Pokemon Pokopia Made Greg Cry - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.05.26

7:42Greg Miller:How much did you play last night? Hour and a half. Okay.

7:46Bryant Francis:90 minutes in last night. Excited to go back. Really vibing with the world. Loving that the Pokemon are just coming into my little beautiful world one by one. A little bit of a slow start. But it's understandable. Yeah. Probably geared a little more towards a kid's game. They got the training wheels on. And it just feels a little bit slower than like a Minecraft where you open it up. Of course. Where you just talk in. Good luck. Figure it out. That's the whole thing.

8:09Jordan Middler:They want an onboarding purpose.

8:10Bryant Francis:Yeah. For me, there's a large onboarding where it's like I kind of am at the point with my survival games where it is just like let me go. Got it. Like, hey, I'm good. I know what I'm doing. I know what I want to do.

8:21Tim Gettys:Did you create a world right away? A cloud server? No, no, not yet. Not yet.

8:24Bryant Francis:I'm trying to figure out all the buttons so I know it and stuff. Just got a Combi. Got that timber. You know what I mean? I love it. I love the traces of Pokemon where it's like, hey, somebody could be here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't make me. Got to do that. So I do like the vibe so far, but I am ready for the training wheels to come off and let it be, hey, you're Animal Crossing 50 hours in. You are Minecraft moment one where it's like, I can do anything I want. Yeah, you got a while for that. But I appreciate it. It looks great.

8:52Jordan Middler:Yeah, you're going to have a great time out there. It's been so heartwarming seeing everybody get it. the Pocopia Reddit, the people popping off, the comments I'm seeing, the creators I follow on Instagram and them putting up all their content and being all out of it. But the big news for me is I rolled credits on it yesterday finally.

9:06Bryant Francis:Rolled credits?

9:07Greg Miller:There's a credits in this.

9:08Jordan Middler:Of course there are.

9:08Greg Miller:There's credits in every game.

9:09Jordan Middler:You know that. They've got to put credits in there. I don't think Minecraft has credits. Well, that was because it was just one name. Notch for a long time. You know what I mean? I didn't know what to do. Just one name. No, yeah. I rolled credits on it. I wanted that for review, but as we talked about in the review, just the amount of time we had. And then, of course, the game is about getting distracted and doing stuff. but I wanted for making sure today of course our games cast plays I wanted to make sure I was in working order and had it done and I was shocked Mike no spoilers of course shocked to roll credits on it yesterday out there at the table eating my chicken and rice and my eyes well with tears like I texted him I'm like I'm crying at a Pokemon spinoff game like what the fuck is going on such a beautiful special game you want to talk about something that is now cemented itself with me of like man what a powerful little game and i think what a great little setup for the rest of it because you know i go on and on about how great i think the new game plus is in starfield right obviously no spoilers just like animal crossing in pocopia you roll credits now play to your heart's content you know what i mean but as someone who often puts off the final quests or whatever you do that you roll credits on a game and so we still have all this open world shit to do it's like well why would i do that like i've lost it i think this one has a great premise for why you would keep going okay like they're like very much like here's why you should

10:25Bryant Francis:keep going i guess my follow-up now it's like yeah you've now hit this moment right keep going and it is your island we'll call it right yeah your world whatever you'll call it i guess how my question then goes to is like would you then switch to an online island where you can share it with ben or your wife or friends and you just start building on that as your permanent residence or is it is it shared together like i guess my mind always goes to playing with friends and then sharing it with friends it's like if i got to that point are you now switching and just going i'm an online island only or is it always going to be this single player island that no one will

11:00Jordan Middler:ever see well i mean you can invite people to single player island of course you can show off your single player oh okay good enough uh i think it's going to be a big question when we do the stream tomorrow the cloud server you know for us online servers weren't active so we couldn't go and do that so i created a kind of funny server one for us right but we couldn't get me and joey couldn't get into it so now we can my thought is i don't know i think i for me personally i feel like that appeals to different gamers in different things where it's like for me right now it is like cool credits are rolled take a breath and now i can finally make these different biomes look like how i want them i can restore them i can get houses the exact houses i can get really annoying with relocating them and putting them where i want them to be kind of thing whereas as somebody who's never with the exception of pal world night one two three and four where i did a world with you guys i've never done the share world thing like it's never been my thing i love the idea of how this works of course if you're unfamiliar pokemon uh pocopia lets you have cloud shared worlds meaning of course that mike can start the world i can join it and then mike doesn't have to be online so i do love i'm worried i'm wondering how many people can do that is it still four player one to six i heard okay okay six so you can get your rcp in there yes but like for me personally that yeah i don't know i'm gonna go in there and build cool shit and i guess mine cool shit but it's like yeah is that benefiting my single player world am i thinking about it all wrong are we all sharing the pokemon that are up there are those pokemon filling in my pokédex i have a bunch of questions like that okay because it is still for me right now thinking of what i want to do with this world it's like i first off had to have this really hard conversation with myself last night as we've talked about several times this is never us bragging or being braggadocious i want to make sure we're frank with you we have crimson desert crimson desert seems by all uh Intense and purposes, a humongous game.

12:46Jordan Middler:Okay. So it's one of those of like, I am still enamored with Pokemon Pocopia, but my job means I need to move on. And this is not, this is not as, is Crimson Desert good, bad, or otherwise take any other game, put it there. How many games did I buy off the Nintendo Indie switch thing that I just look at every day? I'm like, didn't he? I didn't even pull the trigger on this. I couldn't wait. I could have waited. I like, it's like, I got to put Pocopia down and I got to move on with my job and understand as someone who is reinvigorated before this on animal crossing. It was like, you know, in there for another month and a half doing stuff like Pokemon Pocopia is going to be a marathon that I'm going to play for a very long time.

13:22Jordan Middler:We're going to get to it in a little bit of why it's bringing you back. It's already bringing you back. I did not expect this. Pocopia is a special game. Let's get into some of the news and some of the fun teasers.

13:31Tim Gettys:Peppering. Of course, me crying, all sorts of stuff. We bring in people like fun time who super chats and says loving Pocopia played four hours last night and just flew by in the blink of an eye.

13:43Greg Miller:This game has the sauce contender. Maybe that's special to say that about a Pokemon spinoff game in 2026. I love that. So I forget who it was.

13:54Jordan Middler:Had a, we had a conversation about this on one of the shows where there was maybe even a piece of bed about Pocopia, where it's going to end up in the top 10. Pocopia has, is it going to be a kind of funny game of contender? Yeah, I think so. the problem I get hazy on is obviously I'm obsessed with it. Joey's obsessed. Joey doesn't vote by her own admission. She doesn't play enough games. Right. So it's really got to get hooks in you. It's got to get hooks in bless. It's got like, it's got to go further than just Greg really liking it, but I did make skate happen. So maybe I can make it happen.

14:22Jordan Middler:I don't know if it'll be that high. I mean,

14:24Bryant Francis:I think I could be, it could be an easy five through 10 contender here. Yeah. Depending on Andy already played it last night. I saw he put up a little video. He's in, I'm in blesses in. So like, yeah, let's see how far we get. And yeah,

14:36Jordan Middler:this could be a five through 10 insane that Andy put down his seventh playthrough of the witcher

14:40Bryant Francis:to pick up Pocopia I can't believe he's playing the witcher that many times number one on the

14:45Tim Gettys:report technically is Pokemon Pocopia contains a Pokemon wind and waves teaser this is the big man Jordan Midler Uncle Jordan at VGC we will need the images here Kevin Pokemon Pocopia appears to contain a poster referencing Pokemon wind and waves reviews for Pokemon Pocopia were published earlier this week, including VGCs. And of course, go support VGC.news. Go to their Patreon, support them there, which called the game, quote, Pokemon's best spinoff. As part of our review, VGC noticed an early in-game poster appears to reference the upcoming game. As you can see in the images, the poster for Lumi...

15:23Tim Gettys:I'm going to say Lumi Neon closely resembles the debut trailer for the upcoming games. Teasing a future Pokemon game in the previous generation of titles has been a tradition of the franchise. Starting back in Generation 2's Pokemon Gold and Silver, an entry in the Pokedex for Corsola described a town that wouldn't appear until Generation 3's Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Pokemon fans also discovered a teaser for Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet in Pokemon Sword and Shield.

15:51Jordan Middler:Alright, so here's the screenshot of the clownfish, whatever, the neon. Yeah. This is the screenshot of the game, and then there's the poster. Wow. Now, I'm going to toss it out I'm going to toss it out

16:05Tim Gettys:Are we grasping at straws? Are we just grasping at straws?

16:08Bryant Francis:Are we reaching right here?

16:09Tim Gettys:If it was fucking in the trailer Pikachu and tall grass And then in the image we had tall grass Does that count? Yeah Now we all know I'm a new Pokemon fan But Lumi Neon Has to live underwater right?

16:22Greg Miller:Because it's a fucking fish Well you know fish and Pokemon They're different Yeah Magikarp can be out I know

16:29Bryant Francis:But you know it's going to be in the water

16:31Tim Gettys:right, Jordan Midler?

16:34Bryant Francis:I don't... Sure. It's a little bit of a reach. Call him up. Call him up. We're calling him Midler. I do appreciate that we could have fun things in an Animal Crossing-like game that are posters for other generations of video games in-world type vibes. So, yeah, that fits. That's cool. Maybe this is a little bit of a stretch. We're going to call the guy.

16:58Evan Campbell:What could you possibly want?

17:00Greg Miller:big man, Jordan Midler, uncle Jordan.

17:03Tim Gettys:You're on kind of funny games daily. How are you?

17:06Evan Campbell:I'm very well. How are you?

17:07Tim Gettys:I'm good. Do you feel like you're, you're reaching, you're grasping for straws on this fish story.

17:15Evan Campbell:No, I am not grasping for straws on this.

17:17Tim Gettys:I mean, it's a fish. It's going to be underwater no matter what. Like, you know, is that really, is it's not, is this a new Pokemon? He's been around, right?

17:26Evan Campbell:No, Lumineon isn't a new Pokemon. There is a long history in the Pokemon franchise of teasing.

17:34Tim Gettys:No, no, no, no. Don't, don't, don't start. Don't, don't, don't PR it. I read your article. We've read your article, VGC. News. We just read it, but I'm just saying it's not like it's one for one. If it was the exact same angle of the fish, sure. But now it's just like you're showing me a turtle underwater and then a different turtle underwater. There's both turtles underwater, but I, you know, and it's turtle.

17:55Evan Campbell:Sure. Um, I am a man who, um, has absolutely no spine. So I would be easily folded on this backlash. If I went 100 % sure that I'm correct about this.

18:08Jordan Middler:I mean, don't get me wrong. I don't mind you doing it. Get the clicks, generate the content. Here we are. VGC. News, a great website. You should all go check it out. This isn't me insulting your work. I, as somebody, you can go read my IGN shit. Oh, doctor. When I was reading these Batman Arkham city comics. Trust me. I was grasping for headlines. I'm just saying, it's just, I appreciate it. I just don't know. I don't know if I buy it, Mike. Some are saying in the chat that he is a pretty obscure Pokemon. So maybe that's more of it.

18:34Evan Campbell:I appreciate the chat supporting me. Yeah, I get it. I get the reaction to this. I think that's why it was, it was, I can't remember how the story actually went up because I wrote it like a week ago at this point. Got it. I think we suggested it was teased to do a little bit of the old friend setting, you know, the old journalist friend setting. But I'm happy with it. I wouldn't have went up with the Pokemon Masters name on it if I wasn't 100 % confident.

19:01Tim Gettys:That's fair. That's fair. I appreciate that. Okay, well, great, Jordan. We love you so much. I hope you have a good night.

19:08Evan Campbell:How's Procopia going? Are you still playing?

19:10Jordan Middler:Yeah, of course. I just told the story I told you on WhatsApp yesterday of like crying when I would finish it over in the lunchroom. Like, God damn, what a game, dude. What a powerful little game. You know what I mean? All right. Yeah. All right. Take care. Bye. See you, Jordan Midler.

19:25Greg Miller:Embarrassing what games journalism has become, though. It's a little bit of a special. But you know what? I appreciate it. Let's get the hype going. Hey, we have a conversation going. It's Pokemon Pocopia Day. Exactly.

19:35Jordan Middler:Did I debate? Actually, let's go further than this. There's a Nintendo store event for Pokemon Pocopia. Oh, shucks. Go get your photo op.

19:43Greg Miller:go by the game. These are things you got to be going to. Well, what I do is of course we have a kind of funny best friend who's a manager there. Of course. And so you put out a text. I do.

19:53Jordan Middler:I come in after hours. I was like, what? So I'm like, what's going on today? What do you got? You don't have to. She's like, Jessica's shot at the Jessica. I can set things aside. I can do this. I'm like, no, I was like, I need to see them. I need to see what the, you know, I need to see the dittos. I don't know what's going on. So it's like, whatever,

20:08Tim Gettys:but it's like, it's just out of the way enough. I'm complaining to you about how much I'm taking myself off content. So I'm making more time to review. but I can't like leave work early to go to the Nintendo store.

20:16Bryant Francis:No, no, I'm all for it, Greg. You know, me, big Mike is all about it, man. Take the extra 10 minute drive, skirt off to the side, get downtown, get to the parking structure, charge Nick, the park. Oh, you know, I would do that.

20:30Jordan Middler:Yeah. Get in there. I made some Portillo kids books that I fucking charged.

20:34Bryant Francis:We got to celebrate this stuff. You got to be taking advantage of it. We got a Nintendo store in our backyard.

20:38Greg Miller:We really got to get the studio closer to the Nintendo store. That's a great idea. That's a great idea.

20:43Jordan Middler:Let's move on to story number two, which did make my eyes bulge yesterday. Okay. Maybe something else. And I sent it to Joey and I said, our lives are over.

20:54Tim Gettys:Pokemon Pocopia's first limited time event features three exclusive Pokemon. This is Evan Campbell at GameSpot. Whoa. Launching today, Pokemon Pocopia is already looking to the near future. That's because the Switch 2 exclusives' first limited time event starts in mere days. on March 9th, and it'll be the only way to come across three Pokemon in the game. Oh. Hoppit, Skiploom, and Jumpluff. The official Pokemon website has announced that more spore... That the more... No. Has announced that, in all caps, more spores for Hoppit will be the first limited time in-game event for Pocopia, with more arriving in the future.

21:30Tim Gettys:But first, beginning March 9th, more spores for Hoppit will run through March 24th and see players coming across Hoppit. Additionally, quote-unquote, special cotton spores can be obtained and utilized for picnic-themed items, as well as encountering Skiploom and Jumpluff. It's noted that rebuilding the Pokemon Center within Pocopia is a requirement for more spores for Hoppit, and the limited-time event won't be accessible on Cloud Islands. You'll end up restoring your first Pokemon Center within hours of starting, although there is a real-time clock aspect to doing so. You can check out our Pocopia track.

22:02Tim Gettys:Pocopia will also offer a ditto rug for all players through the mystery gifts menu now through January 31st, 2027. Uh-oh. This is what I keep telling myself, okay? Yeah. I need to calm the fuck down. Because as a fan of Animal Crossing, Pokemon Pocopia is so much larger than Animal Crossing. There is so many more. There's more biomes. There's more customization. There's more stuff to do. like I need to slow down and just set my expectations realistically that I'm going to be playing this game not only for my own edification

22:36Jordan Middler:of wanting to make my island, my world better but also the fact that they're going to continue to put shit like this in there

22:41Bryant Francis:I mean this is exactly what you want to see Greg this is what we talked about with Animal Crossing keeping you on the hook which Animal Crossing does it a bad job with exactly and we've got to keep you on the hook and especially with Pokemon fans who now have done 10 years of Pokemon Go with those events normal Pokemon games that have events that bring you to certain locations for Pokemon this is the stuff you want to see this is stuff that makes you turn back on the game go do a couple hours so you can get all these Pokemon and like what better way than exclusive Pokemon yeah you'll be there for that yeah yeah yeah

23:15Jordan Middler:you know I've never done the catch them all business you know I enjoy catching them but I don't catch them all this is one I look at I'm like with this being building out a world and doing so many of the little cozy things I like to do. I wonder if this is the one where I get super weird about like, I need to have everybody in my Bokadex. I want to have everybody on here. Have you had that poll yet? I mean, right now. Well, but see, as you are about to find out.

23:40Tim Gettys:Yeah. Yeah. And I will tell you, chat, as we get ready for me and Joey to jump into our islands on Gamescast plays today. Pocopia is like at least three, but maybe five games in one where it's like, I have gone so long on the journey of not even putting down new habitats just using the pokemon i have to achieve the goals i need to achieve right now and so now with credits behind me here's where it is

24:04Jordan Middler:like cool let's fix up the town but then it is also like i have all i have this laundry list of habitats i haven't built and it still have the grade pokemon out on it where it's like cool at what point am i getting serious about that am i going to go to this section of this biome clear everything out and just lay down new habitats you know i mean because town square is fucked right

24:25Tim Gettys:now you know what i mean i came into this initial place and just put my pokemon up front where i thought they'd be put down the pokemon center you know what i mean started and then i over here is where i got chests on chests on chests on chests of building material on their work table and i'm

24:39Jordan Middler:like this is ugly this needs to be fixed i've got my hovel over here that i shoved everybody into I just started building nice cottages, nice biggles. You know, there's like so much going on.

24:50Bryant Francis:That's how it goes. You have the initial build, the rough draft. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you got to take the eraser to it and you got to start rebuilding.

24:58Jordan Middler:So now imagine, again, as somebody who's just starting, you feel that way, but you have four different biomes to do that in. Yeah. Yeah, four different biomes, let alone your own island, let alone cloud islands. So it's like legitimately, I feel like it's going to be, I'm going to go and just work on this first area until I'm like, that's fine. and then move to the second area, third area?

25:18Greg Miller:As you should. I love this game plan. I do too.

25:20Bryant Francis:I mean, you did hear, though, exclusive Pokemon or this limited time stuff, not on the Cloud Islands. Yeah, well, that's why.

25:26Greg Miller:Put that in my back pocket. I'm going to remember that. Cloud Island feels like, as an outsider,

25:32Tim Gettys:a playground to go hang out. And yeah, somebody's going to build, Nick's going to build a dick. You know what I mean? You're going to have a bunch of goofy shit in there. But it's like, I don't think that's where

25:39Jordan Middler:you're spending the majority of your time. I don't think that's what you're actually doing. That's where I want to spend my time. But I also think that like there's the sixth game in it of like, maybe that is, maybe that is what you do where you go. I don't understand again. Well, hopefully I'm game class plays. We'll know more with online being working now of like, can you discover Pokemon on that Island that then fill out your Pokedex? Can you discover the new habitats there? Cause that's a big part of this game is running around and seeing the flashing, you know, like shiny, you were over the shiny.

26:05Jordan Middler:It's like, Oh, you thought of a new way to get a Pokemon or whatever. So can I do that on the cloud Island? And then I'd leave all those Pokemon there for sure.

26:12Greg Miller:But I could, could I, is my Pokedex film? I don't know. You're going to give me those answers. You're going to get us those answers. I feel like that's your job. You're the online I mean, I've got to get you those answers. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'll tell you that. I'll be all over that. Short

26:24Jordan Middler:nerdy guy says, is the old IGN office closer to the Nintendo store? If so, maybe move there. Now, that's a great idea. We definitely would immediately go out of business because we couldn't afford rent. Very expensive. Let alone the size of the spot. Yeah. Let alone we have a better studio than they ever had in the IGN office. But it is getting us closer. It would get us much closer.

26:44Bryant Francis:It'd be a problem because we're too close to that baseball diamond.

26:48Jordan Middler:Can you imagine the money you'd waste there?

26:50Greg Miller:That would be a problem.

26:51Jordan Middler:Can you imagine that we worked there and we were all such nerds at IGN. Nobody ever went to the game. Nobody had season tickets. Nobody was like, let's get a dog in a bleacher seat.

27:00Tim Gettys:Nobody did that.

27:00Bryant Francis:Sunny, beautiful San Francisco.

27:02Tim Gettys:We stayed inside our dark-ass office just fucking chilling out. Excess Oddity Super Chats and says, work keeps getting in the way of my Pocopia play time.

27:09Jordan Middler:being an adult sucks your mouth to god's ears let me be a horrifying ditto child mike when i tell you i am now a ditto devotee is that crazy i've never given a shit about this guy when he first showed up i thought he was so creepy looking and now i will fucking die for this guy after the credits i'm ready to die for this guy so uh yeah you don't know online right because it looks like there's

27:32Bryant Francis:some sort of like a hide and seek mechanic in this that's gonna be a fun time yeah they show that he's not about the direct. I think that was

27:39Greg Miller:just... Friends having fun. Yeah.

27:41Bryant Francis:Remember when we had Animal Crossing? We used to do hide and seek to get our Animal Crossing. Exactly. It feels like that. Yeah, wait for that.

27:46Tim Gettys:Yeah, yeah, yeah. David Flores has an interesting one. I want Pocopia, but Zelda. Bring back masks and items. NPCs from past games who live in towns you build. You help with their problems and needs.

27:58Greg Miller:Okay. I can see it. Yeah, you got a thought right there. You got a fun idea. I mean, they are, of course, you know,

28:06Tim Gettys:willing to expand on all of their franchises of course we look at uh legend of zelda echoes of

28:12Jordan Middler:wisdom where we got to play as zelda and move all that stuff around in that uh link uh the links awakening style uh that was cool and i was glad to see them jump in and do that and i think

28:21Tim Gettys:again the success i am expecting to see from this again is it hogwarts legacy level of photos

28:31Jordan Middler:is an animal crossing level of photos no but i am seeing a lot of my feeds infected with the did it bought a switch to let's go poke the switch box the pacopia box a lot of people bitching about only having a switch one they will break they will fold you know what i mean like yeah this is one of this is going to be a spike in nintendo switch to sales how large compared to like some of the other big blips we've seen that remains to be seen but i think especially right big Pokemon's big and right now as this ball starts going and Melissa with a Y says it's me I'm breaking I'm folding as this starts to tumble down that hill and we see people like yourself playing other people come in and then people hear us and all I'm talking about press in general gush about this and influencers gush about this I would imagine you're going to see this really be

29:15Bryant Francis:a groundswell of this give me I know you're just a new Pokemon I guess the audience out there in the comments down below. Give me your top three Pokemon spinoff games. What are the big three spinoff games that have made a splash?

29:29Greg Miller:And I would love to know, do you toss Snap in there? You say splash, are you talking about like... I'm talking about like... The world? Yeah. It's like, oh shit. It mattered? We are celebrating

29:37Bryant Francis:a Pokemon spinoff game. I mean, Pokemon Go. Go, of course. You have to toss it in there, right? Snap, I think, is in there for the early days. Yeah. Stadium.

29:45Tim Gettys:Yeah. Sure, sure, sure, sure.

29:46Bryant Francis:I wonder if people would put down Pokemon Unite. It's a MOBA that has such a dedicated audience but it did make a splash yeah i'm looking over here pinball people

29:54Tim Gettys:are shouting out in ball yeah pokemon snap stadium go snap stadium go pokemon conquest one person says mystery dungeon rcs sure if we're counting that yeah i appreciate that uh i appreciate that

30:09Bryant Francis:pokemon's got a number of spinoffs that people love and hold to you yeah too it's crazy though

30:15Jordan Middler:of like, you know, when Wind and Waves got announced and said 2027, there had been the conversation of like, oh, wow, no game this year, even though this is happening. And you have champions as well this summer, right? Or is it April? I forget what the release date on Pokemon Champions is. Chad, keep me honest. I know they just announced it, but it's like, man, this one's going to rock for a while. Pokemon Pocopia and where that's going to take it and what's going to happen. Crazy stuff out there right now. Big year.

30:44Bryant Francis:Celebrating 30 years.

30:45Jordan Middler:What a way to celebrate. Worlds here in San Francisco. You going?

30:48Greg Miller:Oh, yeah. We will be going. I'm getting a sandoward.

30:51Bryant Francis:I want to go. Yeah, what a deal. Is Midler coming to that? You know? April, 2026.

30:58Tim Gettys:Oh, April for Pokemon Champions?

30:59Greg Miller:I mean, I think everybody should be here.

31:01Bryant Francis:He's a big dork. San Francisco Pokemon Worlds is going to be a big deal, y 'all.

31:04Tim Gettys:Aaron Lime, Super Chat says Pokemon Mystery, Dungeon, Conquest, and Coliseum. Nice.

31:10Jordan Middler:Ladies, gentlemen, and bees, I will continue to cover Pokemon Pocopia until I die. It's this year's skate for Greg Miller.

31:20Tim Gettys:There's still skate this year too. One last ride. I digress. Of course, we have more news to get to. And of course, we're going to play Pokemon Pocopia this afternoon as part of our Gamescast plays. And we couldn't do any of that without your support. If you love Kind of Funny and us nerding out about games as a live talk show network each and every day, all day long, you need to pick up a membership. YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny. Apple, Spotify. Of course, you toss us$10. We give you all of our programming ad-free. That's 80 episodes a month. Your daily dose of me, Greg Miller, and a daily series called Gregway.

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35:14Evan Campbell:He's a private eye. It's not a standard murder. It's someone bigger. And a public mass.

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35:20Evan Campbell:You go to prison one time and suddenly it's all the jokes. R.J. Decker series premiere Tuesdays on ABC and stream on Hulu.

35:31Jordan Middler:I love it when it works out. Throw up your threes for the Dudley boys. Story number three.

35:37Tim Gettys:WWE 2K 26 review roundup. Currently it's sitting with a Metacritic of 77 and OpenCritic of 83. Chris Scullion at VGC.news home of the big man Jordan Midler gave it a 4 out of 5. WWE 2K26 offers another net gain over its predecessor, ensuring the series continues to evolve in a positive direction. While its new reversal system will initially divide players and the specter of microtransactions continues to loom over my faction, the overall package introduces more quality of life features to ensure each of its numerous modes is better than it was last time. Ben Wilson at GamesRadar gave it a 3.5 out of 5, saying, WWE 2K26 is a brilliant wrestling game where it counts, but I recommend waiting a couple of months to purchase to see how my faction and ringside pass rewards play out in the medium term.

36:29Tim Gettys:For now, action in the ring is solid. It's some of the best in the series, but it can sting when rewards feel so miserly and centered on monetization over skill. And then Jason Finnelli at restart.run gives it a four out of five. WWE 2K26 will scratch that video game wrestling itch with a WrestleMania-sized offering of matches, modes, and wrestlers to choose from. Changes to the way things are unlocked are disappointing, turning the game into more of a grind than it should be, but the different formats that you'll play in order to unlock those items rise above the grind. The island continues to impress, while the My GM and Universe modes allow you to get deep into the nitty-gritty of show planning in a way other wrestling games have yet to manage.

37:14Tim Gettys:WWE 2K26 is another championship-caliber entry in the franchise, but it still is a ways to go to become a hall of famer. Snow, Michael, Michael.

37:26Jordan Middler:We of course got codes for WWE. Yep. And it was of course too competitive of a goddamn time for us to even turn it on. We had sent Roger to play WWE, of course, uh,

37:36Tim Gettys:at the preview event where he has to interview some wrestlers and stuff. But today I'm sick. I can't even come in and tell us about it. Uh, where are you this year with two K 26?

37:46Bryant Francis:Uh, I've made the promise that I will return to the island. Oh, God. The live report from the WWE Islands, because I need to know what they will do. Okay. I was astonished, flabbergasted, at a loss for words at what happened on the island season one. Most people were. Most people were. The idea that they've returned to this. I mean, coming from a big 2K background with NBA 2K and what they've done with the neighborhood, to the street, to the city. It's like I knew where they were going. And I saw what WWE was going to become. Now here we are at year two. I need to know what they're doing with this.

38:23Bryant Francis:What is the vision? How do you improve upon that? How do you even make it fun and relevant to play? Right? I, I'm blown away that we're returning to it. So I have to find out for the people.

38:33Tim Gettys:Have you kept up with ringside pass and what they're talking about here? Super chat from big curses new WWE looks good, but$150 for all the DLC is whack. Of course, talking about the millions of additions they have. But as the reviews we just read call out, there is a ringside pass. I'd like to read you a little bit about it, okay? Ringside Pass XP is designed to reward skill and engagement. You can earn R XP across a variety of game modes in WWE 2K26. Completing a match will earn you some R XP, but winning will still reward you more than losing. There are better ways to level up faster in WWE 2K26 ringside pass than just playing exhibition matches.

39:13Tim Gettys:Some of the top reoccurring ways to earn RxP include weekly island challenges, my faction challenges, my GM season challenges. Some of the top one-off ways to earn RxP are completing showcase matches, complete my rise story, island quest, my faction lifetime challenges. Completing some of these will level you up multiple tiers in one go, so choose your path wisely if you want to unlock all the ringside pass rewards as quickly as possible. Also keep in mind, with the old DLC model, you had to wait several weeks slash a month post-launch for the first pack of additional superstars. With Ringside Pass Season 1 available at launch, you're able to unlock new characters as quickly as you can advance.

39:54Tim Gettys:So basically there's a battle pass going on here that you get to dive into and go into it.

39:58Bryant Francis:Now this sounds like a battle pass. It does sound like one of those of like, you're rewarded for playing, right? That's always what you want. It's like, I want to be rewarded or at least recognized for playing the game a bunch, right? When we talk about WWE's in the past, there's sports games in the past. It was, oh, Mike and Greg just play thousands of matches, but there's no incentive or there's no reward, right? Nobody's seeing us do that. So it sounds like, hey, we're going to reward you for play, right? Yeah. What's the catch?

40:25Jordan Middler:I mean, the catch is, yeah, I'm on the thing over here. I'm trying to find out if they even say how this shakes out and money-wise. Yeah. No money on here, right? But there's multiple ringside passes, right? is there any way to unlock everything at once so let's say you're still like mike of course you of course love jumping in playing a game but you don't necessarily want to do this in the past wwe has offered a super charge or 2k has offered a supercharger you could just pay and unlock

40:53Tim Gettys:everything right is there a way to unlock everything at once for those who play through the ringside past season one select wwe legends are unlocked by earning rxp and completing the entire first season the supercharger pack has been retired for players who have purchased the premium track, we will provide the ability to purchase tier skips, but those are completely optional. Players can continue to unlock rewards with RxP by playing the game without additional purchases. Okay.

41:17Bryant Francis:So what are the bad things here, right? What is the things that turn you off when you hear this? Locking players behind a battle pass system instead of just giving them$15 for the new character pack, right? Because that's what they've been doing is, hey, here's the initial roster. Okay, cool. These seven wrestlers that we forgot about, you give us money, we'll put them in the game.

41:41Greg Miller:Correct.

41:41Bryant Francis:And so like, now it's just locked down the battle pass.

41:45Tim Gettys:How do we get the new DLC characters? Each premium version of the ringside pass will include a new post-launch DLC characters with the first one unlocking automatically. The rest can be unlocked with the first 20 tiers by completing or earning RxP just for playing the game. Other playable characters such as Persona will genuinely be available through tiers 21 through 40. Beside the new DLC characters. Each ringside pass premium track will also include new personas. Yada, yada, yada. So the argument here, yeah.

42:12Jordan Middler:I'm in, I'm, I won't lie to you all. I have been completely devoid of this. So I had gotten this email about the ringside pass stuff. And I was like, what? And so now with the reviews in this, we're learning together. But the argument here in chat,

42:24Tim Gettys:keep me honest. If I'm getting it wrong would be in the old days, I pay for the DLC, the season pass. Let's see. I pay for all the DLC. Okay. And when I, When it happens, they drop seven new characters. I unlock those. They're there. I download them. I get their My Faction card. They're all set to go. I rock and roll. I want to be Hacked as Jack, and I'm off to the races. Now it would be whoever's in the ringside pass for the next six seasons or whatever, they're there on a Fortnite battle pass.

42:50Jordan Middler:So I have to actually go earn them or, as this says, pay a premium to skip the tiers to go do it.

42:56Bryant Francis:Do not do that. We don't like that. Yeah, yeah. Don't incentivize that. It's right. Okay. Yeah, I mean, if it was free and it was, hey, we're rewarding you for play, we're in, right? The idea of buying a battle pass and then having the characters unlocked behind it, I mean, it just becomes a live service kind of video game when you break it down like that. But I guess the old model was just, hey, on season one, when we have the seven characters, give me$15, we'll give it to you. Let me keep going with Chris Scullion.

43:26Tim Gettys:Chris Scullion has WWE 2K26. how to quickly earn ringside pass and blah blah blah. The ringside pass is easily one of the most divisive new additions in WWE 2K26. For some players, especially those who only buy the standard edition of the game each year, it's a good way to regularly get new content. For others, especially those who usually buy the special editions of the game, it's an annoying way to slowly drip feed new content instead of getting full DLC packs like before. Whatever your stance, the reality is that WWE 2K26 ringside pass is here to stay, and you have 40 tiers of content to unlock.

44:01Tim Gettys:I've been seeing lots of different takes from players who've received the game early, including some who say the ringside pass content is taking forever to unlock. After playing the game for five days, I've reached, after playing the game for five days, I've reached to your 26 to 40. So the fact that each season lasts seven weeks means you've got more than enough time to get everything. Okay. And then now he goes into a guide of what's going on. But let me give you this. How does it work? First, let me touch your finger too. First, if I just, fingers, I just said finger. Thank you. First, if you're new to it, the ringside pass is similar to battle passes and other games like Fortnite.

44:34Tim Gettys:WWE 2K26 is set to get six ringside pass seasons over the course of its life. And each season will last for roughly seven weeks. If you're concerned that you might not be able to complete a ringside pass in time, don't worry. Unlike most other games with season based battle passes, when the new season starts in WWE 2K26, the old one won't expire. This means that if you're still working through season one, you can do both of them. Each ringside pass contains a free route in a premium route with each Each route providing different awards. As you gather our XP, the experience points you collect for ringside pass, you'll unlock tiers on each route to the same time.

45:07Tim Gettys:Reach tier five. For example, you'll like all the tier fives for free. And if you've paid for the premium tier,

45:11Jordan Middler:we understand that that's where we're at. And now we're into the quickest ways to go. So yeah,

45:15Tim Gettys:this comes down to,

45:16Jordan Middler:are you one of the whales that buys the special edition and want to unlock everything? Or are you buying a standard thing, tacking on the season pass and then earning as you go? Well,

45:24Bryant Francis:if you're one of the whales, now you're kind of being punished because when I've given you all the money, I just kind of want it. Well, depends on each person and what they want, right? But as me, as somebody who's like, if I buy the special edition and I'm saying I want all the DLC, I don't want, I personally don't want a drip fed to me. I will want that day one when it is released. Just give it to me. Some people will say, I like playing games. I like playing. I want to be rewarded. I'm fine with that. But to me, if I was to put up the special edition and buy these things, give it to me now.

45:54Jordan Middler:I think so from the sound of it, the biggest thing is that this is just a change and changes are always hard. Yeah. And I think this makes more sense because when this got announced, somebody put in my BS. That's a blue sky team. Is this what I always wanted when I was like, I want WWE games as a service. And if you remember my hit blessing show where I did that. No, I was saying WWE 2K period should be a free to play thing that then they layer this kind of microtransaction. Exactly. Not a game you're fucking giving them 70, 99,$150 for, for the edition and also have to do this kind of stuff.

46:28Bryant Francis:Yeah. Every now you got to start adding on every year. That's going to happen. Yeah. It's just a crazy world.

46:33Jordan Middler:It's back to like, you know, again, even though salute one last ride skate, like when they drop these skate passes, I'm not offended because the game's free to play. So if I want to buy this pass full of all sorts of stuff that I don't need, I can. And then it's something fun for me to unlock as I go and feel like I'm earning rather than just do a sick tricks.

46:50Bryant Francis:What was the PlayStation story you, me, and Bless talked about? Whether it was going to try to monetize their existing player base a little bit more? Yeah, that's what this is. Yeah, of course. How do we get more money out of the people that are playing right now? This is one of those tactics.

47:03Jordan Middler:Not only is it, I think, it's more money, obviously, yes, for the thing. I think there's a lot, too, of like, let's keep them engaged. How do we make it that you don't play WWE for a month and drop it and move on? Instead, we do these seasons where you have to be engaged if you're one of those people.

47:18Bryant Francis:Yeah, I mean, when you look at the model, right, you look at NBA 2K that has the player engagement, right? They do do seasons, and they have a MyTeam where people want to play with the cards, and they're excited for each season that drop new player cards, whether it be the college cards now, whether it be a special season of Luka or Devin Booker. So it's like they're clearly looking at their other side of the world and going, oh, NBA can do that. Like, let's figure out ways we can do that with our wrestling.

47:42Jordan Middler:And again, like, this is all just who you are and what you're doing and how different you are. If this was Greg Miller back in high school, when I was fucking obsessed with all the wrestling games, I would be stoked. A reason to keep going and grind all this shit and be rewarded for what I'm doing.

47:56Tim Gettys:Two things before we move on. Foxy Steve super chat and says, as someone who spent over 1 ,000 hours playing universe mode in 2K25, the changes to that mode and creation in general have me excited. So again, they're on the right track that way. And then Miguel super chat and says, maximum possible spend the game plus all seasons plus skipping every tier would be$69.99 for the base game,$59.94 for all the seasons, plus$477.60 for all the skips,

48:26Jordan Middler:meaning that if you were to skip everything like you would in the old ones or just unlocking it or whatever, it would be$607 before tax. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Wouldn't like that.

48:37Greg Miller:I understand wanting Cactus Jack right away. Because when I turn it on, I need him and Tommy Dreamer.

48:42Bryant Francis:I need all these right away. That's right. I mean, don't make me break down the microtransactions, NBA 2K. You know that. Don't do it. I thought I'd doing some quick math on you.

48:49Greg Miller:Yeah, okay. This is their new tactic. That's fun. We'll see how it plays out.

48:55Tim Gettys:Number four, speaking of a new tactic, Greg Way, Jackbox Games jumps feet first into third-party publishing. This is Bryant Francis over at Game Developer. Jackbox Party Pack developer Jackbox Games has unveiled a new division dedicated to third-party publishing. The company announced today that it would be publishing Toot Games' My Arms Are Longer Now and that this is the first of several games it plans to bring to market. Toot is an Australian indie game studio helmed by former Need for Speed No Limits game designer Matthew Jackson and web series creator Millie Holton. Jackbox Vice President of Business Development Andy Knaz said in a statement that the makers of the quote unapologetically weird game are quote exactly the kind of creative partner we want to expand

49:41Jordan Middler:Jackbox's publishing efforts I was going to say can I see this trailer? Yeah Yeah it's weird.

49:47Greg Miller:Okay This is what I'd be, oh then you go to that looks exactly like Jackbox. No I think this is like the partnership team I'm looking at a game that looks like this

49:55Bryant Francis:I think that's the team up to

49:57Jordan Middler:announce kevin can you google yeah my arms are longer now trailer oh this is the announcement trailer interesting good the steam thing now oh yeah i was just starting right then and there

50:06Tim Gettys:yep okay okay uh our players have asked us for a fun single player experience in jackbox's tone and we look forward to seeing my arms are longer now to live around this looks a lot like thank goodness we're here yes yes kind of goofy humor uh the company's website states that developers who do sign with jackbox can expect the following benefits funding aligned with what your project your project actually needs production and release support from planning through ship marketing and audience development platform and certification guidance, QA localization, porting and external services life term.

50:39Tim Gettys:I'm sorry. God damn it.

50:40Jordan Middler:Long-term life cycle planning in store management because a game doesn't end at launch.

50:45Bryant Francis:Nice. Awesome. I mean, yeah, this is one of those we saw inner sloth have outer sloth and help out. We saw Blumhouse games, of course, as well, but it's like, it seems like these teams that have a lot of money and are willing to get involved and maybe get a small investment going with that and help out these teams that's a nice

51:01Jordan Middler:thing to hear 100 i think we talked so much on this about studios closing publishers closing you need people investing money back into video games yes steven totello had a game file newsletter that went out this week that was like i think i i'm paraphrasing but i think it was a chart on the industry showing that less money than ever is being invested back into it so yes congratulations to Jackbox.

51:23Greg Miller:Great call on that. And that game looks fun. And you also have a team with Jackbox Games who's been around. They know their stuff.

51:29Bryant Francis:So it's like, yeah, you can trust

51:30Greg Miller:in that. That's great. Yeah.

51:33Tim Gettys:Number five on the Roper Report. Ruiner 2 has been announced for PC. This is Alessio Palumbo over at WCCF Tech. This afternoon, independent publisher developer Rycon Games announced that Ruiner 2 is in development for PC. As suggested by the title, it will be a sequel to 2017's Twin Stick Shooter, which was well received by fans and critics. Here's the trailer. However, Ruin or 2 will be greatly expanded. It will support co-op gameplay and shift its genre to cyberpunk action RPG. Merrick Rolfer, game director on the sequel at Rycon, said in the statement, quote, We are massive ARPG fans, and Ruin or 2 is the game we've always wanted to play.

52:15Tim Gettys:We built the shell system because we love theory crafting and finding broken combinations. but we hated being locked into a single character for hundreds of hours. This game is for players who want to experiment, swap builds on the fly and discover synergies that tear the screen apart. Color me a tree.

52:32Greg Miller:Let's keep going.

52:33Jordan Middler:Do we see gameplay?

52:34Bryant Francis:No, I don't think on that trailer, I brought up some run or one top down gameplay for you. You know, you have been on a big Diablo kick, Greg, and I wonder if run or could be cool for you for ruin or two, right? Cause it's a change. Yes.

52:48Greg Miller:Okay.

52:49Bryant Francis:Well, Well, I think it's a change more of like you're kind of creating your character and then building sets and build out classes with it.

52:56Greg Miller:Okay.

52:57Bryant Francis:It's how I took that.

52:58Greg Miller:Okay. What did you take that as? I'm going back to, I mean, I just, you know, I'm an idiot. I'm just reading as I go. I'm taking this.

53:04Jordan Middler:It's just shifting its genre. Yeah. So it was already. So here it goes. Shifted genre to cyberpunk action RPG. You're telling me then it was already an action RPG. It's just shifting its genre.

53:17Bryant Francis:yeah to a little more rpg is what i would think okay so they said we didn't want to play as the same character for thousands of hours okay it's like oh you're gonna i guess it's someone who

53:25Jordan Middler:doesn't know what runer one looked like i was like oh this is it was oh here we go here's a little bit gameplay cyberpunk's such a cool look yeah i'll play this okay fuck yeah

53:41Bryant Francis:and it's co-op

53:43Jordan Middler:you won't play with me I won't you're gonna cut me out of fucking Pacopius

53:46Bryant Francis:I play at 830 you got a family

53:48Jordan Middler:that's what I'm starting to get online you know what I mean I can't guarantee it okay

53:54Greg Miller:okay I like what I'm seeing I'll take it no date on this yet no date on that fair enough

54:02Jordan Middler:Mike when there is a date for Rune or two

54:09Jordan Middler:ZD Gross says it was not an RPG. It was a top-down shooter.

54:11Greg Miller:So that's the difference of what changed. Yes. Now adding RPG elements to it.

54:16Jordan Middler:Okay. When there is a date for ruin or two, that'll be big news.

54:20Greg Miller:But where would I go right now if I wanted the tiniest news I need to know about? If you wanted some small news, I'd take you to our last news story, the We News

54:27Bryant Francis:channel, where we cover all the small news items.

54:30Tim Gettys:Number six on the We News. From VGC, Suda and Suiri's Hotel Barcelona has received a free major overhaul, adding new content and significantly altering its gameplay systems. Cool. Marathon has been rated for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on the ESRB. What? Kana, Bridge of Spirits, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 this spring. Ooh. Assassin's Creed Unity 60 frames per second update is now available on Xbox and PlayStation 5. Okay. What, you don't want 60 frames? I just don't go back to a lot of these old games. A lot of people, they were waiting for that, I bet. From GamesIndustry.biz, Velen Studios has expanded into Canada, opening a new office in Toronto.

55:10Greg Miller:Man, what a name. Chats of Ellen Studios. Congratulations, continuing going there. Yeah.

55:15Tim Gettys:The coin game leaves early access and launches on Xbox, PlayStation 5, and PC March 16th, or 19th, sorry. The Steam description reads, A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system, and silly prizes featuring 50-plus modern-inspired arcade machines at a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The coin game is made by a solo developer. You were just talking about this one, saying this is Blatro for this generation.

55:45Bryant Francis:No, we were talking about that one that was the push coin game.

55:48Greg Miller:That's not what this is. No, I'm different.

55:50Bryant Francis:Run me the trailer again. What the fuck is this thing? I thought we were looking at, we were looking at you and I, the one where you put coins in and it builds up on that. This is telling me it's an arcade, Greg. Okay. Yeah, you're looking at RackCoin or RayCoin.

56:05Tim Gettys:Oh, okay. huh good luck to both of you Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is coming to Xbox on March 26th Fishbowl launches April 2nd on PlayStation 5 and PC and End Dreams is shutting down its near light in Compass Studios back to the conversation of all these studios closing thank you Jackbox for investing money back into video games thank you Velen Studio for opening a new office End Dreams, people who are losing your jobs we are so sorry and that is it for the we news

56:41Tim Gettys:we turn our eyes to the super chats we'll start from the bottom go to the top uh ethan just wrote in and said hey greg thanks to you i've got pocopia and played octopath traveler zero which this is greg oh greg interjecting they just put a new patch for octopath traveler zero addison bells and whistles there thanks for having the same taste as i do no problem ethan's go play starfield now and skate magic gun 23 says hey mike any chance you hop into wow midnight been

57:08Greg Miller:playing all week and it may be the best x pack yet uh extra fun if you were a big tbc fan originally i'm dying to jump in i'm just trying to find the time i'm just i'm juggling greg i'm juggling

57:20Bryant Francis:everything known to man but i am paying for my wow subscription so you got to keep it ready

57:25Jordan Middler:keep it fresh ready you know we could probably get you that for free but you got to keep paying I understand. Got it. Got to support him. Got to support. Actually, that's a good point.

57:31Greg Miller:Jack B to super chat and says, Mike, backyard sports line dropping on Roosevelt's today. I need you to reach out to you people. They sent you clothing. I need you to be like, hey, always make it feel like I'm putting them out. I guess. You know what?

57:47Bryant Francis:Mike, we'll buy it.

57:48Greg Miller:I'll do it. I'll do it. Show me the lineup. Do they got a cool lineup? I'm opening it right now.

57:53Bryant Francis:It's not the backyard sports everywhere. I'm going to slap it into control.

57:56Tim Gettys:Team it up with everyone. There it is. into assets for you too, Kev. There you go. One of these. Roosevelt's, of course, the all-over print shirts

58:04Jordan Middler:I wear all the time and love. R-S-V-L-T-S. Let's talk about it. Scroll on down. What do we got here?

58:14Jordan Middler:8-bit bleachers. Get a grip. Oh, this is just baseball. I clicked on the top thing, which I thought was it, but it's just a baseball line, I guess.

58:24Greg Miller:I can't help you anymore. I've taken you as far as I can. That's all right. You took me where I needed to go. I'll find it. I'll find it. It was back.

58:31Tim Gettys:Yeah, back.

58:32Greg Miller:I'll let him know.

58:34Tim Gettys:Sports are as the old. Oh,

58:40Greg Miller:land before time. Hold on.

58:43Bryant Francis:Backyard sports stuff.

58:44Greg Miller:I got a little teaser.

58:45Tim Gettys:I got a thing for you, Kev.

58:46Jordan Middler:We're tossing this in here now to not live yet. Is that the problem? I don't fucking know. On Facebook, they have something. I tossed that in there. I'm helping you as much as I can. I got to log into Facebook. I don't know what's happening. Everybody. we tried all right yeah oh yeah nine second we got nine second out it's just one t-shirt

59:04Bryant Francis:just buy it it's great okay it's all the kids and player cards just smashed on a t-shirt that's

59:12Tim Gettys:what you want smashed on a t-shirt i'm just a billy says shout out to pokemon go for getting us close to world peace in 2016 also remember those creepy pokemon company lore leaks a few years ago. Well, I remember Pokemon Go. I don't remember the Lord.

59:28Bryant Francis:I don't remember the

59:29Jordan Middler:Lord.

59:29Tim Gettys:We can't help you there.

59:30Jordan Middler:Sorry.

59:30Tim Gettys:Sorry. Sorry. Uh, guy who game says in a super chat first time super chatting. You guys inspired me to start my own channel talking about games. Thank you guys for continuing to be the best at what you do. Thank you for listening.

59:43Greg Miller:Taking the inspiration. Congratulations and doing it. Good job. Keep doing it. Gabriel says in a

59:50Tim Gettys:super chat, man, I would love to play Pocopia if it was available for switch one i don't think i can justify 800 and 900 us dollars for the switch

59:59Jordan Middler:two is worth here in argentina oh that's rough that's rough yeah that's tough sorry about that

1:00:07Bryant Francis:but you should still do it it's worth it generations uh super chat from ben says birthday tax thanks for the daily entertainment happy birthday man uh delco scooch super chat

1:00:21Tim Gettys:and says, thanks for keeping me posted on Gamer News while I'm delivering packages. Just wanted to ask if any of you guys will be reviewing Slay the Spire 2, which also released in Early Access today. Thanks. KFT.

1:00:33Greg Miller:No, I don't think anybody's reviewing Slay the Spire 2. No, I don't even think we remembered that one, even though we talked about it in the March games.

1:00:39Tim Gettys:Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that'll be an Andy thing or a Bless thing. I don't think Andy, Bless or Roger.

1:00:44Bryant Francis:But again,

1:00:45Jordan Middler:we're all in the middle of other things, and then you got Marathon, and then you got Crimson Desert. Then you got Skate Season 3 next week. You got GDC next week.

1:00:53Bryant Francis:How do you do it, Chad? How do you find the time? You just commit. You know what I mean? There's so many games.

1:00:59Jordan Middler:Jay Dublin says, a shame that Greg doesn't realize he's sitting next to a ranked Overwatch goat. Picking up Pocopia today so my daughter and I can play together.

1:01:06Bryant Francis:Thanks, Big Jay. Have a great time. I'm ranked. I'm getting ranked. I'm gonna just commit to it. I'm gonna become the greatest ever. But an hour a day, that's all.

1:01:14Jordan Middler:Enough hours. Yeah, exactly. Dolphin Corn says, Greg, let Mike play Zelda. I love you, Mikey. Shout out to Dolphin Corn. He's going to play Zelda. I'm just saying, let's play it with the N64 controller, right?

1:01:24Tim Gettys:Yes. Demon Hacker says, you see Ark Raiders intercepting private Discord DMs? I did not see that. I don't know what you're talking about.

1:01:33Jordan Middler:Ark Raiders Discord. In the news, that'll get me right.

1:01:38Bryant Francis:Intercepting? Receiving? What?

1:01:41Jordan Middler:I mean, nothing. You know, everything's getting intercepted here.

1:01:44Bryant Francis:Yeah, remember, they're always watching.

1:01:45Jordan Middler:Okay, so gaming on Linux.

1:01:47Tim Gettys:No, here, Game is Radar+. Okay. GamesRadarPlus ConSaren says Arc Raiders was recording private Discord DMs in plain text, engineer claims in a report on serious privacy and security violations, which prompted a hasty hot fix from Embark. Okay.

1:02:06Jordan Middler:This is maybe a required reading if you're an Arc Raiders person because it seems like it's more detailed than we have time for right now. Yeah. But that is news to me. I did not see that.

1:02:14Tim Gettys:Thank you for surfacing over here.

1:02:16Jordan Middler:And then final one is

1:02:17Tim Gettys:rabbit of cancer, nog, bog, nog. I can never get it right. Happy slay the spire two day for anyone that celebrates. Oh, sorry. There's one more here that came in. Like spike knock says, I got some beef with Mike. You've been on games daily all week and haven't mentioned the new Warcraft expansion release on Monday.

1:02:32Greg Miller:You're awesome. I'm failing. I'm sorry. Like I said,

1:02:35Bryant Francis:they've been coming after me. The chat has been telling me to stop what I'm doing and play. And it's been a whole week. Even it was out on early access. There's an alternate timeline, Mike, that goes into the pocket dimension and only plays world. of warcraft i know i know every ounce of lore i've read every single scroll of text i play that game to the fullest but here i am i'm playing pocopia okay and having a good time okay that's fair enough i'm looking through you're wrong okay here we go inner jet stream wrote into

1:03:13Tim Gettys:kind of funny.com slash you're wrong. Tell us what we got met wrong and says Minecraft has notoriously long credits that show after

1:03:19Jordan Middler:defeating the ender dragon and returning to the overworld. Thank you.

1:03:24Tim Gettys:Uh, kabob says missed we news build a rocket boy. The developer of mine's eye has announced more layoffs on that. Saw that. And then banders is breaking. We news. Nintendo posted an image of an upcoming event for Mario cart world, which had a new icon for battle mode featuring a bomb, a bomb, a bomb, a bomb, uh, which likely means that bomb blast from the classic battle mode is coming with an update. Oh, we will see if that pans out as we head towards Mario day, just five days away from Mario day. Oh my gosh. That's probably when it would come. You're going to do it.

1:03:55Greg Miller:We got Mario day. More importantly, we got, we got pie day is coming up too. We got to buy pie. I mean, you never don't twist. Don't pie day. You got to have pie. Remember that chat. You got to have pie on pie day. Everybody,

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