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1:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's gaming news stories include Elden Ring gets a cast and release date reveal. Shuhei Yoshida says Jim Ryan fired him and Rebecca Valentine reveals her next move. Well, all this more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

2:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, April 20th, 2026. I'm your host, Blessing, Addy Oye Jr. Joining me is the one, the only, the best gaming journalist in the business, Rebecca Valentine. I feel so weird to be a floating head. You know, I've been in that studio multiple times and now I'm simply hovering ominously to your side. yes but it's gonna be it's gonna be a very fun episode even though you're not here in person uh because we have to talk about some exciting stuff reb because what a few weeks ago you announced that you were leaving ign catch us up to what's going on in the life of rebecca i well it's it's funny because i i guess i'm the news that's very strange to me uh but but i i did a very normal human thing i think i left one job and i'm going to a new job is what's happening um And I had a teensy little baby sliver of time sort of between where I had nothing to say.

3:02And now I think I think I can talk about what I'm doing. Yeah. Do I just say it? I mean, yeah, just say it. Yeah. OK, I'm going to Kotaku. By going, I'm already there, actually. I had a byline go up a couple hours ago. That's super exciting, Rep. Of course, for people that have listened to this show for a very long time, even before I was on the show, I remember when they launched KFGD in 2017, I started listening daily. And one of the names that will continue to pop up was the name Rebecca Valentine, because you started off at gamesindustry.biz before moving on to IGN, right? And doing a lot of really great games reporting.

3:40Like, so great that at the end of last year, KFGD, we gave you an award for, I forget which one, because Jason got one and then you got one. I think one was Best Story and the other was just like Best Reporter. But you got one of them. Best Reporter. Best Reporter. There we go. Don't be humble about it. You're amazing.

3:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Um, but yeah, like, it's really exciting to see you move now over to Kotaku. Do you want to talk a little bit about what you're doing at Kotaku? Well, honestly, a lot of the same thing. Like, really, if you read my stuff, I think your impression of my output is probably not going to change a whole, whole lot. But, you know, if you if you like long form investigative reporting, I I've been doing a little less of that, I think, over the last couple of years. And so I would like to do I think I will be doing slightly more like like we're going to amp that up a little bit again. I'm still going to be doing, you know, I have the background at G.I.

4:29Biz, so I have the background in like like biz kind of stuff, you know, read numbers, reading complex legal filings and telling you interesting things out of them. So there's going to be like that's still happening, you know, just like day to day news that's still happening. but then I think maybe the other piece of that too is like Kotaku's known for having this like allowing writers a little bit more freedom to have a really strong writing voice and to be like people and individual writers in addition to sort of just like reporting things very straightforward when they need to be and I have some experience having a stronger voice or a more critical voice but not as much and I'm really excited to work with people who are very good at having this very strong and cool writing voice and sort of learned to develop my own alongside, of course, developing my reporting skills even further under Ethan and Carolyn, who are freaking incredible writer and editor.

5:21So, yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, I love that. And I also love, I mean, you're talking about what Kotaku can bring to you as far as, yeah, giving that more personality base. I get to be my own person and kind of like hone and own my own voice here. But I think what you bring to Kotaku is just as exciting, right? We're talking about that reporter skill that you're able to hone at GI Biz and also at IGN, you're somebody who I associate with breaking news. You know what I mean? You're somebody who I associate with if I see a big article break out from IGN, if I see a new news story about the history of a studio or this studio is going through this thing or something that's a bit more in the weeds or internally going on in the industry that many people might not have eyes and ears on.

6:01Rebecca Valentine is one of those names I put alongside a Jason Schreier or any other big names in the industry who are known for doing great reporting work. And so I think Kotaku is very, very blessed to have you. Very excited to see the work they're able to bring to the website. And yeah, I think this is going to be, I think it's going to be a very exciting next step for Rebecca Valentine. I think it is. I think it's exciting too, because like Kotaku hired like a whole extra person. Like I'm not a backfill for somebody. I am a new hire. And seeing a games website in 2026 grow. Yeah. That's so cool.

6:38That's such exciting news for them. Like, I love that they have the opportunity to grow. And I think there should, I think there might be an article later today. I don't want to put this on them in case something happens, but I think there may be something at gamesindustry.biz about this later today. And when we were having conversations with them about that, Ethan said this really lovely thing about, you know, like the pyramid of game websites very often. Like, the big base of it is sort of the just day-to-day, like, kind of churn of the news that's already out there. And then there's, like, features and criticism.

7:09And then that little sliver is the investigative reporting and the original stuff. And he wants to flip that pyramid at Kotaku. And I thought that was a really, really cool insight. He said it way smarter than I just explained it. So I hope that quote makes it into something. But I love the support for the kind of work that I think is really, really important to do. And I would like to be my bread and butter. It sounds like to some people it is. So, yeah, I'm stoked. I'm really, really stoked to be there. Well, Rekha, that's really, really exciting news. thank you so much for joining us and breaking that news here i know that wasn't originally the plan but it's still cool that we get to break that news here on kfgd we also have other uh really exciting news of course as many people know nick scarpino of kind of funny has been gone um you know he took a break many people know many people know yeah he's been he's been gone

7:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and he's back as of today and so to celebrate nick returning to the studio uh barrett if you can bring up this link kind of funny.com slash store we've launched a new shirt the welcome back nick shirt of course if you're watching uh if you're listening via audio i encourage you to turn on the video just for this moment so you can check out you know we have the welcome back nick text on the left uh mike missed you on the right you know fun outline of nick's face and at the bottom it says andy forgot you were gone but wanted to celebrate nick of course you know it's not easy when you know one of your bosses one of your founders leaves for a while and then uh comes back but it's really exciting to have nick back in the office again kindoffunny.com slash store if you want to pick up the welcome back nick shirt thank you nick for returning to the studio but enough about all that new job new shirt i know big day very big day uh remember if you're watching live you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the Psalm, Twining.

9:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today. A Baker's Dozen! Starring with our number one, Alex Garland's Elden Ring will be in theaters March 3rd, 2028. I'm reading directly from a press release. Bandai Namco Entertainment and A24 have announced the live action adaptation of the fantasy game Elden Ring, written and directed by Alex Garland, will be filmed for IMAX and released on March 3rd, 2028. Production begins in spring 2026 with the full cast announced. The cast looks like this. You got Kit Connor from Warfare and Heartstopper.

9:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Ben Wishaw from Skyfall and Paddington. Kaylee Spaney from Alien Romulus and Civil War Tom Burke from Furiosa Mad Max Saga and Black Bag Havana Rose Liu from Bottoms, Sonoya Mizuno from Ex Machina, Jonathan Price from The Two Popes, Ruby Cruz from Willow and Bottoms Nick Offerman from Last of Us which is crazy because I would have said from Parks and Rec but I guess that makes sense John Hodgkinson Jefferson Hall, Emma Laird and Peter Sarah Finawicz and that is your cast for Elden Ring Rebecca I know you're you're somebody who really loves Elden Ring oh yeah how are you how much are you looking forward to this movie uh man video game adaptations you know there's it's oh they're traditionally terrible oh but they've been getting better like we have the same conversation around them every single time I'm I'm curious I think 824 is a really interesting choice to do this um I also think the world of elden ring is i mean it seems like very likely they're gonna tell like probably one of them like like a basic story of elden ring like either they're gonna follow the tarnish or they're gonna follow like sort of the main historical plot line of that most likely we actually don't know what this is about but i do love the amount of possibility uh for us to see different aspects of elden ring portrayed in some way because elden ring and all from soft games by the way are full of little freaks like every character in those games is a total weirdo that's why nick offerman kind of excites me here yes because i they announced they announced a bunch of new people today nick offerman we already knew about but nick offerman when i first heard that i'm like okay that doesn't make any sense so then i thought about it for two seconds like no that's gonna rule i don't know who he is but they're gonna make him a weird guy and i'm gonna love it i actually i went through the new people that were announced today this was actually my first article for Kotaku that I published while I was like learning how their backend works.

11:50And I was trying to guess like who all these new people were going to be. I, I was just like shooting in the dark based on some of their past work and stuff. They got a lot of Shakespearean actors in there. Like Sir Jonathan price has done a bunch of Shakespeare. Sorry. I'm looking down this list. John Hodgkinson and Peter. Oh, you, you nailed it. Sarah Fina wits has done a bunch of Shakespeare stuff. And I love like, I love the big like Shakespearean actors like, you know, doing the delivery for Elden Ring stuff like we got. Oh, I feel so bad. I've forgotten his last name, Richard, his last name, the fellow who did curse you, Bale.

12:29Like he is all the Shakespeare experience like he's so good at it. And so I'm just you can just this is going to be fun. This is going to be really weird and fun. I was also excited to see Ruby Cruz. I really liked the Willow revival series. I was sad that that just crashed and burned the way that it did. And it no longer exists on the internet. It's gone. Yeah. Ruben Cruz is great in that. I enjoyed Willow a lot. I also thought the only really obvious one on this list was Emma Laird. Just like Google her and tell me she's not either Melania or Queen America. You can't tell me that. Oh, yeah. Bring up an image of Emma Laird.

13:06Because it actually is very like, no, I can see it for sure. that's the most millennial looking person right there yeah you know they gotta put millennia in this like somehow even if it's just briefly she's gotta be here so like when you see this cast i

13:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:because you mentioned either maybe you're gonna follow the tarnished or you tell more of the like historical uh story they have there in elden ring when you look at this cast you lean one way or another for what you think they might do here i think they probably have to follow to some degree the journey of the tarnished simply because like looking at a lot of these looking at a lot of these people and also the the different characters in elden ring like that's what people are going to be the most interested in like you a lot i mean a lot of these people are immortal or very old in elden ring but a lot of these characters do not exist in in the history of like the old history right like the the ancient stuff that sort of came before that leads up to the journey of elden ring and so i think you inherently miss out on some of the the fun stuff that people cherish about elden ring if you sort of leave that out at the same time maybe you make new stuff i don't know uh but i do sort of inherently also think that maybe following the tarnish like the tarnish is not an interesting character it's not an interesting person to stay with the whole time it's honestly it's kind of the same this oh this is gonna be a hot take almost but i i really want to asterisk it this is kind of the thing i worry about with the legend of zelda film like i'm not saying link has no personality link has infinitely more personality than the tarnished elven ring but he's still kind of this quiet guy who just sort of stands there and lets people talk at him and so the i feel like they're gonna have to do a lot of work in that film to make link someone who's interesting to stay with the whole time it's very doable but i just think they're gonna have to work kind of hard at it this i think they have an even harder challenge if they're following the tarnished because you've got to make the tarnished somebody who i am okay to hang out with for you know what two hours or whatever um it's not as interesting if they're a blank slate but i do think it's interesting to look at this cast list and any of these people could be the tarnished we don't know yeah that's a really good call right and i one of the things that you touch on there regarding the story of the tarnished being this character that's more of a blank slate you're kind of moving through this world and the tarnish himself as a character not being an interesting character i think is very interesting for what you can do because i want a little bit of both if i'm being honest yeah i want but because in the in the video game you get the lore you talk to the characters you kind of get all the backstory of the shattering but it's all done through your own exploration and kind of told in whatever pace honestly probably told to most of us through vati video if i'm being real like i feel like for most people you probably play eldon ring and go damn that was fun all right time to learn the story from a youtube video that explains it all to me and i think that would be a very fascinating um focus for a movie because there's more action there there's more even plot and i think interesting things there's more relationships there of people interacting with each other and like you're going to get characters interacting with each other in the shattering in the historical tale more so than in the present day tale of what's going on with the tarnished following him through or following them through their journey and so i wonder if you can have it be a flashback flash forward situation of 70 of the movie being about the history but then every 30 minutes you get a flash forward scene of the tarnished like at a pivotal point in their journey as they make their way to like um i can't think not michola no michola as they make their way to the through the tale of present-day elden ring yeah i i did just as we were talking have a thought and i'm gonna oh my do not roast me in chat i do not have elden ring lore right at the top of my head i am not it's tough um it occurred to me they could follow the story of what's his name vice vike uh he was like the the potential elden lord who like came before you and and failed because he messed around with the the mad chaos god under the ground or whatever like the the the the chaos guy and you fight him at one point i there's a lore video out there about this somewhere but there there's a character like i don't know it could follow him and i think that that would be recent enough history that you'd still he would have a character and he would have an arc but you would still get like a lot of the highlights that you get through actually playing elden ring um but also 2024 i don't know just do something weird maybe they'll follow the turtle pope maybe it's just a movie about the turtle pope i mean i'd watch it starring nick offerman yeah okay uh well 2020 is really exciting less than two years away at this point like i'm i'm looking forward to this i think it was a tough one from um a little bit at reveal when they first announced it because i'm like elton ring movie is that something i want but the more details we get about it the a24 of it the um the director alex garland who did annihilation which annihilation was fucking incredible a lot of it's coming together in a way where i'm like i would like to see it also martin's involved george r r martin is involved which you know he wrote like the the back history of elden ring before handing it off and him being involved in the movie is like i don't know what that's supposed to tell me is it very historical did they just want him around i don't know maybe he just maybe he just looks i mean my my my opinion on it would be they just want him around just to say hey the person that made game of thrones yeah they're responsible are working on this movie.

18:37This is the next Game of Thrones. And he wants to be a part of it as an excuse to not finish Game of Thrones. Exactly. One that I want to throw out there, specifically the Nick Offerman of it all, because I was thinking, who could Nick Offerman play? I think he could play Hugh. And this is your Smithing answer. Oh! I see it. Yeah. The face, I see it. I love this. Oh, that's good. this is fun too because there's a lot of opportunities in elden ring for people to either play play characters that are not like fully human so then they're either getting into weird practical suits or they're getting some like very interesting cg things happening or they're just voicing weird little guys like i love that i love dude i love nick offerman because equally i could see him being a hug as i could see him being redon like there's something about

19:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:nick offerman that is very like he just has a versatility to him i was the movie what's the show i think it's called devs that andy cortez will never stop talking about i've only seen like the first episode of devs but even in that i was like man this nick offerman guy this guy he has something he's got something here um a lot of fun reb i want to keep talking about video game movies because with story number two we might have just got our our best look at link in the legend of zelda movie i'm pulling from ollie reynolds at nintendo life with principal photography now wrapped up on the legend of zelda movie it's likely that nintendo and columbia pictures will want to start the hype train engine ahead of its release on may 7th 2027 the movie's director of photography uh guyula pados may have jumped the gun slightly though in a now deleted post on instagram thanks wario64 he showcased a clipboard to presumably commemorate the completion of principal photography the key image on the clipboard depicts link standing next to the triforce meanwhile the word umami is displayed prominently on the right with director westball and camera gaila paros just underneath very interesting one interesting that is the project name for the zelda movie umami that would be my guess yeah that's an interesting project name but also i read what's your what's your first reaction to seeing this image this actually is my first reaction because i like i said i've been learning a back end all morning and i did not see this news i had no idea this was out there and no one showed it to me yet wow okay this is uh significantly more interesting to me visually than the other photos that we got the set photos yeah um i mean you know this is like clearly very doctored and i'm like oh trying to look cool pose sort of way but i i the the green outfit i think i was very worried it would look corny and fake I think it mostly looks okay.

21:23The hat, I still am kind of like, eh, you didn't need to wear the hat. Oh, you're not messing with the hat? Well, I just, it looks silly, right? Like a pointy green hat looks right in cartoon form, in video game form. It makes sense. But when you put a pointy green hat on a person, like a real person, I think it's very difficult to make that look like somebody, someone woke up in the morning and put on their head on purpose. I feel that. I think for me it's the fact that I associate Link with kind of being a silly character. Like, he's the hero of the story. He's the swordsman. He's a warrior and all this stuff.

21:55He's also... It's weird. Because you said it during the Elden Ring story. But, like, Link very much is... He's a blank slate, but he has personality. But it's hard for me to visualize what the prototypical Link is.

22:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think I would think Ocarina Link. I think the one thing that carries throughout the entire series is that, speaking of silly little guys, he's just a silly little guy. It's mainly his main character traits. He's quiet and he kind of reacts to people, but usually in sort of quietly silly ways. He's cool because he's the hero, but if he were not the hero, he would just be sort of an awkward dude. Oh, for sure. What's Link at his most serious? Is that Twilight Princess? Twilight Princess has weird little guys in it too though He's a weird guy in that one I don't know maybe one of the top down ones Where he doesn't have as much going on Like maybe Link to the Past There's a little bit less of his own personality That's able to come through Actually honestly original Legend of Zelda Is probably the most serious he is Yeah I would say that The less story there is The more serious kind of tone You can imprint on him Because even Link to the Past I would say he's a silly little dude in that as well he's a silly little dude yeah yeah yeah i this is kind of this is cool i did i i did this is kind of cool um i the triforce the presence of the triforce on that is interesting i don't i'm trying to think like in zelda lore like what that's supposed to tell us about because that's a big question right like what game is this what story is being told like we don't i mean i look at this and i think ocarina i know this is kind of like this link kind of does look like if you were to tell and i don't mean this as an insult but if you're to tell an ai to make link from zelda this is what that's what this link looks like in the sense of this feels like it's pulling all the elements of the links we know and just spitting out like hey this is what people visualize when they think of a live action link but i would also say the triforce would be an interesting inclusion if you were going to say it's ocarina and i say this having played ocarina of time for the first time earlier this year all the way through very enjoyable uh the triforce is not like very present in ocarina like it's there but my impression of it was it was like an afterthought like somebody was finishing the game and suddenly looked down at a document it's like oh crud we have to get the triforce in here somewhere and then wrote a couple cut scenes about it and put it on their hands like like there's not a whole lot of triforce going on in that game so but i don't know maybe the i read into the triforce of when you're thinking of iconic zelda iconography like i think you have to have the triforce in the in the thing no matter how big or small of a role it may play which i think if you're making i mean you're making a movie right it has to be it's it's going to be a narrative i'll say narrative focus but it's literally a movie right so i think in a in a form of zelda where you have to be fully in on story i think the triforce has to be a big deal because the triforce is one of the is like one of the interesting facets of that of how those three characters interact between zelda um zelda link and ganon and you could very easily i think tell ocarina of time with a little more triforce added oh for sure you could you could do that i do i actually you know what i will say confidently looking at this image i do not think they are making a movie about the minish cap you know what fair i'm with you there i don't i think that is as confirmed as it can be i was really hoping for that one you know that that umami font is that breath of the wild here's the kingdom font yeah it's a bit it's pulling a bit more from the kind of like modern zelda which could just be there like less broken down because those are always decaying which i find interesting oh yeah this is a bit more like uh this is shiny new um so yeah i don't know what their intent with that is um my aesthetically oh sorry go ahead yeah people are saying classic zelda font because that's a good point that i believe the echoes of wisdom has that font too right yeah um double check me on that but i'm pretty sure i'm just thinking of like the the like the weird kind of like um like shapes in within the uh the letters there like that doesn't stand out to me as like something inherently something from the rest of the series but maybe i'm just having a tired morning and not remembering things well my guess my best guess and my hope honestly is what they're pulling from story-wise would be linked to the past.

26:33I think it's the most straightforward story you could tell. I think a lot of people think Ocarina of Time, but half of that would, if you want to really do Ocarina of Time well, half of that would have to be a child link. And as far as we can tell, I don't know if they're secretly casted a child link to be the co-star in this movie. That's a good haul. I could see them not wanting to reveal a child actor in a very dramatic fashion super early on too. That's true. Just for like privacy reasons. Like people are going to be weird about that kid. Yeah. And I feel like they wouldn't want to expose them to that until they absolutely had to.

27:13I will say like aesthetically about the font, I think it's really difficult to tell nowadays what is, like about this movie, what aspects of it are, oh, this is an indicator what kind of movie this is going to be and what aspects of it are, oh, this is just what Zelda is now. Like the font, I think the fact that he's wearing the blue tunic in those photos too or no he's not wearing the blue tunic she's wearing the blue one of them's wearing blue in the other i think he was but i also think that was just test footage as well oh maybe yeah i don't think that was actual like they're they're on the set like they're ready to film i think that was like really early like just to make sure that they worked together as characters but regardless i mean the blue the blueness of it is like that's kind of what we recognize as link now in a lot of respects it's maybe it's not quite as iconic as the green but it's close and so i i think like like some of that is just this is zelda now and it's just part of it regardless of which story we're telling yeah i i think we're i think with the with the rumored ocarina remake which i'm not 100 convinced anymore after people started talking about nintendo ninjas but like i if that is happening i think you want to have a return to like

28:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:quote-unquote classic nostalgic zelda you know what i mean i think post breath of the wild tears of the kingdom obviously those games are fantastic and successful some of my favorite games of all time right i think we're we're firmly in an era where people i think are have that nostalgia for link in a green tunic right those classic zelda stories and i think now is the time to strike with that and so like to coincide with an ocarina remake game i think i think you would want to have a story that feels yeah either more linked to the past or more ocarina i think we're gonna be firmly in that realm and then like if that works then we get a little bit weird with it if that works maybe we go majora maybe we go twilight maybe we go skyward sword if you wouldn't really want to get crazy and some hourglass let's go let's go minish cap let's fucking do it oh my god i would I would lose my mind for a Majora's Mask like film or something.

29:20Oh, man. Listen, these days, it's not impossible. I can see Majora being like a serialized show too where like every episode is a new three-day cycle and it focuses like on a different subplot each time. Oh my gosh, I'd lose my mind. I love it. Reb, we're going to talk about story number three which involves Shuhei Yoshida revealing why he was fired at PlayStation. But before we get there, I want to tell you about patreon.com

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31:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:slash kind of funny and we're back with story number three shuhei yoshida says jim ryan fired him from playstation studios quote because i didn't listen to him this is from edmund tran at this week in video games shuhei yoshida the former head of sony worldwide studios has remarked that he was fired from the role by then ceo jim ryan quote because i didn't listen to him end quote speaking at the 2026 edition of australian games festival alt games the 31 year playstation veteran introduced himself by recounting his long career including his transition from leading playstation's first party studio efforts for over a decade to becoming the company's indie game evangelist as head of playstation indies quote i helped so i helped santa monica to make god of war naughty dog to make uncharted in the last of us and sucker punch to make the beautiful ghost of tsushima he said describing his work during the 2000s quote ghost of tsushima was one of the last games that I worked on as the president of worldwide studios but in 2019 after 11 years leading the first party of development I was fired from the role Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first party because I didn't listen to him he said jovially prompting laughter from the audience quote he asked to do some ridiculous things and I said no end quote when Guerrilla Games co-founder Herman Hulse was announced the new head of worldwide studios Sony was vague about the terms of the transition, simply saying that, quote, Yoshida will leave his current position as president worldwide studios to become head of a newly formed initiative that will focus on nurturing external independent creators, end quote.

32:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Jim Ryan, who joined Sony Computer Entertainment in 1994, served as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment from 2019 to 2024. Quote, because I grew up with Jim from the PS1 days, you don't want to have one of your friends as one of your subordinates, Yoshida remarked. However, Ryan offered Yoshida the role to focus on improving PlayStation's support for indie development. Quote, because everybody in the company knew how much I loved indie games. I really enjoyed the role of promoting and evangelizing indie games, he emphasized. Yoshida eventually left PlayStation in January 2025 after 31 years with the company and formed his own indie game consulting firm yosp inc rebecca shuhei yoshida fired at playstation is this something that is shocking to you no but also it's hard to tell how serious he's being right like like on one hand it definitely seemed to me when he changed jobs that this was an effort to sort of we need you to not be in this part of the company anymore yeah like i think it's always felt that way to a lot of people um and and uh shuhei yashida has been uh very very vocal both towards the end of his time at playstation and and since uh delightfully so in fact but i also like he's saying this in such a very cheerful way it's hard to tell if it's cheerful because he's like pleasantly throwing shade or if he's being cheerful about it like aha yeah they fired me i mean in the article like when he says the quote jim ryan wanted to remove you from first party because i didn't listen to him the article goes on to say he said that jovially right prompting laughter from the audience yeah so i just like like totally it's hard to get around sort of what what actually is happening here but i mean i do think it's like i think it is pretty clear from from this and from the other context that we have about him that that there has been there was some disagreement about how things should go um when he was in that role and and it was easier to have him go do something else instead whether he was excited about that or it was his idea or whether he was sort of pushed away i don't think we'll ever know for sure but it's interesting this like introduces like this this more concrete layer of tension to this whole story than i think necessarily existed there before yeah and i'm i'm for some reason with the story i'm getting a sense of deja vu i feel like he might have either implied this before or this was something that people have talked about but when i read the story this morning this wasn't something that i took as like brand new news you know what i mean like even like you mentioned him going from worldwide studios president to being head of the initiative for indies that is definitely that's a that's a big jump in position Rebecca right like that's not no matter how much you love indies yeah no matter how much you love indies that is oh I'm stepping down from being president here like that is a that's a monumental shift in position that like maybe you do that by choice maybe that is something maybe that is a version of firing but like either way that is you giving up something and going all right cool the company is moving past me as far as being in this big uh leadership role which of course we can talk about there's stuff to dissect there that I feel like we've dissected already within the last year of Shuhei not being um in playstation but yeah at the end of the day right like I see this and it strikes me as very much something of Shuhei Yoshida has been a part of playstation for decades right and he was at playstation when playstation 31 years 30 yeah like you're there when playstation is something a lot smaller and playstation is something a bit more I was gonna say honed and focused those aren't the right words but a bit more contained is what I'll say yeah when you turn into this industry that is now balloon balloon balloon you are one of the main players in the video games industry you're a platform holder and you have all of these studios and you go from you know working within the millions of dollars in the billions of dollars right like yeah things might pass you by slash things might change and you know there are so many critiques that i have and that we can have about jim ryan's time at playstation and decisions made there as far as what that output uh looks like but yeah none of this surprises me no yeah this is very much a look at the headline and go yeah that sounds about right yeah 100 yeah um that said i do love how much he talks i do love how much i wonder if this is online somewhere again i woke up and was trying to figure out a cms so i i did not have time to like go try to look up this talk somewhere but i would love to hear the whole the rest of it and hear like what the tone of it overall was and kind of the context leading into this discussion and leading out like i i mean i might go look that up later and see if it's online somewhere because that's he's he's really interesting man and yeah he talks yeah and i want to say like i mean i'm excited that he's still in the industry i'm excited that he's doing this um his like indie game consulting firm because the one thing i believe the most out of this story is that shuhei loves indies in fact i kind of miss that Shuhei is not in the indie initiative at PlayStation anymore because yeah Shu is Shu is like how I would learn about certain games right like I played Chicory because Shu was tweeting about Chicory non-stop when that came to PlayStation like I think there was a different energy uh regarding the indie titles that they were putting out earlier on in the generation when they were doing the whole PlayStation indie thing a bit more I think outwardly and publicly um there was a different energy that then than there is now with it where sometimes I forget that like certain games are even coming to playstation on the indie side i also do think well i really i hesitate to say this because i don't i don't want to try to get in the heads of people at playstation like i have no idea what's going on or like what anyone is thinking but reading this to me there there's a sense that you know they they moved him out of one role into another you don't make him head of indies if you want to just get rid of him like if you really want to get rid of him you put him in a job that sucks so that he'll quit right like he you know he loves indies they were clearly trying to get him you know they need him out of this one department whatever but they're clearly trying to give him something that he is both good at and passionate about and so you know it's it's not a promotion and it certainly shouldn't be viewed that way but it it doesn't it doesn't feel like malicious it doesn't feel wildly malicious no yeah like you can tell it's your point a little bit i don't know again not to get in the heads there but like i don't think there's people on playstation that hate shuhei you know what i mean in fact meeting shuhei i think i think it'd be impossible to hate shuhei at least on a personal level right but also i can see i can very easily see a situation where you're like all right we like you but we don't like you in this position like we gotta shift you over here or something because we got different plans for where the company's going we got 10 live service games we did a green light and you are getting in the way of that so boom which again i don't want to project too much and get in their heads no i truly have no idea i don't i don't shuhei yoshida i can't like speculate yeah let's move on to story number four clear obscure and dispatch lead the 2026 bafta game awards uh this is andy robinson at video games chronicle clear obscure expedition 33 won best game at the 2026 BAFTA game awards in a ceremony that saw a broad spread of titles honored in total the sandfall rpg won three of its 12 nominations including debut game and performer in a leading role for jennifer english dispatch the debut superhero narrative from ad hoc also won three BAFTA awards for animation audio achievement and performer in a supporting role for jeffrey wright indie puzzle game blueprints won the game design award uh wow rebellions adam fall won best british game playstation picked up three awards for artistic achievement with death training 2 a technical achievement with ghost of yote and music with ghost of yote the fellowship award was given to supercell boss uh leeka uh pananen um reb i saw somewhere floating online that clear obscure has kind of like earned the egot for video games via this where it's won every every one of the major gaming award shows and i think it's the first game to do so i have not done math on this i have not you know googled every single award ceremony out there and tabulated everything going back decades but vibes wise i think clear obscure is probably like the most decorated video game ever like and i guess unless you're counting like all the things tetris has won over the years for whatever reason like i don't know like it just seems it seems like for like game of the year sort of stuff i think clear obscure is probably the most decorated thing um it's it's interesting i mean i know there's this whole sort of i don't want to say discourse but like this conversation around oh is it winning too many awards like crowding out all these other things and it is sort of like this weird feeling of you you want this game that is clearly very good that game is excellent i freaking it was my favorite game last year it was freaking incredible like you you want it to be celebrated rightfully for its accomplishments and also there's like this kind of feeling of disappointment like oh but i played a bunch of other really good things last year and no one's talking about them because everyone's only talking about claire obscure so i like looking at this and seeing that okay it won three and dispatch won three and blueprints got one and adam fall got one and playstation got three for two different games like that's that's really nice nice spread yeah i'm glad other things are getting celebrated too everybody gets their flowers that's the same reaction i had when i was reading through these where i'm like it won three of 12 oh thank god that's some of the other games i loved are getting awarded for their very hard work on those things yeah you want it to be celebrated like i don't want to take anything away from clear obscure i love that game it's so good but i also in addition to want to see a lot of other things celebrated because it was a great year last year yeah like i have the the video games chronicle article opened up with like the winners listed um so to shout out even a few more right multiplayer game was won by um arc raiders evolving game was won by no man's sky uh we mentioned british game was adam fall which i saw somebody in chat mentioned why why is there no american game remember this is the baftas and so we're we're in the british awards are not going to give yeah i don't think the british game exactly rebecca um yeah game design was the blueprints um family game was the lego party which kind of warms my heart i love lego party i think we all here love lego party but um i could have easily seen it not getting awarded for anything because it feels like it's a bit under the radar so that's pretty pretty good yeah um narrative you had kingdom come deliverance to win that um they have a new ip award which i like that as a as a category which was won by south of midnight um nice which i'm surprised that wasn't won by clear obscure there's a few there's a few categories here i'm like damn clear obscure didn't win that like music being won by ghost of the otay no shade to go see otay i like that game but like that seems like such a slam dunk for a clear obscure can i just raise my hand and say that as good as clear obscure's music is and it is again freaking excellent loved it i listen to the soundtrack all the time i think it's criminal that delta rune chapters three and four didn't get nominated for music in more rebecca this is why we're homies like what are we did nobody nobody played that game that's the problem but that soundtrack is it's ridiculous it should have at least been in contention i am just floored that nobody listened to that i think that is some of toby fox's absolute best work okay well you have you have me excited to go to it at some point because I've I played chapter I played chapters one and two of Delta Rune but I think blessing I think last year I just hit him I had a point where I was like just release all of them and I'll just play them all together no I don't really like the chapter release you've got to get on this train this is like Kentucky Route Zero when that was coming out like you know every couple years or so you get a chapter we're on this train together we all we you see a chapter and then you have a whole year to develop a bunch of ridiculous theories and obsess over it and wonder what's going on and then a new chapter comes out and they're all blown to pieces ah it's like it's weekly television but way more intense and television but like but it's being done by toby fox so it's also just fucking incredible every time okay maybe also chapter three i think is a little i i like chapter three more in retrospect than i did in the actual moment of playing it so chapter three it's it's one of the lower ones chapter four is like the best one so far it's really good the cliffhanger it ends on oh you just you've got you got to play it dude okay do it okay i mean the adult room soundtrack is one that i still listen to to this day like regularly like the field of hopes and dreams is like such it sounds like such a classic jrpg like soundtrack that and rude buster are like oh man you gotta catch up man you've got you've gotta listen to the chapter three and four soundtrack i'm telling you especially for oh my gosh losing my mind here you're convincing me um and then a few more awards are given right game beyond entertainment was given to despolote which shout out to despolote love that game despolote that game rules yeah sorry the ending of that game i've never seen anything like that before i don't even want to i'm not going to talk about it but like the the thing that they do with the ending there's this very particular scene that i've never seen anything like it before and i thought it was really cool hell yeah rev we're on to story number five id at xbox presented by ign april 2026 showcase has been announced this is adam bankhurst at ign ign is proud to partner once again with id at xbox for another exciting showcase on april 23rd 2026 that'll feature tons of indie games headed to xbox and pc including miss fall hunter there are no ghosts at the grand a felion uh solo leveling arise overdrive and more there are only a few of the games these are only a few of the games that will appear in the showcase that will be filled to the brim with exclusive trailers new looks and gameplay from titles headed our way in the future the next idea at xbox will kick off on thursday april 23rd at 10 a.m pacific time exciting stuff no ghost at the grand looks good remind me what that game is i remember that name oh you would you would ask me to to recite what that game is having looked at a trailer months ago and forgotten about it hold on i do have a steam description here i'm pulling it up to glance it at myself so that i don't yeah okay so you've got like this this hotel thing and it's haunted and you're you're going around the hotel and ghosts are messing with you the whole time but it's not like a i i i think it's like like it's i don't want to say it's not a scary game but it's not like a weird sort of it doesn't seem like it's a sort of weird like jump scare situation it seems like it's more magical and playful was the vibe that I got from it there's a man on this gun that is just straight up the Pip-Boy from Fallout mixed with like maybe a little bit of Cuphead art style to him but then like also like what if Nick Scarpino was that man you know a little bit hold on what does that mean oh actually no you're right I see look at you're right you're right yeah that is Nick Scarpino damn that's upsetting i can't play this game now i don't know it just seems very charming you know stuff throwing books at you i don't know the more i watch of this actually it does seem like there's some creepy stuff in it but but i don't know it it has this playful tone to it it looks really neat i think it's very very nice it reminds me like a little bit of like a bioshock or something not as far as not gameplay wise but yeah presentationally um and then i'm looking at these other games of course we know solo leveling arise here because we were sponsored by them i I think a while ago, a feeling that sounds familiar.

48:47Hold on. I'm looking that up. It's the don't know. You're right. It is. It's the space. Don't nod game,

48:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:which I am looking forward to seeing more of, even though I'm kind of on the fence about it. And that's, isn't that out like very soon. That's out next week. The space don't nod games out April 28th, 2026. Yeah. Like we don't hear enough about what they're doing. i feel like we don't have codes for that game that seems like a game that we should have codes for which could be honest maybe greg forgot because this one stuck up on me i'm gonna ask greg about that later um all right that's cool and then miss fall hunter i'm not familiar with i'm gonna google that real quick yeah yeah what is this miss fall hunter is a third person action pvpve extraction rpg combined skills talents and gear for each class in thrilling combat whether you team up or go solo one thing remains certain only by fighting your way through can you return with a full haul good luck guild hunter all right cool god have fun yeah go with god that's not for me it's fine not every game has to be for me 100 which is like most of them honestly that's kind of the um that's kind of the takeaway for me with this specific showcase id at xbox um the one presented by ijen because i think i had the same thing last time where last time they did this showcase i think all of us were like not feeling it we're all very underwhelmed on the panel and like a lot of people in chat were giving us pushback for that which i understand we don't have to agree um but really it is the thing of like not every game needs to be for me and i think when you get into a showcase like this where it is indie focused but even more so it's like more of a casual showcase it's not like it's not like it's the developer underscore direct where they're putting all the production behind that and all that stuff, right?

50:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is very much, hey, here's a bunch of indie games coming to the platform. For me, that's very much a time where you sit back, relax, and just watch a bunch of trailers. And most of the games probably aren't going to speak to you, but you might find one or two that do connect. And when that happens, Reb, it's a very big thing. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Weep News Channel, where we cover all the small news items. you need to know about. Story number six is Wii News. Pragmata has sold a million copies in two days.

51:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Winrose has sold a million copies in six days. Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resync reveal showcase has been set for April 23rd. Huh. I wonder what they'll reveal there. Can I be honest? Have they revealed? This is like deadlock to me, where I can't tell if this game is announced or... Yeah, it was. It was announced, but like more leaks, like another leak came out, I think, what was it? Friday, Thursday, something along the lines of that. And it's just one of those, like, it can't be an Assassin's Creed release without some leaks. No. Because it happens every time. I just don't know if I would call this a reveal showcase then.

51:51Let's call it a showcase. Well, this is the first time they're probably like reviewing it. Oh, we haven't gotten gameplay. We haven't gotten a trailer. It was a blog post that they announced this game. which made me think that like this game wasn't going to come out this year i was like you're announcing it in a blog post they're just fed up with all the leaks they just had to throw it out

52:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:there all right well that's happening april 23rd uh we got more games that are coming to game pass this month on the 21st you're getting vampire crawlers very exciting on the 23rd you're getting kiln very exciting on the 28th you're getting a felian very very exciting on the 29th you're getting trepang 2 on the 30th you're getting sledding game tarotek legion and heroes of might and magic old and era and then on may 5th you're getting final fantasy 5 interesting and then for premium you're getting little rocket lab and sopa tale of the stolen potatoes wait hold on you cut out real strong there uh reb you peeked out what'd you say sorry sopa's coming out finally what is sopa it's this really sweet indie game that i've played a couple of at a couple of showcases where you're this little boy who's making sopa soup with his grandmother and she keeps telling him to go into the cupboard and get like ingredients like a potato or whatever but every time he goes in there it's like it's like a narnia cupboard and he keeps going on these like mystical adventures to get the ingredients he needs oh my gosh look at this this looks so pretty yeah since i played the early version how is this coming out and i'm only hearing about it like this i love this art style it sounds like people are saying people are saying it's been out by the way since like since late last year i think nobody told me this is cool i've never heard about this i'm so upset that i didn't hear about this hold on how did i not hear about this this looks fucking awesome well whatever soap is great i'm gonna i'm gonna go no i'm not gonna play right now because i'm i'm stuck on other things i can't talk about but but i will play this soon that is sopa tale of the stolen potato for anybody curious and then we got a bunch of dragon ball news um goku super saiyan 4 daima joins the dragon ball fighters roster on april 22nd dragon ball xenoverse 2 last dlc future saga chapter 4 launches this summer dragon ball sparking zero dlc super limit breaking neo launches this summer and then the exciting one dragon ball project year 1000 turns out to be dragon ball xenoverse 3 which launches in 2027 on Xbox, PS5, and PC.

54:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's gotten a new trailer, and I am moderately excited for this. Moderately. Moderately excited. I played Xenoverse 1 and a little bit of Xenoverse 2, and I highly prefer... Oh, God, I'm getting very nerdy right now. I highly prefer the Sparking games, right? Tenkaichi. I want more of a straightforward arena fighter that is more so about skill than it is about leveling up and grinding. Xenoverse is almost more akin to like an mmo light experience right like there's like multiplayer aspects there you're creating a character to almost feel like doctor who style i'm going through the history of dragon ball and correcting things it's a neat concept but not my favorite iteration of what a dragon ball game looks like either way pretty cool that it got announced here um and i know there's the xenoverse community they love it so congratulations everybody more we news for you forza horizon 6 limited edition controller and headset have been announced reb does this do anything for you nice yeah can we get this full screen barrett it's a nice controller i have the the forza 5 controller and it's my favorite xbox controller this is pretty good now that i'm like really looking at it yeah i like this a lot i like that they have the controller design being basically the map of the game right it's like a wrap kind of money on the accessories right now though yeah i also hate that they do the limited thing yeah just release it yeah more we news for you from matt piscatella starfield was the best-selling video game of the week in tracked physical and digital u.s full game dollars sales uh during the week ending april 11th it's the first time starfield has led the the weekly u.s best-selling titles chart since uh week ending september 2nd 2023 that was put in there by greg miller um away from this uh outstanding accomplishment on starfield's part but what else came out last week or two weeks ago um what was that barrett got him oh well i think what's funny is i thought you said i thought you said progmata came out pokemon champions came out and pokemon champions is a free to start game that is digital only meaning serkana doesn't track it so there's no telling how well it did compared to starfield so I don't know this is this is fine hold on I'm sorry you mentioned numbers no I'm pulling up the calendar because now I'm seeing now I'm gonna look now I'm gonna fact check right matter mouse pi well those were last week it's the week ending April 11th ending April there's oh wait that is Starfield you can get Starfield and Starfield I was gonna be like there's a game called Terror Armada what do you mean there was samson what about samson oh samson what happened to that game you know samson samson rev you know samson i'm sorry to the developers of samson i i don't know it uh replaced well that came out actually i was after that was the 14th people of note yeah you're right right there was not looking that cool but yeah it's fine um more we news for you ball pit the shadow update launches april 27th um and then finally neo 3 free update launches april 27th uh new skills as reward for completing selected high difficulty battle scroll missions you got new side missions and you got the stone of penance which increases accessory plus values and rarities in exchange for higher difficulties and that is it for we news um let's hang out in the super chats for a second uh zeke speaks writes in and says uh rebecca one time on blue sky i mixed you up with the creative director of warframe whose name is rebecca ford yeah and they said you were you were like hey thanks for the kind message for wrong person and i want to publicly apologize thank you was truly nothing and very funny you were forgiven snaven shake says rebecca it's bk still waiting for new golden sun oh my god wow that's a throwback to my forum days oh i too am still yeah to to my my youthful days bouncing around a golden sun fan for i try to ban this guy a lot of times now we're friends i love that um leprecut writes in and says birthday tax congrats rebecca kotaku has had its ups and downs but to me it's still the goat of video game news sites sorry greg here we go happy birthday leopard cut happy birthday our 20tron robo bartender says rebecca is the best tell emron uh more puns i'm not gonna tell him that because i have to deal with it arturo is great gerardo is cool says happy monday y 'all paying my birthday tax uh for my dad who's 69 today nice uh he's an upside down he's an upside down calculator with 5318008 typed in a way for the holy trinity that's boobies backwards oh thank you sorry he's turning 69 on 420 yeah and he's a calculator with boobies written on him i like that i see i see that was a coded message for the sickles out there uh cory con caseo says it's worth noting that uh peter sarafina wicks voiced an npc in dark souls 2 yes he did hate specifically um i gotta play i gotta get to dark souls 2 i played dark souls 1 for the first time in january rev and so like i'm like ready now i'm i'm fully in on the dark souls universe but i've heard conflicting things about 2 that has me scared to boot it up i actually i elden ring was my first like from soft game that i played due to completion i had played a lot of dark souls 1 so that i knew i knew i liked their stuff but i never finished it i keep meaning to go back and finish ds1 because i loved it it was so good i just got distracted um the co-op bros says uh kaylee spainey is ronnie and i actually think emmy laird is merica and rose liu is melania in my opinion we gotta at some point maybe there's the games cast maybe this is me and andy hanging out off off uh camera but i want to do like a we want to i want to cast each of these people i know i go to your kotaku article because you basically do that in there yeah a little bit gave me let's like visualizing right like i think if you gave me a nice headshot of each of them and next to like two bullet points of like their most notable roles and then pictures of the characters on the other side i could sit there and rearrange them and get somewhere uh game bowski says birthday tax on my behalf uh oh sorry birthday tax on behalf of my daughter kalina who turned 10 last weekend happy birthday sweetie love you so much happy birthday kalina um unreal says reb golden sun representation on all caps do i have a brand i think yeah i i associate you with golden sun i yeah you know what i didn't think it would still be following me this many years later but but the love is real well to be fair you do have it right behind you as well i do actually it is following you quite literally it's my own fault yeah um kebab says to be fair i wouldn't listen to jim ryan either it's very funny um aaron lime says seems like the root problem for sony's problems is ryan winning an internal power struggle against laden for ceo and si north america eu in japan consolidating into one group and killing small game output in favor of big gambles yeah like i think there's a lot there yeah it's a similar thing that greg mentioned of it's impossible to get fully into what's going on in their heads over there without being fed insider info or stuff like that but yeah i mean i think when i think of playstation today and i think what the biggest problems are and what have led to the biggest problems it really is video games the video games industry becoming bigger and bigger and bigger and the demand for more and more money and also like what we saw with the spike of how much money was coming into the video games industry especially during the 2010s and into the pandemic and then the industry maturing and that money evening out in ways that that spook shareholders and so now you have not as much money coming in which is spooking people at the top going oh now we got to lay off everybody but i think that that desire and chase for bigger and bigger profit leads to you making decisions like oh we're gonna launch 12 live service games in the next few years and we're allocating this percentage of budget towards life service and all this stuff meanwhile you don't have the chops for live service which end up yeah we're at now where concord was two weeks long we got fair games that we i'm not convinced is ever gonna come out marathon is fun but is it going to live like i don't know there's so many questions i have around that because you're also telling shareholders that each of those games is gonna make them a billion zillion dollars yep and so even if they even if any one of them is like super successful it's never gonna live up to that 100 and like i remember having this conversation when like when the statements first came out from playstation about their chase for life service and i think me and greg would talk about how like yeah they're really unique just one fortnight if you can get one fortnight then that'll be the that'll be the thing that is able to make all this money for you but we've not even gotten close but nobody nobody will get the one fortnight and even if they do several years down the road as fortnight is now fortnight will not be making enough money does that fortnight already is yeah isn't making enough money yeah yeah yeah yeah um man i'm very interested in this disney extraction shooter let's see here david i know that's not what it is but please just give mickey mouse a gun again i'm just ready like just just let's go nice again yeah there's like a if you google like i i'm so sorry if you google mickey mouse with a gun there's there's like a cartoon that's really really old where he has one hell yeah uh dave flora says i always think of link as quiet steadfast gung-ho a little lazy sleepy naive and silly a lot like kid goku mixed with future trunks i love that oh shit oh he has like a shotgun that's like a hunting rifle yeah but i yeah there's a couple i think there of him with a gun there's president he's had one before he knows how to shoot it hell yeah uh okay we got time for one more here let's see let's see let's see let's see kyle labeuff writes in and says reb isaac or felix isaac damn damn that's crazy do you want to explain that for the audience no fair enough let's hop into kindofunny.com slash you're wrong rewriting let us know what we got wrong as we got wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe ejrpg says bless said expedition 33 was the first game to win all uh major game awards uh game award shows the big five are generally the game awards golden joysticks the gdc awards dice and bafta uh expedition 33 is the second game in history to win all all five the first was baldur's gate 3 that's right yeah um see bander says bless commented on final fantasy 5 randomly coming to game pass they've been putting out one final fantasy every month five comes out may um comes out five comes out in may the fifth month oh i see what you're saying yeah it comes out in may the fifth month that they've been doing this they've already done one through four so if we wait like a year and a half or so we're gonna get like final fantasy 17 yes unless they do maybe like if they do the spinoffs you know that might be stranger paradise who knows but like well yeah we'll get there a little bit uh and then one more from a dork who writes in and says you you mispronounced aphelion but then they they write the pronunciation and i don't know that's not how you would write out a pronunciation if i if i pronounce it the way you write it it's app hellion i mean that's how it's pronounced no shot app hellion uh hellion say it again barrett appellion appellion appellion are you telling me the ph is not an f sound appellion appellion i think like if the ph is not an f sound you should not be required to know that on first look that's on the word yeah like they you gotta put like a signpost or something if you're going to be doing that with words they say it's the point in an orbit where a planet is furthest from the sun interesting uh yes the common word we are using every day big enough this is a non-sequitur appellian appellian appellian there's no way that's how that's pronounced well i've learned something today sort of uh i watched project hail mary over the weekend yeah let me tell you yeah it's a good movie it's a really good movie it's a really really good movie reb you're a really really good journalist you do great work thanks and people can now read that work over at kotaku um is there anything you want to promote before we get out of here kotaku i don't know well you know what i'll i'll do it this way um i you know i got i got this at ign a lot and i i assume i'm going to get it at kotaku as well or any other mainstream it's the one article i've published so far um you know any other mainstream site that one works at if you're somebody who's been like sort of cynical uh in the past about like mainstream games websites like like places like igien kotaku maybe like polygon throw that them in there like game spot whatever like give them another chance um because i i think that there's a lot of people who sort of like jump on the bandwagon to sort of you know complain about mainstream games websites but who have not actually read those websites in like a decade and there's really good journalists at all these places doing really, really incredible work.