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32:31We should get out of this business. This isn't what it is. Yeah. And so not surprising. It was crazy to hear the story yesterday and be like, oh, man, I came in and worked over there while they were doing the story because I wanted to hear it live because I hadn't caught it yet. And then I walked out. I'm like, man, that's not good for New World. and by the end i was in the car ride home and i was like oh there it is damn so that super sucks and like you know it's the world we live in it's the market we live in and it sucks because i feel

32:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:like in quite a few ways they're almost there like i feel like in a different timeline you move a rock over and like maybe the video games industry isn't you know i guess evening out i don't know if that's the right word i guess matured in the way it is right where there's still like the potential to try and do things there's a timeline where i think amazon ties together what they have with their store what they have with twitch and what they have with the games development is able to in with luna and able to make all that play together because in theory i could see how that shit would work like i can see how you pull all that absolutely fucking lutely like it is as people who sit here and play games every day and talk about games every day and i can't fathom why can but like yeah if i i hate to say it but if jeff bezos walked me into a room and was like explain what we should be doing it seems so simple of like linking like the fact that twitch is still like this look at twitch it's still like this I remember when amazon bought twitch and it was like holy shit this thing is about to be fucking off the chain they are going to innovate they're going to do this it's going to be x and this is still twitch it is still just twitch and that's good and bad and a million different things and I'm not against but I mean like I expect twitch to suddenly be not suddenly year over year get better and better and become yeah it's still just we have all the money in the world now like what's the fuck and again because it's not making the money they wanted people bought this thing with dollar signs in their eyes we are going to be fucking rich rich rich off of this and that is not the case and it's the same case with trying to make video games right like you needed to bring in people who are passionate about and i shouldn't say that the people bring in people who are passionate about games whether it's on the twitch side making game side and then listen to them and let them build the product they're trying to build and understand that you're making enough fucking money off of amazon prime and every other mom and pop story you're putting out of business that you can you we can it'll be okay that if the gaming sector is down one year up another like let them make the thing they need to be the place to be the fucking place and rather than that no everyone every fucking corporation wants a quick return on their bucks period and a statement we are long gone from we're gonna let creatives create and make stuff and fund this and dot dot dot it's a quaint conversation with peter moore in 2015 on the kind of funny game spot stage of like no no we make the money on fifa and madden so we can put out unraveled and not turn a profit it's okay that fucking line of that that's why he's not in charge of ea anymore anyway he's fucking working at a soccer club or whatever it is now It's a new world now.

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39:38Bringing the mold of NBA street to a new game titled NBA The Run. NBA The Run will be using rollback netcode. a typical i'm sorry a type of net code particularly popular in fighting games to make online play smoother regardless of the connection disparity between the two players it also features uh babito garcia the former dj who did commentary for nba street volume 2 as the commentator for this one nba the run began life as the run got next a similar 3v3 basketball title focused on street hoops rather than nba teams and players during development the game caught the attention of the NBA leading to an official partnership with the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association and a rebrand into NBA The Run.

40:20NBA The Run is aiming for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S and X and PC with cross play between all three platforms targeting an undisclosed date in 2026.

40:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I so I'm a huge NBA Street Volume 2 fan. Who is it? I mean who's not? That's actually a really point um it's been a question of what the fuck is has ea been why are they not doing this where's nba street where's the street brand where's ea sports big like there's such a love for these things during the ps2 era and of course time has changed right like things have changed time has gone you know trends have gone but i i feel like there's still been so much potential to go back to 100 let's make an arcade style street game where you're doing tricks you're doing game breakers They're like, you know, having NBA players jump over the basket to do the big slam dunk and all that stuff.

41:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like, there's such fun to be had there. And so I love that there's this team of people, formerly EA, that went off and were like, yo, we're doing our own thing. And that the NBA saw enough potential in it to be like, yo, let's give you the license. Like, let's make that happen. Yeah. Is that going to end up being a fantastic, crystallized, like, amazing game? I don't know. Who knows? Maybe, probably not, honestly. Like, the odds are against it, if I'm going to be honest. Yeah. You know, but like. Even what we see there, the trail looks kind of stiff. You know what I mean? The shooting mechanics don't look fluid.

41:33But it's also like we have to at some point sacrifice the polish of a AAA EA game for the spirit of the street game you want that nobody's making.

41:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And I also think there's the question of what is the art style for an NBA street game in 2025 when we're on PS5 and Xbox Series X. Right. Now, you look at the PS2 and it's, all right, this is the NBA Street art style for PS2 had exaggerated features, but they were still somewhat, I guess, realistic-ish for what that era was. When you look at like a realistic art style, I guess, on the PS2, there was kind of like the meeting in the middle of it. I look at this and I'm like, this kind of is what the art style would be in 2025, in my opinion. Yeah, like you're looking at the characters, they're somewhat realistic, but there is like a little bit of stylization there.

42:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And so I think they're on brand with the look of it. I think what they're going to need to nail, the biggest thing to nail, is the gameplay feel. Yeah. Right? How does this game feel to play? If I press square, am I doing the trick? Am I like, how easy is it to do the alley-oops and jump and get all the points? And are we still going full arcade with it? Because you need to nail what that feels like. 100%. Yeah. I also love Street. I mean, those games are great. Street has that, I guess, place in the Hall of Fame of games in my head. It was the first game ever where it was the role reversal, where I had rented it from Blockbuster.

42:56I had been playing it all day. Poe came over, and somehow he was immediately better at it than me. And I could not understand how. So that's always the joke when we play games. But I loved Street. Street was so much fun. I loved NBA Jam, right? So to get something in that vein, to have that coming through, I'm excited to try it out and jump in there and play and hopefully find that groove again. yeah and more than anything i'm glad people are doing it i'm glad they're taking the shot i'm glad they're finding yeah i'm glad you said it i'm glad the nba saw this like oh you know what

43:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:like let's actually do this yeah i feel like that's such a rare thing to happen yeah there have been attempts from other people in the past of this thing but they've always when i looked at them i'm like oh this looks too cartoony oh this doesn't look right the fact that they have bobito garcia dj cucumber slicing this motherfucker like that's a fucking oh that's a win you guys know exactly what you're going for here the fact that they're talking about rollback netcode yeah the thing i would think about for uh basketball games that's the thing that's usually a fighting game thing and that's a a marketing label label you want on every single fighting game uh from here on out the fact that they're doing that for this one i'm like okay well it seems like they got a good head on their shoulders so far with the features they're including let's continue that let's continue that good luck we'll be looking for you nba the run i don't know if i love the name but i mean it'll grow on me it's fine it's fine whatever it's short uh number four action RPG Lulan, the Cursed Sand, revealed.

44:11This is Tin Manual at RPG fame. Chinese indie developer Chili Room has unveiled the first look at Lulan, the Cursed Sand, in a new action-packed trailer. The title is supported by PlayStation as part of the China Hero Project, which is set to release in the future for the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam in the Epic Games Store. As of now, a release window has not been announced. Lulan, the cursed... Hold on a second, I'm looking at it.

44:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hey, should we do a live reaction? Hold on. Because I was going to ask if you've seen this before. So I haven't seen it, no. Kevin, can you roll this from the back and let's play it with sound and actually like... Let me finish the graphs and then we'll watch it, okay, Kev? Cool, cool, cool. Lulan the Cursed Sand boasts a powerhouse development team who grew up gaming in the 80s and 90s. Several of them have previously worked on games from a renowned studio such as Santa Monica Studio, from software and platinum games. Game Overview. Lulan the Cursed Sand is an action RPG set along the ancient Silk Road in the western regions of China.

45:03It tells a tragic love story of an exiled royal guard who returns to the fallen kingdom of Lulan amidst the chaos of war to find his beloved princess. You play as the skeletal warrior known as Cursed Sand, mastering a power of sand to explore and solve puzzles in a perilous top-down world. Engage in realistic melee combat against overwhelming odds, defeat powerful enemies, and confront the fate of your own cursed existence. Kevin, this sounds like my shit. Let's watch Lulan, The Cursed Sand.

45:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This game was making the rounds on social yesterday, and there's a reason why I put it this high on the show.

45:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:My love. My love. Getting high chained up. Welcome to Luland. Pull the sword out of the ground. Has kind of like a Diablo perspective here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I caught when we were looking at it. You know I love Diablo. Blessing, do you know I love Diablo? You love Diablo? Oh, man. Combat's looking kind of crazy. Kind of reminds me of PS2 God of War a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. I can see that.

46:17Games are so cool, man. Oh.

46:22Bade to black. Do you remember our promise? Very pretty game. Yeah. Yeah. Style. It's got style. This is your endless fate. See the sands? Got Jason Momoa here. The cursing.

46:41Oh. Oh. Do I take damage and become the skeleton?

46:50Insane looking video game. Fuck, dude. This looks awesome.

47:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He just turned into the skeleton. Does he have powers associated to skeleton only mode maybe? Maybe. Damn. You wishlist it. I'm going to wishlist it right now. At the game store. Luland, The Cursed Sand, if you want to go check it out. More like Luland, The Wet Undies. I'm excited. You know what I mean? You got me going, Luland. I like how, I guess compared to Diablo, how action-y it looks. I guess almost like hack and slash-y. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's just a lot going on. It's way more fast-paced. Well, it's funny because reading it and it was like, oh, this action RPG. And then I looked and it was Diablo.

47:52I was like, oh, so there's multiple characters. I'm doing the thing. And then I was like, oh, no, it's narrative. And I'm the one guy and I'm doing the damn thing.

47:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, it's like if PS2 God of War was a Diablo game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at the Steam page if there's any more information we can pull from it. Damn, that looks hot. Good job, Bless. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Of course, of course. It's funny, these two stories between this and the NBA Street or NBA, the run story I had at the bottom of the news and I was like, after the first two news stories, we're going to need to pick me up. And so I moved these higher because I was like, we need an energy shift in this episode. Over here, Nitrogen Mustard said, who are the devs again?

48:25It is Chili Room. chili have they made anything a world of kung fu dragon and eagle it looks like is their other game that's from that release to mixed reviews on steam in october 2024 make a name for yourself in this old school uh we did this yesterday wusha wusha is that what it is wusha rpg explore the chaotic lands of ancient china and engage in challenging turn-based battles to change the world of kung fu forever a very different looking game a studio based in china yes which is like

48:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's another one in the thing of we've been seeing a lot more games coming out of both China and Korea as well. Of course, PlayStation's China Hero Project is what's supporting this game, right? But I feel like we're seeing a lot more games come out of both China and Korea that look insane. And that come out and are insane in the case of something like Black Myth, Wukong, or even Stellar Blade. We move on to story number five. More good news? following FBC Firebreak flopping, Remedy has a sense of urgency. This is Mark Warren at The Verge. In their first set of financial results since issuing a profit warning and switching CEOs earlier this month, Remedy have revealed that they're moving resources away from FBC Firebreak amid, quote, a sense of urgency and aiming to rely on established series, Alan Wake, and Control delivering hits, which will shore up their commercial fortunes in the long term.

49:50In these latest financial results, remedy reported a loss of 16.4 million euro right the euro oh this throws me oh the this one i thought

50:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's zero you don't fucking know that's girl yeah because pound is like a yeah okay okay okay yeah that's the euro just making sure be a whiteboard somebody i'll draw them uh between july and september 2025 in contrast to the 2.4 million profit it made the same time last year yeah that's not good a loss of 16.4 million last year they made a 2.4 profit that's real bad uh when alan wake too had been out uh the door less than a year uh remedy co-founder marcus mackie uh who stepped into the role of interim ceo last week replacing former ceo taro vertala not long after firebreak sales disappointment says his job has been quote to raise the bar and the sense of urgency across the organization and to drive stronger results so given firebreak sales have only gone up marginally as the studio have delivered updates they're unsurprisingly shifting chess pieces elsewhere quote we continue working on features which enhance player value and which are justified by our upgrade up updated long-term sales expectations the results doc reads quote we have moved development resources to our other in development titles while respecting our communicated roadmap to fbc firebreak end quote as for what the studio are banking on to arrest their number slumpage.

51:16Maki says they plan on making big hit games that people like. More concretely, they indicated Remedy's focus is the short term and until 2030 is mainly to lean on the established series Alan Wake and Control to keep growing and delivering these hits. What are your thoughts on referring to a game studio in the plural?

51:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't like it. Did you hear me? I'm like stumbling over the days. It's one studio, so it should be the studio is. This is the whole fucking thing of like the, like I remember at IGN beating this into people's minds, reading it of like, no, it's an, it, a company isn't it. It's singular. Like that was journalism school. So when I see somebody do it the other way and granted all the rules are out the window, who fought, but it's just like, it's still, it's still catches me and makes me go, ah, I don't like that. But that's not the bigger thing here. Yeah. The more is who could have predicted this.

52:02Wow. Who could have predicted a studio that makes great single player games probably shouldn't have made a multiplayer game. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you like these great gripping single player narratives what if you went with your friends and shot this guy who's made a post-it notes but like what if i want more money though you know

52:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:what if i want like way more money i heard fortnight's good and we love remedy they got a good head on their shoulders i just this is always a bewildering choice of like why are we doing this but they've always been a studio that is making so many different games working with different partners for the longest time you know grinding it out to stay afloat and you really thought alan wake 2 was like bam oh my god everybody gets how great remedy is yeah we are going to be in a new golden age and for it to be fbc is like oh and again this is the problem with trend chasing this is the problem with how long game development makes that you can have alan wake in a two and establish yourself in game of the war game of the year and as sam likes dancing at the game awards and it's amazing but then you still have this thing coming that's like damn is there a market for this this is not the community we've built yeah you know i mean it's the same thing with kind of funny where it's like we used to take i think more shots in the dark with crazy seasonal shows or whatever and now it's like well no like you come here for this product it's i'd rather make these products better than go make a different product that then is not going to perform not going to serve the audience not going to do these different things yeah so scary you know what i mean yeah i hope this doesn't like fuck up what they have going on with their other products a sense of urgency is never a great sign in a game in a game studio where it takes years to make a game uh but we wish them the best i do love remedy the last paragraph is warning me right maki says they plan on making big hit games that people like more concretely he indicated remedies focus in the short term and until 2030 is mainly to lean on their established series right and they're talking about alan wick and control there but like and i guess if they if they i guess they know what they have right like control and in alan wick too i assume they consider those big hit games and so if they're like hey we want to focus on making those at least as great as they were or at least do as well as Control 1 and Alan Wake 2 did, then actually I think that's a – I have confidence in that, right?

54:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:There's no reason why the next Control and the next Alan Wake games shouldn't do as good as the previous ones unless they're just not as good. I don't have that expectation though. But I almost worry that like how much are you banking on these next games to do even better though? Remember, of course, they took a 15 million euro loan out from Tencent in September 2024. So the bill always comes due. so yeah how do you think the next max pain like max pain remix that they announced a while ago are gonna do do the streets are the streets ready for max pain i think they are i honestly think the streets are i think that's one of those franchises in a similar vein to alan wake and i i know this sounds might sound crazy maybe i think it's gonna sound crazy you're gonna be like no it makes perfect sense i think max pain is a bigger franchise than alan wake and i think that alan wake 2 brought alan wake up to another level of course yeah but i think to be like from the people who made Alan Wake 2, here comes Max Payne remakes, which you already know.

54:58You either... You know Max Payne from a bunch of old heads like us talking about him on shows and how great it was. You know Max Payne maybe from shitty movies. Max Payne is out there in the ether. And I think to be like, hey, here's a remake that looks fucking good, that has the hard-boiled on Max Payne. I feel like that's going to hit. I hope so.

55:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The one thing I'll say, and maybe I might be the odd man out here. I remember when I was a kid i was probably like in high school i came to max pain late but i remember going to gamestop looking at their ten dollar envelope in seeing max pain and going oh i remember playing that at addison's house one time and so i bought max pain took it home to play put it in my ps2 and i started playing it and i was like man this game's kind of boring i can see the cool things that it's doing right you got the diving in slow motion you got the hard-boiled shit you're taking painkillers to the heel all this stuff right like the fucking comic book kind of cuts yeah going on i could see there's a vibe to max pain that is so strong and concrete and i could see how people would really vibe with that at least on a cult following level i wonder if a max pain one remake translates to mainstream especially if they're keeping a lot of the same things of max pain one i don't i haven't paid attention i mean we've done it here but i I haven't committed to memory.

56:17Have they said that, that they're remaking Max Payne and keeping it the same? Or is it one of those?

56:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They just said they're remaking Max Payne. I think you'd make it modern. I think it would be a modern. Dude, if they remake it, but like modernize it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's going to fuck. Kill. Yeah. Good luck. I hope we get there, everybody. Number six, Monster Hunter Wilds post-launch sales continue to decline. This is Andy Robinson of VGC. Post-launch sales of Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds, the sequel to its best-selling game of all time continued their decline in the company's latest financial results according to capcom's results for the three months ended september 30th 2025 wilds sold just 160 000 units during the period that's fewer than in previous quarter when the game sold 477 000 units which capcom called soft and which introduced a drop in price influenced a drop in capcom stock price in terms of units monster hunter wilds only barely made capcom's top 10 for the quarter selling fewer copies than Street Fighter 6, Devil May Cry HD Collection, and even Monster Hunter Rise.

57:19However, these games have been heavily discounted, leading to Capcom's highest ever catalog sales for the first half of a fiscal year. Overall, Wilds has been a hugely successful release for Capcom, breaking the company's launch record with a huge 10 million copies in its first month. It's also currently the best-selling game of the year in the U.S. in terms of dollar sales, according to Serkana data, up to August 30th. however the game's drop off since launch has been significant uh in the context of a follow-up to the 28 million selling monster hunter world what's the level monster hunter well i forgot that came out this year i haven't you know i adore it and loved it and played the shit out of it and was there for the first few updates but now it's just that thing of we're awash in games right it's just all games all media you know xbox always like we're not competing with playstation we're kidding TikTok and YouTube.

58:10That's all in the mix where how much I love Halloween. We were once king and king of Halloween. Of course. There's a Monster Hunter update with Pumpkin Heads and stuff like that and it was that thing of like, oh, I'd love to go get that, but I got to do this and I got to play that and Skate's over here. There's enough things going on that it's just like, I don't know if I ever come back to Monster Hunter Wilds. It's that same thing of like, World was the same way for me. I loved World. me and kevin played the shit out of it when at launch and then they did iceborne but i didn't even make it back for that so it's like one of those that like i beat it and i got the armor i want and there's always things to grind for or whatever but i just it isn't the stick with me i mentioned skate a second ago right which i know some people love some people hate whatever what i love about skate for me is that it is that game that so far i can check into i don't i don't feel like i need to commit i need i need two hours to play skate no i can play whatever i'm playing for review and then pop in collect whatever the daily free things are see what the shop update is maybe do a challenge or maybe not like last night i just turned it on to be like oh i like that pumpkin head i'm getting that pumpkin you know what i mean like do that and bounce off and like i know i'll be back to skate in the same way fortnight i'm back to fortnight here but skate i'm back to so far continually whereas like monster hunter like hey do you want to get this pumpkin head and i immediately know i do it means that i'm gonna have to run this mission at least four times but i'm gonna jump back and like what was i how do i play again there'll be that moment of getting maybe and then how do i navigate the menus where it's like it's not turnkey jumping and go which of course is usually the success of monster hunter but like for me right now i'm like that is a commitment that is i i need i need downtime and i should play that for like a few days a few nights or whatever and with as we continue to go review season's dead long live review season the amount of games you and i currently have to play that this shit looks awesome and i want to go be a part of this and maybe i get in there to get it but i'm also i don't buy that i'm going to have nobody here likes monster hunter like i do you know goddamn mike does not like pve games drives me fucking crazy so it's one of those like i don't there's not going to be another resurgence here where i'm gonna i could force everybody to play it on stream joey will help me and play with me you know what i mean but it's not like there's a hunger to go home and do it plus fucking arc raiders tomorrow come the fuck you know what i mean like there's so much going on right now that i look at this and i'm like i just don't i had so much fun with it it's gonna be in my top 10 for sure like i love this game i love all this shit but like when's it turn off wednesday what november something a wednesday in november i'll be you know i don't know i don't know well thank you so i don't know i love this game but it did not become the everlasting gobstopper.

1:00:58I'm going to go back to it all the time kind of thing.

1:01:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Fair enough. So yeah. And I don't know. I still have the Palabros podcast out there. I'm still listening to Krabby Patty out there. Kind of Funny Best Friend does a Monster Hunter podcast. It's Monster Hunter as an IP. Good listen all the time. Love it. Everybody. The Palabros. Find it on your podcast service. It's a good name. It is. It is. So I don't know. And they're always like, come play with us. But it's the same thing where it's like, you know. My schedule is so fucking hit or miss and this, that, the other. I remember at the end of last year, I hit a point where I was like I gotta retire at least momentarily from playing 100 hour jrpgs and Tekken 8 because like Tekken 8 and metaphor and persona 3 reload sucked up 300 hours collectively of my game playing time last year and I think for us partly with the job but also I think partly for how much I know we want to play different games and do all these things it's like man I can if I sacrificed these three games i can now play so many other things on the chat popping off for crabby b patty of course kind of funny best friend we all know well and like i said host of the palcos erdy cooper says greg go play with crabby he's a nice boy lol he's a great boy crabby hit me up and then come here just come to the office and stream with me that would be the fix there we go we're done we'll get me some pumpkin heads we got to do it before november 12th apparently okay well mike in chat mentions bless still hasn't played 2x ko since launch i actually have i did a stream of 2x ko but that's another one where it's like ideally if i could have in my way i I would play 2XKO for 60 hours straight, right?

1:02:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I would play it for three weeks, four weeks, like however long, and just fucking go all in on 2XKO, but I just can't do that. Yeah, of course. That's the whole problem with our life. Yeah, I'd love to go all in on a lot of different games. Everybody, me going all in on a game. Again, the chat, Erty Cooper, I'm telling him you said that. No, I'm serious. Krabby, come stream Monster Hunter with me. Come do that. Come to San Francisco. I don't know where you live. I don't know where you are. Is he around? Whatever. We'll figure that out. You just come here and play the fucking game with me, okay?

1:02:53He's in Bikini Bottom. but crabby coming here to play monster hunter wilds movie would be big news some would say huge news if i wanted smaller news say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go you go

1:03:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:to our last story the we news channel where you cover all the small news items and nude items you need to know about say no more number seven on the rope report the we news from deadline backyard baseball video game lands first ever adaptation sticky situation a 2d animated special from the animation studio behind Rick and Morty and Bob's Burgers, the movie, features Tiffany Haddish as Keisha Phillips and Arturo Castro as Pablo Sanchez. Just the sentence featuring Tiffany Haddish as Keisha Phillips, that's a crazy sentence if you're somebody who grew up with backyard baseball and backyard soccer.

1:03:39Here's the log line. Quote, it's opening day at Steel Stadium, but team superstar Stephanie Bubbles Morgan is in crisis. She's lost her, gotta have it, never played without it. Lucky bubblegum. With just 30 minutes until the game, the backyard kids embark on a wild mission to track it down and save their season no joke i'm

1:03:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:fucking excited about i'm sure you know mike's fucking on pod nine i'm sure but like man this sounds from the rick and morty and bobsburgers animation studio like let's fucking go from game spot hideo kojima has responded to reports that the matrix creators lily and lana wachowski once pitched a game idea to konami while he worked there kojima explained that there was no mention of an offer to develop a matrix video game and back then he was busy working on metal gear solid a two. Quote, if someone had told me maybe there could have been a way to make it work Kojima added. Never too late Tadeo.

1:04:27Never too late Matrix still a hot property

1:04:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Kojima has like one game left in him No! Don't say that! A two actually I guess OD and Fizzing. Oh my god no From Gamatsu Neon Doctrine will merge into sister company Raw Fury and Neon Doctrine's published titles will be managed by Raw Fury going forward. The companies have announced Okay. Are they going to combine their names? No. Raw Doctrine or Neon Fury. I feel like Neon Fury goes hard. If we were going to make a developer, we should call it Raw Dogging. I don't know if that's a good one. From IGN! I don't know if you want a game to open up with a Raw Dogging. From IGN! Content creators specializing in The Sims 4 content are leaving EA's creator network in protest after EA confirmed it is to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, the PIF, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners.

1:05:18Good for you. good on you fuck that from derek kushner 100 uh from vgc directors behind uh warner brothers canceled brawler multi-versus have formed their own independent studio airlock games is a self-funded developer founded by multi-versus production director uh justin fisher and technical director brock feldman uh playstation play playstation plus essential games for november 2025 are stray ea sports wrc 24 and totally accurate battle simulator what a month a game that we

1:05:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:got on ps plus two years ago tabs don't get right let that end ea sports wrc 24 the battle the battle polytopia surpasses 25 million downloads on mobile god congratulations to them and then apple has been appointed to the game awards board of advisors that's neat and then And final one is a Blue Sky. It's a BS, Tim, from Obsidian. Due to an ongoing Azure Service outage, the Outer Worlds 2 may be temporarily unavailable to purchase or install on Xbox Series X, the Xbox app on PC, and with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass. And that was today. A little more than, a little about an hour ago.

1:06:33There you go. The future is here. The future is here. Because of an Azure Service, you can buy Outer Worlds. Remember when AWS went down the other day and everything failed? God. Not scary at all. And that's it for the Wii News. It's the fucking DEI. You know what I mean? That was the problem. That was the problem. Now it's affecting Azure. Let's get into some super chats before we kick you over to the Gamescast to talk about the 10 games that define people. Nightlife says, happy birthday, Tax. I adopted a puppy. Her name is Leia. It's her adoption birthday. Greg and Blessing looking good. KFM, you guys are great.

1:07:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Thank you. Happy birthday to the puppy. I think that's all together. That's the adoption birthday. Happy birthday. no matter what it is. Chocolate McMuffin 09 says, Bless, say the P word for the kids. Pussy. There it is. Gaming with Josh says, Birthday tax, I turned the big 3-0 today. Got the day off, but thanks to you guys for keeping me entertained whenever I listen at work. Happy birthday, Gaming with Josh, and congratulations on having the day off. Natsuyu says, My jabroni snowbike mic for president. He'd do a better job. He would be better. He would do a better job, and it would be... I mean, we'd still be in a...

1:07:40Everything would be a disaster. but it would be a fun disaster.

1:07:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He was talking about it yesterday. I forget if this was on stream or off stream, but he was saying about how easy of a job it would be. But he did. He was like, just get the right people in the rooms, hear the perspectives, and figure out what's the best way to go. Yeah, that is 100%. You know what, Mike Fair? FoxyC says, hey, bless. I played the demo for Into the Grid and can confirm it may have the sauce. Oh, no. I can't. All these games having the seance of Blake Manor, apparently it's Daniel Dwyer's game of the year. This is too much. Every time Jason Schreier pops up and he's like, I put 900 hours into this.

1:08:14I'm like, fuck, I don't have time for this, but I want to play that. The Portland Kevin, when we were talking about shows that we make that aren't huge. He says, shout out to Debatable with Jared Petty. And it's insulting that you say that when Debatable was hosted by Jared Petty for two episodes before he fucking quit. And then me and Nick had to make it at least four. Limp on. Ty Wilkins VO super chat and says, Love Wilds fell off because of other games. The Omega Savage fight brought me back. I'm now back to playing regularly every night still amazing can't wait for the expansion maybe if Krabby Patty isn't a coward and comes here to stream with me maybe I'm back you know Nightlife is back to say I'm not sure my message went through it did please stop giving us money you don't have to do that we love you Nightlife Last Geek says me and my girlfriend are Final Fantasy 14 players and I'm tempted to get Monster Hunter to check out the crossover story would it be easy for me and her to play through the story together yes I've one.

1:09:12So it's actually complicated. Oh, I remember. I remember this being, I remember this being an issue where when Mike and Joey were doing the same things, it's like they have to go get the story mission separately and then come together to do the mission. I remember it wasn't as easy as we wanted to, but you can make it happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm not wrong. Link. He's like, yes, co-op in the story is awful. Thank you. And then Jay Peterson gets birthday taxed and says, turns, I turned 29 today. Happy birthday, Jay. Your last birthday in your not 30s. It doesn't matter. I don't know why I called it out.

1:09:48Just doing it. Two your wrongs are here. Super Tyler says, and remember, keep us on. It's kind of funny. Dot com slash your wrong. Missed part of the news. Twitch has also had key layoffs. Not a lot, but the specific people Amazon thinks they're going to replace with AI is pretty scary, including the guy who built the fraud program. The frog program. Fraud, fraud. Oh, fraud.

1:10:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh. I mean, frog would be, Phil's frog, you know, that wouldn't be as bad. The guy who built Frogger's being reported. Yeah, the fraud guy, that seems like somebody who don't want to lay off. I've had a very good friend who got laid off from Twitch also, which broke my heart yesterday when he told us the news, and so I hate hearing this shit. Tundra Boy has the finals. You're wrong. Wee News, Breath of the Wild is getting an official vinyl release. This is big news for vinyl fans, as it's the first Nintendo game soundtrack to be made available on vinyl outside of Japan. According to Bill Trinan, the company is treating this as a test case and it could be the first series of first in a series of you know vinyl soundtracks in the west is what i'll say we got to get our wallets guys we got to buy this damn we got to get this you got to make this thing sell out damn i'm gonna buy this i need y 'all in chat to buy this too i'll remind you that nintendo music's a free app you can get all the yeah but vinyl is different though it is you can collect takes up space yeah i got that i got a fucking crate of vinyls in my goddamn attic and a record player up there.

1:11:08I'm always like, Jen, can we get rid of this? She's like, no. I'm like, fuck. How much space are the vinyls really taking? I'll show you some photos next time. How many vinyls can you have? I can put more Ghostbuster stuff up there.

1:11:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They're like thin. You just fucking stack them side to side. Ladies and gentlemen. 180 bucks? Everybody, let's put away the wallets. Put your wallets back in your pockets. Is this going to lead to more? Answer, say no. No. We need to get a fucking magic eight ball out here for these kind of goddamn things. Jesus. Uh, everybody, that's another episode of kind of funny games daily in the books. Remember each and every weekday, we're here with you to run you through the nerdy video game news. You need to know about live on twitch.tv slash kind of funny games, youtube.com slash kind of funny games, uh, podcast services around the globe.

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1:12:16It's going to be Gamescast, where the boys talk about the 10 games that define them. And then 5-Hour Energy inspired. No, not inspired. Sponsored. Outer Worlds 2 stream with me. I'm very excited about it. It can be inspired. We got a whole bunch of 5-Hour Energy out there. Oh, I'm drinking one. I'm drinking one for sure on there.

1:12:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, God. Oh, yeah, everybody. so hang out with us all day Twitch, YouTube, you know it until next time it's been our pleasure to serve you

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