Nintendo Direct Announced For Tomorrow! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.18.25

15:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Where there's something in the PlayStation like Duffy of IPs that they own that is I imagine maybe a deeper cut that Sony Santa Monica slash Corey saw and they were like we're going to turn this to a diamond. We're taking this coal and we're gonna like we're going to pressure this into a diamond kind of thing and recontextualize into something that feels new that feels fresh that feels something that's worthwhile to the

15:37Nick Scarpino:audience yeah uh i i think i missed the conversations that you guys have had about that what what's the kind of tenor of what ips that might be i don't know i wasn't on that kfgd i just remember putting it together but i can find the jason schreier article the chat saying twisted metal i think they're just no saying that absolutely i mean i wouldn't think i mean metal well okay there is lineage there though sony santa monica sure and i mean cory did this to david jaffe last time yeah sure yeah i love the idea of cory just going after jaymond jaffe

16:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:ips and being like we're just taking this i can do this i can do this i can do this just like i i love that um so i'm still i'm still looking for it my thing is i don't have a good idea of like what that what that could be because like if i'm thinking of dead sony ips that would be incredibly exciting to bring back sly cooper comes to mind i don't think that's them shadow colossus comes to mind i don't think that's them no jack and dexter that's not them like what would

16:41Nick Scarpino:they actually do i mean twisted metal is not out of the realm of possibility i don't think it's going to be that i also don't believe this necessarily like i i i still think it's gonna be a new ip okay even if there's evidence against it but i fuck with it do you think it's sci-fi

16:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:because that was the other thing that jason said is that it's not sci-fi everybody was

16:59Nick Scarpino:speculating sci-fi yeah they're speculating sci-fi but intergalactic being sci-fi makes me think probably not but i mean playstation also put out like 10 dad games so i don't think that they're really that concerned about putting out more of one thing you know yeah two zombies uh zombie games near each other exactly yeah so i mean hopefully they've learned from that but yeah

17:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:somebody says bloodborne somebody says it doesn't have to be a video game ip i gotta find sorry i'm having a tough time because everybody's reporting on this cory barlog news that we now think is maybe probably false most likely and so now the jason schreier thing is being buried under that i need to find a good i'm gonna type in jason schreier sony santa monica new ip that's

17:37Nick Scarpino:what i'll type uh we got do you have anything else here before we move on to story number two

17:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:well i found a euro game article uh this is from ed nightingale this is july 15th 2025 five sony santa monica the studio behind god of war series is working on a new game but reportedly it won't be a new ip though uh ip though it might feel like one uh now bloomberg journalist jason schreier has addressed speculation uh calling barlog's game barlog barlog barlog's game uh sony santa monica's next big thing and that it was going well at least a couple months ago in a later response schreier added it won't be a new ip and it certainly won't be a sci-fi game quote i'll put it this way it's not a new ip but might feel like one maybe that's why people are confused please don't ask me more questions about this if i wind up reporting more information at any point in the future it'll be an article not on a forum so i guess yeah he doesn't say sony owned yeah but do you think sony santa monica would do a adaptation or something well the chat's

18:37Nick Scarpino:bringing up that it doesn't necessarily even need to be a video game ip yeah that's what i'm saying yeah oh yeah so yeah because obviously we jump to a playstation video game ip and then you jump to just other video game ips but then yeah it could be so many different things like i've been saying for years god or uh sony santa monica avatar earthbending game god think about it

18:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah but you know nickelodeon they don't know how to license out their ip to video games

19:02Nick Scarpino:they just fucking pick anybody and they're like you make one you do it um i mean this is a bigger

19:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:conversation and like maybe a gamescast or something but marvel obviously has a relationship with playstation specifically insomniac do you think there's a conversation with sony to be like yo spider-man's raking in the cash we can give you more marvel ip to work with i don't no no

19:24Nick Scarpino:something i i don't think they would want to do that like i feel like what especially with what we've seen from all the licensing fees of all of that and just like with where the big tentpole sony titles are where playstation studios as a whole is with the failures of all these live service things i don't see them wanting to take on more of that if they can avoid it and i think my thing

19:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:is i just don't think that's something that sony santa monica needs you know what i mean like i feel like with god of war they've established them i mean they're another another naughty log where they've established themselves as a studio worth looking for their looking forward to their next thing regardless of ip or whatever it is and so i think whenever they appear at a playstation showcase they're going to take the world by storm like sure can you get an extra few eyes on it if it was a Iron Man game or something, even though Iron Man's already being worked on by EA. I'm sure we'll see that.

20:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like, sure, maybe, but I don't think, as Sony Santa Monica, I find it really tough for Corey Barlog to be like, I just made a magnum opus with God of War. Now I'm going to make a major Marvel thing. It's like, no, you make major things. You know, like you turn things into major things.

20:26Nick Scarpino:Yeah, yep, I agree.

20:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:So if it's an adaptation, I would think maybe he's taking something small that's relatively, not relatively on like that big, big, pedestal and maybe try to take something and put it on there. That's my prediction.

20:39Nick Scarpino:Story number two, a Nintendo Direct has been announced tomorrow focused on Kirby Air Riders. This comes from Tom Phillips at IGN. Surprise! A brand new Nintendo Direct focused on Kirby Air Riders will land tomorrow, Tuesday, August 19th at 6 a.m. Pacific. Once again, Nintendo revealed the show first via its Nintendo Today smartphone app and promised the broadcast would feature 45 minutes of information about the upcoming Switch 2 game. Kirby Air Riders is notable for being the first new project in years from Masahiro Sakurai, the famed director of Nintendo's smash hit Super Smash Brothers series.

21:11Nick Scarpino:Tomorrow's deep dive look at the game is also intriguingly timed, suggesting it may finally be playable at this week's Gamescom event in Cologne. And then NateTheHate tweets out, beyond the direct, Kirby Air Riders will be playable to media at Gamescom. So that's not confirmed, but very likely. It feels all but assured. we'll get the release date um tomorrow for this game which is kind of incredible getting the kirby

21:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:air riders release date before metroid prime 4 is wild yeah and it'll be because they said it was

21:42Nick Scarpino:2025 right at that april event so um i imagine we'll get that date tomorrow um is this coming out before metroid prime 4 do you think yeah i'd imagine so i i feel like this is probably a

21:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:september game that's nuts maybe october and not nuts in the sense of like i don't believe it or anything i guess with how they've not talked about it up until now right like we got that initial reveal during the switch to reveal direct and then they've kept quiet about it since and we didn't even see we didn't see gameplay in this trailer either no so they had to come back around and be like oh we're doing a direct tomorrow it's gonna be over 40 minutes long and i mean it's not

22:20Nick Scarpino:just a direct this is a mr sakurai presents this is going to be him getting into the most nitty gritty of details that you could possibly imagine about this pink little puff ball yeah you know like when you watch his breakdowns about the smash brothers characters it's a history lesson more than it's anything yeah i fucking am obsessed with it do we need that though for kirby air riders yes okay i think we do fair enough you know fair enough you need to just like there's again we're talking do we need it for kirby areas no do we need it for anything do we need to enjoy life no we just don't for smash yes we did for smash we needed them things oh yeah 45 minute breakdowns of him just like playing by himself with multiple controllers in his hands to yes i mean that's the

23:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:one game i'll stand by yes yes yes because they were fun it was sack it was us hanging out with sakurai that's what this is gonna be why are you hating the nature of smash is that it was always a brand new character from like a different ip and so like it's a history lesson it's them showing how they adapted each of the character skills and all this shit. You're not gonna...

23:20Nick Scarpino:You don't know shit about Kirby Airwriters. You don't know shit about City Trial. You weren't raised in those streets.

23:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You have 45 minutes of shit to tell me about Kirby Airwriters? Tim, tell me one thing about Kirby Airwriters. City Trial.

23:32Nick Scarpino:It was fun. Multiplayer experience. GameCube. Single button. Only the A. Single button. Single button game. Analog and single button. They want it to be easy. Didn't know that. The menu of the game looks just like the menu of every Sakurai game. prove me wrong you look at brawl and you're like oh it looks like this this is exciting because it's the first new game that's not smashed from zackari in a very long time since uh kid icarus uprising uh and then obviously uh kirby air riders from the gamecube very very like what was it 20 2002 i want to say not the biggest hit and i'm real not even the best game far from it fun game but like i really am interested in what this project's going to be jokes aside i do think it's gonna be a smaller title like i can't with how quickly this game is being uh from announcement to potential release date and just it existing at all knowing that he's been gone like took a break from smash brothers did the youtube channel like this game's been in development for a while but i just can't fathom it being like a i mean i don't even want to say donkey kong bonanza level game but like even anything close to that like i like you don't think it's gonna come out and be 80 dollars I don't I really don't yeah do you think this even comes out and be in a$70 like see that's the thing is like it's 60 I don't think so do we think it's 60 here's the thing I

24:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:think it's 70 just because it's Nintendo and they always they treat their things with a premium

25:00Nick Scarpino:right they treat their games with a premium yeah but I could see it coming out and it feeling like

25:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:a$40 game yeah for the way that you're talking about it I think you're right I think that's what

25:08Nick Scarpino:it's going to be i think it's going to be 70 but people are going to be upset about that um but i do think that it's going to be fun and i think that the quality of the game is going to be there and yeah we'll see tomorrow with the 45 minutes of like how hard they can actually sell this and make this relevant to people because it's not a kart racer like it's not going to be comparable to mario kart like it's its own unique arcade style experience is i don't know shit about

25:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:kirby air ride now i think about it what is is it i mean it's a racing game though right yes but in the same way that you're racing on the stars, Kirby superstars.

25:38Nick Scarpino:No, on the super Nintendo, one of the more popular Kirby games. It's a collection of a bunch of different, not mini games, but like just different modes that all have a similar play style. But it's like, you're just kind of racing around the world, collecting things, but it's not really like a race, you know, I see one in two, two laps, you know, there's other races.

26:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Is the goal not to get to the finish line?

26:05Nick Scarpino:There's some modes that are more race-based, but otherwise, it's like, it's a race. You're racing against the time. You're collecting all the collectibles. You're collecting a bunch of things. You're collecting power-ups as you go.

26:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're describing a kart racer, just so you know. Yeah.

26:16Nick Scarpino:Yeah. Yeah. But it's not really a race. But it's like, it's a kart racer. God. Yeah. Everything I'm about to say, it sounds very... I was about to say, it's more like the battle mode of Mario Kart, where you're like shooting at each other as you race. but look up city trial like that's that's what the core of this game actually is which like you're in this like not open world but like for the time open zone area like this a big ass space that i i'd say there's like as many similarities to a 3d platformer as there are to a kart racer if that makes sense it doesn't okay well that's why it's gonna take 45 minutes for him to explain okay you've convinced me yes yeah i'm excited for this he's gonna convince us

26:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:like i oh is this still career right is this the city trial thing you're talking about and this is like the main mode you're saying see now i'm even more confused the thing that we're looking at before that looked like straight up just a regular racing game yeah look like mario kart meets f-zero

27:13Nick Scarpino:but that's again that's like not the main mode of the game that's just the thing you can do

27:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:so here if i'm describing it you're in an open zone you're driving around at a high speed you're collecting you're picking up collectibles and you're racing a clock so it's like tony hawk

27:31Nick Scarpino:kind of you know what honestly yeah that's a way better thing to say than anything i've said today all right fair enough let's take that um and also let's move on to a super chat from alex g3b who says kirby airwriters is like the bonus mode from smash 3ds remember smash run smash run yeah yeah

27:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's kind of that but in 3d fair i need to bring up smash run because i never played smash run because I didn't have a 3DS, but I heard about it. So you're just running around picking up things. Okay. I can fuck with that.

28:00Nick Scarpino:Yeah. Pretty dude says, Riders having a longer direct than Mario Kart World is crazy. Imagine it has more content than Worlds. I don't think that it will. I do think it'll have more game modes. And again, it's not like it's going to be 45 minutes of like all the, it's Sakurai, like wax and poetic. We're about to learn a lot about the history of Kirby and Arrow Riders specifically.

28:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You've excited me about this now.

28:21Nick Scarpino:Good. Good. kebab says what if they reveal it to be smash ultimate racing nah dude i wish no but i wish smash ultimate racing remember smash run god i played this for so long and i never enjoyed it oh they had the kremlins oh yeah remember subspace emissary that was all the time let's cut to some ads everybody we'll be right back between busy schedules and summer plans sometimes all you got is a couple of minutes. Factor helps so many of us here at Kind of Funny eat smarter with tasty chef-prepped meals that are dietician approved and delivered right to my door. And now, with more than 65 weekly meals made for how we live and what I like to eat, we've got even more ways to fit in a real meal wherever the day takes us.

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33:49Nick Scarpino:With story number three Everything announced during the Pokemon World Championships Closing ceremony And there was a lot This comes from Kenneth Shepard at Kotaku. This weekend, the 2025 Pokemon World Championships were held in Anaheim. Most of the event was dedicated to the franchise's multiple competitive scenes across video games, the card game, and fans fighting scalpers for exclusive merchandise. But the tournament's closing ceremony also included some new announcements that you might have missed if you didn't stay up late to catch the live stream. If you missed the mini Pokemon Present Showcase, here's everything the Pokemon Company announced.

34:21Nick Scarpino:Kicking things off was a quick trailer for Pokemon Go Eternatus, uh one of the biggest legendary pokemon ever from the galore region centerpiece of pokemon go fest 2025 max finale that's happening this august 23rd and 24th um this is why god i hate greg so much

34:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah greg and ben jen were there yeah i dude i saw so many instagram stories uh of greg at this pokemon thing right and like it's cool to see kind of funny get a pokemon fan it is you know

34:49Nick Scarpino:we've been lacking on what it's like that in that entirely it's pokemon and xenoblade chronicles

34:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:have been like the two franchises that we've really needed people to step up and represent. And shout out to Greg for representing. I hate him so much. I hate him too. I hate him too.

35:03Nick Scarpino:The cool thing about this Eternatus situation is this weekend they're doing another GoFest and then on Saturday and Sunday you can get Eternatus for the first time and they're upping the raids to up to 100 people together can be there. So I will be at Pier 39. I will be raiding with 100 people. Look at you following Greg's footsteps. And I will catch this motherfucker. I hate you so goddamn much. Next up is Pokemon trading card game Pocket, which is getting new Mega Evolution cards later this year. Mega versions of Altaria, Gyarados, and Blaziken will all be featured in the set coming to the mobile app's new season.

35:34Nick Scarpino:Barry, you still playing? Oh, dude, it's bad. You really are? Oh, yeah, every day. No, I thought you were wooing Mega Evolutions, which they're worth wooing. Yeah, I was wooing, but I'm just saying it's like I'm playing this every day, and I need to stop, but I can't. Wow. I'm at Ultra Ball rank 4 in the season right now. Wow. I'm so close to getting to Master Ball. I'm so impressed with you. That's awesome.

35:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Barrett, you would love Magic the Gathering. No, see, this is the thing that's holding me off for Magic, you know? When those avatar cards come out. Because I don't spend any money in this game. It's just, you know, I do my two packs, like a third pack every, you know, three or four days, right? Barrett. And then I battle, and I don't spend real money, and I don't have to spend real money. I will buy you an avatar. hard deck no i don't need say the word i will buy it i do need mega evolutions though i love the

36:26Nick Scarpino:mega evolutions are having their their comeback moment right now because it's all and like you know in typical pokemon fashion it's like the media blitz when they're like focusing on a gimmick or something it's like set across all the different games and spinoffs so yeah seeing the mega evolutions come back is exciting uh and then speaking on pokemon unite the moba uh the Sinnoh water starter and pull implode God and blow on the fucking penguin. I don't know how to say it's low.

36:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We on. Is that one of them? It's the penguin.

36:52Nick Scarpino:Oh, okay. It's the Sinnoh starter. It turns into a big penguin.

36:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got real scared that I missed one. A new evolution.

36:58Nick Scarpino:We'll join the roster on September 19th. That's Kevin's mom's birthday. Followed by Delmise, who has a grappler kit that lets it latch onto enemies and getting close. And then Vaporeon. That's an EV evolution. Yep. We'll come sometime after bringing your night's evolution count to six. so all that's left are Jolteon and Flareon that's interesting that all the rest of them are there except for the original three but I guess they're just working backwards outside of the mobile app the regular Pokemon trading card games also featuring Mega Evolutions pretty heavily this year or next year Pokemon Company showed off new EX cards for Mega Charizard X, Gardevoir and Mega Lucario, Mega Dragonite is also getting its first card though the one shown wasn't a full art one like the others

37:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:going back to Pokemon Unite did you ever try that? no would you ever want to i'm not against it because i've always wanted to try fun with it yeah i feel there's like a stream there of mike like taking us through pokemon unite teaching us how to play a moba yeah because i feel like if there's any moba that me and you would get into it's pokemon

37:57Nick Scarpino:unite yeah yeah i i was watching some highlights of the world championships last night and like unite was pretty high oh yeah watching it's like oh this is entertaining could you tell what was happening yeah oh yeah okay it's very i mean it's mobas are fairly simple well like when you understand what's happening and there's a commentator telling you everything that's going on you're like oh i see what they're doing here and it's pokemon so we know the characters okay saying the names of my all right i know i can follow along what i can't follow along with no matter how much i've played yeah is the actual pokemon game world championships oh really you get to like towards the end and i'm like okay i can i'm i'm with this the amount of just abilities with the the two fighters on each side and how it all it's like they are so smart interesting i'm a

38:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:stupid stupid simple okay see now you you convinced me to check out both those things because i would have assumed that pokemon unite for me i'm just seeing characters run across the screen and i'm like i don't know man they're jungling i guess but for regular like pokemon battles i i how i'm actually no i'm not gonna say that i was gonna say how complex can it be i know it can be it's It's insane. It's very complex. It's so crazy. But at the end of the day, it's Pokemon battling.

39:05Nick Scarpino:You know what I mean? Check it out. Check it out. It's use growl. But they're actually using it. You know what I mean? Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Fans are expecting a multiplayer mode in Pokemon Legends Zah after Nintendo let it slip that the RPG would have some sort of link play. But the mode Game Freak announced at Worlds is a bit different than what people have been anticipating. The game will feature a four-player multiplayer mode in which players pit their parties against to one another and earn points for each Pokemon they defeat within the three minute time limit. According to the game's official website, these matches can be played casually with friends or in a ranked mode.

39:36Nick Scarpino:You're adding ranked to Pokemon. Did you see this trailer?

39:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I saw the tweet and I got excited and then I remembered that it's happening within Zaw and I was like, damn, I kind of want this with like the regular Pokemon battle system.

39:47Nick Scarpino:But also, I like that Zaw's trying a different battle system and people have to play it for the first time at World Championships. So, I've been watching a couple like previews of it and it seems like people are into it and it's like familiar enough that it's like all right this is still pokemon but it's different enough that it's like it feels fresh and kind of like what's people have been asking for for a long time which is a way more active battle like so it plays more like the anime looks yeah um so yeah seeing this multiplayer mode here i'm like i don't see myself really getting too deep into it but it looks fun like and it looks like there's going to be potential for uh like dedicated actual skills in this like them having a ranked mode is a lot more than i would have expected them to have for

40:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:this type of mode in a pokemon game yeah i like that it feels like then they're treating this as more of a serious hey like we know this isn't your mainline core pokemon experience but we see this as something that can grow and evolve and be something that hardcore players might take to

40:40Nick Scarpino:yep and then the last video game announcement of their closing ceremony was that pokemon champions the upcoming competitive focus game for switch and mobile will be the primary game for the pokemon World Championship tournament in 2026. So that's pretty interesting, right? They're going to switch over to this. That makes sense. When we first saw this, it's like, all right, this kind of felt like the path they were going down. So to me, this says we're going to get this game before next year, like within the year. And Central Leagues also posted that it's been confirmed that Pokemon Champions will be free to play on Switch 2, Switch, and mobile devices.

41:15Nick Scarpino:However, a paid version will also be released called Pokemon Champions Plus Starter Pack. We're going to get some more details in the future. So that's interesting. Like, probably the right move for what this seems to be.

41:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, honestly, yeah. The whole idea of this, right, is giving people a central place where, in the same way that, let me not say it the same way, because I actually don't know all the details of all this shit, right? But like Pokemon Home, I view as, this is the central place to keep all your Pokemon. This, I view as, this is the central place to battle Pokemon. If you want to compete in like a competitive sense, that way we can centralize everything and not have to hop between all the new different video game iterations that exist it's cool though

41:53Nick Scarpino:because it's centralizing everything like you're saying like you're it's your collection of pokemon for generations right and it used to like train them up and actually do the battles so it's it's consolidating there but it's actually allowing you to play in more places like i love that it's the mobile game and the switch game are going to just be cross play and like cross progression across everything like that's cool so cool uh and i think it's going to vastly widen the amount of people that even attempt to take the vgc side seriously you know and that's my thing is yeah

42:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:pokemon has always been a thing for me where i play through the campaign i always like like the idea of playing pokemon in a more competitive way not like actually competitive like i'm not going to the vgc like championship stuff right but like in the same way that i like to play tekken online or i like to play random games online right like i would like to do that for pokemon but there's always felt like there's been like a barrier for me to then hop into that part of it dude i feel

42:45Nick Scarpino:like there's 10 barriers man yeah i'm telling you watch the finals for last night and just try to follow along and again i you follow but it just is like oh my god there's they're so advanced yeah like they're on a different plane and there's so much more to the game than you would have just ever expected like it's very very very impressive my hope and i don't know if this is really what's

43:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:gonna happen but my hope is that pokemon it's called pokemon championship i hope that it like pokemon champions thank you i hope that it brings down that barrier like i hope it allows more people to be able to transition into, okay, now I want to get good at battling Pokemon against other humans, and that turns into more of a regular, normal thing for Pokemon fans.

43:23Nick Scarpino:Yep. And then the last announcement was about World Championships 2026. The tournament's set to take place at the Chase Center in San Francisco next year, but the Pokemon company is also setting up a new fan experience called Pokemon XP in the city the same weekend, August 28th to 30th. Tickets are going to go on sale on September 17th. The teaser trailer was light on details, but the official Pokemon website says that XP will feature panels, unique workshops, special guests, exclusive merchandise, and so much more. So it sounds like we're getting like a Pokemon Con and Pokemon World Championships in our city next year at the Chase Center, dude.

43:58Nick Scarpino:That's huge. That's fucking awesome. That's where the Warriors play. That is where the Warriors play. That's fucking crazy, man. That's really cool.

44:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sabrina Carpenter performs there. God. And she was at Warfield before and I got to go.

44:11Nick Scarpino:Crazy, man.

44:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I can't believe that. I know. It's so cool. so cool uh i mean i was the only man over the age of 20 there though it was me and then two friends and like just a bunch of teenagers and i was like okay well i'm i shouldn't be here i should go home um shout out to be the carpenter makes great music also shout out to this this will be such a

44:30Nick Scarpino:fun time next year oh yeah i i hope that we get to be a part of this officially somehow they're

44:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:doing panels let us do a panel i mean i mean we've got a promo yeah like we've got a pokemon guy now we do we do it does make sense yeah true yeah and he was like representing us at worlds so we so they know that now we have we're willing to go we're willing to go we're willing to be there and be a part of the experience and by this point next year right like he'll have reviewed pokemon legends saw and so like he's going to be even more of an expert yeah everything even more

45:02Nick Scarpino:of a piece of shit you know what else is a piece of shit what's that but sometimes you learn things that you wish you didn't know. Sometimes you spend your whole life thinking one thing and then you're told you're wrong and you have to reckon with that and decide am I going to listen to the truth or am I going to look the truth in the eye and say you know what, not today. Not today. I'm going to stay as ignorant as I'd like to be and I think that's where I'm going to stay on this one. At this Pokemon World Championships almost insulting to everybody there on the big screen above everybody, above the battlefield.

45:36Nick Scarpino:They put up a picture of a pokemon and just had the words mispronounced pokemon and then the correct way to say its name rayquaza yeah rayquaza i don't like you saying that like that no i don't like

45:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it either ray so yeah the yeah they do the pronunciation thing right they say ray dash k w a y dash zuh but like no no no i'm and i'm somebody who i'm a fan of you know receiving new information and going i was wrong yeah i'm gonna correct myself i'm gonna do better going forward this is one of those ones where i draw the line draw the line until i die i don't ray quaza and here's the thing who decided do you think they're fucking with us do you think like let's know what can we pull off on these motherfuckers who decided this i don't know like who in the who in the room that was like right making the pokemon names you know what i mean like you know what i think i know who it is i think it was andrew ing this kid that i went to elementary school with i think it was him

46:43Nick Scarpino:because when pokemon gold and silver came out he was trying to convince me that suicune you know suicune yeah it was pronounced sui cooney oh he's fucking with you he's he was very upset about it and now to be clear i don't know how to say that thing's name is suicune right i don't fucking know but i know it's not sui cooney do you have they said you're right have they said ray

47:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:quaza or rayquaza in the anime i feel like there's got to be a recorded proof that rayquaza is wrong

47:16Nick Scarpino:I mean I here's the thing I'm pretty sure it's right but if it's right I'm not yeah fair enough fair enough I'm sorry I had to let you guys know that if you didn't know story number four we could get splinter cell remake news at gamescom because someone apparently spotted sam fisher at the

47:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:airport okay so here's the thing I added this when roger was recently on with me because roger is the one who shared this to kfd and this is similar to the cory barlong story in a very different way of the biggest grain of salt possible, but Tim, go for it.

47:47Nick Scarpino:Ubisoft has been very quiet about the Splinter Cell remake with fans begging for a revival of the series. You'd think that the studio would be shouting about it from the rooftop side. This comes from Baspin to store at The Gamer. Perhaps it's wary after the development held at Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake has been through. Perhaps we'll be seeing it at Gamescom tomorrow. While Ubisoft hasn't said much about the progress of the remake, it did put out a weird teaser that didn't give us any information. However, if one random redditor is to be believed, we might finally get an official update at Gamescom.

48:16Nick Scarpino:What's more, Sam Fisher actor Michael Ironside may be part of the announcement. On the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit, someone claimed to have spotted Ironside at the Denver airport and even overheard him saying to his wife they were looking for a gate to a flight to Munich. Of course, Ironside could be traveling for any number of reasons, but the timing and destination does make a strong case for a possible Splinter Cell remake release date announcement at Gamescom. It's also worth noting that Gamescom is held in Cologne while Ironside was traveling to Munich, but that could also be a connecting flight.

48:49Nick Scarpino:Okay, okay, get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here. We already know if OP's theory is correct. After tomorrow's Gamescom opening live showcase, the project has been in the works for a while, so an official announcement should be due anytime now.

49:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hilarious. This one filled me with joy. Oh, yeah. Because, like, I don't believe... we've i don't the dots don't connect enough for me but there is the smallest chance that this person could be right and if they're right oh that's fucking hilarious i mean that's the thing

49:17Nick Scarpino:is this does add up to being like a potentially real story like yeah there's so many different things here that it's all right cool it's not perfect but like maybe you went a little a couple days early wanted to see all of germany i mean yeah this was posted yesterday so like if it's

49:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:he wanted to see all of you think he's spending a day in munich just be like he's like yeah i fuck with munich before i go to i mean yeah that's right think about it we all the time it's

49:42Nick Scarpino:like we'll be doing a trip and it's like oh let's tack on something else i'm just saying like it's not like i mean i don't think it's definitive proof that this is not true because but if it's

49:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:a connecting flight i think timing wise that also just makes sense of he this is from yesterday right and so if he's flying out from i assume a u.s location i guess they didn't specify that did they said denver oh denver yes thank you if he's flying out from denver then like you're he's probably gonna land sometime maybe earlier today and then connect you want to be there day before is what i'm saying and the thing is tomorrow yeah yeah yeah you're right you're right yeah

50:15Nick Scarpino:my favorite thing about this though is that the source of this is just some dude at the denver airport some dude at the denver airport and then overheard him say this like this is a hilarious story who could be lying like honestly mistaken and that wasn't him that wasn't even michael ironstein yeah there's so many so many factors here but as i often say as of now splinter cell remake is a real game it has not yet been canceled so that means we're gonna have to hear about it

50:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:somewhere how do you have more faith in this than the marvel 1943 game i'm not saying i do okay

50:51Nick Scarpino:that's fair you know i have faith in so little things these days plus that's also there is one thing i have full faith in and that is the street fighter movie coming next year story number five we have our first tease of cody rhodes as guile in the street fighter movie this comes from discussing film oh my god it's just a picture of cody rhodes shadow and he has guile's hair you see a little bit of his pants and everything about this is just right it's just right and this

51:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:is the perfect tease i hate that the original source of this is andrew schultz like instagram stories um but regardless of that let's fucking go on the whole on the shadow here like come on let's go looking at this oh oh yeah and like the fucking camouflage pants that you mentioned right

51:36Nick Scarpino:there it's it's all so perfect if you uh didn't listen to the gamescast episode from last week uh breaking down just why the street fighter movie is going to be absolute magic i'd highly recommend it it is a journey that i take you on and it's worth it it's very worth it

51:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:uh what character from the street fire movie are you most excited to see i can't wait to see jason

51:59Nick Scarpino:momoa green dude oh i just really need that man yeah that's a good that's a good what about you i mean i think don't say roman rance it's boring oh but that was my answer i know it was well then

52:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:cody rhodes is gone like that's the other thing is like yeah like seeing the shadow i have i have to see how he looks um but then yeah roman reigns is akuma is gonna be so fucking good

52:21Nick Scarpino:yeah those are my those are my two answers i just really really really hope that 50 cent is cross

52:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:oh 50 cent yeah 50 cent is bar barlog balrog balrog balrog koi barlog yeah balrog thank you 50 cent is gonna be yeah that's one i can't wait to see but that one is like i don't i don't know i need to see the i don't give a shit about street fighter and i probably won't watch this movie but i i need to see the vision of david dust mulchian as m bison i need to see how that comes together that thing is like there's certain castings where i'm like i could i could see it and there are certain castings where it's like oh this is one for one you fucking nailed it right and i think that's why cody rhodes as guile is so perfect to me because i'm like you fucking nailed it 50 cent as barlock balrog is like it's there but it's also off a little bit in a way that i can't describe but i i want to see the like i have to see the vision come through right i have to see

53:20Nick Scarpino:him in costume i painted the picture for you last week bless you see the vision yeah i see it but also it's like i need to see it oh jason momo is gonna be so green dude awesome it's gonna be a big deal this movie huge deal biggest deal in the world biggest deal in the world but if i wanted to know about something smaller significantly smaller than the Street Fighter 2026 movie

53:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:where would I look you'd go to our last news story the Wii News channel recover all the small news items you need to know about

53:47Nick Scarpino:damn right it's Wii News everybody sort of the sea review roundup has an 88 on Metacritic Eurogamer game at five stars saying movement meaning and mindfulness combined in giant squids latest a game of free form expression and flow wow wow like the first hour of this it's really rad it is very much journey on a skateboard but i've had some moments where i'm like oh this is neat oh

54:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah i've also played the first hour of this i want to get back to it um it's been a busy week for me in video games um we'll hear about that later i guess later yeah at some point at some point you'll hear about that um but i was very impressed with the first hour i mean it seems like another one of those ones right another giant giant squid game um but i like how they kind of take the journey thing of like we're in a desert we're surfing on sand and then add in like the water layer to kind of give it some some life there and some like duality yeah and you get to jump on jellyfish it's cool yeah i rode on a whale whoa and it was fucking awesome game informer gave

54:50Nick Scarpino:it an 8.5 out of 10 saying sword of the sea moves at the pace of a magical swords person speeding across sand dunes on a floating blade at 170 miles per hour and it never gives you a reason to look away yep pc gamer gave a 78 out of 100 saying a short but spectacular surfing game sort of the sea's atmosphere and movement propel it where it's simple and repetitive puzzles can't and like i

55:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:here's my thing right i think i did have the moment while playing where i did wonder have we been doing this for too long as far as the kind of game that they're making right because these are people who formerly worked on journey they made abzu they made the pathless and you you've heard me talk about the pathless a lot right like i really like that game and then they're working on this as i'm playing it i think there is a part of me that's like this feels like 2015 indie in a way where i'll and not in like the worst way because if you like this kind of game you love this kind of game i'm somebody who likes this kind of game right but a little bit of the puzzle solution specifically and like solving the solving what's going on did feel like oh i've been here before like i've done this before that might be my only critique so far but that's only in the first hour of the game.

55:57And it is funny too if you have that, but then at the same time you'll have a room, Tim, where it's like, alright, here's a challenge room. You gotta get 1500 points in like 30 seconds. Yes. Doing skateboard tricks and stuff like that. That's cool. Yeah. And you don't get tricks automatically. That's something you're slowly unlocking throughout the game, which I find very interesting. Yeah, you last week told me

56:22Nick Scarpino:I gotta check this out. I think you would fuck with it. Yeah, I definitely want to play this one now. even though it so far it's kind of been like ah seems like it's been there done that but yeah bear got me on it the next tales of remastered is getting announced tomorrow

56:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:strap in tales fans that's it i think you skipped a couple here i did yeah from noble via vdc skate for dev full circle said skate for will receive a new battle pass every three months in that the soundtrack gets updated every season uh interesting and then dr eggman and two guest villains have been announced for shinobi art of vengeance hell yeah sega villain stage dlc remember like i forgot

56:57Nick Scarpino:what it was but we were taught much shinobi and like the thing came up and i was like wait plus look at that like there's a sega villains dlc and we're like what's that gonna be is it gonna be

57:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:rodney yes yes it is love this who who would be the two other sega villains you're going with

57:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:is there room for a persona villain

57:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:like is there I don't feel like there's a villain villain from Persona that would like a therapist the school therapist I mean or someone I think responded to this oh yeah right here the first response to this is Mr. X which I think would be fucking hilarious Mr. X why can't I think of Mr. X who's Mr. X from Resident Evil yeah or is that Capcom nevermind but I mean that is what they say though so if there's a crossover situation

57:52Nick Scarpino:maybe yeah I was like Mr. X I thought it was some Persona shit but yeah interesting I imagine it'll be Yakuza and I don't know Yakuza makes sense just because of how popular the IP is and I feel like that they do crossovers all the time yeah and then I feel like the other one's gonna be a bit more weird like jet set radio or space channel five or something like people would go fucking crazy i think for goro majima and he's kind of like oh majima yeah mr x is from streets of rage oh gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha i love it man look at i'm gonna say the creepy gym teacher

58:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that you fight in persona 5 the first as like the first big bad kamoshita kamoshita welcome the customers from crazy taxi oh i like that all of them all of them just a group of customers slashing through them murdering them all and that's actually it for we news everybody

58:51Nick Scarpino:let's see what super chats we got here nico rodriguez says obligatory birthday tax love all you do and thanks for the endless hours of content any advice for the big three oh

59:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:happy birthday happy 30 happy birthday happy 30 yeah advice for 30 man live it up you know

59:09Nick Scarpino:it doesn't last stretch stretch stretch stretch is the greatest greatest advice you can possibly get um but yeah also have fun you know what i mean don't don't let the three in front of your your age bring it down i know a lot of people that once they hit 30 their spark started to die

59:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i'm like you don't need to do that here's my thing right because like when you're 29 you start to feel a little bit old once i turn 30 now i'm 31 i feel young again yeah yeah and

59:37Nick Scarpino:It all resets.

59:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's the thing. It all resets. Guess what? When you're 29, you're an old kid. When you're 30, you're a young adult. Yep. That's not really how that works. You know what? I'm with you, though. You get where I'm going with it. I'm with you. You're like a young, old person at 30. But like at 29, you're an old, young person. I guess that's what I'm saying. And that is wise.

1:00:00Nick Scarpino:Thank you. Beyond your years. We have Sperb saying birthday tax. Today is my 50th birthday. Been playing games since the Texas Instruments 99 and Atari 2600. I had every console except the Saturn and still play regularly. I grew up loving Castlevania and Mario, and now I'm all about FromSoft.

1:00:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah.

1:00:18Nick Scarpino:I love that. Happy birthday. That is absolutely incredible. 50. Happy birthday. Same age as my parents. That's, I mean, man, 50. It's a big one. And like the history of going all the way back to the Atari 2600 and still playing games. like i also love that saturn's the only one you know every console except the except the saturn

1:00:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you're like ah they don't got anything worthwhile nights into dreams i don't want to play sonic r panzer dragoon i watched a whole video about sonic r last night okay he did it was donkey playing it it was really funny oh yeah um yeah and he's now they're all about from soft i love that evolution i feel like from soft i always wonder like what does it take to get into from soft on a deeper level because obviously there's so many people that are but there's always that barrier to entry of like the difficulty and how much like the game is kind of obscure information all that stuff but like at 50 to be like yeah I'm a FromSoft guy I fuck with that dude yeah that's badass man

1:01:12Nick Scarpino:um Rance Cox is a little behind but possibly Splinter Cell we talked about that

1:01:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:also Bear what was the picture of Jeff Keely you brought up he said first time I know what the clown knows I feel like this is him saying Silk Song will not be at his show tomorrow because they we always do the clown own silksong meme i mean you're saying this is him saying it's not yeah i think this is him saying it is yeah i think this is a misdirection oh yeah you don't do this if it's not there yeah like if it's not you say it's not you call it out see you tomorrow what would you see

1:01:49Nick Scarpino:yeah what are we seeing anything that's not song after this grandman says i wonder if gears Reloaded gets a Helldivers 2 skin. I doubt it.

1:02:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Here's Reloaded getting a... I mean, that'd be cool.

1:02:02Nick Scarpino:I don't think that we're at that level of crossover quite yet.

1:02:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, Helldivers got Halo.

1:02:08Nick Scarpino:Yeah, but that's like... We got that. It is possible. I doubt it, though. Bandura Sen says, Pit, Samus, Captain Falcon, and Fox will be playable. That's quite the call. I don't see where that's coming from. For Kirby Air Riders? probably yeah um i mean dead franchises i can see pit i think pit would be cool

1:02:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i think all these would be cool but i don't i i think pit would be the easiest one because like that's saccharide's baby captain falcon just i think the other ones are just because they they're they look fast fucking captain falcon goes fast and career riders seems like a fast game

1:02:48Nick Scarpino:Samson L says let Greg be the guy that announces players let's not give Greg any power

1:02:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:oh yeah because he's going to pronounce all those names right

1:02:57Nick Scarpino:oh Rant says what I meant earlier is what if Barlog's working on Splinter Cell I don't think a new Splinter Cell is being in development

1:03:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:especially not from Playstation like a crossover with Sony on that one if that ever happened Playstation would have already bought Ubisoft yeah like that would have been the situation

1:03:14Nick Scarpino:and then Zilla 11 says the two hearts could mean a Doctor Who game I don't think that the hearts are teasing anything The hearts are just Confirming that it's Not 100 % not Corey Barlog's Facebook page I'm leaning that it is Yeah

1:03:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I like Obviously I don't fucking know It's kind of really tough to tell I don't know

1:03:40Nick Scarpino:We need to check if Corey Barlog's Facebook page Is friends with Michael Ironside What if this is all connected

1:03:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and greg's not sending me another text i was hoping he would have some kind of update no

1:03:52Nick Scarpino:he's useless that's it for super chats let's do you're wrong here let's see

1:04:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:um actually do i have mutuals of course let me see if i have mutuals

1:04:04Nick Scarpino:true lathorian says tim turtle powers not by mc hammer it's by the hip-hop duo partners in crime god damn that is a ray quaza level bomb for me i do have mutuals with cory barlog one of them is greg miller hold on kebab says kirby a ride released in 2003 in japan and north america in 2004 in europe and australia yeah one of them is greg miller the other is uh a dude who

1:04:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i think i friended while i was in the kind of funny facebook group so like a kind of funny best friend and then the other steven steven spawn it's not the best barometer on whether or not this is actually Corey Barlow or not. But Greg Miller's friends with him, so. Man, I can't trust him.

1:04:49Nick Scarpino:That's it. That's it. That's it, everybody. What a show. Bless you and I. It's not done here. It's not done here. We're about to do Gamescast. It's about to be our Gamescom predictions episode. Andy and Mike will be joining us. It's going to be fun. We'll see you. If you're on YouTube, make the jump to the other video. If you're on Twitch, stay right where you are, you cutie pie. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

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