Elder Scrolls VI Delayed Because of Xbox Layoffs?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.09.26

34:09But like when you talk about doom and id, I feel like the vision was achieved, right? We're going to bring back doom in a big way. We're going to make an epic trilogy that fans are going to love. And it feels like id achieved that goal. There's no way that that wasn't the goal that killed. That was the goal. They killed that. And so I'd love to know, like, is that former Stewie head from it was really the goal to possibly go make live service games? Because if it was, hey, we made single player games to keep the head count low. We achieved those goals. They did everything they needed to. I don't know what you do now with half of that studio.

34:47Of course, it is the easy one. If you're the top dog looking down going, well, they just finished their project. They're years from the next one. Start cutting that studio. That's the easy point and click on that. do they team up now with machine games and co-develop games when we now start to make the jump of wolfenstein doom wolfenstein doom wolfenstein doom back and forth yeah yeah according to alinea analytics um based on you know they do a lot of like good analytics based on wish lists and you know because a lot of official sales don't really come out um last year they estimated that doom had sold around a million gotta assume that number has risen a little bit but still still such a tragedy because it's it's such a freaking amazing video game and it just sucks that there's such a big loss of talent and the future ideas that they had that could have been what could have been yeah the idea of like a john wick gung fu game i mean they just That would have been epic.

35:55They just have so much sauce, man. They have so much great vision in what they do and technical know-how. And, you know, the recipes are being lost. Yeah, they're keeping that studio for the, of course, software, the talent that remains, but the IP. They're not letting that go. The IP is too valuable. They will not let that go out of their possession there. So we'll see what happens with that. When is the next Doom game now? What is that team allowed to make? What are they going to be focusing on? It's going to be a long time when you look at that number change. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. I just don't even know, you know, based on what other people just mentioned, how the hell can they operate and continue to work at that number now with so much key talent gone?

36:47What does a new Doom game even look like at less than half the size? You got to start thinking they'll be merging a lot of these teams together and just co-developing groups. Or like you said, they're going to hire a bunch of contractors and the work is going to get slower as they onboard new employees and try to restart all of this. I'll tell you what I'd like to restart. I'd like to restart the show, Mike. Let me tell you, I have a fun one for you next story. We're going to make it fun. Okay. Okay. Because this news has sucked. the whole week has sucked since monday with xbox and their announcements but this next story i'm gonna make it fun for you i'll tell you what's also fun mike staying alive as a company and we can't do so without your support on patreon a lot of people are listening ad free right now because they subscribe to us on patreon because when you don't support or pay for the things you love they go away forever so thank you to all of our supporters on patreon but if you're watching live right now.

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40:33So when we scale down these studios and sell them along with these IPs, it looks like it's cheaper to buy them. But know what you're getting. You know what you're getting, Doom and Quake. They'll prioritize it after the layoffs. We have to lay everyone off. Then we go, actually, this is a big deal to me. Figure it out. I'll make this. I love the Doom Slayer. The 15 of you left. I love Doom Slayer. Go make it. Jonathan Dennerson says, Doom Eternal sold 6 million copies. Doom The Dark Ages has 3 million players total, including Game Pass players. That was as of last year. That was in June of 2025.

41:08So that number's likely gone up since then. But thank you for the$5 super chat, Jonathan. It was a killer franchise, a solid title for Xbox. It was a big deal. Awesome. Nick Geller with a$5 super chat says, Not sure if it's planned, but talk about College Football 27's microtransactions. love the content thank you nick we will be getting into that um chaos killer with five with another five dollars he says i've got a genius idea i want to take i want to make bigger games faster so i will fire the devs on a proprietary engine watch the game suffer then lay off again no that won't happen and then the people who are still there have to use a different engine though yeah michelangelo with a ten dollars who i thank you for your support says launching an expensive console with heavy hitters, Playground Coalition, it already releasing slash released, and Obsidian, but there's a game so far out.

42:02Yikes. Yeah. Yeah. Big yikes all around. I'll tell you what else is a big yikes. Microtransaction. Madness. Microtransaction. Madness. Microtransaction. Mishaps. Oh, that was the word you wanted me to say. It's a microtransaction mishap, Andy. I use madness. My bad. No worries. You nailed it, though. But we're going to get into some microtransactions, and we're going to talk about a mistake that was made. Okay. Before the show started, by the way, Chad, Mike was like, oh, I can't wait to talk to you about it. We're going to talk about it on the show, Andy. I want, like, a piano. Give me, like, a melody, like a do-do-do.

42:43I was like, Mike, I don't have a piano. We're not set up for that. Story number three. $70 EA Sports College Football 27 locks single-player content behind microtransactions and earns, quote, mostly negative rating on Steam within 24 hours of release. This comes from Lewis Parker at Kotaku. EA Sports College Football 27, the latest entry in EA's college football franchise. And the first game of the series to be available on PC has been out for less than 24 hours, and it's already earned itself a mostly negative score on Steam with only 33 % of its reviews being positive. However, according to both fans and reviewers, the game itself is actually pretty great and a marked improvement over the previous entry in the franchise EA Sports College Football 26.

43:35So why is it getting dragged on Steam? Well, in classic EA fashion, the publisher has removed features that were available in the previous game's offline modes and replace them with microtransactions for EA Sports College Football 27. According to reviewers on Steam, two of the EA Sports College Football's single-player offline modes, Dynasty Mode, and Road to Glory no longer allow players to adjust the percentage of XP they would earn in the game. The previous entry in the franchise featured fast and faster sliders in these modes that allowed players to customize the amount of XP they'd earn in offline modes.

44:09But now they're expected to drop cash on college football points. Hell yeah, you need those CP points. Come on, college football points. Microtransactions for the same result. Worse still, reviewers on Steam note that while the amount of XP you earn in these modes has risen, the amount required to level up has also risen. Other reviewers have also stated that there appears to be a cap on the amount of XP you can earn without spending cash too. And as Insider Gaming notes, Content creators who were given early access to the game have also stated that these macro transactions were not available in the preview builds they were granted access to.

44:50And some have accused EA of keeping the macro transactions a secret before launch in a bid to garner more favorable reviews. While EA has yet to officially respond to the controversy, fans and content creators are trying to get the hashtag. Hashtag CFB. Play, don't pay. Don't pay. Don't pay. Just play. Play, don't pay. Play, don't pay. CFB play don't pay training online in an attempt to warn other players against purchasing the game when we get movements like this we got we got to have like a marketing person like on that you know like come on what are we doing I'd love to say shout out to EA for this this is the smartest time to do this like there's a lot of big there's a lot of big bad news out there and they were like should we do fuck it let's fucking do it because we weren't gonna do it but now is the best time to drop let's slide in there let's fuck it hey everybody else is burning the goodwill from gamers let's do it too and we look at andrew uh head of ceo or ceo of andrew wilson i believe andrew ea uh and mr andrew ea and he's like man i made you know 38 million of a bonus last year not my pay just a bonus um and but worry about xbox and playstation guys don't talk to what about your discs don't you care about discs the fact that you cannot speed up just progression in an offline mode is fucking hysterical mike tell me about the microtransaction mishap it's andy it's a microtransaction mishap we got on our hands here of course we go to ea and we talk about sports And we know that sports games have had a lot of microtransactions in the past.

46:36We've dabbled in Madden Ultimate Team and trading card games. We've dabbled in NBA 2K My Players. Love that VC. Love that virtual currency. You've got to have that VC. Yeah. Now we have college football points. EA Sports. College football has decided, you know, on top of the Ultimate Team that they already implemented in the first year, they were going to dive into a new microtransaction route that would deal with, of course, Road to Glory and Dynasty mode, famously offline single-player modes most of the time. So the issue that is at hand is that it has taken away something from the gamers and replaced it with a microtransaction.

47:14And so the catch is, is what's going on right now is previous years had a slider when you would start up Dynasty and or Road to Glory that would allow you to affect the XP your player would earn or your coach would earn over each game, season, year that you played, allowing your rating to go up. It's an approachability setting. It's a difficulty setting. It's an offline game mode allowed for you just to come in after your 9-5, zone out for two hours, upgrade your character and your player, and move on, right? And so they thought it would be a good idea to say, hey, we know there's a normal XP earned slash progression that you have to hit right on the graph.

47:52that goes up and up, and then, like, the progression is here, right, to hit those points. And they said, you know what? We're going to make a fun slider last year. It's going to be normal, harder, and then, of course, easier, right, to make it go however you want it. Maybe you want it to be harder. Maybe you want it to just be the normal route. Or maybe you're like, hey. Maybe you're like, I just had a kid. I play once a week. Yes. You know? My coach isn't going to play 72 seasons. I want him to hit max rank by 12 to 20 seasons. Yeah. And so what happened this year was is they took away half the slider.

48:23They've kept the slider at normal and harder to earn XP. But if you'd like to go on the easier side of things, they've taken that slider away in replacing it with microtransactions. So what will happen now is you boot up into dynasty as your coach. You can now adjust all of your attributes, similar to all of the other NBA 2K games that you're thinking of. You can adjust your coaching attributes and then they'll say, hey, if you want to be level 42 now instead of level 12, or if you want to be max level 100, that's going to cost you$99 right now to fast pass this whole system. Or you can be on your player in Road to Glory.

49:04You can come out, instead of being at 52, you can be at 86 for$50. And you're going, what do you mean, Mike? This isn't a PVP. What do you mean 99? Yeah, so your coach level can go up to 100. And to get to 100, we have some math here coming from Benny Wyatt, Hail Mary Media. He said you would have to win the national championship every single year for the next 150 years to max out your coach on college football 27 for free. Or you could just pay$99.99 to EA. I own this game, and I'm not touching it until it gets fixed. Dynasty mode is a single-player mode that you don't play against anyone else.

49:45Wait, how much is it to unlock the slider? No, no. The slider's there. They took the second half off. So the slider's here, right? Last year, it would go normal to, hey, making it harder to earn XP, plus making it easier to earn XP. They took that off. They just hid that part. Right, but, like, how much to unlock that thing? No, that thing's gone. The slider's still there, but we're not talking about that. It's gone. Oh, shit. So there is no, hey, I want to just have a fun franchise where I earn a bunch of XP faster over time like it was in previous years. They took that half gone. That's fucking insane.

50:23It's fucking insane because this is a, it's not pay to win like NBA 2K, which is the goal. You're not playing online against other people. You're playing at home by yourself to enjoy yourself to escape the horrors of the world. I just want, I just fucking want Monmouth College with my coach there to try to get to the national championship. I didn't know there was a Star Wars team. That's why it's a microtransaction mishap because EA didn't think this through. Nobody wanted this. Nobody in their right mind is paying for this because the whole goal of the game is to get better over time playing the CPU and earning XP because I'm not playing against Andy who's throttling me every single day in the park like NBA 2K.

51:07And so why are they making charges like OnlyFans? They wanted to find a new way. And like EA Sports, here's your opportunity right now. You need to come out today and say the following. Hey, everybody, we had a microtransaction mishap. Okay. We wanted to try something new in EA Sports. And specifically, we wanted to start with EA College Football. We heard the feedback. You don't like this. We're going to apologize. We're going to put the slider back in. and we're going to go back to the drawing board and figure something else out. That's all you're going to do. Put the slider back in the game.

51:40Stop this right now. Because the game is good at its core. It is year three of college football. We are trying to make this an annual title. We need to make sure the goodwill of players are there all the time. And so having small, dumb things like this is stepping on a rake that you don't need. It wasn't going to make you that much money at the end of the day. People weren't going to engage with it anyways. Because this is simply one of those things of like, at the end of the day, you don't have to buy this. You never have to do this. But the flip side is like, hey, last year you gave them a fun easy option to dive a little bit deeper into these game modes and just kind of get lost and leave the existential dread of reality and just play your game and enjoy.

52:21And then maybe they buy some ultimate team coins. Maybe they buy Madden. Like, that's what we're supposed to build here. Not, hey, let's just milk our consumers for as much money as possible, right? And that's where we're at. You know what I do? If I'm EA. Tell me. I treat this like a lot of studios treat situations whenever they act like they accidentally left in AI assets. And I just go, shit, man. We thought we took that out. We didn't know we left it in. Mike, the intern, was testing something. We were supposed to. Our bad. That was in there to test stuff. We forgot. Today is the launch day.

53:03you need to do that now if you're EA sport because what they're hoping for is people just ignore this and forget about it because then year two we're going to bring it back like if you don't stop this now which is what you're seeing year three they're going to be like if you want to play as Alabama you pay more from content creators around the globe and I will I will implore you and tell you hey if you like sports games if you like EA sports college football you probably know a bunch of these content creators but there's a guy named Bordeaux out there who does really fun college football content.

53:36He does like the, my player, I play in Hawaii, and I raise up the ranks. Great content creator. Has been ride or die for EA, promoting the hell out of these games, right? Doing a great job on social media. He was the one who created the hashtag CFP, CFB, play don't pay. To be like, yo, this is fucked up. That I went out to this event, you hid this from us, I promoted this game, pumped up about this game, all of us get jazzed up, and then day one you hit us with this just super insane microtransaction strategy. Man, I'm glad I didn't pick this up on it. And they're like, absolutely fucking not.

54:09And so, yeah, this is the day, with launch day, you come out and apologize and you take one on the chin. Because you've got to be swung. Dude, this is so bad. It's a microtransaction mishap. That's all it is. Hey, we fucked up. We tried something. It didn't work. We hear you. We're taking it out. Because we're trying to get to the money, Andy. And the money is, hey, EA Sports FC soccer. I'm trying to make that into NBA 2K, the neighborhood. And so you go to the soccer field. You go to the fields. And there's about eight soccer fields. It's like the block. They're playing Volta mode. They're playing 4v4, 3v3 indoor soccer.

54:44And you create your player. And then we microtransaction you there to buy your player from 65 FedEx outfits. This time they wear purple and orange instead of all brown. Because I'm ripping off NBA 2K. They wear your FedEx uniform at 65 overall. You buying Nike shoes for your character? Oh, hell yeah. Pumas, Nike, I got everything. You want to buy an Erling Holland jersey? That's going to be$9. So, like, you're getting to the money somewhere else. Speaking of Erling Holland, I saw him in a video recently of someone doing a tour in his house. And they're like, do you play video games? He's like, oh, yeah, my favorite video.

55:17I love Assassin's Creed. I love Call of Duty. Oh, yeah, he's great. And he was like, I want Xbox to sponsor me. I just want to be like, I don't know. Things are bad right now. Like, I don't think. I don't know if they got money like that right now, early. They will for that. They will for that. Yeah. 9000 says Mike is crazy for thinking this will happen. I'm going to make a promise to you. And the next five years, EA sports FC will have that exact mode that I just described to you. And they will monetize your player. Just like NBA 2k. It is not a, a guess. This is, this is the prophecy. This is reality that they will do this world of shell.

55:54You will get this. You will get this in the ES Sports FC, and they will figure out how to make a fun minigame mode in football, in Madden, in college football, just like that. I promise you, it's going to happen. This is crazy. This is a microtransaction mishap. It's a microtransaction.

56:12Microtransaction mishap.

56:16Microtransaction mishap. Oh, shit. You found that I fucked up. Now I got to hide it. Oh, I'm putting out a yellow Twitter post. I got to put a block of color with some text on it. Apologize. That's way worse than what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be the VC nickel and diamond stuff. This is so much worse than what I thought. I don't love the locked single player content behind microtransactions. Because it's not like you're losing out on Dynasty or, you know, Road to Glory. It is just an odd one of, like, why did we choose this one slider? And why did we choose that microtransaction idea?

56:52It's a microtransaction mishap. Who thought this through? who thought that was a smart move it's it's charging for difficulty options like for people who want can you imagine if like from software we're like hey you've you've been asking you know katakawa's you know on our ass trying to get us to make more money you guys have been asking for an easy mode you're gonna get one but it's 20 bucks don't put that out there like it'll happen it's i don't know i i think mizaki would murder somebody before that happened the fact that like night rain never got yeah uh a goddamn cyberpunk tie-in or you know what i mean like but that's that's what that is it's just like i just want to experience this in a quicker way what was going to happen there the snowball was going to take effect was now they were going to mess in the back end with the xp you earn as you read that your xp would get capped eventually right and i read that tweet that it would take you 127 seasons they're just going to start messing with the xp where earning your xp and leveling up and getting to that maximum rank would take so long that no matter what you'd have to pay right that that's where we were going to get to the snowball effect of this microtransaction mishap moonstone in the twitch chat says pay 14.9 to remove all poison swamps um but like nba 2k we got to get into the idea of like refunding me my points when i make the wrong build$10 for a refund build

58:22how much how much you drop it on NCAA well I'm playing game pass thanks to EA play I'm gonna buy the game because the game is good they got mascot mode now the presentations through the oh I'm excited for that they got mascot mode and I'll tell you why I'm excited for it for Ray Narva's streams of course because he always goes back to the old one yeah this is gonna be I mean the game fucking rocks this is just This is a small pebble that we've tripped over to microtransaction mishap. Just put out the tweet today. Apologize. Take it back and reset the course. It's your year three. Don't start burning the goodwill of the football gamers now when they believe in the product.

59:01Uncle Death Ghost is a pretty big pebble. Oh, Andy, Ray didn't like the new mascot mode. It was kind of as, oh, damn, I didn't know that. Damn, that sucks. You got to unlock all of them. Mm. Mm. Put it on a shirt, microtransaction mishap. Put it on a shirt. I can see it. It's my new thing. We're going to talk more microtransactions. You never know. Story number four. Talk about a transaction right now. Good news for you. Palworld won't raise its price following 1.0 launch. This comes from Darren at GameSpot. After more than two years in early access, Palworld has launched into 1.0. There's some good news for anyone looking to dive into it.

59:39Usually, early access games charge a smaller fee to entice users, increasing the sticker price once the full release goes live. Palworld developer Pocket Pair is bucking that trend, and it says that the game's price will remain at$30 following its full launch on PC and console. Quote, After much thought, we've decided not to raise the price of Palworld following the 1.0 release and will keep it at$29.99. The developer wrote, We are incredibly proud of how far Palworld has come. Thanks to the amazing support of our players, it has become a success beyond our wildest dreams. As a small way of saying thank you, We will be keeping the price at$29.99.

1:00:13Thank you for your continued support. That's awesome. I love that, Mike. That's really, really great news. That's the right move right there. We talk about Steam in particular and those sales and those smaller indie titles and finding that sweet spot of these aren't$70 games. All of a sudden, you are finding a Mecha Chameleon for$7, and it's selling outrageous numbers, right? Pal World found a comfortable spot at about that$30 mark. and it's like, just sit there. Stay there. This is the right price for the product and you're going to sell crazy. And it has sold crazy. Because I'll tell you what.

1:00:49There are a lot of adults out there. I know that people are struggling with money. The world is in utter chaos. I'm saving up money for my college football points. And your sign. Haven't seen it yet. Oh, haven't seen it yet. Yeah, it's been about a week and a half. It's almost like I forgot about it. But it's going to be a good surprise. It's going to be your secret Snickers. Almost like you forgot about it. I know people are struggling. I know the world is in utter chaos. But there are a lot of people like me who, you know, because they don't have children to care for or families to pay for. Yep.

1:01:33Definitely not buying a house anytime soon. Definitely not buying a house. Why save up for that? And those are people with expendable, you know, resources and income. And when those Steam sales go live, your$30 game goes down to$22.99. That becomes a lot closer of a, fuck it, I'll add it to the, it's a big Steam sale. I'm buying three things. I'll add that to the cart. I think that's awesome to leave it at$29.99. That's huge, Mike. And the game rocks. The game rocks. I don't like guns. Pal World is a great game. Take out the guns. I get it. You want a certain vibe. Give me a, give me servers. Give me a server that I could just say like, we're not making guns.

1:02:15Cause it just makes it all look goofy. Yeah. Just let me, let me shoot arrows. God, that game's good, man. They really, it's survival craft. It's an awesome, it's an awesome, like melding of everything that I've wanted for a long time. There is, have you seen, there's another game coming out that I wish I hadn't even started this thought because I'm going to give Barrett nothing here. to try to google he's gonna get nothing from what i'm about to explain remember what uh i think it's on uh the games cast after this of like me just trying to search whatever the fuck you had said explaining a good games cast after this by the way me lucy and greg uh and bear talking about what the next five years of the industry look like and there is there's a lot of like really really good discussion there um but there's a game coming out soon that is very similar to pal world okay with uh it's a lot cuter it's like adorable um yeah type in cute game pokemon creature catching survival okay i like this all those things chat you know what i'm talking about it's not animo it's it's definitely not animo uh it's it's definitely survive it's very like the characters are very kind of...

1:03:27I don't know. The algorithm is telling me it's anime. Cutesy or anime. Definitely not talking about anime. It just got released or... It was debuted like last week. Okay. But look into it, Barron. Keep on looking into it. Okay. But that game, hopefully, could be really, really huge. They're saying Power World sold over 25 million copies. Wow. Remember that was like... I mean, that was... That was such a huge Xbox game. That was Sarah Bond's... wind that was sarah bond's like golden goose she's like i fucking crushed we need parrot we need like power world everywhere in every household world fucking did it yeah that's unbelievable no it's definitely not pickmon 1.0 coming up i'm excited to jump back in i want to jump back in and do it all big fan of the game similar to pal world is just what i'm gonna google right now um no it's not arc it's not arc i like arc uh either way mike i mean it's huge that Pat Ward would do that.

1:04:24And you know what else is huge, Mike? Tell me. The We News. Big. Big. It's not small. We News is huge. It's a huge news. Also, there's something wrong with... I think... Something's wrong with the audio. So the We News music isn't playing. Oh, it's okay. I could try to hurt our ears for a second and try to fix it. No. All right. You said you really want it. So I'm going to do it. You go to our last story, Mike. Yeah. I take you to our last story. It's a big news day at the Weed News Channel. What do we got?

1:05:03PlayStation says, due to ongoing technical considerations, online support for the user-generated content features in Infamous 2 on PlayStation 3 will end as of August 31st, 2026. Stop it. You hopping on that infamous Who's playing that? One more time? Stop it You hopping in one more time? There has to be an end sometime It's like us with Anthem I know people don't like to hear it I know we want this shit to last forever But there has to be an end sometime That definitely feels like an oversight You just forgot, that's still up With the Rocket money, it was like Are we still paying for those servers?

1:05:41This shit's got to end After this date, players will no longer be able to access browse, upload, download, or play UGC missions through the infamous two online servers. Offline features, including the main campaign, will remain playable. Greg notes that this will make the Platinum Trophy unobtainable unless Sucker Punch updates the game. Damn, that's a great Greg note right there. Greg note! He's writing a note to let you how difficult it'll be to get that Platinum. Get you back into the studio. You two are already ready for a follow-up. I'm ready. I'm so fucking ready. You guys crushed that. I will say, though, like, I definitely witnessed, like, oh, yeah, Greg cannot keep a rhythm or a beat or tempo.

1:06:21Yeah, I mean, he's a white boy with no rhythm, but he's got motion. Oh, got a lot of motion. Yeah, a lot of rhythm. And how'd swipe that turn out? Swipe that come out all right? Oh, it's beautiful. God, swipe that. Yeah, beautiful. Tiny Bookshop opens its doors today on iOS and Android. annihilated has been delayed to q4 to launch it in its best quality possible i don't even know what that is i don't know what that game is hell is us on switch 2 has been delayed two weeks to october 8th 2026 that's not a great time to put out hell is us on that's not a great time no you don't like you don't like october 8th i don't i mean not for hell is us too not for hell is us no Oh,

1:07:04October's crazy, Mike. It's going to be September. Bro, you'll be playing Gears. Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger. IX1 Plus 2 Dual Collection is out now. Friend of the show, Mega Ran, has just four days left in his Kickstarter campaign for his Star Wars wrap-up. Check out Skywalker, a fan-made rap tribute. 50 years in the making. yeah keep on looking for that game i'm talking about this is on animal not animal nintendo has released a yoshi and mysterious book demo okay did that game come out it did nice people kind of fuck with it i know some people who really fuck with it it's always it's always i always get really sad when the demo comes out way later because you're like oh you missed him yeah these aren't going great you know we're trying to remind people about it even gotch at kataku reports Christopher Barrett, a 25-year veteran of Bungie who had sued Sony for$100 million after he was terminated by the PlayStation 5 maker, following what it claimed was a pattern of misconduct related to unwanted messages he exchanged with female employees, has settled his legal dispute with the company and has been added to the marathon credits.

1:08:18Barrett claimed the termination... Last name Barrett, please. Last name Barrett claimed the termination was a, quote, breach of contract to get out of paying him over$80 million that Sony would owe him as a result of its$3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie in 2020. That's so much money. Oh, my God. And just to reiterate, my first name is Barrett. Yeah. Christopher. Last name is Barrett. No relation. No relation. Andy Robinson of EGC says, The former editorial leadership of British publication BG247 has founded a new games brand, Respec, which they say will offer a new independent voice in increasingly shrinking games media.

1:08:59Respec is a news, reviews, and feature site managed by former VG247 editor-in-chief and Eurogamer editorial director Tom Ori, and former VG247 editor-at-large and RPG site owner Alex Donaldson. Chad, are you still looking into that game? Okay. Hey. You still looking into that game for me? Let me know. That's it for Wii News, everybody. Let's get into super chats and kindoffunny.com forward slash you're wrong. Or you can let us know what we got wrong with the show.

1:09:37I'm looking at the you're wrongs. Want to make sure I don't give any credit to a you're wrong that's just, you know, fake shit. Those are from yesterday. Yeah, we only have one today, but Mad Rock does. I'll read this one. It says, Bandai Namco is stupid enough to make that kind of transaction mishap. Micro transaction mishap. They put an$8 price tag on Tekken 7's frame data. I don't know how real or not that is, but that's awesome. Shout out to fucking late-stage capitalism. You don't want to put me in the room. You know what I mean? Because I got ideas. I got ideas. Super Smash Bros. You ready for this?

1:10:19Let me pay for all the characters. Exactly. Hey, Nintendo, I got an idea. I don't want to unlock these. Don't start with me. Let me fast track. You let Mike in the room here. I got a thousand ideas. Yeah. Let me fast track right now. Let's see. We have a super chat from Alex Frazier says, saw a meme the other day that Holland is evil boo side by side. Too accurate. Great photo. Yeah. A lot of great storylines out of the world cup. I had a, you know, 30 seconds of sports with Andy Cortez featuring Snowbike Mike yesterday on the stream. A lot of great storylines. Yeah. Have you been talking about it?

1:10:55About the world? I love it. I mean, World Cup. But also, where's LeBron Brown going? Ronnie. Golden State. I think he's going to Cleveland. No, that would be boring. I mean, it would, but. That'd be so boring. Go home. It'd be way cooler if he retired. Played with Steph. Oh, my God. Imagine. A year. But I don't think it'll happen. The Heat or Cleveland? Mike made a face for the audio. If he calls me out, I'll help him. I'll help him with this decision. Vavu Yios. $5. Super John says, payday tax. Let's go Morocco. Thank you. I'm rooting for Morocco for you now. Morocco right there. Who are you rooting for?

1:11:32Who's your storyline of choice on the World Cup?

1:11:38I mean, it would have been Egypt. But that was a bad time. Okay, okay. That was a bad time during that Games Daily where me and Bless were just reacting in real time to all of the insane comeback. Oh, it was amazing. That's right. France, Morocco today. Mbappe, your guy? Only because he's boys with Wemby. So, yeah. And then, of course, Messi looking to go back to back. Could be massive. I'll tell you my favorite, too. It's Norway and England. One, Holland. Everybody loves this guy. He's the best. He's also a freak. He's a freak. You watch the guy. That's a freak. Okay? He's a cryptid. He's running out there.

1:12:16He's like a woodland creature hunting out there. On the flip side, okay. England. Harry Kane. Harry Kane. Sir Harry Kane. Tim Geddes. I'm about to give him a piece of land in a castle if he wins this. Did you hear his voice after the interview? Oh, my gosh. So funny. Because what he did in Mexico was unbelievable. Torrential rain. Down a player. Kept him up all night banging on drums, lighting off firewood. And he came into the Azteca. and his team came out on top. That was unbelievable. Crazy win. Crazy win. Co-op 64 with his Super Chat. You're out to Co-op 64. It says Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 Shadow Drop.

1:13:00Did that happen? On PlayStation, I believe, right? Yeah, yeah. People were excited about that one. Launching an expensive console with heavy hitters. Oh, I already read that Super Chat. That was from Michelangelo. Sorry, Michelangelo. Yeah. Aaron Lime with a$5 Super Chat says they want everyone on UE5 so they can hire contractors for cheap and lay them off for cheap proprietary engines that run better be damned. Yeah. That's what it seems like, right? It's like trying to just get everybody on the same thing so we can just less onboarding. Yeah, right. Less onboarding, easier to jump on and off, but we saw, you know, CD Projekt Red do that.

1:13:36It's a bummer. It's a bummer. Thank you everybody for your Super Chats. Thank you to Clawmaster with a$10 Super Chat. It says, it's a damn shame what they did to Id. As someone who grew up playing the Doom games and Quake, what they did to that studio is criminal. Shame on Microsoft. Thousand percent. $5 Super Chat from Gaming with Josh. Doom 2016 to Eternal to Ancient Gods to Dark Ages and now Revelations. What a generational run. Thank you, Id. Thank you, Id. That's going to do it for today's Kind of Funny Games Daily. We appreciate you all hanging out with us. If you love what we do, Support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show.

1:14:18Once again, after the games cast is a games cast with me, Greg Lucy James. Yeah. Talking about what do the next five years of the industry even look like? Stay around for that. And then afterwards, a stream with Mike and Roger playing a game that doesn't have microtransactions. the biggest sports title to launch on Thursday, July 9, 2026. A game that has returned from many years being gone. Your childhood nostalgia will scream at this one. Backyard baseball. Get high for that. Coach Mike is in the building. He's going to teach Roger about baseball. I have my full windbreaker on. Oh, shit. My swooshy pants and swooshy jacket.

1:15:00I thought I heard a lot of noise. Will be on today. I'm going to yell at Roger and get him real. I'm going to break Roger fucking Roger thank you all for watching and listening we appreciate y 'all support as always take care of yourselves take care of each other and we'll see you guys next time