PlayStation Announces State of Play, Teases Wolverine! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.20.26

22:31It did just go by on the stream a little while ago, but it was talking about that. The state of play time length on the Alamo Draft House website says that it is 90 minutes.

22:43Tim Gettys:Oh, now is that just rounding up? Yeah. Is there a pre-show? Because Alamo always has the pre-shows. They always have the good pre-shows where it's like, yeah, do you think they're going to have a fun pre-show? Like they always have before their movie. I think they have to. I hope they do. I don't know if they treat live events differently, but I hope you have, you know, the fun edit of here's the best, craziest moments in all of state of play in conference histories. The most, you know, let's let's let's talk about the dumbest blunders bloopers. They start selling the connect one. It's like, what the fuck?

23:15And they're like, why did we release fucking why don't we make Lego Horizon or something like that? Well, I mean, hey, we could do a pizza bed right here, Roger. will they have a themed pre-show? I'll say no just for the pizza bet. I mean, I say no too. I'll say yes then. I don't know.

23:36Tim Gettys:Part of me feels like this is not coming in hot, but I just don't necessarily, you would have to really show me that they tried. I just don't believe that. I think this is just like, oh, we could do this. Oh yeah, it's an easy lever to pull. Let's just do that. Let's just make that happen. To sell or sell you was the person who sent in that super chat regarding the Alamo Jaffa State of Place. So thank you for the super chat right there and supporting the stream. Thank you to giant bomb for the rate over on Twitch. A lot of possibilities out there. A lot more super chats that we will be getting in here, but let us know.

24:05What do you think about what will happen with this state of play? Now you guys are just getting me a little too excited. I need to, I need to bring back the X. I need to lower that. Go up,

24:14Tim Gettys:go up, go up. I don't know, man. We got control. We got, we got so much shit. We got so many fucking games. Well, we have a lot of, we have a lot of known quantities. Star Wars eclipse. And now I just, Oh, known quantity. Here we go. It's the moment. It's the moment. It cuts to, to David Cage going. We don't even know if this game's coming. So why am I still here? Story number two. Bear games. Oh, I mean, after that report, which is not confirmed, but the report of people saying internal tests are saying, and they're showing them to find the fun with it. I'm like, damn, dude. Is that every video game?

24:57Tim Gettys:Yeah, but we've... You gotta find the fun. Okay, but we've seen so many... We've had so many games as a service games, similar to something like High Guard, where the devs and internal playtests are like, dude, we can't stop playing this fucking game. The frog-type game that was being made by the Bungie team that then split off to make the frog-type game. Frog-type game? Yeah, what was it called? Dummy bears? Yeah, but yeah. That was a frog type game? They were calling it a frog type. Yeah. No? What? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a frogger type? And that's the joke that we made. It was like, is it a frogger game?

25:35What the hell does that mean? Because it was a Destiny team that split off and was like, Gummy Bears, it's called Team LFG.

25:41Tim Gettys:Pat, you can't just say words like that. You can't say Gummy Bears is a frog type game without Slash. I'm telling you, the initial rumors were it's a frog type. It's a frog-like. Those are the terms being used. As silly as it sounds. Because we were like, I don't even know what the hell that means. But yes, Team LFG, which split off from Bungie. When we hear rumors of their game, Roger, we hear that, man, people are just having a fucking blast with this. And they believe in it so much that they are splitting off a team and dedicating time and budget to this. When you have something like Fair Games with reports, again, I don't know how found it.

26:19So again, take it with a grain of salt. But when reports are like, man, they aren't having the most fun testing this game. It gets me scared. Yeah. It gets me scared for the future of Jade Raymond's studio. Did she leave?

26:33Tim Gettys:She did leave. Fuck. And they changed the dollar sign to a regular S, I believe. Ah, right. Right. Xbox One all caps. You hear about that? I've been hearing a lot about that. Remember when Greg said no cap on a show one time? He says that sometimes. Yeah, he said he was goaded. yesterday and i'd let that one slide i don't mind that yeah i think i think you know no cap is and he said it in like maybe where i draw the line it was like it was like during like a review for a game that like was clipped out like a serious one i just like it was just that's the funniest part about it nick scarpino energy yeah for sure just throw that one out like this game is like a nine out of ten no cap like i'm craig miller it's incredible story number two the studio behind Kingdom Come Deliverance, War Horse Studios, has confirmed their next game.

27:22This comes from their Twitter account. You may have heard the rumors. It's time to reveal what we are working on. A new Kingdom Come adventure and an open world Middle Earth RPG. Bang. Look, Roger, you could not have really come up with a better combination of stuff for me to hear. knowing the quality that goes into the kingdom come deliverance video games and pairing that with an ip like lord of the rings and it's all the right terms this isn't a studio you really really want saying we're working on an extraction shooter in the lord of the rings universe or we are working on a shared world co-op mmo you are saying in an open world middle earth rpg yes all of those things sound perfectly from a studio that I think has the the clout and the talent to be able to pull something like this off Roger what does this do for you uh I'm excited for the idea behind it

28:24Tim Gettys:of course the last uh Lord of the Rings thing that I played watched enjoyed uh was Gollum that was the game that I the last thing I I didn't watch the movies recently I didn't do any of that uh but I am I am legit the only piece of media from no I've seen the movies when I was a kid I saw the movies when I was a kid I watched all the Hobbit movies in theaters fell asleep during two out of three of them uh during the final act that's all right yeah i gotta whoa sorry no it's okay i thought i thought greg was coming up you know anytime something happens on the set it's like oh shit is he about here come here um but yeah i uh a game so bad that we named it the one on our review scale golem just golem fucking golem man um i'm excited for it i'm excited for the idea of it i liked the two towers game on the ps2 back in the day um and i've never played kingdom come deliverance but this would absolutely get me in to at least pick it up and try to go deep as possible, because I love those games and I love that universe.

29:19I obviously know that Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Kingdom Come Deliverance are not games for everybody. They're not games that I would recommend. I played about five hours of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I enjoyed my time with it. It's just I was caught between a lot of other different video games and I always said I'd go back to it to go play it, but just unfortunately never found the time for it. Do I want a Middle Earth game in that style? No. I don't want a game that simmy. Kingdom Come Deliverance is very much, it is all about the minutiae. It is all about those really, really small details that make this feel like a simulation RPG where when you're making potions, you have to get that you have to get you know the little minerals there and grind them up and then you have to it is very like it is even more granular than something like red dead redemption 2 which turns some people off where they go be a little bit more arcadey i don't need you to be that like realistic in how you do things uh because that can kind of bog down the experience for some people i appreciate the details in kingdom come deliverance 2 and i don't but i enjoy them there I don't want a Lord of the Rings game to necessarily reflect on a lot of those things.

30:42I don't want to be, you know, making Lemba spread with the most like crazy 30 minute like I have to, you know, roll the dough and all that stuff. I would just want a really awesome, compelling open world game with awesome NPCs and locations and story turns and, you know, freedom of choosing different paths. It's like, if this all comes together, this could be an absolute all-timer for me.

31:11Tim Gettys:Yeah, I think my issue with what's going on with Middle Earth and the Lord of the Rings games and a little bit of the franchise is like, I think they need the person. They need the person at the top of this that's like, whether it is Peter Jackson, whether it's the gaming version of that, right? Like someone that loves this franchise. Peter Jixon. Yeah, Peter Jixon. Someone that understands it so deeply and is able to be a front-facing voice and be like, hey, this is what we're going for with Lord of the Rings, because there's so many games in development that have come out, come and go. Gollum, you had the Shire game, you had so many random Lord of the Rings games, the four-player dwarf co-op game, right?

31:46Tim Gettys:Like, what was that? That was the, wasn't that like a Deep Rock Galactic type vibe? No, it was more survival. Yeah, it wasn't like a roguelite. It was a, you were just a dwarf, but you were living in Moria. I think it was like, something in Moria. It just comes and goes, right? And I understand that this studio is going to kill it. Return to Morian. But I really wish that they just had the guy. The person that's going to be like, hey, I'm the head of this stuff. This is what we're going for here. This is what we're going for here. And I think you can create a really wide breadth of video games.

32:17Tim Gettys:So I think all of our hopes are kind of on this one game. It's like the one. But they have a little whole division over at fucking Embracer that's doing this stuff. So I wish that they were a little bit better about kind of sprinkling them out and making them high quality and not just this one. I guess when you are mentioning I want the guy, for me, knowing that that's not necessarily possible right now unless they made this a directive in the future and said, hey, from now on, hey, James Gunn, you're going to be running DC now. You know, whatever developer you are overseeing everything, you know, Lord of the Rings or Tolkien related.

32:53For me, it's they finally found like the dev. Like they found.

32:59Tim Gettys:The person. they found the superstar dev team with the talent and the and the history and experience to show that hey we can really make an awesome video game this was kind of all i needed because everything leading up to then was oh that sounds like a cool idea i hope they can pull it off i remember playing the shire you know cozy game back at summer game fest two years ago and just being like yeah yikes not a great experience you know but for me i've just been waiting for they finally have the dev yes and hopefully this leads to more moments where they go we can find another dev because that was so that was so successful it was worth putting our money into that expensive of an experience we got so much return on it back and not just financially but critically or whatever let's go for another expensive dev and see if they could kind of continue something in the universe we have uh john wick with saber right like we have a we have a lot of good ips that are going to good devs that especially warhorse right there and saber like i think they're not the same level but like you know the same vibes of like you have you have a huge hit now you get a fucking ip and then you can run with that because we believe in you we know you can do it so uh yeah i'm excited also space mario 2 is so good man it's very good i need to go back and actually like lock in i think i just as i was playing it i was just like man i want i just should just play gears of war it's got like the best moment of all time near the end of it also Also, you guys fucked me because we're playing it together.

34:26No, don't say you guys. I wasn't a part of that.

34:27Tim Gettys:You were part of it. No. You were playing with me. No, it was you, Blessing, and Mike. Oh. Fucking Andy. After the Baldur's Gate thing, I just blame you on everything. I just blame you on everything. When are we going to get back to Baldur's Gate? You fucked me. Don't talk to me. You fucked me. No, no, no. No, no, no. We were playing the game, having fun. You beheaded Carlack in the first three hours. The game let me do it. Why would the game let me do it if I can't do it? Oh, I didn't know there were unwritten rules. Didn't know I can't fucking roleplay the way we want to roleplay

34:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Be more imaginative than just killing everybody You guys are doing the fucking same thing always I'm showing you something you've never seen before

35:04Tim Gettys:You've never seen this happen before No one's ever done this in the game We were brave Nobody's gone an all kill route Yes, no one's ever done it before Mike and I were showing you something fun Have fun with it, Andy It's not a real thing Fucking go to act I played my playthrough, so I'm fine with it now Now I can have my fun Now I can do what I want to do you were outvoted if you want to have a worse experience go for it I'm totally okay with that maybe they come back at the end no consequences

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36:48so me Greg and Nick Baldur's Gate three run that's your pitch I didn't have to leak it I was a private thing but yeah that's my pitch yeah that's something special like we were laughing

37:00Tim Gettys:constantly you fucked it up you did this to yourself did I you you invited Mike on a separate place I felt like the kid that was kicked out of the you know the gym and you can't hang out with them you were I was it was very sad it's very personal I saw a great comment also Mike was part of it like why was mike invited mike did the thing with me why was i the one that was singled out well because we stream at night and you you know i didn't get the text you have a ring ring ring what do you think i don't know it's just you know had more fun you know story number three xbox expands leadership team with major hires this comes from christopher drink at the games business xbox has added two big names to its leadership team matthew ball and scott van Vliet?

37:46Vliet. Vliet.

37:49Tim Gettys:What if it's like ballet? What if? Great question, Rodney. The new recruits, you're just giving me nothing. No, I Vliet. The new recruits are part of an ongoing drive from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to move faster, build better products, and make more focused business decisions. The game business can reveal that Ball is joining as chief strategy officer. He knows Ball. I was trying to figure out a way how to throw that in there. He is a popular industry analyst who is responsible for the annual The State of Video Gaming Report, which is widely read across the business. His first job will be to strengthen the console side of Xbox, which is facing significant pressures, not least from the rising costs of memory and storage.

38:37In an interview with the game business earlier in the year, he admitted he was, quote, pretty frightened by the situation for the console sector. Ball has previously worked as head of strategy and planning for Amazon Studios and wrote the 2022 international bestseller, The Metaverse. He is currently CEO of Apillion, a venture partner and investment group or at the investment group Makers Fund and senior advisor at KKR and Company. Meanwhile, Scott Van Ville as chief technology officer. He was previously in charge of Azure OpenAI and AI core infrastructure at Microsoft. And he also led engineering for Microsoft Teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

39:19But he has a games background. He previously worked across games for Amazon, including Alexa, Amazon Game Studios, and the Amazon App Store. His job will be to improve how Xbox builds products so teams can move faster and deliver stronger results. In addition to these new hires, Xbox has promoted Chris Schnackenberg to corporate vice president, partnerships and business development. He was previously VP of Partnerships and Business Development and joined from Activision Blizzard, where he spent 12 years in various strategy, business development and partner relations roles. His focus is on third party games, publishers and developers working with Xbox.

39:55Thank you for the write up, Christopher Dring over at the Game Business, who has a phenomenal podcast. Incredible podcast. Just called The Game Business. Yes. Very, very awesome one. Well, we've seen prior hirings happen at Xbox, Roger, and you're like, oh man, we're getting some AI people being brought into the company. They have other lines of work as well. They have been in other parts of the industry at this point, not just AI. but part of me does it does make me happy that asha just seems like the the general manager or the coach that gets hired onto a team and says i'm bringing in my offensive coordinator that i worked with i like my defense coordinator that i worked with three years ago here's my well like she has a team she has a strategy she has a plan yep and that's more than i feel like we could save for a lot of you know moments in the past xbox it feels like we have a vision we have people that we want to work with i still get scared seeing all the ai you know involvement what does this do for

40:59Tim Gettys:you yeah of course you have the knee jerk of the ai but then you start to think through of course what this industry is and what i don't know tech has been in the last you know five six years of like everything wasn't ai until everything had to be ai and those are powers that you know these people that are in these positions necessarily didn't choose you know what i mean like this is This is what is hiring. This is what is making the money. This is where your career is going to have to go. You know, the amount of people I know in tech that are not AI people that hate AI, but are forced to use it and forced to be heads of AI divisions, right?

41:29Tim Gettys:Like at that point, that's how this goes. So I don't necessarily think that this is going to lead to AI within Xbox or even getting worse because, you know, even Copilot was killed, which is their AI initiative for Xbox over there. But it does interest me and it makes sense that they are focusing and doubling down, at least with that first hire on the strategy of console which genuinely feels like an impossible task uh when it comes to xbox i mean you were undoing the whole xbox series consoles and saying you can just play xbox anywhere and now it's like well actually buy a console now and with everything getting more expensive and people are gonna hold on to their consoles for dear life if they even have one right if they have a next gen console uh it's it's gonna be tough to look at everybody and say actually you have to buy project helix uh that's the one that you need to buy when everyone has their playstation 5s they have their um switches they have their pcs like this is an almost an impossible task so i i'm a little wary honestly mostly of just the amazon connection to it all because amazon has been tough in the last few years of course exactly where i was yeah going to the the head of or or one of the leaders of strategy over amazon it's like okay strategy hasn't been great over at Amazon but pretty freaking bad but maybe how much is that is that you know even senior senior yeah meddling like how bad did that get you know Amazon is notorious notoriously bad when it comes to staying with one vision when it comes to the movie divisions when it comes to their gaming divisions um but yeah that's the toughest part about this not the AI side of it there's a you know the emotional whiplash that I went through while reading that paragraph of Scott Van Vliet or Valet joins as chief technical officer.

43:11He was previously in charge of Azure Open AI and AI core infrastructure at Microsoft. And I'm like, oh, man, here we go. But he has a games background. Oh, OK, nice. Where did he work at? Amazon, Amazon Game Studios and Amazon App Store. Notoriously known for failure after failure, after shutdown, after game servers going offline. it's just there hasn't been a great track record to be able to point to now i do get happy that you know again hopefully there were some there were lessons learned there about here's what worked at the team and obviously working with amazon you are working with people that had a lot of money that you felt were you felt like you were probably invincible i know that i felt naively when amazon first gets in the game business many many many years ago i go oh shit that's kind of awesome because they have a lot of money to toss around yeah and once they see that the you know the return on investment isn't worth it they immediately cancel and act that shit because they have so many different projects going on and i i do hope that that experience there of hey we know i know what it's like to work under the worst conditions of something like amazon i can hopefully bring some of that knowledge to xbox you know it does get me a bit um

44:27Tim Gettys:i get a bit of encouraged there yeah i get i give a little bit of kudos i mean he came in 2022 this is after the launch of new world right like i did enjoy what amazon was doing for the niche of mmos and like focusing in on that i think that is a very smart idea but once you get out of that like and start to try to expand and move away from mmos it's like you already made your bed you got to stay with the mmo crowd and then slowly build onto something else you can't just whiplash and i think that he was a part of that probably of like coming in and being like okay well new world didn't hit as well as we want to like how do we what do we do next so uh yeah you're you're totally right i i'm this to me doesn't really mean anything of like executives are executives like that you you get hired for a job the job doesn't work out you move to another job like it's just about the the vision of the leader right so it all comes down to asha and what she is doing so if she has her team that she feels comfortable with uh more power to her hopefully she's able to make gamers lives a little bit better.

45:23Agreed, Roger. Story number four. Returnal director founds new game studio to develop new single player IP. This comes from Dave Aubrey at VGC. Harry Kruger, director of 2021's PS5 exclusive Returnal, has announced the formation of a new game studio based in Finland. Kruger previously worked on Outland and Resogun, directed Next Machina, and helped shape the early stages of Saros. After almost 15 years at Housemarke, Kruger left in 2023 and has now founded Cosmic Division. intending to establish their own identity while building on years of experience, crafting award-winning action experiences.

45:59Kruger now steps into the role of founder and CEO of Cosmic Division, sharing in a statement, quote, I'm incredibly grateful to Housemarque for our shared journey, which has shaped the foundations for our new studio. We're proud of what we achieved, but we're not standing still. At Cosmic Division, we're building on our strengths while finding a new edge through fresh themes, ideas, and talent. We believe there is always room for games built on timeless values that trust the player and leave a lasting impact. End quote. In a press release, Cosmic Division shared its intention to start with creating a new single-player PC and console IP as the studio's first project.

46:38The project promises, quote, an unapologetically gameplay-first experience and a story with strong emotional resonance. End quote. Cosmic Division has already secured seed funding to get started, but it's actively looking for collaborators, investors, and exceptional talent to aid development. Quote, we have our feet on the ground and have solid foundations beneath us. Kruger shared in a press release. Now our journey of cosmic wonder begins as we venture toward the stars and beyond. Very cool.

47:09Tim Gettys:Exciting. Yeah, shout out to Harry Kruger. I was completely unaware that, you know, whenever this story went by, I was just always under the, I was always under the assumption that Gregory Loudon, who, you know, headed up Saros, was kind of the lead of Returnal as well. It seems like Harry Kruger was, you know, one of the main leads on Returnal and then left in 2023. That's exciting. I mean, we saw success in Sektori with former Housemarque developers. and um this seems to be if i were to just assume roger this seems to be less of a sectorian more of a return of sarrows experience what say you uh yeah i mean part of me also hopes that it is a smaller experience i mean you see these developers like i mean we're going to talk about one in a little bit um with you know former developers from big games try to make a big game and then shit just falls apart in the industry so part of me does hope this is a smaller double a to uh triple i type vibe right where it is uh maybe you can go through all this and do a outlander type thing maybe 2d type vibe um just so then they can get it out and then hopefully see the return on investment there and then expand uh but yeah it does seem like we're going for a returnal vibe again or something like that uh in terms of scope or or maybe a little bit smaller yeah i don't think we're going to be going back to uh uh what's called reso gun or anything like that yeah especially when i hear you know strong a story with strong emotional resonance it makes me think it might be a bit more than just you know arcadey only yeah story number five hasbro cancels dungeons and dragons game from star wars veteran this comes from jason schreier at bloomberg hasbro inc has canceled a publishing deal with the independent video game studio giant skull less than a year after announcing it the two companies confirmed this week giant skull was founded by stig asmussen the well-respected director of games such as God of War III, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, after he left Electronic Arts in 2023.

49:05He recruited several industry veterans who worked with him on the Star Wars games at EA. Last June, Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast subsidiary said it was partnering with Dry and Skull on an action-adventure game set in the D &D universe, calling it, quote, a definitive moment for both companies' gaming ambitions, end quote. But Wizards of the Coast pulled out of the deal earlier this year, the company told Bloomberg News. quote we assess concepts at every stage of development a spokesperson for wizards of the coast said adding that the company was still taking new pitches from giant skull uh the quote continues while we decided not to pursue an early concept from giant skull we have great respect for stig and his team and value our ongoing relationship the spokesperson said end quote hasbro has focused more on video games in recent years placing big bets on expensive productions such as upcoming sci-fi title Exodus, which is slated for release in 2027.

49:58But a toy and gaming company, which also operates the highly profitable Magic the Gathering card game, has indicated a desire to cut costs. The cancellation of a giant skull deal, which hasn't been previously reported, took place alongside a larger reorganization at Wizards of the Coast that also included the closure of subsidiary Atomic Arcade. Asmussen said that he enjoyed working on Wizards of the Coast and said that he was talking to people there and at other companies about potential new publishing deals quote things are good a giant skull he said that's good to hear i hope so i hope so you know every it's the obviously you don't want to make your studio feel like shit and put out a quote that may you know sound the alarms and cause people to update those resumes and linkedins but um i mean this is still this is still a bummer yeah when you think of a power with and when i say a power i mean just an entity with money to throw around and fund things and when i think of hasbro and all the money that they have with something like um uh you know this dungeon dragons game from a veteran that has the track record to put out and work on really really good video games i think that's

51:08Tim Gettys:a pretty big bummer yeah yeah i mean you get into as i was mentioning earlier like we see these so many times with big developers or people that worked on big video games coming out and be like okay, well, I'm going to make my own studio. And it's very hard right now with the position of all of these studios and IPs. And, you know, funding is getting cut every single day, right? So this is not a surprise, but it sucks. We've seen so many of these super teams over the years. So many, dude. Samson, the latest. It's, you know, the former Rockstar Blizzard Bioware devs. Like, I feel like those are always the combination.

51:43Tim Gettys:Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then you hear it like, does anyone work at these companies anymore? Yeah, it has certainly been a while since we've seen anything like that. Story number six. Quantic Dream kills live service game three months after early access launch. Comes from Wesley Yenpol at IGN. W-Y-P. Quantic Dream has canceled its live service game, Spellcasters Chronicles, just three months after its early access launch. The French game company released MOBA Spellcasters Chronicles as its first ever free-to-play game in February, but it struggled for players was met with mixed user reviews on Steam.

52:19According to SteamDB, it peaked with 888 concurrent players at launch and had a 24-hour peak of just 54. Rather than see the early access period through to 1.0, Quantic Dream has decided to kill Spellcasters Chronicles now, signaling layoffs. Quantic Dream, best known for its successful single-player story-driven games such as Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, and Detroit Become Human, and Spellcaster's Chronicles with a drastic departure revolving around 3v3 MOBA gameplay. Clearly, it hasn't worked. Quote, With Spellcaster's Chronicles, Quantic Dream set out to propose a bold and original multiplayer experience, the developer said in a statement issued to IGN.

52:59It gave our studio the opportunity to explore new creative territories and experiment with new concepts. However, in today's particularly challenging market environment, we must acknowledge that the game in its current form has not reached a sufficient audience to ensure its long-term sustainability. And, yeah, and we go on with the article. Quantic Dream told IGN it was unable to share the number of staff affected as the consultation process has only begun and must work through the French legal process. Discussions are expected to progress in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the studio insisted that the development of Star Wars Eclipse is not affected by this decision and continues as planned.

53:39But yeah, it does look like they mentioned they will undertake an internal reorganization. Not a surprise.

53:47Tim Gettys:I truly did not know this game came out. First of all, when I read this name, I was like, they made that spell game where you're going, oh, it's a completely different game. Like it's just like such a generic name. And then I saw the trailer for this and then now it's shutting down. I didn't even know it came out. Yeah, we had just talked, me and Blessing had talked about a story, like an internal story saying like they were struggling with the development and not feeling super encouraged by the amount of players playing it. And I feel like that has just been the story with so many different multiplayer games.

54:24It's so hard to step into such a crowded landscape where people have their comforts. They have their communities. They have their comfort games that they hop into.

54:36Tim Gettys:They have their IPs they like, too. Yeah. That's a big one. I thought this game always looked really quality. I thought, you know, it's nothing to say about how it looks and how it performs. Obviously, with mixed ratings, not great. I think the game still would have failed if the 888 people said that this was the best multiplayer game of all time. It's just one of those situations where, regardless of the quality, there are so many great games being made that still can't find player bases. Yeah, I'm very, I am fearful for the future of this company. And with this and then, you know, Star Wars Eclipse, where the hell that is, right?

55:13Tim Gettys:Like, this is not good news. So, yeah, I'm pretty worried. Yeah. Pretty worried. My worries are pretty big, Roger. It is. I'm tired of all that big stuff. If I wanted something smaller, see the tiniest news I need to know about. Where would I go? You go, our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

55:35From MMORPG.com, Embracer Group is spinning off Fellowship Entertainment, a division that includes Middle Earth Enterprises and the Lord of the Rings IP, Crystal Dynamics Dark Horse Media Eidos Montreal War Horse Studios who make Kingdom Come Deliverance into a separate publicly traded company wait

55:54Tim Gettys:Middle Earth Enterprises includes Crystal Dynamics as well like this feels like you're moving it was Middle Earth and Friends

56:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:at one point and now they just made it Middle Earth you can't

56:05Tim Gettys:this feels illegal this feels like we're moving around assets you know what I mean in like a weird way like I don't believe in this one no no no this is weird you're just trying to put a cool name on a on a company yeah well it also feels like oh like it's the lord of the rings company also we got a bunch of this yeah we got a bunch of games things with debt and you know roger you're reading too much no no no you're right you're publicly traded company hey here comes the money here we go baby put everything in it come on take a second mortgage on your house my love so high everybody from nintendo life via matt Piscatella Tomodachi Life living the dream has been projected to be the best selling game of April in the US shit good for them that's awesome that's pretty damn rad the big ass game from insider gaming split gate developer 1047 games is working on a spiritual successor to Titanfall dubbed m impulse impulse impulse it's uh it's the word pulse but with em at the beginning everybody pre-alpha gameplay footage said to insider gaming on the condition that a not go public shows players fighting in team deathmatch using grappling hooks while running and boost pads to quickly traverse around the map from rebecca valetime at kotaku ubisoft promises new assassin's creed far cry and ghost recon are coming eventually but says this year will be a low point compared to what just this year and it's crazy we're already talking about like Ghost Recon Splinter Cell's announced That's in the works We're not maybe mentioning that one They have a whole show called Death Watch People watched it, I watched it Okay, so I understand Ubisoft rep What about the Splinter Cell?

57:51Ah, come on man Come on This is a serious post This is a serious thing Moonlighter 2 Blob Life Balance Update is now available. I'm excited to get back to that game. And Titanium Court, Barrett's Game of the Year, has now sold over 25 ,000 copies in a little over two weeks. And I saw a great write-up about the success of Titanium Court and how small of a game it was to make and how 25k copies is like, yeah, we can fund the next game and the publisher can fund a couple of other weird projects that don't need to be necessary hits. They could be a bit more, you know, risky in what they are.

58:37Tim Gettys:That's my favorite subgenre of YouTube videos is watching indie developers talk and break down, like, very, like, openly about how much money they made on Steam. And a lot of times it's like, I made, like, I sold, like, 10 ,000 copies, and that changed my entire life. Like, I now can quit my job. I can do this. Like, it's really beautiful. So, hell yeah, congratulations.

58:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But also, more people should play it if you really want a fun and satisfying match three tower defense type of game. It's really good and it's really funny. People should play it. I love when games use this art style. When they have a very dedicated color scheme and color palette that they go with. There's so many Metroidvanias and side scrolls that use this and I'm always a fan. Whenever it's effectively used. That's it for Ween News, everybody. Let's get to our super chats and to You're Wrong, or you can write in to kindoffunny.com forward slash You're Wrong to let us know what we got wrong during the show.

59:36Nothing on You're Wrong. Wow. Phenomenal show from us. Amazing. Doted. We have a super chat from Sosa who says, Andy, I thought it was important for you to know that the first letters of the eight playable characters from Octopath Traveler 1 and 2, spell out Octopath. Oh, that was told to me during our Octopath Traveler Zero review. And that blew my mind back then. rogan with a$20 super chat shout out rogan on instagram who does a lot of indie coverage says i don't super chat nearly enough for the amount of years of amazing content y 'all have provided me you guys basically live on my second monitor at this point i appreciate you both and i appreciate kind of funny thank you rogan hey thanks appreciate the love dude appreciate it um i think it's rogan plays games let me let me double check always amazing little just indie tiktoks and indie Instagram reels talking about the just, you know, here's this new indie game you need to keep your eye on.

1:00:33RoganPlaysGames is the Instagram account. Been following him for quite a while. Highly recommended. ScoopBall with a$5 super chat says, happy birthday to my mini-me, Sebastian, who turns five today and beat his first, beat his first, first game with Mario Wonder. Proud dad. Congrats, Sebastian. Seabass.

1:00:53Tim Gettys:That's huge. What was the first game you finished? oh man i mean it was probably mario world wow no i think maybe mario 3 mine would probably be mario 3 maybe mario 3 mine was batman vengeance nice god what console was it

1:01:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:ps2 yeah but i couldn't i couldn't slash gamecube yeah i couldn't there was a moment where you get

1:01:16Tim Gettys:stuck you get frozen by mr freeze and you have to like wiggle the stick really fast and i'd have I've always cried, Mom! Mom!

1:01:27Levi Little with a$10 Super Chat says, They got to do something for the state of play to give me a reason to turn on my PS5 instead of my PC. Also, my name is Sparance Levi. Like the genes, just FYI. Andy and Bless from Monday. Oh, did I say Levy? Bless probably said Levy.

1:01:43Tim Gettys:You would never make a mistake. I'm the best speller. Kind of funny. Everybody knows that. Ask me to spell a word. Mississippi. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. He's goaded. Come on. Come on. My bad with Super Chat says, I played Saros and I love it. It reminds me of Hell is Us. It also makes roguelites palatable to me as a non-fan of the genre. Game deserves more sales. I agree. Saros is going to be a top three for me most likely at the end of the year. It is phenomenal. Metal Baby Mario with a$5 Super Chat says, Baldur's Gate 3 and Remnant 2 streams, please, as they say at Team LFG, that's the good stuff do they say that wait what is that a quote do you work for team lfg yeah is it uh yeah do you work for team lfg tell us about the frog about your frog type um yeah i often say i always it's a topic of conversation that often gets brought up while i'm streaming about how much i love remnant 2 and how much i wish that remnant from the ashes 2 was the most sought like i wish we lived in a universe where that's the content everybody wanted to watch yeah because i would like be so incentivized to go play that again and stream it with greg or whatever because i know greg loves little third-person shooters but it's just such a an amazing experience and one day we'll get to balls gate 3 and hopefully mike doesn't allow uh shadow heart to stab uh lazel through the throat that's something he did like just so you know when we abandon you yeah and continue You know, our own playthrough, there's a moment where Shadow Hearts on top of Lazell.

1:03:14And Mike's like, let's let it play out. See what happens. I said, OK, we've let a lot of stuff play out. But yeah, we'll let this play out. Knife to the throat. It seems like Andy's fault.

1:03:25Tim Gettys:You know what I mean? Like, you let it happen. You said, hey, yeah, yeah, have fun. Have fun. And afterwards, you're like, let's kick Roger out. Well, you know, sometimes you need your kid to say what happens when I touch the stove in order for them to learn a lesson. You know what I mean? OK, OK. Another super chat from Christopher Burnett, who says, time for a bold prediction. GTA 6 trailer 3 will be one more thing to say to play on June 2nd. And pre-orders will go up around June 16th. I love, I love when we just say things. There's no way. Pretty awesome to just say stuff. I love it, though.

1:03:57I like dreaming. Christian Solario says, Arsenal won the league after 22 years. Congrats to all the Arsenal fans out there. And we have another super chat from Christopher who says, Marathon Season 2 drops the same day as the state of play. there will definitely be a state of play or marathon in that state of play. There's no doubt that there will be that because you got to advertise that game because the people back in

1:04:18Tim Gettys:I saw somebody in the chat was like maybe Soros co-op that could be a big one. Hey everybody Soros is out. Oh gosh I hope. Yeah that'd be dope. I hope so. Everybody thank you for watching Super Chatting supporting us with your eyes and ears because when you don't support the things you love they go away forever. stay tuned after this for a gamescast where I'm going to be finally talking about all my time with Subnautica 2 because I had to play it without Nick and Mike and I'm very excited to talk about it and review it after this so stay tuned for the gamescast after that and then a rest of the day of programming I forget what else is happening in the day

1:04:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Blessing Greg are going to stream Thick as Thieves Blessing Greg, Go-Op Thick as Thieves stay tuned for that until next time though gamers it has been our pleasure to serve you Thank you.