Xbox is Testing Ad-Supported Game Streaming - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.23.26

28:51And then, yeah, what is, what has been triggered in tripped? And like, you should have had this ironed out so easily. Like cert, all these games go through cert. Yeah. And when you get rejected, they tell you why, and you have to read, you know, read, did it make it through cert? And then they found some debilitating, horrible thing.

29:14Chris Kerr:I don't know. My, my question also is,

29:16Blessing Adeoye Jr.:was the chat, i'm trying to look it up as we're talking was the switch version also coming out today or was that something that's coming out later like are we telling switch users in real time got you that they're not getting the deluxe or what's the what's the deal with that um let me know but yeah like i wonder what feature it must be like a game breaking bug that might have been found during review or something but that's specific to xbox maybe it's a series s thing i'm looking over here yeah maybe yeah but even then right we would have known yeah that's crazy the switch one version is out today no word on switch two okay blanket fort says maybe jeff jarrett was in part tarja the xbox version is this one of these activision games is activision publishing no no no i think they're just making a joke okay this is paramount games okay in this oh they're good feather in their cap they just made a whole bunch of announcements and changes yeah so yeah that's such a weird story i hope long term they're able to find success with the game of course you know like this is again, going back to GDC, when I was talking to one of the dudes on the team, everything they were talking about sounded so inspiring to me.

30:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Hey, we're a small team. We're able to partner. We're founded under Paramount Games. I don't think they said that at the time because Paramount Games was announced later. But they're saying all these things about their size and their studio ethos, and they reminded me a lot of Team Asobi as far as being a small, efficient team that knows what they're doing and can put out games at a pretty decent pace. And so I was looking forward to all right avatar legends this year in two to three years what's your next game right can you continue to evolve and get and get better and better at this real quick i said i i said activision i'm in acclaim thank you for that and then blanket forward says yeah i was making a joke when jeff jarrett's game was delayed the day before release that was that wrestle rpg remember which if you remember yeah that happened we we had to be here with the devs we were doing their launch celebration stream jeff jarrett was here it's when he hit me with the guitar and in the other room the devs were coming to deal with like we're gonna have to delay this game oh my god they were on the phone call with all the people i forget what their problem was why it had to get pushed or whatever but they're like fuck we have to delay our game even though we're here at the launch stream it was crazy i felt so bad for them um let's bring in some super chats for you claw

31:26Chris Kerr:master writes and says all the avatar players seeing all this cursed stuff happened to them me as a longtime skull girls player and supporter first time i don't know much about skull girls and So I can't relate to you on that. Well, that's where the guy comes from. Mike Z. Oh. I haven't pulled up what we're referencing. This is PC Gamer. Wes Fenlon published July 14th, 2026. Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release. In 2023, I reported the development team of the then upcoming game Diesel Legacy included Mike Zaymont, previously developer on Skullgirls and Indivisible who had been accused of sexual misconduct at Lab Zero, the indie studio behind those games.

32:08And then obviously the article goes on, but that's the Skullgirls time. Thank you.

32:12Chris Kerr:Sasquatch Oni says, when I was using OnLive and Gaikai back in the day, I would just explain it as watching Netflix on your laptop, but it's streaming the game instead. I don't have a problem explaining it. I have the problem explaining the steps on how you get to all of this. Because what I'm talking about specifically is that old story I tell all the time of kids were playing Fortnite on their Switch, and they were lamenting they didn't have internet and the mom was like, I'm not going to pay for the internet in the hotel. And I had my phone and I was like, oh, let's be friends. And I opened up Game Pass or Xbox xCloud and used my Game Pass then to log into Fortnite because that was the only way to play Fortnite for a while, remember?

32:48And friend them there. And then they were like, how are you doing this? And I was like, I guess you got to go sign up for Game Pass, but even that's not... I wasn't sending you to xboxcloud.com that would explain everything. And it was like the 13 steps to explain to the seven-year-old how to do this i guess arguably for this one though like

33:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:again this is this gets weird because i'm assuming everybody has a smart tv or a samsung tv so like i think you're absolutely right actually about that i guess for me in the world where they're able to get an xbox app on every tv then i think it gets easier in that regard because it is like oh you don't have to pay for depending on the game you're playing you don't have to pay for game pass right it's like you lock you open your tv download the xbox app and then boot up fortnight and watch an ad and then you're in there yeah but yeah even that again if we're trying to attract new players right i do all that and then oh do i need a controller oh i'm using i'm using a controller app on my phone this sucks and i turn it off and i'm not gonna go buy a 70 dollar controller whatever it's gonna be that's a good point street shadow says i don't like saying it

33:46Chris Kerr:something is doa but this plus toa con coming right around the corner uh beta this week is

33:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:likely the nail in the coffin that's where i'm at i think with the mike zaymon stuff that speaks that speaks to the fighting game audience yeah right like which gives it a black eye there yeah and that for me the fighting audience is what this game needed to rely on in order to push you know i mean like this isn't something that was going to break out to the mainstream maybe the avatar audience right but even that is like not enough not mainstream um so when you're releasing next to marvel token which does have that's a first party playstation game with the marvel license that's essentially the next marvel versus capcom essentially oh yeah that's tough

34:23Chris Kerr:You need the fighting game audiences to prop that up, and the Mike Z stuff really deflates that. Chocolate Fox says, birthday tax turned 35 today. Keep up the awesome work. Happy birthday. GoGoMonsterTruck says, can't wait for Dicko versus Capcom. You know this reference?

34:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Dicko was the DC fighting game announced yesterday. Oh, okay. DCKO. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you look at it, it just looks like Dicko. Okay. Yeah. Then Capcom is the publisher to make Resident Evil. I don't know about that one. I don't know about that one. Sicko drives me sicko. I like that one. That's good. That's good.

34:57Chris Kerr:Let's workshop it. Aaron Lime says, can't wait for kids to see targeted ice ads while playing shooters. Sarcasm. Yeah, I mean, that is where we get weird. Of like, what kind of ads are playing on this thing. It will be interesting who has ads, yes. Dark Crow 210 says, belated birthday tax for yesterday. Love the jacket blast. Oh, thank you so much. I've had this jacket forever. I actually don't love this jacket, but I love it a little bit more because of your compliment. And then a couple more. Ed Reed fan 20 says 40th birthday tax. Happy birthday. Ed Reed fan. Happy birthday. They also did a separate super chat saying Ghostbusters cross men in black would be fun.

35:31Yeah, sure. Yeah, I thought that I don't like I like both those things. It's just aliens and ghosts. Not the exact same. You know what I mean? Well, I'll go conjuring cross Ghostbusters. That'd be a lot of fun.

35:41Chris Kerr:Okay. Yeah, we lean more into the horror. Yeah. And then Rashida. Oh, I'm going to get this. Rashida Abdul Rahim says just when you think Xbox is slightly. going to come up, they slip on a banana with BS like this. I mean, this isn't in the fucking dump truck full of banana peels Xbox has and has stepped on. This isn't even a blip on the radar. But that's the thing where it's just like, what are we doing? Why are we talking about this thing? Yeah. This ain't going to happen, Asha. We're going to move on to story number three, but before we do, I want to tell you about Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny and YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games where you can

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37:28We'll have some fun surprises for the members of the month, so join us over on Patreon.com slash Kinda Funny. What do you know about Pompeii out of time with Tom Hiddleston? Loki. I know he was Loki. Yeah, I opened up Hulu this morning, or Disney Plus one of the two, to show Ben a cartoon. Yeah. And I saw this cover art. And I was like, oh, a show where he's transported back to Pompeii from modern times. And then he's got this Reddit ad, and it's a National Geographic show. I'm like, oh, no. It's just a documentary kind of thing about Pompeii, which I'm not against. But when I thought it was about him being in Pompeii, I was like, I like that.

38:12Instead, it looks like it's just him talking about it. Talking about it.

38:14Chris Kerr:Did you watch the Loki show? Yeah, I did. I mean there's the whole scene where I mean that's why I was like oh that'd be fun Pompeii out of time but I want to see the whole show weird way to tie that in oh I guess Disney Plus okay maybe that doesn't make sense maybe he's always been big I want to tell you the story of Pompeii he says not the one you think you know listen I love some of them Tom Hiddleston movies I do too what does he know about Pompeii what does he know about Pompeii it's not streaming everybody I'll check it out and get back to you story number three Saudi Arabia's divisive EA buyout has been approved under EA or sorry under EU merger rules this is Chris Kerr at Game Developer a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has received approval from the European Commission to acquire Battlefield and EA Sports FC maker Electronic Arts in a take in a take private deal worth 55 billion dollars the commission approved the move under its EA merger regulation rules after concluding the deal will not raise competition and concerns because of a perceived limited impact on competition in the markets where the companies are active the european commission has approved this is a quote uh quote the european commission has approved under the eu merger regulation the acquisition of sole control of ea of the us by the public investment fund of saudi arabia the transaction relates primarily to the production and distribution of video games for mobile devices pcs and consoles as well as the organization and commercialization of video game competitions commonly referred to as electronic sports events reads an update on the side of the side from greg reads an update on the european commission website

39:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you ever read like it's just such a businessy statement and you black out yeah what did i even

39:58Chris Kerr:say i'm like i'm gonna turn into a robot real quick just read words um the quote the commission concluded that the notified transaction would not raise competition concerns given its limited impact on competition in the markets where the companies are active. The notified transaction was examined under the normal merger review procedure, end quote. The European Commission works to scrutinize proposed mergers irrespective of where a company is located if it feels those companies involved could impact markets within the European Union. In an explainer on its website, the organization said it strives to examine whether proposed mergers could harm competition in the region.

40:33Chris Kerr:Quote, if it is considered that a merger will not harm competition, is approved unconditionally conversely if a merger would harm competition suitable commitments will be proposed by the merging firms to remove the harm it's a weird way of saying it remove the harm in the absence of such commitments problematic mergers must be prohibited to protect businesses and consumers the commission states i don't really have an opinion on this one aside from this continues to suck ass yeah but it doesn't suck ass because of this it just sucks ass of

41:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yeah saudi arabia buying more stuff yeah specifically ea right such a big publisher yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah you know yeah it sucks i i you know i have not expected the eu or the u.s to step in and stop this definitely that's the thing is yeah that's a prize virus news but definitely not the u.s but even the eu you know they got us they got rid of the lightning port for me so i don't think the u.s is going to stop kuchner jared kuchner jared kuchner you don't I don't think they're going to stop that. Or, you know, the people who just give them planes or whatever. People give them planes? In Saudi Arabia, isn't they?

41:41Oh, did Saudi Arabia give them a plane? Kevin, am I wrong on that? It's the least surprising thing you can tell me. Yeah.

41:46Chris Kerr:Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, remember he was all talking about it. It's just the worst. We live in the worst. Continue to keep an eye on it. X Games are happening in skate right now, though. The X Games are happening in skate? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How often, like, do they email you directly?

41:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, yeah. Is it a PR blast or is it a guy named Tom that's just friends with you that's like, hey, I got good news for you? No, no. Text you all the skate updates. No, no, it's PR. It's PR. And then I was like, do you want to interview? I'm like, no, I'm sorry. Yeah. Nobody's going to want to hear me talk about skate with him. I was wondering what the skate connection was. I forget that was EA. I thought you just wanted to talk about skate. Yeah, good for you. Thank you. Yeah. Mbappe's on the AFC cover. Oh, that's cool for you. Yeah, cool. Wemby's on NBA for Andy. Yeah. And what's funny is On the show yesterday I was like I wonder how they're gonna Fit him on the cover I didn't realize that They actually Yeah right I didn't actually realize They actually did Reveal the covers Yeah And he looks great On that cover Yeah Like looking down At everybody Or I guess we were Looking up at him Like trying to get at him He's got up on a tough face I love a good tough face Yeah This man has an aura He does?

42:47Well Wembe has an aura Most tall people do I mean he would make you Look tiny though I know he would I know he would Story number four So does Scoville Yeah You know what I mean? When me and Max are next to yourself, I'm like, Jesus Christ, you're tall. They call him the Wemby of games journalists. They call him the Wemby of games journalists.

43:03Chris Kerr:Number four, an update on Thick as Thieves. Boo! I'm reading from a Steam blog post titled, The Future of Thick as Thieves. My fellow thieves, there is none. I'm here today to talk about the future. I've heard your questions and want to answer them to hopefully put your concerns to rest.

43:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i'm gonna pause there and explain things thieves is a game that me and greg really liked greg really loved playing think it's the evening you played it on a stream a month or so ago had a great time and the game seemed really cool because it was five dollars and it seemed like it was one of those ones i was gonna give maybe updates over time that was their plan yeah they launched with whatever i think two areas don't quote me and nine kind of missions and whatever and there's a lot under the hood there and there was the promise of more and then the layoffs cool co-op stealth focused game had immersive sim vibes but you and a homie are sneaking into a place stealing things doing objectives could play it alone you know come back and use all your stuff together it was really fun so that's why this is a story here because me and greg really like thickest these also yeah it sucks this is war inspector's studio right so the layoffs already have been reported here and then to see it start to domino out so to continue the post working in

44:09Chris Kerr:the gaming industry is at times delightful and at time at other times heartbreaking as many of you know other side entertainment has lost most of its beloved members and only a very small team remains. This means there will be no further content updates for Thick as Thieves. To be frank, this is not the outcome that any of us want, but we're facing the reality that ongoing development of extra content, modes, and systems is not a viable path. Having said that, there is positive news also. In partnership with our publisher, Megabit, we're working to secure the future of Thick as Thieves for our players.

44:39Chris Kerr:This means that a small team of dedicated people are hard at work to ensure that the game continues to function in the future. This mainly involves putting together a new version of the game that uses peer-to-peer servers for co-op play. The gameplay and flow of your experience will remain virtually identical, but will not need the use of dedicated servers in the cloud. This will allow you to continue playing with your friends when you desire, and importantly, solo play will be completely unaffected. Once this work is complete, Megabit will take over the care of the game and respond to bugs and other issues as needed.

45:10Chris Kerr:We know that this news is bittersweet, but our community or sorry our number one priority is ensure continued operations of the game that we all love rest assured fellow thieves we are going to keep the game alive for you and all of us until next time tread softly steal what you can give nothing back jeff and the ose team heartbreaker

45:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:heartbreaker but the way that they're handling it is so graceful and like generous the fact that they're keeping this game alive doing the peer-to-peer service thing yeah we oftentimes see games shut down and this is just all right you just can't play this game anymore yeah it's disappeared yeah the fact that they're keeping this game alive i think is cool for the people that would like to play it in the long term and just for video game preservation overall yeah of course yeah you gotta applaud them for that and of course you have to lament you know the industry and decisions that have led to this right where i what i'm i'm uh july 3rd 2026 think of these devs other side entertainment impacted by further layoffs of this entertainment impacted another round of layoffs impacting 18 devs the boston-based developer told them yada yada this is you know in lieu of the ones that are already last month 17 employees were laid off when it canceled the development project named argos like it's just that and i think that was the whole thing with this one where thick thieves of like let's get it out just get it out and get some kind of revenue coming through the front door right and hopefully have this be one of those five dollar games you can get your friend to buy you can buy you can buy multiple copies for your friends like mike does or whatever and have them off to the races yeah and so even getting what we got it was like this is really cool i hope they're able to find success with it and then the layoffs started coming i'm never getting more of it so it sucks to see it but it is nice to see that megabit stepping in to you know going if we're doing like a rose no not rose that's not their face if we're looking back if we're doing a retrospective real quick on thinkest thieves what do you think this game could have done to pop what do you think it could have done to find that audience oh man what What a great question, Bless.

47:05Honestly, I think it just needed this. Well, I don't know. Because it's like, where do you want to start Monday morning quarterbacking it? Where? Because it was in what showcase? Was it in a Jeff one? Was it Summer Game Fest this year even? Where they were like, they gave a release date maybe? I forget, but we definitely saw it somewhere.

47:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It seems to me like. I mean, this game came out before the Summer Game Fest, didn't it? Wasn't this like May or something? I'll double check. I don't remember anymore. how do you stand out and how do you make a game success and blah blah blah like honestly it seems to me like the Argos part of it was a problem what May 20th when this game came out come on we saw something then maybe a state of no I wouldn't make sense doesn't matter I feel like you're talking about a studio that as we always talk about in these situations maybe it was too big the fact that you have this going and you have Argos going and then also chat remind me or you can Google it while I continue to just talk think of thieves went through a thing right where it was going to be a bigger game or it was going to be a different oh here we go and it was going to be it was going to be pv pve and then everyone's

48:12Chris Scullion:like we hate that yeah remember i went to go see the preview event before any of this ever happened and it was a three team three person game that was going to be a pv pve heist game and so yeah they were like oh this doesn't sound like it's going to make the cut here let's switch it to a

48:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:co-op just single player experience i might you want to stay for a second because i have a very weird take on this one and it's i'm this is a hot take that you guys are gonna hate but like i'm i almost look at this and i'm like would this have done better if it was just straight up friend slop like is it well i mean stopping like this is back to what i was driving at mike's point and then this other thing it would have done better if it was a smaller studio focus just on making the game we played yeah if you would have launched if you would have been like we are making this single player or dual player game where you're running through and heisting and it's going to be thief but you're playing with the other friends and it's like I feel like that would have had better juice and better sticking and staying power then here's what we're introducing it as we don't like that oh fuck we're changing it well you've already burned me by saying the thing I

49:13Chris Scullion:didn't like in the front yeah it felt like a pivot at like 90 % right of like hey we're ready this is what we want to do okay hold up we don't think this is going to survive because yeah we're not making a friend slop game we were making a higher budget game than that and it seems like oh this isn't the feedback and also seeing the market was dictating hey this probably isn't going to survive that far and when they took the last minute pivot i think that was like the calling card like hey we might not make this yeah no there's a hail mary at that point which you want the best for but i think it's so hard to believe it's back to my argument all the time with multiple xbox decisions but definitely the xbox one launch of like or announcement of halo halo halo tv tv tv we hate that oh fuck we'll change well we don't believe in your vision you don't have a vision we don't believe in you the

49:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:reason why i bring up the friend slop thing is you know going back to when we played this game on stream we're talking about a for us a two-player co-op thing we're going in we're stealthing through and it's five dollars yeah even as we were playing it immediately or not immediately but like it kind of settled in for me where i was like i don't know if this is going to make it this game is this game is so specific and so i think to our tastes of i love a dishonored I love a Deus Ex I love an immersive sim I like a lot of the design decisions here but this it's dark you know what I mean it's it has such a not off-putting like aesthetic to it but there's something about it where I don't I don't think people will see that on the Steam store that doesn't look like Peak it doesn't look like Peak it doesn't look like a oh that's fun with friends that like I'm gonna have a blast play this with friends on stream mic and all this shit right like I think there's a a level of saturation with co-op games with friends that is out there to where when you are friend quality and you're complete competing with the amount of friend slop that's out there that looks more colorful that looks more inviting i don't know man i think that's such a tough place to be in and i did not see this game blowing up past that sure yeah yeah i mean i think like you and greg said right

51:09Chris Scullion:that price tag was like an exciting idea of like hey here's a team who's pivoting but like we want to make it customer friendly of it's five dollars come in and give this a try we're going to give you a very small slice because clearly we're reworking the entire game of what we thought and we want you to get in and get involved but like as you guys know right when you jumped in there was an excitement there was a fun but the question would be how fast is that rollout going to be right we've talked about this with so many games of how do you keep feeding the beast and plus i totally agree with you right if this is a three-man operation and we come in with a smaller friend slap-esque title maybe this does a little bit differently but yeah i think this was shooting for a grander star than that all right thank you thank you for hanging out mike let's

51:54Chris Kerr:move on to story number five amazon's prime video app is getting luna game streaming making it easier to find this is actually also this is how tall i am next to max man how tall is max i'm kruish man i'm 6 '3 so what he's got to be 6 '6 6 '7 in the wrong game business but i mean in the nba

52:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:damn um this story is actually really interesting coming off of us talking about how easy or non-easy

52:18Chris Kerr:to explain xbox game streaming so let's jump into it this is chris scolian at video games chronicle amazon has announced that its luna game streaming service is now being integrated into the prime video app starting today the update is being rolled out to prime video on fire tv devices in the uk with plans to add it to other devices in countries in the coming months what's up we're putting it it's it's coming to amazon prime on this thing on this device only in this country the new integration means that amazon prime members can find games in the same prime video app they use to watch movies tv and sports instead of having to download a separate luna app the update adds a new you like that brilliant the update adds a new games tab to the app and when players choose a game it starts streaming allowing them to play it with a controller or their phone jeff goddess the gm of gaming at amazon said the decision to add luna to the prime video app should make it easier for Prime subscribers to find the game streaming service, which they may not even realize they have access to via their subscription.

53:17Chris Kerr:Quote, for a lot of people, games have been harder to find than they should be, he said in a statement. Bringing Luna inside Prime Video allows Prime members to discover games more naturally, and if they see one they like, they click it and they're in. That's less time searching and more time playing great games included with their Prime membership, such as Judge Snoop Dogg. Yes. He didn't say the last part. You added that in there. now Judge Schwarzenegger as well right yeah AI I think for some bullshit yeah that was him right there that was him right there I've seen him a few times the trailers have been running you like this yeah I mean like will I ever use this absolutely not but it's like yes get it out in front of people this is what I mean since every time we lament Netflix and Netflix games right it's the idea that so many people pay for Netflix and only use their TV app and never have any idea that there's a game there once in a blue moon you get a screen that says something about it but you don't know that it's actually there i think giving it a permanent section up there as they just show in what where it's going to be as someone who uses his prime app a lot for movies and whatever that's a great idea again like what does this actually lead to is there a conversion yada yada yada no but in terms of like doing it right and making it simple my friend in missouri who turns on her tv and looks and her children are fucking around and see games up there they

54:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:can they see overcooked and they're like oh i wanted to play that dad right yeah go off fall out of four game of the year edition plus with amazon was does the amazon it might be a question for unless you know maybe a question for chat amazon prime free games that's a thing i know that's a thing to some extent well isn't luna integrate with luna play games for play games in prime tv it's gone now because people might be sitting on a goldmine of games and i even realize it it's that thing where they revamped luna enough when i stopped listening a long time ago because i don't remember i don't play games in prime video on fire tv included with prime so it is included with prime okay because i remember reading like every week or every two weeks there was always a video games chronicle article that was like here's all the free games with amazon and i never redeemed any of them um but i wonder yeah right now there's people saying got replaced with luna what did the free games oh barnall's saying you get free games with your prime yeah like i'm boot i do not own dispatch on amazon prime and i'm booting that right now gotcha so like boom well i'm not talking i guess okay i'm not talking about the luna catalog i'm talking about like in the way that playstation plus has free games every month yeah amazon has the same well i think that i think so that's now i think luna is that is that program i think luna is included in amazon prime now okay rather than being a separate subscription

55:50Chris Kerr:chat correct me if i'm wrong okay yeah chat's that's helping um that's a cool way to play

55:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:this special like that's yeah i'm i'm surprised by two things one i'm surprised that luna was its own app like now that i think about it why sure i never this was a weird thing i remember i never even thought about the fact that i that you had to download a luna app that seems like an insane way to do that when you have the amazon prime video app right there so that's first and foremost secondly i guess second the second thing isn't a thing i'm surprised about it's more so a thing that i'm gonna keep an eye on i guess this feels like something that should be very successful yeah your amazon yeah that so many people open amazon prime tv every single day as an app especially when you put seasons of invincible on there yeah like you have so much visibility i don't know like this seems like something that should work out and i know amazon hasn't had the best um history when it comes to their video game outings sure and supporting the game development studios they're springing up this is a different thing this is a service this is i would argue what Amazon's good at.

56:55Yeah. And so, yeah, Luna Standard is included with Prime. Play from a rotating library of games plus game night party games included with Prime. It's what I'm on right now. It includes FC 26, Fortnite, Dispatch, Fallout 4, Goat Simulator 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Indiana Jones, Great Circle, Skyrim, Tomb Raider, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hot Wheels Unleashed 1 and 2. Then you get into the courtroom chaos garbage. Control Ultimate Edition, Alan Wake 2, Alien Isolation, Alien Wake, Overcooked, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Fallout New Vegas, Ultimate Edition. There are great games on here that, again, we're all ignoring because you're not thinking about playing your things over here on Prime.

57:36Chris Kerr:Yeah. Greg? Yes. Of course, there's story number six, there's story number seven, but we're so late in the show that we're going to demote those stories because there weren't really big stories, honestly. Okay. So, we just got done talking about the big stories. Yeah. I want something smaller. Say the tiniest news I need to know about. Where would I go? You'd go to our last news item, the smallest news you need to know about in the Wii News channel. Woo-hoo! Story number six that is now part of Wii News. Miyamoto says at least three Nintendo games were created with the Mario movies in mind. Go over to Chris Skolian at Video Games Chronicle if you want to read his full article about it.

58:14Chris Kerr:It comes via the latest interview with Miyamoto in an issue of Famitsu, where he kind of talked about how the latest Star Fox game was green-lit

58:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:because Star Fox was appearing in the Mario movie along with Princess Peach Showtime being in the Mario movie. That's what led to that game. And then Yoshi, the latest Yoshi game, was also a result of them knowing early on

58:34Chris Kerr:that Yoshi was going to be in the second Mario movie. People are going to love this Yoshi. We got to get a game for the Yoshi. Yeah, so that's something to think about. One of the quotes I like here at the end of the article actually is, quote, this is from Yamamoto. So that decision was made fairly early on. and even though we broke the rules we followed up we followed up until now it was surprisingly well received and this is him talking about starfox being in mario he then goes on to say if characters like samus were if characters like samus were to show up though it would definitely get a bit too complicated so i don't think it's a matter of just throwing anything out there and i

59:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:want to know from miyamoto what makes samus more complicated than starfox is it just that she's more real isn't her ship in the movie oh yeah slave one right or not slave one hi i don't know I don't know. What's her stupid ship? I don't know. What's the name of her ship? Was that in the one? Bo Fett. Yeah, they freeze framed it. It's off the back of it. There's so many references in that movie that I've already forgotten everything. But yeah, people are saying, yeah, her ship is. Yeah, I want to know what the fucking name of the ship is without Googling. I'm trying to remember. I would just love to know Miyamoto's answer to why Star Fox makes more sense than Samus.

59:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And I'm sure it's just that she's a real woman in Star Fox.

59:45Chris Kerr:star fox looks like more he belongs in that universe um story number seven was about point b delisted critically acclaimed mobile game point p is got it's just called gunship it doesn't have a name what sorry yeah um point p is back if you remember point p was a game released in 2022 as a netflix exclusive a bunch of these netflix games got delisted and so point p was unavailable now it is available uh just on the app store or google play store as a free title uh and so you can go play point b it was well received very well i don't know what this game i've never heard it's a i think it might be a devolver game double check me on oh no yeah it is evolving because devolver was the one talking about it okay um so if you want to play point b again a very well received game that was on netflix that got delisted that's now available on your devices boom you can do it for free do it boom roast it actual we news for you from rpg site i am 8-bit and yacht club games have announced a mina the hollower collection including a three disc notebook and a keychain set uh kev i do have images of this one if you want to show it off to the people people love that stuff people love that stuff you're gonna get these three times lps no do you listen to vinyl do you do vinyl i do do vinyl but i'm not like i like me the

1:01:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:holower but i'm not like i gotta buy the collectors did you ever beat it no yeah uh if you scroll down here yeah that image looks cool and you know what i love the image like the vinyl cover so much yeah that i might just do it for that okay um but it feels on sale how do you feel about keychains yeah yeah i'm not big into keychains aliens fireteam elite 2 launches august 25th

1:01:30Chris Kerr:Dragon Ball Sparking Zero's super limit breaking Neo DLC is out July 30th. And finally from VGC, the fourth season of WWE 2K26's Ringside Pass is available. The premium route of Ringside Pass Season 4 adds Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Jelly Roll, and Lady Shawnee from AAA. It also adds a combined 47 new moves and taunts the creation suite. And that is it for Wii News. Glad the Hardy boys are there.

1:01:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That excites me. That brings me back to SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. Sure. swanton bombing. But they had the moveset. Of course. So I would create Jeff Hardy and then add in the,

1:02:06Chris Kerr:give him the swanton bomb, give him the moveset. So, saying that, you know, history repeats itself with them not being in the game and then eventually having a way to do it. Really cool. Let's hop into Super Chats real quick. See what people are talking about. I'm Just Ability says, sup y 'all, currently playing Eternal Strands on Game Pass. Pretty sick. I appreciate the subscription for playing titles like these. Hell yeah. Yeah, sure. good job good for you immersion fragrances says did y 'all see the halo reviews 80 plus metacritic and vgc 100 uh did we see them we lived them up next is your games cast review of halo combat campaign evolved halo campaign evolved it'll be there it's gonna be hosted by ray hosted by ray hosted by ray wait who's ray the super popular streamer ray narvaez ray narvaez is coming to the studio he's here right now he's here right now yeah wow he walked in while we're doing the show.

1:02:59Oh, that's who that was.

1:03:01Chris Kerr:We should call. We should have shouted at him or something. Ah, we're busy. Silver J. Hawkins says always remember they think money first and you never. Of course, we know that. And then Christopher 21 says huge skate fan. The new arena is underwhelming. Fair enough. Yeah, I haven't turned it on. I haven't had the chance. I need to get in there and see what's in the shop. Yeah, that's by decks. You know, we got to be ready. Where do you find the time to play and skate? I mean, again, I'm just I go in. I do a few tricks. I do my thing. Good for you. Yeah, you get free bucks every day you know currency so i gotta go i gotta log into the but again i haven't done in a while i haven't done it a while and then one more from muckda who says off topic but watching your vids and your review have convinced me i'm in the x-hole after you bless i think we need a kind of funny best friend xenoblade moment hell yeah y 'all go play xenoblade i'm in everybody's saying i'm 70

1:03:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:percent of the way through the game now they've been saying that for the last 10 hours so i might be more like 90 of the way through the game but let me tell you i've started to hit moments where it's all coming together it's popping off the story's paying off everything they're building up we gotta we gotta do an actual review of xenoblade chronicles i thought yeah you'll you have it on the schedule you'll do it okay yeah i was trying to do kayfabe you know no no i think you should do it i mean i think you can allow me i like you owning it i like you saying you're doing the review allow me because it was italicized it's italicized yeah just because i wanted to make sure i beat the game yeah i know i've been there it seems like i'm gonna beat the game by next friday so maybe next week okay okay no promises but it seems like he's trying everybody don't get on his case about it he's trying spoilers i like it um let's get into you're wrong

1:04:33Chris Kerr:where you write in let us know what we get wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe small says it was qatar that gifted trump the jet not the saudis but apologies there you go and then yes bander says samus's ship doesn't have an actual name but in war the ship is a federation class b single pilot nick named fuck you they said it's a single pilot nick named sug on these

1:05:03Chris Kerr:shut up batmander and that is it for you're wrong and that is it for this episode of kind of funny games daily after this that's right we're doing it we're reviewing halo campaign evolved. What does Mike think of it? How mad is he that multiplayer isn't in it? You'll have to tune in to see. Of course. We get a meeting about Top 100. You know what I mean? And all the people that'll be here and like cool things we could do with them. And Tim was like, well, it's like if Halo made the list, right? Everybody could sing the Halo song. And I have no idea what every time I do it, I just start doing Little Mermaid.

1:05:40When she's like doing the vocalization from underneath when she gets, maybe when she gets her voice or loses his voice? I don't know. It's been a very long time since I watched The Lone Mermaid. I used to watch it all the time.

1:05:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Under the Sea. You remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Under the Sea. I think as a kid, I'm pretty sure I just replayed that part. That's a great part. It was that song and then Aladdin. It was the first song in Aladdin. It was like the one who was running through the town. I used to watch that all the time. Yeah.

1:06:04Chris Kerr:And that's no joke. Yeah, that's a great one. Man, I love that. Yeah. Enjoy Gamescast next and the stream after. But until next time, Game Daily.