Nintendo Direct Coming TOMORROW: Predictions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.26.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Episode: Nintendo Direct Coming TOMORROW: Predictions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.26.25
Release Date: March 26, 2025

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Hosts Introductions and Banter

Roger Por kicks off the episode alongside Blessing Adeoye and Tim Gettys, engaging in lighthearted banter about awards and musical preferences.

• Roger Por [02:19]: “That means a whole lot. Honestly. That's more than a Grammy to me.”
• Blessing Adeoye [02:40]: “No, it's just going to explode at a certain point. It’s going to be a screen that says by the switch to buy the switch to.”

Personal Updates and Gaming Experiences

The hosts share updates about their personal lives and current gaming interests, providing listeners with relatable content.

• Blessing Adeoye [04:24]: “I just love Ghost of Tsushima. It’s so good in my... top 100.”
• Roger Por [05:40]: “I'm doing great. I finished the first act of Ghost of Tsushima. I'm deep into it, 20 hours in.”

Nintendo Direct Predictions

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for March 27th. The hosts speculate on potential announcements, focusing on Switch 1 titles and the absence of updates on the rumored Nintendo Switch 2.

• Roger Por [12:16]: “Do you think we're get a lot of those little teasers at the ending of this or do you think they’re going to make sure to next week we're going to talk about a lot of these games?”
• Blessing Adeoye [16:57]: “I have an inkling that Metroid Prime 4 would be a contender for a small trailer at the Switch Direct tomorrow and a bigger breakdown at the Switch 2 event.”

Predicted Announcements:

• Metroid Prime 4: Anticipated as a major announcement, with hopes it remains a standout title.

• Star Fox and Other Switch 1 Ports: Discussion about possible re-releases and ports of classic titles.

• Blessing Adeoye [28:35]: “I'm right there with you. The frog knight writes in and says, I predict Wind Waker, Twilight Princess HD, and DK64.”

Game Informer’s Comeback

The hosts express excitement over Game Informer's revival under Godzilla Games, celebrating the return of its full staff and plans for both digital and print formats.

• Roger Por [36:13]: “Game Informer is back, and so is its entire staff. It's incredibly amazing news.”
• Blessing Adeoye [49:02]: “That's fantastic. The fact that everyone was able to get their jobs back and they seem joyful about it is awesome.”

Key Points:

• Game Informer was acquired by Godzilla Games, ensuring its independence and editorial integrity.
• Plans to resurrect the print magazine alongside the website.

CD Projekt’s Partnership with Scopely

A brief segment covers CD Projekt teaming up with Scopely to develop a game based on its IPs, though specific details remain sparse.

• Roger Por [57:00]: “CD Projekt is partnering with Scopely for a game based on its IPs. No details were announced, but it’s likely to be either Witcher or Cyberpunk.”

Additional News and Fan Interactions

The episode delves into various other gaming news items, interspersed with fan interactions through super chats.

Super Monkey Ball: Bananas Rumble’s Pac-Man Reveal

• Blessing Adeoye [60:07]: “Namco makes Pac-Man. It’s Video Games 101 for sure. Nintendo owns Mario. Pac-Man is owned by Namco.”

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Featuring Cristiano Ronaldo

• Blessing Adeoye [64:50]: “I’m going to be a character in the new fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.”
• Roger Por [65:46]: “It feels like it's a new addition that clashes with the traditional aesthetic of Fatal Fury.”

Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye [66:03]: “If you want to know the connection between Cristiano Ronaldo and Fatal Fury, it’s Saudi Arabia.”
• Roger Por [69:26]: “Everyone’s going to taste the Pac-Man. He’s over here. He’s over there.”

Viewer Super Chats and Predictions

Listeners contribute their guesses and questions, which the hosts address throughout the episode.

• Super Chat from The Frog Knight [28:35]: Predictions include “Wind Waker, Twilight Princess HD, and DK64.”
• Super Chat from Grow Duncan [63:56]: “Robocop Rogue City and other titles being prominent on PlayStation Store.”

Community Interactions and Light-Hearted Moments

The hosts engage in playful disagreements and camaraderie, reinforcing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere.

• Roger Por [71:39]: “Each and every weekday, we run you through the dirty news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe.”
• Blessing Adeoye [70:07]: “Is tomorrow the last chance for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess ports? No, not your last chance, but probably second to last.”

Concluding Remarks

The episode wraps up with final thoughts on the covered news, plans for upcoming streams, and encouragement for listener support.

• Roger Por [71:32]: “It’s been our pleasure to stream. Enjoy the games, guys.”
• Blessing Adeoye [72:00]: “It's called Cat Dog, not Hat Dog, Roger.”

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Key Takeaways

• Nintendo Direct Predictions: Expect announcements primarily focused on Switch 1 titles, with notable speculations around Metroid Prime 4 and possible ports of classic games like Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD.

• Game Informer Revival: A triumphant return of Game Informer under independent ownership, ensuring its continuity and expansion into print media.

• Industry Partnerships: CD Projekt's collaboration with Scopely hints at future mobile adaptations of beloved IPs like Witcher or Cyberpunk.

• Fan Engagement: Active interaction through super chats highlights the community's enthusiasm and diverse predictions for upcoming events.

• Humorous Banter: The hosts maintain an engaging and entertaining dialogue, making the podcast accessible and enjoyable for both regular listeners and newcomers.

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Notable Quotes Summary:

• Roger Por [02:19]: Highlights the value of achievements beyond traditional awards.

• Blessing Adeoye [16:57]: Expresses predictions for specific game announcements.

• Blessing Adeoye [49:02]: Celebrates the return of Game Informer and its positive impact.

• Blessing Adeoye [64:50]: Announces participation in a new game, adding a personal touch.

• Blessing Adeoye [66:03]: Provides context on the collaboration between Cristiano Ronaldo and the game.

This comprehensive summary captures the essence of the episode, providing detailed insights into each discussion point while maintaining the natural flow and engaging tone of the podcast.

Transcript

[Roger Por]

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[Blessing Adeoye]

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[Roger Por]

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[Blessing Adeoye]

Well, I mean we don't end losing nominee.

[Roger Por]

I mean like it's a losing though.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I don't, I don't.

[Tim Gettys]

You're not Raw Garage here.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Listen, I don't, I don't look at whatever Grammy nominated artist, I don't look at Lady Gaga and go, I thought.

[Roger Por]

You were pointing to me. You're like grammy. I don't call you Grammy. What? You call me Grammy Award losing Roger P. Even though I wasn't nominated because I technically lost.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I don't look at Lady Gaga and I'm like oh, you lost 15 times. You know, because we should. I'm sure she has. I don't look at, you know, Neo Award winning R B artists and go oh you're, you're nominated. But like where's that? Where's that W though that's true. I look at him and I'm like, I'm like, you made closer and that means a lot.

[Roger Por]

That means a whole Lot. Honestly. That's more than a Grammy to me.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Honestly. Have you heard, you know, the song Closer?

[Roger Por]

No, I'm gonna be honest. Oh, I might know some if she sings. Oh, yeah, of course I do know that. Oh, I know that one. I don't know. I guess I just don't know, like, Neo songs off the top of my head. And I mix him up. And honestly, I mix him up in Taio Cruz.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, you don't.

[Roger Por]

I swear my life.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, you have.

[Roger Por]

Dynamite for years was like, oh, man. Neo. He killed it with Dynamite.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, absolutely not. The only person.

[Roger Por]

What a banger. What a banger song.

[Blessing Adeoye]

The only person I used to. For Tyo Cruz, I got confused with Jason Derulo a lot. But those were. They were similar eras. Neo, I think it's more appropriate to get mixed up with Mario because I think Neo wrote Mario's biggest song.

[Roger Por]

It's Mario.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Don't say that. Roger. Mario, you know, Mario.

[Roger Por]

It's a me, Luigi's brother.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Jesus Christ.

[Roger Por]

Give me one of the songs. Give me Mario.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, see, this is the problem is that I always get Mario songs mixed up with Neo songs. Hold on. I'm the Mario songs, because you're going to know the big one. Doot doot doot. Let me love you. I love you.

[Roger Por]

What?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Let me love you.

[Roger Por]

Oh, okay, I know that. I guess I just don't. I guess they just all fall into a category of like, I don't know who sang this and it could be Neo.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's. Honestly, that was. Because here's the thing. I don't think I really put the artist to the songs until I got a bit older. Because, like, at the time, I'm a kid and that those. Those songs are just on. On the radio.

[Roger Por]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Right.

[Roger Por]

Well, that's how I listen to all my songs.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Right.

[Roger Por]

Like, that was like, it was just all top 100. Z100 was the new York radio station, and it was just like the top 10 hits of the. Of the month or the week or whatever. And that's. That was all my music. I never listened. I seek them out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It probably wasn't until my later twenties when I realized that Nelly was the soundtrack to my childhood because it was the thing of. Again, like, I'll hear these songs and I'm like, oh, they all sound somewhat similar, but I'm a kid. And again, I'm not. I'm not on the Internet before in like third grade, you just hear all these songs.

[Roger Por]

You're like, man, I like these songs. Why do I like these songs?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm just like, I like these songs, and I get older, and then I look up Nelly on Spotify, and I'm like, oh, he did this, this, this, and this. Oh, he's one of the goats. Like, damn. Shout out to Nelly.

[Roger Por]

Shout out to Nelly.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Shout out to Nelly.

[Roger Por]

Shout out to Nelly. Blessing. How you doing? Coming off of a. A volleyball win.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yep.

[Roger Por]

Last night. That's huge. Congratulations.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You know, the new volleyball season started last night.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We refreshed the team a little bit. We miss you, Roger.

[Roger Por]

We miss L. I mean, you guys got to win, so you don't really miss. Let's be completely honest.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Let me tell you, I'm walking out of that gym feeling like a million bucks. All right.

[Roger Por]

You're like, man, dead weight. We're gone. We don't have to worry about L falling on the ground.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Be like, oh, no, it's. It's the thing. But here's the thing, right? When we. We lose you and Lianza. Yeah. And we bring in my friends Meg and Zachary.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And Meg is professional. Meg played volleyball in high school, and Meg has changed the vibe into something of, oh, okay. We're locked in now. Like, we have to try. We. We have to, like, get in the right positions and all this stuff.

[Roger Por]

It's scary. There's pressure.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's. It's a little bit of pressure in a way where, like, I'm still feeling it out, and I'm like, all right. I want to maintain the casualness of it, because my fear is, is that the other teams start looking at us like the team that tries too hard. Like, why are you in this division? Why didn't you sign up for intermediate? If you're going to, like, do all this and call out.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. Why are you making us cry?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Why are you making us cry right now? For the meantime, I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to, like, have fun until we have.

[Roger Por]

Until it goes too far and volleyball gets hit in the face by somebody else.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Exactly.

[Roger Por]

Then we have to have a conversation. But until then, you got the win. That's all I got.

[Blessing Adeoye]

How are you doing?

[Roger Por]

I'm doing great. I got. I finished the first act. I. I'm pretty sure of Ghost of Tsushima. Very, very, very, very much enjoy that. I'm enjoying my time with that game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Is that your first time?

[Roger Por]

My first time playing Ghost of Tsushima. I'm deep into it. I'm 20 hours in. I'm just. I'm, like, in. That's, like, the first part of the island. That you're in. And I just. Am finding everything and I'm just getting lost. I'm. I'm lost in this game, man. I'm so excited. Like, I'm in a great place right now because I played Hollow Knight for the first time. I'm excited for Silk song whenever that comes out, hopefully this year. And now I'm like, really excited for Yote. Now I'm like, I. I see how great this game is. I'm like, yo. Yote could be a fucking 10 out of 10. Like, Yote could be like that. Like, oh, shit. Like this is the same thing. Like God of War or Ragnarok. Like, we can have that with the other dude.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, Ghost of Tsushima, it's so good in my. It's in my top 100. I think it's in my top 50. If I look at my list that I've made, I know it's like, oh, 50 games, a lot of games. But like, still, it's me. I play 50 games a year.

[Roger Por]

Roger. I can't name 50 games.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Come. Oh, you can do. I mean, not right now. Oh, go for it. No, no, no. Just keep on going, Mario. All of them.

[Roger Por]

Galaxy Galax.

[Tim Gettys]

You're going to need to name 100 in like a month.

[Roger Por]

Ah, we'll figure it out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We'll figure it out.

[Roger Por]

I'll pat it out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. No, Ghost of Sushi. I uphold is like. And that was a jam packed year. That was 2020. I uphold is probably in my top three.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I put that. I mean, what. I have Final Fantasy 7 Remake in there. I have Persona 5 Reload. No, not Reload personified. Royal in there. Last of us. But I'm honestly, I might have Ghost of Sushi Mobile last this part too.

[Roger Por]

Honestly. Me too. It's so good. But like, it's so funny playing this game because it is such a. It is such a that year too. Yeah. But it's so beautiful and it runs. So I know it's the PS5 version of it, but it's also like, we didn't need the PS5.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Really.

[Roger Por]

I mean, like, these games look so good, right? Like a PS4 game that is like up res and remaster. PS5. Like, looks like one of the most stunning video games ever. Like, it is. So let me know if you want to get it.

[Tim Gettys]

We did need the PS5 because, remember, you got it. We got. We have to remember.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

How bad our PS4 sounded by the end of it.

[Roger Por]

That's true.

[Tim Gettys]

You know that's true.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Forget about that.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, it's just taken off, bro. My switch sounds. It's an explode at any moment. It's incredible.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Now when they port more old games to the switch that they announced tomorrow at the direct, do you think the switch is going to get louder or get any quieter?

[Roger Por]

No, it's just going to explode at a certain point. It's going to be a screen that says by the switch to buy the switch to. Well, enough about all that and volleyball and other video games that we got to talk about real video game news because this is kind of funny games daily where each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. I always forget it to do it when I'm the co host. I always do it when I'm the host. I always forget about it. I appreciate it. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now Spotify and Apple podcasts to get our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. And that is very important everybody, because we're going to be talking about the Nintendo Switch lasts direct, probably last final direct that is coming up tomorrow. So please put your predictions into YouTube super chats. Bless. Can you actually be watching out for super chats?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I got you.

[Roger Por]

That'd be great. A little housekeeping for us. We're an 11 person business. All about live talk shows today after KFGD you'll get Gamescast which is going to be very excited about this Final Fantasy 10 as told by Snowbike Mike. This is going to be Snowbike Mike and Tim Getty sitting down talking about Final Fantasy 10 and man, Mike is up. Mike is up about this game. He's running around the office. He's doing podcasts to nobody. He's looking at the wall. He's very excited to talk about this game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm right now. I'm envious of how much fun everybody's having just in life. Just in life. You're playing Ghost of Tsushima in the middle of it. You know, Mike is playing Final Fantasy 10.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And right now I saw, I saw a TikTok the other day. That was when you finish like a $70 triple a game versus when you finish like a $10 indie game made by a small team of three people. And it's like the Person like finish the triple A game they're like article and then they finish the indie game and they're like fucking like in motion tears. And again it reminds me of when beaten outer wilds and I'm in that post outer wilds just depression of nothing's gonna fix it. Nothing's gonna make me feel that way again.

[Roger Por]

I think we gotta find that for you. We gotta find that. Looking for it has to exist.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm looking for.

[Roger Por]

I mean I thought that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

What's up?

[Roger Por]

Jason Schreier was teasing a game that he's playing that he's very that he thinks might be one of the best games of all time. And you can if you go on as Bruce Blue sky, he's very interesting. You can tell what that game is. So that might be something I don't have. I haven't played that game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean I'm hopping into his blue sky scene after that.

[Roger Por]

Gamescast is a daredevil screencast. Very excited about that. And then the stream is Pokemon Nuzlocke. However, tomorrow Nintendo has thrown our world into anarchy with its early morning Nintendo Direct. So we'll be live reacting on a delay to the Nintendo direct tomorrow at 10am PT. That's the usual KFCD time slots. But we won't have watched the direct until we watch it live. Then with you immediately following the reaction, we'll follow up with a Gamescast breaking it all down and then we'll roll into KFGD in review and the stream. So again, big day. 10:00am we're going to be watching the Nintendo Direct live for the very first time. We're going to kind of not watch it beforehand. We're going to make sure we avoid the Internet and we're going to be watching it with you guys live at 10am if you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg Way is 24 minutes about review embargoes. I'm very excited to listen to that one. Happy hour today is at 1pm so Patreon members look out for that. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Stache, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for something. We have five stories today.

[Blessing Adeoye]

A baker does it. There we go. Can I interrupt you with two things? Yeah, of course. Multiple people in chat are saying, bless. You should check out this game called Disco Elysium.

[Roger Por]

Have you heard of it? Now you can play it on your phone. Tik Tok style.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, there's a new. There's a new phone game that they're making.

[Roger Por]

Tik Tok style.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Sometimes I think when I talk about games, people just don't listen because I love Disco Elysium. Oh, I play. Yeah, I played.

[Roger Por]

Have you played Life is Strange?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I never heard of Life is Strange before. No, guys, I played Disco Elysium. And yes, it did make me feel that way. And I felt the exact same way post that game of like, man, nothing's gonna make me feel that way again. And then years later I played Inscription. Then years later I played Immortality. Then years later I played Outer Wilds. And then the other thing people are saying is that Jason seems to be talking about blueprints.

[Roger Por]

I. We can't confirm nor deny. We don't know if he is.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I don't know, man. Maybe there's. Maybe there's another game I check out.

[Roger Por]

Oh, I'm excited. I'm excited.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm glad I have it on my fantasy critic.

[Roger Por]

Have you guys heard of this game called Yakuza 0? It's. That game can change your life. That game can really kind of change the trajectory.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Zero?

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Is that a game that's about, like, reducing the size of a organized crime gang to zero?

[Roger Por]

Kinda, yes, actually. Like, actually, like what?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Weirdly. Weirdly, if you.

[Roger Por]

Yes, like eventually. Yes, actually. So that's very funny.

[Tim Gettys]

Either of you heard about a very special game called Donkey Kong 6?

[Roger Por]

All right, everybody. Number one on the rope report. Nintendo's next Direct is about Switch 1 games is from Andrew Webster at the Verge. Super chat question. What games are you predicting? Show up at the Direct tomorrow. Again, let us know and we'll be reading those out. While the games industry patiently waits for the proper reveal of the Switch 2 on April 2, less than a week away. Nintendo isn't quite done with its current console. The company announced that it will be holding a Nintendo Direct on March 27th at 10:00am Eastern Time, which will feature, quote, around 30 minutes of news and upcoming Switch games. Notably, Nintendo says that there will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during the presentation. Blessing, Roger. There were rumors out there. People were like, oh, it might be happening, might be happening. I talked to Tim right before we left work yesterday. I was like, is it happening? He's like, I don't think so. It doesn't really make any sense. It's happening. Another weird Nintendo decision.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's the thing.

[Roger Por]

What do you feel about this?

[Blessing Adeoye]

We Talked about the. I talked about this yesterday with Jake Decker.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And I think the thing that I forgot to factor in into the conversation was weird Nintendo decisions because you always.

[Roger Por]

Got to be doing it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You always.

[Roger Por]

I always forget it's the missing decimal. When you're doing the math, when you.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Do the calculations, you're like, all right, that checks out. And then you walk out of the door and on the way home you're like, fuck, I forgot to factor in the WND changes everything. Because I was like, I mean, there's so many other kind of things that could be right. Like, I believed a direct was happening because like, why would people lie about. Why would the people, the names that we know that are usually like on point about things, why would they put.

[Roger Por]

Their credibility out there?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Why would they put their credibility about a random Nintendo Direct happening the week before another Nintendo Direct happening? That doesn't make any sense. So I believed it was happening happening, but I was in the mind that it was either going to be a indie slash third party thing, like a third party direct or partner showcase. Maybe it was going to be about a theme park type thing, or maybe it was even going to be about the Nintendo Store in San Francisco. The fact that it is being presented as just a regular Nintendo Direct about Switch 1 games surprises me because this year Nintendo has been fairly held back about what their Switch 1 lineup is as far as bigger games. Obviously we know Pokemon Zaw is coming through. Obviously we know about Metroid Prime 4. But it feels like for the rest of the big guns or just guns in general, you want to save those for after the Switch to reveal so that you can have that be part of the Switch to hype cycle.

[Roger Por]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That then leads them. Leads to me having questions about, all right, what can we expect here? Like what size of games can we expect? Are we gonna get a. Are we gonna get a big Switch game announced? At least a single.

[Roger Por]

That is not a port. That is not a port or something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Or it's not a port. A new singular big Switch game that.

[Roger Por]

Is first party, you're thinking yes. No, no, no. I mean, I don't, I don't know. I wouldn't think you would.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But I guess, like if we're talking about big Metroid prime is coming out. So that's going to be a big Switch game. Like they're going to put that out in Switch 1. We'll probably get another trailer for that.

[Roger Por]

Yes. So for me, I guess my head's at. Is that this is to me the Easy way for them to double dip and to create the Nintendo Switch to event on April 2 and make it that be as concise as humanly possible, right. Announce games that we know are going to Switch games but they also run on Switch 2 and they're going to probably look better or whatever. Announce them here, have their moment to shine and then we can show them again on at the event to be like hey, they run better here and you know you could buy them at the same price or $10 more, whatever it is. Like just have that be like part of like a sizzle reel and then kind of focus in on like the big Switch to event game. So there is going to be a lot of overlap here and I guess Metroid Prime 4 is like in my mind the biggest one. And I part of me doesn't want it to be at this thing tomorrow. I don't want to see it on the Switch one. I just don't. I want to see that on the Switch too. I want to see that be had the most impressive showing possible, right? Because when we saw it we were excited. But it was more of like, you know, it looks like Metroid prime. Like, you know, I mean like it's exciting. I'm sure the game is going to be really, really great. But you know, it just looks like Metroid Prime. I want to see that game as beautiful as humanly possible.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean I agree with that. I think you could do a baton pass thing right of hey Metroid Prime 4. Maybe you get a like a little story trailer, like a minute long story trailer and they're like hey state maybe. Yeah, maybe see even that. I'm like depending on when the Switch 2 comes out, I don't. I don't think we get a release date but I think it is a baton pass to hey tune in to the Switch to direct to hear even more. And that's where we get a bigger.

[Roger Por]

Do you think we're get a lot of those little teasers at the ending of this or do you think the ending of this whole thing they're going to be like make sure to next week we're going to talk about a lot of these games.

[Blessing Adeoye]

My prediction be one or two. I think you get. I think Metroid prime would be a contender for. All right. Small, very small trailer at the Switch at this Switch direct tomorrow and then a bigger breakdown at the Switch 2 thing to show off, hey, this is what it looks like on Switch two. Hey, this is.

[Roger Por]

Do you think they say that though? Do you think they say hey, look out. For next week we're talk about Metroid Prime 4 again.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yes, okay. I think you would. And then I for. I don't know why. I have the inkling of like.

[Roger Por]

Inkling.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, hey, no, I think I have like an inkling of like. What other Switch game do you have that you haven't announced yet? That like I have written down I. Right before this episode of kg, I just wrote down some games I wrote down here. And this is me pulling it, pulling it out my ass. Star Fox. It's been a minute.

[Roger Por]

It's been a while. What's that guy up to?

[Blessing Adeoye]

What's that, what's that little fox up to?

[Roger Por]

What's Froggy up to? What's Froggy? Slippy, Slippy, Slippy, Slippy and Grippy. Grippy is his uncle. Never forget Grippy.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Ain't no way. Grippy is an actual.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, look him up. I've talked about this to death. Grippy is his uncle. And it's a very. It's very creepy.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No way.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Is that who J. Cole was talking about? The song? Yeah. I mean, Star Fox is the one that comes to mind just because it has been an entire generation. Obviously the last Star Fox game wasn't great.

[Roger Por]

When it's Grippy, Slippy and Grippy, Slippy and Grippy.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I like it.

[Roger Por]

I love Grippy. We got to have a Grippy game. Look at them.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Also, what is up with. Yeah, the mustache.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, it's good.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, it's not.

[Tim Gettys]

It's good.

[Roger Por]

Do they have facial hair in the Star Fox universe?

[Tim Gettys]

Apparently.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, right there, you see it?

[Tim Gettys]

You see it right there?

[Roger Por]

Huh? Okay, that's beautiful.

[Blessing Adeoye]

What about you? What do you have written down as far as what could show up?

[Roger Por]

Okay, so I got a lot of ports, right? I mean, of course. I got like the ones that just never came to Switch. I have Mario Galaxy 2. Are we ever gonna get that? Is that gonna be a one off thing or is that gonna be whatever it is? I mean, you gotta do it one day I'm gonna say the thing that everyone's gonna say, right? Twilight Princess. Wind Waker.

[Blessing Adeoye]

See, I would go as far as to say slam dunk for tomorrow. We can't keep doing this. Take it to the bank. It's happening. This is the time. Do I need to come out there.

[Tim Gettys]

And do a pizza bet with you?

[Roger Por]

Right? It's the last time.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I'll do a pizza bit on that.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'll do a pizza bet on the last time. Is now and when I say I'm saying at least one of them. At least Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.

[Roger Por]

No. Okay. We can't.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm not saying both at the same time. I never thought we're get both in the same direct but like for at least one of them. Pizza bet.

[Tim Gettys]

No way it's happening. No way it's happening. A lot of the things, a lot of first party things y'all are going to talk about right now, not happening.

[Roger Por]

I mean you're not gonna be third party stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Get back to your seat. Because I want to have this conversation with you. No, because I want to have this conversation of you. What the you think is going to be there. But yeah, going through more of the things I have written down here. Right. I'm like you, right. I wrote down Zelda remasters. I also wrote down a Pokemon Zod trailer. Even that if you about. Because Pokemon company does their own things a lot. Yeah, but why not, you know, throw that trailer in there?

[Roger Por]

Metroid Prime 2 and 3, possibly. Yeah, I think we're gonna get.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I don't think we can get all of this stuff at the same thing, right. I don't think we're gonna get Metroid Prime 2 and 3 and Zelda, Wind Waker and. Yeah, but I mean this probably do.

[Roger Por]

I just am weirdly bullish on that one. Just because it's like this is the time to do it right? Like you do it right now.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Like literally prime two and three.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, like right now. Like within the month.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And then dinner though, you just get it out there.

[Roger Por]

You got like, hey, here's the whole thing. Here's another extra 60 bucks if I'm hanging out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

If I'm hanging out with you. Right. Me and Roger, we're about to go to Buffalo Wild Wings and on the way you see a wing stop. Like, you're not going to be like, yo, let's stop by that wing stop and get parmesan.

[Roger Por]

But if like we go to driving to the Buffalo Wild Wings took like three months, I might stop and a wing stop in between.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's video game time. We got to factor in video game time in this. Just shaking his head.

[Roger Por]

I, I, I, I don't know if the time were to happen it would happen now. I just don't. It would be weird for them to do four and then go back like, oh, we're doing two and three. I guess five years later. Now I'm thinking about that's a Nintendo decision. Never.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You got to WNDs. I have switch online. Written here of like, can we finally get DK64? Can we finally get. Smash 64 is on there. Right. I want smash 64.

[Tim Gettys]

Smash 64 was on there.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, maybe I'm wrong about that. And then Pokemon. Those games. But again, like, those games. Those games.

[Tim Gettys]

I think, I think Pokemon coming to like the. Yeah. Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy stuff would be an exciting, nice little appetite for next week. I think a lot of the other stuff that we're talking about are like, almost too like you're. I. I get your example here. Bless of, you know, stopping at a wig stop on the way to Buffalo Wild.

[Blessing Adeoye]

So it feels a little too much.

[Tim Gettys]

A little too much. And I'm pulling up this tweet from Grub before this was properly announced. You know, him responding to someone saying Andy Robinson is hinting at a Switch one direct this week. And Grub responding. They definitely have announcements from partners that we were supposed to. That were supposed to be announced by now.

[Roger Por]

That makes sense.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like this is going to be heavily third party and talk.

[Roger Por]

Talking about that really quick one that I have that I think is like one of the weird slam dunks that like this is the type of shit that I'm expecting to see is like the new Professor Layton game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

Which they like have talked about, but that's also confirmed to be a Switch 2 game. So like, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

That's like next week then.

[Roger Por]

But like, is it like it's Switch one?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, Right.

[Roger Por]

You know, I mean, you could show off Professor Layton at a Switch one reveal and then also be like, oh, it's coming to Switch to all.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I agree with that.

[Roger Por]

I feel like that's the type of like the caliber of reveals we're gonna be.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. I have here written down a farming game from Square Enix.

[Roger Por]

Oh, okay. I put actually Fields of Mystery, which is like, that's gonna pop up in one of these Nintendo Switches Switch events. I just don't know if it's happening now or if that's happening later in the year.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, now feel is that game. That game's still in early access. Right. Do they have a. A final release?

[Roger Por]

No, but they're doing really well. Like they're putting out the constant updates. So it's like I could see them be like, hey, we're coming to Switch family of consoles.

[Blessing Adeoye]

To come to Switch and to like have a solid. Like, this is our, our final release date on it. That'd be a really strong.

[Roger Por]

I just don't know if they're ready yet they're. They're still, like, working out the kinks and everything, so. Yeah, but Fields of Mystery is. Is a. Is a big one. We should always be bringing back.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Barrett, what you got? What you got for me? No, people looked up the Hollow Knight Silk.

[Roger Por]

Don't do it.

[Tim Gettys]

I do it every. For every direct.

[Roger Por]

God, this game looks so hot. God, this game gets me horny, man.

[Blessing Adeoye]

First of all, put it away.

[Roger Por]

It's out.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's out, bro. How hilarious would it be if this. If they showed up tomorrow?

[Roger Por]

They're like, hey, man, you know what you find? We.

[Tim Gettys]

Honestly, it feels like it would be fitting for this entire saga.

[Roger Por]

No shot.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Now, Bear, I'll take you. I'll do you one further. You know what game is coming. It's supposed to come out this year. The next few chapters of Delta Rune. It's not gonna happen. They always come to PC first is the only thing. Did two.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like two launched everywhere at the same time.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, did it?

[Roger Por]

It might have.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, you might be right about that. Yeah. Chad.

[Tim Gettys]

Chapter one was like a special event, special surprise because we didn't even know what deltarune was, but I'm pretty sure to came like two launched. And that was when deltarune Chapter one then came to, like, Switch and stuff as well.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, Sausage in chat says two was in a Nintendo direct. It's not bad.

[Tim Gettys]

It's not a bad. And they've been like. I've been keeping an eye on Toby Fox's updates. They've been like. Like bug testing and all that stuff. So they're close to three and four, I think.

[Roger Por]

I'm just laughing at the chat. Rudy and chat says shadow drops tomorrow. Next. Next comment. Toby Fox is washed.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Who said that? You watch yourself.

[Roger Por]

Watch yourself, watch yourself.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It takes many people 10 years to put out fully.

[Roger Por]

Take three people eight years to make it. To make Hollow.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He was also doing side work. He's making music for Pokemon.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. Living his best life.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He was working on that game Town, that game freak made. You know, Give him time.

[Roger Por]

Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We'll get deltarune in full.

[Roger Por]

Come on. Big one that I keep on seeing Fire Emblem. What Fire Emblem thing we had. We. I feel like that's. It's the time to get a Fire Emblem. Is it a 4 remake? Is it a new game?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Ooh, that remake that I feel like Tim's always talking about.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I could. I'm not a Fire Emblem guy, so I'm just. I'm just saying words and I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'M also not a fireman guy, but I think the thing for me is I'm like, that's a fire emblem thing. Feels switch to. I feel like there's one that you save for, like, I feel switch one frame. But we've had multiple. Because we had three houses and then we had Fire Emblem engage.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Like about a year and a half ago, two years ago, three years ago. And so I don't know, I feel like another Fire Emblem might be overkill a little bit. Yeah.

[Roger Por]

But it's also like, to me, at least, like, Fire Emblem is like, it's not the pushing the graphics. Right. Type game. It's not a game that's like blowing everyone's mind. Right. So you can announce it here and then also be like, it's switch to as well. Like, I don't know, it could be one of the swan songs of the switch one and not have no issues.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No. Do you want me to pull in some super chats for a year?

[Roger Por]

Oh, yes.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Predictions. I guess this one isn't a prediction. Colin Berry says Wingstop is so much better than Buffalo Wild Wings.

[Roger Por]

Is that true?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye]

For chicken.

[Roger Por]

I heard the chicken sandwiches suck.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Well, yeah. Wingstop, yeah.

[Roger Por]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But that's not their thing.

[Roger Por]

That was a big deal. They had like 15 different versions.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm not mad at Colin. I think I agree, actually with Colin.

[Roger Por]

Okay. I like, my brother loves these, these Wingstop chicken.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, I love Buffalo Wild Wings more than Wingstop overall, but if we're talking about the quality of the wings, I think I'd go Wingstop over.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Buffalo Wild Wings.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. I was about to just call my brother, but I was like, that's a very dangerous. I don't know how he's gonna answer. I don't know what it's like, what's my.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm like, ah, Roger's brother. It's so different from Roger. Derek Schwartz writes in, says Pikmin 1/2 released on June 21, 2023. Pikmin 4 released on July 21, 2023. Prime 2 and 3 definitely can launch before Prime 4 eat wing. Stop in the Buffalo Wild Wings parking lot.

[Roger Por]

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I think it's time now.

[Roger Por]

Would they be a one package?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, Metroid Primes two and three.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. I don't know anything about those games. Are they, like, very similar or they just like.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, you're asking wrong. The wrong person. I just. The main impression I get, though. Well, actually based off Of Jeff Grubb talking years and years ago. I think the pitch was, yeah, prime one as a single, as a standalone, and then two and three is, like, almost like a collection port in the way that Metroid Prime 1 on Switch was almost kind of a remake.

[Roger Por]

And this would just be a remaster. This would be.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, just a straight up smart, bundle up two and three and import them.

[Roger Por]

That's smart type thing. I fuck with that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Gondor's Condor says, getting my clown gear ready to either don or toss when Silksong is shown. Slash omitted. I would just erase all hope of Silksong.

[Roger Por]

Well, just don't erase all hope.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Just wait a week.

[Roger Por]

Like, I like.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, you have your hope for next week.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, exactly. It's totally fine because at least there's.

[Blessing Adeoye]

A 10 chance that it shows up next week.

[Roger Por]

Listen, the fact that we have a direct literally in six days, right, that is the switch to one that they've been hyping up for, like, two months. Right? That is where all your hope goes. If there's literally one thing that you see in this Nintendo direct that you think is positive or exciting for you, that's a huge win.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yes.

[Roger Por]

You know what I mean? If you're a fan, that's it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Of when Square and X makes a farming game. Let me tell you, there's a direct for you tomorrow. All right, get ready for five of them. The frog knight writes in and says, I predict Wind Waker, Twilight Princess HD, and DK64. I'm right there with you. The frog night.

[Roger Por]

I'm sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Except for maybe DK64.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I was gonna ask.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's less likely.

[Roger Por]

It's a meme here in the office. Is that a real thing that people want outside of the office?

[Tim Gettys]

Me and, like, four other people.

[Roger Por]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And, like, one of those four other people is pleasant.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, it's me. It's Barrett. Who's the. I feel like there's another DK64 lover that we know.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, host of NBC or one of the former hosts of NBC.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Was it, like, Jose Otero?

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That was the only one I know. Pierre Schneider.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no. Paris Schneider hates DK64. Him and I had plenty of comments.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Do you think he said NBC?

[Roger Por]

Yeah. I was like, whoa.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Not on NBC.

[Roger Por]

That's not NBC at all. I saw someone throw out a kid across the port 3Ds.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's.

[Roger Por]

That's kind of cooking right there.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I can see it.

[Roger Por]

That makes it. Who's the director of that Again, sorry, what's his name, my guy?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Sakurai.

[Roger Por]

Sakurai.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

And he's said that he's working on something, doing something. Right. I could see that maybe being a project.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah but I mean if you're talking about like what he. He just finished his YouTube channel.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I think to then transition work to other things. But I wouldn't think that's already. Are you doing a kid? I care.

[Roger Por]

I mean it could just be like hey, I'm walking, I'm watching, I'm watching over it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I forget that he recorded those videos like years ago.

[Roger Por]

Exactly. Oh yeah, that was the big reveal.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, that was the big reve. I forget exact everybody from a long time ago.

[Tim Gettys]

I did remember the NBC host I was thinking of. It was Seth Macy.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yes.

[Roger Por]

Shout Seth.

[Tim Gettys]

People saying Philip Musin in the chat. Grow up, grow up.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He copied us. He was like, oh, Baron bless. Really? Like DKC4. I do too now.

[Tim Gettys]

Hey, come on, I work with that man.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And then a lot of people are writing in with some of the same things. Right. House of spoken wrote in, says give me wind waker slight princess. Tyler writes in and says tomorrow we find out what Tim did in Mexico. Greg's truth. Speaking of, I got another one from mellow fellow who says I'm looking for the one and only Stars of the bank to show up in tomorrow's direct. Bear or Roger sneak in an edit of Greg into the direct.

[Roger Por]

I beg it's not tomorrow. He's cashing in on April 2nd.

[Tim Gettys]

April 2nd.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, but do you think he's going to ruin Tim's day tomorrow?

[Roger Por]

Oh, he will. I mean it's the, the farewell tour. Yeah, it's the farewell tour, you know, starting today. So get ready for that.

[Tim Gettys]

I've had people start suggestion is a little too like early in the morning. But, but you know, I've had people.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Start inquiring about Stars of the bank family members on social media where somebody, somebody was like, but how can you read your three stars? Who doesn't have three stars? I was like, first of all, I never said three stars. Yeah, it was implied by you. I didn't. I called it star in the bank. And then you spelled it as stars. And I didn't correct you.

[Roger Por]

You didn't correct me. That's on you. You know what I mean? And then also, you know, Carl looked. Carl looked at Blessing and said, hey, what I'm. What I'm about to say you agree with and you said, yep.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Looks. I was like, just say yes to whatever I'm about to say. And I was like, sure. And then he said the thing, and I was like, oh, okay, take that back now. And exactly now you're trying to take it back.

[Roger Por]

You can't take it back.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And also, you don't wager the stars. Greg stars aren't on the line. It's only Tim stars that are on the line.

[Roger Por]

Three stars.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And Tim has way more than three stars, I tell you. And then Devin writes it and says, chrono Trigger remake.

[Roger Por]

Well, you put that in the same bucket as Mother three. You're not getting it. No, no.

[Tim Gettys]

You'll get Chrono Trigger.

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That's not.

[Tim Gettys]

That's not led by Nintendo.

[Roger Por]

You're not getting it, but you're not getting it tomorrow.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You're not getting it tomorrow for sure.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, that's like the lofty ones, you know?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm like, dude, even if that's a Switch 1 title, you still review that at the Switch 2 review, like, by.

[Tim Gettys]

The way, and that's my idea for like. Like the Zelda Ports and stuff like that. Like, you save that for the meal, man.

[Roger Por]

I'm so excited for the Switch 2 event that I'm like, man, what if we get mother three? Like, what if we get these remakes of Earthbound? Like, what if we do it?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I need you to calm your jets.

[Roger Por]

What if we do. What if they do it?

[Blessing Adeoye]

All right. We're going to get another 3D Mario, and you're going to be happy about it. I am. That's all you're going to get.

[Roger Por]

Is Cappy going to be back, though? I want Cappy so badly. I love Cappy. I mean, let's call it Odyssey, too. Just what are we doing?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I like Cappy mechanically, but we never should have put eyes.

[Roger Por]

Not emotionally.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We never should put eyes on the head.

[Roger Por]

I love it because I can't go back. I can't go back to it without any eyes anymore. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, I don't want. I don't. Is this where I finally come out and say that I don't like eyes? I like the eye. The eyes on the hat. Like, I don't. Cappy is fun, right? I like throwing my hat and becoming the things. But the hat has a person, a little girlfriend. The hat having a personality. Girlfriend.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You know what? I'm. Let the hat be a hat is what I'm saying.

[Tim Gettys]

That's up, Les. I can't believe you're saying.

[Roger Por]

Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I know. I'm standing by this. Why? Because, like, he looks weird when you have Mario set of eyes and then two more sets of eyes or another set of eyes right above him. It doesn't look right to me.

[Roger Por]

Okay, but like, like he has a whole community of other friends that are our hats. Like they have then they.

[Blessing Adeoye]

They can hang out in their hat community. No, I didn't mean like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Damn, dude, that's crazy.

[Roger Por]

God damn it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You back me into a corner, all right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you walked into that corner willingly.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm sending a donation.

[Roger Por]

Hey, guys, I'm so sorry. Give him the one. Everybody. Give him the one.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Don't give me the one. Move on to the story number two.

[Roger Por]

But before we do that, blessings gonna have to make a huge donation. Huge donation right now. In order to help cover that, we want to remind you about the kind of funny membership on patreon.com kind of funny and YouTube.com kind of funny games where you can get our shows ad free. And speaking of ads, here's a word from our sponsor.

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[Roger Por]

And we are back with story number two. You move your cursor blessing because you're fucking is interrupting my flow.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And I love that you're experiencing what I experience because like I'll be trying to read something and then I'll see it's not even just the cursor. It's the fact that on Google Docs the cursor will then say the person's name. Yeah, like two words and I'm like, I'm trying to read.

[Roger Por]

Come on, come on, move your shit. Story number two, Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet reportedly won't make 2026 is from Wesley Yinpool over at IGN. With the wait for the Witcher 4 set to head into 2027, it's a similar story for Naughty Dog's recently announced Intergalactic the Heretic Heretic Profit. I always make whatever Heretic profit.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Hereditary.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, hereditary. And I was.

[Tim Gettys]

I always want to say heretic project.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye]

See, I always say enter Galactic because the Kid Cudi it's messed me up every time.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I don't like it. Intergalactic the Heretic Prophets. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier took to reset era to say neither the Witcher 4 nor intergalactic will be out next year. That means like the Witcher 4, Intergalactic will be released in 2027 at the earlies. And like the Witcher and like the Witcher 4, Intergalactic will face questions about around whether or not it's targeting the PlayStation 5 or the inevitable PlayStation 6 or perhaps most likely is a cross gen game. If Intergalactic heads straight to PS6, Naughty Dog faces the prospect of having skipped the PS5 generation in terms of brand new games. That is a crazy thought to think about. That's me saying that not, not the reporter. So far the studio has released ports, remasters and remakes on Sony's current gen console, including the Last of Us Part 2, Uncharted, Legacy of Thieves Collection, The Last of Us Part 1 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Assuming intergalactic releases in 2027 and taking into account Druckmann's comments about it being in development for four years so far, by the time the game comes out, it will have been in the works for six. Six years. Yeah, that makes sense. Like none of this, none of this surprised me. Does it surprise you at all?

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, I think I was a little bit hoping for 2026 but I think when they first announced it immediately I'm like, oh, we're gonna, it's gonna be quite a few years before we see that thing. Yeah, I think that's just the base assumption you had to make when you, whenever we're being whatever a game of this nature is being revealed. Like I'll think the same thing if it was like a Sony Santa Monica game or any of like those top tier, like oh man, I've been waiting a while for this studio to reveal their game. Yeah, I always, always bump up a few years from the announcement of when we're actually going to get that. So 2027 doesn't sound crazy to me. I do think that the crazy part of it is the fact that. Yeah. Are you then talking about cross gen? Are we talking about an entire generation maybe not getting a Naughty Dog game? Yeah, right. Like, I think that's where it gets into. Oh man. I think no matter what though, if I think once this game comes out, I'd imagine that it's coming out on PS5 either way. Oh yeah, unless we get into like heavy delay territory. Yeah, unless we get to like Last Guardian territory.

[Roger Por]

But even then, I mean, we forget that Ragnarok came out on PS5. PS4. Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna get it on both. I, I think this is gonna be a last of a last of Us two situation. Right. Where it just comes out on the, I guess last year generation hardware by that time. Right. PS5 and then eventually comes to PS6 in a remastered form or an update or something like that. Right. Yeah. This doesn't surprise me. Again, I'm with it with you. I wanted, I wanted the reveal of like, oh shit. Like maybe they were cooking so hard that this is ready to go like asap. But this is, this is not surprising and just I'm excited to see whatever they do do next. I'm not, I'm not like freaking out or like, oh my gosh, they haven't released the game in so long because it has been so many remasters and you know, rereleases of the same games. And I just replayed Uncharted 4 and that game is fucking incredible. So like I'm, I'm fine with Naughty Dog taking as much time as possible, but yeah, it just speaks to how long these, these cycles of development are going. And we are going to get to the point where maybe the next, you know, Naughty Dog game doesn't make an entire generation of consoles. Like we're going to get to that point where one of these studios just misses an entire generation because that's how long these games are taking.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Unless we, unless there is that shift of, hey, we are scaling down a bit like in, in the video game industry. Yeah, that's the tough thing is, you know, we were having, I think it was me and Tim that were having this conversation as far as the God of War Greek game that's rumored for later this year. And like, do you think it could be another third person action adventure or do you think it's going to be something way smaller, like, like, you know, a 2D thing or like a. Oh, you know. Or I. I started off saying a Facebook, like, website game. Yeah. Or Facebook browser game, mainly because they've done that before. Like, for God of War 2018, there was like a prequel Facebook browser game that led into it. And so, like, when I read a side story, God of War thing, I'm like, all right.

[Roger Por]

Well, no one said game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And finally Jeff Grubb did confirm. He's like, oh, it's a game.

[Roger Por]

Okay, cool.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But I was like, all right, what's the. What's the lowest tier that I could pitch where I'm like, I believe this.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That way, like, when they do reveal it, I can be like, oh, fuck, that's wild that they're going to do this thing. Right.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But even in the conversation you and Tim were having about that, it was the thing of, I think Tim also being of the mind of, hey, I think you get PlayStation and these big studios might have to scale down at some point or might have to figure out how to put things out at a more decent pace and like, like figure out how to refine that.

[Roger Por]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And I kind of go back and forth on it because I think there are some studios that, you know, can be the prestige. We're going to put out one game a generation, and it's going to be the game that is the critical darling, the game that is the flagship. This is the game of our generation kind of thing, versus an insomnia. Insomniac or a team of Sobey.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Not to say that in Spider man isn't going to be one of the games in generation. Right. But like Spider man, you're at least, at the very least, you're able to put out multiple of them in one console generation, along with a Ratchet, along with probably a Wolverine. Right. Like, Insomniac has a level of refinement that they have within their studio of we know how to put out games, we know how to make things quick. And they don't need to be 11 out of 10 games.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You know what I mean? They don't need to be these 10, 10.

[Roger Por]

But I mean, they're extremely impressive. Yeah, they're extremely impressive. It. I think it speaks to going back to my conversation on Friday with Sam Lake and Mikal over at A Remedy, talking about how they went from going to. From one project at a time to multiple projects now. Right. And like, that's a tough thing to do. And I know that Naughty Dog. They were working on one project for a while and then they started doing multiple potentially. Like, you got to scale those things up, right? You got to scale those things up in order to get to a point where you are insomniac and you're making all of these. You have all these different teams working on all this different stuff. Yeah. So, yeah, I think that's the dream. I don't think anything's going to get smaller. And I look to if I wanted the. The perfect world for a smaller type experience where you can continuously have that AAA but then also have those smaller experiences is what Ninja Gaiden's doing right now, which is kind of perfect. Right. They have the Ninja Ninja Gaiden 2 black remake that came out this year. They have Ragebound, which is a different studio that is making like a 2D smaller thing. And then they have Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Right.

[Roger Por]

Like that. That to me is like the perfect middle ground of all this. Right. You have a remake, you have a smaller game that's a side team and then you have the AAA thing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

See, the.

[Roger Por]

I just don't think we're gonna get that for PlayStation. I don't think PlayStation wants that even. They don't want a smaller game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I. Well, I don't think they want that for a game like the games that Naughty Dog do. Right. Maybe an Uncharted. That's the thing is, I think when you're. When you give the Ninja Gaiden example, I think it's fascinating because you have something that is going to be a third person action game, but then you have like a 2D thing, right. That is a different genre, that has a different pipeline, all that stuff. I mean, if you wanted to go that route, right, it would be all right, we're gonna make a last less 2D survival thing.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. Metroidvania type deal.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. And like. But does that fit the ip?

[Roger Por]

It can be. It could, yeah. But they want to be. They want. I think the thing with PlayStation that PlayStation wants all of their big IP like that to be synonymous with the AAA of it. All right? Like, they don't want the smaller experiences. That's why I'm interested in this God of War thing where it's like, is that a smaller experience in terms of like scope and scale, but it still has the same graphical fidelity and it's just like. It is like a Miles Morales type deal or is it like a fully like. Hey, no, this is a different type of video game. We're trying something Something different. I, if I were a betting person, I would be like, this is a Miles Morales type thing, which is a smaller experience, but it still feels aaa because it is aaa.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And I still think, I think God of War is one of those franchises that would fit if you wanted to do a 2D thing, if you wanted to do like a different genre thing. Right?

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I think when I'm looking at Naughty Dog, when I say scale back, right, I'm talking about the fact that Last of Us 2 was a 25, 26 hour game. I'm like, what if it was? What if your next big game was 13 hours? Yeah, like that's what I'm talking about as far as getting your games out the door a little bit quicker.

[Roger Por]

But then that's the thing, is that you kind of dig yourself in that hole a little where it's like people are expecting that longer experiences for $70. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye]

If, if that's PlayStation, you keep developing to people's expectations currently, like you're not going to be able to keep up with it. You've done, you've.

[Roger Por]

I agree with you, I agree with you.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You ruined from the years of 2016.

[Roger Por]

I completely agree.

[Blessing Adeoye]

2020, you ruined people.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You ballooned people's expectations to an unreasonable amount. And now like, if you're not continuing to do that, yeah, people are going to get upset. But guess what? I think people will get over it because nobody, I don't think anybody's going to be able to sustain that if your name is not Rockstar and Rockstar is putting out a game every eight years or something like that.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, that's true.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I know you got you. I think you kind of just have to figure out how to scale or I guess scale to skill to what you want it to be. Like Naughty Dog. I don't think Naughty Dog has to be the guys that put out a game every three or four years. As long as the one game you're putting out every six years is a 10 out of 10 sells 30 million. Like as long as you're doing that and then you have the other studios to help prop you up and you have that synergistic. All right, we got Naughty Doc for the prestige. We got Insomniac to help us make money or whatever. Right. Like our team of Sobey to help, you know, sustain the library and all that stuff. I think you could have a relationship there between studios that works. But it does put Naughty Dog in a very lofty place, especially if one.

[Roger Por]

Of those fails potentially.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Exactly.

[Roger Por]

If you miss.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, man, that's a problem.

[Roger Por]

That's a big one. Yeah. And then you have to lean on the other studios to prop you up, and then studios start shutting down.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

And things are. Things start falling apart. Like, you're totally right. I agree with you. I just don't. I just don't know if that's what PlayStation wants right now. And I'm interested to see that side project, because that side project, if that's real for God of War, I think is going to say a lot about the future of PlayStation. And if it is just another Miles Morales thing, then cool. Yeah, whatever. But if it's something radically different and smaller, we could be cooking. We could be cooking with different. And we. They might be listening to the critiques that we've had over the years of, hey, let's just make smaller games.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. At a fast 2027. If we get Witcher 4 and Intergalactic out in the year 2027, what do you think ends up being game of the year between those two?

[Roger Por]

Which are four. Which are four for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I hope we see that. Like, I hope. I hope we see both those games going on the same year.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Because I miss the years. Or it's like, oh, I really don't know.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Years recently have been kind of either predictable or like, there haven't been. I'll bring us back to 2013 where it was GTA 5 simpler versus Last of Us. Much simpler time of like, all right, which. Who you got? And we all argued into the ground.

[Roger Por]

What type of guy are you?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. Are you a GTA sicko or are you a Last Was straight way back.

[Tim Gettys]

To God of War 2018 versus Red Dead 2, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

Good year.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Elden Ring versus God of War. God of War, Ragnarok, I think in the. In theory was one of those. Even though for me, I was like. I was so like, oh, man's Elden Ring.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's not even a question for me, but, you know, different types.

[Roger Por]

I want to. Yeah. I want a year where it's like two. Not similar games, but two games that have, like, almost complete overlap. You know what I mean? Like, Elder Ring and God of War don't really have as much overlap. You know, I mean, if you're eldering person, you're eldering person. If you're not, you're just not.

[Blessing Adeoye]

So.

[Roger Por]

So I want one. Yeah. I think Last of Us and GTA is kind of similar because people that play Last of Us totally will play gta. People play GTA probably play last of us. Yeah, so I don't Story number three, Game Informer has officially returned. This is from Emma Roth at the Verge.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Let's go.

[Roger Por]

Game Informer is back, and so is its entire staff. On Tuesday, editor in chief Matt Miller announced that Godzilla Games has acquired the rights to the gaming magazine, helping to bring the site and its archives back online. GameStop, which previously owned Game Informer, shut down the beloved magazine last August and laid off its entire staff after a more than 30 year run. The team teased a comeback last week and has already published a series of new reviews for titles released during the magazine's hiatus, along with a belated list of the best games of 2024. Its new owners. Godzilla Games, is a game developer based in Europe that's currently working on a battle royale title called off the Grid. Miller says the magazine will continue operating as an independent editorial outlet under a new entity called Game Informer Inc. Our intent is to continue to focus on highlighting the coolest games, celebrating the history and legacy of the gaming industry, and shining a spotlight on the creators and players who are charting its future, miller says. In addition to bringing back the website, Game Informer plans to resurrect its print magazine, too, with, quote, new membership and subscription benefits. Though Game Informer currently isn't offering a subscription just yet, you can sign up for an account on its website to receive updates as well as gain access to the magazine's archive. Game Informer will continue updating its site with news, reviews, previews, features, event coverage and more starting today. Absolutely incredible. That's incredible. Yeah, that's awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's fantastic. Me and you had a shared experience that we talked about yesterday, where a couple days ago I was just trying to figure out, like, what's the next game I'm gonna play? What do I want to play? And I went on the PlayStation Store and I scrolled down like two notches and there was like a big banner that said off the Grid. And I was like, I've never heard of it. What is off the grid? And I like started looking at screenshots and like trailers and I was like, this ain't a real game. Like, what? The world is off the grid.

[Roger Por]

It takes up the entirety of the PlayStation Store. It's like the biggest thing on there.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And then I just went about my day. And yeah, the next day they announced this and they're like, oh yeah, the developers of off the Grid have, you know, acquired.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I downloaded the game like two days ago. Like two days before this announcement. I played it. I'M like, this is not a real game.

[Blessing Adeoye]

This is. We've never talked about off the grid. I don't think now.

[Roger Por]

Okay, let's start with the positive, right?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

Incredible that in this space that is. Feels like it is crumbling, let's be completely honest, right. This is a space in the video game industry is such a tumultuous place right now that people are not only able to get their jobs back, but the entirety of the staff. We're able to come back under an independently owned LLC and continue to create the great stuff that they were doing before.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's awesome.

[Roger Por]

And we have friends at Game Informer and that's really incredible and I'm super happy about it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's the thing is, you know, shout out to Alex Ren, shout out to Brian Shea, shout out to Marcus Stewart. Shout out. I can shout out. Everybody works at game before. Honestly, this is beautiful news. I loved going to the website and like seeing how long they've been cooking on this because they have like Game of the Year stuff like prepared for 2024. They've had. They have reviews up for games that have come out in the last few weeks. Right. Already prepared on the website. Like they've been cooking. Getting all like 100 of the staff back is wild. And like that could have gone any sort of way as far as I've already found another job. Oh, I've like, you know, I couldn't wait for this to come back so I had to like find another source of income. The fact that everybody was able to get their jobs back and they seem joyful about it on social media. They seem very excited about it. I think it's awesome. I saw another tweet from. Oh, I forget who it was, but there was somebody that was like. I think it was Imran actually that this kind of poses the possibility that Game Informer can live a life beyond GameStop. Like GameStop shuts down.

[Tim Gettys]

Dan Riker was the one. We could live in a timeline where Game Informer outlives GameSpot or GameStop and that's a beautiful timeline.

[Roger Por]

That's awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Like there's so many like beautiful things about this and this story like brings a smile to my face.

[Roger Por]

It does bring a smile to my face. End of the positive. I do want to talk about the Godzilla of it. All. Right. Because Gunzilla is. It's a company that is making this free to play battle royale game. No issues there. That's a video game. I think I do have a little bit of an issue of a game publisher. Owning a game magazine. Of course, I don't believe, I believe that their ethics are going to be intact and I know that crew. We can only, we can't speculate on, you know, if things are going to be corrupt or not corrupt, but like, if things are going to be like, they're going to give, they're not going to give any games a pass rate.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. If you see, if you see an article that goes up that is off.

[Roger Por]

The Grid review is the greatest game ever. No.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I think they're in like. And that doesn't come with any sort of, like, you know, I don't know, like, caveat of, hey, we've outsourced a writer that doesn't work with all this stuff. Right. We are own technically. Like, if it is Alex Vanaken's off the Grid Review, then I think there's a side eye to be had. Yeah, I think outside of that, I.

[Roger Por]

Do want to talk about the NFTs of it all.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Oh, we'll get there.

[Roger Por]

Okay. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Just making sure because I think I, I hear you and I think that was one of my first reactions to, of like, oh, the video game developer owning a video game outlet. That's weird. I think it is weird, but also they have spun it out into like Game Informer. Game Informer has, I think, its own, like, I don't know if they have their own llc, but like, essentially they're, they are Game Informer Inc. Now and that is how they operate. They don't operate as part of Godzilla. They are operating independently from Godzilla, but.

[Roger Por]

They'Re still owned by Godzilla.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, yeah, but I think even within that, right, like, like, as long as you establish that with your audience and establish like, hey, this is who we are. We're not hiding anything. We're being very transparent. We are. This is how we're going to treat our relationship with the game developer that we're owned by. Like, yeah, as long as you're transparent about all these things, then I have no issues with it. And it's on the reader in the audience to be like, oh, I fuck with that, or I don't fuck with that.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, I, I completely agree. I think if there is it, it. I, I agree. But I also agree that it needs to go past just being like, hey, off the grid. Here's the review for off the grid. I think you need to mention it every time there's a battle royale game. I'm going to be really honest. I think I think it needs to go that deep where like, I follow Linus Tech tips. Right. And he owns, he, he now owns. He. He invested in a company that makes laptops. Right. So every time they make a laptop video that he's involved in, he mentions it. And I think you need to go that deep. I think you need to be that transparent of like. No, no. This game that we're reviewing is a competitor off the grid. We don't have any connection to that. They own our company. But like, take that with a grain of salt. Like you need to have that paragraph, that text in every time you have a game that is, is that's where it gets messy. That's the weird part, where it gets messy, Right? Yeah, because this, this is that. And then you also have to bring in the fact that Godzilla, which is, I think is the creative visionary officer, whatever, the. One of the people that works at Godzilla is the head people there is Neil Blomkamp, the director, which is cool and that's awesome. But the main game, the issue with the game, quote unquote, is that they have NFTs in the game. So let me just read this really quick is they have Guns, which is their proprietary platform where you can purchase and sell loot. What is Guns? This is from their website with the Z, by the way, because it's edgy and cool. In current free to play games, if you don't truly own the item you purchase, or loot if you're accidentally banned or if you simply stop playing, then items lose all its value. Guns is here to reinvest this, reinvent the system. You can now own and trade the items you loot if you want to. Guns is the first ever platform in a AAA game that gives you the option to turn your Items into tradable NFTs inside the game's marketplace or elsewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's rough.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I. That, yeah, that is weird. I think the thing that I still come back on with it is I think knowing the people at Game Informer and also like it being again spun out into its own thing. I don't worry about that infecting Game Informer as much. And I like, I look at that still akin to how I look at GameStop where GameStop also was doing NFTs. Yeah, it's been doing NFTs. And GameStop also is like, you know, a video game company in the same way that, you know, we talk about as far as like disclosure and all the stuff. Right. How does that feed back into the way that you talk about games or the way that you talk about other games, right? Like I, I view as much that's wrong there about Godzilla is probably still equivalent to, to as much as that is wrong about GameStop in a way to where I don't get like I'm not put off by it anymore, but I still understand being put off by it of the owners. Right. And like that's one of those things where it's a tough thing to balance. Each person has to do it individually because I guess for me, I look at that and I'm like every, like every tech company right now is in a. Is doing something shitty as far as like AI's integration into, integration into everything. Right. The amount of NFT stuff that has infected everything, even though NFT is I feel like aren't as in vogue anymore as they were at least like in the last couple of years. I know they're still around. Like, I don't. If you're an entity that has a lot of money, there's a large chance that you are doing the exact same things that.

[Roger Por]

I agree with you. I agree with you. I think my biggest fear is less of like the them giving. There's some type of weird thing where they're giving a pass or not giving a pass to certain games. I don't believe in any of that. Right. Like that's not necessarily my. Because I know that crew and I know that they're good hearted people and I know they really give a shit about Game Informer and its integrity, its journalistic integrity. I'm just more worried about like you're here and you. I'm happy that everyone's back but now you're working for a company that is working with NFTs and is a very volatile industry and it just, it just scares me a little. It just scares me where it's like, oh, you're out under GameStop. That's great. GameStop was about to collapse. Now you're under here and it's like, okay, what is the, what does that look like now? What is, what is the future of that company? Looks like it's like you got away.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You got away from Ganon and now you're under Bowser.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, I don't want, I don't mean to put negativity in a place where it is a very positive news story overall. Especially when you have friends in the industry that are getting their jobs back. And that is so beautiful. Especially in this tough market, this job market, this games industry. This is beautiful. I'm just nervous for the future of you know what that looks like?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I feel that.

[Roger Por]

But yeah. Story number four, it's a quick one. Witcher and Cyberpunk's CD Project is teaming up with Scopely for an IP adaptation. Jordan Midler from VGC writes CD Projekt is partnering with Scopely for a game based on its ip. The partnership was announced during CD Project's earning call on Tuesday. No details were announced, nor was the specific IP of that the game will use. The game will pair the Polish independent developer with one of the world's largest mobile gaming developers. Scopoli, the mobile giant behind Monopoly Go, recently announced that it will acquire Niantic, the studio behind Pokemon Go. Is it Witcher? Is it Witcher Go?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, it's either Witcher or Cyberpunk, right?

[Roger Por]

Is it Witcher?

[Blessing Adeoye]

My, my.

[Roger Por]

Well, gotta be Witcher.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But then my question is, because CD Projekt Red doesn't own Witcher. They own.

[Roger Por]

They don't own Cyberpunk, right?

[Tim Gettys]

They don't own either.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I guess you're right. They don't really own either. My. I guess if you're going off of the CD Projekt Red's version of Witcher, I would think that it's similar to Monster Hunter Go that I've not played.

[Roger Por]

I wonder if there was someone in this office that has played it.

[Blessing Adeoye]

God, don't invoke it. I would think ye Witcher Go. But like, it is you playing the role as a witcher, taking on contracts to take out different monsters.

[Roger Por]

We're up.

[Blessing Adeoye]

What's that?

[Roger Por]

Gwent.

[Blessing Adeoye]

How so?

[Roger Por]

Is it Gwent?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Is it like. Does that exist already?

[Roger Por]

Is it just Gwen on mobile? Does that exist?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm pretty sure that exists.

[Roger Por]

Oh, well, Chat, Chat.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Unless it's like Gwent Go. But yeah, Gwent is already a game, I think.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it on mobile Game?

[Blessing Adeoye]

In fact, I think Gwent is. It's been around long enough to where it might have gone away already. Is Gwent still around?

[Roger Por]

Well, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

There you go.

[Roger Por]

Install it on Google Play Chat. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I thought.

[Roger Por]

I believe Chad.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I thought.

[Roger Por]

I love Chad.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, you don't believe. Never. How much have you.

[Roger Por]

Five people in a row said Gwent and I got excited.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Do you not listen to game showdown and kind of Feudi. Chat doesn't know. I'm sorry, Chat. You don't. John is doing something to me, man. You guys don't deserve the content that I give.

[Roger Por]

Well, Gwent. Gwent has shut down, apparently. But if Gwent were to come back, that'd be Huge news.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It'd be big.

[Roger Por]

And if I wanted something smaller, See, the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm gonna ruin video games. You're gonna go to our last news story, the WE News Channel, where you. Sorry, I started. John Cena really got into. John Cena. Really? You go to our last news story, the WE News Channel, where we cover all the small news items they need to know about.

[Roger Por]

WE News time. Everybody start off with a banger. Big one. A bazooka. Have you heard of J. Cole? Super Monkey Ball. Banana Rumble has gotten an official Pac man reveal trailer. And this is huge. Right? We have Capcom.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yep.

[Roger Por]

Who makes them? No, wait, no, wait. Capcom makes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop. Who makes pack? Roger Namco.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Namco makes Pac Man.

[Roger Por]

Yes. And then Sega. Sega. It's a bazooka of a story. Okay. Because we have Sega. And they're collabing, right? They're collabing and they're bringing the Pac man into. They're putting them in a ball. They're putting a ball. He can't get these ghosts because he's in a ball. It's. He's so scared, he says, because the ball. He's just. Next one. Jeff Keeley helps reveal.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's like the first thing you're supposed to learn when you're hosting KG is that Namco owns Pac.

[Roger Por]

That's the first one. That was the first one.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's Video Games 101 for sure. Nintendo owns Mario. Pac man is owned by Namco.

[Roger Por]

That's the first thing I'm supposed to learn.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yes. And then Greg Miller likes wings, I guess is the.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, that's true. I did meet Pac man too. Adapt the bump. It was sick. Jeff Keeley helped reveal a new game from Dream Haven called Wildgate Steam. Description reads Wild gate is a PvP multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship to ship combat with fast paced first person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the artifact. Or the last crew left flying. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We were wondering what this was gonna be because Jeff Keighley was teasing an announcement with Dreamhaven the other day. Looks cool. It's the thing where Dreamhaven now has now had three games announced and they've all had kind of like this.

[Roger Por]

Really?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. You wouldn't know, right?

[Roger Por]

I wouldn't know.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We've seen the game linked because we used. We call it O. Linked at first.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Because they're a big. There's a big O. That looks like it's part of the word but it's just a logo. They really do got to fix that. But their games. The art style. The art styles don't vibe with me. I think like the concepts of the games look fun but I look at this and I'm like oh this. I don't know how to describe this art style. I think we described it as painterly. Painterly. When we were, when we were playing what was the game? The Eternal Strands.

[Roger Por]

They made eternal strands.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, not them.

[Roger Por]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But we were playing Eternal Strands. I was like, how do I describe this art style? Style that's like a cartoony thing, but it looks almost like it wants to be Fortnite, but it's not Fortnite. Fortnite looks better somehow.

[Roger Por]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I would call it the Immortals Phoenix Rising.

[Roger Por]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Immortals art style.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, it's very bright, but it just doesn't feel like it's almost too bright, you know, I mean there's a little too many colors going on. Doesn't. Doesn't feel like it's too. It's focused. You tell, you can tell the audience is for. Because it has like the tick tock like captions on the bottom.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I'm. I think, yeah, I think for now on I'm gonna dubs this, dub this the Immortals Phoenix Rising art style though.

[Roger Por]

I like that. I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I wish that game was still called Gaunt and Monsters cuz that was way easier.

[Roger Por]

Way easier and way cooler. Remember when it got leaked through stadia? Remember just the build of that game was just through stadia. You could just play it just like.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, those are the times.

[Roger Por]

Those are the times. From Shinobi. Microsoft is topping the pre order charts.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Wow.

[Roger Por]

I'm trying to top this up. Microsoft is topping the pre order charts on PlayStation Store across all major regions with Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It makes sense. I mean those games are known quantities, right? Of course people are going to be pre ordering games that they already know are good.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Go. Forza Horizon 5 supremacy. All right. I hope that stays on the number one on the charts throughout the whole year. All right. U.S. training 2 Forza Horizon 5 supremacist.

[Roger Por]

Oh, we won bro.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We won. We did it. Oh man. You see that? You see that?

[Roger Por]

I just want to trick you. I just want to trick you. PlayStation plus essential games for April 2025 have been announced. Robocop Rogue City the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That's not one title. It's Multigimon Story Cyber Sleuth. Hacker. Hackers Memory.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Let's go.

[Roger Por]

Jesus Christ. I didn't realize that Texas Chainsaw was still going on. I thought that was like one of those ones that. The servers closed. Activision user research workers formed a union together with the CWA. That's great. Triple I Initiative returns on April 10 at 9am AM PDT.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I feel like they're always returning and.

[Roger Por]

We will not be reacting to that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, you don't. With the Triple I initiative.

[Roger Por]

I don't even know what this is.

[Blessing Adeoye]

No, it's like a cool indie showcase.

[Roger Por]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I didn't mean to.

[Roger Por]

I just thought it was one of those. I thought it was like, play on. Like one of the.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Play on. No, I thought it was one of those ones. It's like another independent group thinking, okay, that's cool. Some. Or whatever.

[Roger Por]

I take it back.

[Tim Gettys]

They had a couple good ones last year.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I remember.

[Roger Por]

GeoGuessr Steam Edition launches on Steam Early Access in April. That's huge. Linked Banner of the Spark leaves Early Access and launches May 22nd.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That's the game I was talking about.

[Roger Por]

That's so funny.

[Blessing Adeoye]

O Links.

[Roger Por]

No. Is it?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, it is.

[Roger Por]

That's crazy. And Thunderfolk launches April 23rd on Xbox, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC. I got one more.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I got one. That's breaking from Cristiano Ronaldo as soon as I opened up Twitter. Big news to share with everyone today. I'm gonna be a character in the new fighting game Fatal Theory. City of the Wolves. Let's have fun on April 24th.

[Roger Por]

That's exciting.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He has a video with it. I'm trying to see if it shows him off as a playable character. Oh, it does.

[Roger Por]

Oh, that doesn't look good. Let's pull that up real quick.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. I'll drop this into the KFG slack because the streets might need to see this.

[Roger Por]

Watch the trailer. It's so stupid. We got some time. Let's watch the trailer.

[Blessing Adeoye]

We're five minutes late so far, but yes, I'm dropping that in there. Somebody said he'll go to Tam's Twitter. I'm trying to get to Tam's Twitter to see.

[Roger Por]

I'm trying to see. I don't follow him, but, like, you gotta figure it out. Oh, it's the same thing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, it's the same thing. Never mind.

[Roger Por]

That is it for WE News. Thank you so much, Barrett. Let's watch it. Little reaction.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He's an icon now, remember, if you want to know the.

[Roger Por]

Oh, no.

[Blessing Adeoye]

If you want to know the connection between Cristiano Ronaldo and Fatal Fury. It's Saudi Arabia.

[Roger Por]

That makes sense.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's Saudi Arabia. If you want to know why this is happening, they own snk and they also own Ronaldo.

[Roger Por]

They just own him or usually plays.

[Blessing Adeoye]

For them, I believe. Chat correct me on what the Cristiano Ronaldo thing is. I think he plays for a team in Saudi Arabia.

[Roger Por]

This is insane.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, Tundra boy does say they own him last.

[Roger Por]

Do it. Oh, Jesus. That was awful. That.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Moveset looks kind of fire, though.

[Roger Por]

But it doesn't look like a real character. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it looks like a modern character. Yeah, he did the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

He did the speed thing. That's.

[Roger Por]

It's so sad that. That's all I know.

[Blessing Adeoye]

So many soccer fans.

[Roger Por]

So sad, because that's literally the first time I saw. No, I don't do that.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I was like.

[Roger Por]

I thought that was.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Don't say that. No, man.

[Roger Por]

I was like, why did they all do the thing, like, in the wwe? I was like, why do they all know that any of the super chats.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, Claw Master wrote in about this exact thing? So I just saw a new trailer for the next City of the Wolves character. It's Cristiano Ronaldo. What a time for the fgc. I'm sure the FGC is very happy with Cristiano coming to Fatal Fury City. The Wolves could have been anybody, you.

[Roger Por]

Know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Could put anybody in that fighting game. They put Chris, Shadow, Ronaldo in that thing. Could have put Messi in there. I'm just saying. Zombies. Keegan writes in and says, can you guys speculate on the rumors that KF has been bought by PPP CC llc?

[Roger Por]

Can't confirm, nor did I. Maybe during the farewell tour. This will be brought up.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I love Keegan. Keegan has written in with this, like, 10 days in a row.

[Roger Por]

Hey, listen. Can't confirm nor deny.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Nandor says, wouldn't it be called a partner showcase if it was only third party?

[Roger Por]

That's true.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I don't think we. I don't think anybody here thinks it's only third party, but I think. I think Bear's, like, it's gonna be heavily.

[Roger Por]

Also Kirby Robobot or whatever the like.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, that's Kirby Robot the port.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, that's gonna be there for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye]

That makes sense. This is gonna be called Re Robobot.

[Roger Por]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And then Goldfish Boy Leech says, is tomorrow the last chance for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess ports?

[Roger Por]

No, not your last chance, but probably second to last.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I'll Be surprised to see it in the Switch two thing. I'll say.

[Roger Por]

Yeah. I don't think they're not going backwards.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Because I don't think that is going to have a native Switch 2 version. I think you're going to be playing like the. The Switch 1 version on the Switch 2. Maybe it's up res or whatever. Maybe it's boosted.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, but I mean that's.

[Blessing Adeoye]

But like, why would you make two SKUs?

[Roger Por]

I get ruse saying, yeah, I understand. We're saying, yeah, but there will be some. Some positives to it. It has to be. There has to be. Right? Nintendo. Right. All these games have to have 60fps versions. Right. Not just Xenoblade.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Only through Nintendo Switch Online.

[Roger Por]

I think that's what they're gonna do.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah, I think also. Also add more super chats, but my page crashed. So. Give me one second.

[Roger Por]

I'll give you one second. Can you believe that? Namcom makes namcom.

[Tim Gettys]

Namcom.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Namcom. All right. Doesn't know who owns Pac Man.

[Roger Por]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Let's get deep. What do you have against Namco in. Because you apparently just conflate these three studios. Namcom. You didn't know who made Pac Man.

[Roger Por]

I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye]

What's your beef with Capcom?

[Roger Por]

I just feel like here's the thing, right? Super Smash Brothers has crossed so many lines. Everybody was in everything, right?

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah.

[Roger Por]

So it's like nothing matters anymore. We all. We all share. It's free love. It's free love in the game history. Happy. Everyone's passing around.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Dear Lord.

[Roger Por]

Everyone's gonna taste the Pac Man. He's over here. He's over there. Also, why the. Is Mega man in Capcom? Right? Like that doesn't feel right. Doesn't feel right to me also. Guys.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Everybody.

[Roger Por]

Don't give me. I'm gonna throw Mike under the bus.

[Blessing Adeoye]

What about Mega man being made by Capcom doesn't.

[Roger Por]

I don't know. It just doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't make sense to me. That feels like a Namcom thing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Okay, you gotta stop saying namcom feels.

[Roger Por]

Like a Namco thing.

[Tim Gettys]

No, you gotta double down, Roger.

[Roger Por]

Feel like a Namco thing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Thing. Snugs writes in and says, come on. Bless. Be better. I would like to apologize to the hat community. I'm sorry.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, it was rough.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It came out in the wrong way. It was. It was a heated moment.

[Roger Por]

That was the worst thing that happened on the show.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Had a heated gamer moment. Oh, it happens.

[Roger Por]

It happens. It's bound to happen. It's been on camera for A long time. It happens to everyone.

[Blessing Adeoye]

And so I like to apologize to the hat community not playing pubg and Aldo. You're Aldo. You writes in and says birthday tax. Happy birthday. It's my beloved husband, Aldo. Wait, your name is Aldo? And your husband's name is all. I love you so much. I figured out what the hell a super chat is. Thanks, kf, for the joyful content you bring to our home. Oh, that's really sweet.

[Roger Por]

That's really.

[Blessing Adeoye]

They're probably just logged in on Aldo's account. Happy birthday, Aldo. That's awesome.

[Roger Por]

Be great if they use their credit card, though.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I mean, I think you would have to.

[Roger Por]

That's really beautiful.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yeah. Thank you, Aldo. And happy birthday to your husband, Aldo.

[Roger Por]

That's beautiful. Is that it?

[Blessing Adeoye]

I believe that is it.

[Roger Por]

Oh, thank you so much. Oh, one more.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Trevor Redson says other day blessing was throwing the hey Arnold community under the bus. Now the hat community.

[Roger Por]

What'd you say about hey Arnold? So I might agree with you.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I. No, I wasn't. I wasn't throwing shade at hey Arnold. I forget. I think I said hey Arnold was. No, I was comparing it to something that was way better than hey Arnold. No, no, no, Way better.

[Tim Gettys]

Just more popular. You were comparing.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I think I said, hey Arnold is no Pokemon. And I was ob. Right. I just threw hey Arnold in it for no reason, though. Yeah. Had no business being in the house.

[Tim Gettys]

I think you're comparing it to spongebob because you. We were talking about Pokemon and you're using Nickelodeon shows as an analogy. Maybe as you do, it did feel a little bit more like in the moment, it felt like you were throwing shade at the quality of hey Arnold. I was more so commenting on the, you know, like the.

[Blessing Adeoye]

A picture of, like the gap between IPS in terms of.

[Tim Gettys]

In terms of popularity. Rarity.

[Blessing Adeoye]

Yes, yes.

[Roger Por]

Yeah, just. Just say Cat Dog next time because that's like the one we on. We don't like Cat Dog.

[Blessing Adeoye]

I. First of all, I love like 99.

[Roger Por]

Well, this has been great episodes of Kind of Funny Games Daily. We learned a lot about ourselves. We learned a lot about ourselves.

[Blessing Adeoye]

You have beef with Capcom. You have beef with hey Arnold. The only people I got beef with are the hats out there.

[Roger Por]

Okay? Each and every weekday, we run you through the dirty news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love, we do. Support us with the kind of funny membership on Patre YouTube to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games, guys. Next. And the stream after. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to stream.

[Blessing Adeoye]

It's called Cat Dog, not Hat Dog, Roger.