Xbox Cancels Another First Party Game - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.07.25

38:10Like, nah, let's just call it what it is. And with where we're at now, like, I, this is very concerning because reading the quote here, it's like, all right, cool. Marathon's not canceled. They obviously are giving more information than I expected them to give here.

38:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's kind of wild how much information they're talking about. Like, they're also giving themselves a lot out in case it's not, it's not going to hit where they're saying it is. So, yeah, at the end of the day, Marathon clearly needs work. and they're saying that we're fixing all the problems yes which is what what counts as a problem for them they stole all the art because there's been a lot of bad stories about them right yeah the reception might not have been as poppy as they wanted it to be the art was fucking stolen for a lot of what is driving their core art style of the game right like this is a this is a core title release from bungie and with that that means something there is a weight to that right when we think of bungie you think of halo you think of destiny and not that marathon used to immediately be the the heights of either of those because that's just impossible for a new ip and you're making a extraction ip you're right i mean i get in for all intents and purposes it is but like yeah it's not though this is bungie going back to one of the only things that they have access to to like yeah try to make it a thing because like they they need more than just destiny or do they i mean but then that's i think that's more so the fascinating conversation of and we're going to continue to have this conversation all the time what is the future of a bunchy does marathon come and go are they able to find their footing with it even if they find their footing with it is it a thing of okay but we're still going to support destiny as our main thing because that's still going to be our main money maker like do is there a plan for marathon as far as how we're going to get this game to the heights of life service income like i don't know if that's going to be there's not right like that's the problem is like we look at this and the live service side of it it's like all right cool this was one of the the whole initiative was hinging on bungee and their support of these teams and getting it right and if the leaders aren't getting it right yeah it's fucked to begin with and like yeah here we are now but psn numbers are up psn number numbers are up see the cf this is such a cfo statement too which is kind of wild and like it feels very cold and direct in a way where i'm like damn but yeah them saying the integrate integration is proceeding already is giving sci-fi you're entering a mech sort of situation your brain melding to drive a pacific to pacific rim to mech um but yeah here talking about if this launch is canceled we need to do the revision of the valuation however however as of now this is not expected like that's to your point of they're giving themselves the out of like yo maybe it is canceled but right now we don't think this is gonna happen but it could happen and we'll figure that out but even them being like it doesn't sound confident no it doesn't sound confident at all nor should it be at least someone's being honest story number six digital foundry leaves ign to go independent this comes from ethan gatch at kotaku fuck yeah congratulations to all of y 'all uh gaming tech experts digital foundry have gone indie the youtube channel announced it's parted ways with its new owner and will strike out on its own the group's technical breakdowns of how new games run across different consoles and PC hardware have become the industry standard for many fans and game developers.

41:33What this means is that from now on, all aspects of DF are decided upon by DF. The latest Digital Foundry direct states, we answer to nobody but you, the audience. On the latest episode of the podcast where the news was announced, Leadbetter said, IGN's acquisition followed Digital Foundry's, sorry, IGN's acquisition allowed Digital Foundry the opportunity to buy out roughly 50 % of the company's outstanding shares and take it independent with help from outside investor Rupert Lohman, the original co-founder of Eurogamer. As part of the deal, the back catalog of Eurogamer Digital Foundry Post will also belong to the group.

42:09The Patreon supporter program will now be the primary funding behind the venture. The team, which currently includes Leadbetter, Will Judd, John Lineman, Oliver McKenzie, Tom Morgan, Alex Batalga, and Adi Sorley, said they will be building an entirely new site to host their work on it will be doubling down on retro and pc gaming analysis hell some yes good fucking news really really good news i can't believe the era that we're in right now because here we have digital foundry obviously you hear us talk about them all the time i imagine if you're watching this show you have also watched digital foundry videos at some point they are the industry standard when it comes to tech breakdowns and one-to-one comparisons of how games run on different consoles.

42:52They do excellent work. They have great expert opinions on video games and the industry and specifically the tech side of all of it. So congrats to them every which way for being independent and also for just doing great work throughout the last couple of years. They own their shit now. This is crazy. I have no idea how much this could have cost. It must have been a lot of money to get this from IGN to get the back catalog of stuff like holy crap i can't even fathom what the uh investor here would have had to get to to make to pull this off but we're seeing it happen more and more game informer a similar story right like there's differences but game informer now doing their own thing having their own destiny giant fucking bomb our friends now own giant bomb and the entire catalog of giant bomb content what the fuck world do we live in man yeah that is so crazy and all those stories are different but um i think at the end of the day it's talented groups of people that are very good at what they do different things and i love to see it i do think that what they all have

43:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:in common are people seeing the value like people you seeing the unique value that these outlets have and wanting to invest in that obviously in the giant bomb thing right those are people that literally they are giant bomb and they came up with giant bomb and they've both watched and have been a part of giant bomb from its inception and that is them uh going to fandom and being like yo like how do we make how do we make this work can we buy this from you but they know they know what makes giant bomb work in a way that all of the people that are passing around giant bomb right all those parent companies that just fucking kept passing them on to the next next one just never fucking got it um digital foundry this person that uh invested and like bought the 50 percent right and the people that are part of it they know the value of digital foundry um and game informer the people that bought game informer right like i think you have to understand games media and have an appreciation for games media to be able to then manage a games media site in the right way skill up is another example actually with this weekend video games starting his own thing and when i hear skill up talk about this weekend video games i'm filled with confidence for the outlet because he's talking about it in all the right ways he is connecting that brand to the skill of brand which has a gigantic audience he is hoping that one percent of those people have that transfer of clicking over to the website and maybe even and maybe supporting financially those are the kind of margins that you have to figure out and talk about and be honest with yourself with you cannot go into games media thinking that you're going to make trillions of dollars because you never will but if you go into games media and try to find the right talent and try to find the right audience and go about it the right way and like create something that's going to appeal to a uh a number of people because you're doing something quality you might be doing a specific thing quality like digital foundry does right with the hardware breakdowns um or you might just be creating quality news right or writing quality news in the way that this week in video games does you got to find that thing and nurture it and yeah i feel i feel so good about all these stories that we've been getting as far as these independent outlets buying out or rising up and so absolutely love all of it very very cool stuff i'm still waiting for my first issue of game informer oh it's not coming yet did yours come did you subscribe i didn't subscribe i should subscribe i forgot i've been seeing them i've been seeing them in the wild too but i just i haven't got mine so i need i need to look into that they saw your name on the list and they're like fuck this guy this guy also did you mean to skip story number five yeah i didn't like it oh that's fair no i'm joking story number five sony cfo says its live service shift is not entirely going smoothly it was kind of in the same vein as the marathon conversation but it's all from the same call but they pledged to carry on and learn from mistakes oh thank god this comes from chris scullion at vgc sony's chief financial officer says the company will learn from its live service failures but insist that progress has been made despite them in a q a session following the company's financial results uh this is what we got the cfo replied that despite the negativity surrounding Sony's live service offerings thanks to issues with Concord and Marathon, she still believes live service games are worthwhile because they've added a revenue stream that didn't exist for the company five years ago.

47:04Last year, Concord shut down, and this year, Marathon was postponed, so somewhat negative news has been coming out. Somewhat. Somewhat. But if we look at the past five years, five years ago, live service games were almost non-existent for PlayStation Studios. We now have Helldivers 2, MLB The Show, and Gran Turismo 7, and Bungie's Destiny 2. Wait a minute. Man, yeah, you're right. So we have these four live service games contributing to sales and profits in a stable manner. All right, let's see. Non-existent for PlayStation Studios. We have Helldivers 2. Sure, I'll give them that. Helldivers 1 existed, but I get it.

47:35Two different type of game.

47:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I have a different conversation about Helldivers 2 because I don't believe that was part of their live service push. I think that just fit the box. But we can talk about that later. I don't believe it. But does MLB The Show fit their thing? Or does that just like a cute little thing? Oh, yeah. MLB The Show was a brand new game. Yeah, we'd never heard of MLB The Show. Never heard of it. Yeah, that didn't exist five years ago. The seventh Gran Turismo. but it's the first seventh Gran Turismo Gran Turismo 7 didn't exist the first Gran Turismo 7 the first series it hits 7 good point it's a really good point for Q1 the live service ratio is about 40 % for the full year it's a little less probably between 20 and 30 % so in terms of the transformation it's not entirely going smoothly but from a long trip perspective if you look at the changes over 5 years to see that there's definitely better change this is why i wanted you to read the story because it's so fucking ridiculous what are you saying okay everyone what are we talking about everyone please listen to me it's not working listen to the words that are about to come out of my mouth i'm going to read this direct quote once again for q1 the live service ratio was about 40 for the full year it's a little less probably between 20 and 30 so in terms of the transformation It's not entirely going smoothly But from a longer term perspective If you look at the changes over 5 years You see that?

48:54There's definitely been a change

49:00Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing Of course We recognize there are still many issues So we should learn the lessons from mistakes And make sure that we introduce live service content Where there's less waste And it's more smooth

49:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We should do better and not worse We should keep doing the same thing you ever played far cry 3 yeah you know the villain vos he gave a really great monologue a monologue that i think about often and it's funny because it is like kind of peak video game edgy shit but i still fucking love it where he goes on this rant about the definition of insanity and it's doing and he's not the first to say this right but i like how he says he's like he's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting things to change yep and he says that and it's like a kind of core a core aspect of his character because then he fucking kicks you down a fucking thing he tries to kill you again because he's saying he's insane yeah video games that's what our cfo friend's gonna do yes our cfo friend is essentially saying hey we recognize that we've you know we fumbled this quite a bit we've had some struggles but we're gonna keep doing the same thing and hope that it's good because look at the numbers hey if you look it's been working because we just got, MLB The Show exists and Gran Turismo exists.

50:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And also we bought Bungie and Bungie's doing great for us, apparently. And Concord. Forget the last story. No, not Concord. Forget the last story we read. Bungie, what they're doing is great. And what was the other game? Helldivers 2, which I still don't fucking believe is part of this live service push. I think that just happened to fit the bill. I think that was the thing that was going to be greenlit anyway because y 'all love Helldivers because Shuhei Yoshida has great taste. I think that's how that worked. I don't think any of the choices they made have been good choices. I mean, the moment that we started talking about MLB, the show as a live service game, that's part of this thing.

50:53I'm not arguing that it's not a live service game. I was arguing that if that is, we don't need a fucking live service push for PlayStation. It's just a multiplayer game that like you make some money from. Tim,

51:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I can't stress enough how much, how right you are. But it's also like they sell it as if like, it wasn't live service before you know like it's been that way for so long i can't believe their examples helldivers 2 notwithstanding where mlb the show grand turismo 7 and destiny 2 because because they nurtured destiny 2 from the crib they fucking raised it they turned that from rags to riches it was all playstation it wasn't fucking bungie under activision it was fucking playstation apparently you know what and ignore the things anthro metal are saying in chat like the last of us multiplayer god of war multiplayer horizon multiple ignore those things spider-man multiplayer spider-man multiplayer also the um that like the horizon uh the game that's like ripping off horizon and like that whole story did you guys talk about them yeah yeah that was talked about by some people not me i don't think do we think that that was talk about it do we think that that was possibly the horizon multiplayer league since that was like part of that story because like play because horizon literally like or the gorilla like they're hiring in-house for the most okay yeah okay so that's still coming along with well we'll see that's still planned to be coming

52:21story number seven fuck uh everything announced in nintendo's indie world this comes from michael mcwhirter at polygon uh yeah the indie world happened today and uh we did not react to it so we're going to talk about what happened now you know the hollow or we already knew it was coming october 31st there's a demo though you can play it you probably should uh from developer yacht club games coming to switch and switch to can't wait october 31st let's go fantastic well drill well dweller well dweller play as glimmer a tiny bird armed with a matchstick to slay an evil queen to save his family before they become part of a royal gown in well dweller from Top Hat Games coming to Switch in 2026.

53:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It looks cool. It's like a 2D action platformer situation. I'm probably not going to play it if I'm being honest. Whoa, whoa, hold on. That's a big old Metroidvania map. Just remind you of your friends, okay. What does that do for you, Mr. Metroidvania? You know, this is a... This looks cool. It does that art style puppety thing that I don't like. I feel you. Yeah. Neverway. Quit your job and work for an immortal deity in Neverway. a nightmarish pixel RPG, pixel art RPG with pixel art from the artist behind Celeste and music from the composer of Fez and Hyper Light Drifter coming to switch in 2026.

53:37This is one that is on my steam wishlist.

53:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Uh, I thought that was a titty where go back. No. Oh, the knee. It was like, it's pretty low. What's the anatomy? She has a really long neck. I need you to draw like what you think the, fucking body she's a fucking giraffe anyway this game looks really cool um that's all i can really say about it right like the pixel like the thing mentions right pixel art from the artist behind celeste and composer from um the the composer behind hyper light drifter isn't that a disaster piece i'm gonna say disaster piece looks lit i'm in hurtling coming to switch august 21st i feel like this is one that we played at the xbox it was it's the one where he heard animals oh yeah this one's cool heard animals yeah i said that quick uh i like this one august 21st coming to switch is this seat taken a pleasant puzzle game about seating people where they want to sit it's a puzzle puzzle piece people manager out today on switch and it's a puzzle poppy ass game i'm excited for this one it's out today i man is it made by the scribble knots team not scribble nuts um it is i think it is a team we know i'll look at it eclipse because it kind of has that vibe this is made shapes with faces by potty potty studio i mean on steam this is their first game so i don't think so it is a whole it is published by wholesome games though it's really not the snipper clips team okay little kitty big city let's go it's a picture perfect update a new update for cat game little kitty big city offers new catsomization options new nightmares nightmares new nightmares to explore neighborhoods to explore new friends and new photo mode options the picture perfect updates coming later this year tim you nailed the cozy thing by the way when we were talking about our predictions for this because i thought you're i thought you're putting like too much cozy accusations on the indie world no and as i go through this i'm like no you're right it really is like more cozy stuff which i appreciate like i'm i'm pro cozy games obviously but like what i want i wanted to like surprise us a little bit yeah give me little kitty big city the perfect uh update and then the next game just devolver digital murder simulator i want fucking guns and blood and action give me mad world yeah remember mad world oh of course mix that shit in in there uh content warning let's go coming to switch and switch two in 2026 that's what i'm talking about example right little kitty big city boom here's terror god uh we got ball cross pit an action roguelite game inspired by hold down loop hero and vampire survivors coming to switch october 15th my mom's birthday and switch to sometime this fall i fuck with this i'm curious about it this looks like a game i could get really addicted to it has sort of a brick breaker yeah it also has one of those like you're scrolling on tiktok and see an ad for a mobile game type vibes yeah gameplay wise but this looks like it's there's game there's a game surrounding it to like yeah make it worth it which is cool because like look those ads are on tiktok for a reason people want to play that shit oh yeah you i love brick breaker type things this looks fun i play dude the only video game my dad would ever play growing up was arkanoid on our pc and he was fucking good at it.

57:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He was so fucking good at Arkanoid. Poppy, Poppy. I have sort of the Arkanoid gene in me. You show me a Brick Breaker game? Get me in there, coach. Also, what is all this? Is this still the same game? Yes. Huh. Pretty sick. Ultimate Sheep Raccoon coming to Switch and Switch to Winter 2025. Let's go. Cool. I love that. It's going to take over the company. it's definitely going to cause some fights yeah Glaciered set 65 million years in the future you play an evolved avian creature as you explore an underwater world battling marine beasts to become the overwinter's ultimate protector in Glaciered coming to Switch 2 this holiday interesting yeah you're a bird in the sea I didn't get this one but it looks interesting I don't understand it echo the dolphin it is like a 3D echo the dolphin except you have action elements to it demon school a school life tactics rpg with hints of persona shin megami tenzei an italian horror cinema where movement equals action we just got another trailer for this uh come in september 3rd 2025 this is one that barrett um predicted on the episode one that looks really cool dope art style um when we say it's persona like it is like like the first couple of personas in terms of um the perspective and style of it but then it has like this tactical um based combat uh that looks fun it's very pax coded is what you said very i said it was very pax pax coded and fucking nailed it it's here except it wasn't in the like western direct this was a japanese this was the one that was the extra five minutes this was the extra five minutes of the japan direct all right so interesting why but hey it's got a date i'm excited that is I don't like that Additionally there's a Nintendo Switch version Of UFO 50 out today and additional Updates from Nintendo Cozy management game Tiny Bookshop is out on Nintendo Switch now Strange horror culture sequel Strange Antiquities Brings its brand of caretaking For a cult antiquity store To Switch on September 17th Opus Prism Peaks coming this fall Go Go Town tasked with becoming the mayor Of a run down tourist town Out on Switch Spring 2026 2d turn-based roguelike caves of could it's qud comes to switch this winter and then undusted letters from the past a cozy cleaning game with a touching story coming to switch in october winter burrow is a woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore the childhood burrow about this holiday i love how many games are starring mice mice man my sir you're the mice you're the mice um cool that that's that an indie world that uh came and went yeah i mean i think this along the lines of what you use to get for indie world looking back we were foolish talk about hades 2 we want silk i stand by we weren't foolish but i also stand by like nintendo this is not not the best looks for the first kind of showcases for the switch too but i get where we're at i'm just disappointed yeah fair enough story number eight metroid prime 4 elden ring and silk song are all playable at nintendo's gamescom booth this comes from ollie reynolds at NintendoLife.

1:00:17Nintendo will be making an appearance at this year's Gamescom, and it looks like the company's full lineup of games has been revealed. Included in selection are some pretty interesting ones. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, Pokemon Legends Zah, Elden Ring, Tarnished Edition, Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrate, Hollow Knight Silksong, and Hades 2. While definitively, while not definitively confirmed, we can reasonably assume that these will all be playable on the Switch 2. People are going to be able to play Mario Kart World? Hell yeah, man. Cyberpunk? That's crazy. Hell yeah, dude.

1:00:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And Silksong and Hades 2. What the fuck are we doing? What are we doing, dude? Fuck you in the showcase. Elden Ring and Final Fantasy. Where were you in the partner showcase? Those games are playable. What's that tell you? They're coming this year? Probably? Eh. You don't think so? I don't know, man. It's August, man. That's what I'm saying. I mean, it's already August. We're talking about ports. Yeah. If Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Elden Ring aren't out this year, what the fuck are we doing? i'm more how are you not going to hit for the holiday season you have to and they're playable yeah them being playable is kind of yeah i would expect all this stuff out by end of year i'm with you i'm just still shocked at silk song and hades 2 being playable i mean and was playable at the uh new york event oh yeah oh yeah i guess so we just didn't play it because because we had it on pc and with silksong it's like now we're expecting it even sooner right right plus what do you mean sooner with the next story you know oh sooner yes yes story number eight or nine story number nine according to bill blue coon the rog xbox ally releases on october 16th you got it until what's that sooner then well sooner than the October 6th Silksong's launching on this thing right when it launches Silksong will be playable question mark you're picking up what we're putting down I am but I mean October doesn't seem sooner than August oh this is like sooner than like December sooner than the end of the year is what we're saying yeah oh October sounds right to me this adds up to me October 16th for Silksong or for two months two months from now man yeah they're gonna announce it at any point gamescom

1:02:40listen i abstain i abstain from from predicting gamescom hater but hey if this is the year that they fucking go all out for it i will never i loved working gamescom most boring show every

1:02:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:fucking year and don't y 'all don't y 'all ever um quote me on this i will never predict another silksong thing ever again in my life you're going to every single time i'm never going to fucking i'm done you'd be silly not to i'm done we are closer than ever fucking reveal when you want to give me the release date whatever the fuck you want to i'm done predicting silksong shit they're gonna here we go bill bill coon xbox ally october 16th i love that we're talking about the silksong we're not even talking about this because who cares about it it's gonna be expensive craig miller does i'm very excited for this thing october 16th there's everything about this like adds up to me i believe bibble coon great track record october 16th yeah why not before black friday before the holiday stuff like i believe it that's the right place to put this out anything else to add there no cool that wasn't big enough news for you that's okay if i wanted small news where would i look you go to our last news story the we news channel where you cover all the small news items you need to know about.

1:03:57Jeff Keighley confirmed that the composer and singer from Claire Obscure Expedition 33 is going to perform an acoustic set live at Gamescom opening night live. Fuck yeah. Very excited for this. It's going to hit.

1:04:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're not holding it for Game Awards? Well, this is just an acoustic set. So I'm hoping Game Awards, and Game Awards, it'll be in the... The orchestra. Oh, orchestra. The Game of the Year medley. Yeah. That's like a guarantee for Game of the Year nomination, right? Absolutely. 100%. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're going to get some explanation music, which is great. What do we do? But which bonanza form music are we getting? That's the big question. Oh, man. Oh, none of them. You don't think so? No, it'll just be like the main kind of first theme that we hear. Like the first level? Because that's what I'm thinking.

1:04:40Yeah.

1:04:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because it is a good song. Like that first level music is pretty good. Because God of War Ragnarok, they just used the 2018 theme again instead of like the better, more interesting theme. Nah, they're going to do the... What do we become? If Expedition 33 isn't nominated at the Game Awards. There's not a chance in hell. But like, what do we do if it's not? I will. Like, what kind of people do we turn? I think we just start becoming election deniers. Just full front. Like, what building do we store? No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Jokes. Yeah. There's just not a chance in hell. There's not a chance in hell.

1:05:16I don't know. We have Strong Fall. Silksong, Hades 2. But we just know how numbers work. We know the way people talk about Expedition in the voting space for Game Awards.

1:05:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, but they've also been talking a big thing about Donkey Kong with Nianza. That'll be there, too. Ghost of Yote. You don't think Ghost of Yote's going to be in there? I do. Okay, cool. But we don't know yet. But we know about the other two. That's fair. We only got five or six slots in this thing. That's all I'm saying. You're saying a lot. Metal Eden launches September 2nd on our Xbox, PS5, and PC. lego party is coming september 30th literally everywhere and that's it for we news wow that's raining too it's a strong year it is it is let's see what super chats we got rails says birthday tax i'm 30 years old today thank you for all the laughs and good times you guys are a consistent relief from the chaos happening in the world thank you for all you do happy birthday happy birthday happy 30 30 30 love that dirty 30 ghostly con says tim the og turtles from the tmnt live action movie are going to be at my comic con this year in september i'm going to get their autographs for sure that's freaking awesome that's really cool they're bringing that movie back for the 30th anniversary in uh next week um into theaters me and my brother are going to go oh that's awesome very excited let me know if they ever bring back the second one because that's the one with the ninja rap right oh yeah yeah i have that on vhs what a time chef's kiss uh ty wilkin says you cancel od you're screwed you'll never get kojima back also first thing they showed was fake gameplay perfect dark never existed sorry to say you gotta read some articles my friend i don't know about that man barrett what do you have to say well that like there were reports no of like that vertical slice that they showed was like just made for that or something like that but isn't that yeah vertical slice but i mean that's how yeah that's how game slices work yeah it was a game it was it just had to be played a certain way but it was playable um bander ascend says watch k-pop demon hunters last night i need tango or shift up to make a game with sony about it i'd be sick tango i'd be in for that oh tango type shit let's go that'd be really cool jb beneficio says when's kind of anime the end of dan season two's peak right now bear was telling me about it on the way out yesterday yeah done it on uh season two fucking kicking ass uh so far we're looking to do an episode I think sometime in late September we want to see the Demon Slayer movie that's coming out next month first before we record another kind of anime but soonish sick Robbie Palmer says are y 'all going to do a spoiler talk about DK Bonanza asking you shall receive tomorrow this show Gamescast it'll be this crew me, Barrett, bless spoiling the living fuck out of donkey kong bonanza oh yeah my official review finally yeah barrett will give his review and uh we're gonna watch a couple reactions from bless and barrett to some key moments of the game um so yeah if you have any questions or thoughts on dk bonanza please tweet them at me um or super chat them tomorrow and uh we'll get through them but i'm very excited to talk all about donkey kong unrestricted raw raw raw raw con uh she had some low titties you know uh shambo baggan says thoughts on insomnia posting uh sunset overdrive on their instagram a few days ago i didn't see that on their instagram i feel like this happens all the time where they always post that game i really nothing i really really want um sunset overdrive to come to ps5 like little tiny upgrades here and there trophies because i just love getting platinums in somiac games oh i feel like that that to me would be like the enticing thing of like all right it's time sunset overdrive i feel that so i mean i'm looking up i'm gonna see because this is just a screenshot or is it a screenshot that's like whoa what if we release this shit right now dare us somebody dare us we're gonna release it uh goldfish boy says they posted spyro to like the day before okay get the get out of here there's getting nostalgic yeah uh gold boy goldfish boy says got my waterfield city slicker switch to case hype dude what a nice case beautiful very expensive but very very very high quality product there you were gonna love it for years to come i can guarantee that uh jamal hayes says birthday tax all we all do been watching from the start love the fair and legal or let the fair and legal trade happen you know it's too late they found they found a way to make it happen anyway which again is like why didn't they just do it that way in the fucking first place because they didn't actually have a plan they had no things happened and then they retroactively like put a string through them yeah if you follow the story that roger gave us there really isn't a plot yeah it's like the burn after reading at the end of that movie where you know they the kind of two people who are trying to put it all together come together and they're like yeah none of this made sense yeah like credits yeah it's gonna make less sense when we get the actual scores of these games games by the end of the year.

1:10:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. We're going to look at it and be like, you all did this for nothing. Also, I want to clarify because people took my doubting of the remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics as just hating Final Fantasy Tactics. That was hilarious, by the way. That's a fucking amazing game. I just have, I think people are going to be, people who love Tactics and are going to review this remaster are going to be disappointed by what this remaster does as a preservation to the legacy of that game is all I was saying. fuck and i think ninja guy in four i think it's gonna score better than it's gonna score better than what roger thinks yeah napoleon blown apart says richard ledbetter couldn't get into specifics but said that the remaining shares cost more than his house support independent independent games media that's what i'm talking about that adds up to me like absolutely it must have been millions of dollars crazy hope he gets that bag crazy man um yeah the idea of getting millions of dollars back is terrifying yeah good luck to y 'all good fucking investments man uh uncle death says just an fyi the roosterteeth website's back up and you can log back in if you had an account before and you can watch all the old content excellent stuff i know bernie's been working on on that and trying to get the old school boards back to how it used to be in the early 2000s which is super cool uh blue knight jedi says tim and bless if you want the ultimate auto battler jrpg and tactics game play unicorn overlord uh check out the open critic i bought it last week based off y 'all's reaction to a nintendo direct it's incredible hell yeah didn't you play this i i tried it yeah i tried it too i liked uh 13 sentinels uh that came out like quite a few years ago and like i think just the setting and style of game that was versus what unicorn overlord is works better for me but like i heard i've heard a lot of great things about unicorn overlord like if you're a listener watcher and those things that they just mentioned in that chat sound good to you you should definitely check it out omega buster says square didn't want to mix the marketing message focus on philabildia philabildia i still don't understand so philabildia is the kingdom or what the location that they're in the land just call it philadelphia because you're gonna get to the end of the game it's gonna be revealed to be philadelphia and we're all gonna be like whoa that's crazy oscar Oscar Navarro says Tim and Greg should have a Pokemon battle to determine who reviews Zah.

1:12:45I don't know if you saw it. Greg's on vacation right now. He beat Pokemon Violet. And he's been posting screenshots of him playing Pokemon Arceus. And I'm like, damn. Wow. He is. No way. Greg's going all in. Going all in.

1:12:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He's a different man. He is a different man. You know, out here, just loving Xbox, playing Pokemons. That's not the Beyond host I used to listen to. Yeah, dude. A different man. Traitor. child has changed everything about him change it all man still stinky though um

1:13:19looking at you're wrong you know we get a lot wrong there's a lot of words i look at this i'm like do i want to read it do i want to be called out for my flaws portland kevin says the

1:13:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:classic italian rice ball dish arancini is typically pronounced arancini oh wait what'd you say i don't know because i would have said arancini so would i but did i he definitely did it i don't know man i feel like this seems kind of like people are picking on me um i mean listen that's additional information steven steven totillo has an article on the contraband cancellation oh these are big quotes in a statement on the website avalanx stated that the active development has now stopped while we evaluate the project's future the studio has also noted that we're thankful for the excitement we've seen from community since we've announced and we'll give an update on what's next as soon as we can.

1:14:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Contraband's official trailer had been set to private on Xbox's YouTube channel several weeks ago, stoking rumors that the game was in jeopardy. Less widely reported were cuts in Xbox's publishing division, a group that worked with outside development studios to supplement Microsoft's internally developed games with projects made by partners. Such games have included Nights as Dusk... Nights as Dusk Falls. Isn't it called As Dusk Falls? Oh, I see. Interior Nights as Dusk Falls. uh don't nods tell me why uh two game file sources said that the team has been significantly impacted with multiple producers cut and its longtime leader peter wise also exiting the company microsoft still has plans to publish games with kojima productions um and uh platinum ninja gun 4 and a sobo for flight simulator according to a source familiar with the matter this is what i'll say is that all that lines up with things that i've heard as far as people who have worked with xbox's publishing division and are just like yeah no like shit's on fire over there like we had a game and now we had a game that was supposed to be published by them and now it's not like that seemed that yeah all of that seems true from steven totello's article uh which comes back to the thing of like if you're i i just don't understand what the fucking strategy is now with xbox's like i guess third-party stuff it comes back to what you said i guess we're just canceling all of it i still find it tough to think that they would cancel od just because i don't think you piss off your entire audience and piss off kojima at the same time i think it's just xbox wouldn't want to like wouldn't be okay with pissing off their entire audience i mean you make a good point i think it's something you don't want to do they don't want to and i don't i mean obviously it's not the goal i'm just saying that not only is it not impossible i think that it is something that we should prepare for and be surprised if the game comes out and is good surprised surprised that's where i'm at fair enough uh and then nitro says 1943 the rise of hydra got delayed to 2026 thank you i think that game is coming out i think is it good we'll see but i believe in it i'm happy that you do because i want it to be good i want it to be real gotta come out 2026 an amy headdick game whenever whenever companies come out whenever companies announce a year that means it's coming out think about it what was that quantum dream star wars game eclipse is that ever gonna get a year see not coming out that's the old republic remake i would really hope i really don't want that game to come out ah you know was that supposed to come out 2023 or some shit maybe well everyone this has been games daily i know it's been an episode it's been an episode 10 new stories you got through it all What the fuck I'm getting invited to birthday parties I already went to a birthday party for this person You don't get to do another fucking party Show some respect Maybe they have two birthdays Tim Birth month Think about it You're right Maybe it was like this is a public friend Everybody's invited thing but now here's the thing for the close friends I was thinking that they got birthed two different times somehow Oh my god They climbed back in?

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