Is Kingdom Hearts 4 Being Teased by Tokyo Game Show?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.11.26

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Is Kingdom Hearts 4 Being Teased by Tokyo Game Show?!

Date: May 11, 2026
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Andy Cortez, Barrett, with a guest appearance by Greg Miller

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the week's biggest gaming news: speculation about a potential Kingdom Hearts 4 tease by Tokyo Game Show (TGS), a major Fast & Furious TV adaptation update, Forza Horizon 6 leaking early, Discord's new Game Pass perks, Stellar Blade 2's publishing shakeup, the EA buyout protest, and more. The Kinda Funny crew brings enthusiasm, humor, and a bit of chaos—plus some lively side conversations about cars and pets.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Kingdom Hearts 4 Tease at Tokyo Game Show?

[06:42–12:56]

• News: TGS tweeted a cryptic image ("loading" bar in a familiar font) with question marks, sparking speculation it may hint at Kingdom Hearts 4 news.
• Analysis:
  • Tim and Andy dissect the teaser:
    • The font and green bar strongly resemble Kingdom Hearts UI.
    • Some skepticism, as sleuths discovered it’s a stock image rather than official art, and it could simply be new TGS branding or key art—not a KH4 tease.
  • Andy latches onto the five question marks, joking "Are they skipping to Kingdom Hearts 5?" [07:48]
  • Tim reflects on past proclamations that “Kingdom Hearts 4 is closer than we think”, accepting he’s probably been wrong (“I've been wrong about this for almost half of a decade.” [10:19]).
  • Barrett clarifies KH4’s original reveal wasn’t at TGS but at the 20th Anniversary event in April 2022 [10:27].
  • Both hosts agree: Don’t get your hopes up. If KH4 news comes, it’s more likely at D23, Disney’s event, not TGS.
  • Andy is skeptical about D23 hype for KH announcements: “Anytime D23 comes around, I'm like, who are you? What are you doing?” [12:40]

Notable Quote:
"Oftentimes I sit here and I talk to people and I say insane proclamations...And every once in a while, I'm right about those things...There's also a lot of times I say things and I'm wrong."
— Tim Gettys [09:27]

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2. Forza Horizon 6 PC Leak

[12:59–19:16]

• News: Forza Horizon 6’s PC version leaked early due to an unencrypted upload to Steam’s backend.
• Insight:
  • The team is surprised such leaks are still happening: “How does this keep happening, Tim?” [15:55]
  • Early access models and preloading may be a factor, but skipping encryption is a shocking oversight.
  • Tim: “I'm not a scientist. I don't know what encryption means. I know that I want it.” [16:41]
  • Despite the leak, they predict strong sales due to the franchise’s podcast-game appeal and its anticipated Japan setting.
  • Fun digression into the importance of having specific car models (esp. Andy’s 2016 Honda Civic Coupe) in the game, and a debate over the coolness of the Prius C vs. Civic [19:04–21:23].

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3. Discord Nitro Subscribers Get Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition

[23:14–27:47]

• News: Discord introduces Nitro Rewards, including a new Game Pass Starter Edition (50+ games/10 hours cloud gaming) and discounts on Logitech, SteelSeries, and more.
• Insight:
  • Tim and Andy praise the added value but acknowledge the confusing, “overcomplicated” web of modern subscription bundles.
  • These bundles are likened to credit card rewards—good if you put in the work but otherwise “a glorified coupon book” [27:02].
  • Tim emphasizes, “At a certain point, more is just more... people really need to... look into this stuff and be like, do I want this, or do I just want game pass?” [27:32].

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4. Stellar Blade 2 Ditches Sony for Self-Publishing

[33:05–39:52]

• News: Shift Up will self-publish the next Stellar Blade, possibly opening the door to multi-platform release.
• Analysis:
  • The hosts find the stated reason (“to communicate the franchise’s unique appeal more directly”) amusing and speculate it’s about showcasing the game's "sexiness" more openly.
  • Andy: “PlayStation didn't push them titties enough.” [35:12]
  • Both agree the sexualized marketing has already been plenty effective via the fanbase, and the bigger appeal is “it’s a really, really fun video game once you can get past looking like a horny freak in public.” [36:30]
  • Discussion broadens to Sony potentially shifting away from paying for certain exclusives as their own install base grows.

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5. Dragon Quest 12: Announcement Accidentally Spoiled

[39:52–42:47]

• News: Dragon Quest creator Yuji Hori slipped that a stream on May 27 will include an update on the next mainline game—the statement was quickly deleted.
• Hosts’ Take:
  • They see this as typical leak/PR mishap.
  • Both admit they haven’t followed the series closely but recognize the importance for fans.

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6. EA Buyout Protest: Cosplaying Gamers Raid HQ

[43:04–48:53]

• News: In response to Saudi Arabia’s $55 billion leveraged buyout of EA, cosplaying gamers plan to protest at Redwood HQ by unraveling a 50-foot petition and a theatrical “loot box” demonstration.
• Audience Reaction:
  • The hosts love the absurdity (“There’s a whole performance involved… unravel a 50 foot scroll… Fucking gamers, man. They have a message, they're gonna get it out.” [44:16])
  • They note such dramatic, theatrical protest is very “Bay Area,” and say the details (“giant health bar prop”, loot box of “prizes” like layoffs) are what get attention.
  • Cautious optimism—it could land or flop like the ‘Willy Wonka experience’ meme, but it is creative activism.

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7. Quick Headlines (“We News” Section)

[49:34–55:31]

• TT Games' new LEGO game: Some players accessed the Xbox version early due to Walmart pre-orders; Denovo DRM quietly added to the PC version – controversial for performance issues.
• IO Interactive’s 007 First Light: 60fps on PS5 Pro showcased (hosts mock the ridiculous expense of premium console as the focus).
• **Double Fine unionizing; My Nintendo Store rebranded.
• Mortal Kombat 2 movie skins in MK1: Sparks nostalgia and speculation that the next mainline game could simply be titled “Mortal Kombat 2”.
• **Mouse: PI for Hire sells 730K units.
• Killer Bean launches on Steam Early Access: A running gag for the team.

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8. Super Chat & Car Tangents, Community Culture Praise

[55:31–end]

• On Mixtape review discourse:
  • Tim lauds the Kinda Funny community, contrasting their nuanced, civil game discussions with tribal online outrage.
  • Andy reflects on how playing a wide array of games opens you up to more unique experiences—and more criticism: "We just play a lot of different things." [59:16]
  • The hosts share funny interactions about car preferences, car spotting, and how games like Forza influence real-life car choices!
  • Multiple shoutouts from community members for influencing game choices and for the wholesome car banter.

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Notable Quotes

• Tim Gettys [09:27]:
  “Oftentimes I sit here and I talk to people and I say insane proclamations...And every once in a while, I'm right about those things...There's also a lot of times I say things and I'm wrong.”
• Andy Cortez [10:19]:
  “I'm glad... you're willing to admit that, like, damn, I've been wrong about this for almost half of a decade.”
• Andy Cortez [35:12]:
  “PlayStation didn't push them titties enough.”
• Tim Gettys [27:32]:
  “At a certain point, more is just more... people really need to... look into this stuff and be like, do I want this, or do I just want game pass?”
• Andy Cortez [36:30]:
  “The game is good. Yeah. The game's awesome. Yeah, it's fun to play... once you can get past looking like a horny freak in public.”
• Tim Gettys [44:16]:
  “But like now that is a fucking sentence. They're going to in cosplay raid the place and unravel a 50 foot scroll. Fucking gamers, man. They have a message, they're gonna get it out.”
• Tim Gettys [57:15]:
  “We get to talk about games... put people onto games... and y' all are genuinely cool about it. You’re generally cool about it for the most part.”

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:27 – Intro of key stories
• 06:42 – TGS Kingdom Hearts 4 Teaser Analysis
• 12:59 – Forza Horizon 6 Leak Discussion
• 23:14 – Discord Game Pass Starter Edition Revealed
• 33:05 – Stellar Blade 2 No Longer Sony-Published
• 39:52 – Dragon Quest 12 Announcement Leak
• 43:04 – Cosplaying Gamers to Protest EA Buyout
• 49:34 – We News Quickfire (Lego, 007, Mortal Kombat, etc.)
• 55:31–end – Super Chat, Car Banter, Community Feedback

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Memorable Side Moments

• Puppy Chip in the Office [01:27–02:52]: Greg brings his tiny new puppy, Chip, bringing the studio “doubly blessed” Mother’s Day joy.
• Tim's Laptop Logs Out Live [00:46–01:19]: Starts the show in a panic trying to log back in—“What’s my password? I don’t know.”
• Mass Effect Car Stickers / Car Flexes [19:00–24:00]: Hilariously heated Prius C vs. Civic banter (the “Prius C slander”).
• Blink-182’s destroyed Miata story [24:02]: Andy references Blink-182’s “The Rock Show” video—“we couldn't drop, like, the most expensive car. We're dropping a Miata.”
• Michael Caine/Bane Impressions [48:14]: The hosts can’t resist quoting Batman while discussing theatrical protest.
• Mixtape & Games Criticism [55:52–60:31]: Hosts praise their community’s healthy gaming discourse contrasted with wider internet toxicity.

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Episode Tone

Casual, comedic, and community-focused. The crew is quick-witted, gently self-deprecating, and prioritizes welcoming, nuanced conversation about games—while making time for lighthearted tangents and listener interaction.

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Conclusion

This episode balances serious industry discussion (such as leaks, exclusivity publishing rights, and corporate takeovers) with irreverent humor, quick detours into pop culture, and appreciation for the Kinda Funny community’s passion for games. If you’re looking for frank and funny gaming news coverage—with a dose of chaos and personality—this episode delivers.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

Today's stories include a Tokyo game show teaser gets Kingdom Hearts fans excited. Also, Tim's laptop just logged him out out of nowhere for no reason. Forza Horizon 6 appears to have leaked online. And a dis and Discord adds a free Xbox game pass starter edition for subs. We'll have all this and more and I hope Tim's computer works after this.

[Tim Gettys]

We're in. Baby. Bear. It's literally counting down that it's about to cut to the cold open. And I like refresh my Google Doc and it just signs me out of Google. Keeps pure panic mode trying to get in there. What's my password? I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotta keep you on your toes, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. Three incorrect password with this number, with that number, with. Oh, my Lord.

[Andy Cortez]

It just showed me, like, how unclutch you can be, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

That was not good.

[Andy Cortez]

How are you doing? I'm doing great, Tim. You. You know, we. We have a special guest in the office.

[Tim Gettys]

The smallest guest in.

[Andy Cortez]

The smallest tiniest guest possible.

[Tim Gettys]

How is he that small?

[Andy Cortez]

Greg brought in Nick. The new Greg brought in the new puppy chip. And he's just been running out there with Cole. It's the cutest thing ever.

[Tim Gettys]

The pictures do not do justice to the scale of this thing. Like, it's so small.

[Andy Cortez]

This little baby.

[Tim Gettys]

Love him, love him so much.

[Andy Cortez]

So happy to have him around the office.

[Tim Gettys]

How happy are you though, right now? I don't know. I haven't checked in on you. I don't know what's been going on. If I'm being completely honest, no game could have happened since I last talked to you. But how are your spurs doing?

[Andy Cortez]

So, lost a tight one last night.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm sorry?

[Andy Cortez]

In the first quarter. You know, the superstar of the world right Now, Victor Wenyama, 7 foot 6, had just an astounding stat line.

[Tim Gettys]

What's his, like, middle name? Because, you know, like, will this still Chamberlain?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, well, he's. He's. They call him the alien because they say there's nothing else. Like, like he's just out of this world. And also Nike's campaign is. He blocks among Us, because he's. He's always blocking.

[Tim Gettys]

That's good. It's. That's real good.

[Andy Cortez]

There's. There he is. Everybody look at the camera. There it is. Look at your TVs. If you're driving a car, pull over, bring up YouTube. Look at this little baby named Chip. Adorable puppy.

[Tim Gettys]

Look at him compared to Cole.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like. And Cole's tiny.

[Tim Gettys]

Blending in there, but adorable.

[Andy Cortez]

I got to hold him this morning as Greg. I went to, like, go get set up the cage. It was so awesome to just hold him. He's a little baby. Just a little baby.

[Tim Gettys]

How do you feel about this, Greg? I'm doubly blessed. You know what I mean? Just doubly blessed. What a mother's day for me. Absolutely love it. Okay, so we got the alien.

[Andy Cortez]

So the alien in the first quarter, Tim. Up two games to one. Best of seven, first of four wins. Up two games to one in the first quarter. You know, they've. They've been. They've been manhandling Victor Wyama all series because he's the tallest dude and he's skinny as hell. So it's like you gotta. You gotta show this young guy who's 22 years old what the playoffs are all about. And Victor gets tired of it and has the ball, swings an elbow, hits Nas Reed in the throat.

[Tim Gettys]

Dang.

[Andy Cortez]

And you're out of the game. Kicked out of the. Oh, it was tough. But I mostly blame myself for this loss, Tim, because the spurs were up by like 5,7ish points most of the game, even without Victor Womenyama. And. And I was watching on my phone, and then I swapped to my tv.

[Barrett]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

And then they started losing. I was like, I fucked it up. I fucked it up.

[Tim Gettys]

It was your.

[Andy Cortez]

It was my fault. And by the time I went back to my phone, it's too late. That's what it was like.

[Barrett]

Like, Alyssa loves the San Francisco Giants and she knows that she is the Curse of the Giants. If she's ever watching the Giants, that's when they start losing. So she's like, curse of, like, loving this team.

[Andy Cortez]

Turn it back off. Yeah. Yeah.

[Barrett]

She's got to turn it off.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it was. It was my mistake. So. Lost the close one. Lost by five, I believe. And we head back to San Antonio for game five.

[Tim Gettys]

So game five, where are we at now? Is it two?

[Andy Cortez]

Two?

[Tim Gettys]

Two, two? Okay. Oh, that's fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I'm wishing you luck.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm feeling good about it.

[Andy Cortez]

And I see Khalif out there on Twitter being Like, Victor should have been suspended. You know, any other player would have been suspended. I'm like Victor or Khalif. Quiet down.

[Tim Gettys]

Just quiet down. Okay?

[Andy Cortez]

Delete that tweet. You're offending me and my family.

[Tim Gettys]

Who's his team?

[Andy Cortez]

He's a Knicks Timberwolves Nick. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Nicks. That makes sense. Yeah, I should. I definitely do that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you definitely.

[Tim Gettys]

I definitely do that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Looking back at it, if you're watching

[Tim Gettys]

live, be part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Thank you so much. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. We have seven stories today. A baker's dozen. Story number one, a Fast and Furious TV series is officially in the works at Peacock. While Vin Diesel said that four shows were in the works, a source confirms it's in fact only one quote. For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more. Vin Diesel said at the NBC Universal upfront presentation they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space that Fallon has mastered. And I had to wait till it was right. It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that's when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all here feel like family would be protected in the TV space. The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe. There is nothing more Vin Diesel than him just saying. The fact that there might be one show is hilarious, but him just jump inside. It's four shows. I just name dropping left and right.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, you were reading this to me before and I was like this. I just feel like I'm on Games Daily right now and it feels like, Tim, I. I want to be a fly on the wall in Vin Diesel's living room. Watching Fallon and being like, how do we get to that level?

[Tim Gettys]

Like, how do we get there? This guy's a international appeal.

[Andy Cortez]

This guy's a master. You know what I mean? And he's calling up Michael Caine because he' really good friends with Michael K. Is it? Well, then what you need to become like Fallon? Oh, Fallon's actually a character in. In the Prestige. I'll just kind of come.

[Tim Gettys]

The real story number one, everybody. Kingdom Hearts 4 fans think that a Tokyo game show teaser hints at impending news this comes from Katherine Lewis at Games radar. Kingdom Hearts 4 hopefuls are once again back with the Hopium as Tokyo Game Show Teaser has folks convinced that the news is on the way very soon. But I'm not quite so sure. Earlier today, the official TGS Twitter account posted a mysterious tweet, a whole bunch of question marks in a box followed by tomorrow's date and the words coming soon. Below that though, is an image that's gotten everyone talking. It simply says loading. With a familiar looking font and a green bar below it. It didn't take long at all for folks to start speculating that this could be a teaser for news about Square Enix's RPG series. Does TGS post mean anything? Kingdom Hearts shaped though? Unfortunately, I wouldn't be so sure. Sleuths have noticed that the loading pict is actually a stock image, so it definitely hasn't been purpose made to tease something specific. Could the folks behind TGS account have seen the similarity to Kingdom Hearts and use it on purpose? Potentially, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. As others have speculated, it seems more likely that whatever seemingly going to be revealed tomorrow is more to do with the show itself. Like perhaps this year's official key art.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not buying it.

[Tim Gettys]

What aren't you buying?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I just you don't post this with that knowledge. But then I look at the five question marks, Tim, and I'm like maybe. What does that stand for? Are they skipping to Kingdom Hearts five

[Tim Gettys]

five Fast and Furious shows they're gonna make?

[Andy Cortez]

He did add one extra in the last 30 minutes. I when you post this I immediately think that that's it. That is what they're teasing. There's no reason why you would just do this with such similarities unless you knew in your heart of hearts and the key is the heart of the heart.

[Tim Gettys]

What do they say something to say a lot about keys and hearts, bro, I don't know. I can't help you there.

[Andy Cortez]

The heart. Oh no, I'm thinking the heart of the cards.

[Tim Gettys]

That's Yu Gi. Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn it. But when I first see this and you post that as a little thing in slack of like it's the same font. I don't know if you would do this without that knowledge.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you're not just some random no, you're tgs.

[Andy Cortez]

You're tgs.

[Tim Gettys]

You're and also the green on the loading, it looks exactly like the green they use for the Kingdom Hearts like

[Andy Cortez]

health bar these but social posts undergo so many eyes and there's so Much like, you know, different eyes on it before it actually goes out into the public. Somebody would have caught that if they were like, no, we can't do that. That looks too much like Kingdom Hearts. Don't do that or do that.

[Tim Gettys]

Rile the people up. Get them excited for something they wouldn't have been excited for anyways. They know they don't have Kingdom Hearts, but we don't know that yet.

[Andy Cortez]

So the first time we saw Kingdom Hearts 4 was TGS many years ago. Many. Four. Four years ago.

[Tim Gettys]

Was it Even more than that. I do real quick. I want to interrupt you and say this.

[Andy Cortez]

Please do.

[Tim Gettys]

Oftentimes I sit here and I talk to people and I say insane proclamations

[Andy Cortez]

and sometimes gonna be four fastest period shows.

[Tim Gettys]

We might add more. Okay. And every once in a while, I'm right about those things, you know, And I get to look back and be like, I was right. I said that. That I called that I was right. There's also a lot of times I say things and I'm wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm very, very wrong. One of the things I'm most wrong about, I think that I have really, like, put my foot down on in the last couple of years when I'm talking about video games is I've been saying for years Now, Kingdom Hearts 4 is closer than we think. Like, they've learned. Look out. Look how they've released Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Look, the square's back on their shit. Like, them announcing it this early, I think this means it's closer than we think. And now I'm like, looking back, I'm like, I can't believe people haven't called more because I've said it so many times.

[Andy Cortez]

That's big of you, though. It is. It is.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm glad that you're got. You're. You're willing to admit that, like, damn, I've been wrong about this for almost half of a decade.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So when was it? Barrett does it.

[Barrett]

This was 40 years ago or 2022.

[Tim Gettys]

So it wasn't TGS, though. It was Japan time. Like, it was Japan. You're right for us. But, like, I don't. It wasn't cheap tgs. I don't remember when it was. Can you look into that, Barrett?

[Barrett]

It was like April 10, 2022. And TGS, y usually like late summer. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

If I'm TGS is like, August, September.

[Andy Cortez]

It was 20th anniversary.

[Tim Gettys]

Says anniversary of Kingdom Hearts. Okay. Because yeah, they'd be doing a bunch of weird. But yeah, we saw this quadratum yeah, this is quadratic that never sleeps.

[Andy Cortez]

Me. Is that what it's called?

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That's New York.

[Andy Cortez]

But have they ever mentioned quadratum in Kingdom Hearts? She says it right here.

[Tim Gettys]

This. This is like the end of three. Oh, four, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Barrett]

I never finished three.

[Tim Gettys]

This is like the. The more real world, but it's like not really.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

You got to play all these games.

[Andy Cortez]

It never sleeps. No, I'm good. I'm good. Okay. So five question marks seems very deliberate, Tim. That's a deliberate choice, I think. Just put one question mark.

[Tim Gettys]

It's a rectangle. Nicely. You know, so would a four.

[Andy Cortez]

So would have.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, two would have as well.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I think that this is going to just be some TGS branding stuff. Like they're saying here. The, like official key art or something like that. Like the. Loading. It's just like. I don't know. Tgs, as far as I can remember, has never teased game announcements.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. But there's. There has never been a better time to be more confident about Kingdom Hearts

[Tim Gettys]

4 being closer than you think, where

[Andy Cortez]

you have been way more confident in the past and way more wrong. I.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, but that's the thing too is I just. I don't think The Kingdom Hearts 4 is going to reshow itself at TGS. I think that it's a D23 announcement at this point.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

I think so.

[Andy Cortez]

You think Disney. I mean, has Disney ever done anything? Kingdom Hearts?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, they showed the Toy story world in of 3 or 3 at D23.

[Barrett]

They also had Kingdom Hearts characters at Disneyland at one point.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I just don't. You know what? I don't. With D23 like that. I don't believe in it.

[Barrett]

Same.

[Andy Cortez]

Anytime D23 comes around, like, who are you? What are you doing?

[Tim Gettys]

Is kind of cool. I'm on the other side.

[Andy Cortez]

I disagree, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, story number two.

[Andy Cortez]

Story number two.

[Tim Gettys]

Speaking of Japan, let us know in

[Andy Cortez]

the super chats if you. If you agree with D23.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you agree with D23? That is the question of the day. Forza Horizon 6 appears to have leaked online. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC. The PC version of Forza Horizon 6 appears to have been leaked ahead of its full release. The much anticipated sixth game in the Forza Horizon series is set for general release on May 19, with early access available from May 15 for people who buy the premium edition. However, as noted by numerous sources online, including the Gaming Leaks and Rumors Reddit page, which I Shout out in an ad today.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

It's pretty cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Very cool. Oh, you know what? That's right. Yeah. Because I was listening to. I was listening to the Besties, and I was like, oh, that's right. We're doing something with that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Very soon.

[Tim Gettys]

So that. That's pretty cool. And then also, did you watch the Buzz today?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

You haven't met Cosmo Kenny?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. At some point today, do yourself.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm pulling him up.

[Tim Gettys]

You just. You just got to watch Cosmo Kenny.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. A lot of people in chat have

[Barrett]

been wondering, like, if we had any announcements today with Cosmo Kenny.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's right. Yeah. You know, I did hear there. I did hear some discussions from the lab going, should I be Galactic Gary or. There was a lot of, like, I heard the brainstorming in there, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Well, you need to see the final products because there are moments of this that are the most unhinged Mike has ever been. Where my favorite thing, it's Mike kind of playing a character, and he gets lost.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. Damn. So did. Were they not able to get the Star Fox team working? Oh, I thought it was the same technology as what they showed off. Yeah, because they were. They were supposed to get.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, the game's not out.

[Andy Cortez]

They thought that they'd be able to do it.

[Tim Gettys]

What the does that even mean? Fortunately, not Star Fox.

[Andy Cortez]

They thought that they'd be able to get the Star Fox faces work, like, as if they were just available already.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a bizarre thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. All right. Well, the PC version of Forza Horizon 6 has been acquired, cracked, and made available for download by Pirates. What a sentence. I know, I get it. But wow. While the main reason for the leaks not been fully and officially confirmed, the leading theory is that the preloaded version of the game was uploaded to Steam's back end on Sunday by a developer, but was done so without any encryption. This reportedly made it possible for certain individuals to download the files and apply a crack to make the game playable. VGC has seen the game available for download on certain websites, but has not downloaded and therefore cannot verify its validity. Do you trust that? However, other players have started posting.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw it, but, like, I didn't get near it.

[Tim Gettys]

I believe it exists, but. And videos on YouTube with them playing the game. Microsoft's yet to comment on the situation. Well, this isn't good.

[Andy Cortez]

This happens too often, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I, like.

[Andy Cortez]

I would have assumed that once it happens the first time that everybody sort of cracks down on it and not. I'm not talking about the pirates cracking the actual. I mean, that every other publisher goes, we cannot under any circumstance let that happen to our big release. How does this keep happening, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I think having a staggered release schedule has something to do with

[Andy Cortez]

it needing to preload it and things like that.

[Tim Gettys]

But seeing early access and then there's this, and then there's this, like mistakes get made.

[Barrett]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

But seeing that, you know, this thing was, it was done so without any encryption. That seems like, you know, the one thing you were told to do when house sitting was to lock the door before you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And you didn't do that.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not a scientist. I don't know what encryption means. You know, I know that I want it. I want to be protected by.

[Andy Cortez]

Right. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want people cracking my encryption. I don't want the pirates in my home. That's all I know.

[Andy Cortez]

It just seems really bizarre that I feel like every, like twice a month there's a story about some big ass game getting leaked and all the files being out there. It's just like, God dang, you know, Hope, I don't think this will hurt Microsoft in any massive way. Obviously there's going to be a lot of illegal activity and people downloading it. I still think it's going to sell really well, but it's still kind of crazy that this thing kind of continues to happen. And then looking through the subreddit, seeing people like, well, I know what I'm doing tonight. It's like, God damn, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's not good. How hyped are you for Forza Horizon 6?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh my God, I'm so pumped up. I mean, after that preview, after, after being, after getting to that part where it's like, all right, you're gonna do the big race and the preview ends there. It's like, that's the perfect tease.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I already getting into the rhythm of just driving from spot to spot, from just turning my mind off it being the perfect podcast game. Good lord. It's, it's, it's going to, it's already showed me that, you know, barring any major fuck up, that this will be the most consistent. Put out a new one every three years, sell millions and millions and get nines and tens across the board.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I think so much of it just has to do with the fact that they've leaned into the identity of the location so much. And you know, Forza Horizon 5 with Mexico, that was like such a beautiful game and the music, like the unique things that it can have just because of where it's set is what sets these games apart from each other. Right. Like obviously. But it being Japan, we've wanted this for so long. The bit I got to play when I was in Japan, the intro sequence and you're going through and every time it switches up like the course and it's a different style of music playing, I'm just like, I. I can't wait for this game like this. It is going to be just such a. Doesn't matter if you spend five minutes or five hours. You had a great time with type video games.

[Andy Cortez]

So now the number one mistake that they can possibly make, aside from not encrypting their file in the preload would be to not have drivable 2016 Honda Civic Coupe.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Or sedan. Sorry.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Andy Cortez]

Four door. Yeah. If they don't have that vehicle in

[Tim Gettys]

the game, it's going to be an issue.

[Andy Cortez]

It will be a problem. Yeah. And I will likely blame Phil Spencer on the way out. Like the fact that he's. That was probably the last straw. Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

That's why I've always wanted my Prius C to be in games and it's just not in many video games.

[Andy Cortez]

That's weird.

[Tim Gettys]

It was in graduation.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

I used it.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, your Prius C was what, a 2012-2015-2015-2015. Damn. You know what? Okay, right now I feel like I'm about to insult your Prius circumstances. Well, it's just like it's a year younger than my. It's a year older than mine. But it looks so much older. Like there's something about the body style.

[Tim Gettys]

Ah, this is slander that I didn't expect from you.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, it's just like the 2016 Honda Civic.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like, well, okay, that's the coolest.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks like a four year, five year old car. Something about the body style, but because it's cool. Maybe I've been seeing you have the

[Tim Gettys]

cool version of the cool car.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe I've just seen your car around for so long that it's like, damn. I would have assumed that was like before they did a body refresh.

[Tim Gettys]

It was a Prius C, dude. The city version. The cool version for cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool answer. Yeah, man. Cool city.

[Barrett]

Yeah. I wonder, Andy, if it feels old because we see them so much all the time. Very long.

[Tim Gettys]

There's like your car.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like I barely see your car.

[Barrett]

You know, that's why it's like, oh,

[Andy Cortez]

every time I see oh, my car. Yeah. Oh, really?

[Barrett]

It's like, oh, unique. Cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like every day there's three of my car in a row.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. About a Honda Civic, one of the most popular cars ever.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I never see it.

[Andy Cortez]

I see my gray Honda Civic like, always around me, and I'm like, damn. I always try to like, what's up?

[Tim Gettys]

Your. Your car does look cooler than other ones, though. And I think the Mass Effect logo has a lot to do with it.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The color scheme.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

It pops with the lights, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

But I will not accept this Prius C slider.

[Barrett]

Are you still a chunky car?

[Andy Cortez]

I just. Yeah, look, then I love the new Priuses. You know that about me.

[Tim Gettys]

Very cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not a Prius slanderer by nature.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't fuck with the Prius. It's just the Prius C. But I. I don't know. A Prius C looks like a Prius to Celica.

[Andy Cortez]

Prius C. Let me look it up. Let me. Hold on.

[Tim Gettys]

I just.

[Andy Cortez]

My. My brain, when I think of the Prius, I don't know, Tim. I'm looking at it right now. I don't know, man. This is a 2019. Just something about the body shape I just never loved. Now when they got the new Prius shapes, I was like, ooh, that's a car. I want. I want to get in one of those. And I see the Priuses all over Facebook Marketplace. People are still selling them.

[Barrett]

It still just looks like it can't even. I imagine this is a newer model compared to Tim's. It still looks like something that came out of, like, 2006.

[Tim Gettys]

These are.

[Andy Cortez]

All of.

[Tim Gettys]

These are different cars that we're looking at here. Okay, let us know.

[Barrett]

I imagine the one on the far

[Tim Gettys]

right is the Prius, and that one's sick.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks like a Yaris. Yeah, it kind of does look, but

[Tim Gettys]

it's so much cooler than Goddamn.

[Andy Cortez]

All right. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Now here's. Can you look up the. The. The Celica CE I like.

[Barrett]

I'm just going to say I like. I've been in Roger's Yaris a couple of times, and I've never felt cooler being inside the yard.

[Andy Cortez]

So I'm just going to say, remember in Forza when. When the lady said Celica and I,

[Tim Gettys]

it threw me off.

[Andy Cortez]

Me, too.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that how you say it?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. No.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I've said Celica my entire life.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, same here.

[Tim Gettys]

But can you pull up a celica please. The 2000 Toyota Celica. I've. All this has been was my dream car growing up. I wanted it so bad because I thought it looked like Scyther, the Pokemon.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. I always thought Celicas are sick of shit. They're sick of me shit. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And like.

[Andy Cortez]

And it was a cool name, granted.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, yeah, look how freaking cool that is, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Look at that.

[Tim Gettys]

Look at the shape in the front. Whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

If a Celica and a Prius, a full size Prius fucked, it'd be a Prius C. I am not arguing the Prius is the coolest car of all time. I am arguing that it is significant. It's cooler than the other Prius line.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just saying, like, maybe I could

[Barrett]

see where you're coming from, Tim, but

[Andy Cortez]

it is getting way more of its gene pool from the Prius side than the Celica.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, the C is very small and the Prius takes up the rest of the day.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Gran Turismo is better than Forza. That's all I'm saying. Okay? For one reason and one reason only.

[Andy Cortez]

The Prius C. The Prius C. Damn.

[Tim Gettys]

You can figure it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Let us know in the comments. Let us know in the comments what car you drive.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, what you driving?

[Andy Cortez]

What you drive.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me know. Story number three. I'm all fucking heated now. Not you. Out of all people. Discord adds a free Xbox Game Pass Starter edition for Nitro subscribers. This comes from Tom Warren at the Verge. Discord's announcing the launch of Nitro Rewards today, a new program for subscribers that bundles benefits from third parties like Microsoft, Logitech and Steel series into a Nitro subscription. The main addition is that Nitro members will now get a new starter edition. The chat is popping off with the cars. Everyone's driving and I love it, man. Oh, my God. 2017 Mitsubishi Lancer DeShawn.

[Andy Cortez]

Fortune says Nike Air Force ones. I like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Drive a Mazda miata. Ford Focus 5, 2016 RAV4.

[Tim Gettys]

Mazda Miata. Dude, now that's a car. Let's go.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really? I always made fun of the Miatas because my only thought of. My only memory of a Miata is in the Blink 182 rock show making a video where Tom DeLonge is like, we were given all this money to make a video.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And we just, like, ended up wasting it on. Just bullshit. And you know that we weren't. We're not rich enough of a band because we're just. We're dropping a Miata from, like, they had it like a. They had it on a crane and just dropped it. Yeah. And they're like. But, like, we couldn't drop, like, the most expensive car. We're dropping a Miata.

[Tim Gettys]

Xbox Game Pass Start Edition, which leaked last month, allows PC and Xbox owners to Download more than 50 games, including titles like Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, and DayZ. The Starter Edition also includes 10 hours a month of Xbox cloud gaming streaming and the ability to earn up to 25 a year in the Xbox Store with rewards. Alongside the Game Pass bundle, Nitro subscribers will also get up to 30 off at Logitech G, 15 off at SteelSeries, and 20 off at Control Freak. Control Speak Freak is spelled K, O, N, T, R O, L, F, R, E, E, K, if anyone was interested.

[Andy Cortez]

That's how I. Yeah, that's how, like, I spell it as my AOL username.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Because I think I was Rocker Freak with two E's. Were you Rocker Freak at one point?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that for you. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Nitro members will also receive 250 orbs automatically each month. I wasn't sold. Now I'm like, okay, need them. Orbs. It's the in app currency that Discord uses to tempt users into watching ads in exchange for things like avatar decorations or in game bonuses. Cool.

[Andy Cortez]

They're adding value, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

They're adding the value.

[Andy Cortez]

You want value in your game Pass.

[Tim Gettys]

There's never been a better time. Let's see. This isn't even Game Pass. You want value in your Nitro Discord,

[Andy Cortez]

but it's all, you know, it's all circular. It's all going, you know, into each other.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Which is great. Like, first off, I'm looking at this desk right now. I didn't know we were sponsored by Logitech G. That's awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

We are. Yeah. Pretty cool spot.

[Andy Cortez]

I've spent, like. I will say I've spent, like, we're big G fans, 600 bucks of Logitech stuff in my life. Yeah. I love logistics. But you're getting, hey, they're part of this. Which is, like, not part of our sponsorship to mention that. But that's awesome that you get a whole bunch of little deals and discounts. That's awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

And the thing is, jokes aside about all this, I get very frustrated with the, hey, you get this service, and then you get these. All these other services, but it's not the version of the service you want. But, like, you do get some of it here and there. It's all cool. And I do feel like, if somebody really spends the time doing the research on all the different bundles, you can actually save a lot of money and get access to a lot of things you would never pay for. But now you have access to. So it's kind of neat, but it's just so overly complicated at all times. And, like, I think about, like, the Disney bundles that they have of the Disney, Hulu, espn, like, all that stuff. It is the most complicated thing ever. And I get it. It has to be complicated because they're trying to sucker people into spending more money and locking them into, like, deals that aren't actually getting them the things that they're looking for.

[Andy Cortez]

And reminds me of my Chase Sapphire.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that's the rewards, the Chase Sapphire card. At this point, it went from the best deal in credit cards to now you need to hustle to make it the best deal. Like, it is now a glorified coupon book. If you use those coupons, you're making a ton of money, and it's awesome. But if you're not, you're just spending a high annual fee and you're not getting what your money's worth. So it's like, that's the type of shit they get you in. And then they change all the things. I don't think that's exactly what's happening here. But it just. At a certain point, more is just more. And I feel like people really need to, like, look into this stuff and be like, all right, do I want this, or do I just want game pass? Do I just want Control Freak? Yeah, I just want my orbs. What do you want?

[Andy Cortez]

I want my Discord orbs. It just reminds me of that one old funhouse clip of them talking about Scrabbles. That's what it reminds me.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

You're really attacking the 2016 Honda Civic.

[Barrett]

Smaller than the average car but still 100% as dorky looking.

[Tim Gettys]

Kind of true, but how cool am I when I'm in the restaurant and you're circling the block? You know, Uber scream.

[Andy Cortez]

That's why Uber. That's why I waste money. Uber. I just don't like parking, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Story number four Stellar Blade 2 won't be published by Sony. Potentially hitting at multi platform launch. This comes from Tom Phillips at ign. The sequel to Stellar Blade will not be published by PlayStation. Developer Shift up has confirmed something that could point to a multi platform launch for the forthcoming game. Instead, Korean company Shift up will take on publishing duties itself for Stellar Blade 2 or whatever the game ends up being called in. In an earnings release. Shift up said this move would help ensure its franchise's unique appeal was communicated to players more directly and effectively.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't agree with that. I don't know what that means.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, we're gonna have to break that down because if it's what I think they're saying, what the fuck?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Little weird.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Has this game officially been announced?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, no, but is it just

[Tim Gettys]

kind of like in earnings reports? They're just like, there's a follow up coming.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they know. Yeah, we all know that there is a sequel being where there's just. No, there hasn't been a trailer or a graphic or anything like that.

[Tim Gettys]

You already know about this stuff. Development of the next Stellar Blade title is progressing smoothly on track to meet our targeted quality standards. Notably starting with this next title, Shift up will transition to a first party service model. This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade ip. And we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively. With three key tailwinds, high quality self publishing capabilities, a sales maximization strategy and proven IP fan base, we're confident the next title will deliver meaningfully improved results compared to its predecessor. Okay, cool. That little last bit there, it's like, yeah, earnings report. That's what you need to say. Shows I'm in control. I know what I'm doing. We got another hit on our hands. Do not fret, my friends. You're going to make your money.

[Andy Cortez]

We have the confidence, Tim. We have the strategy to propel Stellar Blade into the next stratosphere. And there's never been a better time

[Tim Gettys]

to be a better.

[Andy Cortez]

Now a lot of it does just seem like business marketing talk. Right. I mean, I say a lot of it. I mean, most of it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably 100% of it.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it's an earnings report.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. And I think our brain immediately goes to what do they mean that we have to ensure the franchise unique appeal? Because we just think of bouncing bazongas.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, reading through this, it kind of just goes like, PlayStation didn't push them titties enough.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

Like we're gonna push them harder and we're gonna do it direct, more directly and effectively.

[Barrett]

Gamers to know how horny they can be playing this game.

[Andy Cortez]

I, I think that they're, I think their fan base did all the Marketing for them. I don't think that there was really anything necessarily that they could have done without having a TV commercial censored or something like that. You know what I mean? I think the, the game with the amount of discourse that there was around the, you know, the sexuality of Eve as the character, every video that I would see get posted was just her standing there with a lot of, like, just a lot of movement, a whole lot of just physics and things moving and then all the replies going, y' all have never ever posted gameplay of this. It's always just titty, titty, titty. And then that be. That kind of became the discourse. And then it. You started needing to hear from people like me going, look, I know tits. Course that's great. I know there's a lot of movement. There's a lot of stuff that could be embarrassing to play in front of

[Tim Gettys]

a lot of movement.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a lot of movement. There's a lot of things happening out there. But the game is good. Yeah, the game's awesome. Yeah, it's fun to play. It's. It's a really, really fun video game once you can get past looking like a horny freak in public. Which is why whenever I was back home visiting my parents, I would just boot this thing up like at 12 midnight when everybody was asleep. Because this is embarrassing to play in the living room. I don't want anybody to watch me play this.

[Barrett]

It's even more embarrassing to get caught at 12 midnight though, you know for sure.

[Andy Cortez]

For sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. If you get caught hiding playing this game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

No recovery from that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I thought everybody was asleep. Oh, ye. This is all, this is all kind of what I would expect with this sort of marketing talk, but it's just kind of weird to go like it feels like you are putting the onus on PlayStation for why maybe things weren't marketed with a more, you know, upfront sexual way. It's, it's, it's odd.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. It is very odd. I mean, I, I don't think it's necessarily putting it on PlayStation. It's more than being like, hey, we did great before, we can do even better now because we know what sold this game and we're going to double down on it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Directly and effectively.

[Andy Cortez]

I really hope that they understand that it also sold really well because you had the non gooners playing it and saying it's actually a really good video game. You know, when I was testing out the PSR2 on certain different titles and I open Up Stellar Blade and I just kept on playing for about 30 minutes. Like man, this game rules. This game is so much fun. The boss fights are awesome and they would release new content. And here's the boss rush, here's this whatever mode. I. I hope that they understand. I think they understand because they've. We've seen enough images and read enough stories of the, you know, the director at Shift up meeting with and hanging out with people from all over Sony. Like all the big sort of heads at all these store. Sony first party studios. He knows that he has the quality and he has the team to make and deliver a really fun, awesome, good feeling action platform or third person action game. It's just like the game was. The game was plenty sexy already. We don't like it wasn't lacking in that department by any means. You know what I mean? So it's like just make the next game as good and you won't need to just rely on the gooners like Lords of the Fallen two is.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, we'll see. Aaron Lime says Arrowhead and Shift up aren't publishing with Sony anymore. Kojima bought Death Strandings rights back. Sony's fumbling the bag on their second parties. I mean it is interesting, right to see a lot of those shake ups from this generation or a lot of the decisions and partnerships Sony's made. The PS5 generation not seeming to continue. I'm very interested in Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 Is It Day and date on other consoles?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, part of me also wonders if this is Sony saying we have the install base already, why pay for the rights when we know that they're gonna buy the game on our thing anyway?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean that is also a very

[Andy Cortez]

good like you know, of course, like this is not a system seller necessarily. People aren't going to look at their Xbox and go damn, I need to buy a PlayStation for Stellar Blade. Yeah, but if they own a PlayStation already, the chances are of them buying it on our system are high anyway. Yeah, you know. Yeah, that's where my brain goes at least. Maybe it's just Sony trying to clamp down on money being spent on exclusives like that console. Exclusives.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, someone brought up they did secure Cana. It was like. That is interesting story number five. Dragon Quest creator spoiled when we'll learn more about the RPG series next game. This comes from Thomas Franzesi at Polygon. Yuji Hori, the creator of Square Enix's RPG franchise Dragon Quest just accidentally revealed when fans will learn more about the next game in the series. On a now delisted episode of the Koso Koso broadcast, Hori teased an upcoming live stream for the Dragon Quest series in which new games would be discussed. Gamasu translated his comments. We'll be doing a live stream on May 27. I think we'll be able to make an announcement about the next game. We'll also have various other things besides the next game, so please look forward to it. The fact that Coro the Koso Koso video has since been taken down suggests that Hori said something he was not supposed to, spoiling a surprise for Dragon Quest fans. Still, fans of the RPG series should be excited. We may soon learn more about games like Dragon Quest 12 the Flames of Fate. Dragon Quest 12 the Flames of Fate was first teased in a 2021 livestream celebrating the series 35th anniversary. Screenix has rarely discussed the game since then, so 40th anniversary presentation seems like a perfect place for them to have the project reemerge after five years of speculation.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you think that's the reason why, Tim, that it was put the video was pulled down because some secrets were.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I mean, yeah, they haven't officially announced this stream. Right. I think that like they just haven't like yeah, I'm sure that they'll announce it soon because it's two weeks away.

[Andy Cortez]

I just think maybe pulling the video down feels like you're telling yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean it is weird that this, that pulling it down wasn't almost directly coupled with. Here's the official statement.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

How we want to say this because we've seen that happen a lot in the last couple years of, you know, when something leaks and then it's like boom, here it is.

[Andy Cortez]

Dragon Quest is just one of those franchises that I just, I know so little about him.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I like then you just played Drake. No, you were playing Octopath Traveler.

[Andy Cortez]

I tried out Dragon Quest. I did like when we got the code say hey, I was really into Octopath Traveler 0. Maybe I'll be into this. And it just, I think my mind also said that's enough like that's enough like long video game, JRPG turn based game. So I did move on to something else and I think Greg kept playing it, I believe. But yeah, this is, this is just one of those franchises that you could have told me they were working on Dragon Quest 10. I'd be like, oh cool, that's a new video game. And it's like no, it's a remake or whatever. Yeah, there's just, there's a lot of iterations of the game and I'm just very dumb about it. So.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I've gotten to the point where they have. They continue to put out the new ones, but then they are going back and remaking it seems like every single one. Yeah. Good for the Dragon Questers out there. That's what they call them.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw Flames of Fade and all I thought was Fires of Rubicon.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, man. Coolest subtitle of all.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, it's gotta be. Yeah, we have to do a shit list of the coolest subtitles.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. What was the Ace Combat 8 one? Because it didn't live up to Fires of Rubicon.

[Andy Cortez]

Guys of. No.

[Tim Gettys]

Wings of Thieves or something like Wings of Thief. Is that what it is? Yeah, yeah. Wings. Wings of Thieves. Which.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a singular thief.

[Tim Gettys]

Like one thief.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it probably means something. It's like a place.

[Barrett]

Gotcha, you know, or.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, gotcha.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty cool, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know, it's. It sounds a little.

[Tim Gettys]

Fire is a Rubicon.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a little too like Wings of theme. Like just like. It's too much of that sound, you know what I mean? God, Nick Scarpito is ruining. It needs to be like Wings of. Of Wintoria or something.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man. Story number six. Cosplay and gamers will raid EA headquarters to protest Saudi Arabia's $55 billion buyout.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, that's ascendance.

[Tim Gettys]

Levi Winslow reports at Gamespot. In the wake of Saudi Arabia's leveraged buyout of EA for 55 billion, gamers upset by the takeover are planning to protest the publisher's Redwood, California headquarters on May 11th. That's Today in cosplay. A movement known as The Players Alliance HQ has announced his intent to quote, Raid EA's headquarters on May 11th at 11am the goal is to denounce Saudi Arabia's public investment fund buyout of the publisher with cosplaying gamers planning to unravel a 50 foot scroll of over 70,000 petition signatures on the Madden football field at the center of the cafe.

[Andy Cortez]

We went there, we did, we played basketball there.

[Tim Gettys]

But like now that is a fucking sentence. They're going to in cosplay raid the place and unravel a 50 foot scroll. Fucking gamers, man. They have a message. They're gonna get it out.

[Andy Cortez]

That's in 15 minutes. Like, oh, should we make our way down?

[Tim Gettys]

You're right.

[Andy Cortez]

We need pics. We need pics. We got the costume closet. Let's monitor the situation.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I'm gonna. Let's finish this. There appears to be a whole performance involved in the protest as well, with gamers dressing in suits and top hats portraying the corporate vil deal. So they're role playing as the cosplay. Further, a giant health bar. Stop. Stop. What are we doing? Further, a giant health bar prop will slowly deplete as supporters digitally engage with the protest at a loot box. Demonstration will reveal a range of prizes like mass layoffs, studio closures and aggressive monetization. They really thought this through.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, the creative department really went off on this one.

[Tim Gettys]

According to the press Release, Players Alliance HQ fears that should the $55 billion deal go through, which would saddle EA with 20 billion in debt, the company could face pressure to cut jobs, replace employees with AI, and institute price hikes to recoup the losses of the buyout. Ea, one of the world's largest game publishers, is the target of a proposed $55 billion billion dollars leveraged buyout that would hand 93% ownership to Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, controlled by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with the remaining stake split between Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's affinity partners. The deal would place 20 billion in debt directly onto EA, a common private equity tactic that shifts financial risk onto the acquired company rather than the buyers. A live stream of the protest will take place on DND and Warhammer Twitch streamer. Slayer cases channel. I thought it was about to be official first.

[Andy Cortez]

I. Dude, me too. That's insane. Me too.

[Tim Gettys]

So, yeah, slayer case in 14 minutes we'll have a live stream of this. I gotta say, this is how you get shit done. This creates some noise, you know, organized chaos. This is how you get on the news. This brings attention to the shit.

[Barrett]

Being theatrical about it as well. Yeah, it's a very Bay Area thing.

[Andy Cortez]

I love it. I legitimately think that if any of these details weren't a part of this, we wouldn't know about this. Like, we might have heard about, there's a lot of people protesting at Redwood. But these details that seem so over the top are the reason why we know about it now.

[Tim Gettys]

The longer you read the story, the more it's like, oh, they're doing something.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Now, my one fear. I read this and like, this sounds good. This sounds ambitious. This sounds like it could end up like that Willy Wonka experience. You know, I see where you're looking at it and you're like, I think

[Andy Cortez]

there's enough people here, though.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, there's a lot. What was the number 70,000 petitions. How many people will be there?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I think there's.

[Tim Gettys]

People remember their parts.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I think there's enough people there to make sure that, like, this production goes off soundly. I'll.

[Barrett]

I'll keep an eye on Slayer Case's channel.

[Tim Gettys]

Please do.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Keep us updated throughout.

[Andy Cortez]

A Gamescast with a crew who won't be.

[Barrett]

Who weren't a part of this show,

[Andy Cortez]

who have no idea what the context is.

[Tim Gettys]

Man, I. I really can't wait to see this. Go fucking get him. Yeah, I want it. I can't wait to see this 50

[Andy Cortez]

foot scroll unraveled with 70,000 petition signatures.

[Tim Gettys]

That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Which is awesome. I would. I mean, if this can change any minds, I. If I could have one wish, it would be for this deal to not go through. Yeah, that would be awesome for not having to. So that I could play Mass Effect with a clean mind.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Or else I'll just be real sad knowing I get it. $20 billion in debt. There's no way that doesn't lead to.

[Tim Gettys]

Nope.

[Andy Cortez]

Further layoffs.

[Tim Gettys]

Nope.

[Andy Cortez]

We've already had enough.

[Tim Gettys]

FTL fam says the theatricality and deception are powerful weapons. Mr. Wayne.

[Andy Cortez]

Theatricality and deception. Was that a Michael Kane thing?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think so. Maybe it was. Yeah. Okay. I thought it might have been Lucius. You're right, it was. Yeah, it was my.

[Andy Cortez]

You trusted me and I failed you. You can't.

[Tim Gettys]

It gets better and better.

[Andy Cortez]

Barrett's wife, Alyssa. You can't listen to that and tell me it's not a good impression.

[Tim Gettys]

You can't do it.

[Barrett]

I'll send her this clip today at the end of the day.

[Andy Cortez]

Come on, man.

[Barrett]

See if she gives it a thumbs up this time around.

[Tim Gettys]

Also send her a picture of a previous scene. See if she gives it a thumbs up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But then show her 2016 Honda Civic and go. Do these cars look one year apart?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I can't think of a

[Barrett]

person who, like, cares less about cars more than myself, other than Alyssa.

[Tim Gettys]

Sounds like you care a whole lot. A lot of coming out of that mouth.

[Andy Cortez]

And that's. And that's crazy, because I don't give a. About cars. I remember y' all congratulating us on, like, getting a new car, and I was like, oh, yeah, I guess that does mean something. Yeah. Oh, it was a Bane quote. Ah, damn. Oh, you are. Chicago, too.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. I. What? I don't even know. There was. There's no. Great.

[Andy Cortez]

That 50 foot scroll.

[Tim Gettys]

It's gonna be big. It's Gonna be really, really, really big. But if I want to know about something smaller, where would I go?

[Andy Cortez]

You would go to our last story, the WE News channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about Master Wayne from Eurogamer.

[Tim Gettys]

During the last week had two surprising bits about TT games New Lego game have arisen. First, we learned via Reddit that some Walmart pre order codes for Xbox series X and S have gone live early with players reportedly playing for a few hours already. Second, the divisive Denovo DRM has been quietly snuck under the PC version of the game by the publisher.

[Andy Cortez]

Sneak that right in there.

[Barrett]

Why is it divisive, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

Slip it right in there.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, DRM sucks.

[Andy Cortez]

DRM sucks, but also it causes a lot of just performance issues.

[Tim Gettys]

This next one is for you. IO Interactive shows off 007 first light running six 60 frames per second on the PS5 Pro. Baby, can you bring up the tweet 007Game IO itself on Twitter says 007fps. They said back in September, Please to showcase 007 first lights running at 60fps on PS5 Pro. Good for them.

[Andy Cortez]

Eat this. Eat this. You need to buy a $900 console for this to run because like I like, I get it.

[Barrett]

But it's like. And they do respond somewhere. They're like running on mode and quality mode but like show off the console that like most people are gonna play with, you know, not the 900 console, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

But it is still nice that hey, you will get a performance mode on the base PS5. Now we'll see how that looks because it's been many years since Jedi Survivor came out. But when that came out and you played 60 frames per second that was running at like 800p it was so blurry and hard to look at. And so hopefully they've done, you know, enough optimization to make this sucker look good on a base PS5.

[Tim Gettys]

Hopefully double fine is unionizing.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Very cool. Hopefully that goes well for everybody. My Nintendo store is being renamed to Nintendo Store.

[Andy Cortez]

Good.

[Tim Gettys]

Which out the mind good.

[Andy Cortez]

It's cleaner.

[Tim Gettys]

Mortal Kombat 2 movie skins are now available in Mortal Kombat 1.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, the video game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I was thinking about Mortal Kombat a lot last week.

[Andy Cortez]

What were you thinking?

[Tim Gettys]

All right, a whole bunch of things. I, I want to go back, I want to play through all the. I want to buy the legacy collection and I'll play them all the old school ones.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm just like, I wanna, I wanna get refreshed on all that old stuff that I knew in the 90s, but let's. And I watch the movies, but I'm just like, I want to see Bihan.

[Andy Cortez]

It's. You know what? So I was thinking about Mortal Kombat a lot too, Tim. And it is weird to me, but it's also very emblematic of how people can fall off of video games and their enjoyment of video games where, you know, I think about my older brother who was obsessed with games and then just completely fell off, you know, at. You hit a point in your life where I'm gonna.

[Tim Gettys]

Halo 5 the Breaking Point for him.

[Andy Cortez]

No, because Halo was one of those weird.

[Tim Gettys]

You'll come back constants.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But in terms of, like, you know, because he was. He was done with video games even when we were playing Halo. But as a kid, he was playing Zelda. He was playing all of the Contra, all the games. Right. And I. It does kind of. I feel like my life could have gone down that path where I think about how obsessed I was with video games and Mortal Kombat and then I think Mortal Kombat 3, like, Ultimate Edition or whatever, may have been the last one. Because thinking of myself, like, going back, I'd be going, andy, why weren't you interested in something like a story mode in a Mortal Kombat game? How did that not interest you?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's just when I think of, like, the Sub Zero standalone game or the Sony and Jax one, it's like, I didn't touch those. There was no inkling of interest from me, which is crazy to me that

[Tim Gettys]

the games weren't good too. I think that that's another maybe.

[Andy Cortez]

But I didn't really know that, you know, like, not to not even ask my dad to go to the rental store to rent it is kind of wild to me. When I was obsessed with Mortal Kombat.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that's, like, all I cared about

[Tim Gettys]

it because it was the coolest thing ever. It is the coolest thing ever.

[Andy Cortez]

It is.

[Tim Gettys]

And yeah, the movie's very cool. But I have a theory, and this is a stupid theory, But Mortal Kombat 2, there's something about that. In the same way Street Fighter 2, it's like the iconic title. Right. And the movie's doing really well. I've been wondering, the next game, last game was Mortal Kombat 1. What's it gonna be? I think it's just gonna be Mortal Kombat 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's also just bizarre if they did that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But I think they're gonna. And I think it's going to sell really well. I think the two's gonna give it a bump. The mortal. The MK2 bump is real. I'm not wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

Are they sticking with their reality? Are they sticking with like, their new lore?

[Tim Gettys]

I think so, yeah. I think they'll just follow. Even though I. We'll see.

[Andy Cortez]

Who cares? Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Right. So. Not me, I'll tell you that. But I love these games.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Mouse PI for hires has sold approximately 730000 copies.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That's awesome. It is good for them.

[Tim Gettys]

Killer Bean launches on Steam early.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is, Mike. Happening when you're in the pandemic. Out of nowhere, Mike just said, where's Killer Bean? And we all remembered that Killer Bean was announced.

[Tim Gettys]

Wait, what did you say?

[Andy Cortez]

Several years prior, when I was.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I said when you're in the pandemic. Sorry, when you're on same P. When

[Tim Gettys]

you were in the past.

[Andy Cortez]

When you were in your pandemic. Not sleeping. Yeah, very. Yeah, I was thinking of just a P word and I said pandemics at a paternity.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope this game is awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, you know, it's a. It's a roguelite, Tim. And that's what it is. Yeah, it's a. It's a roguelite game. Not like, I guess it's open worldish, but, you know, when this was first revealed, it was like, wowee. And then disappeared for a long time. Yeah. So I wouldn't have been surprised if they just said, hey, the game got canceled three years ago or something.

[Tim Gettys]

Killer Bean, everybody. And that's it for we News

[Andy Cortez]

looks silly as hell.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, let's get to the super chats because we do have some. I played a preview of Big Walk for an hour on Friday and the game looks great so far. It'd make for a great party Motor stream from the lab one day. That comes from the Portland, Kevin.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm sure we'll Big Walk.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm sure we'll play that.

[Tim Gettys]

JBC says the NBA is rigged. Wembley should be suspended. I'm Team Wemby.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, shut your mouth.

[Tim Gettys]

The Juan one says, what do you guys think of this mixtape discourse? I have one thought and one thought only. And that thought is shout out to the kind of funny community. Not all of you. Some of y' all get a little weird. But I'm gonna give a major shout out to 95 plus percent of the kind of funny community for just being awesome. We get to sit here and Talk about games, what we like about them, what we don't like about them. We get to put people on to games they might not have heard of. We get to play the games that everybody knows and loves and franchises and give our thoughts on them and grow over time. And like some things and not like some things. And y' all are genuinely cool about it. You're generally cool about it for the most part. Every once in a while, some people get in their feelings and stuff, but that's what we do when we. When we sit here and I like something more than you like something. We go back and forth. That's healthy. That's fine. But I just love that we get to do our review of mixtape. See the reactions in the chat. See the reactions in the comments on Reddit, on everywhere, and it's just good conversation about people liking video games. Then you go outside of that, and it's just everything's on fire, and I just have zero respect for any of it. But I don't want to talk shit about the idiots. I want to big up y', all because I really do think that we have something special here. And when we. When you talk about video games because you love video games, it's very clear. And that's what we all get to do together.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Blessing said they were not cool about me not liking Pragmata. Well, that was deserved, Blessing. That was. That's the one instance where we. I still think of, like, you coming in, giving your thoughts on Pragmata.

[Barrett]

What? You said Blessing and Roger were on cocaine.

[Andy Cortez]

What was it on crack. Blessing and Roger on crack? Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I said.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus fuck.

[Andy Cortez]

I said.

[Barrett]

But, Tim, have you considered, like,

[Andy Cortez]

why

[Barrett]

is mixtape getting better review scores than Crimson Desert? Have you considered that? Have you really considered that?

[Tim Gettys]

Luckily, it's not something I need to consider.

[Andy Cortez]

You're saying this game is better than Ocarina of Time?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that is. The problem is I find all of it so entertaining.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, but it's for bad reasons. It's just toxic nonsense. But why do I think it's so funny?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, the people coming out after me, little old me with my cool Prius. See, they don't even know.

[Andy Cortez]

They don't even know.

[Tim Gettys]

It's how cool I am.

[Andy Cortez]

It's odd and it's weird, and at the end of the day, it just shows that we play a lot more games, so we are opening up to a lot more experiences. And, you know, if I showed somebody some really unique cuisine from around the world. And they're used to eating burgers and chicken strips and pizza. Then they may be like, what the. You love this thing. That's crazy to me because look at this burger that Fuddruckers put out. You know what I mean? And it's like, well, we love those too, you know? And it is so funny to me that like a tweet that I knew wasn't gonna bang didn't bang because I put out. I love mixtape. And here are my top three games from last year and the year prior or from this year and the year prior. Because art, because Pragmat is up there. So is Requiem, so is Soros. And last year I love the lies of P. And it. And that tweet didn't bang because it just. It shows that it has. It's proof that it cut against the wrong. That we only like games or whatever. It's like, no, we love a lot of games. We love all the games that you love too. We just love more because we experience

[Tim Gettys]

that there's a we at all. Like, what we. Are we talking about?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I'm just so. I think just the. The industry. We. Our job is to play a lot of different video and normally there's a lot of games that I say, nah, not my thing. I'm not going to get into it much. Like mixtape. I wasn't going to play mixtape. Before you left for the Pandemic. Before you left. I remember we were talking about mixtape at one point, sometime in January, and I was like, well, I'm not planning on playing this. And you were like, really? And I was like, yeah, I don't know. Like I. There's a lot of different experience. There's a lot of games that I want to play that I don't play. And then when this sort of interview came around, you go and like, like, dude, trust me. So I finally. And trust me. And so I experienced it. I was like, holy. Like, I really enjoyed that. And you guys were right. We just play a lot of different things.

[Barrett]

It reminds me of last year when we started gushing about blueprints and there was a visceral reaction to how could you like this game more than Kingdom Come, Deliverance too. And I think there's just always going to be that reaction. And we would talk about an experience like you were saying, Andy, that's different than big AAA open world thing, you know, because that's not the end all be all to what video games can be.

[Tim Gettys]

I just think it's all so funny that at the End of the day, we're just people. And we like or don't like things. And it's like, normal man. We're just normal men. We really just are. And it's like all these people that are so bad. If you like Kingdom Come, Deliverance, talk about it. Just talk about how much you like that game. It's okay. Yeah, it's just. I just think it's so fucking funny that people get so upset about the scores and shit. And I do think that there are some institutions, I do think IGN's one of them, where it's like they there. There's levels of their critiques that go through editing, that go through, hey, this is going to represent this company. So we need to make sure that y' all are doing X amount of things to make sure that this review is up to the standards and codes of ethics and quality of criticism. That's not what we do.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

We talk about our thoughts on video games. Like, it's just. But guess what, people on Twitter, you can do that too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And you do do that. And a lot of the people talking shit are people that are on YouTube. And it's like, there's no difference between you and us. We're on YouTube right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not. This isn't some establishment, Schmidt. Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Random drinker says, 4:20 time with my mom after Mother's Day, introducing Nancy to the KFC in video games. Any recommendations for first game?

[Andy Cortez]

What does 420 time mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Smoking the reefer.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but like, is. I mean, I guess 4:20 o' clock and I don't know, I'm thinking just like April 20th. It's like, is this an old super chat?

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's just like getting cute.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

They're smoking with their mom, play mixtape with your mom.

[Andy Cortez]

These pictures with the Super Chat says andy Crimson Desert vs 2015 Toyota Prius C. Yeah, I gotta go with Kingdom. It's a good super crimson desert.

[Tim Gettys]

Ashley Goalie says, I bought a 2018 Mini Cooper because I loved how it felt in Forza using the wheel. And it felt almost the same when I bought it.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Die hard mini fan. Holy. And also, guess what?

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Tim Gettys]

A one to one park a lot of cool places.

[Andy Cortez]

That's true.

[Tim Gettys]

Napoleon says ideally an MX5 RF GT has MIATAs, but not the RF. Yeah, MX5. Sick as hell too. A lot of people just talking about how cool my Prius is. That's not true. Phil the trucker says, tim, you're the coolest guy Just not in a Prius C. You haven't seen me in the Prius C whipping that thing around.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, you look.

[Barrett]

You look cool in your. Your new car.

[Andy Cortez]

Car.

[Tim Gettys]

I look cool in Eddie car.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Melissa with a Y says, can Andy explain why he big time me, Chris, Kev Maddock and Wash when we were trying to play Deadlock? Because he begged us to play. I mean it just took forever to find a game and I was also dealing with some stuff so I just went like mute on Discord and eventually like I never found a game. I created a second Steam account to invite myself to see. Like is it because I'm too high of a rank or whatever. It was just. It was annoying and I was dealing with some shit also I ended up finding games, but I think Deadlock just doesn't like when six players try to play a game too big of a party.

[Tim Gettys]

Chaos Killer says honestly wouldn't have picked up mixtape if it wasn't for Tim's glowing review. Even if you don't resonate with the experiences, it's an extremely good story. Thank you for that. But again, that's the value of just listening to people and being like, oh maybe I'm going to try this. And then the final super chat of the day of the show. Kyle Abouff says, haha, Tim, you said doo doo. I don't remember it but I do do that often. We don't have any wrongs. We're perfect human beings. We're just normal men. We have a Gamescast coming up, but more importantly, Barrett, can you pull up the Twitch stream?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Four minutes in. We need to know what's going on.

[Andy Cortez]

Got to see what's happening at this. They're not live.

[Tim Gettys]

They are not live. Things are not going well. Damn well.

[Andy Cortez]

One of those Internet issue over there.

[Tim Gettys]

Stay tuned. Am I on Games Daily tomorrow? I really hope I am.

[Andy Cortez]

Redwood does stuff different. Their Internet's a bit different over there when I visited.

[Barrett]

You are not on Game Sally.

[Tim Gettys]

That's sad. I want to. I want to be on the update for the story, but we'll see how things go. All right everybody, I love you all. Stay tuned for gamescast. Goodbye.