Elden Ring Nightreign DOMINATES Sales Charts - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.09.25

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1:45Today's stories include Elden Ring Night Rain tops the sales charts, big news for Cyberpunk 2077 fans, and another live service shooter is shutting down a few months after launch. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

2:08Hello gamers, welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. I am Andy and I'm joined by Blessing. Good morning, Blessing.

2:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Good morning, Andy. How's it going? I'm doing okay. I'm doing well. um you know i had a good little rehab session this morning uh with the trainer kind of like just looking at the ligaments in my wrists and my fingers a lot of rematch oh a lot of a lot of rematch i saw so you were on late because all we were just talking about this as i signed off of rematch at around i want to say i hopped off at like nine or something like that i saw you pop on i was hoping to get one or two in because i you know i was i was busy uh you know doing some renovations on my base in in arrakis and i saw the text go out yeah like oh man i really got to get in there but i'm so close to this and then as soon as i was about to hop in you were already peacing out yeah i mean i was on for a while i was on for for quite a bit i played some games with gary witta gary witta showed up i was playing with some of the with some of the friend eric and it was a problem we needed like one or two more people we needed we needed an adam we needed the snowback mic we actually sent i was streaming i sent my chat i was like hey you know mike he was playing mario odyssey but he's probably done by now go check go tell mike that he should come through play some rematch with me and then my chat reported back they were like mike said that he'd hop on if andy's there and i was like fuck mike fuck that guy i'm tired of his ass what is this hyper fixation with you it's about time it's about he does this every time oh man We're playing fucking softball.

3:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We're in the car driving. Oh, man, it'd be great if Andy and Nick were here. It's like you're here with people. Yeah. I'm here. Yeah, but the grass is always greener. That's the way it is. I'm tired of them. Yeah, I hopped in last night, and I was like, ah, dang. Bless just got off. You know, nobody's online. I might as well shut this down, but I just had the itch. I hopped into three competitive games, and I went one and two. Stole bronze one. getting our asses whooped out there in some circumstances we so we talked about this in the stream yesterday where you get to it want to level up to rank up to the next division um you have to do like these three place matches you have to win two out of three of them if you don't win two out of three then get knocked back down um when we ended the stream i was on the place matches i had i like hit the thing where it's like all right i need to win the next two out of three matches and so I boot up rematch when I get home and hit up Gary Gary's online I joined Gary's game or whatever and like I'm trying to like get my friend Eric in too but before I even have the chance to do it I see like the game starting I'm like oh you know Gary's starting a game and I see that's 5v5 I'm like Gary is this ranked and he's like yeah and I'm like oh no no I'm not ready we only have two of us like I'm barely warmed up right now like I wish I had some kind of warning We could have gone with a full squad.

5:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And when I tell you, I didn't hit those three matches. We won one out of three, sadly. Oh, okay. The third one, we lost. So what happens now? What happens with your rank? I just got to get back up there. I just got to win a few more and then try the placement matches again. So, okay. All right. So anytime you get closer again, when you try the three placement matches, you fail. You have to win all three? You have to win two out of three. Yeah, I know. It's tough. Oh, okay. So you, because we, yeah, we were, we were informed yesterday by Adam that once you hit silver, you're stuck in silver. Yeah.

5:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You don't go back. You don't go back. So the three placement matches are like, no, this is your proving ground right here. Can you hand, can you hang in silver? I got knocked back down to bronze. I'm like, I don't belong here. It's a cool system. It's just one of those things where like, like I just don't belong here. I belong in silver. Yeah. No. I belong in gold. You do. You do. I'm stuck in bronze. so the three placement matches happen you got to win two out of three yes but since you didn't now you get another chance how quickly will it give you that chance again i just level up i haven't i didn't check to see like where exactly put me in bronze but like i'm pretty sure it just like knocks you back down like maybe just a few rp or whatever like if i win one or two more matches i'm sure it'll put me back into the pop up again yeah placement matches you gotta fill that bar okay gotcha gotcha yeah um gary would have sent us a link last night we have uh some gaming needs to get to chat but uh you know this is definitely takes priority right now yeah yeah um gary would have sent us a text yesterday about a website called rematch tracker he did yes and with rematch tracker you type in your username and it gives you a kind of a nice little analytical look at how you are as a player and unfortunately some truths are also you know some hard truths are given to you yeah dude i understand exactly what you're talking about because i opened up the rematch tracker i was like well you know what's it going to tell me about about kevin can you look up like madden or i'm trying to think of what the term is but it's the term kevin i'm sure anybody who's seen it bless knows exactly what i'm talking about as well where it's maybe it's a circle graph right and you got like i don't know the all the stats like Like when you're creating a player in Madden, you'll have like power and speed or agility, whatever.

7:29And based on how your player is, like the graphs will go out to those points. And if they're bad, they'll be really low. But if they're really good in agility, they'll be way out there or whatever. I'm not sure what those graphs are called. But yes, yes, exactly. Exactly like this, Kevin. Thank you so much. So Rematch Tracker gives you a sort of graph similar to this. and what I tell you, I didn't think how low the goalkeeper could be for me.

7:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, yeah. You know what? I could see that. The goalkeeper. I mean, I get it. I totally get it. Now, the playing style analysis, it calls me the finisher. Clinical shot accuracy. I've heard that about you. Very clinical shot. I've heard that about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We finished. We get the job done. It's called a star grab. Okay, I want to show what it was called. I, um. Did you check your stats? I did check my stats. I was aggressively average. It was one of those ones where I was like, damn, I thought not that I'm like trying to big myself up or anything like that. Right. But I think I've viewed myself as a star player.

8:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But I will say I think I've gotten worse as time has gone on. I think like maybe I came in at a higher level because I've like I've played so much FIFA and like my brain is more, I think, tuned to how ball movement like should go in soccer or whatever. right but like as people's skill has leveled up now that the game has been out longer i think it's i've just leveled out with it right where it's like oh damn all right now now everybody's caught up now everybody's kind of playing on the same level and now i'm running into like more try hards it's also the thing of like you know i've been hopping in with different groups and so i think there's a chemistry thing as well where you have to adjust and gel with the people that you're playing with and get a flow so like even yesterday we're playing but it's you know i'm bringing in Aeson, who I usually play with, but Aeson hasn't played with maybe Gary or Adam.

9:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, yeah. And then I'm bringing Adam and Gary to play with y 'all. It's a lot of just team chemistry that has to gel and we have to figure out. But I think once we get there, we can get our stats back up to where we need to be. And I can get back to where I'm supposed to be, which is not in bronze. Now, Kevin, I didn't appreciate you putting out my... Yeah, I strongly regretted it. My bad. My very personal information out there, which was my stats to everybody. Oh, those are your stats. I didn't know Blessings handle, so I couldn't get it. Now, that was very offensive for you to do. Can we look up Snowbike Mike on that rematch tracker, please, Kevin?

9:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Is his Steam account just Snowbike Mike? Yeah, Snowbike Mike. Maybe it's Snowbike Mike 2. Who knows how many. It should just be Snowbike Mike, I'm pretty sure. But I would love to see that. no it's not that I was getting docks it's just you know it's a very vulnerable thing for me oh his goalkeeper is lower than me is that flanking his impact look at his impact though his impact is huge look at these stats Mike that on the bottom right on the bottom right that's finishing finishing he's the finisher just like me maybe I need glasses we both finish in the clutch yes coach mango's got game you know It's so great to talk about, what is this game called again?

10:33Rivals. Rematch with you guys. You guys have been so good. It's impressive to see how great you guys have gotten. Andy, your defense is really elevated. You went from being a striker in the beta to just being a full midfieldsman who can do offense and defense. I'm very impressed. Blessing you in particular, you really pick up the energy, and you can play all roles. I mean, Gary Whittle wasn't lying. He's like, this guy, Blessing, can do it all, and I'm really impressed by that. And if we could clone you five times, we would just make one team of blessings.

11:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:If I could clone myself five times, I'll never hear from you. Now, shenanigans, of course, has just been a ton of fun playing with you guys. The issue is we're playing ranked modes, five stacks. So, like, we really got to get on the same page of we're not playing unless all five of us together. Unless we're going to lead to another DD situation where me and Adam talk trash to our teammates. Yeah. Well, you know, it all depends on just getting the squad together at the same time. We are coordinating, finding out who the five stack is. But, you know, that's the nature of the game. Sometimes you're going to have a fifth that you don't know.

11:39We had a lot of fifths last night, blessed, that were sometimes really good, sometimes not. Oh, yeah.

11:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Some of the fifths that would come through during the stream, they'd be fantastic. Delta. But then you have that one person. Who was the person that they started off as goalie and just did not want to play goalie? And we didn't realize it was too late. And we looked back and the goal was just empty. Yeah, I think that was maybe Killa or something. There was somebody, Mike, that, you know, all of a sudden, I'm in the midfield defending and suddenly it says, you're goalkeeper. And I was like, what the fuck? Turn around the goal scorers. Our dude just ran out there. He was like, I belong out here.

12:10Wasn't that the fanny guy? No, that was a different guy. Oh, no, that was a different person. Oh, that's what you guys streaming? I like the new move that Gary does of like goal check and just immediately kick it at the goal to see if they're AFK. Great idea. Have you guys heard about this new game, though? Like, Rematch Old News. Have you heard about my new arc? My trainer arc? Of course, I'm out there, and I'm accepted to the greatest, newest academy. It's all about horse girl racing, okay? Pretty derby. Have y 'all heard about this game yet? Bless, it's a gotcha game with anime waifus. I don't like that.

12:42Who run around the track as horses, okay? This game right here is got your boy Snow Mike Mike in a chokehold, Andy. I can't stop thinking about it. I can't run it. Andy, this game is high, okay? It's got a whole story. It's got career modes. Get this. So you train up an anime horse girl, okay, to run the track. You train her up. She ends her career, and you're like, oh, snap, what is she going to do? No, no. She becomes part of your training crew. So her stats then go to your next student that you train. So then I have these legacy characters who are helping out my newest classmate that I'm training and teaching.

13:18this game is lit bro and it's got a full ass story and stuff where you can like follow the anime beats the one girl I was training was the co-student council president she had a lot on her mind she was pretty hard at the beginning but then she softened up and I helped show her the ways of being the ultimate horse girl racing competitor great game this game you better get ready watch out this game could take over I mean yeah it's definitely very very popular on social I've not seen this

13:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:really really i didn't know about this until mike started talking about it oh right today today yeah oh okay gotcha yeah this has been it's been blowing up on twitch people have been kind of hopping in it'll be uh umamase is that what it's called it'll be a monster of the week sort of game you know um but yeah mike's really into it right now and for mike asking me you know i don't know if you've heard about this andy yes i did because about you know 30 hundred people popped in a mind chat to let me know he was playing it the amount of people every second popping in to let So maybe Mike is playing the...

14:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Uma Musume Pretty Derby. Yeah. We'll forget all about this in August. It'll just be a little blip on the radar, bless. I mean, this will end up in Mike's top 10. Yeah, oh, for sure. Mike's not going to forget about this in August. Number eight or nine. Number eight or nine. Hey, everybody. Remember, this is a Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, and now Spotify and Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free.

14:55Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Get your super chats and let us know how you feel about horse girl. Uma Musume. Uma Musume. Pretty Derby. Um Musume Pretty Derby. and also let us know what your let us know what your rematch tracker is what's your finishing ability? Are you finisher? Are you playmaker? Are you impact player? It's cool to see those stats here's one thing I was surprised about you know as we keep on boring the audience with more rematch news I thought I'd be I feel like I'd do a lot of passing but it's like no you don't or you're not getting assists rather the amount of times in a match I'm I'm like, that was a sick-ass pass.

15:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think the hard truth, one of the hard truths we need to face, right? Because we keep going for the off-the-wall pass, the off-the-wall pass. Oh, yeah. I think we need to reel that back a little bit. I think that works. There's a balance to it because we should be doing that, but also we shouldn't be doing that every single time. The off-the-wall should be used as play action. Let me tell you a little bit about American football. Yeah. Play action, bless. what you do is with play action you're running the ball a lot quarterback hands the ball off to the running back hands the ball off to the running back does it several plays in a row several plays in a row which causes the defense to start to collapse and they know oh they're going to be running the ball we've seen this formation everybody starts to kind of collapse so all the people who are maybe in the back to defend the receivers they come in and they're like no we need all these bodies up front and then you bust out the play action you set up the play action with a lot of running because it's a fake handoff pass so our wall technique could be used as like let's we get that in their mind and then we catch them off guard with spoiler cast and after games cast blessing and joey stream some games i don't know what y 'all are streaming so i think right now the plan is for me to stream tony hawk and for tony for i was gonna say for tony to see tony's coming by yeah Joey's going to stream some Animal Crossing.

17:08Cool. If you're kind of funny, remember today's Gregway is 19 minutes on Greg's second viewing of Superman. He saw it last night in IMAX, and he got that popcorn bucket.

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17:52Story number one. Elden Ring Night Rain topped the U.S. sales charts for May 2025, while Star Wars Battlefront II rocketed into the top 15. This is from David Carcassol at WCCF Tech. And we got some Matt Piscitella posting as well, who will likely add more context to the story. Serkana, executive director and analyst Matt Piscitella, has published the sales charts for U.S. video game sales in May 2025, showing a similarity to New Zoo's global report in that Elden Ring Night Rain was one of the month's best-selling games. And in the U.S. specifically, it was the best-selling game. Elden Ring Night Reign topped the U.S.

18:35sales charts for premium games across all platforms, followed by Doom the Dark Ages in second place and Forza Horizon 5 in third, driven by Forza Horizon 5's launch on PS5. That's such good news. I'm really, really happy about that. Bethesda's Oblivion Remastered was pushed into fourth place after being the top-selling game in the U.S. for April 2025, while Call of Duty Black Ops 6 stayed at fifth place. The other notable entry in the top 20 best-selling premium games for May 2025 in the U.S. was Star Wars Battlefront II, which jumped all the way from 135th on the monthly charts to the number 12 spot, just behind Assassin's Creed Shadows in XI, and just in front of Split Fiction at XIII.

19:16Elden Ring Night Reign Surge to the top spot for May 2025 also made it one of the best-selling games in the U.S. for 2025 so far. Though it wasn't enough to crack the top 10 since it only made the list at 11, Doom the Dark Ages was even further behind at 16. The most significant change in the top-selling games in the U.S. in 2025 so far was Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered, jumping ahead of Assassin's Creed Shadows to take second place, while Shadows now sits at third. Monster Wild is still the best-selling game of 2025 so far in the U.S. A lot of great numbers here from Matt Piscitella. A lot of great context added by David over at WCCF Tech.

19:58Bless. Yes. You continue to eat shit on this story with Elden Ring. Oh, dude, with Elden Ring?

20:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, my God. I've never been more wrong about anything in my life. I think for me, the biggest thing there is just the power of Elden Ring, like the power that FromSoftware has as a developer with their IP. but then like elden ring specifically being able to put out something that's weird and different and like non-conventional and for it to come out and just absolutely smash because the fan base will show up um it's funny because i my my i didn't have doubts that it would sell well but like for it to sell this well i think was where my main doubt was basically for the venn diagram of like all right is the crowd that's into elden ring are they gonna be into a party up with my friends drop down into a procedurally generated thing collect the resources and race to fight the boss sort of experience right like you're kind of combining the hardcore nature of an elder ring with like something like a pub g or fortnite or whatever as far as like the pacing of it which shouldn't make sense but they made it make sense and i think there is something to learn here for me this goes back to the conversation i was having with greg a bit yesterday where we went kind of back and forth in circles a little bit about like live service versus like a one and done drop and what's viable and multiplayer and what's like what's going to make you money and like my argument was about ghost of tsushima legends and how i think you could come back and do another ghost of tsushima legends situation but you should drop it standalone like charge 30 for it don't make it a live service thing just drop it as it as it is and i think that can do very successful as long as you scale it and scope it in the right way and don't like go overboard with it for me i look at elden ring night rain is a possible like a possible route as far as hey there is an audience for this we can do without writers we can do a hey this isn't meant to live forever kind of thing but it's a multiplayer thing that you play play with friends i do you think i'm putting too much sauce on that or do you like do you think this is successful because it's elden ring or do you think there's like a thing to read into here as far as the kind of game that it is i think it's a perfect recipe of a lot of things coming together at the right time i think that not only were a lot of the elden ring fans a lot of the new fans to the from software universe with 25 million plus being sold on elden ring and holy shit what a massive success this was and people who played those games also likely wanted to play with their friends and realize how difficult that was and realize that it wasn't the most easy drop in drop out sort of plug and play situation.

22:32And then they hop into this video game, which is all of the stimuli on crack. It's none of the running around. And, you know, it's you are getting the I think somebody in the in the YouTube chat at one point called it the NFL red zone experience for Elden Ring, where the red zone experience only shows you when teams are about to score and it cuts to every game whenever a team is about to score. so you're only getting the action of everything. This is that kind of condensed into that win or lose scenario. And, you know, that loses some players. Some players love the exploration and love that sort of meditative experience.

23:12But I don't think you're wrong at all about this. I think that the coolest thing about Elden Ring Night Reign is the scope of it. Because it still does some... Uh-oh, did we lose again? We're back, we're back. We're back. It still does have an amount of, it still has a lot of surprises. Still has some cool stuff that you didn't think you were going to see. Has some, obviously, the new bosses, these sort of explorable new areas that pop up, depending on whether you've beaten a boss or not. And I love those surprises. And it still feels, I think, because it is using the Elden Ring assets, using a lot of the same enemies, you are able to save a lot on the development and production of things and still being able to breathe life into this into this game with a brand new experience brings in a lot of people and the replayability is there it's that roguelite replayability of one more run oh i got this new thing i'm stronger now i oh shit oh now that boss i i actually can fight him now because i have my starting weapon uses holy or whatever it has all those hooks that that more and more people solve these sort of addictive hooks that a roguelite would have it has all those hooks in addition to we were so close to being that boss and multiplayer is way easier this time around

24:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it was kind of a perfect storm i think yeah yeah good for them right and like i mean that that for me that gives more juice to excitement toward um is it duskbloods yeah the duskbloods right like Like that's going to be another from software multiplayer thing coming out exclusively for switch two, which is a whole other, like that's going to, that adds another layer of like, okay, it's exclusive. Like I was going to do all that stuff. Right. But like, I, I want to see from software get weird more now, even with multiplayer, right? The fact that they've done historically have kind of been, I think kind of weird with multiplayer the entire time, right?

25:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm going to put down this fucking ringing bell to get my friend to be able to come in and help me fight a boss type situation right now all right you got a roguelite three person running around a procedurally generated open space we got you know the fucking momentary unique environments that'll pop up that have their own kind of hidden secret stuff going on like i think i i know we've already we've already glazed from software from like from from everywhere right we've already like i don't think we've done it enough we've glazed the fuck out of from soccer i like the fact that they are able to do this with undering night rain and have people take to it and have it be like an even more unique thing than they've already been doing and it still is ends up successful it still hits for people like yeah we might we might not be glazing them enough yeah i mean they're just doing everything they're doing everything make a sport make a soccer game now they've been making the right decisions and yeah i mean i don't think you're I don't think you were wrong in thinking that this was a possible divisive addition to their to their library I think it wasn't the easiest sell for a lot of people especially somebody like me who was always kind of number one doubter even as like such a from software diehard I you know I was like I don't know if that'll really work for me you're taking away the magic you're taking away that that sort of uh you know uh but the moments that you have with discovery and exploration that make the moments you know feel so important you're taking a lot of that away but but they found other ways to kind of bring that magic forth anyway like the amount of times that we're on this awesome excursion you see some crazy thing you're just like whoa dude that's they're they can they're the only ones that can do this sort of shit so i think you're right in that the for everybody wanting to make the live service forever game like we keep on throwing back to Outriders saying we never intended for this to be a Destiny like this is something that has replayability but this is something you can play with your friends and when you're done you're done with the experience I think a lot of IP and a lot I think a lot of IP can be helped by something like this to maybe keep that cash flow coming in for the next thing that people are making but I think a lot of devs and publishers are hopefully taking note and seeing because immediately my mind goes to horizon like everybody like i don't love horizon as a story i've never like loved aloy but the loop of oh shit if they made a monster hunter style game in horizon and maybe it doesn't need to be this forever game but maybe it is just like elden ring go after this boss now you're going after this boss get those pieces off make yourself better as you come back to the place and it not needing to be this you have to live here you have to you know this will be a full-time job i think about so many games i think about a lot of the playstation first party stuff right like you talk about horizon i look at the the like canceled slash leaked spider-man multiplayer game that like a trailer dropped for where you had like the multiversal different spider-man hanging out and i'm like i don't know obviously we don't know the details on that right but like that's something that if you put that out and didn't put it out in a live service hey this is a thing that's we're gonna update for a year with content but after the year we're done like we're not this is nothing that's gonna live forever i think that could have done well we talked about last of us online i fucking loved last of us factions in the first last of us and that wasn't a live service that was just a we're tacking on this multiplayer mode that's fun to play and like you know we have my transactions in it but it's not like fucking crazy shit except for that shotgun that was overpowered and i fucking hated that shotgun yeah um but that's all i wanted and for last of us the online thing right it got canceled because bungie came in and they did the consultation thing and they're like hey i don't we don't know if you got the stuff to keep this thing going and naughty dog was like oh yeah we can't we don't want to be able to support this game we don't want to have to support this game forever and so we're canceling it what if it was something that you didn't have to support forever though yeah why can't we just make multiplayer games that you don't have to support forever like i there is an audience for it there is i'm not even asking for like so many new assets elden ring night rain took so many existing assets and remixed them and did interesting things with them and all the bosses were previous bosses right and like i mean it was like all of the assets yeah yeah it was like all the assets except for like the some of the new like the boss areas and like the new bosses and like can't like a handful of things but like most of those assets were old things ghost of sushima legends did it right like right there is i think there is a demand for that shit and of course it's not going to sell it's not going and make you destiny revenue and i know that's what you want but there is still a demand for that stuff that i think hey if you go for that year and you see these fucking numbers that are that people are showing up and like loving this and like the numbers are astronomical guess what then you turn the then you turn that switch then you go fuck okay maybe we should expand and keep this thing going more yeah don't force it you can't force it it reminds me so much of when we first saw night rain pop up and my first thought was wow this seems like the highest budget mod out there because there are so many mods in uh in gaming that kind of give you similar experiences with randomizers and now we're doing a randomizer in dark souls and holy shit there or elden ring oh my god there's milenia is the first boss what is going on here like there are those moments of surprise and i i think that a lot of you know if you have a smaller team of 20 people in the off time of your game or whatever and you're working on the next thing if these smaller projects can be made i mean we just read that report a couple days ago about nintendo wanting to make smaller projects as well i i hope that this is the maybe the start of of a change where developers say hey we can have these smaller experiences and still have them be meaningful and impactful and fun in super short bursts now on the flip side of that i know something like fbc firebreak not doing great with players right i i still had a lot of fun with that um but there's just a lot of congestion out there right now you know in the industry uh another thing i want to point out with the story is um we're talking about that top 10 for may numbers two through like six if we go through them right it is doom the dark ages or to horizon five um but that's does oblivion remaster um yeah black ops six so all all xbox games on like all xbox shit that's also dropping on playstation right and you want to talk about the like why they do this why they release their stuff across all platforms why they've had such a strong shift and strategy the numbers are speaking right we talked about this i think me and tim talked about this when forza horizon 5 was announced for coming to playstation i was like yo that shit is going to sell so fucking well i didn't see that it's selling so well like that makes me so happy because i wasn't sure what the response was going to be on playstation to see the numbers being this high really encouraging for a game like forza horizon which i i fell in love with with four and five was an even more enjoyable experience to see that there's still a thirst for this style of game yeah really really awesome uh and i mean shout out to xbox for those high sales because that i mean the more sales you got more stability and less layoffs exactly exactly yeah you're not going to close it into your studios yeah yeah not yeah six thousand five thousand don't matter they're not going to lay it off everybody's safe they're at xbox that's great um story number two cyberpunk edge runners 2 is a standalone sequel series coming to netflix this comes from marcus stewart at game informer a standalone follow-up to netflix's 2022 acclaimed animated series cyberpunk edge runners has been confirmed dubbed simply cyberpunk edge runners 2 the upcoming anime features a fresh story and a new director announced during a behind the scenes panel with edge runners creators and cast during x anime expo in los angeles over the weekend cyberpunk edge runners 2 sees cd project red and studio trigger rekindle their partnership to bring the sequel series to Netflix.

33:29The original Edgerunners serves as a prequel to Cyberpunk 2077, though it is unclear when this follow-up will occur and if it will feature any returning characters. The panel also revealed prolific animator Kai Ikarashi as Edgerunners 2's director, taking the mantle from the previous series director, Hiroyuki Imaishi. The show is currently in production but does not have a release window. Quote, David's story might be over, but there's plenty more to discover in Night City, says Bartosz Sizetabor I probably butchered that I'm so sorry Cyberpunk Edge Runners 2 showrunner story writer and producer in a press release

34:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that's one of those names where like for you butchering it I think you did fine if Greg Miller saw that name his name and his head would fucking explode and it would have been Bartosz Sizetabor Sizetabor there would have been a lot of noises like that uh that's great news that's fantastic um i'm i'm pretty pumped for that because i really enjoyed edge runners as somebody who hopped in late to it are you stoked for this plus yeah i fucking loved um edge runners uh season one i'm very fascinated with this being a standalone thing because season one felt so definitive and felt i didn't think they would call this edge runners 2 i thought it was just me called a different cyberpunk anime i think you have to for branding for branding and the fact that it's still studio trigger like i thought i didn't realize i guess this what probably It was part of the new announcement, right?

34:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That Studio Trigger is still working on this one, which I didn't realize was the case until, obviously, now that we're here. Which is fucking awesome, because they absolutely killed it with the first one. So, yeah. Like, I'm fascinated to see what more stories you have to tell. Is this still a prequel situation? Yeah. I don't really have much to say about this, aside from, like, yeah, I can't wait. You know? I don't even know what I want. i is edge runners one was such a standalone like new fresh story in that world and i just want them to keep doing that just give me new standalone fresh stories yeah i think it's a rich enough environment that a lot of protagonists and antagonists can be created and you can fall in love and hate a lot new characters i will tell i will i will say i'm so impressed by how much i've come around on the cyberpunk world because when they first announced it and like we're showing off cyberpunk i was so fucking excited for it but then like as we approached cyberpunk and even my first game my first playthrough of cyberpunk i think i was kind of put off by like kind of the forced edginess in the force to like um oh what's the word they call each other chooms chooms yeah it's all my chooms and i'm like okay we're doing a lot here i don't know if i don't know if i love this this feels a little bit a little bit corny now that we're here and like we're years past it and I've played like the DLC and they've added Idris Elba and all this shit I'm so fucking in I love this universe now and so yeah I'm down for way more shit happening in the Cyberpunk stuff I want another game soon I know it's not going to be soon but I want another game absolutely if we don't get a game soon I'm probably going to Delta Toom because right now this fixer is acting like a real gunk and I'll tell you what isn't gunk, our sponsors.

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