Xbox Partner Preview Review (March 2026) - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.26.26

22:49Mike Howard:Okay. Then the second one. No relation to the early OOs action games of the same name, Hunter the Reckoning Death wish is a fresh take on white wolf white wolf's horror tabletop rpg about contemporary monster hunters as part of their larger world of darkness setting alongside vampire the masquerade the ascension etc so okay i personally like that setting like i don't have any you know i don't i don't know anything about anything from before so to set the table here be like yo the people who made rogue city which was a game we all started like this should be stupid and it was awesome for what it was and then to be in here be like all right cool action rpg it's going to be in the tabletop universe okay okay i like what you're putting down i hate summer 2027 but that's i digress yeah summer 2027 really hurt me on that one but uh yeah as you build it out right it has the mix of everything that you'd want giving me what was the playstation when we were hunting vampires and werewolves oh uh the order 18 the order 1886 right like modern day yeah Yeah, I mean, the name carries it for me.

23:56The write-up definitely carries a little bit more. Summer 2027 deflates all of my excitement for it, as I will forget about this game until it's finally time.

24:05Mike Howard:Craig Liff, I need your help. It's already gone, but they say they did notice it's published by Nacon. Is there a Nacon logo at the end of this saying they're publishing it? It was in the beginning.

24:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, there was like a million logos at the beginning. Which is weird. It was in the bottom right.

24:17Mike Howard:Yeah, I saw the Tayon earlier. and then saw the world of darkness over here early on yeah it fades out then fades in yeah oh yeah well woof woof everybody let's see if we see this game ever oh they call us the one who like hey we might be going bankrupt yo we filed for insolvency and ain't looking hot over here right now so we'll see if that happens uh yeah i'm a sucker for a weird supernatural action rpg i played a bit of bloodlines uh when it launched there's a million things in review period i do still want to get back to it for as double a in rpg as that seemed but i want a new definitive vampire game what's that one we keep talking about that comes up every so oh the

24:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:bandai namco from witcher people yeah the one from the witcher people the one for the witcher

25:01Mike Howard:the one that uh yes yes hold on i'm opening up my floodwalker of the bloodwalker that feels right

25:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:i feel like there's one more word in there somewhere i'm opening my wish list because of the cool Blood Walker. No, I guess we got it. Blood of the Dawn Walker. No, Blood of the Dawn Walker. Ooh, Blade could be it. Because, yeah, my thing is, you know, obviously we've had Castlevania. We've had zombie games. We've had vampire games before, but I feel like we're overdue for, like, the new vampire game. And I don't like werewolves. It's like the King Kong Godzilla thing. Like, don't put werewolves in my vampire shit. You know what I mean? Like, I just want... You don't want your peas touching your macacabas.

25:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Exactly. Oh, I want them all. You want them all? I want Undead in there. I want Mummies in there. I want Frankenstein to show up. I want Tom Cruise can be in it. I'm in on it. You want it all. You just want it all in there. Put the fucking guy from the swamp and shit. That's crazy. Did you not like Resident Evil Village? That was also like Vampire. Yeah, I liked it. But he had the tall lady. Up to the dollhouse. Then everything after I didn't care for him.

25:55Mike Howard:He was a fan of the movie like me. Yeah, there's a big interview I'm paging through here. For this Vampire game? For the one we're watching, yeah. Xbox Wire is always great about it. here's a bunch of supplementary material. Usually when Tim hosts, I can parse through it a bit easier to find stuff for y 'all, but I'm trying to host and do this. You know what I mean? I'm doing a great job.

26:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're doing great, but I'm also surprised that they have, not that I'm surprised that they did this. One of the things I was talking, I was thinking about earlier, as we were just talking about the, how you package the showcase is, I was thinking about the Annapurna showcases that they do, which I think are also excellent, where they, every segment for each of the games and developers is like, we're going to Portland. We're going to like wherever the devs are at, hanging out with them and like even if they don't announce a new game from that dev the segments are always still interesting and exciting because it is like the dev like playing a guitar and being like this game is inspired that's why i'm a major nelson to kick it off yeah hey here's a quick paragraph description that greg is reading you let's get into this if i were to if i were to like be on the team here to producing this i would say hey like the the blog posts are cool and all that stuff people aren't reading that what we should do is we should do the anapurna thing and have it be let's find a selection of games let's go to the developers let's hang out with them let's produce way too much way too much budget way too much yeah that's the thing yeah that's tough let me so i was gonna say i mean what you should do is get uh danny o'dwyer and his team to do like yeah to do like the no clip stuff even remote their remote stuff is incredible so yeah

27:21Mike Howard:yeah that's a good call too yeah i like these two paragraphs from the interview with xbox and one of the producer devs uh how familiar are how familiar are you and your team with the tabletop RPG and the larger World of Darkness setting. Jumping into the middle of it, I didn't actually know the older Hunter the Reckoning video games. I just learned about them when we started this one. But that was a different approach because it was more like a beat-em-up action thing, and we're going full RPG. We definitely wanted to take an approach much closer to that of the original Bloodlines. Vampire, Masquerade Bloodlines.

27:51Mike Howard:So it's the same world, based on the new 5th edition of Hunter the Reckoning. It changed a bit because in the old editions, they play characters who are imbued with, or I'm sorry, yeah, no, imbued with special, imbued thank you I was like I'm still not with special abilities whereas in the 5th edition there are some more general people who need to fight a stronger enemy so they need to group into so called cells in our game you belong to one of those cells okay I'm intrigued I'm intrigued as well it's just gonna be a long time till we see or hear anything about it so that sucks and will Nacon stay alive to publish this game we'll have to worry and see from there we jumped into Werthering Waves Werthering Waves is a story rich action RPG built around exploration to freedom headed Xbox Series X and S.

28:33Mike Howard:Wuthering Waves arrives on the Xbox Cloud and Xbox Game Pass in July 2026. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title. Of course, Wuthering Waves has been around for a while, tearing up mobile devices left and right, Mikey. Tearing it up?

28:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:People like this one a lot. It's in that Genshin Impact camp of like, I wouldn't be surprised if you saw like a bus pass on the side of it for Wuthering Waves. It's that level of popular. When did this come out? When did this happen? Like three years ago?

28:58Mike Howard:Yeah, it's been a little while for sure. It's been at least like three years. I feel like I learned about this in like six months ago. May 23rd, 2024 was the initial release date for that one. So two years. Yep. These games are pretty.

29:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Dude, those free-to-play, gacha, open-world games. Uh-huh. You know, like I had the, what, like six months with Genshin where I was like, damn, this is crazy. Like the fact that this game exists is kind of nuts. But then you get into the gacha aspects and it's like, okay, well, that's how you found this. Now I understand. And now I don't want to play this anymore. That six-star character, man. dude i could not do it i had to get aloy in that game and then i was like okay i'm good enough

29:34Mike Howard:uh from there i mean no we have nothing to say it's a gotcha it's been around forever i assume you know it's coming xbox congratulations to everybody from there one of the ones y 'all in the chat were most excited for i think we at the table were most excited for the expanse osiris reborn coming of course spring 2027 however there is a closed beta coming on april 22nd 2026. Mike said, we got to get into that. You want to know how you get in, Mike? The beta will become available on Xbox Series X and S from April 22nd for those who support the development of the game as founders and purchase the Miller's Pack or the Collector's Edition on the game's official site.

30:10The closed beta will... You want to benefit me for getting Game Pass? I'm paying $20 a month! I'm paying a lot of money every month!

30:17Mike Howard:The closed beta will run all the way up to the release, so you have plenty of time to purchase either edition to jump in. Can I ask a question? Close beta for a single player action.

30:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Weird. That was my first thought. That's a weird one right there. And then I have to pay to get into? It's just a devil at that point. But let me tell you. Is my save carry over? Probably not at all. Then what are we doing? This is probably a good test for them. This is them definitely testing the waters of like, are players liking what we're seeing? Are they enjoying the feedback? What are the smaller things that we can address right now ahead of the day one patch and fix this.

30:52Mike Howard:As for what you'll be playing when you get access, the beta will allow you to experience a full mission taken directly from the game. It starts as you and your twin return to your base. Pink Water Force Station. On a mysterious ship you took by force to escape Eros. That's what you're playing. If you'd like to know, of course, like I said, you can get it from either the Miller's Pack or the Collector's Edition. Miller's Pack? No, hold on, I'm sorry. Miller's Pack,$80. Okay? Okay. Collector's Edition. Just guess. No. Roger, give me a guess. How much are you playing for a collector's edition? $100?

31:27Mike Howard:$100? Okay. $120. I was also going to say$120. For a mere$289. No. $289? $289. You can get the collector's edition. Does it come with a Switch? Does it come with a Rastanante spaceship? Xbox Series S. All right. Okay. Okay, so here's what you get to give them, okay, to everything. Digital copy, early adopter item for Captain's Cabin, a Discord roll, name in the credits. Name in the credits? Miller's OPA heavy armor, UN Special Ops assault rifle, a digital art book, a digital OTS, Hall of Fame, Miller's casual outfit, Miller's revolver, exclusive beta access, ship model, medallion, this is, I think, physical, this is all physical, ship model, medallion, art book, patches, and stickers.

32:16Mike Howard:A Discord roll. That's huge. What's the roll, though? Now, real quick, just, and again, to give full context for this. Sucker.

32:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's good.

32:26Mike Howard:Miller's Pack, Collector's Edition, expensive. Standard Pack is$50. Deluxe Pack is$60. Standard would get you the game, early adopter item for your cabin, a Discord roll. Then Deluxe Pack is when he goes up to name in the credits, Miller's Heavy Armor, the assault rifle. And then Miller's Pack is when you get all the other stuff up until the physical items. The closed beta is just early access, but they're calling it closed beta. No, it's only one mission. I was going to say, it's a demo. That is a demo.

32:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's a demo that you've got to pay a lot of money for.

32:57Mike Howard:Maybe they're putting more stuff in as they get closer, but that's one mission. The beta will give you a full mission taken directly from you. Now, don't a lot of people buy these and then they refund it right after they play the demo? Isn't that how this normally works when people do this? Oh, I don't know. I feel like they've done this before where it's like, oh, you can play the demo, play the weekend early. People buy it, then they just do a chargeback on their Amex. right after this. Like, this is not okay. Yeah. That would Mike say that. I don't like this at all.

33:30Mike Howard:Let's move away from collector's editions. What did we think of the demo? Mike, go ahead and kick it off. The presentation was good. I'm excited. You get to hear some of the terms from the Expanse novel and show that you love, right? I just wish it was a little bit more of the story lore deep dive. I'm sure they've had that, and I just haven't seen that. I thought, for me, this one, I think the big three that we talked about when they promoted this would get a little more screen time, a little more deep dive, especially how long this show was. This felt like, hey, here's a solid trailer that people will enjoy.

34:07But for me, it was like, oh, I thought we were going to go a little bit deeper on this. So I didn't love this walking away from it.

34:12Mike Howard:Yeah, I'm with you of I wanted more. based on you promoted this way. I thought I would have loved what we got. And then, hey, everybody, it's me from the studio. We're walking you through part of the mission you can get if you get into the early beta. You know what I mean? Like, show me moment to moment. There's choices that pop up in dialogue and gunplay. And again, I think all of it looks like, from what we're seeing, solid double-A game. I'm totally down. I am excited for this game. But I leave this presentation not whelmed. I'm not overwhelmed. I'm not underwhelmed. I'm like, okay, I still don't know this game.

34:46I want to know this game. That was the first thought that I had. It's like, what makes this different? What makes this unique? As someone who does not know the Expanse, only knows of it, I want to understand why this universe is unique. And I look at this and I'm like, okay, this looks like any other double-A sci-fi we're trying to do Mass Effect. So yeah, going to the developer, having a voiceover, having Aaron Paul say, this is why you should play the Expanse. This is what it is. I think that would have gone along. Poor Aaron Paul. Just catching strange.

35:12Mike Howard:I mean, he was there. You know what I mean? If you're an audio listener and can't watch this, of course, the Xbox description here goes, In this third-person action RPG set in James S. A. Corey's iconic universe, the power balance between Mars and the belt is on the edge of collapse. As your own custom captain, you'll gather a crew and forge your own path through a volatile solar system shattered by conflict. Then in the longer piece on the Xbox blog, which I will not read all the way through, I like their subheadits here as you start getting ready, right? Choices have consequences. it's not just about bullets I guess I should read some of this so I'm going to do this but gather your crew before venturing forth like again it sounds like we're copying Mass Effect it's Mass Effect

35:51Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and I want it I want that I'm very okay with that because I feel like we don't get enough Mass Effect like games I know we get them here and there we get the one that Matthew McConaughey Exodus yeah I know Exodus is coming out but this looks better than Exodus is that also 2027? oh I don't know or is that like oh alright alright but I look at this trailer honestly for me I leave this trailer a little bit more sold than I was before. Not to like the greatest extent, but I was never like the number one believer of this game. I'll just trust you guys of like, okay, it sounds like you guys are into it.

36:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But seeing this trailer, I'm like, you know what? I could be in the mood for this kind of game, right? Like a third person action shooter with RPG elements, choosing dialogue. I'm in space. Like, I feel like we don't get games like this all the time. So I'm excited to know more.

36:34Mike Howard:I just, yeah, again, back to this, I think being such a flat showcase, 2027, spring 2027. Yeah. A paid beta. Like I'm not, this isn't getting me. It is worth calling out. Of course, they end this with talking about the fact that this is going to be an Xbox Play Anywhere title. It will be day one on Game Pass Ultimate. So you do have something to look forward to there. If you're sticking with the Xbox for The Expanse, Osiris Reborn. Exodus has also come out in 2027. It's a big year for Expanse versus Exodus. The X versus X. Oh my God. I never thought I'd see him. Oh my God. This one knocked over everything.

37:05Mike Howard:From there, we went to Grave Seasons. Grave Seasons launches August 14th on Series XS, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud. It will be launching day one with Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere. In the latest trailer for this farming sim with a terrifying twist, your old cellmate writes an ominous letter about the new town you just moved to. While it seems warm and welcoming at first, something is amiss beneath the surface. In addition to the game's release date being announced, developer Perfect Garbage also announced a public demo is arriving soon. Stay tuned for more details. Played this at SGF a long time ago.

37:40Mike Howard:I'm not the farming sim guy, but the horror vibe of it being a Blumhouse game got me interested enough to where, again, if this was dropping right now, I'd be like, let's go right now. I want to go play right now. But I'll wait to August and see what my review schedule looks like. Greg, you're up right now. You have so many of these games. You just talked about Tomogachi Life. You just have Pocopia, Animal Crossing Season 2. I'm living my best life. But this starts going to. This starts going to, my concern is this going to go to Fields of Mysteria, to Harvest Moon, to the incredibly successful indie game that I cannot grab.

38:13Mike Howard:Stardew Valley. Thank you, Stardew Valley, which aren't great games. Like, I don't like farming sims. I like the cozy sim, whatever. I'm sort of where you're at, where it's like, I love Fields of Mysteria so much that I just want to play Fields of Mysteria. And this is like, how much are we actually doing here? Is this just like, oh, it's a taste of all these things. And then you have the horror and then you're focused on that. because if that's what it is and it's like maybe a seven hour experience i'm like i'm in for that but if it is like hey no you actually are fucking worrying about the rotations of the crops and doing all that i don't i don't want to do that it looks to me like it's going to be that which is what i'm into of like it looks like it's yes crops and harvesting but then you have this book of people being murdered in the occult in this mystery i feel like it's going to be more let's get into the horror part of it then let's get into the farming part of it but we'll see April 14th Watch this Put down the pizza bet right now Roger will play this Come out and say This is one of his favorites Wow I'll just not play it To spite you That's fine I'll take it I'll put you onto a good game I think Roger will like it I don't think Roger will like it I'll pizza bet you I'll put Roger onto a good game right now So should I try it And then see if I like it or not 100 % Is that what the pizza bet is You're not involved You get to eat free pizza either way Okay easy Yeah free pizza either way And you won't You'll eat your little fucking gruel Out of the thing I love that girl.

39:26Mike Howard:You want to eat the pizza but you won't do it. I'll stare at it long. From there we move to Sirius Sam Shatterverse. Just a nails on the chalkboard trailer for Greg. I'm like, I hate everything that's happening. I don't like this. It's not vulvar. It is behavior. Sirius Sam is back in a new explosive shooter unveiled today. In this new installment, five alternate universe Sams must come together, work together, and save the Shatterverse from the antics of the series godlike protagonist Mental. The five Sams with all their own unique abilities must face off against hordes of ferocious enemies while taking advantage of rich arsenal of powerful weapons.

40:01Mike Howard:True to Serious Sam form, which I couldn't even fucking tell you what is Serious Sam known for. It looks like fantastic fun. It is coming this year to Xbox Series XS, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title. There's a whole other universe out there, Greg. People playing multiple Serious Sam games. They grew up and they were like, I love Serious Sam. but I want more Serious Sam. They clicked on that storefront button is right, Bless. And they just said,

40:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm a player. That's the only reason I know what Serious Sam is. Just browsing on the PlayStation store and being like, oh, Serious Sam is on sale again. Perpetually on sale. It feels like, it feels exactly right for 2026 of like, how would you make another Serious Sam? I would make it a roguelike. Okay, yeah, that sounds right. Put three different decisions for people to make. That'll affect their gameplay. All right, perfectly.

40:50Mike Howard:But it also feels so 2021 wanted to be like, it's a multiverse tale. You know what I mean? Haven't we all agreed we're done with that? Yeah, we got to stop. Shadowverse is the name of it. Now, is this multiplayer? Because there's multiple Sams running around. Is this a shared experience? Are you choosing like a class situation? I assumed it was multiplayer.

41:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, it looks multiplayer to me. I thought it was single player. I was getting Arcade Again vibes from it. Yeah. Which you never want. I'm sorry. Sorry, Arcade Again.

41:15Mike Howard:Let me see if I can get a drawn out post here. Seriously.

41:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Actually, is Arcade Again still playable?

41:20Mike Howard:I don't think so. I missed that game. that was a fun one to five player co-ops this chat so that's your I think that's your shattered spaces all the different Sam's that you can play as coming together okay shout out shout out okay fine Godspeed be with you Sam fans from there it was in fact stranger than heaven of course we were promised an in-depth look at RGG's new project and instead we got a trailer and And then an advertisement for yet another fucking showcase. Awesome. Roger, what'd you think? You were stoked. Yeah, I'm just disappointed, man. I mean, it looks good. It looks visually good.

42:01I like the combat. I like seeing the guy punching the guy and rolling down the hill. There's all that. I like how tight the combat feels. I mean, it probably doesn't feel too different from Yakuza, if I were to take a guess. But I like how intimate it is. You're focusing on one person at a time. but yeah no just seeing this and then be like okay I'm excited for the breakdown let's see the gameplay thing and it's like no we're waiting a few weeks now that sucked but from what I see it looks cool I just need to know more about it I need that deep dive but I guess we're getting in a few weeks. How do you feel about the setting and the five different eras right we're gonna time jump a lot here.

42:34Yeah. Between

42:35Mike Howard:five different eras 1915, 1929, 1943, 1951 and 1965. Nice it's really dope I like that idea there i don't i'm assuming it is just the guy getting older right it's not like a time time jump situation where he's like time traveling rather but uh yeah i do think that this leads to my theory of it is going to connect to the yakuza games pretty pretty heavily i mean this is kamurocha they show it right there right so like this is going to be the origin of one of the you know yakuza alliances or something like that but i do like that this is it feels different enough where you aren't like you don't have the baggage like uh blessing was talking about of being like hey i want to pick up the you know the fifth yakuza in the franchise oh shit now i have to learn and watch all these games.

43:15It was cool. It looks good. It looks visually good. It feels like a big step forward for RGG. I like all the animations.

43:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:There's the animation of them rolling down the hill together in combat. People are saying Snoop Dogg. Is that true? No, there's a guy that looks like Snoop Dogg. Well, shout out to Snoop Dogg. They have celebrity cameos all the time. Oh, really? They had Samoa Joe and I think Kenny Omega. Kenny Omega has always been trying to get into that game. People are trying to say, yo, that was Snoop Dogg. We'll find out. Snoop Dogg has been in video games before. What did you say, Mike? We'll probably see some tie-ins to Yakuza, like you brought up, of grandparents, fathers, stuff like that. Oh, that's that character.

43:52What? That's crazy.

43:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Did this do anything for y 'all? Wait, that is Snoop Dogg. Is that really Snoop Dogg? That might be Snoop Dogg. I don't know. Wait, hold on. Actually, I can't tell. I don't think that's Snoop Dogg. I can't tell. I don't think that's Snoop Dogg, y 'all. Did this do anything for y 'all? I think that might be Snoop Dogg, bro. Okay. No, dead ass. Wait, hold on. Look, go back to him.

44:13Mike Howard:IGN.com. That's Snoop Dogg. IGN.com. December 17th, 2024. Yakuza slash Like a Dragon dev seemingly teases Snoop Dogg appearance in Project X. I was going to say, that's 100 % Snoop. Is that Snoop? Yes. And then, yeah, look, RGG put out a photo of Snoop Dogg in whatever outfit. I thought he was just walking around. That's so funny.

44:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Apparently that's Snoop Dogg. He was in Tekken Tag Tournament 2. so like for him to make another Call of Duty Ghost oh and what was the the true crime game oh and this is kind of like a true crime game this is like a sleeping dog's true crime the connection's right there everybody

44:49Mike Howard:he was in Def Jam he was in front of you all the time if you want to know more like all of us because we were promised more about Stranger Than Heaven you can tune in yet again on May 6th at 4pm Pacific I imagine we will be live reacting to that too and I'll be angry about it or of course like we said coming to everything or whatever and it'll be Xbox Play Anywhere title and be available with Game Pass. So you got that going for you. I am getting, hold on. That's Snoop, everybody. Confirmed. Who do you think that was? Snoop? Don't worry about who's breaking news. It's me. That's all it says. It's Cisco back-channeling.

45:31Mike Howard:After Stranger Than Heaven, we moved on to Super Meat Boy 3D, a game we've all been waiting for, a game we enjoyed playing at GDC, another trailer i thought just didn't fit there's no vibe there's no tone to this direct or whatever

45:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:partner showcase but kind of under this is the release date announcement which should hit way harder but i think maybe because the leak um yeah we kind of expected it to come out i think people were expecting it at the nintendo direct is that what the streets were saying well no no i it was just it was leaked on the nintendo store so then i think we're trying to figure out like where would it be were people trying to like create a nintendo showcase or something i think i was i think i I ruined your life. I'm sorry. It's okay.

46:10Mike Howard:But exciting. Yeah, March 31st coming out. Again, Xbox Play Anywhere title and available on Xbox Game Pass. So, again, they continue to put all sorts of great games on Xbox Game Pass, which shouldn't be overlooked by the general us being like, what is going on here? After Super Meat Boy 3D, it was a Greg-ass game, everybody, forever ago from Annapurna coming fall 2026. Again, the part where I just go, ah, come on. follow Alfred on a journey to unlock memories of his life in forever ago an upcoming narrative adventure revisit beautiful locations from Alfred's past meet characters and document his story with photographs in a single player road trip that explores broken dreams, loss, and regret but also courage, hope and the power of friendship forever ago launches fall 2026 for Xbox of course, Xbox PC and Xbox Cloud, it will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and be available on Xbox Game Pass again, Game Pass and Xbox Cloud and play anywhere, killing it.

47:03Mike Howard:This will be all over my ROG ally in Xbox Series X. Yes, I'm a sucker for these kind of games, these kind of narratives. This looks like a lot of fun. I do love taking photos in games as well. It'll be interesting to see what we get into. But a tone setter that, again, I was like, yes, and I was so hopeful maybe today. No, we will let it build. But I will say, I think this is one of the few gray-ass games that I'm actually going to play because I got teary watching this trailer. This hit me in a way that I didn't expect. You want to play? What do you mean? What do you want to play? Well, no. You very much play Greg.

47:34No, but I turn around, you're just playing some fucking guy that's like a fucking lumberjack cutting down. I'm like, what are you doing? You've got like four of these every year, though. I'm like, I'm not touching those ones. Yeah, okay, fair enough. Yeah, and I also don't like being sad. So this one, I will let myself be sad.

47:46Mike Howard:I've got to see how the other half lives.

47:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm always so happy. I'm half in, half out.

47:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm half in, half out. The thing that always, not always, the thing that common times will keep me away from a game like this is how it feels to move and control like what is the moment to moment what is the moment like how slow am I walking in this thing like when I'm jumping on the different rocks on the river like how clunky is that crimson desert yeah and I'm not like I'm being dead ass like you know me I'm like you Roger like I'll play a Greg ass game um probably like a few times a year maybe yeah I'm somewhere between you and Greg I think when it comes to this like more narrative uh more sad that somebody's wife died kind of experience um but they can be here to miss sometimes, and I think that movement will be the thing that often filters me out.

48:31I'm interested in these games. Sometimes they just last a little too long. That is another great point. I don't think it's sad for 12 hours. If this game, if you came to me, Greg, and was like, Mike, this is a good hitting game, three to four hours, I'd be like, Greg, I'll give it to you.

48:44Mike Howard:My hope there is that Annapurna kind of gets that. Mixtape is coming up. I do not expect mixtape to last longer than Titanic the motion picture. Maybe two movies, not Titanic, but you know what I mean? Like, I feel like that's going to be a get in, get the emotional highs of being a kid and get out. And I feel like you would know to do that here, but we'll wait and see. Sadly, I have to wait till fall 2026. If it doesn't get delayed, it'll probably get delayed, but I digress. Let's get to a game that has a hard hitting release date of July 13. We're talking ascend to zero. This one of the standouts of the show.

49:19Mike Howard:One of the first things that made me sit up and go, Oh wait, I don't know what this is. What is this been time to save the world and ascend to zero in this action roguelite. time is your ultimate weapon and you are able to manipulate it to gain the edge in battle. Freeze foes in their tracks, gain a second or two to reset and reload and make the most of your moments to utilize skills, abilities and refine your run in this cyberpunk inspired pixel art setting Ascend to Zero launches July 13th Xbox of course across the board, Xbox PC Xbox Cloud, it is Play Anywhere, it is Game Pass. Looks awesome Looks really cool.

49:52Mike Howard:I'm generally not even this type of gamer but like the freezing time, I'm such a big fan of. I'm using that right now as my ability in Starfield. Having a great time. Hell yeah. Anybody else? Just Andy? We wait for Andy?

50:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Nah, it just hurts my eyes a little. It looks like my kind of game, but also, like, I think I'm hitting the dangerous place. Oh. I think I'm starting to take a turn that I never thought I'd take. Uh-oh. Which is... Maga. We just got... Well, no, not that far. Not yet. Wow. Let's give it a few minutes. The grifting is very... No, the turn being... Man, that's a lot of roguelites.

50:21Mike Howard:Yeah. you know yeah i think since i don't dive into so many of them it's easier for me to be like oh i've just seen yeah when you see the three cards now it's like now it's starting to become a thing

50:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:of like it's like when you eat your favorite food over and over again it's like when i was a kid and every morning i used to eat eggo waffles same here and you microwave them and you microwave yeah you microwave them too yeah yeah and it's like i ate that every single morning and after many many years of doing that i look at eggo waffle now and i'm like nah that was me for hot dogs yeah Yeah, as well. Roguelites might start becoming that for a little bit.

50:50Mike Howard:Yeah, tough. Man, we'll have to wait and see then. July 13th, I'm looking forward to it. Beyond that, we moved into Dispatch coming summer 2026. Explaining, of course, why the one, the only Aaron Paul, was in fact narrating this Xbox partner preview. The full collection of episodes arrives this summer on Xbox, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud. It will be a Play Anywhere title, but they are stopping short. It is not a Game Pass title. Yeah, this is one of those, like Blessing Says, It's like, man, that hasn't come to Xbox? That's too bad. Well, guess what? Now you got a great game coming your way that you'll get to play.

51:22This one is a must-play. This is a must-play game. Absolutely.

51:25Mike Howard:Yeah. A great one. We all enjoy it here. And, yeah, excited for Xbox people to finally get it, even though you could totally forget you didn't have it. Oh, that's not there? Shit. Fuck. From there, we moved into ADS, Alien Deathstorm. New from Rebellion, that's Adam Fall and Sniper Elite, is Alien Deathstorm, an atmospheric first-person adventure where second to second survival hinges on responding to a monstrous, constantly shifting threat on a storm blasted off world colony. In the world premiere, we got a first glimpse at a settlement ravaged by violent weather conditions and terrifying alien creatures where figuring out what happened quickly evolves into a fight for survival.

52:02Mike Howard:Deathstorm is heading to Xbox, of course, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud. It will be a Play Anywhere title and it will be Game Pass. Cool. Doesn't look great. Doesn't look terrible. Again, there was no game here where I was like that fucking Nintendo stupid-ass dinosaur. Tokyo Scramble, bro. When I look at this one, I'm like, no, I'm good. Yeah, when I look at this, it feels like it's Alien Isolation 2, but without the aliens. And I don't want to be so IP-pilled where it's like you can't make a good alien game that isn't based off of aliens. But it does feel so much like that to the point where I'm like, oh, this is just generic alien game number 44, right?

52:39I don't know. It didn't give me anything to talk about. Again, the voiceover giving me the pitch. It didn't give me that pitch of like, man, I got to play this game. There's something different about it.

52:47Mike Howard:Yeah, we'll wait and see. There's an interview up on the Xbox Wire as well. I'm trying to page through, but nothing jumping off the page where I have to tell you. Good developer, though.

52:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Snapper Elite people. Oh, yes. Oh, can I say, I don't like this screen, by the way. We saw this screen after every game. There's too much space between the coming 2027 too. I always think there's something else. I always think they're going to fade in something else. You got to put that down. Yeah. You got to put that down.

53:11Mike Howard:From there, we went to Frog Squad. Slapstick puzzle platformer Frog Squad is hopping onto Xbox. Work with your friends to explore the sewers and secure food for the Swamp King. Use your exceptionally sticky froggy tongue to traverse levels and bring back enough snacks to hit the food quota for the king. Unless you become the food quota. With support for up to eight players, it's a fun co-op. Oh, cooperative. They put in front of you, sorry. Option for your next game night. It's launching June 2026. Xbox, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, Xbox Play Anywhere, and of course, Xbox Game Pass. Michael, you are the party mode king.

53:46Mike Howard:You are the friend slop king. I love these games. I do love these games. You know what I have a problem with is trailers and release dates for these games because you get to see these games. You go, oh, wow, I play that. It's like, ah, that's 2027. Oh, that's mid-2026. It's just too long to wait. I feel like some of these games, when you get the momentum and you come out with a cool trailer and people are like, oh, wow, A perfect one is that one where you're in the hotel and that one guy's dead, and you got to move the guy out of the hotel room who's dead. And you're like, this game is a must play.

54:17I want to play this right now. And they're like, we don't even have a release date. It's like, all right, well, I'm going to forget about you for six months. That's what this game will be of. I won't think of this game until it comes out, and then we'll play it, and hopefully we'll have a fun time. Anytime that is cooperative, fun, puzzle-solving with my friends, this tongue mechanic that they got giving me some Pikmin-esque vibe where it's like, hey, big item, small things trying to move the big item. I love that.

54:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I got a big item and small things. How do I feel about co-sloperative? Is that too crazy? Co-sloperative is good. I don't like slot, man. I mean, yeah. Here's my thing, right? Because the friends like games, whatever you want to call them. They become more and more and more popular, right? I feel like we need more inspired art styles for them. Because now it's starting to be in a place where, yes, I see this. Gang beasts, yeah. It's going to come out later in the year. By the time we get around to this game coming out, I'm going to be like, oh, what was that? This looks like a million other of the friend games.

55:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would like to see more variety there from these kind of games. That's a great call. Okay.

55:17Mike Howard:From there, we rolled into one that I'm tentatively excited about. Bluey's Happy Snaps, of course, based on the Bluey cartoon. Join Bluey and Bingo for a big, exciting adventure and capture all your favorite moments using Dad's special camera. Discover brand new locations from the show. snap picture-perfect poses of Australian wildlife, and get hands-on with play-for-real-life activities. It's all recorded in your one-of-a-kind scrapbook featuring hundreds of collectibles to unlock. Bluey's Happy Snaps arrives on Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud in fall 2026. It will be Play Anywhere, and it will be Game Pass.

55:52Mike Howard:I don't have high hopes for this. Just an enjoyable Bluey version of a Pokemon Snap filling in the thing, the real-life games. I don't know, but when you do that frame there, them playing volleyball, that's when I'm like, I don't think that would have been the right idea. That didn't look like a good volleyball mini game for me to play, but we shall see. It's coming to everything as well. They were interesting. Of course, the wires promoting all the Xbox stuff. The showcase itself had PlayStation Xboxes and stuff tossed on there. Crazy side. This one day. Mike has a side. Can you believe that Killer Bean still isn't out?

56:27These are the games that I see, and I'm like, oh, yeah. I would play that. It's like that game's not even out yet. That game's never coming out. It's like, all right.

56:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:No, killer beans. One of the ones where you got it. You got promoted early. You got to let the streets know. You got to let the word spread. About killer bean. You got to let them know about killer bean. It's like party animals. When that came out and it was like, it's going to take two years to get there to the finish line. You're like, we needed you now. Oh man. That's a unicorn game.

56:52Mike Howard:Yeah. From there, we moved on to stalker to heart of Chernobyl cost of hope. This is the first details about the major Chernobyl expansion. This, of course, heading your way summer 2026. I'm looking in here. The DLC will be released on Xbox, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud, PC via Steam, Epic, Game Store, GOG, and PS5. Both the base game and the DLC will support Xbox Play Anywhere. Mike, you're my shooter guy. Yeah. What do you think? I mean, I really enjoyed Stalker 2 when it did come out. I liked that very difficulty. the difficult curve to it. It was just kind of buggy when it first launched. Had some, this writing here had some tones of Russia and Ukraine with that war going on.

57:37That was very interesting. I'm like, oh shit, okay. But yeah, it's like one of those, I put Stalker 2 in the worlds of the metros and the dying lights that it's like, this is a seven to eight out of 10 game that I'm going to either fall in love with and love, love, or it's just going to be like, hey, that was a good enough time. I'll never talk about or play that again. And that's where stalker goes for me. And it's like you either get become diehard into stalker and love the punishment or you jump off of it. How long would you like this DLC to last you? This DLC to last me? From start to finish, 20 hours, maybe more.

58:13Mike Howard:In this massive story, it can take more than 20 hours to explore crushed it. I mean, I would assume that this team, especially with what they've gone through and now to get to where they're at, they're making big pieces of content for you to play and enjoy. People want that. If you're playing a Metro or a soccer, you want big, sizable story chunks that you can get lost in and keep playing for a long time. I want to make it clear. I'm laughing at Roger.

58:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Roger started it. I'm not laughing at the war.

58:41Mike Howard:What happened? Nothing. Don't worry about it. Fair enough. Fair enough. We'll move on. Up next was Musa, Dirty Fate. We saw another world premiere in Musa, Dirty Fate, an upcoming action title set in feudal Korea. an unknown powerful force has swept your land and with fields and crops withering to dust the people have turned to the most extreme methods of survival. It's up for you to track down the threat and save your subjects Paterly Korean inspired landscapes paired with slick third person combat give us a first glimpse of Musa Dirty Fate coming in 2027 for series of Xbox, Xbox PC, Xbox Cloud.

59:17Mike Howard:It will be play anywhere it will be Xbox Game Pass a awkward trailer. We need sound effects this is why why it was just vo over this and no no no but there was a lot of blood a

59:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:lot of action right yeah it's a game that i i'd like the opening yeah the like the kind of speech he was giving talking about the decimation of these people and all this shit going on gut wrenching yeah it's like really it's like damn this is like fucked up shit everybody's got to purge everybody's got to play everybody's got to skirt and like he's there's always a play he's Like delivering it in such a, like, I want to say beautiful, but like, you know, heartbreaking way where it's like, damn, all right, what are they setting up here? Let me get into the gameplay. And it's like, it's in that weird in-between space for me where I want to like it.

1:00:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It looks like the kind of game that I typically like, right? Like it's a fun, fast-paced action thing. But I think you're right. I think it is the sound effects. Like I need to hear more of like the pure and see more of like the pure gameplay to really take it all in. It felt like the chicken game, but not the chicken game. Yeah. When the chicken game was like, oh, wow, I want to play this, right? This should probably be a game where we all walk away going like, oh, we're interested in that. I'd play that. And that trailer did not do this game justice at all. I walked away going, that was really boring to watch right there.

1:00:28That second half after the VO was like, ooh, I'm fine.

1:00:31Mike Howard:Yeah. This is coming 2027. And a special shout out to the chat where Dionysus said, Moose of people going to die? I love a good Jar Jar. Moose of people going to die? Do you remember that? about dirty fate and i think i can't say like dirty bit you know i mean like dirty dirty fit up next the eternal life of goldman a game we have seen and been impressed by before reaffirmed it's coming in 2026 to xbox xbox pc xbox cloud it will be plenty where and it will be on game pass even better there is a demo today jump into the wins whimsical platformer coming to xbox later this year as the titular goldman you'll explore a magical hand-drawn world inspired by fairy tales and myths your mission is to kill the deity a mysterious fearsome creature that everyone knows about but no one has ever seen equipped with his trusty cane and a unique host of abilities goldman must adventure across this vibrant landscape each area and level lovingly crafted and colored by hand using classic frame by frame techniques that's why it looks so fucking

1:01:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:impressive yeah i i mentioned earlier that i checked this out during steam next fest the demo is still available on steam and now it's available on xbox if you want to play it uh on Xbox I was very blown away by the visuals of this game right like getting into it it's like wow they were not joking as far as like the hand-drawn animation every frame looks incredible everything flows so smoothly it kind of is ridiculous to to look at platforming was fun as well too like it seems like a way bigger game than I expected which I'm kind of scared about you know I mean like you know during this you mentioned Hollow Knight you mentioned these other Metroidvanias and I'm kind of like damn this might be one that people devote their like devote a few weeks to to devote a month to to like get into it and and clear everything out but yeah this is one that i think is going to find a strong audience that that adores it for metrovanias now there's we talk about we were talking about roguelites earlier but like retrovanias are kind of in the same boat where there's so many of them and i feel like you need a hook and like seeing this it's like this is just so gorgeous and it looks so deep and and interesting from like the original announcement and seeing this it's like fuck man like this game is way deeper than i would have ever imagined uh yeah i'm very very excited that just i think this is the best game shown here today for sure.

1:02:37Mike Howard:Oh yeah. Definitely. Definitely on the shortlist. From there we went to Vaunted. Vaunted is another world premiere we showed today. A tactical RPG with an explosive action in dynamic combat where turn-based planning is paired with real-time action to open up unique opportunities. Unravel the story of an expedition gone horribly wrong with the help of three extremely unreliable narrators, powerful weapons, unique special abilities, and a brand of questionable allies. Vaunted is coming to Xbox on PC later in 2026. Keep an eye out for more details. i don't think it showed well no that was also another not show well at all bless you was like is this turn-based i was like i have no i didn't know it was an x-com like at all it's right yeah i was confused the whole time watching this yeah i still can tell you

1:03:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:what the gameplay is like we see a bunch of different things here i wish i this would almost be a better one if they had like an overview trailer right where it is welcome to the world of haunted and like a really quick here's what the game is kind of thing because you're showing me different things that look kind of cool and like there's an art style here that is like that stands out from a lot of the other games but also yeah the the this trailer brought together it's like ah yeah and then they start doing this which is like the low you know frame rate yeah cut scene where i'm like is that a mistake what's happening right now yeah it's just a really bizarre trailer

1:03:48Mike Howard:yeah yeah i think par for the course on this showcase just not the right trailer for the right show definitely needs a description more than what there's something aesthetically that really reminds me of borderlands like between the yeah for me it's battleborn oh yeah that's such a an art style that stands out. I'm like, I disagree, but I understood what you meant for the show. Compared to the other games in the show, yeah. But no, I don't look at this and go, hell yeah. I do look at Hades 2, though, and go, hell yeah. Coming to Xbox, finally. April 14th of coming to Game Pass, coming to Xbox everywhere.

1:04:20Mike Howard:If you haven't played Hades 2, guess what? There it is. It's there. You can go get it now. Side boob. That's crazy. Everybody loves Hades 2, right? Everybody knows we love Hades 2. Fuck yeah. Hades 2 is great. Fantastic game. If you haven't played it, there you go.

1:04:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's on Game Pass. Showing me the gameplay is legit kind of dangerous. Because I'm like, what if I go back to my desk, boot up Hades 2 real quick. And that's my whole day. That's my whole day.

1:04:41Mike Howard:Good. We did it. No. One more. No, I'm saying for Hades. Does anybody have anything else to say about Hades? No. All right. We're moving on. No, no, no. And then, yes, the final game they showed, of course, Artificial Detective. All of humanity has disappeared. You are going to be this artificial detective as you get out there and discover it. Coming 2027. Another. Ah, okay. this is interesting I don't know how much of this trailer I believe is actual gameplay and then it's like okay okay okay boom our show closed with the world premiere of Artificial Detective a stylish post-apocalyptic venture in the trailer we meet a wise Kraken robot detective tasked with his greatest case yet finding out why humanity has disappeared one twist in the mystery a single human child has been left behind and the pair must work together to solve the case and save humanity in an explosive third person action adventure we can't wait to see more of artificial detective right arrives um 2027 xbox everywhere xbox cloud xbox whatever pc it'll be xbox play anywhere uh no mention of game pass you compared it to

1:05:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:pacopio on the stream and i didn't understand it until you reread the thing and i was like oh i see yeah yeah humanity humanity being gone humanity's gone and we're trying to figure out why

1:05:51Mike Howard:yeah and you got all this stuff coming in which again big hero six we remember this baymax's foes remember this thing a little never forget you watched that recently didn't you yeah yeah i never watched it concurrently when it originally came out ben has introduced it to me since then now we don't we like baymax a lot oh baymax is great way smarter than they called the show afterwards baymax since baymax was like the standout i think more than i digress uh what do we think of this everybody yeah i mean it doesn't look like a real video game i mean i'm hopefully that gameplay segment is actually gameplay because then really impressive but But yeah, something about, I just, I need to see more about this.

1:06:25I mean, I don't, nothing about this really like kind of like blew me away. I don't think it was, I don't know. Was this the right move to end the thing with? Probably. Absolutely not. I mean, well, I mean, if you look at like what we have here. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like it is, but it just didn't do anything for me, sadly. Yeah. I liked the look of it. I thought it was the most eye catching. I mean, of course, coming 2027, that's a long time from now. There's going to be a lot of questions asked about that, but it, you know, yeah it had this gameplay that's like is that the gameplay i don't know but at least they were showing something more than just the hyper realistic sci-fi trailer that we've seen uh with other games like this right it gives gives me um ubisoft the one where jacob joseph gordon levin tried to get me to sign up beyond good and evil to give me beyond good and evil 2 vibes like okay here's your super flashy trailer but like get me to the game we'll see you know yeah i didn't

1:07:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:disbelieve the gameplay when they showed it right like i for me it did look like gameplay but in a way where like i could kind of see some of the stiffness you know like the movement reminded me of like a resident evil or something like that just as far as the over the shoulder you know you kind of like you have a limited range of movement but it is like a slow plotting i'm going to take out uh these enemies and try to manage my space sort of way and like cool i want to see more i don't know if i am sold yet on like the fun factor but i think there's an aesthetic here that is interesting and it is eye-catching i'm looking into this uh developer to kind of get a vibe and it seems like they're more of a 3d animation company than anything so it seems like a cana and also it seems like they're based in san francisco which is like a rarity should we go over there uh but yeah vivek studios uh they said built to create badass 3d animation for young adults so it seems like that's kind of their bread and butter there so i you see that with the trailer and everything it looks like something from blur studios uh so i honestly rating that it actually sells me yeah exactly here if you had the voiceover saying this is a studio that's never made a game before and they make amazing 3d animation and now they're making the first game I would be like oh fuck okay now I'm into it You'd be playing the AI guy And you command your little dog to do this I can see this game come together I can kind of feel the gameplay As they're doing it but my main thing is I hope it's fun I hope when we have the controllers In our hands this is something where we're like yo This is the next Kena Meets Resident Evil or whatever you want to call it I don't like the title though I think Artificial Detective is like

1:08:42Mike Howard:They're trying to be too smart He's a little lame A little corny But we shall see in 2027. In that, ladies, gentlemen, and NBs, was the Xbox Partner Preview, live reaction, and review. No. Big dud. Sucks. You know, Mike? I'm at like a six is where I was going to be at. Five, six. I stand by an awful 2.5. Wow. Wow. Yeah. 3.5 to 4. 3.5 bad? Okay. I saw Paris say, like, I think Mike's expectations were higher. my expectations were set very accordingly and they were actually still not met I agree with that that's why I'm at a 5 or 6 I thought like oh we just get a 7 we'll just get like a good and like in my mind I was like I want to say this is good but like it just wasn't right and that was just because it was lacking a lot there the announcements the game pass announcements the world premieres the you know partnerships they were all kind of there but when you watch the games and the trailers it was like this isn't very enjoyable to sit through and watch and get excited about.

1:09:44Mike Howard:Agreed. Some super chats in here before we transition to Wii News. Singleton writes in and says, Presentation aside, as primarily an Xbox gamer with an Ally X in Game Pass, there's a lot of good info to be happy about. Of course. Yes. I stand by that as the exact same gamer with my Xbox Ally and how much I love it. Like, yeah, Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere, great stuff. But again, I just think a bad presentation for all this information. The right Hidalgo wrote in and said, A birthday tax from my seven-year-old Theo. Happy birthday, Theo. I hope you have a great time. MagicGun23 says, Bless has been on his volleyball arc, so I highly recommend he peeps.

1:10:19Mike Howard:Haikyuu. What is that? Are you the best sports anime ever made? Oh, I know. Everybody tells me about Haikyuu. Have you not watched it yet? No. Oh, bless you. You'll freak if you watch that. Yeah, me and Barrett covered it on kind of anime, which you should watch. Barrett and I love talking about anime with y 'all. That is the volleyball anime that everyone loves. It is so good. Is there romance in it? There has to be. I don't think so. it's more about teamwork in the season one. There was no romance yet. I'll think about it coming together. Final super chat comes from tilted crow to comment on the production.

1:10:47Mike Howard:I think the fact that score Enix had a more entertaining update video on their latest releases, parentheses, co-starring Matt Mercer and Ben star speaks volumes. Yeah.

1:10:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It just doesn't feel like a, this is a priority showcase, right? Like this just feels like a, Hey, let's be have a thing. All right, let's pull in trailers. Let's fulfill these obligations. And Joshie frog,

1:11:06Mike Howard:The showcase felt soulless. Nothing grabbed me. Really quick. Can we circle back? Are you looking for love on the volleyball court? I mean, you never know. You never know.

1:11:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Bless is looking for love everywhere. You never know. Love on the volleyball court? Roger. Don't worry about it.

1:11:21Mike Howard:Blessing finding love would be huge news. But if I wanted something smaller, say what came to the mom and grub shops in the video game world. Where would I go? You go to our last story, the Wee News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. That's right. You're still getting some daily beats here. These are going to be big news tomorrow. Okay, and this is the preview then tomorrow. You say that? You say that? PlayStation is going to close the studio. I think Star Fox is more important than PlayStation. Asha is going to fucking leave. It's all over. Then fine. A teaser for you tomorrow maybe for Games Daily.

1:11:50Mike Howard:Number one, shout out to our friend Alana Pierce. Alana Pierce launches Charred Pictures, a creator-first production company focused on video game adaptations for film and television. The initial slate includes Dead Take and Faith Unholy Trinity adaptations. Wow. Alana continuing to do amazing stuff in the industry. Of course, you can go read about that on Variety if you really wanted to. And then, yes, Wario64 says God of War live-action series cast Lost alum Sonja Walger as Freya. So we got that. I don't know if you're going in that deeper. No, that's WeNews. I'm talking about the other WeNews.

1:12:23Mike Howard:Can I say this one? I'm just going to say it. Just say it because people know it. And then the other one for you, Super Mario Galaxy movie put out a trailer and a tweet that says, Let's rock and roll. Fox McCloud joins the Super Mario Galaxy movie only in theaters April 1st. We're going to talk about this. As someone that's not on Kind of Funny Games Daily tomorrow, don't love that. Don't love the tease on that one. That they spoiled it for you? Yeah, I don't like that at all. They want to get your ass in the seats. I'm already getting my ass in the seats. They already spoiled Pikmin already. I mean, it's happening.

1:12:51I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, they put it on their fucking, they're like, oh, here are all the characters in the movie. And then it's just Pikmin in one frame. And it's like, that's weird. Okay, well, now you just spoiled it for me. That's great. Okay, well, it's an official thing. It's an official thing, everybody.

1:13:01Mike Howard:I'm going to tackle you after this episode. I'm just so you know. And that's it for Wii News, everybody. And that's it also for this show, Kind of Funny Games Daily. Believe it or not, though, we have a humongous games cast up next. It's the Soros preview. Andy, Roger, blessings. Sitting down to talk about this one. What Andy got up to in Helsinki. What Roger thought when he got to play it in San Francisco. A whole bunch of good stuff's coming up there. Of course, if you're watching or listening and you're not on the live stuff right now, You can get that on demand, youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames.

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