IGN Hit With Brutal Layoffs - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.15.26

23:16Andy Cortez:Like, I don't, it's, it's a bewildering decision to talk about Brian Altono leaving. And again, we're not there. We don't know. And yada, yada, but it's like, to your point, like when there is a sponsored op, it's Brian. When, when there's a, we have to send somebody to Germany to host the live show. It's Brian and Max and Damon. I'm not taking away from them, but it's like, okay, cool. So how are we paring that down? Are you using freelancers? Are you bringing in more people? But then the people who are already making it clearly aren't happy in general, it seems with what's going on and how they're being treated.

23:47Andy Cortez:I don't know. There's a lot for them to figure out and prove as we go forward. But then again, it doesn't matter to use hire some freelancer. We were at BlizzCon walked into that press room. This is not a knock against anybody. I swear to God. And everybody, like all the bigger outlets had like, Hey, here's the IGN space in the space over there. And I looked over at the IGN one and I recognized the cameraman from my time what up brian i didn't have a chance to say hey but i didn't recognize the host and i was like oh and i was like i don't know if she's full-time i don't know if that was a part-time i don't know if that was just she knows blizzard and they hired that person to do it but is that the answer and that's what i'm saying like do you just bring in outside talent on a show-to-show basis and do that kind of thing i don't know yeah so the glory days it's of having the sf office and we are all there playing rock band and this is the thing are gone and it's not only because igien has changed it's because the world has changed you know what i mean like that's the thing of like i was talking i obviously talked a lot about this last night and a lot of feelings last night right because i love ig and so much but i love my ign right and so i'll always that brand and that logo and the people and you know pair and like all these people will always matter so much to me but like i don't know what's happening over there anymore and so it's like crazy i was talking to jen about i'm like i i've thought about it obviously but we've done such an interesting thing a kind of funny of taking what we loved about IGN and bringing in here and protecting it where you know I mean I remember Damon and I leaving the old podcast room and being like man imagine if we could just do that all day long that's all we do now all we do now is just talk and hang out and play games and it's awesome but it's like that's a business model we figured out that that works for us and we're happy with our success whereas again IGN hundreds of employees owned by Ziff Davis you've got all these different people in different levels and different people shareholders like i don't know man it's a very very sad day very well said super sad day greg thank you so much for coming through talking to us about it thank you everybody thank you everybody brian you're always welcome come through brian seth macy you stay the fuck away now seth macy you come here also granted it's gonna be a long flight for you if you want to come here in person but we got videos we can make things happen

25:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:mike we got a whole lot more to talk about yes we do show and so we're gonna transition over to story number two but before we do want to transition you over to some ads come one come all

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27:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. And before we move on, actually, I'm going to bring to you some super chats. JVC writes in and says, Traded in my Wolverine pre-order for Tomodachi. Ask me anything. Come on. Okay. All right. All right. Hell yeah. I'll ask you something. Who are you going to create first? Yeah, what are you calling your island? Yeah, we're going to play the game. What are you going to make? What's the theme? Will you add Wolverine onto your island? Are you going to make Wolverine and play Wolverine on Tomodachi Live? Let us know. Age Atomic writes in and says, this IGN news sucks. I fail to point in having a union.

28:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know what they're saying. I fail to point in having a union if there are no warning or consultation period. I fail to point in having a union. I see what they're trying to say. Yeah, I don't know. Matt Yu writes in and says, love the Gary Oak fit. Bless. You rocking it. I don't know if that's a diss or a compliment. That's better than Nigel Thornberry, so you'll take it. You know what? Honestly, Gary Oak was cool in the cartoon. Gary Oak was cool. Gary Oak was cool. Kevin, if you can find a picture of Gary Oak, I want to see the comparison. Stop calling him by his full name. I don't like it.

28:45Gary Oak? That's his full name. Yeah, but we call him Gary. Yeah, well, it's just Gary. Gary from Pokemon? Yeah. yeah but they wouldn't know you say gary from pokemon people wouldn't know you want to know

28:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah you gotta say gary oak been a long time that was 20 years ago come on gary okey uh eric metz writes and says brian and max were the reason i began listening to video game podcasts it's heartbreaking to hear the news i'll be there to support brian with whatever comes next agreed oh that's a good photo of him thank you i want to be mad but i see exactly what they're saying kind of messed up actually that they will do that to me actually that color that's actually really fucked up that you would call me gary oak i'm wearing the exact same fit crazy fit shit all right we're gonna end the show here i can't go on that's messed up so much more stories left all right let's do it story number two valve says ram crisis hasn't affected plans for the steam deck too this is from bowmore at ign it's no secret that valve is hard at work on steam deck 2.

29:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Its devs have said as much every time I've asked that question over the last several years, and their plans for a sequel have been clear from the start. The crux of the message has always been that Valve is waiting for the proper technology in order to present a true generational leap in performance. The unspoken part of that, of course, is that Valve is waiting for not just the right level of performance, but the correct performance to price ratio that would make Steam Deck 2 a viable product. In the time since the Steam Deck originally launched, a number of other more powerful handheld gaming PCs have come to market, all at moderate to significantly higher prices.

30:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:In other words, the performance might be there now, but the price isn't. It might be a worry then that the RAM crisis that has driven up hardware prices, everything from graphic cards to gaming consoles to the Steam Deck itself, would impact Valve's plans for a device so sensitive to component costs like the Steam Deck 2. Thankfully, Valve says its plans haven't changed. My colleague Jackie recently sat down with Valve software developers Pierre-Loup Graffet and Jeff Lanebo, and they had a reassuring answer to her question about whether the ongoing RAM shortage has impacted Valve's plans. Quote, not really, said Graffet.

30:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We've talked about how we want to make sure there is a very delineated performance improvement for something like a future Steam Deck, and I think we're still looking at it in the same way. It's just a matter of looking at the current conditions and seeing how and when we can deliver something like that. But from what we're working on, as far as the user experience goes and what the product that we're trying to build goes, it's very similar goals, end quote. To me, that sounds like Valve's target hasn't changed, but the timeline might've. As I said before, it's all about finding the right price to performance ratio where a new Steam Deck would make sense.

31:34mike when do we get the steam deck to

31:422029 okay 2028 feels right but i bet you that's like announcement and roadmap 2029 feels about right 2029 2030 it's a very interesting story right because of course we saw the success in the steam deck we just saw steam and valve with their last two projects and what pricing has done to both of those of now people see the price they can go oh i'm not ready for that right and they were kind of the first to do this we've seen price increases for the series x and playstation 5 and of course the switch as well but we haven't gone to the next gen of consoles yet where it's going to be that initial sticker shock right and so for valve it's like hey we already have a successful steam deck out right now we're trying with our other products we don't really need to rush this we're looking for the right components and maybe let's let some other people, handhelds and consoles, they can announce their prices.

32:34Let's get the audience a little more. The higher prices, and then we can roll out and we'll kind of be right in the middle of it all. I don't expect us in 2029 to see a Steam Deck that is all of a sudden$400. I think we're past those days, unfortunately. I think we are going to be living in a$600 minimum to$1 ,200 world from this point forward, probably. It's tough right now to announce a Steam Deck 2 that's coming out for, let's say,$800 dollars yeah it gets easier to announce that after playstation 6 and xbox helix get announced in their 1100 1200 bucks or your competition handhelds are all now a thousand plus dollars yeah then we slide in and we look a little bit better or when you announce it for a thousand dollars the audience is already receptive the audience is like this is the pricing yeah exactly yeah but i want it i want it to be good too what are you looking for just a more performance like this i think performance i think they've nailed the user experience they've nailed what i want right i do appreciate the freedom of what the steam deck can do of course the xbox rgl i've been using a lot of and that has a lot of freedom as well but i like these handhelds and what they offer it's just a handheld pc essentially so they're nailing what i need can i tell you something that's revolutionizing the game and that'll continue to revolutionize the game it's cross save because i will always have reasons to buy new handhelds new pieces of hardware as long as my save can follow me from place to place i got my a way and a y and thor i got my steam games on there and the fact that my cloud save makes it so that all right i'm gonna play on steam deck now i'm gonna play on my laptop at work now i'm gonna play my desktop at home now i'm gonna pick pick up my a y and thor and continue my playthrough there that's pretty cool i didn't know it was going over to that that's oh yeah dude like it's i mean we're living in the best timeline right now as far as the functionality of making this shit work in the most dream like i'm living a dream way as possible i mean those are the things that we ask for right the cross saves and most importantly uh play anywhere the one-time purchase and that carries over to a number of pieces of hardware right it's like the dream reality that we're living in and also the freedom that you brought up that that console that you have in your pocket that i know you've running around with the freedom of that of being able to do so many things with it and valve is right there at the front of it with their steam deck right and i'm excited to see more what they can do i love the handheld and so yeah this is just a waiting game i think a lot of companies right now we all know are in the waiting game and when it comes to the steam deck 2 they probably have longer to wait than a xbox or playstation who are kind of next up and we will see them sooner than later.

35:16Listen, this is what I'll say. All right, you guys listen to a podcast. Use your ears. People in chat are saying, oh, you're saying it's the best timeline. Oh, it's a terrible timeline. Listen to the full sentence I said. It's the best timeline as far as the functionality of cross save because it's only getting better. Witcher 3 is coming out and that's going to have cross save between PC and consoles and Switch and I can play on whatever I want. That's what it's the best timeline for. Did I say it's the best timeline for politics? No. Did I say it's the best timeline for hardware prices? Absolutely not.

35:43Did I say it's the best timeline for the fucking New York Knicks? It is. Right now it is the best line for the New York Knicks. Use your fucking ears if you listen to a podcast chat.

35:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number three. Multiple music artists tease GTA 6 collaborations. This is Liam Croft at Push Square. Travis Scott has teased some kind of collaboration he has in the works with GTA 6 and Rockstar in an Instagram post. Scott has posted an image in the style of GTA 6 of a woman's feet in purple high heels that seem to be wrapped around a pole. The text accompanying the picture reads, phase one, now it's time. Oh, I meant to link this one, Kevin. I'm sorry. Kevin, if you can look up this story on Push Square, because that'll link all the Instagram posts within the news story. I will look for it.

36:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Thank you. But yeah, the post reads, phase one, now it's time. My return to game got to come with rage and a lot of dancing. Let's ride. J-O-H. To be continued. See y 'all at Rockstar Games. I don't know what part of that means. I don't know what J-O-H means. Yeah, I don't know what J-O-H is. Just hold on. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not at all. I don't know. Job. J-O-H. If you know what J-O-H is, let me know. Well, he's got dots after it, too, as if I should know the letters. J dot dot dot. Just out here? Just out. No, but it's only got one dot after the O. Just dot dot dot. Out here. And here's got a.

37:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's a lot more dots oh yes this travis scott one this thing right here yeah but like scroll down to the actual post this is the so so people can see yeah this is the picture it's a gta joh in regards to that i mean obviously this is a stripper we're at a stripping establishment four letter word starts with j can i say stripper are we saying dancer now no we call them enthusiastic dancers now

37:45he's an enthusiastic dancer okay

37:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:so when he says maybe he meant no he didn't he did not mean that chat he did not mean that all right moving on with the story Travis Scott is one of the biggest rappers in the world so the most obvious collaboration here would be to have some of his songs feature on the in-game radio stations some of his biggest hits include Sycamode, Fiend you guys know Travis Scott's his actually some of y 'all don't um highest in the room and would seem like obvious picks for a rap radio station in the game now in an update to this story it's not just travis scott teasing a gta 6 collaboration a couple more music artists have posted online their involvement with rockstar games country singer morgan wallen has posted similar to travis scott their image being the side of a swimming pool and sun loungers and then future has also teased their involvement yes this is how you get me excited yeah i mean yeah GTA radio is a big deal.

38:42It is the music. It is the culture. It is a time piece of the world of where we're all at, right? And you and I have discussed how important music is in video games and how important it is. I'm just like kind of taking a timestamp of where we are, right? From Madden's and all those FIFA's, all of the sports games and GTA in particular. It's like these are important stuff right now. And this also carries the game, right? When I get in every single car, you're tuning into the station that you love. You're tuning on or you're tuning into talk radio to see what kind of crazy jokes they put in there.

39:14You're going to the country songs to hear all my exes live in Texas. Right. You're going to the hip hop West Coast. Listening to K-Rose. Yeah. Come on. This is very important. Right. And I have no doubt they'll nail it because music right now is absolutely red hot. And there's a billion songs to choose from. It's just now who do they choose? Who do they got? I mean, so far they're choosing the biggest names. Yeah. Like, I wonder if this is going to be limited to their songs or in the soundtrack. Or, as we've seen in GTA 5 and updates added over time in a GTA 5, they have radio stations that are themed around artists and their curation.

39:50Yeah. And so they have Blonded Radio, which is Frank Ocean. They have, I forget the name of the Flying Lotus radio station, but Flying Lotus has a radio station. They did that over time. And so I wonder if we're going to get future radio. I wonder if we're going to get Morgan Wallen radio. I wonder if we're going to get, who's it? Travis Scott. You know what I mean? Travis Scott is in there DJing, saying straight up every two seconds. Straight up. Straight up. I mean, it's exciting, right? I cannot wait. Will they have K-pop in this, right? Now on the rise of K-pop, will they have some sort of K-pop radio station?

40:21We know there will be a big Latin influence down in Miami, right? Like, there will be multiple radio stations dedicated to that. Because here's the thing. We've been saying Pitbull for the longest time. I think, and maybe it's both but if you choose between Pitbull or Bad Boonie Pitbull I feel like is kind of about the past I feel like both can have who? Bad Bunny Bad Bunny You said it weird I feel like that's how you say it Bad Bunny I think it's just Bad Bunny right? I tried I like what you did I mean Bad Bunny would be choice number one choice would be have both of them i'm more interested in like will we have fun interstitials with them like the regular radio that'd be fun could you pay all these celebrities and have them do this is travis god you're listening to radio los santos yeah i mean that'd be pretty fun it's gonna be pretty dope that's actually pretty sick when do we see more of this so like here we are in the rollout previews have now come out we had the big netflix 20 minutes we are what two full months away now what's next what do we when do we get more do we get more we better get more we i want i want to ramp up that marketing machine brother it starts right now they go to instagram which songs from travis scottie putting in there because you read those big four and those are massive songs i mean okay do we want to sickle mode for sure if you want to do the easy answer sickle mode and if you're gta and you're rockstar and you're wanting to spend money just because you got it it's sicko mode i feel like fiends in that fiend would be a good one all the kids love fiend i don't love fiend but they love fiend my i'm trying to think well here's the thing okay

42:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:because i like the last two travis scott albums a lot okay utopia and um astroworld oh if you want to go with my my favorite song from utopia is my eyes okay now that doesn't scream gta my eyes is a bit more mellow of a song um modern jam by tzo touch or featuring tzo touchdown would be great during a car chase okay that would be fantastic during a car chase meltdown featuring drake i think would be a it'd be hype but like maybe not for gta i don't know that one's tough now if i look at astroworld like i mentioned sicko world makes the most sense skeletons i feel like could be a decent one my favorite song off of there uh they're not putting on the soundtrack coffee bean coffee bean is a good song by travis and here's the fun part is there's a room full of dedicated employees right now yeah bringing down all the songs and making killer playlists for each radio station yeah and that's got to be so much fun no bystanders is such a good poll chat no bystanders would be a great one give me a title of the creator radio let's get real how many radio stations i mean i don't think you need to overdo it no no patches no nothing day one how many radio stations when you go to the spin dial i think it's the standard however many you typically get what like 10 i would say 10 to 12 i think i'm trying to think like three kind of feels like it's rounding out another three i would say 10 to 12 radio stations yeah and then you add more over time yeah yeah i don't think you need to go overboard i think now i think those stations have a lot of songs okay i think you maybe get more song per station than you typically get i think we're reaching in the bag it's exciting i think you get a lot of dj stuff i can't what i'm excited about who are the radio personalities is laszlo's not connected to this anymore right didn't laszlo leave i think lasso from what i remember i thought lasso left after five right yeah he went to go to the other team do something else right yes and so who are the radio person do you find somebody in real life you get charlamagne the god oh my god i'm not mad at it i'm not mad at it wild right like that's the exciting stuff i don't but i don't think charlamagne's funny enough he's a great radio host but i don't think he's i think you gotta get something really fun you gotta get a comedian and they're just playing a role they're not themselves they play a fun you gotta get a comedian who can do that radio thing but also eat in some just nasty jokes this is some hilarious shit you get nick scarpino i mean they get what a radio host per station pretty much they'll have one radio host per station you think they'll do the uh like the smooth jazz and the orchestra radio station again has that been missing everyone i feel like it's in every game that's that's what my mind comes to it comes to every game yeah why not yeah yeah i think you get that i don't know who's fucking with that though everybody's saying bad booty and chat listen don't get mad at me for trying to have a little swag with the way i say it i'm just trying to you know what i mean like i like that you tried i like i'm trying it i'm just made up a bunch of sounds at the end no no that's how that's how it sounds i don't know man you guys I speak Spanish.

45:03That's not how it sounds. You can't be like, hey, that's how they pronounce it. I didn't say that. You said that. I mean, yeah, but you know. I'm just saying, I've heard people say it like that. Give it to them. Give them a clean one right now. Give it to them.

45:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Bad Booney. Come on. Story number four. Injustice 3 is seemingly the mysterious unannounced fighting game that's been hosting playtests in California. This is from Sheriff Saeed at Eurogamer. NetherRealm's next project has yet to be officially announced, but many believe it to be the third entry in the studio's superhero fighting game series, Injustice. Now, there are new signs that a select few outside the studio are playing Injustice 3. This all started with a post on Good Gamer Group, a company that provides NDA-protected testing services for game publishers. The post, since been deleted, was spotted by Event Hubs via Kotaku, which highlighted a number of curious pieces of evidence that all pointed to being a NetherRealm project.

46:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'll point to it being a Netherrealm project. For starters, the listing includes two descriptors for the mysterious game. It calls it a AAA fighting game in one instance and a major 2D fighting game in another. Neither is specifically limited to Netherrealm projects, of course, but as Event Hubs points out, all the fighting games we know to be in the works are either smaller games or 3D fighters. The location of the playtest is what gives us another clue. The playtest is held in Culver City, California, meaning the game is from an American studio. What's more, NetherRealm's parent company, Warner Brothers Games, also happens to be headquartered in the same city.

46:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:NetherRealm hasn't been shy about confirming it's working on a new project. Studio boss Ed Boone said in May, the team is, quote, actively pursuing another Mortal Kombat game while, quote, definitely doing more as well. as event hubs also points out the studio has been hiring qa testers and designers at various points this year even beyond the studio itself two voice actors who are who are part of the first two injustice games let slip in 2025 they're returning to voice their respective characters in injustice 3 though they later walked it back which is common when actors accidentally confirm the existence of unannounced projects indeed injustice 3 art popped up on a warner brothers games artist's online resume back in April.

47:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The timing of this playtest is another element pointing it to be another NetherRealm game. Since the release of MK1 in 2023, the studio has seemingly shifted to a four-year development cycle, seeing as that game came out four years after its predecessor, Mortal Kombat 11. As Injustice 3 in 2027 would make sense and reveal at Game Awards in December would also line up with the studio's reveal-to-release schedule. Mortal Kombat 11 was announced at the game awards though the studio didn't do the same with mortal combat one whatever plans nether realm has for this one works clearly closer than ever now to some sort of reveal you're fighting game poppy does this make sense bless it all makes sense seems like a little bit of sense it feels like we're stretching like when it comes down to like it's a little mr fantastic it's just it's a Very excited about that.

48:19This post, of course, seems like a little bit of stretching, but probably is maybe what it is. You know what I mean? It seems to be down on the lots. It is a, what was the post here? A triple A fighting game. Yeah. 2D fighting game. That's my like a little bit of stretching of like, okay, that can be pointed to anything. But yeah. Them saying like, oh yeah, we know everything else. It's like, no, we don't know everything. We know what's announced. Yeah. There are plenty of games that are unannounced. So there might be a triple A 2D fighting game. DC KO. And all of a sudden they hand you a phone down there.

48:47Yeah. I mean, you're 100 % right. Are we calling that AAA? No. Maybe on the site. I don't know. But I hope it happens. I'd be down for injustice. I want a break from Mortal Kombat from NetherRealm. Give me one game in between this and the next Mortal Kombat. It feels like that would be the right move, especially with DC right now having a nice pop with lanterns. People really riding for the Rob Pat Batman, of course. We'll see James Gunn, of course, Superman, Supergirl. He's building that up. We'll see how that lines up in the timeline of movies. Is there anything going around there? Clayface, of course, as well.

49:21So it's like DC having a moment. DC's having their moment. And like, yeah, if you would launch a Injustice 3 alongside this kind of moment, probably a lot better than just another Mortal Kombat, right? Like Mortal Kombat I ride for, you know that. But I think the general audience might jump on an Injustice a little bit more on that.

49:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I agree. Story number five, 007 First Light for Switch 2 has been delayed. this was announced by 007 First Light's Twitter account. The post reads, Today we would like to provide an update on the Switch 2 release of 007 First Light. We know many of you have been looking forward to experiencing Bond's reimagined origin story on Switch 2, and we greatly appreciate your enthusiasm. To ensure we deliver the quality of experience players expect, we have made the decision to delay the release to March 2027, with the exact date to be communicated later. This additional time will go toward polishing the Switch 2 performance of the game.

50:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we were thrilled by the positive feedback on double seven first light at gamescom and it's a great sign of the progress being made across the whole game as we head towards launch the same demo will be playable at tokyo game show this week so please join us there if you'll like a hands-on experience we'll make well we will share further updates as soon as we are ready thank you for your patience understanding and continued support here's what i'll say did you were either during the last nintendo direct thanks plus i was just gonna say last week we were just riding for this that gameplay did look a bit uh a little a little off oh yeah and i'm sure they've also gotten feedback from their demos at uh the events that they've gone to get gamescom and they'll get some at tokyo it clearly seems like maybe they have received some feedback and they're like okay you know what some extra time to polish i'm trying to polish i worry about this game actually getting to the place it needs to be on switch 2 it's a it's a really high fidelity game like playing it on my playstation i had i when i reviewed it right i was going back and forth between my base ps5 and my ps5 pro and like i could tell the difference ps5 pro was the way to play that game um obviously it runs fine on ps5 but i making the jump down to switch 2 in terms of power i think will be tough to make it come out in a version that people are generally happy with.

51:34Okay, I mean, that's step one. Yeah. Because in my mind, when I think about the Switch, I'm not about the bells and the whistles that I would get from the high-end PC or the PS5 Pro. I am just looking for this to be kind of the baseline of it all, running well, looking decent. I don't think we need to go super past that in my mind, but step one is to make it run well and if you don't think we're there yet then it's going to

51:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:be some polished time now in similar news aliens fireteam elite 2 has been delayed for switch 2 this comes to repress release after careful consideration we now plan to release it natively on switch 2 in early 2027 this extra time will help the team deliver the best possible version for the hardware thank you for your patience and understanding in the meantime the team at coal iron remains aggressively focused on tuning aliens fireteam elite 2 to the best possible experience for every player that one just got added to the doc i don't know who what magical person yeah but that's another one for you i mean put it down as another mike and blessing let's keep an eye on this 007 one what are the sales on switch right even to me to this day i don't think the sales on switch are massive right who is the audience that is like i gotta have james bond on my switch like i know there's a large audience over there on switch i just don't see them riding for James Bond when I think of the Nintendo audience that's like pretty low down the line for me but it's the seven on the top 10 chart it's the it's the idea that switch two players um or not even switch two players I guess like I think there's an audience that is rooting for third party games to come out on switch to and be able to be viable and um be able to I guess make the platform a platform that you can only own a switch to and be okay yeah and we're on that like first step on that first it's like name me three of the big ones right resident evil the ones that have already come out yeah that have come out giving you that love of like i believe this is gonna work i mean final fantasy 7 requiem or not requiem sorry final fantasy 7 revelation i think it's probably gonna run well okay well enough that's the thing is i a lot of his future looking but we've been getting a lot of announcements for these third-party games on switch 2 and i don't worry about it that much i think 007 first light is kind of a specific example of a game that did not look good in the trailer that i'm like oh i don't know about this one but i don't i think that might be more of a 007 problem okay but i also think that i think long term the second half of the switch 2 i don't think those third parties are keeping up once we get to the Xbox Helix PlayStation 6 and devs are making games for those I don't know if those games are going to be able to make the jump to Switch 2 I don't know if we're ever going to live in a reality where Nintendo has that parity consistently with the other platforms as far as those third party games coming out and being good enough you got plenty of time there's a lot of games already coming to the Switch we saw the Nintendo Direct last week there's a bunch of games happening right now so if you are IO Interactive you have some grace here to hold off give it the best possible product and re-release later on right that is the right to do polish it and like here's my thing if you can't get it to work cancel it like if if the game's gonna come out and it's gonna be fucking butt get it out of here it's gonna be like the mortal combat game was it 11 that came out and ran like trash then just don't it's okay we don't have to release a broken product if it's if it's not working i hope it i hope they get it there They got the time and the space, though.

55:05They have a hit on their hand with First Light. So it's not like this is make or break. Yeah. They're doing well. They're doing pretty well. Yeah. Mike, if Double 7 First Light can run well on the Switch 2, that would be huge. I would be impressed. That would be a big win. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? Bless that. Take you to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

55:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number six, We News. From Virginia Glaze at IGN. street fighter is coming to apex legends on september 22nd bringing its high kicking action to the first person battle royale with special skins a decked out poi a wild card takeover and more kev there's a trailer in here if we can show the people because what are we doing here i like it but i'm also like who's this for i like both of these things and i'm not really running to play the street fighter apex class just money and collaborations big dog yeah this deal comes in you say hell yeah let's go street fighter is capcom right yeah capcom's capcom's hot right now i mean they are hot right now capcom is hot right now he says what's up with blessings about today first of all don't you worry about my mouth oh second of all i think it's just dry i don't know oh i don't know it's tough for me to speak today i don't know what's going on i thought you've been doing great i thought i was doing all right also but fucking joe doyle and chad had something to say about my mouth do any of these skins say i gotta buy this bless you you like apex I know you probably haven't played Apex in a while, but like, would you come back to buy any of these skins?

56:33No. Okay. But I'm also not the kind of person that's out here buying cosmetics like that. I have self-control. Yeah, but you saw Sora. Fortnite. Yeah, but like, I don't know, that's fine. He looks good. I mean, he looks great. He looks good. I'm happy for the people that are super excited about that. Sora holding an M4, though? I'm not ready for that, but I'll see it. I think I'm just past the skins thing. I think crossover cosmetics just don't, like, they don't excite me to that level where I'm like, oh i want to spend money i think we've gotten so much of it over the last 10 years yeah that i'm kind of over it is that crazy i don't know yeah blessings video game therapy yeah he's over the crossover i'm over the crossovers it's been too many crossovers i'm numb to it now from andy chalk

57:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:at pc gamer bungie is changing how it updates marathon going forward saying it is quote moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build test and improve features before release. As a result, the content plan to launch as part of this month's seasonal refresh has been delayed into December and will be preceded by a small update in October that resets progression and the in-game economy refreshes rewards and improves the live game. I'm really interested in this. I want to say I like this because we're seeing a number of development teams now that have been on the live service grind try to stretch that out a little bit instead of just the three-month seasonal content have to have it have to have it they're trying to push the walls out and say hey like that timeline is a little tight for us to nail what we want to do or what we need to do we need to start pulling that back we've seen that with a couple of developers now in their games i'm thinking of halo did that of course these are also games that are like kind of towards the end of it where the end of content yeah i was gonna say when you say halo infinite and that that's the scary part that's why that's why i'm interested i don't like it but i'm interested because can you make this work right can you get off the very rigid three month cycle and be able to prove to your audience that like hey we need more time we respect you and you being a consumer and we want to deliver the best or are we in the world now where gamers are like mike right with a simple small mind going no i need content now and i expect content to keep me interested in your game your world to keep me buying or else i'm going to fall off and go somewhere else, right?

58:51Because that's going to be the game they play. There are games that are going to deliver the content, keep the constant updates, and I'm going to go over there and play because I feel like I have something fresh, something new when they're doing that. Or is it the game that I'm dedicated to and love and I can give the grace, the blessing, the developer and go, take your time, deliver me something awesome, I'll be there, right? Because we know the start of the game, here's your peak, and then we're just slowly dipping down the player base every single day, month, week, whatever. I don't know what this means for, I mean, Bungie and Marathon and Destiny.

59:25I think we all know where that's at, right? But I am interested more on the live service side with developers. And does that work? Yeah.

59:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We shall see. We shall see. From Gamatsu, FutureLab has announced Powerwatch Simulator 2 downloadable content pack, the Barbie pack. It'll launch in late 2026 for$8. I love this. That's great. Yeah. I love the amount of variety they have in their content packs for Power Watch Simulator. Because you never know if they're going to do SpongeBob. Or Barbie. Or Barbie. That's crazy. Or Final Fantasy VII. Or Star Wars. Yeah, yeah. They're doing it all. It's like, I love how whoever they have on their team that is responsible for partnerships and licenses, good on you. You're really good at this. Good on you.

1:00:11And also shout out the game being so good, having such a dedicated audience that they can show up to these large corporations and say, hey, let's have a partnership or them coming to them and saying, hey, I want to partner up with your game. We like what you're doing. Yeah, it's awesome. And Barbie, I think it's such a good pull because, like, again, we're talking about a gaming audience that is so diverse and has so much of a variety of people playing. I feel like Barbie being a big collab here can bring in somebody that goes, oh, wait, that looks cool. Like, I've not been paying attention to Power Wash Simulator, but I grew up with Barbie or whatever.

1:00:44Like, let me check this out. I mean, I'll say it again. It's got to be the number one simulator game. The 9 to 5 simulator game. I think it's Power Wash. Yeah. It goes number one. Oh, for sure. Yeah. There's a couple afterwards, but I don't think anyone's coming for the throne here against Power Wash. And then last one. Put it back on the meta. You know? Put Power Wash 2 on the meta. On the meta? Oh, on the meta. He's talking about the headset. Oh, they took it off? no they never did power watch simulator 2 on that gotcha oh yeah do that i'm sure all 10 of y 'all are playing it there uh and then war dogs hits 2 million sales in five days and that is it for we need a lot of energy around that game man i was doing a stream the other day uh this is when i was playing hobby was infinite rush and people were like bless you know about war dogs and i'm like no and they're like it's the biggest game of the month and i'm like have you seen this month and now I'm looking at it and I'm like, it might be the biggest game of the month.

1:01:39One of the biggest games of the month. One of the biggest games of the month. There's, we talk about it all the time, there's the dedicated shooter audience that is excited and wants more gameplay. They want something fresh and something new and something like this comes around where like it's got the motion, people are going to jump on it. So like what do they got that Battlefield doesn't? They have this weird in-game economy that kind of makes it fun and interesting where you're selling supplies slash buying supplies And also Battlefield is just old now Like I love Battlefield People want that new new Yeah people always want the new new It's a short term memory It is what we live in today with the I don't know hyper online society Where everything is at your fingertips Battlefield had it's moment Battlefield is still very very good don't get me wrong But in this kind of market I'll speak from experience It will always be a 3 to 6 months Give me something new now On to the next one On to the next one.

1:02:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That is it for Wii News. Let's hop into Super Chats before we get out of here. Aaron Lime says, I see devs hitting Switch 2 more than jumping to higher-end consoles like PS6 and Helix because Switch 2 is cheaper, so more people are buying it for the third parties and Nintendo first parties. And I'm not mad at that perspective. I could see that as well. I think the tough thing is when we get there, what is the demand, right? Like when you have a game like 007 First Light that is trying to hit that high bar as far as fidelity and you know making something that feels very triple a and it comes out on ps5 and xbox series x or in the case of the future right a game that comes out on ps6 and xbox helix i think those games are going to be really tough to port down like over time yeah like that i think you're going you're going to experience that power gap somewhere and it is tough to create a game that looks incredible on that highest end on what maybe they want this with the uh xbox helix to be versus what you're able to do with the switch too like i just think there's going to be a gap that exists there and that's not an easy thing to cater to both of those at the same time the same game it'll be a tough dance i think gameplay will always be king right of like the gameplay of james bond is fun if you were looking for that help hitman stealth espionage there are moments in james i'm gonna be like wow this looks freaking beautiful they killed it on that that you might not get on the switch but if the game is fun to play it'll always be good yeah like that's going to be the catch there i think the tough thing is that part of what what makes that game i think fun to play is when you're in an environment that has a million npcs and they're all like walking around party and you're in the club level and all the lights are flashing and all that stuff and you're sneaking around into these big crowds i the tech I think is has more to do with generating all of that as opposed to just generating the visuals like I think you can make a slightly uglier game put it on the switch too and make it pop off in some cases in this case I'm like can the game still be fun if you're not able to do all that and I hope they are like I hope that I hope they they're able to pull it off I think part of it might just also just be the manpower of making a port that works as best as possible um let's see here yuki writes in and says one of those people who wants third party on um switch two not in the market for the other consoles so it's my only chance to play some of these games yep and i totally i totally feel that like i know there's a large market of people that only have a switch two i remember talking to somebody in there and this is like years ago they were like oh yeah i'm a big harry potter fan i came for hogwarts legacy and i'm like oh do you have a console because i didn't view them as gamer really and they're like no i have a switch too that i play like two games on i'm like oh snap yes like there's definitely an audience out there that wants third-party games and i think there's a big market for that and they'll get a good marketing push if things hold true who knows a lot of great games out there but let's say if 007 is able to get into the top six of jeff keely's game awards that's a great way of like december hey game of the game of the year nominated come to you in march 100 aaron lime says get marrow on the gta 6 radio that'd be a fun one yeah either deezus or marrow um darth anslow says i'm gonna read this because he super chatted it in uh blesses for the latinas shout out bad boonie is what yeah dude fuck yeah jbc says new weekend song for gta 6 when i could see it weekend weekend yeah oh yeah weekends on it original song oh he makes his he makes an original gta 6 song bruno mars in there yeah yeah bruno mars might be a character rick ross ricky rose no you don't think rick ross music will be in this i mean what what has rick ross done for me lately i feel like that dates the game you got every damn hustling yeah but what year was that mike yeah but it's still good i mean it's still good it is still good there's a lot of great artists out there yeah but like i mean might they put every day i'm hustling in the game yes because they got pop bottles in the game so yes but like new rick ross or rick ross radio no no ella langley we're talking country music i don't know anything about country music i don't know anything about ella langley you don't know but no i barely know anything about morgan wallen i don't like saying the name though i'm scared i feel like when i say i feel like there's something about saying that name out loud that evokes a dark, evil energy, and I don't know why.

1:07:04I don't know anything about him. He's not the best of jabronis. He's got killer country music for people who like country music. He's not the best of jabronis. Is it like the kind of country music that's like you know, don't come into my small town? No, it's the modern country music. Don't come to my small town. It's the same thing. Don't they all do that?

1:07:27Yeah, I don't know. I want this is what I want because there's something that hit different about all my exes live in Texas I'm telling you if we can get an old school country radio I'm in well they're gonna have a mix of both there will be new school and old school I hope I want I want some of that old school country it felt old school back in JTA San Andreas now it's gonna be real it's gonna be vintage by the time it gets man the mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys I mean they

1:07:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:were singing um link legend says sounds like rockstar prepping for a radio reveal 100 yeah i think i think that's something that'll be a great marketing rollout it's like the progressive reveals on of what what's on the soundtrack what do you do you put out the whole soundtrack on a spotify playlist do you have all you have six spotify playlists for each radio station before the release do we get to see every song in the game before really i don't think you do i don't you reveal a lot of the hits i don't know how you do it though if you do it as a spotify playlist you have to actually partner with spotify like in a bigger way you have to be on the spotify home page you do what you did with netflix in fact now i'm saying it out loud 100 six minute youtube video yeah of just driving and exploring the cities but every time they step into a car new radio station every time you cut new radio station with a new song that could be two and a half minutes i don't want to show six minutes of like just driving around be too much there's something here to collaborating with spotify and also yeah doing that thing spotify also is their video now maybe you get the gta six pod official podcast and it's like you click into it it's something that you could listen to but it's also a video that you can podcast in this um i think it's like talk radio wctr yeah okay but maybe i don't know our casts are big now maybe it's like a button that you hit in the in the car that's like all right turn off radio turn on podcast you have like three different podcasts that you listen to they recorded seven minute podcasts like just yeah long enough where it feels very long by the same time you look at it's not long it's not that long yeah tv and movies similar what we saw on high on life yeah yeah but like somewhere you sit down and like really see oh yeah i think you're gonna have stand-up specials you might get john marco up in there you might probably not john marco you're probably gonna get like what's his name bill burr a bill burr special okay yeah oh but i don't know about that but really i don't know man i don't think they had cap williams in gta 4 yeah bill burr might not even be big enough you might get dave chapelle in there but i think of gta 5 it was like just images on the screen there wasn't much they had the the theater i'm looking for like a high on life situation where it's like you know you could just sit down there and they just have tv playing for nine hours straight like that's what i'm looking for i mean you might not get nine hours worth but i think i think you'll have watchable tv that's gonna be wild yeah um okay we got a few more super chats i'll throw in here slightly sausage says wonderful to meet greg and mike at blizzcon i'm the guy whose son is an overwatch coach i have been a fan since game scoop and i'm heartbroken about altano he and greg were a special combo shout out to that guy shout out Shout out to Slausage and his son, Overwatch coach.

1:10:41Congratulations to him. Wow. Very cool stuff. That's really cool. Yeah, we're seeing a lot of local high schools and colleges get into the e-sports scenes. And, of course, that means there are different kind of jobs and new entryways for people to be involved. And, yeah, his son is an Overwatch coach, which I think is pretty wicked awesome. That's really cool. Could you coach an e-sports team? No. No. I was going to say maybe like a Tekken thing, but I shouldn't be coaching Tekken. I'm not good enough to be coaching Tekken. I feel like you can throw me in. Any game. Yeah? I'll go in there blinders.

1:11:14And you'll coach it? I'll coach them. Put me in the Nexus. Put me in the Rift. And I'll coach a legal agency. This is like when we said we can land planes without any training. No, you're not coaching them. Could my coach an Overwatch team? I could coach an Overwatch team. Put me on there. You know what? Maybe you could. Because I think you do have a level of like. I'm just going to hype them up. I might not know what I can do. You bring a level of hype and energy, and you're just going to yell at them to work with each other. I'm a motivator. I think you'd be a great assistant coach. Thank you.

1:11:41Okay. Or maybe you could use an assistant coach who actually knows the game. You need to be paired up with somebody who knows tactics. That's my— You and Andy together. I'm Lasso. Yeah. That's Beard. Yes. Beard is the one who knows the game. I'm just there giving them the one-liners. I think Andy is your beard. Andy.

1:11:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Andy. Gnarly. Chuck gets right in and says, belated birthday tax from my friend Taylor. one of my best friends i made recent years from playing magic it's only been a few months but here's to many more months oh and many more games of magic a lot of people playing magic at blizzcon out of you a lot of kind words about you at blizzcon as well there was a number of kind of funny best friends who said very nice things about you oh yeah yeah it was a good time i love that i love hearing people are playing magic and then sir doom writes in and says missed my birthday tax yesterday because i was at lunch so here it is today see y 'all at top 100 in magic on atl hell yeah uh i'll do one more from cowardly dog who writes in and says birthday tax thanks for keeping me sane all summer while i navigate the job market just got an offer and waiting to hear back on a few others celebrating 34 with wolverine the rest of the day hell yeah happy birthday and happy birthday to all the birthday taxes happy birthday um let's hop into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe katie g says mike said gary oak was introduced 20 years ago but it was 30 years ago wow i'm old he was at the beginning yeah i mean it's true he was in episode one i think it's hard to believe that pokemon 30 years yeah blizzard 30 years a lot of years i've been playing heart gold mike tell you it's a good game we got nick through that one well half of it yeah but like that's kind of it's a natural it felt good yeah it felt good you guys ever going back uh yeah probably next year we'll do another nuzlocke okay i think nuzlocke's are like a great yearly thing especially this year when we had the community play at the same time did you see that awesome stuff that's really fun yeah it was really fun it was a good time that is it for your wrong that is it for this episode of kind of funny games daily mike thank you so much for joining me great job bless as always of course that's not the end of the work day right after this we got games cast which is our wolverine spoiler cast with greg and tim i told them that they should recap the story because i'm probably not going to play wolverine but i want to know what happens thank you for saying that bless i saw some reddit commenters like what are they doing this for what what's the vision here and i was like oh bless had a really good vision i just wish like we we told that to everyone was like that's what's going on here it's like yo if you are somebody who's like i don't care enough to play wolverine or you cancel your pre-order i was like hey recap the story because i'm gonna listen because i want to know what happened yeah um and so there you go if you want to get spoiled or if you if you're playing through the game and not of course you want their story thoughts on what happened boom there you go um this has been kind of funny games daily if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next and everything after but until next time game daily