PlayStation Reveals Horizon MMO! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.13.25

13 Nov 2025 · 1 h 8 min · 27 chapters

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In short

Sony officially reveals Horizon Steel Frontiers, a cross-platform free-to-play Horizon MMORPG built with NCSoft for PC, iOS, and Android (not PlayStation). The hosts also react to Fallout Season 2’s official trailer and discuss Ubisoft postponing its earnings report.

Guests/backgrounds

Blessing Adio (Jr.) co-hosts with Tim Gettys; Greg Miller appears as a guest/segment contributor. Both are long-running games media personalities (Kind of Funny).

Key claims

Horizon Steel Frontiers is “not what you think” because it’s Horizon MMO content aimed at mobile/PC audiences, with Monster Hunter-like hub/quest-board structure and combat that may feel “shallow” due to cooldown/ability bar gameplay. They argue Horizon’s appeal (Aloy’s story, post-apocalypse lore, exploration) may not translate to a monster-hunting MMO. Ubisoft’s halted trading and delayed earnings suggest a potentially major corporate development.

Notable examples

Horizon Steel Frontiers’ “machine hunter” Deathlands setting (inspired by Arizona/New Mexico), fighting colossal beasts, new mechanics like picking up dropped weapons and carrying them on mounts, and extensive AI use in production/art. Fallout Season 2 highlights include power armor vs. a Deathclaw, sky ships, and a civil-war setup.

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Hosts Discuss Exciting News

0:00 to 0:24

Hosts share excitement over big gaming announcements and breaking news.

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Hosts Discuss Exciting News

2:26 to 3:19

Hosts share excitement over big gaming announcements and breaking news.

Steam Hardware Buzz

3:20 to 5:02

Hosts discuss insights on Steam hardware and console pricing.

Kind of Funny Games Daily Overview

5:03 to 6:39

Discussion on the structure and schedule of the day's shows.

“Each and every weekday, we run you through all of the video game news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and podcast services around the globe.”

Horizon MMO Announcement

6:40 to 7:40

Revealing details about Sony's new MMO set in the Horizon universe.

“For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report.”

Gameplay Mechanics of Horizon Steel Frontiers

7:41 to 9:09

Exploration of gameplay and features in Horizon Steel Frontiers.

“cinematic and pre-alpha gameplay footage as well as developer interviews the game will focus strongly on fighting the horizon series giant mechanical beasts and being able to do so with other people.”

Hosts Reactions to Horizon MMO

9:10 to 12:04

Hosts share their thoughts on the trailer and gameplay of Horizon MMO.

“but Lee says in the announcement video that the team is working to make the game available as soon as possible.”

Concerns and Expectations for Horizon MMO

12:05 to 14:00

Discussion on concerns about gameplay and expectations for the new MMO.

“They do a lot of character creation stuff in here.”

Exploring Horizon's Game Mechanics

14:00 to 16:49

Discussion on the potential mechanics and gameplay elements of the upcoming Horizon MMO.

Narrative and World-building in Horizon

16:50 to 18:38

A dive into the storytelling aspects and world-building of the Horizon franchise and its implications for the MMO.

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Comparing Horizon to Other Games

18:39 to 21:46

Comparative analysis of Horizon’s gameplay elements with Monster Hunter and the importance of character models.

Anticipating Future Horizon Content

21:47 to 24:57

Speculations on future Horizon games, including multiplayer and the impact of the franchise's expansion.

The Role of AI in Horizon's Development

24:58 to 28:07

Discussion on the integration of AI in the development of Horizon's upcoming title and its implications.

AI Utilization in Horizon Steel Frontiers

28:07 to 29:50

Learn about the extensive use of AI in the development of Horizon Steel Frontiers and its implications.

AI Utilization in Horizon Steel Frontiers

30:09 to 31:12

Learn about the extensive use of AI in the development of Horizon Steel Frontiers and its implications.

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AI Utilization in Horizon Steel Frontiers

32:29 to 33:22

Learn about the extensive use of AI in the development of Horizon Steel Frontiers and its implications.

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Reaction to Fallout Season 2 Trailer

33:22 to 42:00

Hosts react to the official trailer for Fallout Season 2, discussing characters and their excitement.

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Ubisoft's Struggles and Future

42:00 to 46:00

Discussion on Ubisoft's challenges and the state of their franchises.

Comparison with Capcom's Revival

46:00 to 47:55

Exploring how Capcom turned around its success and what Ubisoft can learn.

Death Stranding's Expanding Universe

47:55 to 53:10

Announcement of the Death Stranding animated series and its implications.

“This is the second time I'm saying this show, but if they had saved Mario and Rabbids the second one for Switch 2, it would do pretty well.”

The Future of Kojima's Works

53:10 to 56:00

Speculation on Kojima's projects and the potential for more adaptations.

Lies of P Sequel Development Insights

56:00 to 58:20

Discussion about the development of Lies of P and its anticipated sequel.

“In a growing field of copycat souls like Lies of P stands apart as one of the best.”

Netflix Brings Red Dead Redemption to Mobile

58:20 to 59:06

Announcing Red Dead Redemption's availability on Netflix for subscribers.

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Red Dead Redemption's Re-release Strategy

59:06 to 1:00:00

Analyzing Rockstar's strategy of re-releasing Red Dead Redemption amidst delays.

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New Pokémon Variants and Reactions

1:00:00 to 1:01:20

Discussion of new Pokémon variants and community reactions to them.

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Crafton and GTA 6 Developer Legal Disputes

1:01:20 to 1:02:34

Coverage of Crafton's legal disputes with Rockstar and implications for the industry.

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Recent Game News Highlights

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Quick updates on various game news including Indie Game Awards and Xbox Retro Classics.

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2:14We'll have all this and more, because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

2:26what's up and welcome to kind of funny games daily for thursday november 13th 2025 of course i'm your host tim gettys i'm joined today by blessing adio yay jr bless how you doing i'm doing good tim how are you doing i'm doing really good yesterday was so fun oh one of my favorite type of kind of funny days where breaking news comes in and throws our entire schedule and makes everything really stressful but really fun you know really big announcements a lot of thoughts

2:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:a lot of things to discuss i think it's nice when it's a fun announcement yeah it's an announcement that all of us are excited for yeah it's a thing we all went in our living rooms i think those are the best conversations to have when it's like oh this is going to change my whole gaming exactly and we just get to be enthusiasts for a little bit you know and like start to take the information in as it's coming which is a fun thing too because then we get to talk about it and then i get to go home and you know watch all my youtube videos and listen to all my favorite people talk about the stuff so listening to digital foundry who got their hands on with a lot of the steam hardware yesterday was very fascinating because hearing that conversation changed my thoughts a lot on little little bits and pieces here and there of the whole thing where you're at with pricing well that that is a big part of it and it doesn't really change what i'm what i think it's going to land too much um but they were talking about it as way more console level having said that the guy that they were interviewing specifically said it'll be priced higher than consoles so what consoles are they talking about though are they talking about the ps5 are they talking about ps5 pro where's that at power wise less than that so we'll see less than the pro so it's very interesting times and i don't think we have to wait too long to find out but yeah are you still buzzing off the steam stuff i am still buzzing off the steam steam stuff yeah it's kind of crazy how i don't know there's something about what they're presenting the suite of products they're presenting that just really speaks to me i think it i think what it is is that i can see the vision and there's something about seeing the vision that changes everything there are some companies where they're announcing things and i'm like i don't see the vision xbox i don't see the vision here it's like all right we got the steam frame that that may or may not end up getting we'll see probably not if it's too expensive especially not um the steam machine fuck yeah dude the fucking controller that speaks to me i like the way my steam deck feels right like all of this stuff speaks to me in a way that i think is going to transform how i continue to play games on pc so yeah i'm for sure still looking forward to it i love i love the chat so much sometimes because i got a couple people being like that's not what they said they said it's going to be priced like a pc when i said it's not going to be priced like a console sorry guys you know you gotta be very careful about your words to me you can't just i hope you're not implying a pc is cheaper than a console so whatever you can't just say things on a podcast This is Kind of Funny Games Daily, everybody.

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5:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is one that I'm really sad I missed the theater showing for this one. I love Edgar Wright movies, but I had to choose between going to this screening or continuing my volleyball season. And you made the right call. And I made the right call. Because you're still dominating, right? We're fucking dominating the season. How are you going to feel if your team loses next week when you're not there? I'm going to feel so bad. And it's the thing. Like, again, one of my favorite rappers, she's from the UK. She's appearing in Oakland. I got to go. You got to see it. But also, what if I didn't? No. What if I show up to the game?

6:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:No, don't do that. It's like High School Musical. I want to be in two places at once. Yeah. Do I choose the sport? Do I choose the music? Exactly. God. It's tough. Remember, and then after that, the stream is a sponsored Arknight stream. And remember, if you're kind of funny member, today's Greg weighs 25 minutes covering Steam Machine as a console gamer gateway. The future or lack thereof of dedicated handhelds and more. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs and Omega, Omega Buster and Delaney, the Psalm 20. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news.

6:50We have seven stories today.

6:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Ah, Baker's does it!

6:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:People in chat are asking who it is. It is Little Sims. it is little sims one of the one of the best in the game right now i'll say it he said it story number one sony is making a horizon mmo this comes from j peters at the verge super chat question for you is this what you want out of a multiplayer horizon game let's check out the details the rumored mmo set in sony's post-apocalyptic horizon universe is real we spilled details about the game before it was revealed based on an announcement video we saw and that video has been officially posted and more has been shared about the title too the new game is called horizon steel frontiers and sony and the korean video game company and csoft are working on the cross-platform title together for pc ios and android it'll be free to play according to the game's website based on the more than 10 minute announcement video which features a mix of cinematic and pre-alpha gameplay footage as well as developer interviews the game will focus strongly on fighting the horizon series giant mechanical beasts and being able to do so with other people.

7:54Footage from the announcement video shows players taking on beasts as well as navigating through lush natural environments and looming metal buildings you might be familiar with if you've played the Horizon games. Horizon Steel Frontiers is a full-fledged MMORPG that NCSoft has built specifically for mobile. With Steel Frontiers, you can step into the world anytime, anywhere. Players take on the role of machine hunters, chasing opportunity in a region called the Deathlands. This is inspired by Arizona and New Mexico. You're sharing the frontier with thousands of other players, sometimes working together to take down machines and other times competing with rival tribes or fighting over resources.

8:30And that mix of cooperation and competition creates moments that you could never script. The core concept of Horizon Steel Frontiers can be summed up in one phrase, the thrill of taking down colossal machines. Hunting massive machines was one of the greatest appeals of the original Horizon series, and now we're expanding that experience into the world of MMORPGs. Lee says there will be new mechanics for fighting the machines, like picking up dropped weapons from beasts and carrying them on a mount to use in later fights. The announcement video also highlights the game's character customization features in Steel Frontiers.

9:02Instead of playing as Aloy, who's been the series' protagonist thus far, you'll be able to make your own character. Maybe named Taylor Swift. Sony and NCSoft haven't shared a release date, but Lee says in the announcement video that the team is working to make the game available as soon as possible. There's a 10-minute video. I didn't watch it. Les, did you watch it?

9:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I've skimmed through it. I didn't have time to watch it while I was prepping KFG this morning, but I tasked somebody with watching it. I know one man that has watched it, and that man's name is Greg Miller. Hello, everyone. It's me, Greg Miller, captain of Team Orange, soon to be season four champion of Kind of Funny Games Showdown. You wouldn't know anything about orange, would you? Burnt orange jacket brown, man. How's everybody doing? Good. You're wet. It's wet out there, ain't it? Hi, how are you? It's me, Greg Miller. I love Monster Hunter. Yep, you do. I love Horizon, too. I don't know. Do you love mobile?

9:52I've been burned a lot. You love PC, though. I do. Yeah. I do. I do.

9:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's a match made in heaven for you. No PlayStation. You know. We're doing a PC mobile game, not putting on PlayStation. Yeah. That's the most interesting thing. Weird. Tim, at the beginning of the show, mentioned it's not what you think. And it's funny, because if you've been reading all the rumors, this NCSoft game, MMORPG, has been floating in the evil. forever because for some reason sony's making a billion horizon things um there's also another horizon multiplayer game being made by gorilla yeah which i'm very fascinated about now after seeing this trailer because i think the thoughts were okay this nc soft thing is the mmo and then the gorilla one is going to be way more of a monster type game greg you haven't watched the 11 minute video skim through it too didn't get through it all you gave it to me late i had a lot of things going on this morning but yeah yeah it's okay like what's your take on this is this I mean, we've been asking for.

10:46Well, I mean, come on now. We have a monster has been doing quite fine by itself. You watch this trailer and I and I do urge you to go watch the I'll come down here. Sorry. I do tell you to go watch the 10 minute take on it and scroll through it. There are so many things pulled directly out of Monster Hunter. And so, I mean, yeah, you're fighting big monsters. Yada, yada, yada. This is the cinematic stuff. Kevin, I know it's a long video. If you can scrub around. And I mean, at one point they have men making you food. and it's like these are just it's later in the yeah it's probably on that second half somewhere but it's literally like right here you're walking up to the quest board this is pulled straight out of monster if you want to roll back a few seconds on that footage right there kev uh you'll see walking around this hub world to get to that uh quest board it looks like you're walking around anyone many of the monster hunter things now granted this also does look like horizon to a degree but just the way it's animating the way it's walking looks so monster and i'm not knocking you make it a monster hunter clone i like monster quite a bit obviously and i won't lie to you driving home last night when this news broke right when the rumors came out and there was always gonna be announced today at the korean thing i was like oh boo pc mobile i'm probably not gonna be a fan of it then you were like you like monster you should check it i'm like all right so i watch video like watching the video makes me 10 times more excited to play it but i was at a zero before so it's like okay like i mean we're getting we're going somewhere with it but i'm still not like 10 times zero it's still zero i know but you know what i mean you understand what i'm saying i'm at least a little bit interested watching it like this all does look i i yes it doesn't look a monster sure but it also looks like horizon it's weird that like again the hub world part the quest board thing if you can find that men cooking replace them with cats and that's literally just fucking monster because they're doing the whole thing with the thing and the cinematic spin and the presentation of the food and all this jazz too doesn't really matter uh but it's like when you get into the gameplay it does look like horizon which is good and it has that identity to it.

12:34I wonder how it will look on mobile. They do a lot of character creation stuff in here. That's interesting of course. When you go to, if you can click on the gameplay trailer, Kev, that's also in here. That one, very interesting. Can you hide us, Kev? I know I'm asking you to do a lot of stuff on the fly. Seeing this hot key bar below on how you're attacking, this is where I go, what am I getting? What do we really...

12:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's a PC MMO. That's what it is. and mobile that's the one thing like the the it not coming to playstation side of it i think that's the like worst part of this as far as like what fans come to expect from a horizon franchise thing like we're playing horizon on playstation you're telling me you're making a horizon it's not coming to playstation i think that rubs fans the wrong way but the other side of it is that i look at this game and you can tell me if i'm crazy i look at this and go this looks incredible to me yeah This looks fantastic. But then, yeah, I see the hockey you're talking about, and I'm like, how is it going to play?

13:34Shallow. Very, very, very shallow, I think, is the answer. Like, you look at this, and yes, it's very pretty, but it's very pre-canned. Yeah. Every single thing looks very just like you're going through the motions. And that comes to the hockey bar we're talking about again, right? Where it's like, okay, cool. There's no joysticks on this screen. So I assume I'm, is my character auto-moving, and I'm just clicking on, you see those boxes light up and then go into cooldowns. so am i just clicking those and i'm assuming let's just go from a mobile thing pc gameplay okay like you must be moving around your character like what i'm just throwing it out there of like me i'm just throwing it out there i don't know i don't know i i've been burned too many times by hey we're gonna make this game on mobile and you can do all this stuff with it it's gonna play on pc too and da da da da and then but i think we're talking about a different ecosystem like mobile

14:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:when we talk about mobile games we're talking about genshin impact right we're talking about games that can now be big open world and like assassin's creed games are on mobile now you know like i think this is now par for the course everyone's saying was done okay i'm just tossing it out there i'm just tossing out that i don't what i'm tossing out is i don't like the cooldowns on these bars that's what i'm saying and i know yes pc mmos yeah yeah i don't know uh it's on the one hand it looks better than i thought it would i'll give you that uh on the other hand i'm not stoked to jump into the horizon world just to live in the horizon world like I like horizon as a story I like you know what's going on what happened here why we fall obviously horizon number one horizon to a little doing this thing terrible fucking ending that's all interesting and I like that but like I don't know I was never playing horizon I shouldn't say never but like when I think back to horizon I don't think of seeing a giant monster and be like oh man I'm gonna go fuck that thing up really yeah no that's what i think for monster hunter and in my and for me with horizon personally it was exploration climbing up finding the things for my focus learning about what happened in that world now great that's just me as a gamer i'm not you know saying everybody has to do that i'm going to try this i'm going to give it the call try i hope it's great uh you know what i mean but i look at i look at it i'm like okay you got a lot of things in there that i do like obviously it does look really good i think i think the thing the place where i align with you is that in regards to Horizon's plot and story, I'm way more invested in Aloy's character and specifically the history of how did we get here to the post-apocalypse?

15:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What's going on with, oh, what's her name? What's the spoilers for Horizon? But like... Your girlfriend? No. I keep wanting to say Trebek. Carrie Ann Moss? Oh, here's what I'm talking about. Literally Monster Hunter cooking, which again, like, rad, but I mean, like, you're doing literally all the stuff that Palco's do, but it's a little weird. Thank you. Elizabeth Silva. world show oh that's what i'm talking about sorry sorry sorry the this looks cool kevin let that play for a second if you don't mind going into the arc is that what they call i forgot there and fighting all the monsters on the inside teaming up like that this you know could be really cool the most interesting parts of horizon for me are the is the tale of the post-apocalypse of it and how we got here and like the prehistory of like actual humans and all this shit right i think the lesser interesting parts of it are the interplay between like the different tribes within the horizon world like everything that's present day in horizon going on between these different factions i'm like okay it's fine yeah like it's there for me to like kind of get to the next thing and then get to the cool oh but here's what's going on with this big threat and here's what's going on with you know aloys you know past and yeah that's mysterious and all that stuff and you're not going to get any of that shit here and so i think plot wise that's where i kind of align with you where i'm like i don't know if i want to live in this part of the horizon world that said one of the things man this is weird these character models there's something about these character models that are uncanny to me and i don't know why um but to pull it back i do have the feeling of the monsters the robot creatures i do think they're cool enough to like compete i won't say compete with like the monster under monsters but to eventually grow into that i think taking off the different parts of the creatures and the dinosaurs and all that shit there's something satisfying about it that i could see satisfying that monster under gameplay loop and i think you know as you talk about monster hunter wilds and it uh hemorrhaging players and not being able to maintain the audience they thought capcom clearly thought it was going to have coming out uh you look at this and you do get into could that fill the itch and i think some part of that being more direct helps a lot where i always feel like in monster hunter i'm stabbing at this thing hoping i get a scale or whatever but in horizon i understand when i look at all these different machines i need that tank that's on their back so if i target that when on this run and do that maybe that works for me i also think that you guys are talking a lot about plot i feel like so much of what makes horizon so good is obviously it looks beautiful but it is the versatility of the combat chip right and it's like how the you're able to like run around and use all your tools that you're uh dispensed and it's awesome right this though doesn't seem like that this like seems like it's taking a lot of that away and i get i know that that's just what this is by default when change what the honor is to what this is but yeah it's interesting i i do think them not putting it on playstation is a clear choice and i don't i don't expect that this ends up on playstation i think that this is just trying to raise brand awareness for horizon but this coming hot off the heels of yesterday's ratchet and clank news too right it's like yeah it is very interesting we've known this stuff was coming right for a couple years that they've been working on this stuff but yeah to have two of the bigger playstation franchises um at least i know ratchet's not that big all things considered but playstation pushes the character ratchet as yeah a mascot yeah exactly so yeah what do you guys think that uh we're getting another one anytime soon like another game ratchet horizon oh another mobile um i mean the cadence is very interesting i wonder if it just landed this way where oh we have two announcements that just happen to be ready and so here's ratchet here's horizon day after day but that team has been around for a very long time and i feel like they've i guess they've been working for a long time i'll say yes right for a team that's been probably in the process of figuring out how to make this shit work i think yeah there's probably more to expect as far as these playstation mobile games although i think i think this horizon one is probably way more on the higher scale of what to expect i expect more ratchet type mobile games than what we're having with everything that's happened uh we talk about you know this one's been rumored the mmorpg forever and then with this hey they're doing a i think was it trios or duos was the rumor for monster hunter multiplayer it doesn't i'm sorry god damn it horizon multiplayer at gorilla do you think that's still happening because remember of course obviously this was part of the live service push and all that jazz and they've seen everybody eat shit on that i think it's still happening yeah i think a gorilla multiplayer one's still happening yes my question is what is it and what are you doing to differentiate it from this in that job listing they in that announcement for it they talked about it having like a fresh new art style as well and so interesting i wonder what the demographic is is it going to be more kitty is it going to be more hey we're making this more animated so we can appeal to a different demographic like a different age demographic um because i look at this and i'm like okay well if this mmo is also feeding the they're saying they said this today by the way that it is still happening oh there you go okay cool yeah if this almost is also feeding that monster hunter itch then what's left for the horizon multiplayer game to do yeah i mean i think a playstation exclusive is different enough literally even if it is the same thing but just with a playstation polish as opposed to a like pc mobile mmorpg polish which they are different things those things can exist on that platform playstation games can exist on mobile but we all look at that and we there's a gut feeling whereas the gorilla multiplayer game even if there's a lot of similarities we're going to look at and be like that's a real game that's a real game yeah exactly which is the term to use but of course i think i go the reverse way when they talk about the different art style and i go we're going to see it is going to look like such a spin-off but i'm with you uh yeah well spin-off yeah yeah for sure but um yeah it's that just looks like they're trying to exactly emulate the look of horizon and they're succeeding right yeah to a uncanny degree i also wonder how much the timing of this announcement is due to the light of multi-rom like lawsuit stuff that's going on right like them going after them obviously like oh shit you guys are making in like this big mmo i forget exactly what the genre of light to motorhome is but you're making this game that looks so similar to what we're doing here with our horizon mmo no we're not gonna let that happen i wonder if them announcing this here is part of all right if we're gonna continue to go after them we have to show that oh no this is going after this is copying something that we are directly doing now yeah because this just popping out the blue i think is weird no but it didn't pop out of the loo right it was that the what what was the korean summit whatever thing last night that this got announced at oh is that what yeah g summit is anybody anybody help me on this check and you help me on this i gotta go pick up coffee i gotta guess i still do think that that is weird i mean weird it just means different than how things used to go the fact that a game like this that looks like this with a playstation ip like horizon isn't being announced at a playstation thing yeah it's weird it's weird except that it's not coming to play station which is even weirder yeah i mean exactly and things are changing that's just all that this is a sign of but yeah like it is it's just wild that one of playstation's big five franchises they probably want it to be big three yeah you know i mean i would say it's probably already big three i guess you know it gets a little hard because spider-man's always a weird one you're right big five then yeah because i was gonna say last of us uncharted's like picking a break but i would still put in there but yeah uncharted god of war last of us spider-man horizon those are five yeah good five pretty good five uh let's get to some super chats here about this um kebab says i don't want multiplayer horizon full stop i i mean i disagree i think there are ways to horizon multiplayer that can be very compelling and that goes back to the monster in the conversation that we're always having i i don't know if this is going to hit the mark perfectly but i'm also not writing this off like i i think this game looks good i think it looks it looks good in a way where it's like if you're gonna do it do all the way and i think they're doing it all the way as far as what a horizon mmo looks like i think and we're kind of going in circles here like i like we've said this in different ways already but like i think that looking at this it is a smart call to not have this be on playstation because this is trying to introduce this audience to a game that's this stunning with the art design and world yeah the horizon world it's fucking cool i would say the majority of people that care about sci-fi and just worlds and stuff they're like horizon looks cool you know yeah and so it's like you don't need a law you don't need the story you need all that stuff you just need a cool look cool looking world with cool looking robots to fight or whatever you want to call them right yeah and uh it's for the people that have never played horizon don't care about horizon maybe even never heard of horizon i think that's even the bigger thing this is for an audience of people that maybe aren't console gamers at all right they just care about the games that they're playing where they are and like that this might make them a horizon fan and expand the ip in a valuable way but there's a lot of ifs there a lot of ifs there and the one other thing i was going to mention that i'm sure we already touched on is that there's just too much horizon i think that's the thing where i kind of agree with kebabs as far as not wanting a horizon multiplayer thing is that i i kind of do want a horizon multiplayer thing i don't need two horizon most player things i don't need a horizon vr game i don't need a like i feel like i'm getting horizon left and right in a way that i did not ask for but i don't think you are you're not gonna play this i don't think i will okay maybe yeah but like i think that's because it's your job i don't think that most horizon fans are gonna play this and i don't think that's by design and i think that's by design like interesting i think that like yes there's a lot of horizon projects but like i think that they're speaking to incredibly different audiences yeah i mean i guess though the rebuttal i give to that is then why call it horizon because they're it's to build the ip yeah but you can then maybe convert them to the bigger 70 dollar big ticket items and sell ps5s because that is sony's business plan i guess i just don't believe in that plan right like i think if you if you're making a horizon ip if you're making a game that is that exists in the horizon universe that looks exactly like horizon that is like very much a spinoff of what horizon is i think you're making that to try and get horizon fans i think about it like pokemon where it's like there's 10 bazillion spinoffs and just because you didn't play mystery dungeon like it doesn't really matter yeah you know and or even there are games like pokemon legends are you cannot play that or the pokemon legends and then pokemon core generation games like they're different but then there's a shit ton of them and i know pokemon is a loaded thing to to bring into it but i think even like lego horizon adventures it's like that's not for necessarily all the people that played horizon okay you know like it's yeah and like there's a lot of horizons would be my would be my question then i mean i don't know like my assumption i don't think there's been enough to look at it and say that they've succeeded or failed like i don't think there is that much you don't have the information on it but like i i would be surprised if lego horizon did that well and maybe and maybe i'm totally wrong about this but i just i'd be surprised too and i think a lot of that just has to do with timing and uh like i think that if i honestly think that if lego horizon 2 like launched with the switch 2 i think it would have done better okay i could see that but the timing of where nintendo was at which was obviously a big marketing play for them there i don't think that it was like the right situation for all of them but i just don't think horizon is the kind of ip that is so wide reaching and the way that a pokemon is where you can make different pokemon for different people or whatever yeah i just don't think horizon has that power i agree yeah i think that they clearly are trying to change that i think that this is the way that you do that is by making things in the world for different people not expecting the people that are fans to play all of them but yeah i don't know we'll see i also say this is somebody that like i enjoy the horizon games i think they're beautiful and i because of how beautiful they are i play them that's the end of it i don't love the games you know yeah i have zero interest in this whatsoever i can't think of a horizon spinoff that i'm like that would make me go hell yeah fair enough so um zeke speak said it's weird that horizon started as a game about climate change and the perils of techno futurism and now i'm gonna get that the world's cool but i don't know man uh oh i want to bring in i saw this uh come in in my notifications um somebody sent me a thread where people point out that the horizon steel frontiers this game that we're talking about uses ai extensively including for art um i'm looking at a link to a page it's like a news page but it's in a different language but it's in korean uh but there is a quote poll that's been translated where uh they ask about um let's see horizon's horizon steel frontier was previously known as project skyline there was talk about introducing ai mpcs back then are there any related features that have been implemented this part of the interview the response is uh within the company we are testing and receiving help from basic mpcs in the process of cooperating or fighting together in combat in our case since it's an action rpg we are receiving help in various aspects such as determining the optimal number of players for gameplay rather than playing with a large number of users internally we are also using ai assistance for production from coding to art it is being substantially implemented in an actual development and the technologies will likely be revealed one one by one later the horizon development team is also the team that wants to utilize ai the most we're using it extensively and you'll be able to see the level of ai utilization increase significantly in the games released after after aeon 2 is what they say which i assume might be one of their other games but the world changes oh this is very cool yeah i wonder if they scrape monster hunter you know oh could you imagine i mean real talk look at that shit god what a fucking why is it all the games that are about the perils of technology that are using ai like what's yeah arc raiders and a horizon game are the games that are using ai for their creation does nobody see irony

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33:36so i've seen a lot of things

33:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:dude i cannot wait for this crazy things unnatural things in the game but good people No That girl I met I would be a good person too if I grew up in some cozy little impenetrable home I'd have to steal and stab and fib on the goddamn time just to get by

34:10What exactly is that you plan on doing once we find your daddy? I'm gonna bring him to justice So people know that how they conduct themselves matters They don't give up hope. The stuff we fight for? The story has it. You used to believe in those things too. I'm a wasteland for 200 years. I've kept myself alive for one reason. To find my family.

34:43Well then, you're gonna need friends. There's a war coming. Whoa

34:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hell yeah That's cool Sky ships I understand we're discussing a civil war Hell yeah Let's fucking go

35:19You're actually beginning to get along.

35:27Is she going to say okie dokie? She's got to say okie dokie. Oh my god. Try, try again.

35:50Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yes

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36:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:dude i cannot wait yeah looks fantastic especially as a fallout fan they're giving me like the shit that i want right like the fucking seeing the uh power armor go head to head with the deathclaw that's that good shit right there you know what i mean uh kamil nanjiani love that i love how he got ripped and stayed ripped you know what i mean like it's like this is it i get yeah maybe he's waiting for turtles too you know what i mean sure that'll come i wish it would come i like that movie um yeah no i'm i cannot wait for this i i'm just so damn impressed like i feel that season one was such a great show like i can't believe i'm this hype for a fallout thing that's like they did it they really achieved i think the impossible when it comes to to my taste but yeah this show is awesome this looks great love the love the new additions to the cast but also love seeing those two together a lot more like that's hell yeah and it's coming so soon got my one goggins uh and i can't think of her name main character what's her name ella pernell ella pernell thank you you talking about those two together yes yeah yeah no such a great dynamic i dude this was one of those shows where i loved all the main characters like even um yeah i mean i can't remember anybody's but the brotherhood of steel dude he was my least favorite but he over time he started in a way i really didn't like him but yeah i think that was kind of plot wise what the turning point the turning point was him talking about his penis exploding like that was the part where i was like all right i like this guy they got good writing in this show so and also like i like that the the budget seems to be higher but like not overly done you know what i mean we're getting a lot of scale here which is good but uh it's it just seems right they seem like it's going to the right places yes like even the scene where you saw you see like the sky the the ships right like the them coming in i for some reason it's still cool but in my i almost had to do the video game thing of filling in more ships oh yeah yeah like i was kind of like man but it's also fallout so it's not yeah it's not like you would get a billion fucking sky ships coming through that's not what this world is um but i looked i saw that i was like oh cool i guess that's it yeah i guess the fallout yeah oh wait what was that what'd you say what's his name uh macaulay colkin we go back oh shit it is fucking macaulay colkin that's that's hilarious the show can't lose yeah they're cooking they're cooking that's awesome december 17th right 17th you're close can you go to the end of it i think you're right it's yeah 17 there you go oh my god that's so close a month from now let's move on to story number three ubisoft postpones their earnings report this comes from daniel ahmad on twitter who says ubisoft just postponed ubisoft just postponed its earnings report and halted the trading of its shares unclear why at this point but could indicate a major announcement related to the company interesting yeah they posted um verbatim ubisoft announces a press release ubisoft announces the postponement of the release of its results for the first half of the fiscal year 2025 to 2026 ubisoft has requested euro next to halt trading of its shares and its bonds i've shadow trickster in the chat says do they have earnings to report that might be a good point they're like assassin's creed shadows this year oh they're cooked no but it sold hella well like yeah but that's all they had yeah that's all they had for sure for sure i don't know if like it sold so well to carry i'm not saying that i'm not saying that but like they had earnings to report earning singular we made a dollar we got this yeah congratulations this doesn't sound good though right with all that we've heard about ubisoft and i'm not even talking about their decisions in terms of their games and their studios and this i'm talking about the like they're going to get sold one day yeah and that used to be a thing of like defend ubisoft let's figure this out and then it's like oh wait the guys at the top are really shady characters acting in ways that are not good at the very least morally reprehensible yeah and i would host like because i i think that went along with a lot of the 2020 people coming out and talking about like the bad actors in the industry and specifically a lot of the bad actors that were at ubisoft and who knows how shit really goes but i feel like the word has been that they went in and like cleaned house as much as they probably can as much as they probably know how to clean house and of course fucking i won't even get into it but you'd hope that we're at a place now where that stuff isn't as like i guess much of a problem on that side but that's even hard to say because i mean i have no idea there's no way there's no way right i mean like we know who's at the top and the family and we know they are literally the source of the problem and it feels like that's not changing so yeah whatever this means it's like all right cool it could get worse it's the tough thing too of like not knowing what i want to happen here right because but we know what we don't right saudi arabia yeah i was gonna say closure but yeah either one like i i mean it's the thing where i repeat that consolidation is bad consolidation is scary and like honestly anybody buying ubisoft i'd probably be like oh man well this is gonna lead to layoffs but also ubisoft closing is gonna lead to layoffs and also like ubisoft continuing as it is is gonna lead to late i just don't know what a good solution is ubisoft closing you saying that i know that it's almost a like a shitty joke between me and you yeah anytime we're sitting here for games daily and the headline pops up of like ubisoft's in trouble what's ubisoft doing whatever it's like oh my god are we really talking about i mean how long can we say this until there's a headline that is ubisoft shutters i've never like the ip is just for sale now never once considered it until you just said that right now yeah and like holy crap i do i think that that is doom and gloom but we're in doom and gloom days yeah because you're right sell off the ip like the value make those guys can make money i don't see it happening i see them go riding this into the fucking abyss but man i mean how much longer can you ride i don't know we're at a splinter cell remake coming eventually sure we do we have sense of time remake sure we do we might have a ray man that'd be sick that'd be sick that one i kind of believe one day they're gonna take assassin's creed to japan maybe they'll put out a big star wars game what if we put out a prince of persia um rogue light and like didn't really market it that well yeah what if it was really really really good and what if it was hot off the heels and we put it out in early access months after some people's game of the year yeah before shuttering that team franchise yeah oh yeah they shuttered that team oh yeah fuck dude yeah they did yeah hey prayers for ubisoft i guess i don't know what to say i don't know what to say about ubisoft anymore yeah i don't know what like i would love for them to get their shit together i guess that i guess that's what i want i want them to get their shit together i just i'm just afraid that it's way too late it's tough man because we're at the point right now right we have the we're in the assassin's creed are we we're getting dlc for that did we already get deals for shadow yeah i think we already got somewhere around there we just got the star wars outlaws dlc not too long ago i think the next step like all shade aside it's far cry right oh yeah like it's time to go back to far cry is that enough i don't know that's the thing is i don't think anything is there's not one thing that ubisoft has that is enough it is all things hitting you know i mean it is having that flow of oh damn assassin's creed was fucking awesome oh far cry was fucking sick oh shit oh there's a new watchdogs and people like it oh like the rainbow six and on clancy games division is here like you stopped just the type of company that i think needs to be firing on all cylinders for their different pillars and i their pillars just feel shaky their foundation just feels shaky i mean we've said this a million times but literally like they put out their they pulled the if all else fails assassin's creed japan they did that and they had the division team make a star wars game now what well yes like that's the thing yeah leading into it last year was the last year that we got star wars outlaws yes because no that was last i'm sorry sorry star wars outlaws yeah yeah shadows was the shadows was supposed to be last year but i remember earlier last year at least for me i was talking about how oh this is the moment ubisoft has a star wars and the in the japan assassin's creed game this is where the ship turns and i feel like star wars outlaws landed with a thud it was whatever i think sales wise didn't do uh up to their expectations assassin's creed shadows was an assassin's creed game but yeah like it felt like just another assassin's creed game i don't feel correct me if i'm wrong but like i don't feel like the chatter around assassin's creed shadows is even like it was with odyssey and origin yeah chatter i don't know success in terms of sales and stuff i don't know if they i mean we're probably waiting for it here right yeah uh but like from all the things that they've from the signs that we've gotten the you know one-off statements here and there i'm under the impression that assassin's free shadows did pretty well okay but again pretty well in comparison to what good enough for them to survive when they're not putting out other games i don't know it remember this too bless they didn't have ubisoft forward this year yeah and like good because don't put out a bad forward but if they didn't put out a forward it's because they have nothing to talk about yeah i was gonna say what are they gonna put out like what are yeah what are the what are the upcoming avatar dlc right like i know you mentioned um you know splinter cell and prince of persia do we believe that those are coming next year no i don't i i think that the pull the rip cord the next one they have and they're running out of them but it's black flag remake yeah i think that that is at any point they'll shit it out the way that they have to and what i mean by that is if they get desperate enough they'll put it out in very bad shape just because they need that money god i hope we didn't use to talk this way about them man no like ps4 ps4 generation ubisoft for was locked in like i would i would use the word locked in to describe them you know what i mean or the assassin's creed origins and odyssey fucking rainbow 16 defined the ps4 and xbox one launch yeah right like ubisoft was there and they had like the quirky stuff that's out of light they had rayman origins and legend yeah which were killer they had trials and i know like some of these aren't fucking money makers but guess what it's they were in a position where they could put out these quirky games that the audience would fucking would love we we're talking about ubisoft now the way we talked about capcom a decade ago so there is hope but we're in a different world you know what i mean capcom turn it around like when you look at the capcom and its franchises like there was a time where was like i can't believe how much they're squandering their ip and what they have what turned it around for capcom was it resonant it was a lot man it was really like a yeah did it start a resident evil 2 remake no i'd start with resident evil 7 oh yeah 7 you're right yeah um but all the resident evil the new ones the remakes the uh you know just getting into why am i not thinking of anything monster hunter obviously world being like such a that's probably the actually the real starting point of like let's write the ship and they've been pretty flawless since then and flawless includes trying some things out that don't work or trying some things out that work but not like greatest scale ever like a primal exo primal or kunitsugami yeah goddess right like things like that it's like all right cool like they had the luxury to do that stuff because they have such consistent wins now my thing there is when we transition to ubisoft what is ubisoft's resident evil what is their monster hunter does ubisoft have a nine in them that's the thing can ubisoft put out a nine out of ten i don't think actually i know we wouldn't have thought capcom did after resident evil 6 okay but the gap between resident evil 6 and resident evil 7 was longer than even the the long gaps between assassin's creed games it's a different game but like i'm being incredibly hopeful here i'm just trying you're trying to paint you're doing the doctor strange thing and fucking infinity war he's looking at all the different dimensions and being like there's one though yeah yeah he gets that one but um yeah it's not looking not looking too good what are the rabbits up to they're scared lonely i mean they put out mario and rabbits to you that seems like it didn't hit the expectations.

48:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It didn't, yeah. That's another one. This is the second time I'm saying this show, but if they had saved Mario and Rabbids the second one for Switch 2, it would do pretty well. I guarantee it would have exceeded expectations. What do you think is the last Ubisoft game that hit expectations? I think Shadows. Before Shadows, since we don't know for sure. Ooh. I don't know. Chat, let me know if there's... i lost crown was at nine i guess but like i guess i'm saying a nine in conjunction with also being a sales success yeah a nine for one of the the heavy hitter a nine for a heavy hitter a nine where it matters not that i'm saying lost crime that doesn't matter but they shut down that studio i know god damn it but no look the the thing about the resident evils and the monster hunters is those were nines and those were highest selling in the franchise highest selling capcom game like it was like yes success in every metric right and community loved it and it's just like all that stuff and all that stuff worked in conjunction right they were that well selling because they were nine because they were fantastic games let's move on to story number four death stranding animated series from hideo kojima set at disney plus this comes from abid ramen at the hollywood reporter death stranding fans rejoice today kojima's groundbreaking video game franchise is set to expand with an all-new animated series heading to disney plus at disney's asia pacific Originals content showcase in Hong Kong, Kojima made a surprise appearance to announce the new show, Death Stranding Isolations, which is a working title scheduled to hit Disney Plus in 2027.

50:12Speaking through a translator, Kojima said that the series will be pretty mind-blowing and that he wanted to expand his franchise into anime as it would allow him to do things you can only do with animation. He added the series will have new and different characters. Asked why he was working with Disney, Kojima said he was a long-time fan of the company and worked with them on the 2023 documentary Hideo Kojima Connecting Worlds. He added that Disney approached him about the project while working together on the dock. Disney Plus also provided a brief outline for the series saying, set in the world of Death Stranding, Death Stranding Isolations will tell a completely new story separate from that of the video games.

50:44The upcoming series will follow a young man and woman as they set out on an adventure. So, one, I'm so interested in this.

50:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's somebody who really likes Death Stranding. It's somebody who loves Kojima, right? Like, I'm very interested in this with a few thoughts. one and the way that we're talking about horizon getting all these different games death stranding has so much so much they're getting an a24 movie there was an anime that was just announced not that long ago now we have the key art for a different animated series coming to disney plus because of the synergy with hideo kojima and disney plus with the documentary here's my question it has less to do with death stranding and more to do with kojima do you think that death stranding is getting all of this less so for death stranding more so for hojima like do you think that if kojima was in ownership of a metal gear solid it'd be metal gear solid i'll be getting all this shit or like a different kojima ip i ask that because death stranding is just so fucking weird and i think that that it's a complicated question that i i think it's a little bit of yes and yes yeah like i really do think it it yes it's because it's kojima and it's because he owns it and it's the baby and all that stuff but also i do think the weirdness of death stranding leads it lends it a ability to be adapted in different ways and kind of get weird in those different ways and have it still feel death stranding you know and there's been a lot of i i think that this has a chance to be pretty good i'm not it's not a guarantee but with kojima being involved and on top of that like we've seen cyberpunk edge runners and other examples of anime adaptations of video games or you know related things that aren't directly adapting it we just talked about fallout that's not animated but like it's just in the world of fallout like i think that the world of death stranding is so interesting and as somebody that doesn't really enjoy playing death stranding but i'm into the weirdness to an extent it's like that's cool i'm way more interested in the movie than i am these this this seems like a step or too too far for me yeah um but i do think that death stranding has continued to surprise me as a franchise and how much people care and i think that the oh they only care because it's kojima has worn off after death stranding 2 death stranding 2 on the beach actually coming out not that long after death stranding 1 and being as good as it was by all accounts i'm like damn death stranding got the stuff it's just one of those things where death stranding i love death stranding i'm surprised by how much other people love death stranding like it's such a weird like kind of abstract and kind of like i mean not even kind of very nonsensical franchise that in a way to your point kind of lends itself to being adapted because you can do many different things with it but i think on the opposite side i think does the opposite as far as the franchisability when i say franchisability i guess i mean like turning this into something where it is oh you see an animation oh i gotta watch it because it's death stranding oh it's a movie of course because that's like the fact that it's becoming this thing that's being spun off into all these different things i guess i see it almost as a kojima's been in this industry for so long kojima is so highly revered by all different sides of creative media of art you know you listen to rappers rap about kojima like the amount of rappers that have heard dropped name dropped kojima in a bar or actors you interview that love kojima or all the pictures you'll see of actors coming by the kojima productions there is a reference for him and i think post leaving konami he's been able to live that out he's been able to really i think heighten what his presence is in like film industry hollywood and things outside of just video games and i think because he does so well in nurturing those relationships people want to adapt kojima things because they have such a high reverence and the only ip he has right now for them to adapt is death straining yeah and so i wonder if it is a thing of like you know once we get od out the door once we get fizzing out the door now we can like fucking have some variety but we're just stuck with so many death straining things because everybody wants to work with kojima and he only has that straining to give yeah that that is interesting i a different point in the same conversation there is like i'm happy it's not metal gear like metal gear i feel like is the type of thing that i would love to see an adaptation of i don't want to see 10 million spinoffs of metal gear like i think that that dilutes what that is and what makes it special because i think that what makes metal gear and its story special is the how dialed in and specific the world and plot and characters are and the more that you add to it the less focus it has and then i just think it gets incredibly messy and i think even in games got to that point at i think metal gear solid 5 is a perfect example of what i'm saying right um but yeah it's it's gonna be interesting fizzin's gonna be very very interesting to keep an eye on how much of a direct metal gear clone is it and how much is it just a new thing that happens to be a stealth action game yeah you know i my prediction for fizzin it's the last hurrah it is the old and maybe this is okay this is me being hype right this is me letting my letting the hypes go for at least right why not i want it to be the ultimate metal gear solid experience i wanted to be kojimi being like i'm going out with a bang this is going to be metal gear solid ultimate without it actually being metal gear solid but it is me returning to the greatest hits and giving you everything you loved about my biggest series packed into one package that's my that's my hope i hope that's my fucking you know story number five lies the key company is somehow making five games only one of them is the sequel this comes from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku.

56:29In a growing field of copycat souls like Lies of P stands apart as one of the best. This year's Overture DLC proved the game wasn't a fluke and now the publisher behind the Pinocchio Punk action RPG is confirmed it has a whopping five games currently in various stage of development and only one of them's Lies of P2. The South Korean mobile gaming giant Neo Wiz's upcoming slate was outlined in its latest earnings report as part of a multi-phase plan. They talked about Life Simulation New Project, Life Simulation coming to PC and console, Survival Action Adventure new project uh coming to pc and console the lies of p sequel sequel which is a souls like rpg pc console new project by sungho jin which is a narrative based rpg coming to pc console new project by kaylee cells like rpg coming to pc console cool i mean i love that i mean nuts but

57:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:also you know i love that they're making moves as a publisher really looking forward to lies Liza P. sequel. That game was a surprise in how good it was. And I think anybody who finished Liza P. finishes it and goes, damn, I want to see what the next game looks like. They finish on such a strong note, leading you into desiring a sequel. Very interested to see if they can replicate the impact of Liza P. in these other games. I think, you know, there's a lot of variety here when you talk about a survival action adventure, a life simulation. But then, yeah, they also talk about another narrative-based RPG and another Souls-like.

57:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I'm very interested to see what another Souls-like from that same publisher looks like. I think that has potential to, like, really, I think, define that publisher as, like, maybe another leading Souls-like publisher if they're able to find another thing of gold. uh without spoiling anything what andy has told me about what is being teed up for the lives of peace sequel i'm like that world that idea is one of the few things i'm like i gotta try that have you seen the have you seen the ending i actually haven't seen it after this i'm gonna look it up i'm gonna see the okay oh that's because i love the idea when i tell you i because i beat lives of p during the review stage and i beat it i believe before andy and i was just not expecting what they ended with.

58:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, it's impossible too. Yes. And so when I got there, I thought I was dreaming. I was like, there's no fucking way. I need to talk to somebody about this, but I couldn't talk to anybody. I hope we actually get it. I hope we get it. We will. But I hope it's that though. Oh, I think it will be. You can't, you have to. Story number six. Netflix is bringing Red Dead Redemption to mobile. This comes from Ash Paris at The Verge. Another one of Rockstar's greatest hits is coming to Netflix. On December 4th, you'll be able to play Red Dead Redemption and its zombified standalone DLC, Undead Nightmare, for free as long as you have a Netflix subscription.

59:06The news broke when prolific video game newshound Wario64 found listings for the game on the iOS and Android store. And it seems like Netflix isn't the only one that'll let you ride horses with John Marston. Wario64 also found Red Dead Redemption's appeared on the ESRB website with ratings for the PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2. No word yet on when those versions will be released. Is this kind of what I was just joking about with Ubisoft with the pull the assassin's creed black flag remake lever where they're like gta 6 is delayed we need money baby yeah put red dead redemption out again yeah put it out put it give it to you

59:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:know license it to netflix let's put out gta 5 again on ps plus like let's we're pulling all the triggers yeah we're doing it that's interesting man god red dead redemption 2 getting 60 frames per second one day that'd be really big news that'd be so big to roger picorny but bless if i wanted to know about something smaller where would i look you'd go to our last news story the we news channel recover all the small news items you need to know about say hello to pikachu pokemon tweets today a pale pikachu whose fur is a mysterious color it's drooping ears somehow make it seem a little feeble who else is already obsessed what's happening here what's happening here pacopia um all this morning they've been tweeting pokemon we know but in different ways than we are used to them There was a Snorlax covered in moss, and they called him Mosslax.

1:00:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Are these not just Mega Evolutions? No, no. These are just, I don't know, but I don't like this. You don't like Pikachu? I don't. You're already obsessed? I am not. There's something that feels creepy about it, and I just don't like it. Oh, this is really funny. There we go. Dbrand announces companion cube for Steam Machine coming 2026. Have you seen this? Oh, yeah. Dude. Dude. We're cooking. We're cooking. We're cooking. This is what it looks like. This is the future, but also launching a new console looks like. I love it. From game developer British Labor Union Independent Workers of Great Britain, IWGB, is escalating its legal fight with GTA 6 developer Rockstar over the firing of over 30 union members on November 2nd.

1:01:17It has now issued formal legal claims against Rockstar for its actions, bringing the dispute before the British courts.

1:01:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Release Red Dead Redemption. That's what they said. That's what they said. From Automaton, Crafton launched a voluntary resignation program open to all employees starting November 12th, as reported by Business Korea. This move appears to be part of Crafton's real org efforts following the recently announced decision to become a, quote, AI first game company. Jesus. Here's my thing. If I could get like a Thanos snap ability, I know there's like a lot of like beneficial uses for AI technology, but all the gen AI stuff, if I could snap that shit out of existence and like erase people's ability to create that again.

1:01:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It'd be nice. Oh, dude, it's so annoying. The Indie Game Awards are set for December 18th at 3.30 p.m. Pacific. From Eurogamer, Arc Raiders has secretly had duo queues for days and will be fully supported going forward. Nice. This is what I want. Silent Hill F Patch 1.1 is now available. Adds casual difficulty and lets you skip select sections in New Game Plus and more. Riz Dungeon Skeleton Key to My Heart launches on PC in 2026. Hell yeah, brother. And then five more Blizzard titles got added to Xbox Retro Classics. RPM Racing, Rock and Roll Racing, The Lost Vikings, Lost Vikings 2, Norse by Norse West, and Blackthorn.

1:02:36Do you know what Xbox Retro Classics is? I don't. I don't either. I also don't think I know a single one of these video games. If you asked me, is the Lost Vikings a game, I'd go, yeah.

1:02:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This would have been a great game showdown round. Because Norse by Norse West does not sound real. That sounds like Kevin put that in there as a joke. and that's it for super chats let's see what we got news wrong oh yeah for we news i was looking at the word super chat yeah that's how it goes um let's see geordie writes in bless can i get your glasses for a second the title of games daily is wrong um since the mmo is developed published and was released by ncsoft not playstation tim that's the funniest thing you've ever done in your fucking life what the fuck

1:03:37discom says i think y 'all were talking about i've never seen you get so into character and fucking nail it what the fuck i'm fucking crying Just based on your reaction, it's hard for me to read. I think y 'all were talking about two different Prince of Persia games during the pop roguelite discussion. Tim mentioned it launching in early access. That was Rogue Prince of Persia. Then before shattering the team, that was Lost Crown. Sorry, I was kind of jumping back and forth. I was saying that it was a bad idea for them to put out the Lost Crown and then months later put out a very similar-looking 2D Prince of Persia in early access.

1:04:15They doomed Rogue Prince of Persia from the start. It was my point.

1:04:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And to kind of correct the person who said the PlayStation thing, right? Like, it's still PlayStation Studios announcement. And so, like, for me in the headline, I'm like, well, PlayStation brand. So, and y 'all recognize, I won't say y 'all, I guess, the internet and algorithms and the way people look at headlines. They recognize PlayStation for, like, a gaming YouTube video more than Sony. And so, these are for me to put PlayStation. It's the whole GTA 6 thing. Yeah. Bander says, Tim says the gap between Resident Evil 6 and 7 was longer than the gap between Assassin's Creed. However, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Assassin's Creed Shadows had 1 ,591 days between them.

1:04:56Did we forget about Mirage? Did we? Did we? The world forgot about it. They did put a note. Both franchises had spinoff games between them, Revelations and Mirage, etc. We have Barrett over there. Barrett says it's not a spinoff. barrett says mirage is not a spinoff it was just a smaller title what are you trying to say about

1:05:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:shorter titles trying to say that shorter games don't matter as much as the 40 hour games oh jesus says xbox retro classics is mostly old ass atari games why is it a thing i we don't i know we don't have time right now to look into it because game pass is 30 now blessed that's why they needed to say you get fucking lost vikings north by northwest okay i like i thought i slipped into a different timeline when i saw like the wario 64 tweet or whatever it was you're like oh these are your xbox classics for the for the month what oh man well everybody that has been kind of games daily we're about to do games cast 10 games to get to know joey noel barrett courtney and maybe even cool greg bless this has been a good one it's been a fantastic thank you for joining me today thank you for having a full day of stuff and until next time love you all goodbye that was a good one

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