games I think was a major success for the franchise what are they going to do now I don't know like I'm not personally excited for this one like all the things they're saying I'm not into it and the biggest thing is Sophie Turner herself I am not against her but I'm definitely not for her as an actress and as Lara Croft specifically she's jacked, that's awesome I really liked her in Game of Thrones nothing bad to say about her there I despised her in the X-Men movies her Jean Grey was not good was that her fault?

50:35I don't know, I'm sure there was a lot of things at fault but she was not good and every other thing I've seen her including this movie Do Revenge I'm not the biggest fan so I'm here like hey this news not for me I'm not hyped about it but I'm also not hating on it like I think that she can do a fine job my big question is what is this Lara Croft what is this show it's not a movie it's the first time we're getting a live action Toon Raider show yeah that's a little bit different now huh is right gotta think of that young star an opportunity to grow and probably get better maybe can really nail it the tough part is Tim is I can't name you five other people that I would cast in this role that's why i would have to turn to you nick i'd have to turn to the audience and say well give me five other names that when you close your eyes you can imagine as tomb raider because i just don't got it like that i mean let me let me take back what i just said and say like how i feel about this she's perfect for this because we don't know what this is like this is a new tomb raider we we there's a new tomb raider game coming out maybe you know unless it gets crossing our fingers unless it gets wonder woman or whatever right there in theory there is a new tomb raider reboot coming out we don't know the tone of that we don't know that character we and i guarantee it's not going to be the same as the old games or the reboot games it's just not so whatever this is going to be it is going to be different so it could be anybody and we don't know if it's going to be good or bad until it comes out so we'll see yeah tv shows an interesting one as well right but like you got shows like reacher out there that are just fun to watch right like there's some fun action adventure shows that you get behind and it's like can Tomb Raider can Tomb Raider feel that or is more Tomb Raider a movie to me right where is Tomb Raider in 2025 and beyond is right Tim great question man if you listen to me on the X cast I always question the return of Perfect Dark I even questioned Indy of like are people screaming for Indiana Jones and you know what they did show up for Indiana Jones and it's just these are some old titles that are like, is that still relevant in today?

52:35I don't know. Yeah. Interesting stuff, everybody. Alex Frazier says, why are we talking about the old Tomb Raider movies like they're good? I thought only Mike liked them. I mean, I think, yeah, Mike loves them. And two, you have to celebrate that. That was one of the few times we were getting video games on the silver screen with a megastar that was Angelina Jolie and Good, Bad, Ugly. We just weren't getting video game movies. That's why we kind of hold those kind of on a different level of like, man, back in the day, back in my day, we got bad video game movies, but we celebrated those, okay?

53:09But then we also had Doom with The Rock. So, like, remember what Doom with The Rock was compared to Angelina Jolie and Tomb Raider. I mean, like, remember that. I'm not sure I fully can follow you down that alley, Mike. You have to. I'm at least starting to. You know what I mean? Like, I'm here for the reverence. I'm here for the nostalgia of it all. But, like, and, yeah, like, to your point of, like, celebrating, Like we were stoked to see those movies in theaters, but also again, I think for me, the going to the super chat from Alex Frazier, it's just like the tomb Raider games weren't that amazing either.

53:40And like, I, I people, I disagreed with me there, but like, I'm going to be real. The, the PS one trilogy of two murder games, which is what we had before those movies. They were for the time good, but like, I don't know. I never really liked them as video games. story number five nintendo cease and desist letter is now a playable character in a super smash brothers mod this comes from blair marnell at game spot nintendo once shut down a smash brothers melee tournament with a cease and desist order now a smash brothers melee modders turning the tables on nintendo by turning its cease and desist letter into a playable character cease and desist was created by a modder who goes by mooshies and the skin replaces kirby's usual appearance Mushi's apparently has a very fun sense of humor because a closer look at a cease and desist reveals lines that would have never appeared in an actual legal document from Nintendo.

54:33Low-key, that mod do be sick, though, and your mod too tough, your game and watch too different. Low-key. Low-key, this is dope. Mushi's was also behind the recent Jimbo the Clown from Bellatro mod, which put that character skin over Mr. Game & Watch. That mod was initially paywalled behind Mushi's Patreon account before it was subsequently released for free. It's unclear if Mooshy's actually received any legal notification from Nintendo before releasing the new cease and desist mod. Mooshy's joked that the cease and desist skin is available for 10, quote, for 10 more billion dollars. A direct yet humorous retaliation to the backlash the modder faced for locking Jimbo the Clown Bellatro skin behind a paywall.

55:12Do you see all this happened? No. Oh, this is my side of the internet. It was hilarious. My God, people be doing shit. Earlier this year, former Nintendo employees Christy Yang and Kit Ellis suggested that the publisher will never make Smash Bros. Melee HD in part because of the game's history of piracy and mods. They also argued that it would be extremely difficult to please fans of the original title. I disagree entirely. We will 100 % get a Smash Bros. Melee at some point. And on top of that, if I'm wrong, I will once again don this outfit. A remake remaster of Melee. Hmm... yes i mean the nso shop that's the thing at the very least it'll come to nso at some point with you know just the enhancements that come with just the emulation there but i would not be surprised if we actually get a hd melee hd to some extent have they ever done that for the yeah really some good history with those games but i guess you iterate and you like they only get better and better they add more cast and crew right so it's like from the general public's you're really just playing a better game every time yeah but like but that's the thing it's for the diehards right melee specifically has such a specific uh use case difference than ultimate um for how hardcore it is uh fans recently predicted that the original smash bros and four other n64 titles may become a switch online as for melee it isn't currently among the handful of gamecube titles available to players through switch online there we go why are they holding out on us nintendo's weird pokemon man let's just roll out tim give me give it to me i why are you holding them back from me i like the rollout okay because i as a nintendo fan that has been a nintendo fan my entire life and i have bought so many games so many goddamn times on these e-shops right the fact that nso now specifically now in 2025 has almost all of the consoles right nes snes n64 gameboy gameboy advance sega genesis like so many different consoles there gameboy gameboy i already said this 90 of the games you care about on any of those systems are available to you now there are all the donkey kong 64 there's all the pokemon's there are exceptions but so many of the games are there i love that now that they've added gamecube we're gonna get the strip feed it's not always gonna be exciting but them making a big deal out of chibi robo means that roger played Chibi-Robo and fucking loves Chibi-Robo.

57:42He's telling me to play it. And guess what? If they just dropped all the games at once, no one's playing Chibi-Robo. That's true. So I think that it's the right way to handle it. I like the rollout. I guess I'm more of like the title selection of like, why are you holding out Pokemon from me? Well, Pokemon's different though. Pokemon and Smash are different for different reasons, but talking about Pokemon, I feel like it is more likely than ever that Pokemon Day in four or five months, whatever it is, February 27th, 2026. We will get information about how we're going to be able to play the classic Pokemon games.

58:18My bet is it is a full price paid collection of the games. That's fine. I will do that. I want these playable now with me where I go. The Nintendo switch is just such a perfect console. And I want these games with me, Tim. But here's some questions for you. Hit me. They got Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball for the N64. Yeah, that'll get there eventually. That's Nintendo published, right? Yeah, they got Rampage World Tour. Maybe. I don't know about the... Gauntlet Legends? Who? Gauntlet Legends? That's my favorite games. I want those playables. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Oh, man. If they had Gauntlet Legends to NSL, Mike, that'd be big news.

59:01Huge news, Tim. But if I wanted to know something smaller, the tiniest news I could possibly find, where would I go? Tim, I'd take you to our last news story. the We News channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. We News, baby. Hollow Knight Silk Song is out today. Let's celebrate. Friend of the show, Dave Fennoy, has been announced as the main villain in Borderlands 4, The Timekeeper. Shout out to Dave, man. That's cool. What a human being. We do not talk enough about Dave Fennoy. I know his name, and I love his work because it's kind of funny. Absolutely. It is a cool little partnership right there, just friendship, that me as a audience member now loves Dave Fennoy after 10 years because of that.

59:41Dave Fennoy is the definition of a best friend, a kind of funny best friend, like such an amazing talent, amazing person. And so congrats, love that. Monster Hunter Now Season 7 Advent of the Exploration Base launches on September 18th. Game developer reports that dozens have been laid off at XCOM and Civilization dev Araxis. In a statement, a 2K spokesperson told game developer that there was a staff production today at Firaxis Games as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity. On LinkedIn, multiple developers have mentioned being laid off throughout the course of the day.

1:00:18This includes writer Emma Kidwell, senior quality assurance tester Logan Blackwood, lead character artist Matthew Davis, and producer Maya H. Obviously, this sucks. Obviously, I'm in a clown outfit, and I apologize for how tasteless this all is. Hate this news. hate that we have to cover this stuff all the time. These are names that we know. Yeah, this one sucks. Yeah. Because I like that team. Yeah. That one hurts. I mean, all of them hurt. And so, yeah, the hearts, our hearts go out to you. That sucks. Yeah. GameSpot reports Ubisoft is releasing another Discovery Tour. It's a series of mostly educational tours of historical locations featured in Assassin's Creed games.

1:00:55But this time, it's a free mobile app. Discovery Tour Medieval Baghdad is based on Assassin's Creed Mirage's depiction of 9th century Baghdad. It is available for free on iOS and Android. This is an amazing thing that I don't know most people know about, but this is a teaching option that I know multiple teachers have implemented in their actual school studies of having kids be able to learn about places via Assassin's Creed. And because Assassin's Creed, you know, cares so much about getting the details right of the worlds and times and locations that they're in, it's a very very special opportunity for them and I love that they take the time to you know make the most out of the work that they put into these games I think it's rad Tim edutainment as I love to yell about but I think it is rad and there's a couple of teams out there that do it right this team with Ubisoft does it right of course you're talking about MLB the show if you have not, if you have any interest in baseball if you love sports or you just want to know about sports history and of course culture right like go check out storylines.

1:01:58That is a very special moment. Age of Empires with their hands on history stuff. Like, it's very cool to have these moments of tie-in where you're like, man, if I was a kid and you could teach, there was a teacher out there that was fun enough to be like, yo, we're gonna learn this way. I'd be freaking out on this. Absolutely. Hordes of Hell Norse Gods is out today on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. This is one Greg Wishlisted on last Friday's Gamescast. So check that out. Pretty cool. Sandfall Interactive, says on Twitter, following the release of Claire Obscura Expedition 33 and its original soundtrack, we are thrilled to announce an unprecedented co-production for the launch of an official concert tour.

1:02:39Let's fucking go. This is the Tim Geddes dream. This project brings together Blue Citron, independent producer of live performances, Sandfall Interactive, the development studio behind Claire Obscura Expedition 33, Laurie Antistard and Elise Duport percier uh the composers of the composer of the ost and the singer and uh les sudanes a artistic production structure and technical direction we can't wait to reveal the first french dates very soon with the prospect of an international expansion starting in 2026 i will be there for fucking sure probably not the one in france uh but definitely whenever it comes to america even if i have to travel if i have to go to like new york or something i'm fucking doing it you're right or die to it i have to do this tell them to bring the merch too because you want to do i need I need it.

1:03:25I need it all, man. Get everything. So exciting. And that's it for Wii News. Let's go to You're Wrong to see what we got wrong today.

1:03:40We only got one thing. Let's see. It says, no one's wrong. Silky Bay says, no one's wrong specifically. But since Tim said, this is Silksong, not GTA 6. In regards to the crazy store crashes, it's worth noting that Silksong had no pre-orders or preload. considering how take two is operated with past releases gta 6 will likely have pre-orders and preload and not face the silksong issue of everyone trying to buy and download at the same time yeah that is interesting yeah and i wonder why you know i was thinking about that of like what the reasoning was for them not having preload um it was odd yeah of like not even even preload pre or not preload even the pre-order right it was just an odd one of like yesterday when we were prepping for andy's thing and going to steam and it's still saying wish list right it wasn't even out there for$20 at 5 o 'clock last night was an odd one.

1:04:23Yeah, it is weird. I wonder if somebody knows the reason why, please let me know. Because that would be interesting. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that they're indie. You know, but it's fucking Hollow Knight Silksong. They got the connects to figure the shit out, right? Alright, let's go through all the super chats before we close out the day here. Kebab says, can't wait for Clown Tim to read the Firaxis news. Oh, man. We got... joey radson says ronald mcdonald greg and clown tim should review it that's good that's good uh flying penguin says let's talk about how the escapist youtube channel is uploading online gambling hype videos now total biscuits rolling in his grave i don't know about all that but god damn there's nothing worse than when uh a once dominant internet site or youtube channel or whatever gets like purchased by someone else and just turns it into fucking shit.

1:05:17We saw it with SourceFed. We've seen it with so much shit. We've seen it in so many other groups, but that sucks that it's happening to Escapist, according to this Super Chat. Nightlife says, I thought Tim was hosting today, not Greg, the video game journalist clown. That's good. Mike, you've been doing awesome, and Tim, I hope you host again soon. Thank you, homie. Thank you for the kind words. Thanks for having fun with us today. Oscar B says, birthday tax. Happy Silksong Day, everybody. Happy birthday, Oscar. The Stoner Sensei says, I appreciate the commitment, Tim. Thank you very much. Matthew Lewis says, maybe a trailer in September in Gameplay at Game Awards.

1:05:51Yeah, I was going to ask you about Sony and Game Awards as well when we talk about the cycle that everyone's in, but also you brought up Nintendo and PlayStation kind of being in a similar cycle. How much Sony with Jeff, Game Awards, what kind of love can we see there? You know, another good beat. You know, I think that it's interesting to be where we're at now with the Game Awards. This being the 11th Game Awards coming up. last year being the 10th, obviously the anniversary, a bigger deal in theory, at least, right? They did a whole orchestra concert to celebrate it. Like they went hard. I feel like we're starting to lose a lot of the patterns that we used to look at before of like, all right, Microsoft usually does this type of announcement at Game Awards.

1:06:30Nintendo will show up with this dumb bullshit and PlayStation will have one thing here, whatever. It's been so inconsistent the last couple of years that I think we've lost the pattern. So we got Naughty Dog's debut of Galactic last year. that doesn't mean we're going to get a playstation game this year it also doesn't mean we're not so we'll see it's just a big beat yeah it's a big beat huge beat every year bigger than ever so i expect that it is uh not crazy to say that this year's game awards will have more eyes than last year's um ash says due to an error in the microsoft argentine store silksong's just two dollars i think they're saying whoa also seven dollars on steam in several countries whose fault is this how does this affect team cherry love you all i don't know i'm sure that was probably handled very quickly i bet i'd imagine so yeah yeah uh matthew rocco says tim i just got lock on 006 in the mail after two years of waiting excited to read your section on final fantasy 10 that's fucking awesome many years ago um the lock on incredible video game magazine but i'd also almost call it like book like it's like a hard cover like museum style like very very cool uh series that they do over there um very prestige video game coverage right like more retrospective looking things there was a whole final fantasy um issue coming out and they reached out to a ton of people to write about their favorite uh final fantasy games or moments or whatever and they asked me to do it for 10 which is awesome so i i wrote something which is very rare for me and now i'm in a fucking book which is cool tim that star wrote about eights that's rad yeah custom art by the final fantasy artist like very very that's very cool but um i've been waiting for it for years too so i'm excited to see it Do you know what journal it is?

1:08:25I'm on IM8Bit. They're selling Lock-On Gaming Journal Volume 1. It's Volume 6. Your Volume 6? Volume 6, yeah. So we can look that up. That's so rad, Tim. Yeah. There was last night. Can we talk about Final Fantasy? Oh, come on. Just a quick moment. There was last night in my Pokemon journey, right? And I can just rattle off Final Fantasy X stuff. Like, that game, that game has an impact on me, Tim. Yeah, dude. I get a little teary-eyed thinking about it. I love it. I can just rattle stuff off. I love it, man. Xanarkin, my man. I'm going to tell you. Dead ballers, bro. One of my favorite gaming moments of the year is not me playing video games.

1:08:57It's you talking to me about Final Fantasy X. Oh, Tim. I'm a guy. It's so good, Tim. So good. Tim, really quick before we read the next one. I just do want to hype up. We have 1 ,800 Kind of Funny Best Friends currently watching us. We are wrapping down the show, but I want to encourage you, please come on over to Twitch. Maybe stop by. Encourage Andy. Drop a sub if you can. That timer's only growing, and we would love for all of you, if you can resub, gift a sub. Let's keep Andy here all weekend long and let's celebrate the release of Hollow Knight Silksong. So don't forget, the fun doesn't stop and with 1 ,800 of you, as we always say, if each and every one of you resubscribed or just gifted one sub, that would change the timer so quickly.

1:09:38Andy would be here all day long. So, please, I just want to give you a quick shout out on that one. Hell yes. Motorworld Hype says, I'm so sorry, Tim. I'm so very very sorry it's okay man of my word uh oscar devaro says i know tim's a fan of sweet tooth but this is crazy oh yeah crystal metal now i'm peacock check it out uh alex fraser said managed to beat the first one in time for silk song to drop playing it on my switch too and loving it so far the movement and art are impeccable hell yeah man i i think i'm going uh pc for this one i'm going steam okay because i want i need oled for a game like this i like there's so much blacks in it.

1:10:17I need it to look so crisp and good. So yeah, Steam Deck all-led, baby. Jay Kennedy says I was able to get Silksong from the Nintendo eShop, but the file took ages to download. It plays like a dream. Thanks to Team Cherry. Sweet. Roberto says does anyone in the office have a fear of clowns? I'm gonna find out today. Yeah. No, Greg has been dressed up as a clown. I know. Someone would have raised their hand already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Passel of Hog says Mike, I loved the trail stream yesterday. Do you think you're gonna finish the demo or possibly play the full game yeah tim last night yesterday i took a chance right we've been talking about it all year long i took a chance on a super nerdy game that i've stepped out of my comfort zone with a lot of games this year and i took a chance on this one played the demo tim me and kevin had a really good time the music 10 out of 10 the world the story the fun i'm ready to explore more i'm hoping it's a 10 out of 10 and the gameplay surprisingly really cool for a game i believe that is an older game that's being kind of remastered in this the idea of like having active combat to draw in like a general generic audience like me and then be like well watch this you can turn it into turn based right now and get even deeper was a lot of fun so there I was I'd start off the combat I'd be hacking and slashing like I want to do and then I was like you know oh hold up let me cast some spells let me go and it was a lot of fun so yeah I'll probably play more of the demo I don't know if I can play the whole game but I will probably finish this demo, see where it goes.

1:11:43Freaking awesome. Mem says, Tim, what's your clown name? Do clowns have names? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Prozo the Clown. I don't think you get to choose your name. It has to be bestowed upon you. You know what I mean? After clown college. Yeah, exactly. I'm just cosplaying a clown right now. Interesting, interesting. If there's someone out there that, like, has the power to, like, knight a clown, let me know what my name should be. Terrifier. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Resolute says welcome back to KF Ben Star that's good nice Alex Frazier says why are we talking about the old Tomb Raider movies like they're good already talked about that Andrew Brown says I think you guys should watch Fleabag of the first season of Killing Eve to understand Phoebe Waller-Bridge yeah dude I have faith in her for sure but her doing Tomb Raider I don't know hey jury's still out again I feel like we just need to know what this Tomb Raider is Volk Doster says for end of show I think we see a double whammy from insomniac wolverine gets shown with 2027 and then a smaller game maybe venom to soften the blow for 2026 yeah so what's up with spider-man i mean we go to wolverine spider-man eventually are we done with spider-man we're not done we'll get we're getting another spider-man absolutely i like it i mean we have to like it they teed it up the game does super well like yeah we're getting a spider-man 3 okay um will we get a venom that i'm a little more unsure of okay um but we'll see anything is possible um alex says happy silk song day y 'all tim what's gia's reaction to clown tin she hasn't seen me and when i told her i was doing doing this she literally was like i don't want to see it like i really don't want to see it please don't send me pictures don't don't send me videos do not tweet at gia gettys uh sending me any pictures of him just let me live so yeah i will not be doing that i will not send her anything but i can't stop you know the world the world yeah i'm sending her things great call um ej rpg says mike thank you for playing trails in the sky it's my favorite series always needs more love and then aaron ambrose with the final one for now saying mike is youtube getting attempt seven part two soon uh yeah uh well i have to beat it so tim on this one i had done so many streams and i failed a lot of course one through five we don't talk about six and so i was just putting out so many pokemon videos at a rapid pace and my thumbnails were like kind of declining.

1:14:00It was tough getting the Pokemon Emerald logo plus me. And you know how I like the title things. I wanted to make them like the Pokemon anime titles where it's like a long ass title. Roger was like, you can't do this. And so, yeah, I just took everything from part one, jammed it together 16 hours. I'll do the same for part two of like, this will be everything. So I still got to beat 6, 7, 8, Elite 4. So yeah, you got some time. You got some time, unfortunately. And you have time to go watch Andy Cortez, twitch.tv slash kind of funny games. He's playing Hollow Knight Silksong right now. He's going to be playing all day, all night, maybe for the next rest of his life.

1:14:37If you keep supporting with all of your Twitch subs, go check that out. Thank you for hanging out with us today. There will be no games cast today. There'll be two in reviews next week for the conjuring and for alien Romulus because we just, Hollow Knight's getting in the way. You know what I mean? We just got to give it. Yes. We got to give it a space. Thank you so much, Kev. Thank you, Mike. This has been kind of funny games daily until next time. Love you all. Goodbye.

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