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34:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back with breaking news. who's Marathon launches March, 2026. I'm pulling directly from the PlayStation blog. We've built Marathon to shine on PlayStation five with the goal of delivering smooth, intense combat. Whether you're playing with your crew for a night full of runs, going it solo or filling into teams of up to three, the PS five's hardware is perfectly suited for us to bring this dark and gritty world to life. And we can't wait for you to get your hands on it. Marathon releases in March, 2026 at the target price of$39.99 with additional regional pricing to be announced today's vid doc shares a new look at marathon's gameplay and immersive sci-fi setting the team also explores updates since alpha like improved visual fidelity proximity chat solo play and new runner new runner shell rook mike what does this do for you do you checked out the marathon gameplay uh beta that they did earlier this year yes we played earlier this year it's been uh quite some time we have not gotten back into the re-alpha, whatever you want to call it.

35:36They re-invited players to check out what they've kind of updated and changed. I was not part of that, so I don't know where it currently is at, but I am caught off guard. I am 100 % caught off guard by this announcement. I did not think that we would end the year with any sort of marathon talk. I thought we would hold marathon for quite some time. 2026 is still lofty to me in my idea of what this game needed to change, and I guess the team at Bungie is ready to rock and roll. I thought this would be late 2026, if not later than that. I'm surprised we're going to see March, but looks like they got what they want out of this.

36:13$40 is matching Ark Raiders. March right around the corner. I don't know, Bless. I'm still a little caught off guard. I got to watch this vid doc to see what I think.

36:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, of course, the video they uploaded is over 20 minutes long, right? But it's breaking down some of the details that because this is breaking, we don't have the time to dive into fully. but I do want to bring in some super chats and have some conversation about it. A headwind writes in and says played the marathon beta and I'm super not confident in release. I had huge issues. If, if that, I don't, I don't think they can fix in this amount of time. Mike, you mentioned our graders. You talk about the$40 matching our graders price. Where do you feel like this game stands post our graders? Do you feel like our graders has changed the landscape in the game of what we expect out of an extraction shooter?

37:01Yeah. let's talk about the positives first, right? Like arc Raiders has definitely made the extraction shooter more mainstream, more popular and more, you know, welcoming to players new to the genre. I think like, unlike escape from Tarkov before when 1.0 and went everywhere, right? It was on PC. It had its own special launcher and not a lot of people were jumping into it. Or if they did, they probably had like a really hard time because it was so intense. I think arc Raiders found this perfect balance of like very fun, still very punishing, but like a really fun balance that was welcoming to new players that got so many on.

37:36And the positive right now is like, our creators is thriving. Our creators is red hot still to this day. And so there's a big interest now in extraction shooters and really just great shooters in general. We're always looking for the next best thing. So the positive for Bungie and Marathon is by March, hopefully the craze is still going on. people still are looking for that next big extraction shooter or big first person shooter hit and they might want to try your game to your point post arc raiders i'm way more likely to check out marathon than i was pre-arc raiders right before i had any interest in checking on an extraction shooter i think you're right like that opened people up to be more willing to try out the style of gameplay correct and we've seen this before right with battle royales and certain battle royales coming on maybe you jumped on early with pub g and some other titles maybe it was Fortnite that became that kind of like hey here is the goal post here of like new people can jump on try your game and really get involved that's what Ark Raiders has been for the extraction shooter genre now we look at Marathon right and it's a mixed bag of emotions for me because I don't think that Bungie hit or that beta did hit I had some positives I had some negatives coming out of it I actually did say that I liked it more than Ark Raiders and there was one other that we were playing Escape from Tarkov?

38:52No no No, it was ExoBorn. ExoBorn. I said that was the one that I liked the most. And then there was a lot of community feedback. They said, no, this isn't the way you got to go back to work. And so they went back to work. And we're talking about a big time team here with Bungie. Big expectations. PlayStation has expectations for this on top of just being Bungie themselves. And I don't know if this has been enough time to rework what I wanted out of this. Right. What are the things? So I got, I guess, two questions, right? Yeah. What are the things that you want out of this as far as reworking?

39:27And then also, what are the things that you think Arc Raiders might have brought to the genre that this game needs to be able to hit in order to actually be accepted? Well, I mean, I think like the easy small thing was proximity chat, right? Which I think that's probably easier to implement than a lot of other core changes. And so I'm sure they've added that. I think we saw with Arc Raiders, just the fun that comes out of having this feature go so far, whether you use it or not. people in Ark Raiders loved that proximity chat and when we played Marathon they didn't have that right and so it was like a huge turn off on top of that that's super easy to implement but I do think it was the kind of moment to moment your missions slash like PVP right Ark Raiders has found this perfect balance of keeping players on this kind of hook of like hey you're going to go out there and you can fight the Ark and you're going to get rewarded for PVE you're going to go out and do missions and you're going to get rewarded by coming back and leveling up your bases, your different upgrade benches, and then you'll get more guns and stuff.

40:25You don't have to take part in the PVP. When you played Marathon, it very much felt like PVP was the way. The missions that they had weren't that engaging or interesting at all. The characters that were giving you the missions definitely weren't. And it felt more like we're dropping in, and it was more Battle Royale-centric of I'm just here to murder everyone. and I think that was another big turnoff was time to kill gunplay none of it felt right where you were just getting run over all the time by better players and sure I can say that as someone who sucks right like that's how it feels but I think when you're trying to get people into the genre there is this give and take of like you have to make it more accessible to players to make them feel good when they're playing and our creators found that with PVE with fighting the arc there was a lot of like hey let's team up let's take down this giant mech this is so cool we're being rewarded we don't have to shoot each other and then on the flip side it also has a great reward and pvp system of if you get after people it feels good to shoot at one another this didn't have that marathon

41:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:didn't have that uh to bring some super chats uh scienced uh og official right sentences have they addressed any of the allegations around plagiarism any further uh there was the person that had their art style plagiarized said that it had been resolved to their satisfaction. That person got paid. That person got paid. You can believe that. Yes. And so that has been resolved. I already read the one from Hedwin. Aaron Lime wrote in with the breaking news, right, that Marathon is dropping in March 40th for 40 bucks. Or sorry, not March 40th. Dropping in March for 40 bucks. No day specified. They're cutting this close to the end of fiscal, LOL.

42:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Think they'll also announce Fair Games is canceled at the end of fiscal too. Get us out of the Jim Ryan mines. I mean, there's a lot there, right? I think the placement is a big conversation of, all right, why are we announcing this now? Why are we saying March without a day in March? I think that is a bit bizarre. I think now we have the hindsight of, oh, shit, Soros got delayed to April 30th. Like, that was a game that had a March date. Is that related to this? I was thinking about that earlier, actually, today, where I'm like, I wonder if that was a GTA thing. Since GTA moved down the year, they're like, hey, we got more space in the spring now to move around in.

42:36I think maybe as we go, we're going to see more of those release dates pop up in the first half of the year because now you have the freedom and now that GTA has moved.

42:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think there's a lot of that going on. Fair games, of course, we'll wait and see. We have no idea what's going on with that game. But Mike, how do you feel about March? I like March. I think March gives some time. Ark Raiders, like I said, is still red hot, but it does give that time to cool down and maybe players want to find something new. I think we're looking at a game like High Guard as well that comes out in January. So give yourself some space away from that. I think March is a nice early year window that maybe people can jump on. It's all fun and games picking out a date. But like it always comes down to is the game good or not?

43:21It doesn't matter what your date is. Yeah. Is the game good? Right. And so March is a long time to wait with anticipation to find out if this is good or not. but at the same time, it gives some time to probably put out betas, retool, retest, and be prepared for that March date. We'll keep a lookout for Marathon. Man, I'm caught off guard. I'm blown away that we're hearing this. Greg Miller said that this game wouldn't even come out, if you remember that. He was firm on this isn't even coming out. I'm surprised we're getting March. I look forward to maybe trying a beta again and seeing what kind of things they've retooled and redone.

43:56I don't know, Les. Do you think they're sending this game out to die? I don't think any. We know this, right? All these developers are really, they love what they do. They're hardworking. Nobody wants this game to die. Of course. Like, of course. They wouldn't do a 20-minute documentary. Exactly. Talk about it. Nobody wants this game to come out and die. That's the reality of life here. But, like, are they sending this out to die where it will come out in March? It'll be a flop. And then all of a sudden we're on to Soros and PlayStation's next beat is, hey look at this awesome first person shooter game that's all about single player and we love it and forget about what we just did right like that's where my mind goes to here it's like get this game out let's forget about it they wanted to do that bless guess what they just wouldn't have never announced this we would have just moved on swept this under the rug and just kept it pushing and never had this game come out and people would have said something about it but then they would have quickly forgot so to have the idea that we are going to get to a release date we are going to put this out like means there is some confidence here oh yeah also smalls hd in chat says lmao bless has had a super negative view on every news story so far so i'm going to take it all back marathon's going to be game of the year now how ridiculous does that sound when i say it out loud guys i don't think that bless has had a negative stuff on that he said casey we'd love to see your game before 2030 he was on for that he loves fallout i'm being realistic guys like we God we live in a reality that has rules we're not going to see that game before 2030 I'm sorry

45:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:story number three our official story number three rumor has it a new alien game is on the way and it's being described as a shadow of the tomb raider with xenomorphs this comes from Vicky Blake at Eurogamer idos montreal is reportedly developing a new game based on the alien franchise according to insider gaming the new game described as shadow of the tomb raider with xenomorphs has been in development since 2020 under a variety of names including marathon and switch developers multiple times it's crazy with enemy with quote enemy ai designed to adapt and react to whatever tactics you use it's thought the gameplay will balance combat with platforming and puzzles with an emphasis on stealth and resource management in a single-player arcade survival horror game the anonymous source also revealed character names and abilities such as a grappling hook and magnetic boots and teased the team, quote, hopes Sigourney Weaver will reprise her fan favorite role as Ripley.

46:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But this is in no way confirmed as of yet. Interestingly, the source also intimated that the budget for the game is around 56 million euros or 56 million pounds, I should say, or 75 million dollars, and is hoping to release, quote, for all major platforms in 2028 which means there's plenty of time for details and mechanics to change between now and then blessing let me do it for you do it let's just share a little share me your thoughts on this are you hype on this shit's gonna suck man no i think i actually i think this is cool i think this is really cool i think this is fucking awesome yeah no like i think you're talking about autos montreal getting back to making something that is a triple a single player action game right like we look back at shadow the tomb raider and mike did you play shadow of the Tomb Raider?

47:05Yes. What was the tone on that? What was the tenor on that? Did people fuck with that as much? Shadow of the Tomb Raider? Yeah. Oh yeah, we liked that. Was that the third one? I believe that was the third one. Okay. Because there was Tomb Raider, there was Rise of the Tomb Raider, and then Shadow was the third one. I think people liked Shadow, not as much as Rise from my remembrance of that. That's how I remember it as well. But like, my impression wasn't that it was like bad or anything like that. No, I think that trilogy was great. And then you follow that up with Guardians of the Galaxy, another game that a lot of people really enjoy.

47:34So, We're talking about a studio that knows what they're doing. We're talking about Eidos Montreal, which is the studio that I love from Deus Ex, Human Revolution, Mankind Divided. I think an alien game makes sense. I think that's really exciting. This game is awesome. Yeah. This sounds dope, right? Like, I am all for this. I think all of us can close our eyes and imagine what that would look like in our minds and see it and be like, man, that sounds so cool. I hope they absolutely deliver on this. Yes. This could be sweet. Yeah. And this is what I want. Because Alien Isolation was another one that people really dug.

48:10Can you believe that was 2014? That was so fucking long ago. So long ago. I feel like aliens, I know we get alien games because there was that one, like, shooter one. We had Fireteam something. Fireteam Elite. Was it Elite? We had that. Dark Descent as well. I believe we had a VR one. Yeah, uh-huh. But, like, we're not getting alien games that make sense for, hey, make something that everybody is going to love and play. Yeah. right this is an ip that i think makes a lot of sense for triple a video games and so a shadow of the tomb raider like alien game hell yeah also bring back an isolation type game i think there's space for that i think people want that i like that the xenomorphs you know they were talking about the ai functioning a little bit differently and like adapting and changing to your play style would be awesome yeah that'd be fucking sick we always talk about the nemesis system nemesis system and i even look back to you play meliger solid 5 like you play that game and depending on your play style that game reacts you might not even notice it right but if you're getting like all these headshots guess what guards will start wearing hats if you keep going out at night the guards will start wearing night vision goggles like i love shit like that so would love that

49:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:from an alien game story number four ubisoft acquires amazon games montreal team marking the return of rainbow six sieges director this is andy robinson at video games chronicle ubisoft is acquiring the team behind an upcoming moba at amazon games montreal it's announced which will see the original creative director of Rainbow Six Siege return to the publisher six years after he left. No terms of the deal have been disclosed, but the move will see Ubisoft obtain the rights for the upcoming MOBA game March of Giants, which began closed alpha testing on PC earlier this year and its entire development team will join the company.

49:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:As part of the agreement, Amazon will provide Ubisoft with marketing support for March of the Giants on Twitch. March of the Giants creative director is Xavier Marquis, who led development on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. The game's production leader, Alexander Parizeau, is another former Ubisoft leader, having served as MD of its Toronto studio. In a statement, CEO Yves Guillemot welcomed Marquise and Parizeau back to the company and said that their return would bring proven expertise in building globally successful competitive and live games to Ubisoft. According to the press release, their team will become part of a future creative house, which are the new divisions Ubisoft is organizing teams within.

50:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote,

50:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:game uh games montreal uh comes weeks after the corporation announced significant cuts to its video game business including ending mmo development notably at the time the corporation named march of the giants is one of its upcoming titles mike a new mobile coming from ubisoft now formerly of amazon yeah this one was a head scratcher when i first read it there bless of like man i didn't know ubisoft had like that after all the turmoil we heard about ubisoft i didn't know they were out here acquiring teams and then i giggled a little bit of like he definitely was like so you thought you'd get away from me yeah welcome back into my arm it's like oh man that's crazy i don't know bless there's so much to talk about with this right you're talking about mobas as well mobas is such a tough genre and game space to jump into right like we've seen a lot of mobas come and go there are giants in the moba field and it is very hard to get a piece of the pie to sit at that table amongst those giants that are those video games, right?

52:00But that's not to say people want new MOBAs, people want new experiences, and there are opportunities there to jump in with something fresh, something new, to grab a hold of a small piece of the audience and bring them over to your game and find success, right? Like, there are games that do that. Pokemon Unite has done that. Of course, Heroes of the Storm from Blizzard did that. It's like, there are opportunities there. When I look at March of the Giants, I don't know, I haven't played that game. I don't know if that's the mix there, but like, we'll see. Ubisoft has an opportunity if that's what they really want to get after now.

52:33I'm fascinated to see if this game ever even comes out. Because my read on this is that we're acquiring them for the expertise and the names because we're talking about people who launched Rainbow Six Siege. And when you're Ubisoft right now and you're looking back at your successes of the last decade, one of the biggest ones was Rainbow Six Siege. and so I wonder if this is a thing of hey we want to continue having a presence in competitive gaming and we want to continue to grow that aspect of Ubisoft because that's something that we believe we can make a lot of money in and that's something that we know is part of what is important to us already right Rainbow Six Siege is still an important thing to us let's bring back some of those people to see if we can expand that and have expertise around that because right now of course who knows what Ubisoft is working on but right now it feels like they're spinning the wheels yeah you know i feel like they need fresh ideas well yeah i mean we'll see you're also getting the ip here so you're getting the game right yeah of course getting the talent is great and all but like they're clearly making this game they want to make this game or we just is this a talent grab or is that really what we're thinking here i mean i think this game dies in six months it's like well i got the talented team here so they're just going to make something different and we'll figure it out and we'll redo this process four years from now i think so like i I don't think it's a thing where Ubisoft's like, oh, fuck the game, right?

53:49I think they're going to try and make this game work. I think they're going to – this is a team that probably really wants to make March of the Giants happen. And Ubisoft is like, hey, we'll get you through that. But along with that, we want to be able to have your expertise on the team. And then whatever we're doing after March of Giants is going to be something that is maybe Tom Clancy related, right? Like maybe we'll relate one of our IPs to this and make this a Ubisoft thing. Maybe we'll bring back X Defiant. That was a good game, though. That was an okay game. It was okay. It was okay to good.

54:17I give it a basic good lower cap. Lower cap? I'll take lower case. I'll take lower case good. I like Dex Defiant. Yeah, this one I don't know. This MOBA on my read, it's got some interesting tower defense meets RTS features on it. Yeah, I'll have to give it a try. I do love a good MOBA. I'm always looking for another MOBA to try. And so we'll see. It's just there's a very tough market in the MOBA space. You either play Dota or you play League of Legends. I'll be honest, but maybe I got to look up a game. What time is it? Barry, if you can look up gameplay of March of Giants. Because you're seeing gameplay right now.

54:51I have it right here.

54:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, yeah. Because this is what I'll say. Here's the deal. You putting out a new MOBA in 2025 or 6 or whatever? That's tough. That's hard. People, people, I don't know if people play MOBAs for like super gritty. Like, you know, action. I think we kind of like a colorful, cute world. yeah no I'm looking at this gameplay right now it's got some interesting stuff though like to speak on the positive side like I said there's an interesting tower defense mechanism in this the player is calling in the units which is interesting the little small units so it's like almost Age of Empires esque which is interesting I've never seen that then all of a sudden you'll see him start to call forth like pieces like I said with tower defense I don't know blessed i think it's tough in the mobile market because everybody knows what it is but then you try to you try to iterate on it add new things and make it exciting and different but at the same time people just want it to be the bare bones basic structure of the game i don't know how far this will go yeah and i don't want to do the thing because i i've seen people do this with high guard right where like people are counting out high guard before they even have a chance to even see like check it out right like let a beta happen at least before we start to fucking call this thing a failure like give them a chance i'm trying to be i'm trying to keep my my mind of like i'm positive with most all the projects you show me yeah i will try them and then i'll be the judge of that exactly and that's my thing is like i'm gonna be i'm not gonna say a high guard defender necessarily but i'm not counting it out until i get to experience that game because i do think there's something there and i'll i'll say the same thing about this where i shouldn't count it out until, you know, it's had a chance.

56:38We should give it a chance. But what is a raid? What is a raid? What is a first-person shooter raid? It's us working together with friends, communicating. We have big objectives that we're doing that require kind of like asymmetric back and forth, right? Hey, I'll jump on the thing while you shoot the thing that gets revealed by the thing. A beautiful blend of combat and puzzles. Yeah, it's like split fiction. Split fiction is one long raid. i don't know mike i'm excited a raid shooter pvp raid shooter have you noticed that high guard is just another way to say overwatch think about it high over guard watch did they put the name in did they go to chat gpt and went we're making a hero shooter name it for us instead of it's in a fantasy setting and it spat out high guard because what are we doing damn bless that's crazy

57:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you say that that's fucking nuts story number five arc raiders shares new tease for upcoming event cold snap and it looks deadly this is from vicky blake at ign arc raiders has a cold snap on the way and it's set to arrive on december 16th as already confirmed by developer embark studios the cold snap december update adds a new map condition called snowfall a new event called flickering flames new quests and a new raider deck arc raiders equivalent of a battle pass what does the snowball map condition mean exactly we're not sure but embark shared an image showing what appears to be a dead raider in the snow suggesting the frigid weather could be more deadly than merely inconvenient as one fan quipped in response quote i can't wait to have all my stolen from people camping in basements on extraction points covered in snow end quote cold snap is the latest update listed as part of arc raiders 2025 content roadmap and embark is yet to outline what's coming in 2026.

58:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Mike, this is at you? Snow? Yes, of course. I love when they add snow to all maps. I'm looking at you, Spider-Man, when you had snow in New York was epic. I love that. GTA 5 online, they add snow in December. Shout out to that. Big shout out to Embark Studios, who continues to deliver with this video game. All their games they have seemed to give a lot of love and content to. Of course, I talked about it, right? You've got to capture of this audience that you have. You got to keep them on it. And they've done that, right? New maps. Now with a new big update, adding snow onto all this, new ways to play.

59:03It's going to be very exciting stuff. IGN does have a big write-up of like what this is. Oh, yeah. There's more details you want to go with IGN. So like Arc Raiders cold snap gameplay changes from Embark Studios. Environmental hazard. Cold. Harsh weather introduces new risks for Raiders who remain outdoors too long. Players must watch out for frostbite, a creeping condition that slowly drains their health bar. Shelter mechanics. To prevent frostbite, raiders will need to adapt to their tactics as the cold gradually seeps into their bones. Raiders must rethink their loadouts, ensuring they can heal themselves or their teammates and plan their extractions with care, finding shelter if needed.

59:41Visual overhaul. Frost buildup. Frozen lakes. Snow. Accumulation. You got it. Accumulation? Thank you, bro. Thank you. Accumulation and more across damn battlegrounds, buried city, spaceport, and blue gate maps. So it's like all the exciting stuff that you want. Yeah. Like you can see that. I'm sure we're going to be camping in buildings, waiting for you and your team to come in there and murder you. Right. But like, it is really cool of like, there's a huge player base for this. People are excited about this game. The more you add, the better keep them on it. And the more changes, especially just like small things like changing the map up a little bit with cool snowy conditions goes a long way oh yeah well mike that sounds like a big update for fans of arc raiders but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go blessing i take you to our last news story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items

1:00:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you need to know about story number six is we news starting from vgc katamari creator keita Takahashi has returned to Japan due to disappointing sales of his most recent original game, Tuati, and suggested that his future as a game designer is unclear. That one very much saddens me. That one, I read that last night. That's depressing. I'm about to go buy your video game, sir, because that one, that's a statement I don't like seeing. Here's what I'll say, right? Y 'all should check out Tuati. You should check out Tuati. Is it the game of the year? No. But I think it's really neat for what it is, and it has a really cool message, and it's a very heartwarming video game.

1:01:15it charmed the hell out of me i played quite a bit of it really really enjoyed it that's what

1:01:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i'll say i'm sorry to hear that takahashi that sucks divinity original sin 2 definitive edition is now available on xbox series ps5 and switch 2 with a free update path now that's how you do it that's how you do it you make a big splash you get everybody talking about your game and then you follow it up with that yep go play the original stop excuse me stalker 2 heart of chernobyl free story content update launches december 16th and then finally the chinese room launched a winter update for Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2, bringing custom difficulty options, Iron Vamp mode, holiday cosmetics, and more.

1:01:52And I'll add one more off the top of the dome, because I read this and I forgot to include it in here. Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 is dropping early tomorrow. Oh! That's an exciting one. Oh! They dropping the whole season or just we going week to week? Week to week. That's what Amazon does, Mike. We're going to eat week to week. And that's it for Wii News. I spoil you with making you wait for the entire season of My Hero so you can binge it. I would die if I had to watch My Hero week to week. I'd blow up. I'm watching Pluribus week to week. It's the best experience of all time. I fucking love this shit, man.

1:02:26TV's so bad.

1:02:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, man. Apple TV be cooking sometimes, dude. Pluribus. Great show. Let's hop into Super Chats, where you write in. We talk about what you write in with. Like Jacob, who says, I predict FOTOR and Intergalactic will be out 2029. Okay. Okay. okay i'm gonna say you're wrong in both accounts i think intergalactic comes before then okay oh before 2029 yeah i think intergalactic by 2028 okay and then yeah for full tour i say by 20 or after 2030 okay um stanis thrack says bless check out a girl a girl walks home alone at night iranian vampire western shot in black and white mike check out total recall for more stone now i I did watch Total Recall with Nick before.

1:03:14Didn't know that was Sharon Stone. Now I know. Because I watched her in Casino. She was great. Ginger. Ginger. Ginger. That was her name. She had a fantastic story. I thought you were saying she was. I'll tell you what. De Niro and Ginger, they were going back and forth on the Casino floor. And De Niro just wanted her to have a better life. And she didn't want it. She had someone that she cared for. She had to go back to. maybe there's a lot of drugs and alcohol you know it's tough she didn't want to be with

1:03:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:De Niro didn't want to be with him Street Shadow writes in and says on Marathon I highly suggest watching the vid doc solos a scav focused runner prox decaying bodies versus only backpacks more maps lots of lots added from April to October what I saw today looks different from October too sweet hell yeah let's see here let's see here somebody says there's a leaked Avengers trailer JBC says that. Avengers. Avengers. The movie. I assume so. Tim will be on that. I mean, I don't think we're going to watch the leaked one. I want the official stuff. Tim wants that good good. I want that good. I want that high quality.

1:04:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Teddy Canaris says, Birthday tax turned 29 today, which feels wild. Love you guys. Thanks for all you do, KF. Happy birthday, Teddy. Happy birthday, Teddy. I hope you're doing well. Dominic says, Why are people excited for FOTOR? Remember Star Wars Eclipse from the creators of Detroit Become Human? when was the last time we heard anything about the kOTOR remake stop getting excited for cgi stop being excited for cgi announced five plus years too early i mean i think to that the excitement comes from the people that are working on it right star wars eclipse the trailer looked cool but i think a lot of people were maybe a little bit off put by the quantic dream aspect of it kOTOR remake was like all right cool but then we we got reports about it and like how that wasn't working out.

1:05:05I think the fact that you have a game, a Star Wars game, a follow-up to Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, and it's being worked on by Casey Hudson, alone is very exciting. Why can't I be excited about that? Yeah, why wouldn't you be excited about that if you're a fan of all those things? It was a cool announcement. You can be excited by an idea. Whether that

1:05:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:idea pans out remains to be seen for all of these things. I don't think any of us are sitting here like, yeah, I can't wait to play this game in three years, except for Casey Hudson. Casey, that's insane. But all of us are like, oh, yeah, that's a fucking awesome idea. Can't wait to see this whenever it pans out. Casey might prove the world wrong. He might prove the doubters wrong. Maybe I am being negative. Because, yeah, I'm over here like, Casey, you're wrong. What if he proves all the doubters wrong? I hope, you know what, Casey, I hope you do. I hope you prove all of us wrong. What if he's got something different in the bag?

1:05:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Maybe he could. Let's see here. Let's see here. Going back even further. Ignacio Rojas says, Mike, you still have to finish Digimon Time Stranger. Yeah, it was unfortunate that Digimon and Pokemon, my two mons this year, had to go to the side. I was so focused on some other things. Will I go back to it? No. On my mind right now, bless this so you know. Looking at it, Control, Fire Emblem 3, Houses, Red Dead Redemption 2. Ooh, Red Dead 2. Those are some big three. You played Red Dead 2? Yeah, a good portion of it, but not all of it. So like, you know, those are my big three right now. There's some more in there that I'll have to figure out.

1:06:36But like, what does Snowbike Mike play over the holiday break? Who knows? I don't know. Maybe we'll become tactical poppies. Dude, I'm down. Listen, we can play Fire Emblem Three Houses at the same time. Come back with a review. First week in January.

1:06:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Fogwalker says GTA 6, 2026. The Elder Scrolls 6, 2027. Witcher 4, 2028. FOTOR, 2029. I don't know about the Elder Scrolls, but I wish that was the lineup. That would be epic. I mean, that'd be super cool. Mukda says, let me get Fultor before the arthritis sets in. Resolute says, Flair, HBK, Engel, Goldberg, Danielson, Batista, and Austin all lost their final match. You put someone over on your way out to give back to the business. Give me seven years of Gunther not losing. He was already over. We already had him as the bad guy. I don't need more Gunther in my life He was already champion John Cena The way he went out And how 20 ,000 people in that arena Were dead silent and upset about it Shows you that it wasn't the right move We could have done it better You want shock though That's fucking Star Wars episode 5 You want it to end And people would be like It's infinity war Now Gunther has to be Thanos Gunther has to fucking dominate for the next three years They choked that man out.

1:07:58The man who's never given up gave up in front of millions. He hasn't tapped out in 20 years. Get this. He has to sit there in the ring for three and a half minutes as we slowly bring everybody and their mother out. Then we play a three and a half minute video to try to win back the fans on our emotion and nostalgia. Then the old man, John Cena, I love you, but I apologize. Takes off his armbands, puts down a pair of Skechers and walks off the fucking ring. What's wrong with Skechers? who the fuck wants to see you leave behind an old ass pair of sketchers big dog like that didn't look good just so you know like that wasn't like oh shit that's memorabilia that's a big moment there's a pair of fucking sketchers he's left in there i saw somebody tweet out a photo yesterday of themselves like they're hospitalized and they were like they post themselves around the tv and said thank you john cena for teaching me to give up i can give up yeah it's like damn what are we

1:08:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:doing dang that's tough um let's see here hard to find i reading this shit about quentin tarantino all right let's see techie haas says paying my birthday tax love you all happy birthday techie haas

1:09:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:a lot of people talking about this leech's doomsday trailer goddamn oh shit is popping off yeah on god uh sharma uh says the doomsday trailer leech god god but like i think that's their name it's spelled with an a-n-g-a-d um riley 21 says uh so question that came up over the weekend why isn't there an individual sports and racing category for tgas is that is is it that there wasn't enough games to fill them out am i wrong or on the right track what do you mean why isn't there an individual sports or racing like why do they like why yeah why do they put them together they always do that yeah they smash them together yeah they've always done that not enough racing games one year plenty of sports games every year but like i think they just plenty of fighting games too yeah they just smash them yeah um and then we have a couple more that came in i'm trying to see what's up brejeloo says those same silent fans are silent for stuff um i'm sorry the same silent fans are silent for the saudi vince hogan and brock stuff i don't know what that means i think you're taught those are two different fans yeah those are these are people who are We were silent because we were like, what the fuck did we just watch?

1:10:19John Cena got choked out in the middle of the ring with a smirk on his face. Those people are people that just saw their hero die. You know? They just saw Superman die. That's why they're silent and shocked. It's not, I don't think they're the same people. He's a once in a generation talent. We could have done something a little bit better. That's all I'm saying. You wanted him to win? I mean, I'm not opposed to breaking it. You know what I mean? Break traditions. John Cena's only coming in your life once. I mean, you're right. there is only one john cena i got emotional the other day thinking about john cena that's how much i love john cena i'm not mad at it let's get into you're wrong rewrite and let us know what we

1:10:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.: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 jeppo 1457 says blessing you clearly said a while ago that 2026 would be the year of yakuza and i have proof of it tweet me the proof all right clip it oh you're getting that's yakuza i mean i don't remember saying it do you want to do you me and you definitely fucking said hang time marathon where we play every yakuza in a row you know how long that marathon would be they did it a whole month took one month you want you want us to do a month-long yakuza playthrough sure i'll do it i would love that let's fucking go although i've been seeing i've been like seeing the streets talk about yakuza zero lately and like apparently that's a really good game kind of they've been saying that was i've played so much yakuza bro i've tried so much yakuza that shit just has not stuck but i respect it though um let's see let's see oh marty says bless said earlier in the show alien isolation 2 would be cool the game is actually in development at creative assembly right now not many other details except for the fact that it's happening i forgot that that's a good you're wrong thank you for saying that i like that that's really awesome um kebabs that's not even a video game news dude or like slop so kebabs right says slops the word of the year slops the word of the year what does that do with video isn't that interesting so what other people just yelling slop at some other things yeah ai slop ai friend slop okay but i don't think that's i don't think they're thinking about friend slop i think they're just thinking about ai slop you think that's what caught it into the mainstream oh a slop yes a thousand percent because now we're just calling anything that's like content slop what was last year's last year's were the year um oh type shit no i think it was fucking not communism not it was like a political or it was brain rot oh was it brain rot it was brain rot oh okay fuck i thought it was like authoritarian like brain rot and then slop back to back showing you where we're going chat we're cooked this is slop slop if you're thinking about it like we say slop too much this is all slop slop like let's let's calm down on the slop and that's it for we news yes that is it for we news Mike thanks so much for joining me on this episode good Monday a lot of fun news a lot of interesting stuff to talk about and looking forward to the rest of the week with you our final week on content before the holiday break and guess what we're even giving you an extra day of content because Mike and Barrett are live streaming our whole marathon stream of My Hero Academia final season so like you get an extra day out of us there you go of course that was my holiday gift for mike an extra day at work maybe i'll work one more day and i'll hell yeah this has been kind of funny games daily each and every day we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube uh or spotify or apple podcast get all of our shows ad free watch the court them live and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next and the stream after.

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