Nintendo Direct Reportedly Coming Next Month - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.25.25

25 Aug 2025 · 1 h 12 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Kinda Funny Games Daily (Aug 25, 2025) covers major gaming news and speculation, focusing on a rumored Nintendo Direct in mid-September, Skate’s cover art/early access timing, and the ripple effects of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date on other games’ schedules (including a Demon’s Souls-like indie delay).

Guest backgrounds

Hosts are Blessing (A.A. Jr.) and Greg Miller, plus recurring staff/community discussion; no separate named guests appear in this segment beyond the hosts.

Key claims

  1. Nintendo Direct is reportedly planned for mid-September, potentially Sept 12 (one day before Mario’s 40th anniversary).
  2. Skate’s marketing is criticized for emphasizing “early access” rather than a full release date; the hosts predict a hype spike followed by churn.
  3. Demon’s School was delayed from Sept 3 to Nov 19 to avoid competing with Silksong’s Sept 4 launch; the episode frames Silksong as an “indie GTA 6” that dominates attention and review coverage.

Notable examples

  • Nintendo: Metroid Prime 4, Mario 40th anniversary ideas (Mario Maker 3, Mario Kart World DLC, Switch 2 2D Mario).
  • Skate: cover art revealed; early access date teased for Sept 3.
  • Competition list around Silksong: Hell Is Us (Sept 4), Star Wars Outlaws (Switch 2), Chronos: The New Dawn (Sept 5), Baby Steps (Sept 8), Hiragami.

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Chapters

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Weekend Recap and Parenting Stories

1:50 to 3:52

Hosts share their weekend experiences, focusing on family and gaming.

“Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Monday, August 25th, 2025.”

Game Showdown and Tournament Results

3:52 to 7:20

Discussion on the recent Game Showdown results and tournament dynamics.

Fast Food Chains and Restaurant Culture

7:20 to 9:40

Hosts discuss their experiences with Cracker Barrel and restaurant changes.

“I'm a fair fucking host of Game Showdown.”

Game News and Announcements

9:40 to 10:40

Hosts dive into gaming news and community interactions.

“We had our eye on the woke agenda so long we didn't look at this agenda.”

Nintendo Direct and Anticipated Releases

10:40 to 14:00

Discussion on the upcoming Nintendo Direct and titles fans want to see.

“gregway is 15 minutes about if the gamers are worse than ever thank you to our patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twine.”

Speculating on the Next 3D Mario

14:00 to 16:30

Discussion on the potential timeline and expectations for Nintendo's next 3D Mario game.

“The Metro, I'm sorry, the Mario part of it, I don't find that interesting.”

Celebrating Mario's 40th Anniversary

16:30 to 19:20

Exploration of what Nintendo might do for the 40th anniversary of Mario, including possible game releases.

“Another one I'll throw out there, Mario Kart World DLC.”

Anticipating Animal Crossing Updates

19:20 to 24:02

Discussion about potential updates for Animal Crossing as the Switch 2 is released.

“Do you think it's time to get Animal Crossing updates?”

Skate Early Access and Reception

24:02 to 27:32

Thoughts on the upcoming early access release of Skate and its potential reception.

“You could have just announced the date today.”

Community Expectations for Skate

27:32 to 28:01

Analyzing the expectations and potential community reaction to the Skate early access.

“like sticking around and having that kind of be a slow build of a kind of younger generation playing skate for the first time and being more into it because they didn't play the original and weren't raised in that era.”
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Skate's Potential in the Current Market

28:01 to 30:44

Explore how skate culture and gaming intersect, particularly with the upcoming skate game.

“for the kids, like you said, a slow build.”

Concerns About Lost Soul Aside

30:44 to 31:48

Discussion about the upcoming game Lost Soul Aside and the lack of marketing.

Concerns About Lost Soul Aside

32:55 to 34:57

Discussion about the upcoming game Lost Soul Aside and the lack of marketing.

“Plus, it's back in stock now on Xreal.com.”

Demon School Delayed Due to Competition

34:57 to 42:00

Discussion on the delay of Demon's School to avoid competition with Hollow Knight Silksong.

“You know back to school is coming in fast.”

The Impact of Hollow Knight Silksong on Indie Games

42:00 to 44:42

Discussion on how Hollow Knight Silksong affects the visibility of indie games in a crowded release schedule.

“And what I mean by that is like IGN, GameSpot, everybody else who has a front page.com in the video game world.”

The Marketing Challenges for AA Games

44:42 to 46:15

Analysis of marketing budgets for AA games and their ability to compete during major releases.

“There's the other games you talked about in a Games Daily that moved when Mike was doing this.”

Ubisoft's Legal Troubles with CEO Yves Guillemot

46:15 to 48:26

Examination of Yves Guillemot's subpoena appearance in relation to Ubisoft's harassment trial.

“Now, as reported by French news network BFM TV, Ubisoft has received a subpoena instructing Guillemot to appear before the court on October 1st in connection with the same trial.”

Replaced Delayed to Spring 2026

48:26 to 51:23

Announcement and discussion of the delay of the game Replaced to spring 2026, along with insights on its development.

“I wonder what questions they have for him.”

Pokemon Go's New Level Cap and XP Rebalancing

51:23 to 56:03

Overview of the changes in Pokemon Go regarding the new level cap and experience balancing.

“Pokemon Go is boosting the level cap and rebalancing the experience.”

Rebalancing Pokémon GO for New Players

56:03 to 58:25

Discussion on the upcoming changes in Pokémon GO to enhance player experience.

“But I imagine that October 15th, when this goes into effect, that I immediately will be level 70.”

We News: Quick Game Updates

58:25 to 1:00:32

A roundup of smaller news items including game releases and updates.

“But at least there's no word on when it's coming?”

Super Chats and Community Interactions

1:00:32 to 1:05:22

Hosts read and respond to Super Chats from the audience, discussing various game topics.

“this episode flew by right i wasn't paying attention i thought we had more stories after tim oh we do have a lot of super chats of course you can write in with super chats get your questions or comments read on the show.”

Final Thoughts on Gears of War and Game Releases

1:05:22 to 1:10:03

A wrap-up conversation on the upcoming Gears of War release and other game news.

“Granted, he was never going to play with me anyway, but I've been wanting to play a co-op with somebody.”

Discussion on Sword of the Sea

1:10:03 to 1:10:46

The hosts share their thoughts on the game Sword of the Sea, discussing its features and personal experiences.

“We got one more from Alex Frazier in Super Chat who says, just started Sword of the Sea.”

Closing Remarks and Rules

1:12:44 to 1:13:14

The hosts end with final thoughts and mention rules and restrictions for the advertisement.

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1:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Monday, August 25th, 2025. i'm one of your hosts blessing at a.a. jr. joining me is wwe legend greg miller hello blessing how are you i'm doing well how are you doing good how was the weekend it was good a lot of times with the kids you know what i mean out there playing it's plural museum we had multiple kids in the house oh on saturday night we had the neighbors come over they brought their three kids ben played mario kart with them the entire night played mario brothers with them the whole night so you were the parent that allows other kids to come come over and hang out the parents were there too like it was like we had our neighbors over and they brought they just have hella kids they just brought a lot of kids over they were they were partying is your house the fun house i think so yeah you know what i mean why like you know a lifetime ago months ago last year's no whatever i was at the park for a preschool meetup and i was uh first off the only dad there and i was it was all moms around me or whatever and i was pushing ben on the swing and one of his other friends and i was like acting like some kind of monster i don't know they're all they're grabbing me screaming or whatever and one of the moms was next to just pushing her daughter slowly she just looks at me goes so you're the fun parent huh i'm like i guess so jen's fun too are you fun she's like no i'm like oh okay hell yeah hell yeah do you think your house is one of those ones where kids are like well he has all the video games let's go over there i think they're still too young for that to ever really set in yet you know because even ben doesn't get that ben goes to the store and like pick stuff up well daddy what's this game oh yeah it's where it's not young it's tomorrow okay can we get it no ben we have that what about this we have that what about that you don't play that you know i mean like he doesn't he hasn't wrapped his head around that it's weird that he has access to every video game in the history of man yeah yeah but yeah i think as he gets older it'll happen it's going to be more interesting to see if then that pulls away yeah if he sticks with it does he care about games throughout or is it going to be that thing where he's at school and his friends are not even his friends you know casual acquaintances at a school the video game kids are like oh my god and tomorrow's the day and ben's like oh my dad's been playing that for two weeks what i mean like i don't care i want to pick up my guitar i want to do i gotta go race my horse like you dad i don't i don't want to be i don't want i don't want your life god how's the how's the gaming going good yeah good yeah yeah working on redacted can't talk about it of course uh but you know we got out of the metal gear section into the redacted section for this now of course about 17 redacted i was gonna say are you playing one redacted or i am okay you know how i am i like to commit to one and the way it works around here especially for the next one it sounds like i'm the guy for that one it doesn't sound like it's like you were like casually playing it depending if it's the one i'm thinking of it's one of those situations where i'm out of town like for the next week right right right right yeah so this is definitely the one of those ones where it's like i'm going to be the the lead even though we don't do leads anymore but like i'm the one who's committed the most to it so i let other things stack up and that's why it's redacted one which is the one that the and then redacted two we've had a bit and it was that thing in the meeting like is anybody and everybody's like you know what I mean where I was like I would be doing more with redacted too but it's like this then of course Friday I sent out that email about redacted or Trello about redacted three yeah when does that come in that probably means redacted two never gets played by me and then today I put out the one for redacted four yeah and I'm and I'm putting it on the schedule right there and it's like man these guys are on top and I'm still trying to bring out redacted two redacted four is gonna jump in front of redacted three for sure even though I think my hype for redacted three is more than Redacted 4.

5:10Redacted 4's embargo is before. Oh, I see.

5:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Redacted 2, is that Shinobi? I'm trying to figure out Redacted 2. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Shinobi's today. Shinobi is today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's off, and I wouldn't. Did you touch that one? No, no, that's not me thing. Redacted, I'll type it in my bar. You know what I'm talking about here. Redacted 2 is this one. I'm thinking, does he have silksong, guys? Does he have silksong? Oh, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Well, I would love to do that in an era where there's nothing else to play. Yeah. But they don't need me on that one. Yeah. Do we have anybody on that one? Hopefully, Roger.

5:44Okay. But again, is that game even worth it? We're not sure.

5:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. We'll see. We will see. We'll see what's up with the video game news, too. And here's the other thing I want to bring out. What up?

5:56When I did the impossible and won, kind of funny, game showdown, Nick Scarpino season, back-to-back season championships for me, I put up a post while I was on vacation about how great I was on Monday and you and Mike on Games Daily were like, is that how we do it? We can spoil content? It happened on Friday or whatever. And then Mike was like, if you haven't watched all the content by the end of the weekend, Monday's a new thing. We need it for the storyline. What are we doing with the Mario Party information? Are we allowed to talk about the... Yeah, just spoil it. Can we go wide? Blessing? Yeah.

6:32Congratulations on winning the Mario Party. Thank you. I appreciate it. I want you to know like there was a lot going through my head uh when the tournament ended uh and it was that i had been told for what felt like 14 hours that the points mattered yeah and so when we got to all right cool these mini games are all done we finished the mario party there was this big swell of like okay do i still have a fighting chance am i gonna get enough stars from winning being so dominant in the irl mini games you know what i mean only to find that mike and roger suck and that they were all for nothing. And so I feel like it was an abrupt end to the stream.

7:09I don't feel like you got the praise, the kudos you deserve for that. And I hope you'll remember that I'm the only person who thanked you when we started kind of playing Game Showdown season 11. I'm not going to let you butter me up.

7:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm not going to let you do this. Well, it happened. It's already done. You've been buttered. I have been buttered. I'm a fair commissioner. I'm a fair fucking host of Game Showdown. I keep things even. Do you get these TikToks about licking Texas Roadhouse butter off stuff? Texas Roadhouse butter? Like licking it? Yeah. No, but I was a big fan of the roles. I used to live near a Texas Roadhouse. My algorithm serves me right now, the couples that are out there. I'm usually listening to Sound Down, but there's a caption of, can I lick Texas Roadhouse butter off them or off it, depending on who's talking.

7:49And then they cut, and based on the other person's cut, they cut back to the other person. They either split the check or pay for the check.

7:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Have you been to Cracker Barrel? Do you like Cracker Barrel? uh yeah i've been i'm i grew up in the midwest and i went to school in missouri i have been to a cracker barrel i do i i don't think i ever went to a crackle cracker barrel until i was at mizzou and even then i went like once with somebody's like family maybe twice and i was like and i actually my ex went there and worked there one day she's like no i'm done with this i've seen the inside i can't work so no no i i have no affinity for cracker barrel so i've i'm watching them all freak out about this uh logo change dude when i tell you my hometown like facebook is going crazy just like everybody in my hometown talking about it have you reminded them that we have concentration camps in our country right now they don't care we have we have they don't care they're on cracker barrel and let me tell you i also like i actually do fuck with cracker barrel at least when i lived in champagne illinois i did really enjoy going to a cracker barrel i was never like obsessed with it like i'm not precious about cracker did you do the thing where you played the they had the game with the golf tees.

9:00That was one of their schticks, right? Like there was games on the table.

9:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, I remember on the table. No, I don't remember that part of it. I do remember them having like an entire room that you would have to go to, to get to the diner room. That was filled with like shit you can buy. It was like a fucking gift shop before you actually get into the Cracker Barrel. I think I remember that. I remember it being like a after church on Sunday, like delight. You know what I mean? But yeah, aside from that, I never really had like them changing any of their shit. I'm like, all right, well, every single fast food slash like popular food establishment has been through this.

9:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I saw a Reddit post this morning about like how Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, like all of them. I saw this too. What happened to this when the restaurants used to have style? Yeah. Everything is now just a brutalist brick on a corner of a fucking street. God. We had our eye on the woke agenda so long we didn't look at this agenda. And we lost Pizza Hut. We lost it. Enough about that. Let's talk about news that matters because this is kind of funny games daily. each and every week that we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go housekeeping for you we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after khd you're going to get our gamescast which is the shinobi art of vengeance review then after gamescast is the kind of funny podcast then the stream is either rainbow six siege or the pub g mode that is like rainbow six siege but i'm hoping it's rainbow six because i'm gonna hop into that if you're a kind of funny member today's gregway is 15 minutes about if the gamers are worse than ever thank you to our patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twine.

10:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think the gamers are worse than ever. You think so? I mean, I'm asking you. That was what Christian on Spotify comments asked. Okay. Okay. I'm curious. I might listen to that one. I'm curious about your answer there. Today we're brought to you by Xreal, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today. a baker's dozen starting with our number one a nintendo direct is reportedly planned for mid september this is jordan middler at video games chronicle and i got a super chat question for y 'all aside from metroid what do you want to see sure aside from metroid sure we all want to see metroid prime 4 and a question for me for the chat now that we know when silksong is coming out what game should I just always play a trailer of when we do predictions as like a funny thing because I'd always bring up Silksong but now I don't have that anymore.

11:52I don't have it. Does it need to be a real? Do you want it to be something like that wouldn't happen or could?

11:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I would say Half-Life 3 but I feel like that's almost too on the note. I'm going to mention Animal Crossing every time so you could have that right but I mean that's a legitimate they got to talk about that at some point. GTA 6 but I feel like we believe that's coming out. What is maybe not May but it'll come next year. You know what's better? What's like a vaporware Nintendo game that got cancelled? Or, you know, you know what I mean? Oh, like I canceled? You know, we know it's not coming, but you're... I guess for Nintendo, the, like, Twilight Princess, I guess at this point. Okay. Oh, like the Twilight Princess remaster?

12:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. That's actually a pretty good call. Yeah, because if you're talking about, like, vaporware canceled Nintendo game, I was going to say Donkey Kong Racing. That's where my brain went. Okay. Star Fox Grand Prix says what, Kevin? Star Fox Grand Prix, that's a good one. Mother 3 says Cozy Bear. That's a good one. That's a really good one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. All right. We'll workshop in the chat. a nintendo direct presentation is reportedly planned for september reports of a nintendo direct have circulated for weeks now switch force has suggested that a presentation will be held in september sources have told vgc that nintendo direct presentation is in fact planned for mid september it's also worth noting that aside from 2024 a nintendo direct has been held virtually every september since the nintendo direct presentations began notably if the reported September 12th date is accurate.

13:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It would be one day before the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers. Greg, do you believe it? Yeah, of course. We gotta get one. We gotta have something. Nintendo's always talking. They're always doing these, hey, let's get this person in. What's going on? We gotta know what's going on. Where the fuck is Metroid? Is that this year or not? What does the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers do for you? Not much. That's awesome. What a huge success. for them. I just don't have confidence. It doesn't feel like Nintendo often hits their mark on their anniversaries. We're just doing a year of Luigi.

13:46Okay, you know what I mean? Okay, are they actually going to have something cool? Are they going to bring that one game out of fucking digital vault to put back out so you can buy it for three months before they take it away again? What a bunch of weirdos. I hated that. Yeah, it sucks. The Metro, I'm sorry, the Mario part of it, I don't find that interesting. I hope they go big, but I doubt they will, and even if they did, what would they do i think it would be here's a packaging of those games right and i mean we're not going to announce the next 3d mario right like no run the other side of donkey kong sure but let's have everybody hype for the holidays with what they can buy right now or

14:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:are about to be able to buy yeah and the next 3d mario i mean that's a whole conversation because now that feels more further away than ever coming off of dk bonanza and knowing that's from the odyssey team and that being the size and scope that it is like that for all intents and purposes is Mario Odyssey 2 yeah and so with that just coming out do you want to turn around and put out a 3D Mario the next year do you how many years do you want to give it before we get around to that how long has a team been working on a 3D Mario has a team been working on it on the next 3D Mario I'm of the mind that yes that like people are working on it but I don't know if you're going to be able to turn around and go in 2026 we get a new 3D Mario like right now my brain says 2027 at least yeah yeah i think even further than that based on how they nintendo seems to move on these kind of things so what but you're okay so let's get rid of 3d mario then what do you think they're doing for this 40th anniversary do you think there's actually going to be something well i'm googling right now i'm on the wikipedia page for the mario 35th anniversary and for new releases obviously i feel like some of these aren't necessarily tied to the 35th as like this was the thing that catalyzed this but yeah paper mario the origami king that came out game and watch super mario brothers super mario 3d world plus bowser's fury you have super mario 3035 which was like the 35 uh person battle royale which was for the 35th anniversary you had mario kart live home circuit you had mario 3d all-stars which is the thing that you mentioned right yeah um and then you had a re-release apparently of super mario all-stars so like based off of that i expect something i feel like i mean 40 if but here's my question about expecting something out of it do you expect it to be hey here's an announcement of all that or do you expect it to be tomorrow marks the 40 and we're celebrating all year long and we're starting with there's new fucking mario icons in the goddamn we shop for you spend your silver points on i mean i think it's exactly that yeah but i think we get something that is substantial i'll say big and original to this anniversary like if we're calling can i call super mario 35 big and substantial yeah i think we get something that level okay i think we get something that is a here's a an original mario experience could be like another 2d game could be something that is maybe like a reeled in hey we're maybe we're doing super mario 3 battle royale this time right or super mario world battle royale give me a look is it too much is it too much with mouse support to dream of mario maker 3 mario maker 2 switch 2 enhanced i mean this would be the time you know what i mean that would be fucking dope as shit yeah i i think that makes sense especially given that we're on the switch 2 right we're in the era now where they're going to be refreshing these games that we got on the switch one yeah it's been a few years now since mario maker 2 and i feel like that's a way that you can go all right like has it only been a few years since mario 2 or maker 2 when the fuck was that that feels like a lifetime was that post i forget if i was hired here for mario maker 2 mario maker 2 29 2019 2019 okay damn so it's been yeah five six years since then yeah i think that's i think that's smart you also don't have a traditional 2d mario yet on the switch too and i feel like mario maker kind of fixed i feel like when we talk about what the switch 2 is doing right now it's fucking hot bless yeah people love the switch 2 we got a whole bunch of people running to get it you're gonna get more getting at this holiday there isn't a mario there and so as much as nintendo loves putting out these special editions if it even if it was just mario maker 2 switch 2 edition and whatever i don't i'm not versed enough even in mario maker 2 to tell you what they could add in terms of styles or whatever but then it's the mouse support to really get out there and do it all access to all the levels that are already on the servers, obviously, plus all the new stuff you're going to get.

18:19That can be super fun. Yeah.

18:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Another one I'll throw out there, Mario Kart World DLC. Is there something celebratory for Mario they can add in there? Maybe you do like a Mario... Outfits? Classic outfit. Maybe you get like a 64-bit or pixelated. I would love a 64-bit, right? But like a pixelated Mario outfit would be fucking dope. Yeah. You assume something about the movie? Now we're trying to commit to this. We're trying to commit to a bit here that they're going to actually... honor this anniversary and do something the day before or whatever yeah some kind of update with the movie where we're at maybe the first look at i don't know a scene from it or just character art from it i've probably announced so much a weird new voice actors i mean the next super mario brothers movie is supposed to come out i believe in 2026 okay so it would be the time to start talking about it even if it is yeah voice actors for characters that haven't been revealed yet they did they made that big deal when they first announced the mario movie and i forget was that a standalone nintendo director or was that part of an intended that was part of a nintendo okay cool cool yeah yeah i guess i guess it's weird for me i just outside of a new 3d mario i don't want them to spend a lot of time on mario here you know i don't know i i'm i love where the switch 2 is at i love what's coming on the line i want a release date for metroid i want to know in the future what's going on obviously i want animal crossing and animal crossing switch 2 edition just some extra updates or whatever they're like i'm excited to see what they have as somebody who's playing a Switch 2 so much right now.

19:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Do you think it's time to get Animal Crossing updates? No, probably not, sadly. I think, again, based on everything we've said and how crowded it is, I keep... It's circling in my mind. We've done this recently where we're trying to pick the date for Metroid because Kirby Air Riders is in November. November now, yeah. Okay. What was the October game for them? Was that Pokemon? Yes. So, yeah, okay. So there you go. Pokemon, Kirby, and we were saying then December for Metroid, right yeah i think you get through this holiday with what you have and then i think next spring you spike the numbers and as i for animal crossing and say hey here's the animal crossing switch to edition as i pointed out it'll be what you know come march right the six year anniversary of animal crossing so you could get away putting in there and doing something fun for that or reason if you really wanted to yeah but again you're going to sell so many units just for kids who are in adults who want switch to and have held off i don't know if metroid necessarily is a system seller but the lineup of switch this year donkey kong cart metroid a pokemon those are going to sell the system yeah through the holiday so get it through there and then people who none of that was for get them with hey we're taking animal crossing and updating your islands and everything runs better and here's a new expansion for it yeah i feel like this year feels so covered uh i would like to see another trailer for the dustbloods that's the from software exclusive that's next have they even put a date on that 2026 okay yeah and so i don't think you i don't think you well i guess that at a direct maybe yeah i would say you don't and i would do a dustblows trailer at jeff's show in december i think you can get away with either yeah but i do think it's time to maybe tease a couple of things that are going on in 2026 especially if you have things that are coming out early yeah you know i i think when when it comes to the cadence of nintendo directs right like there's a super chat from kebabs that says how are their direct rumors we just had three of them and it's the thing where directs are kind of like clockwork now where you're gonna have one in september you're gonna have one in february and you're gonna have one in the middle of the year in the summer and so i feel like if you have something that's in the first half of next year you show it here like i think this is the place to talk about it and then if you have things that are coming out like let's say if dustbloods is supposed to be second half of next year then yeah wait until game awards wait until your february direct for that yeah but But I think I'd be surprised if they don't have anything that's like a new upcoming 2026 title that they want to talk about.

22:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're not wrong. I don't know. It's just you have such a stacked years. I think if you're going to have 2026 content in this near Nintendo, I think it's going to be the third party stuff. Just set expectations. I think Nintendo wants you to be focused on Pokemon, Kirby, or yes, the order Pokemon, Kirby, and then Metroid. Fair enough. let's move on to story number two skate cover art has been revealed and an early access release date is coming this comes directly from at skate on twitter i got another super chat question for you here are you excited for skate why or why not i'm curious what the temperature is uh if we can bring up the tweet from skate uh they say we're stoked to reveal the official skate cover art come back on tuesday the 26th we're giving you the early access release date see you then Greg does this do anything for you woke no here of course I love skate I'm excited for skate I'm hopeful for skate I think it's weird to do or hey we're coming back we're doing this this is a weird drop to then say we're going to give you the early access date yeah like the early access date and I'm old early access dates in general don't get me super excited when you say early access my excitement immediately goes I don't know yeah I want the I'd love a full game that I'm getting right away.

23:25So I'm already like, this seems like so, why so much room to breathe on this too? Why not do like, even just drop this today and say it's tomorrow. Like over the weekend, I saw this pop and I was like, oh, okay.

23:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I feel like we need a cooler name for early access. Cause you, you mentioned the, you know, old thing. Right. But like, I do think that there is, that's a big factor to it where I think so many people that are, are younger or so many people that are tuned into playing like the new steam releases or the big popular games so many of them have been early access and that's been so normalized as a thing to the point where like i'm sure somebody under the age of 25 sees this and for them it's like okay this is just the release yeah right because like that's how you played minecraft that's how you played chat remind me if pub g was early access fortnight you know like so many of these games come out in early access and that is just the way that people play them yeah and they don't think twice about it yeah that's a great point that's a great point bus I don't think you're wrong on that.

24:22I just can't get over it. Yeah. I was just like, okay, cool. I'm getting in a complete game. And now I'm not even getting the date. You could have just announced the date today. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, you know, man, can we just get it out there? Can we just do it? Can we just put it on? They think they're Hollow Knight. They drop it. I know, right? Exactly. They think they're Silksong. Not all marketing campaigns are made the same way. I think you could have just said your release date for this. And I mean, and that's the thing is, so what is the release date for Skate Early Access?

24:48I mean, soon, right? It better fucking be now. it's yeah this is a game where i'm like i don't need and guess what it's coming september 3rd i'm like oh god come on now september is a bloodbath right now just put your game out already yeah

24:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:so this is happening tomorrow and out now would be so fucking sick yeah for this yeah um i think no matter what i would say yeah soon the fact that they're they've dropped the the cover art and then a few days later they're like talking about an early access release date if they just said release date if it wasn't early access then maybe you can get away with oh november or early 2026 or something. Yeah. Early access. Yeah. Drop this in a few weeks. Not the first week of September, but like a week before you are out of time. If our inbox and our spreadsheet for games, cast headlines shows anything, you are out of fucking time.

25:31Pull the, pull the rip cord right now, or this gets lost. September is going to be insane for games coming out this week. I mean, Shinobi we're talking about this week, right? I mean, what did we review last week? Oh, metal gear. We're already there. Yeah. It's already bad, but I feel like right now you could still skate.

25:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:out and you know be okay yeah with that september 4th weekend right like you're talking about hell is us right chronos i think uh silk song i'm pretty sure those three games are like stacked up right on top of each other hiragami and no way really yeah hiragami's next week what's the day i know it's not next week but what's isn't uh borderlands like the week after a week and a half i would have to look that up um and then baby steps september 12th don't forgive about baby Baby steps out. Two weeks from now. Jesus. Yeah. So regardless of release date, how do you think Skate Early Access does? Do you think this is something that lives up to the hype?

26:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:No. Man. I don't think it lives up to the hype. I think it'll make people mad. I think you're going to see... My prediction would be reception removed. Skate Early Access is going to drop. A whole bunch of people are going to flock to it and then a whole bunch of people are going to bleed from it. and I want to call out top of the order here. I love skate. I'm very excited for skate. I will be playing this when it drops. It's that idea that I don't think people are going to I don't think it's going to be as sticky as people want it to be especially in early access. I think people are going to run and then I think EA is going to see that and they're going to run from it too.

26:59Really? I hope I'm wrong. I hope I hope I'm 1000 % wrong, but I just don't believe that EA has the stomach to stick with something that spikes on concurrence and then goes down and even if you are the devs are like we expected this this is early access this is what we're doing ea i feel like is like we need to stick to our pillars and our successes barrett you popped up i think a lot of people are going to flock i think older heads might be not as into what they're going for i could see a younger generation who has been raised on free-to-play and just kind of jumping in being into skateboarding like sticking around and having that kind of be a slow build of a kind of younger generation playing skate for the first time and being more into it because they didn't play the original and weren't raised in that era.

27:47See, I'm excited as an old head to jump in and have it be a new take. Like when they were like, oh man, and microtransactions and blah, blah. I was like, I don't give me daily challenges. Give me whatever, like a little reason to skate around in there. I just wonder what it'll be in terms of sticky. And then for the kid, for the kids, like you said, a slow build. like i don't think ea yeah the current financial situation and climate is ready for a slow build of anything i think they are looking for gajillions of dollars coming in they have some somebody there some fucking moron suit there is looking this and this this could be our fortnight yeah we can we can sell skins and all this stuff and we can do this and it'll do this and then we can start bringing in other ip and yet that's the time i as somebody who would love a superman

28:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:skateboard fuck yeah yeah i mean i doubt we get there and i pray to god that that's not how they're looking at it as far as success yeah but i do think that there is value in looking at it in that way as far as how it can hit because i i kind of lean towards barrett as far as like how the kids and the young audience flocks to it because i think skate is very interesting as far as what skate 3 did and how skate 3 went away but then in like what the mid to late 2010s came back through streamer culture like skate 3 had a bunch of player numbers because streamers were playing it and people got super into it and i think there's something about it that is messy and like tinkery in a way that i think the young audience really fucks with in the same way that they fuck with a peak or they fuck with like these games that are coming on early access that feel like they're kind of thrown together a little bit right but they allow you to hop in they allow you to play with friends and they allow you to like break the game a little bit or like sure you know fuck around and try to do a thing right and like i think skate weirdly fits into that specific kind of game and i think there's something there also for the fact that skate games like skateboard video games aren't as extremely popular as they were back in the day right i feel like this could come through and also just fit a niche as far as there's not that many it's not like you know i know there's session and there's skater xl that i was obsessed with in like 2020 right but like those weren't as big as skate like nothing is doing it like skate the closest thing you have is Tony Hawk and I think Tony Hawk is more for the old heads when I go on TikTok and I see our combos let's do it yeah when I go in the TikTok comments on a Tony Hawk video everybody's roasting it because they're all kids they don't understand what Tony Hawk is yeah they all they want to skate yeah and so I do think your mouth to God's ears that's what I'm so hopeful for I'm just I feel like we've seen people screwed up so many times and I'm so worried that this is going to launch we're all going to jump in and we're going to be shocked at how shallow the pool is that's my concern is we are going to dive into this and be like whoa i've played for 30 minutes 40 minutes an hour and i feel like i've seen it all there's only one mode there's only one thing i'm just doing this it's they don't have that many cityscapes they don't have that many loops like you know i hope i'm wrong i hope tuesday tomorrow they come out like here it is let's fucking go and i jump in and i'm like well i can have a cape yeah now we're talking about a game that could come and go i want to bring up lost soul aside because i saw some people in chat bringing this up lost soul aside if you remember this is like the playstation 5 exclusive game that's being that's being developed or at least started off development uh with one developer it looks like he took final fantasy um and combined it with i want to tell you i 100 forgot about this yes and this is out august 29th this friday yeah this week that's this week that's bad what do you like what do you think is up with this game i was talking about this i was streaming over the weekend i was talking about this right the fact that this game is so quickly approaching and it feels like previews like impressions even marketing doesn't feel like it's as in your face as it should be for a game that's coming out in like from playstation published by playstation published by playstation yeah that's bad that's a bad sign i think it's a really bad sign yeah the fact that i was chat if any of you were at gamescom was there a gamescom like demo kiosk for lost soul aside that's my big question because if there wasn't then i don't have faith in this game yeah no i mean just looking at that trailer i don't have faith in this game yeah the mark i mean that didn't look good did it are we all i mean that looks good like two years ago i said go back to that guy's face he's got no chin what is up with that i i thought this game looked good until we got this close to it and we still haven't seen like i don't know main character's name i don't i like have we gotten story trailers before or after this i forget because i i was like wait Right there.

32:10Look at this guy. No chin boy. No chin boy. It's a bad angle for him. All right. Well, look how cool his hair is.

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32:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Why is it all lit like this? You know what I mean? Lighting's hard, you know? Hey, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's great. I don't know. But I had completely forgotten about this. Yeah. And then you just said that and I laughed because I remembered it. So add that to the pile of games. Oh, yeah. This is going to take up our attention. It will be. It'll be the one that gets a 9-5. God. Anybody got a fantasy critic? What are we doing? Absolutely not. Greg, we're going to move on to story number three. But before we do, I want to tell you about Patreon.com slash kindoffunny and YouTube.com slash kindoffunnygames, where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad-free.

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37:22I was going to say, yeah. Okay.

37:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We have to remind ourselves that gaining visibility for Demon's Goal is our main goal. Thus, the Yeastbeard team strongly believes we could not be doing our game any favors by wading into the waters we can clearly see our blood red. If the September period is going to be Silksong's moment, then we need to be elsewhere on the calendar to give Demon's Goal its own moment to be seen and talked about meaningfully. We don't take this decision lightly. Damon School's release has been delayed before, and we want to be clear, there are no more delays after this point. We've already distributed Steam Keys to press as part of a healthy review program and had every intention to proudly release on September 3rd.

38:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We hope fans who anticipated the game will forgive us for one final delay. Between now and November, Necrosoft Games and ourselves will continue to pour our time into enhancing and polishing up the game experience. For example, there will be more endings and minigames that the developers originally planned to patch in post-release. Rather than leave them on the cutting floor, now it'll all be part of the game's release in November. Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm for Demon School. We truly hope you continue to support Necrosoft Games' labor of love by showing up for Faye and her Madcap Band of Collegiate Demon Hunters on November 19th.

38:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And that was written by Brian Quek at Yeezbeard, or Yesbeard, Games. We've had Brian on the show. never thought to ask or memorize how to say it yeah what i mean came in for the indie mix thing we do at gdc very nice uh very smart decision also i'm sure yeah i'm sure that for them this was the toughest thing like it's funny because yeah you're watching you're like mother fucking hollow knight silk song of all games right like it's funny because uh late last week i think it was mike and roger that was on a show where i added the story where there are three other indie games that also delayed because of hollow nights oh yeah like you gotta run if you're anybody else right that game is having the effect of like essentially being an indie gta 6 of hey we're dropping here everybody get the fuck out the way we don't give up we don't care who else is dropping yeah they know that i mean obviously we all know that hollow knight silksong has a fandom and a reputation to it but honestly i look at you i i'm on game informer.com slash 2025 right we are talking about what's coming out and like i think you called it out hell is us is on september 4th so is hollow night silksong right like if i was hell's us a game that i previewed was very positive about i'd also probably run like there's going to be no oxygen for this game i feel like in terms of what people want now i'm shocked because they say here right review codes are out for demon school yeah and they're like well we got a delay to november so there are people just out here sitting with the game yeah installed in their computer maybe played about an hour a couple ago you know i'm just really having a great haircut i'm just saying people you know really leading into the the persona homages right bless like uh that was one of my favorite ones where uh persona 5 i think was supposed to come out february february 14th 2017 and then got delayed two months later but we got review code on february 14th and then just had persona 5 for like two months yeah like that's nuts to me but also makes me question for hell is us does that game have review codes out if so like of course they do i'm sure that factors into all these decisions as far as like okay well do we delay for hell is us also i'm sure they look at their game and they're probably like well this is so different from silk song just look at the dead games walking here right where it's hollow knight silk song is out on september 4th according to game informer so is hell is us so is star wars outlaws on switch 2 so is void crew which i know andy's been talking so much about then chronos the new dawn comes out september 5th right is it the day i think Golf Hot Shots comes out September 5th.

41:11Baby Steps comes out September 8th. Hiragami.

41:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Never forget. Did you say Baby Steps? They brought up a thing here. I saw this. I didn't read it. I didn't get a chance to read it either. This is from Nathan Grayson. This is from Aftermath. They're interviewing a lot of indie devs about the whole Hollow Knight Silk song. They say here, even bigger name developers like Bennett Foddy of getting over at fame are at least mildly shook quote truth is we're not sure if we're delaying the game yet faddy told aftermath uh of literal walking simulator baby steps uh which is currently set to launch on september 8th we're talking about it though end quote which means that they're delaying they're delaying i feel like if you're talking about it you have to come down on the thing of like yeah let's just get it out the way which but the problem then you get into it's just like there's no good place to go like it's just this is the problem of the fall release schedule the review season everybody coming out here it's just like it's not like it's going to get better as you go and you get more competition now granted not as big as hollow night we're also talking about apples oranges when you're talking about indie games and big games and this that hell is us is such a double a game and chronos is such a double a game from bloober team that i'm like i think they even though they think they're bigger than literally they're bigger than the hollow night team right i still think that that's competition there and mind share and again And how much I think I saw people joking around about it, but I think it's true that Hollow Knight Silksong is the GTA 6 of the indie world.

42:44And what I mean by that is like IGN, GameSpot, everybody else who has a front page.com in the video game world. When that game drops, it will be dominated by review in progress, tips so far, here's the live stream, we're off here doing it. It will be the celebration of Silksong that eats up everything. So it's like if you are doing the traditional marketing campaign, of okay we're dropping on the fourth the fifth whatever you put your review out a few days even if you get your review out the day before hollow knight silksong right your game isn't out yet and it's going to be the idea of like people are to see it and like let's say uh chronos uh hell is us some of the indies we're talking about get eight fives nines right and they get like turn heads that's all well and good but coming in like we're talking about where we are in the world and finances and x y and z coming in and be like well i can buy this 60 game uh that's hell is us's price i just i didn't check uh chronosis uh or i can wait for game pass tomorrow for hollow night or see buy hollow night tomorrow for a less thing and i know that's gonna be 50 dollars for us you're gonna be pushed off the front page of ign immediately if you're any of these games in

43:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:any of these reviews i think to that point right i think yeah when you bring up the hell is us versus some of these other games i think it's also the thing of just marketing budget and like how much you can get your game in front of people where hell is us and chronos that you're talking about both like those have been at summer game fests yeah or like a gamescom opening night lives right those have gotten in front of the eyes that you wanted to get in front of in front of right it's not like those games are similar to hollow knight silk song to any degree but i think what separates them even more is that hey we've had a budget for this because we're working on that double a triple a thing whereas demon school is playing in the same kind of category as hollow night again different type of game but i think when you look at the category of audience that you want to hit with a demon school or with a lot of these other indie games of that scale you're probably kind of talking to those same people that would play hollow night or would be way more excited or way more focused on a hollow night silk song it's i mean you're talking about gamers in general and again when you're talking about a double a game we're talking about these games that aren't gta aren't ghost of yote or whatever yeah you are talking about games that appeal to different gamers but the same kind of gamer who listens to a podcast and reads ign and cares about this kind of shit and hollow knight silksong week the headlines and those podcasts will be dominated by hollow knight and so you lose that no matter how good chronos is how are people trying to fit that into the conversation of this giant hollow knight conversation yeah yeah i'm so fascinated by what that weekend is going to look like as far as who are the big winners because and then i could see it be for like hollow knight silksong i think is going to reign supreme as far as like it's the mind share i do think hell is us seems so different and weird and intriguing that i see that rising as well chronos i think has the tough thing of like it's another one of those like it's another survival horror resident evil style dead space style thing that like i think kind of blends in but also at the same time at the very least it's not like hollow knight it's not like hell is us so maybe it has that going for it um what i I think the interesting wrinkle to all this is the conversation we're talking about of, all right, well, is Baby Steps going to move?

45:53There's the other games you talked about in a Games Daily that moved when Mike was doing this. Like, we're talking about indies and their ability to move. When you are talking about these AA games, boxed games that are going to a retailer, you can't move. You can't, like, at best, you could move your embargoes for reviews. But even then, you're still kind of, all right, well, that's going to be the conversation that week. How do we make a moment? Where do we get our moment?

46:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:well i'll tell you who's having his moment right now ubisoft ceo yves gomol with story number three he's been summoned to appear before french court what a moment for him to have in relation to harassment trial this is chris scolian at video games chronicle ubisoft ceo yves gomol has been summoned to appear before french court following the conclusion of a harassment trial earlier this year. In June, three former Ubisoft executives, the former CEO, Serge, the former vice president of editorial and creative services, Thomas Francois, and former game designer, Guillaume Petroux, were given suspended prison sentences and fines for a range of crimes related to psychological and sexual harassment.

47:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Now, as reported by French news network BFM TV, Ubisoft has received a subpoena instructing Guillemot to appear before the court on October 1st in connection with the same trial. Am I saying that right? Subpoena? Subpoena. Subpoena, yeah. It's spelled weird that I would have thought. Hey, you just crushed all these French names. I understand you put the brainpower to that and you start looking at the and you're like, that's not how I spelled it. It's one of those words that the more I say it, the less it sounds like a real word. The subpoena was filed by the Solidares Informatique Union and four other individuals, the same parties involved in the previous trial.

47:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Ubisoft has provided a statement to VGC saying it would cooperate with the court, but that it believed it had already been decided that neither Ubisoft or its management had a case to answer. Quote, a union and four individuals have issued a summons to Ubisoft to appear before the Bobigny District Court on October 1st. The statement reads, continues, Quote,

48:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:system in this matter as it has done over the past five years in the review of the facts related to this case and quote the first thing that jumps out at me is like man it's been five years since i think that was june 2020 that's how math works yeah yeah yeah i mean that's that is how but like specifically like down to the month right where so many of there's so many stories about abuse and psychological and sexual harassment and shit in the industry but like specifically ones at ubisoft right came out in droves during this time five years ago which is crazy to think about and crazy that we're still dealing with it i yeah i wonder what there's what they expect to get out of use for this right like the fact that again in june they were sent these three former executives were given suspended sentences like it seems like okay this is done but now they're bringing him on the subpoena that is uh for the same stuff it's like okay interesting yeah I wonder what new information's come to light.

49:29I wonder what questions they have for him. I wonder what it'll actually be. Fucking Ubisoft. Fucking Ubisoft. What a horrible situation. Don't be horrible to each other.

49:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Story number four. Replaced has been delayed to spring 2026. This is Sal Romano. I'll believe it when I see it. I'll keep counterpicking this. I'll keep counterpicking. Science fiction retro futuristic action platformer Replaced will launch for Xbox Series and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in spring 2026. A delay from its previously planned 2025 release window, publisher Thunderful Games and developer Sad Cat Studios announced. An Xbox One version is seemingly no longer planned. The new release window was revealed as part of a new development update where Sad Cat Studios talks through the game's progress and shares behind-the-scenes footage, showcasing the game's evolution over the years.

50:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Greg doesn't believe it, though. I mean, I counterpicked it last year on Fantasy Critic. This has been a safe counterpick. lily again this year paris lily picks this fucking game for his team it's been it's been the safe counter pick for like a good three or four years now yeah it's one of them ones i mean the game looks great it looks cool yeah so i mean take the time you need i mean it's just funny for our increasingly kind of funny narrative of it i don't know why but i believe them this time yeah i do too yeah spring spring isn't that far and i feel like you've this has been delayed and gestating long enough i think paris has played it before if i remember you don't come out and say it like this unless you have like some level of confidence especially saying that I don't know if it's in this article the update's nice too where they're showing you like pre production this that that where they're doing somewhere here they mentioned that where they're gonna put out a final trailer later in the year maybe game awards maybe an Xbox underscore direct at that point but good for them cool for them I want to see this game come out do you think this game is gonna be the last Xbox console exclusive that ever comes out it's been delayed so much that Xbox has changed strategies now I mean do you think that's part of the delay I mean no they say it's only coming out for Xbox series and PC they're getting you excited though you know what I mean whoa yeah it probably is it probably is if we're being if it's an honest question although I'm sure it'll have like I imagine it'll have a Playstation 1000 % release later down the line 1000 % yeah so maybe not the game gestates this long you need all the money you can get out of this motherfucker yeah you're gonna put it or they just put it out because you know there's still dealing with the whole Russian-Ukraine thing.

51:50You know?

51:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sure. Story number five. Pokemon Go is boosting the level cap and rebalancing the experience. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Damn, you stupid motherfucker! Pokemon Go is introducing a new higher level cap and rebalancing the XP requirements for existing levels, though no player will see their current level reduced the game's current level 50 cap introduced back in 2020 will rise to level 80 giving players a significant new milestone to aim towards but the game's leveling curve should be smoother developers told ign in a pre-announcement briefing don't worry it's better meaning xp levels overall should be hit more frequently this will be achieved by rebalance of all xp levels to date and the removal of additional time-consuming leveling tasks between levels 41 and 50.

52:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Indeed, players who have already earned the necessary XP will be boosted up to the new level systems requirements when they go live on October 18th, though the exact XP amounts required post rebalance are yet to be confirmed. Don't expect hitting the new level 80 cap, 80 player cap to be easy. However, alongside the necessary XP requirements, A fresh set of leveling tasks will be added for the final climb from level 71 to 80, ensuring only the toughest trainers hit the game's new top level. Congratulations on wasting your fucking life, Tim. How'd that feel? What is the point of living? What is the point of investing your passions into things?

53:33You try so hard. I'm so sorry, Tim. You get so far. And in the end, it doesn't matter. I have my jacket. I get to wear my jacket. Now when it gets easy to hit level 50, I'll get my jacket. Well, that's the thing. It's like, it's your last chance to get this jacket. So on one hand, I'm very happy that I spent the last couple of years of my life dedicating almost all of my free time to Pokemon Go. So I could get a digital jacket, which would then allow me to wear a jacket in real life set by my own rules. For the record, I was going to say, okay. Yeah, for the record, you can go to PokemonCenter.com and just buy a jacket without doing shit.

54:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:How long were you in the 40 to 50 stretch? Two and a half years. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you get to do it all over again once you get to level 70. That's the worst part of this. It's like, you know, look, first off, I don't like they're getting rid of the jacket. That sucks. They're getting rid of the jacket. They're getting rid of the jacket in game. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Which is like. Did you tell them this is a bad idea? No, but here's the thing. I'm happy I have my jacket, but I'm sad that had I been a year and a half into my two and a half year journey and I wasn't able to in the next two months.

54:38get this i would i'd stop playing yeah i would have been that would have been and i'm like i am offended by this but i hustled i got it done so i can't complain too much but what does suck is those challenges that took me that long i'm now about to have to do another set of them because here's what's gonna happen you're committing to this i mean yeah he's coming far i've come this far dude i i am so invested in this game that it's like at this point i gotta keep up oh yeah i gotta keep going yeah but it's it's not good it's not good for my wallet it's not good for it's good

55:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:for the walking i walk a whole bunch does this like in just the smallest way excite you now that there's a new carrot on the stick i mean you knew the level would have to go up at some point there's a new white whale yeah but i mean let me let me say this all right i this this is information that i i got to do a little press brief for the embargo press brief for this so i i had the whole weekend to sit and think about this personally before we gotta apologize we gotta apologize and as they're going through the slides i'm like looking at this stuff and and we didn't know what the news was going to be but they were saying like oh this is going to change everything and they say that all the time but this time there was a different energy like we're really excited to show you this and they start showing the different slides and i'm noticing the they keep focusing on the level icons and i'm like oh man they're going to add another 10 levels we're finally going to get level 60 like all right and then i started seeing one and it said 76 i'm like wait wait wait wait what's happening yeah we're going up to 80 and i'm like jesus christ but the thing is they're going to rebalance it all so the point of them doing this is next year is the 10th anniversary of pokemon that's so fucking crazy it is it's the 30th anniversary of pokemon so they know that they're going to go hard next year they were acquired by scopely so just like it's a new thing at this point so they know they're going to get like a influx of players next year so they're trying to like get the balance right here so that new players or returning players feel like a sense of leveling up constantly like you get that reward right for playing because a lot of people just played and get stuck somewhere.

56:35Specifically level 40. So everything's going to change. But I imagine that October 15th, when this goes into effect, that I immediately will be level 70. And then I'll have to look at the challenges ahead and make a decision on where we go. I can't wait for you to be 55. You know what I mean? You don't even get that much. I hate it, man. But yeah, this does change everything.

56:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:So you think they're going to boost you to level 70 on that? I mean, I think that just with the amount of experience that I have, because it's experience-based. And also, the next two... So you've been accruing experience since you hit level 50. Exactly, exactly. So I have a whole bunch stacked up. Goldfarb has an insane amount stacked up. But we still... XP is not going to be enough to get us past level 70 because we still have to do those challenges. Gotcha. And if those challenges are as annoying as the 41 to 50, oh my god. This is going to be very annoying. But I am excited they're trying to rebalance.

57:27I think more people playing is going to be a good thing. And caring about that is more important than caring about people like me because I'm in already. Yeah, they got you. But yeah, it is a little disheartening to think of how much I give my life to this stupid game, these stupid little creatures. The good news is I've returned to Pokemon Go because Ben wants to play Pokemon Go. So next time there's the community, we're all going to come. Yeah, this weekend was a big one. Jen won't come. This weekend was crazy. Yeah, I saw there was stuff happening nonstop. Yeah, I was at Pier 39, and there was a whole activation.

57:55There was a big blow-up Charizard and Venus. So I'm like, well, this is crazy. thousands of people most people i've ever seen uh at the one place playing pokemon go uh because eternitas was here and they opened up hundred person raids oh wow which is crazy so there's a hundred of us motherfuckers nerdy as shit just standing there tapping our phones like this

58:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:isn't it crazy that all these people just exist in the city yeah you wouldn't know until these yeah yeah it's crazy that's cool anyways well tim yeah they're making a big change that's gonna change your life in a big way but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go tim you go to our final news story the we news channel where we talk about all the small news items that you need to know about oh yeah story number six is we news pizza bandit is now available on early access that's really exciting we had a great sponsored uh let's play with them and giant bomb oh yeah go check that out borderlands 4 won't include cross save or cross regression at launch okay okay yeah okay that's fucking sucks but okay That's terrible.

58:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But at least there's no word on when it's coming? No, I mean, not that I've seen. This just popped up. This is one that like... A Steam update, I think I heard, right? Yeah, this is from a Steam post. I didn't get a chance to read through the Steam post. I hope it's soon because I would like to play on PC and then switch. Well, they don't say cross play, right? I can play with people. Cross play is there. Cross play is there. Yeah, you can play on your PC and play with PlayStation person. Okay. Vice versa. That I care about the most. But then I also do want my cross progression. Okay. This next one is from Mario64.

59:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:assassin's creed mirage free content is coming later this year you get a new story chapter and missions set in the ninth ninth century alula uh and then also you're getting gameplay improvements for the base game and the new location bear do you know what alula is cholula no but might be a title i heard that you said mirage mirage yeah yeah the game that came out two years ago not the one that just came out not the new one Shadow okay yeah yeah yeah yeah well that free update for a game that I think was originally supposed to be DLC for a game that came out five years okay yeah Alula is in Saudi Arabia oh I learned today um did Shadow's not get I thought Shadow's got some DLC didn't it ah maybe this is very weird very weird that this is coming out uh this last one it's from PC Gamer some good news for Splitgate fans developer 1047 games says the original split gate will be moving to peer-to-peer multiplayer on august 29th meaning the game will continue to be playable online even though the servers are being taken down good news i like that man save the game hell yeah and that is it for we news this episode flew by right i wasn't paying attention i thought we had more stories after tim oh we do have a lot of super chats of course you can write in with super chats get your questions or comments read on the show.

1:00:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Just like Gondor's Condor, he says, Silksong's causing exactly what we think GTA 6 will. I think you referenced earlier. Numateo says, level 47, no chance of getting to 50 before the changeover. Much pain. I feel for you, Numateo. Just buy the jacket. It'll be fun. Oh, you want to wear the jacket in game though. Yeah. Clawmaster. And I think they just want to get to that end. You know what I mean? I feel like when you get to that max cap level, it feels good. You're set free. and now they're gonna be a level fucking like 60 or man i guess they're just they're just stuck at 47 yeah until this happens unless the xp because tim said that like it's based on xp right so if he's just sitting on a lot you wouldn't be sitting on xp well i guess yeah in the so what you have in your tank between 47 and 48 that that a number will then be balanced out to get you wherever yeah gotcha well i feel for you new material nerds um omega buster says thanks blessing and team rocket greg is that way is that your thing now gregory james

1:01:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:claw master says marvel tolcon beta is on the weekend of september 5th yes it is that was another one where i was like shit dude lots going on open oh you know that's a good question i'm chat is it open or closed that's a you're wrong thing i forget uh hater john writes in and says Blessing's haircut has me hot and bothered. My goodness, what a cut. First of all, thank you, Hater John. Second of all, you should change your name to Lover John. That was very lovely. Robert Garrido says Kingdom Hearts 4 should replace Silksong. That's good. That's really good. Every saint closed. I'm sure we can find a way for you in, Barry, if you want in.

1:02:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'll just pre-order it on every platform. Ty Wilkins VO says I'll review Redacted 2 for kind of funny. Redacted 2 sounds like a banger. I mean, we'll see about Redacted 2. We'll see what's a banger. It could be. And then last one is from the Portland Kevin who says, Kind of funny meetup at PAX West in Seattle on Saturday, August 30th at 3 p.m. at the bar. Elephant and Castle on 5th Ave. Come meet some kind of funny best friends and hang out. Really fun. If you're at PAX East, or sorry, PAX West in Seattle, go hang out with the Portland Kevin. again that is 3pm at the bar Elephant and Castle on 5th Ave I know where that is

1:03:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I somehow don't know where that is I've been to the Unicorn I like the Unicorn bar I think that's where What's Good did a meet up in 2018 or something we have one more from CJ Splitson who says will Silksong be top 5 highest selling game of the year I'm going to say no unequivocally no actually it'll be probably best selling indie game of the year I can see that maybe I can't think of other I mean Peek sold a lot yeah I don't know if it's going to sell yeah great point and do we count clear obscure where's clear obscure at though I mean we should but the art style doesn't look like Dave the Diver so we can't oh my god fair enough only 33 people touched that game well only worked on it you know what I mean yeah only 33 people yeah I think Peek has that but also Peek is kind of a cheat code because that game is$5 and everybody and their mother fucking loves Peak.

1:04:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But also they deserve it. And that is it for Super Chats. Let's hop into kindofine.com slash you're wrong. Rewrite in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it for those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe. This is a you're wrong for Roger. We're not doing that. We don't care about Roger. That's not a you're wrong. well it is a geppo 1457 says greg just wondering have you ever played tales of zelia no it's not you're other tales games i mean and when i say played i touched them sal writes in and says bless greg was right it's void crew void breaker launched in early access for pc last week void crew has been out on pc for a while but the p well that wasn't that wasn't the no no i i the one the void game that's out is the one 80s been telling people to play and so i saw that the one that's coming out later on i don't know this one 80s talking about it but no andy's talking about the one that's out now yeah nitro says not a you're wrong but a pizza bit on november 15th 2024 greg and bless made a pizza bet on whether all xbox exclusives will have early access purchase options in 2025 greg said yes bless said no gears of war reloaded is coming out tomorrow no early access option congrats to bless you let me know when you want that pizza i'll let you know uh and then last one honestly there's a gears of war coming out there's a gears of war coming out reloaded reloaded yeah which i've been saying i want to play there's a thing i don't know if i could say what it is there's a thing in the kitchen that looks like no i don't say that that's my thing that's my bit what the fuck is that it's my bit it's my bit wild what did i miss why is that a bit i'll go check in on it maybe we can do it now what i tell you that's the craziest thing oh yeah you can barely see it in the fucking shot uh or you can't even see in the beer then you can see you can see a box out of all the things i've seen in the office side of the fucking studio that's the craziest thing i've ever seen i have a plan and it's not for now okay okay cool i'll bring it up oh fuck what was i talking about yeah gears are more reloaded comes out i've been saying that i want to play it it is happening to come out in the worst time where i am leaving to go out of town on thursday for a while with xbox play anywhere yeah but like i've been begging Mike to play with me.

1:06:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Granted, he was never going to play with me anyway, but I've been wanting to play a co-op with somebody. I thought Mike could have maybe organized maybe a stream or something. I don't want to play it alone. I'm just shocked we didn't get review code. You know, that's a good call, but also, I mean, Gears of War. I guess, yeah. Whoa, is that breaking news? Breaking news. What's up? Got a message. The Gears of War code? From one Jeff Jarrett. Oh! I'm giving you fair warning. You better not slander my name ever again More news is coming this week from Acclaim From the Delta Lounge in Boston Watching your team carry your lazy ass Through another show Love Jeff Like why would you read it?

1:07:08You know what I mean? I just feel like the people needed to know They don't need to hear about Acclaim No one needs to hear about Acclaim But they're like a classic video game company And they've made their way back I know, but somehow Jeff Jarrett's attached What does that even mean? It means big things

1:07:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Bigger things than you could ever hope for We've had crazy your CEO. You know, I can't argue that. I can't argue that. Jeff Jarrett is the CEO. What is his position? Is he just on the board? I don't know. I try to stay out of it. Acclaim, video games. He's his homies. He's his homies. He just threw a lot of money at it. He was like, I like Acclaim. I want to see it come back. Which shout out to Jeff Jarrett for that. Yeah. Support and Acclaim. Vice says Acclaim rises from beyond the veil with wrestling icon Jeff Jarrett at the helm. At the helm? That can't be right. Jeff Jarrett is here too. The home executive officer.

1:07:55Good for him. That's King stuff right there. I mean, like, when you want to talk about just sending a business to die, you put Jeff Jarrett in charge of it.

1:08:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sure. What I will say, going back to this Gears of War situation, is that I'm shocked it took this long. Like, halfway through the year, I gave up on this bet, and I was like, oh, Greg's probably right. They're probably doing it for every Xbox game. Yeah. The fact that Gears of War reloaded is the one that they're not doing it for, it's kind of weird. Well, let's come back to this later. This is a conversation we had about X-Loss. Okay, he's serving on the advisory board. Advisory board. Which is still a terrible idea. Have Jeff Jarrett name three video game consoles. Thank you. Yeah, but like, it claims not how you're making hardware.

1:08:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what I mean? They make software. But he knows nothing about the market. He knows, what is Jeff Jarrett's three favorite video games? AW Fight Forever. I bet he couldn't even name it. He couldn't even give you the full title of that game. He could not even give you that much. I'm sure you like Street Fighter or something. He does Street Fighter. There's no way he likes Street Fighter. I heard he's a big Minecraft fan as well. Fighting Force for the N64. I bet you he loves Fighting Force for the N64. Y 'all ever play Fighting Force for the N64? Say it one more time for people. Fighting Force for the N64.

1:09:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And then Kabaz writes in and says, the AC Mirage free update is notable because it's being funded by the Saudi government. Nadi, you're wrong. But a good, like, more context. Yeah, I'll take that context. I don't know how I feel about that one. I also want to look into it. Don't ever call me on this line again. Don't be texting Barrett things to say to me. Jeff Jarrett, you're such a big video game fan. Name three video games. Full titles. I am sitting here in the Delta Land. The TNA game blew me away. I remember vividly you calling me and talking about what a great video game TNA put out. Is that a fact?

1:09:47I'm sorry. what is the TNA video game name? What's the name of that game?

1:09:53Yeah, right. That's what I thought. You got nothing. Go back to work in the Delta Lounge. I'm sure that's what you're doing. Pick up some dirty dishes, you bum.

1:10:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The Delta Lounge sounds nice. I love those lounges. Yeah, Air Canada. That's the top lounge. We got one more from Alex Frazier in Super Chat who says, just started Sword of the Sea. This game rocks. It's on Game Pass and PS Plus. I've heard a lot of good things about this. I got to get back to it. I played the first hour of it. Really enjoyed it. I think Bear also played the first hour. Yeah, I finished it. Oh, I finished it. Really good, solid, chill, meditative play. It is journey, but you're riding on a sword that's kind of a skateboard, and you're bringing water and life back to a desert land, and it's really nice.

1:10:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And I got to ride on a whale, and I thought, that's neat. I want to go back to it. I definitely want to go back to it. 7.5, I would say. Really good 7.5. Okay. All right. That's good. Well, this has been kind of funny games daily each and every week that we run you through the nerdy news. You need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next and the stream after and KFP between both of them.

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