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30:22It's actually really horrible and awful. But because this is the most like, oh, wow, this is an insane story to read. But before we do that, Paris, let's talk about it. You said you had one slip up and then one you want to circle back to. Yeah, when I was having the brain fart about the one Zelda game, like the second we go to ads, I go Wind Waker like it literally just popped in my head right then. But yeah, that was the one where they went cel-shaded and the whole thing and obviously the boats and all that stuff. So I would love to see them have a nod to that in the Zelda movie as well. But the other thing I forgot about the game awards, just, you know, kudos to Obsidian, man.

30:59The fact that they got two RPGs nominated in the same year with the Vald in the Outer Worlds 2 is I'm pretty sure that's never happened before. but it just credit to that studio, man, three games in a calendar year. And then you got two of them nominated is, you know, just, just a testament to what everyone over there is doing. So congrats to them. Congrats to them. And I know it's early access, but honestly, Paris, if we had a survival sim category, I would put grounded to up there alongside Dune. There's been some other great ones, but like, Oh, that, that, uh, runescape one was really fun too.

31:38but yeah you know shout out to grounded 2 was fantastic as well super early access but i can't wait to play more of that they did a great job yeah yeah i honestly if it wasn't early access they would probably have three games nominated this year which is which is crazy to think but that just goes to show you quality of what obsidian has been doing so again just kudos to them man i love that paris um let's jump into story number two because i do want to circle back to some paris outside of work life stuff and your son talking about the steam box. I need to know all about it. Let's jump into story number two.

32:13Fired Subnautica 2 leads alleged that Kraft and CEO asked ChatGPT how to get out of paying their$250 million bonus. This coming from Chris Scullion at VGC. Strap in because we got a good one. The co-founders of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds have alleged that publisher Krafton's CEO asked ChatGPT for advice on how to get out of giving them a$250 million payout before firing them. CEO Ted Gill, co-founder and creative director Charlie Cleveland, and co-founder and technical director Max McGuire were fired by Krafton earlier this year, with the publisher accusing the trio of, quote, an absence of core leadership, end quote, and claiming it felt a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.

33:10The three claimed, however, that Crafton had betrayed them by firing them right before delaying Subnautica 2, a move they alleged was designed to deliberately prevent its early access release and avoid its selling well enough to trigger a$250 million bonus for the development team. Now, a pretrial brief filed by the trio's legal team, as reported by a game developer, claims explicitly that Crafton, quote, fired the founders and delayed the launch of Subnautica 2 to avoid paying the earnout, end quote. Quote, suggesting that after Crafton's finance department in May 2025 forecast a base case earnout of$191 million, Crafton needed a way to cancel the earnout.

34:01The brief, which demands the founders be restored to their positions at the studio, alleges, quote, already concerned that Crafton had paid too much to acquire Unknown Worlds. Chang Han Kim, Krafton's CEO, feared that making any earn-out payment to the founders would earn him a reputation as a pushover and endanger his position as CEO. It adds, since Krafton could not convince the founders to delay the game, Kim searched for another way to cancel the earn-outs. This includes potentially firing the founders so the bonuses didn't have to be paid. However, the brief alleges that Krafton's global head of corporate development, Maria Park, told Kim that it seems to be highly likely that the earnout will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved, regardless of the dismissal with the case or with cause.

35:02It also claims Kim turned to artificial intelligence to help him brainstorm ways to avoid paying the earnout. But that chat GPT likewise advised that it would be difficult to cancel the earnout. Paris, we got company CEOs turning to AI to ask how to wiggle out of this payout. Let's talk about it right now. A lot to break down here. Where do you want to start? I'm just going to say this. When Skynet becomes self-aware, this is why. This is why. This is when Grog and Chat, GPKT and Copilot, when they all just merged into one and realized, and someone in the chat said it, so I'm going to give him credit for this.

35:50Ultron was right. He was right. This is why. This is why humanity is going to go away because of insane stuff like this and the fact that you're trying to leverage AI. to give you tips on how to screw people out of money is just insane, dude. It is absolutely insane that this is where we are now with this. And sadly, it's only going to get worse. This is. Paris, this has been a wild story since we started it back in the day with these three getting booted out of the company and going back and forth on what is happening. than the idea of, well, they weren't doing their duties. They were off doing other things and them saying, well, that's not true.

36:35We were ready to rock and roll. Like, let's put this game out. Our fans are ready. And then, of course, we hear they were trying to avoid the big payout there because it was on track to probably do well, sell well, and be good for the fans. And they're holding that back. And then, of course, now we hear that the CEO is turning to chat GPT on how to get out of this. We've seen these stories before. We've heard it just a couple weeks ago, me and Blessing laughing about, you know, how do we turn to chat GPT to fire employees and lay people off? It is wild. It's what I mean, it's this is a scummy part of this business that and it goes beyond gaming.

37:15Obviously, it's just just corporate regardless. But it's a scummy part of what we love that, you know, it takes away like like this year's just been an amazing year for games, right? Like if you just focus on the games themselves, it's been an amazing time. But then you keep having this stuff come up and it just takes away from it. Just you're just disgusted hearing this kind of stuff and just where the economy is, just the workforces, just where everything is to see people constantly trying to screw other people out of their livelihoods and out of things that they've earned, you know, with these bonuses and all that.

37:53And then now you're using AI to try and leverage it even more. Yeah, I just hate it, man. It's scummy. Yeah, hard to side with you or really want to feel any compression when you hear about this. And, of course, most importantly,$250 million payout is big. That was going to go to, of course, the three founders and a lot of the development team. That was going to be a nice split for them. Probably well-earned, well-deserved after the hard work of the game. But, yeah, to see you try to weasel out of that one is tough to want to hear your side and believe in your side. the overpaying for the unknown world's team is a tough one because I mean, this is a talented team.

38:33This is sub Nautica too. They're following up sub Nautica. And, uh, you know, I think a lot of people definitely were believing in this project on the fan side of things. So of course, I think you got a gem in the rough there for sure. No matter how much you paid, but yeah, we'll see more about this as it now we'll go to trial Paris and we will continue to see the back and forth between these two. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. And like I said, it's only going to get worse from here. We know this won't be the last story that we hear like this and where it ends, who knows. Let's go to story number three.

39:08Capcom says it's confident that Resident Evil Requiem won't suffer from Monster Hunter Wild style PC performance issues. This coming from Andy Robinson at VGC. Capcom says it foresees little risk of its next big game Resident Evil Requiem experiencing performance issues on PC like Monster Hunter Wilds. Wilds has notably struggled with performance issues on PC since it launched in February, which has attracted criticism for some players and led to a promise of technical improvements from Capcom. During its latest financial results Q &A, Capcom was asked if there was any risk of Resident Evil Requiem suffering from similar issues since it shares the same RE engine technology.

40:03The company responded by claiming that since Requiem differs in gameplay and architecture, it does not anticipate any risk of similar performance issues. Quote, Resident Evil differs from Monster Hunter Wilds in terms of gameplay, system architecture, and network features, it said. At present, we do not anticipate similar risks. We are developing the game to provide a smooth gaming experience across a wide range of PC specifications. on bringing RE Engine 2 Nintendo Switch 2 director the director suggested that the job of bringing Requiem to the platform went more smoothly than expected Paris let's rewind were you expecting PC issues with Resident Evil after Monster Hunter Wilds I mean well I'm taking this angle on it you obviously had it with the other one it's a similar engine so you would assume that they take that to heart.

41:04Sounds like QA is involved and you take lessons learned from that so it doesn't happen again. So maybe this is why they're coming out with this confidence that, no, we've identified what the issues are. This game obviously doesn't even necessarily wouldn't even necessarily have the same gameplay loops in it or whatever, whatever word I'm searching for right here that was causing that issue or performance issues. So we're confident with our QA team with the lessons learned we got from that that will have that resolve for the PC release on that moving forward so I mean it sounds good we won't know until it actually comes out and in practice how that looks because you know when you do think about PC gaming there are variables that come to it sure it starts with the engine then you got to think about driver support AMD Nvidia right what operating system are you are you playing on Windows are you are you doing it on Steam OS and, you know, using Proton to translate it, stuff like that.

42:01So there's other variables that go into any PC game that comes out. But if they think they identified the core issues to resolve it and they're QAing the hell out of it so that when it does come out, you know, they feel disconfident that it won't suffer from that, that's a good thing. But if it does have issues, this is going to age like milk. yeah it's interesting Paris because my mind did not go to this at all during whenever I think about Resident Evil right I think about Monster Hunter Wilds an open world shared multiplayer experience and I don't think of that with my Resident Evil games right unless all of a sudden Raccoon City is this giant open world GTA sprawling experience then maybe I might think twice about it but I actually never thought that uh we would be talking about this but I'm glad to hear that the team is feeling confident with what they're doing uh you know of course pc players have a lot of different specs they want the very best out of their machines and clearly monster hunter wilds didn't hit that so they're asking the team if they have that better than lockdown for sure well i look at it this way because i i do think this conversation goes beyond just this game and and what they're talking about if you look at obviously what valve announced last week we We know what Microsoft and Xbox is attempting to do.

43:18You heard what the Take Two CEO said yesterday. More and more people are starting to shift towards PC and development is starting to shift towards PC being the priority first. If that's the case, you can't have these issues because PC is such a wide range of different levels of performance, depending on the processor. You have the GPU that you have memory like they have to. account for so many different things on the PC side that you can't release broken games. We've already seen the result of this right across console and even PC. What happens when you release a buggy broken game? So QA is going to be even more important as we tend to skew towards towards this this side of gaming hardware with PC versus what they're able to do on console where you know all right it's a playstation it's an xbox here are the specs of it we can make the game for this and it is what it is whereas pc like i said you're going to have so many more variables to account for so um we'll see because this will continue to be a thing moving forward not just for this game but for multiple games and clearly you know when just bringing xbox into this all their games are going to be day and date on pc so even on their side they absolutely have to account for this because like I said you can't have these broken PC games.

44:45Paris you've seen it. Are you excited for this game? Yes I played it. I played it and I'm very excited for it. I'm not a Resident Evil guy and I loved what I got to play when I was at Gamescom so yeah I'm absolutely looking forward to this. Here's another one to be excited for. Story number four. Game Informer is coming to newsstands. This comes from Matt Miller at Game Informer. You'll soon find Game Informer available at newsstands across the U.S. as well as in select locations internationally. Beginning with our December issue featuring Dragon Quest VII reimagined on the cover, readers will be able to visit local stores where magazines are sold and snag a new copy off the shelf.

45:28Even as the list continues to expand, the first issue will be available in the United States at Barnes & Noble's, Books A Million, GameStop, and Gelson's, among other local markets. We are excited to be appearing for the first time in several other international locations as well. We'll be expanding the scope of where you can find the Game Informer magazine over the coming months across new stands, game stores, and more. You can expect to see the first issue arrive in stores this December. If you enjoy what we do, we'd invite you to consider picking up an issue for a friend or family member for the holiday gifting season.

46:06The word of mouth and support you can share about Game Informer's return is deeply appreciated. A little clap going right there, Paris. That's nice. That's a big win. I'll tell you what, because Paris, you know, growing up, You had the Xbox magazine You had Nintendo Power And nothing cooler than walking out Maybe you're catching a flight with the family You walk into the bookstore You know what I'm grabbing, Paris You know I'm looking for that video game magazine And it's sorely missed Every time we go on a flight That's all I want It's just a video game magazine to page through Read a couple articles And then land on that flight and get out And it hurts every time I walk in Not seeing those anymore I completely agree.

46:52Like, you know, bring this full circle. We're talking about Zelda earlier. Like I mentioned 98. I want to say it was Nintendo power that had to been 96, like early 97. The first time they showed Ocarina of Time. That was it. It was the magazine that got me excited about it. Right. And then you think about the EGMs of the world and just on down the line. I mean, that was such a big part of my early gaming life were those gaming magazines and just how important they were. because that's how we got information about upcoming games. And you would show it off, and then you would add it to your anticipated list, stuff like that.

47:28So, yeah, I'm, yeah, 100 % really looking forward to that. I've been buying some old Xbox magazines. That's been my latest craze there, Paris. I've been spending a lot of money on those, which is just a bad idea, but I love it. And I've been bringing them on flights. And my last flight, Ryan McCaffrey was on it, and I had the Halo 3 edition of the Xbox magazine. And I showed Ryan, he goes, I bet you I wrote that article and of course I paged open it and there's Ryan McCaffrey right on the front of it with a full spread of Halo 3. It was the coolest, man. Oh, heck yeah. I mean, speaking of OXM, that was how I played Splinter Cell.

48:03It was that demo that came in the magazine back when discs were still a thing. So, yeah, so many core memories from that stuff, man. Paris, as we start to get out of the way, it is fun and big news to see that Game Informer is back of course yes everyone out there word of mouth is big a share is big maybe for the holiday gifting season you buy a magazine and share with somebody you love that would be great for them but if i wanted something smaller paris where would i go you would go to the we news channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about paris we got some fun we news to talk about.

48:47Yoko Taro, creator of Nier, is still working on games. They just keep getting canceled. According to him, quote, I've actually been working on some stuff. It's just that it never ended up seeing the light of day. I got paid for it, so I personally have no issue with that, but people seem to think that I haven't been doing anything just because none of the work I've done is being released, end quote. Keep getting those checks, and hopefully your work gets out there, right? I'm glad that you're getting paid that's the big one right there from this week in video games discontinued shooter Concord has been reverse engineered by a group of developers but work has since been paused dude due to worry legal action Paris I saw that story pretty fun that people are jumping back into Concord it reminds me of City of Heroes I've been jumping back into City of Heroes thanks to that now of course legal action you think sony would stop this let them play let them have some fun i think they kind of i get it look it sucks that they did but i understand why they did it you know what i mean that's an ip that they still own they obviously have completely canceled and refunded people money all these things so no they don't want people going rogue just using their ip you know at will i get it from nintendo statues of friendly faces from donkey kong 64 are yours for the taking in the Donkey Kong Bonanza Emerald Rush show.

50:19So stay strong. It's funny. So strong. It's funny event starting November 25th. There's a fun tweet with that. Of course, if you love Donkey Kong 64, you'll instantly know who these statues and friendly faces are. Coming to Game Pass, November 19th, Moonlighter 2, The Endless Vault. Parrish, are you excited about this one? Oh, heck yeah. I know you guys did the review yesterday and I've played it as well. I love that game. I think it's great. It's fantastic. And the fact that it's on Game Pass, go check it out. I think you'll really like it. November 20th, Monsters Are Coming, Rock and Road, The Crew Motor Fest.

50:57On November 25th, you have Banisher's Ghost of New Eden and Kill It With Fire 2. Andy Cortez is a voice actor, I believe, and Kill It With Fire 2. So go check him out in that. Give him some love. On December 1st, a big one coming to Game Pass. Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Yeah, I didn't know that either. And heck yeah, I got to play that at Summer Game Fest. I can't wait for that game. It's going to be awesome. December 2nd, Lost Records Bloom and Rage. And then for Premium on November 19th. Premium, Paris. Uh-oh. We got to have a whole X-Cast topic. Now we're separating Game Pass with Premium and this.

51:42Oh, Paris, we've lost our way. We've lost our way. We had it so good. And now we got separate lines on this. Premium will have Revenge of the Savage Planet.

51:58And Calubra and the Souls of Limbo. I've never heard of that one. That's tough, Paris. That's too bad. Yeah. Let's go to the next one. Where Winds Meet surpassed 2 million players in 24 hours. Have you heard about this one? I have not. Okay, okay. New MMO coming your way. Oh, thank you for that. Very excited about that one. And Guild Wars Reforged launches December 3rd on PC. I love Guild Wars. I'll jump into that any day of the week. Now, Paris, let's end the show with Super Chats. you're wrong and we'll get out of here but before we do that your son was talking about the steam machine laying on me so i'm gonna turn this into a mini x cast shout out to gary we miss you so yesterday i'm just chilling on the couch watching youtube scrolling and i was watching some people talk about the steam machine you know because of various media people went and got hands on with So I'm just randomly sitting there watching the videos and my son's sitting there and he goes, so what's the steam machine?

53:08So I explained it to him and then I pulled up the official valve video. We watched it together. So he saw the steam machine. He saw the steam frame, saw the steam controller. And then he was like, wait, so you're telling me this is a PC that will just sit under the TV and I can play all my games on that? And I was like, yeah, I go. Anything you got on steam? I go. It's just like, you know, I had the steam deck. I'd show him the steam deck. I go, it's essentially the Steam Deck, but now it's on TV. He was like, oh, really? He was like, how much do you think it's going to cost? And obviously we all got our opinions on that.

53:39I just told him probably anywhere between five to 600 bucks is going to wind up costing, right? And he was like, oh, really? And he was like, in all the Steam games that I could play on the Steam Deck, I'm going to be able to play this on the TV. I was like, yep, all of them are going to be there. He goes, I think that's really cool. I think I want that. So then I extended the conversation and I go, and this is pretty much because then we were talking about the Xbox ally. I go, so the Xbox ally is essentially what Xbox is going to do, but it's going to be Windows. But I go, but the difference is they'll have the anti cheat so you can play for it because then I brought a Fortnite in his eyes really there.

54:15But you play, play Fortnite and Call of Duty and all that. And you can bring the Xbox store and you can bring the Steam store and all the PC digital stores. You can play all your games on that. I go, that's what Xbox is aiming to do in the next couple of years. And his eyes really lit up and he goes, that's what Xbox is doing. So the next Xbox is going to be what the steam machine is, plus more more stores. And I have every game that I own on there. I was like, yeah, that's what they're doing. He was like, I want that. That's what I want. I think I want that device because I think that is how I'm going to just have to have one device.

54:49I don't have to have an Xbox, a PlayStation, a PC like he's just naming all of them. I can have one device on my TV and play all my games. So I was like, huh, interesting. So this is someone that, you know, he's somewhat informed because obviously I'm his dad, but he pretty much was representing what the average person is thinking about that device, that it's cool that I'm going to be able to have all my games available on one device. So I just thought it was interesting. I like that, Paris. Yeah, I mean, I think that's what everybody in a perfect world wants, right? I do have the interesting one of like, what is the pushback that I'm not just getting a PC right at this point?

55:27The PC almost has everything as well. Is it just the ease of access of? Well, it's in the entertainment center. It's on the TV in the living room. And we'll go from there because what you're describing is just a PC at this point now. Exactly. And I understand we talk about all that. But it was the fact that they're giving you a device that's just easy to use. that it is a PC under the hood, but it's just easy to use. Whereas I plug it in on the TV. I got the control. And then I was explaining, you don't have to use a Steam controller. You can use your Xbox controller or the PlayStation controller, anything with Bluetooth.

56:01He was like, oh, really? You know, you really got excited about that. If you had a PC game where you just absolutely had to use a mouse and keyboard, you could do that, too. So he just liked the flexibility of it and that he can basically condense everything that he owns on the one device versus having to have three or four different devices sitting under his TV. So I just thought that was cool. I mean, you know, we've talked about it, obviously, a million different times from the Xbox angle. They still got work to do on Windows to get to what Valve has done with SteamOS. But if they can nail that, I think that possibility of being able to do that is a pretty cool concept.

56:37They obviously got to deliver on it. But, you know, I like it in concept, but we got to see them deliver it. I like that. Paris, you do have a little bit of pushback coming from the chat right now. Nightlife writes in with the$2 super chat and says, $5 to$600. Paris, I want to smoke whatever you're smoking. Do you think that's crazy to ask that price? Let's talk about it. Is he saying it's too much or too little? I think he's saying it's too little. I think they say you're riding high and you're believing it's too little. And I even said this when we initially had that conversation last week when I called in.

57:10because I you know my first thought was 500 that's what I initially said that was my gut feeling you know and blessing and Tim kind of talked me out of it a little bit so I'm like oh okay maybe it's more six and I'm talking to 512 version I'm not talking to two terabyte man if you go above 600 bucks we're creeping into Xbox Series X two terabyte PlayStation 5 Pro territory now is it really like is this really something someone just will just buy as a no-brainer and then when you think about the specs of it the specs of it is essentially a ps5 series x but really performance wise it's a little bit less but it is more than a series s i mean you got to start weighing that from a price point and obviously i get tariffs are involved all that i just think six hundreds to me seems to be the ceiling for this thing.

58:04Anything more than that, I don't know who this is for because I might as well just go build my own PC at that point, right? I don't know. I'm going to stick with six until I'm proven wrong. Five would be no-brainer. Six, I think, is the ceiling. Lucid Dream writes on the$2 Super Chat and says$500 to$600 based on the digital foundry analysis is what they're guessing right there. I agree, Paris. once you start creeping in why are we not just building pcs why are we not going to nzxt and just buying the pre-built pc and saying here you go son you have a pc now it does everything and more right like we can stay up at the college dorm you'll be set up there your first house will get you a little desk you're set up you'll be fine right and so now now i want to be clear one now i want to be clear i'm a sucker for for new stuff so i'm getting it all anyways so valve just Bundle it all up.

58:58Mike, me and you, we can together, we can just swipe the cards. Give me the frame, the machine, the controller. I'm getting it all day one because I want it. But I just think realistically, cost-wise, if it's going to have any kind of impact, I mean, you go over$600. I just don't know. I just don't know then at that point how many other than the diehard enthusiasts are really going to want to go pick that thing up. Just so we're very clear, we will be buying this day one, Paris. That's right. I will be swiping. the card on this because it's crazy i don't know when it happened but we could probably track back maybe during covid but there was a time where i started to buy everything on steam i started to play everything via steam right that became the main central hub plus discord with everybody gaming via discord using party chats on discord right cross play being so prevalent now it's like I moved my entire life essentially to Steam.

59:55So yeah, the idea of bringing all of that onto the, you know, entertainment center in the living room and having all my games there. Yeah, I think I'm jumping in no matter what here. Yeah, you know, it was funny. I think that was last week. You know, I got someone had hit me to that new Steam grid DB for Xbox. So when you go into the Xbox full screen experience, your Steam games don't necessarily have the right cover art for it. this allows you to go in and fix it. So I was kind of showing that off like, oh, hey, look, I fixed it in there. And then I was looking at comments on social media like, why do you have so many Steam games?

1:00:31And I guess it's not something I consciously even thought about. But to what you're saying, Mike, I realize I just get a lot of games on Steam. You know, I mean, obviously an Xbox game game pass. Of course, I get it. But if I'm just buying a game, I typically just buy it on steam. That just is the default digital store that I go to. And I think a lot of what we're seeing right now with the industry is how consumer friendly and how, how, how, how valve has earned the trust of the consumer that we're the store for you. This is where you get the game. This is where you get the deals. Obviously this is the steam winter sales and all that other stuff that they have.

1:01:12Obviously they'll have, look, I'm pretty sure Half-Life 3 is coming, right? That's another reason that you would want to just stick with Steam. And I think that's what Microsoft and Xbox is. Competing is probably the wrong word because obviously Xbox games are on Steam, but that is their competition as they build out this next Xbox and probably why they're saying, yeah, we're just going to include every digital store because go back to the interview we did a few years back with Phil. He said it himself. You're not getting people off their digital stores. once they've entrenched in a digital store they're going to stay there so you might as well include it in there and let the consumer choose where they want to purchase their games because I'm deep into that I'm so deep on Steam that you could present me with Playstation, Xbox, Steam I'm most likely going right over there that's where everything is now for me I feel that.

1:02:03Paris let's end the show with a couple of fun ones coming out really quick right now we have a cool one here from Nigel Martin who writes in and says Mike and Paris on your channels can you please do a Halo Infinite stream to celebrate the last big update Paris can you believe the last big update oh Paris so I have a conspiracy theory about that and I don't disagree I actually love Halo Infinite multiplayer I think it has come a very long way since it's debut as far as being as far as content goes modes obviously forge everything like that so here's my conspiracy on why they're ending it now. So we know Campaign Evolved is going to be on PlayStation 5 next year, probably the 25th anniversary.

1:02:49You cannot tell me they won't have something multiplayer on PlayStation day one with that. They have to. I can't imagine that they won't. You're not porting over Infinite. You're not porting over the Master Chief Collection. They've already told you Campaign Evolved won't have multiplayer attached to it. I think there's a standalone multiplayer coming. I just do. That's just me. It just would baffle me for them to not have something. You're introducing Master Chiefs to the PlayStation audience and the number one thing that makes Halo Halo is not there. I agree. Look, I love Chief and Cortana as much as the next person and I love those campaigns but the multiplayer is what made Halo.

1:03:37I can't imagine they don't have something I can't wait to see what they do Paris because I totally agree I was blown away I looked at Tim we've talked about it on the podcast you know Halo to me is two things the campaign but it's really heavily to the side of multiplayer there right and so the idea of no multiplayer is baffling to me especially when you think of Halo campaign evolved combat evolved just give me the Halo 1 multiplayer suite in there put it as one big package and let's roll that at least buys you time into the next one but the idea of just giving me 13 campaign missions and calling it good that's not enough that that won't be enough i just i i refuse to believe it until i am proven wrong yeah like my my gut tells me june showcase next year you reveal it and then 25th anniversary all of it comes out What do you think it is?

1:04:35Really quick, because we got to go. But what do you think it is? The multiplayer suite. Is it Halo Master Chief Collection? Is it Infinite? Is it just Halo 1? Because here's the thing. That's on Slip Space, and we're not Slip Space anymore. It's UE5. It's got to be UE5. It has to be. But what is it? I can't imagine them. I'm sure they'll have some classic maps from Halo 1 and all that stuff, but it's again i'm probably way off so people will throw this back in my face a year from now but i just think it's on ue5 it's multiplayer you bring in some some classic maps you have some new ones on there i don't know if they do a battle royale or some something unique to get it to stand out but i can't imagine them not having something on playstation excuse me day one.

1:05:26I just can't imagine it. Pick the seven fan favorite maps from the whole Halo franchise. Put them in on Unreal Engine 5. Just say, hey, here's Halo Online from the chat right there on YouTube. Here's Halo Online. That's just a little sweet we're giving you. Couple of game modes. Hit me with it. Or just do Halo 1. I'm fine with Halo 1 maps. It's Halo 1. Just do Halo 1 multiplayer. Call it good. Then we'll get to the next ones later on. it's exciting Paris I want to be in the room Paris I want to talk all things Halo with you all the time oh my gosh let's say this before I get out of here because this might be my last appearance for the rest of the year but who knows 2026 I've not been to the studio since March of this year I have to change that in 2026 I gotta come see you guys more I have to come up more I gotta do more stuff next year we gotta go catch a basketball game Steph Curry you know it's like near the end of the career we got to get a couple games in you and i as well we'll have some fun all right absolutely let's move into you're wrong before we get out of here kebabs right in kebabs writes in and says missed we news the analog 3d reviews and impressions are out so something to check out right there the headline is that it doesn't render n64 games in 4k it upscales the original 240p graphics to 4k so go check that out that's wild right there i love the n64 for.

1:06:52And then Delta says Valve has partnered with Epic to make easy anti-cheat compatibility since 2021, but it's an opt-in option for developers. Fortnite has this disabled and therefore is not playable on SteamOS as of now, but since it's a PC, you can just install Windows 11 on it alongside SteamOS. So there's some workarounds for your anti-cheat. I'll just say super quick on that. The more widely adopted Steam OS becomes, you're going to start seeing anti-cheat be adopted as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paris, let's get out of here. Of course, this has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcast services around the globe.

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