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27:11Nick Scarpino:physical versus digital sales we got physical at 9.8 percent and digital at 90 percent at this point this is an increase of 4.1 percent year over year trending more and more towards the digital side um which does not surprise me square specifically on the the switch side they're full in on the game key cards even when they can make games work uh on the card they seem to not want to do that because they want all the money they can possibly get and then square enix is doing better than they have the last few years thanks to increased game sales they are consistently profitable again this is the first time this has been the case in a couple years so i think their multi-platform strategy is definitely paying off for them and then the last one here is square specifically called out final fantasy 7 rebirth and the adventures of elliot for showing solid performance last quarter um specifically because of the switch to and xbox and pc sales boost that they they saw from that but that is really really good to hear especially in the context of you know square i mean infamously i'd say being the example we use of expectations just being completely out of whack where the new story is oh wow final fantasy 16 final fantasy rebirth sold x millions of copies square is not happy and it's like this doesn't add up i feel like that's been for decades

28:31Tim Gettys:now i feel like i remember like what was the tomb raider and sleeping dogs like all these things millions of copies didn't hit the exactly so like with that all being true it's like it's good to see that those games in in ways like reports and stuff but then also moving forward to just like that's their strategy is just be everywhere which we're also seeing major success from capcom doing right like capcom and square being healthy putting out quality titles everywhere is just good for video games and gamers period yeah um and their their output has been very very solid and i think that uh they've been talking about less is more kind of in terms of amount of games coming out and i don't feel like we've really seen that yet it feels like square is putting a game out every week yeah i feel like they're better than they were yeah i mean there was a dragon quest have we gotten yeah how many hd2d things have we gotten yes but remember when they would just we would just we can like do the game where we just make up a square unix title and it was real right like that we're that far away from that with adventures of elliot you know yeah but that's like a real game i feel like that's like as close to a real version of that as we can possibly find missing hg2d it hasn't real story it's not a great game but it's still so you're just saying it's i'm like it's not the farming games it's not like the random ones that were games aren't real games you heard it here first wow you heard it here everybody uh story 3b sticking with some more

29:51Nick Scarpino:fun sales stuff we got some digimon sales stuff and i saw this and it tickled me roger tickled me this info here bandai namco this comes from gankee japan's twitter account bandai namco says Digimon story Time Stranger helped record highest ever profits for the Digimon IP even surpassing the 2000 anime thanks to the combined success of the digital game and the card game the Digimon IP has recorded highest ever profits for the Bandai Namco

30:16Tim Gettys:group that's passing the profits of the 2000 anime that's just wild

30:20Nick Scarpino:I mean that's so so cool I love Digimon is just relevant at all I saw a dude wearing a Digimon shirt yesterday and I'm like damn dude that's awesome which mon was it? It was like the entire Ogumon line You shoved him in a locker I was just like this is fucking sick I love Digimon Did you ask him what we're going to do together tomorrow No Stop We don't do that I'm angry today I'm not sad today Don't make me cry on this show I almost figured I'm just saying that I can't think about it without crying

30:54Tim Gettys:I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about Talking about the end of Digimon There's the ending of Digimon It ended? Last Kizuna? I'm legit kind of tearing up thinking about it. It is the fucking saddest thing I've ever seen. The saddest media I've ever seen in my entire life was Toy Story 3, where every time I see it, I cry. It was eclipsed by the end of Digimon, Last Evolution, Kizuna, or whatever the fuck it's called. Dude, it's so good. Oh, my God. It's so good. That's incredible. We'll shout out to that. Shout out to Digimon Story, Time Stranger, though. Yeah, shout out to them.

31:23That's rad. Yeah. a Digimon game actually hitting on a grand scale and like performing well critically and sales wise

31:31Tim Gettys:never thought I'd see the day yeah I mean sometimes it's all a franchise needs right because you have the nostalgia people have grown up now they can afford to buy video their own video games you've seen a good one you've seen a good one to kind of reinvent a franchise so hell yeah because they had a lot of games and like I remember I was as big of a Digimon fan as I was I was there day one for Digimon world on the PlayStation one yeah and there are diehard fans of that game like that is the definition of cult classic. That shit was not for me. My digital model was pooping everywhere. The poop was way too graphic.

32:00Tim Gettys:Oh, really? Real graphic shit. Oh, yeah. And it's not digital shit? Well, it is digital shit. But it looks like human shit? It looks like a little like an ice cream. Is it brown? Of course it's brown. Don't ask a stupid question. I don't know. It's gonna be. I don't know. The orange one, maybe it's orange. I don't know. No, it's brown. Damn, that sucks. story 3c here it's a cartoon coil i've never heard someone dude it was a cartoon coil yeah barrett can you actually look up digimon world poop yeah let's look at that let's look at that really quick little digi uh well i'll tell you about some fun spider-man sales news going back

32:35Nick Scarpino:to what we were talking about at the top of the show here um this comes from reese elliot at uh is it alinea analytics is that what we're going with elinia elinia i'm not so sure no elinia oh look see there was an orange poop there is an orange poop fuck you poop damn you're right fucking tim yeah but there's brown poops there's brown poop yeah look at that shit

32:56Tim Gettys:kind of looks like a pyramid it's not a lot of poop man uh yeah it doesn't have like a steamy thing on it i hate when they do that grosses me out yep

33:03Nick Scarpino:there's sound effects and everything uh the new spidey movie has been given a massive lift to spider-man 2 on playstation 5 and steam so far spider-man 2 has sold another 316 000 copies since Brand New Day hit cinemas on July 30th, generating 11 million plus dollars across PlayStation 5 and Steam in under two weeks. Wow. That's crazy to think about, right? That's really cool. Like 316 ,000 copies. It's like you hear that. That's a lot. You're like, well, it's not a million. Yeah. But then it's like$11 million. Good for them. Man, about 20 % of the film window PS5 copies were physical and another 274 ,000 players jumped in for the first time via PlayStation Plus.

33:42Nick Scarpino:In total, Spidey 2 has slung its way past 18.2 million copies sold, with 92 % on the PlayStation 5, and over$1.2 billion made since launching three years ago. This past weekend, it topped a million daily active users for the first time since launch week, roughly 2.6 times its pre-film daily engagement. We keep talking about this, but when there is a show adaptation that people are into, it results in the game being played more, the game being sold more. and so far that's been without fail like we look we've talked about it so much with cyberpunk we've talked about it with the witcher we've talked about it with devil may cry we've talked about it now with spider-man like there's just so much synergy between all the stuff yeah fallout like

34:26Tim Gettys:yeah huge yeah it's it's also it's also awesome that like insomnia continues to every time there's a new movie hey it doesn't matter how old it is whatever we're updating it we're adding the new suit we talk tokon fighters adding the new suit like we know what we're doing here and yeah i i am just so blown away and so happy that we have a spider-man game that feels as good and also is influencing the movies right i think that's also a big part of this is that like you see the internet rhetoric and the rhetoric the videos and the memes and everything of like yo brand new day he is moving like insomnia x spider-man and like you see those going viral all the time those clips are so

35:01Nick Scarpino:sick so cool and it is one-to-one you know i am i am the most annoying person to watch movies with if you're gia harris uh gettys i guess um just fucking deal with it now um but like i you know i'm the guy that's just like did you know this did you know that like like this is a reference to this like this color this this outfit like yeah that's just me for everything when he's

35:21Tim Gettys:grabbing the thing it's like in spider-man 3 with the ring and he's doing the thing yeah exactly it is so that and like she's she's she humors me um or she's there for it there's a arranged right it's like some combo depends on the day uh but i was telling when we left brand new day i was like dude so much of that is straight from the video game so many of the moves are straight from the video game and then i showed her that like one of the clips that you're talking about that are the direct comparisons and she was actually impressed yeah like genuinely she was like oh wow like she's like you i thought you were just saying like oh it's kind of like it it's like no that is straight from the game like literally and it's perfect synergy and i think that there's like we're in this great place right now with the director with like the way that they're doing this where it's like hey we someone already made an awesome spider-man that moves incredibly that people like are really into why don't we just take from that why don't we just make this one big thing where we're just synergizing because they've already done the work let's just let's just ape off of it let's work onto it and let's talk about it yeah synergy you bring that word up and i think it's interesting because we're seeing a lot of it obviously like these sales are great this like spider-man is a multi-year-old game but it's making 11 million dollars more because of this movie i wonder if it's ever possible to actually have a fallout game come out when the fallout show is happening or have a spider-man game come out when spider-man is happening right it's just like yeah the one recent example that is the avatar fighting game which came out when the movie yeah but that but that also that was a disaster that was a whole that's like yeah it's just that's i'm talking about you want the triple a thing coming out with the triple a movie at the same time and it's like i wonder if that's even the right move like i wonder like what is the the ideal is there a month between it is there like do you leave it a year between it i don't know or is it what nintendo's doing which is about seven months in between right because we're going to have the zelda movie and then seven months before that we're probably going to have the um yeah ocarina of time remake that's what they did for mario uh i think for uh galaxy it came out the remake not remake the port or whatever it came out about six seven months yeah yeah right so i think that that is probably the best option there is to like get the hype oh we're talking about we're not talking about the movie yet talk about the movie and then people can go back and buy the thing star fox is a different example there yeah that was afterwards right but yeah i don't know it's just it's it's impossible because of the way games are developed versus movies like to to actually like tie that up it's like that'll never never happen yeah and it's also like if you do a dlc it's cool but it's also like not the same thing right but i think that it's cool that like hey the movie comes out oh now you can play the the costume in the game i think that's a nice little interesting thing.

37:46Tim Gettys:I don't love the costume in the game, though. It's close, but it's not there. It doesn't have the bagginess of it. And some of the costumes do have the bagginess. So it's like, I don't know why they didn't fully do that.

37:57Nick Scarpino:Yeah, I guess my biggest... I love that it's in the game.

37:59Tim Gettys:Me too.

38:00Nick Scarpino:I love it in the movie. Fucking love it. But my biggest problem is it looks very similar to other ones in the game, and I prefer those.

38:06Tim Gettys:Yeah.

38:06Nick Scarpino:Even the one that they showed at the ending,

38:08Tim Gettys:the one that they updated. Yeah, the No Way Home. I like that one more. It's shinier. Yeah, exactly. I like the shiny ones in the game because like the reflections and stuff. It looks cool. It does look really cool.

38:18Nick Scarpino:Yeah. Yeah. Let's get to story number four here. THQ Nordic says it has 12 unannounced games in development. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC. The Austria-based publisher held its latest THQ Nordic digital showcase on Friday. And we didn't even know what was happening, but it did. Yeah. As of today, THQ Nordic has a total of 29 games in development. 12 remain unannounced after this showcase. Wow. Although the publisher didn't list the 17 games already confirmed, VGC has done the work. They put together the list of games, ports, or early access titles currently confirmed to be releasing at a later date.

38:51Nick Scarpino:We have Call to Arms, Panzer Elite, Darksiders 4, Epic Mickey Rebrushed for the Switch 2, The Eternal Life of Goldman, which my god.

39:01Tim Gettys:Where the fuck is that game?

39:02Nick Scarpino:Where is that game? We haven't released it? No. They dropped a new trailer, still just saying 2026. It's weird. What is happening? What is happening? with this game. I want it so bad.

39:12Tim Gettys:I do really want it. But I'm getting scared where I'm like, real talk, I don't want it this year. I don't think it comes this year at this point. I mean, they said it. They said it two days ago, three days ago. All right, man. I'm with you though, Barrett. THQ Nordic will never lie. If it was actually coming this year though, they would have put a date on it. Dog, it's August. Shadow Drop somewhere, Nintendo Direct type deal. It was in the last Nintendo Direct with no update.

39:36Nick Scarpino:It was wild. It's interesting. Expeditions Samurai, fate keeper gothic one remake gothic two complete classic gothic three classic wow that's incredible the guild europa 1410 let's sing 2027 let's sing abba road 96 sequel space for sale titan quest 2 way of the hunter 2 and wreck fest 2 wow reality oh yeah barrett brings up no new spongebob platformer yeah but that's definitely

40:08Tim Gettys:in development destroy destroy all humans five remake again no they'll they'll remake the third one path of the fear on ah shit we're still remaking these fuckers don't ask me why just make a new one bless you we had a four though we had a destroy all humans four correct i think that was the 360 one no that was path of the fear on you're thinking destroy all there is a weird one that was like wow there's not a four it's like the time i i imagined that i saw gameplay of shadow of the Hedgehog 2 and for literally a decade I was like you remember the time on G4 like Shadow of the Hedgehog was driving a fucking car and we looked at it like no that's not a real thing so yeah I totally thought that Destroy All Humans 4 came out okay yeah we gotta do that

40:51Nick Scarpino:we don't

40:51Tim Gettys:we gotta Destroy All Humans 4 we gotta do it man highlights

40:55Nick Scarpino:from the THQ Nordic showcase included the news that The Prisoner the first of three story DLC releases for co-op horror game Re-Animal is available now it was also announced the developer DigiArt which released Tides of Tomorrow earlier this year, is working on a new game in the Road 96 universe. Expedition Samurai also launched into Early Access on Friday, while Titan Quest 2, which launched in Early Access during last year's THQ Nordic Showcase, received a major update. They also confirmed that Let's Sing 2027 will release on November 3rd, while Let's Sing ABBA will be coming to Switch 2 on the same date.

41:25Nick Scarpino:On the same date. Shout out to ABBA. Just as a concept.

41:29Tim Gettys:I don't know much about them, but I will watch Mamma Mia. I'll figure it out. One day. One day I will. one day we will do mama me and review i don't know when but we will we'll do it for joey we'll do it

41:38Nick Scarpino:for elise story number five blizzard is now the top performing xbox studio says internal emails as the overwatch maker ends fiscal year 26 over delivering on microsoft's projections this comes from jez cordon at windows central in leaked emails verified by windows central blizzard president joanna ferris uh celebrated the xbox division's stunning return to growth over delivering on expectations ahead of blizzcon 2026 free from the reins of activision blizzard now operates as a limited integration entity within microsoft's xbox division and the results well and truly speak for themselves overwatch is arguably better than ever with a razor sharp focus on fan feedback and new content world of warcraft still has issues with its writing and polish but the content cadence has never been so consistent.

42:28Nick Scarpino:Genre-defining franchise Diablo has also seen a stunning return to form with an overhaul of the endgame loop atop a truly spectacular expansion in the form of Lord of Hatred. All of that painstaking hard work has seemingly paid off. A new email sent by Blizzard president to the staff this past weekend celebrated the division's roaring return to growth. The president opened the email rallying the team ahead of BlizzCon, set to go live in Anaheim on September 12th, saying the weekend will reflect the bold and collaborative work of everyone reading this. It's my hope that the event can shine a light on the work underway at Blizzard and that it can serve as a powerful springboard into a new era of momentum and excitement behind our mission to bring joy and belonging for communities worldwide.

43:07Nick Scarpino:They also said that Blizzard's performance through fiscal year 26, which just ended for Microsoft with Xbox 11 % down overall, owing to some big franchises like Call of Duty and Candy Crush having a difficult year. That's bad, y 'all. That's really bad when those two ones are having a difficult year. While Xbox overall has struggled Blizzard's one area that continues to thrive and grow. In fiscal year 26, Blizzard ended the year as the top performing studio in Xbox Studios division, and this past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard history. Fiscal year 25 and 6 were our first back-to-back years of growth since 17.

43:42Nick Scarpino:Diablo 4, Lord of Hatred, and Overwatch drove exceptional performance in particular with Overwatch delivering its strongest quarter since 2022. too. This news comes against a fairly negative backdrop at Xbox over the summer. Blah, blah, blah. There's some other stuff there. In September, BlizzCon will offer a glimpse at the near and long-term future of Blizzard's universes. We should see the next Warcraft expansion, dubbed The Last Titan, revealed in full. I've heard Blizzard is working on a variety of mobile game spinoffs with partners too, as well as potential transmedia projects similar to Cyberpunk Edgerunners or the Fallout TV show for its own franchises.

44:15Blizzard is also known to be working on a StarCraft third-person shooter led by Far Cry director Dan Hay and the next core Diablo project also moving forward I didn't know about that I didn't know it was real the third party thing yeah yeah third person thing yeah interesting pretty cool yeah very hopefully see that soon yeah I'd like it's gone I would like that I like the world of Starcraft a lot I never could get into the

44:36Tim Gettys:RTS gameplay of it what are they like looking at quadrant oh I'm at 4x yeah is it 4x is that what 4x is I think so wow I thought 4x was like civilization that's not that either I don't know anything guys i could be wrong what does 4x stand for am i wrong four by four oh no i'm just lying okay i thought 4x was like that's the speed in which you play i don't know i don't know what does 4x mean 4x is not 4x say this 4x okay see yeah i knew it but what is 4x tell me let us know everybody what is the forces otter cox is expand exploit explore comma there's one more explore exploit exterminate expand okay interesting he's very interesting um yeah this whole email just kind of feels sad to me because it feels like this is like please do not lay us off like i mean this is like literally the last like this is they did not have any layoffs that i know of from the last uh big layoff thing and now they have what another 1600 jobs that they're about to cut by the uh i think by the next quarter so yeah i i feel like this is kind of like hey we're doing really great let's make sure we leak this to the press to let everyone know like we're doing awesome so then you know with this pushback or maybe there's some hesitation to to cut all of our uh jobs that are happening here so yeah it's it's sad and it is it is exciting for blizzcon but i i just worry because i mean that's what happened last time after xbox's big showcase big showcase we're doing great awesome new future of xbox massive layoffs right so i i fear for for blizzard yeah

46:05Nick Scarpino:Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, Doom, put out the new DLC, layoffs. Story number six, Doom Dev blasts Xbox after Microsoft gutted id Software with layoffs. This comes from Michael Kripe at IGN. After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hayes has taken aim at Xbox. They fundamentally don't understand art. Hayes, who is currently employed at the studio behind first-person shooter classics like Doom Eternal and has been with the team since 2010, and unloaded on the recent decision to cut 136 staff during a recent conversation on Auf Einbeer. He didn't mince words, to put it lightly.

46:42Nick Scarpino:Quote, it's hard to make a game that is AAA. That's like we've done before with half the people. And by hard, I mean impossible. It's hard to make a game when there are entire departments that are gutted that you need, entire disciplines that are gone. So if they've got some kind of new plan for how this is going to work, that hasn't been told. We don't know what that is. The reassurances that we're still the same id and we're still going to do things, well, first of all, we're not the same id. We're half the same id. Id was the people. What made us special was the people and the relationships we have.

47:11Nick Scarpino:Excuse me. The reassurances Hayes mentioned at least partially refer to some of the messages that have emerged in the fallout of last month's layoffs. Id issued a statement to IGN July 10th that thanked fans for their support, acknowledging that while the studio had been impacted, the restructuring left it at about the same size we were when making Doom 2016. It added, we still have the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for It reclaimed its title as the leading FPS studio with 2016 You get that stuff Studio management is given talking heads Sorry, studio management is given talking points on things that are allowed to be said And what is not allowed to be said It feels like it is, instead, more reassurances They don't want people to jump ship and say, oh, there's no more future in id So we're all going to leave And then there's no one left They don't want unrest At the end of the day, most of it was just trying to tell us that oh no everything is fine things will be okay hayes said the reality is that it now houses less than the number of staff that worked on doom 2016 he noted that fans will certainly have their preference in the series but added there's a lot more that went into each of the doom games that went along we made bigger and better games but that's with twice as many people as we had so we have fewer than we had before so we're going to make something equivalent to a single player xbox 360 game because that's the size of the studio we have it has a special place not only the let me get So we're good here on the ground level.

48:28Nick Scarpino:We don't get to know what that is. He said we have guesses just like everyone else. We I know that we have serious issues with how Game Pass is done. Whenever we see the Microsoft financial reports and let's say that there were, you know, poor sales under Bethesda. What's a sale if you have Game Pass? Are you saying that poor sales means poor number of games sold? Because, of course, if you're not you're not doing a game sold business model, they fundamentally don't understand art. They don't. They don't understand art. They don't understand games. They don't understand that business model. this shit's crazy good for him good for him i was shocked when i heard that he's still there good for him for now for now yeah but like man saying it no you got straight up fucking calling it out straight up saying it directly reacting to the statements made and being like no the

49:11Tim Gettys:statements are wrong yeah because i mean specifically that line which is uh has been talked about a lot of like oh we have the same amount of people that we when we shipped 2016 doom i love that he points out one that's not true right like they're probably budging numbers contractors yada yada but then two it's like that was a decade ago like we you're making bigger games inherently than doom 2016 that was a generation ago so for him to call this out it is just it is great and it's also just so sad it's just so bleak because you see it because i have friends in tech and everything when it's like when these massive layoffs happen they they have the plan for the layoffs they have no plan what to do after that people are just floundering they don't know what's going on they don't know what their kpis are they don't know what to even make or do they're literally just sitting there and just they don't even know who to report to like that's how fucked up these companies are when it comes to they know how to lay off people they don't know how to actually lead and to change these things so it is so bleak but i'm so happy he said that

50:04Nick Scarpino:i'm gonna read more because there's more uh they tried better to to sorry where should i start here he said he would love to try to hit the goals that are set for id but those goals aren't even communicated instead they're told to just make the best game we can under xenomax before the acquisition, that was also how it worked for attributing success. If we did well on a score for critical acclaim and we had decently solid sales, but if they weren't meeting expectations, then that's a problem for marketing and sales. If you scored low, you didn't make a good game. They tried better to find that.

50:33Nick Scarpino:That is obviously not how Microsoft is operating. It doesn't make any sense. Asked to elaborate on why Xbox and Microsoft don't understand art, Hayes said, if you cut half a studio and don't actually take into account how it's made, you don't understand that the cohesion between our teams was what was important, what made us successful. we're talking about aid man we're talking about a team that has put out bangers over the last 10 years modern games like reinvented an entire franchise millions and millions and millions

51:03Tim Gettys:of dollars now doom is something that it wasn't before it is now so relevant to so many gamers and now it's just cut and add an incredible engine too and it's like what are they gonna do there what are they gonna do man um all right let's end story number i'm skipping seven and eight okay straight to nine oh straight to nine straight to nine this is this is the part nintendo don't

51:26Nick Scarpino:nintendo don't watch do not watch this don't listen we didn't do this be cool okay there's two things you want to talk about thanks you start with yours donkey kong land has been remade there was a donkey kong land remake uh barrett if you could play the youtube video that'd be really sick because it's really really cool um i i don't know how much you know about this but there's the three donkey kong country games on the super nintendo roger there was also three donkey kong land games on the game boy the original game boy and they were very impressive for what they were trying to do they are not one-to-one but they attempted to be but they had to make a lot of concessions and changes and and different things so there's a lot of different games there's different enemies there's different um like full-on different layouts of levels or like even like backgrounds and environments like you go to um like the donkey kong arcade where it's kind of like the red um scaffolding like you actually like you see here did he run around the outside of a building it's like there are levels that look more like that um so some fans made a remake of it in the style of the super nintendo games fully on incredible you see it there very very cool all the soundtrack on Donkey Kong Land was different than Donkey Kong Country they made it sound like Donkey Kong Country look like Donkey Kong Country play more like Donkey Kong Country it's like it's really really really

52:46Tim Gettys:impressive I truly thought that was official this looks incredible it's very cool this is so cool everyone you can check this out this comes from YouTube creator Kaz Kaz so K-A-S Q-U-E-Z you can check them out and there's a Google Drive link in the YouTube video description if you would like to give this a shot yeah um and then yeah you got a fun one too yeah the next one i saw this uh pop up on my youtube feed yesterday and i want to bring it up it's a breath of the wild vr mod uh that has been being updated i think for a while now but now it's in a really good place i think it's completely you can play the entire game uh in vr on your pc uh yeah so it's an it's an awesome trailer and this this looks awesome i i have not seen like full-on gameplay of it but this trailer is super cool did you see the end of this trailer no oh no

53:33Nick Scarpino:it teases something oh okay can you go there okay wait hold on let's keep on watching really

53:38Tim Gettys:quick because there's a quote here no keep on watching there's a quote here which i just kept on laughing so this one this is something i would say i am like a kid in heaven right now hell yeah like a child that is such a snow bike mike level like i i i think i'm not a kid in a candy store i've died and went to heaven no i'm like a kid in heaven right now that's fucking awesome yes we can go to the ending now sorry but yeah no so that's super cool um but they're not done it's not just zelda that they're doing they're teasing the the next project

54:16Nick Scarpino:they're gonna work on i didn't see this um and that project is mario kart baby oh that's why the comments freaking out okay yeah are you part vr i know it's like i don't know that i need that

54:28Tim Gettys:in my life i mean it was like throwing up everywhere that is insane insane looking that is awesome yeah good for them i love that the vr community is um supporting themselves yeah that's the best way to put it there is there is a something that i do think has to be said here which is there's been such a major influx of these uh fan mods or remakes or whatever you want to call them right and so much ai has been used to make this that's a great call and it's like it's just like it's a little disturbing to see like how quick these things are like popping up out of nowhere um the donkey kong thing they said they said no way there's no ai that it was entirely human generated there's no proof of that but it's just the world we live in now and i i just want to say that i don't know what's up with the zelda thing me neither but yeah um it is it is just like a an interesting place to be because that pokemon thing just littered with ai stuff the pokemon uh mod that everyone was like freaking out over last week they made it look kind of hd2d oh i didn't just keep adding to it you didn't know i don't know why i didn't see it was everywhere every day they had more and more shit to it it looks crazy it was ai that sucks yeah but yeah it's it's so funny because like you just think i i am i had the moment where i look at things i'm like oh this is awesome it's awesome and then like the harsh reality of it yeah yeah man i can't have anything cool roger if we could have cool things that would be big news

55:49Nick Scarpino:but if I wanted something smaller, where would I look?

55:51Tim Gettys:You can go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. It's true.

55:59Nick Scarpino:NBA 2K26 is free to play on Switch and Switch 2 until Thursday, August 13th. Oh, everybody. During this period, players can download the full game and play it. One of those game trials.

56:10Tim Gettys:That's awesome. That's so sick, dude. You can go in there, you can give them microtransactions, and then never play the game again.

56:16Nick Scarpino:Exactly. The Doom Collection will be released on October 30th and is compatible with every Evercade and Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket device released by the company. The Doom Collection will be released on October 30th. It just copy-pasted that twice. Evercade, it's just like, they made their own console with cartridges. Oh. Yeah, it's one of those, I forget the company that actually did it, but the analog and the Hyperkin and all those, it's one of those types of situations.

56:43Tim Gettys:Oh, cool. Oh, it's super cool.

56:44Nick Scarpino:According to What's on Netflix, while Netflix originally confirmed a release date later this year for season five of The Witcher. It's been delayed to 2027. A payday TV series is moving forward with 50 Cent. It's up to executive produce. All been waiting for it. All been waiting for it. That's it for WeNews.

57:01Tim Gettys:Can you believe that they've went back to payday two? They made payday three. Everyone hated it. So now they've stopped working on payday three and they work on payday two only now. I did not know. Yeah, it's cool. That's cool. I guess. I just see those updates. I'm like, that's crazy that that happens.

57:17Nick Scarpino:I'm going a year wrong right now, and I'm telling you guys. I'm fucking telling you before I even look at this. Not today.

57:24Tim Gettys:You want to fill up Super Chats, too? Not today.

57:25Nick Scarpino:Yeah, we got them, Super Chats. Okay, you got them.

57:33Nick Scarpino:I'm definitely going to read this one from Go-Go Monster Truck. It's Marvel Toke on these nuts.

57:43Nick Scarpino:Kingdom Hearts 3 was January, not April.

57:50Nick Scarpino:kebab says insomniac patched the new movie suit for accuracy give it another spin roger what was it insomniac patched the suit to make it more like the movie last night like i was playing it last night oh i don't know you know what i mean i'll say did it last night

58:04Tim Gettys:did you download any updates before you played it i did i downloaded the full game i had i deleted it i couldn't believe it that is always on my ps5 i don't know what the fuck i downloaded maybe I deleted it and I had to redownload it. I was so mad at myself.

58:18Nick Scarpino:Let's get some super chats here. Armo says, Hey Tim, I upgraded to a PS5 Pro today. What should I play? Spider-Man. You know what I mean, dude? Play Spider-Man. Yeah, swing around Spider-Man. Dropkick Tondo says, I forgot my birthday tax. Here it is. Enjoy your day, everyone. Happy belated birthday. Dropkick.

58:42Nick Scarpino:Aaron Lime says Square Enix announced their fiscal's recently and it's cool to see Elliot in his dumb hat and the mobile Dissidia did way better than anticipated with Final Fantasy 7, Kingdom Hearts 4 Dragon Quest Monsters and Dragon Quest 12 next year will be huge for them yes, yes, yes Christian says Tim with the correct takes on Spider-Man 2 and across the Spider-Verse I appreciate you Christian, we're out there there are dozens of us EJRPG says Square Enix Switch 2 upgrades however consistently prevent moving saves over from one to two that does suck i really hate that shit that sucks i feel like we had this like crazy moment in 2016 about cross save cross play all that stuff and all of a sudden like fortnight was like fuck it we're figuring things out playstation's like what are we gonna do and then all of a sudden here we are now cross play is just expected you just expect things to work a certain way and when they don't you're like what i the fact that we have not

59:32Tim Gettys:figured out like cross save between like a like a standard or some company hasn't come up and said hey you pay us x amount of money you can just have cross save on every console of every game like man like hades figured it out hades between steam and switch like witcher witcher like we should just have we should we just figure it out there's so many save specifically something we got to figure out and like square themselves should figure this out yes especially from a switch one version to a switch two version opposite the fact that final fantasy 10 and 10 2 you the switch two version you can't use your saves from the switch one version what are we talking about Unbelievable Money It's fucking ridiculous That's what we're always talking about And again those Switch 2 ports are really good So it's like it's very weird that that's the thing Yeah And the thing is like I get the money argument I just truly don't believe that in reality I do not see that affecting sales whatsoever Yeah In fact I think it would be a negative impact Of people being like fuck that I'm not buying it Yeah More than anything So weird

1:00:28Nick Scarpino:ScienceDog official says Uh Huh

1:00:35Nick Scarpino:i don't know i don't know i don't know what you're saying here uh deshawn fortune says do you guys want final fantasy 17 to have the seven remake trilogy active time battle system i know that i do i mean honestly yeah i feel like they've been iterating on a system that is incredible so it's like keep that going in some way shape or form like and just keep advancing and changing it they've been like on this path i'd say since final fantasy 13 and they just keep iterating and changing and it has not been stronger than seven remake and rebirth and i feel like that even that rebirth is so much better than remake yeah in terms of uh battle and i think that revelation will be even better out of the job classes so yeah no i'm with you uh marty says on the topic of square shout out to fall fantasy 16 i didn't like it when it originally came out but went back to it on pc and i'm falling in love hashtag tim was right i gotta finish it i fucking love fall fantasy 16 so much and i was giving a shout out last week to re-edit studios uh a youtube channel that are kind of taking video games and trying to turn them into cinematic experiences like like so for final fantasy 7 remake and rebirth they turned it into hour-long hbo style nice uh episodes and same with final fantasy 16 expedition 33 they're turning into 15 22 minute anime style episodes i can report that gia and i have watched episode one she is in we're watching episode two tonight i'm very excited this is it's happening everybody what's the name of them um re-edit studios studios okay very very small youtube channel and it's also very very heartwarming to see all the comments being like kind of funny sent me here kind of funny sent me here kind of funny sent me here y 'all are the best um but i was kind of just skimming through some of the other ones and i ended up watching like an hour of the end of final fantasy 16 i'm just like that final boss fight is so awesome i gotta play it so insane um avaro says it's time tim it's time for your Omnimon to reawaken for your Gallantmon Crimson Mode to enter the battle.

1:02:30Nick Scarpino:It's your DigiDestiny, Tim. I just don't know. That game's just not for me. I've seen enough of it to be like, that game's not for me. I'm a Digimon G1-er in many ways. And even that's not true. I'll dabble with up to Season 3. You know what I mean? 4, I fall off hard. I tried it. I do not like Season 3. which is like the best one actually in terms of like real story and shit but like obviously one or two come on adventure baby ending of one in and of itself unmatched JBC says any chances of a kind of funny big walk stream yes definitely we want to very bad I cannot stress enough to everybody like seriously real talk for a second we I know we always say we're 11 people trying our best and all that stuff right now there's so much going on of just people having things and lives and stuff where it's like we're not 11 people it's way more like we're seven people on any given day that's a good day and the bigger problem there is it's like who those seven people are is inconsistent so planning trying to come up with stuff best laid plans and then they change yeah and i it's really bumming me out and we're trying our best to like just do our best so and this is all like as well leading into top 100.

1:03:56There's just a lot that there's that show possible. Yeah, exactly. A lot of stuff.

1:04:00Nick Scarpino:So yeah, we are. We're trying our best here. And we know we know we want to do what he's written.

1:04:06Tim Gettys:No, Mike, Mike.

1:04:10Nick Scarpino:Mike in the chat says, and I got three hernias. Three. Jesus Christ. Are they all on top of each other? Oh, my God. I don't understand the science of hernias. Also, I think it's two. I don't think he said, you said three. No, you said two to me. Why are you lying? Or did you lie to me? Why are you running? Don't run. So there I was, Tim, on Friday, getting my belly. Ultrasounded. It was a pretty good time. Okay, shout out to Carrie. Pretty fun time, Tim. Pretty fun time. And she goes, oh, my God. Did you know you got a second hernia? And I was like, oh, shit, that's crazy. I didn't know about that.

1:04:47I didn't know about that. And so there I go. On Friday, I go home. We celebrate on stream. I'm like, don't worry, everybody. I got two hernias. I'm alive, baby. Like, it's all good. Get a call from Dr. Ryan. He goes, I was watching the stream, Mike. Just wanted to clarify. No, no, no. You've got to stop. You've got to clarify. There's three hernias. Your doctor's watching your stream? Yeah, shout out to Dr. Ryan, bro. He's a big gamer. He's a great guy. Shout out to Dr. Ryan. And so, like. Is he a doctor? Yeah. So, here's the deal, Tim. I got two on top of the one we already knew about. You know what I mean?

1:05:25And so I have three hernias. But we're here. We're going to play Big Walk, everybody. We're going to make shit happen. Okay. Okay.

1:05:38So it's going to be more like six people every day. Yeah.

1:05:42Nick Scarpino:Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.

1:05:48Nick Scarpino:I don't mean. What do I do? this is gonna what do i do tim i don't know what do i do with the information that i just heard as a friend as a as a uh a business partner employer fuck man fuck not today people leave me alone yeah mike obviously didn't hear that at the beginning of the show agent atomic says uh today blizzard overperforms financially tomorrow blizzard hit by layoffs let's really hope that's not the case man but you're right short nerdy guy gives us a $10 super chat without anything thank you very much oh wait there might be a secret one in here Gene Jack from Twitch says wait the Dr.

1:06:31Ryan from the giant bomb chat no

1:06:37Tim Gettys:he told me the story where he goes to the doctor the first time and then he like is talking to the guy and then the guy like pulls out his phone dr ryan and says look and it's a notification from kind of funny he's like i thought i recognized you he's like yeah i listen kind of funny i was like of course you of course now he's seen inside him you know and he's listening to the stream and he's giving him like health update dr ryan if you're listening to this you can't please take care of our boy you gotta take care of him and if he needs help that he's not getting break hip hop violations just let

1:07:12Nick Scarpino:figure this out figure that i don't oh my god man oh my god aaron lime says can you confirm the dk land games weren't made with ai a lot of these recent recomps and fan projects are built in ai and that makes it hard to trust like i was saying i can't but i can't confirm that they said that they didn't so what am i gonna do apparently there's dr ryan in the fucking mega 64 chat too so this is the same dr ryan and i imagine it is oh my god or there's a trio of them fuck and they all listen to one different outlet kebab says happy 10th anniversary no man's sky happy happy birthday no man's we love you so much um sergio says do y 'all think the rogue ally x20 will be worth it i don't know man i do think it's going to be a big improvement over the first one but like the price just sound like that to me it's not officially announced right but like it's probably like 1500 i don't know man i don't know that's that's i'm not gonna be buying that i'll tell you that get an ay and thorn play old games

1:08:15Tim Gettys:for the rest of your life like i'm doing i was thinking about getting e gpu for my rog ally one that i have right now said more letters why not you know rog ally x e gpu everyone that's been

1:08:28Nick Scarpino:kind of funny games daily we went a little longer than i wanted to but we covered a lot we had a we had a journey we learned about mike's three hernias three hernias i don't really know how bad one hernia is but but you know three has to i think three like once you get to three it's like

1:08:44Tim Gettys:actually good again you know i mean like it goes the opposite way so it's like yeah the more you have better i do know that my brother had a hernia when he was like eight years old and he had a pet

1:08:54Nick Scarpino:hamster that he named after kevin's mom and uh when he came back from the hospital the hamster was dead all right everybody till next time this has been kind of funny games daily love you all