God of War Studio's New IP Reveal Coming 2026? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.13.26

11:53Greg Miller:Or is it like, you know, a remake, but like a remaster? We'll see what the level is.

11:57Tim Gettys:Is it a deluxe remaster, like Dead Rising? How many years does that take, right?

12:02Greg Miller:And so, but on top of that, you get a shatter drop. Sons of Sparta drops yesterday. and yeah, when you have so many rumors of what could be Corey Barlog's game has always been out there. It's like, I saw that yesterday. I was like, is this Corey Barlog's game? No, it's not, right? So now we have more God of War games in there. When will it be announced? Well, Shinobi's is right. We're going to have a God of War year here, it seems like.

12:25Tim Gettys:Well, yeah, I mean, you would assume that what he's working on, Corey Barlog, is not a God of War thing. Oh, you think so? I mean, yeah, that's what Jason Schreier has been saying is that it's not a new IP, but it feels like one, right? So unless he's going, he's doing another basically God of War 2018 vibe within the God of War universe that is Atreus that feels so different from the God of War stuff. Maybe that's what he's hinting at, but I doubt it. This feels like this is something that is separate from the God of War universe that he's working on here. So I am interested, looking at Sony Santa Monica here, it's like, do they have another team outside of Corey and the remake team that is working on now another mainline God of War?

13:04Tim Gettys:Because he got to be working on them. you can't just have the remakes. We have to work on whatever Atreus' story is, whatever Kratos' story is. The third in that side. Yeah, exactly. We have to keep on working on that. So where is that in this pipeline? Like, I did not expect Sony Santa Monica to be this big. It's funny, because when you look at, like, the Pantheon, the Pantheon of PlayStation Studios, it's interesting because you have a Sucker Punch, right? Which is such a small studio in comparison to all these other studios that is working on one game at a time, working on one Tsushima, then Yotei, and they don't do any of this stuff.

13:37Tim Gettys:And then you have, you know, Sony Santa Maka, which is potentially working on, you know, three to four projects at one time. And it's really incredible what PlayStation is able to do here and the kind of different cultures that they're able to create. But, I mean, I am very, I think it would be kind of wild for the next, for us to do the remakes and not already be working on another God of War sequel in that Ragnarok era. Of course.

14:02Greg Miller:Have you jumped into Sons of Sparta yet? No, but you did. I did. I gave it about two hours. Had fun getting into it. I'm not the biggest Metroidvania fan. Sure. And this is an actual Metroidvania. Is it? Are you doubling back and stuff? I would call it a 2D side-scroller. It has a map very similar to a Metroidvania. I don't know if you're doubling back quite yet by unlocking things, but I'm going all around, Roger. And it feels like I'm in the maze, for sure. And I'm enjoying it so far. I thought at first... Go off, apparently. We should have played it together, is right. I thought at first it was kind of bland, but as I've gotten a little bit deeper into it, my engagement has grown.

14:41Greg Miller:My like and desire to play more of it has grown a lot, and I'm into it right now.

14:45Tim Gettys:Does it feel like a God of War game?

14:48Greg Miller:I mean, he's got the voice. He's telling the pre-Kratos story, right? So I'm into it. I think the first two hours in any Metroidvania is very early. Hey, you're learning the mechanics. You're getting lost in the maze.

15:01Tim Gettys:Does he feel like strong? Like he's kicking open chests and shit. He's ripping the tops off.

15:07Greg Miller:Okay. He's got a homie who's like, he's like, don't rip out that, that Cyclops's eyeball. We can just tell people. And he's like, nah, man, I'm doing this shit. He's kind of going crazy. He's kind of going crazy mode. Okay.

15:18Tim Gettys:Okay. I fuck with it.

15:18Greg Miller:There was a giant like metal bird that I fought too. Spears all up on its wings. Okay. It was die bombing me and stuff. It was pretty cool.

15:25Tim Gettys:Okay. Yeah. That's my thing is when I saw that whole trailer or whatever, I'm like, this doesn't look like God of War. Like when I think I got aware, I think about the blades. I'm thinking about like the frenetic action. I think you'll get the blades at the end. I'm sure you will. This is origins. Yeah. I'm sure we're going to have a flash forward or something where it's like, and then I had the blades and then I used the blades for a little bit in the end of game.

15:48Greg Miller:Aaron writes in and says, I think Bluepoint games will be involved with the trilogy by remake, allowing Santa Monica to do more.

15:56Tim Gettys:That makes sense. That would make sense. I'm interested as to why they wouldn't have said that. I mean, Bluepoint's in a weird, precarious position right now. They had a multiplayer game that was canceled. I don't know when. That seems like maybe last year, two years now. So yeah, they're in the ether. I don't know if they're working on their own thing, but that would be the perfect project for them if they were still doing remakes and stuff. But it seemed like for a little bit there, they're trying to do an original IP and work on something new. So I wonder if they're still doing that. But yeah, if that would be, I'm interested as to why, if that is true, why they wouldn't have said that yesterday.

16:29Tim Gettys:why that wouldn't be in a blog post why that wouldn't be in some type of hey this is what blue points also doing uh so that's why i'm a little bit on the fence about that okay and then

16:37Greg Miller:to wrap it all up here roger of course god of war we have new god of war of games but cory barlog the name it rings out people get excited what is your dream cory barlog project you kind of touched on some things that you want to see but like what is the dream that you would have

16:51Tim Gettys:cory barlog and a very talented team working that's a good call i don't i honestly don't know because i'm trying to think about we've been playing the game for the last few months of like What is that IP? Ever since Jason Schreier said that it is an IP, that it feels new or whatever. Yeah, I don't want... Honestly, if I were to just say general speaking, I would like him to do something that feels even more left field than a 2018 God of War. Doing that same vibe, but for a different franchise. Going through the Rolodex of PlayStation properties and picking one of them and being like, hey, I'm going to reinvent this for the next generation.

17:26Tim Gettys:I don't know what that is. Maybe it is a siphon filter. Genuinely, like maybe it is taking something that is a little bit more. Hey, this existed in this one sphere of time. People have fondness for it, but they don't really have that connection for it anymore. Let's make this into a, you know, Splinter Cell like let's actually go forward with it. Because Ubisoft's not doing it. Of course, every podcast I'm on, I have to talk about Splinter Cell. But something of that effect, maybe a medieval. Maybe he goes to medieval. Maybe he finally does it. I like that. Killzone.

17:54Greg Miller:Killzone would be a good one. Killzone is in there. Of course, we brought up Sly Cooper yesterday as well. but yeah you'd like him to revive revive something yeah yeah but it is interesting because it's sony

18:03Tim Gettys:santa monica right so they have their own legacy of games that they've made right with the god of war franchise and everything so it would be weird for sony santa monica to turn around and be like hey we're gonna take something from you know sucker punch and then now make our own version of it you know what i mean like that's never i don't think that's ever happened really uh within the the pantheon of i keep on saying more pantheon within the realm of playstation studios so that would be a fun little twist right there taking someone else's ip from another studio and trying it on their own. You can super chat away

18:31Greg Miller:and let us know what you want to see from Cory Barlog and the next Sony Santa Monica team. And also, are you playing Sons of Sparta? Let me know in the chat right now as we go in to story number two. Claire Obscure wins game of the year at the Dice Awards. Rachel Weber writes at IGN at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in Las Vegas tonight. Claire Obscure Expedition 33 took home an impressive five of the awards across 23 categories, including Game of the Year. The Sandfall Interactive Game has been a critical hit and a standout at award shows since it was released in April 2025, and the development team was even given the status of Knights under the French Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of its work.

19:19Greg Miller:Ghost of Riot took home three awards, including Outstanding Achievement and Character, while Arc Raiders won Online Game of the Year. Naughty Dog's Evan Wells, former president and co-founder at the studio, was inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. This year, the Dice Summit also marked the passing of Vince Sampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise, co-founder of Infinity Ward, and co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, who passed in December 2025. Hideo Kojima, Phil Spencer, Todd Howard, and others from across the industry spoke about his work had impacted both the world of video games and them as people.

19:59Greg Miller:Some more winners include Outstanding Achievement in Animation, South of Midnight. Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Expedition 33. Outstanding Achievement in Character, Ghost of Yote. Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Ghost of Yote. Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design, Death Stranding 2. Outstanding Achievement and Story, Expedition 33. Outstanding Technical Achievement, Death Stranding 2. Our Action Game of the Year, Hades 2. Adventure Game of the Year, Ghosts of Yote. And Outstanding Achievement and Game Design, Blueprints.

20:34Tim Gettys:Congratulations, Kevin.

20:35Greg Miller:He won two in a row. Blueprints won two in a row. They had to bring him back from backstage. Back to back. Yeah, back to back. It was awesome. Yeah, congratulations to Blueprints, getting a lot of love. And Ghosts of Yote, congratulations to Erika Ishii, who, of course, absolutely killed it in that game and had a really awesome speech. So great job out there. Yeah. It was really nice.

20:55Tim Gettys:First was first. I love the way that they get super niche and specific with the awards categories. I always enjoy that. And it gives more love to different types of games, especially when you talk about technical achievement, Death Stranding 2, being able to hone in and focus on these very specific slices and parts of games. I think when you get a little too general, it's easy to be like, okay, well, When we get general, of course, Expedition is going to win everything. But when we get really niche, technical achievement, then Death Stranding can get a few wins, right? Because I think that is what's interesting about video games.

21:27Tim Gettys:It's so many different disciplines all in one. So it's very specific and nicher games awards when they're focused on these types of things. I really like. You watch the awards.

21:39Greg Miller:Yeah, I watch it every year, of course, to support Greg Miller, but also because we always talk about it, right? The game awards that Jeff Keighley puts on is for the fans, kind of, you know, by Jeff Keighley and his team for the fans, but like when you talk about awards and getting recognized and giving flowers and you always say, oh, well, I wish they got on the stage more and got to talk, right? This is the developers by the developers for the developers, right? And it is something special to watch. It's a fun show out in Las Vegas. Greg and Stella do a fantastic job hosting the show at the beginning, doing an awesome monologue about the state of the industry, and then you get right into the show, and it's fun, right?

22:16Greg Miller:I think in years past it goes till about 11 o 'clock it starts at 8 so it's about a three hour show this year they got it pretty tight it was like maybe two maybe two and a half so it felt good of like hey we're out of here at a decent time this is nice but i do love watching this i really love the ai as hall of fame every single year they pull out an incredible human being who does an awesome job with their team and in the video game development world and they shine a light on this person and they do a great job storytelling having a nice speech from one of their co-workers and then recognizing them and it's awesome to watch right like we got to learn all about evan wells and what he's done at naughty dog it's awesome stuff right working his way up then being one of the top dogs then retiring but still sticking around and helping neil druckman and being a mentor to him also playing the games and helping the team like it it's one of those where you're like you feel inspired watching and you're like this is really really awesome erica ishi stepping up and talking about corporations treating their employees fairly and taking care of people that make the games that we all love like you're like yeah hell yeah erica this is awesome get up on that stage like oh yeah it's a fun time for sure the vince sampella one was tough right it's sad it's saddening thing to see people come uh and then make an impact on your life and unfortunately go right and it's like that was a heartwarming touching speech there i think Todd Howard shows up.

23:42Greg Miller:Different people show up that maybe you know you don't know. Greg Miller acting a fool yelling at Troy Baker and Jeff Keighley is fun. Explain that. Why was he yelling to people? Well, you know, they came out and the room wasn't quite set and ready for the awards to begin. They were mixing and mingling. They were going table to table. Troy Baker, he's a good looking dude. He's a fun guy to talk to. He's snoozing. He's having a good time. And so when my main man, Greg Miller, and of course Stella Chung came out, it was time to go. People weren't ready. So Greg and Stella had to whip them in the shape, say, you know, let's go, you know.

24:17Tim Gettys:Great dream come true. Just yelling at everybody. Just sit down. Watch me. Watch me on stage, everybody. Incredible. Shout out that.

24:24Greg Miller:So, yeah, Roger, I really enjoyed it. I did like Ghost of Yote took home, I think, three, which is pretty cool to see. South of Midnight getting an achievement award in animation, I thought was special. They gave a really good speech about, you know, messing up the frame rate, right, and how we hold frame rates so important and special to video games. And then them being like, we're going to absolutely destroy that and do something different. I thought that was really, really cool on that one. Of course, Blueprint's getting two back-to-back, right? Like, that was really awesome. A lot of games that didn't get love at the Game Awards got love here, and that's usually how it goes.

24:58Greg Miller:It's like you see two different sides of the industry there, which is funny. You get to see a lot of faces come up and talk about their games and share their moment. I thought that was nice. Hell, yeah. I love that. Shout out to Dice Awards. Roger, we're going to talk about Legacy of Cain and how it's got a brand new game. Oh! But we're going to do it right after a word from our sponsors.

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29:53Greg Miller:Let's get them over with. Welcome back, Roger. Before we kick start story number three, let's jump into some super chats over on YouTube. Aaron Lime writes in and says, writing in to tell Greg, wherever he is, I was right. We got MGS 4, Metal Gear Solid 4. I won. We won. We finally got it, Greg. I'm so pumped up about it. Fuck you, Greg. I'm so pumped up, Roger, because I've been waiting patiently for my turn to play him. And I'm excited to play Metal Gear Solid finally and be the ones on the sticks. Because I love Metal Gear Solid 4. I'm excited. 2, 4, 1, 3.

30:33Tim Gettys:That's your order right there? That's the rankings. I've only played one. Maybe they'll change when I play. I've only played one and I've played half of five. So I'm going to do it. I'm going to do the gauntlet. I'm going to do two this year. What if we stream it together? In your house? Split the controller in half.

30:47Greg Miller:we have steve-o writing in and says early birthday tax for tomorrow happy birthday born on the day of love that's beautiful that's beautiful i love that i love that and then uh oh norm chacho says somebody called brian scalabrini he's famously said i'm closer to lebron than you are to me wow now scalabrini a little bit out of my height you know my weight class but i'll still give him one. I'll give Scal one. Heard that, Scalabrini? I'll give him one. Because right now he's getting up there and the White Mamba's getting up there in age.

31:22Tim Gettys:White Mamba is what they call him?

31:23Greg Miller:Yeah. That's crazy. The White Mamba. What team did he play for? Boston. Boston. He was a journeyman. I think he played for a number of teams, but Boston is where you'd recognize him. Journeyman, that's what they call people that go around to multiple. You just keep going. That's nice. I like that. Get that check. I like that. And then finally, Dave Bro writes in and says, whatever happened to Roger and Andy 1v1? That's still in the works. You know what I mean? People are working on it. I had the gym. I had the gym ready to rock and roll.

31:53Tim Gettys:We were going to get Andy to do a three-point contest. Well, that was without anybody. Now it's going to be me and him. Now it's going to be focused on... I feel like I'm going to be shagging a lot of balls, a lot of misses. Yeah, especially from him, specifically. He says he can give me 50 points ahead of them to 100? I don't know. He said some crazy shit. I don't believe him. Don't believe him everybody. I'll work on your shot with you if you want. I would love that. Okay. I would also love a professional basketball player to teach me. Do we know? I mean, we know one.

32:21Greg Miller:Well, you have a connection with Red Bull. If you could get in touch with Red Bull, we could call up Lethal Shooter, the best shot in the game, and have Lethal Shooter come out and teach you how to shoot. But he would make you shoot like a Jolly Rancher into a water bottle. That probably wouldn't help you with your basketball stats. It would just be cool to do.

32:41Tim Gettys:Okay, so how about this? How about I just have a ringer? where I hurt myself and then I said, oh no, he will play in my stead and it's fucking, I don't know, Steph Curry.

32:50Greg Miller:We can set it up. We can set that up. Let's go to the local college. I'm sure we can holler at somebody. You know what I mean?

32:55Tim Gettys:Just stand outside the local college.

32:56Greg Miller:We go to the open gym. Mike plays a one-on-one. Because if I beat you, you got to do me a favor. You owe me a favor. Let's go to story number three. Is that how you've gotten so far in this world? I'm a mobster.

33:10Tim Gettys:You just pool hustle everybody you know?

33:13Greg Miller:Story number three, Legacy of Cain Ascendance. The first new Legacy of Cain game in over two decades is out next month. This is coming from Rebecca Valentine at IGN.com. Crystal Dynamics has revealed the first brand new Legacy of Cain game in over two decades. It's called Legacy of Cain Ascendance. And it's out sooner than you'd think on March 31st, 2026. Ascendance is admittedly a bit different in genre and viewpoint than the past Legacy of Cain games. It's a retro pixel side-scroller platformer starring four characters familiar to the Legacy of Cain fans. Cain himself, two different forms of Raziel, the vampire and human as a leader of, And then LLF, LLF, LLF, who thus far has only appeared in the graphic novels.

34:13Greg Miller:Players will spend roughly equal time playing as all four characters. In addition to the retro pixel art, Ascendance also includes hand-drawn anime-style cinematics and some sections of art intended to invoke the PS1-era 3D style of the original games. Ascendance will be scored by the electronic rock musician Cell Dweller, who recorded the companion soundtrack for the graphic novel Soul Reaver, The Dead Shall Rise. Crystal Dynamics has also confirmed that the original voice actors for Kane, Raziel, Ariel, and Mobius will be returning to their roles for the game. Upon its March 31st release, Legacy of Cana Descendants will launch on PS5, PS4, Switch, and Switch 2, Xbox, and PC via Steam.

35:04Greg Miller:GOG and Epic Games Store.

35:06Tim Gettys:Wild.

35:07Greg Miller:A random one.

35:08Tim Gettys:This is weird. I mean, I guess they didn't put this in a state of play because maybe they're like, oh, we don't want to compete with a God of War game that's a little bit similar to that. But that's just a weird one that this wasn't part of the state of play specifically. Very odd. Yeah, very odd.

35:23Greg Miller:So we got the remake announcement at State of Play yesterday.

35:26Tim Gettys:Yes, yes. Remaster, I think it was, of Legacy of K and Defiance. Okay. Defiance.

35:31Greg Miller:And then here we are now, Crystal Dynamics, low-key announcing, hey, we have a game coming out next month. Next month.

35:38Tim Gettys:Yeah, I like the way this looks. Can I see it again, Kevin? Yeah, yeah. I didn't get to see it. I was reading well. Yeah, I like the actual, the pixel art more than I think I like the God of War pixel art. something about it just kind of like reads a little bit like crispier and like more like like brutal like when you get into there like when you get to the blood blood effects i enjoy that like that yeah rip it out the fucking the neck that's great i love that i love yeah i enjoy this i like that it's a it's a little bit more dense i would say the pixel art uh i don't love that which is right now they're showing like the uh the what do you call that they're just the animated they're drawing out the characters when they're speaking portrait yeah the portraits uh something about it like i think maybe the animation that they're going for uh which is like they're trying to just like pin and and stretch and everything it just it didn't doesn't hit as much but i'm i'm down for it i i love the legacy of cane games as a kid i played them way too too young my aunt randy was just showing me them yeah like they were like i was way i was like maybe six seven and she was showing me these games i was like this is the scariest shit ever and i i love them soul reaver was so sick uh so the fact that we're having a kind of a comeback of all this hell yeah i love Defiance as a kid so I'm gonna play the fuck out of that I'm gonna try that out as an adult for the first time uh and then this I'm definitely gonna try out I think I'm a little like Metroidvania out but this does seem like it has enough of like the hey we have four different characters we're playing with enough of the fun stuff that I can maybe like keep on pushing through because I think it's like a traditional like hey I'm just playing as one person and I'm just trying to explore this Metroid uh this Metroidvania huge uh area for 15 to 20 hours maybe not my jam but it seems like we have enough fun little weird stuff going on there especially at the ending they show off that weird like ps1 first person viewpoint which i don't know where the ps1 air 3d style of the original games they write yeah i don't know where we're going with that one um but uh i don't know how much we're going to be doing that but it's cool and i like the look of that and i hope that this starts off like something where they're actually making another legacy of kane because they oh recently revealed or was it was revealed that they had canceled a legacy of kane game in the last few years so i don't know where that is or what how this would connect to another legacy of cane game but i'm sure if this one does gangbuster numbers they they would be like okay let's do another one of these and let's start cooking on an actual legacy of cane game retro pixel side scroller

37:58Greg Miller:platformer you'll spend equally uh roughly equal time playing as all four characters it's cool i

38:05Tim Gettys:like that i also like vampire shit i like being able to like suck the blood and then take you know it gets some more health in there. Yeah. It gets more health there. It's cool. I like, I'm down for it. And will I finish this game is the bigger question. That's such a huge like uphill battle. Yes. To finish a Metroidvania game that again, we'll probably be 15 to 20 hours. That's a lot of time.

38:21Greg Miller:Okay. Yeah. I don't have much connection to legacy of cane at all. Right. So this one is a major blind spot for me. I look at this one and I go, man, another side school or Metroidvania. I have a lot of those in my life right now, and it is tough to stand out. But if I was a legacy of cane fan, guess what i'd be eating good yeah got a lot of video games coming your way right now to enjoy the you know looking back on the nostalgia and looking forward to some new games that's pretty cool i

38:49Tim Gettys:mean it says pixel side scroller platformer doesn't say metrovania anywhere i don't think so if this is more of a traditional like you know ninja guide and rage bound as someone put in the chat like that's that's cool this is like a seven hour experience like fuck yeah i would love to get back into this universe and have something simple that i can that i can try out on top of the defines that I'm going to try for an afternoon or two. So yeah, I'm happy. I don't think that we're going to get another Legacy of King like actual traditional one. I don't think that this game is going to pop off to be the thing of like, oh fuck, this is the time to do it.

39:18Greg Miller:Okay, we'll see. Let's go to story number four. Sega plans to release four major new titles for mainstay IPs by the end of March 2027. This coming from Chris Scullion at VGC. Sega plans to reveal four new games for its most important IPs by the end of March, 2027 in its latest Q3 financial report, covering the period from October, 2025 to December, 2025 parent company, Sega Sammy also noted its invitations for initiatives for the next financial year, which runs from April 1st, 2026 to March 31st, 2027. According to Sega, the company plans quote, to release four major new titles for mainstay IPs, end quote.

40:08Greg Miller:It will also maximize title potential through enhancement of sales capabilities and continue to expand. That means microtransactions. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

40:18Tim Gettys:Sales opportunities.

40:20Greg Miller:And continue to expand its transmedia business by using the game IP to other mediums such as film, TV, and books. While Sega didn't give any further information on which series it's referring to, The term major new titles for mainstay IPs suggests it will likely be releases of high-budget Sonic game during this period. Sega also released Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties on Tuesday. And the only confirmed upcoming release date on its schedule is the Switch 2 version of Virtua Fighter 5 Revo World Stage, which is coming on March 26th. Games that have been announced but don't yet have the release date also include Persona 4 Revival, Stranger Than Heaven, Total War Warhammer 40K, and Total War Medieval 3.

41:10Greg Miller:Sega also previously announced that it's working on numerous other games based on existing IPs. Its new financial reports reconfirmed that the new Virtua Fighter, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, and Alien Isolation games are in development. How many of these titles could fall under the definition of, quote, major new titles for made-and-stay IPs, end quote, is unknown as how many of these previous confirmed titles will be released before March 2027. Roger, that's a lot of games, but also a lot of games won't make the cut if there's only four.

41:49Tim Gettys:Yeah, there's not that many, though. It's a weird one because I'm looking through and I'm trying to, like, make my prediction. I think Sonic's a lock. I think we're going to get a new Frontiers 2 or whatever the fuck you want to call that. We're going to get that one probably at Summer Game Fest and probably released not too far around there. Or maybe, honestly, a little bit sooner than that. The one that comes to mind for some reason, I think, out of the ones that they've already announced that I think could be this year, is Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. Just because we've seen that for forever.

42:20Tim Gettys:Jetsuit Radio was included in I believe like a marketing thing that leaked when Persona 3 Reload was also leaked so like that game's already come and went right like that's already came out a few years ago so Jetsuit Radio seems to be deep into production right now so I wouldn't be surprised if that's coming out. Crazy Taxi to me that is like the most precarious one out of them all of like man like you guys need to create like they're trying to create like a live service out of this they're trying to make like a battle royale type deal It's Crazy Taxi 99. That's what it should be. Which is dope, and I fuck with it, but also I don't fuck with it.

42:51Tim Gettys:You know what I mean? I'll play that three times. What I want is I want Tetris 99 and the fact that Tetris 99 also had a way where you can spend, like, I forget how much money it was, and you just get Tetris as part of Tetris 99, right? So I can play single player, and I can play online. If you have that, I think I'm fine with that. So I could see that one coming out this year. What's the fourth one? Persona? Reload for me was, like, such a disappointing announcement this year of, like, it was such a small amount of the game, and it was the guy running down the street. It showed nothing else. And then it's like, Persona 4 Revival.

43:21Tim Gettys:And it's like, okay, this game is not coming out for a long time. Like, this game is not coming out. That one is, to me, is like a weird, like, it should be out this year. It feels like it's about time, but also, I don't know. Golden Axe, sure, whatever. Streets of Rage, I guess. Alienized. Whoa,

43:39Greg Miller:put a little, put a little,

43:41Tim Gettys:put a little respect on Streets of Rage. Sure, I guess we could throw that in there, yeah. I'm not anti-Street of Rage. Or hype. I'm not anti-Street of Rage, Mikey. I'm just saying. I'm just not excited about it. Also, I feel like we've had a Street of Rage recently-ish, right? When was the last one?

43:57Greg Miller:Streets of Rage 4 was 2020. Okay. And it was bomb.

44:00Tim Gettys:Six years? And it was bomb. Okay, fine. Let's put Street of Rage. Is that your 4? Is that what we think? I just like Streets of Rage. Do you really like Streets of Rage?

44:07Greg Miller:I do like Streets of Rage. Me and Kevin Asex had a great time with it. I mean, Streets of Rage, there's a lot of side-scrolling, beat-em-up games right now. They're kind of all the rage. So, yeah, I think Streets of Rage and also Rocking Soundtrack.

44:20Tim Gettys:Why'd you lean over to me? I want to let you know. Rocking Soundtrack. Okay. So Sonic, Crazy, Tacky, Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage. This feels like almost too beautiful. This feels a little bit too hopeful.

44:34Greg Miller:Let me rewind you really quick, right? Because, of course, they talk about four titles by the end of March 2027. So from April 1st, 2026 to March, 2027. What are the four? What are the big,

44:47Tim Gettys:that's what I'm saying. I, this seems about right. I think in terms of Yakuza, Oh, you put actually, nevermind. Throw Yakuza in there. Cause it's March, 2027. Yeah. Yeah. You probably get it around February, March. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So yeah,

45:02Greg Miller:I'm going to remove jet set radio. And then also maximize titles, titles, potential through enhancement of sales capabilities. Where can I put a bunch of microtransactions In these games I mean crazy taxi easy

45:18Tim Gettys:Bunch of microtransactions

45:20Greg Miller:We deck out your taxi Sonic you can change his shoes

45:24Tim Gettys:We'll put some Nike collabs in there boom Streets of Rage Not really Yakuza they have microtransactions Are you thinking about

45:35Greg Miller:Total War Warhammer 40k Oh I would love that Remember we saw David Harbour come out there that one doesn't have a date we did see remember that because i wanted to draft that on my fantasy critic but that one doesn't have a date yet yeah that's a weird one because i feel like it should have had a date that would felt like it but also by the way one of the coolest trailers ever what

45:52Tim Gettys:a sick trailer like you like when you zoom out and you see it it's like i will never play this game because this looks way too complicated i love it but like just looking at it it's like

46:00Greg Miller:this is the coolest shit in the world guys mark that down as another snow bike mic initiative for 2026 okay one get into a gotcha game two find out what the fuck is going on with world of tanks and why it's so beloved and going down play warframe for a week with everyone and four seizing the means of production and four okay dive in and jump into the world of warhammer

46:25Tim Gettys:and become obsessed with it oh wow just all of warhammer those are my four yeah yeah oh you're

46:29Greg Miller:gonna go warhammer you're gonna go broke well i mean i i just want to learn you got to learn about

46:33Tim Gettys:Yeah, but then you're going to start buying the fucking figures and you're going to try to spray paint. It's not going to work out.

46:38Greg Miller:I'm sick with a brush. That's one thing you don't know about me.

46:42Tim Gettys:I'm sick with the paint. He's sick with the paint, bro. He's sick with the paint. Yeah, I don't know. If we're talking microtransactions, then like, yeah, Crazy Taxi. Yeah, I don't know.

46:51Greg Miller:I don't know, man. I mean, I love Crazy Taxi. I'm very excited for Alien Isolation Game. I don't know if that's this next calendar year, right? But like Alien is high right now. That Alien Romulus movie was fantastic. Alien is always in, right? It will never not be in. But the idea of making another Alien Isolation game is very big news. That's very exciting news. That will do well for them for sure, right? Streets of Rage. I think Streets of Rage will hit. Like I said, we're in a big side-scrolling beat-em-up. So, like, that's an easy one right there. But I don't know what they're really... Virtua Fighter.

47:23Tim Gettys:That's always in the ether. That's an easy one. I mean, well, I don't know how far in development that is.

47:28Greg Miller:So you got Sonic, Virtua Fighter, Yakuza. That's like two. And those are three easy locked in.

47:34Tim Gettys:Two of them is Studio RGG, which is hilarious. You know what I mean? Apparently, they're carrying Sega on their back. Yeah, interesting. They're rocking this, right. And then, you know, you have Stranger Than Heaven. That doesn't count. No? No, it's not a mainstay IP. It's a new IP. Okay. So we'll see. We will see. Chat, let us know what you want to see. Lessing says Persona 4 Arrival. Again, I don't believe that game is coming out this year. Again, for what we've seen, it was just such a small section of it. And I just don't, I just, it's, it doesn't, it didn't scream like, hey, this game is ready to go.

48:10Tim Gettys:This will be out by March, 2024.

48:12Greg Miller:Yeah. 2027.

48:13Tim Gettys:No, like this seems, this seems a little bit further down the road. I think we get a persona six announcement before we get a persona four coming out. Okay. Persona six doesn't come out beforehand, but you get what I'm saying.

48:23Greg Miller:Weird. Roger, if Crazy Taxi was to release, that would be big news. It would be. It would be huge news, Roger. But if I wanted something a little bit smaller, where would I go?

48:36Tim Gettys:You go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

48:41Greg Miller:This from Chris Cullion at VGC. Sega says its recent releases haven't performed as well as expected, citing Sonic Rumble in particular. Sega also noted that the performance of Rovio the Angry Birds mobile studio it acquired in 2023 had also been sluggish for the period oh no Angry Birds yeah first of all did not know that they bought that

49:06Tim Gettys:did not know yeah that they bought Rovio yeah that they bought Rovio I didn't know Angry Birds was still a thing like I knew it was always you could still play

49:14Greg Miller:but I didn't know they were still making games

49:16Tim Gettys:I mean yeah they're making movies they're making another one I think this year or next year shout out to the movies shout out to the movies Jason Bateman bro

49:21Greg Miller:I'll be there. Yeah. Now, Sonic Rumble, have you played Sonic Rumble? No, no. What is Sonic Rumble? It's Fall Guys.

49:30Tim Gettys:What? It's Fall Guys, but it's Sonic. On the phone? I think it's everywhere. It's only console and everything PC. And no one told me about this? It might not even be on the phone. I don't know. Chad, let me know. And no one told me about this? Yeah, I'm sure they did. I'm sure you made that exact face, and then it went out the other year. I'm stunned.

49:49Greg Miller:I feel like I should know about this

49:52Tim Gettys:Well you can play it, it's not on console It's on the phone, okay, I thought it was on console

49:56Greg Miller:Oh, well that's why I wasn't informed About this

50:00Tim Gettys:That's why your people didn't call you up PC and mobile, okay Oh, PC?

50:04Greg Miller:I'm on PC, okay You do have a PC Oh, I'm gonna call my buddy Fidel at the games page And I'm gonna play this with him now This is my game, oh my god, this is ball guys Why do you have new people That I never remember You know Fidel? You know my buddy Fidel at the Games Cage. He loves Sonic. Yes, yes, yes, yes. He's the mega Sonic fan. He's so much fun to watch on his Twitch channel. He's the best. All right, let's keep it going. Kingdom Come Deliverance's next-gen update is out today on Xbox Series and PS5. It's a free upgrade, 60 frames per second, ultra-quality settings, improved visual assets.

50:44Greg Miller:Bang. You going to play this one? Man, I really fell in love with the second one. You can't go back though Sometimes it's hard going back Roger Like truly and honestly And that one as much as I love Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 I still stand on business that like It is hard to Grapple and fall in love with those Combat controls And I couldn't imagine myself Going back to the first one And falling in love but That story, that score

51:12Tim Gettys:Was so good We got ultra quality settings on PS5 And series consoles okay I'm tempted for that

51:20Greg Miller:Roger that has been the we news let's jump into kind of funny you're wrong of course we ask you to keep us honest throughout each and every show that we do here at kind of funny games daily correct us when we're wrong by going to kind of funny.com slash you're wrong and let me see I take a look we're going to do some super chats right after this I have nothing wrong here Roger great job on a Friday you did a great job today Roger thank you so much Let's jump in and let's talk about some super chats Right here, right now EJRPG says Quick shout out to you guys Thanks for your recommendation Finally ordered the X-Real ones And they arrived today Wow Enjoy yourself my friend Kevin, can we get a little hype for the X-Rails?

52:08Greg Miller:I fucking love them Yeah, for real, for real Do you have your X-Rails? Yes Can I borrow them? Go to New York Do you use them every day?

52:15Tim Gettys:Do you not have a pair?

52:16Greg Miller:I'm going to Portland And they're the coolest Roger I took my first flights with them When we went down to LA Two flights in a row actually Four flights total And Roger these things changed my life See I was out of office No more cranking my neck Looking at this tiny phone on the plane

52:35Nick Scarpino:Trade table I want the like gen ones that I have

52:39Tim Gettys:I mean yeah I mean I can't connect to the switch too right That's the issue I can help you with that

52:46Greg Miller:There's a special power adapter That now has the pass to do that I'll help you with that Let's talk through it The X-Rails have taken over the office Everyone loves their X-Rails EJ, enjoy yourself Enjoy the X-Rails I love them I had so much fun with them I was sitting in that plane seat Ultra wide screen in front of me Watching Pulp Fiction It was the coolest around That's so sick.

53:17Tim Gettys:Mike's looking at Super Chats, everybody. The audio didn't die on podcast services.

53:22Greg Miller:Zeke Speak writes, what are the odds you will do a community raffle to squad up with Marathon Server Slam, ex-Destiny Vet here, and would love to play with you goofs? Zeke, you know what? We had a really fun community day with Overwatch yesterday, where, of course, we learned that all of you jabronis out there are really good at video games. Nasty. So Zeke, if you think you got game next Destiny Vets, I would love for you to run with me and go play because I'm very... I was the one who was high on Marathon and I like the rumble. I like the engagement. So I'm looking for some killers out there.

53:57Greg Miller:If you want to get out there and get the goop with your boy Mike, let's make it happen. Get the goop. Let's get after it. Let's get after it. I like that. Volk Dasher writes in and says... I want to celebrate the team from yesterday's work. It was refreshing to see so much positivity around games, even for games that weren't everyone's cup of tea. Internet needs more of that. Thanks, homie. Thank you, Volk Dasher, and thank you to everybody that tuned in during the live reacts, during the Gamescast breakdown, throughout the stream as well. When we played Overwatch, we had a great in-review of Star Wars Episode II that you can watch right now.

54:33Greg Miller:Great episode, everybody. Watch that. It was just a fun day. Yeah. So thank you for coming out and celebrating video games with us and having some fun. The Sony team, they should congratulate themselves. They did a really good job on that production. Very, very good. I will say everyone is continuing to get better, right? The Xbox underscore developers directs continue to get better, right? Like, I'm just enjoying all of it, right? Give me more. I love an afternoon talking video games with friends out there. Okay, here's one. Okay, tell me one. Scorpion Brew says, I'm so sad that High Guard is going to fade away.

55:08Greg Miller:When I saw the layoffs, I decided to platinum it worth every second. Anyone who, anyway, love y 'all. KF always brings a smile to my face. Thank you so much. Damn. Nice job, Scorpion Brew. If the game connects with you and you enjoy it and you went out and platinumed it, that's awesome. That's right. Yeah. Heartbreaker, man. Well, play it while you got it. We'll see what that roadmap really looks like now with the difference of, of course, the massive layoffs to that studio. Our heart goes out to everybody. Like, but how long will that stay on? how long will those servers keep at it so if you enjoy it keep playing have some fun but we'll see how long that goes for and then Mr.

55:44Greg Miller:Hawks writes in with our final super chat of the day Mike can we get a Tokyo Scramble review Roger maybe today maybe later one day I gave you the whole Chad Powers rundown okay I told you everything that happened in Chad Powers what if I told you that was nothing because Tokyo Scramble takes what Chad Powers did and cranks it to 11.

56:08Tim Gettys:Okay? The same themes, same everything. Same vibe. Same vibe, Chad Powers.

56:13Greg Miller:This lady and, okay, a disgraced NFL quarterback who accidentally punched a kid on the sideline. She's now in Tokyo.

56:23Tim Gettys:And she's scrambling because there's dinosaurs. She is scrambling out of the pocket. But somebody knows, somebody has recognized her

56:30Greg Miller:and has realized. I love that Roger knows the whole Chad Powers story. just for me telling him what happened.

56:36Tim Gettys:You never told me the ending. Actually, I think you did. It leaves on a cliffhanger, right?

56:39Greg Miller:Yeah, it ends on a cliffhanger. Which, update.

56:42Tim Gettys:I thought you were going to say update. They've canceled it.

56:45Greg Miller:We should cancel it. We should be canceling that. Roger, it's been an awesome Games Daily with you. Mr. Hawks, I will leave you on a tease that says, don't go far because we're going to have some fun talking about maybe Tokyo Scramble. So keep an eye out for that. Roger, I had a blast with you. It's a great Friday. the 13th. To everyone out there watching and listening, thank you for an incredible week of Kind of Funny Games Daily and most importantly Kind of Funny content. We wouldn't be able to do it without each and every one of you. If you've made it this far in the video and you're watching late, hey, leave a comment down below.

57:17Greg Miller:What did you enjoy for that PlayStation State of Play? Are you jumping in to God of War Sons of Sparta? What do you think Corey Barlog is making? And of course, shout out to the Dice Awards. Greg Miller, Stella Chung, and everyone over there celebrating developers and video games that we love. our creators won game online game of the year which was awesome did it really? yeah very exciting stuff Roger that's the end is it really? this has been Kind of Funny Games Daily if you love what we do support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show until then enjoy the Kind of Funny Games cast next and a stream after that until next time it's been our pleasure to serve you

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