PlayStation 6 Gets Delayed to 2028?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.16.26

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily — February 16, 2026

"PlayStation 6 Gets Delayed to 2028?!"

Hosts: Andy Cortez, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., with SnowBikeMike and others
Main Theme:
A lively, freewheeling rundown of gaming’s top news, from industry shifts (PlayStation 6 delay, AI/tech bubble), headline game announcements and crossovers (Solid Snake in Rainbow Six Siege), to community stories and tributes, wrapped with classic Kinda Funny humor.

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Episode Overview

With trademark banter and irreverence, the Kinda Funny crew digs into the massive report that Sony is delaying the PlayStation 6 to 2028 or 2029, unpacks the impact of global RAM shortages and the looming "Raymageddon," reacts to game reveals and collaborations (Solid Snake meets Sam Fisher in Rainbow Six Siege; Layers of Fear 3), and pauses to honor recently lost gaming industry icons. Listener questions and community stories round out the show alongside personal anecdotes and plenty of birthday love for Andy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. PlayStation 6 Delay and RAM Shortages ("Raymageddon")

• Segment: [04:05–19:25]
• Sony is reportedly considering delaying the PS6 to 2028 or 2029 due to a projected global memory shortage. This "Raymageddon" is traced to AI data centers consuming vast RAM resources, with Apple, Tesla, and others warning of industry-wide production limits.
  • Andy jokingly coins "memory loss" as a better crisis name.
• The regular console cycle is about 7 years, but since the PS5 launched in 2020, it “feels way too early” for next-gen.
  • Tim Gettys: “Why does it feel so early this time around? … I would’ve been like, no way we’re getting a PlayStation 6 next year.” [07:00]
• Factors causing the generational “stall”: pandemic delays, longer game dev cycles, project cancellations, and Sony’s pivot to games-as-a-service.
  • Andy Cortez: “We now have so much less time to fuck up and make a colossal mistake.” [10:00]
• The "AI bubble": Hosts compare the AI investment surge with the dot-com and crypto booms, worrying about eventual collapse and ripple effects (fewer people able to afford new consoles, studios forced to extend PS5 support).
  • Tim Gettys: “I’m more scared of the crash than anything ... what does that look like?” [14:41]
• Possible impacts on game releases: Flagship PS6 games like Fizzant may be rescheduled for the end of the current gen or scaled back.
  • Andy Cortez: "Do we think Sony pushes developers...try to scale back visuals so that things are playable on this current generation?" [12:38]
• Extended cross-gen support (PS5 games lasting into PS6 era) is likely.
  • Tim Gettys: “I don’t think it’s going to be the games. The exclusivity of, ‘oh, this game is only available on PS6’? You’re not going to see that for a very long time.” [19:18]

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2. Solid Snake, Sam Fisher & Rainbow Six Siege Crossover

• Segment: [19:25–28:24]
• Solid Snake (voiced by David Hayter) joins Rainbow Six Siege’s roster, teaming up with Sam Fisher in Operation Silent Hunt (starting March 3).
• New trailer shown—animate banter about Snake’s “snake things,” codec jokes, and surprise at Hayter’s more subdued delivery.
  • Andy Cortez (on Snake’s voice): “It takes a while to get like, quintessential snake.” [22:32]
• Ability speculation: Will Solid Snake have a silenced tranquilizer, adaptive camo, or cardboard box? First-person feels “weird” for the character.
• Nostalgia: Hosts express willingness to log back into Siege for this, recalling their favorite multiplayer eras.
  • Tim Gettys: “This will bring me back for at least a couple games … My nostalgia for Siege is so strong.” [24:09]
• Cosmetics: MGS character skins potentially include Ocelot, Raiden, and others.
• Memorable exchange:
  • Mike: "He said SAM over Snake."
  • Andy & Tim (in unison): "That's crazy." [23:47]

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3. Game Announcements & Bloober Team’s Next Title

• Segment: [28:24–31:30]
• Bloober Team announces Layers of Fear 3 for the horror franchise's 10th anniversary via a cryptic teaser—but little else is revealed.
  • Speculation about their other projects (Silent Hill remake, The Medium, Kronos).
  • Tim Gettys: “For a studio that’s now expanded their horizons...it’s interesting to see that they’re like, no, we still want to do Layers of Fear.” [30:09]
• Discussion on horror games as reliable content for streamers, referencing the continued popularity of indie horror.

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4. Tributes: Gaming Industry Legends Pass Away

• Segment: [35:28–44:11]
• Hideki Sato, designer of every major Sega console from SG1000 through Dreamcast and former Sega president, passed away at 77.
  • Tim Gettys (reflecting): “It’s wild to see video games be an old enough industry to now we’re seeing legends…pass away.” [41:09]
  • Personal memories: Dreamcast discoveries at church, Sonic nostalgia, Sega’s industry impact.
• Shutaro Iida, creative director of Bloodstained: the Scarlet Engagement (and former Castlevania, MGS5 dev), also passed after a battle with cancer at 52.
  • Team responds with empathy for creatives lost before seeing their final projects completed.
  • Tim Gettys: “Our hearts go out to people around him...that one...hits me in the heart.” [43:36]

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5. Battlefield 6 Season 2 Preview (w/ SnowBikeMike)

• Segment: [44:46–53:55]
• Mike previews Battlefield 6 Season 2 (launching Feb 17), split into three themes: Extreme Measures (psychoactive smoke and gas mask mechanics), Nightfall (night vision/map darkness), and Hunter/Prey.
• Psychoactive smoke: Players hallucinate, hear fake footsteps, and see phantom enemies within zones unless masked.
• New weapons, gadgets, and the return of the "Little Bird" helicopter; motorcycles incoming in later updates.
• Group agrees the latest Battlefield is “a really good game,” but wonders if the update is enough to pull people back from Overwatch, Deadlock, or other ongoing titles.
  • Blessing Adio: “I don’t know if it’s enough to pull me back in. I’m high on Deadlock right now.” [53:46]

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6. Listener Superchats, Community, and Goofiness

• Segment: Throughout, but key chunk [53:56–70:00]
• Major community support and emotional milestone: Superchat from Delaney Twining ($200) marking their 40th birthday and thanking the community for 11 years; hosts respond with warmth and humor.
  • Delaney: “This has truly been one of the best communities on the Internet. I love you all. Be good to each other.” [54:29]
• Tangents: Mario Tennis ranked mode complaints, Andy’s birthday banter, pizza bets lost and lunch debts owed, jokes about sneakiness in windbreaker pants, and wild stories about TwitchCon and concerts.
  • Tim Gettys (on Skillet banter): “This episode has caused so much conversation and somehow we got to somebody being like, wait, Skrillex is MAGA? And I don’t know why that cracked me up.” [70:46]

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7. Quick Hits (WE News, God of War, Listener Corrections)

• Segment: [61:04–68:06]
• WE News Channel brings rapid-fire industry tidbits, with Andy sharing an elaborate dream about being pregnant (to audience hilarity).
• PSA about God of War: Son of Sparta’s two-player mode (challenge co-op only unlocks after beating main game).
• Rapid corrections from chat/readers, meme-worthy banter (e.g., “memory loss” as a RAM shortage, Skillet/NFT/AI analogies, Sam Fisher vs. Snake arguments).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Andy Cortez, on modern dev cycles:
  “Pivoting doesn’t mean we’re gonna get back to this other indie project…That’s not a quick turnaround. That’s going to take a long time.” [10:03]

• Tim Gettys, on AI tech collapse:
  “I’m so interested, slash, mostly scared of. All right, when shit crashes and the money starts to shorten up in terms of how much people want to invest in AI, what does that look like for every single thing that AI is involved in?” [16:35]

• Mike, about Solid Snake in Siege:
  “He said SAM over Snake.”
  Andy & Tim: “That’s crazy.” [23:47]

• Delaney Twining (superchat):
  “This has truly been one of the best communities on the Internet. I love you all. Be good to each other.” [54:29]

• Andy Cortez, on birthday fears:
  "I had a dream that I was pregnant ... I woke up the most relieved I've ever been in my life." [61:28]

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Timestamps of Key Segments

| [04:05] | PlayStation 6 delay, memory shortages “Raymageddon” | |---------|----------------------------------------------------| | [07:00] | “Why does it feel so early this time around?” | | [12:38] | Will Sony push devs to scale back for PS5? | | [14:41] | Tech bubble–AI crash fears (general economy) | | [19:25] | Solid Snake in Rainbow Six Siege—trailer reaction | | [23:47] | “SAM over Snake”—banter about the collab | | [28:24] | Layers of Fear 3 revealed (Bloober Team) | | [35:28] | Hideki Sato’s passing (Sega consoles tribute) | | [43:36] | Shutaro Iida’s passing (Bloodstained, Castlevania) | | [44:46] | Battlefield 6 Season 2 Preview with SnowBikeMike | | [54:29] | Delaney Twining’s superchat/community tribute | | [61:28] | Andy’s pregnancy dream/WE News | | [64:19] | God of War: Son of Sparta 2P mode (unlock info) | | [66:00] | Corrections, more community superchats/game memes |

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Tone & Style

Classic Kinda Funny: irreverent, quick-witted, and inclusive, mixing deep-dive industry perspective with hype, self-deprecation, and jokes (plenty of inside references and birthday fun), and paused moments of sincerity for meaningful community notes and tributes.

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Summary Takeaways

• PS6’s Delay is another sign of just how disruptive the AI bubble and tech shortages are, reshaping not just release schedules but how publishers and studios approach cross-generation game support and survival.
• Rainbow Six’s MGS Crossover is a fever-dream collab that’s bringing fans and lapsed players back—at least for a nostalgia-powered trial run.
• Horror’s staying power: Bloober Team doubling down; streamers and fans keep the genre alive.
• The industry’s maturing … and ageing: Losses of Sato and Iida highlight video games’ rich history, now old enough that eras and icons pass away—and deserve to be celebrated.
• Community, camaraderie, and goofiness: Whether arguing about Sam Fisher, Skillet, recounting lost bets, or big TwitchCon nights, the hosts find balance in gaming’s dramas with jokes, solidarity, and stories both wild and heartwarming.

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If you missed the show, this episode covered not just the major headlines, but also the spirit —and growing pains—of gaming as it enters a new era of generational change, economic uncertainty, and enduring community.

Transcript

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[Blessing Adio]

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[Andy Cortez]

Kindafunny Today's stories include. Sony is holding back the PS6 until 2028 or 2029. Solid Snake has finally met Sam Fisher. And the Silent Hill 2 Remake Studio have revealed their next game. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny. Games Daily. I could have sworn it was just today's stories included. And then it was like today's gaming news stories included.

[Tim Gettys]

I added that because here's the.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you added that.

[Tim Gettys]

I added the gaming news stories cuz.

[Andy Cortez]

Just to throw Andy off. That's really up my birthday.

[Tim Gettys]

I added it when we remove the rigmarole because the rigmarole will tell people what the show is. And without that, there's nowhere in the show to say this is a gaming news show. So I was like, if I just put that in the opening line. Today's gaming news stories include. And that like that solves the problem. Okay, it's me overthinking my producer role on the show.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll be thinking about that for, you know, for a couple of weeks to come now.

[Tim Gettys]

Because if I don't say that then like, what kind of shows?

[Andy Cortez]

How do they know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, this is your first time listening. You're just like, oh, they're just talking about video games. It's like, no, we're talking about video game news.

[Andy Cortez]

Me know, in the kind of funny. Games Daily Comments down below on YouTube. Have you heard of the band called Skillet?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man, don't get me started on Skillet.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless us. Waxing poetic. While ago, I. I had never heard of this band. And suddenly he's like, oh, it's. It's the Christian rock band Andy.

[Blessing Adio]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's. And it sounds like Evanescence. It's a. It's very 2000s coded.

[Tim Gettys]

If you ever stepped foot in a church in 2009, Skillet was your whole life. Like, seal it. If you ever step foot in a church, in a specifically white church. Okay, maybe not like in a black church, then it might be Lecrae. But if you and Kirk Franklin. Let me tell you about. Oh, I meant to put you on to some Kirk Franklin.

[Andy Cortez]

You were going to.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Donnie McClurken.

[Andy Cortez]

Soul. Like, what was soul? Praise. Praise Soul, like genre.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, gospel.

[Andy Cortez]

Gospel.

[Tim Gettys]

Gospel. That's so. I mean, honestly, that's not far off. Yeah, gospel is basically soul praise. Close, but yeah. Skillet, Thousand Foot Crutch, like, Thousand Foot Crutch was like the rap rock one. And let me tell you, there's been some bars. They're praising Jesus. Oh, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless was the most hyped up I've ever seen him in the morning right now. He was like listening to every song and he was like, let me get to the hook.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me get to the hook, dude, because here, because here's the thing. I was playing you awaken Alive by Skillet. And you were surprised to hear that that music video has 204 million views.

[Andy Cortez]

Crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's not even the most popular song.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, their most popular song was probably Hero.

[Andy Cortez]

That's one of their B sides right there.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, it really was like the Hero music video probably has twice that, if anything.

[Andy Cortez]

Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily.

[Tim Gettys]

For Monday, by the way.

[Andy Cortez]

For Monday, February 16, 2026. I'm Andy and I'm joined by Blessing. Adio. Yay, Junior.

[Tim Gettys]

Happy birthday, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Thank you, everybody. It's my birthday month, so just keep the love coming all month, you know what I mean? All the way through the end of February. They're actually adding two extra days for me this month.

[Tim Gettys]

Whoa.

[Andy Cortez]

Going to the third.

[Blessing Adio]

February.

[Andy Cortez]

March starts on the third.

[Tim Gettys]

Black history can't get two extra days, but Andy's birthday gets the 2x. That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, we've come together.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that we've had a lot of talks recently. If you're watching live, be a part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com forward/kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be. The Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have six stories today.

[Tim Gettys]

Skillet's most popular song on Spotify, Monster has a billion listens. I think that's a bill. Yeah, that's a billion. A billion listens.

[Andy Cortez]

I need them to look into the plays of that I don't like. I have investigating Kendrick. I need them to look into that.

[Tim Gettys]

Half of that might be me, you know, just back in high school, back in college, just like, you know, banging my head and realizing in real time I don't agree with the views. A lot of the people surround myself.

[Blessing Adio]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Spotify Also, back in the day, back.

[Tim Gettys]

In 2012, I was like, this new.

[Andy Cortez]

Thing, brand new little app right here. Story number one, Sony is considering holding back PlayStation 6 until 2028 or 2029, a report claims. This comes from Chris Scolion at VGC. Sony's considering holding back the release of the PS6 at 2028 and 2029. In an article about the ongoing surge in memory prices, Bloomberg says the upcoming bottleneck of memory production will cause huge ramifications across the industry. Dubbing it the Ramageddon, we There's something better there.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you don't like Ramageddon?

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like we could do a little bit better there.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like that's aptly named. I feel like that makes sense for it.

[Andy Cortez]

What about memory loss?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, come on. Oh, come on, come on. This man's on today.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a birthday voice.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn right.

[Tim Gettys]

As soon as you turn 28.

[Andy Cortez]

44. 44, yeah. Wow. You're not 44.

[Tim Gettys]

44 looks great for 44.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

That's why.

[Andy Cortez]

That's why I've been saying it. Just want the compliments, man. Andy looks great for 44. The article asks numerous tech analysts on their views of the ongoing increase in RAM prices, a surge mainly attributed to AI data centers buying up huge quantities of it, making supplies scarce. Noting that Apple, Tesla and at least a dozen other major corporations have warned that the shortage of memory will constrain production in the future, the article claims that Sony and Nintendo are planning on acting accordingly. Citing sources familiar with Sony strategic thinking, the article claims that Sony Group Corp. Is now considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, end quote. It also claims that Nintendo is considering raising the price of Nintendo Switch 2 this year. Neither Sony nor Nintendo responded to requests for comment on Bloomberg's article. The article insists that the RAM shortage issue is not going to be resolved anytime soon. Quoting Lenovo CEO Yang Yangchun, Yuan Qing, I think as saying, quote, this structural imbalance between supply and demand is not simply a short term fluctuation, end quote.

[Tim Gettys]

You ever see the meme of the person on the bicycle and they take like a stick and they put it in the spokes of the front wheel and then the bicycle rolls over or whatever. That's how I feel with these tech companies when it comes to the Raymageddon or as you more aptly put it, memory loss.

[Blessing Adio]

This is a good one.

[Tim Gettys]

Memory loss is really good.

[Andy Cortez]

It's not Bad.

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah. Noting that Apple, Tesla and at least a dozen other major corporations have worn the of the shortage of memory. And I'm like, dang, whose fault is that? Yeah, who, how did we get here? Who, who was using AI and as their most front running initiative at their companies, would it not have been companies like Apple and Tesla and at least a dozen other major corporations that were doing this? And now we're here at the Raymageddon. Aside from that, the headline of the story, the lead of the story, I find very fascinating the idea that the PlayStation 6 is getting delayed to 2028, 2029 internally. Because when we talk about our regular console cycle, the regular lifetime of console, usually you're talking about seven years. The PlayStation 4 came out in 2013, we got the PS5. And in 2020, 2027, if you're just going by standard, this is how it goes, you would expect late next year you would get a PlayStation 6. That said, why does it feel so early this time around? If you would ask me, just out of context, without me even thinking about the years, I would have been like, no way we're getting a PlayStation 6 next year.

[Andy Cortez]

Barrett Cordy in the press corp.

[Mike]

I got an answer for you.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Mike]

Let me pull it up.

[Andy Cortez]

It is. Dev cycles are way too long.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly, exactly. So like this console generation, it feels like think about the amount of games we haven't gotten, the amount of studios that haven't put out games, even from when we're talking about PlayStation, specifically PlayStation first party, right? Like we got a Bluepoint game at the beginning of the in 2020, six years later, nothing can be found. Naughty Dog hasn't put out a new game this generation. We finally just got one from Sucker Punch, right? The day's gone studio. We haven't gotten one from Ben. Thank you. I forget if dreams came out on PS5 or PS4. Either way, it feels like this generation more so than previous ones. We've gotten less games, but I guess less games from individual developers. Even though I feel like overall it does feel like we're getting more games because more people are making games. But I think there's something about that that makes this generation feel like underwhelming. Underwhelming. We've barely gotten started. Like we've not gotten everything out of the tech that we could have yet.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, right. I mean when the PS5 Pro is being kind of rumored and being announced, we heard several devs kind of off the record say, man, we haven't even gotten the most. We can out of the PS5 yet.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I think, I think a lot of right things had to happen in order for this to go extraordinarily wrong. And a lot of those right things were Sony pivoting to games as a service and games that were already three years in development, two and a half years, four years in development. Those games get sort of taken off and wiped from existence and that's, that's a massive ass chunk of time. And especially with you mentioning, you know, and Barrett mentioning how long games are being. Taking. Are taking to develop. I, I think that we now have so much less time to, to fuck up and make a colossal mistake.

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because pivoting doesn't mean we're gonna get back to this other indie project and we'll be done with that a year and a half or a. I say indie project, smaller project within our team that we were also kind of co developing. It doesn't really turn around that quickly anymore. Like you have to right the ship of usually leading to layoffs and then, all right, all 300 people at our studio, all 200, whatever, however many it is now we have to pivot and make something else. And that's not a quick turnaround, that's going to take a long time. So it's like you're, you're definitely not wrong. I think the Pandemic definitely plays with like time, you know, a process, how we process time.

[Tim Gettys]

And also games getting delayed during Pandemic getting delayed.

[Andy Cortez]

And I think so many of these massive games getting canceled just attributes to how much worse this cycle has felt like how much worse that this console cycle has felt. Because again, these aren't things that were getting canceled six months into development. They were, they were pretty deep in. And you can't just, all right, let's just flip the switch and go to that other project and be done with that new year. Nah, shit's gonna take four to five.

[Tim Gettys]

Years, you know, which is like, you know, on the first party side, you know, sucks. If you're a big fan of certain developers. Right. If you're a big fan of Sony Santa Monica, it's like, well, we've got God of War Ragnarok, but that's the only game you're going to see for the foreseeable future from them. Hopefully we get this new IP or new game series or whatever it is from Corey Barlog announced soon, but who knows when we're going to get that. If you're a big Naughty Dog fan, you go from PS3 era getting uncharted 1, 2 and 3 and last of us on the same console to now you jump forward and it's like, maybe we get intergalactic here. All that said though, I then turn to wonder about what that looks like for if. If Sony was planning to put out a PlayStation 6 in 2027 and now it's looking more like 2028 and probably even more realistically 2029. How do plans shift? Because for example, you look at a game like Fizzant, which was announced and when Fizzing was announced, we were all like, man, that's a PlayStation 6 game. In fact, I think they even applied in the announcement that this is a next generation game. Like this is probably a PlayStation 6.

[Andy Cortez]

2030 and on or something like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Do. Does PlayStation start to look at a game like Physic and go, maybe this is a. Maybe this game comes out at the end of this generation. Or do they look at some of their other titles that might have been slated for next gen? Right? What the Next Insomniac game past Wolverine. Right, Whatever. I guess other first party things that they were like, maybe this will be launched. You start to look at it now and go, ah, we're going to need some things to fill in that 2028, 2029 release slate.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I don't know man, it's. It's such a funky spot to be in, especially for somebody with somebody like Kojima Productions who is very early on in development for a game that we knew we wouldn't see for a long time. Do. I mean, I guess that is the question. Do we think Sony pushes developers like that and go, all right, let's maybe try to scale back visuals and scale back stuff so that things are playable on this current generation. Even if maybe they wanted to go for a cross generation thing now it's seeming more like it might be cross gen the other way, where yes, it will be playable on the PS6 whenever that thing is available. Such a shitty spot to be in. And we kind of have to hope that this, the air crash happens a lot sooner than later. And there's a great video out that our friend Alana Pierce put up talking about the AI sort of situation with all these different companies kind of just making big promises in hopes that the investors start to deliver. And a lot of those promises, kind of a lot of investors seeing, hey, this is a lot of bullshit and not actually real and it's not going to do anything in a similar way to what the Metaverse was and what, you know, NFTs and everything that we saw five years ago and we just kind of have to wish for this downfall a little bit sooner. Yeah. So that we could just, you know, raid these, raid these big data centers and just kind of like have a big, like a big, a big flea market sort of situation. People just walking down aisles and grabbing little memory, like picking the apples from trees.

[Tim Gettys]

Memory was lost.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Found again.

[Mike]

But then comes like the, the interesting thing, right. Of with whenever this crash happens, it's going to affect the economy at large in like such a substantial way that I don't think any of us are fully prepared for.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, see, that was going to be, that was gonna be the next thing I bring up, which is like, what does that crash look like?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because for me, I'm more scared of the crash than anything.

[Mike]

It's going to be worse than 2008, I think.

[Andy Cortez]

Think. Yeah, yeah, there will be. I mean, from what a lot of analysts are saying, it's more of a. It will happen and less of a Will it happen?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean it has to.

[Andy Cortez]

And it seems to be more of a. Hopefully it won't be as, you know, devastating as the 2008 recession, but it doesn't seem like it's going to be great.

[Tim Gettys]

Last time in our lives we remember a. Something being invested in this heavily. Like a piece of tech or like a just a, I guess a technology or whatever it is invested this heavily where if you say the words AI, the money is going to flow in whether it's a good idea or not. I feel like this is the most I, at least I remember in my adult life.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean it was, I would say it was metaverse and NFTs and like.

[Tim Gettys]

This level, I was going to say, like, I feel like this is multiple times past NFTs.

[Andy Cortez]

But the, I mean it was the crypto mining situation where GPUs were insanely tough to get.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, four, four, three years ago or whatever. Where it was GPUs that were the hot commodity because people were in the pandemic making their own crypto mining farms and buying up GPUs. And people had their little rigs set up so they could have a fake machine mine, fake crypt.

[Tim Gettys]

Like the thing I'll say about this because people are bringing up like, you know, NFT blockchain. Somebody said, honestly the.com boom. And that's what comes to mind. I think you have to go that far back to talk about like something that is becoming this integrated with everything. Because even with NFTs or with blockchain, it's like, well, I can. At those times, I could have avoided both those things. Like, sure, I open up the Internet and I see people talking about NFTs, but it's like it wasn't everywhere and it faded away.

[Mike]

Whereas, like, when those things started to go away, not everything around them that was integrated to them, like, fell apart.

[Tim Gettys]

Right, Exactly. We're now for AI. I. There's. It's impossible to not use AI. I Google search something and it's an AI overview of, like, everything. Right? I use any app and it's AI this. Like, it is integrated with everything. And so I'm so interested, slash, mostly scared of. All right, when shit crashes and the money starts. Starts to shorten up in terms of how much people want to invest in AI, what does that look like for every single thing that AI is involved in? I know, I just doesn't disappear and everything falls away.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

It's not fucking like Y2K or anything like that, but I just don't know what that looks like as far as.

[Andy Cortez]

The end for the larger world or just the games industry.

[Tim Gettys]

For the. For the larger world, honestly, is what I'm talking about. But even games industry, right, like, there are so many AI integrated tools, there's so many games that I'd say things.

[Andy Cortez]

Are already not great and. Yeah. And things will get. Yeah, that's part of the worst. That's one of the worst things, is, like, it'd be one thing if we were in this gigantic upswing and then started to get doom and gloom about everything being awful, but it's like, wow, everybody's hiring right now, everybody's employed, everybody's making money, but, like, we're not. And things could just get worse. And people are just. It's. It. The world is a. Is a nightmare. It's just a slot machine for the richest people on the planet.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

To bring it back to the conversation about consoles, at least, I guess the. The question I have for y' all is, what do you think if we get to the. The bubble popping of AI, what do we think that does for possibly delaying these consoles even further? Because from what I remember, right, like, 2008 crash, like that generation of consoles stick around much longer because of what people can actually afford and these businesses actually trying to think about, like, when is the actual right time to put something, the next thing out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Because people don't have money. Yeah.

[Mike]

So it's like, okay, maybe we defeat the RAM shortage, but now, like, everything else is fucked. Like, what do you think that does?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I think that it looks like consoles being marketed toward the people who do have money, which means that less people are going to be able to afford consoles, unfortunately. But I also think that that means that they're going to make PS5 software even longer. Like this. The cross generation releases that we got from PS4 to PS5, where even now you'll see, yeah, you still see PS4 games coming out. I think for the PlayStation 6 generation, you're going to be. You're going to see so many PS5 SKUs, which is going to make marketing completely different. I wonder how they're going to talk about the PlayStation 6 as far as like this is the reason why you need to get one. Like this is what's going to separate your experience. Because I don't think it's going to be the games. I think the exclusivity of oh, this game is only available on PS6. You're not going to see that for a very long time.

[Andy Cortez]

Let us know what you think about just how everything's awful in the comments down below. Or you could also type in some super chats and support the company monetarily. Keep the lights and the mics on. Let's move on to story number two because I I just hate getting all doom and gloom about AI Story number two Solid Snake, voiced by David Hayter, is back in Rainbow six Siege. This comes from Ethan Gach at Kotaku. Metal Gear Solid's Bandana furrowing Snake is teaming up with Splinter Cell, Sam Fiser and the rest of the Rainbow six Siege roster as the tactical shooter's newest operator. After teasing the collaboration earlier this year, Ubisoft finally pulled back the curtain with a reveal trailer that has the two heavyweights of video game espionage brewing it out before taking down some baddies. The solid Snake operator arrives at Rainbow Six Siege with Operation Silent Hunt in the new season on March 3. One of the big questions facing the crossover was whether David Hater, the original voice of Konami's protagonist created by Hideo Kojima, would be returning for such a weird and unexpected side project. The new trailer reveals that the answer is yes. The reveal trailer shows Snake doing Snake stuff like hiding around corners, taking enemies out, unhinging his jaw to eat an egg. That's just a joke. I added that myself. And taking out enemies with a silence weapon before sending out sending in a smoke grenade and handing out takedowns. Sam Fisher pops up at the end. The two embr. The two embrace Predator style, and Snake quips about Soldiers like us never getting a moment's rest as a new alert pops up on his pager.

[Tim Gettys]

I heard Sol Sn likes to do this thing where he puts a boiled egg in his mouth and then like, squeezes mayonnaise in there. He calls it a Mayan egg.

[Andy Cortez]

That's.

[Mike]

That's from Arrested Development.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you just do an egg thing? You just kept with the egg theme? Huh? Well, you said you like. Yeah, I started it. I imagine the snakes, like, unhinging their jaw. Cuz he said, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you're talking about literal. Okay, I see where.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he said he was doing snake things. No, that's good.

[Blessing Adio]

It wasn't about eggs.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

Honestly, I wasn't paying attention until he said the thing about the egg. And so I didn't even connect to the snake reference. I thought you were just being random and being like, oh, yes, solid Snake loves eggs.

[Andy Cortez]

Doing a snake thing.

[Tim Gettys]

That was our own world, brother.

[Andy Cortez]

So in this trailer, I. When I watched it over the weekend, I wasn't even sure that it was David Hayter, because David Hayter doing a much more, like, toned down version of the snake sort of voice. When the first couple lines he says, I was like, I don't even know if. Is that David?

[Tim Gettys]

Can I get audio? Because I actually haven't listened to. To this trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

And then you start to hear that, like, that sort of thing. But it takes a while to kind of get going. Friday listeners, Snake is sneaking.

[Tim Gettys]

You think about eggs right now.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm here. Yeah, I hear that. I'm like, I don't know who that is.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I feel like I heard snow snake there.

[Andy Cortez]

It takes a while to get, like, quintessential. To get quintessential snake. Damn, look at that Sultan radar. One of these siege abilities has to be like a roundhouse kick.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it's got to be.

[Andy Cortez]

Catch you waiting, huh? Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

See, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

That's why it never hurts to take things slow. That's too many teams for a siege squad. Too many players like us never get the chance. There's always one.

[Blessing Adio]

One more fight.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, that's that. Like, come on. Like, I'm not a siege guy necessarily. We had a lot of fun with it last year, and we played for that one week. Honestly, a week I'll never forget. But that got me.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, come on. I. I'll go back for this. I'll play a couple games for this. But now what I want to know is, what did Roger say in chat? Because a lot of people Are replying to Roger.

[Mike]

He said SAM over Snake.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, no, that's crazy.

[Mike]

I think we got to fire him, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

But, like, he's not. He doesn't know. He hasn't played Metal Gears, has he? I guess he played me. Solid one. He's not experienced the full saga.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He needs to go through the journey like Mike and I did.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. He doesn't know. He doesn't know soldiers like us.

[Andy Cortez]

So this.

[Tim Gettys]

You.

[Andy Cortez]

You're saying this will bring you back?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it'll bring. Bring me back for at least a couple games.

[Andy Cortez]

I am.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, you know me.

[Andy Cortez]

I love.

[Tim Gettys]

I do love Rainbow Six Siege. It's one of those ones where it's like. You ever think about your favorite multiplayer games in, like, In Their Prime? Yeah, like, you know, 2016 Overwatch. Like, I feel like that's me with Siege, where it's like, man, my. My nostalgia for Siege is so strong, even though it's not like I'm going back and playing it all the time because there's just other things to play. And I. I already put in my 100 hours or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

But something like this. Yeah, this will bring me back. I feel like I had a lot of fun when we did the week last year.

[Andy Cortez]

What are the abilities I mentioned? A roundhouse kick, possibly being one of the tactical sort of devices. Right. We saw a salt on radar.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So maybe he, like, always kind of has, like, a permanent uav. Or maybe he's always got. I mean, that would be cheating, but maybe he would have something that is on Cooldown that is like, you know, maybe he gets to call in and, you know, maybe we get a little codec.

[Tim Gettys]

The funny thing is, I'm. I'm thinking more Big boss than Solid Snake, because the first thing comes to mind is he has, like, a special gun he can equip. That is a silenced, like, gun that puts people to sleep, essentially. You hit somebody and then after two seconds, they fall asleep for a few seconds.

[Andy Cortez]

The remote control rocket, then a key to missile.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, then the key to missile would be pretty sick.

[Andy Cortez]

That. That could be a cool one.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That's one of the more kind of underground things, right? Well, I guess no Smash Bros has an Akita missile when you kind of control the rocket, you know, let's see what else the box maybe he could be in. Like, he could just.

[Tim Gettys]

I read the box. Do we have gameplay? Because somebody in chat said you got to watch the gameplay, and I didn't realize there was gameplay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Somebody says there's an overview trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. So we had. Do we do have it. Adaptive camo, duh. That's a great one.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it makes so much sense.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a fantastic one.

[Tim Gettys]

That's actually really cool if you can pull that off, where if you're laying down on any surface, you just look like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I. I think that could look really cool visually with tech nowadays, you know. Yeah. With how far tech has gone, it.

[Tim Gettys]

Will be weird playing a solid snake in first person. That seat feels a little bit like. Man, you do that in, like, Metal.

[Andy Cortez]

Gear 2 a lot when you.

[Blessing Adio]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I guess in Metal Gear 3 you do that as well.

[Andy Cortez]

Here we go. Here's the gameplay. Yeah, we got. So he's got like a handheld UAV for the audio listeners. And on the bottom it says all clear. Maybe one of the bad distractions is like, the music.

[Tim Gettys]

Get.

[Andy Cortez]

The music pops up so you can't hear bad guys if you do something wrong. If you're trying to sneak. You just hear, like, you know, like just kind of pop up and pop off. All right. So he's constantly. He's got this little handheld radar thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, his radar is like his main ability.

[Andy Cortez]

It's always up in his face. It looks very much like the heartbeat sensor when you were playing Warzone back in the day.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that. Is that what we associate with solid Snake, like a radar?

[Andy Cortez]

No, not really. Handheld radar. No, Because I never knew that thing was handheld to begin with.

[Tim Gettys]

This is what I'm talking about right here.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Silenced pistol.

[Andy Cortez]

Got a little silence pistol right there. He's always got this thing up.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, that was cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I bet it's going to sound really good, too. So the radar is just constantly up, precision mode. You drop the diffuser. Maybe there could be an ability where you fake out the enemy and you start off as what you think is solid snake, but it ends up being a different character, like the ride and fake.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? See, what's funny is, I was thinking about, if you were to continue this collaboration, who would you add next? And I think Raiden would be pretty fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, there are a lot of character skins they're adding for the MGS characters. Oh, like, I'm pretty. Unless I got faked out by the Internet. But I'm pretty sure that they are adding, like, Ocelot. Old Ocelot as one of the character skins for the other characters. So the other characters should have kind of cosmetics that you could buy.

[Tim Gettys]

People are saying that the. I think one of the guns was the famous.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, the famas. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I was going to say. I was going to pronounce it, but I was like, what if I'm pronouncing it wrong this whole time?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, as a kid, I would say. I would always say famous. Back in the day, because I would.

[Tim Gettys]

I would probably say famas. But like, I looked at it for a second. I was like, what if it's pronounced famous? I mispronounce it.

[Andy Cortez]

Story number three. Bloober Team's big reveal is Layers of Fear 3. This comes from Vicky Blake at Eurogamer. Blueberry Team's countdown at Valentine's Day has ended. And despite all those rose references, it's not a rule of Rose revival, but it is in fact layers of fear 3. While the website had spurred all kinds of theories. For instance, taking the capital letters from the word salad on the site, rem, Mazd, Newel, Seraho, Ovam, Seyured.

[Tim Gettys]

Nailed it.

[Andy Cortez]

Is an anagram of Kronos, leading some to speculate that this is a teaser for DLC for Kronos. The new Dawn Bloober team has marked the 10th anniversary of the horror game with a confirmation of a third installment. There was no gameplay to showcase, but we were treated to a strange live action, live action teaser in which we were told, quote, the door won't stay closed, end quote. Unfortunately, there's no other information either, such as a release date. Kind of fascinating.

[Tim Gettys]

Did you ever play the Layers of Fear games?

[Andy Cortez]

I. I did only on maybe a party mode or two. Way back in the day.

[Tim Gettys]

I was gonna say, I think I watched a kind of funny. Let's play a Layers of Fear and that'.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, I think we. I think we may have done some sort of sponsored event. I was always really impressed by how freaky the world would kind of change around the character, but I don't really have a touchstone to Layers of Fear. And I didn't know it was the type of franchise I was worth teasing in this way, to be honest with you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And I'm. I'm surprised but also impressed that Blooper Team is going back to their IP that like they have this history with. Because I think my first time being aware of Blooper Team was probably with Layers of Fear.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But for a studio that's now expanded their horizons a bit doing side Silent Hill, I feel like they haven't. They have another game that's announced.

[Andy Cortez]

The Medium. They did them.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, they did the Medium.

[Andy Cortez]

Chronos. Kronos.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I was thinking of. Yeah. Very fascinating. Very interesting to see that they're like, no, yeah, we're still. We still want to do with Layers of Fear. Right. Like, that tells me that they have a solid. Probably a core audience there that cares and wants to see more of the fact that they're down to tease it like this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I also do think these games pop off pretty nicely on. For content creators and for content creators audiences, the people who love gravitating towards the, you know, the marker players of the world and. And people that love watching horror content. And we know us kind of telling Greg how popular Poppy's Playtime is or Bendy and the Ink Machine and how, like, those have cultivated audiences. So it's like, it's never a bad idea to make another horror game. I think that they will. We've seen that they could always kind of pop off in interesting ways when it comes to sales. Like, ways that is. Are really unexpected.

[Tim Gettys]

And they do have Silent Hill 1 remake in development too, I believe.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And so like to have that balance, that rotation of, hey, we'll give one for y' all and we'll do one for us. You know, I think that's a nice thing to have as a studio. That way you can get your money doing this bigger IP that you're licensing. But then also, here's something for, like, in case we don't get an IP anymore, we're still maintaining our own thing that way, you know, keep the ship afloat.

[Andy Cortez]

I think that's.

[Tim Gettys]

I think that's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I have a super chat I want to get to from the one Radek Grabowski who says, friendly birthday tax. Happy birthday, Andy. I wish you all the best. Shout out to Radek and all of the.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it his birthday tax or your birthday tax?

[Andy Cortez]

It's my birthday.

[Mike]

Well, friendly birthday.

[Andy Cortez]

Friendly birthday. Oh, I see.

[Tim Gettys]

I see, I see. Oh, yeah. Hell, yeah.

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[Andy Cortez]

I was about to think, oh, we have the same birthday, but erratic shout out to radical for, you know, being very supportive for the Witcher playthrough that I've been doing. Very, very good. Pretty good video game, turns out, which are three. Witcher 3. Yeah, yeah, I heard it's pretty good. Yeah. You also, check it out.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me tell you. I was so. I was so excited when you came in and you're like, I did the bloody Baron Quest. Because that's the main thing I remember. I. There are three things I remember from the Witcher 3, Gwent. Number one, I spent.

[Andy Cortez]

Honestly, if I got so into.

[Tim Gettys]

If I didn't play Gwent. I probably would have beaten that game. I spent so many hours of Witcher 3 only playing Gwent.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you think it knocked you off your trail? It for sure knocked me off my trail.

[Tim Gettys]

It became Yu Gi oh, Duelist Kingdom Simulator, where I'm like, bring me the next card player. Like, I'm only here looking for people who play Gwen. So that's my number one takeaway from. From the Witcher. Three. Two, Bloody Baron. That whole quest. Incredible. Fucking heartbreaking also.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Number three, looking for Dandelion. I couldn't find that motherfucker Dandelion. At a certain point I was like, I'm done. I'm playing FIFA.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I'm doing right now. I'm currently in the middle of.

[Tim Gettys]

You're still looking for Dandelion?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I've been kind of doing a lot of different things, trying to cover the area. I've had a lot of very helpful, kind of, kind of funny community members DMing me and saying, hey, you know, if you gotta. If you gotta do some missions off stream, these are the ones I would recommend. But these ones you gotta do on camera. Like, these are the ones that people are gonna want to see reactions to. So, yeah, I'm currently kind of doing Dandelion. Like the search for Dandelion and off stream. I played a lot of Gwen yesterday.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Lot of bless.

[Mike]

Do you think you never found Dan because you're so distracted by Gwen?

[Tim Gettys]

For sure. And then after a while I was like, I'm bored. I'm playing FIFA 15.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah. I walked up to that.

[Tim Gettys]

Good.

[Andy Cortez]

Walked up to a lot of people who were maybe missing their. Their wife who went missing in the woods and I find a blood, a bloody body. But really it's just all about going back and saying, like, you play any Gwent, where are the Gwent cards at? You know, like, that's what I love, dude. It's my favorite thing, just interrupting a really important mission and just asking for where the Gwent is.

[Tim Gettys]

How does the open world hold up? Because I remember that like a. It's a moment of riding my riding roach through the world and like the way the lighting would peer through the trees and like you would have up in the like, bodies hanging.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

It's like, damn, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, well, with the next gen version, it looks amazing. And then I have a buttload of mods on top of it, even pushing it further when it comes to the way the shadowing and ray tracing goes.

[Tim Gettys]

You've been telling me A lot. I know you're trying to throw to ad, but listen, you've been telling me a lot about like, you know, you're streaming things on PC and you're like modding them to make them look better. And I've never. So as a Sonic fan, I've never played through Sonic Adventure 2, which is like the Sonic game, you know what I mean? And so I bought it the other day thinking like, I'll probably stream this at some point. It'd probably be fun as a Sonic fan to have my first experience playing through Sonic Adventure 2 battle. I started looking online and people were like, yo, if you're gonna play Sonic 2 on PC, you should use these packs like these, these mods to make it look pretty. And so now I'm like, I'm. I'm falling down the rabbit hole a.

[Andy Cortez]

Little bit of like you're adventuring.

[Tim Gettys]

How do I make Sonic Adventure 2 look as good as possible?

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, Hell yeah. That's exciting. Yeah. I'll tell you what else is exciting.

[Blessing Adio]

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[Tim Gettys]

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

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that sounds.

[Tim Gettys]

We can't do this is not AD appropriate. We can't do this right before the. We ruined it.

[Andy Cortez]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Andy Cortez]

Thank you for playing some of that.

[Tim Gettys]

That's called Monster by Skillet. That's their most popular song.

[Andy Cortez]

What the. What are the views on that one? On YouTube?

[Tim Gettys]

On YouTube. 531 million views. Yeah, they were a big deal.

[Andy Cortez]

That is crazy. Let me see what that like. Adsense revenue is ridiculous. Story number four, Rest in peace to a couple of gaming legends. Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega consoles, has died. This comes from Andy Robinson at vgc. Hideki Sato, the designer behind virtually every Sega console and the company's former president, has died at age 77. Japanese games outlet Beef 21 reports that Sato passed away this weekend. SEGA has published a statement following news of Sato's passing. Quote, we are deeply saddened to learn the passing of Hideki Sato, who served as president of Sega from 2001 to 2003. It said Sega would like to offer its condolences to his family and friends. Quote. Starting his career with the development of arcade machines, Mr. Sato was instrumental in the development of iconic home consoles, including the SG1000, SC3000 mega drive slash, Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast. His leadership helped lay the foundation of sega and his contributions had a significant and lasting impact on the entire gaming industry. We will always remember his contributions to our company and all of us at Sega extend our deepest condolences as we honor his memory.

[Tim Gettys]

Rip.

[Andy Cortez]

Rest in peace.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, and I mean, we're going to talk about another one here in a second. But like, it's wild to see video games be an old enough industry to now we're seeing legends come through in like, pass away.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, a lot of the founders, a lot of the, the, the, the OGs, right? In the industry. OGs.

[Tim Gettys]

I like, made this what it is and also like, very cool, you know, thing he did here, right? Like both being president of Sega at the time, but like designing all of Sega's consoles, especially, let me tell you, man, the Dreamcast. First time I saw a Dreamcast in person, which might have also been at.

[Andy Cortez]

Church, I was like, listen to Skillet in the background.

[Tim Gettys]

Skillet was playing faintly in the background. I don't think Skillet was a band yet, but I remember being like, yo, what is that? Because I grew up with an N64 and I, I either knew N64 or PlayStation 2.

[Blessing Adio]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

See, somebody has a Dreamcast. I'm like. Or I see the. The Dreamcast and the kids church and I'm like, what is that? And pick it up. And people are playing like Sonic Adventure. I was like, this is the coolest thing. This is like.

[Andy Cortez]

You tell me that memory card has a screen on it looking insane.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

You're telling me the church introduced you you to Sonic?

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, this isn't even. I didn't see. We don't claim this.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, this is biblical, Sonic. Biblical is what you're saying.

[Tim Gettys]

Sonic fans don't claim Sonic Sli. Actually, Sonic fans. No, but we. Because like, there are cool things about Sonic 06 is the game sucked, but the characters we like. But we don't. We don't. We don't claim the Kiss. We don't claim the Kiss.

[Andy Cortez]

We don't claim the Kiss. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Audio listeners. He keeps playing the part in Sonic 06 with the.

[Andy Cortez]

You know the part. Yeah. You know the part.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And another sad story. The Bloodstained the Scarlet Engagement Creative Director Shutaro ida dies at 52. This comes from Sal Romano at Gematsu. Chitaro Iida, Creative Director behind the upcoming Bloodstained the Scarlet Engagement, has died at age 52 after one and a half years of battle with cancer. Developer ArtPlay announced. Quote, Chitaro has contributed significantly to to the development of the gaming industry through the creation of numerous works, reads a message from ArtPlay co founder Koji Igarashi. His passing is deeply regrettable, especially given the great promise of his future endeavors. The development of Bloodstained, the Secret engagement which Shutaro was leading is now at its final stages. We will carry forward his legacy and strive with all of our strength to complete this work. To complete this work worthy of his vision and name. End quote. Eda was also the director of Bloodstained Ritual of the Night and contributed to the development of various Castlevania games and Metal Gear Solid five. The Phantom Pain.

[Tim Gettys]

Again, rest in peace.

[Andy Cortez]

Sad weekend, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Sad weekend. You know, especially like age 52, that's way too young. Insane cancer.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, of course.

[Tim Gettys]

And also just very sad because we had a similar story last year of somebody who passed away as their new game was finishing development. Right? And like you, you know, to not be able to see this project through all the way, of course, like, you know, I don't know that one very much like hits me in the heart of like, damn, dude. But our hearts go out to people around him. People that worked at the studio, his family, of course, and all that and.

[Andy Cortez]

Still putting in the work one and a half years into that battle is like, just.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Heartbreaking and quite the bummer. So our hearts go out to their families. Story number five. This is going to be as awkward of a transition as you can get, but that's just kind of how the news goes. Mike. So Mike. Mike got to preview some new battlefield stuff, and I think Barrett is kind of talking off camera to Mike in hopes that Mike comes out here, but he doesn't have his headphones on, so I don't know if he knows that we're even going to be transitioning this soon to the new story. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Usually Mike listens to the show, so I assume that, you know, by now he would be stationed up at the door ready to.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Go.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I did warn him. I did tell him that he's.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought he'd be. I thought he'd be on deck right now.

[Tim Gettys]

Barrett's not even listening.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, there's snow bike Mike. There's snow bike Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, we need your energy. We're coming off of sad news.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's turn this show around. Mike. I saw Mike as me, Roger, and Kevin were talking about a video game. Mike was headphones on, playing some battlefield, and he's here to talk all about it. He's also strutting in.

[Tim Gettys]

Happy birthday to you.

[Blessing Adio]

Now, here's the deal. I'm walking like that because I got my ass whooped this weekend by Andy Cortez and Mario Tennis. And I'm a little frustrated at him because he writes to me.

[Tim Gettys]

Y' all played Mario Tennis this weekend together?

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah. Well, it's pretty up. He took his aggression and anger out on me.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Blessing Adio]

When he should have been taking it out on you. Okay, look, hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

After getting our ass whooped by Nick and Bless all damn day. Yeah. Although we won the final match, and that's really all that matters. That's the main one. But Mike was playing. I was also tricked because I hop into a stream. Bless. And he's doing this. I see. Like, play motion control. I'm playing ranked, but he's not playing motion control. He's just moving the controller as he's playing.

[Blessing Adio]

Talk about how abysmal that game is. You can't play motion controls. Besides in the motion control section, which is okay. Then when you go to play ranked, they have ranked doubles.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

You think, oh, let's squat up with the homies. No, you just crazy with a random crazy. Who thought of that?

[Andy Cortez]

I wanna. I wanna play ranked with friends.

[Blessing Adio]

That's the most insane thing I've ever.

[Tim Gettys]

Heard of in my entire life is Nintendo. All right? You already know what the vibe is. I don't want to hear any slander about Mario Tennis out of anybody's mouth in the studio, okay? Because I played that game all weekend, and that might be the best Mario sports game ever created.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, we're gonna talk about that.

[Tim Gettys]

We're gonna talk about.

[Blessing Adio]

You and I are gonna talk about that. Well, you should play Andy, because Andy's.

[Tim Gettys]

Cheap and he doesn't want the smoke.

[Blessing Adio]

Okay, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll take it.

[Blessing Adio]

I can't believe he whipped my butt like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike, you got to play some Battlefield from an upcoming season.

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah, what's going on there, team? I have your Battlefield 6 Season 2 rundown that I want to talk with all of you. I got to jump into the newest map that will drop tomorrow. So, of course, season two starts on February 17th. They're splitting the season into three sections. Bless. Which I really like. Every month is a different vibe. So first month in February 17th will be extreme measures. That's what I got to try out with the new map. And then nightfall March 17, and then hunter slash prey on April 14. Some highlights for the later stuff, because I only got to see the early stuff this nightfall. Very exciting. They have a new map, and they're going to have a nightfall mode, which is like, of course, all blacked out, super dark. You got to use your flashlights or your night vision. Very cool vibes on that one. They'll have limited time modes on different maps with that. And I just really love the vibe of, like, going in dark. You see, like, they have, like, little. Very little lights, and you'll see, like, movement over there. Then they'll be in the dark shadows. It's like. That was super cool, but were you.

[Andy Cortez]

Playing on mic with people?

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah. Modern Warzone was talking to me and yapping at me.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing Adio]

I. I mean, I wasn't going full snow. Mike. Mike. On this.

[Andy Cortez]

I was wondering. Briefing. I didn't think you were talking to anybody. But then I would hear every once in a while, you're my boy.

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I was like, is he just talking to himself? I didn't know.

[Blessing Adio]

So what is new coming to Battlefield 6 Season 2? Some really fun stuff here. When we talk about extreme measures. The biggest new One is the VL7 Psychoactive Smoke. The hell really cool one that you're gonna see here in limited modes and different game offerings is this VL7 psychoactive smoke. So we played on the new map Contaminated. And so on the new map in the new game mode that they'll have the limited time mode, they have all these. All the points on the map. Map very good.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adio]

Set up in the European mountainside, just at a German air base. Kind of think of a tight mountain cauldron. Some really great points of interest from the actual military base. There's some small houses outside. What I loved was they have this big jagged mountain in the middle of the map with an underpass road to go through. That was one of the points. So you go over it, under it. Really good map design. Really like the map. But the interesting spot stuff with the psychoactive smoke is a couple of different capture points. Had the smoke, like just drenched all over it. And so when you go into the smoke, you start to lose your mind. Right. So now they've added a gas mask mechanic that you put on. So you're not breathing in the smoke. But when you're in the smoke, you're not taking damage, but you'll start to hallucinate, which was really creepy.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adio]

You could hear footsteps that weren't real. You would start to see, like moving shadows of like player outlines, but they weren't player outlines. So every time you'd be sitting in the smoke and you didn't have the gas mask on, you'd be looking all sorts. You'd be looking left, looking right, shooting at things that weren't real. Really fun mechanic in this one. Fun. Just like a small, nice addition that I really dug.

[Andy Cortez]

How hard was it to find the gas mask?

[Blessing Adio]

You have the gas mask. Oh, shift. And it was not. You automatically put it on. So the gas mask mechanic was really cool with that. I thought the smoke was really fun to disorient you and get. You kind of lost the new map. I really enjoyed the look of it. Not too big. I would call it like a. A small, medium map. You could get from point A to point B all the way across the map in pretty good momentum, movement time, but not too large. You have three new guns, two new gadgets, and Andy, a brand new helicopter.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, ah.

[Blessing Adio]

Six Little Bird is in. And that's like your little small helicopter where you have. You're firing off the Gatling gun in the front. Way easier to control than the other one.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it a single rider?

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah, I think so. Maybe two people. I was. I was always solo.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adio]

Because I wasn't squatting up with anyone, so nobody was joining on me.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Blessing Adio]

But I was. I was whipping that thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

The other ones, you know, didn't feel as good. Mouse and keyboard. This one felt tight controls, which I really, really enjoyed. And I was spraying things with the Gatling gun. I died most of the time.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't believe.

[Blessing Adio]

What else do I have for you guys? New guns. You have a new marksmanship rifle. You have a new assault rifle and a new light machine gun. The new gadgets. You have a new air defense large launcher. And what I liked the HT. The HTI MK2 hardware suppression system.

[Andy Cortez]

The hell is that?

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah, exactly. Really crazy stuff. Spots all nearby electronics and explosive gadgets as well as targets. In the middle of a locked on process, take aim and activate the device to intercept missiles and destroy electronic gadgets. So you can kind of be like the anti gadget.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like an A.O.E. sort of. Gotcha. Okay.

[Blessing Adio]

Turn them off and on. I really liked that Battle royale. Your Red Sec will get limited time modes with the VL7 gas and then some things to look forward to. Bless new map Nightfall mode. Like I said. And get this, Motorcycles are coming.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, there you go.

[Tim Gettys]

I was waiting for you to bring up.

[Andy Cortez]

That is pretty cool.

[Tim Gettys]

That's cool.

[Blessing Adio]

That's your rundown of Battlefield Season 6 or Battlefield 6 Season 2. The question is this. I jumped back in and it's like, man, that's a good game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, it is.

[Blessing Adio]

It's a really good game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

When I give you guys the rundown of that, where do you stand with Battlefield? Because I know it's been a packed fall into winter. I know it's been a packed, you know, spring here. But, like, you had Arc Raiders, you had Call of Duty, you had Battlefield.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

You got Overwatch again. Marvel Rivals never left. Does this entice you to get back on Red Sec or not at all?

[Tim Gettys]

But, like, I'm happy for the people that are. That are in it. Right. Like, if you're somebody who has chosen Battlefield 6 as their multiplayer game of choice, that sounds like a bunch of. That could be exciting for you, especially motorcycles. I want to see. I want to see what the motorcycles look like. But aside from that, right? Like, Battlefield 6 was one that I was. I was having fun with jumping with y' all that first week that it came out, but I've not seen myself go back since.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I would hop back for a couple days on a kind of funny stream or something. But in the. You know, in this era where I am so back on Overwatch, like, it's not even. It's not even a. Yeah, I've been playing some Overwatch. It's like a. I want to play Overwatch at all times. And then I spend my even late, late later nights playing Deadlock. I'm just. I'm so limited by that time. And if I. Maybe if I wasn't playing a gigantic 200 hour RPG like the Witcher 3. Yeah, maybe I could fit in some dead sect. Because I. The game is very good. There's no denying that Battlefield and Red Sec were some like playing that Red Sec mode was so much fun. I wish we played more of that on stream, but it's just so hard to find the time.

[Blessing Adio]

Well, they got a big update coming for you. I love that they've broken it down for the whole season. It's three months, but each month you get a little taste of something new. The new map. Very good. Very exciting. I don't know if it's enough to pull me back in. I'm a big Deadlock craze right now. Yeah, I'm high on Deadlock right now. Played Deadlock at one o' clock in the morning last night trying out new heroes.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, for real. I would have hopped on, but I. I knew that. I am so tired. I gotta like, try to get some sleep. But yeah, the dude Deadlock's been so good.

[Blessing Adio]

That's your Battlefield 6 update.

[Andy Cortez]

That's your Battlefield 6 update. Thank you, Mike. Everybody. Give it for Snowbike. Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

I told him he only had to do 60 seconds. I was like, hey, if you can come in for just a minute and talk about Battlefield 6. That was. How long was that?

[Andy Cortez]

You asked for an inch, he gives you a mile.

[Tim Gettys]

That was a mile.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow. And it was a great mile. I'd like to get to a super chat here from someone who is near and dear to the kind of funny operations. This is a kind of funny Patreon supporter producer. The one and only Delaney Twining with a massive super chat.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

$200. Whoa. Birthday tax. I turn 40 tomorrow. Thank you to Kinda Funny and the community for getting me through these last 11 years. Death, divorce and family health issues. This has truly been one of the best communities on the Internet. I love you all. Be good to each other. Huge Happy birthday. Happy early birthday.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you so much for that. 40 is huge. That's beautiful.

[Andy Cortez]

Over the hill. Hitting that hill now.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, $200. We could keep that for ourselves. Andy. We don't have to tell you don't have to tell anybody.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't think about it, Tim. Think.

[Mike]

That's how the wiring works.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim's not here. I'm gonna consider I don't think Greg is in today. I don't see him on the schedule. Nick doesn't know anything about what happens at this company.

[Mike]

Yeah, as long as we keep the conversation in here. Like he's not paying attention.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly. We give you.

[Tim Gettys]

He doesn't watch the show. Well, three of us.

[Andy Cortez]

12 bucks for you.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

12 bucks for bear. And me and you, we go get a fancy lunch.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I do owe you a lunch because you whooped our ass in Mario tennis.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah, you do owe me a lunch.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I'll get your lunch today.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

On my birthday. It's crazy. I'm just so generous.

[Mike]

Also, you still owe me a pizza.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

What if Andy gets me a pizza? What if I'm. I'm thinking Pizza Hut, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, baby.

[Tim Gettys]

The three of us.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, baby.

[Tim Gettys]

Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

Dave bro with a two dollar super chat says birthday tax for me. And happy birthday to Andy. Happy birthday to you. Dave bro. Thanks for your two dollar super chat. Sasquatch says Peep Dream Fatigue. It's a His Homies band. That's a cool name.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I like that name.

[Andy Cortez]

Kind of like memory loss, man. I crashed. I mean, that was the only good thing I did. Arguably the whole show. Just a lot of like word flubbing and not being able to read. King Cagle with a two dollar super chat says Snake. Seems like Metal Gear Solid one face. MSGS two suit and. And Metal Gear two radar.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I didn't even think about Metal Gear.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So I was. That's one thing I was definitely noticing is like it's. It's the metal gear solid 2 suit, but he doesn't have the metal gear solid 1 hair. He's got the long hair. He has the MGS2 hair.

[Tim Gettys]

You know who else is in MGS to ride in?

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, and Ryan's girlfriend that turned out to be a robot.

[Andy Cortez]

Spoilers.

[Tim Gettys]

Turns out to be an AI.

[Mike]

What was her name again?

[Andy Cortez]

Rose. Rose. Yeah. She could have saved DiCaprio the anti.

[Tim Gettys]

Tanic turn off the game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yep. Story or not story. Five dollar super chat from Napoleon blown apart says I fell asleep at a Skillet concert after staying up all night for the Halo 2 midnight launch, going to school, and then straight to the concert. Man, you could not have encapsulated the year 2001 more. Yeah, dude. 2002. What?

[Tim Gettys]

For Halo 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, 2004. It was Halo 2.

[Mike]

I would say 2004.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because 1111.

[Tim Gettys]

There's no way skillet was around in 2002. Skillet must have been at least Halo 2 was 2004.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, 4. It's the ones in the month 11 of November that always make me think it's 1111 1101. Side of fries says gotta look at the skins coming too. Yeah, Side of fries talking about the skins coming from metal gear solid 2 Snow White. Micah is sauntering back in here.

[Blessing Adio]

A story about a friend falling asleep at a concert. Okay, let me tell you a story. Let me tell you a really good one.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Ye.

[Blessing Adio]

TwitchCon came back to the Bay Area, went to San Jose. TwitchCon with.

[Andy Cortez]

What year was this?

[Blessing Adio]

2017-19 window.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay?

[Blessing Adio]

It was the last time they came back to the Bay because you remember 2015, they started in the Bay, then they went down to San Diego, Las Vegas. Then they came back to the Bay one time in San Jose. This was the one dubbed Ninja Con. Was the one that his peak of his, like, ultimate prowess was this the.

[Andy Cortez]

One that I screen capped that for that unfortunate photo of you that we can't really use or celebrate anymore. What's you and Dr. Disrespect?

[Blessing Adio]

That was EA play. This is the one where I met Shroud, Ninja and Courage at the club because we went to the Ninja party.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, but why aren't we friends with them?

[Blessing Adio]

You know what? Shroud, he just plays too close to the screen for me. My eyeballs.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, okay, gotcha. Okay, gotcha.

[Blessing Adio]

So here we were having fun at TwitchCon, right? As you know, all these cons, three days, a lot of stepping, a lot of movement, right? So day one, we party hard. We go to the Ninja party, where we meet those three Jabronis. Lot of fun, great times, right? We party hard. We're drinking. Sad Boy Sean's there. Matt Kangas is there, Marlon's there. Kevin a sex is there.

[Andy Cortez]

Basement, Barry, the whole club.

[Blessing Adio]

Helicopter Harry's here and we're sending it, right? But get this. Day two is when they have the big Twitch party. This is where they threw the Twitch party, I think in the San Jose earthquake soccer field, which was like a big carnival. But I bought us concert tickets to go see Drake, and I was like, we have to go see Drake instead. Christian, we have to go. That's the biggest. It's Drizzy Drake and the Migos, right? And so what happens? We go. Christian sits down during the Migos, falls asleep during the whole concert. We got girls and guys to the left and right of us throwing ass in Christian's sleeping face.

[Andy Cortez]

Is he sitting down?

[Blessing Adio]

Yeah, he's sitting down.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing Adio]

In the stadium seat Falling asleep in his nachos, and I'm out of here. Having the time of my life.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

To the Migos, right? Bad and bougie.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

Drake comes out. I'm like, oh, jump in. Jump in.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adio]

These are those moments where it's like, you'll never forget that, you know? So shout out to that kid falling asleep during the cops.

[Andy Cortez]

Shout out to you.

[Tim Gettys]

If you're listening, audio, I need you to turn on the video and watch the dance that Mike did.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike's got the moves, man. We got it.

[Tim Gettys]

You got. That was a crazy dance.

[Andy Cortez]

But also, Mike's got moves.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike's definitely got moves because, like, I could hear that on rhythm, you know? I mean, we don't have music playing, but, like, I could. Like, I felt the rhythm of the move.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, because you heard the sloshing of his windbreaker pants just loudly whenever. You know, he's got. He'll never be silent.

[Tim Gettys]

That was.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike can never creep up on anybody because of just how loud everything is.

[Tim Gettys]

Golly.

[Andy Cortez]

Aaron lime with a $10 super chat says in an interview with GameSpark, Yuji Coricado confirmed that Ubisoft asked about this collaboration when Konami asked for the Assassin's Creed rights for the Master collection, Volume two. Fascinating.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, that story about Mike's friend falling asleep was massive.

[Blessing Adio]

Huge.

[Andy Cortez]

I was huge. Bless. But I'm, you know, I'm tired of all that big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go?

[Tim Gettys]

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

[Andy Cortez]

Story number one. We news become is coming to steam in 2006.

[Tim Gettys]

2026.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I said. Yeah. Experience life's fantastical journey as one of millions of sperm survive the microcosm dangers, wiggle, dash, and compete through the human reproductive system and create new life. Speaking of which, I had a dream that I was pregnant.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah? You're telling us about this man before the show?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Stressful.

[Tim Gettys]

So you're pregnant?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Were you did it hack? Where was the baby gonna come out of?

[Andy Cortez]

My stomach was massive, and I was like, why did I agree to carrying this baby to term? For our friend who cannot carry, unfortunately. And I don't know. I don't remember when I volunteered to do this. Yeah, my stomach's just huge, and I'm just like, I'm gonna have to go to into. They're gonna C section me. I'm gonna get it? Like, because it's not gonna come out of my butthole or my wiener. Yeah. Like, it's gonna. They're gonna have to cut up on my stomach. And it was just like, it. I woke up the most relieved I've ever been in my life. Of, like, it just felt I don't.

[Tim Gettys]

Have to deliver this baby.

[Andy Cortez]

It just felt so real blessed. The whole time I'm thinking I was. I'm talking to my parents in the dream.

[Blessing Adio]

Like, why.

[Andy Cortez]

Why did you all, like, let me say yes to this? Like, that's insane for y' all to do that. So anyway, terrifying dream. Not the one you want to have. No. On your birthday.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Like, you telling that dream story as this trailer is playing in the background, by the way, is.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, we got this unhinged thing that I witnessed us.

[Tim Gettys]

I can't imagine tuning in live at that moment.

[Andy Cortez]

It was a terrifying dream, man. I don't recommend it. I like how you did the shift blame to your parents. Like, why did you guys. Yeah, well, it's because I was just like, I don't. When did I agree to this? This is insane, dude. And my stomach is huge, man. And I'm just like, this baby's about to pop out of me for. My water broke in the dream, and they were like, oh, we got to get going. I'm like, I'm so scared.

[Tim Gettys]

So what does water breaking look like for you?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I do remember in the dream going, I'll be able to. To. To commiserate and say, like, I know the pains of going through childbirth.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the most. Man thing you must be saying.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, finally I know what it's like, yeah, I can use that now.

[Tim Gettys]

I can drop that now. Would you do that?

[Andy Cortez]

Like, if.

[Tim Gettys]

So if a member came to you and they're like, hey, like, you're our only hope.

[Andy Cortez]

No, like, they've.

[Tim Gettys]

They found the technology. You just have to carry this baby to term and get a C section.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adio]

How much.

[Tim Gettys]

How much money would it take? They were like, we're gonna.

[Andy Cortez]

It would take a lot of money. It would take a lot of money. Like, you're taking me. You're taking a whole year away. Plus. Plus. Well, about a year because of the post. Like, you know, recovery and stuff. Yeah. My stomach split open. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, do you know how many women in. In this world and people that give birth that go through the same thing?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but I'd be volunteering this.

[Tim Gettys]

You're like, I was born with a penis.

[Andy Cortez]

I volunteered my Time for this, man. Damn. I couldn't. I could, I guess I could just stream a lot, you know, you could stream. Couldn't hoop, you know, like, how are you hooping? You're right.

[Tim Gettys]

You can take a year off.

[Andy Cortez]

You're absolutely right. PSA from Sony Santa Monica about God of War. Son of Sparta's two player mode. After completing Son of Sparta's main story, you will unlock a challenge mode that could be played solo or with local two player couch co op. You gotta beat the game first. I assume this would have been something available at launch.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot of people were confused because the store page said two players and everyone's like, why, where's the two player option? And yeah, you got to beat the game.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if a whole lot of games have done that. I've. We heard a lot of that. Yeah.

[Mike]

Where it's like you have to beat a game to unlock like a two player co op kind of thing. No, it's a weird choice for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's like a challenge mode. Like the only multiplayer thing is in the challenge mode and you gotta beat the game to get the challenge mode.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Mike]

It's also like combining that with the trailer where you see like Kratos and his brother and all this stuff. So you start to imagine like, oh, can you play through this? And like with two players and yo.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm buying you this game. Let's play co op, you know.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's weird.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotta beat the game first.

[Mike]

It's weird. It's a weird choice.

[Andy Cortez]

Kind of Funky.

[Mike]

I'm like 20 hours into it right now.

[Tim Gettys]

20?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That game is 20 hours long.

[Mike]

It's Metroidvania. What you want a five hour Metroidvania?

[Tim Gettys]

Like 15?

[Andy Cortez]

How is it?

[Mike]

I'm gonna save my thoughts for possibly.

[Tim Gettys]

A review or something. Oh, this week. I don't know. I don't know if we want to.

[Mike]

Do a God of Word since it's part of a review, but I'm close to beating it, I think.

[Andy Cortez]

I recently told I'm put on the calendar. I recently told Blessing that for a future game showdown there should be a, a special game for me where you just put up an image or something and say what is this? Or who is that? Yeah, because like shout out to my friend Evan who voices somebody in this game, God of War, Sons of Sparta. But as I'm shouting her out on stream, I forget the name of the game. Like why am I forgetting this? I couldn't remember Willem Dafoe's. Name on stream. I was like, dude, I just don't have a good memory.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm really embarrassing.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, you know. Rewind back to my Tom Steamboat moment where I cannot think of Tom. I couldn't think of Tom Cruise's name for the life of me.

[Andy Cortez]

It's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's like. And he stars in my favorite action.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, like.

[Andy Cortez]

And you're like, on any other day, I would have told you the name. Because I know the name. It's just. It's just escaping me.

[Tim Gettys]

Right? Yeah.

[Mike]

Shout out to Jack Quaid, who's in.

[Andy Cortez]

This game as well. To Jack Quaid.

[Mike]

That was crazy. And also the guy who voiced Robin and Teed Titans voices demos.

[Andy Cortez]

Your brother. Oh, wow. That'll do it for we news, everybody. Let's get back to some super chats. And you're wrong. So you can tell us what we got wrong. You can write into kind offunny.com. you're wrong. Jay Fulcrum says Dreams was on the PS4. Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you. That's a good one. Is that a year wrong or is that a super chat?

[Andy Cortez]

That was a year wrong. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a good year wrong.

[Mike]

Was that a cross gen?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think so. I think it got an update so that some games ran better on PS5, but I think it was only a PS4 version.

[Andy Cortez]

Yankee kebabs confirms that it was also released on PS4, Valentine's Day 2020.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I got a selfie wrong. Even though I'm sure probably people wrote this in Skillet. Skillet has been around for a very long time. Like pre 2000.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, if that sounds. Skillet's music sounds like you could put it in a Halo 2 montage.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So that sounds. That all kind of lines up. You know, the rap rock, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace. Three doors down.

[Tim Gettys]

Three Days Grace, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude.

[Mike]

Three Days Grace. Also this guy from like the Billy oh, Happy Gilmore movies. Also in the God of War game.

[Andy Cortez]

Good for him. It's really weird. Good for him. Kebabs writes in that Hideki Saito. Hideki. I said Sato, but I think it's maybe Sato worked on the internal hardware design of Sega's video game systems. I have not been able to find the external shell designer of the. Of who the Dreams cast was.

[Mike]

Okay, I think Sato's correct. Unless there's an eye there.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I was gonna say Saito. Yeah. I don't think there's like usually.

[Mike]

I don't think there's usually hard like a's or like the. Those nasally A's.

[Andy Cortez]

Like that. Thank you so much for all of the your wrongs.

[Tim Gettys]

Kebab's trying to sneak in a controversial WE news in here. We're not doing that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not giving people a voice that I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear the quotes on the show.

[Andy Cortez]

Let's get to some super chats like Roger Perkorny's one that we mentioned earlier. Five dollar super chat says Sam Fisher better than solid Snake Sam Fisher. I gotta see him fight a mech first. I gotta see him.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. What's. What's Sam Fisher's big biggest achievement.

[Andy Cortez]

Being relevant still?

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like the fact that people want him still is the fact that people are.

[Tim Gettys]

Still saying his name in 2026.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty impressive.

[Andy Cortez]

I've never seen him fight a dude with supernatural superhuman abilities on.

[Tim Gettys]

On top of them. On top of a mech.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

With fighting game health bars at the top of the screen.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, Sam Fisher, Go take on that Sahelanthropus. Let's see how you do it.

[Tim Gettys]

Sam Fisher. Would his pants.

[Andy Cortez]

Cancel whatever they're working on? I don't want to see Sam Fisher ever again. Roger just pissed me off over here. Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

Have you ever played Splinter Cell Conviction?

[Andy Cortez]

No. Is it good?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's pretty good.

[Andy Cortez]

Sick.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the only Splinter Cell game I played.

[Andy Cortez]

But I liked it. Nice. Falcon with a five dollar super chat says the closest is the dot com bubble. But E commerce at least made sense at a basic level. I just get. I just got overhyped and over invested in at the time. Damn. You were there, huh?

[Tim Gettys]

How much money did you invest in the dot com bubble?

[Andy Cortez]

I want to know.

[Tim Gettys]

But also.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Ken JR. With a 25 super chat thank you says Happy birthday Andy. Thank you, KEN jr. Thank you for all of your support as usual. Calpy. This is a super chat from our Friday's stream. Who said this is the greatest tennis game ever made by far. And I would disagree after the results of what happened. The swings aren't one for one. It isn't. Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

Why are we playing motion controls?

[Andy Cortez]

It isn't. We tennis whenever. Like if you move it this way, so does your hand. It's just like what are we doing here? You know?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean like it's not a motion game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Why are we playing motion controls in the first place? And we whooped your ass. We whooped your ass with most controls, man. Come on.

[Mike]

Remember when you Almost had to play the weird dinosaur game.

[Tim Gettys]

God, I. I only saw the very.

[Andy Cortez]

Beginning of party mode and he started with that.

[Mike]

I was like, oh, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank God that, you know, Mike doesn't have the producer gene the wherewithal to.

[Andy Cortez]

See if it check because I did.

[Tim Gettys]

Not want to play that.

[Andy Cortez]

Snow 13 $5 super chat says Happy birthday, Andy. Spurs winning the ship this year. Ghostburst go. You know it. We're getting it all. We're getting the chip and that'll do it for our Super Chats and that will do it for our show today. Remember, this has been kind of funny. Games Daily, if you love what we do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show. What you giggling about over there?

[Tim Gettys]

No, this is chat cracks me up because like me talking about Skillet, this episode has caused so much conversation and somehow we got to somebody being like, wait, Skrillex is maga? And I don't know why that cracked me up.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so funny seeing that out of context. Enjoy the games cast Next and the stream right after today on this, on the stream we're doing. We're doing a special one, right? Can I say what it is?

[Mike]

Well, for before that we're doing, there will be another episode of Kind of Feudi. And then going into Re Animal with you and Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, very, very stoked about that. And get soaked for the episode of Kind of Feudi. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.