Baldur’s Gate 3 Studio New Game At Game Awards?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.10.25

Summary

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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Baldur’s Gate 3 Studio New Game At Game Awards?!

Episode Date: December 10, 2025
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., guest contributors
Podcast: Kinda Funny Games Daily

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Episode Overview

On Game Awards Eve, Tim, Blessing, and guests break down major stories in the video game industry, with hot topics including a possible new Divinity game from Larian Studios teased for The Game Awards, fresh reveals from PlayStation and former Naughty Dog vet Bruce Straley, a strategic shift for Call of Duty’s annual releases, nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Game Awards, and a flurry of nostalgic and current games news. The episode blends speculation, deep dives, and community banter characteristic of Kinda Funny’s lively, humorous, and accessible style.

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Key Discussions & Insights

1. Game Awards Statue Mystery Solved: Larian Studio’s Next Game

[11:28 – 18:54]

• The gaming community speculated about a mysterious statue teased by Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley, featuring dark fantasy imagery.
• Investigative fans linked the statue to three new Divinity-related trademarks filed by Larian Studios (makers of Baldur’s Gate 3), suggesting a Game Awards reveal.
• Blessing notes: "I think Divinity Original Sin 3, if that is what it is being announced, is such a great thing because coming off of Baldur's Gate 3, you have a more mainstream audience than before now aware of what Larian can do." [13:34]
• Tim: "Baldur’s Gate 3 won game of the year at the Game Awards two years ago, so there’s definitely excitement… from the creators of Game of the Year." [13:34–13:45]
• Discussion: Is Larian making Divinity: Original Sin 3, a remaster, or an entirely new Divinity universe game?
• Community sentiment is split between desiring a direct sequel and wanting a new saga entry. Tim and Bless underscore that a Larian turn-based game is a draw for many, regardless.

Notable Quote:
“It’s the most exciting game ever for a wider group of people, because Baldur’s Gate 3 hit the streets like crack.” — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [14:30]

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2. PlayStation and Naughty Dog Vets Teasing Game Awards Reveals

[19:58 – 26:31]

• PlayStation will showcase "Soros," from Housemarque (creators of Returnal), at The Game Awards.
• Wildflower Interactive, led by Bruce Straley (co-creator of Uncharted and The Last of Us), is debuting its first game. Studio promises “smallish, creatively charged, uniquely stylized games that explore the possibilities of the medium.”
• Tim: "Every word used there was a choice to say something and it’s something I want to hear." [21:07]
• The hosts note the trend of studios founded by beloved devs making “hopeful but risky” indie/midsized games, referencing both success stories and missteps.
• Discussion of balancing surprise vs. announced reveals at game shows—hosts wish for more surprise but acknowledge the promotional value of pre-show teasers.
• Blessing questions: “What if you tease co-op [in Soros] this early — does that dissuade people from wanting to hop in singleplayer?” [26:31]
• They reminisce on surprise moments, joke about Andy Cortez secretly voicing main characters.

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3. Call of Duty Shakes Up Its Annual Formula

[33:16 – 43:10]

• Activision confirms it will no longer release Modern Warfare and Black Ops games in back-to-back years; wants each annual COD to be "an absolutely unique experience.”
• Recent CODs were criticized for feeling like expansions rather than full games.
• Tim: “It’s not the sameness of following up a Black Ops to a Black Ops. It’s the fact that it’s lesser than and it feels lesser than.” [34:54]
• They highlight market pressures: annualization, expectations of massive sales, and the Game Pass effect.
• Discuss the impossible expectations set by yearly timelines and the creative/financial strain.
• Blessing: “The task of putting out a major—like, let’s say, a Black Ops 6 and a Modern Warfare 2 level game every year… No, I don’t think you can." [37:51]
• Concerns about studios being repurposed to support COD, referencing Microsoft’s growing stable.
• The perpetual rebranding issues (joking about the eventual re-re-release of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare").

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4. BAFTA Games 2026 Long List & Notable Nominations

[44:12 – 49:02]

• BAFTA announces the long list of 64 games for the 2026 awards, with “Best Game” potential nominees including Arc Raiders, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yote, Hades 2, Indiana Jones, and Split Fiction.
• Tim: “If you were to expand the Game Awards list, these are the things I would expand it to.” [45:57]
• They discuss surprise inclusions and their personal top picks for the year (e.g., Indiana Jones, Split Fiction).
• “Best British Game” highlights the unique UK-centric category, prompting a sideline investigation into game studios’ British credentials.
• Notable performer nominations include Aaron Paul ("Dispatch"), Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, and standout work in "Hades 2."

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5. Gaming Nostalgia & Community Banter

[52:41 – 56:32]

• Celebrates classic titles arriving to platforms (Rayman 2, Tonic Trouble, Soul Caliber 3); confusion and speculation over why Donkey Kong 64 continues to be snubbed for rerelease.
• Friendly debate: Is Nintendo “salty” about DK64, or are they saving it for a future big drop?
• Jokes about military propaganda and “surprising amount of tits” in Donkey Kong lore.
• Reflections on characters and personal game favorites echoing the hosts' signature playful tone.

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6. Quick News (WE News) Roundup

[52:00–58:25]

• Doom creator John Romero’s canceled game is back in development
• PlayStation Plus Premium/Extra December lineup: Assassin's Creed Mirage, Wo Long, Skate Story, and more.
• Expansion Pack adds: Soul Caliber 3, Rayman 2, Tonic Trouble to Switch.
• Xbox Design Lab launches Pip Boy controller
• Death Howl dated for February 19, 2026 on all platforms.

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7. Super Chats & Lighthearted Banter

[58:47–end]

• Q&A covers topics from portable gaming PCs to British studios to Kingdom Hearts 4 hopes.
• The hosts riff on pronouncing "corps," UK game dev geography, and game nostalgia.
• A running gag about “Cream the Rabbit” and Sonic names closes the show:
  Tim: "Yeah, I got an anti-cream agenda.” [67:01]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Baldur’s Gate 3 hit the streets like crack." — Blessing [14:30]
• "If it’s a turn based Larian game, I’m in.” — Summing up Divinity/Baldur's Gate fan sentiment ([18:28])
• “It’s not the sameness... It’s the fact that it’s lesser than and it feels lesser than.” — Tim on Call of Duty fatigue [34:54]
• "The task of putting out a major... every year... No, I don’t think you can." — Blessing [37:51]
• "They're going to, Modern Warfare 1 3, yeah. I bet you within 10 years we get another Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." — Tim, on COD naming loops [43:47]
• Passionate, playful exchange about Donkey Kong 64’s absence from NSO and Nintendo’s attitude towards the game. [53:34–54:20]
• "There's a surprising amount of military propaganda in Donkey Kong Country. And a very big surprising amount of tits." — Tim [55:04–55:12]
• Anti-cream agenda: Tim’s mysterious anti–Cream the Rabbit stance, left unresolved for comedic effect. [67:01]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Intro and Banter: 02:28–11:06
• Larian/Divinity Statue: 11:28–18:54
• PlayStation/Wildflower reveals: 19:58–26:31
• Call of Duty strategic change: 33:16–43:10
• BAFTA Games long list: 44:12–49:02
• WE (Quick) News: 52:00–58:25
• Donkey Kong 64 Nostalgia: 52:41–56:32
• Super Chats & Wrap-Up: 58:47–67:25

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Conclusion

This lively, speculation-rich, and often irreverent episode sees the Kinda Funny crew in top form—debating big industry news, riffing on gaming’s past and future, and making direct appeals to their community. Fans unfamiliar with the show will experience a whirlwind of video game culture, inside jokes, industry insight, and infectious hype for Game Awards season.

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Transcript

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So they thought it was a demon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Plus yeah. So wait, they thought it was a demon for real? Like a stranger, Like a random person walked by and was like, yo, what the is that?

[Tim Gettys]

Here's the thing. I saw a couple social posts from people that seemed a little sensationalist, trying to rile people up from the, from a very, very religious right. They were just saying like, no, we don't know where this came from. Like like, people are like, you think it's the Rapture? And I'm like, no, it's. It's divinity. Original saying.

[Guest/Contributor]

My favorite was one of the main posts. Sorry, my camera isn't working. But one of the main posts saying, like, it's. What was it? It was like, it's not a warning. It's a sign of, like, California, where it's going. It's like, all right.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the energy that they're bringing to the Game Awards. It's Game Awards eve, everybody. Of course. Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Wednesday, December 10, 2025. I'm Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Blessing out of Yoye junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good day, Tim. I kind of understand where it comes from because growing up, if my parents even caught a glimpse of my Yu Gi oh cards, it was a whole thing. They didn't like that.

[Tim Gettys]

The Yu Gi oh art is kind of. Kind of demonic, really. There's something about them eyes always.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is anime eyes, you know, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's just a blue eyes, white dragon.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it's just a Celtic guardian.

[Tim Gettys]

There's something you need to know. I don't think you're allowed to wear that shirt anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This one.

[Tim Gettys]

You're looking too good in it. It's not fair. It's not fair.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I appreciate it.

[Tim Gettys]

Damn, dude. You were fitting this shirt in a way that is unfair to the world. Am I right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, listen, Let me tell you went to Seattle for Thanksgiving. My brother in law, he took me to the gym. He was like, let me teach you about free weights. And it's changed the game, let me tell you. I'm about to be looking different in 2026. Y' all get ready for it.

[Tim Gettys]

You have a busy 2026 college, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You got a lot of new things you're going to do. Free weights.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Free weights. Resident Evil Requ. What was it?

[Tim Gettys]

Tactical.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2026. Fire emblem.

[Tim Gettys]

Fire Emblem. Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I can't wait for it.

[Tim Gettys]

Do we have a date on the new one? I'm not sure. I don't know if they put a 2026 on that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think they definitely did. Yeah. There's a year.

[Tim Gettys]

At least it'll be next year. That's great. Oh, exciting times abound, everyone. This is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday, we run you through the video game news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do Please support us with the kind at funny membership on Patreon, YouTube support Spotify or Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free and a daily exclusive show for a chance to be part of this show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Just like Nathan Maloney already did, saying, here's my daylight birthday tax. Happy Birthday. If Kingdom Hearts 4 is not at the Game Awards and there is not a Muppets World, we're kidnapping Mike and forcing him into the Canadian army. Thanks. Kind of funny.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Muppets World. See, I. The whole, like, mergers and all this. Muppets is under Disney.

[Tim Gettys]

Muppets is Disney.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How long has that been? Very long time.

[Tim Gettys]

Very long time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't. I'm not in. I'm not Nick. Nick loves the Muppets.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I'm not that big into, you know what I did, like, as a kid? Muppet Babies.

[Tim Gettys]

Of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. That was my Jesse is like. There was a lot of collaboration and so. Correct me where I'm wrong. You're wrong. All right, kebabs, this is your chance. Okay. They didn't own them originally. I do think it was an acquisition at some point. But there was a lot of collaboration even dating back to like the 70s and 80s with. Because I'm pretty sure like Fraggle Rock was. It's a Jim Henson thing. It's like Muppets adjacent. That was Disney.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

So, like, I think that there was always a lot of just kind of like lineage, shared DNA, I guess. Lineage. And then, yeah, eventually Disney bought the.

[Guest/Contributor]

Muppets and Bear in the Big blue house in February 2004.

[Tim Gettys]

That's right. Because Baron the Big Blue House was all over. What was it? What was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, are we talking about.

[Tim Gettys]

Isn't that the Nick Jr. Of Disney?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was like, oh, Disney Treehouse or something like that. Yes. I wonder.

[Guest/Contributor]

But I wonder if the Jim Henson Company owned the rights to it, even if they distributed it.

[Tim Gettys]

Definitely. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We got.

[Tim Gettys]

Because 2004 was like, super late for them to own that. Because, like, yeah, the Big Blue house was like 90s, right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is probably a kind of funny podcast, but, like, we gotta have a draft of the best, like, baby toddler shows.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because, like, first round pick. We're talking about Blues Clues. We're talking about Dora. Okay. Yeah, Dora. Bob the builder. Is he up there?

[Tim Gettys]

He's definitely up there. Oh, he's got to show respect.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not a first round pick, but a pick. Like my personal pick, Franklin. Remember Franklin the Turtle?

[Guest/Contributor]

Well, It's Franklin coming to my house, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you going to tell me that.

[Tim Gettys]

He got canceled Blessing you would believe. Oh, no. What if I told you Franklin got canceled in the last week? Wait, what?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What happened to Franklin?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm going to keep going to the show. Barrett, if you have. If you could google Franklin cancel to try to get more information, I would appreciate it. I'll do housekeeping for you. There's no holiday party like a KF holiday party. Celebrate the season with this incredible premium collector's item by Panda Musk. Available exclusively on Patreon.com kind of funny. Until the month ends. Sorry. I'm telling par to do multiple things at once. But when he has a second, he.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Will bring up Franklin thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Man, I'll have to look.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Look at this amazing holiday art of the entire team. My favorite personal bit in the bottom right. Toretto's little face. Pop it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's cute. I apologize.

[Tim Gettys]

And Lulu there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I apologize to anybody who makes art for KF that I cut my hair. I'm sorry.

[Tim Gettys]

You got to keep them on their toes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. Yeah, man. Joey texted me, so I'll be able to look back when I have a second. Maybe during the ads. I'll try to find it, but she told me she tipped. I'm sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you hear about Franklin?

[Tim Gettys]

Franklin got canceled.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy because I don't think I've even heard the name Franklin in 20 years.

[Tim Gettys]

Today, after Games Daily, you're going to get the Gamescast episode that is predicting the Game Awards 2025 winners. I'm very excited about that. Yesterday we did our Game Awards announcement predictions and it was a really fun episode. Some serious, some a little bit more fun. But we all had a very good time and I'm sure we're about to this time as well. Then after that, the stream is going to be Greg playing a little Pokemon Za Mega Dimension dlc. Seeing if he's liking that. I. I think he's been playing a little bit starting last night. So exciting times there too. If you're a kind of funny member, of course you get today's Greg Way. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs of Mana Buster and Delaney the Som Twining. Did you find anything, Tim?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't find anything. This Franklin thing goes deeper than I would have ever guessed. I'm not.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I haven't. There's. There's a lot of information and it's hard to get to the bottom of it within the Span of an intro to the. To a show. But I did not expect the name Hegseth to be involved.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man. Unless you're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is this the same thing? Is the p. Hexa situation right?

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, hold on, hold on.

I. I'm getting to the source of this. And the source is Joey Noel. I'm sending this to Assets.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is going to tell Joey to, like, speed to work so she can get on the mic and explain this.

[Tim Gettys]

A sentence asset so we can bring it up and look at this together. Kids can press tweets out. Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who's inspired generations of children. Stands for kindness, empathy and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image which directly contradicts these values. So I imagine he was being used for ice stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. I think Hexseth put out like, a meme, like maybe an AI. I haven't seen the thing, but it sounds like he put out something and they had to then fire back at him.

[Guest/Contributor]

I found it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, okay. Don't pull it up. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you describe what it is?

[Guest/Contributor]

It's like an AI recreated image of Franklin essentially blowing up cartel drug boats. What is what they've claimed they've been blowing up near Venice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why Franklin? Franklin? Because everything fucking is awful and leave people alone. Franklin isn't even, like, a top shot. Like, I love Franklin, but, like, I feel like there's. So you get to. Why not Blue from Blue's Clues? Why not spongebob? Like, why? Why Franklin?

[Tim Gettys]

I understand you're trying to understand, like, here, but you keep losing out your mouth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, I'm just saying, like, there's so many other options before we get to Franklin. What about the Bears and the Bernstein Bears? Like, what? So what the fuck? Why Franklin? Leave Franklin alone. He does nothing. He's done nothing.

[Tim Gettys]

God damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's been off the air for, like, 20 years.

[Tim Gettys]

Fucked up world we are in. This is so, so shitty that they keep doing this with things that people care about. And it's for the most horrible acts possible. Stop doing those.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Especially with Franklin. You got the robot from My Life as a Teenage Robot right there. You know, I mean, there's so many other dollars.

[Tim Gettys]

What is it? Forever will be. The Roper Report.

It's time for some news. We have five stories today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everything's awful. A baker's does it. You got the dudes from. Did you ever watch Megas XLR on Cartoon Network?

[Tim Gettys]

I didn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, dude, Megas xlr. That's the name of the show, right? Chad? It's been a while. It's like some random ass like country dudes who then get a mech and it's basically kind of like a riff off of Transformers or whatever, but it's Cartoon Network almost Adult Swim style, but like not all the way Adult Swim. Like they don't get.

[Guest/Contributor]

I remember they had a really dope game on the Cartoon Network website.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I I never had Cartoon Network unfortunately, so I missed out on all that. Story number one the mystery behind the Game Award statue appears to have been solved. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC the Identity of the Mysterious Statue.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This be a fun one Today, the identity.

[Tim Gettys]

Of the mysterious statue that was created for the Game Awards may have been revealed. Last week, the Game Awards organizer Jeff Keeley posted an image of the statue and tracking information which pinpointed its location to a roadside in the Mojave Desert it in California. Players have been visiting this location to take photos and videos of the statue, while the gaming community online has been guessing what game it could represent. Because of the dark nature of the statue, which appears to have various people, demons, dragons and other such growing out of it, suggestions have tended to focus on fantasy or mature themed games with guesses including God of War, Diablo, Fallout, New Vegas, Doom, Balers, Gate and similar titles. Sony Santa Monica director Cory Barlog has already denied that it's a God of War game, and journalist Jason Schreier, who says he knows what it is but is insane, shot down a claim that it referred to a Diablo 4 expansion. However, it would appear that MP first may have cracked the case after finding three new trademarks registered today in Europe related to the Divinity series of games by Larian Studios. The new trademarks include the Divinity logo with a different font from previous games, an icon that looks similar to a spider web, and another icon which shows a circle with long spikes coming out of it. MP first has pointed out that the second logo looks near identical to to a similar design on the Game Award statue, making it seem extremely likely that the statue relates to either a remake or remaster of a previous Divinity game or an entirely new entry in the series bar.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just put a link to the MP first article in Assets if we want to like look and compare. It's one of those things though where it's like oh yeah, this is for sure it. Yeah, yeah, which is exciting. I think Divinity original sin 3, if that is what what it is being announced is such a great thing because coming off of Baldur's Gate 3, you have a more mainstream audience than before now aware of what Larian can do.

[Tim Gettys]

Because as a reminder, yeah. Baldur's Gate 3 won game of the year at the Game Awards two years ago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So there is definitely a.

Excitement for. From the creators of Game of the Year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Like, I imagine that's how you open this trailer is from the crew from the studio that made Baldur's Gate 3. You know, like, I think that is as much as. And I don't. I. I don't want to down talk Divinity Original Sin 2, because that game also came out and was a phenomenal game. I remember that was 2017, I want to say, because I remember doing Game of the Year conversations at okay, Beast, where Alex Vanaken was like, no, this is the one. Like, this game is incredible. And looking at the Metacritic, I haven't seen the Metacritic in like a minute. So I don't remember what it is. But I'm pretty sure if I type in Divinity Original Sin to Metacritic, I'm gonna do it right now. Because like, I played a little bit of it. I was like, yo, this is crazy as a 93. A 93. Metacritic.

[Tim Gettys]

93, man. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So that was a game that was already a banger. A game that fans of divinity, fans of CRPGs, fans of Larian were already in on. Right. Like, oh, divinity original sin 3 is the most exciting game ever now. It's the most exciting game ever for a wider group of people. Because Baldur's Gate 3 hit the streets like crack. Right. Like, that's the game that I think really put people onto the studio. And so no matter what, this is exciting. I. I'm very fascinated to see what the reveal looks like. Whether it's that or like a remake or remaster or whatever. I think no matter what it is, I'm very excited to see how they present it because now, Larry and means something new.

[Tim Gettys]

I wonder what the move is as a complete outsider, like, entirely to all of this. Like, I wonder if the fan base is yearning for three or if the idea of a remake of a 93 on Metacritic but with modern enhancements is enticing to them. Right. Like, I'm sure it. There's going to be people that want the new thing always, because that makes a lot of sense. But I also think that just with what it sounds like from my memory, they were saying they weren't working on a three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. Yeah, I don't remember because I.

[Tim Gettys]

Get all very confused because then there's Also Pillars of Eternity, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but that's a whole different thing. That's not them.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that not related at all?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't believe so.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that the same universe or something? Even though it's different Studio, I don't think they're related.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's the avowed game. Like, that's the avowed world.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Unless I'm thinking of Path of Exile, which is another Poe. But I'm pretty sure Pillars of Eternity and a vowel are the same.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. That. That's what I was thinking. Yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

That comes from Obsidian.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Guest/Contributor]

But, yeah, I'm pretty sure, Larry. And there's the whole thing about, like, they aren't gonna do Baldur's Gate 4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course. Well, we know that for sure. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And they've talked about a little bit about their next project, plural.

[Tim Gettys]

So chun2d2 in the chat says Larry and said they're not working on original sin 3 as of yesterday. However.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Divinity itself is the greater saga.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I wonder if.

[Tim Gettys]

So it could not be. It could just be Divinity, something else instead of Original Sin. Divinity, Gate, Divinity, Divinity. Y' all like Baldur's Gate.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I see what you're saying. Hold on, because I'm. Now I'm looking back at this thing. Excuse me. MP first may have cried the case after finding three new trademarks registered today related to the Divinity series, that the new trademarks include the Divinity logo. Okay. So they never say Original Sin. So it could just be Divinity, something else. Could be Divinity, a new chapter.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Again, Chat, let me know if you are a fan of Divinity, Original Sin. Is that enticing to you? Would you rather a divinity original sin 3, or a divinity something different? And if so, what's that look like?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Super.

[Tim Gettys]

Chat, Let me know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let us know.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you, as somebody that got pretty Into Baldur's Gate 3, are you excited at this idea?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Depends on how they present it. I.

I excited. I don't think. I don't think necessarily. Right. Like, I try it, I check it out, and I think there's a level there that's like. I just want to see what a very talented studio does next. But Baldur's Gate 3, I think about going back all the time because I put in 30 something hours, and I still was very early in that game by the time I last dropped it off. Right. And I want to go back. I know Andy and Mike talk about all the time, like, yeah, we got to restart our playthrough. Or whatever. And I'm like, man, if I can get in that. And that be my way of getting back in. Because I think there's something so enticing about that cast of characters is something so enticing about that world, it being D and D, it having those mechanics and also it resonating with not just the video game community, but then people who are into tabletop RPGs and all that stuff, because it's all kind of related. I think that allowed Baldur's Gate to really speak broadly in that way where divinity strikes me as something that's a bit more hardcore and targeted. But if this is a new chapter for divinity, maybe they can take some of the learnings that they had from Baldur's Gate, put that in there. I don't want them necessarily to take out the DNA of what makes divinity divinity. But also, I'm not the person to even tell you what that is. Yeah, right. Like, I'd be curious to hear from divinity.

[Tim Gettys]

It is interesting. Looking at the chat, it feels very evenly split between people saying that they would want Divinity Original sin 3 vs a Divinity Original project. Yeah. But the sentiment overall seems to be, if it's a turn based Larry game, I'm in. Yeah, like that. That's what I'm here for. So I think they're in a very good spot. And congratulations, y'. All. Like, you're. You're getting it. Like, this statue is here. You will get a reveal tomorrow. That's very exciting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Hell yeah. Is divinity something or not even divinity Baldur's Gate? Was that something that ever appealed to you? I know that's not really your type of.

[Tim Gettys]

In zero ways at all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. That's just not. Not my type of thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What is it? Is it just the.

[Tim Gettys]

It's the world. It's the point and clicking. It's that type of gameplay. The concept of, like, making my own choices in an RPG doesn't interest me. Like, I'm there for, like, give me a curated story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want a specific.

[Tim Gettys]

I want. I want character stories that, like, I know that y' all made for a very specific reason that I'm getting to the end of. I understand that those also exist within that. But I. I'm a plot guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I really think I'm a plot guy at the end of the day. And that's cool. You know what I mean? There's a ton of games for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Out there I still want, even though I don't think this is who they are. But I would like Larian. A Larian game that is a sci fi or cyberpunk or a dystopian thing or a post apocalyptic thing. Like I would love a laryng game that exists in a different genre. I say that even though they're so good at fantasy that if they never did, if they always want to do fantasy, I also understand like medieval fantasy type shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

Let's get into story number two here. PlayStation Soros and last of Us co Creators New game confirmed for the Game Awards this comes from andy Robinson at VGC. PlayStation will debut a new look at House Mark Soros at the Game Awards this week. That's according to a fresh round of teasers from organizers ahead of the Game Awards taking place on Thursday, December 11th. Saros, the next big game from the creators of Returnal, is one of the PlayStation's big 2026 games set to release in February, which I totally forgot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

I forgot with that close.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow. Soros was revealed earlier this year. The game stars the homie Raul Kohli and will continue Returnal's theme of sci fi action, but the games don't appear to be connective narratively. In addition, the Los Angeles show will debut the first look at the debut game from Wildflower Interactive, Wildflowers, the new studio co founded by Bruce Straley, co game director on Uncharted 2, Last of Us and Uncharted 4. According to Wildfire Flowers website, the studio's making smallish, creatively charged, uniquely stylized games that explore the possibilities of the medium. Very cool story before, but there's a couple words being said here that I'm liking. Smallish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Creatively charged, uniquely stylized games exploring the possibilities of medium. I feel like every word used there was a choice to say something and it's something I want to hear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude. I hope it delivers. Because right now whenever I hear about one of these projects, I start to. I think now I start from the place of nervousness, of will this actually deliver and be something that feels special and polished, Something along the lines of a dispatch or something along the lines of in Expedition 33 or a blueprints or any of the other, you know, indie games. Slash, like studio founded by somebody that we knew that is now doing something new. Right? Like is it going to live up to that or no shade to Eternal Strands. But is it going to feel like Eternal Strands, which was another one that we talked up as being something from one of the people behind Mass Effect. They went and made their own studio, they talked about the game and I think they maybe used some of these same words. Right. It was a stylized game that was smallish, that was creatively charged, that was have taking in inspirations from games like Shadow the Colossus and Breath of the Wild and doing these cool elemental things. And then I played Eternal Strains was like, ah, this is boring. This is not really hitting for me. I think I'm just as much on that side as I am on like the hopeful thing about it. But I'm excited to see what it is. I want it to be something exciting.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, definitely. And we're about to see like that's the cool thing about where we're at right now is it's like we have so many unknowns for the game awards, which is always the most exciting part for the genuine surprise. But there's also the last couple years of game awards in my opinion have been so solid because we know going in there's stuff we want to see that we're going to see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's like we now know we're about to see Bruce Straley's game. That's cool. Yeah. Like I feel like as we start filling out more sorrows, like, yeah, I want to see more sorrows. Like there's a lot of cool stuff we're going to get.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Micah brought this up the other day and like I. As we get closer to the game wars, I start to feel it of, man, I. I wish you guys held back more surprises. Like I know there's still surprises that we're going to see there but. And I know sorrows, right? Like we're so close to the game that maybe it makes sense to say that you're going to see that. But I feel like they talk so much about what's going to be there beforehand and I'm almost like, man, this feels like, this feels like too much for a show that feels like it centers around surprises and reveals and stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean that is the interesting thing, right? Like to us it does. But the reality is they just want eyes on the thing. The best way to get eyes on the thing is to tell people, hey, this thing's going to be here that you want to see. They still want some surprises, but it's like the point of the show is not surprises. To my chagrin. I wish we didn't know shit. I wish we're just going into two and a half hour show. Let's keep it there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And just have banger, banger, banger surprises. But like, you know that's dream world, right? But what we do know I'm excited about Miss Piggy is going to be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What are you going to. What do you think we'll see from Soros?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know that there's much we need to. You know what, What I think will hear is Raul's voice. Ooh, we haven't yet, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I guess.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't remember.

[Guest/Contributor]

Is there a possibility that he is just the performance capture and they brought in a ringer, Miss Piggy to be his voice. One aspiring voice actor, Andy Cortez.

[Tim Gettys]

Man, can you imagine that pop off if Eddie kept that a secret.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The whole time. Andy didn't tell any of us.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy Cortez.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And this is Andy doing his best impression of Rahul Kohli.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like, wow, you got paid too much money for this.

[Tim Gettys]

The chat saying he's. He talked in both trailers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, there we go.

[Tim Gettys]

That's hilarious.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I believe.

[Guest/Contributor]

I don't feel like that's confirmation against that.

[Tim Gettys]

It's Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just saying you had to convince because I was like, did we not hear him talk? So I can see that it's weird. I mean, us being so close to it. I also kind of forgot that it was February. I thought it was like March or something like that. But I. This would almost feel like, okay, well, is it just a launch trailer at this point? You know, I mean, like, are you just going to show us like a commercial at this point? Is there any cool reveal? What if there's a vill?

[Tim Gettys]

Well, again, I need to refresh myself on an Soros, but have they talked about co op? Because that was such a cool update for Returnal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, maybe that'd be really neat.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I think that would make sense. But I also can see them holding that and that being an update later.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But I do think that that would very much speak to the Returnal audience. Right. That's already kind of sold. But just to have that extra level of. This isn't just a launch trailer. This is a. A time to allow Returnal fans to get loud on the Internet and be like, oh, man, we loved this. And like, you know that pop off moment to like for extra excitement. Whereas if it's just more so, it's going to be like, oh, yeah, hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You know, I, I could see bouncing off of that. Right. You go back to Go see ote. Go see ote had that trailer at Gamescom a couple months before. Maybe about a month. Less than a month. I Think before its release. And that's where they announced Go to Yote Legends with kind of a final trailer for that game. Maybe we could get just a generic trailer. And then at the end they tease maybe a tower because there was the tower challenge or the challenge tower. Add on that they put into Eternal after its release that I think a lot of people loved and enjoyed. Maybe that's a thing that you can tease. Maybe you can then tease co op with that. Right? Let people know that hey, this is coming later in the year or something. The only thing with co op that I'd be nervous about teasing is if you tease co op this early, does that dissuade people from wanting to just hop into the game single player? Do they then go, oh, I'll just wait for the co op to come out later.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I was saying day one, like in my mind. Oh, you're thinking that's the thing is like if they had that, like I imagine it will come later and they don't need to talk about it now. Yeah, I'm saying like because it seemed to be so well received. Maybe that's me speaking from the bubble of kind of funny. But y' all loved that go off so much. Like Andy and might talk about this shit all the time. So I feel like there is an excitement from the fans. So if they could pull it off for this next game, like being a bit more of a complete package at launch. Not that return will need it to be, but this being a follow up, more is better. Right. So I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The only thing I'd want to see from that then if for day one is some kind of contextualization around why. Why is it co op? Who's this other person you're playing with? Because I don't know if they did that for Eternal. I think because it was a post launch update, it was kind of like, all right, there's the two of you now. But if you're gonna do a day one at launch, I think then it's like, well, narratively, how does this make sense? What are we doing? Is there some kind of weird space magic that duplicates you? Yeah, that could be the easy way to explain it, but.

[Tim Gettys]

Or just a fuck it, it's a video game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or that.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or that. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Why was there multiple master chiefs in Halo? There just was.

Halo. Yeah. Oh, it's the first one. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was a different time.

[Guest/Contributor]

We used to be a society.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

A pretty damn interesting one Call of Duty won't release Modern Warfare or Black Ops back to back anymore. This comes from Jay Peters at the Verge. Future COD releases will no longer include back to back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops, Activision has announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare 2 and then Modern Warfare 3 in 2022 and 3, Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7 in 2024 and 5. But moving forward, Activision wants to offer, quote, an absolutely unique experience each and every year. According to a blog post, Black Ops 7 came out in November to mixed reviews, and in Europe, the game had a disappointing launch. The Game Business reports ahead of the game's release, Treyarch's senior director of production, Yale Miller, told Charlie intel that he was worried about Black Ops 6 and 7 being seen as too similar. We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental. While we aren't sharing those plans today, we look forward to doing so when the time is right. The post also notes that the future of Call of Duty is very strong and we believe our best days are ahead of us, given the depth of our talent and our development teams, and that the next era of Call of Duty will deliver precisely on what you want, along with some surprises that push the franchise and the genre forward. Sure, there's a big conversation here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's the big conversation?

[Tim Gettys]

I think the big conversation is how giant Call of Duty is and how they continue to change the strategies and despite changing strategies falling into the same traps. Yeah, and I think it all comes down to it's not the sameness of following up a Black Ops to a Black Ops. It's the fact that it's lesser than and it feels lesser than.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

When you compare the conversation around last year's to this year's, the campaign, to the campaign, the highlights, the highlights, low lights, the lowlights. It really does feel more like an expansion.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I think that has been. I think that at one point was their intent and then they went back on that intent. I think they were going to do the thing where all right, one year release Modern Warfare, was it two that came out in 2022. We're going to release Modern Warfare 2 and then the next year is just going to be an expansion. All right, we're going to release Black Ops. Next year is just going to be an expansion. And for whatever reason they're like, we're not going to do that, just make another game.

[Tim Gettys]

And the reason, and that's why I think it's an interesting conversation is because it's pretty clear to look at it like what's happening. It's like we look at it and it's like, yeah, it's an expansion. And if they marketed that way, I think people would be less, quote unquote mad. Yeah, guess what? It would also make them significantly less money. And that's the thing is they need to put out billion dollar sales year after year after year because that's what Call of Duty knows they can do and consistently has done. And you look back to it, it's like, all right, well is the solution then just switching up what the titles are? And it's like, well, not necessarily when you look back at some of the, the previous titles in the years prior to this. Right. So it is a complicated landscape for them. Where you compare it to the Assassin's Creed of Ubisoft, right, where that got annualized and got burned out and then just there was like a vitriol against it being annualized and they kind of took a step back and find a better pacing for those. And then it started feeling like, oh, y' all are just getting back to what you did before. But now it also needs to be the biggest thing ever. So it's kind of just the worst case scenario of bloats at the top of the industry, of expectations from the gamers being higher than ever and the cost of everything being higher than ever and the expectations of sales being higher than ever. Or at the very least the same as they were. Which when you're putting out a expansion pack sized content compared to full size content year after year and expecting the same amount of money while also bringing in game pass to this being a new player in the game and major effect on the finances of these games over the last two years now, Right? Yeah, or last year both of the games are talking about. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But.

[Tim Gettys]

That all of that combined. Yeah, they're going to have to try a new strategy. So while it's all kind of silly and you look at this and you go, yeah, we could have told you this, I do think them Just straight up saying, hey, this isn't working. We're trying something different. That's good, but what's the answer going to be?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that's the, that's the question. That's the million dollar question. Are we just going to go back to the way it was? Are we going. Because I. The task of putting out a major, like let's say a Black Ops was the one last year. I've already lost track because there's too many Black Ops and too many modern wars now. Right. The last year was six. So can we put out a. That's good. Can we put out a Black Ops 6 and a Modern Warfare 2 like level game every year?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't think you can. The answer is no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, which is why, like it's. It's that weird thing where I think that's why you wanted to make this almost expansion type thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of all right, Black Ops 6, Black Ops 7, it's going to be a little bit more iterative because we're not, you know, rebuilding from the ground up. Are you going to take breaks in between? The answer is no. Because you want to be able to sell all those copies every single year, be the number one best selling title every year. Are you going to do the three game rotation? I don't. I mean that seemed like that wasn't working before because Sledgehammer kept putting out non Modern Warfares and non Black Ops and those kept, I don't want to say flop because they're still the number one selling game of the year. But compared to the other name brand, things weren't performing.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's the thing when, when you're number one and you're still not enough, the scale is broken. And yeah, like you're, you're saying exactly what I'm saying. They've tried things and they try things until it's really not working for them. So it's like we've seen this exact thing before just with slightly different variables. Right. When it's like instead of like I cool. We're going to do the banger franchises year after year, which sounds like a great idea in theory if you pull it off, but we all know they can't. That's very similar to we're going to have the three studio cycle going through the different games and fans might have their favorites, but we're going to be able to experiment slightly, see if we can create a bigger hit. But it is interesting to think about reflecting on the last 15 years of call of Duty and thinking about what were the major wins and what were the missteps? And especially when you add Warzone to it all, the landscape is just so much different than it was when we were in the era of, hey, the campaign is what we're pushing as almost like a Trojan horse to get people into the multiplayer. Everyone was playing multiplayer. That was where the money was. That was where the conversation was in the player base and all that stuff. But they got Kevin Spacey, they got Kit Harrington, they got. They were focusing on the campaigns as big spectacle things. And that was like, I think, a much bigger push of the narrative. And that is so by the wayside now. Like the campaign last year, amazing. Like, I fucking loved it. I never finished it. I got like 70% through and it was a blast. But like, that was just a tentpole blast blockbuster thing that they were like, yeah, it's here. But they know that people are there for the multiplayer, right? People are not buying for the multiplayer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, they've released a couple of them without multiplayer. You know what I mean? Like, they, they know that. They know what people are here for.

[Tim Gettys]

You mean without a campaign?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm sorry, without campaign. Without campaign. Yeah. One of the black ops came out Cold War maybe came out without a campaign. And like, yeah, they know what people are. People are here for. But yeah, I don't know how you factor that in into, like the future call it, because I wonder if you can then go to cut down and development time. Let's not make campaigns. Does that, then does that. How much of an effect does that then have negatively on how people receive Call of Duty?

[Tim Gettys]

A big one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the thing is people go, I'm not going to spend 60, $70.

[Tim Gettys]

They've. They've created this problem, right, where it's like, there's an expectation of what you're getting for this annual now $70 drop that you're doing, right? So it's a tough place to be because they put themselves there. And I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that what they're doing, it doesn't seem to be working. So it's good that they're at least attempting to switch it up. But I just don't think that the annual Call of Duties will ever be able to have the level of conversations last year did every single year. It's simply impossible. No matter how many talented studios they gobble up and force into the trenches of Call of Duty, it's not possible.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How many more can we gobble up and force in there?

[Tim Gettys]

Though so many. Because like so many out there. Ubisoft just begging for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, you're talking about Microsoft, which is now the biggest publisher ever. So like, hey, what are these other studios doing?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my fucking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's Rare doing over there? I know it's not making ever wild.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, don't, don't, don't say that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, hey, listen, this isn't, this isn't me speaking on what I want. This is me speaking from what capitalism wants.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. The idea of Rare, this being forced to make Call of Duty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is what corporate consolidation wants. Hey, what's our biggest. What's our biggest property? Everybody's working on it now.

[Tim Gettys]

What if it was Bond Call of Duty, I'd be in.

[Guest/Contributor]

I'd buy it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'd buy it.

[Guest/Contributor]

I dread the day that Double Fine gets gutted by Microsoft and it's just a bare bones team that is now that becomes a support studio for Call of Duty.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

Which is really fucked up because I remember when they announced Microsoft was buying Double Fine, they made a joke about Double Fine supporting Call of Duty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If that ever happened, I think Tim Schaefer would leave and start his own studio.

[Guest/Contributor]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Take a lot of those people.

[Guest/Contributor]

They would still like. Microsoft's still on my shit list for a number. A plethora of reasons, but that would all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man.

What a shitty ass world. Poor Franklin. Resolute says Modern Warfare 3 was never supposed to be a thing. It was supposed to be an expansion.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And yet they released it as a thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was it ever. Was that ever like a report? I remember talking to somebody about this, but I don't think it was one of those ones where it's like, I don't remember if it was a reported thing. I don't remember. This is like a news thing or it's just like, you know, conversations you have with people. But yeah, no.

[Tim Gettys]

See if we got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Other report from Jason.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you. This Resolute says they're going back to what they did Pre Modern Warfare 2 in 2022 and the strategy did from 2022 to 5 was because one of the games from that time frame needed more help from the other studios. It still means yearly. Yeah, that's what we're saying. It's just like that. Just. That simply isn't tenable. They can't do it. No, they can't do it. I don't believe it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hear me out. What if we put out a Call of Duty Modern War for next year, but we don't even Give it a number. We just call it Call of Duty Modern Warfare. And if you do the same with Black Ops, we just start from the beginning. Bless me.

[Tim Gettys]

Real talk.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know that's going to happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They can't do it again.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, they're going to Modern Warfare 1 3. Yeah. I bet you. I bet you within 10 years we get another Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They haven't done it with Black Ops yet. Right. I don't think they've done it because we're on.

[Tim Gettys]

They just kept adding Roman numerals in a way that didn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In ways that didn't make sense.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, we get six eyes on this thing. So they still can do it with Black Ops. They probably will do it with Black Ops.

[Tim Gettys]

The story number four Bafta Games reveals 2026 long list with Arc Raiders in Dispatch and contention for Best Game. This comes from andy Robinson at VGC. Bafta has announced the long list for the 2026 Bafta Game Awards, naming a total of 64 games its judges will consider for the ceremony. BAFTA members will now vote for the nominations in Best Game and British Game categories in February next year, with specialist juries voting for the remaining categories. Nominations will then be announced on March 12, with the winners announced on Friday, April 17. The long list for the Best Game Awards 2026 ceremony are. There's a lot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But wait, it's the long list. So they pare down.

[Tim Gettys]

Hold on, I'm a little confused. Explain this to me. So.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I kind of. I might have put this in here in a confusing way. So they have a long list for the game of the year.

[Tim Gettys]

That's 64 games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, it's just these games. There's another 64 game list.

[Tim Gettys]

So there's 64 games nominated across all the awards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

That is a very weird way to say all that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Honestly, the VGC article confused me and maybe this is just the way BAFTA presents it because the VGC article then gives an extremely long list of 64 games without the categories. But then I found a different website that are just like here are the categories. And so that's where I pulled some of these categories from.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, well, it seems like game. The best game award is Arc Raiders, Blueprints, clear obscure, Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2 on the beach, Dispatch, Ghost of Yote, Hades 2, Hollow Knight, Silksong, Indiana Jones of the Great Circle and Split Fiction.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, you see what's missing there.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where's DK Bonanza?

[Tim Gettys]

Where's it at? That. That is the one odd exception Here. Right. But otherwise, this seems to be the general gaming consensus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, yeah, I think this is good.

[Tim Gettys]

If you were to expand the game awards list, these are the things I would expand it to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I could see that. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle surprises me a little bit, but also doesn't surprise me because that seems like a BAFTA ass game.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I don't know why.

[Guest/Contributor]

It's because it's adapting an IP from, you know, the film industry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, people love it.

[Tim Gettys]

Like.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah, I, I, it's a great game. It was on my top 10 last year. Blessing. Did you ever finish it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nah. But I liked it. I liked what I played it.

[Guest/Contributor]

The ending, it was the best part.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Honestly, I. Yeah, it's like, I would say it's like probably in the 8 out of 10 range from what I played, which I guess, like, there are other games on this list that I would also put in the 8 out of 10 range. So that's not like even saying it shouldn't be on this list, but.

[Guest/Contributor]

Split fiction.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Split fiction, though, actually, No, I feel like it's like a, it's like a nine to me. I stand by. That's.

[Guest/Contributor]

That's the ending. The ending is a nine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The ending really brought that game up for me. That ending is one of the best video game things I've ever played in my life.

[Guest/Contributor]

But remember, remember, Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When we played the ending, we were.

[Guest/Contributor]

Like, damn, why wasn't this the entire game?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're right. That's why it's not a 10, though. If the rest of the game was that ending, It'd be a 10 out. It'd be 11 out of 10. That'd be the greatest game of all time.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, cool. Anything else you want to talk about here?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at the. I like that they have a category for British game now. I'm looking at it. This isn't last year. No, this is this year because it has Adam falls, Citizen Sleeper 2, hell yeah. F1, 25, Jurassic World, Evolution 3, Little Nightmares 3, Mafia the Old Country, Monument Valley 3, Power Wash, Simulator 2, Two Point Museum, Vampire, the Masquerade, Bloodlines 2. Not many of those stick out to me, but I just love British game as a category. Shout out.

[Tim Gettys]

What is it? What's that mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think it's best game made in the uk.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. I'd imagine that's what I would assume too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Unless it means that's because Hangar 13.

[Guest/Contributor]

Made mafia the Old country. And I could have sworn they were up in Marin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, That's a good point.

[Tim Gettys]

Just some British people were on the team.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They had at least three British people on the team for us to recognize. And yeah, aside from that, I guess no performer I want to shout out to you because they have a nice little list here, right? Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson in Dispatch Alex Jordan is Jan Dolski in the Altars. Ben Starr is Verso Erica Ishii as Atsu Jennifer English is Mael Judy Elise Lee as Malinui KJAN as Mio in Split Fiction. Laura Bailey as Invisible Susie Yung as hinako Shimizu Tom McKay as Henry in King Come Deliverance 2. And then Troy Baker is Indiana Jones and Indiana Jones the Great Circle. I really like this list.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I do too. And I want to give a shout out to Judy. Alice Lee as Malinowi and had too. Like she was a standout to me and I, I feel like just because of the type of game Hades is and like just when we're talking about performer in a leading role, like, I do think that the. The actual like performance of it all, like the motion capture and all that stuff, like when it's that and the amazing voice, there is just like levels to it. Like obviously there are examples of just voices that can then transcend all of that. But like I do just think that it's comparing apples and oranges to a certain extent.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But I love seeing them being non nominated here alongside so many amazing performers here. But I really enjoyed her performance. Like I really enjoyed line to line. Like the delivery. I was like constantly impressed. Like throughout playing Hades 2 for 100 hours, I was like thinking about like wow, that was a good line read.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I 100% agree with that. And also shout out to Alex Jordan is Yandelski who I don't think, I don't think was in the game awards one but a lot of us, I think me, Andy and whoever else played alters are probably like, yo, this dude is playing a bunch of different characters that are essentially the same character. And it's fucking cool the way that he was able to pull that off.

[Tim Gettys]

Opulent pasta box says British Games for best British game of the year across all genres and platforms. Creative control and overall development must be led by a British development studio.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe hangar. Does Hangar 13 have an office in England?

[Tim Gettys]

David Shake also says narrator from Kirby Air Riders. Not getting nominated is crazy work. That's the fucking truth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's actually facts.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I know I am doing the exact thing that master hero Sakurai doesn't want us to Do. And it's the reason that we didn't get freaking Smash Brothers subspace emissary story stuff in any of the new games. But if you're not gonna play Kirby Air riders, first off, do. Second off, go to YouTube and look up the road trip cutscenes from Kirby Air Riders. And just listen to the narrator and understand this is a Kirby game about flying on these little machines. And I want you to know it makes as much sense to you as it does to anybody that's played this game. It's awesome. Am I wrong?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not wrong whatsoever. I'm learning about Brighton right now. I went to the Careers page on Hangar 13 to figure out if I were to apply for Hangar 13, where would they want me to live?

And I found two locations. One of them is Brighton, which is in East Sussex, England. And they did it.

[Tim Gettys]

It qualifies.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The other one is brno, B, R, N, O, which is a city in.

Oh, man, this is not doing me any favors. It's a city.

Czech Republic. Czech Republic is where it's at.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, so then what's going on in Marin? I thought they were in. I. I was.

[Guest/Contributor]

That's where the main studio was for the longest time. I don't know what happened to them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's weird, huh?

[Guest/Contributor]

That's very weird. I remember talking to one of the people who worked on the soundtrack for Mafia 3, and I was like, hey, y' all did a fantastic job.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're all in BRNO now.

If you want to talk to me, you got to go to the Czech Republic.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man. British Games getting awards.

13 being over there. What a big, big, mind blowing story to us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Huge.

[Tim Gettys]

But if I want to know about something smaller, the tiniest news I could possibly find, where would I go?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You'd go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items he needs to.

[Tim Gettys]

Know about.

From Eurogamer. Doom creator John Romero's canceled game is back with the developer stating the untitled project has survived. Nice, nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Survived.

[Tim Gettys]

PlayStation plus premium slash extra games for December have been announced. Assassin's Creed, Mirage Wo Long Fallen Dynasty Skate Story. Very cool. Hell yeah. Grand Blue Fantasy relink, Planet Coaster 2, Cat Quest 3, Lego Horizon Adventures, Paw Patrol, Grand Prix Paw Patrol, Worlds Soul Caliber 3, Rayman 2, the Great Escape, and Tonic Trouble are coming to Nintendo Switch expansion pack on December 17th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So shout out Brno, second largest city in Czech Republic. Yeah, we're learning. I'm just learning things about Burnout right now.

[Tim Gettys]

That's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Secondly, Barrett, I know, I know this troubles you, and we gotta have a conversation about this, right? Tonic Trouble coming to Nintendo switch online before DK64. DK64 is not that bad of a game. I would say it's a great game. I understand why people reacted negatively to DK64 coming off with the Banjo series. And of course, some people love it more than others. Me and Barrett absolutely adored he could 64. But at the very least, we can say DK 64. Not a trash game, not even a bad game. It just has some flaws. So why does Nintendo refuse. Refuse. Acknowledge the existence. I won't even say that because some of those characters exist in DK Bonanza. But why do they refuse to put it on online?

[Tim Gettys]

I truly don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The avoidance game. They sold it on the Wii U.

[Tim Gettys]

It not being out surrounding Donkey Kong Bonanza was weird.

[Guest/Contributor]

Very well, that I've said in the past before, I think makes sense because then people will play DK64 and be like, oh, shit, a much better Donkey Kong game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I get it. I get it.

[Tim Gettys]

But like, I do. I honestly, jokes aside, I feel like.

[Guest/Contributor]

They have a fucking chip on their shoulder about this game game legitimately.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think maybe because of the.

[Guest/Contributor]

Guns still to this day, maybe I don't care that they're coconut guns. I think there's something about this game that they have a chip on their.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shoulder when it comes to rare and the history of all that. Like, they.

[Guest/Contributor]

I think Nintendo hates this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think. I don't think this is guns, but I do think that. I do think.

[Tim Gettys]

I love the earnestness.

I don't think they like this so deeply. And I'm like, you know what? You're kind of convincing me. Nintendo hates guns. I don't think they think Mario will have a gun in Fortnite, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mario had a gun in the Ubisoft game. That. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I get it. But who's the other.

[Guest/Contributor]

Who's the one Kong that sells you the guns? Funky, funky Kong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I don't think they like the Funky Kong.

[Guest/Contributor]

Kind of like essentially the closest thing he can wear to an American flag in his shop with like a like, army kind of like, like whistling thing going on in the background. It was selling you guns.

[Tim Gettys]

They had that stuff in Donkey Kong country too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's just part of the Donkey Kong world.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a surprising amount of, like, it's the DK lore, military propaganda in Donkey Kong country. And a very big surprising amount of tits.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This Is what I'll say. Yes. This is what I'll say.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that. Maybe it's the opposite, Barrett. Maybe it is the fact that they know that Nintendo, they want to have a big drop every year for every franchise. This year, it's DK Bonanza. They don't want to. They don't want to, you know, shoot the shot too early for DK64. They don't want to prematurely DK. We got to save this for 2026, because that's going to be the big DK drop.

[Guest/Contributor]

Then I'm just thinking about how they invoked.

The ending of DK 64 and Bonanza and didn't go all the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not still. Okay. You're not still on this. Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

They did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They did what they could.

[Guest/Contributor]

I am.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, they went as far as they needed to.

[Guest/Contributor]

I'm just saying there's some characters from DK64 that you could have brought in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To use the same powers that you learned throughout the entire game.

That be sick.

[Tim Gettys]

Love it. I love it, man. God, it's so, so funny because I feel like the way Barrett talks about Donkey Kong 64 and then Donkey Kong Bonanza and, like, its mistakes. It's the way I am about Zack Fair in Final Fantasy 7 where, like, because I played Crisis core when I was 17, it's like, this is my guy, dude. And it's like, I. I don't care what happens with him in the remake trilogy. Anytime he's on screen, I'm just like.

He'S my guy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good for you guys.

[Tim Gettys]

But, yeah. Rayman 2, Great Escape. Amazing platformer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Legit.

[Tim Gettys]

Very good. The. Yeah. This is a game that I definitely recommend popping into. The Dreamcast version is the best, but. But I'm not sure these days with the kind of, like, up res scaling going on with all these NSO stuff, that this might be a great way to play the game. Tonic Trouble, I've never been a big fan of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, you know, who is Bear Corny.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, for real?

[Guest/Contributor]

Shout out. Tonic Trouble. That was the one that we owned growing up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

Another one that my dad and I loved playing.

[Tim Gettys]

But, like, what are the thoughts on it?

[Guest/Contributor]

It's. It's. We have Rayman at home.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Made by the people who made Rayman.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

It really makes me question, like, I didn't learn until as an adult that Ubisoft made Rayman. I was like, but Ubisoft made Tonic Trouble. And I was like, but they. They had Ray.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why they.

[Guest/Contributor]

Why they do, like, a knockoff game? Of Thrones franchise.

[Tim Gettys]

It's. There's just a lot more gimmicks. It's a lot more like. You know what? Tonic Trouble, I'd say is more similar to Spyro than it is to like, okay, like a banjo kazooie or something, which I would say Rayman 2 is more like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Whereas like Spyro, there's a lot of fly through rings, like shoot these things.

[Guest/Contributor]

Like this level, Snowboarding level.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that type of stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very weird, quirky world.

[Guest/Contributor]

But again, I feel like you already kind of get that with Rayman, so.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

Shout out to my boy Ed.

[Tim Gettys]

Shout out to Ed.

[Guest/Contributor]

And when he eats popcorn, he turns into Super Ed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Fallout Boy. Nope. Fallout Pip Boy Xbox series controller are now available on Xbox Design Lab.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The scene. A scene. It's a goddamn arms race.

[Tim Gettys]

You only know that because of the loop area.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, that Little Wayne on that.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. That actually went way too hard. Oh, yeah. Death Howl is coming to Xbox PS5, Nintendo Switch on February 19th, 2026. So that's cool.

[Guest/Contributor]

Really.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's it for We News, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Apparently Brno has an awesome nightlife. Very large student population, nearly 90,000 students.

Plethora of cool cafe and restaurants.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm listening to some super chat, dog.

[Guest/Contributor]

I need you to stop reading about Bruno.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, y'. All Trying to take a trip to the Czech Republic.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's see what's going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See what's going on.

[Tim Gettys]

Billy. Stefan says I bought a retroid Pocket 4 Pro for my girlfriend. Supposed to arrive on the 24th from Amazon. Tim, have you used it before? Bless you. Looking jacked. Love y'. All. I have not used the Retro Pocket 4 Pro. I have the Retro Pocket 5. I absolutely love it. I assume the Pro 4 is just as good, just with a slightly different form factor. I highly recommend youtubing Retro game Corpse for any of your setup and just advice on how to use it. Russell over there is incredible. Such a fun video to watch. Nice. Chill, dude. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to have a great time. Arrow. Wow. This is a big name for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a big, big word for Elmo.

Sorry.

This is the way you said it.

[Tim Gettys]

Help me out here though. Like how do. Let's work through this one. Arrow dot smiladiatos, eradotus mill litotis eridatus militatus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There we go.

[Tim Gettys]

You can see that was difficult. They say PlayStation Access just announced the return of Xmas Maze when we see a KFPS Access crossover. We had Ben Starr at Both, but we need more. That's just hard, because first up, I don't really know much about them. They seem very cool from everything I've ever seen, but they're over there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's a whole sea crossing us hanging out in Burno.

[Tim Gettys]

But they're welcome here anytime.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

They're ever in the bay. Raymond Kessel says blessing. I just binge pluribus because of your wreck. And it's so busing. Aside from Vegas, James Bond orgies, how would you use the world's servitude?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

First of all, the words are used here. I don't know if I'm a big fan. I don't know what's best, and I.

[Tim Gettys]

Don'T know what's going on with a lot of this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think I'll be on Carol's side. I don't know if I would want it. Like, here's the thing. At a certain point, I'm tapping out and I'm using the hive mind because, like, at first, I'd be with Carol of, this is freaky. I don't like this. We gotta fix the world. But then after a while, once I realized that resistance is futile, I'm like, okay, well, I don't know. Make. Ooh, I want a new Jet Force Gemini. I want. I want the Community movie. All right. Because we got the six seasons. We still need the movie. So make me the Community movie. I want who I wanted. Cat Williams, Stand Up Special, A new one. But, like, I want it to be, like, a throwback to, like, his classics.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What else I want.

I'll have to think about it more. What would you want from the player?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't. I don't know. I have no context to this at all.

Dirty Daddy 84 says you can pronounce that right, but you pronounce core as corpse. I'm going to be honest with everybody. One of my greatest fears in life is having to read that word out loud. Every time I see it, I panic. I don't remember. Yeah, C, O, R, P. S, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. This is core.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I feel like sometimes you pronounce the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

P. Only if it's like a dead body and it's like, yeah, but I'm.

[Tim Gettys]

Seeing the other one. See, whatever. Here's the thing that's never going to stick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Another thing about me, I don't know why. Roof and ceiling. I get it wrong every time. I know which one's which. You know what?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That I'm with you, But I Always it up. I. It's on the roof most of the time.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you mean the ceiling? Yeah, I mean the ceiling most of the time. I get it.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Every now and then I mix up roofing. That's understandable. That's understandable.

[Tim Gettys]

But I panic about the corpse. I panic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I see it just take record every time.

[Tim Gettys]

I know I need to. I need to do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, you know what?

[Tim Gettys]

But then I think that. And then I'm like, wait, no, is it. Am I over? Am I thinking about it the wrong way? I get my head, I got in my head. I guess we'll call me off my game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Corporation does fuck me up because it is short. Like sometimes it's short for corporation, but then it's just corp. But then do we pronounce the P for corp?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

We definitely do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay. Don't look at me like. That's the crazy part about this. Your part is crazy too.

[Tim Gettys]

We're crazy together. Oh, Jesus. What else we got here for super chats.

Resolute says Birthday Tax. Happy birthday. There's been seven Final Fantasy 7 games since Kingdom Hearts 3. Kingdom Hearts has had two. It's time. Happy Kingdom Hearts 4 Eve. I think there's a very slim chance. But there's a chance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's always a chance.

[Tim Gettys]

There's always a chance.

Thundering sun says I can confirm. As a former US army, the Franklin meme is not AI and it's actually pretty old. The narco part is new. And yes, bless the Bernstein Bears. Also has one featuring Papa Bear and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, we gotta stop.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't like that. I don't like that at all.

Okay.

Missing link says the Disney Channel Kids programming was Playhouse Disney, not Treehouse Disney.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, so close.

[Tim Gettys]

So close. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So close.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember out of the Box?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Out of the box. Oh, yeah, dude, I found out of the box, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. I hope that. Oh, Gullah. Gullah Island.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, I know. Gullah Girl Island. I never watched it as a kid. I was gonna go with the Mickey Mouse. What's the Mickey Mouse Show? Where they're like in a theater and they would just watch a bunch of different shorts. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

[Guest/Contributor]

No, Clubhouse was like a little, little kid show. I remember because I had that Rolly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Polioli said somebody in.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I hated the way that looked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roly Polio. The thing about House of Mouse. Oh, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

That was great. The Gullah. Gullah Island. An interesting thing about that is like two years ago the cast reunited and like I think they were kick starting it or Something to make like a. A. Like, one off short that was like. It's actually the characters and they're back. But it was very serious and, like, a real. Like, look at. I don't know where it took place, but, like, it was like a very. Y' all should look into this. It was a very interesting thing. It wasn't just like a gritty, dark take on it. It's like, no. Like, we were saying something to kids back then. Let's continue that for the adults now. And I was like, whoa, this is really, really cool stuff. There was no big Pollywog anymore.

Was from Colorgolla Island. Yellow frog.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I know. I. I don't. I think I was always scared of that one. There was the wick. Was the. The Wiggles were. That was that Playhouse Disney.

[Tim Gettys]

That is past my time. Oh, I don't know about them. Wiggles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, they're still around.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm. They're wiggling.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're.

[Guest/Contributor]

They were on our stream recently and they played Lego Party.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They were on our stream. Oh, no.

[Guest/Contributor]

What was the. What was the game we had, you guys?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, the. They're okay. So a few things is. I've seen them pop up my timeline. One, they're diverse now. Which good for them to. They're all. They can dance when I tell you. When I tell you. But, like, no, they can dance. Dance now. Like, it's almost like we don't know who the Jabberwockies are behind those masks. They might be the Wiggle.

[Tim Gettys]

The Wiggles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. That's how good they are dancing. Yeah, That's.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Guest/Contributor]

Because they added, like, a bunch more members. I see. That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

More colors.

The colors locked. Is it like Power Rangers? There's multiple blues.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, see, I didn't know about this.

[Tim Gettys]

Crazy Rogers is one of them in the purple. That's crazy. Cam red your wrongs and says you guys aren't crazy for thinking that Soros was later than February. It's indeed March 20th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, so we were lied to.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Yes. That is so funny.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's really funny.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tundra Boy 22 and Super Chat says thoughts on Cream the Rabbit as an entity.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man. I don't have to stop reading the year wrongs now because we got to talk about Cream the Rabbit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. I don't have any thoughts on Cream the Rabbit.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cream the Rabbit. I mean, I don't like her name. I don't like her name at all. That's my main thought.

[Tim Gettys]

I gotta be honest with you and I'm not going to expound more because we're going to end the show here. Yeah, I got an anti cream agenda.

[Guest/Contributor]

Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's wrong with cream?

[Tim Gettys]

You'll never know. This has been kind of Funny Games Daily everybody. We're about to do the kind of funny Games cast which is predicting the winners of this year's Game awards and it's going to be a great time. We'll see you there. Until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.

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[Guest/Contributor]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Guest/Contributor]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

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