Is This It For Highguard? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.17.26

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily – February 17, 2026

Episode: Is This It For Highguard?
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr. & Snowbike Mike
Date: February 17, 2026

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Overview

Today's episode focuses on the alarming signs surrounding the live-service shooter Highguard, with the hosts analyzing whether its recent website outage is merely a hiccup or indicative of imminent shutdown after a rocky launch and early layoffs. They also cover topics like Steam Deck hardware shortages, the closure of Atomic Arcade (makers of the canceled GI Joe/Snake Eyes game), and more, mixing in personal gaming updates, community questions, and characteristic banter.

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Main Topic: Is This It For Highguard?

(Timestamps reference MM:SS)

[10:36] Story #1 – Highguard’s Website Is Down & Community Fallout

• Initial Report:

  • The Highguard website went offline, only displaying a logo and a message: "this site is currently unavailable."
  • This happened roughly at 4:50am PST, and by air time, the site was still down.
  • No official statement from Wildlight Entertainment.

• Context:

  • Highguard launched just weeks ago after being announced at The Game Awards.
  • Already suffered major layoffs and poor player engagement, with only around 1,000 concurrent Steam players (24h peak was 1,600).

• Reaction & Analysis:

  • Mike: “It’s probably not a good sign. No, this is...we laid off such and such, we forgot that Brad was in charge of the websites.” [12:30]
  • Both hosts mention that website outages (unlike game servers) don’t usually impact players directly, but in a live service title, it feels symptomatic of deeper problems.
  • Signs of life elsewhere (e.g., social media, YouTube channel) are sparse; last tweet was 4 days prior and last YouTube upload 9 days ago.
  • Speculation that layoffs included web/admin staff and that “cutting the lights” has begun.

• Player Numbers & Monetization:

  • As a free-to-play title with generous reward structure, monetization depended almost entirely on cosmetics.
  • Concerns expressed about the viability of the model with so few players: “When you look at that 1,078 people that are playing right now on Steam, how many of those are buying the cosmetics?” [16:48]
  • Mike summarizes the bleak scenario: “Usually teams, when this happens... it’s like, hey, the boat is sinking—we’re going to shut down in three to six months. ...Just take all the bundles...it’s over now.” [17:06]

[18:03] Can Highguard Be Saved?

• Blessing: “Is there any way to turn this around?”

• Mike, bluntly: “No, there will be nothing to turn this around. Unfortunately, the player mentality and sentiment towards this game have already been dug in deep.” [18:03]

• Discussion:

  • Both hosts recount attending the game’s preview, recalling how promising its content roadmap and live support sounded—but that the live audience simply never materialized.
  • The “raid shooter” concept didn’t resonate broadly, and the gameplay loop felt too slow or unclear to hook users vs. the many FPS/TPS alternatives.
  • Blessing notes: “It just does not have the resonance that you wanted. It doesn’t have the stickiness for people.” [19:53]
  • Mike: “It was a good attempt at trying something new and fresh by blending all of the kind of key attributes of video games that you know and love together...but they weren’t the master of anything.” [20:08]
  • Overwatch, Arc Raiders, and other big service games drowned out Highguard’s brief launch window.

[22:39] What’s Next for Highguard?

• Inevitability of Shutdown:
  • The hosts agree that the next major development will be an official shutdown announcement.
  • Mike: “This game will just kind of linger around and be in the ethos until it’s finally time to say something about it.” [22:39]
  • Signs like website and social inactivity, dwindling playerbase, and layoffs suggest this is coming “sooner than we think.” [22:52]
  • Blessing: “If this is like another step toward…we’re cutting off the lights one at a time, I think this is how you handle it.” [23:01]
  • Reminder that even free games like Rematch or Knockout City faced similar fates without sustainable revenue.

[23:56] Community’s Fond Farewells

• Super Chats:
  • Fans express bittersweet feelings at losing another unique online game.
  • Example: “I still play Highguard every day. I honestly love it and a hole will be left. ...I also loved Concord.” [29:42]
  • Blessing advocates for up-front paid multiplayer games rather than only free-to-play live services.

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Additional Key Stories

[40:19] Steam Deck OLED Stock Issues

• Headline: Valve warns of upcoming stock outages for the Steam Deck OLED, citing global RAM shortages from AI data center demand.
• Discussion:
  • Tim Gettys originally anticipated the crisis, and the situation is impacting all hardware timelines, possibly including console refreshes and launches.
  • Mike: “Now all of these teams, for good and bad, have time, right? [Gamers] now have time.”
  • Future of cloud gaming is debated (Mike optimistic for 20-40yrs; Blessing skeptical due to infrastructure).

[47:30] Hasbro Reportedly Closes Snake Eyes Game Studio

• Atomic Arcade (behind the unannounced GI Joe: Snake Eyes game) reportedly shut down.
• Hasbro issues a statement that the Snake Eyes game is not canceled and they're evaluating the project, but silence on the studio's fate.
• Hosts are surprised such a project existed – “Snake Eyes in an Arkham City type vibe would be very cool.” [50:14]

[53:32] PSA: Resident Evil Requiem Physical Copies Are In the Wild

• Early retail breaks mean spoilers can leak at any moment. Hosts urge fans to mute keywords and tread carefully.
• Funny aside about GTA VI’s impending launch needing literal armored cars to avoid leaks.

[57:15] We(e) News Channel – Miscellaneous Headlines

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows adds a manual jump button.
• Game Pass February Wave 2 includes: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Death Howl, EA Sports College Football 26, The Witcher 3 CE, and more.
• Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker delisted on Xbox after announcement of Master Collection Vol. 2.
• Call of Duty Warzone Mobile closing servers on April 17th.
• Virtual Boy now on Switch Online expansion pack.
• Indie doc “Six Years to Build Big Hops” out now on YouTube.

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Notable Quotes & Banter

• Blessing on the rawness of his morning routine:
  • “No, the rain’s not going to stop me. Made a protein smoothie this morning. So I’m following my routine. That doesn’t always happen…” [02:32]
• Mike on Highguard website downtime:
  • “We laid off such and such, we forgot that Brad was in charge of the websites.” [12:30]
• Mike nails the slow death of live service games:
  • “Usually teams, when this happens, …the boat is sinking—we’re going to shut down...Just take all the bundles, it’s over.” [17:06]
• Blessing on Highguard’s genre struggles:
  • “I just don’t think the idea of a raid shooter resonated with people enough.” [18:47]
• Mike’s memorable idiom mangling:
  • “They had everything good, but they weren’t the master of anything. The best selling part…was the raid, the search and destroy...but that wasn’t enough.” [20:08]
• “Overwatch came through, slapped the pan off the fucking stove and said, we are done cooking. We’re cooking now.” [21:04]
• Super chatters flood in with recommendations, farewells, and local Portland food tips for Mike’s upcoming trip.
• Blessing on game preservation: “If you accidentally buy the PS3 version of Metal Gear Solid 4, that’s on you.” [60:43]

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Community Q&A Highlights

• Why not offer peer-to-peer for dying multiplayer games?
  • Mike: It’s developer/resource dependent, often just not feasible at scale.
• Are these types of [service] games ‘done’?
  • Both hosts: No—the industry won’t stop chasing the next big thing, but the bar for success is sky-high.
• CliffyB’s Law: “Only room for three games in a given space”—the hosts agree it’s not always accurate, but the churn is real.

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Memorable Moments

• [23:56] Chat’s recurring “raw dogging” joke about Blessing's gym routine; Bless feigns plausible deniability.
• [41:36] Speculation about next-gen console timing thrown off by RAM shortages.
• [34:24] Rumor: EA’s future FC (soccer) games might feature open-world, 2K-style “neighborhoods”.
• [67:08] Listener boasts nearly 150 hours in Highguard; hosts urge him to rush for the platinum trophy "before it’s gone".

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Conclusion & Tone

This KFGD episode is a blend of serious, clear-eyed analysis of the live service market (especially Highguard’s likely demise) and the easygoing rapport of two friends mixing in gaming anecdotes, listener banter, and snackable headline rundowns. At every stage, Blessing and Mike keep things accessible, using plain language mixed with irreverent humor, providing both a chronicle and commentary for video game enthusiasts keeping up with industry currents.

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For those who missed the episode, this summary covers all main discussion points, insightful moments, and illustrative quotes—no ad segments, just the news and the Kinda Funny community in action.

Transcript

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kinda funny today's gaming news stories include high guard's website is down and players are freaking out, Valve speaks up on the Steam deck, stock issues and Hasbro shuts down the Snake Eyes game studio. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of Funny. Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Tuesday, February 17, 2026. I'm on your host, Blessing Adioye Jr. Joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike.

[Mike]

Bless. Good morning homie. Thanks for having me on the show. Always good talking video games with you. How are you?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm doing good. Woke up at the appropriate time, went to the gym. Didn't do as much as I wanted to with the gym.

[Mike]

Got after the gym even in the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Rain, even in the Rain. Oh, the rain's not going to stop me. No, the rain's not going to stop me.

[Mike]

Ain't going to stop him.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, no, no, no, no. Made a protein smoothie this morning.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So I'm like, I'm following my routine. That, that doesn't always happen where I do all the things that I.

[Mike]

One day after another. You got to keep it going. That's good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What are you, how are you doing?

[Mike]

Bless. I'm a little pooped. I stayed up late last night. I got on the treadmill myself late last night. Yeah, I, I, I'm trying to find my time back in the day with you. It was in the morning. Now it's about the end. The window from 11 to about 1 o' clock is my time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

11Pm yeah.

[Mike]

To 1am that's my time where I can give you an hour to get on it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Then. What, how much, how much sleep are you like? Cuz if I go to the gym in the evening.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I get home and I'm awake. I can't just go to sleep after the gym.

[Mike]

I mean, this is what wears me out. Which is good because I don't get any motion all day. So I need this to like wear me out. You know what I mean? But no, it's all good for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

It's just like I'm gonna stay up till two o' clock in the morning anyways. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, but that's, oh man. I mean, I guess what, you're usually in here by games Cast of the stream. So I guess you're not always here for KFC.

[Mike]

I'm a 10 o' clock guy. Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So that actually kind of lines up. I can see that.

[Mike]

Actually that's my time. But I'm feeling good. Blessed. It's a little rainy outside.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I got a trip. I'm going to Oregon on Thursday. So if you're looking for me out there. Portland. Kev. Little heads up for you. Looking for pizza. And I'm going to the Rose Garden. Oh, Rose Garden. Now will be raining and snowing, but I'm still going to try to go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You're going to go to the Rose Garden in the snow?

[Mike]

I mean, you have to, right? It's like, what are the top 10 things to do in Oregon and Portland? I don't know, but the Rose Garden's on it, so. Fair enough.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Fair enough. Played a game last night.

[Mike]

Tell me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Played a couple games. I played Mario Tennis.

[Mike]

Tell me, how's the Mario Tennis grind going?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I got to a minus rank.

[Mike]

You Go right to ranked. And you play?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes.

[Mike]

Do you warm up or do you just say, I don't need a warm.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't need a warm up.

[Mike]

You're ready to.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mario. Tennis is second nature to me. I played so much 64. It's just in my veins. It's in my genes.

[Mike]

Locked in character and racket.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What do you do, Mario? Shadow racket. That's the one that clones me.

[Mike]

Perfect.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Not adjusting at all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Not adjusting. I'm locked in until I hit a wall.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I've not hit a wall yet.

[Mike]

What is the goal? Similar to your fighting games when you were doing that, Is it like three wins and outs, two losses and outs? How long do you play for?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If I start on a win, like, if I'm on a win streak to start off, then I'll go until I lose it. Rolling.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If I. If I'm just winning after winning, then, like, you know, maybe I never stop. Maybe I'm still playing to right now.

[Mike]

I like that. I like that. And then what else did you play? Because I know you played a cool one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes. Last night I played reluded, which is the new African Heist 2D puzzle platformer.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That continues to impress me and also kind of breaks my heart that I feel like this game came out at such a crowded time where there are so many games coming out, and I feel like it's getting lost in the flood. I'm not seeing as many people talk about it, but it is scratching the itch of, like, Mirror's Edge a little bit. You know, when you get into that, like, flow state in Mirror's Edge, where it is. All right, jumped. I did the roll. I'm swinging off the thing, and I'm doing, like. You're kind of into this flow. It kind of replicates that in 2D, of course, not 3D, but it does that in such a fun way and kind of brings that to the 2D puzzle platforming thing, where. I know I've talked about this a little bit before when they had the. I think it was a Steam Next Fest demo. But basically you are playing as this heist team that is going back and repatriating African artifacts from museums. So you're going to these museums, you're stealing the artifacts to take them back. The way you go about it is that you essentially plan out a heist. You can, like, place where your teammates are at or, like, you look to see what the right route is to escape in a timely manner. So you're not getting Caught by robots or whatever thing, not getting trapped in a room type stuff. You do that and then you have to carry out and execute it. And when I tell you this game does such a good job at all those things, I like that. I usually, I feel like when like indie games are trying to be like, oh, well, we got story, got this, we got XYZ thing. Usually something tumbles. And I've been very impressed so far playing this game where the gameplay is fun, the platforming is fast and satisfying, the cinematics are actually very impressive.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've actually been very impressed by like one. I like how the character models look. I like. I liken it a little bit to almost like a claymation art style, even though it's not claymation. But something about the character models kind of gives that a little bit in a good way. And then also the levels I like, I just like how everything looks, how everything pops. And then in cutscenes they have like camera angles that feel like I'm watching a TV show or a movie. Like the types of choices they make, cinematography wise in this game are fairly impressive for what I. What I'm pretty sure is a first time indie game. So I just want to shout out that game reluded. Also, while I was playing this game was learning things about actual African history because I believe the bulk, if not all of the artifacts in this game that you can come across in these museums are based off of real life artifacts.

[Mike]

That's awesome. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so like there was one where they were like, hey, this is the gold medal that this Olympian won. I think their name was like a baby or something like that. But like this, this Olympian, a baby Bikila. It was a gold medal from a baby Bikila who was essentially like a, an. An Ethiopian Olympian that like had this legendary run or whatever. Reading about it, I was like, is this real? And I looked it up and I was like, oh, this is real. And then yeah, came to learn that all the artifacts are based off of real stuff. So really cool game.

[Mike]

14 bucks, 15 bucks Amazon game pass as well.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And it's on game pass as well.

[Mike]

Hey, that's awesome.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah. You play anything interesting?

[Mike]

You know what? On the flip side, I played a white woman that's stealing all of these artifacts.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh.

[Mike]

I played Tomb Raider. I played the OG Tomb Raider and man, that's hilarious.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's hilarious when you put it like that. Croft Manor could be a level in reluded if you think about it.

[Mike]

Exactly, exactly. I played the OG Tomb Raider. I jumped back into the OG remaster of 1 through 3 and started playing that. Really fun. That's a game I grew up on the PS1 where we would call in the helpful hints line to be like, how do we get past these tigers and find the, you know, the amulets and man jumping back into it. Bless the controls. Awful. Very cool. They do the master chief collection thing. We go to old school graphics and new school graphics to see it. Looks good. Just a fun little trip down memory lane.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You didn't want to wait till Tomb Raider Legacy or whatever the new one's called.

[Mike]

You know what? I wanted to jog memory, so I was ready. I believe it's Atlantis, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't think it's Atlantis. I think it's. Is it Catalyst, the newest one?

[Mike]

No, no, the remake of the first.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The remake.

[Mike]

Tim Gettys has it on his fantasy critic.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, that's a good call. Look that up. That's a very good call. I'm betting on Catalyst. I'm pretty sure it's too Catalyst. I'm going. I'm saying Catalyst.

[Mike]

I don't think that's it. Let's see, let's see right now. You're not going to beat me here, Chad. Come on now. Tim Gettys it is Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, wait, where did I get Tomb Raider?

[Mike]

Is that the new one I think you're thinking of?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The new one is the. Okay, the new one's Catalyst Legacy of Atlantis. Yes.

[Mike]

And so I wanted to jog my memory of what was the story and play through it because I don't remember any of it. I don't even think I beat the game as a kid because it was so gosh darn difficult. And so, yeah, this is just like a run back. And then when they put out the new, you know, remake, I'll be able to have a little touchstone to it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I like that.

[Mike]

Which will be fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Look at that. But enough about that. Let's talk about today's news stories because remember, you're watching khd. If you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kind of funny games. Also shout out to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today and this is what I'll say. All right, Mike, we me and you were talking about it before the show, talk about it.

[Mike]

Tell the people, pull the curtain back. Let them know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's pull the curtain back. Chat. What I don't want to hear from you is Slow news day, huh? Yeah, because let me tell you, this might be like there's stuff to talk about for sure. But you know, we don't make the news.

[Mike]

You know, we just talk about it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So it's story number one. A story that I was like, ah, maybe this is a we news. And I looked at the scope of this and was like, all right, guess we're just going to start off with this one maybe, but we're going to have fun with it. We're going to have conversation. I almost see this as more of a Gamescast topic more than anything. With story number one, the High Guard website is down. Its players brace for the worst. I'm pulling from Zack Zweizen at Kotaku. Just a few weeks after launch and less than three months after it was first announced at the Game Awards, High Guard is still alive, but its official website is suddenly down, sparking online rumors that the game is not long for this world. As spotted by Rebs Gaming and others. Earlier today, the official Playguard, the official play highguard.com website was replaced with a simple static page featuring the game's logo and a message that says this site is currently unavailable. Below that is a support email to ping about the down site. Kotaku has contacted Wildlight Entertainment for more information. It seems the site has been down since at least 7:50am Eastern Standard Time. So that would have been about 4:00am yeah, about 4:50 our time. And yeah, it's been about five hours, six hours now. I mean 450 to 10, five hours.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mike, does what does this say to you? Is this something to worry about or do you think this is just a website hiccup?

[Mike]

I mean it's not a good sign.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not a good sign after the.

[Mike]

Big layoffs, after the rocky launch that now we are, you know, not having the website turn on. Now of course, as a gamer, this means nothing to me. Bless the game is still on. The game is still functioning. I blessing I can't tell you how many times, probably less than 10 times I've ever gone to a video games website page in my life. I'm not, I'm not a big hey, I got to go to play highguard.com right now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I go to halo.com what happens?

[Mike]

And so you know, I'm not a big website guy. But I will say it's probably Not a good sign. No, this is. Hey, we laid off such and such. We forgot that Brad was in charge of the websites.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And now we had Brian and he was working on news.

[Mike]

Brad was the website guy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Every day, every Monday, Brian would come in and press the J button, which meant keep going on the website, update this thing. And we laid him off. And now he didn't come in to press J on the thing. And now Tuesday everything.

[Mike]

So, yeah, you know, not a good situation there because we probably just laid off the guy who was running this. It's not good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now shout out to Banner in chat, who says Mike wasn't a Smash Dojo guy. You don't know about Smash Dojo?

[Mike]

I have no idea what Smash Dojo is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Smash Dojo gave you all the updates of what was happening in Smash. You went in there. Oh, my God. I was on smashdojo.com all the time.

[Mike]

Like a live service game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, practically. Yeah. I was like, Smash at a point had an announcement every single day.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And they would update the website with an announcement. Every single kind of. Was kind of like a live service. Except, yeah, it was a live service pre launch. And so by the time the game comes out, it's like, all right, we got no more to talk about. Just have fun with the game. Now.

[Mike]

I am currently on the High Guard Twitter page, which I thought, let's go to that next. Because they promote that in their discord.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

They have not sent off a tweet in four days.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They laid off John. It's John who's in charge of John and Alex.

[Mike]

Charge of social. Yeah, that's not a good sign either. I don't know. Bless. I mean, when I go to Steam DB, right, there's a thousand players playing right now. 1600 was the 24 hour max player count. We talked about this during the layoffs, just earlier last week or whatever. Whatever day it was. Right. And so, like, it's not a good sign. We do have the conversation now that we can kind of play armchair quarterback. Bless of. Like, how much longer do you go?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

We talked about them having the plan of. We got a content roadmap of a whole year. We're ahead of schedule, we're ready to rock. And that's great to hear.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But if there's no players playing the game, are you really just going to rock for a whole year and roll out a roadmap to those thousand people?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's the, that's the thing is, you know, we went to the preview event and so many of the words are coming out of their mouth were very promising. As far as what you want, what you want to hear out of a live service game. Yeah, we have a year long roadmap. We have these updates. Episode one or two, whatever it was, is coming out two weeks after launch. You know you're going to get XYZ thing. We have people on deck for fixes and live updates and all that stuff that I feel like all that stuff plus even more of what they said which was, you know, we don't need this to be your main game. You know, we want this to be in the rotation that can only be true to a certain extent. Right. Hey, if this thing doesn't launch with 100,000 concurrents, that's fine. We can make it work with 50,000, we can make it work with 20,000. I don't know if you can make it work with 1078 on Steve. Of course, I think that's where it gets so low that it is. Oh no, like this is not something that we can work with that'll allow us to pay this 100 person studio. I don't know how many people work at the High Guard studio, but allow us to pay all these people for the next year.

[Mike]

We talked about that. I mean we talked about that at the beginning of the launch. Then with the layoffs, now we get past the layoffs and whoever is that core team that is still there, money is still coming in and money is definitely in the red right now. And so you're going to start looking at what are we running, what do we need to start cutting and yeah, I mean eventually will be the website. There will be no more social media, there'll be no more YouTube uploads. We haven't had a YouTube upload since nine days ago, which was episode two of the Cinematics. This team probably has, you would think a year's worth of cinematic and storytelling under their belt here. So we'll see. But eventually things will start coming of like everything is in the red and what will be cut.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And when you think about like when you say in the red, think about how in the red. Because we're talking about a free to play game. It's not like a thousand concurrence for a big single player game coming out already. It's especially in the first month or so of the game coming out, it's like oh man, we're talking about a game that you can play for free. So when you look at that 1078 people that are playing right now on Steam how many of those are buying the cosmetics?

[Mike]

Of course.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Especially when they were pretty generous about the cosmetics. Right. Hey, we're not charging for the wardens. You can buy the. Or you, you don't have to buy the characters. We're giving them out. You're only really paying for cosmetics here.

[Mike]

I believe the cosmetic bundles were on par with a fortnight everything else which is like the normal 10 to $20.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And we talked about this as well. Great job with the cosmetic bring up. Was right. Blessing of like there can only be so many people that are playing your games that will continue to buy and buy. Right. They know the game is going down and not going to be long for this life. Why would I buy all these things? Right. On top of that, you can only sell me the same 20 bundles so many times before either one, I have them all or two, I've seen them all and I'm clearly not buying them. Right. And so how long does that last? Usually teams when this happens, from what I've seen, usually it's like hey, the boat is sinking. We're going to shut down in three to six months. You know what, Take all the bundles. You know, it's over now. Yeah. So because either we're going to have to refund you or we're going to have a big problem. You're going to be yelling at us as the boat is sinking. So it's like just take it. I don't care anymore.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. So there's not really much to chew on here. I guess. As far as what happens to High Guard from here, I guess the question I'll ask is, is there any way to turn this around?

[Mike]

No, there will be nothing to turn this around. Unfortunately they had a moment there week one when they did the five on five and I think that was a very quick and smart move from that team to adjust accordingly. But unfortunately the player mentality and sentiment towards this game has already been dug in deep. The player base has already played and seen the game. Yeah. And they've already made their judgment.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think people have already rejected the idea.

[Mike]

They've either liked it, they loved it, they hated it, or they're in the middle like you. You've already judged it. There's no way that this game can come out unless it has a totally fresh different game mode for you to go try and go hands on with to impress you. Right. Even if they did, hey, it's four teams at once. Even if they did 10 on 10, none of this will change. Well, already seen it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think the tough thing is I just don't think the idea of a raid shooter resonated with people enough. Right. Like, I enjoyed it, I had fun playing it at the event. Right. But I think when you're talking about the majority of players that you want to bring in, and I guess when you're talking about the multiplayer audience that you want to speak to, I think there's too much in the game that doesn't, I guess, speak to people immediately. There's something about the flow of the game, I think the, the core of how these systems work that maybe make people fall off early in the game because it is kind of a weird thing of you jump in, you reinforce, you loot, and then action doesn't happen until a bit further into the match.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which worked for me because I'm like, all right, cool. Like I'm. I think I've played all of the inspirations of High Guard, so when you bring all that together, it clicks in my brain. But I don't, I don't know if there was much that you could have done. I think this was just a swing and I think it was. Honestly, when I look at High Guard, I'm like, decent swing, but I think you're just in a space that is too competitive and like, it just didn't work. It just does not have the resonance that you wanted. It doesn't have the stickiness for people.

[Mike]

It was a good attempt at trying something new and fresh by blending all of the kind of key attributes of video games that you know and love together. Right. And I think what's the saying? Bless master of many, but master of none. Something like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Of all trades. Master of none.

[Mike]

Yes, they, they, they had everything good, but they weren't the master of anything. The best selling part of that game was the raid, the search and destroy. That moment where we are at your base, we're knocking on the door and we're going to plant the bomb. That was clearly the selling point of the whole raid thing. Right. Like, everything was leading to that and that wasn't enough to be like, this is so much fun that I can't wait to play more of it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

Everything that led up to it was just fair to good to fine. Okay. And it's like none of it was great enough to be like, oh, I want to stay on this hamster wheel because I get to this part, which is the most fun part. Right. The most fun part of that game was, hey, we've now got the sword, we've unlocked your base, we're going to have the fun battle here at your base, running from point to point. Everything before that I don't think was good enough.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I think you're just at a place where there's too many distractions for people. Overwatch. I was going to say Overwatch too, but Overwatch, remove the two. You know, it's cleaner that having its.

[Mike]

Big update stole a lot of energy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Stole a lot of energy. Other games coming out, right, Us being on the road to Marathon plus Arc Raiders coming out a couple months ago and Arc Raiders still going strong. Right. I think you have so much surrounding High Guard as far as other competition, I mean, way bigger competition, that I think it just got suffocated out as well. Like, it didn't even have a chance to be like, but, but, but wait, hold on. Like, we know you guys, you know, you guys don't believe in this, but, like, at least give us, Give us the space, you know, we'll cook, we'll cook. They didn't even have the time to cook. Overwatch came through, slapped the pan off the fucking stove and said, we are done cooking. We're cooking now. And they took over the kitchen.

[Mike]

Now, you did say, like, what is next? Right? And there's nothing next. There is something next. And it will be the announcement of how much longer does this game have? Right. Like, this game will float on for eternity. But there is a definitive, like, next moment, which is the team coming out on social media on a YouTube video somewhere out there that says, hey, everyone, we took a swing, we missed it. Didn't resonate with the player base. Unfortunately, that has led us to this moment where we will be shutting down the game servers on this date. Until then, you can play it and then it's done forever. If you've made purchases past this, we're doing a refund. And after that, you know, we'll see what we do. Right. They don't have to announce they're shutting the studio down. They don't have to announce the next game, but they will have to announce, hey, this is over with. Right. And so this game will just kind of linger around and be in the ethos until it's finally time to say something about it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And I feel like with the website going down, as little as that is, no updates on a lot of the social media platforms, a thousand people playing on Steam. I do think that message will be coming sooner than we.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I think the thing that makes me really think that message is going to come very soon is that I feel like with the website being down, you'd at least want to communicate on socials. Hey, the website is down. We're working on a fix.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If you're working on a fix. If this is like another step toward. Yeah, we're cutting off the lights one at a time. I think this is how you handle it.

[Mike]

If you were working on a fix, a true fix, to try to bring this game back, you wouldn't have laid off all that team.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh.

[Mike]

Because you're going to need them. You know what I mean? Like, they're working on a fix of how do we save as much money as we can? Because before we go really into the red and like it's over here. Right. And so, yeah. Unfortunate situation. We watched that. I don't. How long did Concord last?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Two weeks.

[Mike]

Is this going to outlast Concord?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So this outlast this outlast Concord?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

To be fair though, Concord was a $40 video game. So I think in being published by PlayStation and so there's a lot more, I think, expectation as far as the money you're making back there that they weren't able to fulfill. I want to bring in some super chats. I don't know what this means from Clawmaster. So bless. Sounds like you like raw dogging was what Clawmaster said.

[Mike]

Wow. I don't know where that happened.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, did it had to do with like my routine, My wake up routine? Wake up, go to the gym. I don't know if I said it raw dogging anywhere in there.

[Mike]

No, I didn't. I didn't get any of that. No, no.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But hey, you know me, Claw master. I mean, listen, you caught me red handed.

[Mike]

You caught me red handed. What are you doing?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Portland, Kevin. 597 writes in and says, hope you love our city, Mike. International Rose Test Garden is a beautiful spot. There are excellent coffee shops, pizza and food trucks everywhere.

[Mike]

I reached out to Portland, Kevin. Maybe I'll be able to find them. Yeah, it's a tight window of like, you either find me Thursday night or you're going to have to come with me on Friday morning. Go get a coffee and a bagel with me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There you go.

[Mike]

Will it be a Washington D.C. situation? Probably.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, explain the Washington D.C. yeah, I went out.

[Mike]

I went out to D.C. for COD next. And I thought, you know what? I'd like to meet some kind of funny best friends. And so instead of like preparing for it two weeks a week in advance, I was on the plane to D.C. and I decided, you know what? I'll Send out a tweet. And it simply said, I'm going to have a meet and greet. Meet me at the Capitol building.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You can't do that. You cannot do that. What year was this?

[Mike]

That was the year, I think. Oh, no. Wasn't my best thought, but people found me. But people found me. We had a blast.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Organize a group of people. Oh, God. Motor World Hype writes in with the super chat and says, bless. Thanks for shouting out reluded. I was trying to look up reviews on YouTube and the results were 90 racist rage baiters. This game needs loud positivity to counteract that. That's crazy. I've not seen as much of that stuff because my time, thankfully my timeline doesn't have as many racists on it, but I've seen a little bit of, like, people associating it with, like, oh, the games walk or whatever. And I'm like, brother, how I was talking about this on my stream last night, right? Of how it warms my heart to see a game that takes place in Africa and pulls from, like, African culture. Because my. I'm Nigerian and I never see that. Right? And so, like, for people to be like, oh, like, you know, oh, this. This game has whatever. Like, brother, we can't have one. We can't have one video game. One indie game. What? Shut the up. If you're a racist out here, especially if you're going after reluded. Because that's a good video game as well.

[Mike]

Of course.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, it's not even a. It's not even like a bad video game that, like, oh, man, let's walk. Oh, they just made this be. The video game is good. And so like, yeah, shut the up. We don't care about what you have to say. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mortar world hype banner s writes in and says wildlight was 10 cent funded initially. I've heard they declined a second round and that led to layoffs. They just have no revenue coming beyond that. I don't recall that story. I don't know if I knew that.

[Mike]

No. I don't know if we. I don't remember him talking about that. When we asked about, like, publisher and support, they said, it's all on us. So that was pretty interesting.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Bringing in 1 from brain 69 BB who says it's not a slow news day. Everyone is just out here celebrating Mardi Gras. Mike, you ever been to Mardi Gras New Orleans?

[Mike]

I've never been to Mardi Gras New Orleans. It seems like a really fun Time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I went one time was a blast. Okay, it was a blast.

[Mike]

It looks a little too chaotic for my taste. But I also, like, I would thrive in that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, you for sure would thrive in that environment. Yeah. Let's see here. Kofodicus 7 says, Mike, go to Kopi Coffee in Portland. Best coffee.

[Mike]

Coffee, Coffee.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kopi coffee.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sh909 says, were they given this feedback or people. Or people were glazing?

[Mike]

I don't know what that means for the video game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I guess for.

[Mike]

I think they got plenty of feedback. Like, are you talking about. Sure, they got a solid mix of media feedback when we were there, influencer feedback the next day when they had influencers there. And then of course gamer feedback the moment it launched a week later. Yeah, like I. I'm 99, sure that team got plenty of feedback. And it's just unfortunately that like the course of the game, that game and what they had, it's not easy to steer the ship and all of a sudden make a massive pivot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right?

[Mike]

Like, it's not a battle royale. That's like, okay, making a team arena shooter real quick. Yeah, it's. This was a very special game that's like, you can't get off the rails on that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I think it's tough when you're trying to make something that feels fresh, indifferent, but also make it in secrecy, you know what I mean? Like, of course they had play tests and if they're doing game development rights, right? Yeah, they fucking had feedback because that's how all this stuff works. Right? When you're talking about play tests and making something new. But you know, they had a vision for something of, we don't want to make another arena game. We don't want to make another battle royale. We want to try and make a brand new mode that mixes these things and has something that's totally unique, that's able to kind of like live on its own or whatever. And you know, I think there's only so much feedback that you can take for something that is trying to be different. And I think so much of it is like good enough in some regards. Like Mike, you hit the nail on the head of like none of it is like super duper great on its own, but I think a lot of the game is good. I think the, the gunplay feels good. I think the, like the. I keep want to call them legends because the Apex legends, but like I think the wardens and abilities and all this stuff, like a lot of it feels good enough. But again like when you're a jack of all trades, master of none in a, in a sphere of games that are masters of what they're doing. Again, I say in Overwatch or even if you want to say Apex or like there are so many other multiplayer games that are stating their case of this is why you need to play this. And the case for High Guard of this is why you need to play this needed to be. Oh this raid shooter mode is so fun and so sick. You can only get it here. And unfortunately that just wasn't enough. The raid shooter mode wasn't. It wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread. And that's the, that's the space that we're in, that's the competition and that you're in when you're putting out a shooter nowadays.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Scorpion Brew writes in and says I still play High Guard every day. I honestly love it and a hole will be left. Once again, I also loved Concord.

[Mike]

There are many people out there that are just like you that find that they enjoy the play style, they like these games, they find a little home there, they find their community and they enjoy every moment until it's either gone or it keeps going. So like, hey, people like you are supporting the game. That's why it's still on right now. Yeah, like that game is still going because there's still people playing it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So and that's why I'm, I'm an advocate for multiplayer games that don't necessarily need to be live service. Of course there are certain game types that like kind of do need to be like a battle royale or whatever but I look at a, a rematch for example and that, that's an online game, multiplayer game. But guess what? They charged for it and it's good enough and it's still around and I can play rematch today. And I can't say that same thing about certain other games. Yes, my heart yearns for a Knockout City return and Knockout City is gone. And that breaks my heart cuz that game was too good to be done. So dirty. But that's what happens when you have to like rely on like your audience to stick around and for continual funds to come in or to continue making this game. And it, it sucks whenever something that you like just goes away. Like I feel you on Concord. I feel you on High Guard. Like when High Guard's gone. Honestly like when Concord was gone low key, I was kind of like ah damn. I like playing that thing. Like I know everybody hates it, but I like playing that thing. I feel somewhat same about High Guard, even though I played less high guard than I did a Concord. But like high guards to be honest, like damn, that was the only place I could get my rage shooter.

[Mike]

I mean you talk about Rematch, right? A perfect example of rematch and like charging up front, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Right now Rematch has a peak 24 hour player base on Steam. Of course we always talk about that. 4,100 people currently right now there's 3,000 people playing them. They took a massive nosedive just like this high guard game from a peak of 91,000 players to now they are operating at about 4,000 people a day. Right. And now other consoles add into that. But like you said upfront Charge Cosmetics do that. This team said this is. We're not banking our whole claim on this. Right. This is like us making a game while we're probably going to be making Sifu too. Right. So it's like this team has enough to get by. But at 3,000 people, if this was a free to play live service game, we'd probably be having a different conversation about it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Rematch hit 1 million sales I believe after its first week. If I'm looking, if I'm reading this correctly. Yes, because this was June 24th from Sal Romano Akamatsu. Yeah, they hit over 2.5 million players because I believe they're on game pass. But yeah, hitting 1 million sales that first week for a game that cost what, $30, $40. I forget the exact price they got. They got the money and guess what, like the game continues to like exist and they don't have to worry. I imagine they don't have to worry as much on cosmetics and selling things and ah, our player base is down to 3k. It's like well we sold the game.

[Mike]

So I hope it gets a second life with FIFA World cup this summer. Marketing push can like they can remarket somehow and get this, get the excitement and energy going again because man oh man, that first week of rematch was so much fun and it would be crazy if you could get the love and energy going again. Are we going to talk about, are we talking about fc? EA Sports fc?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What about it?

[Mike]

You see they, they're announcing like some sort of crazy open world thing is like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, I missed this. I'll try to find, find it for me.

[Mike]

We'll see if it's real or not. But like they're, they're if it's real. Whatever this rumor is, it's like a WWE island or 2K neighborhood type vibe.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yuck.

[Mike]

Oh see I'm on the Opposite side lit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No. Oh, I don't want that.

[Mike]

I'll see if I can find that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I did see that. I think Netflix or somebody. I need to double check this, but somebody's making a new FIFA game like FIFA proper.

[Mike]

Really?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it's gonna be. It's probably not gonna be good. Hold on, I'm gonna Google FIFA game. Okay, well, it just brought up soccer games that are happening. FIFA reveals first licensed game since EA Sports split. This is from espn. Oh, no, no, this is from last year. Nevermind. This is a different thing. This is a game called FIFA Heroes. Okay, that was real last year.

[Mike]

Now take this with a grain of salt, but this has been making the rounds this morning from a bunch of different sites or a bunch of different Twitter accounts. Probably it's fake, but you never know. Says breaking eafc27. The grounds is a reportedly. Reportedly an open world experience. Players could explore free roam city, visit barber shops, buy outfits, train at gyms, play on local pitches to build reputation, level up their custom character.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh my God. So yeah, it's basically just.

[Mike]

I mean, it's the neighborhood.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It's the city. The 2K city.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Who. So wait, hold on, let me. So 2K is the one that always does this?

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So you're telling me that EA is trying to get in on that?

[Mike]

Yeah, that seems logical.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do you think EA would do it better than 2k?

[Mike]

No, it'll all be bad. It's all bad.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm trying to like find any, any sort of hope here.

[Mike]

It's. It's a fun concept and the. When you first initially do it, it's really cool. When you do it year after year, it does just become nonsense. But like, it is a fun concept of I create my character, I run around this giant city. I see you playing soccer over there. I come join you on that pitch. We go to the indoor soccer area, we go over to the ranked area. Like you could make it fun, but like. Yeah, it's just going to be the normal. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Whenever they release it, put it on the stream schedule. I'll stream that with you.

[Mike]

If it's real, we'll do that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And then. Yeah, I have a confirmation. I'm pulling from IGN. Vicky Blake. This is from December 18th. A new FIFA video game is in confirmed by Netflix, developed by a studio that's yet to ship anything is what the headline is. So we'll see what's up with that?

[Mike]

Yeah, we'll see. I don't know, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Where's we're in such A weird place. Now I'll bring in one more super chat before we move on. Yelsing writes in and says, are these types of games done? Too many have failed.

[Mike]

No, they will continue to try and try to crack the egg because we always talk about it. You constantly. The gamers outcry is we are bored of Fortnite and Battle Royales. We want something new.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

We have found that with extraction shooters, especially with that team from our creators finding a way to get the casual audience into that. There is more out there to explore and they will continue to try that. But like you have to try and fail or else, like we're just going to live in a world of battle royale shooters. So yeah, teams are going to keep trying.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I want to know what you mean by these types of games because if you're talking about multiplayer live service games, right. Like, I hope not because I, I don't, I don't want there to be a sentiment of we don't want multiplayer games.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And we don't want, I guess, live service. I kind of understand the sentiment a little bit. But I guess what I want is I want good versions of those. I want the best versions of those. Right. Like multiply you. I mean, you're the most player guy here, right? We love multiplayer games.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I love playing with friends. I love playing shooters. I love playing new weird modes. Right. What I don't want to be is nickel and dimed. What I don't want is for games to waste my time. And also like, I want, I guess like the amount of games that we have out right now. I want to live in a world that makes those things make sense to all coexist together. But realistically there is so much. There are so many games and not. And so many players just don't have time to play, of course, everything. Many players don't have time to play multiple things.

[Mike]

And it's a tough nut to crack because you say all that and it's like a lot of these teams need time to create that perfect space. Right. Like it's a rollout, it's a launch, it's a, hey, we got something here. But it takes time to continue to build off that and make it great. Right. And right now we don't have enough. We're not giving enough time. Right. It's like a very much like you either catch fire day one, or we're going back to the games that are already on fire. Right. And it's very difficult to be like, all right, well then like we'll be here. We're going to build, we're going to make it great by a year from now and it's like we won't be back.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Mike, we're going to move on and talk about what's going on with the Steam deck. But before we get there, I want to tell you about patreon.com/kind of funny and YouTube.com/kind of funny games where you can go and get the Kind of Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast Smart move Being financially savvy Smart move Another smart move having State Farm help you create a competitive price when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling. Just another way to save with a personal price plan like a good neighborhood, State Farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state. And we're back with story number two. Valve Warns of Steam Deck OLED Stock Issues due to RAM shortage this is Chris Care at Game Developer and we've been talking about this for a little bit over the last week, but this is finally Valve stepping in to actually talk about it. VAL is warned it might soon be difficult to purchase the Steam Deck OLED in some regions as a result of memory and storage shortages. The company has added the following note to the Steam Deck page on the Steam Store to warn prospective buyers. Quote Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. Steam deck steam deck LCD 256 gigabyte is no longer in production and once sold out will no longer be available. End quote. This is the second time Valve has indicated hardware availability might be impacted by a RAM crisis that is being driven by widespread investment in AI data centers. Earlier this month, the company delayed announcing Steam Machine pricing and shipping details as a result of critical component shortages and price hikes. Valve said the situation forced it to revisit its shipping schedule and pricing strategy, especially with regards to Steam Machine and Steam frame hardware. We've been talking about this for months and months. I think Tim was the one, the first, you know, ring the alarm on the back as soon as he saw. I think, I think it was Nvidia. It was some company that was like, hey, we're going to go work on this AI shit. We're doing these data centers and pulling out of the RAM game. That when that was when Tim was like, shit, everything's fucked.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so continually everything is going to continue to be fucked.

[Mike]

Yeah. This has been a wild story to see unfold. It's a wild world that we currently live in where this is the case for AI data centers. You know, that's a lovely world we live in. One day will be our creators where we're pillaging and scavenging for the RAM from these places.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, we Just got to go in. We got to just go in and just start taking the parts. Just take the fucking Ram out there.

[Mike]

But like on the flip side, right, like, this is an interesting one of like, okay, then when will the Steam machine be announced? The pricing and dates, right? Then we talk about, you guys just talked about PlayStation and kind of like, hey, they're going to push back their initial, like when the PS6 would come out, right? It's like Xbox is the same way is like there's this normal cadence that you would think we'd be on the every seven years, right? And of course that's evolving and changing, but like at the same time, now all of these teams, for good and bad, have time, right? They have time to play with it and say, hey, let's hold for a little bit, let's reevaluate. And for the gamers as well, you now have time, right? You talked about it before, like Covid threw a totally different change into how we look at this generation. A lot of people say, like, this generation, we're fine right now, right? Like, give me more out of this. I'm not ready to jump to the next one. It's like, well, because of this we have time, right? For good and bad, we all have a lot of time right here. So now it'll be interesting to see when do these companies come and finally start the rollout and announcements, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Does Xbox do this for the 25th anniversary to show their next big thing? Is PlayStation gonna hold till 2027, 28, 29? Like, is this Steam Machine? Are we going to see this thing this year? Is this thing going to come slated and dated this year? You know, with how things are happening.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Here, does the Steam Machine even come out?

[Mike]

No, it's coming.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do they say, ah, shit, no. We just get. When we look at the long term future of what the RAM shortages are doing and like, what, like, is there a such thing as through the storm? Because if there's not, if I'm, if I'm Valve, I'm starting to go, well, shit, do we want to deal with this? Like, our whole strategy here revolves around trying to make a PC console that is affordable to people so they can come through, buy it. And now like they're playing on Steam, they're playing on PC like it's a console.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If the affordability factor is not a factor anymore, then what are we doing? Why are we doing this?

[Mike]

I mean, it's well said. It's well said, but I mean, like, there's this weird One for me of like through the storm is clear. Of like we want to be out there, we want to be in your living room with our storefront in our machine because we know that people want to be buying on Steam, they want a mini PC type vibe everywhere in their home, right? And it's like there's this moment that one day will make the gap. I know people think it's crazy, but like one day we'll make the gap to like we're just cloud gaming, right? In a perfect gumdrop world, it's like you will be, everything will be so strong. You will be cloud gaming.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I hope.

[Mike]

I mean one day when you won't need this, right? And so like you want to get out and make this thing a dominant force before we do live in that super tech world where it's like we are just cloud gaming. Everything is Netflix now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just don't believe in that strongly. I don't believe in that future in anywhere in the next 20 years at least. I just don't think 20 years. I don't think the, I don't think Internet infrastructure is strong enough to support everybody just being on cloud gaming.

[Mike]

We'll see.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't think we're there, I, I.

[Mike]

Don'T think we're there now. But like I said, that will be the future, right? If like the world doesn't go to shit, which it already is to shit, and we could get our shit together, it would be the future. I think in like 20 years, 20 to 40 year window, it would be everything is just a click of the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Button to 40 year window. Maybe I'll give that, I mean that's.

[Mike]

What, that's what they got to start. Jason Ronald at Xbox, the people at PlayStation Steam, they have to be looking 7, 15, 20 years down the future and preparing for this because like that's going to happen faster than we think.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just need, I just need the cloud gaming example, I guess maybe I'm just speaking from my own thing, right? And maybe this is me thinking about like what my Internet was like when I lived in the Midwest. Of course, right? And how I was like, man, I can't get this shit to work worth shit right now. If I go on a trip, on a work trip, I can barely get my PlayStation portal to connect, my PS5 that's at home, that's even connected through Ethernet. Like I think there are so many issues with Internet infrastructure and I'm talking about specifically America. I can't speak to other parts of the world that might have even Better Internet than we do. I just find it real tough. I think that, I think that's a whole thing to figure out. And maybe we'll get there faster than I'm assuming. Yeah, I just don't think we're there right now.

[Mike]

So, like on the flip side, right, it's like Steam. I would, I would assume through the storm is we want to get there sooner than that, right? We want to start to edge in to Xbox and PlayStation, let people know that you can start buying the Steam machine, right? Or is it going to be so much money that it is like, hey, this is just a super luxury item. You're still going to buy your PlayStation, which most people will. We know this, right? Phil Spencer came on the podcast and talked about it, right. People are ingrained in the ecosystems that they are in and they are definitely in the PlayStation ecosystem. Xbox has had a massive issue. They're missing that, right? And so Steam can play Xbox games, can play PlayStation games. They're going to fit perfectly into your living room if they can get this out at a price that people are willing to buy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's move on to story number three. Hasbro has reportedly shut down GI Joe, Snake Eyes game makers Atomic Arcade. This is from David Carcassel at WCCF Tech. Atomic Arcade, the Hasbro and Wizards of the coast owned studio that was making a game based on the iconic GI Joe character. Snake Eyes has reportedly been shut down. The news broke from one of the former team members. Gameplay programmer Dominic Braun shared on his personal LinkedIn account that he had been laid off following Hasbro and Wizards of the coast decision to close Atomic Arcade. At the time of this writing, there's been no official word from Hasbro, Wizards of the coast or Atomic Arcade confirming the closure or the fate of the Snake Eyes game. Following the publication of the story, a representative from Hasbro sent the statement to WCCF Tech. Quote, the Snake Eyes game is not canceled. The team is currently taking time to evaluate the path forward for the game. While decisions haven't been finalized, we're committed to providing updates as soon as we're able. And quote. So yeah, I should actually, I should actually clarify because part of the article said there's been no word. That's from before they got the update from Hasbro. So Hasbro said the Snake Eye game isn't canceled. They had no word though on Atomic Arcade. Now they said nothing about the studio.

[Mike]

Now this is a fun one. Blessed of like we, we looked at each other. I said I didn't even know there was A Snake Eyes game going down. Yeah, I do a little research. So I went to YouTube and I started typing away caboose on YouTube and the whole 9 minute video running down what this game is all about.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did you watch the video?

[Mike]

I watched the video.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

So in 2022 there was an article about how it. It might be real or the rumor that this was kicking on. Then in 2023 they went into pre production. The studio is a AAA game from former Batman Arkham City developers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

And so Atomic Arcade. And it was going to be something similar to a Batman slash Arkham game with Snake Eyes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, still up.

[Mike]

Website is still.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which one? Atomic Arcade.

[Mike]

Yeah, the website is still up. You can go to the website and see two photos of Snake Eyes. Now it's not photos of the full suit. It is just like the chest to the belly button with him holding the machine gun and him holding the sword. And that's all you got, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How did this slip by? We must have talked about this on an episode of KHD and just wiped it from our brains. Yeah, but also like a Snake Eyes game. That sounds fun. I think that'd be sick. Especially from the Batman people. Yeah, but that doesn't sound real. Like it took us this long to get a John Wick video game. How does Snake Eyes get video game greenlit in 2022?

[Mike]

It's a very interesting one. Blast of like when I. When I think of GI Joe, I kind of chuckle a little bit of like, who's buying that?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know what I mean? But like, I mean being Snake Eyes would be lit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like no lie. Snake Eyes in an Arkham City type vibe would be very cool.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The only reason I know Snake Eyes is because of the GI Joe movie that came out. The first one that came out like a decade and a half ago. And I was like, oh man, that character is cool. That's my frame of reference for Snake Eyes. You're telling me he got a video game greenlit in 2022 and it took until 2026 for us to get a John Wick video game? Yeah, that game ain't coming out, bro.

[Mike]

Well, you will. We will see.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That game is not coming out.

[Mike]

Hasbro not. Has not canceled the game. They're just taking some time to reevaluate.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They only. Bless you, Kevin. They've only. That was a strong ass niece. They didn't hear it.

[Mike]

I heard it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We heard it through the window. But yeah, they shut down the studio seemingly. Allegedly. Yeah, allegedly. They shut down Atomic Arcade. So I'm curious on who's going to make it. You think Hasbro looks at another studio and they're like, hey, we're passing this on to you.

[Mike]

Is Hap. Does Hasbro do Dungeon and Dragons and Magic The Gathering Cards?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, Wizard. Well, oh, cards. Or are you just talking about, like, do they own it?

[Mike]

Yeah, like, is Hasbro the parent company? Yeah, the Wizards of the Coast. Dungeons and Dragons.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dungeons and Dragons. Magic. The Gathering. Yes.

[Mike]

I'll sell some more fantasy. You'll be able to fund it. Sell another because that's licensed. You'll be fine.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so that money then gets split with Square Enix. You know, I don't know if that's going to be the thing that gets all the money that they need, but, like, have we ever gotten a GI Joe magic set? I feel like that's how you fund it.

[Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Give me a Snake Eyes. Commander.

[Mike]

They're not quite big on like the guns yet. And magic, you got to remember, right? Like, they don't have just assault rifles in that. In that world yet. I think Transformers not been a.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's not been a collaboration with magic where they've had guns.

[Mike]

I. I'm pretty sure in magic. I don't think there's like assault rifles and pistols. I think they've gone. I think they're going to go as like, far wacky as Star Trek with phasers. I think maybe Transformers might be the closest, like guns and missiles you're getting in magic.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They must have guns on. On some of them. Correct me if I'm wrong, some of them final cards.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Kevin]

Warhammer.

[Mike]

Yeah, Warhammer. You're kind of dancing there, but I don't think they're like, here's an, an M40 assault rifle with snake eyes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Are we counting Secret Layer? Because last of us had the Secret Layer card.

[Kevin]

Okay, okay.

[Mike]

No, no, I, I would. I'm talking. Of course, that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is a great.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kevin brings up. I don't.

[Mike]

I don't think they've gone full tilt on this yet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kevin brings up a Magic the Gathering card that's literally just a gun, but it's, it's fake. It's a custom made one.

[Mike]

Fallout. Okay. Fallout. So, yeah, I guess they're dancing with it. Yeah, yeah, they're there and they own GI Joe.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The problem, the reason why they wouldn't do GI Joe is because I think they know nobody gives a fuck about GI Joe. I don't think there's a crossover. I know some of y' all give a fuck about GI Joe because you're 60 years old. But, like, I don't know if they.

[Mike]

The magic audience and Chad, I'm not confidently wrong. I'm a magic purist, and I only like swords and magicians and wizards and knights in my magic. Remember that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Story number four. As early copies of Resident Evil Requiem appear in the wild, fans warn that now is the time to log off in order to avoid leaks. This is from Tom Phillips at ign. This is a nice little PSA for you. Early copies of Resident Evil Requiem have been glimpsed in the wild, meaning it is now time to take action to avoid spoilers fans have warned, such as the ultimate fate of Leon S. Kennedy and Capcom's hugely anticipated game. I don't have to read the whole article. The whole article is just be careful. Spoilers.

[Mike]

Shit's out there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Shit's out there.

[Mike]

Get ready.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, this keeps happening.

[Mike]

We talk about this with every.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I know. Well, listen, it's a slow news day, all right? I need.

[Mike]

It's just crazy that, like, this happens all the time. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

There's never been a crackdown on this. It's just.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, what would the crackdown be?

[Mike]

I mean, they try to crack down, but, like, there's no. It's always out there. Someone's got it and they're going to. They're going to upload it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's. It's Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious, one behind the trucks, and they're like, yo, I know what they got in there. It's a Resident Evil Requiem.

[Mike]

We're going to get it. Trucks. You better be careful.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, man. Man, I didn't even think about that. I know we talked about a little bit with.

[Mike]

The shit's going to be dangerous. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Those. Truly and honestly, they might actually have to have armored trucks for the gta.

[Mike]

I think they have to go that far.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think they might. You joke, but I think. I think you might have to go armored for those ones.

[Mike]

But, yeah, I mean, if you are interested in Resident Evil, you should probably be aware we are in that window of, like, copies are getting ready to be sold. We're right around the corner. We're a week away. You probably should start going radio silent on this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We might not get Review copies for GTA 6.

[Mike]

We talked about that. Mean, Greg. Yeah, possibly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, I think that might be. I think the crackdown might be that strong.

[Mike]

We'll see.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We'll see. But, Mike, if we do get review codes for GTA 6, that's gonna be huge.

[Mike]

Be huge.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What if they only give us one Code. Who do you think gets it? Who do you do? We fight for it.

[Mike]

Yeah. We have to have like a Mario.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Andy gets it, right? Well, no, because Andy got the preview.

[Mike]

He gets the previous.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The previous.

[Mike]

You know what? I give it to you. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You're just saying that.

[Mike]

No, I give it to you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, because you'd want to stream it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You'd want to do the marathon. That's actually the real back out. Because, like, let's be real. Come on. Time we got on the show. We got time.

[Mike]

We got time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because if I'm. If I'm to guess, I think number one, I'm saying Greg Miller, but then I'm also slashing.

[Mike]

I'm going tim Gettys, and you my number one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I might slash Greg because, you know, Greg has a kid.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He can't be playing GTA in front of the kid.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, no, no. And he's not gonna have time to, like. I gotta put the kid to bed.

[Mike]

He's not ready.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now I have between the hours of 9pm and 10:30 when I go to sleep. No, he's not gonna beat it. So then we go to Tim. Yeah, I think Tim's most likely. I think Tim, then maybe me.

[Mike]

Yeah, Tim and you then. And Andy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Andy, then Greg. No, Greg's above Andy.

[Mike]

Greg's above Andy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think Greg will get GTA before.

[Mike]

No, Andy doesn't have much going on. He can play it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But does Annie like GTA like that?

[Mike]

He better.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When have you heard Andy say the words gta?

[Mike]

Never.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Exactly. Ever. I don't even know if you played a GTA.

[Mike]

He'll play Lies of P for the 17th time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Because he's always playing Lies B. That's all he likes to play. All right. I think, Barrett, we should give it the code of Roger.

[Mike]

Roger Regret.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. All right. Figured it out.

[Mike]

You see, J. Cole's going on a tour.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, he's gonna be here.

[Mike]

How about you? Yeah, Oakland.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think he's going to Oakland Arena. Yeah. That's where Kendrick performed.

[Mike]

Is that. They're still going to that old arena. Interesting. Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think it depends on the audience, like, because Oak. I feel like a lot of the rap, like big rap artists or big hip hop artists, I think are hitting up Oakland arena. Because Oakland is it.

[Mike]

Is it Because Chase center would be too expensive, probably. It's odd because, like, they're probably marketable. They're probably very similar in size. I was just thinking summertime. J. Cole. I'm trying to be outside. I want to be in the Raiders stadium next door. Open the top. Let's dance party the night away. I don't want to be inside sweating.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think it's pricing, probably. But J. Cole coming to San Francisco or Oakland, I guess, is going to be so huge. It's going to be huge. But if wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news, any plus, I'd take you.

[Mike]

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

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And here's the reason why we wouldn't want Greg to review GTA 6 is that we all heard Greg Miller's red Dead Redemption 2 review.

[Mike]

Is that what the people are saying? Yeah, we remember that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Even though I agree with them 100%. Redemption. Okay, so maybe you don't want me to review the either, sir. Number five Wii news is part of the 1.1.8 update. Going live today. February 17th, Ubisoft will be adding a manual jump option to Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. It's a big news day.

[Mike]

Manual jump option?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, like a jump button.

[Mike]

Because normally you just press forward and they auto jump and run and climb.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I guess. I don't know. What I'm not. You know, I play. The last Assassin's Creed that I really played was Assassin's Creed 2.

[Mike]

Yeah, I just played.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I forget if that.

[Mike]

Okay, good to know. Good to know. That's. I mean, more player option is good with me. Yeah, no problem with that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But, like, they took out the jump button out of Assassin's Creed.

[Mike]

That. That's where I'm like, hung.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm like, isn't that something?

[Mike]

Was it a jump button?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I guess maybe it's like holding.

[Mike]

Because I feel like I'm jumping sideways off that all the time. I'm playing that and I'm awkwardly jumping the wrong direction and getting frustrated most of the time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But that's because you're holding the parkour button. Holding the direction.

[Mike]

The parkour button.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dude, let me tell you, Reluded has a parkour button.

[Mike]

I saw it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That you hold. It's very fun.

[Mike]

It looks good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Game pass games wave two have been announced for February. On the 17th, you're getting aerial Knights Drop Shot Shout out, and then Avatar Frontiers Pandora. On the 19th, they're getting Death Howl, EA Sports College Football 26 and the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. C.E. i was gonna say Combat Evolved Collector's Edition.

[Mike]

Collectors. Get ready. Maybe DLC's real.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Ooh.

[Mike]

Maybe the DLC's real smart.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

On the 24th, you're getting TCG Card.

[Mike]

Shop Simulator, one of the best simulator games around.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

On the 25th, you're getting Dice a Million. On the 26th, you're getting Towerborn. And on the. On March 3rd, you're getting Final Fantasy 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance too.

[Mike]

How many. How many releases this tower board got? Okay, I'm gonna be the date, Jack.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is the official one though. Because before it was early access.

[Mike]

The official one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know. I don't.

[Mike]

I don't know. Leave a tape check on that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

One day I'm going to go back to red Dead Redemption 2. Oh, yeah, I think so.

[Mike]

Now that's another big game there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Too many big games.

[Mike]

That's a big game. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I. I'm like, part of me wonders that I just wasn't in the right time of my life to be playing red Dead Redemption 2.

[Mike]

Yeah, you know, I mean, dude, it's, it's. I'm sure it's going to be a fun time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

My horse died a little bit one too many times.

[Mike]

I be that horse.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I got frustrated.

[Mike]

Remember when you go to cinematic mode, you wouldn't know which way the horse was facing. Just bang into a tree.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think that was one of my big complaints is that like, the game would entice me to not play the game where they're like, all right, go to the next mission and I'll go to cinematic mode, put my controller down and be like, all right, take me there. This is the gameplay of this game. If I can put my controller down. Konami has delisted Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker from the Xbox Store. After the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 was announced last week.

[Mike]

That early.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I heard similar things about the PlayStation 3 store. Okay. So I don't know how I feel about that. I feel like could have just left it up there. Who cares? Game preservation, you know what I mean?

[Mike]

That's an interesting one. Yeah. What is that conversation like? I'm like, well, clearly the game is on this now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So they're like, hey, let's take it off here so people don't get confused and buy it here.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think so.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

People might accidentally turn on their sudden.

[Mike]

Well, all of a sudden I'm buying that game. I'm getting upset and buy the collection.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If you accidentally buy the PS3 version of Military Solid 4, that's on you.

[Mike]

Well, you know, I've downloaded a lot of PS4 versions of the game, a lot because of that bad UI system. So yeah, that happens.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know what? Honestly, I Feel you. Yeah, you're right about that. You're definitely right about that.

[Mike]

Get lost in that one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

NetEase Studio anchor point is going independent. Call of Duty Warzone Mobile servers will shut down on April 17th.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a wild one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a crazy one. Digimon Story Time Stranger DLC 3 Anti Paradox launches in March 2026. Virtual Boy is now available on Switch Online expansion pack. And finally, this is a really cool one. Big Hops has a documentary available right now on YouTube titled Six Years to Build Big Hops. The YouTube description reads, in this Dev Dive documentary, Tucker Hazel and Chris Wade explore the design and development of the colorful 3D platformer Big Hops.

[Mike]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I love when stuff like this happens.

[Mike]

Okay, perfect. Yeah, I love that. I love a good no clip. I love a fun video game doc. So, like, I'm in.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I love that there are more people out there doing stuff like.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hell yeah. Shout out Tucker Hazel and the team who worked on this documentary. And that is it.

[Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

For Wii News, let's hop into super chats real quick, see what y' all are saying before we get out of here. Justin Mars writes in and says, mike, how dare you come to Portland and not tell me. I wanted to show you how to shred on one. On a one wheel.

[Mike]

The Narna. Oh, on a one wheel, they say.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sad thing is I fly out to Disneyland on Friday.

[Mike]

Well. Oh, okay. Well, like, if you want to rip Thursday night, get weird with it, let me know. I'm known to rip. Yeah, yeah, but, like, I'm worried about the one wheel. Have you ever thought about the one wheel? Do you think you got it on a one wheel?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Absolutely not.

[Mike]

So the one wheel is like, you have to get on by having the back foot down, down, holding in the stationary position. Then you got to put that front wheel, that front foot forward and kind of lean to get it to start moving. And then you eventually have to find a balance where, like, you're even but also lean a little bit forward to let that thing move forward on it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I know that. I feel like I would fall off and break something. Yeah, that scares me.

[Mike]

People get wicked on a one wheel. You should look it up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, I know what a one wheel is. I've seen people get. I've seen people going crazy on. I think I've seen people in real life, like, driving down the road on a one wheel and I'm like, damn, you're on the. In the middle of the road. Like, the cars and Stuff that's crazy. The Portland Kevin writes in and says lots of Portland pizza options. Demos for Thin Crust, the Star for Deep Dish and Sizzle Pie for Traditional. I emailed you to meet up, but you can also contact me same name on Discord or Blue Sky.

[Mike]

Check your Instagram. Portland Kevin, I think I wrote you on Instagram.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let me know. JJ baseball 23 says deadlock. Also got a big update right before High Guard.

[Mike]

Deadlock's nasty right now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

One day I'll play.

[Mike]

It's real difficult though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Okay.

[Mike]

Maybe that's a real good at the game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Maybe I'll stay away.

[Mike]

It's becoming a League of Legends situation.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, no, see, don't tell me that.

[Mike]

It'S becoming a League of Legends situation.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Benny Baskin writes in and says, why don't these games offer a peer to peer option for people that like them?

[Mike]

I think we saw that with. Yeah, it just depends on the dev and if they have the time and space and resources to do that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right. You know, Roberto writes in and says, this just reminds me of losing Rumble Verse. That hole in my heart will never close.

[Mike]

Rumble Verse was special. Yeah, I liked that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Ox Pope says check out process in Portland. Great warehouse dance music venue. Huge show happening Thursday. Oh yeah, that's. He.

[Mike]

That sounds like it's you. A huge show. We got a stick show coming to San Francisco. I just sent you third Thursday at the Mint.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, I love them.

[Mike]

Look it up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

You.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wait. The Mint? Like karaoke?

[Mike]

I sent it to your Instagram. I don't know. No, I think it's not. I don't think it's that kind of.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Jordan Fight says, I wish we had more PvE Live services. This is somewhat that. Gotcha. This is something. I see. This is something that Gotcha games do very well, but requires the Gotcha system to fund and develop and develop. I. I feel that. I feel like we're getting them left and right.

[Mike]

Got Helldivers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean we got Helldivers. I think they're. I think they're talking about like the Genshin's of the world, which we got. That we got.

[Mike]

Should be playing Arc Knights.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What was the one that came out in November? Was it where winds meet? Or is that a different game?

[Mike]

Oh, is that. Is that the. That's the MMO martial arts game though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. That wasn't. I think that was like single player RPG though.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Free to play.

[Mike]

Cool.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I feel like we're getting a lot of those, but I feel like they're also Coming out of, like, like, Asian territories, I'd be curious to see, like, more western devs explore that space a little bit. But I feel like Gotcha really is core to how you're able to make that happen. And the Asian territories have that unlock, let me tell you. Genshin begin, people.

[Mike]

Oh, dude, I got gotten arc nights.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

That six star girl.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's how they get you. Joey Radstone says, any plan for a review of High on life two? I love it. I don't know if anybody's playing High on life two to completion.

[Mike]

No. I was the only one that was like, hey, I'll review this. And we kind of all was like, no, we're just gonna keep moving.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Really. No, I think the pro. The problem is that they didn't give us the review codes early enough. If, like, they gave us. They got us the review codes, like, I think two days, three days before the game was out, which is not enough time to review that video game. And so by the time Mike would probably finish the video game that they said was 30 to 40 hours long, you guys will not click on the episode, unfortunately. Anthro Metal says, smartest thing Cliffy B ever said was there's only room for three games in a given space. So hard to capture and maintain attention. Only room for three games in a given space.

[Mike]

Three games. What are your three games right now? Bless. You have Mario Kart or Mario Tennis.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The ones that I'm playing.

[Mike]

Yeah. Like, think about your three games.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mario Tennis, you have Final Fantasy and.

[Mike]

Probably a work game, and those adjust and move. Like, if you really think about it. Yeah. That's not the craziest thing to say. Three games for sure.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And I think he's also maybe talking about, like, just, there's room for three battle royales. There's room for three arena shooters. There's room for three souls. Likes, Right. Like, once we get past that, you're not going to, like, rise to the top or whatever. Okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which I don't know if I fully agree.

[Mike]

I don't know about that one. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But. Okay. Okay, we have time for. Let's knock out one more. Well, we'll shout out King of all humans writes in with a birthday tax. He says, hug someone who loves you today.

[Mike]

Oh, I love that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Thank you so much for that.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go hug Roger real tight.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And then we'll do one more. We'll bring in this one from Landez97, who says, I played around 150 hours of high Guard.

[Mike]

Whoa.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Genuinely Had a great time. Sad to see it go out like this. I'm three trophies away from the platinum rip. That's crazy.

[Mike]

We heard that from another person as well. That they got the platinum in that because they liked it so much. So get after it. Have some fun. 100 plus hours is a lot of gaming in that three weeks that it. It was alive. Good for you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've been refresh, man. 150 hours in three weeks.

[Mike]

You're tearing it up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've been refreshing, Kevin. Read my mind. I've been refreshing the High Guard website.

[Mike]

Still not turning.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Still down. But I mean it doesn't mean like the game is still up, right?

[Mike]

Game is still up. Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean he can get his platinum.

[Mike]

Yeah. Brad's got the code.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Get it together.

[Mike]

Brad's got the code to the website. They fired Brad. He's not giving it back.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, that's exactly.

[Mike]

There's email and Brad's work email. Brad don't got the work email no more. So they're going to get in touch.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

With him to this to land as who wrote in with that super chat. You need. You got to log. You got to lock in over the next 24 hours because that might be all you have.

[Mike]

I think you got more than 24 got locked in. You need another 24 straight.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You might need to lock in over the next 24 to 48 hours because that might be all you have. Get that platinum, buddy. Yeah, get after it kind of dot com. You're wrong is where you can write in, let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong. They logged me out of Google again. They keep doing every time.

[Mike]

Bro.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We just talked about this.

[Mike]

It's a daily thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All right here, Here we go. I'm in. I'm in, man. Y' all got some lengthy ones in here.

[Mike]

Lay it on us.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dot Hack zero was announced today. That's from Rue.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Eric Allen says while Mike did use the popular abbreviation, the full quote actually has a different meaning, which here's the thing. This is the last time, okay? I'm taking in this year wrong. Okay? Because this happens every time we do the master using it the opposite way.

[Mike]

Jack of all trades. Master of none.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A Jack of all trades. Better than some. A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better. Better than a master of one.

[Kevin]

You're right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That is the full.

[Mike]

That's a crazy. Well then you know what? High Guard doesn't do that. Can I take it all back? High Guard doesn't do that. Because that final part. High Guard's not that it's better.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

High Guard's better than some. Where do you go? Okay, I. Guard versus Concord. Who you got? All right, let's have the conversation. Let's have a conversation. High Guard versus Concord.

[Mike]

You have to go against things that it was going against Valorant. Counter.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It wasn't going against Valorant.

[Mike]

Yes, the raid. The final raid part was search and destroy. It's going against Valorant and Counter strike. No, no.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dev is like, I'm putting this to go up against Valorant. No, Dev is like.

[Mike]

Bomb, go plant it out of sight.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The only game that is trying to go against Counter Strike is Valerant. Highguard was trying to to. To carve a space for itself and just couldn't carve. The wall was too strong.

[Mike]

It's too strong.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Everybody down. Everybody was like, you can't do it in the back. They were right.

[Mike]

Read me the thing one more time. What does it say?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What does it call a jack of all trades? Is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.

[Mike]

Okay, I like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which I don't know. I don't know if I agree with the full quote.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Moxley.

[Mike]

Oftentimes of all trades.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Actually, no, I do agree with it.

[Mike]

Actually is better than a master of.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

None, but oftentimes better than a master of one. This is a fence sitting ass quote.

[Mike]

Wow. It's crazy. What a. What a quote.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, commit one way or another.

[Mike]

That's not the quote that I thought.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Should I be a jack of all trades or a master? A master. But the quote is saying a jack of all trades is better than someone who is a master of one. One Oftentimes not all the time. Okay. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Pick a side. But I think it's picking a side. I think it's Jack of all trades better than master of one. I mean, High Guard was the jack of all trades.

[Mike]

It was a jack of all trades.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And that person has T minus 24 hours.

[Mike]

But it was a master of none.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which is oftentimes better than master of one. You got to finish the quote, Mike.

[Mike]

You got to finish the quote Chat.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And that is it for kind of funny dot com.

[Mike]

Where do people come up with these quotes? Who made that quote?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know, man. Probably some philosopher 2000 years ago.

[Mike]

It's like your dad, your dad 40.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Years ago he said it cost on like hot fire.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Everybody's like, damn, I'm start using that. Of course, this has been kind of funny. Games Daily if you love what you do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next which is going to be all about our hot takes. Of course, over the last few weeks we've been getting a lot of your hot takes post showcases and things like that. But I've heard it loud and clear. Some people have been asking to hear our hot takes on the panel.

[Mike]

Give us your hot takes. Yep.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Of course after that then is going to be more content for you. What's the content?

[Mike]

In review.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

In review.

[Mike]

Robocop. Stop till you drop.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's fire. That's me, Nick, Roger and Mike and Andy.

[Mike]

Gameplay stream of Re Animal which just so you all know, we played Reanimal for Andy's birthday. We were trucking through that game and he was like, oh, Mike, let's save some for tomorrow. We'll beat it tomorrow. If we don't beat this game today, I'm gonna. I'm gonna smack Andy around.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You can't.

[Mike]

Because I wanted to play with him all day and he tried to leave early.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You keep threatening Andy, that doesn't make him want to hang out with you. You can't keep threatening physical violence.

[Mike]

Pretty messed up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We had a whole meeting about this also.

[Mike]

We could have taken him to dinner last night.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We could have.

[Mike]

Pretty messed up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's really fucked up, man.

[Mike]

We're gonna get into that house one day and that's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You can't threaten you. That's. I know you don't mean that as a threat, but it sounds like a threat. Clip it until next time. Game Daily.