PlayStation Faces $2.7 Billion Lawsuit - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.13.26

14:26Jack Coleman:Yeah, class action. So yeah, they say, what, if you've bought PlayStation games in the last 10 years, I think,

14:34Tim Gettys:somewhere in this article they break down, like with these class action lawsuits, it's whoever signs up, you know, you get your money, you get your$30 each or whatever, however much money they decide to give out. Yeah, it's insane. Have you ever been a part of a class action lawsuit? You ever get that check from Facebook that one time?

14:50Austin Manchester:No, I get those whole, have you had an accident and get that all the time in the UK. If you got an accident and we can give you some money, but no, never been part of one. But I might get part of this one because I buy so much PlayStation games. I mean, listen,$2.67 billion,

15:05Jack Coleman:that's a lot of money to go around, you know what I mean? Like, we might be able to get a buck or two. But yeah, that's a wild one. We definitely got to keep an eye on that. I want to bring in some Super Chats. Of course, we will have things to say. Just like Irk the Imp, who writes in and says, to me, the main issue with console digital stores is there is no way for a user to buy a digital PS5 game from another storefront and redeem it yeah yeah i mean that's the weird thing like

15:28Tim Gettys:this lawsuit would allow that to possibly open up like the potential that to open up will that actually happen though is the next question where will people actually take the initiative to go now i'm going to create a competitor to the playstation store on the playstation like that just that doesn't sound feasible um unless like you are an already super popular developer with one of the biggest games in the world and you want to go oh we'll just do this ourselves we'll just sell it ourselves that way we don't have to pay the 30 to playstation

15:59Austin Manchester:also as well it also has that whole fact of say for example someone buys a game on a digital on playstation's digital storefront and then they have issues it doesn't load or they want to refund it and stuff is sony gonna take up that and be like oh yeah we'll refund people or we'll

16:17Jack Coleman:deal with all of that issue probably not yeah that's a really interesting question i want to bring in another one from omega buster triple six who writes in and says i think it's more about payment so if you download from the playstation store in-game purchases are required to be through sony payment system third parties want to use their own payments payment systems even if you download via the playstation store and yeah that's more to the apple thing right the whole apple

16:39Tim Gettys:versus epic thing of hey we we have all of the like you look at fortnite and you look at the amount of money they make through digital purchases in fact all their money is made through those um like cosmetic sales battle pass right those micro transactions you want to get more of that like piece of the pie right you want to get a greater percentage of that you don't want to keep having to pay sony 30 because that's a lot of money yeah everyone just wants their direct

17:06Austin Manchester:cash right to their pocket they're like i don't want to pay anybody a third party pay them extra I just want all the money.

17:13Jack Coleman:Yeah. And then we'll do one more from Cam4748. He writes in and says, Always happy to see these big companies lose money like this. If they fire people when they're making money and fire people when they lose money, then F it. Let these MAGA corps lose all the money. Listen. Strong opinion, but also, like, I get the frustration, right?

17:33Tim Gettys:Like, we look around, and the video games industry oftentimes feels like it's on fire when you're seeing studio closures, when you're seeing these layoffs, when you talk about... Bluepoint on the PlayStation side or like whoever it may be There's a frustration there.

17:47Jack Coleman:So yeah, I told I totally feel it now before we move on Kevin I want to acknowledge because chat keeps going off about rewinding on YouTube I don't know if there was a button pushed but people are very frustrated about it I think chat is saying they YouTube is it that you can't rewind on the live stream? I think usually on YouTube you're able to like scroll through the video chat what what's happening why are you so mad because they're only talking about the rewind and it's throwing me off yeah you can't rewind oh can we change that after the fact well after the fact it's just a vaude right so that works but yeah no i mean like right now oh i see see if

18:28Greg Miller:you can chat we're trying to help you i'm looking at the back end i'm not seeing an option for

18:32Jack Coleman:rewind now here's what i'll say youtube funny enough you can rewind on twitch which is a new feature on twitch and twitch is twitch is stunning on youtube right now twitch is like damn that's crazy you can't rewind damn that sucks which is like you ain't about that life yeah twitch is like damn like i smells like broke over there it's crazy and so if you want to rewind maybe head over to twitch um but of course this will go up as a lot later and you can scroll through there but

19:02Tim Gettys:i don't think that was on purpose from our side in fact i know that wasn't on purpose from our side i think maybe there was just a check that got like a box that got checked or something yeah

19:12Jack Coleman:i i don't know i'll keep looking to it once i have a definitive answer like it won't be able to i will let you know okay perfect thank you so much kevin um while we're here speaking of youtube samson over on youtube writes in with a super chat and says early birthday tax since i can't watch it live thanks to kind of funny and chat for being a daily highlight turning 32 with an mtg draft in six pokemon pre-releases for a cardboard filled birthday weekend happy birthday happy birthday to you hell yeah all right let's move on to story number two legacy games media site video gamer has been removed from google after pivoting to ai generated articles this is jack coleman at the gamer video gamer is a games media site originally founded in 2004 by two university friends, Adam McKinn and Tom Ori.

20:01Jack Coleman:In the volatile games media business, two decades are enough for something to be considered legacy, and until recently, the Video Gamer brand was rallying around a string of original interviews and excellent reporting. Then, the site was acquired by ClickOut Media, a Maltese company with ties to gambling and cryptocurrency, and before long, many of the editors responsible for Video Gamer's recent uptick were gone. Shortly after, the rest of the staff was ejected in a bold pivot towards a site completely occupied by AI-generated articles and fake editors. Video Gamer then posted an AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem, with the obvious problem being that a review posted at embargo time has no content for a limited language model to steal, so the resulting review was a nonsensical string of words that included all of the pre-release information the model could scrape, including pre-order bonuses.

20:51Jack Coleman:The debacle was useful in that it prompted review aggregator Metacritic to release a statement where the company committed to removing any AI-generated reviews and blacklist outlets that submitted them. The editor profiles populating VideoGamer, which include chat GPT-generated profile pictures, and fake social media profiles are a deliberate attempt to mislead Google as the search engine prioritizes articles written by real people who are experts in their respective subject. This is probably what caused Google to completely de-index Video Gamer, which no longer populates on the search engine when searched for.

21:24Jack Coleman:It's a sad end for a brand that's been around for so long. Video Gamer's co-founder, Tom Ori, most recently editorial director at Eurogamer, wrote, quote, I remember making Video Gamer, Pro-G back then, sat in the tiniest bedroom in a university house chair in Brighton. It was my entire life for a very long time. I hope people remember it for what it meant to people and not the abomination it is today.

21:49Austin Manchester:And, well, a really sad story. Really, really sad. I actually saw this when this was all going up. It was going all up on Blue Sky and people were like, what is this review? And it's just insane. It's just the AI thing. I just feel like it just doesn't end. And game journalism is such a great craft and people work so hard to be able to write amazing reviews with their opinions. Really, you know how much time you spend on a game and really kind of putting your passion into the words of what it feels like. But now just to turn into a ChatGPT article. And I'd say the only positive spin on this, which is also part of a negative spin, that Google would be like, all right, no, we're not having this.

22:36Tim Gettys:Yeah, we're going to de-index this. We're not servicing your content anymore.

22:39Austin Manchester:Yeah, because it also as well stops other people to be like, oh yeah, let's just do that. All of the bigwigs like, oh yeah, let's just fire half of the team and just get AI to do these reviews for them. So on that respect, it's good.

22:56Tim Gettys:Dude, I feel like I am aging a bit more rapidly recently with all the AI stuff. Like I looked in the mirror the other day and saw like some bald spots forming and i was like oh god here we go like i pulled out two grays before i came in dude i got like my first like my first like actual gray like you know i shave and so you don't see it but like i do they're starting to come in a little bit and i'm like ah shit you know and i'm blaming ai me and you both like i have to talk about this shit every day and i'm tired of it um but it keeps being relevant and i you know this one's a heartbreaker because one you have a site video gamer.com which meant something to people yeah and over time degraded and was filled with this ai bullshit to the point where now it's like now it's out of here when we talk about this of course you're coming you're coming in from pc gamer like how does this make you feel as somebody who is working in games media right like me and you're both content creators and when you're we're seeing a an effort from businesses and corporations to go ah just replace them with AI like how does that make you feel honestly it's scary like you you're

24:02Austin Manchester:working super hard and you don't even know tomorrow if you're gonna have a job because every everything's getting replaced one of the questions during GDC that I've been asking everyone is does AI have a place in game development like how does it have a place in there and we always look at it on that scale, like people losing their job on the dev side. But to think journalists are going to start getting replaced with AI articles, it's just insane. It's really heartbreaking. And yeah, it's a scary time. It's really a scary time working in games media. But over at PC Game, we've got a really dope team.

24:43Austin Manchester:So hopefully our work kind of speaks for ourselves. It's like kind of funny. Got one of the best communities ever and people come because they want to hear what you got to say when i finish a requiem the first thing i came is i want to listen to what you guys have got to say about the game so hopefully that will always kind of outshine all of this but it's a scary time man what about you yeah i mean

25:05Tim Gettys:same right i think i feel uh blessed to be at a place where kind of funny can never be replaced by ai because of what you're saying people are here for the personalities they want to hear greg be greg we don't want to hear like nobody would want to hear two fake people having this conversation that me and you're having right now exactly um and so like i feel good from that respect i feel worried about everybody around me you know what i mean i feel worried for the writers out there i feel worried for the like even the quality of the content because that's the thing is like you know i think you can make the case of oh but if i replace this like you people might not notice right or whatever and like i think for some things that might be true but i think there's genuinely so much content that is made better because hearts and souls are put into it and the more complex the stuff the more human the more human touch is required for it right when i look at video games i don't in fact not even that i don't think i know that an ai cannot make uh uh clear obscure even though they might have used ai assets but it's different from the point you don't want to go down that road you know placeholders a whole different thing right but like i know an ai couldn't make something with that much heart i know an ai could make a tears of the kingdom right or a like any of my favorite games a g a gta san andreas um i don't know why that's the example but one of my favorite games i just tried i pulled it out of bag i know that like we can't that it can't get there and i don't want it to get there um it just can't give

26:34Austin Manchester:passion and that's the thing the reason why we love video games the reason why we love this stuff is because they're passionate. We're so passionate. Anywhere you meet a gamer, I can sit down and speak to a gamer about any game. Like I'll just say, oh, what's your top five games? Oh, Ocarina of Time is one of my favorite games. And then you just go down a rabbit hole of that passion. And AI can't do that. It's not going to be able to give that passion. And yeah, it's just, it's a scary time. Like I'm really glad that Google found this out because it could have gone in reverse if this was like pushed to the top every company is going to be like oh yeah we can just just get

27:13Tim Gettys:yeah it's like oh we can those are if if this was the opposite way and video gamer was able to find a way to game the system and go i'll just make all these ai articles and they're able to just keep pumping stuff out and can google rewarded that that would cause like such a ripple effect across the industry i think and so like yeah this is a really good thing to nip in the bud but also a very sad thing for video gamer a site that was once something that people cared about yeah yeah

27:39Jack Coleman:really sad for um video gamer let's find out i was gonna say let's find out we have a lot of stories left but i guess before we get to the break let's do one more story story number three amid reports of a secret dlc for the witcher 3 cd project rules out further content for cyberpunk 2077 this is from wesley yinpool at ign cd project has insisted it has no plans for further cyberpunk 2077 DLCs or expansions amid reports the developer plans a secret DLC for The Witcher 3. The Polish studio responded to one fan on social media who cheekily asked the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account when the game will get secret new DLC.

28:18Jack Coleman:Quote, we have no plans for additional DLCs or expansions. If anything changes, we will inform you all, was CD Projekt's response.

28:26Tim Gettys:Not a surprising story at all but just an interesting update to get to to get from cd project of like hey we're done but there's no secret dlcs like you'll get cyberpunk whenever we put out the next the sequel

28:38Austin Manchester:post witcher blessing this breaks my heart yeah i love the witcher i've put like 600 hours into wild hunt like it's one of my top games and i i kind of knew it wasn't gonna happen but i lied to myself yeah looked in front of the mirror i was like we're getting more we're getting more dlc so this really upsets me well this doesn't discount

28:57Tim Gettys:the Witcher DLC

28:58Austin Manchester:yeah this discounts the Cyberpunk DLC yeah so I was so I'm like we're gonna get that and I was like oh yeah we'll get Cyberpunk as well we'll get both we're gonna get both and this makes me wonder if we're even gonna get the Witcher really? yeah you can just pass some doubt on that? yeah that's what that's what it's done to me it's made me think yeah the Witcher one we're not gonna get anymore although to be honest with you I still need to finish Phantom Pain I haven't finished the dlc so i need to jump back in that so i'm asking for more dlc and i ain't even finished

29:29Tim Gettys:phantom pain yet yeah wait no phantom pain is mgs i forget what phantom liberty phantom liberty yeah with um with idris yeah let me tell you that was that good shit right there phantom liberty that shit was fire like that's what i'm talking about when i like when we're talking about a video game dlc and like that coupled with the whole cyberpunk 2.0 thing oh man when i tell you that made cyberpunk skyrocket to be one of my favorite rpgs just period so good uh idris elba kills it as his character right like england in the house again come on exactly idris elba is one of my favorite actors and so like it was lovely seeing him in the game um but yeah cyberpunk just has the the sauce and i wish like i the thing that make that makes this bum me out a little bit is that i feel like if we had launched with a way better version of cyberpunk more of the time and effort could have just been made it just could have been put into making content right i feel like we could have gotten a lot more than than phantom liberty granted phantom liberty was a lot that was a big dlc but they spent so much of their time fixing fixing fixing fixing and now we're at the place where it's like damn we're there we made the game amazing like you guys fixed most maybe not all but most of the the complaints and um i wish we could have been here earlier because now you're telling us you're done and it's like damn this is where i want you to start cooking like this is where it starts but hopefully cyberpunk 2 is takes in a lot of the lessons and a lot of the systems and mechanics that they were able to find out or they're able to figure out for 2077 and give give us the content that we deserve that's my hope i

31:08Austin Manchester:I don't think I've seen a game be able to reverse any more than that. Like the beginning launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was a duster house. It was insane. And the game's so good now. And that multiplayer mode that we always wanted, I'm so upset that it wasn't there. Because just going through Night City with a friend, that would be so cool.

31:30Tim Gettys:And they announced it. That's the thing is like they canceled it after the game launched the way it did. and it's like brother if you if you figured that out now like that that shit would be fired exactly at least you would hope it'd be fire you know multiplayer expansions hit and miss sometimes but like i've been playing yote legends and we're still back so yeah i would have loved that but

31:49Austin Manchester:also as well it might be a good thing maybe they were like actually this ain't working let's just put the brakes on it and put it for cyberpunk too sure sure that could very well be the case and i

31:59Tim Gettys:think they have a million projects they're working on now and i know they're very open about talking about it i forget is one of those projects a cyberpunk multiplayer thing that might be a chat question if you guys want to look that up for me um because i feel like that's still on the table somewhere at least i hope it's still on the table because i'm curious to see what that would look

32:15Austin Manchester:like so i know they're doing the witcher remake remake yes they're doing the new witcher the new witcher which are for um i think as work started on cyberpunk 27 7.2 i think that's probably in like pre-pre-pre-production yeah yeah i think people are just saying it pretty sure it got

32:33Tim Gettys:canceled okay yeah so i don't think for some reason i thought they announced a new one they announced another one but maybe maybe not i kind of hope they do though i want to see what that would look like we need to roll a night city together bless dude i just want actually here's the thing i'm gonna say it and i know how impossible it sounds i know how dumb and impossible this sounds everybody as i'm saying this i just want a cyberpunk 2077 gta online style game and i know that we're never gonna get that i know that's like what are you talking about like that's so much work that's all these things right but like that would probably be my perfect video game yeah if we got that you would never see me again like legitimately you say you just create a rp server for cyberpunk online dude i'll be rp 'ing i like the way that i would you would see me get into a character in a way you've never seen it before i would take voice acting classes who would your character be oh man that's such a good question i've not even thought about that part i mean i'd be a dude from the streets right because out of the three main um character art character types that they had um i definitely chose the street kid yeah so it definitely be that i tried corporal

33:43Austin Manchester:once but yeah it just wasn't me street kid just yeah just felt right yeah corporal feels it feels

33:47Tim Gettys:kind of dirty i don't know and then who's the other person was from the outskirts right no i'd definitely be a street kid i think if they let me lean into this direction i'd be a street racer if i could be a street racer in the world of cyberpunk 2077 and just like you know like hustling dudes and all this stuff right like that's that's the life that i'd want to live

34:05Austin Manchester:i'd open like a jamaican food truck hell yeah yeah hell yeah that were playing blazing dance music like that's what i'll be doing yeah i'm jerk chicken all of it like come on i'm all about that

34:17Jack Coleman:i love that actually that's actually that's really great uh minus we're gonna move on to story number four but before we do i want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and

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38:03Tim Gettys:this is service now and we're back the more i think about it because like if i'm gonna be a street racer is that i i think i then want to like spec into uh being like a hacker and i like cheat during races so like hack other people's cars i'm creating my own game at this point right I don't think all these features would be there, but as I'm racing, I want to type on my keyboard and you see a car explode. It'd be like what I wanted Watch Dogs 1 to be before we realized that Watch Dogs 1 was just a regular video game.

38:37Jack Coleman:While we're here, I want to shout out some Super Chats. Lance writes in with a birthday tax, says they're turning 29 today. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. And then Sky writes in and says, I can rewind on other streams, but not KF. and then Bander S. then says, thank you for acknowledging our Rewind plight. Bless. The Rewind I've been informed by Kevin has been fixed. Kevin and Barrett were on it. They figured out whatever the issue was and so

39:03Tim Gettys:chat, it's all fixed. I've never seen chat so up in arms where every single time I looked up, it was just a sea of messages being like, rewind. I can't do this. We fixed it now.

39:16Austin Manchester:Have you heard of Craig David before? Craig David? Yeah. So he's a singer from the UK And he's got a song called Rewind So I just thought everyone was just like Trying to do a little banter Because I'm here from the UK Thought they was all talking about Craig David or something

39:31Jack Coleman:All the Craig David fans were in chat I had to see somebody from the UK Let's move on to story number 4 Silent Hill 2 Remake Passes 5 million copies sold So Konami's hosting a big old sale On the Playstation store This is Connor Makar at Eurogamer The Silent Hill 2 Remake created created by blooper team in partnership with konami has just surpassed five million sales worldwide a big feat for the once niche horror franchise released in late october 2024 the game brought us back into james underland's wonderful green jacket and decrepit pontiac ventura uh i'm gonna jump forward a little bit in this article and say to celebrate the passing of this impressive milestone konami is hosting a spring sale for a variety of silent hill titles on the playstation store um really what i'm here for is the five million copies for silent hill 2 that's really

40:17Austin Manchester:cool it means we're no longer going to be getting just konami pachinko machines yeah all of the great games they can see they're selling they're doing well let's get them back exactly right like

40:31Tim Gettys:five million sales for a brand new triple a video game like that's nothing to sneeze as let's see that that is that is something that's meaningful as far as the decision of konami to get back into the business in the greater way and yeah you 100 hit the nail right like i think they're going to keep doing the paching machines but they're also gonna make video games too also as well with like

40:49Austin Manchester:silent hill isn't it's popular but it's not like a super mainstream game like a metal gear solid so for resident evil even yeah so for it to sell that well like and for a remake that's really

41:02Tim Gettys:really good that's huge uh makes me think that we're gonna i mean we're already getting multiple new silent hill games but i think they're gonna keep churning out more especially for seeing these numbers makes me really interested to see how oh what's the new one called that's coming out

41:15Austin Manchester:with uh like the first person each kind of one it's got a black protagonist right yes silent hill

41:20Tim Gettys:main i don't know but i'm still curious to see how that does in fact i'm curious on how silent

41:26Austin Manchester:hill f did silent hill f like um ellie from pc game on the team she loved it she was obsessed with it and any person who speaks about it just say to them says it's like one of their favorite

41:38Tim Gettys:silent hills damn townfall is what that was called by the way silent hill townfall i might give that one a shot i'm like not much of a silent hill person like i booted up f a little bit to see like all right how does it play and i did a stream of it and was like all right this is cool but i didn't like fall into it yeah townfall has me curious it's it's incredible what having a black protagonist will do for me wanting to play a video game more because i'm like i want to know this guy's story i want to know what's going on here why are you in maine like let's let's figure this out yeah

42:06Austin Manchester:It was giving me like some Deathloop energy when I first saw it.

42:09Jack Coleman:Yeah.

42:09Austin Manchester:Yeah.

42:10Jack Coleman:Story number five. Original founders of Boss Fight Entertainment have relaunched their studio. This is from Diego Arguello at Game Developer. The original founders of Boss Fight Entertainment, a studio that was acquired and later shut down by Netflix, are launching the company as Boss Fight. Announced yesterday, the new studio is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. leadership includes CEO David Rippey, Chief Product Officer Bill Jackson, and COO Scott Winsett. Quote, This is about bringing back the team that built Boss Fight, Rippey said in the announcement. Quote, We've created and scaled games side by side for well over a decade, reuniting that leadership team under the Boss Fight name and returning to the principles that have guided us from the beginning.

42:53Jack Coleman:It's something we're incredibly excited about. End quote. Netflix acquired Boss Fight Entertainment back in 2022, months after the streaming giant acquired Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and finished studio Next Games, the latter of which cost$72 million. Three years later, and after launching Squid Game Unleashed, which hit number one in 26 countries, Netflix shut down the studio in October of last year. At the time, Rippy described the situation as rough. now boss fight is currently working on an unannounced title for pc and mobile platforms quote we intend to maintain a small lean core team focused on creativity and execution while leveraging trusted partners to help help us scale team size as needed when set said that model allows us to stay agile while building games with the production quality players expect

43:43Tim Gettys:this whole netflix gaming situation been very interesting to see right as netflix tried to get into video games in a bigger way acquired a bunch of studios have now retreated it's cool to see at least one of these studios rise from the ashes and go no we're gonna we're gonna continue to live we're gonna restart the studio we're gonna keep making games that's really good news

44:06Austin Manchester:yeah it's really dope to hear especially when we're just talking about studios closing all of the time like i haven't specifically heard of boss fight um but really excited to see what they're coming up with the netflix gaming thing is so bizarre i was on netflix when i was in the uk before i came up and i was scanning through and i was like wait you can play overcooked on netflix oh you can play a lot of things on it's just insane i've never even how does it even work immortality on netflix are you playing it with your are you linking up a controller are you using

44:35Tim Gettys:a remote like the games that i played on netflix i played on my phone because they had an exploding kittens game on there and i love exploding kittens and so i just played on my phone and then i know there are other mobile games that i was just like you know playing like a regular phone mobile game for more like bigger screen games i actually don't know how that stuff works right like are you playing overcooked on your phone like somebody says lego party is there yeah i'd imagine that there's there's gotta be some way to sync up a controller via bluetooth or wi-fi but chat let us know if you have any somebody says you can connect controllers to

45:09Austin Manchester:smartphones it's it has a thing it kind of has a wider discussion as well about how difficult it is to really be in this gaming field like google trying it with stadia and what amazon tried to do like it's not it's not it's not for the weak not everyone can come into this gaming space and really

45:29Tim Gettys:dominate yeah i know we see it happen like you mentioned right but a lot of the big dogs think that they can get into video games and then they try to get into the video games and it's like oh shit all right never mind like especially right now we're in a such a weird moment in the games industry where we've talked about a lot in the last couple years the business has matured so much in a way where the graph was going up for so long right the chart that line was going up for so long as far as the amount of money the games industry is bringing in that pandemic hype yeah that pandemic height right but like i think somewhere in there that line started to even out and even when that evens out a little bit shareholders investors they're like oh shit never mind i'm gonna take all the money that i was putting here uh ai let's put this into ai instead like that is the move and now we're seeing a lot of companies look at that evening of the line and go well shit like i've i was trying to jump in while the line was going up and so amazon is like oh never mind netflix is like damn never mind like we thought we're gonna make a lot more money from this and so these bigger companies that thought that this was going to be a a cash cow are realizing ah shit there's not there's actually not that much money to be made here at least as much as we thought we were going to so and they realize that it's harder to make video games than you think and video games take longer than you think they take and require bigger teams like video games industry is such a massive operation as far as the amount of different skills and talents and money that needs to make things happen um and people underrate that people underestimate what that is um but Midas as I mentioned video games big big industry big huge

47:09Jack Coleman:but if I wanted something smaller say the tiniest news I needed to know about where would I go

47:14Austin Manchester:you go to our last news story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items you need

47:21Tim Gettys:to know about I love the delivery on that one also I want to do a you're wrong is of course at the end of the show I want to do a selfie wrong because Silent Hill Townfall doesn't take place in Maine It takes place in Scotland, which I forgot. I totally mixed those up.

47:33Jack Coleman:UK again. Hey, UK's in the building. We're in the building. Takeover. Come on. Story number six is Wii News. From Remedy, Control Ultimate Edition and Alan Wig 2 will support the new PSSR. Really exciting. Octopath series has sold over 7 million copies. Wii Gotta Go launches April 14th on PC. Have you seen this game? No. um kevin okay kevin has it it's a new we'll say friend like because we don't like the term friend so we'll say friend like i peeped the trailer a little bit and i just really liked the presentation here and i wanted to uh bring up the the um the video up on screen the trailer up on screen so people can see it the steam description reads we gotta go is a co-op horror comedy that'll scare the crap out of you literally team up to reach the only bathroom in a haunted mansion before your bowels betray you scavenge your items fend off ghosts and fight through cursed halls together

48:34Austin Manchester:in a desperate hunt for sweet relief this looks so cool really really cool um some of these friend games i don't really jump into but i could yeah this looks hilarious this is like the concept of

48:47Jack Coleman:oh we just need to use the bathroom and we're fucking fighting through a horror mansion so we can get to the bathroom is fucking hilarious to me. Like this is one that I think the guys need to play on stream for a party mode or something.

49:01Austin Manchester:And Octopath selling like that. Do you know Octopath Zero I'm obsessed with. I've been playing it on a Steam deck. It's so good. You gotta talk to Greg about that. Greg that was his game of the year. Yeah I know I loved it.

49:12Jack Coleman:Yeah. More for you. Deep Rock Galactic Rogue core launches steam early access on may 20th um another game that i want to bring up the trailer for uh calx i believe or calx i don't know how they want this to be pronounced but it's c-a-l-x is the title of this game the steam description reads flow across the warp corrupt corrupted planet syro master movement as the seeker double jump dash levitate and grapple through atmospheric ruins scan saw puzzles and engage in measured combat uh in waves of stillness and frenzy this game looks really cool to me i love the art style here like it reminds me of a few games that we've seen recently it reminds me a little bit of like chance of sanar uh if you ever if you've checked that one out as far as like the art style i know there's some other games too that um this

50:02Austin Manchester:might be reminiscent of but looks really cool yeah it looks different from what i was expecting i wasn't expecting that type of combat when we first saw the visual i thought it was going to be like a journey yeah kind of thing but yeah combat looks cool it's giving me um arcadey returnal vibes with the shooting and stuff like that platforming looks fun so yeah i'll definitely check out this is

50:21Tim Gettys:definitely a steam deck one for me oh hell yeah so many childs i mentioned sable sable is the other

50:26Jack Coleman:game i was thinking of as far as art style um and then another game if we can bring up a trailer for this one as well yerba buena launches may 26th on xbox ps5 and pc um the steam description reads dive into a surreal 1970s game world and save san francisco from a sinister threat play as barb and use the oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles i saw this one pop up on social and saw the name yerba buena

50:56Tim Gettys:and was like oh that'd be funny if it took place in like the san francisco neighborhood yerba and then i read the thing i was like oh it does that's fucking neat which is really fun timing because i makes me wonder if they made this announcement right now because of gdc because gdc is happening at yuba buena uh right now so all the developers and like the games industry is

51:15Austin Manchester:there either way good timing for this announcement also shout out to the npc with the afro the afro

51:23Jack Coleman:was looking real good and just shout out to the art style in general like these three games that we're talking about here i think all have very distinct um uh really cool styles to them um and i love looking at this and this is one for me as somebody who lives in the bay area i want to check out i want to see what they what they do here with san francisco like they have like a weird like um abstracted version of the city like jumping through the golden gate bridge just a lot a lot going on

51:49Greg Miller:i mess with it you know originally the san francisco area was called gerberwena oh really i didn't realize that that's cool uh more we news for you marvel maximum collection

52:01Jack Coleman:launches march 27th on xbox ps5 switch and pc dave the diver dlc in the jungle launches june 18th surgeon studios third game fixed force is now available in early access on steam and epic where winds meets chapter 2 expansion launches april 2 or april 2 april 2nd april 2 i forgot have to put the second in there and then the smurfs are joining sonic rumble on march 16th

52:27Tim Gettys:and that is it did you ever check out the uh where wins meet a little bit but like very quickly was just like i this is not for me you know i neat in concept right like this big open world action rpg that's free to play i i love that we're getting more and more of those but yeah where wins meet i was like this seems like it's about to be way too big for me to try and dive into did Did you check it out?

52:50Austin Manchester:Yeah, I tried. I was the same. I jumped in it for a minute and I was like, oh, this looks really cool. Because I had so many friends like, oh, you need to try it. You need to try it. And I was like, this is giving me real gotcha vibes. Yeah. Instantly, I was just like, yeah, I'm not going to get lost in this world.

53:04Tim Gettys:That's the thing. Like, I spent enough time playing Genshin Impact where like I saw the heights of it and then very quickly was like, I think Genshin Impact kind of ruined the genre a little bit where I just saw too much of what the gotcha stuff was and I wasn't getting enough substance out of like the writing and story where I was like, I don't think I ever want to play another one of these again. So yeah, where wins meet, I was like, I've been here before and I ain't going back. I do not want to go back.

53:33Jack Coleman:While we're here, let's hang out in the Super Chat section. We got time to answer some Super Chats. So write in, let us know what you want us to talk about. We'll start with Killian, who says, birthday soon, got a bonus at work, was able to get a PS5 Pro with a disc drive for under$600. Works perfect. Always shop local slash mom and pop.

53:52Austin Manchester:That is a great combination. Birthday, getting a bonus. A bonus. Yeah, getting a PS5 Pro.

53:59Jack Coleman:It sounds like you're just telling us all the good things that happened. Hey, first of all, good for you. Like, happy for you. Happy, have an early happy birthday from me. Enjoy your PS5 with a disk drive. Like, let us know what physical games you're playing on that thing. And share that karma. I need some of that goodness as well. Yeah, right? um mr ny to cali says get ready for microsoft to have uh same class action project helix and them merging xbox coding into microsoft store aka the xbox app is their is their plan to cut out steam and reclaim the 30 fee and simplify dev time yeah i'm very interested i think i think steam will be on there and i don't i forget if they've actually said it but i feel like we've seen images either leaked or whatever but i'm pretty sure we've seen images of steam on an xbox thing so like at least they have ways in which you can circumvent the store playstation doesn't have any way where you can do that nintendo doesn't have any way so i think xbox might be able

54:56Austin Manchester:to get away with it yeah i don't think they've officially shown steam there i think it is like leaks but it would just make sense for them because they're gonna get all of those pc gamers who want a um before the steam machine comes out and want to be able to have steam in the front room

55:14Jack Coleman:like makes sense yeah uh let's bring another one from claw master for fgc folks who are aware of the ludovic situation uh but he is being released today he was oh it's this one he's he was detained by ice and the fgc has been raising money spreading the word and fighting the good fight he's coming home today that's really good news um did you see this one no i didn't even see it this was in the

55:38Tim Gettys:last few weeks where ludovic was detained by ice and the fighting game community he's like a big fighting game guy right fighting community rally behind him right right was calling for his release

55:47Austin Manchester:and all that stuff so this is really really cool yeah that's insane and the fgc community are like they're such a close um such adult community so that's great to hear yeah um we'll do another one

56:01Jack Coleman:from oh actually no we caught up to the uh because the last one i have here is about the whole rewind dilemma so we caught up to that one um we had some time to just chill yeah might have what games

56:12Austin Manchester:you've been playing recently oh so i just finished requiem and i'm obsessed i'm like i don't so bless yeah i don't do first person horror so resident evil uh village not for me when i played graces sections all third person um leon back resident evil 2 remake is my favorite resident evil game this might now be my second favorite resident evil game wow really enjoyed it as soon as i finished it i went straight back in for a next playthrough and i don't really do that with resi games just because i don't have time yeah i was like no jumping straight back in wow dude

56:52Tim Gettys:resident evil requiem is special absolutely adored that one right and like i still i think i still have it as my favorite resident evil game but like i might it might be the recency like hype of coming off of it um but for the heights i i remember having with re2 right like for me that was just such a special one and the fact that i'm like looking at re requiem and having it

57:12Austin Manchester:at that height for me is huge and leon's just so badass in it like just rolling up in the porsche

57:18Tim Gettys:the one-liners the requiem karate chopping infected yeah so yeah that's that um on the

57:26Austin Manchester:plane ride over us like 10 and a half hours from the uk i just wanted something comfort food wise So I jumped back into Persona 5 Royal Persona 5 is one of my favourite games Taste right there Huh? That's taste right there Yeah, exactly I don't have swag for no reason Yeah Yeah, so I jumped back on that on the plane Was playing that on the Steam Deck Like I said, just wrapping up Octopath Traveler Zero And then I said it to you when I saw you out I am itching for Crimson Desert Yeah Yeah, I played the preview of it and the combat is just insane that a proper it's weird because it's more it more reminds me of a fighting game how it plays than it does like a witcher yeah i'm excited like i feel like all the

58:15Tim Gettys:trailers we've seen and things i've heard about like the combat specifically has me excited to get into and check that out what about else you what you've been playing oh man i'm playing a lot of pokemon pokemon uh i'm playing redacteds i have like legit like two different games that are under embargo that i can't talk about that i've been like trying to get through um i try to think of something i can talk about oh ghostly ot legends like come on like i i've been so happy um like every time every time i jump into it because it's been living up to exactly what i want it to be right like they continue to kill it sucker punch knows what they're doing with a multiplayer gear game the missions are really fun the different classes are are really cool we were streaming it yesterday me and roger and like i lost track of time so quickly because we're having such a good time that i forgot that i was even hosting the thing and like roger was like have you thrown to ads and i'm like oh shit yeah let's go to ads and like we came back and i was like shit we don't have much time left because we're just so into this experience and so i'm hoping that with all the games coming out i'm able to i'm able to continue to create space for Ghost of Yotei Legends because it's one I really want to um level up in and be ready for the raid and then between all that like I have two games that are staring at me and I kind of want to boot up both of them and I know I'm not gonna have the time um Esoteric Ebb and uh Slay Spire 2 yeah like those are the two right now where I'm like those seem like real real blessed games right there that I know I'd fall in love with but I'm also trying to I can't play a million things at the same time so i'm like okay let me maybe i should save those for when i know i'm

59:55Austin Manchester:gonna have the time to really devote to those so i really want to jump into slay the spire 2 but i know how much you love um ghost of shishima legends yeah would you rate um yote legends better

1:00:07Tim Gettys:where would you oh than shishima legends i've not played enough to really say so but like already i think i get the vibes of yes um already i would say the hub area i was kind of skeptical at first because when you hop into it like ghost of tsushima legends had just a menu that would you not you would navigate you know um apply your gear and then go into the mission or whatever here it is all right you have an area that you can run around hang out like in a lobby with friends me and roger we're playing the coin game where you have to like flip the coin oh

1:00:37Austin Manchester:do you know what i don't like mini games in games yep that coin game is 10 10 love it so good right

1:00:43Tim Gettys:10 10 me and roger were playing it yesterday and like if y 'all if you check out any moment from the let's play the games cast plays that we did for gil's yote legends go to the very end where me and roger play our rematch of the coin game because roger has a moment where he pops the fuck off where both me and him were both like yo this is fucking crazy um and so i love that they added that in a multiplayer thing they also like upgraded the um the uh what do they call it bamboo strike and so it's fun to see that there but the missions themselves i think are also very fun and very well laid out so you have four of the bosses that are these fantastical versions of like the main game um like yote six characters and so you can go after the oni the spider and a couple others um and you can do it in any order right and so there's like i think i want to say 16 missions overall and each divided into four missions between the different things and so um yeah you can hop in and just like kind of mix and match or like go back and forth between the bosses you want to tackle so i like that um i need to i need to hop into the survival mode to see what's up with that but yeah i think overall i'd say it's at the very least as good probably better than tsushima

1:01:57Austin Manchester:legends yeah because i put a lot of time into tsushima legends but i haven't even heard much people talking about yote legends yeah i didn't even know it was out i think it's just too many

1:02:07Tim Gettys:i don't think this is the right time to release it yeah i think they should have waited to release this for when it was a bit more free like marathon just came out yeah you know i mean like all these games pocopia like i think people are just stretched way too thin right now with video games crimson desert is on the horizon right like you know this is this is one that i'd be curious to see even if it gets reviews um i know i think somebody has another fan of critic i think mike has it on his famous critic list i think it's risky because people are so stressed in right now i wouldn't be surprised if it gets like five media reviews right and like just not enough attention to it but we'll see um midas let's hop into kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong where you

1:02:48Jack Coleman:write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe let's see here Let's see here. People are saying that it's Sir Idris Elba. But they misspelled E. Jepo, you misspelled Idris. It's spelled with an I. They were spelled on Idris Elba with an E.

1:03:11Austin Manchester:We don't do that here. Wait, when did he become a sir? That's a really good question. Yeah, I didn't know that.

1:03:21Jack Coleman:Let's see. Sal from Gamatsu, that's the homie, says, Hey, Blast, you're not exactly wrong as you're just reading an article. But Silent Hill 2 didn't sell 5 million copies. it surpassed 5 million players konami were reporting sales uh combined shipments plus digital uh up until 2.5 million units but since the game was made available via playstation plus game catalog this past october they changed up the reporting to players since it now includes users redeeming the game via a playstation plus subscription that is a fantastic wrong thank you so much for that usually i'm good at like distinguishing the sales versus players but yeah i missed it there so thanks so much for that uh sal and shout out to kevin just showed

1:03:58Austin Manchester:idris was knighted um this year oh congrats to idris yeah shout out idris hell yeah um let's see

1:04:08Jack Coleman:yeah people talking about the rewind we fixed the rewind debacle and then people are writing about the sony lawsuit right so these might be a little bit editorializing but i'll bring in let's bring in the one from these pitches love sosa who says the lawsuit against sony has to do with third-party sellers not being allowed to sell digital game codes not about having third-party storefronts on the console nintendo xbox and steam allow other stores target walmart best buy etc to sell codes for games on those storefronts playstation does not allow this interesting

1:04:40Austin Manchester:ah that makes a lot that makes a lot of sense yeah that makes a lot more sense because i was like playstation are not gonna open up this um their store to have other people come and sell

1:04:51Tim Gettys:their games yeah yeah no that would have been like that would change everything yeah essentially and

1:04:57Austin Manchester:so and everything's changed enough bliss i can just about keep up with what's happening yeah

1:05:01Tim Gettys:yeah usually i feel like chat chat um we would have had super chats about that but all the super

1:05:06Austin Manchester:chats we're doing we're about the rewind as we're talking about that so listen anybody who complained about rewind please go and check out craig david rewind that's no plug yeah it's not a sponsor but It's an incredible UK song. I'm going to play it for you after.

1:05:21Tim Gettys:Okay, I want to hear that.

1:05:22Jack Coleman:We had a lot more content, a lot more videos, a lot more fun stuff happening right here on the Kind of Funny channel. So stay tuned through the rest of the day because right after this, the full Kind of Funny crew, we're talking about our time at GDC and the games that we got to check out this week. And so you want to tune in for that. And then afterwards, we got some fun special guests in the building. So tune in for the whole day. Until next time, of course, Ivan Blessing, Midas, thanks so much for joining me on this show.

1:05:46Tim Gettys:Where can people find you?

1:05:47Austin Manchester:Thank you so much for having me. I'm at Mr. Midas Games on all socials, Blue Sky, Instagram. You can check out my content over at pcgamer.com. I do loads of videos over there. I've actually done a really dope video all about Metal Gear Solid and why it's such an important franchise. So that's in my blue sky. So yeah, just check out, come check me out doing dope stuff. And I'm always watching kind of funny anyway. So I'll just chat to everyone in the chat And I need some food recommendations For SF Oh man

1:06:24Tim Gettys:Hot Boys, that's the one That's in Oakland, so you're going to have to go across the bridge But that's the one I always recommend to people If you like a hot chicken sandwich It's the best I've ever had Is Oakland the hood? Yes, but it's fun I'm not scared of the hood, I just wanted to know But it's good though I'm in Oakland all the time Maybe a little bit It's all good

1:06:45Jack Coleman:it's all good you know i mean um here's the thing duro in chat says read skies you're wrong and they say it in all all caps duro skies you're wrong is something that i already already corrected townfall takes place in a city in a town in scotland duro i need you to time yourself out all right don't all caps me unless you're sure about a thing because you're just wasting my time everyone's on smoke today what's what's happening with chat you should be so calm the rewind just threw everybody off and it threw me off i'm not gonna lie i was off my game today but i'll get better. Midas, thanks again for joining us.

1:07:16Jack Coleman:Of course, everybody enjoy Gamescast after this and then the stream after that. But until next time, Game Daily.

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