Game Awards: Every Announcement, Where Was Xbox?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.12.25

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2:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:today's stories include everything announced at the game awards last night we got to talk about the clear obscure sweep and where was xbox last night well all this is more because this is kind of funny games daily

3:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for friday december 12 2025 i'm your host blessing at aoy jr join me is the master of hype snow bike mike my main man bless happy friday friday congratulations on a fantastic game awards watch along last night you looked very good thank you great suits great like turtleneck combo with that yeah but i overdo it that's like my probably my fifth time where excuse me wearing that specific outfit i feel like i gotta switch it up get creative that's okay i you know i want to keep people on their toes i like that i like that but you know what for last night you looked great thank you now you know next time you guys change it up a I was getting texts from people saying that I should compliment you on your outfit as well.

3:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:My friend Zachary said the blazer sweatshirt combo. Thanks, homie. I appreciate that. I'm doing my Phil Spencer. Keeping it light, keeping it easy. Phil Spencer rocked the sweatshirt hoodie. He was rocking the video game t-shirt underneath the blazer. So we're just keeping it easy. Hell yeah. A couple of jabronis keeping it easy. How are you feeling after last night? I'm feeling good. You know, I think all of us are feeling, probably the audience as well, a little half step slow. with 12 hours in between content. We literally went to bed, came right back to work, feeling good. I did stay up a little bit late, play some Pragmata.

4:26Then did I order a pizza and some jalapeno poppers last night at about 1130 at night? Yeah, of course it did. So yeah, I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great.

4:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hell yeah, hell yeah. I'm kind of in that same place. A little tired, but you know, excited to talk more about video games. It's a pretty, I think, good conglomeration of, I just made up a word, good grouping of topics to talk about conglomeration where I'm at yet. But yeah, I'm excited to talk more about Game Awards stuff. It's nice to have the night to kind of decompress process information, come back, and we get to talk about it more. Well said. I think that's the nice thing about it. Yeah, you kind of sit on that, stew on it a little bit. Yeah. I like going on Reddit, seeing what people were excited about, what our audience thought.

5:01That's also fun. There was a great Reddit post about you. Oh, yeah?

5:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, the face I made? Your eyeball popped down your head. I love re-watching it because I think that whole, I forget what game that was. I think it might have been Faded Old Republic. I didn't say a word. It was just facial expressions for me. It was all faces. It was a really good time. A lot of good reactions, of course. You can catch up on a lot of those on social media because Roger's been breaking those out. Fantastic. Been doing such a great job over on Instagram and on TikTok, so go check those out. But let's not waste any time because remember, this is 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.

5:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. to get all of our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be a part of the show, some of your thoughts and opinions is YouTube Super Chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. We're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. So today, after KFGD, you're going to get Gamescast, which is your Game Awards hot takes. You write in with them. We talk about your hot takes and debate them. It'll be a debate cast. It'll be a good time. Ooh. And after that is Terminator 2D No Fate with Greg and Nick.

6:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Ways. Greg building his holiday hit list. What games can he and does he have to finish by January 5th? Good. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, hit us all with some of that. Because I told Blessing before the show, I'm a blank slate right now. I need something to play. I need some direction in my life. Coming hot off of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, into Dispatch, into Exodus 33. I'm ready for something new. I'm ready. I was talking about this the other week where I'm like, part of me wants to lock in on games that I have in my 2025 backlog. But then the other part of me is like, what if I just chill?

6:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What if I spend a holiday just relaxing and not even playing video games? What if I watch a movie? What if I do something else? So I'm balancing it. I think I have a tendency to burn myself out on video games because I get so into it during the review season. and so we had it where it was fucking what, Ghost of Yote into Ninja Gaiden, into Dispatch into Keeper, and I reviewed five games in the spate of three weeks and all of a sudden I was like, I don't want to play video games anymore so I gotta manage that better maybe I'll make that my New Year's resolution manage my energy for video games better I got a little tease too for the next episode for Gamescast saw one of your hot takes, just so you know did a little research, I'm coming at you I'm coming back at them okay but we'll see if that one gets selected i don't know i love that just no i got you on my mind one of you hell yeah thank you to our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have five stories today uh baker's dozen starting with our number one we got a quick recap of everything announced at the game awards 2025 this is pulling from chris scullion at video games chronicle i got a super chat question for y 'all what was your game of the show let us know let's talk about it of course if you want our full in detail um game by game breakdown in depth of everything announced at the game awards we have a games cast for you that went up yesterday that was our reaction and review for the game awards i wanted to have the story here just as a quick hey for those who might have missed it here's everything and then let's talk about everything broadly right now that we've had time to process decompress and sit with our thoughts again i'm pulling from video games chronicle this is chris scolian writing um i'm just going to go down the list right we had star wars fate of the old republic that was announced it's being directed by casey hudson the original director of the original knights of the old republic game uh he had the statue the mysterious statue uh was revealed as divinity we're getting a new divinity game in development from larian studios coven of the chicken foot is the debut game from uh bruce straley's new studio capcom officially revealed that leon kennedy will be in resident evil requiem we got a new trailer from exodus that's the game of course starring matthew mcconaughey uh being published by wizards of the coast very mass effect like looking game we got control resident the sequel to control that was announced for next year we got the debut game from yakuza creator toshihiro negoshi uh his new studio called gang of dragon we got two new tomb raider games a remake called tomb raider legacy of atlantis and a sequel called tomb raider catalyst uh they were revealed for 2026 and 2027 respectively lenny kravitz will play a villain called bama in 007 first light no law the next game from the team behind the ascent is a cyber cyberpunk fps developed in the unreal engine 5 ps5 exclusive sorrows has been delayed until april which they kind of like they didn't say the word delay they just said april 30th and i'm like nothing happens low-key date push like that's all right like that's low-key kind of gaslighting because i saw that i was like oh we're wrong i like that i'm a crazy one here because we all thought it was march i love that move let's not even talk about let's just put a date up hey it's april don't question it's april 30th it's always been april 30th um we also got bradley the badger announced that's coming from uh the studio founded by david solioni got it solely soliani there we go of course you know him from mario plus ravids star wars galactic racer was announced um and a new megaman game megaman dual override is coming in 2027 uh some more headlines for you we got the free shepherd that's coming out in 2027 you got decrepit that's a dark fantasy souls-like set in a grim dark castle of horrors i got audio mech from the creator of audio surf you got guild wars 2 visions of eternity expansion is out now a new region is coming to escape from duck off in 2026 pragmata is coming Switch 2.

10:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Solasta 2 is coming March 12th. Tank Rat is a tank-based action game coming to PS5 and PC in spring 2026. Stupid Never Dies is the debut game from NetEase's own studio GP Track 50. South of Midnight is coming to PS5 and Switch 2 in spring. Capcom has kicked off a new sale on PC and consoles. John Carpenter's Toxic Commando will be released on March 12th. The first game by Bad Robot Games, a co-op shooter by Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth is called For Loop. for loop for loop for loop ontos the creators of soma is coming from the creators of soma is coming 2026 angels of delusion our new faction coming to zzz's endless zone zero 2x ko is coming to ps5 and xbox in january 2026 hell yeah order of the sinking star is the new game from jonathan blow coming 2026 we got warlock dungeons and dragons a new fantasy action game we got an anime inspired racing game called screamer coming march 26 we got the first new trailer for the street fighter movie lego batman legacy the dark knight will be released may 29th i'm gonna pause there let's cool you off let's cool me off cool him off mike i'm gonna pause there i've already said a lot of things is there anything you want to talk about so far i mean can i just take all of it you know what i mean like like all of it all of it is so awesome is this a summer game fest announcement list because gosh darn it that's a lot going on there oh yeah um yeah i'll give you some of my highlights i think you've touched on almost every announcement here but of course going up from the top right there Lenny Kravitz was a highlight a big smile I think a really great way to add some style a wow factor celebrity into your James Bond video game Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic got a big oh my gosh out of all of us Casey Hudson and his ties back to old Bioware games Mass Effect trilogy that we all grew up and loved you know that's going to be a long way away but of course that's an exciting name to be tied with a very exciting IP and project there going down of Of course, Larian Studios has made a huge splash, right?

12:41People now know that name. They expect great things for them. Baldur's Gate 3 took over the world and was amazing. You have to expect that, like, a lot new fans are going to jump into this new game called Divinity, which I think they did a great job cutting off all the extra stuff, not having a three on it, right, and just saying Divinity, right? It's a new game. You're going to have fun with it if you liked Baldur's Gate 3. You know the studio behind it. Leon Kennedy I mean come on Condor 1 down to Baby Eagle like it's going down he's in there I'm very excited about Resident Evil Requiem I can't wait for that Control Resident I mean that game was crazy looking what an awesome trailer an awesome like live action situation to lead up to with the guy hanging from the top of the ceiling over the stage then getting put into the box and then they cut into the actual gameplay and like the game cinematic trailer that was awesome and very well done on that i think this gang of the dragons looks so cool right it looks very yakuza-esque but like an idea of like hey we're stepping away from yakuza new studio you know the name like let's have some fun very cool stuff i can't wait to see that of course total war warhammer i told you blast i'm on i love total war and the last time they teamed up with warhammer i dipped my toe in now Snowbike Mike goes fully into the deep end and maybe I become a Warhammer freak no promises but I think this could freak me out that's your next Magic the Gathering right there watch I might start painting you never know two Tomb Raider games I freaking love and adore Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics has done a fantastic job with that franchise bringing it to the modern age making it special with that past trilogy I've been looking forward to it and the idea that we're getting two in the next two years a brand new one in 2027 and a reimagining of the force first laura croft tomb raider expedition like that's crazy in unreal engine and all that jazz like all the bells and whistles yes yeah give me all of that and more i mean bless i can go for days because i know you and i i'll bring you in i mean the badger game bradley the badger game bradley the badger is gonna be my whole personality

14:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:when that comes out i love a really creative 3d platformer and we've been getting them more and more you know like astrobot last year of course that's kind of funny's a pivotal game that's the game that defines kind of funny right there astrobot and when i tell you that like whenever we get a new one of those right a 3d platformer that is being that is doing something fresh that is doing something new or a 3d platformer that just looks and feels polished to play i'm down for all of it bradley the badger not only looks really good but also has a personality to it right is also doing something that's novel hey let's really lean in and reference a lot of these games Let's do the Badger Punk or the Last Badger or whatever they're doing here, right?

15:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like, all that shit speaks to me. I think that's going to be one that's really exciting to look forward to. Yeah, I can't wait for that. I mean, some other quick shout-outs for me, of course, The Forest 3. I'm stunned that we are getting a Forest 3 announcement after Sons of the Forest and where we were just at. It feels like that was just yesterday, but it has been quite some time. And now that team has something new, kind of more of a sci-fi setting than what we're used to with The Forest. So I think fans are going to probably talk a lot about that and be excited. Of course, Diablo four. Whoa.

16:01We get an expansion and a new character class dropping out right now with the Paladin. Like that's the perfect tease. Hey, we got something coming for you next year in April, but right now we got something for you to play a brand new character, a brand new class. Go jump back into Diablo four. One of the best Diablos of all time. That team over at Blizzard really brought that back. and that is a fun game to play and having a new class is fantastic. I mean... I mean, we can talk about every single one of these games. I mean, that's the problem. That's the problem. He jammed it. They did a fantastic job this year at the Game Awards from the musical numbers to the stage presence, the celebrity cameos, the awards itself and all the recognition and flowers that we got to give to incredible development teams to game reveals, flute guy going crazy.

16:50Here's my shout out to the show. Flute guy went crazy I know you and Greg were telling flute guy Maybe it's time to take out the limelight Yeah, listen

16:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I said it kind of jokingly and some people took it serious You know, I fuck with flute guy Flute guy He took the fucking kitchen sink or whatever He's playing the PVC pipe underneath your drain pipe It's like, that was crazy All of a sudden he was playing something as small as my fingertips I don't know what was going on But flute guy killed it The musical numbers killed it It was a really good show And you reading that announcement list that feels almost like a summer game fest announcement list why just because the amount it just feels like so much blessed and so much good there's a lot of good in that to close to finish off the list i was reading because i was actually almost there uh you had the first global test for rust mobile that's now live force 3 like mike mentioned is announced invincible versus will be released april 30th orbitals is an anime like co-op space adventure coming exclusively to switch to orbitals looks fucking cool yes super cool the second closed beta test for animo is coming early 2026 diablo 4's lord of hatred expansion is coming april 28th marvel rival season 6 is coming uh january 16th and deadpool come to the game seven deadly sins origins showed off co-op raid battles and a new gameplay trailer hogwarts legacy is free on epic game store lord of the fallen version 2.5 the last major update for the game is out now and free phasmophobia comes to switch 2 total warhammer the one that you talked about just now is coming out uh ace combat 8 wings of Thieves coming 2026.

18:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I didn't realize I could get hyped for an Ace of Combat. That delivered. That delivered for sure. They somehow, they went to each other and were like, let's knock them out the park with a killer trailer and let's get them excited. And like, I watched that. I was like, I'm ready to fly. I'm ready to drop everything and just fly. Yeah. Out of words, we got another trailer for that. Flaming Blade Zero got a release date for September 9th. And then finally High Guard is coming from Wildlife Entertainment on January 26th and will be a free to play PvP shooter of course i asked y 'all to write in with your super chats let us know what some of your favorite games of the show were or just general opinions of course we'll talk about your hot takes on the next show but i'm still willing to talk about whatever you guys write in with like jeff bull jr who says how do we feel about megaman 2027 releasing on ps4 that console is old as fuck now why not that's what i say if it can run on the ps4 i don't think that game was ever going to be in a place where it's like this shit is pushing the boundaries it's pushing the technical limit of what the ps4 can do if it can run on ps4 put it on ps4 because guess what so many people own a ps4 you're still more ps4s out there than ps5s and people are still buying games for playstation 4 i agree with that bless completely it is an interesting one of like we are so deep into the life cycle of this ps5 generation that you kind of are wowed by the announcement of a ps4 but at the same time there's still a large user base there if you're able to scale it any which way to be able to play backwards on the ps4 then yeah we're putting it there even if it sells tiny or if it sells a bunch it's capable of running there money's money let's go money's money yeah and you know optic on in chat says so many people need to stop playing on a ps4 you mean listen good for you you have money not everybody can afford a fucking playstation 5 the things keep going up in price so some people are just going to rock with a ps4 and maybe they should get some new games sometimes too so uh bringing in one from science doc who writes in and says with control with the control resonant announcement i'm giving control another shot how long till it clicks mike did you ever play through control i have not that's uh that's on my list now the question is blessed to someone who has played control because i know you have did you like the more melee focus because to me whenever I saw Control and watched Andy play, I thought it was a shooter.

20:35It was a shooter, yeah. This one very much was like, here's a sword, here's a hammer, and it felt very different.

20:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, Mike, you know me. I love melee action games, and so if anything, I'm actually kind of more excited for the combat here. I'm going to miss the service weapon, but I do like that you kind of have that same thing within the melee weapon that Dylan was rocking in the trailer, the fact that it can still transform into different things. It's like, cool. We're keeping kind of that same energy of this weapon that fucking morphs and changes which is really cool um i don't mind it yeah like i don't i liked the gameplay of control but like i really love the controlling control controlling things with your mind right the not telepathy telekinesis where you like pick things up with your mind and throw them yeah for me that was the satisfying part of the gameplay i thought the gunplay was fine but i said that mixed with the gunplay right and now the gunplay yeah i'm very excited to see what the fans think of this.

21:27I think we all can agree we probably have a lot of full faith in Remedy here delivering such a stellar product. Like, I mean, the art style, the creativity, it just oozes, it just oozes cool with the red light all the time, the crazy sci-fi stuff they got going on. But like, does the general audience really love that third-person shooter? Or are they going to say, I don't want to swing a sword and a hammer, right?

21:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't think that matters to them. Yeah, it's going to be very interesting. I'm pumped up about it. definitely a big switch seeing it at first like oh i thought we had a gun that's interesting yeah kabobs writes in and says orbital is my game of the show and it has an incredible charm art style that i can't wait to play with my partner it kills me it's a pure switch to exclusive i wish i was out now that's one of those games of the show where you're like man that looks like a ton of fun as andy dubbed it the haze like yeah right similar to uh haze light studios out there from it takes two and split fiction i think we love these co-op adventure games we want more of them and the idea that like this is looking really cool on the switch with that style it'll be fun samson xp says bradley the badger and divinity both look great of course you just talked about bradley the badger but man that divinity trailer i think they showed that game in the best way they possibly could again for people who might not already be aware of what divinity is right of course that's a game that has a core fan base the divinity has been around for a very long time but now that larian is a post baldur's gate 3 larian you have the opportunity to put divinity on another level now you can make that shit means i think you said it last night of like you can see that baldur's gate money clicking in right there and it's like oh yeah that uh that cinematic trailer was awesome that was up there with the blizzard cinematics where you're like watching and you're like i can't get enough of this whatever this is i want it and yeah i think you kind of know if you're a general audience fan that hasn't dove into the divinity series before you could probably gauge of like what this is going to kind of look like from a balder's gate three experience right and like knowing they also said it's going to be their biggest game they've ever made yeah which is crazy because that's already too big so it's gonna be very exciting and it feels like them saying that makes me think it's gonna be a very long wait for it it's gonna be interesting to see where we're at yeah that's gonna they're gonna have to take their time on it do we get it in early access uh yeah they'll do an early i i bet you they do another early access route similar to baldur's gate three yeah i think that definitely worked for them this time around you saw what happened with the lead up to with early access people jumping in then eventually going hey we are here this is it right now is the moment and a huge jump on they've got best community support the past three years in a row they still were adding things big like large content chunks just a couple weeks ago so like this team is going to stick with it and give you a really good product um alexio stevens writes in and says i'm not a fan of turn-based games or pairing but vga made me get baldur's gate 3 and i fell in love should i give expedition 33 a shot greg not loving it has me worried if you don't like pairing or turn-based it will be an uphill battle but they did play baldur's gate 3 and that's a little bit of turn-based more strategy you know what I mean but you are slowing down the pace of the game there so you're getting close to it I think expedition 33 has insanely killer music an awesome narrative and story some beautiful art style with the worlds that you're going to be going into really fun characters that you'll connect with and the combat is really fun from a turn-based sit back think about it be strategic to also hey snap there's parry there's a dodge that like i can be actively involved in to keep me on my toes and keep me engaged it's a really fun mix yeah if you have because is it still on game pass yes i looked it up i said it was on game pass if you if you happen to have game pass which i know not everybody does obviously but if you happen to have it i think it's worth the try or if you are just really really curious about it i'll say give it a shot i think it's one that's at least worth trying to see if you can get into i don't think it's 100 for everybody obviously for a lot of people but when you tell me you're not into pairing or turn-based i go i don't know if this is the one for you but check it out yeah those are the two major selling points right a chat is chiming up like there's a story mode right so like you can you can knock it down if you want to just experience the big story of it all but yeah if your two big things are pairing and turn-based sorry to say like that is the game that is that is the video that is the game uh d jones 1495 says why is Jeff never held to the same standard as other showcases for CGI trailers finding out FOTOR isn't coming out till maybe 2030 is deflating man let's that's a that's a deep conversation there I don't right I don't like I guess I don't agree with the premise of not being held to the same standard of as other showcases I think it's the kind of I think it's what game are you announcing yes if you put FOTOR right Fate of the Old Republic as a logo on screen it's still an exciting announcement yeah i think the fact that it exists is a thing that gets us hype it's not that we're judging oh this is what the gameplay is going to be by the cgi trailer i don't think that's what cgi trailers are for i think when you see a cgi trailer that's your indication that hey this thing exists it's happening it's probably further out i think that's just the assumption you got to make yeah and also i think it's just i mean look at the the names attached to it with casey hudson you also have star wars right like these are two mega things that you would be looking at and deliberating with your team going okay should we show this and it's like yeah that seems like a slam dunk we have to show this and to open up the show with that and get the pop that it did having that you know tied to old republic yeah no doubt this is going to be on the show i think anyone would show that yeah are you at all do you have a anti-cgi trailer sentiment at all no i think i've been burned in the past like many where we see these cgi trailers and we wait years to come but I also know that video games are hard to make video games are near impossible to make and we see that it's getting longer and longer to make these games we are sitting on games that take years to make and they get announced way too early and that's kind of the delicate dance right what was the game that just came out that took five years in the make I mean pragmat is a perfect example getting a long time ago fables another perfect example it is the moment it's the hype it's the excitement that builds into these showcases and shows that people want to share their work we also talk about it on the industry side of like casey and his team now are hiring right and so now they're showing the very best in the world of development of like hey we're making a star wars game with this name you want to work on it exciting i'm here get over here right now now's the time so like it's a double side of this and i i'm all right with it i'm all right with it i feel like you know we always kind of give opposite opinions as far as what we want slash what we don't want hey i want transparency in terms of the games we're working on why is the video games industry so secretive right like when a new movie is greenlit we know from variety or deadline or whoever like the moment that like the moment you get that signature on the paper that shit gets announced or whatever and i think we often ask for that transparency you know and you know for us to do away with so much of the secrecy but at the same time it's like well video games take a long time to make so if you want your cake like you know you gotta you gotta be able to come into it with that expectation of the reality of how video games are made um and i think you know i think there's space for both i think it just depends on the game i think some games kind of you know warrant that amount of hype and expectation a witcher 4 for example i'll wait for witcher 4 you announce you show me you can give me siri on that cinematic teacher and i'm in and I'm like, oh man, someday we're going to play Witcher 4 and I'm excited about that shit.

29:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But then other times it's like, hey, saying a game is out now, that's fucking exciting. Hi-Fi Rush, you can play it right now. That was the right thing for that game, right? Like, I think there's levels to this shit. Every game kind of warrants its own marketing cycle. No doubt. And I mean, if you're frustrated at these cinematics, it's like you have a thousand other video games to play right now. You have plenty of time to burn until it's time. And you manage your own expectation. You manage your own hype. yeah you can't get mad when you see a cinema you when you see a cgi trailer and then you form what you think the gameplay is going to look like and then you see the gameplay and you're like ah that doesn't look as what i thought it was going to look like it's like well you created that thing in your head so chocolate fox writes in it says xbox has their underscore directs so i never expect at tgas we'll talk about that in a few that's story number three yeah i'm excited to talk about that some of the robley says we'll see the downfall of mike getting into 40k hold on get a hold of it and then i'll pull in one more before we get out of here we'll do this one from with the next who writes in and says i've been waiting for jonathan blows follow-up to the witness for 10 years so that's probably my favorite reveal of the show there you go mike we're gonna move on to story number two but before we do i want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind a funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors if you live for high stakes runs tight teamwork and that rush when the extraction timer is ticking down this might be your next obsession you've already seen us obsessing over arc raiders the multiplayer extraction adventure set on a lethal future earth where mechanized killing machines rule the surface and humanity hides below as a raider you brave top side to loot Complete quests, fight ARK robots, and extract safely if you can.

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