Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Years Away?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.25.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic, Half-Life 3 Speculation, & More
(November 25, 2025)

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Episode Overview

On this episode—the final one before the Thanksgiving break—Greg Miller and Snow Bike Mike dissect the latest in video game news. Their discussion zeroes in on Naughty Dog’s enigmatic new game “Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,” rumors (and denials) about Half-Life 3, the new Far Cry TV show, and a ton of lighter fare (including the Fortnite Simpsons crossover and a deep-dive on the evolving Skate reboot). The hosts mix candid analysis with trademark humor and community banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Naughty Dog’s “Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet” Still Years Away (15:00)

• News: Despite the reveal at last year’s Game Awards, all credible reporting (IGN, Bloomberg, Jeff Grubb) points to “Intergalactic” being at least two years out—2027 at the earliest, possibly skipping the PS5.
• Reaction:
  • Mike wasn’t expecting it before 2026:
    “It wasn’t on my bingo card for 2026 there, Greg.” (15:20)
  • Greg doubts it will skip PS5 entirely, predicting a cross-generation PlayStation release strategy like "The Last of Us Part II."
    “There’s no way in God’s green earth that PlayStation...would say, ‘This gorgeous game that could run on [PS5], only put on the PlayStation 6.’” (17:16)
  • Discussion on PlayStation’s identity crisis and why Sony needed an early reveal for “Intergalactic”: to restore fan faith post-live service setbacks and feed anticipation.
  • Fans are hungry for news from Sony’s legendary studio due to a drawn-out gap between major releases.

2. Simpsons x Fortnite Crossover – An Overdue, Craze-Inducing Hit (04:06)

• Mike spent nearly five and a half hours grinding cosmetic unlocks and exploring the detailed Springfield map:
  “I thought it was going to be an hour...It became five and a half hours of grinding...maybe spending $30 on insane cosmetics.” (05:52)
• They praise the execution, but lament the event’s limited time frame and wish for annual returns, perhaps with a “Treehouse of Horror” theme (suggested by streamer Sancho West).
• Critique of Fortnite’s overwhelming UI/UX:
  “It’s just visually overstimulating. It’s too much. I just want to find something.” — Mike (09:10)

3. Half-Life 3 (Not) on the Horizon & Valve’s Next Moves (29:30)

• News: Valve officially denies that any new Half-Life game (or other Valve title) will ship bundled alongside or be pre-installed with the upcoming Steam Machine.
• Greg’s bold (facetious?) prediction:
  “Half Life 3 is coming alongside the Steam machine. Again. Not a pack-in.” (32:31)
• The pair debate the possibility; Mike is skeptical, pressing on the endless cycle of Half-Life 3 speculation while Greg riffs on Valve’s business model of “art first.”
  • “Why hasn’t Rockstar just put out another GTA?” (36:44, Greg, exasperated by the ‘where is Half-Life 3’ debate)
• Mike wonders why the highly-anticipated Half-Life 2 RTX remix hasn’t been pushed first for hype.

4. Far Cry TV Series Announced by FX & Ubisoft (45:59)

• Discussion triggers skepticism:
  • Greg jokes about the overwrought PR tweet (“That tweet turns me off to the entire fucking thing. Shut the fuck up.” — 47:23).
  • Both wonder if the show can capture the spirit of the games, which are driven by player freedom and outlandish villains, and what the anthology format might mean for the adaptation.
  • Mike: “Far Cry...is a little harder to land in my eyes because it is the freedom of me doing insane, stupid things. And I don't know if that really lends itself well to a TV show.” (49:05)

5. Skate Reboot—Season 2, Community, and Survival (50:49)

• Trailer for Season 2 shown; new focus on co-op and ‘sharing the stoke’ with friends:
  • “Multiplayer Own the Spot. Having more focus things for me and Greg and a party to do. Step one.” — Mike (55:50)
• Discussion covers:
  • How Skate’s early access and monetization alienated a chunk of the fanbase.
  • Whether EA is likely to give the dev time to ‘fix’ the game (“Their timer has begun...I think they get a solid two years...” — Mike, 57:29).
  • The risk if EA moves to cut the project short, especially with broader industry financial pressures (including Saudi investment concerns).
• Mike’s optimism: “Skate as a brand is too big to pull the plug after 12 months.”

6. Impact of Saudi PIF’s Financial Woes on Gaming & EA (58:09)

• Saudi Arabia’s PIF is reportedly limiting new investments as several major projects stall. With a pending $55B EA purchase, the gaming world is watching for possible tightening of budgets—even as the PIF claims $60B in cash reserves.

7. Quick Hits: Community Q&A and Lighter News

• Xbox Crocs Release: Mike receives and gushes over his first pair of Xbox-branded Crocs.
• Constanza release: An indie action adventure with glowing reviews launched today (Metacritic: 83).
• Other bits: Call of Duty season update, Super Mario Party Jamboree soundtrack, and minor Switch 2 compatibility fixes.
• Several hilarious asides about Crocs, Nintendo Store shopping, and the ongoing hunt for holiday merch.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On PlayStation's long game drought:
  “It’s just painful to go nearly an entire generation without a new game from arguably Sony’s best studio. The Last of Us online experiment really hurt.” — Subtext Super Chat, 23:00

• On why show “Intergalactic” so soon?
  “This is marketing—this is telling a story, this is spinning a narrative.” — Greg (19:31)

• On Valve’s shadowy, slow approach:
  “You have to sit here and be so in awe of a company…that stands on business. We make so much money that we don’t have to release a video game until we think it is perfection.” — Greg (35:11)

• Mike on Fortnite UI:
  “It’s just visually overstimulating. It’s too much. I just want to find something.” (09:10)

• Simpsons x Fortnite regret:
  “I do regret waiting until the very end. Wish I could have done one more good day with this.” — Mike (06:34)

• On Far Cry TV adaptation:
  “Good luck to you. Go get them...You know what I mean?” — Greg (49:53)

• On Skate’s future:
  “I think this team has their back against the walls. Unfortunately, I don't think EA will give them enough time to truly land this.” — Mike (56:42)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Topic | |--------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:08–07:55 | Fortnite x Simpsons Crossover & Community Fun | | 13:38–22:19 | “Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet”—Release Timing, PlayStation | | 29:30–38:11 | Valve’s Steam Machine, Half-Life 3 Speculation | | 45:59–50:00 | Far Cry TV Series Announcement & Skepticism | | 50:49–58:09 | Skate Season 2 Trailer, Multiplayer, EA’s Faith | | 58:09–62:06 | Saudi PIF Investment Woes, Potential Impact on EA, Industry | | 63:29–64:58 | Xbox Crocs Unboxing & Other Quick News | | 67:02–69:07 | Super Chat Q&A, Nintendo Merch, Show Wrap-up |

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Conclusion: Energy, Laughter & Critical Analysis

The hosts provide both hilarious commentary—Greg again advocating for perennial gaming dreams, Mike cheerleading for stoke and community fun—and sharp criticism of industry trends, especially regarding transparency, release cycles, and corporate patience. Listener engagement is high, with numerous supportive and challenging super chats.

If you missed this episode: you’ll come away understanding Sony and Naughty Dog’s predicament, why the gaming world is forever asking “where’s Half-Life 3?”, and how Fortnite’s wild crossovers are still capturing gamers’ hearts. Also: never doubt that Xbox Crocs are real, and Greg is still furiously on the hunt for the best Nintendo holiday sweater.

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For next time:
The crew will reconvene after Thanksgiving, with more news, banter, and community interaction!

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Snow Bike Mike]

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[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about Intergalactic the heretic Prophet is reportedly still years from release. Bad News for Half Life 3. Speculation. Fuck. I was looking for. I thought that was a game. Awards lock and a far CR TV show has been announced. We'll have all this and more because this is kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up everybody? Welcome to your final kind of Funny Games Daily. For the week I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside the master of hype Snow Bike Mike. Hello Mike.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Good morning Greg. It's nice to be by your side with a whole lot of energy. I'm feeling good. And happy holidays to you, your family and of course to everyone out there watching and listening. Hello best friend.

[Greg Miller]

Hello best friends of course it is Tuesday, November 25th. This is our final day in the office because Thanksgiving is Thursday here in America.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Not this weekend. Which is what Kebabs in the chat said before we went live, that they thought Thanksgiving was this weekend. So they didn't watch any of the content yesterday. I was confused all over. I mean, I know if you're not here, it's. But the weekend and then the month, it was confusing for me. Mike, how are you? Dynamite job on the Gamescast yesterday.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I sent you, I sent you guys a lovely little note to let you know you did a great games cast yesterday. Your Kingdom come review was great. Mainly I just never hear Blessing get angry. And so to hear Blessing getting. Mike, you're pissing me off saying that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, that went through me for a loop because I never see Blessing get angry. And when he said, I forgot what I was going to say. Mike, I knew I had him there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you had him.

[Snow Bike Mike]

But yeah, thanks to you and the team for allowing me the little spotlight to talk about that. On the Gamescast. It had been a fun kind of just get lost in a video game for the past couple of weeks and.

[Greg Miller]

That'S the big thing. You spent 80 hours in this game.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, 80 plus hours.

[Greg Miller]

Now you're, you're finally free. What hot game did you take down? What brand new title did you go after last night?

[Snow Bike Mike]

You know, I, I jumped in. So last night I, I finally lined up what I want to do here for the next couple of days, right? And I started putting things on the board. Want to play Anno for the first time ever played an Anno title. That's up.

[Greg Miller]

Right?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Then I said, I got to get to Expedition 33. I said, I'll save that for the break on Wednesday on, On Beyond. But then Greg, I said, you know what I've missed out on and it only has a couple days left. Fart Night, AKA Fortnite crossover with the Simpsons.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And Greg, this team over at Epic Games knocked it out of the park. Damn, it's amazing. Have you seen it at all?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, of course I have, Greg.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Then, you know they crushed Springfield.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I, I jumped in, I guess. Like I knew what was what they had done because I'd seen plenty of streams about it, but I didn't know the detail, the level, how great they did with all. You have your themed battle passes, which was to be expected. Every single character they put in, costume wise looks great. Right. Barton Lisa. I don't like the cyborg bodies. I know they got to be a certain height. But like I don't love cyborg carrier bodies. But like Marge, Sexy Flanders, Sexy Flanders all look great. Blinky, the Three eyed fish. Great callbacks. I know you've watched a lot of sim.

[Greg Miller]

I have watched a lot of like I have.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And jumping into Springfield where it's a whole dedicated map. The proper size, not too big, not too small. All the different neighborhoods from of course, Evergreen Terrace where the Simpsons live all, all the way out to the nuclear power plant, Cletus's farm, which was great Camp Crusty.

[Greg Miller]

It was Kevin and I dropped last night or yesterday on Burns's manor and immediately got killed. So that was. Yeah, we were back. We were back.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah. So I just wanted to highlight this. I spent, I thought it was going to be an hour to two hours of me just taking a little virtual tour of what they did before it was gone. And it became five and a half hours of grinding the season pass, maybe spending $30 on, you know, just insane cosmetics like Scooby Doo, a Flamingo Text the Flamingo and an $8 pair of shoes that I got.

[Greg Miller]

Damn it, Mike. Fucking Mike.

[Snow Bike Mike]

They looked great. Nikes.

[Greg Miller]

I hate you. I hate. So the question then becomes, I mean this is the end of Simpsons Fortnite. Are you now all in? Are you going to commit? Are you going to play non stop like until it's all done or do you regret waiting as long as you did to jump in there?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I do regret waiting until the very end. Wish I could have done one more good day with this. You know Greg, we've done it with our community before here at kind of funny, but we've done the hide and seek where we get a custom lobby and I just say everybody go hide and I'm going to come find you. And it's just this fun day of community games. I, I wish I did that because I do love that. I also wish I did like a full virtual tour right of like let's get in the car, let's go to every house, everything. Cuz like the details are unbelievable. Yeah, Flanders, his house. So great. Did you know he married Edna Kappel?

[Greg Miller]

No, I, that was well after my time. That was well after my time. I forget it's even probably been a decade since I remember when buzzfeed did a list of like here's everything that happened to the Simpsons since you stopped watching. And some of the they were saying holy. So no, I, I, I had missed that that had happened.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And, you know, we never talk about the. The neighbors to the left of the Simpsons.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

We always talk about Ned Flanders. Like, who's that house? Who lives there? No idea.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Remember when George Bush was his neighbor?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I remember that. And so, yeah, Ford moved in.

[Greg Miller]

Homer, do you like beer? Do you like nachos? Do you like football? Do you want to come over to my house and have some beers and nachos and watch football?

[Snow Bike Mike]

But I loved it. I loved.

[Greg Miller]

They both fell down. I had to have my parents explain that joke to me.

[Snow Bike Mike]

My question is, what happens to the map, Greg? Does that just go away? Will they put it back in rotation once a year to celebrate?

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Or can I custom game it where I can maybe? I don't want to leave.

[Greg Miller]

I think all options are on the table. I, of course, just went to a fortnight event down in LA where I saw Yuki's Revenge. The Quentin Tarantino thing you'll hear more about. Maybe more. Whatever we saw the whole thing. You know, it's out there. Whatever. I don't think they've released all the details of what we saw, so I'll pipe down on that. But I hung out with this little streamer. Never heard of him before. Probably never see him again. His name's Sancho West.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

And Sancho and I talked at great length about this. And one of the things he brought up was, of course, like, as Mr. Fortnite as he is, he's like, there's no way they invested this much money and time into making this for it to be this short. So Sancho's pitch was, bring it back, if not every year, definitely next year. And do a tree Horse of Treehouse of Horror theme. Bring it back in October. Have it, you know, use the same thing, but make it all funny and do all this different stuff. And then, yeah, I'm not even familiar with how they use it in all their different. Fortnite is still overwhelming now. We turned it out. When Kevin and I turned it on yesterday to play it, I was like, okay, I'm gotta go into Battle Royale, but find zero build. But here are these creations, and here are the things people are doing. And it's like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

They have a display problem. They have, like, a whole just, like, menu problem.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know if it's a display problem, because people find what they want and they definitely put the money into it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I get it. I just. I. I get on. I turn it on, and it's just visually overstimulating. And it's too much. I just want to find something. It reminds me of Call of Duty when Call of Duty got out of hand.

[Greg Miller]

Gotcha.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Where it's like. It's just too much going on here.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Figure it out, refine it. But, like, they have to promote a thousand things that they have, which is cool.

[Greg Miller]

You already talked about the shoes before we move on because there's obviously lots of game news to do. You jump back into Fortnite for the first time and how long you think?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Probably once a year. Yeah. This is my yearly.

[Greg Miller]

How much money do you. Did you spend last night, you think?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I gave him. I gave him 30.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I gave him 30 V bucks. $30 in V bucks, which is like. Yeah, 5,000. I had a thousand in the bank.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Needed to get the battle pass.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You know.

[Greg Miller]

Are you a Fortnite crew now? Right. Xbox game pass Ultimate. I think it all in.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I don't know. I don't. I didn't look at that. I didn't check it out.

[Greg Miller]

I was shocked when me and Kevin. Kevin had already done it. I logged in yesterday to play with him and see the thing, and it was like, dude, what do I. Oh, okay, cool. Like, I'd already in the back of epic a long time ago, put my Xbox and my thing there, and I logged in. It was like, you're a member. Don't worry about anything.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You like that cute little banana sidekick? No dog.

[Greg Miller]

No, I don't like him at all. Thank you.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You don't like Peely?

[Greg Miller]

No, I don't like. I like Peely. I have no problem with Peely.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Not making this dog. Putting the dog in the Simpsons like, thing. I'm not a fan of that. But you can also keep the dog out. Make it a wiener dog, and I'll give a.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay. They will 100% have a wiener dog. I can promise you that. They will definitely have one. We got a dog on set.

[Greg Miller]

This perfect creation. God made this perfect creation. And we're not going to put this into video games. We're going to put banana Chihuahuas in there, other fucking Chihuahuas in there. No wiener dogs, y'. All. That's the future. All right. Yo, Tiero. Taco Bell. That had its chance. It's over now. Now it's the age of the wiener dog.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I love that.

[Greg Miller]

Remember, this is kind of Funny Games daily. Each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about. Live on YouTube.com kind of funny games, Twitch TV kind of funny games. And podcast services around the coal. He just takes it he. You know if you want to be part of the show, of course you should be super chatting YouTube.com kind of funny games you can super chat with your questions, comments, concerns to be part of the show. So many you've already have toasted. AFK says Happy Thanksgiving kind of funny fam and friends of course. Thank you very much for that guitar. No, sorry, yeah, no guitar room and gaming. Says Mike. The only kf, the only one at KF who isn't a coward and played the best game of the year. Kingdom Come, Deliverance two game of the year. Of course Mike did pander to the audience. I pandered and that has erased the fact that but I spent four to five hours at my desk playing it that other people tried it and didn't. But everybody forgets that. They just like to forget that. So guitar room and gaming, go fuck yourself. You can write in just like that and be part of the show. YouTube.com kindafunnygames While we're live, no bucks tossed away. No big deal. Like subscribe, share, ring the bell. If you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Please give us that free 30 day subscription they don't remind you about. If you want to go that extra mile, pick up your kinda funny membership. YouTube.com kindafunnygames patreon.com kinda funny apple, Spotify. Get all of our shows ad free. Get the ability to watch me do a one man 15 to 20 minute podcast each and every day called Greg Way. And of course get yourself some good karma for supporting a small independent 11 person business. Housekeeping for you today after Kind of Funny Games Daily, you're going to get the kind of funny games cast. The 10 games that define kind of funny. We've done our personal lists.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like now we're all coming together to decide with you, the audience in the chats, what are the 10 games that define us?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

And I will die on the hill. That Nidhog 2 needs to be there.

[Snow Bike Mike]

But I got.

[Greg Miller]

I'll push it through the best I can. After that the stream is going to be arc raiders with me, Mike and Andy. Are you making us evil? Are we killing people and being rude?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, I mean we're going to go to Stella Montice and we're gonna get right into the PvP.

[Greg Miller]

Oh shit. Fuck. I'm not gonna be up for it. I'm not gonna be any help with you there. If you're a kind of Funny member, today's Greg way is my three most anticipated 2026 games along with a lot of other fun conversations we had in a live chat on the way to work.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I'm gonna listen to those put them in my fantasy critic pocket.

[Greg Miller]

I think nothing I'm listing is gonna be like catching you off guard. Is that your thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. It's I'm still not there. Are you there? Is it is it as bad me and bless talk about this okay, now that we've taken the sponsors and put them at the front in a pre roll, there's still this Delaney the Psalm Twining today we're brought to you and I don't have to say that anymore so it me up every time.

[Snow Bike Mike]

To be honest with you, I didn't even know that for now read yet.

[Greg Miller]

For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper. Seven items on the Roper Report oh.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Baker's Desert.

[Greg Miller]

Number one Naughty Dogs Intergalactic the Heretic Profit reportedly still years from release this is the one, the only Tom Phillips from IGN.com before we dive in super chats be part of the show. Is the wait too long for Naughty Dogs next game we go to Tom at Ignition despite being revealed at last year's Game Awards, Naughty Dog's upcoming Intergalactic, the Heretic Prophet is reportedly still years away from launch. Fans of the Uncharted and the Last of Us Studio should also not expect another glimpse of the project at next month's annual Video Games Awards ceremony. It was claimed in March this year. In a conversation with 28 Years later director Alex Garland, Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann said the developer still had a ways to go on the project. During the same month, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier stated that the game would not launch in 2026. Parentheses and neither would the Witcher 4 either this month. Schreier has now repeated his statement, once again placing intergalactic's arrival as 2027 at the earliest and potentially skipping the PlayStation 5 generation altogether. Meanwhile, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb has claimed the game won't be making a second appearance in trailer form at the Game Awards this year. In other news, Water Wet what are we talking about Mike? Were you expecting Intergalactic anytime soon? What the fuck is going on?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I guess no, it wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 there, Greg. I think I'm like many Sony fans and many just video game fans in general of like you know, you Tease me with these games, I get excited for them and maybe I don't understand the inner workings behind the scenes of how long it takes to make a video game. And I get excited. I want that game to come out sooner than later, especially when you show it to me. Right. Wolverine out there, right.

[Greg Miller]

Four years ago, a PlayStation exclusive that I'm fully expecting next year.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Exactly, exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And so, yeah, it's just one of those of we're in this weird cycle of you tease it, I get excited, I expect it sooner than later. Then we get to the realities of making video games is extremely hard. It takes a lot of time, especially when you make super high quality games as PlayStation is known for. And that's where it goes. Was I expecting intergalactic 2026? No.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, good to know. I. Yeah, I'm. I guess it's the game awards that where the smoke the fire kind of thing is coming up. And where it is, I wouldn't have expected it next year for sure. And I wouldn't expect a trailer drop this year because I feel like if the game is far out, which I expected it to be, you drop this one teaser and you shut up until you have, hey, we're starting up the campaign for launch. Like we are moving towards it. I guess for me, shocking isn't the right word, but the most interesting conjecture here is the perhaps skipping the PlayStation 5 generation altogether. Right? I don't, I mean, no, absolutely not.

[Snow Bike Mike]

You don't buy that?

[Greg Miller]

Not if not, I don't believe that at all.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Generation exclusive.

[Greg Miller]

And again, like we're reading from Tom Phillips at IGN and I haven't kept up. I'm rarely on the socials these days and much this month, Shire has now repeated a statement once again placing intergalactic's arrival as 2027 at the earliest and potentially skipping the PS5 generation altogether. You're wrong. Chats. Keep me honest. If somebody could find the Jason Schreier article, blue sky, whatever about it, I'd like to see in context what he's saying there, because I could see like, oh yeah, it's coming out 2027 at the earliest. It might be coming out alongside PS6, but now we're just repeating what we did with the Last of us part two. And there's no way in God's green earth that PlayStation Sony Herman is gonna sit there and be like, all right, cool, you know what? We have this giant install base with the PlayStation 5, but this gorgeous game that could run on it, only put on the PlayStation 6.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I mean, that's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

I think you do the Last of Us Part two business where you're like, hey, cool, this came out the same year as the PlayStation, the next PlayStation, but it's coming out of the old generation where there's an install where we're all set, right? Boom, that's locked to go. And then you either do the Miles Morales, you know, sing, or what we're seeing with the Switch, two games as well, Miles Morales, PS4, PS5 thing, and have two versions. Or more than likely, you just copy the exact same fucking playbook we ran with the Last of us part two, and you put it on a PlayStation 4, and then years later, you put it out again, remaster whatever they call that version on PlayStation 5. Except now I'm talking PlayStation 5 to PlayStation 6.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I like all of that, Greg. I have no problem with that.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that quite a bit. Thank you. Sky in the super chat says, please, for the love of God, stop showing me games that aren't coming out for five damn years. Mike, how do you come down on this?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, I mean, I am someone who likes to be teased and I am someone who loves a good little showing of a game, a glimpse of a game, and then, yes, I'm usually the one to be hurt when it's five years later. But if there's something big, right. Like when I think of Naughty Dog, I think of we usually are working on one special big project. Right. And that's going to be the game. Yeah, this seems about right. Right. We tease it. We're going to go dark for a while. We're going to let you know we're making that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And then we're going on, especially from a team who's been making a lot of remasters lately, right. Of like, hey, love Last of Us. Love the Last of Us Part two. Then we got deep into the remaster remakes and it was like, I need something new from you. I think I. I appreciate them showing their cards at least saying, hey, we got something. It's totally different than what you thought, Mike, because I thought we'd just go right back to Uncharted. Oh, I. I truly believe it would be we're just going to go back to an Uncharted type vibe.

[Greg Miller]

I think the other thing we talk about Naughty Dog getting out and talking about this, I think again, we have to address not the elephant in the room by any stretch of the imagination, but PlayStation is still coming off a failed live service push. PlayStation is trying to reclaim what goodwill they lost, which gets lost because Xbox is fucked up so badly recently. But Naughty Dog, how far out are you in this game? What's going on? Remember Naughty Dog was supposed to be doing a live service multiplayer Last of Us game right now that should have been out probably what this year, maybe end of last year. And they should have been supporting that. And obviously the bulk of people who are working on that would have then moved over to Intergalactic, I assume. I don't know how many teams were running yada yada yada, but that's generally how you see games in batons get handed off. So announcing Intergalactic last year at the game awards and making a big deal and it's Neil's new game is an incredibly smart business marketing move because we get to change the narrative. That last of Us multiplayer, the live service push was standing in the way of me getting the single player PlayStation games I want. On top of that, they knew Neil was going to be out for the dog and pony show that was the last of a season two. So every interview in Variety, in deadline, you get to bring up. We're also working on this game so that who are reading this that love the show that went and bought a PlayStation to play the games. Now understand the guy who make the thing is making another. Like this is marketing, this is telling a story, this is spinning a narrative of what's going on. Right?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, yeah, I like that. But what I do, guys, at the same time, you know, if that last of us did come out right, you would have the double win of people celebrating or hopefully enjoying this Last of Us multiplayer game. And then the idea of like, hey, we're still making great single player games. We got this coming as well. Right. So you got that double win. But as now we're changing that narrative is right.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, I'm looking through my. You're wrong here. We're getting closer. It's from. So we go from Reddit where this all started. I see Jason commenting on the rumor that Colin. I know this man said Intergalactic was reportedly content complete, possible GTA or TGA appearance, potential launch in 2026. Jason, counter again, what I was looking for is this is such nerdy syntax. I apologize. What I was commenting on and wanting clarification on Tom Phillips is did Jason Schreier say that, oh, it's potentially skipping the PlayStation 5 generation? Or is Tom just saying 2027 at the earliest, which theoretically could skip it? I'm into the minutiae of it. I'm just saying I don't think Jason said At any point, this is a PS6 game, but thank you for getting me there. Nobody's. Nobody's answering the question. I have also.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Do you think PlayStation gamers are just eager and excited for the next big title as PlayStation has kind of slowed down due to the higher quality of games, the less releases from the first party?

[Greg Miller]

Of course. I think we talk about that with PlayStation all the time in this audience, that is what is PlayStation's identity. We did a whole P.S. i love you tribute games cast recently, right. Where it was like, PlayStation's kind of merged into like. No, there are. There is no face, There are. There are few games. There's all this different stuff of like, what are the marching orders and what are we doing? I think the audience. Yeah. Craves that. And that's why the hardcore among us, which I count you as, listener, viewer, somebody who's listening to a nerdy show about video games. Every day you're here and you're buying your PlayStation, probably because you want those kind of games. Yes, you're being supported by all these great third parties and other games you can jump in. But the reason you probably picked a PlayStation over an Xbox is that exclusive library. And PlayStation knows they have to advertise what that is, especially as it's not as robust as previous generations. It's not bad, but I feel like in the previous generations, it was a constant drumbeat of here's what's coming and why. I think it had been so quiet for so long that to get intergalactic was big. To get more on Wolverine this year was big. To get Ghost of Yote in our hands. Right. That's what we're talking about as you go. And I feel like we're just moving the wheels and trying to do that as we steamroll towards getting this game out eventually. Let me see other people who are writing in about this subtext super chat and says it's just painful to go nearly an entire generation without a new game from arguably Sony's best studio. The Last of Us online experiment really hurt. And it did. Right. I think, you know, you have the best laid plans of Mice and Men here where you plan on this. You hope it's gonna be great, but you take that chance on something outside of the wheelhouse of what Naughty Dog is known for. No shade to uncharted multiplayer. No shade. The last of us factions, but not their bread and butter. And so, yeah, you have something like this where if it misses, boom, there you go.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, that's an unfortunate one. You get caught behind the eight ball on that and it's just time and effort that you're just now wasted. Do you think with how hot Arc Raiders is right now, right, you see that kind of post apocalyptic world, do you think we're kicking ourselves going, man, what could have been? Or do you think behind the scenes it really was that bad where it was like we just couldn't have pulled this off because you look at our creators, you could easily see yourself as like you could put clickers out here and the zombie infected esque. Oh yeah, we're in.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think, I think you have a yes and no about it. Where I'm sure people at PlayStation look at it go, oh man, that could have been us. That could have been that. But again, I do think even though I argue to some degree with Naughty Dog, who are like, hey, the game was coming together and it was great, but we realized we wouldn't be the same studio and it's like there's truth to that. I also don't fully buy the game was coming together great, because I believe if that was the case place you should go, you know what, cool. Give us everything and we'll move it over here and Sony, Ben, cancel whatever the fuck you're doing. Come work on. Like you could have, we could have co joint done this. Unless again, I wonder what the pull of Naughty dog is in PlayStation if it really is. They come to Neil Druckmann, he's like, fuck, no. They go, all right, we won't kill the golden goose. We're not going to piss you off. Whatever you want, please don't go to Hollywood. Stay here and make video games.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Games.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know. Anyway, so yes and no. I think, I think if you go to, if, if you go to work at Naughty Dog, you go there because you want to make Uncharted Last of us single player narrative game. We're pushing the genre, we're pushing the industry forward. And so going there and then it's like, cool. Now we're making this live service switch up the culture multiplayer thing. I, I think there were probably were enough people. Like, I don't. So I mean there's yes and no, but I don't think they're hurting. And then it's always the thing too of where we come back to, of let's talk about expectations. You know, Square comes out. This game that everybody loved and gave great scores to didn't meet expectations. Expectations are a dangerous thing. And as your company gets bigger and bigger and bigger and you're owned by A bigger and bigger conglomerate. Those expectations grow exponentially. So the success of arc raiders and I'm Greg the short answer, I think it would have been a success for PlayStation as well. But the success of arc raiders, would that have worked for a Naughty dog? Would Naughty Dog and PlayStation and all the internals, looked at the numbers, they would go, this is. We nailed. This is what we wanted. This what we needed, blah, blah. Would it have been bigger? Arguably, yeah, probably, right? Because it would be, yeah, I want to run around, do this whole thing. Or then you would have. Inevitably the people who are joining it and being pissed off that, well, this isn't the Naughty Dog narrative. I'm just running out and collecting tin cans and coming back to my base. This sucks. You know what I mean? Whereas an art creator is like, oh, a fucking spring. This is great. Now see Kristoff. Is Kristoff in here with the Naughty Dog line, though it was never about how good factions was going to be. Naughty Dog would have had to turn into a lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I also agree think there's something that would go on. And the final one, Mr. Jim Bob 5895, Sean Escai is doing a second game at Naughty Dog. That comes first.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What does that mean? There's a second game at Naughty Dog?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Sean came back from Chris. Sean worked in Naughty Dog, went to Crystal and then came back to Naughty Dog. I believe maybe. I don't think I'm missing a stop in there. And so there's been a whole thing that he's working on a game over there as well.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And you think that could be before?

[Greg Miller]

That's what Mr. That's what Mr. Jim.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Bob is saying, saying to me.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I would never put anything past anybody, of course, but I think that would also. I think that would, that would be a great game award. Swerve. And now something you're really gonna like. Screen goes dark. Sony interactive, you know, PlayStation Studios, Naughty Dog, everybody gets flipped. And then it's completely different. That'd be fucking rad as fuck. Yeah, that would be fucking rad as fuck. But is that what's happening? I don't know. Could it come out before this? Of course. Again, like, think about what we're talking about right now. Intergalactic. A new IP from Neil Druckmann from nautical game. This is the. Kojima territory where people expect that much from a Neil Druckman game. And so like a lot of eyes are going to be on this. If I'm going to be like, no no, we're not gonna. Let's move on. Valve says no. Video games Valve representatives have quashed the idea that a new developed game with its upcoming Steam machine. The company announced the Steam Machine. Hey, I know. That month a gaming device designed with living room environments in mind. Following the announcement, popular speculation began swirling regarding the possibility that Valve may be planning to release a new game in tandem with the device. As to be expected, Valve's long awaited sequel Half Life three became a much talked about possibility. The company also has historical precedent for packing games. The release of the Steam Deck came alongside a three game Aperture Desk Job and Alyx was originally planned to release alongside the Valve Index VR headset. Speaking on an episode of Friends Per second podcast, something I've never heard of. Oh, who's on it?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Lucy James.

[Greg Miller]

Disgusting. No, we love. We love Ralph. Speaking on an episode of the Friends Per second podcast. However, developer Pierre Loup Giraffe and I made all that up. By the way it's French Pierre. I got loop I'll and then get Giraffe but it's not Giraffe.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, it looks like Giraffe but no no.

[Greg Miller]

And designer Lawrence Yang gave a definitive answer. The duo were asked quote is there any chance at all the Steam Deck machine comes pre installed with a brand new Valve game? Giraffe responded with a definitive no. He elaborated, I think in practice we are making some tweaks to the Aputure desk job interactive shorts to be playable with the Steam controller because there's a ton of overlap. You know it's kind of a guided tour of the controls of the Steam deck. So you might install that on your Steam machine and try it out. But I think we're excited about all the other games that are out there that you'll be able to play. End quote. Yang attempted to provide some consolation however. Quote if you have a Steam deck, you can just throw your Micro SD from your Steam deck into your Steam machine. Then all those games. That's pretty cool. All those games that are our games that are pre installed on your Steam machine when it turns on it might include a game from us. Question mark. Okay okay okay okay. I appreciate everyone at kind of funny.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Couldn't do this job without you. Well I could. I just. I'd actually probably be more successful without all of you but it doesn't matter. Blessing bullet point number two up in the bad news for Half Life three speculation Kevin buried in there. Do we have the speculation station hit that I've seen that. I've never used it Take it to the fucking bank.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Half Life 3 launches alongside this.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Whoa.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It's not a pack in. It's not a pack in. Okay, fine, I'll give you that ground. I was never ever expecting that. They want the 70, 80 bucks out.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Of you, of course.

[Greg Miller]

Probably 60, because Valve just does the nicest things of all time. This is coming. I also think it's a lock for game awards.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Katie G. Write it down. I'll take that pizza bet right now.

[Greg Miller]

Hit the pizza bat.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Take that pizza bet right now. Because you and Roger have been in my ear for the past two weeks since this thing has been announced. Mike. Half Life three this, Half Life three that. Where's the yacht? Where's Gabe? I'm not believing any of this.

[Greg Miller]

Half Life 3. Half Life 3 is coming. Don't worry about it. Yeah, why don't you believe? Makes so much sense. Here is the Steam machine, here's the controller. We all talk about it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Here's Deadlock, the hit MOBA that we've been working on.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, go yourself with this. You know what I mean?

[Snow Bike Mike]

We're not giving you a Half Life. Here's the mobile with microtransactions.

[Greg Miller]

Do I gotta use my. Do I gotta use. Can I use a controller with that?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, you can use it. That's what you're gonna be playing.

[Greg Miller]

Disgusting.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Get out of here. You think you get a Half Life? You're getting a MOBA. Enjoy it.

[Greg Miller]

Half Life 3 is coming alongside the Steam machine again. Not a packing.

[Snow Bike Mike]

No, no, that would be wild. That would be super exciting.

[Greg Miller]

If not now, then when?

[Snow Bike Mike]

What?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I'm sorry. I know. Never. I know. I know how you people are.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You sick, twisted, demented, BDSM, weird PC gaming. All right, and your MOBAs. We're launching a system made to go into your living room. We want the most casual video gamers of all time. You don't come up and go, we got a new mobile for you. You get the out of here with that. You say Half Life three. I was at I Greg way I talked about this. Dad I was out to drinks with the other night, right? Who is not a gamer, wanted to talk about GTA 6 and then he knew about the Steam machine and I mentioned Half Life 3 and he exploded like that is what they want.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

The Half Life gamers are out there and.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What do you mean doesn't know what Half Life is?

[Greg Miller]

It doesn't matter.

[Snow Bike Mike]

The youth doesn't give a about you.

[Greg Miller]

They buying a Steam machine.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Their parents are buying it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they are. That's happened no matter what.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Are they buying it when it ends up being near 1k?

[Greg Miller]

It's gonna be cheaper than that, Bear. Don't worry about it. Okay, so it's gonna happen, and then your point of, like, Half Life 3 isn't happening. What are you talking about? What was the point of Alex then? It rewrites the ending of Half Life 2 so you can have Half Life 3. Spoilers.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I haven't played it yet. I haven't played that one.

[Greg Miller]

You're never gonna. I'm done. I'm sorry. No, we reviewed that during COVID If you don't want to know about the.

[Snow Bike Mike]

End of Half Life 1 and 2 this year. I'm tearing through them. I'm doing great.

[Greg Miller]

Well, guess what? You're the ending.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And if Half Life 3 comes out, then. Then I'm riding the high. That's why I'm excited about this. I just. Yes. It real, Mike. The idea of Half Life 3 is super exciting. The idea of coming out with a console and competing. Right. Yes. You need. You need the Half Life 3 title. That would be massive. All eyes on you, everybody. All the old heads are going to be talking about it. The young kids. Paris's son is going to be asking his dad, what the hell is Half Life? Why do I need to know about it then? The excitement builds for the youth.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, man. That's crazy. Usually, Paris's son just asked his dad, what went wrong. Why are you the way you are? Point blank period.

[Snow Bike Mike]

But, yeah, I mean, I think the easy bet is, like, to doubt that this is even real or that it will be time. But, like, haven't they all been, I guess, like Mike, who wants to know more? Haven't people been holding on to the idea of Half Life?

[Greg Miller]

They have for years.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Decades now they have. Why wouldn't they have put out one yet?

[Greg Miller]

Because you're Valve. You're like the most profitable business of all time or whatever that chart was I saw the other day. Like, they, like, they like. Like you have to sit here and be so in awe of a company.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That stands on business. We make so much money that we don't have to release a video game until we think it is perfection or as good as it could possibly be or the. Like, we talk all the time of the intersection of business and art and the fact that they are a business. That's like the art's first. We don't fight now. I hate that they buy developers and then they just never make games again. But it's like I also go there and I'm like, God damn. Okay, like, like you guys are cooking in a way that we. I mean as I see fucking every other acquisition end with these things being just stripped of their very soul. You know what I mean? I'm like, the games are no longer anything what you want them to be. They're just trying to make money now.

[Snow Bike Mike]

When I think of Half Life 3, I think of the Half Life 2 Nvidia GeForce Remix that they were showcasing and we did the small demo of just one level. Like why is that not out yet? To get people excited for this. Right? Should that not be first and then on to Half Life 3?

[Greg Miller]

I'm not going to sit here and deal with these facts you're throwing at me. All right.

[Snow Bike Mike]

It's like what's the deal with that?

[Greg Miller]

I mean it still could be. We still got months until we get the Steam deck. You know, maybe that Steam machine, whatever.

[Snow Bike Mike]

That would be the excitement is right. Yeah, I guess so. You've been in the industry for a long, long time, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What Half Life 3 to you, has there always been murmur of people working on this? Have there been ideas that, that what they just don't like because the art comes first and just. Well like why not put out a half assed Half Life 3 and just. It's been 10, 15 years, dude. They've had to have put out one and just said ah, that one didn't hit the mark. My bad. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

What the is wrong with you? What do you mean? Why, why isn't Rock star just on GTAs anymore?

[Snow Bike Mike]

They were.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they were great though. They were great. I mean take away the, you know, the remaster collection, whatever. But I'm talking about, you know, San Andreas and, and Vice City.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I just, I guess my mind is wrapping up. Like if it's been 15 years, whatever it is, how we haven't been able to put one together in that amount of time. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

But also we don't know what active production looks like.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

Like, I mean there has been things coming out of Valve and then this push to hardware and then buying people like I always this one up. They bought Campo Santos, right? The.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Firewash people who are making Valley of the Gods. Yeah, yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Are they anymore though?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, I don't. Who knows. They got absorbed and they're in the mind. They're in the fucking mind meld the valve. Nobody knows what they're doing. But no, there's always been not always. There's murmurs quite often about Half Life 3. Whispers someone is. Half Life 3 is being worked on. Period.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Period, point blank.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Like, and I think this is the time. This is the time. Like, why? Like this is the fucking time. Because again, you'd be like, Half Life 3 is out. Of course it plays on any PC whatever. But we are also putting out this mass market PC that you could get right now and plug into your thing and be competitive with your PlayStation when we talk.

[Snow Bike Mike]

$900.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett, shut up. Everything's expensive.

[Snow Bike Mike]

When we talk about it. Yes. This is the, this is the moment that you would plant the flag 100%. That would be epic. That would be the right business call. That would be everything. So. Yeah, I like that. So you think game awards, though, we get some sort of tease?

[Greg Miller]

I think, I think that's when you get the trailer. Yeah, yeah. I, again that I fall back to, of course. The car, the stars lining up, the cards being on the table. Jeff being so close with Val. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I just. And I think again we then jump back to what they're doing right now with the Steam machine of just from a marketing perspective of. Here it is. Here's the hands on, no mention of price. So everybody's waiting on that. Right. And I feel like you, I, I, this is where I'm out of the. I'm not a marketer, where I don't know if you give them the good news of Half Life and then the bad news of the price or if the good news of Half Life supersedes the price, whatever that would be. If it's bad or whatever. Like there's some combination there. I think that works too.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, there's some comb of like if you were to announce Half Life 3, then the pre orders, no matter what the price is, it's gonna go crazy. Right? For sure.

[Greg Miller]

We're switching my mic. Is that what's happening?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Very exciting stuff.

[Greg Miller]

I got two mics now. Even louder.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Oh, it's not how that works.

[Greg Miller]

It doesn't work that way. Sorry, everybody. So let me get some super chats in here. All right. Bander SN says the youth didn't care about Baller's Gate until fucking point on you. You just dunked on your ass, you know? Yeah, yeah. Professor YT follows up on yesterday's kind of funny podcast. Greg, I'm fair. I'm from Fairfield. Can I tag along on the Jelly Belly Field show? I have a wife and kids to bring, so it's not weird. Kind of got weird there. So I don't know about that one.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Wife and kids to bring.

[Greg Miller]

We'll see if the meet and greet at the Jelly Belly Factory goes off or if it's just Tio Andy and me and Ben out there doing it. All right, Foxy Steve says Half Life two released in two. Why is there so much certainty? Half Life three is the thing. Did I miss something? Those same rumors, speculations, scuttlebutt you hear all the time. That's about it really. Yeah, I think this is the time people want it, you know they'll do it. Charlie says Val said no new no new games on the FPS podcast, but again we just read from that. So I don't know if you're attacking this week in video games and how they reported on it, but we read about how there was no new pack in for for this, not no new games. And also I will, I will. I hate to do this. People lie to you in video games all the time. I lie to you on this show about what I do and don't know. No, don't read into it because I wouldn't say Half Life three is coming or make a bet if I Knew Half Life 3 was actually coming. That's all legitimate. But people lie to you about what they're doing and why they're doing it because of marketing plans and because of it. If they were asked, hey, are there any new games coming from Valve? And they were like, like no comment. Everybody would fucking explode. They said yes, everybody would explode. So you have been lied to, Charlie. And I'm sorry if in fact Lucy James did help lie to you too. And if that is the fact, you need to unsubscribe from FPS and come subscribe to us instead. And if you already subscribe to both, you just need to unsubscribe from fbs. Lucy James is British and they can't be trusted. I know this was a hard truth for you to accept. While you chew on that, I'll remind you that we couldn't do this without you. Pick up your kinda funny membership patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kinda funny games Apple or Spotify to get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Greg Way. And of course get good karma for supporting an independent 11 person business. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor.

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[Greg Miller]

Style, every home and we are back for story number three. Throw them up for the Dudley Far Cry TV series set at FX from Noah Hawley and Rob Mack. This is Joe Otterson at Variety. FX has ordered a series adaptation of Ubisoft's Far Cry video games from Noah Hawley and Rob Mac. Variety has learned. In addition to co creating the series, Mac will also star. The series will stream on Hulu in the US and Disney internationally. While exact plot details are being kept under wraps, the series will follow an anthology format like the games and feature a different cast and setting each season. Season quote Getting to work alongside Noah Hawley is a dream realized, said Mac. Ubisoft has been remarkably generous entrusting us with one of the most iconic video game worlds ever created. And through it all, my FX family continues to lift me up with their constant belief and support. End quote. The tweet reads. So remember when we said Far Cry stories always escalate? Yeah, FX took that personally. A brand New Far Cry anthology series is coming to Hulu with a whole new setting, new cast, and the exact level of chaos your therapist told you to avoid. Good luck out there. I'll tell you, man, that tweet turns me off to the entire fucking thing. Shut the fuck up. Shut up. Tweet. Fucking weird. Grok fucking out there writing this shit.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay?

[Greg Miller]

They took that personally. All right, I'll see you later. Good luck.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Doesn't like your tweet.

[Greg Miller]

Good luck, everybody. Good luck. Go get them.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Let's talk about the show, though. Are you excited at all about a Far Cry TV show?

[Greg Miller]

No, I just. It's. I. We talk about video games being announced too early.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Entertainment properties get announced often too early and then never ha. Like, what is this going to be the Ubisoft one that happens? Is this going to be the Ubisoft one that happens and is good. Sorry, I know Roger's not here, but I know he's yelling at me about that Splinter Cell show that just came out. That was good.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Good.

[Greg Miller]

It's sure. Okay. Like, I enjoy the Far Cry games, but I enjoy them for their freedom and sandbox. And I'm gonna go around and kill a jaguar and make a wallet. Like I don't know in a show what that would net out to be. And I don't. I don't have that level. Like, when I think of Far Cry, it's over the top villains and the over the top action.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I can see where that would lend itself to a show, but is this a comedy too? Is Matt. You know, Rob Mac's known for.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah. Max will bring a little bit of. Yeah, there'll be some, some, Some fun in it, but I think it'll be a little more gritty.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

A little more hardcore for sure. I mean, we're talking about the guy behind Alien Earth right now that just got done. We liked that show.

[Greg Miller]

I like five episodes.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Fargo right there. So it's like he's got a whole lot of skill there. I'm not saying he's not Mac. Right. But yeah, I. I agree with you in the way, Greg, of like Ubisoft. When I think of some of the stuff. Assassin's Creed, the movie, I'm looking at you. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Like Prince of Persia.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I don't have the much biggest faith, but a lot of these shows have been very good lately. Right. We've been tracking in a better way. We've been trending in a better way of like more of these are good than bad.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Which is nice. Far Cry. I Do agree with you. Is a little harder to land in my eyes because it is the freedom of me doing insane, stupid things. And I don't know if that really lends itself well to a TV show.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Also for me, I thought we'd be going back. Maybe we'd be picking some of the iconic characters, villains and stuff. Stuff. But it. When it says new setting, new cast and the exact.

[Greg Miller]

One of the things. The Voss voice actor who's also his performance capture had been making the rounds here and there. I know. On things he had said. I think you could still get away with new characters. There's new characters. They're still Voss. They're still what you think.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Voss on the island, though.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I knew. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah. Like that. That's why I kind of go maybe. Right. Because like, I thought easily season one would be Voss on the island. Island.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

That's your layup.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Snow Bike Mike]

For most people.

[Greg Miller]

Not a prequel. New cast. You know. You know what I mean? But I. Good luck to you. Go get them. You know what I mean?

[Snow Bike Mike]

We'll see where this goes. I like Rob Mack a lot.

[Greg Miller]

Where's my division Movie? Wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain cast in my division? Where's my division? Mobile game. Where's division Heartland? Where's Division fucking 3? Rob Mack. Stop making your fucking soccer teams and make video games.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Every. Like Mythic.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Mythic Quest was a lot of fun season. I only like season one, actually. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Crazy. I will say fx. It's rare that they miss. So if they're, if they're back in this. I, I, you know, they got a lot of production teams.

[Greg Miller]

They have something. All right. I remember that. I do remember that actually. When they said that you say that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

That was their thing.

[Greg Miller]

Number store four on the rope Reporter skate. Season two has been revealed. A trailer. Have you watched it yet?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I watched it.

[Greg Miller]

Can we watch it again? Can we watch the trailer sound up?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Because I want to talk about it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, me too.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Landing tricks. Alone. I am alone. Talking to fire hydrants. Me.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, you are.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Your old trucks. Your best friends. Allegedly. Then you might be suffering from solo stoke. Tired of patting yourself on the back? Stop being your number one fan and say hello to friends.

[Greg Miller]

Friends.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Friends. Amigos. Gene. Goo to meet you. Friends are great. Does anyone want to hang out? Nice. Impossible Man. Thanks. It's new. That's friendship. Season two comes with everything you see here. Roofs and tunnels and co op with your bro op in collab mode. It's not chaos if you call it teamwork.

[Greg Miller]

Party.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Voice chat. Better replays.

[Greg Miller]

Observe. Rewind.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Deny responsibility. We did it. Not me. What the thread. These boards. Rewards look better. Do something. The rat's making me do all this play for free.

[Greg Miller]

This is where I fell in love.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

This is where I was like, yeah, this guy's. The voices in the patch notes would walk.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Season 2. 2.

[Greg Miller]

2.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Reggie said this would happen. Who put a candle in the hot dog for long? Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

Whose baby is this? I like that kind of humor, Mike. We're back to why don't they just keep Tim Robinson around forever?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Everything. Yes. I think a lot of people I see in the live chat right now are not happy with that. Right. They've comedy far. I see some of that and I think this is exactly where it was supposed to be. I think it feels like it's gone too far from the initial onskirt of the AI V. Robot that skater eyes. And now it's hard to get back to where we want it to be, which is something similar, resembling this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I would like that. Yeah. Skate season pass. Season two starts December 2nd. It runs through March 3rd. The bullet points are new skateable areas, new challenges and tasks, seasonal events, new tricks and skills, Skatepedia updates, new brand partners, additional cosmetics and customization. New tracks to the soundtrack, a new skate Pass with improvements in tuning, bug fixes and quality of life improvements with future two. I'm sorry. Season two. Future radical. We're heading back to the 80s. A time of neon lights, arcade machines and pop versus punk. And what better way to experience this than with your friends? With a new co op mode and party voice chat, it's never been easier to play together. Plus, there are new skateable air, the replay editor, yada yada, yada. Yes, Mike, what is your top level here?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I have a lot to talk about with you on this one, Greg. I do want to highlight one thing. Of course.

[Greg Miller]

We're the Internet's biggest skate fans.

[Snow Bike Mike]

They touched on solo Stoke.

[Greg Miller]

Right?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Are you. Are you lonely? It's time to bring in your friends. And that's a big one for this video game. I want to bring up a good friend of mine back in the day, my main man, Kevin Coop Cooper. The sergeant of Stoke back at Heavenly Mountain Resort.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

He had the job that I thought was one of the coolest. The head of marketing and communications. And he always yelled, share the stoke. And that's what I want from skates. Right. And that's why I'm glad that they're moving towards this multiplayer focus of, like, identifying, hey, people want to skate with their friends. Yeah, we got to do a better job at that. We didn't nail that in the launch and season one. We got to start moving towards that. And that's exactly what I want to see. I want to share the stoke with my friends, my bros. Okay? All the. The groms out there.

[Greg Miller]

All the groms. Gotta have the groms.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And so. So for me, Greg, when I see this, I get excited, right? I like the 80s themes. I like what we're seeing in the tunnels and on the rooftop.

[Greg Miller]

The tunnels look really cool.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I. I think some of the skate spots are looking fantastic for what I want to ride in. This game is gonna have a giant uphill battle to try to try to regain the love and admiration and just the faith from its player base. Right? The people that jumped in were put off and never came back. Right? There are Die Hard fans that love it no matter what. Me and Greg are like, right there on the fence of. We are Die Hards. We love playing this game, but we're not the people every single day. But we're also the people that didn't turn it off and say, I'm never doing this again. Right? And, like, Skate now has to try to balance all of that. How do I get the Die Hards to stay? How do I get the people who fell off to come back? What are those things? Multiplayer Own the Spot. Having more focus things for me and Greg and a party to do. Step one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I think it'll be.

[Greg Miller]

It'll be interesting when this drops you, me jumping in. Yeah. Own the lot is the new thing inspired by, you know, Own the Spot before. But it's. We all get together and try to do this in a time limit, right? Like, I like that idea. And I could see you and me having a lot of fun with that and getting out there. I think party chat's a great move that so many people complained about that. Again, it's early access. You know what I mean? So to see them adding in stuff like this and more hand plants. I'm a big fan of or whatever, but it's the usual thing of. It's early access, but you are charging money and asking for money in these microtransactions, and it's turned so many people off.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Off.

[Greg Miller]

It'll be my thing with it. Mike, here's the big question. And we can have a skate conversation when we play it later, whatever. But my big question is, do you think EA gives skate enough Time to fix this. Do they give full circle enough time to get this to a place where people are like, you know what? This is awesome because we love the. We love playing it. But then there's like everything around it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Where their timer has begun. Right.

[Greg Miller]

For sure.

[Snow Bike Mike]

They got the good grace. I think of the first part of the idea of being sold on. On, hey, we're gonna go free to play like Fortnite. Hey, we're gonna knock it out the park with microtransactions. Yeah, I think EA heard that. And they go, hell yeah, let's do that. Right? And then they launched. They saw a bunch of people on day one with the free to play aspect. And then that fell off a cliff. And guess what? They hit the timer and they said, your timer starts now before I pull the plug on this whole idea. And so I think this team has their back against the walls. Unfortunately, I don't think EA will give them enough time to truly land this. This. But they will give them time. Right? This is a project that we will see, I think for at least how many seasons. We have a year and a half from right now.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, from now.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Like that's a two year window. We'll call. I think they get a solid two years of like you are allowed to work and try. Before I give this up. Skate as a brand is too big to pull the plug after 12 months. Skate as an idea has an opportunity to continue to grab players and bring them back. Back. Skate is an ever evolving thing where it will get the trust of players back if you have the right things. And I could see a full kind of almost rebrand, relaunch with a 1.0.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

A year and a half from now, which is the big moment of like, this is our last chance before EA calls me and says I have to turn all this off. That's what I give them, man.

[Greg Miller]

I'm. I'm more concerned that they get a year from launch. Okay. Like. But I think what gets interesting about is where EA is at right now preparing for this Saudi deal. Speaking of number five on the ROPA report, Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low. This is Alex Forbes Calvin at gamesindustry Biz. Saudi Arabia's public investment fund is allegedly low on cash for new investments after a multi year spending spree on games and esports sectors. The New York Times has reports that the fund doesn't have a huge amount of capital to deploy at the moment thanks to a number of the projects it has invested in being in quite a, quote, financial distress. These include the wildly ambitious New City Region Neom, which was set to be built in the country's Tabuk Providence, but has run into extensive construction issues which have been attributed to unrealistic planning. Other businesses yet to return investment include a coffee company, a cruise liner and an electric vehicle startup. None of the assets named as being in trouble none of the assets named as being in trouble are within the video games industry in which the PIF has been a significant investor in recent years. The PIF values its total investments at nearly $1 trillion in assets, but a significant percentage of these are hard to sell assets with no public valuation. As a result, the NYT reports that the PIF reps have told international investors that it is unable to allocate for the near future. Despite this, a spokesperson for PIF, Marwan Bakarali, told the newspaper that it has $60 billion in cash and quote, similar financial instruments. Recently, the PIF was one of the parties involved in the acquisition of US Publishing giant Electronic Arts, along with Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. The deal is worth $55 billion and is yet to complete, though EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said it should close in Q1 of the 2027 financial fiscal year.

[Snow Bike Mike]

A lot going on there, Greg. Yeah, a lot of money being.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of money being thrown around, right?

[Snow Bike Mike]

A lot of investments, A lot of investment. A couple of missed investments.

[Greg Miller]

Investments, yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Of course their goal is to diversify away from just oil and try to get involved in other aspects to continue to help that country make money.

[Greg Miller]

Right? Yes. Also, as we've talked to wash their image and try to make it seem like they aren't killing journalists. The guy in charge of the investment fund, the crown prince, isn't the one going, yeah, butcher the Washington Post journalist and chop him up.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Up.

[Greg Miller]

They would like you to forget that because they oh look, the WrestleMania is coming here. That's cool.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Mr. Beast built a no, this is.

[Greg Miller]

This place seems totally cool and not at all a living nightmare.

[Snow Bike Mike]

So what does that mean for Skate ea, any of these investments? I don't know, Greg. Right, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, obviously we don't know. It's an interesting 1 billion in cash, obviously. Like I'm not a fan and would love to see this them be like, you know what, maybe we got to dial this back and not buy up EA and buy up even more stuff. But even the idea of them folding and closing and going away, which I'm getting way down the timeline of all this stuff happening, would then put a Lot of different places, including our own industry into free fall as jobs and things dry up. And so yeah, we look at skate and how much time that gets on this, which is like the least of the concerns with the pif. I know, but it is that idea of like, like does EA have to tighten the belt before this even happens? Or do they come in as the new owners are going tighten the belt? What are we doing? Why are we on season five of this game? Nobody wants to be a fucking pigeon.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah. I mean that there's so many, so many variants of what that is is right, Greg. Of like they tighten the belt or they look at it and go this is something that we want to continue to push and try to make more mainstream.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Of like double down on this or do they just pull the plug? Who knows on that?

[Greg Miller]

We'll have to wait until this plays out imminently though. Right now, number six, we have a required reading for you. This comes from the one, the only Rebecca Valentine at ign. Unsettling horror game. Unsettling horror game Horses banned from Steam leaving the studio with quote high risk of closure. I read you from Rebecca's Blue Sky. A really wild situation here. A celebrated and well regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it at all. These are the guys who published mid. Oh no, sorry. Mediterranean Inferno. I'm really bummed about this. You can go read this in article [e-mail] Again, un unsettling horror game Horses banned from Steam leaving studio at high risk of closure. A required reading for you to go.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Check out link in the description below.

[Greg Miller]

Good job Rebecca.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Okay, I will go read that. I don't know anything about this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, my mike, Saudi Arabia and the PIF not having money. Indie devs being removed from Steam with no reasoning why you spending an absurd amount of money in Fortnite. These are all big stories.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Those are big.

[Greg Miller]

If I wanted something smaller, say what came to the mom and grop shops. Where should I go?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Greg, let me take you to our last story, the Wii News Channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[Greg Miller]

Number seven, the Wii News from the Verge. The Xbox Crocs are real. After releasing Windows XP themed Crocs earlier this year, Microsoft is now putting an Xbox controller on your feet with a new limited edition pair of Crocs.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I like to say they are real.

[Greg Miller]

Mike, we got them yesterday. I gave them to you. They came in a giant thing. I took one of the controllers because it was lime green. Lime green and cool. But I gave you the Crocs.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Might be one of their best controllers they've ever made.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. One of the.

[Snow Bike Mike]

One of the greatest. The Crocs, Greg. My first ever pair of Crocs. Thank you so much for making me feel so special.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

These things fit like a glove.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

It was like they were made for me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

They're perfect, Greg. I love them. I can't wait to kick that thing into sport mode and achieve ultimate dad status as I need to be.

[Greg Miller]

I got a. Yeah, I have a Ghostbusters pair. That's. How many Crocs do I need? I have Ghostbuster Crocs.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That I love and I wear when I walk the dog outside. The dog who's down here sleeping in his bag. And yeah, the Crocs are comfortable. They're a comfortable sleep.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I can't wait to wear them on stuff.

[Greg Miller]

I would love you to wear them all.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Joey says I can pull them off.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

He's like, if you. If there's somebody that can pull it off, Mike, it's gonna be you.

[Greg Miller]

Adam Sandler 2.0. Yeah, you could wear them. Yeah, don't worry about it. Constance is out today. We have a trailer. Constance is a 2D hand drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush wielding artist striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner world created by her declining mental health. The Metacritic right now is an 83 and the over opaque critic is an 84. I know, we're looking forward to this.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I bought a copy on Steam.

[Greg Miller]

Very nice.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, looking flash.

[Greg Miller]

Ooh, I like the painting there. Okay. Call of Duty season one is coming December 4th. Are you excited for that?

[Snow Bike Mike]

I'm one of the few that's been enjoying Call of Duty.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Okay.

[Snow Bike Mike]

So yes, I am excited.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah. Okay, cool.

[Snow Bike Mike]

But yeah, I'm one of the few.

[Greg Miller]

Super Mario Party Jamboree official soundtrack is now available on the Nintendo music app. And from Wario 64, Nier Automata switch to backwards compatibility have been fixed in a new system update. We jump over to the super chats to see who was talking about stuff that we need to jump in here. Alex Foley says longtime listener, first time live viewer throwing in a super chat. Cash on that. Good karma. Lol.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Thanks for watching.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you so much for being there. Dova Beats says. Barrett, you hear that? New four year strong?

[Snow Bike Mike]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Do you like four year Strong?

[Snow Bike Mike]

Generally I love them. Oh, nice. They put on some of the best shows at Warped Tour back In the day.

[Greg Miller]

No shit. Really? Warp tour following up on the skate video. Dean says they couldn't get Tim Robinson back. Huh. And I imagine he's very expensive. But then in Zack's on in the live the you're wrong says some additional context for the skate video. The guy in the video is Andrew Russo. He is a YouTuber with over 1 million subscribers where he does one man sketch consulting comedy.

[Snow Bike Mike]

And guess what?

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna go subscribe now because I like that. I like that a lot. You know what I mean? More Hammer says Mike. Thanks for taking the time to play through Kingdom Come Deliverance with everybody and giving your review has convinced me to give it a go. I'm four hours in and loving it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Have some fun with it. Up next, Expedition 33. Let me see how good that game is.

[Greg Miller]

You know, I've heard no one talk about it, so I don't know what that'll do. I. And I'm special. Whatever. Something like that. Off topic but with the year coming to enter you guys gonna do a top games we played in 2025 not releasing in 2025 Gamescast? No, we won't be doing that. We preview a lot of games, you.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Know, top games I played in 2025 that aren't coming out in 20.

[Greg Miller]

Like I think I would imagine demos and previews and stuff like that.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yearly action road Deadlock. There you go.

[Greg Miller]

There it is. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dova beats Super Chat a long time ago. Said finally gonna finish Expedition 33 tonight. Deciding what my next game is going to be. Hollow Knight, Yote, Silent Hill or Kingdom Come.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What are you giving them? What's your recommendation?

[Greg Miller]

Well, you know me. Yeah, I'm a vibe gamer. So I would. You have to be. You have to be in your own head about what your vibe is. What's your vibe out of that list. Personally, I would do Yote, Silent Hill, Hollow Knight's such a. Are you committed to that thing or. And then Kingdom Come at the bottom. But it's just because Kingdom Come isn't what I want to do.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Yeah, I'd hit him with the hard swerve left. I'd say Silent Hill F. Okay. Yeah. Get off the giant stuff. Let's get something contained, something tight, get you in and out.

[Greg Miller]

Om Jesus says birthday tax. I'm working today on my birthday, but I get to watch kind of funny games daily as always and that's a gift. Thanks for always being awesome and happy Thanksgiving. Well, happy birthday. Virgil Gol says Happy Thanksgiving. Thankful for all the daily free content. Happy to toss a couple of bucks. Killer sweater and pajama shirt respectively. Killer sweater and pajama shirt. Mine is also a sweater, you know. Yeah.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Now will you go to Nintendo store for the holidays? I got a new lineup, Greg. I gotta.

[Greg Miller]

I got the. I saw it in the Instagram feed. They had new. I'm like, God damn it.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I gotta go back there and check.

[Greg Miller]

This out, see what's going on.

[Snow Bike Mike]

What do you think? You think they'll have like sweaters and stuff? You think the one sweater they had.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't think looked that great. But I gotta go see. You gotta go see. Maybe they got a Tom Nook with a Santa I hat.

[Snow Bike Mike]

I'm hoping.

[Greg Miller]

I went to the Nintendo store the day after Halloween.

[Snow Bike Mike]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

And they were like, oh yeah, we had a gastly was here yesterday. You could have gotten your photo taken with them. They and I had missed that. They had done Pikachus that had a pumpkin hat. Hat or pumpkin body and little. And I was like there. I. He's like, oh, they sold out. I'm like, ah, I would have bought that. I love wasting money on stuff.

[Snow Bike Mike]

So we got to be mindful that they are doing fun things for the holidays.

[Greg Miller]

They are. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? We should probably make it. Barrett, every day on your way to work, drive to the Nintendo store and find out what's happening before you come here. So we're up on everything. Please. Thank you. Barrett.

[Snow Bike Mike]

That's the opposite. Opposite direction.

[Greg Miller]

But Barry, it's cool. You got it. Don't worry about it, everybody. Those are all the super chats. We covered all the your wrongs. Which means it's time to end this episode of Kinda funny Games Daily. Your nerdy news in the video game industry each and every weekday. Remember, we are off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving here in America, but your programming day is far from done. We're about to roll into the kind of funny games cast and talk about the 10 games that define kinda funny before me. Mike and Andy drop in arc raiders and torture some people or get embarrassed. Remember, of course, like subscribe share, ring the bell. If you got AM prime, you've got Twitch Prime. Give us that free subscription. Of course, if you want to go the extra mile and give us a Thanksgiving miracle, go pick up your kinda funny membership. Patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kinda funnygames Apple, Spotify, get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me and of course get good karma. For now though, until next time. It's been our pleasure to serve you.