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34:14Turn it on to Mike. Roger, Kilgrim writes in saying, obligatory, do I have to play the first one type question, but would y 'all suggest I play Hollow Knight 1 before, or am I good to circle back later? Roger, you recently played through Hollow Knight for the first time. Yes, I did.

34:29Tim Gettys:Got slapped on a plane? Oh, wow. Don't get enough respect for that. Tied memories there, yeah. Don't get enough respect for it. Don't get enough respect for it. I fought for my life. Yeah, I don't know. I was talking to Mike, and I was actually talking on the stream yesterday about it, where you appreciate Silksong so much more if you play Hollow Knight. But if it's the thing that's going to get you into the Hollow Knight universe, for sure play Silksong. Like it's it's the thing where I usually get into artists when they release a new album, even if it's not the best album. That's the way that I get into the universe.

35:02Tim Gettys:So this is the way that you're going to get into it. If you can get jump on the zeitgeist for sure, do it. And then you can always go back. But Hollow Knight, Hollow Knight one is a different experience. It is. You start off a lot less powered and you feel smaller. silk song has a lot more acrobat uh acrobat no acrobatic i was thinking about the acrobat well of course never forget never forget for a game showdown so i would say you play silk song but and then go back to uh hollow night you're not missing out too much but you should play both of them for sure because hollow night is fire what are your uh initial dots on silk song oh it's incredible like i i so i played the first i played the first hour yesterday at work and then And I looked at Andy and I looked at Andy.

35:45Tim Gettys:I was like, Hey, listen, I'm like, I'm getting lost. I'm like kind of half and half out. I'm at work and everything. I'm just going to restart. And he looked at me like that was the craziest thing in the world. He's like, but you've already played an hour. I'm like, I just need momentum. He looked at me like I was crazy. And guess what? I got the fucking momentum. Everybody. I restarted fucking that boss that I was struggling at fucking one time. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Onto the next one. I got the momentum. Everybody. Everyone needs momentum. You just need the momentum. to everyone. Going into the weekend, make sure you got that momentum.

36:13Tim Gettys:You got to keep on going like a shark. Don't get horizontal. Never get horizontal. What do we just say here? What are we talking about today? What's up? Steven Spielberg. Yeah. They fumble the bag? See, I was thinking about this, right? I go back and forth because I want to do the Roger thing. He's fucking old. He's wise. You don't want to talk about that. We don't need Steven Spielberg. it would have been sick I mean that's a good name that's a good name to attach to things but I understand why they would do it I understand why they pass on Steven Spielberg because they want to create a franchise they want also this to be very similar to the games that they're creating and they have created in the past I think Steven Spielberg would do something different and unique and then maybe can you start a franchise off of that I don't know I think they just want to be like hey modern warfare is the same fucking story you know the story here's the thing like that's the reason why.

37:04Tim Gettys:So yeah, I don't think it's, I don't think it's a major fumble as everyone's making it out to be. It would have been cool. It would have been nice for the brand recognition, but I mean, you just need a big director and a big star and you're going to get that. Give me one more. Life is strange. TV series. We're just going to go through it. I told Roger I was like, you should be on Games Daily today because they're talking to Steven Spielberg. I was like, everyone associates Roger McCordy and Steven Spielberg. I do like the Fablemans. You guys weren't fucking shooting a fail in the same way. Fablemans is fucking incredible.

37:31Tim Gettys:You would love that movie. That's a really great movie. I was just saying I didn't see it. Yeah, you're talking shit. So what do you think about Life is Strange? No, let me read the text message. Okay. Let me read the text message. Big cod news. Do you want to talk about that on Games Daily? A minute later, do you want to just do Games Daily instead of me? I just said you wish. I just said you wish. I thought you wanted to do it with you. No, you wanted to do it instead of. I'm trying to put the best player in the best thing. Life is Strange TV show. Honestly, he was right. I look at it and I'm like, ah, shit, this one's kind of a Roger day.

38:00Tim Gettys:I should have done it. But yeah, Life is Strange TV series. That's cool. It's whatever. I don't know. That franchise is dying. It's dead. We're about to talk about Mind's Eye. Do you want to stay for that or do you want to go? I mean, we're talking about IO Interactive, right? Can I just hang out? Story number four, IO talks about Mind's Eye debacle. This comes from Eddie at GameSpot. Hitman developer IO Interactive got into the publishing game with its IOI Partners program and Mind's Eye from the former Rockstar developer Leslie Benzies. Build a Rocky Boy was the company's first published game.

38:29The game struggled mightily out of the gate with many criticizing its technical performance, among other things. Now IO CEO, Hakan Abrak, has reacted to the launch and discussed whether or not the company will continue to publish others' games. They told IGN that when IO was first chatting with Build-A-Rocket Boy, the idea was to find a way to support them because IO believed in the company's great ideas. IO was coming in to help Build-A-Rocket Boy, a brand new game developer with no releases under its belt before Mind's Eye, distribute the game. For whatever reason, Mind's Eye had issues and Abrak addressed this frankly.

39:00Quote, well, that was definitely tough, right? It was a tough reception. It wasn't what they hoped for, and also what we didn't hope for at IOI Partners. Abrak went on to say that Build-A-Rocket Boy is now working hard on turning that around to help regain trust. He added that he believes the team has, quote, tons of potential. Minds Eye just got its fourth major update this week, and it's a big one weighing in as much as 15 gigabytes. It fixes bugs and makes performance improvements. A fifth major patch is coming next. But will IO continue to publish games via its IOI Partners program? Now, Brock wasn't ready to confirm anything one way or another.

39:32He said IO will publish its own games, including the upcoming James Bond game 007 First Light. But future partnerships, quote, that remains to be seen.

39:41Tim Gettys:Yeah, man, it's a tough one. It's a tough one for IO. I'm a huge IO Interactive fan. I've been that way since the original Hitman. I love them and I love their story specifically of like being part of, I believe, Square Enix, right? And then breaking off and then now we're just going to publish our own stuff and having that massive success story with Hitman. And so it makes sense that they're like, we did it for ourselves. We can start to branch off and do it for other companies. We can help other companies, which I think is noble and great. But then you see there, I will always go back to that press conference, man.

40:09Tim Gettys:What a tough press conference. I don't know if you saw it. What a tough press. Was that in the Sheridan ballroom? Yes, exactly. Yeah, it sounded like it was coming through a conference speaker. Yeah, if that's the level of production that you're bringing and you're the publisher, right, you kind of expect more in 2025. and I honestly personally for me I want them to succeed making their own games and publishing their own games I don't necessarily want them to branch out if it's going to put them out on a limb right if it's going to be situation we're all fuck now all the attention is on mind's eye because that's a disaster and you know we can't focus on hitman we can't focus on James Bond I want them to kind of stay stay in that lane if that's what makes them safe and looking forward to the future yeah well said on that Roger I think the first time is always the hardest Tim as you probably know as a business owner right sometimes it's going to fail sometimes it's going to go great right it's a big learning experience and this being the first time going out and helping another team and man didn't land well you're going to learn a lot from that and you're going to come back on the second and third and be much different as Roger said it's a noble cause to be able to help publish other teams games and be in a position like that with IO and their growth and what they've become is right I think to the general public nobody knows the connection nobody even thinks of that they think of io interactive for the hitman games they're probably thinking it for james bond but nobody's going oh they published mind's eye they helped this team i can't support that like nobody knows that but on the business side of things it's like hey that was a massive drop right there that probably hurts everybody involved what did you learn how do we get better and of course clearly they're saying hey they still have potential there's a team here that wants to make something good and we're going to stick by them and help them out let's see where this goes yeah it's just rough though because like you look at it and it's like all right you got to just kind of do what you can do and i don't want to say stay in your lane but like we're at a point now with the video game industry where it's like i hate how many times we look at situations and all of us are like this isn't gonna work yes and it's like oh and then it didn't work and i i hate the fucking i told you so stuff because it's not about that but it's like we're just not at a safe spot in the industry for taking risks like this but i think that's also this is the time to take those risks sort of right in the grand scheme of things where you see a lot of these developers that are usually developers that are now self-publishing their games right i see it with bloober i see it with uh firebreak uh fbc with uh remedy like a lot of these developers are trying their hardest to publish these things because they understand like how tight the industry is they understand they can't get these big publishing deals so hey let's try to do it ourselves so i understand like the thought process of it of like they probably see a mind's eye they saw something there with that game but what they see though that that's i think that's the problem it's like i'm so with you for publishing your own game sure that makes so much sense if you could do that and you have that down and you are at a point that it's like oh it's worth the risk because even if it like doesn't work out it's fine i don't think that's the type they're not that well off you know what i mean like i look at this i'm like this is not going to go over well for shareholders for io high ups like people are not going to be happy with how mine's eye went and again you look at it and a lot of this just kind of seems like lip service bullshit of them being like oh yeah it's a lot of potential like following up with the stories the last couple weeks of of what has been said and the way they talked about this game towards the end of its development and like even after it came out of them being like oh we can fix it no you can't fix it and you know you can't fix it you're just saying that yeah yeah it's not a cyberpunk situation it's like all right cool like that's very cool that you guys see potential in this team that let's all be real are probably going to get laid off within months of this rub today.

43:39Yeah, that sucks.

43:40Tim Gettys:Yeah, you're right. You're right. It's an interesting situation, and specifically when it comes to Minds Eye, of like, what did they see? Did they just see the dollars? Of course they saw the dollars. Because it wasn't that they're – When did they get involved? The first initial pitch? You bring the name, right? You say, hey, we want to make a GTA-like game. We want to make this giant world. We got X, Y, and Z name attached to this. And I was going, man, we'd like to get some more Buku dollars going on in our revenue stream here. Let's do it. Right. So, yeah. What happens there for sure? Yeah.

44:11Tim Gettys:And they were very bullish as Andy. Andy was talking about the term bullish. Very bullish on this because it wasn't there that report. Correct me if I'm wrong, chat, of that they were already working potentially on like a Mind's Eye sequel. Like before the first one came out, like this was supposed to be a whole franchise, a whole universe of Mind's Eye. Yeah. Built in everywhere, right? Built in. Oh, fuck. I forgot about the everywhere aspect. Which again, that's the thing is like you look at this and it's like, I'll never forget Jeff Keighley coming out on. I forget what stage it was, but he one of his shows.

44:40And it's just like from the creators of Grand Theft Auto, the next big thing. And it's like, what's it going to be? It's everywhere. What is everywhere? Well, it's everywhere. Just, you know, it's going to be mine's eye eventually. And I was going to publish it. The amount of things here, it is literally just it's a Mad Lib. You're just putting words together. And it's just like we can't be doing that. There's too much at stake at this point. You can't just be putting things together.

45:02Tim Gettys:I'm excited for James Bond, though. I'm fucking hyped for James Bond, bro. I'm up. I'm up, everybody. We're up right now on that. I'll leave the next one to you, though. I see that one. I mean, why don't you talk? Oh, you know. Just hang out with me, Roger. I'm already here. Story over five. 2K is coming back to college basketball. Mike, congratulations. I know this is huge for you. It's NBA 2K 26 launch week, and it seems like a good time to share even more incredible news about the future of basketball. at 2k yes it's true we're working on a college basketball experience that will feature more than 100 programs from across the country from powerhouses to cinderella stories competition fuels quality at all levels which is why our approach with college basketball ensures our partners schools college athletes and our pair our players all benefits more good news you won't have to wait long to start seeing your favorite colleges show up in game we've got big plans for 2027 and beyond and even a few surprises coming in early 2026 uh we've proven the quality of the basketball experience we can deliver for years and have every intention to bring that same level of quality to college hoops ball over everything fuck yeah we're so up right now let me just let me say are we actually up right now because yesterday when we talked about this on the stream and he was like this is no this is gonna be bad like it was like the and then i see the chat people are like this is gonna be trash 2025 to 2025 is what this is gonna be that's crazy because a lot of people, Andy took it as he doesn't like college basketball.

46:29In America, there's a college football and NFL fan base that is split, or you're in the middle, there's a basketball and NBA fan base that's split down the middle. Andy just doesn't enjoy college basketball. A lot of people enjoy the collegiate sports for the young athletes. They're not professionals getting paid millions of dollars. So in your heart, you hope that they're leaving it all on the court. They're giving it their all. And he doesn't want to watch people that are worse than him at basketball, right? Only his contemporary. Yeah, he's going to see me. Because all these kids are getting paid millions of dollars.

47:00But we start. The kids are finally getting paid, which now has opened up the door for NIL deals, us to bring back college football with EA, right? Now we finally get to talk about basketball. There's a world of sports games out there that the fans want. And for 2K, who loves Buku dollars. What are you saying? I don't know why I got that in my head. Buku dollars? What is that? Buku bucks. We just want buku bucks, you know? Is that a made-up thing? No, Kevin. That's in French. Thank you.

47:29Tim Gettys:It means a lot. A lot of bucks. They want that. A lot of bucks. I'll take it back. Damn, Mike, I didn't know you were global, worldwide like that. I'm missing worldwide. That's what they call you. Didn't know you were like that, Mike. And so. You and I should just do a show every time that Mike's on it because you need somebody to look at. Yeah. You need to look at it. Yeah, because it's just when you're there on the life raft, you can't look at the tag. I need them Buku Bucks. What? And so for 2K to see what EA just did with college football and that to go crazy last year, and I'm sure sold very well this year, right?

48:09It's a little bit quieter on the social media front, but still probably sold very well. Both these teams want to get involved some way with the college sports aspect. The fans want it. We know that they can pay the schools, pay the kids. They can have the licensing. Let's do this, right? And so 2K, who already runs the game in basketball, right? It's easy. Let's just re-fucking-skin NBA and put college basketball on it. Sell that. Kids are going to buy it. And that's exactly what's going to happen here, right? Next year, they'll come out with a small mode. It'll be NCAA, 2K, March Madness only, and it will just be the 64-team bracket.

48:47you'll be able to put the different hundred teams in there you'll go crazy like oh my god college basketball is back and then next year they'll be like hey college basketball is back it's tied to nba so you'll be able to take your player from the beginning all the way into the nba buy the double pack just like we did with ea last year this is makes 100 sense this is it yeah yeah do

49:08Tim Gettys:you do you think there's actually fervor and excitement for this idea or is this just and uh 2K coming out and being like, oh, well, they did college football. So then we can start doing college basketball because that makes sense for our brands. Well, 2K used to do college basketball. So did EA, right? And they're like coming back now is not like, or do you think it's just like it was in the ether? Or I think it has to be connected to college football doing so fucking well. Yeah. I mean, well, the moment that they started paying those kids, that was the moment of like, everyone now wants a piece of this.

49:39There's a system for them to get away with it. Whereas I feel like they couldn't have done it before. I think legally they couldn't. You were just PG number five, right? They couldn't put Tim Geddes on the back of the jersey. And so now we can, right? And so, yeah, both these teams, I think even EA is going to be working on their own college basketball eventually. But there is a big moment here, a trend, that people want the college sports games back because there's kids like me who are still holding on to these relics, right, and want to see that again, or who enjoy college sports more than NBA or NFL or both sides of it, right?

50:12and there's a lot of money to be made. Now the question is, when does that slow down? When does having two products slow you down, right? Because we'll see with college football, this year it was quiet on the social media side. I'm sure when we talk with Matt Piscitella, he'll be like, hey, Mike, sold really well. Well, five years down the road, is Madden and college football both selling very well to the point where eventually we have to kind of slow it down? Because in 2014, it was all changed because we crack down on paying the kids and stuff like that. But like, will this eventually be like, hey, putting out two products is just eating at each other.

50:48So questions for you from a total outsider on this stuff. Where we're at currently, EA is putting out annualized Madden and college football titles. And 2K is putting out NBA 2K and soon to be probably a separate product that is college basketball. You would assume EA is not making a basketball game and 2K is not making a football game. That is correct. As of right now, publicly out in the world, these are all we know. Because right here you have EA's college basketball in front of me, and I understand the lineage of all that stuff, but are you happy with a 2K college game? I know that there's a lot of money.

51:27I know that you are talking about this from multiple perspectives of, is this a good business decision? Are they going to make money from it? Can they take advantage of children? But is Mike going to like this? I will like this. I would prefer a EA NBA live college basketball. I am a kid that grew up with NBA live all the way up until 06 with Dwayne Wade on the cover. And then all of my friends switched to 2K. There was a mass like, hey, we don't play live anymore. We're on 2K. And I said, oh, I play live. And they're like, no, no, we're not doing that anymore. And we switched. And I never looked back.

52:02I think every kid out there that played basketball games like me will tell you that exact same story of like, there was a moment where 2K went over and we never looked back on live, which was the top dog, right? And we see that in the world. You see that in the history of NBA life proceeded to start piddling out and then just died right in front of us, which was crazy with NBA 2K NBA live 12 or 14, where they tried to come back, but they didn't. And it was like, it never, it never even came out. That was crazy. But I would prefer an EA sports driven NBA game simply because I would like competition against NBA 2K and the 2K organization to force them to maybe revitalize, reimagine, grow a little bit.

52:44We had the big conversation of Frost Worm. 89 came at me and said, 2K is trash, Mike. And I said, you can't say that because the franchise is really great and they've done a great job. But I get where fans come out of like, this is just copy and paste every single year. It is hard unless you're a super fan or you're a piece of the media who goes and writes down the 50 things that they say and go, well, hey, this year they worked on the footwork and like, you got to stare right at this guy's foot when he's moving left to right to really understand. The common fan is going to go, this played just like last year.

53:18I'm having a blast or man, I wish they would do X, Y, and Z. The diehard fans like, oh man, look at that. I can see it. So we're just kind of in this world of, we need a boost to all these annualized franchises, but we're not getting that because there's not enough competition. They make so much money. the dev cycles are seven months it's hard to iterate and do such things like that you got a plan for big ideas three years in advance to try to do that each and every time slowly and surely but i would prefer an ea title here for nba or for college basketball getting it on 2k i'm still happy i get college hoops that's a big deal in this country in march we all turn our attention to college hoops.

53:59March, man, this is crazy. I love this to March, man. Tim and I. That's what we do. Every March, talk about it. I don't know how, I was wondering how Mike has all the time to watch all these sports and play all the games. And it's because he's doing it all at the same time. Volume up on everything.

54:14Tim Gettys:Yeah, no, no, no. I was next to him while we were doing the Silksong thing and he was playing an embargo game and also watching football and then also on his phone. Oh, Tim, what a game. What a time. What a time. That actually was pretty sick. It was pretty sick. This guy spit on the guy. Got ejected immediately. Right before the game started. He wasn't the first to spit. No. It's another spitter? Turns out Dak Prescott, who got spit on, spit first. Oh, shit. What are we doing there? We didn't see that. We didn't see the camera angle. So the first camera angle, if you see it in real time, Dak comes up to the line, spits forward, spitting at the guy.

54:48Then the guy comes up to him and says, I'll have none of that, sir. Spits right on him. They say, no, no, you're ejected. They didn't see the first spit. Who was the first spit? Who was the first spit? And that's why we love sports. That's why we love sports. Human bodies smashing up against one another. Spitting on each other. The competition to be the very best. And so, yeah, this is very exciting news. I'm so pumped up about this. Business-wise, this is going to be crazy. Mike-wise, sports game fan-wise, I'm excited. I want to see EA bring a little competition. Some buku bucks. But none of it matters.

55:22You want buku bucks. None of this matters. bring back EA Sports bring back NBA Street, NFL Street NFL Blitz, bring back Freak Style bring back the games that we love, what are we doing here EA? Mike's asking the right questions here story number 6, Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater sells more than a million copies, this is from Konami Metal Gear Delta surpassed 1 million units sold across PS5, Xbox and PC. This achievement reflects the enduring popularity of the Metal Gear franchise, recognized as one of the most influential in video game history. A little check-in one week later here. It's an 86 on Metacritic.

56:03I got Greg 16 points on Fantasy Critic. And there's a nice photo mode shot series on the PlayStation blog. You want to bring that up? It does seem like we are muted, though. I'll be fixed right away.

56:19Kev, I'm going to wait until I continue the show. We can just talk You've never heard Buku bucks Why are you saying it all the time The chat was saying it's in a lot of rap songs But I don't know that Tim gave me a look when I first said Buku bucks He smiled a little bit like never heard that one Mike Are you familiar

56:41Tim Gettys:I mean I think I've maybe heard it But like coming from Mike it's just like is this a made up thing That's what's blowing my mind is the Buku bucks Yeah Buku bucks Meaning a lot and then I saw someone put Merci beaucoup in the chat, which means thank you very much. Oh, my God. Language. How does it work? Language. How does it work? We're learning French, everybody. Read that one again. Reading the story again. Sorry about that. Metal Gear Solid, Snake Eater sold a million copies. Everyone's excited about that. Everyone. The check-in for one week later, 86 on Metacritic. That got Greg 16 points on Fantasy Critic.

57:16and there is a cool playstation blog series of photo mode shots um that if kevin is not taking something out we could bring up but if he can't that's fine too we know what the game looks like it's really pretty you haven't played it yet roger no i have not but i've never played

57:32Tim Gettys:metal gear solid 3 in general in total uh i will say i will tease it tease it give him a little tease we will be doing a metal gear solid 3 stream not next week we will talk about that later uh we We will be doing it sometime, maybe this month, but it's going to be a fun one. And somebody in the office who has never played Metal Gear Solid 3, not myself, will be playing it for the long haul. So that's very exciting. But no, I am very interested to try this out. I was talking to my brother this morning. He's really into Metal Gear Solid 5 right now. Oh, wow. Your brother is surprised. Yeah, he was deep into Death Stranding.

58:05Tim Gettys:Now he's deep into MGS 5. And now I'm going to tell him to go play MGS 3. I think that's probably the move. Oh, yeah, now is the time, for sure. But yeah, a million copies. What do we think about that? How are we feeling? Yeah, it's been nothing but positive. From hearing everybody, they're very happy with this remake. You guys reviewed it. I'm listening to the besties right now. They're hyping it up, and it seems like everybody's very pleased with this. Yeah, I mean, it's Metal Gear Solid 3, so you can't go wrong. We were talking about a classic, and again, the biggest thing about 3 specifically is that because it was a prequel, it is way more of a standalone story than any of the other Metal Gear Solid games, besides 1, I guess.

58:40but that one being such a dated experience relatively, like three already adding the subsistence stuff they did on the first kind of like game of the year edition type thing that they did back then of like a little bit more camera controls, like really opened the game up and changed it for the better. So now getting like completely modern controls. So it plays a lot more similarly to Metal Gear Solid V. It's kind of just like a dream scenario. It makes the game pretty simple, but like, that's fine. like I think that it's such a timeless story timeless characters amazing boss fight concepts it's a little quaint going back to it now being so familiar with it but that's also coming from someone that's beat it multiple times so being able to breeze through it like it might not be a breeze to someone playing for the first time as we might see in a couple weeks yeah we will

59:28Tim Gettys:Nigel in the chat says who cares about MGS splinter cells the best stealth game ever am I right Roger we gotta cut out with the d's and the d we gotta stop the d but I appreciate it I appreciate it. Next story. Have they put out the multiplayer yet? Oh, yeah. When is that? When is the multiplayer? I don't know. Answering the question about how we feel about the million sales. Obviously, million. That's huge. That's great. And I was pitching on the review about the$70 title. I don't think this game should be$70. Really? $70 for this, man. Yeah, it's a little wild for the type of remake that it is.

1:00:03But million is great. not as high as I would have thought do you think Konami's saying a million is great? I don't know seems a little low for what I would expect with such a big title here but yes it's a remake maybe we shoot a little bit lower than expectations but I guess I had a little higher expectations for such a beloved title.

1:00:24Tim Gettys:I think this game will have a long lifespan in terms of people picking it up on sale and once the game drops down for like 15 % off it's going to do really well on Steam especially those Steam sales. It's interesting because um and i'd want to look into the numbers to really confirm this but metal gear has traditionally never been necessarily the biggest selling game but very solid selling game um and then yeah consistently selling over time but like it's not like it's breaking that 20 million or whatever it was but i do think in a lot of ways as a franchise it's similar to resident evil and then when they remade resident evil that's when all of a sudden resident evil becomes Capcom's one of their highest selling games and that was the era of Monster Hunter as well and all that of like oh shit things have changed these numbers so far don't necessarily think to be like oh war has changed that's Metal Gear Solid 4 War has changed?

1:01:15Tim Gettys:Oh war never changes as Fallout Metal Gear Solid 4 is good too I'm excited I'll play it one day when they remake it good fucking luck 10 years from now if they ever even just re-released Metal Gear Solid 4 It would be such a big deal But if I want to know about something tiny Something so small where would I look You'd You'd go to our last story The Wee News channel Where we cover all the small spots You need to know about Jesus Christ You had one job You fucking missed the small I hate you I'm gonna be real it sounded really good for a second It sounded really good I have a fork in my pocket Why?

1:02:00Why? Like an actual metal fork. Like an actual metal fork. That's the only type of dude that would be doing that. You know what I mean? And a receipt. Did you buy the fork? No, this is some Costco from a few weeks ago.

1:02:12Tim Gettys:What did I get? Let's see. Oh, shit. I got it out. Oh, shit. Oh, I got ground beef. I got some LaCroix. Hell yeah. That's fire. I got 48 eggs. That was crazy. 48 eggs. 48 eggs. That was crazy. We news for you. Everybody's Golf Hot Shots is now available on consoles and PC. We had an exclusive stream yesterday. A couple days ago. A couple days ago. A lot of fun. I had a good time with that. I know the guys were a little mixed on it. They enjoyed playing it. They weren't happy the character creator wasn't there, but they both left going, I'd like to play more of this and see where it goes. Kronos, the new dawn, Nintendo Switch 2.

1:02:49What? Sometimes, just reading these things breaks my fucking mind.

1:02:56Tim Gettys:I mean, it doesn't make too much. The new dawn Nintendo switch to today following early access launch on PC PlayStation and Xbox. There's just no out. You know, that's crazy. I want to get a code for it on switch to just actually I don't I don't want to play the again again but I want to see how it runs and how that mic battery might have just ran out. Oh, you can pull up mic three if you want but yeah, I want to I want to try it on switch. I want to see the digital found your report for sure. And then Wario64 shared Octopath Traveler Zero's platform specs.

1:03:33Tim Gettys:What do I have to say about this one? Rudeway News, right? Yeah. Raj, look at this. Is there anything of note? 720p on Switch. 1080p on Switch 2. PS5, 4K. That's huge. PS4, 1080p. Yeah. PS5, you get 120 frames per second as well as Series X. Series S, 1080p. It's probably the highest resolution that any video game has ever been on a Series S. That's pretty huge. Wow. Shots fired. And then town building placement limit is different per system as well. That's crazy. I guess it's only just low on Switch 1. And PS4. Oh, and Switch 2. I can just give me the mic. You're talking now. It'll be fine. Yeah, John gave us Super Chats in saying, Mike, having Roger sit in today is God level.

1:04:15No, Roger, you play. I told him. I said, these new stories are for you.

1:04:21Tim Gettys:you're putting my my head in the dirt you're like you do this this is what happens when you don't say yes dbl double tap.com has a required reading interview with pete hines talking about his entire bethesda career it's great stuff go check that out oh that's the homie pete man oh yeah hope he's doing well tom warren at the verge reports the lenovo legion go 2 will get xbox flavored windows in spring 2026 we were touching one of those on best buy yesterday right the old legion one I love the way they feel Those things are chonky though Big dogs, big boys Oh yeah, but the issue with it is that they show off At Best Buy, they don't have real games That they show off that let you play No, they made like a generic Unity mobile game that you play This is like a$600 fucking console My biggest problem isn't even that My biggest problem is that it's attached To the kiosk in the most awkward way You can't move it It just pulls off or down It's$1 ,400 and they don't give you a real I can't play fucking Halo on this thing?

1:05:20Yeah, it's also$1 ,400. Roger was not happy when we were at the Best Buy looking at me like that. I was so mad. We won an adventure yesterday. Yeah, we told Kevin we got lost for Lavender but we were at Best Buy. That's our man. I knew they were lying to me. God damn it.

1:05:38Tim Gettys:God damn it. From Gamatsu, Starfield celebrates its second anniversary tomorrow. Bethesda posted a teaser of what's to come. Here's the image we put together based on the teaser Terran Armada Greg put a link for you to bring up Kev that's it you look at it looks like it says Terran Armada it obviously looks like it says Appyver Appyver yeah yeah

1:06:12I didn't fucking realize Fuck me Celebrating two incredible years in the Starfield Thank you The Starfield Drop the the It's close

1:06:29Don't worry they've never made a sequel So it is the Starfield The Starfield Thank you to everyone who has explored the settled systems with us We look forward to the adventures yet to come That's it for Wien News Oh my good lord. We got a super chat from Aaron Lime saying a million copies on launch day. Metal Gear Solid is back. Yeah, launch day does change that a bit. That's pretty sick. That's not what the report said, but if that's true, cool. Cool. Cool. Let's see if we got anything wrong. I'm going to assume we didn't because we have our best three on the desk today.

1:07:09Matt Lewis says EA announced yesterday they will not be doing college basketball games. Heartbreaking. I'll read up on that. That's too bad. Dylan says of Spielberg's last eight movies, six of them got Best Picture nominations at the Academy Awards. Maybe he's not. Maybe he hasn't lost it. Bailman's is fired. But here's the thing, though, even with that, it's like this might sound stupid and backwards, but I really mean what I'm saying. That doesn't mean Spielberg in 2025 should be making a Call of Duty movie. Then Call of Duty in no world, no matter how good it is, is an Academy Award nominee.

1:07:41It's just not. And if it is because Steven Spielberg directed it, that's because the awards are stupid bullshit that are just going to give him the nomination anyway because he's Steven Spielberg.

1:07:49Tim Gettys:And I firmly believe that Activision does not want Call of Duty to become a Best Picture nominee because then that kind of makes it a singular type of thing of like, it has to be this Oscar nom type movie. It's like, no, we don't want that. We literally don't want that. We want franchise. We want franchise billion dollar. We don't want that.

1:08:09Silky Bay says, the steam achievements page for silk song shows that 0.1 % of users have earned the clear the game achievements, including one to clear the game in under five hours. So while Andy wouldn't be the first, he'd be among an elite few. Can Andy, he's trying to be the first one, be within the first 1 %? Oh, because if we can get him to beat the game before that hits 1.0, and he could be a

1:08:33Tim Gettys:1 % who we were talking to last night. Did you hear Tim? No, made a lot of big phone calls to Nathaniel Cherry himself, Team Cherry. We were talking to them and they were like, yeah, he's really... Nathaniel Cherry is... He's tracking. You think the guy's name was Nathaniel Cherry? Yeah, I mean, why the fuck not? I don't know. Is that that crazy? Is that that fucking crazy? Tim, why would you believe us? No. I don't know. I don't know. Why would I not believe you? Here you're supposed to be real. I'm kind of funny, guys. You've got to be real. Greg calls people. all the time. Yeah, sure. So yeah, we're going to call Paris and then have him to pretend to be somebody else.

1:09:14The most identifiable voice we have. Andy's going to beat this game. Point blank, period.

1:09:22Tim Gettys:We looked at the numbers. So yeah, he's going to beat this game, everybody. If you keep on supporting him, we're going to lock him in that room all weekend. It's going to be great. Is he here? Is Andy? Andy! I don't think he's here yet. Okay, well, checking in on this article, So it looks like EA pulled out their bid for college basketball opportunity due to 2K's bids with other schools being accepted. So EA was like, seemed like 2K. They're already on that. We're out. Okay. Okay. Cool. Captain Mark says, Mr. We News, Crossplay's here for rematch. Whoa. Man, let's talk about a game. Go for it, Mike.

1:10:01That could have just absolutely taken over the world. And I think they did really well, but there was something that missed. I don't know what happened, but I really thought that that game was going to be like, we're everywhere, every moment, everything. And it was like, it was there, but it didn't, it didn't exceed my expectations. I really shot for the moon on this. And I think it hit a good middle ground of like, it was a huge success and it still is. But I think there was something more that could have been achieved there. And I think cross play was a big factor. We'll see maybe next summer with, you know, FIFA World Cup happening.

1:10:37maybe that ties in gets the excitement once again but there was something here tim that i think just missed when it comes to rematch and like the global takeover that i was expecting yeah i think i hear andy yeah i heard the the door close is he here he's bringing him out uh let's

1:10:55Tim Gettys:show off our little pony super chat roger have you talked about the dexter finale okay i did not watch it no spoilers everybody came out not spoiled dexter young dexter old dexter yeah young young dexter's dead they they sheldon young sheldon in part of the universe my dad loves young sheldon yeah i've been stop watching that my younger brother be watching a lot of tiktoks of young sheldon yeah kind of fire kind of fire man it's kind of it's like modern family level andy cortez is here everybody andy how you feeling andy i'm all right yeah you ready to get back Have you heard Have you been listening to the show at all Just the beginning about these red guys The red things I heard you talking about the red things Does it get better It does Because you unlock A new ability You have a new way to pogo Okay good But you gotta unlock it Am I supposed to have the dash already Because I don't have a dash I can't find my dash either I pointed it out last night on stream.

1:12:03It's in the right side of the map.

1:12:07Tim Gettys:I put, oh man, it was like near the end of the stream last night. I was like, for the person who asked where the dash was, I had happened to run by it again. I was like, it's right here. And I marked it. Okay. I was like, take a screenshot. I'll look at the stream. I'm going to look at your stream for that. But what was I saying? What was I saying? Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Nathaniel cherry. That's true too. No, what I was going for is, have you heard the challenge that we're issuing you and the people? Because we wanted you to be the first person in the world to beat Hollow Knight Silksong. Someone's beat you, unfortunately.

1:12:34Tim Gettys:That's probably one of the developers. Yeah, exactly. That's the truth. But here's the thing. Right now on Steam, it tells you how many people got the achievement for clearing the game. And it's at 0.1%. We need you to beat this game this weekend so that you get it before 1 % of people have beat it. You'll be in the first 1%. Yeah, we talked to Nathaniel. That'll fuck up my experience, though. I'm not down with that. because if I try to beat it, then that means I'm probably going to miss like 17 bosses or something. no, I'm just naturally, you're just so good. You're going to figure it out. I'm not saying that you mainline because you can't really mainline this game.

1:13:10We're just saying that they support you long enough.

1:13:11Tim Gettys:Yeah. So many subs. You stay here till I was there for 90 minutes trying to beat about. I dude, I was dying so much to these goddamn birds last night. Holy fuck. What a nightmare that area was. And just when you think, Oh, team cherry. What a, what a nice, I feel satisfied with this little mob room where you spawn in multiple waves. Nice, dude. The third one, great challenge. A fourth wave pops up. It's like, okay, we don't need to keep on going with this. Beat that fifth wave. God damn it, dude. Fuck. Also, let my diagonal down keep on going. I can't wait to talk to you there. You can spam it.

1:13:52Tim Gettys:While you're in midair? Yeah, you can do multiple downs. So, like. You have to be dropping from a decent distance, but you can do multiple downs. Because the amount of times I'm like, oh, I nailed this. And then right as I'm about to hit the guy, she lets up and she's like, all right, the attack's over. Too bad. Oh, sorry, I brushed against his fucking elbow. I got hurt. I get Rusev. She's the child of gods and higher beings. She gets hurt by rubbing up against a bug's wrist. What do you think we're going to eat today, Andy? It's a good game. Oh, man, I don't know. Dude, we had In-N-Out last night, Tim.

1:14:25Tim Gettys:It was the most happy I've ever seen Mike ever where they're like, what are we getting for food? Because they're like, Mike and Roger here. We got to put our own spin on this stream, which is like we get food. We're here. You got to feed us. I said, honestly, I want an In-N-Out burger. And Mike was off camera, but he celebrated as if like his sports team won the Super Bowl. Like he was just like, he was so pumped up. And we rolled up, man. It was good. It was good. Hell yeah, everybody. Stay tuned. and he's getting prepped to stream another ungodly amount of hours of Hollow Knight Silksong. He already has like, what, six hours left?

1:14:57Five hours on the clock right now. And we're excited to see how long he'll go for. We're hoping we can continue to generate some great support from the kind of funny best friends in the audience out there and drive this into tomorrow, possibly even Sunday. First person to beat the game. This is what he wants to do. So let's have fun with it. That's what he wants to do, everybody. That's what he wants to be. I love you guys. I love you too. Thanks for this show. Thanks for the fun. This is great. What a great Friday. It's finally Friday. It's felt like Friday every day this week, but it finally is.

1:15:24I hope you all enjoy your weekends. I hope you enjoy Andy playing Silksong. I hope you enjoy playing Silksong or Kronos or Hell is Us. A lot of games, a lot of games popping out. So there's definitely something for you out there. But if you're on Twitch, stay where you are. If you're on YouTube, jump over to Twitch. The stream is going to be Twitch exclusive. But until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.

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