GTA 6 Cover Art Revealed! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 6.18.26

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2:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for thursday june 18th 2026 i'm one of your hosts blessing at a.a jr join me is little croix poppy tim mo morgan gettys nintendo unveiling a new

3:06Nick Scarpino:poster for starfox when i said it through definitely didn't mean it for it to be a whole story but you know what any excuse to talk about starfox any excuse to get some fun news to the Yeah, let's get some of that. Let's get some good energy in there. There's a theme, too. New art today. That's what we're talking about. New art in video games. Cover art. Cover art. Which is always great for an audio podcast. But hey, Spotify has the video features. You can turn that on if you want to look alongside with us. Tim, how are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. You know, it's been a week for sure. There's been a lot of downs, I would say.

3:38Nick Scarpino:It feels like they're not stopping. And there's just a lot of annoying roadblocks. Like, for example, yesterday, new Spider-Man trailer drops. so damn exciting of course can't wait for this greg and i sit down record a reaction to it immediately just blocked on youtube and it's just like so that was an hour of our lives you know an already busy day i already had so much to do and it's just like sometimes you just got to move on and just smile just be like you just got to take the hits sometimes so that's what happened door spider-man trailer reaction everyone you can find it in some places i don't know where it's where it is and where it's not it's not on youtube i can tell you that okay i think you could probably watch it on Spotify I don't know I don't know tough it's tough well Tim I've had a good week yes you have I took the first couple of days of the week off because summer game fest season was very busy and in my time off you know what I did oh played video games yes you did what'd you play I played Xenoblade Chronicles I can't believe it every time I turn on my switch I just see Blessie Gay playing Xenoblade Chronicles and it feels surreal it feels like like this shouldn't be happening something's not right here yeah this doesn't seem like it's actually happening i was curious on how much i'd get into it because during the direct of course they announced the switch 2 editions i like the staggered release thing that they're doing where they have the first game coming out now and then two two and three coming out later we might be talking about a story are we talking about the final fantasy stuff later at all um in wii news okay okay well i'll just say it now um i i do think it's brilliant like especially after like hot off the heels of Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth doing the same strategy and it really paying off for them on the switch so I feel like yeah there's something something to be learned there about you know the switch 2 being this popular new system of re-releasing series on it like definitive editions or just hey they actually can work on Nintendo hardware for the first time editions um Devil May Cry is another example of Devil May Cry 5 I think is going to sell incredibly well on the switch 2 and I don't know if we're talking about it if we've already talked about sometime of the week i don't know at some point yeah uh devil may cry or copcom revealed sales numbers they were like through the roof like really dmc5 sold more last year than it sold its first year i did see this actually pop up and it's because of the anime on netflix wow good for them yeah good cool stuff so yeah now and so dmc5 just got announced coming to switch too so it's like it couldn't do really well could it do that well they're like i don't know excited uh kev heads up for you i know there's a lot of tech stuff going on our monitor computer that shows chat or the the monitor i should say that shows chat went black and then it came up and now we're on like the screensaver thing before you log in and so he can get that fixed at some point that'd be sick but yes xenoblade chronicles i so going into it was not expecting to enjoy it as much as i am i'm loving it i'm about 12 hours in i can't stop playing it i'm like gung-ho on i want to finish this game see this thing i'm so happy for this i want to be an evangelist of this game yeah until you you'd be the first one barrett and andy probably mike as well yeah of course our entire audience has to play this game i think there's a handful of people kind of funny that would really dig xenoblade crime it's so daunting but i mean i i love i was telling andy this yesterday there's two franchises that i have never played i played i guess a little bit of each but i've never really really given a try xenoblade and octopath traveler and they're two franchises that every time a new game comes out i download the soundtrack dude the soundtrack is insane in xenoblade chronicle insane yeah i've like i've been very surprised it's so interesting because soundtrack is probably the the main thing where i'm like oh they popped off on this every single new song that pops up in this game is incredible yoko shimimura and like a team of really good composers are working on this thing and it very i didn't realize that yeah i'm pretty sure somebody correct me because i'm pretty sure they have not like she's not like a main okay but she's on the soundtrack i think i'm pretty sure mitsuda as well yeah is contributing to the soundtrack so it's like a lot of just legendary composers that are working on this thing um so you have that and like that's my main thing where i'm like okay that shines other individual parts of the game i'm kind of like all right combat pretty fun story really good world i think is really well realized but how it all comes together i'm blown away by it is very much more than the some of his parts where you're playing this game and i'm like i can't believe this game is this good and it's it came out on the week and can you believe that you've watched trailers for one of the entries in its franchise no less than a thousand times and i've always just been yeah that's just that just shows like you don't know until you know you don't know until you know like this showcase that they just showed could have been one of your favorite showcases of all time i could have been have you gone back and re-watched the direct i did i well i always re-watch the uh nintendo direct usually i re-watch it with other people's reactions i i right after maybe not right it was like a couple days after i watched the whole direct again liked it way more the second time i was surprised by how well it hit the second time i think the that first time having expectations and like also it just being yeah xenoblade and environment games that i'm not already into maybe made it so that i wasn't as hyped during the moment but as i re-watched it I think it bumped my score up from like I forget what I gave it maybe like a five to a seven yeah yeah I was very impressed when I went back to it yeah I ended up I gave it a 6.5 and I was very clear that was presentation I think that the stuff that they had in it we got Kingdom Hearts 4 we got Ocarina of Time Final Fantasy 7 and like all of the ports and stuff which I not to go over this a bazillion times but it's like I I love that we're at a point that the Switch 2 is catching up to just all right we can move forward to the future we don't need to be doing all of the ports because everything's ported yeah and it's like we're the ports are now becoming evidence that those teams are going to support the switch to day and date in the future and we're seeing that happen so i'm i'm very happy with where nintendo is at oh yeah same but last thing i want to say about this because i we'll have to i'm sure we'll do a xenoblade review at some point when you get to it or whatever but we'll talk about that a lot i'm so sad you dropped final fantasy time i know i'm so sad and i know it's not the game's fault yeah it's it's it's a mixture of a bunch of things right i think part of it is it being an old game there's kind of a start and stop and like it's not as ux friendly with when i'm getting into battles and i'm doing everything like it's very start and stop for me whereas i'm playing xenoblade and it's just smooth as butter yeah i get into combat i'm loving the combat and i'm i get out of it and i'm like i never feel like i'm being stopped and it's also not random encounters which i prefer i don't like having yeah having random encounters like that yeah um but i want to get back to it because also it's just other games coming out a whole bunch of circumstances but i was enjoying it but yeah xenoblade chronicles has me hooked in a different kind of way yeah i got it special you know what's special talking about video game news with you tim it's true remember if you're watching live

10:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you can be part of the show by super chatting in over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games We couldn't do this without our producers on Patreon.com slash kindoffunny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, Delaney, the Psalm, Twining, and Lax Nomad. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today. A baker's dozen! starting with our number one gta 6 cover art has been revealed pre-orders begin june 25th i'm going to read pretty quickly from tom phillips at i hold on what's up there's a video yes i've not seen this kevin can you put on sound let tim just bask in it

11:28that's all they had to do come on that's all they had to do come on

11:36Nick Scarpino:those colors are hot if this is the theme song that is gonna play every single time you turn the game on oh yeah I want I want that song to play once I hover over the tile on PlayStation god that's good start off with yeah that's a good call that's a good call too Rockstar has

11:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:just revealed the cover artwork for gta 6 and announced that pre-orders for the long-awaited blockbuster will finally begin on june 25th the game's artwork was revealed this morning in a brief 30 second teaser video that's now live on rockstar's youtube channel to be clear this is not the game's next trailer we're still waiting for that to land at some point i sure do wonder when

12:11Nick Scarpino:that point will be i do wonder what day what month and day when could we get a new trailer for gta 6 uh i mean so let's start there real quick are you excited for a gta 6 trailer probably one week from today on june 25th i mean i hope i hope it happens right i expect it to happen i expect it to happen what why they didn't do it now right like they just announced that it's happening we're gonna be getting something new it's not just pre-orders going up it's not just like a web page is just gonna go up they're gonna want to get that mainstream attention pointing at like Yo, you can buy it now, y 'all.

12:50That's a good point. Actually, that's a really good point. I was going to say the thing of Rockstar's Rockstar's GTA. They can do whatever they want. But there's nothing that's going to drive more pre-orders in a moment than dropping a trailer. And a GTA trailer especially.

13:02Nick Scarpino:GTA 6's trailer broke records on video sites. YouTube, Twitter, across the internet, it broke records of most viewed, all that stuff, most shared, all of that. I think they're going to do that again with their next trailer. And yeah, you need that call to action. what do you think the trailer is going to be is it just going to be more of what we've seen just random clips of action or do you do you think we get something more focused and specific i think it's gonna be similar to what we got last time like i'm trying to think back and i know that we've years ago before we did a getting hype for gta 6 video that was like probably four or five years ago real talk at this point um and we watched the old uh gta trailers and it's like they all have a style to them they're like they're not really a let's show gameplay type um like it's all in game but it's like presented very cinematically yeah you know what i mean i expect i do expect that similar type of vibe and i think and i think that's fine i i one of the reasons i was leaning towards almost being like no we don't because i i feel like we've seen what we've needed to see and for the next one or two trailers i kind of i do want a gameplay overview you don't need to do that for a pre-order trailer no no no that's i expect at some point we get a gameplay overview welcome to the vice city and we walk through like all the cool shit that you can do just give me eight to ten minutes of just goodness now we're getting some more information here right yeah june 25th means pre-order dates are coming out that means that within a week we will know the price of gta 6 we will no longer be speculating and having all of this conversation about the price of gta 6 without knowing we will then turn to having conversation with knowing yeah which will be more annoying i don't know who knows but it really does depend it really does depend um but then it's like we expect them to drop a trailer that's rockstar fashion that would make sense i think it'd be very stupid for them not to own that moment but could they do something different is there something bigger could they do a showcase should they do a showcase i don't think so i think they're less more i agree that less is more it's the weird balance because i i i feel two ways i know i just said give me a gameplay overview thing 10 minutes like i i want that at some point i also think you don't need to show too much yeah you know what i mean like gameplay overview is great if you want to get into an online gameplay overview once we get even closer to the game that's great but i don't want to sit here for 30 minutes talking about GTA and watching GTA clips and doing all these things.

15:34I want the surprises to come in the moment as I'm playing the game. So I'll lean towards no, don't do a showcase. And I think because you don't need to do a showcase. You're GTA. Like you mentioned, a trailer will break records on its own.

15:47Nick Scarpino:Yeah. I think that's fine to do. I think you want to minimize ways that you can bring in criticism. Okay. So I feel like doing a showcase on stage or not, i do think kind of like welcomes more conversation than just like hey here's the game yeah you know what it is because we're doing a lot of the we're making the content for them yeah me you i jim everyone every entire world every gaming youtuber out there they put up a two-minute trailer and we make thousands and thousands of hours of content around that trailer yeah we're the showcase for them so yeah i love that there's just a gator running i know let's talk about this cover of course do you like it i mean it looks like every other gta trailer i do like it though i think colors are great i would go as far as saying i love it i feel like this is exactly what i would want from a gta cover and i feel like they could have strayed from this path i think they always would have had this kind of like look to it but i liked it they're really going into this like key art uh vibe that we've had for gta so far like that top middle image right that looks very similar if it's not the exact same as we've yeah i'm pretty sure we've seen thumbnails for like the last like five years but um do you have any thoughts as we see as we see all this of course a lot of stuff you'd expect from gta but with more that vice city vibe right where you look at the top right you have the dude doing a wheel in the motorcycle you have the helicopter on the top left which i want to say every gta cover has a helicopter in the top left yeah somebody double check out we did uh oh we did do we had to like draw the cover from memory and like i remember some of us getting that wrong it might have been me too but um one thing i just want to of like why i love this is i'm a vice city kid like i know that there's a lot of that the conversation about like what is the best and what's the favorite of the trilogy yeah but like vice city kind of hit different because three came out of nowhere it blew all over my minds and we're just little like i was a little kid and all of us were just like oh my god you know what i mean like who can survive with six stars the longest like we're doing some bad shit as an 11 year old right but then that allowed us to be hype for the release of Vice City so it was like we were caught up in that hype cycle and then it being there midnight release playing it like oh my god and then San Andreas was two years after that and I love San Andreas because 90s and hip-hop like that was like oh my god but I think that uh my age group hit the point of just like I think that inarguably San Andreas is probably the highest quality video game but Vice City just hit me at a point that i'm like it will never not be my favorite yeah and i look at this and when i think vice city of course you think the blue and pink i love that they're adding that yellow though i like some of that bad boys miami heat action going on um but i think about that car in the bottom left right vice city 80s yeah we're still getting 80s vibes from this but it is modernized we're getting the pink motorcycle motorcycles introduced in vice city yeah and i very much associate them with that right um being able to fly the helicopter could you in three oh in three i don't remember i think you would maybe only the dodo was in three and then the helicopter uh was introduced in um vice city it's been a long time i might begin this wrong but i look at this and i very much think they're making references to the original vice city i love that yeah no i mean i'm i'm right there with you as far as like this being a very gta ass cover and it kind of rocks for that i love that they're staying staying the course and yeah like it it's i i guess i look at this in the read i get is like oh yeah miami like we're still like i the from the crocodile to like the uh the boat on the bottom right to the baddie on the left to the dude on the right like yeah like this is giving me all the vibes that i would expect from this setting and i am more of a san andreas dude but also i do think that there's something iconic and very lovable about vice city you know like i all three games were games that i played at addison's house san andreas i eventually owned and that was like my gta was san andreas but i remember my first time playing vice city at addison's and we had played three before that he had owned three and it's similar to what you're talking about where we're driving around you know my mind's kind of blown of like oh man i can drive anywhere in the city and blow stuff up that's cool but that it kind of stopped at that once we got to vice city there was a flavor introduced to gta that was like oh snap the 80s this is dude like this is potent like there is something special here now i think that we take it for granted now that like vice city was the thing that introduced a generation to the 80s you know like my generation we learned so much about the music and the colors and just the cocaine energy of it all through vice city through the performances of uh of the actors through tommy versetti you know what i mean like his hawaiian shirt like there's just so much there that like i feel made that game special that wasn't just oh it's more gta you know and miami as a setting was like incredible like such a refreshing step from uh what we had in gta3 with liberty city which awesome but like i love that it felt so different you know yeah now is this good enough confirmation for you that this thing is actually happening at the end of november i do love that that wasn't said here and i love it just for the chaos of it like i am like my gut instinct would be oh this means that this is coming uh in november for sure yeah but then why wouldn't they at least put the date in here i get you don't want to put two dates on the thing but like yeah don't confuse people but like i don't know maybe just let people know pre-order is coming the biggest thing let me just take a step back i do think it's coming november 19th i do think that this is confirmation that that that is it's happening i also think that this marketing beat that they had right now it's for us it's for us to get the word out it's for the the media the games media it's for the people that are locked in and tapped in i don't think that this this june 25th pre-order date confirmation and cover art is necessarily their pitch to the world right and that's why i think the trailer isn't here and And that's why I think it's like the trailer drops with the pre-order date and all the information like price and things like that.

22:03Nick Scarpino:But what do you think? Oh, this makes me more confident. This feels like, OK, we are actually beginning our marketing rollout in a bigger way. Right. I think this will this is the baton pass to the actual pre-order day, which will probably come with the trailer, which will baton pass to a couple months from now getting another trailer, which will baton pass to the launch of this thing. right i for me this is the start of the wave it has me very excited for it yeah me too me too i think it's a good step i'm very curious about this price do you have any any thoughts and we've gone back and forth on this so much i'm sure i've like hopped back and forth on it i'm of the mind of 70 don't ruin a don't ruin a good thing yeah i think being able to say hey this is the same price as all the other games that you're getting right now makes a strong case for why you need to pick this game up i think once you increase it to 80 90 100 again i think they can get away with it but i think it's an i don't think you need to do it i think you have so many other avenues for revenue that like i don't think the box copies of gta 6 is where it ends it is getting gta 6 into your hands and then you being like i should get shark cards because i'm playing online and i want to get x y i want to get all the money for my gta character and all this stuff right i think that becomes most important so i i think don't fuck that up 70 even and then they'll get more money from us down the road i do think statements that they've made recently lean towards me for the first time believing that the game might be 70 um but i i think it's 80 and i think it makes as a from the perspective of business i think 80 makes the most sense in the world because I don't think that's going to affect their sales in any reasonable way and I think that everything you're saying about it's a long game that's all true.

23:55Nick Scarpino:I don't think it's going to affect the install base which is what you're talking about for a long term thing. I also do think that extra$10 for millions of people is going to add up more and more and more for them to build the story that they care so much about which is being the biggest entertainment launch in history. How many records can they break? How much can they get in that first weekend and that includes unit sales but it also is money right oh sure yeah um and we just need to be realistic about what this game is the most expensive game ever made oh 100 like the longest development time a game's ever had like is that true probably i imagine how long did it take him to make duke nukem forever that's a good question i don't think this long i actually don't think this long well here's the thing because we're saying longest development cycle because i'm looking at it since red dead redemption 2 right i mean however you want to look at it i feel like by any metric because then yeah we're talking about from 2018 here's the thing right we're talking about from 2018 to 2026 by that metric that might be true naughty dog is probably gonna beat it by the time it gets intergalactic yeah in like two years or whatever it is yeah that's interesting i mean i imagine gta was being worked on before red dead released i'm sure to some extent to some extent yeah um either way point is this game is astronomically expensive oh yes so if mario kart had the gall fucking mario kart world the game that that is and i love that game but like i to my deathbed will resent that game being 80 there have been what two games that have come out or tried to come out at$80.

25:35Mario Kart World, which did come out at$80. And Outer Worlds 2. Which was fucking insane. Which, having played that game, that is super insane.

25:42Nick Scarpino:Everything about that is insane. Whoever even thought to float, that's insane. Someone thinking to float GTA 6 at$80 is not insane. Sure. I'm not saying I want this. I'm just saying it's like, I can't understand. If they release this at$70, I can't even imagine the fight of whoever won that in that room would have to put up. because it just makes too much sense not to do that literal sense we will see in about a week

26:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:uh let's bring in some super chats for you kobe art says so with the gta pre-order going live on the 25th can we assume the next actual game trailer goes live then will it be gameplay oriented we already talked about that i'm still wondering what that trailer looks like you know what i mean like again it could be just more if you can find i guess if you're gonna do a trailer like the last couple that we've seen you just have to isolate some more cool shit you know what i mean like what are the other cool shit that we haven't shown yet in that cinematic way that we can make people go oh man that's cool and make people like me and you make content we've had two trailers two trailers yeah yeah and i would have to like re-watch trailer too to remind myself oh it's all there i mean i feel like it's just a bunch of clips of the city yeah we should definitely kevin if you can go to the rockstar site link that i have if you can scroll down one thing that i i don't know if you've seen this um on their website here keep scrolling down try refreshing the website because they do have an overlooking view of vice city that's moving oh yeah yeah i showed that oh you showed that yeah this yes this is new as well incredible

27:22Nick Scarpino:no that's an apple tv screensaver this is new on the on the rockstar website man that's that's awesome yeah wow sorry i almost started to feel real bless that's what i'm saying it's starting to feel real this game is coming out in november wow it kind of does give roku city a little bit

27:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um let's bring us to roku city that's so such good content there let's bring in eco is matt 1992 says thanks to the daily content and enjoyment uh have a baby on the way in six to eight weeks any advice from the newly crowned timmy g or papa timmy g dude just listen and

28:00Nick Scarpino:take it in man like because i i the one big thing i'll say is everything anyone says about it is real second to second everything changes but it is the greatest thing of all time and as annoying as that sounds it's true yeah just like let it wash over you take every second in and listen to your partner just be there for your partner that's the the biggest thing and everything will then just kind of work out even if it's hard it'll work out um zach halford writes in and says do you

28:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:think gta6 pre-orders will have a version with early access or do they want everything everyone playing on the same day it better not have that early access that's my thing is like i won't be

28:38Nick Scarpino:mad if it's 80 i'll just be like i expected that if it's a hundred dollars or 90 then i'm gonna be like you motherfuckers like i do think that there is a breaking point for like my level of i understand what's happening here and i don't like it but i understand it if they have a hundred dollar collector's edition that comes with fucking shark money or fucking statues or whatever the hell posters yeah i don't care yeah that's totally fine will it come with the game maybe not because people are stupid and collector's editions most of the time are stupid um if they offer like a weak early access or something i'm gonna be pissed i'm gonna be and i know i know like i know that standard i don't like that practice i really really don't like it i don't i don't love the practice i for certain games i don't care gta 6 i'm with you too i'm with you yeah like it happens sometimes where i'm like i don't care if somebody's playing ufc three days early play ufc i'll get to it but like gta 6 is different i think gta 6 should be one of those experiences and i think the people who make gta 6 know this yep this is an experience that everybody should be experiencing together day one like that i think that's important to the launch of this product so i don't expect that aaron lime writes in and says that cover art sure is cover art yeah that's i mean not the tough thing like i think if you're a super fan of gta there's stuff to like appreciate and pick apart and look at when it comes to the cover art but if you're somebody who's like not that engaged with it yeah the cover it's another gta cover art which i think is fine i think that's what you'd expect if anything i mean i think it looks good for that is there a couple yeah that's what i'm saying it's like like there there was more art put into this than like what what would a vice city or a gta 6 cover art be that gets people excited

30:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you know what i mean they nailed it um let's see here raptiface says with this insane world we live in how crazy would it be if this just did average it's a millennial callback in gen z and alpha just don't care i think this might be a hot take of mine i don't think there's as much

30:44Nick Scarpino:difference between the generations as we act like there is okay like i love that we can just make arguments oh that's such a millennial thing that's such a gen z thing and it's like if we really just take a step back we're talking about the same things like i i understand to a level there will be people that don't care about gta that's gonna change when people see gta because gta is good it is that fun and it is that special so yeah yeah i don't i don't see gta as a franchise that benefits off of nostalgia i think gta benefits off of i think content and shareability and being able to go to your friends yo i did this thing and i drove under yo i found bigfoot over here and they're like bigfoot and it's like yeah over on mount chilead yeah there's bigfoot and i'm like I gotta go check other aliens.

31:31Nick Scarpino:We still don't are there aliens, right? Like I think GTA is more about how it impacts in the moment, as opposed to being like, Oh, you remember GTA five, come check out GTA six. Like, I don't think I think gameplay wise and what it offers actually is way more universal than it being just a millennial thing. And I think I even think to your Gen Z, Gen alpha thing, what are they playing a lot? Games like Fortnite, games like Roblox. I think GTA six will take a lot of cues from the, I already in GTA five, there is that shared world that people use as a third space that they're living in and there is the custom content part of gta 5 that's very important it's all it's actually honestly always been important for gta i remember watching gta san andreas videos on youtube and being hooked watching people do stunts in gta san andreas like that's the type of shit that makes gta pop off that's the type of shit that i think gen z and gen alpha actually fuck with and so and i think

32:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:they're going to lean more into that with this one um let's see we'll do one more i got time for one more let's do this one from el capitan 2293 who says i originally oh this isn't gta related but i started i originally thought andy and bless hadn't been around because they were testing out the steam machine now i just think andy hasn't stopped crying after the spurs lost yeah andy's not been in a good place guys yeah he's not been in a good place um i'll do this one that is all

32:54Nick Scarpino:i'll say because i know there's been some speculation and people have been hitting me up i i don't want to speak for kind of funny but i can to some extent i have not heard anything about the steam machine i know there's rumors about it coming out in the neck they're being announced the next week wait no was it june 25th that the rumors were i think it was that's crazy coincidence yeah yeah uh and then for release on june 30th which i only remember because it's my birthday but um i i've heard nothing i've seen no emails greg hasn't talked to me so i don't i got something to show you in the lab yeah no i'm just kidding yeah no i've also heard nothing i was reading uh because of the way things sometimes work works here where i feel like greg contains so much knowledge that like and he'll share it randomly at a meeting and i'm like oh shit i didn't know you're doing that that's crazy um i was reading some of the rumors about steam machines and people having review stuff and i was like man that's crazy i don't think we got it and i thought more about it i was like what if greg's been keeping the secret that's where i'm at yeah i don't think that's what i wouldn't i wouldn't think i would think you would know i would think i would know but you never know with greg you never know you never fucking know

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38:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. With story number two, Bungie is set to lose roughly 400 staff in summer layoffs, it is claimed. This is from Charlie Champion at Insider Gaming. following the sunsetting of destiny 2 and the generally underwhelming performance of marathon it seems that bungie is set for a wave of layoffs this summer with at least 50 of its workforce on the chopping block the percentage is significant enough as is but when you consider the size and scope of bungie which has around 800 staff members that would mean at least 400 employees are at risk of losing their jobs the news comes from french journalist sylvain on x who shared in a recent tweet that bungee should expect man i'm only laughing because they went from calling it x to calling it a tweet we still haven't figured it out we still haven't we haven't figured it out expect massive layoffs in the uh this summer he went on to elaborate that based on what he's hearing at least 50 percent of bungee staff could be affected this is one that i believe popped yesterday i was waiting on more news outlets to report it i still don't see that many talking about it so i'd say take this with a big grain of salt but i at least wanted to feed it in there and have the conversation about it because damn damn i mean well i mean i i believe it