New Horizon Game Live Reaction! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.05.26

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.05.26 – New Horizon Game Live Reaction!

Date: February 5, 2026
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Greg Miller
Main Theme:
A live, unfiltered reaction to the announcement of “Horizon Hunters Gathering,” Guerrilla Games’ new co-op Horizon title, plus major news including Valve’s Steam Machine delay, Fallout Season 2 review, and rapid-fire gaming news.

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Episode Overview

Today’s episode is a mix of major game news and hands-on reactions. The centerpiece is a full live watch and reaction to the new Horizon game announcement, followed by thoughtful analysis, community feedback, and game industry insight. The team shares candid takes, questions the direction of established franchises, and ponders the future of hardware amidst industry shake-ups.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Programming Note / Nintendo Direct

• 00:59: The crew clarifies they will NOT break down the Nintendo Direct here (“…go to Gamescast for that breakdown”), keeping KF Games Daily focused on other big stories (incl. Horizon, Steam hardware, Fallout S2).
• 2:17: Greg and Blessing discuss how today’s late, rearranged podcast schedule came to be due to breaking news.

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2. New Horizon Game: “Horizon Hunters Gathering”

Live Reaction & Deep Dive

[2:49 – 22:38]

Initial Blind Reactions

• 02:49: “[We] haven’t seen anything about this. What we're going to do is watch the entire 9-minute video.” – Blessing
• Names & First Impressions
  • Neither host likes the name “Horizon Hunters Gathering.”
    • 03:54: Blessing: “I don’t like how that rolls off the tongue.”
    • 03:56: Greg: “No… It makes it sound like I’m gathering berries out there, which I might be in the game, but like, I don’t know.”
    • They brainstorm alternative titles, highlighting “Steel Frontiers” and “Horizon Machine Breakers” as cooler options.

Art Style & Vibes

• 05:41: Blessing: “Very colorful.”
• 05:48: Greg: “You know what it looks like? Monster Hunter Stories.”
• Continued Reaction: Both are surprised by the cartoonish, vibrant art direction—Greg draws “Monster Hunter” comparisons, while Blessing notes how it doesn’t feel like traditional Horizon.

Game Structure & Systems

• 09:52–14:48: Presentation from Guerrilla (Jan Bart Van Beek & Ryan Buck) is played; key points:
  • Not abandoning single-player, but this is a new, separate co-op action experience.
  • Set in the American West, 1,000 years post-collapse, focusing on teams of “hunters.”
  • Classes include tanks, infiltrators, supports, with customizable builds (roguelite elements, class changes mid-run).
  • Two modes at launch:
    • “Machine Incursion”: horde mode with waves/bosses.
    • “Cauldron Descent”: multi-stage dungeon with choices, obstacles, and team upgrades.
  • Playtest is coming (late February), closed beta via PlayStation Beta Program for PS5/PC with crossplay and cross-progression.

Immediate Impressions & Analysis

• 14:42–19:19:
  • Blessing: Questions whether “Horizon” is the right IP or if this could stand as its own game; wonders if Sony is overvaluing the franchise.
  • Greg: Excited by the co-op, roguelite formula and colorful world; says “I could see myself getting into that, I hope it works.”
  • Comparison to “Monster Hunter,” “Dauntless,” and “Elden Ring: Night Rain.”
  • Both are fans of the art, mechanics, and tactical team play, but voice skepticism about the Horizon branding and the choice of title.

Community Questions & Naming Debate

• 21:28: “[The] dumb title...Horizon Hunters Gathering does not strike.”—Greg
• Community (SuperChat) agrees the title could be better; further alternatives are joked about.

Monetization & Success Potential

• 24:51: Monetization is uncertain; both speculate on a $40 price, similar to “Marathon” or “Elden Ring: Night Rain,” and express hope it won’t be gacha-heavy.
• 25:58: Greg: “You follow the strat that you’ve had so far…[Concord, Marathon] is going for that $40 price tag.”
• Success Outlook: Both think it has potential, especially for fun, drop-in cooperative play—should be approachable for less hardcore players.

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3. Valve’s Steam Machine & Hardware Delay

[29:25 – 42:26]

Summary & Reactions

• Worldwide RAM/SSD shortage is causing major delays & price increases for Valve’s Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR, and Controller.
• 32:35: Blessing: “Everything is lining up, man. We're about to drop some fire in 2026. Then everything that could possibly go wrong...goes wrong.”
• Valve aiming for first half of the year, but feels uncertain.
• 36:21: Greg floats possibility of hardware cancellation if market conditions don’t improve: “[Valve has] more money than God…They don’t have to do this and take a loss.”

Implications

• Bleak outlook for hardware, including Xbox (rumored PlayStation 6 and next-gen Microsoft hardware also impacted).
• Spirited debate about the price point ($900–$1,100?), feasibility, and the very concept of affordable, living-room PC gaming.

Notable Quote

• 40:09: “All the kids want PCs now…that’s what the streamers use.” —Blessing

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4. Fallout Season 2 Review (SPOILER-FREE)

[42:28–50:25]

Topline Thoughts

• General consensus: Good, not great.
• Season two moves into New Vegas but adds too many characters and plotlines.
• Mike: “I think we lost the core of Lucy out in the wasteland…added maybe too many ingredients to the pot that was simmering.”
• Vault scenes and extra characters dilute the show; flashbacks don’t hit as hard as in season one.
• New Vegas setting feels “underserved”; Deathclaw sequences are fun but lack the weight/fear factor of the games.
• All agree the show remains worth watching, but season three needs to consolidate and drive toward a stronger narrative focus.

Notable Quotes

• 46:40: Greg: “The brother’s storyline this entire season…pretty much a waste.”
• 47:31: Blessing: “…felt almost like more of an intermission season than [driving] toward something big here.”

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5. Rapid Fire News

[52:41–61:00]

Highlights:

• Starfield PS5 port rumor (April 7): Hosts are lukewarm, noting most who care already played it, but acknowledge business logic for hitting a bigger audience.
• Ghost of Yote surpasses Ghost of Tsushima’s sales: Another “boring success,” per Blessing, but evidence of Sucker Punch’s expanding appeal.
• Sumo Digital layoffs, QuakeCon 2026, Metroid Prime 4 hits 1M sales, Exit 8 game gets film adaptation.
• Fun aside: Debating potential for more diverse PlayStation IP cross-media projects (Returnal as a movie, reboots/remakes for others).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• 03:56 Blessing (on the game title): “I don’t like how that rolls off the tongue.”
• 08:15 Greg (after the trailer): “What I’m gonna tell you straight off the dome: outside of the name, it can only go down from here. That was a great trailer.”
• 19:45 Blessing (reading press release): “Crossplay and cross-progression support. Which is pretty cool. I love that.”
• 21:31 Greg (on the title): “Yes. Dumb title.”
• 24:13 Greg (on Hunter’s Gathering’s odds): “Everything I saw there looked fun. I won’t know till we’re on sticks, obviously, but that looked like a lot of fun.”
• 33:22 Greg (on Valve situation): “All the best plans and intentions, and then just fucking torpedoed by this RAM bullshit and the AI goddamn wave that’s ruining everybody’s life.”
• 46:05 Greg (on Fallout S2): “It really hurt not having a…this is what we’re trying to do [plot-wise]. Too many characters that then had their own [plots]. Where are we going?”
• 47:31 Blessing (on Fallout S2): “I feel more excited for next season, as far as what we’re doing, plot-wise and content-wise, than I am for the season I’m in currently.”
• 59:49 Blessing (on GoTY): “There’s a category of game I’ll put in like, boring success…Ghost of Yote came out, was more Ghost of Tsushima…people like it, they’ll buy it.”

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 02:49 – News kicks off: “Horizon Hunters Gathering” revealed
• 03:50 – Title/impression discussion
• 05:36 – Live trailer watch begins
• 09:52 – Guerrilla developers present the game
• 14:21 – Gameplay impressions & roguelite analysis
• 19:45 – Press release details & crossplay/cross-progression
• 21:28 – Community/host reaction to the title
• 24:51 – Monetization speculation & success potential
• 29:25 – Steam Machine/Valve hardware delays
• 42:28 – Fallout Season 2 review (spoiler-free)
• 52:41 – Starfield PS5 port & rapid-fire news
• 59:13 – Ghost of Yote sales analysis
• 61:42 – Wii News channel: quick news items

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Tone & Style

Conversational, sarcastic, and enthusiastic, with deep dives and playful banter. The hosts are quick to call out questionable marketing decisions, industry trends, and the perpetual weirdness of hardware cycles, all while keeping audience engagement high via SuperChats and hot takes.

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In Summary

Biggest Takeaways:

• Horizon Hunters Gathering: A bold, vibrant multiplayer reinvention with roguelite elements, Monster Hunter vibes, and a divisive (but memorable) debut—held back only by its awkward name and branding questions.
• Industry Shifts: Hardware delays, rising costs, and uncertain futures for value-oriented PC/console hardware, with Valve and Microsoft feeling the squeeze.
• Fallout S2: Entertaining but overstuffed, the show loses focus, leaving fans hungry for a more cohesive third season.
• Sony Hits: Familiar successes; Horizon continues to expand, but even the hosts question whether Sony is over-indexing on the IP at the expense of others.

For fans who missed the episode:
This is a must-listen for anyone interested in PlayStation’s new multiplayer experiment, real-time media reactions, and the turbulent hardware landscape. Expect strong opinions, lively chat interaction, and the kind of real “games industry talk” that Kinda Funny is known for.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Free and our exclusive shows go to patreon.com kinda funny today's gaming news stories include a new Horizon game has been announced, the Steam machine has been delayed, and our review of Fallout season two. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Thursday, February 5, 2026. I want your host, Blessing Addie Oye Jr. Joining me is the legend, Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Hello Blessing, how are you doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well Greg, how are you doing?

[Greg Miller]

I'm excellent. I'm juiced. I know it wasn't a great Nintendo direct, but I love live reacting and I love great conversations about games and about directs and so we're really late in the day to be doing Games Daily, let alone the games ca. But I'm stoked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm very stoked to talk about this. Even though I say I'm stoked. I feel like I came in and out of the Nintendo Direct with cranky energy and I feel like I'm gonna carry that into story number one.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here. I'm trying not to be, but I think it's just the one of like, you know, I didn't sleep all last night.

[Greg Miller]

Dial that back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Uh huh.

[Greg Miller]

Be what you gotta be. I don't mean to come in and tell you how to be. You gotta be cranky today. Be cranky Kong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think I appreciate it? I appreciate it. I don't know if I didn't get enough sleep or it's that, that I didn't start my day off right or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

But sure, I mean a McGriddle, how can you go wrong?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is true. The McGriddle did upgrade where my day was.

[Greg Miller]

Breakfast. You're about to have pizza for lunch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, I'm going back to the old me. But enough about that. Remember of course, if you're watching live, be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega, Buster and Delaney, the Psalm Twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today, starting with our number one. Firstly, I'll say if you're Coming into KFCD and you're like, oh, I can't wait to hear them talk about the Nintendo direct and break down all the news. I have good news for you. We're not talking about that here. We have a whole episode of Gamescast that you can go to.

[Greg Miller]

Go get it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, we did that right before this breaking down.

[Greg Miller]

All the announcements, reacted, then broke it down, reviewed it like we always do. And what's also interesting to call out, of course, is that we weren't going to do games daily today. Yeah, the idea was, well, we'll do game. Originally it was supposed to be gamescast. Was going to be the Fallout review today, period. Then Nintendo announces their thing. Okay, we'll do Nintendo. Then we'll do a Gamescast of all Fallout review for season two. Then I came in, I was like, hey, with the Steam Machine news from last night, we should. And Roger's like, well, the Horizon stuff this morning, I'm like, I don't even know what you're talking about. Yeah. And it was like, all right, we should do a games daily. So we'll do Fallout conversations here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was the fun things of story number one. Horizon Hunters Gathering has been revealed.

[Greg Miller]

You and I have been offline all day long. Yeah, we don't know what we're getting into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We got the instructions yesterday. Greg even put it on Slack at 9pm last night. Hey, don't check the Internet when you wake up this morning. That way we react to the Nintendo Direct at 10:00am and so. Yeah, it wasn't until Roger said, oh yeah, the Hunt. The Horizon game. The Horizon game that I've been waiting on an announcement for. For what feels like a forever.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's been legit years of us being like, all right, what is this Gorilla Horizon multiplayer game with a brand new art style. That's co op multiplayer that they've been talking about.

[Greg Miller]

Have you seen the art style I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Saw Key like our thumbnail.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. That's all I've seen. That's what I saw too. In between shows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. And so me and Greg haven't seen anything about this. What we're going to do is watch the entire 9 minute video I believe.

[Greg Miller]

Is which is them sounds like it's narrated. So it doesn't sound. If you're an audio listener. It's not like you're gonna hear nothing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exactly. It looks like it's almost 10 minutes actually them breaking down what Horizon Hunters Gathering is which already the top. What do you think about that name?

[Greg Miller]

This name Horizon Hunters Gathering.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't like how that rolls off the tongue.

[Greg Miller]

No. Because, I mean, for years we have all Hunter. Hunter, gatherer. Right. We know, like they're making a play on that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I don't like it. It makes it sound like I'm gathering berries out there, which I might be in the game, but it's like, I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't like it better. What did it. Did they. Did we ever get the name of the, like, NetEase MMO? Not Net Ease, Net Marble Marvel. No. Do we ever get the name of that mmo? You know the one I'm talking about.

[Greg Miller]

The one that they got sued. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no, not the one that. Didn't they announce another one? Didn't we see like a 10 minute video?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of a different one. Yeah. NCsoft. NCsoft.

[Greg Miller]

Steel Frontiers. Horizon Steel Frontiers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, that's cooler.

[Greg Miller]

That's a better name. Yeah, but maybe, maybe we're gonna see this and it'll all make sense. Like. Oh, that makes sense. I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, Kevin, hit play on this thing.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, Jesus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just spills coffee everywhere.

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

Hi, everyone. I'm Jan Bart Van Beek. I'm the studio director here at Guerrilla Now. At Guerrilla, we love exploring the Horizon universe. And with every new project, we ask ourselves, where can we take it?

[Greg Miller]

Looks just like a store. Look at the untouched PlayStation VR. Two units in the back.

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

And we heard many of you wondering, but what is Guerrilla working on? And today we get to show you. Before we dive in, I want to be very clear about one thing. We absolutely love making single player games. And we're going to keep making them. They're a huge part of who we are as a studio. But next to that, we also had this long standing dream to try to do something different. Our own take on how you can explore the world of Horizon together as a team of machine hunters. It's something new. It stands on its own. But it's also still very much Horizon. Let's take a look at how this new journey begins.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

From the ashes of the old world.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very colorful.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Very cartoony.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

Came machines for ages.

[Greg Miller]

You know what it looks like? Monster hunter stories.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

They were the Guardians.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Who gets subtitles.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

Of the natural world and they turn to gay instance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The subtitles are cut off to people on YouTube. Oh, turn them off then. I was trying to do that for them.

[Greg Miller]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Great.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

By the day, All across the land.

[Greg Miller]

Is that one guy.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

Remember, people are dying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's not Ross.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

That's why our leader.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's her Command Aloi.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

We fight back. And to do that, we need a team. Soldiers who always hold the line. And mercenaries who may have crossed it now and then.

[Greg Miller]

That's cool. Tank infiltrators.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

Who hide in the dark. And champions. Who shine in the light. Fucking woke bullshit whose stories just beginning. And legends looking for one last shot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Brother. What is the gameplay?

[Greg Miller]

You. I mean, it's 10 minutes. We're gonna get it.

[Narrator (Horizon Hunters Gathering Trailer)]

The last line of defense for those who need it most. Made up of the greatest hunters in the land. This is Hunters Gathering.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, so can we pause right here? What I'm gonna tell you straight off the dome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Outside of the name, it can only go down from here. I think that was a great trailer. That was exciting. But is this a hero thing? A shooter? Can I customize it all or is it just these people? What's the gameplay gonna look like? What are we getting into? I like what I just saw and I'm anticipating what comes in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My thing is, I like what we just saw. I don't know if I like Horizon being this. It's one of those things where if this is a new IP or if this was based off of something I had more of an investment with, with the world and the characters and all that, I. I think I'd be more into this. When I look at this, I don't think Horizon, like, there's a Horizon part.

[Greg Miller]

Because, like, I was worried when they talked about this multiplayer game from Guerrilla, it was going to look like Horizon and it was going to be 3 not Aloy Aloys where I'm just running around the bow and arrow and the big stick and yada yada. The fact they're like, here's a stealth class, here's a tank class, here's. I'm like, okay, but is it about. Are we about to see a fucking. I got an MMO and I got three lanes. I mean, based off mobile lanes. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I mean, I would imagine that this is going to be more Monster Hunter. Like, hopefully. I know people already know, but like, I'm.

[Greg Miller]

We know, but it's fun. Is it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You know, I would hope that it's that, but then that I feel like that doesn't meld with, let's see what we just saw. But let's see, let's see. But yeah, so far I'm like, man, what a great animated art style. I almost wish it was for something else.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Fair.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Even though I love Horizon, it's not even that I'm hating on it because It's Horizon. I'm more so. It's like I, I almost wonder how PlayStation views horizon. I feel like PlayStation views horizon higher than it actually is.

[Greg Miller]

I would agree with that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Alright, hit play.

[Greg Miller]

Thanks, Kevin.

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

So, yes, we're going with a very different look here and that's very much by design. Horizon Hunter's Gathering is a very dynamic co op action game. We've tuned the combat so it works really well for a team of hunters and we believe that works best when supported by an art style that really matches that energy. We're going to be showing you more gameplay in a minute, so you can judge that for yourself. Now, one more thing before we continue. This game is still very much in development. Some things are going to be polished, others are still going to change. And that's exactly why we want to bring you in this early. So stay tuned because we want to invite you to come and help playtest the game with us and be part of giving the game its final shape.

[Greg Miller]

Early access.

[Ryan Buck]

I'm Ryan Buck, game director at Guerrilla. With Hunters Gathering, we're bringing back what makes Horizon so unique. Set in the American West a thousand years from now, civilization has collapsed. The hunters are all that stand between the tribes and the massive animal like machines that threaten their survival. And the crisis is only getting worse. The machines have grown deadlier and they're more dangerous by the day. Someone has to step up and push back and that is the gathering.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

JPAPs in chat says.

[Greg Miller]

Reminds me of Dongless, which is actually machine threats.

[Ryan Buck]

We'll launch with a roster of hunters that grows over time. In our first playtest, you'll be able to play as Rem, Son and Axel, three hunters with very different approaches to combat and teamwork. Combat is at the core of Hunter's gathering.

[Greg Miller]

Attack.

[Ryan Buck]

It is tactical, reactive and skill based. Took the precision and tactical depth of Horizon's combat and built it for a team environment. You'll have to VEED enemy movements, time your attacks and combine abilities with your squad to take down the most powerful machines.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Ryan Buck]

It is a challenging game. You really have to earn that victory. Now, when you start a mission, you pick and prepare your hunter. Each has very different melee, ranged, playstyles and weapons. You can select between classes for each hunter that change their abilities from tank to support or tactician. During a hunt, you can tinker with a roguelike build system. Every machine encounter you beat gives you powerful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Say more. Okay. The three choices and various upgrades to.

[Ryan Buck]

Your stats in each run, you'll have to try and find the best Possible combination of power ups that take on the biggest machine. You'll be able to explore four large and very different environments at launch. Each with its own look, its own atmosphere, its own challenges for your squad to master. At the center of it all is the Hunter's Gathering. This is where you upgrade your gear, tweak your loadout and team up for the next hunt. It is also just a fun place. For example, you can hang out in your own customizable campsite and then head back into the wilds.

[Greg Miller]

Let's get out there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It feels part Monster Hunter and part Elden Ring Night Rain to me.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, interesting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Ryan Buck]

Horizon Hunter's Gathering. Like the Roguelite Structure challenge and mastery and the missions that you go on lean right into that. During our first play test, you'll get to try two various lights.

[Greg Miller]

I gotta imagine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so. It better be. I'm tired of games like this getting shown and people not being able to get their hands on it.

[Greg Miller]

He's telling us exactly what's in it. It's got to be what Next weekend.

[Ryan Buck]

Of the month with your squad, you plan and coordinate which randomized power ups to collect.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude. This is Elden Ring Night Rain.

[Ryan Buck]

Before facing a relentless boss machine, this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is Elden Ring Night Rain.

[Ryan Buck]

Time is limited with a violent storm closing in that cuts down your options to get stronger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is exactly Elden Ring Night Rain.

[Ryan Buck]

It's Cauldron Descent. In this multi stage dungeon, the Hunter style take the fight to the enemy. You decide which path to take. From brutal machine encounters to really challenging obstacles. They all require teamwork. Every chamber shapes your run and gives you power ups to descend deeper and claim the rewards. These modes are the foundation of Hunter Gathering. Tough, replayable and built for squads who want to master them. We'll continue to evolve them with your feedback throughout the our playtest.

[Greg Miller]

Story.

[Ryan Buck]

There is things you'll be able to play the story campaign solo with NPCs or together in co op. But that won't be part of the playtest. We want you to experience the story fresh when the game is ready. What we can say is that it's fully canon within the Rising universe. It introduces new characters, new threats and new mysteries.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is it canon in the Horizon universe? What are we doing? It doesn't look like.

[Ryan Buck]

Keep adding new adventures over time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When you meet Aloy, is it gonna be.

[Greg Miller]

She's just gonna say hey, that's why they're giving you him instead of Aloy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're like we can do more with Errand.

[Ryan Buck]

We hope you've enjoyed your first look at Horizon Hunters Gathering. We're beginning a journey and we're inviting all of you. Though it's still early days, you can expect more regular development updates and playtest announcements from us in the coming months. To stay in the loop on all of the latest news about the game. We've launched a brand new Horizon Hunters Gathering discord and social channels. We'd love to see TikTok from all of us.

[Greg Miller]

What are you doing on TikTok gather.

[Ryan Buck]

With the community joining us today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hang on.

[Ryan Buck]

The comments section is about taking on challenges together. We appreciate your help and we're just getting started.

[Greg Miller]

What's the play test?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on. You can't end.

[Greg Miller]

And we're gonna go back to more talking. Right? Wishlist now? Sure, of course. Oh, Steam too. PlayStation 5 there are you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't do that.

[Greg Miller]

Kidding me?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't do that.

[Greg Miller]

Are you fucking kidding me? I thought we were going back to the studio director. Are you fucking kidding?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You cannot do that. Hold on. I'm going to PlayStation because it better.

[Greg Miller]

Be a fucking order. Yeah, you know how PlayStation they better fucking say something in the fucking thing. We're not going to announce Document doesn't the document. Roger built the fucking Document doesn't the document. Hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I control f release or no early access playtest, both modes will be available in our upcoming closed play test.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. The first small scale closed playtest arrives at the end of February.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, there we go.

[Greg Miller]

Players can sign up via the PlayStation Beta program and mark their interest in any future Horizon Hunter Gathering play test on PC or PlayStation 5.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There we go.

[Greg Miller]

We are reading from the PlayStation email.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So first blush, thoughts? What do you think of Horizon Hunters Gathering?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, let's go. That looks cool. Really as a monster hunter guy like I like that kind of stuff and you're like it's Elden Ring and Night random. I never played that because I just don't like the Elden Ring world. I like. I do like the Horizon world and so having that and having three friends to run around with and horse around in the PlayStation community and Yada yada. Yeah, I could see my getting into that. I hope it works. The roguelite nature while that's like the more used to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's my thing.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not in terms of like this kind of game. Like I. I'm sure solo games and I get the three choices. A run with your group and like. Okay Mike, what are you picking? All right, I'll pick this to augment that so we can come together and do this big thing to take on whoever the boss is for this mission. That sounds cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think you're gonna love this. Eldering Night Rain. Of course you're not into like the Elden Ring world, so I totally understand. Yeah, I think there's something about the gameplay loop where it is. All right, we're hop we've hopped into this map. All right, let's collect the items as we're trying to upgrade our characters. And it's nice to have somebody who's the point, whether it be Andy or Mike. Not me. I'm not opening up the map.

[Greg Miller]

I'm just there for the ride.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so like, you know, jumping over here. All right, let's take out the enemies in this place. Let's collect the things, I move on to the next thing and then end up at that boss fight toward the end of the that round or whatever. Very fun gameplay loop that I was actually surprised by the more I played Night Rain and how they did it. I'm excited to see that gorilla had a very similar idea here. Obviously there's differences. It's not 100% by any means, but there's enough of it there that I think can translate to a game that is more approachable because Elden Ring just not approachable for the average. Like if you're somebody who's more of laid back or doesn't want that like tough, punishing action that you get in a from software game.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think having that same gameplay loop and something that more people can mess with, something that more people can. Can approach, could work out really well. I'm super into this. This is a game that I think speaks to me for the things that I say that regard Night Rain. But then also, I'll be honest, I really like the art style. I really like how it presents. I think everything here feels thoughtful in a way where I'm like, damn, I like the bright vividness of this world. I my one thing with it and this isn't a complaint from my end. It's more so just of an observation slash question, which is why is this Horizon? I think you could have made this a new ip. I understand that everything is IP based nowadays. We got to connect it to something and make it part of the canon. That way it has some sort of base in sales or whatever. I feel like my opinion that kind of speaks to a lack of the belief in the idea of this game because I. I think this could stand on its own two legs. And this being Horizon does I don't think does much for the audience of people who like her.

[Greg Miller]

Back to the thing. Like it looks like Dauntless, right? Which is closed up now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So it's like it's. I mean we've seen a new IP come out and do that and not resonate.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

I think for PlayStation in these challenging economic headwinds, they are committed to using their IP but using them in different spaces. Again, I was very much expecting a multiplayer Horizon game that just looked like Horizon and that didn't excite me. The characters here, the art here, the animations of the big roaring monsters. Like my God. Fuck. Now I could see having a lot of fun with this and actually getting out there and running short missions and doing the thing and run it back. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Read some of the More More of this email. Go for our email. This comes directly from our emails. Guerrilla today announced a new chapter in the Horizon universe. Horizon Hunters Gathering in development for both PS5 and PC with crossplay and cross regression support. Which is pretty cool. I love that.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Horizon Hunters Gathering is a co op action game that lets three players team up as heroic hunters to protect a world under threat from deadly machines. Combat is tactical, reactive and deeply skill based, building on the tactical precision of the Horizon games while embracing the dynamics of team play. The foundations of Horizon Hunters Gathering centers on challenging replayable hunts. So far two game modes have been revealed. Machine Incursion, which is a high intensity mission in which waves of machines pour out from underground gateways led by a formidable boss. And then Cauldron Descent, a longer multi stage trial wherever where everchanging rooms push hunters to their limits. From brutal machine encounters to hidden doors that promise power and rewards for team teams prepared to open them. Both modes will be available in our upcoming close P play test through the PlayStation Beta program on PS5 and PC. They go on to talk about the roster of uniquely skilled hunters, each with distinct melee and ranged play styles and weapons and select hunter roles further embedded with a Rog Light perk system to craft the build that best suits your style and your team. I'm going to pause there because I feel like the most. The more I read of this, more we've already covered here. I'm very. Yeah, I'm very curious on this. I'm going to jump into Super Super Chats because of course we got people writing in Super Chat because they got thoughts. I mean Bander SN firstly writes in and says is this game blessed or unimpressed so far? Blessed, yeah, so far I'm more positive on this thing that I thought I'd be coming into this. Jeff Bolt Jr says. Can't wait to not remember how to say this name forever. It looks interesting, though.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now that you've seen more of the game, do you still feel the same way about the title?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Dumb title.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I understand what you're driving at. It's a Horizon multiplayer and you're Gathering as Hunters. But, like, come on. Yeah. That's not an exciting title, especially for, like, cool as the art style is. And more than even the art style. The style, even when they were going through, like, story, character, whatever they wrote, and it had the same font, it kind of looked like infamous first light. Like, ooh, I like the vibe you're giving in a Horizon Hunters Gathering. Doesn't. Does not. That doesn't strike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want a cooler name, you know? Like, I feel like Steel. Steel Frontiers stole the cool one.

[Greg Miller]

Let's. Let's burn the tree.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want something.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, we got to say this game, they want to keep Hunters, they want to keep multiplayer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It feels extreme to me. I almost want, like, an X in there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, Horizon Hunter's party. You know what I mean? Like, party up. Like, I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, Horizon Hunters is not. Is not bad.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It feels a little bit generic, but it's not even.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Banner essence. Horizon Machine breakers. I think that's a better time, too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Breakers. That's the word right there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Horizon Breakers.

[Greg Miller]

The Steel Hunt.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Horizon X. Defiant. I'm bringing in one more super chat from Ty Wilkins, VO they say longtime Monster Hunter fan since the original. Original. Was excited for the game, being a Horizon fan, but from the trailer, they didn't make a Monster Hunter game. I'm interested, but I don't think I'll pick it up. Hope a test will change my mind. Yeah. For you, as somebody who's super into Monster Hunter and I think we've all been like, oh, yeah, Horizon would lend itself well to a Monster Hunter style game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does this speak to that in you at all?

[Greg Miller]

It speaks to it in, I think, a more casual, less invested way. I'm taking a lot of liberties from what we just saw.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

But that roguelike nature, switching out your builds, all that jazz. Like, I see the XP bar that they were filling in and stuff, but I don't know, are we grinding monsters to build the better armor so I can go and take on the, you know, all the Monster Hunter shit? This looks like it's jump in with your friends, choose the thing you're doing, this thing, you got a great build this time, and then you go back and you use that XP to augment whatever you're doing. I don't. It doesn't strike me as much as I'm going to be playing that for six hours straight on a stream, as much as it's going to be like, oh, man, before bed, I'm going to hit up Richie and we're going to go run two of these and I'm going to clock out in 30 minutes. Done with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another one from El Capitan 2293 says the game's not for me, but I believe the gacha gamers will eat it up. Not everything has to be for me, just for enough people. How do you feel as far as the potential of this game to end up being a success? I think there was a lot of trepidation when we walked in this morning and people out there were talking about Horizon multiplayer. And I see people in chat that were like, I don't know, do you think that this has the potential to hit for people?

[Greg Miller]

I do, I do. I think I. Everything I saw there looked fun. I won't know till we're on sticks, obviously, but that looked like a lot of fun. And again, I don't know if it requires the investment so many multiplayer games do in terms of like, okay, cool, like, you got to get good at this. It's going to take a while. Yada, yada, yada. That more cartoony art style and what looked to be action gameplay I think lends itself to. You're going to feel empowered right away. And yes, you'll have to come up with strategies for the bigger, crazier bosses or whatever.

[Mike]

But.

[Greg Miller]

But even that, it doesn't. That's like when they showed the dungeons in the trailer and they were talking about like, this is where you're going to rerun it with your team. And yeah, that's when the sicko psychos get into it, where everybody else could just go in and have a colorful good time with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's talk about monetization.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, El Capitan here mentions Gotcha. I don't think they even talked about any sort of gotcha mechanics in this thing at all. Which makes me wonder, what are we talking about as far as, is this going to be a $40 game, $50 game, free to play with cosmetics? Like, where do we stand on this?

[Greg Miller]

That is a great question that I was wondering about too, is, yeah, what are you going to do in terms of a price point on this and where would you put it and what would you do? I mean, I'm so outside of my wheelhouse on. Because you wouldn't want to charge for heroes, right? That doesn't strike me as what you'd want to do with this. I know it can happen. The people do it. I think you do put a price tag on this. I think you do sell it. And I would think it's that $40 entry point they've been putting a lot of stuff at. I think that's where the sweet spot kind of would be on this of like, here's a fun. Sink your teeth into it multiplayer experience. A whole bunch of different people were not, you know, pay to winning on that. There isn't a battle pass. There is going to be, I'm sure, cosmetics to get in, you know, preorder bonuses. But I don't. It doesn't strike me as one. You go, okay, no, I need to make all that money up front.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think, I think $40 for this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think you follow the strat that you've had so far, even though it failed miserably with Concord, but Marathon still is going for that $40 price tag. I think with this as PlayStation, I don't. I don't think you want to devalue your IP and your characters by making it a thing of, hey, this game is free to play, but you can pay $20 for Aloy playable and you know, I'll buy this character that you like for $15 or whatever. Like they're on the battle pass. I think that leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. Of course they're going to go after what makes them the most money. However, I do think that they could get away with this for $40 because like if we remove ourselves from the Internet conversations of Horizon, Horizon Zero dawn, the franchise is very popular, very high selling for PlayStation. Elden Ring.

[Greg Miller]

Does this show come out? No, I was just kidding. They canceled. That didn't. That didn't go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, the Horizon. I mean. But I think it's back on the table, isn't it?

[Greg Miller]

Is it?

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

I don't remember.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think so. But you look at Elden Ring, Night Rain, that came out $40. I see some of the parallels here between those two games and Elden Ring, of course, is. Is an IP name, right? That is something that fromsoftware looks at and they're like, elden Ring, sellable name. Horizon for PlayStation. Yeah, sellable name. I think you can get the $40 in for that.

[Greg Miller]

I agree. And again, I think if the game, I think these play tests are smart because if you get in and the game is fun and it is left one of those, man, I wish we were still playing that. When is that dropping? When's the next play test? When's the thing? And we see these changes in, you know, additions and what the next worlds look like and all that jazz. I mean for a first blush, you've never heard of this game before. That was a really intense trailer of how much stuff's going on in the four different worlds and yada yada, like, they seem confident in this and from what I'm seeing, I think they should be that I'm not that. Well, I guess I am that gamer. But like it's hard for me to be like, oh, multiplayer game. Fuck yeah. Like I look at that, I'm like, that looks like a lot of fun now. Does it look like six months of fun? Probably not. But like I'm down for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

People in chat are also mentioning Horizon is a boom. You know they're doing a movie.

[Greg Miller]

My apologies. How can I keep up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How can you forget? Greg? Yes, we're gonna move on story number two, but before we do, I want to tell you about patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funny games where you can go and get the Kinda Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And we're back with story number two. The memory shortage has come for Valve's Steam Machine.

[Greg Miller]

What a I know we're but it just what a timely thing where yesterday me and Mike were out here talking about when next Xbox is coming and I was like listen, this is all part of the thing and I feel bad. Microsoft and I and I literally said and also Steam. Aren't we supposed to know the Steam Machine price? I wonder if they're dealing with this. And here we are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm reading from Kyle Barr at Gizmodo. Valve has now confirmed our worst fears. All of the Steam Hardware, Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR headset and Steam controller it announced in November is delayed by a few months because of the creeping influence of the ongoing memory shortage. In a post on the official Steam Hardware blog, Valve said it needs to revisit pricing for all three devices. Scary. Especially the machine.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we got to be bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, especially the Steam Machine Hybrid PC console and Steam Frame VR headset. Alas, the limited availability and growing prices of these critical components, namely RAM and SSD storage, have rapidly increased from only a few days ago. The company still promises to ship in the first half of the year. AMD CEO Lisa Su also confirmed the Steam Machine would arrive early this year. This news shouldn't come as a shock if you've been following the rapid price.

[Greg Miller]

Fluctuations and you person watching and listening to kind of funny games daily have. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of practically all PC components that use memory, modern high end DRAM that's dynamic random access memory now costs 500% more than it did a few months ago in some cases. SSDs aka solid state drives have seen prices increase regularly since the start of the year. The memory issue has also impacted the discrete GPU market, especially Nvidia's latest 50 series graphic cards. Quote Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed, the company wrote in the blog post. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change. End quote. VAL is only hinted at a possible price, telling some outlets it would position the Steam Machine close to the entry level PC space that that would have indicated a price of around $700 or even $800 at least. As for performance, Valve reiterated in its blog post that the Steam Machine should be able to handle the majority of Steam titles at 4K and 60 FPS while relying on AMD FSR upscaling technology. This wouldn't be fabled FSR Redstone. Unfortunately, since the semi custom AMD chip on the Steam machine is based on the rDNA 3.5 GPU micro architecture rather than the more recent rDNA 4, some games may run better if you push FSR to render games at a 4. 1080p resolution before bringing it to 4K. As long as Valve can promise a minimum acceptable performance for most modern games, the Steam machine may still make more sense to prospective gaming PC buyers as a cheaper alternative to buying overinflated PC components. Knowing the skyrocketing price of RAM, the everyday console buyer may find Valve's 6x6 inch gaming machine is still out of reach.

[Greg Miller]

Man, what a nightmare.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And you can cut it from any way you want. And I know, oh, Greg is always feeling bad for corporations, but like Valve, trying their best, trying to make a machine to answer what some people want, get you a PC in your house, make it easy, yada, yada yada, take the lessons of the Steam deck and put them into this thing, all the best plans and intentions, and then just fucking torpedoed by this RAM bullshit and the AI goddamn wave that's ruining everybody's life. And then of course us, the consumer, who are like, all right, cool, this sounds exciting. And from the announcement, people being like, this is going to be too expensive to buy. You know what I mean? I know it's already out of my realm when I'm, you know, I'm making the same amount of money, but it's going even shorter distances now because of fucking inflation throughout the goddamn world. And then just like, man, see man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You talk about feeling bad for the corporations, right? For me, it's feeling bad for a hardware team that worked best intentions, had the best intentions and were probably like, yo, Steam machine, the, the Steam frame, the controller, we got this lineup that's going to define the next generation of Valve. And everything is lining up, man. We're about to drop some fire in 2026. And then all of a sudden just everything that could go, that could possibly go wrong for this thing goes wrong.

[Greg Miller]

To where you talk and in a way of like, you can't predict this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

You couldn't predict this part of it. Right? It's like, God damn.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To the consumer side, you know, this is something, I think all of us, from the announcement of this, we're like, oh, this is exciting, I'm in. Because we like, we like Valve hardware, we like The Steam machine or we like the, the Steam deck. And there's promise here as far as being able to take your PC experience and just have it in the living.

[Greg Miller]

Room at home and making that more and putting that within reach of the common gamer, the player, making it affordable PC and doesn't want to build a, or buy a $6,000, $4,000 custom made rig or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think that that gap between putting this out at 700 or $800 is meaningful when we're talking about potentially getting upward to 1000 1100, $1200. Like that is the difference between success.

[Greg Miller]

And failure where you start making that argument, right? Of if you are that common gamer, right or common person, right? I'm just like, well come on now, I already have a PlayStation or I was looking at a PlayStation and it's this, it's $500 less than this thing. And yeah, it doesn't play all those games but it plays enough of them and it plays them in a really good frame rate. I don't need to be worrying about the benefits of PC gaming of the Steam sales or the, you know how early stuff comes there and that, that like this is so scary when you think about yesterday's headline about Xbox and AMD and like, oh, we'll have the chip ready to go in 2027 and then the rumor from last week of PlayStation 6 being punted backwards, right? Of like with all this shit happening, we're not even worrying about the PlayStation 6. You really go like, cool. What is the chilling effect of all this? When will you actually see, I mean fucking this week's report that the sw, you know, and then the president, like when does president saying hey, we're not going to raise the price of the Switch, but we're not against it when they're talking about RAM and everything. Yeah, it's just like you are. We are in such a fucked up place right now for consoles and video games in general. But is it going to be that everybody goes fuck, stop, we're stopping here for a while. PlayStation 5, Xbox, whatever the Xbox is, switch to PC. We're building these games. We aren't at a point financially as a world where we're going to be able to go and go to that next level like we've done every other eight years.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So where do you, if you're going to predict if we're going to take a stop here at Speculation Station. When do you expect the Steam machine and let's just say the Steam hardware slate to thank you, thank you thank you so much. To when do you expect it to drop? And what price point do you think the steam machine comes out of?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God. It's like, do I want to, like, be conservative or do I want to be crazy? You know, I believe what they're saying here, ok? I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that they just don't do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It, that they just cancel it. Oh, shit.

[Greg Miller]

Think about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Honestly, I was thinking the same thing.

[Greg Miller]

Think about what we're dealing with. I know it's a crazy statement, I know it's a fucking crazy statement, but think about who we're dealing with. We're dealing with Valve, which. More money than God. They don't have to worry about shareholders. They're not. Like, it can literally be like, hey, we're still updating, prices keep increasing. We. It's. It's. Here's what. Because here's what it is right now to buy the RAM and do the thing and yada, yada, what is it going to be in three months? We could be better, could be worse. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility to see Gabe and everybody but Gabe be like, cool, we're just not going to do this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's what I'll say, because I'm going to defend you from somebody in chat who says, I can't read the username, but they say Greg always thinks stuff will be canceled. I guess Greg has a good track record, though. I feel like most of the time when Greg says this thing's going to be canceled, it ends up being canceled.

[Greg Miller]

And again, also could, could be canceled. I think we don't talk about that enough. And like, yeah, a lot of times the kids don't become KUDs reality. But, like, I think Valve is in an interesting situation where, like, they really don't need to go, they don't have to do this. They don't have to do this and take a loss and then get fucking yelled at by everybody that it's too expensive. And because what are they going to say? Yeah, I know it's too expensive. The world sucks. What do you want me to do? You know what I mean? Like, this isn't something we wanted to do. We're not trying to charge you that much. This is where we're at for the reality of situation. So, yeah, do you want to pass that on to the consumer? Do you want to eat into your own brand goodwill? What do you want to be with that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm Going to predict June.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It comes out, I'm going to say the Steam machine. And this is me trying to be hopeful. I think it comes out $900, but there's no controller pack in. If you want to buy the controller, you buy it separately for $100.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That way, for the, for those who want to buy them together, you're paying $1,000.

[Greg Miller]

See? And back to the conversation of at what point for Valve slash, everybody does it just become untenable. You hit $1,000 and you're like, well, fuck. Like, this is no longer what we're looking for, a gateway, an affordable gateway to PC gaming on your tv. Because there's. We all love PC gaming here. It's not hard to plug the PCs we have into CVS. It's just the thing of, for so many people, as it was for me before a couple different machines, there's too many hoops to jump through. They're trying to make a hoopless thing, but they're gonna get there, be like, whatever. It's like, I saw this and I have again, I'm way out of school on all of this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

But as you all know, not to brag, I am an executive member at Costco and so I follow the Costco subreddits and at some point somebody had put out the PC. Costco was selling like a grand or eleven hundred bucks. And somebody's like, is this good? And people were like, listen, if you were to buy that memory card, it's like at that price alone. So yes, it is. Like, that's the kind of like math people are doing to math this out. And so again, back to it, a Valve being like, yeah, it's $1,100 now. All right, well, what's an eleven hundred dollar tower look like right now? And is it better than the Steam machine, which I would argue it is. And like, what is your messaging and how are you doing it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think what you need to do is put out a piece of PC hardware that is just going to come under what any other PC hardware is going to be. Right? Like, you need to be the thing that is, to your point, attainable for people and you need to be the thing that is like, all right, I want to play on PC. I'm a kid that grew up watching streamers, or I'm a kid that wants to get into video games. And I think PC gaming is becoming more and more of a thing for a wider variety of people.

[Greg Miller]

And that's what Chat was saying yesterday. Yeah, like all the Kids want pieces now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, exactly right. Because that's what they're seeing. That's what the. When you were like watching your streamers on YouTube or Twitch or whatever, they are playing on PC and that shit's getting passed down. As far as wanting to get into PC gaming, what is the bare minimum that you can buy and get into? And they just had to be that like. Yeah, they just had.

[Greg Miller]

I think and I think good enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think all that needs to be is three figures once you get to that fourth figure, once you get to that thousand dollars mark.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Parents would be like, no, I'm not buying my 15 year old $1,000 thing. Yeah, I know, $900 also crazy. But I think that that digit makes a lot of difference.

[Greg Miller]

But then you just get to that point right where and I'm. We have to bring it all up. But yeah, you're a kid and you go and you want the $900 PC but they're like, but a PlayStation 5 is this much, Tommy. I mean less than that by a lot. Yeah, Xbox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not as like how, how long is the PlayStation 5 and an Xbox and cost that much?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, well that's the other thing you jump to, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You snatch those up now talking about with Switch and everything else and where that's going. But then you, then you turn your eyes and you want to talk about fucked. Look at Xbox. Oh yeah, you want to talk about fucked. F U C K Capital like we're Sarah Bond last year before this stuff started, we're making a premium next generation console that's going to be this dual boot thing and now you're here and they have to be head in hands. Like how does this keep getting worse for us Xbox? How can. Even when it's not our mistake, things are just fucking nightmare fuel for us of how we're going to do this. Yeah. Because if they're Steam is trying to make the affordable put it underneath your TV PC for Sarah Bond to be like it's going to be premium, motherfucker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is this still, are they still having that conversation? At what point if they, if is this not the death of Xbox hardware? Yeah. Them making their own heart, like could.

[Greg Miller]

Very well be because at this point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just, I'm just going just play our shit on PC, bro.

[Greg Miller]

Again we talk about Microsoft and the pinch coming down from Xbox, but again, yeah, as they start running numbers on ram and again not even the current numbers on ram. The projections on what might happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

None of these games, none of these Companies want to be in speculation station. No, no, no one wants to be there. If you're that kind of. So it's like, yeah, fucking pull the plug on this. You got out your handheld. Congratulations. Everything's an Xbox. Congratulations. Let's just publish games. Like, what are we doing? Why are we doing this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number three.

[Greg Miller]

Number three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's bring the spirits up, hopefully with a Fallout Season 2 review. Of course, Greg's watched it. Hi, I've watched it. But there was one man who stayed up all night to re watch it.

[Greg Miller]

He had already watched it. He tried to blame me, make me feel bad on Gamescast. I know he already watched.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He stayed up all night to watch Fallout Season 2.

[Mike]

Spending time with you. You know that. I want to talk about this show with you too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now here's the thing.

[Mike]

Let's talk about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because this was originally going to be a games cast because of how crazy they got with the news with the direct and everything, we had to make some changes.

[Mike]

Some would say it's a great day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, fantastic. I heard Roaring Toto's. Is the Toto's there yet?

[Mike]

Oh, there's pizza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go.

[Greg Miller]

Good night.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We all walk off because we're in the middle of kfc. Unfortunately, no spoilers.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So we're going to do our best to talk around this.

[Greg Miller]

What I was saying is we do a review right here and I haven't done a Greg Way yet. We could all get. We could all do a Greg Way spoiler.

[Mike]

Talk about some spoilers.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I too would like to top level here.

[Greg Miller]

Top level. Season two is in the books. Mike.

[Mike]

Mike's review of season two of Fallout. Good, not great. Lucy's adventure into the, you know, Nevada desert, into Fallout New Vegas, One of our favorite spots out there was good but not fantastic. And unfortunately after season one, I was really hoping for fantastic. I think they really delivered in season one and they had a really good promise for the fans or excitement for the fans to go to New Vegas and explore that region in that area.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

And it's something you have to remember as fans. They're not retelling the games. Right. They're telling their own story in the universe there different timelines and such. But it was fun to go back to a fan favorite spot. And I think unfortunately this time around we added maybe too many ingredients to the pot that was simmering and looking to boil there. That just didn't deliver right. It's just too many characters, too many places to jump back and forth. And I Think we lost the core of Lucy out in the wasteland aside with the ghoul and of course Maximus and that kind of adventure.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Mike]

And I know we've had a grander adventure that is Fallout New characters and stuff. But we really went back to a couple of scenes in the Vault that I just did not really need or love.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, in general, going back to the Vault. I love the Vault. Vaults are cool. Every time we went to the Vault, I'm like, I don't. What? Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. For me, what I was thinking about as we were watching, as I was watching the season was Fallout, the video games.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's not often you come back to the vault that you started off in.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right. When you go out into the open world, the vault's done. The Vault was only for that beginning of the game and then you went to other vaults for a hot second and then you come out. Right. But I don't. I think too much vault is not a good thing. I think vaults are better experienced when it is like a hint of something is, oh, this experiment's going on. That's weird. Oh, let's go back and see what's going on here. Okay. That's weird. But I don't, I don't want to spend too much time in the vault in the video games or in the TV show. Sure.

[Greg Miller]

That's fair.

[Mike]

I like that they explored vault life in the first season.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

And I think we got to season two where it's like, oh, vault life has changed. Right. We now have dramatic differences of Lucy's out. The brother is in a different vault now. The one eyed lady, Madeline, what's her name?

[Greg Miller]

Do we remember? Was it Sarah?

[Mike]

Maybe she's running another vault. There's three vaults at play. And it's like, okay, we're exploring something new. But none of it really hit. Right. The biggest, the biggest problems with Steph and the last vault was you're not sharing our water or we're having the couples that are technically, you know, related. That's issues. Right. So, like, I didn't love that for me.

[Greg Miller]

So overall with this season, I'm right there. Good. Not great. I think it's that really interesting argument of, like, is it about the destination or the journey? I liked week to week, checking in on everybody and seeing what they were doing. And I'm like, oh, man, Thaddeus, come on. Like, I'm enjoying being around these characters and seeing what they're up to, but I think it really hurt not having a. This is what we're trying to do. And not only this is what we're trying to do, to have so many characters that then had their own. What are you trying to do? Like, where are we going? You know what I mean? I think the brothers storyline, this entire season pretty much waste. A waste.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like, what were we doing? What did we accomplish? Where did we. Where did we take him and end up? And it's like, well, like, I thought there was. Oh, you're gonna do something here. That'd be really cool. Oh, this is gonna connect to that. Really cool. None of that happens. So it's like, okay, cool. And then, of course. But then you're left to, like, Walton Goggins and stuff. Like, fucking Walton Goggins is awesome. The ghoul is awesome. Right. But it's like, even there, I'm like, what was the payoff to all this, Lucy? Like, who was the villain of this season?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Even New Vegas as a place, like, to get to New Vegas and find it in the way we find New Vegas was like an interesting, like, oh.

[Mike]

Felt kind of underserved on New Vegas. I felt like we could have got more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

They gave us the hint of like, here's the dino statue that you all love. And you're like, all right, cool. Like, that's a good first start. Hey, here's a great scene of New Vegas. A great skyline look of it. But when we got to New Vegas, it didn't. It felt very much of like, you're just here. It just set dressing. It didn't feel like we're like New Vegas and there's some special stuff about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I agree both you guys. I'm on that. Good. Not great place with it for the reasons that you guys mentioned. I think this season felt almost like more of an intermission season than like, hey, we're driving towards something big here. They're juggling, like, a lot of things here, and I think that's what makes it feel a little bit diluted and lost. When you're going between these. All these different things that are happening that don't feel like they have the strongest end point. And even as we drove toward the end of the season, I feel more excited for next season as far as what we're doing, plot wise and content wise than I am for the season that I'm in currently. And I wish that wasn't the case because we're in New Vegas. We're in the place for things to happen. You know what I mean? I want things to happen here. I'm excited for wherever we're going. But, yeah, I feel like as far as the setting of New Vegas, I wanted more out of it, but I'm still into the show.

[Mike]

A little more MC again, where it's.

[Greg Miller]

Like, all these things, like, are awesome from the game. All these things get, I think, pretty great introductions and then are so quiet for so long and then have my. Here it is. You're like, we should have picked one of these things to be the bad guy, to be the thing. And we're with you for the majority of the season or 1 1/2 of.

[Mike]

The season to keep it short, because I know we have a lot more news. A couple of things that I want to highlight. Death claws. I think they made death claws look really good in this. I think the death claw sequences were.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A lot of fun.

[Mike]

I thought they were fantastic. There's some teases of more. I know we're not getting into spoilers, but it was like episode six or whatever, maybe four or five. But, like, we did explore other vaults. We do know there's something else out there. If you played the games. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Like, that was a fun tease. And like, hey, what's next after the death claw? How do you continue to push it forward? That's a great tease of that, right? I really enjoyed that one as well. I think going back in time and talking about the ghoul and his wife and what they were doing in new Vegas with Mr. House and, like, how that all played out at some moments had me. At some moments kind of lost me. And I was like, I don't really want to be here anymore. Get back over there.

[Greg Miller]

I thought the flashbacks just could not stand up to what they did in season one. Season one, going back and seeing Cooper and his wife was like, oh, wow, this is great. And coming back in here, spending so much time and getting the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I. I wish the death claws hit more for me. I. I think I came around on it as we got to the finale and what they did with them, but I. I think earlier on I was like, man, I feel like the death claws are kind of getting worked here. I feel like the death claws are kind of, you know, not. They're not as terrifying as I. As I felt like they were in the game.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, fuck. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I see one death claw, and I'm like, shit, I got to deal with the death claw. But I feel like they didn't hold that same weight here in the TV show.

[Mike]

And now as we look to season three, I go into it not extremely hype like I was after season one. I'm now like, okay, all right. Like show me what you got, right? Like we clearly know the stakes. We know what each player is kind of going for. We know the new stuff that's added. It's like, okay, like let's talk about it in the spoiler section. But I'm not leaving this going, man. Season three can't come soon enough.

[Greg Miller]

I'm fair with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel that. All right, Mike, thank you so much for joining us.

[Greg Miller]

Pick your kind of funny membership today YouTube.com kind of funny games patreon.com kind of funny Apple Spotify to hear our Greg way that we'll go record about The Spoiler Cast First Fallout Season 2.

[Mike]

Fun one for you out there if you like cool logos and stuff. Take a look at FBC Firebreak Compared to that brand new oh yeah, the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Horizon Horizon Gathering looked kind of similar. Yeah, you're right, it does look like.

[Greg Miller]

Nobody remembers FC Firebreak.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's move on to story number four, the PS5 version of Starfield.

[Greg Miller]

I'll stop you right there. Over in the chat, Chirotera says Yay Paywall. Would you prefer it didn't fucking happen because that was your other option? Would you prefer it didn't fucking happen because that was your other option?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Entered dad mode.

[Greg Miller]

That was a father reaction right there from Greg. You're going to work in the coal mine. Go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The PS5 version of Starfield could be announced soon as Insider Shares Potential Release Date this is from Chris Golian at Video Games Chronicles. For story number four, Polish site PPP Pl cites its insider gro the guy.

[Greg Miller]

Who just got yelled at by Take two yesterday, who's like, no, we're making.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A physical edition who it says handles physical games sales in Europe and previously corrected correctly, leaked information on the release date of Oblivion Remastered physical copies, the Switch 2 port of Sonic Racing Crossworlds and the PS5 port of Microsoft Flight Simulator. This guy's a menace. According to the source, Starfield is seemingly coming to PS5 on April 7th in both standard and premium editions. It's been reported for some time that Bethesda is planning a PS5 version of its sci fi RPG, with reports last year suggesting that a spring 2026 release date was being targeted. That report claimed that the game wasn't coming to PS5 in 2025 because of weak sales of the game's first expansion, Shattered Space. Instead, it was claimed that the PS5 version is being timed to launch alongside the game's second expansion, which will bring with it other quality of life improvements. The PS5 Port of Starfield has been anticipated ever since Microsoft shared its vision of the future of Xbox back in February 2024, which included plans to bring a wave of games to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. The first titles to make the jump to the new console platforms were Pentiment, hi Fi, Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded. Greg, you excited for Starfield on the PlayStation 5?

[Greg Miller]

No, but it's because I've put so much time into Starfield on Xbox, slash, play, anywhere, PC.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not going to replay it?

[Greg Miller]

No, because I mean, come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Big fan over here. Big fan.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, first of all, fuck you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on.

[Greg Miller]

All right. I probably thought you're Starfield.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Anybody thought you're the biggest Starfield.

[Greg Miller]

I am. And I'm excited for whatever the big update would be. Let me clear my throat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

Of whatever they're talking, you know, this thing. And again, we're allowed to say that I've been behind closed doors and I've seen what they're planning for Starfield. That's what I'm allowed to say. Okay. And so I'm excited to get my hands on that. I'm excited for whatever an update would be that would come alongside the complete version on PlayStation 5. That would all be exciting for me. But I want to run that with my character again. I stand by it in my 20 years of covering games, 19 years of covering games, playing games way longer than that. Right. That I think Starfield has the best setup for a new game plus ever. So like whatever. Restart. Fuck no. Will I go through the unity again and go that way and do another new game plus run? Yeah, of course. And like whatever their update will be and what it would do and what it can actually flesh out, story wise, I'd be stoked for. But I've been letting a lot of creation stuff content come and come and like build up. So it's going to be that when I do come back for my next binge of Starfield, whether it be for the dropper before then, I'm going to have a whole bunch of cool quests from the creation community ready to go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

April 7th. Do we get that announced at a state of play, the rumored next week, next two weeks, I feel like that's the place. It's either that or what you shadow drop it.

[Greg Miller]

No, if. I mean Bethesda in Xbox, known for doing their own specific directs presentations or whatever. Yeah, this, this could all. If I were them, what I think what it would be for me is, hey, on the Starfield socials, Bethesda socials, you do the tease of like tomorrow we're going to have a presentation at 10am or whatever and then you show up and it's that either the really nice produced ones we've seen of like the beautiful, you know, nice shots of inside Bethesda Game Studios and then the heads talking heads talking about it or what they've done a lot with Fallout 76 is, hey, we're streaming, we're talking straight to the camera. We're telling you what's going on. I think that's the kind of way you talk about this because you excite number one. The star feels sickos like me with hey, new content. Here's what it is, here's what it looks like, here's the expansion or whatever and then new people that circulates on its own that would time out with a PlayStation blog post and this, that and the other and blah, blah, blah. I'm more interested, of course, like we've gone through the looking glass on this. So much of like my love for Starfield being met then with so much joking. Starfield's garbage and kind of funny. I don't even know. Are people excited for Starfield to come to PS5 in real life? I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I'm honestly kind of surprised it's being ported and I don't know, maybe I'm just not taking into account the amount of players. I remember Starfield, that first week of launch, they hit 10 million. As far as like people jumping into the game, which is a gigantic number. Right. So obviously there's something there business wise as far as why they would port it over. But I view Starfield so much as just not a game that people like. Like that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so I'm like. Part of me is like, why even do it? But I mean it's a new. It's a big Bethesda game.

[Greg Miller]

So the chat is popping off with most people saying, no, they don't. There's one person, my boy, not even a subscriber, rumo ton saying it. So I don't. It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

And I think it's hard in our spheres when you talk about this and what it is and you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Even during the direction when we're like, all right, Starfield coming to switch to. In my mind, I'm kind of like.

[Greg Miller]

That'S also a weak way to end this direct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I'm like, you would close a Nintendo direct With Starfield? I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe close the Nintendo Direct with the anthem.

[Greg Miller]

Totally agree with you on that. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Although that's harsh.

[Greg Miller]

And so it is. But I mean, to your point of like, surprising, I don't. I still think it's the idea of like the people who. And I'm talking out of school and I'm not. I can't represent all of you, but I think many people who aren't excited have either played it or knew it wasn't for them or whatever. Whereas I think PlayStation has shown time and time again, there are so many people there that aren't playing every Xbox game. That's why these Xbox games keep coming out and keep going to the top of the circana numbers over there. Do I think Starfield is going to have the same thing? No, but I also depending. I mean, April, what's it up against? You know what I mean, in terms of what it would come out and be up against on PlayStation. Because it's not a bad game. It's just not a great game. It's not, as Mike always said it needed to be for Xbox, a generational game, which I agree down the line on. You know what I mean? Yeah. But it is a. Hey, here's a cool RPG with some nice mechanics and things and. Thoughts. Do you want to go fucking build your little goddamn thing? No, you didn't know, man. Sky. Well, they did it better than us too. But you were cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How much do. How much do you think it hits in sales by the end of the.

[Greg Miller]

Year if it comes to play number wise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Number wise? Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Fucking. I can never do this game. I don't know what a good and bad number is anymore. I think. I think it's more fun to play the April game of like. Okay, so when we get the circana results from Matt Piscatello, where would it rank? Oh, I mean, what's else is coming out in April?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In April you have Soros, but that's at the very end of April. So that's only going to be like day one sales. And really, I mean, Pragmata, I think. You know what, that's a good question, April. What has higher sales Pragmata or a Starfield PS5 release?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I don't think Starfield's out of the question though.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a weird.

[Greg Miller]

Pragmata's on everything, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. It's even on Switch, so that's actually a good point. But yeah, not much else coming out in April. I mean, there's Tomadachi. Live. Living the dream.

[Greg Miller]

Tomodachi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tomodachi. There's I am Cheese.

[Greg Miller]

They'll get you if you say it wrong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like I said it fine. Tomodachi.

[Greg Miller]

You said you're putting an A in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where is Tomodachi saying Tom Adachi. Yeah, like Tom and Jerry. Tomodachi.

[Greg Miller]

Tomo. Tomo. I'm trying to help. I'm not trying to be an asshole. I did it so wrong that everybody's beaten to death about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tomodachi. Tomodachi. Karen.

[Greg Miller]

Karen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Karen.

[Greg Miller]

Karen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tiny bookshop comes out. But yeah, I'm very. I'm very curious to see how it does on PlayStation.

[Greg Miller]

Me too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Especially seeing how well it will do.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I think it will chart well on Circana because of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number five. Sony says Ghost of Yote sales are outperforming Tsushima. This is Andy Robinson at VGC speaking during an earnings call transcribed by vgc. The platform holder stated that Yotei exceeded the sales of pre of the previous title in the same period of time and significantly contributed to its latest results. Sony did not share specific update sales figure for the Sucker Punch title. In his previous financial results, it said Ghostlyote had surpassed 3.3 million units sold as of November 2, a month after its initial release. This is likely put this likely put it roughly in line with tsushima, which sold 2.4 million units in its first three days. I'll pause there. Cool.

[Greg Miller]

Very cool. Yeah, of course, I think, unsurprisingly. Right. I mean, depends who you talk to on the Internet. A lot of people were telling me because there was a woman in the lead role that this thing wouldn't say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I forgot about that woke shit.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of people tell me that the Circana numbers are all fabricated. Yeah, it's the usual one of like, it is the story with Yote of Yota. Yeah. Great. Great game.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Sold. It's better than Sushi. Like the whole story of Ghost of Yote is. Yeah, it's a better game to a great game that we all thought would be that. But that means we don't talk about Yotei in the same way we talked about sushi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's a category of game that'll put in like boring success. You know what I mean? Yeah. Ghost of Yote came out. It was more Ghost of Tsushima. And guess what? People like Ghost of Tsushima. So they're gonna like go to Yote and buy Ghostlyote and a little bit more people will play it and buy it. And so.

[Greg Miller]

Good for them. Good for them. Go get them, sucker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Poach. This probably means we're gonna get a third Ghost game.

[Greg Miller]

You hope so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You imagine so.

[Greg Miller]

You know what, actually, I don't know if I do hope so. First off, you're gonna get Legends, too. That's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very excited.

[Greg Miller]

Talk about that this year already. And then. Yeah, no, I'd be. I would want to see Sucker Punch go do something else.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I agree.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think we need to be stuck in Japan for the rest of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's not that I don't want everyone to return, obviously, to you. I want. I want these big studios. I like when studios are two game studios or three game studios even. Sure. That's one of the things that I'll put in the. In, like into the basket of things. Insomniac does great is that they have so many different games that they come back to.

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whether it be Ratchet or Spider Man. I guess I say so many games. Oh, Wolverine. I think I was also thinking Sunset Overdrive, even though they've not made that in a decade and a half.

[Greg Miller]

Here's my thing is I honestly do think. Think if. If the next one is a new IP or a new whatever, I don't think they come back to Ghost, really. Yeah, but see, I think you either go third Ghost now or you move on to something else. And I don't think that's why I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hate development times being so long, because that's the reason why it'd be.

[Greg Miller]

Is because five years get onto that next game and it's like, all right, cool. Nobody who worked on Ghost of Yote's here anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, bring me back to the time where it's like, all right, we're gonna make it the same. We're the samurai game studio and our space rpg and we can go back to and forth and it's like, damn, these are two wild games. But you do it.

[Greg Miller]

You're doing it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's Last of Us and Uncharted. And we were going to make four of these things in the span of five years somehow, because we're Naughty dog. Yeah. Bring back those days. If we can get back to those days, Greg, that'd be big.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Be huge.

[Greg Miller]

Huge.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest pieces of news and you just know about, where would I go?

[Greg Miller]

You go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we run you through all the tiny news items you need to know about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number six is we news. Starting from John Hicks at. GamesIndustry. Biz. Tencent owned co development studio Sumo Digital has announced a redundancy process within unspecified numbers of staff at risk employees were told this morning. Hate to see it.

[Greg Miller]

Hate to see it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From Chris Golian at vgc. Japanese rhythm game Felicity's door has arrived on Apple Arcade. Very fun. QuakeCon 2026. The 30th anniversary has been announced for August 6th through 9th. This is via Stephen Totilo. Nintendo has confirmed Metroid Prime 4 has surpassed 1 million copies sold. And then finally, a trailer has been released for the movie adaptation of the video game Exit 8. How many? Oh, Neon. We like Neon.

[Greg Miller]

Got a cool movies 8 video game. I don't remember this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I don't know what Exit 8 is exiting.

[Greg Miller]

This is a Korean movie exiting us. You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach the the exit 8. Wow. It looks exactly like this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Look at the trailer. Oh, yeah, no, I'm sure everybody who's.

[Greg Miller]

Watching like, yeah, this is just what the subways look like. And you said it was Korean. Korea.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no, I'm just taking a guess. I'm not positive. But I mean, I think I assume that because of Neon, because they just did the other movie I like, actually. Was that even Neon? Don't mind me. I'm just saying words. And that is it for we news. Okay, now this looks cool. This is Japan. People in chat are saying, okay, let's hop in.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you can play that game in 15 to 60 minutes. It says according to this to Steam.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You gonna play it?

[Greg Miller]

I might as well wait for the movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough. Zeke Speak writes in and says, this breaks my heart. Was so excited for the Steam machine, but it's gonna be.

[Greg Miller]

It's only $4.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The C machine's for. Oh, the game Exit 8. I was excited, but it's gonna be 1K plus slash. They say $100. I assume you mean for the controller. If they bundle it with a frame plus controller for twelve hundred dollars maybe. Man, that makes sense. Yeah, that breaks my heart too.

[Greg Miller]

It's $5 on Nintendo Switch 2. Ooh, I might get on Nintendo Switch 2 since I'm on Nintendo. Damn. And the dude in the white shirt is right there too. This is a very faithful adaptation of this video game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've never heard of Mob Axie says this looks interesting, but based in Horizon is weird. I do wish that Horizon mobile game was coming to consoles. I like the way that looks way more. Okay, the NC soft one.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, here's my thing.

[Greg Miller]

Lay it on me. What's your thing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm kind of looking forward to all these things. I. The Horizon is such an interesting IP because apparently it's the only PlayStation IP that they know how to. They want to do other things with.

[Greg Miller]

Listen, man, we tried the Last of Us multiplayer game. Couldn't get it to work. But like Last of Us show, that's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If we were to break it down. We got the two mainline Horizon games. We got big, big DLCs for both. We got a Horizon VR game that's a climbing game, which is interesting. Okay, cool. We got a Horizon LEGO game that came out on Switch.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. We got a Horizon and Seesoft game that doesn't even look like Horizon anymore.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Greg Miller]

True.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We have a highly stylized co op Horizon Roguelite game being made by Guerrilla. All right, we got a Horizon TV show.

[Jan Bart Van Beek]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got canceled because we're gonna now make a movie. Okay, what are we doing? Wait, you have other IP make. I don't know, another Ghost of Tsushima thing. I know we just got the sequel, but like, just bought X8. There you go. Yeah, X and 8.

[Greg Miller]

I hear you have God of War. But remember, like, this is like the craziest thing to think about on all of this is you can rewind the footage and go back to podcast beyond at Ignition when me and Colin, I think Ryan was already gone at this point, but literally read a news story that was like, yeah, this marketing person from PlayStation says Horizon is going to be their multi media generational. And we were like, what the fuck? This game's not even out yet. Is it going to be good? And here we are surrounded by Horizon shit that so many people would tell you they don't know and don't care about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You would think that PlayStation is like starved for IP though.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, like I'm like Google, big biggest PlayStation IP. Like, I know, I know Horizon will be on the list. But like you have Uncharted and they made the Uncharted movie and it was very. Okay, yeah, I kind of get. But like, I would take more chartered video games. Yeah. Even Last of Us.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean, I would take a multiplayer Last of Us game. That'd be dope.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would also also take it.

[Greg Miller]

Imagine if it was like in San Francisco, we got the run. It was like the Division, but it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was Last of Us and Naughty Dog made it in house.

[Greg Miller]

Imagine if like take Arc Raiders, but just make that Last of Us. You know, rather than robots, it's Last of Us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That'd Be.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be fucking cool. Be really good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean never gonna happen. This is the same company that owns Bloodborne.

[Greg Miller]

That's a great point to bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a really bloodborne a game that we. We just want anything with a remaster.

[Greg Miller]

Even now they own Rahul Kohli's likeness though, so we could do stuff with that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's another thing like returnals and IP.

[Greg Miller]

That seems like we look at the Exit 8 film. Returnal strikes me is that could be an awesome movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, for sure. Oh, Return a movie would be incredible.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just going to held out. I mean they are. They are making that Helldivers thing.

[Greg Miller]

They apparently are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I'll take more Helldivers thing. I'll take a Helldivers. This is what I want you to do. Actually. Don't do this unless everybody involved wants to do this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's the name of Housemark? I have Housemark Make a single player Hell Divers game House Mark makes. Yeah, like a bullet. Hell Helldivers. I don't know, man. I'm just trying to think of like anything that's not another horizon thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to see what they see. That's it for the super chats we're hopping into you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it for those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe. And this is what I'll say.

[Greg Miller]

What are you gonna say? We crushed it. Nothing wrong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jeppel 1457.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God. Don't let.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going to stop. You're wrong. If you keep doing this, I'm going to.

[Greg Miller]

Don't do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going to erase your wrong from the document and we'll never do the second.

[Greg Miller]

Don't do it. Wait. You want to ruin it for everybody, Jeopo?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're gonna ruin it for everybody, Jeo. EJRPG says blessing stated Kyoto Xanadu is bringing the series back. Falcom actually revived the series with Tokyo Xanadu in 2015. That's a good one. I like that. Colic says the Pokemon. I like that the Pokemon anime came out after the games.

[Greg Miller]

That was from yesterday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I see. I see. And then Kebabs writes in with missed we news. Ryosuke Hori of RGG Studio confirmed that they recast Teriyuki Kagawa in the role of Go Hamazaki and Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties specifically because this guy is a creep. Kagawa admitted to sexually assaulting a woman in 2019. And Nintendo confirmed to Steven Totilo that Labo VR goggles modeled after the Virtual Boy are not in fact compatible with Virtual Boy. Nintendo Classics Library as they previously stated. Hold on. Nintendo confirmed to Steven Totilo that the Labo VR goggles modeled after the Virtual Boy are not in fact compatible with the Virtual Boy. Nintendo Classic.

[Greg Miller]

Yesterday we had a thing where there was a Wii News or whatever it was that yeah, Labo would be able to work with the Virtual Boy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Interesting.

[Greg Miller]

So stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because at the Tokyo or not Tokyo, Sorry. At the New York event, I overheard somebody ask that exact question. All right, well, there you go.

[Greg Miller]

There you go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that is it for kind offunny.com you're wrong. And that is it for this episode of kfgd. But the day is not over because after this, what we got going on.

[Greg Miller]

Greg Howard the Duck in review, our live show that we did at SF Sketch Fest at Cobbs Comedy is about to go live on YouTube.com kind of funny games. And then it'll be up on podcast services around the globe. Twitch too. We're streaming it, but it's going to be. You can see the entire thing. Watch me knock a beer over on my computer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, if you love for that they're playing games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you love what we do, support us with a Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show today, which is going to be our Fallout Season 2 spoiler conversation. Me, Greg and Mike enjoy everything happening after this. And until next time, Game Daily.

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh my gosh, they're so fast.

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, sorry. Namaste.

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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