James Bond Game '007 First Light' Reveal is COMING - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.02.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Detailed Episode Summary

Episode Title: James Bond Game '007 First Light' Reveal is COMING
Release Date: June 2, 2025
Host(s): Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr.

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1. James Bond Game '007 First Light' Reveal

Overview:
The episode kicks off with an exciting announcement about IO Interactive's highly anticipated James Bond game, officially titled "007 First Light." This marks the first significant update since the game's initial teaser as "Project 007" over five years ago.

Key Points:

• Official Reveal: IO Interactive is set to reveal more details about "007 First Light" within the week, likely during one of the upcoming Summer Game Fest events.
• Speculations on Casting: The hosts and live chat members speculate on who might voice or portray James Bond. Names like Richard Madden, Josh Beck, and Charlie Cox are floated as potential candidates.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Miller (00:17:58): "We're about to get our first real look at IO Interactive's new James Bond game."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:18:05): "I think it's awesome that they're aiming for a new era of James Bond in video games."

Discussion Highlights:

• New Era: The term "new era" suggests a fresh take on James Bond, potentially diverging from traditional portrayals tied to movie actors like Daniel Craig or Pierce Brosnan.
• Character Development: Emphasis on creating a unique storyline and personality for Bond, allowing IO Interactive to define their version of the iconic spy.
• Community Engagement: The hosts encourage listeners to share their predictions and thoughts on the casting and direction of the game.

2. The Witcher 4 and Unreal Engine 5 Integration

Overview:
Next, the hosts delve into CD Projekt Red's plans for The Witcher 4, highlighting the game's integration with Unreal Engine 5.

Key Points:

• Epic Collaboration: CD Projekt Red will showcase "The Witcher 4" at Epic Games' State of Unreal briefing, focusing on the advanced technology and features powered by Unreal Engine 5.
• Engine Shift: This is a significant move as previous Witcher titles utilized the proprietary Red Engine. Transitioning to Unreal Engine 5 may offer enhanced graphics, physics, and gameplay mechanics.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Miller (00:34:36): "The Witcher 4's Unreal Engine 5 in-game features and technology are set to be revealed tomorrow."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:35:56): "It's clear there's a strong partnership between CD Projekt and Epic, which bodes well for the game's technological advancements."

Discussion Highlights:

• Technical Enhancements: Speculation on what Unreal Engine 5 will bring to The Witcher 4, including more immersive environments, dynamic storytelling, and improved character animations.
• Development Transparency: CD Projekt Red is known for its commitment to transparency, and this collaboration is anticipated to set new standards in RPG development.

3. Hi Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks Hiring for New Action Game

Overview:
The third major news item covers Tango Gameworks, the developer behind the acclaimed Hi Fi Rush, announcing their hiring spree for a new action game.

Key Points:

• New IP Development: Tango Gameworks, now under Krafton, is focused on creating and expanding new intellectual properties (IPs) with a distinct voice in the gaming industry.
• Studio Independence: Despite being acquired, Tango Gameworks emphasizes their mission to remain dedicated to innovative and fresh game development.

Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:41:48): "Hi Fi Rush fits the bill for Tango Gameworks as something unique and fresh in the action game genre."
• Greg Miller (00:43:02): "It's a great mission statement, and I believe they're committed to delivering standout IPs."

Discussion Highlights:

• Balancing Act: Concerns are raised about maintaining studio independence and creativity under Krafton's ownership, especially after previous projects like Callisto Protocol faced development challenges.
• Future Prospects: The hosts express optimism about Tango Gameworks' ability to produce another hit reminiscent of Hi Fi Rush, given their proven track record.

4. Wizards of the Coast Signs Publishing Agreement with Giant Skull

Overview:
The fourth segment highlights Wizards of the Coast's new publishing agreement with Giant Skull for a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) single-player action-adventure game.

Key Points:

• Game Details: The game is set in the D&D universe, aiming to deliver immersive storytelling, heroic combat, and exhilarating traversal mechanics.
• Developer Background: Giant Skull's CEO, Stig Rasmussen, brings extensive experience from working on titles like Star Wars Jedi and God of War series.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Miller (00:43:21): "Wizards of the Coast is diving deep into the D&D universe with Giant Skull, promising a rich single-player experience."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:49:19): "There is such a market for D&D games, and this collaboration could be a slam dunk."

Discussion Highlights:

• Market Potential: The hosts discuss the growing popularity of D&D and associated media like Critical Role, emphasizing the potential success of a dedicated video game in this universe.
• Gameplay Expectations: Anticipation for how Giant Skull will translate D&D's complex mechanics and storytelling into engaging gameplay.

5. Elden Ring Night Rain Patch Update

Overview:
The final major news item covers FromSoftware's latest patch for Elden Ring, titled "Night Rain."

Key Points:

• Patch Features: The update introduces an "automatic revival upon defeat," allowing players to revive once per night boss, making solo expeditions easier.
• Rune Adjustments: Increased rune gains for solo expeditions to balance the game's difficulty.

Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:51:56): "Thank God for this patch; it makes solo play much more manageable."
• Greg Miller (00:53:30): "People Can Fly suspending Project Gemini and Project Ifrost is a huge blow."

Discussion Highlights:

• Community Reactions: Positive feedback on the patch's ability to ease single-player experiences, though technical issues like performance on certain PCs were noted.
• Industry Impact: Brief mention of People Can Fly's suspension of their projects, reflecting the challenging landscape of game development.

Additional News Highlights

• People Can Fly Suspensions: Announcements that People Can Fly is halting development on Project Gemini and Project Ifrost, leading to layoffs and studio scaling.

• Nintendo Switch 2 Screen Warning: Nintendo advises new Switch 2 owners not to remove the protective film on the screen, emphasizing it prevents fragment scattering upon damage.

• Yoko Shim Omura's Contribution to Street Fighter 6: Renowned composer Yoko Shim Omura has created a new track for Street Fighter 6, available in a free update later that week.

Notable Quotes:

• Greg Miller (00:53:30): "That's awesome. That's random though. That's like, who is Yoko?"
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. (00:56:16): "Yoko Shim Omura is a legendary composer, and her involvement in Street Fighter 6 is fantastic."

Conclusion

The episode concludes with the hosts reflecting on the bustling week ahead, including their own plans for live streams and game reviews. They encourage listeners to engage with their content through memberships, super chats, and social media, ensuring support for their small but passionate team.

Final Remarks:

• Greg Miller (Conclusion): "We're excited to bring you all the latest gaming news and can't wait to enjoy Summer Game Fest with you all. Stay tuned and support us by subscribing and joining our community!"

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Summary:
In this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, the hosts delve into the imminent reveal of IO Interactive's new James Bond game, "007 First Light," discussing its potential impact and casting possibilities. They explore CD Projekt Red's transition to Unreal Engine 5 for The Witcher 4, examine Tango Gameworks' hiring for a fresh action IP post-hi Fi Rush, and highlight Wizards of the Coast's new D&D game partnership with Giant Skull. Additionally, they cover the latest Elden Ring patch and touch on other industry news, providing listeners with a comprehensive roundup of the most pressing video game developments of the week.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about IO's James Bond game has an official title. We are going to see more of the Witcher 4 tomorrow. And hi Fi Russia Studio is hiring for a new action game. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Monday June 2, 2025 Nintendo Switch to launch week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Summer Game Fest week.

[Greg Miller]

Oh what a week. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Perry Poppy Blessing at EO Yay Jr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have to acknowledge the fact that you're still using this coffee cup that you you got from the Nintendo store.

[Greg Miller]

That's correct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I look inside it expecting to see regular coffee and I'm surprised to see that you have ice cubes in this thing. You can ice coffee out of a regular coffee mug.

[Greg Miller]

Well, as you know in our hit games cast where we went through the Nintendo store and talked about it and did all that stuff and we went through all our purchases. I said I bought this coffee cup cuz it's cute and I like it obviously. I like the roost, I like Animal Crossing, you know that. And then I was going to have it be my coffee cup but then it's just getting hotter now. You know what I mean? It's summertime and so I like a good iced coffee especially I did 20 minutes 21 technically in the car today for Greg Way and so I got it parched so I want the liquids in me quicker so I need I cool it down. So yeah, I've been putting the iced coffee in there. I've been putting the not use of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Seeing yeah, ice cubes in a coffee cup.

[Greg Miller]

I hear you right Again, I'm just committed to it because well, I'm using a glass and I got the Pedro glass for my water. Now like I got my, I got my set up here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where'd this Pedro glass come from?

[Greg Miller]

Mill Valley Pasta. For some reason he had them. So I was like when I put them on Instagram story, I'm like, you saved me one. And it sat in the shop for weeks until I actually made it there. But I got there and I have a Pedro Pascal cup.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How are you doing? How's your weekend?

[Greg Miller]

I am excellent. My weekend was good. It was a good family weekend. All right. You know what I mean? So we went to the beach, took Betty out for ice cream. He woke up from his nap, we were there, we got home, I made him watch the Superman trailer again. And then I gave him all the Superman toys I had bought and been hiding. So, like, big, hopefully you're incepting him right now. Exactly 100%. But part of it was, of course, let's have a great family weekend so I can ignore these fuckers the rest of this week. We got SGF, we got Nintendo Switch 2. We got Bonkers coverage and plans over here. It's time to get serious. It's E3 week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It feels like that.

[Greg Miller]

It does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which has me very excited. What I did over the weekend was play a bunch of games, kind of like trying to dive into my backlog. It's funny because I went this weekend, I played Hollow Knight. I actually started that on my trip on my Steam Deck to my trip to LA last week.

[Greg Miller]

And that's the thing. I haven't seen you in a while. You've been off there doing even. You went to la, you did all stuff. We haven't even been on shows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like the last like three to four weeks, I've been in LA every single week.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And yeah, I feel like I've not. I've just not been on shows as much as I usually am. But that has given me time to, like, just be on my Steam Deck and play different things. And so, yeah, I've been playing Hollow Knight. I started playing Half Life over the weekend. I also played the demo for Dispatch when I was.

[Greg Miller]

I want to hear about that. Yeah, yeah, I saw. Of course you've. You've made your return to streaming. I see you over there on Twitch TV. BlessingJr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm trying to, like, stream a bit more consistently. So as an excuse essentially to like, dive into my backlog.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because we've had this top 100 game things that thing that we've been preparing for.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And funny enough, we've already submitted our list now. But for some reason, after submitting the list, I was like, all right, now I'm going to play the games that I was actually going to try and play for this list. And so, yeah, I've been going through these games. But yes, during the weekend I picked up Dispatch and I played the demo. Have you gotten to check out the demo yet?

[Greg Miller]

No, I have not. Yeah, that dropped late last week into this weekend. I know. And so I'm already sold on it. I saw you come to the realization that it's a management thing. That's the whole hook. Right. Is that Aaron Paul's the character you're playing as he can't Be a hero. So he's behind the desk dispatching the heroes to go out and do things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And I don't know how it's funny. I rewatched the trailer after I played the demo, and I played the demo a second time. I played this demo twice because the first time in playing it, I start the demo and I'm in the cutscenes, and I'm like, watching the story play out, and I'm like, oh, this is fucking awesome. The. The animation quality is so good. Like, this game is. Has such good presentation. Yeah, I'm. I want to just watch this. This show or this game as, like, a Netflix show or as an Amazon show, the way I do. Invincible.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The choices feel very telltale. And I like the writing. I like the characters. Like, this had this world has personality to it. And then they threw me into this management sim where it is. All right, you have eight heroes that are essentially, like, suicide Suicide Squad style. Like, you know, they're criminals, but they're now enlisted as heroes. But they're also kind of bad people, but, like, you know, they're trying to make a do a good thing. Right. So you have these heroes that are like Z tier, essentially, that you're sending out on these different missions. Because you're looking at this map of the city, and then you have, like, different things happen that pop up. So, like, you'll get an exclamation point that you'll hover over, and it's like, all right, I. My son's balloon got stuck in a tree. My balloon. Can you send somebody that can get a balloon out of a tree? And then also somebody that's not going to scare children? Or you'll get a different thing that's like, all right, there's a bank that's being robbed. Can you send somebody that can deal with maybe that. That might have stealth for a hostage situation, might have, like, the strength to deal with, like, you know, robbers or whatever it is. And you're looking at your roster of heroes and having to figure out, like, all right, who's right to send. All right, this person is now resting because I just sent them on another mission. And so now I got to look at the remaining people that I have on my list and, like, having to balance all these heroes and then also having another layer of being able to level up the heroes as you go. Way different from what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be straight up, just a telltale game.

[Greg Miller]

Make choices.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. And, like, the Management stuff is in there in the trailer, but I think I just thought it was going to be mini game type stuff and it seems like this is actually a good portion of what you're doing during the game. And I was very surprised I came out of that. Out of the first demo playthrough because it's like a 30 minute demo. It's not that long. Came out of the first one being like, oh, that was different than what I thought this game was. I don't know. And then I played it again. I was like, oh, this is awesome.

[Greg Miller]

It's got the sauce, it's got the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm even more excited now for this game and so shout out.

[Greg Miller]

Did you do it on Steam Deck or you. Is it deck?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I just played it on my computer. I don't know if it's deck compatible.

[Greg Miller]

Do you. I mean, did it. How much mouse movement is there?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I believe you can play with a controller, but I mean it. It seems like one of those games that'll be easier with a mouse.

[Greg Miller]

Obviously. Yeah, we're not going to do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, you should check it out.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, 100%. No dispatch is high on my list of anticipated stuff for this year. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah. I, you know, the demo just kind of snuck up on me and then I've been playing a different game. Oh, Fantasy Life. I oh, Girl who Steals time. There's a 21 minute Greg review in progress as your Greg Way today. So you can get on that once. Cool. Greg gets it uploaded and see about that. But that's what I've been tinkering with.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, games happen.

[Greg Miller]

There are a lot of games. Too many games would say, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's the. That was the motto from last week for me of like, all right, there's just way too much happening here and there's people to come out and say, Fantasy Life is your kind of game, Greg. We watch the trailers. Like, I don't know about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you give me like what your 21 minute Greg way is in like two words.

[Greg Miller]

This game. This game has so many fucking systems layered on top of each other. Bear, if you want to toss up a trailer, I can tell you a little bit more about Fantasy Life. I the Girl who Steals Time. It was this idea that last week, well, we've reacted to the trailer before. It's been in presentations and then last week somebody was like, greg, you like Animal Crossing? But this is way better than Animal Crossing. There's more to it and then we watched this trailer and I said, this looks like a game that's doing a bunch of stuff and not getting any of it 100% right. It looks like a jack of all trades, masters of none. Right. If you're an audio listener going for it. Master 14 unique lives. These are jobs you can have as you run around. It's like I gave a literal, you know, a little more than five hours in right now. I gave a literal verbatim, here's the story so far kind of thing. And it sounds like when Ben tells me a story because it's so. Well, you're doing this, you're doing that and you go in time. And then like last night at the five hour mark is finally when I was like, all right, here's Animal Crossing. Like everything else has been not at all. Build a town, do this thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm shocked because we're watching the trailer and I'm shocked by how much combat I'm seeing.

[Greg Miller]

There's a lot of combat. Yeah. If you want there to be. There's a lot of tree stuff in there. So I'm very. I am enjoying my time with it. I'm excited for more. I talked a little bit just Tip of the Sword on Friday show with Steven Totillo about it. Right. That I think one of the things I think that it's awesome they're getting, right. Because this is a level five game, right. Available right now on PC, Switch 1 PS5, Xbox. It'll be a switch to enhanced edition or whatever come this week or maybe a standalone. But what I think is really interesting about it is that they are cross platform safe. So. Oh, when I get. I think what's going to give it even more legs for me is that Thursday, get the Switch 2 and want to try as much new stuff as we can out of it. How many new games are there to actually try out? Right. And the fact that I can download this and then kick my save over from PC and see how it runs in, switch to and do all that, I'm pretty stoked for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So you're into it. I am, yeah. Yeah. It's that thing of, you know, when I kind of talk shit about it. When we watch the trailer last time around, somebody BS me and they were like, hey, like I hear you, but I'm 20 hours in and the game is ridiculous. I'm. I'm still. My head's still swimming. I was like, all right, that can't be the case. And then for like the people they keep Adding more characters, they keep adding more systems, they keep adding more things that I should be doing or not to. And it's like, I don't know at what point we're fine because they pitch it as like, oh, it's a cozy slow life sim rpg. So like, they're pitching it like Animal Crossing. So eventually I know the training wheels are going to fall away and be like, all right, what do you want to do? Would you just want to cook food and sell it? Or do you want to go fight these monsters? Or do you want to chase the thing where you can go back in time a thousand years and come forward? I don't know what the fuck's going.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On, but that's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So I'm looking forward to playing more of that and seeing what that's all about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cool.

[Greg Miller]

But for now, I'm excited to talk about the news.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm really excited for this because.

[Greg Miller]

This is Kinda Funny Games Daily, each and every weekday on a variety of platforms, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live on Twitch TV, kindafunnygames, YouTube.com kinda funnygames and podcast services around the globe. If you like that, we'd love you to pick up a Kinda Funny membership. Of course, $10 a month gets you all of our content ad free. That's more than 80 episodes of content a month. And of course it would get you your daily list of Me Greg Mil where I talk about whatever I want to talk about in my car, usually answer your questions, sometimes review games, of course, for 15 to 20 minutes each and every weekday, adding up to four hours of exclusive podcasting each and every month. However, if you have no bucks, toss away. No big deal like subscribe share, click the follow button. If you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Give us that free subscription that expires each and every 30 days. And of course to be part of the show live as we record it. YouTube.com kindafunny Games with your super chats, you can get in here and talk about the news or just talk. A lot of people are talking about this. Parker Real says will Greg be doing his championship parade in July? The missus and I are heading on an SF trip and need the deets. I, as I have confirmed I will be talking the details of my game showdown championship parade on Nintendo Switch today when we're streaming live. I think chocolate peanut butter coming together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why do you do this?

[Greg Miller]

I will confirm it is not in July, it is going to be in June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's soon.

[Greg Miller]

Very soon. Sooner than you think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's scary.

[Greg Miller]

You've missed a few meetings.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh God, you missed a few meetings. I've been gone for three meetings.

[Greg Miller]

You do ask what did I miss in the meeting? And I usually tell you the important stuff. I forgot about my big important meeting. Barista Brand says my everyday coffee is shaken iced coffee. There you go. Good for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Greg Miller]

And then there's more stuff coming up, but we'll get there as we get there. Remember, of course, some housekeeping. We are an 11 person small business all about live talk shows. And as I already told you, it is a humongous week for us and the industry. First things first, we are throwing a Nintendo Switch 2 launch party and you are invited this Wednesday going into Thursday morning. Tune in as we pick up, unbox and play our Switch 2s for the very first time. Details. A bit wishy washy on this. We're either gonna go live just before 8, maybe just before 9pm here, West coast, best coast time. We will have people in the studio, Mike and Roger going live while others will be out in the world securing switches at 9pm of course the midnight for here on the west coast. We will get it. We will bring it all the way back here to the office. We will unbox it, we will play it and at some point others of us will go home and go to bed. Stella. Stella's in the chat. Hi Stella. Mike and Roger will stay awake all night long playing the Nintendo Switch 2 for your amusement. Seeing what's going on with Mario Kart that will roll right in to kinda funny games daily. And then of course we will give you the news you need to know about before playing more Switch 2 before reacting to SGF, of course. Or that's Friday, I guess. We're playing all day, doing a live thing. SGF on Friday. It's a crazy week, but what you need to know is you can stay up with us all night long and.

[Barrett Courtney]

That that all night long stream will just be Twitch exclusive.

[Greg Miller]

Just because we don't the way marathon streams are handled. Yeah, you'll have to check it on Twitch. Are we trying to upload to YouTube later? I assume we usually do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. We'll see what the vibes are if it's worth it, if it's worth putting up and stuff. And then yeah, games daily that Thursday morning and then that'll I think go right into just game like us.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. The plan is that then we will go from games daily straight into playing more Switch 2 and then when we feel we've got our heads wrapped around it, we'll do a live games cast on the same setup while we play more stuff of what our first impressions are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want you to think about something, Bear. Start fucking, Bear. I need you to think about fucking thinking. Think about deltarune chapter three and four and how me and you tackle it. Because is that something we stream? Is that something where we kick everybody else off and play it? Or do we play that on our own time?

[Greg Miller]

Or do you guys start playing Fantasy Life I alongside me? It's multiplayer. You can start your own.

[Barrett Courtney]

Here's the thing. Bless. It's like you and I love deltarune. A very small portion of our audience love Delta Rune. I don't remember chapters like one and two like the best.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean it doesn't matter.

[Barrett Courtney]

And I also think I played that on Steam and so I don't know if I need to play chapters one and two to play three and four on Switch. So I just. I don't know. And also just like even if we did just stream chapters three, like is that good streaming content?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, it could be at 3:00am.

[Barrett Courtney]

You know, I'm not staying overnight, but.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like we wake up, you know, I mean we go home, we fall asleep at 7pm, we wake up at 3 because we know that like all right, cool. Who the fuck is watching me? And you show up and we live our Delta Rune best.

[Greg Miller]

I like that a lot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just think about it. I'll think about, think about it.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'll think about it. I'll think about maybe alternate ways that might be better to cover deltarune as well.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough, fair enough. Remember today after Kind of Funny Games Daily, you're going to get the games cast. It is our final SGF predictions as we prepare for Jeff's show on Friday after gamescast is going to be a kind of funny podcast where we will celebrate the fact that we won the tomorrow war. That's right. We made a trend everybody. That's all you need.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I miss so much.

[Greg Miller]

And then your stream's gonna be more Elden Ring Night Rain. If you're a kinda funny member, Snowbike Mike goes big this month with the Patreon exclusive poster made by the incredible Panda Musk. Remember? Of course we have contracted Panda Musk to give you 12amazing posters@kinda funny.com premium. Of course every month on Patreon we have a special tier where you get a physical item. This month is this amazing snowbike Mike poster that I just love. I Love this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's fantastic.

[Barrett Courtney]

What is this pulling for? Like, what's the.

[Greg Miller]

That's him. Snow bike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He loves snow bikes and his name is.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm thinking more of like the art style. Like, what is this pulling from? What is this inspired by, like, artistic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See what I look? What I see is the game. Thank goodness you're here. I feel like that's what I get when I look.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, I kind of see that.

[Greg Miller]

I can see that. Yeah. That is a good question, though. What is the. What is the inspiration there? Because it is tickling something in my brain.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, it's tasked with giving kind of a mood board vibe.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

For our respective posters. So I just wonder, I just wonder what Mike pulled from.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, it seems like one of those Adult Swim cartoons that's on at like 8pm, not like midnight, you know, I mean, like, they know the kids are still watching, so they kind of keep it cute.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like an early Adult Swim kind of thing.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And then of course, my Greg way, like I said, is 20 minutes of my review so far of fantasy life. I the girl who steals time. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by X Real. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some news. Five items on the Roper Report because does it number one James Bond game from Hitman Dev has a new title, 007 First Light. Official reveal this week. This is RebeccaValentine.com finally, more than five years after its announcement, we're about to get our first real look at IO Interactive's new James Bond game. Initially teased is Project 007. The official title is 007 First Light and is set for reveal sometime this week. In a post to Twitter, XToday developer IO Interactive showed a still image of presumably James Bond in a silhouette lit faintly by a single be the text reading first light 007 and game reveal this week it included a hashtag, earnthenumber, likely a reference to the fact the project is an origin story centered around bond earning his 007 number. The post didn't include any further details, but it seems likely we'll see this game at one of the showcases planned for this coming week as a part of Summer Game Fest, Summer gaming or one of the other gaming events typical for this first week of June. Blessing Adio. Yay. Junior. Greg Miller, Double oh seven First Light. What do we think of the name. And do you care?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I care about this project because I fucking love Iowa Interactive and what they've done with Hitman. What do I think of the name? I'm not.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not sold completely on it yet, but I think it could grow on me. I think at first blush, and this is a me problem, I immediately think of infamous first light. It's all. My God. Let's. Like, it just does a weird thing in my brain that, like, now when I see that title, I automatically think of that other game that's going to fade with time. Of course I'm the. I'm probably, like, one of five people that have that problem.

[Greg Miller]

I know. And I'm one of them too. All right. Nobody's getting away from this. How dare they? How dare they insult, fetch this way and steal the name?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's fucked up. It's real fucked up. I'm excited for whatever. For what this reveal looks like. Barry, if you can, bring back up the silhouette, because the question I want to throw back at you now is, what are they hiding with the silhouette?

[Barrett Courtney]

I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bear knows.

[Barrett Courtney]

I already have a good guess.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think. Because my. Where my conspiracy brain goes is, is there, like, a. An actor that we know?

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, 100%. That's why they're covering the face here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who do you think it is?

[Barrett Courtney]

Josh Beck.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

Damn. You were fucking ready. You were ready for that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fucking awesome.

[Barrett Courtney]

I don't actually think it's gonna be Josh, Peggy. Yeah, the hair and silhouette reminded me.

[Greg Miller]

Let me see him again. Hold on, because can I tell you. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That could be Josh Beck.

[Greg Miller]

I have a prediction. It's one of my SGF predictions. We're gonna look the SGF predictions right after this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How many of us do you think had a James Bond? Because I definitely had a James Bond.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't. I didn't until today. Oh, I'm calling. I'm calling the shot here. Okay, But I need it. This is gonna. I'm gonna. I don't want this one to be stolen from me. All right. It's gonna be Rahul.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was thinking the same.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's Rahul, and I think they reveal that it's sgf.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does this look like Rahul?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, who knows how much the light's playing with it? You know what I mean? A lot of people want to look at this and see a white guy. Let's just call it down the line. You Know, but I think the golden light can play off of skin differently, and I think, again, that'd be a good swerve. Thank you, Patel. Isn't this dude white? I don't know. Is it? It's a silhouette. Vitz. Do you want to fucking, you know, Vitz over here sees a silhouette ready to go to the cops and say he knows who the man is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I. I mean, for me, that's like another thing with the silhouette, right? Even if it's an actor, even if it's not like a recognizable actor that we know that's being revealed for the role. I think even if it is just a. A James Bond that we haven't seen before, whether it is somebody with different skin color, somebody that just looks different than, you know, Daniel Craig or like the Pierce Brosnan or like the James Bonds that we know, I think that enough is exciting enough to, like, you know, keep the character as part of the reveal. Have the character, like, have the character look, be a part of the. Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

The official press release they gave said. And I mean, this isn't giving much, right, but it's like the official press release I got today from 47. The reveal will give a world premiere look at 007 first light, featuring never before seen footage to start a new era for James Bond in video games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that.

[Greg Miller]

Is new era doing a lot of heavy lifting in my mind. Of course, it could just be a fucking white guy. It would still be a new era of 007 video games. But I like the idea that IO sitting there saying, like, you know what? We're going to do the thing that the movies aren't movies. Every wants them to shake up. Not everybody. A lot of people want to shake up on, you know, maybe do a gender swap, maybe do a race swap, do whatever. If they're not going to be a part of it, maybe we could do that and stand out that way and then also definitively set ourselves away from. Nobody's going to glance at Rahul on the COVID and be like, oh, is this tied into the movie? Or something like that, you know, or.

[Barrett Courtney]

Hear me out.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, Josh Peck. I think you're really hot with the Josh Peck button.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm glad we built it for the words new era. I love. I love those words so much for describing this because I think that comes with a lot of things. It's what you're talking about as far as being able to define what IO Interactive's James Bond is. But I think with that, for me, era implies franchise that implies series.

[Greg Miller]

That implies 100%. It does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We just don't. We don't want to be one and done with this. We want to like carry the flag for what this version of James Bond is going to be for the foreseeable future for us. And I think with that, when you think of previous eras of James Bond, they've always, I won't say always, but most of the time have been connected to a movie actor. They've either been, you're playing as the Pierce Brosnan one or you're playing as the Daniel Craig one. Right. Like, I think there have been a rare times. Or you're playing as an original James Bond. I think it was like a Wii one where you're like going through the different.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was. Wasn't there something there? I mean, I'm not a James Bond guy, so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was like the one, I think where you're like the one James Bond game they've made where you're playing as an Bond. But here if you are as I interactive making the IO Bond, I think with that, that comes with a lot of like, things you need to do because then you kind of have to create your own, not your own universe, but I guess your own story, your own like, line of this is what this Bond is. This is what this Bond is doing. And so like. And that could even flow back into gameplay. As far as, like, we are used to getting the first person games, for the most part there have been some third person. Right. But like, for what we know, I owed to be doing with Hitman, right. Like, you're going to redefine a lot of what it means to even play as James Bond itself.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett, before you jump in, I just want to say super chats, getting your predictions for who this is or if you even give a shit back to you, Barrett.

[Barrett Courtney]

I got it. Face scan. They're going to face scan you in.

[Greg Miller]

You are Bond. That would be awful. God, that would look terrible. Can you imagine? The cutscenes are like, it's all like polygonal.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's funny because what's worse that's.

[Greg Miller]

Or Josh Pack.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's funny because, like, out of all the places where technology is advanced, I feel like face recognition for like video game cameras is the one thing that's like never come around. Yeah, I've been seeing like a lot of Google VO on TikTok, you know, like the AI stuff. It's fucking ridiculous how good it is, like how like impressive it is. Technically we've made so many strides, but the camera for video games is not taking one step.

[Greg Miller]

I already have a bunch popping in. All right, Cody super chats in and says Richard Madden. Is that Silhouette. I'm calling Richard Madden. If you're not familiar with Richard Madden, he is one of the Game of Thrones people. Now, I've gone as far as I can with that because I don't love Game of Thrones. I know he's a Game of Thrones person.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I thought I had Game of.

[Greg Miller]

Thrones guy, and if I. Robb Stark. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I had the work ethic, I would have came in an hour early and made, like, a bracket full of actors. Like, who is this?

[Greg Miller]

Well, I think. And this is where it gets interesting now. I'm. Let's put it. Let's put down our swords. Let's put down our torches. Let's get. Okay. As everybody knows, I'm not the foremost authority on British history or British culture. All right, so we just said it. All right? I did watch 28 days later and 28 weeks later this weekend. Of course, you know how much I love those films. All right. But for Richard Madden, the. Immediately underneath it, everybody stay with me. On Google, it says Scottish actor. Are we. This is. Again, I don't know what I'm talking about, full stop. I'm not trying to offend anybody. Isn't it, like, does 007 have to be mainland British? Because I know Scottish people are very much like, I'm fucking Scottish. Right? Again, 20 weeks later, Cillian Murphy, right, is Irish. And, like, he won't shake the. He, like, mean mugs the royalty when they come to the premieres. And I fucking love it. Right? And like, some interviewer one time was like, oh, you're fucking British. She's like, no, I'm not. I'm Irish. He's like British. And they got a huge fucking fight about it. Like, I know that there's stuff going on over there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, like, you can portray character.

[Barrett Courtney]

Chat's to point out Sean Connery is Scottish.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, great. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

And if you don't care Scottish, you could just go all the way even more.

[Greg Miller]

West Brosnahan is Irish, somebody says. And then, yeah, Josh Beck. Well, I mean, the amount of people who shouted out it looks like Jack Quaid in the Silhouette.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bring back up the Silhouette.

[Greg Miller]

What are you saying?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't see any of these people, honestly. You want to know what?

[Greg Miller]

I don't think, Josh Beck, IO, I don't think is going that out of pocket. Like, we're doing our own game and he's American.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's Thor's actor's name.

[Greg Miller]

Hemsworth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I see Hemsworth here and I know this isn't Hemsworth, but like that. When I see the silhouette, that's the only person who I can like fit in it and I know it's not it. So, like, I think maybe the silhouette is just here to throw us off. I could see when we get the final actor, they look nothing like.

[Barrett Courtney]

What if this is actually the villain?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that'd be awesome. They make the bear. They make the bear. They make the. The entire trailer opens and it's just like famous, you know what? Video game level famous. Yeah, the actor is there and whatever and he's this white guy with a gun. It turns out he's the bad guy and Rahul kills him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When is Ben Starr gonna be a bad guy?

[Greg Miller]

He's too nice and he's not intimidating. He's sexy. There's a difference.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But no, he's. But like, I think he could turn it. I think like Sephiroth is a bad.

[Barrett Courtney]

Guy, but also sexy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I feel like Ben Starr could portray a Sephiroth if he wanted to.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Don't put him in a corner, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

I did though.

[Barrett Courtney]

Don't put.

[Greg Miller]

Baby.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm excited to see whoever this is. I mean, do you think it could be Ben Starr?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, it could be anybody. Yeah, they could easily. I mean, we're going off of a silhouette and wanting to jump and do that. It could be Ben Star. Ben Star is having quite the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I feel like Rahul is our like, the pick. Yeah, like Rahul is like who? We're like, oh, we could see him playing a James Bond, which I could also see Ben Starr playing at James Bond. But like, I feel like it's too nice.

[Greg Miller]

Ben Starr would shoot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is James Bond mean? He's the. When I. I don't associate James Bond.

[Greg Miller]

Listen, I just saw a clip of James Bond on Reddit today. Out of context, he looked pretty mean. He shot a guy in the leg. Do you know what it set him Bond up with?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you want to know what it is? It's the fact that Ben Starr is also funny. Like, he's a good looking man, but he's also funny. And we've allowed the funniness to good looking not looking. Well, I can't make a joke to.

[Greg Miller]

Say I hate talking to him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I saw him like trying to dunk on to more and like I was, you See this? Making fun of his from software. And I was like, I don't know, man. The punchline isn't there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You need Alana to elevate. Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Elevate the humor. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's up.

[Barrett Courtney]

Y' all need to get further into exp or no. Bless you. Finish Expedition 33, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, Ben has that side of him for sure. I'm just saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I agree with that. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Joshua Mitchell, super chat and says, I want Rahul to be the silhouette. I'm sorry. I want Rahul, but the silhouette is kind of giving Arthur Darvill when he was Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow. And until we got to the very end there, I was lost. Now I'm with you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

These are all made up words.

[Greg Miller]

Legends of Tomorrow, which I know you way too. Oh, that's Arrow. You knew way too much about Arrow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Legend of Tomorrow is where I stopped.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, this is what we're crediting him for, is legends of tomorrow.

[Greg Miller]

Rip Hunter was great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Damn it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Speaking of Dr. Who, I was thinking about the most recent Doctor. That's obviously not his silhouette, but I was like, I would have loved to see him portray a James Bond, possibly.

[Greg Miller]

Can I see the silhouette now that I looked at Arthur Darvill?

[Barrett Courtney]

His name is Rory from Doctor who.

[Greg Miller]

I just give the Doctor who might tell to everybody.

[Barrett Courtney]

Well, he's not the Doctor. He's like one of the companions. That's what he's known for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can see it.

[Greg Miller]

I could see it. Yeah, you can fit that in there. And then Dan says, do you think we'll be able to create our own James Bond? If so, can't wait to see what freakish bonds people make.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope not.

[Barrett Courtney]

Face scan.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think James Bond is the kind of character that you, like, let people create a character for.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I agree. Especially with the merch and marketing you're going to want to put behind this. I would think you'd want it. You'd want to craft something on your.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Own and for the opportunity that you have as I interactive, to set yourself apart for, like, storytelling and what you want to do with that. Right. Like, not that you can obviously can tell amazing stories with original characters, but I think there's something different for when you have a recognizable. All right, James Bond. We can tell our James Bond story here. Like, I think that's the one thing that was missing from Hitman is obviously Agent 47. Recognizable, iconic, all these things. And those games had stories, but the story was the far, far from, like, the great Thing that people loved about the Hitman, like recent games. Right. It is the gameplay, it is the stealth. It is like the amount of variety that you have and how you can play those games. I think this is. I chance to have that plus a really good story in their game that people remember and care about.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. RV B. RV B. Jeeps says watch it. Be Agent 47 with a wig. I do like that. Alex, super chat. Shout out to Barrett. That was awesome. Rick L says, could be Joe Alwin. What do you think, Rick? No. Dead to us. All right. Pretty simple.

[Barrett Courtney]

Alwyn also saying the actor who plays Neville from the Harry Potter movies.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dexter says, I think Charlie Cox. Hope you all have a great weekend. That'd be awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's just all in on video games, though.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I really had a great time with Expedition. Except for head to work with that sexy Ben Starr.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A Charlie Cox. James, that is. That is actually a really good point. I know we're talking about a lot of movie stars, but, like, it is James Bond. Like, this would be a character that, like, you could. You do have to pull to get a movie star in.

[Greg Miller]

Andrew Brown says people hated Daniel Craig when he was first cast as James Bond.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hear me out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I don't know why.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Army from the Bear.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Doing a British accent, is he. What's he. What is he? Willy Wonka? What is his. Wait, was he really?

[Greg Miller]

No, everybody said he should be Willy Wonka because he looks so much like Gene Wilder.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He does, actually. I never put that together.

[Greg Miller]

There's so many good photoshops of him in the purple suit with that and shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's really funny.

[Greg Miller]

Race Cox says. Or. Yeah, Rants. Race Rants. Rance Cox says it's going to be a D.H. pierce Brosnan. And then Cookie Cooking with Vinnie says it's Snowbike Mike. I daydream about that every so often. If one of us, like, for some reason got cast in, like, a big deal, like a cameo in a Marvel movie, but we didn't tell the others and then we just went to a normal screener, like, all of a sudden fucking Nick's in the background, like, what the fuck is going on?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I might have one of those coming up.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Greg Miller]

I'd be happy if you did, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. I'd be happy if you did, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

That's why we're best friends.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, you could be a kind of funny best friend. You could be live in the chat, shouting out all sorts of stuff distracting me by saying Stella, you know, wishing my bully into existence. Of course you could super chat live as we do the show to be part of the news. And most importantly you can pick up a Kind of Funny membership. It's the best way to support our small independent 11 person operation and make sure you get all the cool content like Wednesday into Thursday's all night stream. If you want to support Kinda Funny of course you can go to patreon.com kinda funny, YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple or Spotify to pick up your Kinda Funny membership. Get all of our shows ad free and of course get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller and Greg Way. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors.

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[Greg Miller]

As someone who believes in taking a joke too far, I wanted to give Stella props in the chat. Yeah. Because as we went to add, she goes, wait, Chad, has Greg wished everyone a happy pride yet? And everyone. No, no, no. And then still goes, wow, how homophobic of him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good.

[Greg Miller]

Happy Friday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I noticed it too.

[Greg Miller]

So I was waiting for Greg still hasn't said.

[Barrett Courtney]

Greg still hasn't said when he's doing his parade. And a lot of people are worried that he's going to take over pride and like can confirm or deny that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg.

[Greg Miller]

I will deny that I'm taking over a different event. Number two, the roof report. The Witcher 4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What?

[Greg Miller]

They're already out there. You're celebrating one thing. Celebrate my thing, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

Gamers. Number two, the Witcher 4's Unreal Engine 5 in game features and technology set to be revealed tomorrow. This is Tom [e-mail] the Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed it will showcase more of its highly anticipated upcoming RPG this week. In a post on social media this afternoon, CD Projekt announced it would be bringing a look at the innovative technology and features that will power the Witcher 4 and beyond to Epic Games. State of Unreal briefing tomorrow. Epic's keynote will kick off at 9:30am Eastern Time tomorrow, June 3rd. It will be streamed online.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How much of this do you think we're going to get for the Witcher 4 as far as the frequency in which we're seeing the marketing for this game being tied to Unreal Engine? Is this like, did Epic throw just a bunch of money at CD Projekt to go, hey, every trailer we're going to just, we're just going to make sure we're highlighting that this is Unreal Engine 5. I'm surprised we're seeing this show up again this way is what I'm getting at.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. No, I mean, it's a good partnership, right? Chat or Blessing or Barrett, Anybody? I forget, was the last. Was Witcher 3 the last Witcher? Jesus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Was that in an Unreal Engine or was that in a proprietary engine? Is the big deal here that they're using Unreal because, hey, this is, this is new for us and we're doing this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's a. Yeah, that might be a question for Chat because I remember Red kid Corey Cudney, cyberpunk, had a big thing of like, all right, we're not using Red Engine. Red Engine. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So I imagine that would be the thing. Of course, if your CD project, this is going to be a colossally huge game, but you have to learn a new engine on top of it, right? You're working so closely with Unreal that yeah, there's probably a financial partnership there of cool. We're going to help you every step of the way. Plus we want to use you because.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, I mean, honestly, great partnership. It's very beneficial for, for both sides, especially for Epic. Like, I think one of the things that was the most like, interesting things for that original Witcher 4 reveal trailer was that, you know, the text that was like, oh, this is running in like a future Unreal Engine version or whatever. I forget the exact wording, but it was something along those lines. And I think we see that and we're like, oh, damn, that's cool. You know, the Witcher is kind of, you know, they're, they're showing us like this future look at how games are going to look like, yeah, view of the Witcher 4. That's awesome. And to see it pop up again now, it's like, oh, you guys clearly have like shaking hands and being like, yo, we're going to prop each other up in this relationship. Which makes a lot of sense.

[Greg Miller]

Ghost of Dreams in the Twitch chat said that it's been pointed out by the Kingdom Come Deliverance devs or one of the director, I think he said is already gone from over there that no open world RPG has been made in Unreal Engine 5 yet. So I guess that's why you want to be behind and do it, let alone the Witcher name. Awesome. I'm excited to see more. But to your question of how much are we actually getting? Right? Yeah, they announced they'd be bringing a look at, quote, the innovative technology and features that will power the Witcher 4 and beyond. So I wonder, are we seeing systems? Are we seeing a little bit of a gameplay demo? Are we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it going to feel like we're.

[Greg Miller]

Like, is it GDC talk where it's like we're going to be excited. We look at like, oh, like that's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My thing is like there's no way they're going to show us systems and stuff, right? Like, it doesn't feel like this game is. I feel like for that the game would have to be less than two years away, you know what I mean? For a game that feels like it's early and we have access to CD projects, all of their, like timelines, as far as very, very open chat remind me of where they're at with Witcher 4. Are they, like, solid?

[Greg Miller]

That is officially in pre production, I thought. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it in production?

[Greg Miller]

You're right. You're right. You're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I think it might just switch the other day. Because depending on where that's at, like, that could inform yo if we're in a place where we're ready to really talk about what we want to do with the Witcher for systems wise, weather systems, lighting systems. Production.

[Greg Miller]

Production as of seven months ago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Full production now. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, that'd be cool to get. But yeah, you're saying as of seven months ago. That doesn't feel like we're in a place where we're going to get a deep dive into this thing. Because why. But then also with CD Projekt and CD Projekt has been very good in recent years about being as transparent as possible.

[Greg Miller]

But also, like, are we reading too much into it? The innovative technology and features that will power the Witcher 4 and beyond. So it's like, here's what we're using for it. It could just be facial animation tomorrow. It could just be one gray box combat thing they're doing as they run between things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that. I'll ask you this question.

[Greg Miller]

Right, sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is. Is that exciting for the Witcher 4 fan fan base? Is that the right foot to lead off with in marketing the Witcher 4? Or should you, like. Would you have preferred. Would you prefer for them to, like, play it closer to the chest and have. Whenever we see the Witcher 4, be it a big trailer, a big reveal, a big thing, you know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't. I don't think this counts so much as a marketing beat. Like, I think this is literally a marketing beat for Unreal. I think it's a marketing beat for what they're working with in terms of the briefing and the tech. But, like, this was a marketing beat. This trailer right here coming out and doing five minutes on how exactly how we can make her eyes react to this and that. And I think that's the level we're getting tomorrow. And again, I think it might even be like a NPC they're pulling from this, that they're showing how they animated this NPC to do this and how we can make a real time effect in real time splash. And if something over here, blah, blah, blah, like, I just, I don't think it's gonna be. It'll be newsworthy for all of us tomorrow in terms of, oh, look how great this looks, or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I don't Think there's not something for like the Witcher Reddit to be like oh we're gonna now theorize based off of this Hundred percent like that's.

[Greg Miller]

What the caliber of announcement and conversation I think Rabbit Tomorrow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

We will find out tomorrow 9:30am Eastern Time. It'll be 6:30 our time so you'll get it on games daily no matter what. Unless it totally is lame. We don't care. Number three hi Fi Rush Dev Tango Gameworks quote remains dedicated to distinctive and new IPs as it starts hiring for new action game. This is Vicky Blake over at ign. Hi Fi Rush Developer Tango gameworks has unveiled its new look website and confirmed it's working on an unannounced game action game. I'm sorry. The site, which shows new branding and careers page recruiting for new roles for an unannounced project, states Tango gameworks core mission is to quote, create new games and expand intellectual properties as an independent development studio based in Tokyo, Japan, end quote under the Crafton umbrella. Quote. Finally, after months of waiting, Tango gameworks is back and in a brand new way. The studio's new website states. We've opened our site to give our fans and future team members a look into our studio. Here you can learn about the studio philosophy as well as see featurettes from members of the team. Since joining krafton, Tango gameworks embarks on a new chapter developing titles that resonate with players around the world. We remain dedicated to the creation and growth of distinctive and new IPs taking on challenges to be a unique voice in the games industry. Blessing you loved hi Fi Rush I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did love hi Fi Rush.

[Greg Miller]

Do you believe in this mission statement?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, that's the tough thing is I I want to and I do. I hi Fi Rush I think fits the bill is something that's unique and fresh especially when you want to talk about it within the action game genre. Like you know, hi Fi Rush in terms of gameplay, right? It's an action game. We get millions of action games. People love action games. That's kind of mainstream, right? But like what it does with art style, what it does with scope, right? It's like a tight seven hour experience. What it does with the music, gameplay and all this stuff really does make it fresh, really does make it something that stands out and really I think was sort of the, I think that was the sharpness I was felt in people's hearts when this studio was shot shut down by Xbox. It's like really the studio that did something really cool, really fresh and really Different. This is the one there that the. That you're shutting down. So, like, my, my. There's part of my brain that reads that last part and goes, ah, that's just marketing speak. Right. We remain dedicated to the creation of growth and of distinctive and new IPs. Ah, that's something that every studio says. That said from Tango gameworks, I do believe it, and I am excited to see what they bring to the table because I hope. I hope that whatever their new IPs are, have that same level of, you know, freshness, same level of, like, standout ability that hi Fi Rush did.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But then there's also the side of me that's like, all right, Crafton bought you is crafting.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no. Remember in their quote, quote, an independent development studio based in Tokyo, Japan. So this we can already get ahead of it. Whatever they make will be up for independent game of the year. That can be indie. That can be indie game of the year. Because they said they're an independent development studio even though they're owned by Krafton. Sincere in 2024 was $1.9 billion.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So, yeah, there's the part of me.

[Greg Miller]

That'S like, let's talk to fucking Striking Distance Studios and see how independent they feel.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But, like, Insomniac is independent. You know what I mean? Like, they're independently under PlayStation. Just, like, how.

[Greg Miller]

Just use the words however we want.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Independently under crafting. If you think about it, same with Bungie.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Bungie's super independent right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, there's the part of my brain that's like, all right, you're under Crafting. Like, is the hi Fi Rush and new game thing, the all right, one for us, one for you situation of this new IP that they're working on is something that needs to be a moneymaker so they can actually justify their existence under a big corporation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. How many of these actually get out? How many of these IPs? And, you know, we wish them the best. And I'm not even throwing shade at Crafton. There's many other video game publishers who are way worse about everything. It's just like, this is the normal conversation of the dollars and the cents and the stockholders and this. And like, you're gonna have to be making games that make them money because that's why they bought you. And so what we actually get into, and we're creating new games and expanded intellectual properties. Like, how much. What is the level of success, as always, that your publisher is looking for to say you did great. Keep making those kind of games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I think the thing I'm, I'm, I wonder about with Crafton as well, right? Like, oh man, I'm on their website and I thought they had less studios.

[Greg Miller]

They have more studios than I thought studio.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because crafting came out of PUBG Corp, right? Like PUBG launched, they grew. Crafting became a thing over that. And we saw, oh, the dead space game that we played and we liked a little bit more than other people. Yeah. Callisto Protocol came out under Krafton and like game let down a lot of people. But I would say at the very least, at least that game came out and it was a full single player. It was what they promised it to be, even if it was like a seven.

[Greg Miller]

But then it was that problem, right, where it was like, this is. Yeah, it was. Yes, but exactly. They then killed the studio. They don't kill the studio. Start striking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This isn't still around.

[Greg Miller]

Leadership's all gone. Or Glenn left and then they made the roguelike with a completely different art style. It's like, again, we're to the point that we've lost the plot, that video games are hard to make. Every time you make a video game, you should be getting better at making a video game. Your team coalesces, they learn more, they understand the processes and they understand. So like to let them do that and then be like, well, they're not getting a Callisto protocol too. In PS2, the PS1 days, even PS3, you usually see people come out with a 7 out of 10, a cult classic, whatever, and then get to iterate on it and hopefully make it better and make it more mainstream. Yeah, those days are done. And we keep having the same fucking reoccurring problem of. All right, cool, that's done. Leadership leaves. They go make their own little. We're gonna make a. We're a double a size studio is gonna make a quadruple a game and then the whole fucking thing repeats itself is nobody can get this done.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, like the point I wanted to make was that like, you know Crafton in, in where they're at as a publisher, Right. Are they on that come up level of, oh, we're buying, buying, buying and like now we have the money to like sustain and then they're going to hit that point of downfall. But I think you're right as far as like, well, Callisto came out, it didn't do as well as they wanted it to and now that studio has lost leadership and like they're. It doesn't feel like we're not. We're definitely not getting a Callisto too.

[D]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Like I would assume. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm hoping that that doesn't happen. Tango Game works. But also yeah, like we're in this weird place in the industry where stick or swim, like make a banger and make a bunch of money or look like look over your shoulder.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. 100%. Jackie M. With a super chat says they bought IP so high five rush two. That is what's listed over here on their you know, take this with a grain of salt to Wikipedia. I forget if we've had them come out and straight up say that. But then I also wonder of like, okay, cool. But you know, crafting also knows there's money in mobile. Are we gonna go that way with it? Are you gonna try to switch it off and make it a phone game or something that effect. Not that'd be bad necessarily.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But is it going to be the hi Fi Rush 2 y' all want based on what you got out of that first?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so. I mean, I don't think so. I don't have doubt in that. But yeah. I mean kind of funny games in chat also, sometimes you still look over. You still have to look over your shoulder after making a banger, which is also what Tango Game Works has to do.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough. Let's keep it moving. We'll move on to story number four. Wizards of the Coast Signs Publishing Agreement with Giant Skull this is Rachel kaiser over at VentureBeat. Maybe Caser. I'm gonna say Caser. Wizards of the coast announced today that it has reached a publishing agreement with the development studio Giant Skull. It will publish the studio's title, currently in development, a single player action adventure game with an immersive story set in the Dungeons and Dragons universe. While Giant Skull has not revealed any further details about the game thus far, it's currently in development for PC and console. Many of you might be saying, why do I care about Giant Skull? I've never heard of them, Stig Rasmussen, Giant Skull CEO, said in a statement. Our talented and experienced team at Giant Skull is built on creativity and curiosity. Our goal is to craft a rich new Dungeons and Dragons universe filled with immersive storytelling, heroic combat and and exhilarating traversal that players will fully embrace. Asmussen formerly worked on Star Wars, Jedi and God of War series for Respawn and Sony Santa Monica, respectively. Stig, of course, a name that's been around a long time and has put out lots of great games. So the fact that he is over There. Working on this gets me immediately excited, let alone D and D the whole re huge. Yeah. And like Baldur's Gate leaning so hard into that. Right. Was so great. Just not the gameplay I wanted. Where this sounds way more like, if they can do immersive storytelling that way and give me that kind of gameplay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great idea and I'm fascinated to see what that's going to be. Is it going to be. Yeah, like a God of War style game, but in just a DND world. I would think that speaks to an audience. I. I am also fascinated, though, at the same time that I would have thought that like, DND video games in general, and maybe this is. I'm speaking on a turn chat. Let me know if I'm wrong. Kind of funny how you're wrong. I think that D and D video games in general would be a bigger thing than what they seemingly are.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, I feel like Baldur's Gate kind of has. Has the sauce and then like, like D and D video games outside of that feel few and far between. Like, am I wrong about that or does chat know if I'm like, super.

[Greg Miller]

Off base, what are you going to, like, rolling a dice and like that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm thinking of just D and D world, like games that just exist in that universe.

[Greg Miller]

No, I think you're right then. Yeah. I mean, how many are there in that universe?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And like the D and D fan base that modernly. Yeah, moderately. Like the DND fan base is growing day by day somehow, because it feels like it's already like at a, you know, people. There's already so many people who I know that are into DND and tabletop role playing games. But like, with all of, like the podcasts and Dimension 20 and Critical Role and all these things. Right. Like, I have multiple different friends that are part of different friend groups that are inviting me to their DND groups. And I'm like, man, this is everywhere. I saw. Oh, who was it that posted? Well, I had a few friends. I think Sage Ryan was one of them that posted on Instagram stories them at the Dimension 20 show that was in Los Angeles yesterday last night.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And they're in a stadium, like, playing DND in front of thousands and thousands and thousands of people. Right. Like, Baldur's Gate 3 being such a success currently is not an accident. Like, there is such a market for it. And so I look at this and I'm like, oh, damn, this is such a slam dunk of a thing. But I also. That's why I have the thought of like, man, I'm surprised. Yeah, thank you, Bear, for bringing this up. I'm surprised that this isn't a thing that we're seeing left and right. Right. Like we're not getting DND games as much as we're seeing Warhammer games.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. It's a great point, a great question. I think it's the. Again, the universe, I think is one thing. I think it's the mechanics of it as well that are so interesting in that ad lib nature. And I think maybe that's why it's harder to make a game and why Baldur's Gate works is there's so many permutations and it's the things we talked about in the outer worlds re review. Right. Of just like coming into outer worlds and having that ability of, all right, you can kill anybody or team up this way or like, okay. That's what makes this role playing game feel fleshed out and real. And so there's so many video game RPGs, but how many are leaning and able to lean into that to really change the story and the narrative on a whim is different.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think that's a really good point. Right. Like if I wanted just a fantasy rpg, like there's so many I can run. Exactly right. But when I think of D and D, I am thinking the mechanics and like rolling the dice.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All those permutations.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Blessing, Rick Stig. Making a new game in the DnD world is pretty gosh darn big. But I'm sick of all this big news. It's a big week. I need some small news. Where should I go?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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

[Greg Miller]

Number five, the Wii news from IGN FromSoftware has released Elden Ring Night Rain patch one point. The game's first since launch, and it made single player mode a lot easier. It adds an effect, quote, automatic revival upon defeat, which allows revival once per night boss to solo expeditions and increases the amount of runes gained for solo expeditions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank God.

[Barrett Courtney]

Did they also fix how it runs on 50 cards?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank God.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, wait, I'm asking. Yeah, because our stream on Friday, like, I was originally playing at Nick's computer. Computer, and it looks like ass. And then I had to move over to Mike's computer that we already had set up for Roger, but then Roger abandoned us. Roger. And it was working, thankfully, okay, on Mike's desk But it was like just one of those things like if we want to play Night Ring this week, there's only two computers in the lab right now that run it well and then the third one is just running like booty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's wild. I didn't hear that.

[Greg Miller]

I've never heard of PCs having trouble running it. That's us.

[Barrett Courtney]

I know.

[Greg Miller]

Greg from Noble People Can Fly announced that they're suspending the development of Project Gemini and Project Ifrost. They will also regroup as a studio and scale down their teams which means layoffs. Boo. That sucks. Outriders devs here, right? People Can Fly so damn, that sucks. I don't know anything about Project Gemini or Bifrost, but always sad to see plans not net out the way they should move on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Especially when it seems like from what I had gathered before about People Can Fly. Like I mean from here, right? Like there's. They had a lot of projects scaling up for working on all these things. I even heard through the grapevine of like oh yeah, no, they're doing a lot. And so yeah, to see these things shut down, it's like well that sucks because obviously you have plans and now like whatever the case may be, probably money not funneling in at the rate you wanted to to support these things, shit goes down.

[Greg Miller]

Good luck to everybody from ign a PSA Nintendo has confirmed that owners of the new Nintendo Switch 2 should not remove the prot film covering its screen. Quote, the screen is covered with a film layer designed to prevent fragments scattering in the event of damage. Do not peel it off, end quote.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's going on here?

[Greg Miller]

It's got to be like not. It's not going to be a sheet of plastic. It's going to be just a film that somebody's going to take a razor blade to. I don't even fucking know.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, I mean that easily starts coming off though, you know that's where my brain goes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then don't. Don't you just put another one on? Like is that the same as like the thing that I put on there anyway? Because I always do put the protective.

[Greg Miller]

It's. I would think it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it comes pre protected according to.

[Barrett Courtney]

I don't know because the. I pre ordered their carrying case like the Nintendo Switch because I don't care about the fancy ones. Just give me a basic fucking Switch one that my Switch two will fit in and that comes with a protective screen. So is that different?

[Greg Miller]

I would assume so, yeah, that's different. Yeah, you're going to have double protection Double rapid. Exactly.

[Barrett Courtney]

That definitely works. Don't listen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a joke.

[Greg Miller]

I mean 99.9 plus 99.9. That's pretty fucking you times that.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's a lot of friction there.

[Greg Miller]

Ripping and tearing from insider gaming. First revealed on social media by a former High Res employee, High Res Studio has let go of pre High Res Studio has let go of President Stuart Chisholm, executive producer Travis Brown, and another senior staff member known as Radar Radar. Now first off, hold on a second, like on over. I mean I don't know the news that's breaking news to me, but it's crazy to hear somebody letting go of their president and their. A producer. Sure. And then they only know this one guy's Radar senior staff member. Like I get it. Like I totally get it's just like that's what. That's so interesting. Way from vgc, Yoko Shim Omura has created a new track for Street Fighter 6 which will be added to the game in a free update coming later this week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's awesome. That's random though. That's like, who is.

[Greg Miller]

Who is Yoko?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, she did music for Kingdom Hearts Live Alive. I love that Live Alive is my Touchpoint trailer. But like she's like a very legendary composer like up there with the greats.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so Street Fighter 6 is really cool for her to do music for.

[Greg Miller]

As if you could get away from it with the conversation here. My Greg Way today and now Fantasy Life I has officially sold sold 800,000 copies worldwide. So keep your eyes peeled on that. In my review so far, if you want to hear more about that. SEGA Football Club Champions has been announced for PS4 and 5 mobile and PC. And then the Elder Scrolls Online Seasons of the worm Cult Part 1 and Free Update 46 base game patch are now available on PC and Mac. It arrives on Xbox and PlayStation consoles June 18th. And that's it for WE News. We ask people watching live to of course be part of the chat by writing [e-mail] kind of funny games with super chats. Mellow fellow says my favorite duo, G Spot and B Hole. How many nightlords slash bosses have we beaten? Bless, bro. And I beat them all this weekend. It's a contender for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't understand how people beat all the bosses this weekend. They're good, but that good.

[Barrett Courtney]

I forget who it was, but when Andy and I were playing on Friday, someone in our chat maybe like. Or maybe someone in Andy's chat like Thursday night or in our chat Friday morning. From our community Was like, damn, that final boss is crazy. It's like the game just came out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. What are you.

[Greg Miller]

What are you doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you some. Are they. This must be some. Some fast and furious shit where they.

[Barrett Courtney]

Are hacking the planet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, they're. Well, they're. I was gonna say they're stealing them out of the backs of trucks and playing the game early.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But that's still crazy because me and Andy had the game early and we couldn't beat the final boss. I. I'm still sitting on four of the Night Lords defeated. And, like, it's the. It's the tough thing now of. Because the game is now. Is now out. Most people are still contending with, like, those first few Night Lords. And so, like, I've beaten the Tricephalos multiple times. You know about Tricephalos?

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's a dog with three heads. And he splits into three. It's great.

[Greg Miller]

That's awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But, yeah, like, I. I'm still on those first four. I don't know if I'm ever gonna get around to beating the second four. Here's the other thing.

[Greg Miller]

You don't like it that much? I like it a lot. But you guys like it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but, like, it's not the thing where I'm like, gotta get back there. Gotta get back there. Yeah. I'm not thinking about playing it until somebody hits me up until Andy's like, yo, let's play Night Rain. And then on Friday, we played it for, like, four and a half hours straight. And so what if I hit you up?

[Greg Miller]

I'm like, hey, let's play Fantasy Life.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. It's also the thing, too, where you mentioned at the top of the show, it's just a busy season. There's so many games coming out. And so, yeah, I wanted to play. I wanted to play, like, some Hollow Knight and some Half Life and some things that I wanted to get to before I hit this week because I.

[Greg Miller]

Knew this week's where it starts.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This week is where it starts. Review season is what they call it.

[Greg Miller]

Dane still writes in with a dad joke of the day. Ran out of toilet paper and I've been having to use lettuce leaves. Today was the tip of the iceberg. Iceberg lettuce. Oh, Sean writes in. It says birthday tax. Not sure if I'm doing this right. Lol. Regardless, love y' all and can't wait to enjoy SGF with the best friends. Friends. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Sean. Zamparelli. We don't want to get in trouble. We don't want to piss anybody off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The bits is it's been too, too long for this. But like after the last Reddit post about us not wish I had a birthday enough, I almost bought like the party poppers and hid it under the desk.

[Barrett Courtney]

You were telling me and Roger that I was like, this is swinging in a direction that I don't know if you want to go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna go really, really hard.

[Barrett Courtney]

Do it one more time though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which part? Just say happy birthday. Happy birthday. What's the name again? What's the first and last name? Charles.

[Greg Miller]

Sean.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Happy birthday, Charles.

[Greg Miller]

Joey Radstone super chats and says last super chat for a while. Just wanted to say thank you guys for being awesome. Now it's time to save up for the little girl. My wife and I are expecting this December 1st time. Dad, any advice? Greg? Congratulations, Joey. Congratulations.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Congrats.

[Greg Miller]

Try to soak it all in. It goes so, so fast, especially those first couple days in the hospital. So for maybe it'll be a once in a lifetime, maybe twice in a lifetime thing. Maybe, you know, 10 if you're weird. But you know, you're going to be in the hospital and it's going to be crazy and it's going to be fast and furious. You got to take notes, you got to remember everything. You got to take a lot of photos. Matthew Hidalgo says, hey, Greg, that shirt looks good on you. Thank you. You. It's my latest one from DC Comic Shop. I bought those first two, you remember, that I wore right after the anniversary and I wore them in and I said, how do I like. How do you like the shirt, Tim? He's like, it actually doesn't look like that good of a shirt. And I'm like, they actually aren't. And those are already breaking down. But this one, Comfort Colors. I think they got it set. I don't feel like it's screen printed. I'm pretty stoked about. What the fuck's this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The logo looks great.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I blew my nose. The dry ass napkin. I'll be quiet now. El Captain 22 says, Sounds like kind of funny. Has a well planned out week. Be a shame if Sony announced the state of play for this week and makes Tim's hair fall out. I assure you, if you announced the state of play right now, we would be happy as piggies and shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Because that'd be awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It'd be a shame.

[Greg Miller]

It's gonna be a traffic bonanza already.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It'd be shame if I got called in to jury duty.

[Greg Miller]

That would be bad. We hope that doesn't happen. We hope that doesn't happen. But we'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll see. In 15 minutes, Greg Bot writes in.

[Greg Miller]

And says AVP in review. When we will be getting back to the Aliens vs. Predator universe. But of course, last week was Karate Kid in review. This week is Ballerina in review. And then next week we start Superman in review as a lead in to the James Gunn film on July 11th. Remember, there's an interview every week. So we try to build to a movie. So since we're not building to an AVP right now, whereas, well, I guess we are Badlands, but that's fucking forever away, right? So whatever, we'll get back to avp. Don't you worry pretty little head about it. T Bone says, I think it's a pretty good chance that IO Interactive makes their own 007 and not have it based off any famous actor. I think you. I still think you cast a famous. A video game famous person in whether he looks like that person or not. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, I. My prediction actually. No Josh Peck. I was gonna say you cast an actor for the mocap and then just have a different voice actor. Yeah voice him. But I feel like that's less exciting. You gotta have. You gotta go all in.

[Greg Miller]

Cheesy Abish says, what do y' all plan on Switch to a drop? I imagine our stream will be dominated by Mario Kart World, but then there'll be some Delta Rune there too.

[Barrett Courtney]

You can't start your very first Switch stream without the Nintendo Switch to welcome you start.

[Greg Miller]

Well, if. If I'm here at fucking. We Download everything. It's ten o'clock now. And you guys like, let's play welcome Park. I'm walking the fuck out of this building.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll play some welcome tour. All you'll hear from me. All right.

[Greg Miller]

Why'd you use your dork voice?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just sound like a dork.

[Greg Miller]

A regular voice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It just comes out like that.

[Greg Miller]

CJ splits on says Rahul being in two games is weird. Let me tell you about a man named Troy Baker. Nolan North, a woman named Laura Bailey.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ben Starr.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God. You know, that's how it is. Don't worry about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But also Rahul being in two games would be sick as fuck. You know what I mean? Like, he is fucking. He is that he is the guy now. Good for him. I say that like we've Already confirmed he's 007.

[Greg Miller]

Send him flowers. Congratulations. Right now, of course, we ask people watching live to go to kind of funny dot com, you're wrong. And tell us what we screw up as we screw it up. A lot of stuff about my confusion about Scottish, British England and all that stuff. So let's get into it. The Axle guy or that Axel guy? That Axel guy. That Ex La guy. Exa xla. That guy with a bad name. James Bond is canonically Scottish and Scotland is indeed mainland British Britain. Let me try that again. James Bond is canonically Scottish and Scotland is indeed in mainland Britain. Then since that's confusing to me, Katie G says Scottish is mainland British, just not English. England, Wales in Scotland are all part of Britain.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, I'm still on that. Zela guy is what I think it is.

[Greg Miller]

Nolan Massey Media says Oblivion remaster is Unreal 5 open world RPG okay? Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn.

[Greg Miller]

They didn't make the fucking game.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it's like they use paint to paint over. They use Unreal 5 to paint over shit. You know, it's not like it was ground up. Right?

[Greg Miller]

And then Brad says, please read the People Can Fly update in full. They call out Square Enix and then links to a People can fly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Interesting.

[Greg Miller]

LinkedIn postage. I will now read because if they're yelling at somebody, I will. Today we made a very difficult decision to suspend the development of Project Gemini and Project Bifrost. The current relevant. Oh, sorry. The relevant current reports have been released to the market. The suspension of Project Gemini is a consequence of the fact that the publisher has not presented us with a draft of the subsequent content writer to the publishing agreement covering the terms and conditions of further milestones on Project Gemini and the lack of communication from the publisher as to its willingness to continue or terminate the Gemini project. Sweet fucking Jesus. Oh, we're into the legalese. We're going to go after you with the legal fucking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is on me. I only read. Yeah, I didn't. I should have read the full thing because this should have been like the last news story.

[Greg Miller]

Project Bifrost was suspended due to the above and the analysis of the group's cash flow, which showed a lack of prospects for securing organizational resources and funds. Necessary. Necessary. I'm burping the middle. Necessary to continue the production and release of this project. As a result, we have to significantly regroup as a studio and scale down our teams, which hurts the most. We wish to express our deepest regret and sadness over how these events have unfolded and our sincere gratitude for everyone's contribution to up to this point and this is from the CEO.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So Project Gemini was Outriders 2.

[Greg Miller]

Is that the apparently that's what I would read on this one. And Square's just not answering emails now. Oh hey, look how it's coming. There's all quiet on the western front about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like they just forgot to tell them that they're not moving forward with this thing anymore.

[Greg Miller]

But I was Damn, that sucks. Thank you for that's a great year all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's fantastic. Thank you for that.

[Greg Miller]

Kebabs. You usually send in trash and so you should learn from Brad. Brad knows how to year I just did it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry. Kebabs.

[Greg Miller]

And that's it everybody. That's another episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily in the bank. But your live programming day is far from done here. Of course we're gonna do the games cast next, where we will give you our final summer game fest predictions for Jeff's big show on Friday. We'll hang out, we'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll have a good time. After that, of course is the Kind of funny podcast where we'll laugh some more and celebrate the Tomorrow War. A film we all like and we didn't get paid to say it. And then after that it will of course be a stream. More Elden Ring Night Rain Will our computers run it? I mean, probably. PC gaming's so simple. There's no way this could fuck up. Remember, if you like our shenanigans, we'd like you to pick up a kinda funny membership. $10 gets you all of our shows for a month ad free. Of course you could go to patreon.com kindafunny Sign up for that premium item. Get your Snowbike mic poster for this month to join all the other Kinda Funny posters you have. No bucks tossed away. No big deal. Like subscribe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Share.

[Greg Miller]

Ring the bell. Twitch Prime, Amazon prime, you know, it's it. For now, it's time to talk about sgf. Remember, our big Switch launch party kicks off Wednesday night and goes all through the night. Will Roger and Mike order bad food? Of course they will. Until next time though, it's been our pleasure to serve you.