Witcher 3 DLC Reveal Date Confirmed! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.21.26

21 Jul 2026 · 1 h 9 min · 29 chapters

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In short

Kinda Funny Games Daily covers gaming news and discussion, centered on Witcher 3 DLC’s Gamescom reveal date, plus a new mobile DC fighting game, Nintendo’s tariff refund lawsuit, and Ubisoft/criterion-related updates.

Guests

Blessing “Bless” (host), Mike “Snowbike Mike” (co-host). No other named guests appear; they also reference community members in super chats.

Guest backgrounds

Blessing and Mike are Kinda Funny Games Daily hosts; they discuss their own play habits (Bless: Xenoblade Chronicles; Celeste; Mike: ongoing gaming and news commentary).

Key claims

  1. CD Projekt confirmed Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past will be revealed at Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live, due in 2027, co-developed with Fool’s Theory, set after Witcher 3 and acting as a prologue to Witcher 4.
  2. DC KO is a free-to-play DC fighting game for iOS/Android in 2027 (real-time PvP, PvE, customizable “DC legends”).
  3. Nintendo argues it shouldn’t refund Switch price increases tied to US tariff refunds; customers bought at agreed prices.
  4. Ubisoft promises Ghost Recon news Aug 6, possibly a Wildlands Definitive Edition.
  5. Recreation 2 announced for PS5/Xbox Series/PC (release date not stated).

Notable examples

“baton pass” to Witcher 4; “dicko/DC KO” mobile monetization concerns; Resident Evil “theme park” comparison; Ghost Recon Wildlands Definitive Edition rumor.

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Chapters

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Hosts Introduction and Banter

0:29 to 1:54

Hosts Blessing and Mike reconnect and discuss their gaming experiences.

Gaming Streams and Time Management

1:54 to 3:40

Discussion on balancing gaming with adult responsibilities and the challenge of lengthy games.

“Because I'm like, after work, I'll get home.”

Modern Classics Draft Discussion

3:40 to 5:10

Hosts suggest games they consider modern classics and potential draft topics.

“One of the things I talked about in one of my streams was talking about modern classics.”

Transition to News and Community Interaction

5:10 to 5:34

Hosts engage with the audience and prepare for the news segment.

Roper Report: Witcher 3 DLC Announcement

5:34 to 6:20

Discussion on the upcoming Witcher 3 DLC being announced at Gamescom.

Excitement for the Witcher 3 DLC

6:20 to 12:32

Hosts express excitement and expectations for the Witcher 3 DLC and its impact on fans.

“I do love the Claire or Grace side of things where it's like, oh, I'm a newbie.”

PAX West Plans and Audience Questions

12:32 to 14:03

Hosts discuss potential plans for PAX West and answer audience questions.

PAX West Plans and Gaming Habits

14:03 to 16:45

Discussion about upcoming PAX West plans and gaming time management.

“But, like, yeah, last time I went to PAX West, I was visiting family.”

Gaming Time for Parents

16:45 to 18:50

Exploration of how parents balance gaming with family and work life.

“Cause obviously the people watching are nerds.”

DC Fighting Game Announcement

18:50 to 25:11

Discussion about the announcement of the free-to-play DC fighting game.

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DC Fighting Game Announcement

25:15 to 25:42

Discussion about the announcement of the free-to-play DC fighting game.

Friend Slop vs. Friend Sim

25:42 to 28:01

Debate over the definition and qualities of friend slop games.

“Right now, you can watch Blessings at Xenoblade Chronicles review so far.”

Late Night Gaming Routines

28:01 to 29:15

Discussing the late-night gaming habits of parents and their impacts.

“But I think that's where the slop part of it comes in is, oh, you made this.”

Reflecting on Assassin's Creed Black Flag

29:16 to 29:44

Sharing memories and experiences with Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

“Jumping back into it and it's like, that game stuck with me a couple days slash a week later.”

Sleep Patterns of Gamers

29:45 to 30:53

Exploring the sleep habits of gamers with families.

“Aaron Lyme says, DCKO is the name of a comic event, but people only now noticed it looks like Dicko because the cover of the comic has it spaced out.”

Impact of Parenting on Sleep

30:54 to 31:50

Discussing how parenting changes sleep patterns and habits.

Game Recommendations and Drop Dookie

31:51 to 32:54

Engaging in discussion about new games and a quirky recommendation.

Happy Birthday Call to Gary

32:55 to 34:34

A celebratory phone call to Gary for his birthday, discussing various topics.

“We got it on the calendar and the audience is freaking out because they all wanted to show you love, big dog.”

Nintendo's Tariff Refund Controversy

34:35 to 36:48

Examining Nintendo's legal stance on tariff refunds and consumer expectations.

“That man is always ready to talk to you.”

Consumer Rights and Pricing Strategies

36:49 to 39:03

Debating the implications of pricing strategies and consumer rights in gaming.

“Raising its prices is what they meant to write.”

Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Announcements

39:04 to 41:48

Discussing Ubisoft's upcoming announcements for the Ghost Recon series.

“This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle.”

Remakes and the Future of Ubisoft Games

41:49 to 42:00

Speculating on potential remakes and future releases from Ubisoft.

Ubisoft's Remake Strategy

42:00 to 45:12

Discussion on Ubisoft's approach to remaking popular titles like Splinter Cell and Far Cry 3.

Recreation 2 Announcement

45:12 to 48:32

Overview of the announcement and development details of Recreation 2.

Critique of Recreation Series

48:32 to 55:00

Analyzing the shortcomings of the Recreation series and its potential for improvement.

Three Fields Entertainment's Future

55:00 to 56:00

Discussion on the challenges faced by Three Fields Entertainment and its plans moving forward.

“They lost funding from the publisher, who I believe was THQ.”

Diving Deep into Recreation 2

56:00 to 59:45

Learn about the journey of Fiona Sperry and her new game, Recreation 2.

“That's everything on this that I just read to.”

Wii News and Upcoming Games

59:45 to 1:02:36

Discover the latest news on Wii games and upcoming releases.

“Yeah, I'm going to buy it for his cover.”

Super Chats and Community Engagement

1:02:36 to 1:05:31

Engage with community questions and discussions about gaming.

“Marsh Hero says, Bless, having games drafts for specific release years could be sweet.”
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Transcript

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0:00It's Kinda Funny's Patreon Pledge Month. Support us at patreon.com slash kinda funny. We really appreciate it.

0:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's gaming news stories include, we're gonna see Witcher 3's DLC revealed at Gamescom, a new DC Super Heroes fighting game has been announced, and Nintendo doesn't want to pay back its tariff refund to customers. Of all this and more, because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.

0:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday july 21st 2026 i'm your host blessing at aea jr joining me is master of hype snow bike mike bless what up big dog good to see you a lot to catch up on yeah you know i haven't been on games daily with you in quite some time and i love our rapport and our time together so i first want to congratulate you on an epic game showdown yesterday oh yeah really wants to be a millionaire edition of it all uh i love the rollout i know patreon best friends have met might have already seen the live recording of this but but if you hear that was only like 90 people i know but now a lot of people are getting to see it and bless great job on your hard work thank you so much it's super dope yeah shout out to all the love i see people are enjoying that i know everybody's like we need music in this thing roger and roger has seen taking notes he's taking notes yeah we'll get music in there in the background for future episodes of that but yeah i was doing the streams while you did greg and tim so i have not seen how their performance went i didn't see the questions so i'm really excited watching yeah along with the audience going this is exciting stuff to see what they kind of quiver at what they worry about what they panic about yeah i'm excited because you know every now and then i work really hard on an episode and most of the time those episodes don't go well most of the time the more the more work i put into an episode the worse it goes and so i'm happy to finally put in a lot of work into something and it actually pan out in a way that everybody's liking it and so yeah shout out to y 'all go check out that episode you did a great job on that one and of course uh you're deep in the x hole playing xenoblade how is that going 50 hours are you yeah um you know any every single stream i do people are like bless you've done it you're about 70 percent of the way through this game and they've been telling me i'm 70 percent of the way through this game for like 10 hours we playing it out so i have no idea how far i am in this video game okay it just keeps going and going and going it's a jrpg and so that's to be expected but i'm enjoying it a lot i am ready for it to be over you know oh really okay i think because of our jobs it's just tough to play a game that's that long granted like i know you you go home you stream for four hours a day yeah and so you're able to kind of like bring in that time where you're able to play those games for me i'm like I just don't have that same kind of locked in-ness that you have.

2:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because I'm like, after work, I'll get home. I want to lay down. You know what I mean? I want to watch a TV show. You can't get horizontal blessed. That's my rule at home. I want to hang out with friends. I want to clean my apartment. I got other things I want to do that's not just play video games. And I was talking about this on my stream that I'm like, I want to write about this. I'm going to start a blog. Someday I'm going to start the blog. but i don't know how adults with jobs play jrpgs jrpgs are a young man's game and i i can go deep into this of like yo unless you're committed to playing just one game which i know a lot of people are right committed to just playing one game for like six months or something i don't know how people keep up with games and then also play a hundred hour long video games that's it's such a task but i'm enjoying it i'm despite all that i think zeta blade chronicles is a very special game i understand why everybody loves it so much i'm in that place where now i love it so much and i i can't wait to finish it so i can talk about it in full i love that man this game just keeps on delivering you've been giving people updates through gregways so they can go check that out if they haven't yeah one of the free gregways yeah you'll have one mega blowout i'm sure soon enough with everybody on the games cast listening and talking about yeah and so that's great bless yeah you you of course are coming out of the z hole i've you're in the five zelda c hole now I'm playing Celeste yeah Spall one of our community members recommended Celeste it's a game that I've heard about many of times I know about it but I've never played it and so I jumped in last night had a ton of fun music is fantastic I love the characters the art design of it all is so much fun and yeah I mean you know I got really into Baby Steps and Super Meat Boy 3D that this does feel like hey I know what I'm doing you can climb you know how to climb now I'm climbing.

4:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:One of the things I talked about in one of my streams was talking about modern classics. Because I was like, would it make sense for us to do a modern classic draft? Okay. Because I would put Celeste on that list. Modern classic. I think Celeste is a modern classic. Okay. I think, what else would I put on that list? I'm putting Elden Ring on that list. Ooh. Modern classic. Modern classic. Modern Skate 3. Modern classic. Clear Obscure might be the most recent modern classic. Might be a classic. Might be a classic. Damn. Depending on how you define modern, we can reach back to Witcher 3. we're gonna talk about Witcher 3 today we're gonna talk about Witcher 3 today that's a modern classic I love it I mean I'm right there on board with you damn you got me thinking I'm gonna have to put some on my draft list then does that mean that listen Chad if you like it maybe that's the episode unless you're coming up with all the fun conversation topics I like that we're gonna continue having fun having conversations right here on KFGD because remember if you're watching live and be a part of the show super chat in youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames we couldn't do this without our support of our producers over on patreon.com slash kindoffunny so thank you the carl jacobs omega buster delaney the psalm twining and lax nomad for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have six stories today baker's dozen here's the thing right lucid dream in chat says that's just a list of good games well what's a classic modern classics what's a class 10 years from now you say those are the classics yeah i feel like 10 years from now i think we'll look back on clear obscure and eleanor and balder's gate 3 and be like those were the classics of that generation best yep am i wrong you're gonna look at me you're gonna tell me that i'm wrong i like it you know what i mean i like they're good games resident evil was later resident evil 9 that's a good game that's a great game is it a modern classic is it my game of the year or is it james bond right now bless i mean mine is james i bounce back and forth between the two but i do think i'm going to give it to James Bond today right now yeah because that middle part of Resident Evil slowed me down a lot and I didn't enjoy it didn't love it Resident Evil here's my thing right Resident Evil is always what it needs to be for me it is a theme park yeah it is I go in there it give me some set pieces you give me some cool areas puzzle around do all that stuff give me some scare yeah I get in I get out at a great length that shit is like 12 hours long finish the game and I'm like wow what a great experience and then i move on with my life and that's all i want resident evil to ever be and that's and that works i guess what they're nailing it and they're nailing it but they're nailing that there is yeah there's a middle section like i didn't really love the um the leon sections as much okay okay like they're fun yeah but i think i prefer the more scary horror yeah okay i'm excited to see like what's next how they balance that because i do think I personally really liked the balance of both of them.

7:14I do love the Claire or Grace side of things where it's like, oh, I'm a newbie. I'm scared. It's all spooky to me. And then on the flip side, I loved being Leon and being like, here's a bunch of one-liners. Here's some kicks to the face, a bunch of gunshots, and I'm out of it.

7:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I love Leon when they sprinkle Leon in there. Like when I'm like getting tired of the scares and they're like, hey, here's 20 minutes. No shit down. Now let's get back to Grace. I wish that was more of the flow of it. but then there is a bigger chapter where it's okay you're leon for a while and that's where i start to tire out on it where i'm like i don't i don't need this much emotion but i do i understand that people like that though yeah obviously resident evil 4 is the classic classic and so people want that as well so they they balanced it and i think that worked for the vast majority of people mike a game that worked for the vast majority of players here the witcher 3 wild hunt oh songs of the past reveal date has been confirmed this is story number one i'm reading from wesley yinpool at ign the witcher 3 wild hunt songs of the past will be revealed at gamescom 2026 during opening night live cd project has announced songs of the past is the third expansion for cd project's fantasy masterpiece and is due out in 2027 12 years after the original game came out and 11 years after the much-loved second expansion blood and wine cd project said it is co-developing the expansion with fool's theory a team comprised of industry veterans who worked on the witcher 3 city project has suggested songs of the past will help set the stage for the upcoming the witcher 4 while telling a standalone story starring gerald set after the events of the witcher 3 the new adventure will also act as a prologue of sorts to the witcher 4 according to the company's joint ceo michael nawakowski now mike did we already know this because i could have sworn we already knew this i did not know this was going to be officially a gamescom okay did we just did we know august what did we know i could have sworn we knew that this game was being yeah i assumed that it would be a gamescom because it feels like hey you got the home court advantage for sure next to germany like it's an easy one for the team and being like hey that's the next like big step and like milestone of announcements for the year it felt like that was the logical location for me, but I did not know anything on date wise for you.

9:32Gotcha. Well, how much does this excite you? It's really exciting. Yeah, it's crazy. We're going back to a game 11 years ago or 12 years now. Like you don't see that often or ever that people are like, you know what? Let's make some more content for this old ass game right now. But it's a modern classic, modern classic. One of the best bless. And it is really exciting because you do have the Witcher four around the corner. and it is a great way to get people to reignite the flame with Geralt and the crew. Like, that Netflix show was so good, and it left me wanting to play The Witcher and more of the experiences, of course, right?

10:07We kind of talk about this TV show game tie-ins that we're kind of having right now with Fallout, but The Witcher had that as well, and to be now living in a world where it's like, hey, we're going to return to The Witcher 3 after a decade plus with new content. That's super exciting. And also, can the team nail it? right there's so many questions will it feel like the witcher 3 will it feel a little more modern will the combat feel just the same will the story still i mean i imagine it had to feel like witcher 3 because it's gonna be witcher 3 dlc that's the exciting part right it's like there we've never really been in this territory of 12 years later we're going to get dlc for a modern classic a beloved title and yeah there's a lot i wouldn't say i don't think there's a lot riding on this I don't think any this game could come out and let's just say the DLC is bad.

10:56I don't think that affects Witcher 4 at all. Right. So I don't think there's a lot of pressure here, but there's a lot of excitement to nail this because it could be a really great experience.

11:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't even know what a bad version of this looks like. You know, when you're adding content and obviously they have time to work on this. This isn't something that's going to be rushed for them as far as we got to hit the deadline to hit this because we got to do it before X, Y, Z thing. It's like you can kind of chill out when crafting this and take your time if you want to. Right. Like it's been 11 years. Nobody's rushing out with your three DLC. So I that gives me some confidence in it. But then also, yeah, I think this is a hard thing to fuck up in terms of you have a game. People love the mechanics are there.

11:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're going to add some new stuff here and there to freshen it up and make it feel a little bit new. But really what it's about here is story and world building and all that stuff. And I think no matter what, people are excited to get that baton pass to, oh, what is The Witcher 4 going to be? Like, this working as marketing material for The Witcher 4 kind of does just make it more exciting as a DLC thing. Because it's been so long since The Witcher 3 that everybody's on the edge of their seat for it. Does it feel like a must play then? When you talk about a baton pass, do you sit here and go, well, shucks, I gotta fire this up then?

12:09If I'm a Witcher fan, yeah.

12:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Yeah, like, I'm somebody who didn't, I didn't finish The Witcher. was seeing andy playing uh playing witcher 3 recently has me wanting to go back to it i'm still coming out of the x-hole i need a break after the x i'll be honest i need a break but the next well you're gonna break because this is next year so you got time that is true it's next yeah the next big rpg that i play that's like going back into my backlog might be witcher because of this i like you know what i mean this bumps witcher up the pile as far as fuck i need to go back to that and play it and really finish that game and so yeah i think for me even it's like a oh I want to get to this but I'm sure for anybody who's finished The Witcher 3 who's a fan of the The Witcher series who's looking forward to the next one who's watched the tv show this got this has to be a must play I like that bless I mean I'm super excited and for this team right now right we're talking about Fool's Theory a great way to get your name on the map of course they've already released other titles and worked with larger games before when you look at their website but like this is a great opportunity a huge opportunity to put your really stamp your name on the map of like we did a great job other companies are going to be calling here does this close out or open opening night live oh where do they you think it opens you open the show with this yeah you got to open it you don't close with it we yeah exactly you gotta close with a surprise yeah because i think this would be big but like it's you now that we know that this is going to be there i i think this would be a strong opener because when you think about opening night live they don't really got the they don't got the stuff like that in my opinion when you look back at the slate of previous opening night lives it's like okay we're closing out on dying like the beast it feels like it's good not great though it's right and like i'm barely at that good place with opening night live it's fine okay yeah it's fine i enjoy just the night of us together talking about video games looking at new video games but yeah it will be exciting i mean this is a big one for jeff keely and that opening night live team to put in their back pocket and say hey at least we got a good one here what else can we add to it it'll be exciting mike let's hop into super chats real quick uh of course i'm just a billy writes in and says are there any pax west plans for y 'all i think we got asked this recently it might have been a um kind of funny happy hour but oh okay as of now i don't think we have anything to announce um i'm yeah i'm not gonna be there you don't think you're gonna fly up there as just a fan like you did before No.

14:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. I don't think so. Maybe Andy. Andy flew up there all by himself once. Andy did fly up there all by himself. I love PAX West. But, like, yeah, last time I went to PAX West, I was visiting family. And so, like, that wasn't. It's a little wind. Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm going to go to PAX West. But, really, I was there for vacation for the week. And then, yeah, like, I mean, sometimes we get people hitting us up. Be like, yo, we have our game. We're going here. You got a booth. You got a game. You got any reason you want to send Mike, bless the team. Well, hey, we'll come up there. Oh, I'll say listen.

14:59Any time. Bless has hosted the big stage of PAX East. Come on. We're cyberpunk. Watch out. Mike did well. You did ground it. With Obsidian. You know it. Come on.

15:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Professor White T writes in and says, took me six months to get 62 hours into Ghost of Yote. And that shows you. Yeah. Working the nine to five. And then you got to go five to nine. There's only so much you can fit. Because like you brought up. Hey, Mike. Dinner, time with family and friends. I was going to say, some people have a wife and kids. When you add this all up, Bless. I mean, I used to talk with Steezy Steve, right? Yeah. And my boy Steezy Steve, the co-manager up at the lodge when we worked at Heavenly. When I would come home, I would play a bunch of games. I'd come back to see Steve.

15:37Seems like I got about 30 minutes in the Mass Effect, Mike. Like, that's all I get. And I'd be looking at Steve like, I'm about seven hours into the next video game. I stayed up till 2 a.m. That's my life, you know? And so, yeah. A lot of people, they're finding the balance. They're finding the juggle.

15:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:See, Science Dog Official says, Mike, got a game for a stream. That is a must play for cozy gamers at KF. It's called Go Go Town, and it's on intro sales on Steam right now. Go Go Town. Okay, I'm putting it on there. Animal Crossing meets Factorio slash Satisfactory. It's a blast. Nice. You know, my next cozy game that I want to play is a Chris Anka recommendation. That's Leafy Corner, bless. That's the end of the month. I want to play Leafy Corner. Leafy Corner. Yeah, Leafy Corner. Add that in there. I'm going to read the Steam description to you right now. run a cute little plant shop in a cozy and relaxing game grow sell and care for a variety of real life plants help customers find their dream plants complete orders and customize your cozy shop just the way you like okay okay a little relaxing i'm gonna jump into that i got a question for people in chat and this is for a question for people who have a partner okay and have kids possibly how how many hours a day or a week are you gaming and how does that affect your gaming habits i'm genuinely curious because like i don't really have i mean i have example everybody actually all my friends have partners but like all their partners are also gamers and so they game together they game together and like they also all my friends also work in games and so those are they're not i don't have good examples of like yeah you're not the best use case yeah i I don't have like people on the ground.

17:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're the best one for this one. Let me know. Cause I'm curious. Cause obviously the people watching are nerds. I'm sure plenty of y 'all have nerd partners as well, but like, I'm curious on how y 'all go about it. Okay. Cause people are saying two to three hours a day. Even that though sounds like a lot of time. That's a lot of time. Two to three hours a day is like what I'm doing. If I think about it. I mean, that's like a nine to midnight. If you could, you come home, you, you kiss your partner, you settle the kids down, you make dinner, you get them to watch their bedtime show. alongside you.

17:48Your partner says, hey, I'm going to go read a book. I'm going to go walk a mile outside. Hey, cool. I'm going to go game. Nine to midnight. I bet you ask a lot of people that nine to midnight, that ten to one, that's their window. Then when y 'all waking up, though, six a.m. No, you can't. You can't go to

18:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:sleep at midnight, wake up at six. That's not good for your health. Six a.m. You got to get seven to eight hours of sleep. It's important to me. And then JBC writes in and says, love the doomsday reaction from yesterday, but curious as to why Greg did not mention X-Men 97 in the MCU vibe check. Yeah, Greg did not mention X-Men 97 in the MCU vibe check when it's clearly Marvel's Andor. X-Men 97 is Marvel's Andor? Is that what we're saying? Oh. I mean, I love X-Men 97. Marvel's Andor is what we're calling it? They're saying it's that good? I would say Loki is Marvel's Andor. Oh. That's my hot take.

18:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think Loki is Marvel's Andor. That's where I'm at. Okay. mike let's move on to story number two free-to-play dc fighting game dc ko has been announced for ios and android this is sal romano at gamatsu drop fake in partnership with warner brothers interactive entertainment has announced dc ko a free-to-play dc fighting game coming to ios and android in 2027 pre-registration is available now via the official website here's an overview of the game via the website true mobile player versus player fighting compete with your favorite dc superheroes and dc supervillains anywhere uh key features include real-time player versus player battles uh dc legends is going to assemble the ultimate team customize your legends power up your fighters choose from a vast list of interchangeable super moves and customize their play their payloads uh player versus player environment sorry player versus environmental know just say pve pve modes um and then it's available available to all new legends to master new maps to explore new stories new rewards all regularly updated mike i was saddened oh yesterday you weren't excited about dicko first of all why are you calling it dicko why is it called dicko why what happened to how we named fighting games in the last two years 2x ko we've we're taking it down to four letters only that's all you get why does nobody know how to name a fighting game anymore you get four letters that's all you get we got dicko yeah we got 2kxo or 2x ko it's one of them ones uh-huh we got multiverses at least was kind of i kind of saw where they're coming from but i don't like that either yeah yeah yeah talk to me bless about this you are my fighting game guy i have some thoughts about this i'm excited to share with you but yeah what what does this not excite you with is it because it's mobile it's just a mobile game yeah now have you ever thought about opening your heart to maybe giving mobile fighting games to try have you ever tried a mobile fighting game let's start there i'm sure one time okay yeah no but like you've opened your heart to more now bless you're playing magic arena yeah you've been on your phone a little bit more than you yeah it's like you like fighting games have you thought about maybe maybe we just try this no okay i but to me it's a few things right okay one i like fighting games because i like the tactile feel of hitting buttons memorizing combos i like that hardcore nature of feeling being at that arcade being at that arcade cabinet even though i'm using pad but like you know i i need to press a button yeah first and foremost i'm sure i could connect what's the thing that greg always oh yeah yeah of course you could connect one of the razor kishis i'm sure yeah yeah i don't want to do that for this game so that's first and foremost okay secondly there's the monetization aspect that's always present and I think they said free to play right did I read free to play yeah this shit's going to be monetized to hell and for me with Magic Arena for example I've been able to resist the beast I've not really spent any money in Magic Arena if I remember correctly because that's a game that I've been able to find my lane where I just play ranked and I'm good with that and I unlock packs for free Slay the Spire also isn't really monetized like that i don't even think they have any monetization if i'm thinking about it correctly um so yeah i don't really like how a lot of these mobile games are monetized and that's more of a preference of just the platform and then thirdly i just don't think it i think it looks probably fine for a mobile game yeah i don't think it looks good for a fighter especially a dc fighter when you announce a dc fighter you and i envision in my mind injustice my mind when i first saw this announcement now that you bring it up less my mind went to oh no are we not getting injustice this and then when you read it was immobile i was like okay well there's still hope now see and that's the thing is i was worried that this was going to be the console fighter here yeah and there's a version of this that if you're announcing it as the console fighter i doesn't look as cool as injustice at all but maybe they're i my heart would be open to now like i like some of the animations bless like when i was watching this yesterday yeah of course when i first saw it i was like oh i don't know like i was really my heart was set on injustice but that I've watched some of the animations.

22:51I'm like, hey, it looks alright, and it's kind of got that 2X KO. I don't know if it's a tag fighter, but I like the jump in nature of another hero bouncing off of it. So I was like, I was intrigued when I left watching that trailer late last night, but then when you read it off as, oh, it's a mobile game, it's like, I just don't play mobile games.

23:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. But I'm... Yeah, I wish I was more excited. I was gonna try, I was trying to find something positive to say about it. Okay. But like, I don't want to be super negative, because honestly, again, for a mobile game, it looks fine. Yeah. for mobile fighter actually it looks fine um this is something that if i was drunk in an arcade and saw it at a machine i'd be like hey zach let's let's play let's play they got a game here it's called dicko yo zach let's play some dicko they got dicko over here they got superman in it wonder woman like you know okay playing on my phone i don't know it doesn't get me excited i mean that's the goal right is to try to well i mean yeah i would love to know the mobile audience numbers for a game like this you know a month six months down the road to see what that is and then of course is the goal to convert console players like yourself of like hey just normal fighting fans like here's a mobile game like play that right how much is that conversion rate going are people like you watching this going i'm good or is it like hey we are winning people over i think people like me are watching this and going i'm good but it's a free-to-play mobile game and And so there's a vast audience for this.

24:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Like kids who may injustice was years and years ago. You know what I mean? Injustice two came out. What in 2018? I miss it. Chat double checked out for me, but it's been a long time since injustice. If I'm a kid and I just watched Superman, if I just watched James Gunn, Superman with my dad, 2017, you were close. 17. I was like, if Leslie pulled that out of his pocket, I'm going to be done. 2017. But yeah, I just got done watching Superman with my dad, my friends get home. and I'm like, oh, they got a free game on the phone. It's called Dicko. And I can play Superman and fight all these characters that I just saw.

24:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, like, I think this will be a hit with kids and with, like, people who are just looking to make their action figures punch each other. All right, all right. Mike, we're going to move on to story number three. But before we do, I want to tell you about patreon.com slash kindoffunny and youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad-free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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26:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:slash kind of funny and we're back gricks hammer 64 says bless groupie groupie goulash versus friend slop thoughts i don't i don't like what you just made me say here's the deal bless yeah I've heard y 'all bring up a lot of names. I've heard the audience bring up a lot of names. Nothing's better than Friend Slop. And I know that Friend Slop was meant to be mean, but there's nothing better than Friend Slop at this point. I like Friend Slop. One that came to mind, I was thinking about it this morning, because I've been thinking about this a lot. How about Friend Sim? No? Because I think a lot of them have almost like a Sim-y sort of vibe, where you're driving the trucks, you're an air flight pilot, you are like a rock climber.

27:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you're always like doing something that's simmy, but you're just doing it like that. Or you're doing it with friends. It's like friend slop is the term. And when you say friend slop to your friends, they know what they're getting invited to, right? Hey, here's a title that's going to be anywhere from four to$15. And it's going to range in quality. It's going to be very fun, like a peak. And it's going to be knock out the park. And then there's going to be games where you're like, Mike, we played that for an hour. We're never going to play it again. And they're just going to rain. Can I be honest?

27:35Take that shot.

27:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because we were talking about it during the Greg Miller therapy session, which y 'all should watch. And, you know, one of the things we brought up was Heath Ho. And I'm like, Heath Ho's not friend slop. That's just a multiplayer game. I do think that the difference and where the slop comes in is that these games are low budget and made quickly. And I think that's, to me, that is the definition of slop. And, like, I don't think that's bad. I don't think that's an insult. But I think that's where the slop part of it comes in is, oh, you made this. in a week peak they made in a game jam and they put it on the store for five dollars nailed it they did not think anybody was going to buy that game that to me is like the slop part of it but like that's not a bad thing like i don't i don't look at that as like how dare you make this i look at it as like damn y 'all did that in a week and put it out there made it cheaply and made it sold millions of copies good for you but also i don't know man to me that's where the slop that's the slop word for you that's where that actually becomes a little bit more accurate um oscar Navarro it's and says Mike basically just described my nightly routine the nine to the nine to one nine to midnight yeah and the one yeah that's what Steezy Steve would do I think that's what a lot of parents when you ask them will do is like I it's everyone's got to have their time and then they go to bed and that's my time and that means I'm gonna suffer the next morning or hey a lot of parents are doing the six hours and that's their normal but they're gonna look at you and go I get the very late last moment of my day to go.

29:03It's like my favorite memes when you're like, I worked all day and I just want a little me time, so I'm going to keep scrolling on my little TikTok. I love that stuff. Bless, you know what game I've been thinking about a lot of? What's that? Assassin's Creed Black Flag. Resynced. Yeah? I just had so much fun. Really? Jumping back into it and it's like, that game stuck with me a couple days slash a week later. We're post-review when I played it with Barrett. It's like, I still think about Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I had a good time with that. Just wanted to highlight that one.

29:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Good for you. I'm excited for our Splatoon Raiders review. Oh. It's going to be me and Andy. Yeah. And I got some things to say about that game. Two bros. Okay. I got some things to say about that game. Samson XP says, why does the name look like Dicko? We covered this. We covered this. Aaron Lyme says, DCKO is the name of a comic event, but people only now noticed it looks like Dicko because the cover of the comic has it spaced out. like DC space KO. It does have it spaced out. Wow. When you pull those letters together, it doesn't work as well. All right, here we go. We got some people with families.

30:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Chris Pabbs says, I get my four-year-old to bed by seven to eight, game till about 1, 1.30, then back up at six. I've been at it for four years now. 60 hours into FF7 Rebirth. It's not healthy. Chris, you're going to collapse one of these days. Y 'all got to sleep. I don't care if y 'all want to play Final Fantasy. And, like, I'm not trying to scold you, Chris. That's actually fun. But, like, y 'all got to sleep. I am scolding you, actually. Bless is big on the sleep, y 'all. I'm big on sleep. Sleep is good for your health. If you don't sleep, you're going to deprive yourself of rest that you need.

30:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And you're going to fucking die. Yeah. Sleep. Let them know. You can't do what? You said you're 1 to 1.30, then you're back up at 6? Got to get up. conservatively we're saying you're getting five hours of sleep every night yeah but there's a moment when you have a child it breaks you bless kevin can probably talk about it but like when you have that child and like the sleep patterns all thrown off forever that it changes you i mean that's fair you're changed forever but like five hours consistently every night because of video games just randomly like a month ago henry started waking up at 5 a.m and we've been trying to get him to sleep later doing all kinds of things putting him to sleep later put him to sleep earlier and man it has messed my brain up and yeah am i staying up till midnight playing video games maybe till one yeah town camp especially with this enshrouded game you know oh man it's been bad are you how many naps are you taking in a day uh most days i don't take a nap every like two weeks i will just collapse and either like take a nap in the middle of a saturday or um go to sleep at like seven like as soon as i put him down i go down i'm worried about a lot of y 'all i'm worried at the debt professor white t says i get three to six hours on the weekend but i have to push myself to stay up till 3 3 a.m and get up at 6 a.m or 7 a.m to wake up with the kids man this is fascinating um on a different topic gondor's condor says bless i know roguelike deck builders are prevalent but imagine adding tetris to it that is drop drop dookie and it's a great steam deck game oh drop dutchy i mean they wrote here drop dookie oh yeah i don't know if it's drop dookie dr is drop and then d-u-c-h-y yeah dutchy that was uh that was one of todd howard's favorite games yeah of the last year the one todd howard be dropped howard talked talked about that one bro he talked about drop dookie yeah bro top where you dropped the dutch wow that's fun drop dookie huh give it a try i try dropping dookie all the time zabaki writes in his happy birthday to Gary with a birthday tax happy birthday to our guy should we call him go ahead you want me to call him up real quick we should call him yeah we do love Gary over here ask him if he likes drop dookie okay

33:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:let me call him up

33:14Gary with a what up homie it's Mike and bless on kind of funny games daily we We wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday, big cat.

33:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Happy birthday, Gary. Oh, thank you very much. How'd you know it was my birthday? We got it on the calendar and the audience is freaking out because they all wanted to show you love, big dog. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I'm definitely feeling the love. Of course, Gary, man. Feel all the love. Play all the games. How do you feel about the World Cup result? Oh, yeah. World Cup. I mean, I was happy to see Argentina get humiliated. As an English fan, you know, I've known since 1986 what a dirty fucking team they are. I'm glad the rest of the world now knows as well. Let them know, Gary.

33:51Let them know. God, Gary. Really quick final one before we let you. There's a reason why they called that England-France third place game, the people's final. That's what people really wanted to say. And that was a fun game. It was a fun game. Gary, what did you think about the halftime show? I don't know about the final. Spain could have played without a goalkeeper, and it still would have been the same result. Because Argentina had zero fucking shots on target. It was crazy. That's not wrong. He's not wrong about that. It's a bunch of scrubs, man. They're playing with one guy who just walks around the field.

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34:17It's like you're already playing a man down, Gary. I know. But he is nasty. It's great if footballer is messy. It'll actually be good when he retires because finally FIFA will stop putting their fucking thumb on the scale for him. God damn. That's Gary winner. Happy birthday, big dog. We love you over here. See you later, bud. See you, Gary. Bye, Gary. Bye.

34:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He's the best. He just doesn't hold back. That man is always ready to talk to you. He's like, let you know. Let you know. Golly. Story number three. Nintendo says it shouldn't have to pay back players if it gets tariff refunds from the U.S. government. This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. Nintendo says it shouldn't have to pay back players if it receives tariff refunds from the U.S. government. Last year, Nintendo increased the price of the original Switch hardware in the U.S. with the Switch Lite becoming$30 more expensive. The Switch becoming$40 more expensive and the Switch OLED becoming$50 more expensive.

35:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Nintendo's price changes were widely attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose sweeping tariffs on numerous countries and later pause some of them, except for a sizable tariff on China, where tech products are often manufactured. After the U.S. Supreme Court found that Trump didn't have the power to invoke the tariffs, in March 2026, Nintendo, as well as more than a thousand other companies, sued the U.S. government for refunds for what it considered legal implementation of the tariffs. As a result of this, two players, Gregory Hoffert from California and Prashant Sharon from Washington, decided to sue Nintendo, claiming that any money it recouped from tariff refunds should go to customers.

35:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Now, as reported by GameFile, Nintendo has asked the court to dismiss the class action suit, saying players received exactly what they bargained and paid for when they bought a Switch after the price increase. Nintendo's lawyers argue that the suggestion it was being unfair by not retroactively making the Switch cheaper again and refunding players, the difference is not how commercial transactions work, because the customer agreed on the price when they bought the hardware. Quote, Nintendo or one of its retailers set a price for each product and consumers decided whether that price was worth paying, Nintendo's filing says.

36:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Quote, those who bought Nintendo's products received exactly what they bargained and paid for. A console, game, and or accessory at a price to which both parties agreed. The money plaintiffs paid represents the purchase price of the goods they wanted and received. Plaintiffs are not entitled to a rebate simply because of intervening legal developments related to tariffs, end quote. Nintendo's filing also claims that a full refund of the difference wasn't as simple as it seems because there were a number of factors that went into rising its prices. Raising its prices is what they meant to write.

36:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Including cost of memory, labor, and shipping and tariffs. It claims that the Switch's price wasn't just increased by the amount of tariffs paid, but that Nintendo instead imposed modest and selective price adjustments, and it chose to bear the costs of tariffs on some of its most popular products in 2025, including its flagship console, the Nintendo Switch 2. End quote. It also argues that the players who are suing Nintendo couldn't have received tangible damages as a result of Switch's price increase because they weren't forced into buying it. Mike? it's a whole lot there a whole lot there bless i don't have much of an opinion on this honestly i'm more like nintendo keep that you know what nintendo you keep that one because i am kind of like i i don't have an opinion because i'm just like i don't fuck i don't you know we're putting up with trump too it sucks yeah i yeah i don't want to defend the company but i'm kind of like you bought the thing you know what i mean like you didn't have to buy it at that price and I think there's so many costs involved with like probably things to consider now when they did raise the prices they did say hey because I forget exactly the wording but it was something along the lines of like because of the economic landscape that type of shit we're raising the price of this and they might have called out tariffs specifically obviously that's why they're doing it and they're suing the US government or they're jumping into suing the US government so we know why the prices increased I would never in a million years expect Nintendo to be like ah we got refunds for it let's give it back.

38:23Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's give the gamer reparations. No, they're not going to do that. And they're going to fight against that. And they're going to win against that. You know, I don't know what to say on that one. Economic headwinds. Yeah. I don't really have much to say about that. But like, I'm always, listen, in America, it's part of our culture. We sue. Yeah, there's always some random Greg in Minnesota. There's always some dude in the middle of Tennessee who's like, you know what? We got to sue this big company because we deserve that you know what i mean and listen hey sometimes they win it's sometimes they win it's part of culture and if greg from minnesota who i forget the name of the name but these two people if they're able to to make it happen somehow hey i salute that's insane but everybody's getting 30 bucks every 30 bucks i guess that's yeah that's the increase so it'll be like five cents for each of us let's move on to story number four ubisoft promises more Ghost Recon news in August as Wildlands Definitive Edition info emerges.

39:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle. Ubisoft has confirmed that it'll be announcing news related to the Ghost Recon series next month. In a post on the official Ghost Recon account on Twitter, the publisher said an announcement would be made August 6th. It's been a while. It's been a while, ghosts, the post said. We know some of you saw some updates. We'll have more to say on the 6th of august when we celebrate the 25th anniversary of ghost recon intel coming soon while no information has been given on the nature of the announcement it may relate to a new edition of ghost recon wildlands reportedly spotted over the weekend a user on the ghost recon wildlands reddit page posted an image they saw on their xbox dashboard promoting a new definitive edition of the 2017 game mike does a ghost recon wildlands definitive edition does that excite you it makes me smile yeah i actually have a really nice big place in my heart for a lot of the ghost recon games i grew up as a kid who loved grog ghost recon advanced warfighter i loved all of those games leading up to of course wildlands i really enjoyed wildlands it felt like a fun wacky mix of the you know military sin that is ghost recon meets like a far cry open world and i think they really nailed the fun wackiness as i bring up because i think when they went to break points we kind of lost the wacky fun nature of wildlands and i wasn't the biggest fan of that but like yeah i love wildlands i love all of the ghost recon games so yeah to celebrate 25 years is pretty special wildlands had a big moment too and was it 2017 that that came out yeah 2017 for wildlands i remember that game making waves and people loving it and people being all up into it and that's a game when i look at ghost recon that's a game that i would love to try out i never got around playing wildlands yeah yeah yeah i would love to do that and i think you know we talk about ubisoft all the time of like what are they gonna do here and not i don't know if there's anything they could do at this point to like really bring it all the way back to prime ubisoft however i do think that there is strength in the tom clancy stuff like for some reason reading ghost recon excited me a little bit a little bit yeah and then i think to like man i did love rainbow six rainbow six siege that was my jam they've had some wins right when you think about the ghost recon side of things of course seeds is still very popular people want the division of course right so like there's some wins that you could find in here just takes a lot of time and a lot of money yeah and that's this team is kind of up against the wall right now but i think with black flag re-synced really showed me it's like hey there is a well that we could dip back into i don't want us to just go remake after everything after remake but there are a couple of select titles where it's like hey i'd let you slide with this right i think a far cry 3 super remaster would be big for me especially with the tv show i would love that i think you could dive into one of the probably wildlands would be nice but i mean you can only do that so many times bless in this catalog i mean my you got to get up i regret to inform you that that is exactly what they're doing like yeah well look at the landscape assassin's creed black flag resync all right that just came out what's the what's the ubisoft's next title um oh yeah it's rayman legends oh snap i didn't even remember that one they're remaking rayman yeah yeah oh man okay what has been the most exciting things that people were excited oh there was um prince of persia the saints of time remake oh that got canceled though okay well what's what's another big game they have on the rise oh splinter cell is that a remake is that i forget where we're at with it but chat let me know because i'm just gonna guess right here it's probably a remake or some reboot i think it's a going back to the world kind of thing right i think we're gonna continue to get these i think you're right i think far cry 3 is next i think far cry 3 is a layup right if i if we were to be in the room and be like hey we need a win i'd be like far cry 3 is the win let's do exactly what we just did with re-synced with far cry let's line it up with the tv show let's nail this right because it's highly beloved it has the tropical setting where the graphics are gonna wow people on the screen like let's nail this one right now i'm typing in the words spinner cell remake just to see yeah it's a it's a remake yeah it's a really the upcoming one is a remake yeah okay i'm on ubisoft toronto.com and they have a page this is called splinter cell remake so and then all it shows chat this is the way okay okay hey now hey they have one move now yeah they got one thing and like these aren't bad this it's not like i would do the same thing if i'm ubisoft right now and we're going we have l after l after l after l i'm like what are the w's we can get you have to look at the past and go i just remake the remake the wild lands out there right away the problem with this mike is that you ever watch in the last season of an old sitcom they always have the episode where they just run back the clips look back clips yeah they run back the clips but usually when you get to that episode that means this show is about to end this show is about to be credits or this is the series finale which is crazy because they have great ip yeah they have great games it's like let's just get back to that there was a moment in time where ubisoft was king and those were some special days and that wasn't it doesn't even feel like that was that long ago that's the crazy thing i think it was a long time you know i think i think we look back it was actually a long time like wait i'm thinking like the mid 2010s even 27 i know we're talking about 2017 a lot like 2017 you had wildlands and you had assassin's creed origins yeah those were that was a special like that was a good time that felt like their second wave to me that was the second resurgence of ubisoft what was the first resurgence assassin's creed i think assassin's creed like two windows so like that okay 2008 to 2012 window 360 ps3 era prime ubisoft and then yeah i think what you're bringing up to me is the second wave of like hey we're fighting off withnd yeah we're doing we're making all these moves let's move on to story number five recreation 2 has been announced for ps5 xbox series and pc is sal romano at gamatsu when tide turns sorry let me say again when tide's turn a newly founded studio formed by criterion games co-founder fiona sperry has announced recreation 2 the open world arcade racing game sequel to 2025's recreation it'll be available for ps5 xbox and pc via steam a release date was not announced quote over the last six months we've been talking directly to players about what they want from a modern arcade driving game and recreation 2 is a result of those conversations said when tides turn studio head fiona spary in a press release from handling and progression to events and role design our community has already helped shape key aspects of the experience we're building this game with players not just with players not just for them um this is something worth shouting out of course three fields entertainment is usually the ones who make these games of course they made they started off with dangerous golf oh okay went on to make dangerous driving one and two made recreation one and now this new studio which seems to be i need to look into this more because i'm sure there's better info out here about them but a sister studio or just a new studio using the ip okay i'm not totally clear on what's happening here but um did you ever play recreation no i had to look it up on steam and i looked up on metacritic but i will say this plus looking at this i give it a nice little thumbs up i thought of you when i saw this of like bless we're getting a lot of fun racing games lately yeah we are we're getting fun in the space and i'm excited about this i'm and i think we're in a we're in a really good time right now for racing games yeah you know i mean we're talking about forza horizon 6 streamer the one coming up next year is that called clutch no let me double check double check with that yeah what is that team from maverick games called maverick games yeah but you have that and like the racing games keep coming here's what i'll say clutch is right bless galactic racer as well somebody says in chat yeah here's what i'll say fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me three times shame on me fool me four times shame on me I don't want to I don't want to cast negativity on this oh really the trailer looks the trailer looks good okay I was just I don't think I can put anything but they do this every single time Mike I played recreation oh okay so it wasn't great recreation one has mixed reviews on steam and a 62 on Metacritic yep looks like the original was more track mania meets burnout with a lot of user made track which is my perfect video game oh i love track mania okay yeah i love track mania and also i love burnout obviously and i love burnout paradise okay recreation had all those things but it just felt empty it didn't feel full of life at all it just felt bland that's why when i watched the trailer for that one but then i watched this i'm like oh good idea making your own giant open world map right like that's the focus there have your detail have your control of it if you want to make user generated content do it like rockstar do it like forza where you can just add tracks onto them we load into it but you never change the true world yeah i'm i mean i this you know differently from recreation one is taking place in a city okay it looks like from the trailer which already is a difference like recreation was kind of just open environment didn't really have a didn't have buildings didn't have that all that all that shit already that looks different i like that they're saying we're building this alongside the audience yeah i think there's something there um i have their press release up i'm trying to see if they're talking about anything regarding i'm just gonna start reading shit all right so this is a press release that i got an email um newly formed independent uk-based studio when tides turn uh officially revealed recreation 2 an open world racing game where every slam every shortcut and every takedown can change the outcome every race is a battle where victory isn't just about the fastest line but reading your rivals taking risks seizing opportunities and choosing a perfect moment to deliver the perfect tape down i think i want to talk about it more um let's see let's see here the project marks the debut of when tides turn a newly formed studio comprised of industry veterans responsible for some of the genre's most beloved arcade racing experiences built around a community first development philosophy the studio is working directly with players to help deliver the ultimate modern arcade driving game and then they gave the quote that i gave in the article they don't really talk about when tides turn okay i mean well oh that never mind they do tell me when tight's turn is a uk-based independent video game development studio founded by criterion games co-founder fiona sperry comprised of arcade racing pioneers studios dedicated to creating high impact driving experiences through close collaboration with its community i still am not getting the context for how this relates to three fields entertainment okay okay that's what i'm looking for here all right i mean for me it's more like hey there was a lot of like probably really great arcade racing devs out there that got stuck becoming a battlefield six uh support studio so you know that's great that maybe they're able to jump over there and uh be able to make the stuff that they love but like my thing is the reason the reason why i'm so caught up on this is that that's already the studio that's that was three fields entertainment like they've been doing this for a very long time of making burnout clones that don't work which is another thing well you know what i bet you they might be i bet you somebody close to them might be listening and watching right now maybe they can send you an email and hit you up on a phone call fill you in fill me in because i don't mean any malice in my words i want to make it clear because i feel like i'm being mean about it oh because i mentioned i don't really like all their games dangerous golf is neat but what i really want to know mike is who's funding these games oh you want to know the backer i want to know the backer because i named to you like four games in a row yeah independently made but obviously they got budget here somewhere they're making these driving games that keep like not working and also i don't think people are buying these like that chat am i crazy am i do are y 'all dangerous driving fans did y 'all like recreation how are we on game number four or and a new studio is now spun up and they're working on that IP.

51:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Somebody says, you know the answer. I don't know the answer. I'm not just going to assume Saudi Arabia or something. People in chat are trying to imply Saudi Arabia. I'm not saying that's not the case, but I don't know if that's the case. I don't want to just assume something like that. I just want to know what it is. Because I think there's a story here and I don't know what it is. I just think whatever's happening, the video games industry is falling left and right how do they keep putting out 6 out of 10s as an independent studio

52:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:might keep reading but as we do that you know, Recreation 2 could have potential, could end up being a very big game but if I wanted something smaller say the tiniest news I need us to know about where would I go? I'd take you to our last news story the We News channel where we cover all the news items you need to know about. What are you finding? I have sad news from Three Fields Entertainment December 4, 2025 by Maddie Moody. Today I'm having to share one of the hardest messages of my career after 12 years building and nurturing Three Fields Entertainment. I'm forced into the situation of today placing our entire team on notice of redundancy.

52:57Okay. Since the launch of Recreation our small studio has worked incredibly hard with art and dedication to update the game, listen to our community, and deliver fixes and features players asked for. I could not be prouder of the people I've worked alongside with or their passion they've poured into this project. But the reality we now face is stark. As an independent studio, we will not see revenue from the game sales for the foreseeable future. We've had to self-fund most of this year and all of the post-launch content. Without the enthusiasm or financial support from our publisher to continue development, we simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form.

53:37Making this decision has been unbelievably painful. This is a heartbreaking moment for all of us. What makes it even harder is that we have so many things in the pipeline. Multiple features, updates, creative ideas that we were excited to bring to the game, many of which showcased in the video we're sharing today. There are things we generally believe would have continued to strengthen recreation and grow its community. Two more paragraphs. My hope is that by showing this work publicly, someone out there might also see that potential and perhaps an opportunity could still emerge. But even if that hope does not materialize, we want this to stand as a testament to our vision and to strength, passion, and skill of our tiny team.

54:25I truly believe in the potential of this game and in the billions of the people who built it. To everyone who has supported us, played our games, or believed in our studio, thank you. Your support has meant the world. We will, again, at our own cost, ensure that the next update that includes a cross-play feature does get published before Christmas. And we hope you and your friends can enjoy the world we've built together, whichever platform you play. I can be contacted at Fiona, Three Fields Entertainment. Fiona Sperry, Three Fields Entertainment.

55:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:So, studio shut down in December. We're going to light the flame again. When did Recreation 1 come out? Because, okay, studio shut down. They lost funding from the publisher, who I believe was THQ. I forget if you read it. Okay. No, I didn't say that. I'm pretty sure THQ might have been the publisher. But double check that for me. So now we're back. We're back at it like a bad habit. We're back again. We're back at it. THQ Nordic was the publisher. THQ Nordic was the publisher. This game came out October 28th, 2025. I read that message from December 2025. And we're back with a sequel. They barely made it two months left.

55:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:They barely made it two months. And now we're back with a new studio and a sequel. I want to know the story. Fiona, if anybody from the team. It would be a great interview on Gamescast if you could get it. If any of y 'all listen to the show. Well, let me give you your email. Like, let me know what the. How did y 'all come back? Yeah. Hold on. Maybe what they showed during December. Maybe that's it. I'm trying to find. Polygon has an article. Hold on. Polygon has an article. Mike, you did not read all that. That's everything on this that I just read to. Yeah, Mike read the whole thing. Despite publisher cutoff and studio closure, burnout veterans are keeping the dream alive of recreation, too.

56:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is Ollie Welsh. Hold on. What time is it? We're diving deep into this right now. We're diving deep into this right now. Kevin, cut off the Wii news. Cut off the Wii news. We're diving deep into this. I'm reading the Ollie Welsh article. Fiona Sperry refuses to give up the dream of making more arcade racing games in the style of burnout. Despite a crushing setback when publisher THQ Nordic cut off support for her last attempt, Recreation dooming the game to failure and her studio to closure, she's back with a new studio and a sequel, Recreation 2. Sperry oversaw the much-loved Burnout Games, which fuse high-speed arcade racing with spectacular and destructive crashes as studio head at the UK's Criterion Games, all the way through the 2001 original to the 2008 classic Burnout Paradise.

57:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:After Criterion owner EA turned its back on the series in favor of Need for Speed, Sperry left to form Three Fields Entertainment with other Criterion veterans. The scrappy indie worked its way up through Burnout Spiritual Successors, Danger Zone, and Dangerous Driving before releasing the Open World Recreation in October last year. Then disaster struck. In December, just a few weeks after the game came out, Sperry announced that THQ Nordic had withdrawn all its support for the game and studio, seemingly before the game even came out. She was forced to put the whole team on notice of redundancy.

57:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:quote as an independent studio oh you this is all the stuff that you just read yeah um sperry is not deterred however she opted for a fresh start at a new studio when tides turn staffed by three fields veterans uh the team is already making recreation 2 for ps5 pc and xbox there's no release day yet but perhaps to prove a point when tides turn shared an early playable build of the game with polygon it's certainly not deviating from the burnout formula recreation is an ultra fast-paced driving game with twitchy handling and yada in fact recreation 2 he was even closer to burnout paradise than the previous game um they go on to talk about it talk about their preview when tide's turn says that they're close to collaborating with the community you said that already okay it's fair to say that during the freedom during the three fields entertainment years spurious team never seemed to quite have the focus or resources to match the burnout games made by Criterion during its 2000s glory days.

58:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm going to pause there and say, yeah, they did not. But their passionate dedication to this particular brand of arcade racing is remarkable and admirable. After Recreation's ignominious, hold on, let me say that. Wow, that's a word. Ignominus. Oh. One of those. Actually, I'm not sure how that's pronounced. After their fate, the odds seem even further stacked against them, but they simply won't take no for an answer. Hopefully this time they'll win out. Mike, this journey has turned me fully around. Hey, I'm playing Recreation 2. There you go. I'm playing the fuck out of Recreation 2. There you go.

59:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Good for y 'all. That's a never give up story right there. No. That's I have passion. We have something here we believe in. And we want to show. Wow. That's a wild turnaround. Call them up. Get them on the Gamescast. That's a crazy turnaround. Get the conversation going. They put their people on notice in December. and already you have a new studio with a trailer for a new game and you know the platforms and everything well they said they said in that that blog post that i read it's like we had a lot of ideas we had places we wanted to go with this wow i'm impressed mike let's talk about we news now we go back now let's go back we news for you from genkai on twitter zelda ocarina time remake page in hold on let me say this again the legend of zelda ocarina of time remake page in the nintendo summer catalog as a slogan reborn across time fire fire flames you know what marketing team you nailed it reborn across time is great you nailed it great nailed it from nintendo uh mark your calendars is from nintendo on twitter i should say mark your calendars call of duty modern warfare pre-orders for switch 2 start august 26th you can also jump into the modern warfare open beta weekend started august 28th circle that yeah sir we gotta make sure to check call of duty on nintendo again here we go yeah we gotta check in on that yeah we're gonna check in on that open beta on nintendo switch for sure no pre-order required to participate by the way oh no they want everybody they need everybody checking this out yeah for sure um boppe is on the cover of eafc 27 hey nice good for you i he won uh did he win at all the oh the golden no no no that's the big one that's the one for the fifa world cup um golden goal i think so what do they call that one i forget i don't know yeah i thought it was called he was on top the whole time yeah oh yeah right i mean after that third place game where they scored 10 goals overall yeah i'm pretty sure he got it the golden boot yeah the goal thank you um let's see here oh before we move on we gotta get um lamina mall a cover bro oh he'll be around the corner we got He that man.

1:01:22EFC 28. He keeps winning like he's winning. He's going to have a couple covers. I can promise. Yeah, I'm going to buy it for his cover. What do we think about this cover? It's cool. I like it. Really? You like just the plain black background and him? I kind of like a little more color and pop. I like being in the stadium. I like fans screaming around. I kind of I like a little more energy to it.

1:01:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I can see that. This is the ultimate edition. It looks like I wonder if the standard edition is what you're talking about. um game pass wave two for july 26 sorry july 2026 uh on the 22nd you're getting shift at midnight on the 23rd you're getting hell is us on the 28th halo combat evolved on the 30th mistfall hunter on the 31st course air cove and then on august 8th you're getting beasts of reincarnation for premium you're getting heretic plus hexane um they're giving you some games on that hey hey we'll out of all lineup is hype hell is us hell is us that's good uh more we news for you piece of reincarnation yeah that's a good lineup right there darkest dungeon the first game is getting is getting dlc uh the fire's edge launches august 18th and then finally order of the sinking star is coming to ps5 and that is it for we news um mike let me take one look at your wrong gaming be granted says bless sleep is overrated i got games to play i mean you're not gonna be playing games for long you're gonna hit 50 and just collapse because you've not been sleeping you gotta sleep you gotta put the energy in bless you gotta stay gaming it's important you gotta stay gaming mob axie says birthday tax 23 today I want to say it's been almost two years of me watching.

1:03:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Love you guys. You all care like I do about games. Keep doing your thing. Happy birthday, Mob Axie. Thank you so much. Thank you. Marsh Hero says, Bless, having games drafts for specific release years could be sweet. Would love to see categories depending on the year. I think that'd be really fun. Okay. I love doing drafts. We don't do them enough in my opinion. But also, y 'all got to watch them. They are watching our most anticipated games draft. I will say that. That was a good one. That was a fun one. that was a good one i had to dive deep in there sol herrera says second this work 7 to 4 p.m then kids down to bed at 8 p.m then game till midnight or if i'm up early wake up at 4 a.m and game till work 180 hours into hades 2 okay that's a lot of hours in the hades 2 big dog and that's our super chats let's hop into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe with the page is taking a long time to load here oh there it is um sal from gamatsu says bless asked did we know this read the witcher 3's dlc reveal date we knew it would be revealed later this summer but nothing specific beyond that nothing specific beyond that until today nice thank you for that i think we just all assumed gamescom because when you say later this summer yeah we know yeah um or is december summer nobody really knows i mean listen if you're asking me the last the last month of summer is july casey says fool's theory is also developing the witcher 1 remake um oh this is a fun one south from kamatsu says blessed said opening night live is closed down on dying like the beast but that was a mid-showcase announcement in 2024 the final reveals have been black myth zong zong kueh that was last year before that mafia of the old country in 2024 in 2023 island wake 2 got a new trailer in 2022 dead island 2 got a release date that's what i'm thinking about yeah fq is bringing you some games yeah dead island 2 hearts folks in that time actually i guess dead island 2 is an exciting exciting one because we didn't know for the long time but i also think it was re-revealed before that so like that was like the second dead island 2 trailer i think and then 2021 we got death stranding directors cut trailer so it seems like 2024 onward they're trying to end it on a biggish new announcement at the very least there you go um that is it for you're wrong and that is it for this episode of kind of funny games daily but that's not it for me talking because i'm on a games cast after this hosting that uh talking all about me and andy's review of splatoon raider big day today bless huge day Got a games cast review into a kind of funny podcast into a stream.

1:05:47And then what's that? The phone lines are open. Isn't it kind of funny? Happy hour at three 15. I believe it is.

1:05:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Call in, talk with us, get hyped, get excited about that. But that has been it for kind of funny games daily until next time game daily.

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