Outer Worlds 2 is $80, Halo Remaster Teased - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.09.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast - Outer Worlds 2 is $80, Halo Remaster Teased (06.09.25)

Release Date: June 9, 2025
Hosts: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and additional industry veterans and guests.

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1. Outer Worlds 2 Launches at $80

Timestamp: [07:04] – [12:05]

The podcast kicks off with a deep dive into the announcement of The Outer Worlds 2, which has been confirmed to launch at a hefty $79.99 retail price point. Blessing Adeoye Jr. references Matt Miller from Game Informer for the details, highlighting the game's release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC scheduled for October 29th.

Tim Gettys raises concerns about the pricing trend, questioning:

“If you could look into that, y'all, I would appreciate that.” ([08:38])

The hosts discuss the broader implications of rising game prices, noting that Xbox has been pushing game prices upwards, making $80 potentially the new standard. They lament that this trend might lead to games being overpriced, causing consumer frustration.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. elaborates on the economic pressures contributing to this shift:

“People aren't making as much money overall as they should be.” ([12:22])

2. Halo Combat Evolved Remaster Teased by Phil Spencer

Timestamp: [21:10] – [26:48]

Phil Spencer, Xbox Gaming President, hinted at the return of Halo Combat Evolved with a remaster slated for 2026. The tease aligns with the 25th anniversary of both the Xbox and the original Halo game, marking a significant celebration for the franchise.

Tim Gettys expresses excitement:

“I think a remake of Halo 1 is the best step, the best next step for Halo.” ([23:37])

However, Blessing Adeoye Jr. voices skepticism about whether a remaster alone can rejuvenate the franchise, suggesting that a complete reinvention akin to "God of War" might be necessary to reignite fan enthusiasm.

3. Hollow Knight: Silksong Release Date Clarified

Timestamp: [29:54] – [35:06]

Addressing recent confusion, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry, have clarified that the game will launch before the holiday season and is not tied to the release of Microsoft's new handheld, the Rog Ally X. Marketing Manager Matthew Left Griffin assured fans:

“We are not tied to a console release.” ([31:17])

This clarification aims to calm speculations that the game's release was dependent on the new hardware launch, affirming an independent release timeline targeted for Christmas 2025.

4. Konami Announces Upcoming Showcase

Timestamp: [35:05] – [41:31]

Konami is set to host a new showcase featuring updates on Metal Gear Solid Delta, Silent Hill F, and other titles like Planet of the Apes and potentially a Castlevania project. The event is scheduled for June 12, 2025, at 6:00 AM Pacific Time.

Tim Gettys notes the significance of Konami's return to the showcase scene:

“They're back in the showcase game.” ([35:41])

However, there's hesitation about the excitement level, given Konami's mixed history with recent game announcements and the uncertainty surrounding new titles.

5. Skybound Entertainment Launches In-House Studio Quarter Up

Timestamp: [39:37] – [44:34]

Skybound Entertainment, known for franchises like Invincible and The Walking Dead, has unveiled its first in-house game development studio, Quarter Up. Led by former members of the Double Helix Games Killer Instinct team, the studio is set to debut with a superhero 3v3 tag fighting game, Invincible Versus, scheduled for 2026.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. highlights the potential of this new venture:

“I want the studio to be successful.” ([43:26])

Despite enthusiasm, concerns are raised about the crowded fighting game market, noting the release timing alongside major titles like Marvel vs. Capcom and Mortal Kombat 1, which might overshadow Invincible Versus.

6. Heartwarming Story: Switch 2 Purchase Saves a Life

Timestamp: [45:13] – [47:04]

A listener shares a poignant story from Reddit about how receiving a Coke with a Switch 2 pre-order from Walmart saved their life. The listener, a type 1 diabetic, experienced a severe blood sugar drop and the unexpected availability of a sugary drink was crucial in preventing a medical emergency.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Tim Gettys express heartfelt appreciation:

“This is so fucking cool.” ([46:32])

This story underscores the unexpected positive impacts of promotional extras in product purchases.

7. Live-Action Mass Effect Series Moves Forward

Timestamp: [47:04] – [52:27]

The podcast covers the latest developments in the Live-Action Mass Effect series for Prime Video, with Doug Zhang of Mindhunter being appointed as the new showrunner. This move promises to bring fresh storytelling perspectives to the beloved sci-fi franchise.

8. Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Delayed

Timestamp: [52:27] – [55:26]

The highly anticipated Legend of Zelda live-action adaptation has been delayed to May 7, 2027. The hosts discuss typical Hollywood delays, speculating on internal scheduling conflicts within Sony and the broader impact on fan expectations.

Tim Gettys comments on the delay:

“It's just like, studio.” ([48:21])

9. Shigeru Miyamoto Not Credited in Mario Kart World

Timestamp: [56:34] – [60:50]

Listeners are surprised to learn that Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary creator of Mario, is not credited in Mario Kart World. This trend reflects a broader shift within Nintendo, where core creators may take a step back from direct acknowledgments in newer titles.

Tim Gettys explains:

“Shigeru Miyamoto not in Mario Kart World.” ([48:46])

This omission raises questions about evolving roles within game development teams at Nintendo.

10. Discussion on Evolution of Game Showcases and E3 Nostalgia

Timestamp: [60:50] – [67:49]

A significant portion of the podcast delves into the evolution of video game showcases, comparing the nostalgic grandeur of E3’s past events to the current landscape of multiple showcases like Summer Game Fest and Game Awards. The hosts reflect on how the proliferation of events has diluted the specialness once associated with major expos.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. expresses a longing for the “freedom and innocence of childhood gaming,” while Tim Gettys reminisces about the excitement of attending multiple E3 events and the unique energy they brought.

Tim Gettys emphasizes:

“There are more good games than we've ever had.” ([57:59])

11. Listener Super Chats and Interactions

Timestamp: [53:00] – [67:49]

Throughout the episode, hosts engage with listener super chats, addressing comments, questions, and feedback. Notable interactions include:

• Foxy Steve appreciates the hosts’ efforts and celebrates a listener’s birthday.
• Cedar Split questions the lack of major announcements from first-party studios, leading to a discussion on the pressures and realities of modern game development.
• Pedro Venegas expresses gratitude and birthday wishes to the hosts.

Notable Quotes

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.:

  "People aren't making as much money overall as they should be." [12:22]

• Tim Gettys:

  "I think a remake of Halo 1 is the best step, the best next step for Halo." [23:37]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.:

  "This is so fucking cool." [46:32]

• Tim Gettys:

  "There are more good games than we've ever had." [57:59]

Conclusion

The episode provides an in-depth analysis of current trends in the gaming industry, particularly focusing on rising game prices, the revival of classic franchises, and the shifting landscape of game showcases. The hosts balance critical discussions with personal anecdotes and community interactions, offering a comprehensive overview for both avid gamers and casual listeners.

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Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Today's stories include the Outer Worlds 2 is $80. Halo Remastered was teased by Phil Spencer and Hollow Knight, Silksong's developer clears up the confusion. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily from Monday, June 9, 2025. I'm one of your hosts. Blessing. Adio Yea Junior. Joining me is Lacroix Poppy, Tim Ma plugging Yetis.

[Tim Gettys]

What a day. So many things to talk about. Yesterday we reacted to the Xbox showcase. That was a. A fun little weekend delight.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Little. Little surprise. Little delight.

[Tim Gettys]

Surprise and delight.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like we've already taken it too far, but I don't think there's any end in sight.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we're about to be using this like every day this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know where the. The phrase surprise and delight first originated. There's no way they invented it. I feel like I've heard it before Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, they've. But they've been using it like for the last. For the end of the Switch generation. They keep saying it, but they. I feel it was us at the tour of the Nintendo store.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yes. Where they use.

[Tim Gettys]

Where they use every 10 seconds. I feel like that's what got into all of our heads.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like it's the Walt Disney shit. I feel like Walt Disney might have invented it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. But I mean, they are. And now here we are doing it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chad, I need y' all to look up and maybe this. You're wrong. Look up the origin of surprise and delight. Those words set said in that order.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because, like, it describes everything so perfectly, especially this week. You know what I mean? It's been a surprising and delightful week.

[Tim Gettys]

Totally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim, how are you feeling? We just did a lot of content.

[Tim Gettys]

We did. Yeah. I'm tired.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm also tired.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm feeling good, though. It's that good. Tired. It's not exhausted. It's more just like my voice is a little gone. I'm definitely feeling a little slow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know if y' all have noticed it on content or not. I might have played it out of world, but. No, but it's fun. Good vibes. I. I think that we saw a lot of really cool games the last couple days. We're playing a lot of really cool games. Like, this is kind of like what dreams are made of when it comes to covering this industry. A console launch, a whole bunch of, like, great showcases. Like. Yeah. Good stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. For me, it's A it's a too many slices situation where I love pizza, but you put a, you put too much pizza in front of me and all of a sudden I'm like, I can't eat all this pizza. And that's what I'm struggling with is.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, you know, you know, too much pizza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's too much pizza. We're Reviewing Death Training 2. I got, we got the Nintendo Switch 2. Right. Like we've been playing Mario Kart. Del. I barely touched Delta Rune barely touched my dinner.

[Tim Gettys]

I've barely touched welcome Tour. I have touched it though. Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I, I finally decided that I'm just not, I'm just going to skip it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now what it was was the IGN review.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I saw Marks went in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tom Marks went in. I was like, cool, I don't need to play this.

[Tim Gettys]

He did. Yeah. I, I, I will talk more about it when we do our Nintendo Switch 2 review. I, I'm still playing more of it, but it will not be something I' I'll tell you that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Tim Gettys]

It was the office because you don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Have all the accessories.

[Tim Gettys]

I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

But it was more about just, it wasn't really surprising or delightful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow. Yeah. Wow. When are we doing the Nintendo Switch to review?

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's Thursday. And the Mario Karts Friday or the other way.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's the, that original way is correct.

[Tim Gettys]

There we go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go. There you go. So stay tuned. Later this week we'll be talking all about our Nintendo Switch. Two thoughts. But for now, remember, this is kind of Funny Games daily. 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. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now Spotify and Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free, watch us accord them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. So today after khd you're going to get gamescast which is Greg talking about how he played a bunch of games at sgf, including the Xbox Rog Ally X. I messed that up. Rog Xbox Ally X.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, yes, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's going to take some remembering.

[Tim Gettys]

Here's the thing. The way it's easy to remember, easy. The way I'm trying to remember it, I'm still going to mess it up every time. But it's an ally to the Xbox. And Aloy drinks Sprite.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus Christ. Jesus Lord.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's not an Xbox alley.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what? It's been a long week, okay?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, I've been caught in those Xbox alleys before. You don't want to be there.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't want to be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't like me there.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't want to be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

After Gamescast is the kind of funny podcast. Then the stream is Mario Kart World. And I believe it's Mike just hanging out in the open world, doing the P blocks. We'll see how long that lasts. And then if you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg way is Greg's 17 minute review of Xbox's Games Showcase 2025. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by xreal and Factor, but tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is game Forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have seven stories today. A baker's dozen.

[Tim Gettys]

I was reading one of Gene Park's fucking articles on Washington Post.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I have now gotten an email, at least one a day from Washington Post for the last week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's how it goes.

[Tim Gettys]

And I get it. I totally get it. We're struggling out here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But like, yo, y' all need to be a little cooler than you're being.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me tell you about this website called the Verge.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I wanted to read one of. Was it Tom Warren? Yeah. I wanted to read one of Tom Warren's like, blogs or whatever. And I signed up for it, like just once because there was a news story that was in there and now I just get constant emails. It's funny.

[Tim Gettys]

It's funny because, like this happens, I think once every two days. Somebody in some way, shape or form, whether it's in a community place like a Reddit or something, or straight up like email us or. Or social media us in some way. They get so upset that all of our videos on our YouTube channel are behind a membership.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And it's because of how YouTube has any video we do live, which is everything that we do on the live tab instead of videos, which is infuriating and something we can't change and something that I've talked to YouTube and begged them to fix, but they were just like, sorry, saw.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sad face.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's like, I understand the frustration. I know what they're feeling because it's what I'm feeling getting these Washington Post emails.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you just open one door? What sparked this?

[Tim Gettys]

I just got. Yeah, literally right now. I had notification. They're not even trying. Like they're not enticing me at all with this Washington Post. I don't know, man. Try harder, dude.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out to their podcast the seven that I listen to every morning. It's the seven news stories in like 10 minute, 10 minute podcasts. Very convenient. But also nowadays very depressing. Yeah, I just, I had to take a break this these last few weeks because everything. Let me tell you, this Donald Trump guy, up to no good.

[Tim Gettys]

Up to no good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Elon Musk guy, up to no good.

[Tim Gettys]

Threatening a civil war and then threatening that he's the only one with the spaceships. I don't like that at all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I missed that part.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was that a recent one?

[Tim Gettys]

That was yesterday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. See, I didn't listen to. I've listened to my my news podcast because I've been getting so sad. But guess what? We got happy news here.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh God, we got news, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number one.

[Tim Gettys]

The what you just said. We are that for these people. They have to listen to us talk about bad game news every day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number one outer worlds two targets fall release. Yay. And it has a 79. 99 price point. Damn. This is from Matt Miller at Game Informer. Today's Xbox Game showcase, of course, is from yesterday. Opened with an in depth trailer featuring The Outer Worlds 2. Obsidian's big sequel is looking quite strong in the new video, which features several new tools and twists we haven't seen yet. We were also treated to a release date. The Outer Worlds 2 releases on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X Square and PC on October 29th. Over the course of the trailer we see the colony of Arcadia is undergoing an invasion and it appears that the story will jump ahead from the beginning of that war to a point nearly three years in. Voiceover from villainous CEO Auntie Cleo leans hard into the dark satirical elements that the first game established around the nature of capitalism. The gameplay that follows shows off some of what made the first game in the series entertaining, but but seemingly amped up to a significant degree. From the use of freezing effects and shrink rays to all sorts of over the top explosions. After the showcase, The Outer Worlds 2 saw an update to its Steam page that confirmed that the game is set to release at a $79.99 price point.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim so I have a question that I can't find the answer to. I seem to remember Outer Worlds 1 being a relative budget title. Was it not $40 or 50?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't remember that. I feel like it was $60, but kind of funny dot com, you're wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm trying to. I can't find any info. It's hard to tell because everyone's talking about this. This price. But yeah, if you could look into that, y' all, I would appreciate that. Because that I also think is extra fuel to the fire here of like, oh, damn. And look, sequels can be that much bigger and require that much more. And like, that's has happened before. And like, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Obviously, this $80 conversation we're having with games right now is frustrating at the least and not fun because it feels like we're going to be stuck in this conversation ad nauseam about every single title that comes out and having to bait why this and not this and all of that. Xbox has said in the last couple months that it's pushing its games up to 80. So this isn't a surprise. It's just, I think, unfortunate that this title is the first one that they're. That they're doing that with.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

On the Nintendo side, like, so far, the only game officially priced, not Collector's Edition or anything at $80 has been Mario Kart World. And I've been playing the hell out of that game. We'll do a review later in the week, but, like, definitively, it's bullshit. That game is $80. Like, I am loving it. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I'm putting many hours into it. I think I'm 20 hours in at this point. And I'm gonna put many more, like, double that, I think, in the next couple weeks. But $80 for what we're given doesn't feel right to me. And so looking at this, it's like, this does look bigger and more substantial than even Outer Worlds one. But $80 just is. It's not great no matter what way you shake it. But it does feel like this is about to be the standard. And then I think that Outer Worlds is just unfortunately the first one out the door.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, yeah, this is going to be a standardized thing, right? Like, Xbox is going to do it in the same way that we saw all the games companies push up their games to $70. Like, it is now becoming a rapid thing of, okay, cool. Like, the games have been broken with 80. We're all going to go up to 80. I'm. I don't know what kind of Mandela effect thing is going on in chat right now because nobody can figure out how much outer worlds one was at launch. Because I've seen 60, I've seen 40, I've seen 50. And people keep going back and forth either way though.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean none of those prices are full price that like I feel like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

60 was full price for 20. 19. Yeah, I guess you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Oh yeah. Cuz now we're talking about 80. There was a 70 option.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

70 wasn't until, yeah, like you know, this generation kingdom.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I, I, I get into like a circular thing with this like the talk of $80 and where I come down with it because I think on there, there's going to be multiple hands here.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

On one hand, video games over the years, over the decades have, have gotten a lot more technically complex. They've gotten a lot bigger, they've gotten a lot deeper and the prices have stayed the same through the decades. And so when you look at a video game today versus what we got in 2008, naturally I do think prices of video games probably should increase. Now that is also the part of me that wants that money to go to the labor that's being put into making these video games and the people that are actually doing that in reality, that's not who this is going to. Right. Like the money is going to shareholders, the money is going into, I think also the technical budgets of like what it, like the amount of time it takes to make these things and pay people for five to six years of making a game as opposed to three years of doing it. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

The amount of people that are required to make the game. We're not talking about tiny teams. And even when we are talking about tiny teams, there's the reality of the freelancers and just like kind of third party services that need to be hired and paid for and all of that adds up to a lot of money.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So then I hop into the consumer side and the consumer frustration that the audiences have about this. Right. And I think there is, I think the frustration comes from two places. I think it comes from both. Oh man. Prices of video games are rapidly increasing and that sucks for me because I look at my wallets and I go, I don't have the amount of money to afford this. And I think that frustration has been pointed a lot to the video games and to the video game companies. I think part of that is warranted and is valid, but I also think it's the fact that people aren't Making as much money overall as they should be.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The economy overall is in a very bad place. And so we're focused in on video games because that is our job. We're here to talk about video games. But overall, I feel like a lot of luxury items are just going through this as far as. Oh, man, I want to enjoy life. I want to do this thing that I'm. That gives me joy that I'm passionate about. I just can't afford anymore because guess what? Capitalism is rained out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And to your point, that's true across every single form of these. Of entertainment. Movie prices, book prices, like any media at all is going up, subscription prices for things. And yeah, there are ways to offshoot this. Like things like Game Pass, where, yeah, you compare buying $80 for Outer Worlds 2 or you. You subscribe to Game Pass, you don't own it, but you get access to play Outer Worlds 2 and every other game that Xbox is putting out, which at this point, when they own half the fucking world, it's going to be a lot of games. But that is still something that even that the price is going up and up and up, and there's no end in sight to that. There never will be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. Not just the sweet treats of capitalism are going up in price, but cost of living has constantly been going up as well, and wage growth has stagnated. So that's like the. That's the big kind of chokehold, or not chokehold, but like the. The strain people are feeling because the percentage of what they need to use for their. Their paychecks is going more and more and more to being able to feed themselves and their families and being able to live where they need to live to make money. Right. And so less of that percentage, like the percentage of being able to buy your sweet treats is going less and less and less and making people a bit more frustrated. And yes, we should have that energy in. In terms of the prices going up for entertainment stuff. But I think. I think there's a disproportionate anger towards that specifically and not seeing the. The whole pie. And so just. Just a reminder of that stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And to bring it back to the Game Pass thing. Right. I think right now for where we're at in the world economically and where video games are at in terms of what we've been talking about a lot in the last couple years as far as the stagnation. Stagnation of the video games business. Right. And how you're seeing a lot of money, a lot of Shareholder money being pulled away as things start to level out. And video games aren't like ballooning, ballooning, ballooning as far as how much money is coming in, right. Like things change and shift and there are going to have to be strategies put in place by people like Xbox, right? To go fuck. How do we get our games into more people's hands? Right. And that's where Xbox Game Pass comes in. And also that's where Xbox Game Pass finds a lot of its value. This out of Worlds 2, going to $80 in price makes Xbox Game Pass a more viable proposition. And that is kind of like the double edged sword of it of like how Xbox has to fucking balance and how we have to look at it.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But like.

[Tim Gettys]

And it's going to sell great on PS5 at $80.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think so?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wonder. See that's the thing that I think about is what does every, all these video games going up in price do for the sales of video games? Because I think for me, when I think about I'm. And we're all here in a very blessed place as far as getting codes and like I don't have to think as much about like buying every single video game, right? Because the big ones, oftentimes we might get a copy. Unless you're Nintendo. But I look at Outer Worlds too and I think back to where I was at in 2019 before I worked here, right? $60. Oh yeah. I could buy out of Worlds too because I got Best Buy Gamers Club Unlimited. So like really I'm getting it at 45, 50 as opposed to $60. I can swing that. Once I start to look at it and go $80 for outer worlds for an Outer Worlds game. I don't know man. I feel like that's a. I understand people that are like, I can't do that. Like I'm not. I gotta pick and choose now.

[Tim Gettys]

There are more and more options though to be able to play games like whether it's Game Pass or GeForce now and all these other things. It's like they're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's different from buying it on PlayStation.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, it totally is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's what I'm. That's what I'm. Or not worried but wondering about.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly. But I think the people that have bought the place. People, there's a, a group, there are many groups of people that have made up their mind and are committed to something and they're going to stay with that to the end. And I think that the amount of people that bought a PS5 that do have enough money and still have enough money to be able to buy games at $80 are going to continue to do that. I think that those numbers do make up for the people that aren't going to. And that sucks for the people that can't and don't want to because they will get priced out and they will not be thought of like they. If you are not willing to spend the money unless you find a way to give the big companies money in a different way, the companies do not care about you and they are not incentivized to. So yeah, I don't see this ending well and I don't see this ending with like a reset point of oh, we're bringing all the prices down. It's not going to happen. Like $80 is going to become the new normal and we're just going to have to deal with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to bring in some super chats because people have a lot to say here. I, Casper87 writes in and says, surprised Microsoft waited long to do this, to force. To force Game Pass. How do you feel about that?

[Tim Gettys]

Say it again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're surprised Microsoft waited long to do this to force Game Pass. I think they're looking at it from the perspective of like, oh, us raising our prices of our games is going to drive more people into the Game Pass thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think that that's happy accident to, to put it in. Yeah. Some words like yeah, I don't think that that was the plan.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

But I also do think that, I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think honestly Game Pass is all maybe more of a contingency. Hey, games are gonna, this shit's gonna get more expensive. People aren't gonna be able to afford all these things that we're doing. What are deals that we can put in place to try and get more people in on like just a, a player numbers perspective.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Um, Dear Sixlet writes in and says, I wonder if the cost of games is going to radicalize a population of gamers.

[Tim Gettys]

It's terrifying. I hope not. And I also don't think so.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's radicalized, but in a different way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean it's not. Here's the thing, right? It's. And this goes back to the top of this conversation. It's not just video games. People are going to get radicalized to this shit. But like video games are a facet of it. Right? Because this goes back to, hey, people deserve to be able to afford things that are for their entertainment, things that are for the relaxation. Right. Just because something isn't Food or water doesn't mean that. Oh, you know, people don't need this shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

As long as you can afford food and water, you're good. It's like, no. If people can't afford their entertainment also that's going to drive people to the wall. Like that's going to do a lot as far as like. Yeah. The radicalization of people. I think it's way, way beyond video games as far as I'm concerned.

[Tim Gettys]

We're getting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a weird, It's a wild conversation. Now Dolphin Corn writes in and says Elden Ring Night rain and Expedition 33 were $50 and I put 60 plus hours in them.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, they, those are games that had the luxury and luck to be able to do that though in different ways. Like I. That is not going to be the, the norm in Expedition 33 is on game Pass.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I, I mean I think I'm of the mind that indie titles like the, those premium indie titles that we see, the Expeditions of the World, the Hades of the World, Hollow Knight, Silksong coming up. I know some of these are on Game Pass, but I think those games are gonna be very important as far as kind of like leading the charge for what video games, what video game success looks like going into the future when you're not beholden by like big corporation and like having to like, you know, have money to give to shareholders and like be beholden to these things. Right. I. Baldur's Gate 3 is another one I throw into that as far as, oh, we have the freedom to kind of do what we want here and price things where we want and we might not make as much as a fucking Call of Duty, but a lot of people, those are games are going to end up being popular because they're accessible to people. I think that's how a lot of this is going to go. Christmas says Outer Worlds 2 is four months of game Pass. No brainer again. Yeah, Game pass. Paris Lily will tell you himself is the best deal in gaming and it.

[Tim Gettys]

Only continues to be more and more true. Yeah, at this point they have so much that yeah, it is the best value in gaming.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, that's all I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Moving on to story number two. Xbox boss Phil Spencer teases return of Halo in 2026 and it's reportedly a Halo Combat Evolved remaster. This is from Wesley Yin Pool at ign. Microsoft is reportedly set to release a Halo Combat evolved remaster in 2026 during the Xbox Game Showcase. 2025. Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer teased a number of new games coming out next year, including the new Fable, the next Forza, Gears of War, E Day, and quote, the return of a classic that's been with us since the beginning. While that's an obvious tease for Halo, the Verge reporter Mark. Mark Warren or Tom Warren, I'm going to say Tom. Yeah, Tom Warren has said it. Yeah. Who's Mark has said it specifically relates to a Halo Combat Evolved remaster. Warren had reported on the existence of this game before, which is apparently under consideration for release on rival platforms, including PlayStation 5. Tim, we talked about this on our reactions yesterday. How do you feel about the reports?

[Tim Gettys]

Love it. I mean, I think it's the right move. I think it's inevitable. And next year makes so much sense with it being the 25th anniversary of Xbox and Halo Combat Evolved. I think them being able to have a year that does have Halo, Gears, Forza. That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's special.

[Tim Gettys]

That is Xbox. And you know, Gears in Forza haven't been around for 25 years, but close to it and I guess Forza has. Wait, no, that was probably Gotham.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, you said been around for 25 years. Yeah, Gears hasn't.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, Gears came out in 360.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you said. You were saying it. Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I thought you meant like, they haven't had entries in 25 years. I'm like, I thought Gears came out like total.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it's the, the anniversary of Xbox and Halo. It's not the 25th anniversary of Gears and Forza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel you.

[Tim Gettys]

Forza is it though. When was the first Forza? I remember the Forza project got the racing and something happened to project Forza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Motorsport 1 came out in 2005.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, cool. So, yeah, a little bit later, but that, you know, closer to that 360. So either way, when we think of Xbox, those are the franchises that we, we name. So the big dogs. And having a year with all of them, I think is killer. And it's going to. Going to be great for them. They'll be able to celebrate in a big way. 25th anniversary is a quarter of a century. You know, let's go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I love that. And also I, I firmly believe a remake of Halo 1 is the best step, the best next step for Halo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I was going to say like. Or I was going to ask you actually, what does this do for Halo as a franchise? It's been a rocky decade. It's been a rocky time. Right. Halo Infinite. I still Stand by like I'm a Halo Infinite truther. That game rocks. But yeah, we all agree that the post launch wasn't as engaging as it should have been. Does Halo Combat Evolved come out next year? And is that the, the, does it end up being the spark that Halo needs as far as getting people back on board?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know that we can have this conversation again. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, it's gonna be another year of this conversation.

[Tim Gettys]

I know, I know. And it's, it's inevitable to just go on and go on. I think that we've kind of proven that the, the glory days of what Halo used to be. We're not going to be back there. I just don't think, think it would take something so radical and God, such a broken record here, but really it would require a God of war 2018 Breath of the wild style reinvention of the entire thing that people buy into. And we can't even fathom what that looks like because I feel like there's such a, a tall order of things they need to figure out in order for that to be the case in a world where we're talking about a first person shooter and like first person shooters have been revolutionized how many goddamn times at this point, like, I don't think it's easy and it might not even be possible. So taking all that out of it, what's the best you can do to maximize what you have? And it doesn't need to be the number one biggest thing of all time, like people's top 10 favorite game ever, but just a really damn good time and bringing back some classic feelings and you know, allowing people to just be positive about it instead of like it being this negative conversation of it not being good enough or at this or that or whatever, just believing in what it is. And I think that step one to that is a Halo 1 remake that is on all consoles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy. Like it's crazy to think about a Halo one coming to PlayStation, coming to Switch.

[Tim Gettys]

I know. And I feel it's inevitable. Like that's what's gonna happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean the fact that Gears is doing it later this year. Right. Makes it an inevitable.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Still Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll get on Nintendo. Oh, you thought. Yeah, well, Reload was gonna. It's gonna come to Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, you think? I, I was very sure a week ago that we were going to know a lot more about Switch 2 third party ports than we do now. So I'm backing off just a little bit of how steadfast I am about some of this stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you want out of a Halo Combat Evolved remaster? Do you expect it to look like a 2025 video game? Because like we got Master Chief collection. Last. Last gen. Yeah, last generation. And that had a reveal 1.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Halo 1 like remaster in it. How do you step that forward? How do you make this something worthwhile?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, unreal5 I think will go a long way. Yeah, but really it's. I think there are certain games that can just be remade every couple generations because they are that important and iconic and people care and technology grows and it's fun to see things in new ways. I don't think every game needs that. I understand people are going to be like, I want new ip. I want new ip. You're getting new IP where you're also going to get a lot of sequels. You're also going to get a lot of remakes and reboots. And I feel like Halo is an example of a game that is worthy of that. And I think that is the right step and we're going to get the next one after that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah. Tim, I got a lot more to talk about on the show. But before we do what I tell you about patreon.com kind of funny and YouTube.com kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kindafunny 50 off and we're back with story number three. Hollow Knight Silksong Developer Responds to Release Date Confusion Promises launch before holiday not tied to Xbox Handheld arrival this is Tom Phillips at Ignition. The developer of Hollow Silksong has addressed the game's brief appearance yesterday at Microsoft's Xbox Game Showcase 2025, when it popped up alongside the new Rog Ally X handheld. During the show, Xbox president Sarah Bond stated that Silksong would be quote, available at launch and in Game Pass when Ally releases later this year, end quote, leading many fans to believe the game was being lined up to arrive specifically as a launch title for the new hardware, which has a holiday 2025 launch window. But this isn't the case, Silksong developer Team Cherry has now said. Or yeah, this isn't the case, Team Cherry has now said. Riding on the game's official discord. In messages seen by ign Team Cherry marketing manager Matthew Left Griffin stated that Silksong was not sat waiting for the Rog Ally X to launch and that the game would arrive before the holidays. Quote, I confirmed before holiday, griffin wrote, adding quote, we are not tied to a console release. End quote. And just in case of confusion, when asked which holiday he was referring to, Griffin added, quote, Christmas. Yes. And great.

[Tim Gettys]

I love that clarification. Great for us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I tell you? Yes, these Silksong fans, there's some freaks.

[Tim Gettys]

They are some freaks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I get it. I have. We all have games that we're freaky about. We all have games that we're freaks for. But the silksong freaks have been going through it. Because didn't. Didn't we already know this game was coming out in 2025? I mean, in the Nintendo Direct, wasn't there like the montage and they said silk song, it's 2025. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The thing is, until there's an actual date on the thing, all of those things just feel like good news as opposed to promises, in my opinion. And even with a date, a promise, what does that mean these days? But I feel like reiterating different forms of 2025 before Christmas. We're now six days earlier.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bless freaky behavior.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I guess certain games after they're being waited for and shown off as often as these games have, or not often as they have, but for as long as they have in places of prominent positioning. Hollow Knight was positioned as a big deal years ago. So that's why I think it's getting the conversation. And it's a great game. But you only see this level of fervor around like Elden Ring, Kingdom Hearts and Hollow Knight, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Can you name other games that are in that level of no matter what showcase it is, even if it doesn't make any sense, the entire chat's just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Going to be like Sonic Revolution.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, Sonic Revolution.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic Revolution. I started playing. I don't know if I've talked about this. I must have talked about this on content. I started playing Hollow Knight a couple of weeks ago on my Steam deck. It's a good game.

[Tim Gettys]

Good damn game. Yeah, you're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're Metroidvania poppy.

[Tim Gettys]

I am. I am. There's something about Holland I love. Hollow Knight is the game that every single thing about it is made for me. The visuals are the most. My style thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a beautiful video game.

[Tim Gettys]

Everything about. I love the character design. Like, I love it. There's just something about how open it is and that, like, it is that. There's something very telling to me that all the soul sickos, this is their Metroidvania. You know, I like difficult Metroidvanias, but there's some of the Hollow Knight. I've tried it, Tried starting it, like, four or five times, and it just. I give up on it at a certain point, and I don't know why that is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it is.

[Tim Gettys]

It's a me problem. I don't. But I don't know what the problem with me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I do feel you as far as the openness of the map, because I have it all the time. And this is one of the reasons why Metroidvanias aren't. I like Metroidvanias. They aren't, like, my genre as far as, like, what I run to, what I flock to. And it is that feeling of, all right, I just got done with this major goal. Oh, where do I go now? I hit all these paths. All right. I'm gonna go to all these dead ends. I'm missing it. Oh, it turns out it was just this one turn that I just. I forgot to make. Right. And that's a skill issue. That's definitely a me issue. Right. But, like, it's not. I don't necessarily love that experience when I'm having it. Right. Like, I. I. And I. I think Hollow Knight, for me, it's telling how good of a game it is where I push that. I push past that anyway. But I do. I also, at the same time, think it's one of the worst offenders for me in that. Because it is so open. Like, I have three, four areas in now, and I have so many different ways to go, and I'm, like, scared to go any of those directions because, like, I don't want to forget about another direction. My wish, my request for every Metroidvania. And I think Prince of Persia, Lost time or the Lost crown did this. Let me scribble on the map. Let me take notes on the map. Let me, like, put a stamp, like a manual stamp. Like, don't automate it for me. Let me just put, like, a note for myself being like, all right, hey, I can't go this direction. Because Owl man is blocking this.

[Tim Gettys]

Always the owl.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't jump high enough. Yeah, I probably need to. Need a dash over here. Let me scribble on the thing. That's my one request for every. Every Metroidvania.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Yeah. Hollow Knight and Animal. Well, are the two for me that I'm like, there's something in me that's broken.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So good.

[Tim Gettys]

Should be my.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm surprised Animal Wall didn't. Didn't hit for you.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number four. Konami is having a showcase that comes directly from a press release. Tune in live for the official Konami Press start live stream event. Featuring game updates and appearances from Konami Digital entertainment developers and producers. The showcase will feature extended looks at Metal your Solid Delta, Snake Eater and Silent Hill F and more. Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 6:00am Pacific Time. The broadcast is planned to be approximately 37 minutes. Tim, Konami's back in the game.

[Tim Gettys]

They're back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're back in the showcase game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you know, God, Konami. Some of the most iconic showcases, some.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of the best showcases of all time, like 2010s.

[Tim Gettys]

God. When they got Mega 64 involved, transferring, never forget.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

But this is interesting, Greg. I were slacking back and forth trying to figure out like, should we react to this? Like Even not at 6am but like should we do a game? Sk. I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Should this be a gamescast?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly. And I don't think so because like, you know what this is going to be. It's like gameplay deep dives on Snake Eater, which like we don't really need.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, and then Silent Hill F. Like if someone here was like interested, it'd be a little different. But I don't think anyone's like, I need more of that game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's Roger McCorney Razor right there.

[Tim Gettys]

But is it though?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think. I mean like Silent Hill too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But he's like, he's looking forward to F. Yeah, but I don't think he's like. I don't think he's a freak about F. Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And then all right, there might be more. They're saying. So it's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you think that more could be?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know because like the. What? I feel like we're at a place with Konami that like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Didn't they announce that Octopus game? Did I make that up? There was like a 2D.

[Tim Gettys]

You are right. That was pretty cool. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know. I don't know if it was 2D. But yeah, there was like a colorful. Yeah, that's them.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Metal Gear Solid Volume 2 for the master collection. That's the thing. But like, I don't know if now's the time to talk about that. If you're pushing Delta.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. But like do. I mean. Yeah, I guess that has mill. Solid four. I feel like that's a major enough announcement that you would try to separate it out from Delta's marketing window.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean when you think of Konami, there's also like yu Gi. Oh. And stuff. And like for a Konami showcase, I could see it. I could see like some weird. Yuh. Dual links update or some.

[Barrett Courtney]

From the publishing list here from giantbomb.com you got survival Kids.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, they are. Didn't that come out?

[Barrett Courtney]

Did that come out June 5th? Oh, that might have just come out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's also switch two thing. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Eden0, Gradius origins.

[Tim Gettys]

Gradius.

[Barrett Courtney]

Gradius, Gradius. And then the other two.

[Tim Gettys]

So Sergio says there's a rumored Castlevania project. There's always a rumored Castlevania project.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And at some point it has to happen, but it's not gonna happen. Crossed over with dead cells. That was crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was really cool. I would bet you money it would never happen in a Konami showcase. Yeah, that happens at a PlayStation State of Play. Or a PlayStation showcase. Or like a summer game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like Konami showcases have never been bangers. Am I wrong in saying that?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean. Yeah, no, you're not wrong. There were times where there were more exciting things being talked about, but that was a different era.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And showcases were just different than. Anyways. But yeah. No, in recent times. No, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to find. I think Noble had a tweet that was pulled from somewhere of like a shot of this showcase. Like the marketing material for it and them having like Melior Solid Delta, Silent Hill F and then like a box next to those. This isn't it. Maybe scroll down. Is there a second tweet to this? That's what I'm thinking of. Now. I don't know where he pulled this from, but the fact that it's Meliar, Delta, Silent Hill F and question mark and then Anne Moore.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. That question mark box seems like it's going to be a game as big as those two games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And also it seems like it's setting us up for disappointment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Big disappointment.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. We'll cover this on Games Daily. Unless something changes. But I'm excited. You know, I want at this point in time when we don't know what that question mark is. I'm excited that Konami is doing a conference because that means that we might get volume two of the collection. Without it we wouldn't do I expect it. Not really, but like it could be there. I like that we just need free metal gear solid 4. It's just trapped with that cell technology.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cell processor. Messed up. Story number five Skybound Reveals first in house game development studio Quarter up this comes from a press release. Skybound Entertainment, the multi platform company behind global franchises like Invincible, the Walking Dead, Impact Winter and hundreds of additional ip, today announced the creation of Quarter up, the first in house game development studio at Skybound Entertainment led by former key members of the Double Helix Games Killer Instinct development team is the 2013 Killer Instinct. From the Xbox One launch, Quarter up will debut its brutal superhero 3v3 tag fighting game Invincible Versus in 2026. QUOTE Quarter up is the result of a collective passion and desire to create something new, something that gets people out of their seats, said Mike Willette, Executive producer of Invincible Versus Slash Quarter Up. We're an Instinct based team that follows our feelings. We're always playing and always testing to create experiences that fans love just as much as we do. End quote the studio's debut title, Invincible vs is the first major game set in the Invincible universe. Based on the acclaimed comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Otley. Tim Skybound creating a game studio they're in their own in house development studio and their first game is a fighting game from former Killer Instinct devs.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean you know Skybound's had studios before and has put out a lot of games that are pretty damn good and sometimes not so good. So they've been trying. If anything I always appreciate Skybound for what they are, which is a group of people that really care about art across many media and I I feel like them jumping into games and taking it seriously like trying to do the the Marvel Games thing of like hey let's actually give our important IP to developers that can tackle this correctly and like let's set this up from the the ground up of like let's just not just put out shovelware.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know like let's actually try to make sure that these games are good. Like we got that Invincible like story based game Adam Eve 1 oh yeah yeah. And like that was pretty good but like they there was thought behind that right. Like let's take a comic book and turn it into a comic book style game like storytelling Cool. A fighting game. It makes sense. I was talking about this yesterday when they announced this. That was it. Yesterday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was yesterday.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. The Xbox thing that it. I don't know that this is necessarily the right move for this IP because of what people care about with the characters and turning it into a 3v3 fighting game is like, I don't know, a tall order. Yeah, it looks good though. But it also gives me Power Rangers battle for the grid vibes in a way where I'm like, we need a Power Rangers fighting game like it. Actually those. That's the exact analog. And even watching the gameplay, it kind of looks like that. Where, yes, this looks a bit like Tatsunoku vs Capcom on the Wii, fighting style wise. But it also has a semi cheapness to it in the gameplay. I think the. The cutscene and the phrase percent look sick once you get in the gameplay. It does look a little lesser then. And you add all that up and I'm like, I don't know that you can put this game out in a way that it's going to succeed. When we did just get the PlayStation backed. Marvel project Show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, again, that's the toughest. And 2x2x KO yeah, that's the thing is you are announcing this game at a really tough season of these games coming out. I mean, this goes back to what we've been saying this generation as far as fighting games. This is like one of the best fighting game generations, I would say between Street Fighter 6, Tekken 82 XKO coming out. Right. You know, Mortal Kombat 1 and like so many other exciting games. Right. The Marvel Token Fighting Souls. I think I nailed that. Where there's never been a better time to be a fan of fighting games and competitive fighting.

[Tim Gettys]

There's never been a better time. There's never been to the fighting game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Community a better time. But because of that. Yeah, that means that we have a glut of options when it comes to specifically tag fighters. And having this being announced after the Marvel one. Oh, you know, that's tough because I think everybody looks at the Marvel one as being the. Oh, man, this looks fun. Oh, this is from Arcsys. Oh, the art style is dope. Oh, these characters are the characters that I love. Right. That is such a perfect storm of hype. And I, I think for me, when I look at the story, I do like that Skybound, like is launching the studio in house. Right. I want. I want the studio to be successful. I think having an original studio could be really cool. As far as what that allows you to do with your ip, especially for Skybound. Now, a fighting game studio is interesting because I hear what you're talking about as far as invincible and what that is as an IP and what the fan base might want out of it. And I look at the rest of the Skybounds ips and I'm like, is there anything else here that would make sense for fighting game stuff? Right? Like, Walking Dead isn't a fighting game. And also, I don't even know how many Skybound IPS I can list that are that top.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but the thing about Skybound is they, they, they're so well connected and they could always use someone else's ip. Like, it's not, I don't think it's actually like through Skybound, but like Robert Kirkman is heading up like Transformers comics, like a series of Transformers comics now. And it's like, things like that. I'm like, I feel like we can get other IP into a fighting game that would make sense if this is successful.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And yeah, I don't want to come off as too big a hater on this because, like, it does look. It doesn't look bad. It's just I have concerns about the viability of it given the state of the industry currently.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I totally hear that Story number six, the coke Walmart sent with the switch two pre orders saved this person's life. This is a random one that I think. Was it you or Roger? Yeah. Put it in the KHD slack. And it's actually a pretty heartwarming story. It's a very interesting real.

[Tim Gettys]

It's from Reddit. But you know what? Let's have some joy in our lives.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's add this. Have some joy in our life. This comes from the switch Reddit. This person posted purchasing a switch to saved my life is from user Impressive Durian404. Just as the title says, purchasing a Switch 2 saved my life this morning. For some context, I'm a type 1 diabetic. This morning I went to take my long acting insulin and must have hit a blood vessel or vein or something because my long acting began to work instantly. My blood Sugar dropped from 1:30 to 45 in eight minutes. I had no sugary liquid. Liquid works the fastest. And I knew at this rate I was dropping, right? The rate I was dropping, I had no time to waste. So I had no liquid on hand as it was grocery shopping day. Luckily I remembered Walmart sent a Coke with my purchase yesterday. That Coke literally saved my life. This Morning. Because I can almost guarantee without it, I wouldn't be here riding this. Life is weird. But I'm so grateful for my decision to purchase the switch. I'm loving it, by the way. And Walmart's decision is send some snacks with their purchases.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm so happy for them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's so. That's. If this is true. That's so fucking cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, if that's true. It is cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what's not cool?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's that?

[Tim Gettys]

I didn't get shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, what's up with that?

[Tim Gettys]

I finally got my Walmart switch. No Pringles, no Coke to save my life. Just a fucking paper cut from the box.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's up.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What day did you get your switch? Did you get it on launch day? Was it like, post?

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, that was late. Oh, my. Late. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Two days late.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow. I know that's upsetting. It is as upsetting. But you finally got it, and that's big. The fact that you have a switch. Two in your hand.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news. I need to know about Tim. Where would I go?

[Tim Gettys]

Switch Light or the Wii News Channel, where you cover all the new small items that you need to know about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All the new small items you need to know about. With story number seven, it's We News via Deadline. The live action Mass Effect series is moving forward at Prime Video. Doug Zhang of Mindhunter has been hired as showrunner.

[Tim Gettys]

Mindhunter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mindhunter. Did you ever watch Mine Hunter?

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I watched the first episode. There was a scene with a shotgun that blew my mind. Blew my mind. You.

[Barrett Courtney]

You should watch the rest of that show with us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's incredible. And it's a. It's tragic that we're never gonna get more of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Does it end on, like, a cliffhanger or anything? Or will I be satisfied?

[Barrett Courtney]

There are things. There are threads that are being set up for, like, another season at least.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's tough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I might check it out. Still worth a watch. The Legend of Zelda live action movie has been delayed by a few weeks to May 7, 2027.

[Tim Gettys]

Very interesting. When I saw. I saw the headline, live Action Zelda delayed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And it was like two months. I'm like, why? But that's just Hollywood.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Two weeks. It's like a few weeks. Unless. Unless this has it wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

It was like, it was March to May.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay, then. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, whatever. I don't think that this is a good sign. Bad side, anything. I think this is just like, studio.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Sony internal Sony calendar. Looking at it, being like, oh, we want to release something else maybe around that time.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Men in black, cross 22, jump street. Finally.

[Tim Gettys]

Finally make it out there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This next One is from Stealth40k on Twitter. Shigeru Miyamoto is not in the credits of Mario Kart World. Not even as a special thanks.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's interesting. I was looking into this. Apparently he wasn't in Mario Kart Tour either, but this is the first core Mario Kart that he's not in the credits of at all. I think this is going to become more and more common as we get in further into the. The generation of Switch 1 and Switch 2 now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Of. Yeah. Some of the OGs not being involved at all in the games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn, he's getting older. He's working on theme parks, too.

[Tim Gettys]

The Busy man movies, all of it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know how a lot of this works. Right. But, like, Shigeru Miyamoto being the creator of, like, Mario and all that stuff, wouldn't his name always be in the credits? Because he created the like. It's based on his original.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, look, there are a lot of rules with unions and stuff of what credits need to include and don't need to include. But then a lot of it is just kind of the choice of how people want to want to or don't want to credit. And we're talking about Nintendo here, so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. If anything, I love the equal opportunity. We're not going to credit you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Even if you're. Whether you're somebody who worked on the original thing that we remastered, or if you're Miyamoto. We're not credited.

[Tim Gettys]

You ain't getting Nintendo doesn't Give a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From ign007 first light isn't part of the James Bond film canon. It's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

That is one of the dumbest things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've ever heard from which way?

[Tim Gettys]

Just like, no, you know, you wouldn't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Want it to be part of the canon.

[Tim Gettys]

What canon?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I always is. Not a man. This is not a James Bond we've seen in a movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, but, like, you know, I.

[Barrett Courtney]

I thought it was a prequel to the Daniel Craig movies. I'm gonna be honest. I was really confused about it.

[Tim Gettys]

But did you watch the first Daniel Craig movie? Yeah. Well, he becomes 007.

[Barrett Courtney]

I thought this was, you know, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, explain this. Very confusing to me as somebody who's experienced James Bond mostly through video games. And what was the one then?

[Tim Gettys]

Skyfall so here's the thing, Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is Daniel Craig not the same James Bond as Pierce Brosnan?

[Tim Gettys]

No. Like, this is not a one to one statement, factually, 100%. But I think just for giving you an understanding, the James Bond franchise is kind of like Final Fantasy. But imagine if the. The Sid is James Bond.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I fuck with it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, now I assume Daniel Craig in Skyfall is the same Daniel Craig in whatever the last one was Daniel Craig.

[Tim Gettys]

The actors are all the same. The actors get their.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's Spider Man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like Spider Man.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

It's more like Spider Man.

[Barrett Courtney]

With the Final Fantasy analogy, I was like, so what's the Kingdom hearts of 007?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, let me tell you about. I was gonna say the Golden Eye game for the Wii. The rogue Prince of Persia 1.0. Launches in August. Get hyped. Wheel World will release July 23rd on Xbox as part of Game Pass PS5 and PC. The Hayabusa helmet returns to Halo Infinite as a celebration of Ninja Gaiden 4 releasing later this year. And then finally.

[Tim Gettys]

So cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It looks hella cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you remember this when it, like, first happened?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, this was a goddamn moment in time. You needed this. This helmet in Halo or else you weren't shit.

[Barrett Courtney]

Which Halo was it?

[Tim Gettys]

Three.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Barrett Courtney]

Because that's why. Because, like, I didn't really, like, grow up with.

[Tim Gettys]

I think I do. It was also in two. It was two and three.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay. Yeah. Because I remember this helmet, but I didn't really know Ninja Gaiden back then.

[Tim Gettys]

Shots ain't three. Maybe it's just three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And finally, Morbid Metal launches August 20th on PC Early Access. And that is it for WE News.

[Tim Gettys]

That was a clean little music end.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, that's what I do, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm on this show.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's credit you, not Barrett.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's what I do, Tim. You know what I mean?

[Barrett Courtney]

I know we both do because I also purposely cut it right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. See, me and Barry got. We're telepathic. You know, we got a connection.

[Barrett Courtney]

We're connected, though.

[Tim Gettys]

That is the question. Y' all want to go to the beach?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike Curzer writes in with a super chat and says, let's see some non Greg KF Game Showdown merch. Hashtag support. Bless Mike Curzer. I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate it because it's fucked up what Greg has done to Game Showdown merch.

[Barrett Courtney]

But also go to kind of funny.com store to pick up Game Showdown merch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Because we're having parade. And so if you want to celebrate the parade with Greg, go over kind of.com/merch or kind of funny dot shop and pick up one of the many game Showdown Greg Miller shirts that exist.

[Barrett Courtney]

Technically there's a Tim Gettys shirt, you know, because that's Tim Gettys.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is true. Yeah, it is Tim Gettys. I'm not that.

[Tim Gettys]

I will not, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But I had nothing to do with this. I didn't design this. I didn't ask for it to be designed. In fact, I didn't want it to exist. But here it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now we got another super chat from Foxy Steve, who says just my birthday tax, letting you all know I love and appreciate all that you do. KF and the best friends really have changed my life for the better. Happy birthday, Foxy.

[Tim Gettys]

Happy birthday. And what a nice message.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What a really nice message.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you. Have a great one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Be great to each other. Cedar Split and says, despite the great gaming events, do you feel the lack of Megaton announcements, especially from First Party Studios?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want to come off like salty about this at all, but let.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The salt flow through you.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no. Because again, we've earned it. Me and you, we go way back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You've earned the right to be salty, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just like I, I think that this perspective is whack. Like, that's all right. I'm going too far.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who's this? The splitson guys we love. See, they split perspective. You can't do that. Call his perspective whack.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, well, okay, you know. No, but like real talk, it's just like, I, I, I always think it's very funny. I was just telling Roger this a couple days ago, like one of those things that I really need to just get over and not let get under my skin. But I don't think I'm capable of it. Are the people that insist that they miss E3 and they miss how E3 showcases used to be compared to what's going on now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The wacky E3 showcases year after year.

[Tim Gettys]

It's so wild as somebody that professionally now watches all of these showcases and back then unprofessionally watched all of the showcases. But my world revolved around that stuff. There was nothing I looked forward to more. There's no world in which you can do a one to one comparison of Summer Game Fest and E3 and try to act like E3 was demonstrably better or more curated or higher. Like all the stuff. It's like, dude, we're getting more of everything now. That also includes more we don't care about and more showcases and everything feeling diluted. Not as special. It was more special then when we're only getting game announcements that week. I'll give it that. But like the reality is those conferences were filled with pie charts and graphs.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And talking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Awkward celebrities and awkward. Just actors about stuff and so much garbage. And every once in a while magic would happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And you'd get a string of back to back games that are like, I can't believe these things are happening. But then it'd be surrounded with a bunch of weird nonsense. And you could like that weird nonsense. I personally love that stuff. I. I have. There's nothing I'm more nostalgic of in my life than me and alfredo sitting watching E3 conferences. Love that stuff. But the reality is these days it's like we're lucky that we get as tight showcases as we do with the amount of announcements and all that stuff. Sometimes it's not great. Oftentimes it's not great. But Megaton announcements. We got Resident Evil 9 announced. Like, that's big.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

It wasn't a great showcase, but that's a big reveal.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You know, and so it's like, especially from First Party Studios. It's like, I think that we all just need to be real about how games are made and how they release. And like we get so many First Party games always. And it's like you can't get announcements of every single big thing at every single showcase. That's just not how this works. Or else everything's Call of Duty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, do you think it's. This is all a response to the stretch of years that did feel like they were peak for video game showcases. When we look at PlayStation E3 20, what, 16 through 2018 or whatever it was where it was. God of War, Spider Man, Days Gone, Horizon Detroit, Become Human. Like back to back to back. The orchestra in the background. Kratos comes out from the dark. We're all losing our minds. Do you think this is all like our response to how I would say average or things have like averaged out a bit as far as like the game show? Because they announced all that stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude. I mean, well, you just met. You just were talking about what I would consider some of the greatest game showcases of all time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

I would also add last year's Xbox Showcase to that list too though. Like, I feel like if we were to really look at just all time showcases. I. I don't think there are that many from the E3 era that make that list obviously. I think it's just there was a couple amazing PlayStation ones.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like that's it.

[Barrett Courtney]

And even like the 2018 one, like that's where we started seeing that was like the weird like let's move everybody to the Last of us part two weird thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Like which was cool.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2016.

[Barrett Courtney]

And like people are thinking about the highs but not of the same lows of like the square NX. Let's show off Kingdom Hearts 3. And like none of it has sound effects or. And like it's only random voice acting.

[Tim Gettys]

And people coming out on stage to do demos. The controllers not connecting. Yeah. And like oh yeah, that would happen for Miyamoto coming out on stage to play Skyward Sword.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean I forget who played Uncharted for the year where like Nathan Drake just wasn't moving for a good minute and then they're like fuck it, can this. We're doing our pre. Pre recorded thing here. And then the very next year they fucking died and clipped through the world. And Uncharted 4 in the E3 showcase.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Again, I feel like we just are to look at this positively blessed to be in such a time that we have more games than ever at the AAA scale. At the indie scale. We have more good games than we've ever had.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

More good games being announced, more good games coming out, more 10 out of 10 reviews. More game of the year contenders. Like we have more of all of that. We also have more of the opposite of everything I just said. More trash, more platforms, more places to play games, more places to announce games, more places to announce release dates, more places to not announce release dates and be Hollow Knight Silk song. Like it's just. There's just more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And I to. To give CJ Splits in some bail here. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Because like he's not new at all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because CJ splits and I don't think he's talking about like any of that. Right. Like I think they're just talking about the First Party Megaton. Yeah. Do you feel a lack of. Yeah. Megaton announcements, especially from First Party Studios and to that like I guess I feel it a little bit. Right. Like it's not like we had. This is Mike's complaint yesterday was that like Xbox First Party just didn't feel as present outside of things like Clockwork and Clockwork Revolution and like a couple other things. Right. But like there was that list of Whereas Fable where Is E Day. Where's this? Whereas that and I go to PlayStation similar thing. And I go to. I guess Nintendo wasn't here this year. Right. But like, that's also, to your point, just the state of where we're at with everything. Right? Like, you can't have all these games show up at every single year because people got to actually work on these games and games take a long time and make.

[Tim Gettys]

And I would argue that it's not the most exciting thing, but Forta and Gears and a tease of Halo were there yesterday. They're just turning 26, but they were talked about as being 2026. Yeah, we didn't need to see a, like a picture of their logo with the date he just said it. And again, not that exciting. But like, we're coming off of a year that we've had. What the. If we're talking just Xbox first parties, four, five of them have already come out this year and we have more later this year. It's like we know what this year is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's also like, I'm not hungry for like all of those like, huge, big hitter first party titles from Xbox and PlayStation which, like, even though we had a lack of this this year, I'm not like left wanting because so much is happening this year. Like GTA 6 being delayed out of this year. Like a part of my brain is like a. Thank God, man, there are too many video games right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, I, I was talking about this last night on stream yesterday where I've like leveled out in a weird place where I don't think I can ever be that salty at any of these showcases because at the end of the day, like, there's rarely a showcase where I'm not leaving with some games that I'm excited for. And that's all I'm really in here for. Like, I think the place where I might, I might differ from you, Tim, is like, I come out of this, I'm going into this with the idea of like, all right, I'm sitting here to just watch marketing material. Like, I'm sitting here to watch a bunch of trailers being shown to me because these guys are trying to sell me on these games and sell me on their console or whatever. And so I don't really have the, like, expectation or I guess the entitlement to, oh, this thing better blow me away. It's like I am choosing to watch this two hour long showcase. I'm choosing to sit down and watch an hour of like, trailers being shown to me. And I Can't bring it. I can't bring myself to be upset with walking out of my own decision to watch an hour of trailers and being like, damn, that wasn't up to my expectations. It's like, brother, I just decided to watch a bunch of marketing material. That's how I decided to spend my day.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I guess where we differ is, like, I feel like the marketing material is presented as content. It is. And it's clearly, they put money in and they produce and they get Ben Schwartz and do all this stuff. So it's like, I. I feel like I am choosing to use my time that way and they are choosing to present this stuff. And so it's like, the level of criticism of the production. I will always care about that stuff. And, like, they're not commercial. Commercials being put together are not all created equal. So, yeah, I think that if they do a very bad job, like Ubisoft has done in the past, like, that shit pisses me off. But I'm also with you of, like, we just don't watch a lot of those showcases that we know are not going to be good anymore because there are too many. Like, you need to be one of the big dogs. Because the big dogs have proven that even if we don't love it and even if there's things about it that we're like, oh, I don't love just this blend of just these anime games that are clearly just paid ads in the Jeff show, but we also understand those are necessary for the show to exist at all. And we cannot like that. We can talk about that, but those are the facts there. And the facts are that Summer Game Fest breaks records every single year. Game Awards breaks records every single year. People want their games there because they're going to be seen by the most people at any of these events.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Zeke Speak writes in and says, I think what people miss is not E3, but the freedom and innocence of childhood gaming. It's never going to be comparable to those golden years when a demographic was on summer break hungry for games. That's my other thing is, I think so much of it is driven by nostalgia, too, right? Like, I'm. I. As we're talking about the old E3 press conferences, I started to be. I started to feel the thing of, like, man, I kind of miss when the controllers wouldn't work. I kind of miss, like, those stage presentations. And I know what we have now is better. Like, what we have now is higher quality and, like, less room for error and all that shit, right? Like, I'm never going to argue that, but I totally feel like I definitely feel the old man feelings that are coming from. From Chad as far or from like some of the opinions out there as far as, oh, man, I miss how things used to be. Listen, I get it too. I miss when I was 21 years old. I miss when I was younger. Absolutely. I miss, you know, not having the weight of the world feeling like it's on my shoulders at all times. A quick two, two more for you. Nightlife writes in and says, Tim is right. Perfect example. Mike's review of Xbox.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not trying to like, I. I don't want to dog on Mike and his opinion review of Xbox at all because I think that he. Not only is it entirely valid because it's his opinion, I think he backed it up in a way that, like, I don't agree with what he's saying, but I get where he's coming from as a fan of Xbox that is looking for certain things. He didn't get those things. As a fan of Nintendo, I am so familiar with that. Where I've been at places where I feel like there are people that are less in the system than I am and they'll be. They'll see a Nintendo thing about, oh, that was pretty cool. And I'm like, yeah, but like, what it was missing is the core stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And like to everyone teach their own. Everyone's just expecting and needing different things because there's different levels of investment in all of these things. And like the realities of so many games that we see that we saw in the last 10 days look awesome. How many of them can you play? Oh, dude, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I went and I watched the day of the Dev showcase and I wish listed like seven games off of it. And I'm like, I'm not gonna play all these games. I'm not gonna have the time to play all these games.

[Tim Gettys]

But. But like, you're interested in them and I think that that's what the showcases are for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm surprised and delighted.

[Tim Gettys]

Interest. Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then one more from Pedro Venegas, who writes in and says birthday tax. Thank you, guys. Happy birthday, Pedro. That brings us to kindafunny.com you're wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe. Excuse me. Peter Ropp writes in and says Auto Worlds 1 launched at $60 retail price. Let's see. Let's See, let's see, let's see. Xavier writes in and says, robert Kirkman is writing Void Rivals. Not going. Not the ongoing Transformers comic. Daniel Warren Johnson is the one penning Transformers. Use the word penning. That's a writer right there. Cox Defer writes in and says, you guys need to watch some of the IO interactive showcase. It is the bad old E3 nonsense.

[Tim Gettys]

I just want to be clear. There are Transformers and Void Rivals. Robert Kirkman is writing Transformers characters, which is the point I was making is like, them using other, like, characters from.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

IP with Mads Mikkelsen and Agent 47's actor being insanely awkward. I might check that out. So with this IO interactive showcase and then Hex Prof. Says those Nintendo and Monster hunter sets at E3 were actually mind blowing, though. You can't deny that.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim, I want everyone to be clear. You will not find a bigger fan of E3 than me. Like, I worked at IGN for years. I've been. I was at 10 E3s. 10 fucking E3s and I was one of the only people in my circle that wasn't jaded as and bitching about being there. I love this stuff and I love what it's turned into. I love gaming showcases. I love gaming marketing. It's one of my favorite things. I will not take any of that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know, man. All the streets are saying you're E3 hater, man. The streets are saying it.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There it all. It hurts my heart that I'll never be at an E3. I've never been to it. I got so close and then a pandemic happened.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And now there's no more E3s anymore.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. It was different. Bless. It was different.

[Barrett Courtney]

It was.

[Tim Gettys]

You will never experience something like it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I do like sgf, though.

[Tim Gettys]

I know. Oh, I love it. And again, I. I've experienced 10 E3s. I've experienced three Summer Game Fest play days. Summer Game Fest play days from. Every part of our job is better. Every single one. It's not E3, though. Everything on that show, E3 had a waste. E3 had a smell, baby. You know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, dude.

[Barrett Courtney]

The, like, energy of, like, you trying to get onto the show floor to, like, get, like, start up your shift and they're about to open the doors for the general public and you're like, ah, I gotta get in there. There's an energy, man.

[Tim Gettys]

It was crazy.

[Barrett Courtney]

It was crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope they bring it back one day. I know it'll be a shell of its former self. But like, I'll go to that shell. I'm be all up in that. Shelby. I'm like, look. Look where I'm at, mom. I'm at E3. Finally, I made it. Tim this has been Kind of Funny. Games Daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and all podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch scored them live and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next, the KFP after and the stream after that. But until next time, Game Daily.