Fortnite Creators Will Be Allowed to Sell In-Game Items - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.19.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: "Fortnite Creators Will Be Allowed to Sell In-Game Items"

Date: September 19, 2025
Hosts: Roger Pokorny & SnowBikeMike

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Episode Overview

Today's episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily is packed with news and lively debate, centering around some major shifts in the gaming industry. The primary headline is Fortnite’s new economy for creators, but the crew also delves into Nintendo’s legal moves against mods, new signs of multiplayer coming to the Cyberpunk sequel, creative video game courses at college, studio updates, and quirky news like Limp Bizkit’s in-game resurgence. The hosts maintain their trademark banter and riff on everything from fantasy leagues to meaningful and silly community super chats.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Big News: Fortnite Opens In-Game Sales to Creators

[20:12]

• Announcement: Starting December, Fortnite island creators can sell consumables (power-ups), durables (weapons/cosmetics), and more, directly on their own islands.
• Creator Earnings: Creators receive 100% of V-Bucks value (after platform/store fees, ~74% of total money) through 2026; drops to 50% in 2027.
  • Quote (Mike, 22:10):
    "It's great that they are paying the creators, because right now in Fortnite's world... it is about the user generated content and what can the audience, the users create to capture and keep the audience."
• Discover Menu: Creators can now pay to feature their islands in a "Sponsored Row"—added visibility for a fee (with all revenue going to the pool for creators till 2026).
• Comparisons to Roblox: The panel draws parallels with Roblox’s thriving, kid-targeted creator economy—praising opportunities, while raising ethical/red flag issues around microtransactions, targeting children, and moderation.
  • Quote (Roger, 23:03):
    "Roblox has a pretty thriving community of creators... It's a huge business model. You can make millions and millions and millions of dollars off of Robux. Fortnite is trying to emulate here."
• Potential Pitfalls:
  • Exploitive monetization practices and the lack of clear moderation or safeguards, especially concerning young users.
  • IP theft and moderation challenges ("it's going to be the wild, wild west," [28:09]) as people steal game modes/designs to resell.
  • The demand for clear boundaries: what sort of microtransactions should be allowed, and how can children be protected?
  • Quote (Roger, 28:55):
    "There needs to be some rules... especially gambling and stuff that is just so, so damaging to their brains... as a consumer, we need to kind of be on their ass a little bit."
• Silver Lining:
  • Empowers new creators, offers career opportunities, gives people “an outlet to say, hey, if you’ve ever been interested in creating your own video game… here’s a toolbox to do that.” ([26:46])

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2. Nintendo Wants Mods Excluded as “Prior Art” in Palworld Lawsuit

[31:03]

• Legal Update: Nintendo’s court filing claims user-made mods shouldn't count as “prior art” in patent cases, since mods require a separate base game.
• Industry Concern:
  • Legal analysts warn this could let companies patent gameplay elements that originated in mods and retroactively lock them up, damaging creative freedom.
  • Quote (Roger, 33:57):
    "This is evil. That’s me saying that, by the way. Roger Pokorny."
• Host Reaction:
  • Both hosts find Nintendo’s stance “ridiculous”—especially considering Nintendo’s traditionally strict views on their own IP.
  • Quote (Mike, 34:02):
    "Some people finally check Nintendo... and they're like, no, stop that."
  • Quote (Roger, 35:52):
    "If this gets narrowed, we’re going to be looking at a lot of issues here... I'm hopeful that we are able to move forward and actually see the people that are making mods as making their own piece of art."

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3. Cyberpunk Sequel Signals Multiplayer is Coming

[39:46]

• Job Posting: CD Projekt’s Boston studio is hiring a lead network engineer specializing in the multiplayer stack, including matchmaking and server performance.
• Host Speculation:
  • Could range from “GTA Online-style” persistent worlds, to lightweight modes, to co-op campaigns, or something separate like Ghost of Tsushima: Legends' expansion.
  • Quote (Mike, 42:00):
    "This sounds like a world and a franchise that I would like to exist in past the single player content… My mind quickly jumps to Red Dead Online, GTA Online."
  • Quote (Roger, 43:34):
    "My brain goes to co-op. Would it be some form of like, hey, you could play the entire game with somebody, up to four players?"
• Takeaway:** Excitement but cautious optimism, as prior Cyberpunk launches have been rocky.

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4. Other Major Stories

A. Video Games in Education: Grand Theft Auto University Class

[46:35]

• University of Tennessee launches "Grand Theft America: US History Since 1980," a class using GTA to frame American history lessons.
  • Focuses on media literacy, depictions of the LA Riots, and comparisons between game narratives and real events.
  • Quote (Mike, 49:20):
    "How do you connect with these kids from different generations... and what are they interested in? How do you use that to better teach them?"

B. Indie/Community & Studio Updates

[51:01]

• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Studio’s Next Game: Announced as Hyper Funk, combining “extreme trick and graffiti” mechanics—featuring BMX, skating, online hangs.
  • No release date yet but anticipation is high for genre fans.
• Battlefield 6 Soundtrack Leak: Supposedly includes three Limp Bizkit tracks (“Break Stuff,” “Boiler,” plus a possible original or a collaboration with Morgan Wallen).
• Sonic Racing & Mega Man Collaboration: New content teased, along with other minor Nintendo music and casting news.

C. Fantasy Critic League Antics

[07:48]

• Ongoing playful “cheating” and wheeling-dealing in the KFGD community fantasy critic league: attempts to classify remakes, ports, or re-releases as high-value picks is the subject of extended comedic riffing.
  • Quote (Roger, 11:14):
    "That's a huge deal, new lore. Huge deal… They're gonna be talking about that star Rosalito. It's gonna connect to the movie. That's a remake right there."

D. Super Chats & Community Moments

• Touching Super Chat from a regular listener facing a brain tumor diagnosis, met with outpouring of warmth and support.
  • [57:15] Roger: "Icy Wiener, we love you, we see you in the chat all the time. We're sending you love, we're sending you support and we're here for you."
• Lively back-and-forth with chat about cheating, bans, and community shenanigans.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Fortnite Creator Monetization:

  • “Go out there, figure out a way to nickel and dime our players and you can get out there and make some money, similar to what we’re seeing in other live service games.” —Mike ([22:10])
  • “This is going to be the wild, wild west when it comes to the IP, when it comes to IP infringements.” —Roger ([28:09])

• On Nintendo’s Legal Strategy:

  • “Business lawyer… Richard Hoga: 'If something already exists in the world, some new person is not allowed to claim they invented it and get that protection… It would be ludicrous to exempt any piece of game design from that category simply because of how it stood up in the software.'” —(via news summary, [32:00])
  • “What’s your end game? It’s just like, let’s get down to it. What’s your end game here? What are we really trying to accomplish here? Stop this bullshit.” —Mike ([35:43])

• On Hope for Cyberpunk Multiplayer:

  • “I do have high hopes for them and I think that they are thinking about it the right way and they learned a lot after Cyberpunk.” —Roger ([45:39])

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• [20:12] Start of Fortnite UGC sales deep dive
• [31:03] Nintendo–Palworld/Mods lawsuit analysis
• [39:46] Cyberpunk sequel multiplayer signs
• [46:35] GTA college class real-world discussion
• [51:01] Indie studio update: Hyper Funk
• [53:02] Limp Bizkit & music news
• [07:48 & ongoing] Fantasy Critic league shenanigans

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Tone, Community, & Miscellany

• High energy, irreverent, supportive: Lots of in-jokes, asides, and live chat interaction.
• Engaged with big-picture issues: Not just reporting but critiquing industry trends and legal maneuvers, calling for more consumer protection and ethical moderation.
• Streamer culture: Recounts of fantasy leagues, chat drama, and personal gaming stories add color.
• Heartfelt moments: As seen in attention to an audience member’s health scare.

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Conclusion

This episode is a blend of informative industry analysis and classic Kinda Funny antics. The major news around Fortnite signals a seismic shift in how creators could make a living inside the game, but the hosts are quick to explore not just the upside but the need for ethical moderation. Legal news, studio updates, and ongoing games industry trends round out a news-packed, genuinely funny, and occasionally poignant episode—a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of gaming business, community creativity, and pop culture.

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Transcript

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[Roger]

Today's stories include Fortnite creators are gonna be able to sell things in game. Nintendo goes after video game mods. And Cyberpunk's sequel could include multiplayer, which, well, have all this and more because this is kind of Funny Games Daily. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Kind of Funny Games daily for Friday, September 19, 2025. I'm Roger Pokorny, and today I'm joined by the Goat, the man who blocked me on a cell phone. Snow bike.

[Mike]

Mike, I did block you yesterday. I forgot to unblock you today. We're in a really good mood today.

[Roger]

Yeah, we're good.

[Mike]

So I will unblock you.

[Roger]

Yeah, you will eventually unbloc.

[Mike]

But I was mad at you at the microwave yesterday during work.

[Roger]

Yeah, you definitely did block me because I was shadowing you, which means not what you think it means. It means that I was acting like shadow you.

[Mike]

Sonic shadowed me.

[Roger]

Yes. And that means I was working. I was just working. I was just at my desk working with my headphones busy. And then you got uptight like a small child playing a redacted game.

[Mike]

I had things to tell you about it, but I have a lot of fun things to tell you about.

[Roger]

I mean, tell me some of it. I'm excited.

[Mike]

Roger met a God last night.

[Roger]

Yeah, you. You opened up this morning with that. And I kind of got scared that this was the moment that you were going off the rails.

[Mike]

This could be a bad moment. Yeah, Roger. There I was. Okay, let me take it to a different time last night. Around 9 o', clock, I walked out of gym 7, earning my seventh gym badge in Pokemon Emerald. And I walked out, and all of a sudden there was a stir. Yeah, I saw a bunch of jabronis in red walking into the Space Science Museum. And I said, what's up? What are they doing? And I followed him in, and it turned out to be Maxi and his crew with Team Magma trying to steal some spaceship fuel. And I was like, what do you want this spaceship fuel for? And they're like, mike, we're trying to send this thing into a volcano because our boy ground on. He's not there anymore. I was like, okay, hold up, Maxi. We're not taking spaceship fuel and rocketing it into a volcano here. So I slapped them around and said, chill out.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Then I walk out, and all of a sudden I get a call, and they're like, mike, you gotta dive into the depths of the ocean. And so I go down there. Who's there? Archie and his crew with Team Aqua. And they're trying to. They're trying to awaken a giant whale monster. And I'm like, what are you doing down here, Archie? And he's like, mike, I gotta wake up this whale, because my goal is to get the whale to start summoning a bunch of rain, and we're gonna make the whole world water. I said, archie, that's not a good idea. Let's chill out. So I slapped him around. Then all of a sudden he gets a call from his crew. And his crew's like, yo, Archie, it's raining hard up here. And he's like, well, that was the plan. And they're like, no, no, it's raining so hard that it's going to flood all of the Hoenn region. And I said, archie, what kind of service are you rocking? Because I don't know how you're getting phone calls in the Mariana Trench when I can't get a phone call my own gosh darn basement. He didn't tell me what provider he had but then I left him. I get up to the top side, Roger, and out of nowhere I see these two mythical beasts just bumping ugly. It's Groudon, it's gosh darn Kyoga. And they're banging into each other. And they look at me, they're like, yo, you got to go solve this. Go see your boy Devin. I walk up to this kid named Devin and he's like, mike, did you know there's a third God? Okay, it's not just two, there's a third one. I said, no, there's not a third one. That can't actually be happening. And they're like, you. He's at the Sky Temple. Meet me over there. This Jabroni gets on his pidgeotto without me, leaves me. Now I gotta take my happy butt all the way down the coastline. I gotta find the Sky Tower. Get this, Roger. I get to the Sky Tower and Devin looks at me, goes, I unlocked the door, but I gotta go back home. Good luck against this God. And I'm like, what? What's the deal, Devin? What's the deal, right? So then I climb up to the top of the Sky Tower. And now, mind you, Roger, I run into another one of these ball toy, these clay Pokemon out of nowhere.

[Roger]

Ball toy, that was the most quintessential.

[Mike]

Microsoft who's making this, okay? And this Jabroni out of nowhere wants to self destruct on me and my Pokemon. You know, that's a dangerous move, Roger. That's how people get hurt. That's how you lose Pokemon, okay? And so thankfully, Roger, my grass type Pokemon tank that to the face, okay? Don't worry about it. So then I get to the top of the Sky Temple, okay? And who's up there? This gosh darn green dragon. And he's not happy that I'm poking him. I poked the bear, he wakes up and he leaves. Did you know Pokemon have cutscenes? Video game?

[Roger]

I genuinely would have. I thought that that was like a.

[Mike]

New thing, you know?

[Roger]

That's crazy.

[Mike]

Pokemon had cut scenes back then because all of a sudden I get the most wicked cutscene. It's a cloudy night over the ocean. The sky parts. A giant green light shines from the heavens. And out of nowhere, this dragon goes and starts coming down and. And he yells at these two legendary Pokemon. He yells, who touched the thermostat? And he tells them to chill out. And Kyoga, though, the whale, starts to go back into the water. Groudon goes back to the volcano he came from. And Rayquaza looks at the camera and then flies away.

[Roger]

Does sound like a rapper.

[Mike]

And we save the world. We save the world.

[Roger]

He learned that it's pronounced Rayquaza. Oh, okay. That makes a lot more sense. I'm sorry to break this to you, Mike. Yeah, none of that happened on stream. You did have an episode. You. All you were doing on stream was hitting the fucking purpl skitty and listen to music and then just kind of like this. Everyone was a little bit scared of you, so. Wow, that's beautiful. That's.

[Mike]

Thank you, Roger. I just wanted to inform you of, like, what's going on in my life right now.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Pretty big deal.

[Roger]

But we have some more pretty big deals going on, specifically when it comes to the fantasy critic. You and I kind of teased this a little bit a while ago. I'm so happy. This is Friday. Finally, the end of the week. We can talk about this. People have been holding us back. Specifically. You're number one in the league right now.

[Mike]

Number one in the league, I'm happy to say. It took the top spot, and I am ready. I'm looking directly at the number one spot in January. It's a big moment.

[Roger]

It's a big deal.

[Mike]

You know, I. I've had a lot of question marks. I had to start the season taking GTA 6. That sucked. Put me behind the eight ball.

[Roger]

That's smart, though. Imagine if it came out.

[Mike]

Imagine.

[Roger]

Imagine if it came out this.

[Mike]

I believed in the nerds. I called upon my friends who love JRPGs, and they put me on the right track. And we scored big this week with Trails in the sky.

[Roger]

Trails in the Sky.

[Mike]

If you love JRPGs, if you're a mega nerd like me, put your ones in the chat. Right?

[Roger]

One's in the chat, everybody. One's in the chat.

[Mike]

Are you going to play any more of that game?

[Roger]

Who cares?

[Mike]

I don't got that much time. Okay, then after Purple Skinnies, after that, I had to lean on my best friend, my 1.1, my main man, Roger. And I said, roger, let's go cheat, because I got one. We gotta cheat open. Let's figure out how to win this.

[Roger]

And then also, fortuitously slay the spire. Two got delayed to 20, 26. Got to drop that. We're the. We're. We both have open spots, so we open spot boys. We're the open spot boys. And we wanted to kind of give everybody a little bit of a sneak peek as to what we've been doing. A lot of. A lot of Snitches in the chat. A lot of people have been posting things on the Reddit. But we're going to give you the full breakdown of what we've been doing. And we created a PowerPoint for you. Barrett, we've sent this over. Thank you so much.

[Mike]

To start the show.

[Roger]

Yeah. We got to do it.

[Mike]

I love this.

[Roger]

We got to do this. We got to do it.

[Mike]

The PowerPoint.

[Roger]

We got to do it. Barrett, hit us with the next slide. We have one slot each. How will we use them? Let's go. We will be cheating. We will be cheating. I don't know if you guys want to be admitting this. We will be cheating. The prospect of next year.

[Mike]

We're on the phone call with Mr. Fantasy Critic. We're on the phone call with Paris Lilly. We're going to convince Paris Lily to drop video games and just take zero.

[Roger]

He's not going to do that. He absolutely will. He's. He's talking about donuts. I'm like, hey, man, I'll send you some donuts right now. We'll make that happen.

[Mike]

For pairs. Well, we'll send them somewhere in the. Around the globe. Whatever he wants.

[Roger]

Whatever he wants. Right out of the kind of funny coffers, we'll do it. Yeah. So we want to break down kind of the cheating attempt, number one. Right. So people saw this on the subreddit, right? I was trying to get Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. I was in the Fantasy Critic subreddit trying to make this a partial remake.

[Mike]

They added new book pages.

[Roger]

They added new book pages. What I said, I said the game has new book page, story book pages. I think partial remake tag is fair.

[Mike]

If you're doing more reading. More.

[Roger]

More remake. And then Eggmond in the chat, who's just a normal person who's trying to help, they say. They also said the game games are releasing separately on the eshop, so they should be separate entries. And then I say, great call. Partial remake on both.

[Mike]

That's a great call. Let's double up.

[Roger]

One for you, one for me.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Roger]

Then Elite Fusion, who I believe is the owner of Fantasy.

[Mike]

Yeah. I want to give a big shout out to Fusion. Really deep in the kernels.

[Roger]

Really helped. Amazing person. We love him. Thank you so much for not being.

[Mike]

If you're watching this, so happy with your hard work, your diligence. You're just true nature to the game.

[Roger]

Making an amazing website, by the way. Works flawlessly. It's incredible. They say I'm willing to go remaster at the highest, but I lean. Honestly, Lean Port, slash not available on FC at all.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Roger]

And then I respond, oh, no. And then Sol responds, partial remake because of new pages is way too much. I think remaster makes sense since it seems to be mostly a visual upgrade. And then I had to respond with, yeah, but those pages seem very important.

[Mike]

Very important. Very important.

[Roger]

That's a huge deal, New Lore. Huge deal.

[Mike]

They're gonna be talking about that star Rosalito.

[Roger]

Oh, my gosh. It's gonna connect to the movie. We got, we got. We got. That's a remake right there. And then Elite Fusion hits me with. Your arguments seem to be in bad faith. I mean, that's your entire play here. Now. That hurts. Doing bad faith Shit. That. That really hurt. Good faith.

[Mike]

I've had faith. I don't think I've ever said that to someone, nor has anyone said that before. That's.

[Roger]

They should. They should. We should be checked sometimes for bad faith. Oof. Tough.

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Roger]

So I responded, that hurt me. That was a gif right there. That hurt me right there with the gym. So then Mike messages me privately, sees the war that I'm going through, and then he says, what should I write to help you? LOL on Slack. And then here's what he gets. Mike, you want to read this one? This? You wrote this?

[Mike]

I wrote. Hey, everyone, Mike here, I'm of the mindset that if we add in a new mode, have new music, and change the ui, that's a partial remake. Open to thoughts.

[Roger]

Open to thoughts. Very nice.

[Mike]

I'm always open.

[Roger]

That's very sweet.

[Mike]

New mode.

[Roger]

That's very sweet. Yeah, they have, like, you know, book opening mode. Oh, Elite Fusion hit us with. I'm good with remaster.

[Mike]

Okay. He put. He put the. He put the. Got as good. Got as good.

[Roger]

Okay, so, well, we have two open slots. One. That's not each. So you and I, we got to figure out what we're drafting. And we're going to be drafting something this week.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's been the big conversation piece is like, what are we drafting? How much time do we. We have left? We've been going out to the community, asking them for thoughts. We have thoughts. And so we wanted to let everybody know by next week, we will be locked in.

[Roger]

Yeah, we will be locked in.

[Mike]

We're going to make a big statement here today on this Friday's episode of what we're thinking about drafting. And next week you'll get the update of what we've done.

[Roger]

We'd love your thoughts on which one we should be drafting. So out of these six, we are going to be drafting one of them each.

[Mike]

Who's going first?

[Roger]

I'm going first. Pac man world repack 2. This is one of the few video games that I had on the PS2. It was from the five doll and under bin and now they're remaking it apparently because we have no more ideas. He's repacked. He's repacked and he's back. So this is definitely going to get me at least five points. Does this count as a remake?

[Mike]

Repack.

[Roger]

Repack, Bro. What the hell? What the frick? More.

[Mike]

More gummies. More. More ghosts. This is a good time.

[Roger]

Gummies.

[Mike]

What are those? What are those?

[Roger]

Green pellets, right?

[Mike]

What are we calling it?

[Roger]

Aren't they pellets?

[Mike]

Oh, that's for the hamster eats. Okay, let's. Let's elevate Mike.

[Roger]

Let's go to your next one.

[Mike]

Yeah. Roger. Mine is Football Manager 26. My thought process is they can't cancel it again. That's great.

[Roger]

That's great for me. Puzzle Quest Immortal Edition. They have remade the original Puzzle Quest. This game. The reviews are out. There are two reviews on Open Critic. You know, not enough to get a score. So I think I can get in there. And one of the scores is 6.2 reviews are out. One of. One of the scores, 6.5. The other score, 9 out of 10.

[Mike]

Whoa.

[Roger]

So huge. We can. We can figure it out. Right in the middle. Right in the middle. I'm thinking it's going to land.

[Mike]

I like this. I like this. My next one. NHL 25.

[Roger]

Yes.

[Mike]

A lot of people talking about it right now. Revamped. Be a pro mode. New goalie crease control system. Who doesn't want to get up in the crease, you know, slide side to side, getting the glove on it. Get a pad blocker on that. I'm feeling really good about NHL 25.

[Roger]

I love that. Yeah. Of course Netflix is releasing video games and this is a video game television show. But when you really think about it, what is a video game? Right? You have to press play to watch the thing. And this is video game related, so I'm going to be in the discord. I think we're going to make this happen.

[Mike]

They have a video game section.

[Roger]

Yeah, they have a video game section. When I go into the. I can download Hades on my Netflix app. So why can't I download this? This is technically a video game, so interacting with it at all. Yeah, I'm pressing play Press and play and pause and skip intro.

[Mike]

I hear it's an interactive story as well. You might be able to pick what Bander stats. Boom, boom, boom. That's called playing video.

[Roger]

Oh, Joey Radson puts out something interesting in the chat.

[Mike]

Yeah? What did Joey say?

[Roger]

NHL 25 has been out for a year.

[Mike]

Oh, damn, Joey. You sure about that? We'll check it. We'll do it.

[Roger]

We'll check it today.

[Mike]

I'll hit up Elite Fusion now. Million dollar idea for Netflix because they have a gaming section in the gaming section. It not should. It shouldn't only be about games. They should also have TV shows that are games.

[Roger]

Here you go.

[Mike]

I have it on good authority, ladies and gentlemen and enb around the globe Tokyo game show. My main man Ricky, Kyrie and Sora will return. They're going to get slated and dated here. You need to open up your heart. Okay? Unlock your heart. Let the light out. Don't let the darkness in. And believe in me and Kingdom hearts. For it will be coming out this year. Elite Fusion. I'm picking it up on my fantasy. There we go.

[Roger]

And if that doesn't work, Bear, we will be cheating. We're repeating step number one because we do have one more scheme that we've been going on. This happened last night and this was a big one for us. Figured out disguise 7 complete for Nintendo Switch to Mike. You wrote this?

[Mike]

Of course.

[Roger]

So why don't you start wanting to.

[Mike]

Get into the conversation? I wanted to start a dialog. You know what I mean?

[Roger]

We are going to start a dialogue.

[Mike]

Just found this release coming out soon. I think we should start a dialogue about it. The site says, quote, disguise 7 complete comes packed with brand new features and content. End quotes. I'm thinking partial remake. Open the feedback.

[Roger]

Open a feedback. And then we had to get our number one authority in gaming to kind of come in here and no, that is not Elite Fusion. That is our man, Nick Scarpino.

[Mike]

Jesus Christ.

[Roger]

Yeah, Nick Scarpino came in there without. We didn't even know he was in this. It was crazy. It was great. He just popped up out of nowhere.

[Mike]

He's in the Fantasy critic.

[Roger]

He was locked in, bro.

[Mike]

He loves fantasy critics.

[Roger]

He said, yeah, I'm thinking partial remake. Damn, bro. That was crazy. And then Elite Fusion hit us with oh, hey, kind of funny. This feels coordinated. I will do my due diligence. Due diligence. AKA on our.

[Mike]

I'm going look into it. And we're really proud of Elite Fusion for looking into it.

[Roger]

So find out.

[Mike]

Take a Look, hit our line. Let us know about that disguise. Seven in the sky. Seven. I' ma draft it.

[Roger]

That's beautiful. That's beautiful. I think we're. I think we're. We're locked in and we're gonna figure out what we're looking for. What has he promised you, Roger? We're together. We're working together.

[Mike]

Yeah. This is a team effort.

[Roger]

Yeah, exactly. No, you guys are in two different teams. Yeah, but we share. We share the trophy.

[Mike]

We share everything.

[Roger]

We're gonna share custody.

[Mike]

Share everything.

[Roger]

Everything.

[Mike]

Everything.

[Roger]

Everything. We share this episode because this is kind of funny Games daily where each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now Spotify and Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Little house can be for you. We're an 11 person business. All about live talk shows today after KFGD, you're gonna get our hollow knight Silksong final review over on the Gamescast. That's very exciting. Bear, you're gonna be on that one? Yep.

[Mike]

Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, bro.

[Roger]

Hell yeah, bro. I'm very excited to hear what scores they give it. After Gamescast the return of game showdown. Everybody get hyped. We got Greg, the returning champ, repping team blue. Team Tip, Tim Rep representing team orange. And team Purple returns with a mystery captain taking the helm. Hashtag, who is team Purple? You're gonna find out today. And you might be surprised. You might be surprised. Big, big guest.

[Mike]

Mike and Roger had to go get Krispy Kreme donuts. Had to go get bagels. Had to get special coffee for this guest. We have a guest in the building.

[Roger]

Yeah, yeah. A lot of food for this guest. And then the stream is Pico park with a stacked crew. That's fun. One. We're gonna go crazy for one hour. Pico Park. Will I walk off again? Yeah, probably. You guys are going to bully me. It's going to be awful. If you're kind of funny, remember today's Greg Way is 15 minutes on Helldivers 2 Ghosts and Home Depot. Just ghosts in general. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're Brought to you by Shady Rays and Factor, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Rope Report. It's time for something. Six stories today. Baker's dozen. Oh boy. Dry mouth today. I woke up this morning, 5:00am Drinking water. Like 5:00am I like, I'm like half asleep. Like I need water in my mouth, right? I started drinking water. I have this exact a while at home. Drink it, fall asleep with it open. Just spill all the water on the floor.

[Mike]

That'll wake you right up.

[Roger]

4:00Am Just fucking on my hands and knees, just cleaning everything. So I'm a mess today. Story number one. Fortnite will soon let island creators sell in game items and pay to appear in a new Sponsored Row. This is from Chris Scullion over at vgc. Developers who make their own Fortnite Islands will soon be able to sell in game items. Epic Games has announced, starting from December, creators will be able to sell items directly from their Fortnite Islands, opening up new ways to make money from their creations. Items sold can be either consumable, such as power ups, or durable, such as weapons or cosmetic items, and traditionally remains within the confines of that creator's island and aren't able to be used elsewhere in the game. Epic says that until the end of 2026, creators will earn 100% of V Bucks values from sales made from their islands. Oh, wow. With this changing from 50% to 50% in 2027. Gotcha. That's a. That's a massive 100% to 50%. Yeah. Epic says V Bucks value is defined by what's left after the after platform and store fees are removed, meaning during the period, creators are eligible for 100% of V Bucks value. This works out to around 74% of the money spent on V Bucks, as well as the ability to sell items. Creators will also be able to spend money to have their islands featured in a new Sponsored Row, which will give them more visibility in the game's Discover menu. Epic says 100% of the revenue generated by the Sponsored Row will also go into the engagement pool until the end of 2026, after which it will drop down to 50%. According to Epic, the drop from 100% to 50% in 2027 is necessary to cover the costs of servicing the Fortnite ecosystem. Excuse me, Michael, what do you think about this?

[Mike]

Yeah, Roger, you read this, you think about this. And it is great that they are paying the creators, because right now in Fortnite's world. It is about the user generated content and what can the audience, the users create to capture and keep the audience that is there Right now. We know Battle Royale is still a big thing. They have Lego, they have Fortnite Party, they got a lot of things going on, but they're also making a massive push to having this world where users can create their own content, similar to Roblox. Right. And this is great in my mind that they're paying users to say, hey, if you're generating the content, you can make money now, right? You can go out there, figure out a way to nickel and dime our players and you can get out there and make some money, similar to what we're seeing in other live service games. Right. And so I'm very happy they're paying players. The cut is pretty wild, but this is the way of the world and what they're trying to create.

[Roger]

Yeah, it's interesting, right, because I have actually done a deep dive pretty recently into Roblox and kind of like the back of like, what's the most popular things on Roblox? And Roblox has, has a pretty very thriving community of creators and creatives that are making games mostly. I mean, a lot of people like to make these games, of course, but it's a huge business model. You can make millions and millions and millions of dollars off of Robux and people literally doing what Fortnite is trying to emulate here. And you go into the back and you see a lot of these games, it's like, oof. Like this is very much nickel and diming. Trying to get children to just target targeting at children. Literally. Like the definite. You think like, YouTube is brain rot. Like, this is brain rot. Like, truly, like, it is like, okay, if I get this, then all of my XP goes up by 500%. There's like all these lights going. It's, it's targeted towards children, right. And to get them to spend. So that's the side of this, I think, always gets scummy and gets really tough. Especially when Fortnite is going to start implementing this and you're going to see a lot of these islands start to implement a lot of nickel and diming and a lot of like, hey, if you're going to want to be on this island, you're going to have to start paying in order to, you know, rack up experience points and actually have this thing. And I saw Christopher in chat asking about, like, what do you do on these islands? Well, think about the islands, not as islands, but as Entire game modes, right? Entire game worlds. They are really robust. A lot of them, especially in Fortnite, but also in Roblox, which is an actual video game editor, but Fortnite is now implemented. A lot of that stuff is extremely robust. Entire modes, entire experiences, entire worlds. Like, almost like mini MMOs sometimes, where these kids are there and they're like, entire lives are playing in this little subsect of it. And yeah, if you look at Roblox, you have games that literally have, like, almost a million players at any given time.

[Mike]

Press is a big one that we can bring up. Recently, we talk about that gardening game. Like, these are games within a game that are bringing in more concurrent players than most AAA and normal games that you on the outside audience would be playing and buying for $70, right? And so it's like. Like, wow, there's a huge audience for this, right? And Fortnite and Epic know that they need to capture a piece of that audience. And at the beginning of it all is the creators, the creatives, as you say, Roger. It's like, how do you get them to buy into. I need to create and be a part of Fortnite. And that is. Well, you need to allow me to make money off this so I can put my time.

[Roger]

And that's where I was getting at, right? Is that the. Making it a financial positive for a lot of these creatives is only going to help Fortnite and their islands and their modes. Because I jumped into some of them pretty recently. I think it was actually, it was a few months ago, and I just jumped in. I wanted to see what they had going on there. And some really robust stuff, some interesting, cool stuff. I saw this one, which was. It was hilarious because it was. It was, like, kind of janky, but it was, like, really well done. It was like a saw trap. So, like, it had, like, fucking Billy the saw guy, the guy with the little, you know, the puppet or whatever running around. It was like a horror experience. But of course, you know, there was no real, like, incentive to keep playing it other than the one time. So I could see this actually giving the incentive to these creators to try to make these living, breathing worlds that will only help Fortnite. Hence the reason why they're giving 100% of the V bucks minus the, you know, the fees side of it. It's about 73% of the V bucks value, right, to the developers for the first year, because that's going to create a huge boom. It's very smart. It's a very smart and savvy business practice is to give it to them. Everyone's gonna be excited. There's gonna be tiktoks going viral of like, if you're a creative, you gotta be doing this right now. This is how you make a million dollars in three months. As you do this and you do this and people are going to rush to this thing and then of course their revenue is going to drop. But honestly, at 50%, that's going to be a very successful. This is going to be people's entire livelihoods and it's going to create a lot, put a lot of money into people in creatives pockets.

[Mike]

On the positive side, right? It gives the creatives an opportunity to go out there and create. Right. You've always dreamt of having tools like Forge. Of course you think of Roblox. There are so many way dreams right now. It gives people an outlet to say, hey, if you've ever been interested in creating your own video game, you want to create your own piece of art, here's a toolbox to do that, right? At a very low entry price or even no price, where you can learn, create and maybe even find success. Right. And grow. It's hard out there in the job market. We see many of game companies laying off really talented people, right. And the idea that Mike and Roger out of nowhere could come in, learn the tool set and make a game and find success, anyone can do it. That's a wild world to live in right now.

[Roger]

Yes. And you're of course you're going to get the good and the bad with that, right? You're going to get people. As it already passed me in the chat, somebody said like they're going to just steal game modes and try to profit off that. Which is literally what happened with Peak pretty recently, right? People were taking the Peak idea, they copied the artwork and they put it on Roblox and was like the biggest Roblox game for the month. Right? Like that's inevitably going to happen. I would love to hear Epic games. I would love to see Tim Sweeney talk about what the moderation is going to look like, right? Is there any moderation? Because again, as I just said, they had a whole one of the most popular Roblox. I mean Roblox, Fortnite Islands was based off Saw and they literally had the saw guy on the image. Like that's like definitely violating some, some IP right there.

[Mike]

Fortnite also made their own Among Us mode. Don't forget, Fortnite absolutely made its own Among Us and they made their own.

[Roger]

Counter strike or whatever. Right. So, like, they're not above that. But all I'm saying is that this is going to be the wild, wild west when it comes to the ip, when it comes to IP infringements. And also just basically, like, you need to make sure that the kids are safe here. Like, there needs to be a way to make sure that children are not being taken advantage of. I would love if there was some type of rule set of like, hey, this is good for microtransactions. These are not good for microtransactions. Like, some type of rules. Like, I know it's tough to make hard and fast rules when it comes to so many different types of modes, but there needs to be some examples of like, hey, you can have cosmetics that look like this and like, you know, that are incentivized for, you know, people to buy, but then you can't have xp. That is the only way that you can progress in a video game.

[Mike]

Right.

[Roger]

Like, there needs to be some rules. And there's some different things that I think kids gravitate towards more that are very. Especially gambling and stuff that is just so, so damaging to their brains. And it's, it's. It's never a good look for Fortnite to be associated with that, but it also makes the most money. So it's, it's definitely a dance for them specifically. But I think as a consumer, we need to kind of be on their ass a little bit. Yeah. And be like, yo, you guys need to, to be on top of this and be protecting these children.

[Mike]

It's crazy because, like, when I grew up, right, when I was a young kid, back in my day, Warcraft 3 was that outlet of, like, going to Warcraft 3 custom games and seeing people create footman frenzy, tower defense, like big RPGs. Dota with a MOBA was in that.

[Roger]

It's like, I didn't GMOD was that for me.

[Mike]

I didn't think kids had that nowadays. And then it's like, oh, no, they do. Right? Like, there is the Roblox. Now Fortnite having these weird custom game modes where people are creating and, yeah, they're ripping off other games or they're creating their own stuff. It'll be interesting to see someone brought up like, someone's gonna make a MOBA inside of Fortnite.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Right. And I'm currently playing Deadlock and loving that. Right. I would try that out. It will be very cool to see what the creatives bring to the table. What does find success? How do you use that sponsorship tool the correct way to be able to put up something so well done and get in front of a bunch of eyes? Or will it just be the slop as people been using that term lately?

[Roger]

Yeah, you're going to get both. You see in Roblox you see dress impressed, which is a very impressive video game. Like you watch that and you see what they're doing there and I, you know, people are going to shit on me in the chat below. Roger loves just to impress. It's a great game. Like you're, you need to open your mind a little bit. Like you see that game, it's like that's pretty solid. That's a solid way. It's a very good video.

[Mike]

Very good.

[Roger]

It's a very good video game. It's very impressive stuff. And then you're also gonna get the slot that is just stealing from other people's ideas and then it's just the, the bare minimum. Also, I want to count, I want to point out somebody lov in the chat said Roger doesn't know Jigsaw's real name. It's Billy the Puppet. And I said that.

[Mike]

So Billy the Puppet.

[Roger]

Billy the Puppet is the real government name. So why don't you ban yourself?

[Mike]

I didn't know his name.

[Roger]

Watch all the movies with me.

[Mike]

There you go.

[Roger]

Story number two. Nintendo says mods doesn't. Sorry, Nintendo say Nintendo says mods don't count as prior art as they're not full games attempting to sway judge in PAL world lawsuit some Tom Phillips over at ign User made mods should not be considered prior art, Nintendo has argued as part of the company's lawsuit against palworld developer Pocket Pair. Nintendo's claim appears to be an attempt at blocking Pocket Pair from using popular Pokemon mods as evidence that the franchise's patented gameplay was already being featured in other games elsewhere. That's awesome. The argument put forth by Nintendo essentially that mods require a separate base game to function so therefore are not art by themselves, has raised eyebrows across the games industry and among Pokemon fans alike, with many suggesting it could have far reaching consequence consequences if accepted by a judge. Writing in Games Fray, which first reported the development, games industry reporter and legal analyst Florian Muller described the suggestion that gameplay ideas or innovations featured in mods were not viable as prior art as something that showed, quote, utter disregard for the enormous creativity, end quote, of many mod makers. Additionally, and perhaps more concerning from a legal perspective, if accepted, the ruling could potentially open the door to mods being considered, quote, fair game for Patent thieves who could swoop in and incorporate the same ideas into full game releases, which would then be protected. Quote, patents are a special monopoly granted by the governments of the world to encourage creative invention. Business lawyer and creator of the Virtual Legality podcast Richard Hoga told IGN today, if something already exists in the world, some new person is not allowed to claim they invented it and get that protection. Quote, we call everything that already exists prior art, and it would be ludicrous to exempt any piece of game design from that category simply because of how it stood up in the software. The mechanism for access shouldn't really matter. It exists. It makes things like it in the world non novel and thus not subject to protection. We don't give out monopolies to second place. Will Nintendo succeed with its claim? Muller suggests it's unlikely, as courts typically reject any attempt to narrow what can be considered prior art with Nintendo taking an extreme position here. But time will tell as the lawsuit shows no signs of winding down. This is evil. That's me saying that, by the way. Roger Pokorny. Mike, what'd you think about that?

[Mike]

Yeah, it's an important conversation. I'm glad we're having it.

[Roger]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Mike]

No conversations.

[Roger]

That's important conversation.

[Mike]

We gotta have. Somebody's gotta have it. Somebody's talking about it.

[Roger]

I'm gonna start doing tester these podcasts. I'm gonna throw in quotes there. I'm gonna say, what did I say during this thing?

[Mike]

I will say, this is ridiculous. Yeah, right. Some people finally check Nintendo, maybe elevate on some of their game ideas, come out there and try to give us what we want. And they're like, no, stop that.

[Roger]

It's part of it. It was part of our prior art. You built off our ideas. It's like, no, I, I get what they're shooting at, right? Like, they're like, oh, these are mods of our ip, so technically we own those things. But it's like, no, that's not how that works. Someone took your thing and then added on top of it their own idea that is separate from your thing. And then now you're trying to be like, no, we own that stuff. Like, no, that doesn't make any sense. And I'm, this is bullshit. This is complete bullshit. This is complete bullshit. And if this gets narrowed, we're going to be looking at a lot of issues here. But I, I'm hopeful that it doesn't. I'm hopeful that we are able to kind of move forward and actually see the people that are making mods as making their own piece of art that they're just. This is their kind of palette, right? That's the best way to describe it is that this is. Their palette is Pokemon Red. And now they've created something new and it's their own thing and they should be able to kind of own that idea at the very least. I just, I find it funny that they are willing to open the floodgates on the definition of prior art in terms of like the mod community to try to fight this when Nintendo is so like uptight about any sort of outside usage of their ip. And then this, from what you read in the article, seems like if they allowed this argument from Nintendo, this would harm Nintendo in the long run. So like, what's the fucking end game here, man? Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

What's your end game? It's just like, let's get down to it. What's your end game here? What are we really trying to accomplish here? Stop this bullshit.

[Roger]

I get chills every time you say what's your end game?

[Mike]

To me.

[Roger]

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[Mike]

Now you do.

[Roger]

That's awesome. While CD Projekt is yet to confirm Cyberpunk 2 will feature online gameplay, the developer did spend years experimenting with the possibility for the original Cyberpunk 2077. It has previously said it wanted to eventually bring online gameplay into all of its franchises, and specifically said it was considering multiplayer gameplay for Cyberpunk 2 in the past. Michael.

[Mike]

Yeah, this sounds like a world and a franchise that I would like to exist in past the single player content. Yeah, I don't know if there was ever a discussion of what that multiplayer content actually was. My mind, of course, quickly jumps to Red Dead Online GTA Online, right? Here's this giant open world. There's normally single player. Hey, what if I threw in 20 people and you and your friends ran around as crazy cybernetic robots and did fun missions, shot each other and drove through the streets of Night City, right? Like that seems like a an instant win of like what that is. If it's more of a. Hey, here's A Team Arena Multiplayer 5v5 Team Math or Death match and stuff like that. That not as exciting, but like a smaller suite probably. Maybe something easier to create, you would think than going full open world with 30 people in a world fair.

[Roger]

I worry about if we ever see Nick Scarpino again. Yes. That was. That's my main worry and I think they need team really needs to consider that yes. Is the livelihood of Chris Anka and Nick Scarpino. If they. They will fuse into one, it would be scary. I. My brain goes to co op. Would that be it? Would that. Would it be. Would it be some form of like, hey, you could play the entire game with somebody lands four players. Exactly. You can drop in, drop out with your friend. I know it's a little bit weird, but I mean, I don't think out of the realm of possibility what they could be doing in terms of like just playing and running around Night City with your friend. I think that that is. That isn't it. That is what makes sense to me and is exciting to me. But also, again, Mike, you know me, I'm just so excited about the idea of Free for All in any video.

[Mike]

Game, anytime I know you love, anytime.

[Roger]

You put Free for All in front of me, I'm playing it. So the idea of me running around in Night City, free for all.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger]

So fun, dude. So oh my God.

[Mike]

Night City and the Witcher.

[Roger]

Yes.

[Mike]

Like both of these worlds having a multiplayer online component to it sounds awesome, right? Like the idea of what could be. These are games that people love, worlds that people want to exist in. These are games that normally you play through the single player part of it. You either put it down, maybe you fall in love like Nick and Chris and you keep playing it again. Or a lot of it is like, hey, I did that. Now it's done. Right. And these games take a long time to create, a long time to get to the next one. How do I keep players in it? What is the offering that would have them continuing to enjoy their time in these worlds? I. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of fun ideas there.

[Roger]

Exisa in the YouTube chat brings up Ghost of Tsushima multiplayer. And I think that's an interesting way to go about it, maybe having its own, hey, this is the main single player story. You can only play it as one person. And then here's its own expansion that you can play with up to four friends. You're maybe doing a heist, you're running around. That is its own Designed situation there. That to me would be the perfect world for something like a Cyberpunk 2, which is they're all about experiences that are focused in, that are honed for a single player person. So creating that for a group of people, like up to four people would be kind of the ideal situation.

[Mike]

Yeah, Ghost is a great one to point to. You can bring up Mass Effect had a sweet little multiplayer suite. So did Dragon Age people like that one. If you were a die hard fan like me, you enjoyed Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.

[Roger]

What was it?

[Mike]

It was more. It was like a smaller kind of horde style. Okay. It wasn't like. It wasn't Ghosts with Legends and it wasn't like this giant open world. It was a smaller horde like mode is what I would describe it as.

[Roger]

God, we got to bring back hordes.

[Mike]

Round based horde mode. Yeah, that's what it was. I mean like, yeah, there are some great options here. And these are two incredible franchises that I want to exist longer and then just a single player. And I don't.

[Roger]

I. I wouldn't say I have like 100% hope. And you know, we did that for Cyberpunk. Like man, this is gonna be the greatest game ever. And then that launch was what that launch was. But I do have high hopes for them and I think that they are thinking about it the right way and they learned a lot after Cyberpunk. I don't think that they're going to shoot horn in some multiplayer. I think they would do it in a way that feels genuine to those franchises and expanding upon it rather than just kind of. It also makes sense because these are like proper franchises now. Like Cyberpunk has the Anime Witcher has the show. Like people want to live in this world. And even when the game comes out, even when there is no content, there's content outside of it. So people want to come back to that, that game all the time. So having a multiplayer option for them is very smart.

[Mike]

We just existed with GTA running the globe for 10 years with GTA Online. I'm sure all of these giant open world games are looking at it going, how do we get a piece of that as well? And we have such a hit here with those two. We got to figure this out.

[Roger]

Story number four. A GTA history class is coming to an American College ahead of GTA 6's release from Evan Campbell over at Gamespot. Starting in January, students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville can take an American history class focus on the Grand Theft Auto series. The was reportedly planned to include GT6 before it was delayed to May 26, 2026. IGN spoke with the professor Tor Olson about the class that's officially called Grand Theft America, US history since 1980. Throughout the GTA video Games, the teacher discussed how popular video games can mold our real world views like Ghost of Tsushima with Feudal Japan. With that in mind, quote the class is much more about American history than the games themselves, but GTA provides the framework that structures our exploration of the past. Allison said, my hopes, my hope is that after that class, students will never look at these games or modern American America the same again. Ollison is quote perhaps most excited to use San Andreas as a teaching tool from the GTA series as it's set in a fictional Los Angeles quote It's probably, it's probably obvious to many that this drama is an allusion to the LA riots of April and May of 1992, one of the most significant turning points in contemporary US history, but also one that is widely misunderstood. Professor said explaining the origins and meaning of this violent convulsion is a key goal in my class. All that said, actually playing the GTA games isn't required for the history course. Also doesn't want to put financial burden on students and instead will showcase gameplay during class time. The professor will also also believes this college course is the first of its kind with only Wilford Laurier University in Canada offering a GTA related class before Though not history focused, this isn't Olson's first time utilizing a popular game franchise for a history class. In fact, the professor used the Red Dead Redemption series to tackle US history between 1899 and 1911 previously that's cool stuff.

[Mike]

Pretty lit.

[Roger]

I always liked that stuff. I remember, I think it was around the time of Tipimpa Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar's album that a teacher was trying to do like a class about that album, but using it as like a poetry and like a way to kind of teach kids about poetry and all the illusions of inside of that album and kind of making it about that as like the the entry point and then branching off into something else. I think that's a smart way.

[Mike]

How do you connect with these kids?

[Roger]

Yes.

[Mike]

From different generations and what are they interested in? How do you use that to better teach them and show them things in these different curriculums? And it's like yeah, I read that and I go that sounds lit. This sounds like something I would sign up for or I would love to just see. Right? Hey, I hope they film all this, put it up online. Months later and let us click through this, because I would love to hear what this person's bringing.

[Roger]

Yeah, that for sure. And I think also it's interesting, I want to see what that class is, because I think there's a few ways you can go about it, right? You can use it as just like, hey, here is, like, the way that they're depicting it. And then also here's, like, the reality of it comparing and contrasting. Or you can also do this as like, an English study of, like, hey, like, or. Or art and the way that we parody a lot of these situations. And it's interesting. This is a history class, but you can also use this as. As some type of media class or arts class. Yeah, someone in the chat. I lost it, but someone said this is also kind of a media literacy course as well, which I think, especially in the video game section of media, I think a lot of people need. So I think that's actually really red.

[Mike]

I love it.

[Roger]

We're taking you to Canada, Mike. You're gonna go. I mean, it's not Canada, Mike.

[Mike]

All you have to do is apply for College of Tennessee. Rocky Top. I would look great in volunteer orange. Oh, Rocky Top, baby, stop. Any day. As long as I could be there during the fall quarter because I don't love me.

[Roger]

Rocky Top. Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Mike]

Stop saying Tennessee Football, baby. I'm trying to be there for some Tennessee Volunteer Football.

[Roger]

Stop saying Rocky.

[Mike]

I could also be the quarterback if you need me. They have a good team right now.

[Roger]

But, like, you ripped your hamstring. You ripped your hamstring.

[Mike]

Throw that thing.

[Roger]

Story number five. Bomb Rush Cyber Funk Studio debuts its next game. Hyper Funk Studio. Some David Carcello at WCCF Attack. Let's see the teaser. Like, look at this. Oh, okay, Okay, I see what's going on here. Looks like a little jet set radio type deal. Oh, whoa. Okay, so he's running around. It's a rollerblade or roller skating.

[Mike]

Aggressive inline. Oh, and you have with bmx.

[Roger]

Bmx. And we're skateboarding. Oh. Oh. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Yeah, this got the stuff. This got the stuff. Oh, the logo's coming in. The logo's coming in. Very Y2K. Yep, it's coming in.

[Mike]

Oh, okay. We're taking our time on this.

[Roger]

Yeah, we're taking it. Oh, shit. Damn. Don't like that Team Reptile, though. That's sick.

[Mike]

Team Reptile is a cool.

[Roger]

A little more about the game. Let's skip around here. Quote, Team Reptile's new new game is called Hyper Funk, the post reads, an extreme trick and graffiti game in which the higher your combo score, the faster you can boost. Follow the story of a crew called Mac 10 Mach 10 Mach 10 M A C H10 and complete the with the with compete and compete with the other crews in dynamic style wars or hang out online with friends. Yeah, that's fun. I like that. A little more about the game Hyper Funk, which looks to be another fast paced music infused combo field focus rush. It'll be coming to PC and consoles when it's ready, but at the time of this writing, no release date or release window has been announced. Exciting. Cool stuff. Yeah, cool, cool stuff. This game seems like it's going to be big. Seems like it's a lot of different stuff going on here. A lot of different bmx, skateboarding Mike, if I wanted something smaller, save this tiniest news I need to know about. Where would I go?

[Mike]

Roger, I take you to our last story, the WE News Channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[Roger]

Hey, we News story number six from Kotaku Battlefield 6 reportedly contains not one, not two, but three lit biscuit songs, according to a new Battlefield 6. Wow. Limp Bizkit Shout out.

[Mike]

Can we get I learned a lot about Limp Bizkit because it's kind of funny, you know that.

[Roger]

Tell me one thing.

[Mike]

Well, I thought it was just one man. Yeah, the group. It's a group that was just a man in the hat, the red hat.

[Roger]

Okay, he had a hat according to a new Battlefield.

[Mike]

Now he's got long hair.

[Roger]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Could be a wig, but like he got. If it's long hair, he's got good looking hair.

[Roger]

Hair.

[Mike]

I don't know. He wore a hat all the time. How am I supposed to know what his head looks like?

[Roger]

That's true. You're bringing up great points. Sometimes I like on you, but it was a great point. You make up great points. B.F. bolton says these songs will be played on the radio when driving in game vehicles, but EA has yet to confirm any of us. The songs are Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit, Making Love to Morgan Wallen by Limp Bizkit.

[Mike]

Whoa.

[Roger]

Battlefield the After Party by Henry Jackman and Boilers Limp Bizkit. Okay, is that a new game, a new song, or is that an old song? Did they make a song called Battlefield the After Party for this?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger]

Or is this a song that's already.

[Mike]

When did he make the song Making Love to Morgan Wallen? And is that the country superstar who's Morgan Wallen A country singer. Oh, and is he making love to Morgan Wallen also? Just a reminder just now, not just.

[Roger]

One guy, it's a group. Yeah, yeah. Is the entire. No, I know.

[Mike]

Okay, so we get some like, like battle tracks similar to Call of Duty recently in their games. We jump in the car and all of a sudden Chris Anka is blaring some sort of war track that we drive down the street, get absolutely murdered in. And then the music cuts off. Like, okay, yeah, you know, yeah, whatever.

[Roger]

Cool.

[Mike]

This is one of those where it makes you think, oh, you know what?

[Roger]

Battlefield did this back in the day. They had a few of these songs. I remember they had like, cool music in there. They had like clipping or something. Like, oh, they had death grips. They had death grips. Yes. Everybody, it's coming back to me. They had death grips. They had. They had death grips from. Yeah, they had one of the. One of their songs. That was a huge deal. Yeah, it was like maybe Hardline or something like that. It was like one of those. Yeah, okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Roger]

That was a huge deal to Roger in high school. Never bought that game, though. Mega man is coming to Sonic Racing. Cross Worlds, Season Pass and Knights post launch DLC have been confirmed via box art.

[Mike]

Cool. Well, here's some fun stuff. You're excited about more characters, but I know how you feel. If you would like, go listen to Roger's thoughts and the discussion yesterday on the Gamescast where you guys reviewed this game. You talked about the character.

[Roger]

Yes, we did.

[Mike]

You know what you want? What? How you wanted them kind of brought into it. Also, if you want to learn more about Battlefield 6, I played their largest map and a map coming back from after 16 years. Operation Firestorm in one of the recent kind of funny games daily.

[Roger]

Which one? You have to click on all of them. Figure it out.

[Mike]

Good luck.

[Roger]

I think there's one. Andy. And then it was in the Wii News section. It was way too long.

[Mike]

Giving you the opportunity to go learn.

[Roger]

More about these nine tracks from Donkey Kong Bonanza got added to Nintendo Music. I wonder if it's all the nice Pauline stuff. And Paul. Walter Hauser joins Austin Abrams in Zach Krager's A lot of names. Resident Evil reboot. That's exciting.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a lot of names.

[Roger]

Paul. Walter Hauser is great. He's incredible. He's also a wrestler. Oh, he does? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a wrestler. He's sick. And he's also, of course. And he's a stingray.

[Mike]

Stingray.

[Roger]

Stingray.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. You put Stingray in everything.

[Roger]

Yeah, you put him in everything. He needs a redemption after Fantastic Four. He was not bad in that though. He was very like hardly. Oh, he's hardly in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They cut out a lot. That was just a weird movie for him. That was weird.

[Mike]

He was in the new Naked Gun.

[Roger]

Yes, he was.

[Mike]

He was good when I watched that. Yeah.

[Roger]

You liked it?

[Mike]

I did, yeah. Nice little movie.

[Roger]

You guys should watch. Everyone should watch it. Everyone go support us. A local indie film. Go watch the Naked Gun. And that is it for Wii News. We got some super chats here. Let's. Let's start off with a sad one.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Roger]

I see Wiener super chats and says, yesterday I was diagnosed with an avocado sized brain tumor and removing it will likely leave me paralyzed on the left side. So I guess there goes video games. So could really use Greg pep talk and Barrett Scalp routine. Icy Wiener, we love you. We see you in the chat all the time. We're sending you love, we're sending you support and we're here for you. And yeah, everybody go send some love over to Icy Wiener. Thanks for reaching out and always being in the chat. You're the best. Moving on. Foxy Steve, in the words of the late, great Eddie Guerrero, if you're not cheating, if you're not trying. That's what I said. Trevor, super chats and says blessing needs to step in and stop this atrocity. Okay, Trevor, you are banned.

[Mike]

Banned.

[Roger]

You're banned. That's crazy. Kebab says just like you guys will be banned next year. I think there's going to be. I think there's going to be a revolt.

[Mike]

If that might be a renaissance, we might become number one.

[Roger]

You know what? We make our own cooler people, easy allies Kebabs. How long until they're banned from the FC Discord? They love us there.

[Mike]

We're making friends there.

[Roger]

Yeah, we're making friends there.

[Mike]

We're leaving.

[Roger]

A lot of people are like, roger, Mike, Nick, how are you?

[Mike]

Yes, exactly.

[Roger]

Love seeing you, Nick, who just sent in one message yesterday. He comes in immediately and then drops that immediately. Hyphas shock in the chat says, can't ban the champs.

[Mike]

Can't ban the champs.

[Roger]

Can't ban the champs.

[Mike]

Again, that's not how that works. We've earned immunity. Can't be voted off the island.

[Roger]

We have have to win this because if we don't, we're out. Ricky the Platypus says it just finished yesterday's Sonic review. Shadow the Hedgehogs 2005 is my favorite Sonic game. And I was severely disappointed it didn't get a modern port in the Year of the Shadow. Ricky. That's what I've been saying. That's what I've been saying about Shadow. A lot of people have been giving me that. I say that if they make a Shadow the hedgehog game in 2025, doesn't have to be like the original game. Doesn't have to be like the 2005 game. If they make a new Shadow the Hedgehog game as like, I don't know, maybe it's like a generation sonic Shadow Generations 2. It would do better than Sonic Superstars. It would do well. Would do very well.

[Mike]

I like that.

[Roger]

Dova beats birthday tax for my son leon, who turns 1 today. He is growing. He's going to grow up with KF on TV all the time. I remember him napping on me in the hospital when he was only a day old watching kfgd.

[Mike]

Happy birthday, Leon.

[Roger]

First words. Gonna be a baker's dozen.

[Mike]

Resident Evil. This is first words or like, you know, what was Leon doing? He was. He was, you know, 360 kicking people. He was yelling, where's the baby eagle? I got a savor. What a game. Resident. Played it, played it, played it.

[Roger]

Rick, Al, stop. The Steel blessing. Lay the hammer down. You're banned. Banned. A lot of people getting banned today just like you guys next year. Ah, it's crazy. It's crazy. They would do it to us. Terry Huffman. I've been listening. I've been listening for a year now. You guys got me back into gaming. Beat Ghost, Ragnarok and Astrobot. And 30 hours into the first death stranding.

[Mike]

Tearing it up, tearing it up, tearing it up.

[Roger]

You got to be freaking it up, those mountains.

[Mike]

Can I recommend devil may cry 3? Try that game out?

[Roger]

Let me recommend Shadow Generations.

[Mike]

Let me give you a recommendation.

[Roger]

Let me just lead you astray a little bit. Casa Super Chat says either of you intend to play Sword of the Sea. I. I actually might. I actually might pick that up.

[Mike]

I hear you can beat it in a night to two nights. That's. I like that length.

[Roger]

I like that a lot.

[Mike]

I like that. I like vibing out to riding my skateboard, my snowboard on some sand desert, then on Switch Dunes.

[Roger]

I think it's just PlayStation. I would have to look into that. Yeah, I played it. Yeah, it was like three, four hours. It was a great time. Lovely time if you love the vibes of Journey, but also love traversing on like a little Sword Skateboard. It's a. It's a good time.

[Mike]

Put it in my back pocket.

[Roger]

I remember one time I. I played Journey. You know how they do the thing in Journey where you, like, a random person joins you, your game towards. Towards. Towards the ending. This is where we get revealed that Mike's never played. Okay, well, spoilers, everybody. And I remember playing that game, finishing it, and then I messaged the person, said, thanks for the journey, and they blocked me.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's what I would do too.

[Roger]

That's great.

[Mike]

Block you.

[Roger]

I mean, you did do that. You did block it. Even block. Omega Buster says, love the jacket, Mike. Looking very 1996.

[Mike]

That kid blocked you. That's hysterical.

[Roger]

It's hilarious. So mean. So deeply mean. It's like 3am I'm like, I'll play this game. Crying a little bit. And the guy just blocks me. I'm like, jesus. I was like the. Nothing gets you happier than someone. Someone blocking me. Zeke, speak. Super Chat says to jump in on Roger's comment. MFA holding poet teacher here. Rap and hip hop is maybe the strongest and best way to get kids, anyone really into poetry. It's a crime to not teach it with Shakespeare, imo. That's a great call.

[Mike]

Good.

[Roger]

That's a great call. That's a great.

[Mike]

Another good one. Haiku in review.

[Roger]

That's a great way to teach kids. Yep.

[Mike]

Sing it and review. Haiku and review. Haiku and review.

[Roger]

Give me a haiku.

[Mike]

Yeah, you keep going. I'll give you one. Give me a second.

[Roger]

You can start googling haikus. What is a haiku? Omega Buster. Big news for us, Mike.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Roger]

Gives a super chat of $10. And I will say that number because.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Roger]

I'm switching my patreon to Mike and Roger Fant Critic Network. That's ten bucks. Five and five for us right now. We're gonna. We're going big. We're going big, everybody.

[Mike]

That's gonna fund us.

[Roger]

That's gonna fund us for the next year. And Kenny Kambal is the last super chat of the day. Says, any plans to play space jump? I don't know what space jump is.

[Mike]

Can we get a Google search on space jump? Roger.

[Roger]

Space jump game looks like. Oh, Jump space.

[Mike]

No, this is space jump, I think it's called.

[Roger]

I think it's jump space. Well, yeah, Jump space. There's an early access trailer that just came out for jump Space, so I'm assuming that's what they' about. Oh, this looks like.

[Mike]

Okay, this is where you're playing with some friends it looks like.

[Roger]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Have we seen this before?

[Roger]

I've never seen this before. I don't think so. It's like a no man's sky, but.

[Mike]

Oh, it looks like Starfield.

[Roger]

Starfield, everybody. Blessings here. I mean, but Bill here. Jesus. Greg's here.

[Mike]

Greg's blessings here. Okay, put that down on the notes. We'll put that.

[Roger]

Wow. That actually looks pretty good.

[Mike]

I love that.

[Roger]

Blessing's here.

[Mike]

Well, they made up. We got blessing on the mind. They put pineapple on a pizza.

[Roger]

That's cool. I'm in. What? Pineapple pizza space, man. Perfect pizza slice is what it's called. Hell, yeah. Yeah. When you're. When you're in space, you don't got much going on there. You don't have the right ingredients.

[Mike]

Space rocks or a pineapple. What do you want to put on your pizza?

[Roger]

Oh, wow. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Mike]

Jeff over here.

[Roger]

Not doing it. You're wrong. But also giving us advice. They said, Roger. Super. They. They. You're wronged us twice. And they said the same thing. Roger. Mike, one of you should pick Tales of Zilla Remastered for Fantasy Critic. It's a really good game. I looked into this. You can't do it. It's remaster. They've already decided to remaster. We will be in the discord.

[Mike]

We're in the discord already having a.

[Roger]

Conversation.

[Mike]

For a dialogue.

[Roger]

Big bad Beluga says CDPR Boston was formerly the studio molasses flood. Yes, that is correct. The craters of the flame and the flood. I do remember this. I do remember this.

[Mike]

Okay, cool.

[Roger]

That's a great Call out Red Hudson. Calling out my pronunciation of a Canadian name. Lawrier is what I said. It's Law Re a source. I'm Canadian. Call out kebabs. Putting in the details of all of the Bonanza music, which I appreciate.

[Mike]

Cool tracks.

[Roger]

And then, yeah, Bander, putting in something that I'm sure we will talk about on Monday. But yeah, that's it. Pretty flawless games daily. Mike. Jay, come on, bro.

[Mike]

Friday, we're ending the week with some good positive energy for all of you. And you know what Mike and Roger always do here in kind of funny games? Kind of funny. Do you have Amazon Prime? Oh, don't forget that if you have.

[Roger]

Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Set a reminder just so you don't.

[Mike]

Forget, you have Twitch Prime. 30 days of time on Amazon. That is Twitch Prime.

[Roger]

Thank you, everybody. Bye. Love you. Have a great weekend. Hang out for Gamescast. Later. Bye. Game showdown.