Id Software, Obsidian, and More Xbox Layoffs - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.07.26

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0:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:include we have more news on the studios hit by xbox layoffs i owner interactive closes a studio and a new report on xbox game pass numbers we'll have all this more because this is kind of funny games daily yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday july 7th 2026 i'm one of your hosts blessing at aea jr joining me is the nitro rifle andy cortez good morning blessing Good morning, Andy. What did you think of the old football last night? Don't get me started. It was heartbreaking. It was a tough one. It was tough. And here's the thing, right? Like, I'm somebody who roots for the USA during the World Cup because I grew up in the USA.

1:41And this year especially because they have Falarin Balogun, who is a Nigerian-American. I have pride in a Nigerian-American being a star of the team, right? I want to stand by him as a fellow Nigerian-American, even though there's controversy, even though there's potential corruption here and there. I actually don't know a story like that. I thought the whole thing was like, that's funny that they, you know. That he's not playing for Nigerian. Well, no, Trump made the call to, like, help out an immigrant. Oh, I mean, listen. You know, birthright citizenship, you're trying to throw it out the window.

2:14I mean, listen, as somebody who was born here and became a citizen because I was born here, like, fuck off. Shout out. Yeah, shout out. Turns out we're very valuable to this nation. but that's neither here nor there. I am heartbroken by the loss last night, but also I watched, I watched like half the game. I had to go to Oakland. You know me. Oh gosh. But I watched the first half and I was like, I had to go home to Oakland. I watched the first half and I was like, yeah, USA, they don't have it. Belgium was just playing way better than us the entire game. Like just if you look at the passing game, it was like USA was playing.

2:44It's like when I'm playing FIFA and I said it's easy mode. Like that's what, they look like CPUs playing on easy mode. Whereas whenever Belgium had the ball Their ball movement was so fucking accurate And precise and like clean We just didn't have it It was nice to give up on the game early However As somebody who's I'm not going to act like I Care about soccer on that level But I really really want to And I made a promise Or not a promise but a proposition to everybody And I said if you If you make me president Everybody should vote me for president Sure you know, workers' rights, you know, paternity leave, all that great stuff.

3:27Birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship. All the good stuff, you know, universal health care. But another thing I would do is you want to play in, you're playing basketball and football. You're growing up in middle school, you know, peewee leagues. We will sponsor you to learn to play soccer. We will pay you to learn how to play soccer. You know, like sometimes work, you know, employers will say like, hey, we'll sponsor you. You know, you can go learn a different language and we'll kind of pay for the classes or whatever. Yeah. Like to whoever. Hey, we will pay you to go play soccer. Yeah.

4:00Learn how to play soccer. I want that. Right. Yeah. Wouldn't that be awesome? I think it would be really cool if one day we at least got to the semifinals of a World Cup. We just need. Yeah. But if we won it, if we ever won a World Cup, I think that changes American culture forever. I think if they get close, it changes American culture forever. like i think i just want this country to care about soccer i think it gets the youngins wanting to get into that you you need to inspire the youngins you know like here's the thing because like obviously here's the thing right world culture loves soccer right i think in a way to love soccer as an as an american makes you more connected to the world it's so heartwarming when i go visit my nephews in texas and my nephew's really into soccer love soccer and he's talking about when i'm over there he's talking about mbappe he's talking about ronaldo he's talking about messi and i'm like this is a kid of culture this is a kid that like thinks beyond learning about the world learning about the world like that's the beauty of soccer is that it brings us all together which is why i love the world cup so much because it brings all these countries together to play with each other you know have these moments where it's like mexico versus south korea and you see like this camaraderie between different cultures and rivalries and all that i think that's so beautiful but like the usa because we're the usa we fucking say no to everything and we have to be like oh soccer fuck that shit we don't care and i'm like no we can care one zero it sucks that's boring we can care yeah it's like no but it's a fun game um here's the thing mbappe is always gonna go he's always saying what's up to wendy they're from france they're always dapping each other up yeah i'm french now have you ever like gone and watched this mbappe videos of him speaking in english no there's the meme of like when he's speaking in french they call him the dictator because he's a fucking like he is on his shit he is serious like he has this persona of the dictator but when he's speaking in english he sounds like the sweetest man of all just a cuddly there was like a video of him teddy bear like i don't know who he was interviewing but it was like it seemed like a gq interview or some shit like that right and they're asking him um you know what do you like do in your free time he's like oh i'm learning how to cook and he's in the interview is like what's what's the mbappe special and he's like uh for example nothing and And the way he says it in the clip, obviously he's like, it's not what he meant to say.

6:13He's trying to say like, for the moment, nothing. But he says, for example, nothing. And he's smiling while saying it. And there's something just very funny and very sweet about this man who's trying his best. Shout out Mbappe. I fuck with Mbappe. I also fuck with, what's his name from Norway? Holland. Erling Holland. Erling Holland? Yeah. Oh my God. Have you seen this guy play? Yeah. He's a monster. I mean, he's, yeah, he's, he's the, like when LeBron was running back in his, at the height of his athleticism yeah like this guy's huge and he's the fastest person also yes insane to watch and also he's got to be a dream for an animator or an artist to draw he's just got a face that's like the most unique face i've ever seen ever it's like man i want to draw the shit out of you somebody said you are so drawable somebody says he looked like super boo from dragon oh yeah i can kind of has that kind of yeah so yeah shout out to the world cup of course world cup is making us happy soccer's cool man soccer's really cool also i love this picture of holland i also love holland because i'm seeing a lot of thirst after holland and i'm like good for you because he described his face as unique and he does have a unique face but he also has an aura to him where i get oh yeah i get people are thirsting after after this man and i'm like good for you man i can draw the fuck out of this dude yeah look at him you know what's not cool though blessing what's that just the stuff that's happening right now i know yeah today's episode is

7:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:going to be about the aftermath of all the xbox news that went down yesterday so let's get into it remember if you're watching live you can be a part of the show by super chatting over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny 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 still doesn't feel appropriate today i'm gonna be honest it's time for some news we have six stories today a baker's doesn't this is what i want obviously it's been a sad day of news it's been a sad week of news been a sad month of news but a sad year yeah been a sad five years of news been a sad forever of news when it comes to video games i i feel like we can make this a space for video game therapy it was super chat in or just chat in with like your feelings if you this is a space where i want people to be open and i want it to be okay to be sad about things oh yeah can we do that together Of course.

8:31We can be sad together and also prop each other up and encourage each other. Of course. Yeah, last night, you know, I'm off on a mission, and I'm taking that little John Marston son out there to go fishing. And I'm teaching this kid how to fish. Teach a man to fish. He'll never go poor. Teach a man to fly. He'll never go die, you know? And so I, as we're out there fishing, because John Marston, he's a deadbeat dad. He doesn't like, you know, he just wants to be an outlaw. And his mom is, like, coming to me, and she's like, can you take the little kid out can you take Jack out with you you know go fishing with him let's go fishing Jack you know and we go out there and we think we're safe you know I just had a fatherly bonding moment with this child who's not my son and I turn around and it's god damn deputies from Pinkerton and they're like what's up guys you know we we know you're with Dutch where is he we're not going to arrest you John Marston you have a thousand dollar bounty on your hand or not Marston, sorry, I meant Arthur.

9:29Arthur Morgan. We just want Dutch. And he's like, well, I don't know where he's at. Oh, man, a great moment. I get back to the camp and I'm like, Dutch, fucking, two Pinkerton deputies are after us, Dutch. They offered me, you know, freedom if I turn you in. And Dutch is like kind of walking out and he's like, why didn't you take it? And Arthur's like, come on, don't joke around like that. But it's like, oh, it was such, his line, Dutch is like, fuck, This game is so good. I've been watching you play a little bit of it. You're making me want to go back to it. I forgot. You're making me want to go back to it because I fell off of it after a while.

10:03It's just like such goaded character development. In the way that Witcher 3, I fell off because I couldn't find Dandelion. Goddamn Dandelion. He's still out there. He's still out there. I still got to find them. I'm sure I have to save. In Red Dead Redemption 1, I know we're talking about 2, but in Red Dead Redemption 1, my Dandelion is Mexico. Oh, yeah. I got to Mexico and I was like, I'm good. I'm sorry. Yeah, I feel that. That was like 10 years ago, over 10 years ago when that happened. Red Dead Redemption 2, I got to St. Denis? Is that the New Orleans? St. Denis, yeah. I got to St. Denis, and then my horse died, and I was like, fuck this shit.

10:31Ah, dang, dude.

10:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The horse death was a final straw for me. Story number one, let's talk about our report. Roughly half of id Software's team has been laid off. This is from Chris Kerr at Game Developer. Doom the Dark Ages developer id Software has reportedly been gutted during the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox. Multiple anonymous sources have told GameDeveloper that around 50 % of employees at the Texas-based studio have been laid off. One person claimed that equates to over 90 redundancies. Another source told GameDeveloper the studio's QA department has been decimated by the cuts. One laid-off worker posting publicly on LinkedIn corroborated those claims and expressed anger at the studio being torn apart in service of another reorganization of assets.

11:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's currently unclear how many of the 100 plus union members at id software have been ousted the news comes just hours after xbox xbox confirmed it would be eliminating 3200 roles across its video game division over the next fiscal year starting with 1600 cuts this week in an internal email obtained by ign bethesda president jill braff said the company which is a sibling studio of id software and others under xenomax is being restructured around its biggest franchises that goes into a little bit of what we talked about already yesterday uh with jason schreier talking about uh how bethesda is in xenomax is focusing in on elder scrolls fallout quake wolfenstein and doom they're concentrating on it for sure yeah i mean focusing on it we're focusing in on doom by laying off half the company that makes doom of course there's not really much for us to say that hasn't been said.

12:12Congratulations, new DLC out today. Yeah. Congrats. That is a nice little present for you. Hey, you released a new DLC today? All right, goodbye to half. You don't got to work on the day that you play it. Congrats. You have the day off. Jesus. You have the fucking rest of your career off from this company. And it's a massive bummer. It's extremely sad. The caliber of talent that I've been seeing being laid off, you know, you never you never hope for certain people to be laid off and other people to be safe right it all completely sucks ass but you know following one of the kind of like principal 3D artists who has just worked on worked for id since like I think doom 2016 and then worked on Wolfenstein New Colossus and has just done a lot of amazing 3D work one of the main concept artists i think like maybe the main dude i'm blanking on the person's name but it's like this is huge talent being let go and you know fingers crossed the only the only good thing that that can come from this is that they hire and they look for a new concept artists and not that they use ai to yeah iterate off of the work that's already been created that's like that's absolutely abysmal like that like that's how bad it could get in my opinion yes um you know we we talk about how so many of these games nowadays they take forever to get uh to forever to develop because you are laying off your more tenured employees that require more salary because they've been there for 15 10 years or whatever and you bring in newer blood who you don't have to pay as much but they're not as skilled and they don't have the chemistry and they haven't been there forever so games get games take longer and that's just like one of the symptoms of why things are more expensive and take longer to develop and my hope is that like i think best case scenario through any of this whoever is getting replaced are new employees and it's not just going to be oh we're never really going to be looking for another role like that again we have a lot of stuff that we can pull from and that's where my mind goes to doomsday scenario i also hope rehiring like i know that's that's an option we don't talk about a lot but like i've seen it happen time and time where somebody gets laid off and then the people who are leading that team realize that they laid off too many key people and they're like oh shit we actually need that person back like get that person back on our team um what happened to pay cuts like i'm you know um i feel like i feel like i'm giving ground to that like i feel like i'm kind of like why not just ask us to take a pay cut like that's still awful but god dang it just really feels like this is i think it's as apocalyptic as it gets it's the i'm gonna call it ea it's the evil arithmetic of if we if we give somebody pay cuts or if we if we say pay cuts already it's gonna be very bad probably just as bad pr for us as if we're doing layoffs and all that stuff and then also we're probably gonna lose people with pay cuts as well anyway and then also So with pay cuts, we're still paying for benefits.

15:26We're still paying for like there are a lot of costs associated with keeping people hired to where layoffs help you just get rid of all those costs. Right. And like a lot of what this all comes down to is evil arithmetic at the top. Right. The capitalistic machine going years ago, going, hey, let's let's eat up all these companies. Let's we got a plan here and the plan is to make the number go up. And so to make the number go up, let's buy companies that'll make the number go up. And then once the number starts to come down, we chop those companies. We chop them up and lay off all these people.

15:5950 % of employees is crazy. Yeah. And with a lot of these guttings, it just, you kind of nailed it yesterday talking about, like, if I wanted my studios to make more money and to get games out faster, you make the team smaller and you say, scope down. Scope down. Make a game in three years, in two years. And that's, again, this is me coming from this devil's advocate. I am the evil. I am not the owner of it all who is also giving out sponsorships for people to learn soccer around the country. This is coming from the capitalistic, I need money for all of the shareholders to be happy so we can kind of get more money coming through or whatever.

16:41We need to satisfy all of those people. and it does seem like yeah these kind of seem like the logical steps to be at your most evil here's the thing right because i've been thinking about this with a lot of the news has been coming on the last week right i've thought about writing a blog about this one day i'll start a blog one day i'll start the sub stack or something um but how i'm stacking yeah that's what it's called sub stack yeah i was thinking squarespace but that's a website yeah i mean i could make a blog with square space we're not sponsored but sponsors um i wanted to write something that is titled the culture is bigger than the business because when it comes to the physical disc stuff with playstation as well there is a view of when these companies are making decisions it's numbers above all and i think that's a capitalistic mindset leads you to think that way right like that is the the under under the system of capitalism that is the goal of companies is to raise the number up and up and up right and like we can disagree with that we can hate that i think a lot of us here disagree with that and hate that right for what all that brings but i think when you focus in on that number you then lose out on so many things that i think help you even get to that number like for the disc and i'm not trying to take a hard left turn talking about physical disc again we have a story later on that dude that does touch on that but when talking about the physical discs for example i think i've been getting more and more angry about it every day since the news came out of that because i think about all the things that are lost as far as interest in video games passion about video games like the culture of video games that are being lost all to serve this like this specific number of oh we can cut out manufacturing costs and cut out like these physical distributors from it but then i think about how many people get into video games because of physical because of things like going to a store and buying pre-owned and that being your only way to afford these games right like i think in the long run there that arithmetic doesn't math out when you think about the culture around the thing and how you're diminishing the culture and i think about that here too with the layoffs of sure laying off 50 of the workforce for for id software might make your number go up because you're not paying as many people but guess what what is a doom going to look like with 50 of its software working on a doom yeah like we're talking about scoping down and all this shit but like have you thought about that yeah like is there a plan for how like what does a scope scoped down doom look like what does a 50 of its software look like what is a we're going to talk about other studios that you're over here eliminating but you're changing the culture of these studios inherently they're not going to be able to operate the same and that's where I get into the culture is more important than the fucking numbers because you're going to end up closing these studios because they're not going to deliver on what you're asking for and the inherent sort of conflict with going we're streaming the DLC today I want to play this DLC if I if any part of me goes I want to boycott this because fuck Xbox, fuck Microsoft then the DLC fails if everybody decides to do that and then maybe it just gets cut it's just like yeah like but on the other side even if the dlc does do well like we've seen with so many big releases even if a game does do well that doesn't guarantee that things are going to work out for a studio right it doesn't help if you don't at all though like like what i if you told me andy if you play the dlc id software will retain 80 of its workforce yeah or if you don't we're gonna cut a lot more people then it's like i don't know i i at that point you really get into that sort of like how what am i supposed to do is as somebody who enjoys this shit as somebody who enjoys their art and enjoys their creations and it's like who's even around to accept that enjoyment because they're they got laid off too yeah it's when you're rolling credits on the dlc you're looking at a you're looking at an obituary yeah or um yeah you're it i don't know man like i i to that i'd say like everybody has their own way of of choosing the type of entertainment and choosing their own i guess like ethics and how they want to consume entertainment like there's no ethical consumption under capitalism right so it's like damned if you do damned if you don't you want to support the studio yeah like you're kind of also supporting xbox but also like i'm supporting playstation by playing on playstation even though i hate the disc stuff right like i'm sure i can point to fucked up things that valve and nintendo have got have got going on yeah if doom doesn't very much teach their own of how they want to approach this if this dlc ends up tanking because me and a lot of other people say we're not going to play it then i think about xbox going guess people don't really care much about doom we've seen sales go down the last several years maybe that's not a franchise we have to worry but like i don't know i just go to i feel like scenarios and but i think there's i think there's a wider economic like there's wider economic considerations you make when it comes to like decisions that singular people are making versus decisions that a group is making right like i love to believe that boycotting has um can can make um like significant effects on things and i've and it has it has right like i look at target for example and like the boycott on target and that led to results right like boycotting works but also i don't know i think boy i think boycotting works sometimes so right like boycotting it's got to be like a focused effort it's got to be like it's got to be a specific campaign like bds uh like the things we've seen in the past you bringing up target uh a bunch of companies it has to be like uh like personal stuff yes like that is very much like whatever your kind of moral stance is and however you want to navigate that like yes that'll always be up to you but uh getting things done and trying to accomplish specific goals isn't going to happen unless there's a specific organized campaign exactly and to that point barrett right like if there was an organized thing of hey we're not playing xbox games because well there's the bds thing right yes there is an organized there is an organized xbox thing parent but also like let's say in this scenario people are like we're not playing xbox games because they're doing all these playoffs treating these companies bad all that shit then i think there is a better chance of that message getting across to xbox of oh man our numbers are down on this thing let's look on analytics on why and then maybe you start to get to that place of oh shit all right yeah no people were very active about not playing this game for this reason but like on a personal level yeah like if you're salty about a company you don't yeah like avoid that game don't play that game but i don't think that's on you as far as how that affects the business i think about the people i do know that work there like do they want me to they want me to support like i don't know yeah it's just so messy oh yeah it's so messy like i've had i've had friends laid off from companies who they still they would still want me to support the game even though they have complicated feelings about the company that's in that game you know and that's not always the case there are the people i think at arcane there's a union within arcane that has talked about like hey don't play our game but because of the bds yeah because of the the bds boycott yeah andy we got another story that goes in line with story

24:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:number one story number two the outer worlds and grounded studio obsidian is losing around 25 percent of its staff to xbox layoffs this is rebecca valentine at kotaku among the massive cuts made today across Xbox, Kotaku understands that roughly one quarter of Obsidian Entertainment, the first-party studio behind Avowed, The Outer Worlds, and Pentiment, is being let go. Speaking to sources with knowledge of the matter, Kotaku understands that somewhere around 60 to 70 people were cut. The layoffs include producers, artists, designers, programmers, QA testers, writers, and others who have worked across Obsidian's prodigious slate of recent releases.

24:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Prodigious? I'm going to say prodigious. Prodigious. prodigious good call prodigious slate uh looking through linkedin posts from impacted employees it's apparent that many of those impacted were senior talent including some with over a decade of experience at the studio the art director on the outer worlds and the studio's only recruiter were among those laid off most of these roles were limited on july 6th as part of the xbox's first 1600 layoffs while a few were told they would be let go later this year as a part of the second wave of cuts. One individual told me that employees who will remain at the studio have not yet received formal guidance on how their existing projects can continue with so many staff members missing, particularly given what they characterized as a huge list of projects in the works at the studio in the coming months.

25:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Kotaku understands that work on Grounded 2, which is currently in early access, and the announced DLC for Outer Worlds 2 is expected to continue, but plans beyond that are up in the air employees expect to hear more at a studio wide meeting on july 7th again like i look at the quote from the person saying i don't know how we're supposed to continue continue this yeah we don't have any guidance on where to go from here and so we just have to sit and wait and i guess figure this shit out meanwhile we're losing 60 to 70 people here yeah we talk about the going from we need to remove 14 layers of management sort of issue that they're dealing with so now yeah we have negative management we don't have anybody to oversee what the project is that we're working on and what we will be working on in the future um yeah it's uh seems like everything is kind of a mess until hopefully some changes are made and you know in terms of like all right these studios similar to what astro charme was mentioning now minecraft reports to me so and so report you know let's try to kind of get some you know the the ball rolling here and try to see exactly what these teams uh will be concentrating on but um yeah it's just just keeps on hitting just keeps on hitting and again i go back to what i said during story number story number one which is we're looking at that number and we're impacting these studios based off of how much we want the number to go up but what does that do for the actual quality of the content that the studio wants to put out like if you want to have obsidian either continue to work on their ips that they work on or i imagine probably work on a fallout like we want them potentially this is speculation obviously we're in speculation station when i say this but do you want them to potentially work on a new fallout game meanwhile you're cutting into their studio even more like i'm i was already at a place of like, oh man, that's going to be a little bit of an uphill thing for Obsidian to make a Fallout.

27:42I think they can make a great Fallout, but also I don't think they're going to make a Fallout with a scope of a Bethesda. I think that's okay, but also there's work that will need to be done there. Now we're saying we're cutting around 60 to 70 people. That's crazy if you want them to continue operating while also working on an IP like that. Who knows if that's what they're going to do. I just assume. I just speculate, obviously. But even if you want them to make the stuff that they already make here, that's tough. I mean, you know, you don't want the connection to be made, but you bring in somebody with a heavy past of AI development.

28:22And a lot of teams are being cut by 30 to 50 percent of their workforce. And you do the math. Yeah. It just seems like we're headed there. and you know you hope to god that the fucking tires fall off of the car you hope that you could grab the steering wheel and veer off into a fucking canal or something but it's just uh it it's it's so hard to feel uh optimistic about any of this situation let's bring in some

28:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:super chats for you uh to bring the energy up a slight bit no comms writes in and says first birthday tax been a bummer hearing all gaming news uh but i'm glad my favorite trio are out here spitting facts love y 'all kfbs thank you so much no comms um riago nine says the mega corpse don't appreciate that most game devs don't make a hit with their first game and cutting these teams now microsoft is just digging themselves further into the hole um see dan lefevre 1851 One says all these layoffs and closures and yet Nintendo gave everyone a 10 % increase. The big two need to take a lesson from the big end.

29:37As a three years ago, as a reminder,

29:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:the big end did that three years ago, three years ago. And that was likely possibly to do with some union busting. I missed that part. There's the speculation about that. I don't know how like certain a lot of that is, but it seems like a, you know, Hey, you guys are working overtime. Let's have a little pizza party. Like, it's one of those situations. I love when Greg buys his pizza. Yeah, me too. Me too. The Action Pat says, the 14 layers of management won't accept pay cuts.

30:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's see. The MD Fournier says, I feel really bad to give money to these corpos, but I really want to play the Doom DLC. Sucks. Here's what I'll say, right? Separate from the BDS thing, because I think the BDS thing adds a complicated layer to this, but if you want to play a game, just play the game. like i i don't think you're 30 i don't know how much the doom dlc is 40 i think it's 40 40 40 um i don't think your 40 is going to sway this one way or another as far as like the way microsoft looks at at doom and maybe i'm crazy for for for saying that now i think i'm part of me also goes protect your peace protect your find your happiness wherever you can genuinely it's hard to feel that way yeah uh yeah um rival kazuna says for the first time in my adult life i'm not planning on buying the new playstation at launch after all the news makes me sad one thing i've been saying i was going to say this conversation for the because story number five has to do with playstation stuff but i saw that playstation pretty much went radio silent on social ever since posting the thing about the discs which surprised me a little bit they finally posted a tweet today about their flex strike fighting stick thing but just all the replies all the everybody's just fucking going in on them games cage fidel has been posting like the funniest shit uh he's like three days in he posted the uh like three days of radio silence and he posted the you know that one um you know that like the does he know meme or whatever but it was a very similar one but it was when galactus gets pulled through the black hole and it was like where did he go this is so funny that's really funny somebody says place the what was it somebody says they don't have to post every day of course they don't have to post every day the thing is though they usually do post every day like yeah they have a habit of posting regularly so when you post that news and go radio silent and it's one of the top three gaming tweets ever and fucking dominoes is going in on you even though i hate corporate on corporate crime but like i i do think i mean obviously they see it they they know it's bad news.

32:16Is it Domino's UK though? It's Domino's UK. Are they gamer gating? Oh my God. God damn it. Every single time. Dude, Domino's UK is like, I hate that shit. They had posted some shit about like, you know, basically alluding to the fact that, you know, they want hotter characters in games. It was one of those things. It was like, oh man, Domino's UK, get the fuck out of here. I forget. They were talking to a company and the game developer responded like, you know, hey thank you dominoes corporate twitter account or whatever yeah i forget oh i know which one that was yeah was it hmm yeah they were chud posting chat i forget exactly it was god of war laofay wasn't it it was it was like this we want real god of war it was like some bullshit yeah give me kratos in my god of war or something like that it was yeah i hate i hate that shit i forget i didn't i forgot that that was dominoes uk yeah yeah all right we'll throw dominoes uk out the window yeah and domino's us hope you're cool though let me down hey domino's us don't let me down because i love me some domino's pizza but not in the uk if i'm in the uk i'm eating whatever other pizza is there i guarantee you there was about minimum three different tweets that had been scheduled for those past several days i had to be like hey no no that's legit yeah we're not putting out that don't let things die down let xbox grab some of the heat right now like they're doing which is obviously like i think i think there's a yeah a conversation there of hey don't tweet until xbox the xbox news comes out then there'll be the topic of conversation i i'm i'm obviously i'm sad about it all but i'm happy to see that people still aren't forgetting the place yeah yeah right like i i i have so little hope that they'll reverse course because i'm sure this feeds into what their plans are for next gen which is already probably years into the making but xbox fans we got you we're talking about the playstation disc stuff so we got your back too we're bringing it up but um i think there's a chance well not a chance i'm not gonna say there's a chance i think the amount of conversation the amount of backlash if it continues on this level i could see there being some sort of like i don't know what the thing is but some sort of thing i'm just keeping in i'm keeping in some hope sure in my heart that there's a reverse of course there

34:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um we'll bring in one more from jan bain who says voting with your wallet matters but it's a lot like dieting where you can't really force anyone into a diet you can't go into a boycott hoping to influence anyone but yourself there you go um andy we got some more news to talk about okay but before we get there i want to talk to you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free and speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors. This week, we're sponsored by patreon.com slash kind of funny because it's Patreon Pledge Month.

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37:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back with some breaking news, Andy. Whoa. Egypt is up right now 2-0 against Argentina they're 75 minutes into the game whoa which is huge like anything can happen anything can happen but if Egypt beats Argentina that's renewed hope for me because right now like now that USA is out now that um like Cabo Verde is out my two teams um I guess Mexico and Canada I was kind of rooting for too Egypt and I believe Morocco's still in check me on that I believe Morocco's still in they're my two teams I'm rooting for you know what I'm rooting for Egypt too hell yeah hell yeah I need an African team to win the World Cup what's the over under and like the amount of like slurs being yelled from that Argentinian crowd they're inventing new ones they're a champion player who's like wait what does that mean what do you call me that Morocco versus France ah shit that's tough yeah Mbappe's about to go sicko mode maybe what if they just tie what if they agree to disagree They agree.

38:42You can't tie. They have to go to penalties at that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

38:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:While we're here on the World Cup, I want to bring in a super chat from Christian Solario, 14Y, who says, been watching U.S. soccer since 2022. Worst World Cup loss. I'm happy I tapped out at halftime because I went back and watched the clips of the other couple of goals. Did you see the goals? The goalie had a real bad fuck up. Yeah. Right, yeah. The goalie had a fuck up so bad where I, like, had to keep re-watching to be like, what happened? Yeah. He, like, kicked the ground or something? Like, what? that shit was crazy so yeah that was really bad i was streaming while it was happening i started i started my stream one once it was two to one and then as i was streaming it became during my intro the stream it became three to one and i was like all right i think i made the right call but maybe if i turn off the stream i'll turn the luck around yeah didn't work they scored another one i'm gonna blame trump just so you know y 'all know i'm gonna blame trump i mean sure maybe if trump didn't fucking medal like he did in the next thing shout out to belgium though uh making fun of him oh yeah the belgium players they were like they were doing like call sign gestures oh that's and then they were doing the trump dance oh that's really funny shout out to belgium i love your waffles jbc writes in and says usa came in 17th ranked and left 16th let's fucking go yeah hey we're moving up hey that's what i'm talking about right there moving up as a country and then Napoleon blown apart says birthday tax turned 37 today.

40:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Thank you guys. And all the KFBFs are always creating a safe space to hang out every day. Happy birthday, Napoleon. Love that. Story. Number three, IO interactive closes a studio and gains ownership of project fantasy IP. This is directly from IO interactive on Twitter. Dear gaming community, following the end of our external finance partnership on project fantasy. Remember that external partner? Of course, Xbox and Microsoft. um ioi has regained full ownership of the project and our ip will continue to develop and fund it independently amongst our other projects with this context we had to find a new balance for the long-term future of the studio focused on the success of our main internal core titles instead of external projects and potential mobile game derivatives this has meant making changes as well as proposed changes across our studios the closure of our istanbul studio and starting a process to part ways with colleagues who have been a meaningful part of what makes IO Interactive what it is.

41:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Our immediate focus is on supporting those affected as best we can through this period. If you're aware of any opportunities within your network, we would be genuinely grateful for any support you can offer to any of the talented people across IOI who might be looking for new opportunities. These are hard but necessary decisions in order to retain the long-term future of IO Interactive as one of the very few fully independent AAA developer and publishers, as well as to give Project Fantasy the best possible foundation to succeed under our own passion and direction. Project Fantasy is a game, a world, and an IP that we are wholly committed to, and we cannot wait to share the love with you.