PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.18.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast Episode: PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.18.25
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Hosts: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Tim Gettys, and Blessing Adeoye Jr.

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Introduction

In this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, hosts Greg Miller and Tim Gettys dive into a slew of exciting and sometimes controversial news stories shaping the gaming landscape. From PlayStation’s strategic studio expansions to major developments in game adaptations and industry legal battles, the hosts provide detailed insights and engaging banter throughout the show.

1. PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio: Dark Outlaw Games

Timestamp: [06:34]

PlayStation has announced the creation of a new first-party studio named Dark Outlaw Games, helmed by Jason Blundell, renowned for his work on Call of Duty Zombies. This marks a significant move for PlayStation Studios, especially amid recent studio closures and layoffs.

• Jason Blundell’s Announcement:
  “I’ve had the amazing opportunity to create a new studio within PlayStation Studios for Sony. The studio is called Dark Outlaw. We’ve been working away in the shadows for a while. When we got something to talk about, we’ll step into the light. It’s such a privilege to be able to do it with Sony.” (06:56)

• Host Insights:
  Greg expresses surprise and cautious optimism about PlayStation’s decision, highlighting the potential for new and diverse projects. He remarks, “More jobs in the video game industry are always good” (08:22), despite acknowledging PlayStation’s recent contractions.

2. People Can Fly Developers Working on a PlayStation IP: Project Delta

Timestamp: [16:17]

Developers from People Can Fly, known for titles like Outriders and Bulletstorm, have entered a work-for-hire agreement with PlayStation to develop a new project based on an existing Sony franchise, dubbed Project Delta.

• PlayStation Collaboration:
  The studio has confirmed limited details, maintaining secrecy around the specific IP and project scope.

• Host Discussion:
  Greg speculates on potential projects, mentioning iconic PlayStation franchises like Resistance and Killzone. He suggests, “I would say Resistance makes more sense” (18:48), although he remains uncertain about the project’s direction.

3. Amazon’s God of War TV Series Secures Two Seasons Pre-Release

Timestamp: [20:51]

Amazon has greenlit two seasons for its upcoming God of War TV series before the premiere of the first season. Ronald D. Moore, known for his work on Battlestar Galactica, is at the helm as showrunner.

• Showrunner’s Approach:
  Moore admitted he hasn’t played God of War games but is committed to adapting the story authentically. “I’m not a gamer, though I do enjoy some Defender, Asteroids, and Centipede” (21:03).

• Host Reactions:
  Tim voices concerns about Moore’s lack of gaming experience, fearing it might affect the series’ fidelity to the source material. Greg remarks, “I do think that this is going to kind of cause an uphill battle” (23:14), though he remains hopeful about the adaptation’s potential.

4. Lego Announces Pokemon Sets for 2026

Timestamp: [30:07]

Lego has officially announced that it will release officially licensed Pokemon building sets starting in 2026, celebrating the franchise’s 30th anniversary.

• Set Details:
  While specific sets and characters remain under wraps, the teaser includes a glimpse of Pikachu’s tail constructed from yellow bricks. This move signifies a shift from Mattel’s previous Lego-compatible lines to fully integrated Lego products.

• Host Opinions:
  Greg expresses excitement, especially for younger fans like their own child, Ben. Tim humorously shares his struggles with collecting and building Lego sets, stating, “I look at them every day and I’m like, that looks so cool” (31:27).

5. Bobby Kotick Files Defamation Suit Against Gizmodo and Kotaku

Timestamp: [37:57]

Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, has filed a defamation lawsuit against media outlets Gizmodo and Kotaku following articles that he claims misrepresented his actions and intentions, specifically regarding interests in acquiring TikTok and issues related to workplace investigations.

• Legal Claims:
  Kotick alleges that the articles contained false allegations intended to harm his reputation, despite updates made post-publication to clarify previous investigations.

• Host Commentary:
  Greg highlights the ongoing tensions between Kotick and media, stating, “Kotaku and Gizmodo went out of their way to include withdrawn fake allegations” (39:43). Both hosts express skepticism about the lawsuit’s outcome but acknowledge its significance in the broader industry context.

6. First Look at Johnny Cage and Mortal Kombat 2 Movie

Timestamp: [41:00]

A first look at the upcoming Mortal Kombat 2 movie reveals the inclusion of Johnny Cage, portrayed by Carl Urban. The sequel is set for an October 24th release, promising more action-packed content and deeper character development.

• Character Insights:
  The movie introduces new dynamics with iconic characters like Johnny Cage and explores the ongoing battles between Earth Realm champions and Outworld forces.

• Host Reactions:
  While Tim expresses some disappointment with the first Mortal Kombat movie, he remains optimistic about the sequel: “I’m ready for it. I’m expecting this to be better than the first one” (43:15). Greg shares similar sentiment, emphasizing the excitement around visual spectacles and character interactions.

7. Wario 64’s Star Wars Turn-Based Tactics Game Reveal

Timestamp: [56:35]

Wario 64 is set to reveal a new Star Wars turn-based tactics game developed by Bit Reactor and Slawn Entertainment during Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th.

• Game Overview:
  The game promises a strategic approach to the Star Wars universe, blending Wario’s quirky style with tactical gameplay mechanics.

• Host Speculation:
  Greg and Tim discuss the potential appeal and challenges of merging these franchises, with Greg noting, “I think it’s gonna be cool” (45:22), while Tim likens it to Midnight Suns, expressing cautious optimism about its reception.

Additional Highlights: Super Chats and Community Engagement

Throughout the episode, the hosts interact with their audience through Super Chats, addressing fan comments and sharing personal anecdotes. From humorous stories about Greg’s dog Cole sending footballs as pranks to discussions about favorite game moments, the segment adds a personal and entertaining touch to the episode.

• Notable Interactions:
  • Greg recounts a humorous story about being pranked with footballs, enhancing the light-hearted atmosphere.
  • Tim shares his admiration for the Chrono Trigger sale on Steam, highlighting his passion for classic JRPGs despite a busy schedule.

Conclusion

The episode concludes with a recap of new games available on Game Pass, upcoming beta tests, and final thoughts from the hosts. Greg and Tim reiterate their commitment to delivering comprehensive and engaging gaming news, encouraging listeners to stay tuned for future episodes filled with reviews, streams, and community interactions.

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Notable Quotes:

• Tim Gettys:
  “The most important announcement of all, goddamn.” (01:26)

• Greg Miller:
  “More jobs in the video game industry are always good.” (08:22)

• Tim Gettys:
  “What effect will this have on the show if any?” (29:33)

• Greg Miller:
  “I think it’s going to be cool, but I don’t think it’s going to like break out because.” (45:22)

This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily expertly navigates through a diverse array of gaming news, offering insightful analysis, humorous exchanges, and a glimpse into the dynamic relationships within the gaming community. Whether you're a casual gamer or an industry enthusiast, this episode provides valuable information and entertaining commentary to keep you informed and engaged.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

Today's stories include PlayStation Forms, a new first party studio, Outriders devs are working on a PlayStation IP and God of Wars TV shows already set for two seasons. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up? And welcome back to Kind of Funny Games daily for Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by the big Daddy himself, Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Hello, everybody. It's me, Greg Miller. I'm excited to be here.

[Tim Gettys]

Timothy, we're not alone at this desk.

[Greg Miller]

We're not?

[Tim Gettys]

You want to show the world what you have back here? What you're hiding from them?

[Greg Miller]

Maybe you've heard of Cole the Wiener Dog.

[Tim Gettys]

He's here.

[Greg Miller]

He's inside this bag.

[Tim Gettys]

He's bagged up.

[Greg Miller]

We're going to hang him from the top of the ceiling into a ladder match.

[Tim Gettys]

Can I tell you something very, very exciting?

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Stealth tweets out. Nintendo hasn't had a Nintendo direct that included first party games since June 2024.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

We are 15 days away.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

The switch to wow. Just over two weeks away. Greg, before all of our questions are answered. Incredibly, incredibly. I'm feeling good. I just want the answers. When's it coming out? What games am I playing this year?

[Greg Miller]

What? And I'm sorry, what day and what time is that again?

[Tim Gettys]

It is April 2nd at 6am Pacific.

[Greg Miller]

Early.

[Tim Gettys]

It's early.

[Greg Miller]

We'll be live reacting to it, though.

[Tim Gettys]

Of course. We're live reacting.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Most important announcement of all, goddamn.

[Greg Miller]

April 6th 2nd. April 2nd at 6.

[Tim Gettys]

Ain't no fool.

[Greg Miller]

Ain't no fool. No, no, no. That's gonna be a big day for both of us.

[Tim Gettys]

It is. Yeah. Is that when you're gonna do it? The most important day of my life.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think I'd miss this opportunity?

[Tim Gettys]

God.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think I'd let you have your little Mario game machine? Listen, Tim, when you had now stars in the bank. Life's as sweetest chocolate.

[Tim Gettys]

Audio listeners. You don't need to watch the video to see what happened. Don't ask questions. You don't need to know.

[Kevin Coelho]

Greg, if you let me take that box home, I'll fit it with lights, some weight so it doesn't flip over like that. Maybe a smoke thing.

[Greg Miller]

Kevin got my permission.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, great. What an advancement. How are you doing, Greg? I'm all right. You just all right? Busy, Real busy. GDC is happening. We had a killer stream yesterday.

[Greg Miller]

Call the Wiener Dog about every two hours. Last night he Ate something he shouldn't have ate. So that's why he's here. A bit of a chaotic time for a dog to be non stop when the wife's running demos downtown. 20 floors up in a hotel. Yeah, I gotta do two shows and run down there, play a bunch of games. We're figuring it out.

[Tim Gettys]

We'll figure it out one poop at a time.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I got his nails trimmed, so I got that going for me.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, cool, cool, cool. It always bouncy.

[Greg Miller]

Bars are good. Now here's the thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

We're supposed to go fast. There's a lot of news. I'll make it short. I'll make it short. Make sure British people, most. Your food's terrible. Your Bounty bar is good. I'm so so.

[Kevin Coelho]

Knobs are good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they are. The Lucy James, the Gary Widows, the Ben Stars, the Rahul Kohlis. What are the British people? What other British am I leaving out?

[Tim Gettys]

Tam.

[Greg Miller]

Tam. All they talk about is how much better their chocolate is. It's not that much better. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's not that much better. I'm sorry to say.

[Tim Gettys]

They like it a lot though.

[Greg Miller]

They do.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate their enthusiasm. They have happiness somewhere missing.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, the best thing about British Britain.

[Tim Gettys]

Ben Starr.

[Greg Miller]

I said his name. I'm sorry. Is that you can drink outside the pub. That's cool. That's cool. Stop. Stop complaining about the chocolate in America. Start complaining about the fact I can't just take a beer into the streets. Get in the way of a waymo.

[Tim Gettys]

Back to you, everybody. 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 podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now Spotify and Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Your support allows us to do all this cool stuff, including the massive stream that we did yesterday. Thank you all so much for hanging out with us all day as we had so many incredibly talented indie devs come through the studio and show off their video games. We had, I don't know, what was it like 20 games we showed off. Something like that. Something like that. And they were all so freaking cool. One of my favorite things about this event every year is how jealous the people out in the office area are of whoever's at the desk getting to play whatever games that they're not on. You know, just pure good time. Great stuff. You can watch that entire stream over on YouTube to see a whole bunch of amazing games and also the game showcase itself.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That announced many, many more games as well. So thanks to the mix.

[Greg Miller]

Great working with you. We love doing that. Great event last night.

[Tim Gettys]

Fun stuff all around. Remember though, for a chance to be part of this show, you can YouTube Super Chat your thoughts and opinions as we go. We have Claw Master saying, what did you guys do to piss off God yesterday? An earthquake and hail coming down in NorCal.

[Greg Miller]

How do you feel an earthquake?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, they keep happening, man. Yeah, just little by little.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But you know, it's all good, though.

[Tim Gettys]

It's all good. Everything's totally out in Illinois.

[Kevin Coelho]

Everything's good, right? You let a little pressure off at. At a time. Everybody's good.

[Greg Miller]

It's called Ed what I do.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my Lord.

[Kevin Coelho]

I don't know how that works.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. Hey, just so you know, Jen says it is.

[Greg Miller]

She's like, all right, stop. There she goes. Stop there. We'll get back to this later. I had a bounty. Is it the new Korean coffee? We'll find out. I didn't sleep much.

[Tim Gettys]

We're in 11 person business. What did you just say?

[Greg Miller]

You gave a tagline. Kevin and I are simpatico today. All right.

[Tim Gettys]

My mind is his. We get the slack from Bless. Stay on track. There's a lot of news.

[Greg Miller]

This is only six minutes of fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't worry everybody. Today after games daily, you're gonna get caves cast, which is our Assassin's Creed Shadows review. Those embargo just dropped. Then the stream is going to be a little bit more that Pokemon Nuzlocke mixed with send it to Nerdle. We'll see how that goes. But it's going to be fun. Sorry I missed that. In between that, there's going to be a kind of funny podcast. I think that's going to be Greg and Jack Patillo talking, which is really, really fun.

[Greg Miller]

Mike, Nick and Jack Patillo.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right. Respect to Mike. My bad. If you're kind of funny, Member God, I'm going to read it because it's written down. Today's Greg Way is coming and it is spelled C U M M I N apostrophe.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't recorded it yet. Every I'll probably record on my way to gdc. So it's not about coming, but it could be if you want put in your vot your votes now.

[Tim Gettys]

Yay. Thank you. Our patreon producers Delady Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Shady Raised Me, Undies and Factor. But we'll tell you all about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some News. We have seven stories today. Story number one PlayStation has formed a new studio.

[Greg Miller]

Oh great.

[Tim Gettys]

Dark Outlaw Games with Call of Duty Zombie lead Jason Blundell. This comes from Jordan Midler at VG. Sony's formed a new first party studio within PlayStation Studios. Dark Outlaw Games comes from studio head and director Jason Blundell, former Treyarch co studio head. Blundell was one of the lead creators of Call of Duty Zombies Mode before leaving Activision in 2020 after 13 years. He'd then serve as one of the co founders of Deviation Games. Deviation Games didn't get a chance to release its debut project, an original IP that was set to be exclusive to PlayStation platforms. In an interview with Jeff Gerstman, Blundell confirmed that the new studio is staffing up and that he'd have more to share on the studio's first project in the future. Quote I've had the amazing opportunity to create a new studio within PlayStation Studios for Sony. The studio is called Dark Outlaw. We've been working away in the shadows for a while. When we got something to talk about, we'll step into the light. It's such a privilege to be able to do it with Sony.

[Greg Miller]

Bag I got coconut in the back.

[Tim Gettys]

Of my throat as a new first party studio. Sony doesn't start up first party studios all the time, so to have that privilege is humbling. Blendell wouldn't confirm where the studio is in terms of production schedule.

[Greg Miller]

I thought he's gonna say where it was based.

[Tim Gettys]

We don't want you to know other than the studio has been going for a little bit of time. Blundell also confirmed he'll serve as studio head and director for Dark Outlaw Games. Greg Miller it is not often we get a new PlayStation studio.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

What is your takeaway here?

[Greg Miller]

Surprising. I think we've seen so much recently, right, with PlayStation Studios closing, laying people off, canceling projects that we've really been like, oh, they must be battening down the hatches. They must be tightening everything up over there and trying to figure out how to get through this current wave of economic not woes but season we're in, right? So to see them come out here and launch something new is interesting. Especially bringing in the guy who was one of the co founders here of Deviation. Right. Not any shade to deviation, but it was another one. Right. That didn't get a chance to release his debut project at original IP set beyond PlayStation platform. It's interesting that PlayStation is still engaging this way and it really does speak to whatever this studio is pitching and whatever they're working on and making the case for making a new thing. So I mean hats off to them. You know it's. I think it's an interesting one. You can go a lot of different ways with this one. If we wanted to be negative, negative you could be. But more jobs in the video game industry are always good. So them doing this is good. Even though yes it's we've seen PlayStation close other studios but again if that studio is not making the thing you want and those that that isn't the team to make those things, I can't really fault them for that. With the exception of this live service pushing, yada yada, we get into the weeds and we start really having to.

[Tim Gettys]

Have a. I mean let's stay in the weeds there for a second then like you talking about the live service push that obviously we look at as a massive failure and it seems like they see as a massive failure given their closure of studios and layoffs with this Dark Outlaw games. Former zombies from Call of Duty. What game is this? What type of game is this? Is there anything we can glean from that?

[Greg Miller]

That's a great question. No, I don't think so. You throw a rock and talk to a developer, you throw a rocket. GDC right now you'll hit three people who worked on Call of Duty. Yeah, like we had people here yesterday making indie games that have obviously nothing to do with Call of Duty or first person shooting and they're make. They. They worked on Call of Duty at some point. So I don't read into that and go oh it's going to be a first person shooter, oh it's going to be a zombie game or anything the like there. I think it's just that Call of Duty seems to be attached to so many different people and I'd imagine that that gives you such a great working relationship with teams and how in a project that big to then take the. The hope would be, of course, at least for me and all the studios we've seen fail is that you've been a part of a giant team before. So let's take those giant team ideas of how we talk to each other and work and make a smaller project a much smaller project. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, specifically Here, him being one of the lead creators of Zombies mode, specifically the mode. A very popular mode obviously. But I think that does kind of like lend itself to what you're saying about what if it was something that was a bit smaller in scope of a project? Sure, sure. I mean, I think, you know, I wouldn't expect that to be the case of what they're doing. It's more of a hope for me. You don't think so of, I mean, what evidence is there besides astro bot that PlayStation's willing to do that returnal? Okay, okay. You see this as a divers.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, which is a big game but also not a huge game. If we wanted to go, man, maybe PlayStation learn some lessons here or not even learn lessons. Herman's in charge and he's doing this and that's what he wants. He wants studios focused on making a double A sized game with a AAA style pedigree or something like that. You know what I mean? Whatever tacky word you want to tack onto it. Right. I think that could be the case of yeah, we had Zombies and look at how big that mode got. Right. So now we are going to go and make this game X. That is a smaller idea, infinitely replayable because that's what everybody wants, right. In terms of video game. And we're going to go through and churn it and it'll be fast. That'd be the biggest thing is I think you're going to see this quickly. Shockingly, I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to see a game from them before you see a Haven Studios game. Bam. Bam.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I mean out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Because that's what matters here. I mean that again, Jason was saying this a couple of weeks ago about like the releasing the game. Is Jason Derulo himself.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

On Games Daily.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, Shire.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Jason Shrier, number one games journalist was, you know, talking about like the actual releasing of a game is the most important part. And when devs aren't given the ability to even get to that point, it's going to have bad ramifications all the way up the chain. Right. And definitely down the chain. So with this, it's like I hear this news and like I struggle to be positive about it just because it just feels very unlikely that this project's ever going to see the light of day. Interesting. And again, this comes from a very pessimistic place that I feel there's just a lot of evidence to feel that way in recent times. But having said that, you do bring up a Good point. That like I was just thinking about Astrobot at kind of that level but you're right bringing up multiple examples and with what's it called? What's the rule?

[Greg Miller]

Oh shit. The new one from House Synergy.

[Tim Gettys]

Synapse.

[Greg Miller]

It's something Chad's gonna already have it in three, two, one.

[Tim Gettys]

Silly Billy. Committed Soros.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you Jason.

[Tim Gettys]

Right on the t of my tongue.

[Greg Miller]

Kevin. YouTube chat's not working. Yeah, I, I understand why I think in our general industry there you I don't believe it till I see it, until I'm playing, until I see whatever I, I, I, I don't want to be pessimistic about it because I think that PlayStation just went through a thing so I doubt they're putting bad money into bad projects still. Right. Or bad ideas again the problem with video games in general, business in general, everything's a gamble. So I really don't you maybe this doesn't ever come out because guess what? The winds change once again and it just doesn't make sense. Or PlayStation. Sony tells PlayStation you need to cut your workforce by 5%. They're like well this thing that didn't do anything, let's get rid of them, who knows. But I think it's interesting that PlayStation believes enough in bundle here that all right, put it on deviation. Deviation didn't work out, we closed, we took it away. But we still want you to over.

[Tim Gettys]

Here like make a new team for it. I mean you know that is also interesting in this brand new landscape we're in where brave new world Xbox has or Microsoft, however you want to look at it has so many studios and devs under their belt now especially with the Activision stuff, with the Bethesda stuff that when you think about PlayStation Studios it is, you know of course they acquired Insomniac but it's interesting to see them start new teams. Xbox has done that as well but with PlayStation now just by by default of how acquisitions and money works, they have many fewer teams to, to be able to, to access and like make those games. So making one from scratch, it's interesting and that's challenging and like I think that's another reason for me that I'm like we haven't really seen that. Right. The big thing about let me ask you this, like what is it? What's an example of like a you're.

[Greg Miller]

Gonna knit my point in the butt.

[Tim Gettys]

But go ahead of a new team.

[Greg Miller]

That actually I don't think they're coming out and saying what we saw Ascended Studio say What we saw striking Distance Studio say we've worked on Call of Duty, Dead Space and this thing and that thing. A triple A tr. We're a double A studio making a triple a quadruple A game. They're not, they're not saying anything at this point, but they're also not coming out and promising whatever, which would make me hope that they're shooting for that. We're doing a Helldivers. We're doing an Astrobot. We're doing. With lofty goals, of course. Fantastic.

[Tim Gettys]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I'm shooting for a house mark. I'm doing something. I'm not going trying to make Horizon. I'm not going. Trying to make Last of Us. I'm coming right to that nice mid tier there. I'm getting in there and doing it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's what I want from them. And the fact they're not saying that, I think speaks to them. Not doing the traditional. That's no Moon Studios thing. Like, here's all our directors in shirts and we're posing big names and everybody's like, I don't know these names, but you're attaching Call of Duty to them also. I guess that's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, here's. Legitimately, we're in the shadows. We're not ready. You know what I mean? Like, that's the next thing. Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I, you know, I, I am the number one person of dragging out Fair Games and Haven Studios and beating them with the you're going to close stick. I'm sorry to tell you, but it's not going to work out right. Like, and I think that's because they made way too big a deal over the PlayStation blog post. We got Jade Raymond and we got Haven and Haven's working on something and it's gonna be fan. And then here's this Fair Games trailer. We're all like, oh, this doesn't. It doesn't look like something I want.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Do you think it's an original IP or is it something based on PlayStation?

[Greg Miller]

I'll say original IP. You.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you think that anybody's working on a PlayStation IP? Maybe story number two, storm developer people can fly. I don't know why I said it like that. Working on mystery PlayStation franchise. This comes from Victoria Kennedy at Eurogamer.

[Greg Miller]

Victoria Kennedy, she better do that all the time.

[Tim Gettys]

People can fly. The developer of Outriders and Bulletstorm have signed a deal with PlayStation to work on a new project based on an existing Sony franchise. Further details remain slim for now, though it has been confirmed the Upcoming release is codename Project Delta and that it's based on a franchise to which Sony holds the IP rights. Word of this upcoming Sony collaboration comes from a report published by People Can Fly itself. The studio slated stated it had entered into a work for hire agreement with the PlayStation maker. The PlayStation maker.

[Greg Miller]

PlayStation maker.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool. I get stoked about this.

[Greg Miller]

What do you think it's gonna be?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Kills him.

[Tim Gettys]

But oh, maybe resistance perhaps.

[Greg Miller]

Am I just being. I mean, you know, Outriders, Bullets. I'm thinking what you put me on. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

But I mean they make shooty shooty feel good. They do.

[Greg Miller]

Outriders was a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun with Outriders.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's the thing is like people can fly. Being more optimistic about that. Well, I guess it's coming from a bad place. I'm shocked they're still around and I'm very happy. I'm very happy that they're still around because they make great games and I feel like Outriders was a perfect example of what we're talking about of like you can make a game not be like every other game. It doesn't need to be live service. Even if we look at it, we're like that's live service. Yeah, we don't believe you. It's not live service. And they put it out. It's not live service. You know, it's like okay, cool. You put out a game that was fun and seemed to do well enough continuing them to be able to make games and then now working with PlayStation. I'm a big fan of PlayStation IP so I'm excited to see what they could possibly bring back. Like yeah, you jump into those two. I mean maybe I could see where's the value the most value in. In in PlayStation shooting IP.

[Greg Miller]

Honestly I think all of those are an uphill battle.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

None of those are like here's a guaranteed hit, here's a guarant. I would put resistance Overkill Zone chat. Let me know if I'm crazy. I would say that more people care and are like where's resistance for where's Resistance 4? Than where. Where is another kill zone? No offense to the Killzone community. I know you exist out there. SOCOM people are shouting out socom. I feels too grounded. People can fly. Bulletstorm, Outriders. I think you could have them do in the even saying this. I think Killzone makes more sense of we're gonna do a third person Killzone game. That is whatever squad base we're going off doing this thing. I Don't know. We're the last. The last people behind Helgen lines. Something like that. You could maybe. You know that world seems goofier to me than like hey, we're doing a resistance which is going to be so narrative heavy. Hey, we're doing socom. It's be so grounded.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah yeah. It's. I'm with you that I feel like it's a struggle for any of those including SOCOM. I think SOCOM.

[Greg Miller]

SOCOM the most. I think.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Like SOCOM's definitely a. It's time and place. I. I think does not exist anymore. I think you could make something happen there. But I do feel like that'd be a perfect example of a game that would need to be so lean budget and resource wise for it to be considered a success by any like measurable metric.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But then Killzone and Resistance I do feel have enough just kind of like all right, the people know what the IP is. I think at the end of the day Killzone has the. The mass and the stuff that like just the. The iconography that I think can people be like oh I've heard of this or I know this if they didn't play the games back in the day. Yeah but even then I don't think that there's like a revenue in those hills. Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Right. I know there's a community for each of those. All three of those games. But I just don't know to the mainstream how you break through and make that make sense.

[Tim Gettys]

But if people can fly, can make it work again with not it being this like thing that needs to live forever or whatever. Perhaps that could the easiest way.

[Greg Miller]

Right. I would spin it up right. And I'm just going to copy outriders is that you're a team of humans sent to the actual chimera and planet which we've never actually done stuff on. Right. To actually try to take out the coming marathon. So this is resistance. You'd get there and then it's the same idea of you're building a base, you're doing the thing, you're running missions, going out and getting stuff. But again I'm just copying out riders which I'm sure is not what they're doing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah but man it could be. Here's the thing. Someone in the chat saying Ghostbusters. CJ splits on saying Ghostbusters are men in black. Think bigger outside of games. That is interesting. I don't know how that all falls of like what license. Sony have the rights to the IP to make games for Just because. If you. Just because you own movie rights or TV rights doesn't mean you have game rights.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Tim Gettys]

But that could be interesting. If they was.

[Greg Miller]

Obviously. I would die for another Ghostbusters game. Don't worry about that. Men in Black. I'd be super stoked for.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

One of my favorite PC games of all time.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell, yeah, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Run around neuralizing people on. It was awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Awesome, man. Who could forget?

[Greg Miller]

I can't. Anybody?

[Tim Gettys]

You ever watch the Men in Black animated series?

[Greg Miller]

Of course.

[Tim Gettys]

Good.

[Greg Miller]

Big time.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You ever watch Back to the Future animated series?

[Tim Gettys]

I didn't. My brother did, though. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Cool, guys. Got good taste.

[Tim Gettys]

He does.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, he does.

[Tim Gettys]

Story number three, everybody. Amazon's God of War TV series already set for season two before season one has a release.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

This comes from Eric Van Allen at ign. Amazon's God of War TV series has yet to premiere, but it's already lined up for two seasons, according to showrunner Ronald D. Moore. Moore took over the God of War series after the departure of previous showrunner Rafe Judkins and executive producers Hawk Otsby and Mark Fergus. Interview.

[Greg Miller]

Great name.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a bunch of great names in this paragraph. Shout out to names. In an interview with fellow Battlestar Galactica alum Katie Sackhoff. More. Talked a bit. Who's so freaking cool. A bit more about. He's been up to. Right now, I'm working on an adaptation of. There's a video game called God of War, a big title in the gaming world that Amazon has ordered two seasons of, and they've asked me to come in. So I'm literally in the writers room and working on that. That's my new thing. You went on to say he's not a gamer, though he does enjoy some Defender, Asteroids and Centipede. He says he took a stab at it, but the controllers threw him. Press R1. Which one's R1? Oh, I'm dead. Moore said. And, yeah, this goes on. And he's pretty much saying he's not going to play God of War before making a God of War show.

[Greg Miller]

Awesome. That's. That's a recipe for success.

[Tim Gettys]

Recipe for success.

[Greg Miller]

That was why they wanted to work with Craig Mason on Last of Us. He's like, I don't know what this is. I don't care.

[Tim Gettys]

It's video game change. This video game thing, apparently, it's a big deal. I hate this, man. I hate this. This feels like out of time. Not the end of the day, not the end of the world. We've seen many times. Adaptations happen. People can understand a story, can watch things. You don't need hands on the sticks to understand a lot of what makes God of War special. But we've seen in the last 10.

[Greg Miller]

Years, you don't know what that Leviathan axe coming back.

[Tim Gettys]

If you don't know, you miss out on the real magic of it. And when you look at the Last of Us on HBO and you look at Halo on Paramount plus, there's a couple key differences, and one of them is in Last of Us, they care about how it felt to play that game and how that made you feel to play the game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Halo did not. And when they did, it was too little, too late. And now it's getting a second life on Netflix and we'll see what happens. You know, forgot Cole's down there.

[Greg Miller]

Me too.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but I hate it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I didn't read the entire article. So it goes on even further of him just being like, I'm not going to play God, or he's sort of said, I tried and he watched.

[Tim Gettys]

He didn't go that far. Again, that's thing is like putting your foot in your mouth in these interviews. Like, he probably doesn't know that he just said the worst thing possible to the gaming audience and people that care about God of War. Yeah, but he did. You can't really put that back in the, in the bottle. Right. So I, I do think that this is going to kind of cause an uphill battle where when this show is talked about, there's. This is constantly going to be a thing of just like he didn't even.

[Greg Miller]

Play it, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

And again, I say that voice. I'm the one making the voice. You know what I mean? It does. I. I don't want God of War to. Okay. I want God of War to be fantastic.

[Greg Miller]

Stellar.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

And it can be. For sure. I do think that them already green lighting two seasons is a good sign. But like at this point in time, is it really when we see so many shows even get that and.

[Greg Miller]

Well, that's my thing. Is it a good sign when it's like, you remember they went through all this hubbub and they brought this more guy in and he's in the writers room right now. So I don't think they have it all fleshed out, you know, and it's.

[Tim Gettys]

Amazon, which I feel like are when it comes to the big streamers, one of the most inconsistent when it comes to. To wins and losses. You know, for every fallout, there are 10 shows I can't even name.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And even things that like what was a wheels wheel of time? There's a big swing that they did and. Yeah. I mean, fans didn't really, like, resonate with that. I wonder if they read the books. I don't know. I mean.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, I'm with you. Not the right thing to say. Definitely. That's not what you want your first impression to be when you come out talking about it for the first time. Really.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But we'll have to wait and see.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And I think we're gonna be waiting a while, so. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I'll be surprised it ever actually happens.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Because Verizon got canceled, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So I don't know, man. We do have some good stories, though.

[Greg Miller]

Yay.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

If you want to talk about how special it is that I made Jen watch it. Yeah, I know you don't care. I'm gonna have you catch like, yeah, he's a he. I'm like, it's more than that. It's 20. It's this. As I watch it and I just showed the clip of when he insults the kid.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep.

[Greg Miller]

That kid over there.

[Tim Gettys]

Including. Incredible.

[Greg Miller]

What a promo. God. If you're, if you're in the audience. Belgium. No, Brussels. Brussels. Thank you. You. What a crowd. What a crowd.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

Stupid thing. I was so good.

[Tim Gettys]

So, so, so many questions. You know, didn't mention the rock. You know, didn't mention the 17 title. I love that though. Yeah, we got a. We got a road to WrestleMania ahead of us.

[Greg Miller]

Great, sir.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man. Month away. Then we got Calvin Perez saying 40 floors, probiotics and sweet potato slash pumpkin puree. It's a godsend for pups with upset tummies.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I'm well versed. Well versed. Don't worry, he's still so young that this is. He's already shaking it off like his poop today was almost normal.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Caleb says can't risk it. You can't.

[Greg Miller]

Can't leave him at home. Come home to that. Because he's coming home because the nanny. Our nanny, our friend, whatever you want. Our babysitter now, I guess. Whatever. Fran picking up bed and bringing him home. So I don't want her to come home. And then this covered dog. I can't deal with that.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh God. Caleb says God of War showrunner says he hasn't played the games and isn't a gamer. What effect will this have on the show if any talked about that A bit.

[Greg Miller]

Not a good effect probably. Maybe not a big deal. We'll see.

[Tim Gettys]

Kebab says. Fun fact, there was a Ghostbusters mobile game years ago that got the rights to Ghostbusters but not Bill Murray's likeness, which they had to design around common problem. Yeah. Rassel says was so chill yesterday working on my indie game while watching Dev show off theirs. Great job everyone. Thanks for watching. Good luck. Hopefully one day you're at the desk and we're playing your games, making bad jokes.

[Greg Miller]

You know, that's how you speak for yourself. I'm making good jokes.

[Tim Gettys]

I was nave. K says. I got married this weekend. It was the greatest day of my life. I've been following you all since 2012/13 and I can never thank you enough for everything you've done for me. Thank you all. Thank you. Congratulations. Fantastic stuff. Today is the best day of my life. Because of story number four. Lego announces Pokemon sets are coming next year. This comes from Andrew Liswski at the Verge. Lego has announced that another popular gaming franchise is getting the plastic brick treatment on its website. The company has teased that Lego Pokemon sets are coming soon, but also says the sets won't arrive until 2026, which isn't as soon as we'd hoped. There are no details yet on specific sets or which characters will be available in that form, but the teaser does include a peek at Pikachu's tail built from yellow bricks. Several Pokemon building sets have been available for a while but through Mattel's shitty ass Mega line, which features components that are LEGO compatible, it's not enough. They're horrible, man. Although there's a Butterfree that, like, actually like flies.

[Greg Miller]

Pretty sick.

[Tim Gettys]

It's pretty sick. It's not yet known if LEGO will have exclusive rights to making Pokemon building sets starting next year, or if Mattel will continue to be bad people. Some of this is me editorializing.

[Greg Miller]

I like it, though.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Hell yeah, dude. 2026. Going to be the 30th year of Pokemon.

[Greg Miller]

You're expecting big things.

[Tim Gettys]

Expect big things.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Knowing we're gonna get some Legos. Love that.

[Greg Miller]

Are you. Would you buy these? Would you?

[Tim Gettys]

Unfortunately, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I don't ever see you. I mean, I know. Cool. GS.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool. Jesus, Mr. Lego Man. I, I, I love Lego, like a lot. I wish I had more time to build them. I wish I had more space to place them and all of that. So what ends up happening is I. Whenever there's sets that I'm like, I need that set, I do buy it. And then I just have boxes of Legos sitting there.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure.

[Tim Gettys]

I look at them every day and I'm like, that looks so cool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

One day I'll build it.

[Greg Miller]

You're not gonna build it one day.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, probably not.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, probably.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe I'll build out of the LEGO boxes. I'll build something.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. That's what I could see.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, chances are I'm gonna buy some of these Pokemon ones.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Having said that, I don't want any of this Mario bullshit. I want Legos. I want mini figs. I don't want the fucking. I'm Mario. I'm a giant brick.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to be more like the Sonic. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You want to fit in?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The Ghostbuster legos. I'm with you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So we'll see. And it's.

[Greg Miller]

You know, I bet it won't. You're going to build the. It's going to. This is my thing. Like, whenever I'm at what I like to call the Mecca. All right. Costco, they got the Legos out there, but they're like, hey, build the. Build the LEGO flowers. Build a gigantic race car. I'm like, all right, but just give me a normal LEGO set. And I know you're Costco. Give me a. You know, it's five LEGO sets strapped together that I gotta buy or whatever. I'll figure it out. You know, I mean, like, that's not exciting to me.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I don't want the weird thing. And that's what this is gonna be. It's gonna be a Build a giant Pikachu.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want it to interact with me. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Like, talk to you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Because that's what the fucking Mario.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, does it. Oh, yeah, it does go.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Just does a bunch of shit. I don't need all that, you know? And here's the thing. Before someone says this isn't for you, God damn sure it is. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

No, no.

[Tim Gettys]

Pokemon's 30th anniversary. All right? Who do you think is buying these things? Children. No, Children don't have money.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Children can't buy stuff on their own. I could buy stuff.

[Greg Miller]

And again, this isn't interactable for the children. You know, like, again, like, there's the Petey piranha plant. Right. Chad, as we call them.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? I've seen that at Costco. I was like.

[Tim Gettys]

And he's chirping for us.

[Greg Miller]

It's too big. I don't want. Ben doesn't want that either. He wants something little to play with.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You excited about this at all?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm excited for. You know, as Ben continues to love Pokemon and continues to love Lego. See what. You know, this is going to be for him. Yeah. You know, we're still not. We're at the thing where we buy the Lego box set, whatever. I build it and then break. Ben breaks it apart and drives it around. The Batmobile's got no fins anymore.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, Ben is three and a half.

[Greg Miller]

About to be April.

[Tim Gettys]

Is there any risk of him eating Lego?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no.

[Tim Gettys]

Putting anywhere.

[Greg Miller]

Is there any risk of it? Of course. Remember when I choked on a nickel playing jukeboxes? I was. I was older than Ben is. Kids are stupid. Kids are dumb.

[Tim Gettys]

You just got school cracked up first into laughter.

[Greg Miller]

It's a famed Greg Miller story. You know what I mean? Grandma Miller's looking at my turtles in my room. I'm laying on the ground, living room, playing jukebox. Drop the money in my mouth. And then I would have a song. You know what I mean? Nickel went in, turned sideways, couldn't breathe for a couple seconds. Panicked. Then I passed it.

[Kevin Coelho]

But, you know, you could have died.

[Greg Miller]

I could have. No, I know. That's definitely what I was thinking.

[Kevin Coelho]

Ben ever play. Was it Duplo?

[Greg Miller]

What's the.

[Tim Gettys]

The, like.

[Greg Miller]

No, we jumped right to lego. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I kept that Duplo shit out, you know? I mean, he went, I think at my Dad's house, he had some Duplo stuff from his girlfriend or whatever. And like he played with them there. They had some cars stuff. So it was more of a cars thing than it was a Lego thing. So whatever. But no, I never brought that Duplo crap in my house. I'm not doing that Lincoln Logs. I mean, toys. I. I grew up playing Lincoln Logs. Grandma there's again. You know what I mean? Back in her shag rug in the back of that house, she had a lot of link logs.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Terrible toy.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, horrible toy.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, that's. The thing is like, Ben truly doesn't understand how good he has. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

And it's one of the section dedicated to Sonic the Hedgehog.

[Kevin Coelho]

Lincoln Logs aren't terrible.

[Greg Miller]

Well, yeah, but I mean, like again, it was like, know at home I have every superhero under the moon, right? But at grandma Miller is. I got Lincoln Logs and army men and I'm there because I'm sick or it's summer and she's taking. It's like, what the fuck? Like, this sucks. No video games. What the fuck am I doing? You know what I mean? Ben just could get any video game he wants. Cloud stream to his phone. He's ready to go.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, but the thing about Ben that he doesn't have is I imagine that he doesn't have the sticky hands that stretch.

[Greg Miller]

No, Jen wouldn't allow that in the house.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm pretty sure like too many kids like that had to be toxic to some extent.

[Greg Miller]

They're still out there. No, he's brought them home from people from like the. You open up. I'll tell you what.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

There's no bigger Trojan horse than the toddler birthday party. Here's the.

[Tim Gettys]

Your.

[Greg Miller]

Your bag.

[Tim Gettys]

You leave goodie bags.

[Greg Miller]

Goodie bag. Thank you. You open that thing up. The fuckers who are putting kinetic sand in these things. What the fuck is wrong with you? It's just sand.

[Tim Gettys]

Why are you.

[Greg Miller]

I don't want this in my house.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, no.

[Greg Miller]

Inevitably. It's just. There's no. None of this. I've throwing. I throw them out. I throw them out. Ben even gets straight out of me. Don't worry about this, Ben. You have to worry about this whatsoever story number now. Those are cool. That's awesome. I was Lincoln Logs. I'm pretty sure that I was playing with her like my dad's Lincoln Logs. They were just wood.

[Kevin Coelho]

Well, I mean, I'm just this while googling Lincoln Logs, I found that they have.

[Greg Miller]

That's cool. Yeah. But again, that's something bed plays with once. And then I got this shit in my house forever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Auntie Loose. My son's godmother Christmas gave him this. Like, the sticks that then go into the ball, the plastic ball. So you can make, like, giant, like, structures or whatever. You put them together, like, connect connects. If they weren't. Connects are gigantic. I don't have connects. Get that big. I don't. I'm not versed in connects. These are definitely knockoff connects.

[Tim Gettys]

Got it.

[Greg Miller]

And I never wanted to punch Lucy James in the face harder. You know what I mean? And I lived with her. Trust me, there's times I wanted to just fucking powerbomb this woman through the kitchen table. But now I got fucking green plastic sticks all over my goddamn house. These little ping pong balls everywhere. And just gets it. Dumps him out of the bag. And I'm like, ben, I put him in a sharpshooter last night. We're getting real close to him understanding wrestling. He's gonna be in trouble. All right? And of course, my wife. My wife, fake Canadian, she walks in. I got him in. Brett the Hitman. Hearts finisher. Just like I'm in the heart dungeon. I'm Stu, all right? And she looks at this and doesn't even say goddamn word about how. Picture of her the sharpshooter was, no photo taken. She doesn't understand the milestones.

[Tim Gettys]

Story number five. This is a report that Bobby Kotick files defamation suit against Gizmodo and Kotaku.

[Greg Miller]

Watch the Dice Awards.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. This comes from Riley McLeod. God. Dope ass. Last name at Aftermath. Aftermath. Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has filed a defamation suit against Go Media after a pair of 2024 articles. Record of March 11th defamation filing titled Robert Kotick vs Go Media, Inc. Be viewed in Delaware court records, but the. Com complaint itself is not currently publicly available. Courthouse News, which first reported on the suit, writes that Kotick is seeking damages to be determined at trial regarding articles on former Go media site Gizmodo and current Go media site Kotaku about Kotick's reported interest in buying TikTok as context into Kotick. The articles both discussed a California Civil rights department investigation into Activision Blizzard that was settled in 2020 23. The final California settlement makes note that no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations and that the defendants deny all allegations of wrongdoing liability and damages. Courthouse News quotes Kodak's complaint as reading, quote, kotaku and Gizmoto went out of their way to include withdrawn fake allegations or false allegations relating to workplace issues which Go Media knew had been conclusively disproven by numerous investigations. Courthouse News writes that Kotick and his representatives repeatedly wrote into Go Media demanding corrections to the articles. Both Kotaku and Gizmodo's articles were updated after publishing to add details about the settlement. Despite this, Courthouse News writes that Kotak claims, quote, the articles continue to mischaracterize the agreement and quotes the complaint in stating that the allegations were included purely for the malicious purpose of causing further harm to Kotick. Do we want to do that? I don't know. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Do what?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know if we should.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not getting sued.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, let's not get sued.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I mean, like, I mean, you talk to the article. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, we can talk about them. They're already getting sued.

[Greg Miller]

It's interesting that Bobby Kotick is choosing these ones to go after. Right. I mean, I think that, you know, Kodak is a punching bag whether you think he should be or shouldn't be throughout the games industry. So the fact that these are the ones that cross the line is interesting. And then to read into why, right. That they keep going back to things that he feels. Mischaracter. You're misinterpreting quotes to make him look even worse than actions might. It's interesting.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. It's gonna be interesting to see how this all shakes out, you know, as these, like, legal battles seem to be popping up left and right.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I wonder if this one will actually go the distance or settle out of court or whatever it is.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. God, I can't wait to never have to talk about him again. Yeah, you know, it does feel like we're moving towards that hopefully, but.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't know, where is he now after all this stuff? Because he's officially out now, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But I'm sure he's on some advisory board or whatever thing like that he's going to move off to again. I can't recommend Jason Shire's book Play Nice, the Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. Enough. He has a whole bunch of. Again, I know we've talked about it. You weren't on the Jason Schreier thing. I forget. But his whole story of just Bobby Kodak, like from college to the first businesses to what he becomes is outrageous. Of like, you think, you know, this part, you know, the personality, you know, the name you know the Persona, whatever. And then to see, like, this journey is just so crazy. This whole thing with Steve Wynn on the jet. Yeah, like being handpicked to be a successor. What the fuck is going on? What kind of weird rich guy, like, Night ceremony is this?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Zombies ate Keegan. Super chats in. He spent $2 to say, Pee pee poo poo, ka ka.

[Greg Miller]

He does that every day.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

And he said the first time he ever did it. I'm just doing this to make you say, pee pee pookie, whatever. Because I'm a simple man. And I said, do it every day. And here we are.

[Tim Gettys]

Here we are.

[Greg Miller]

I'll take the two books.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate you, Zombies. Kuma Bob OMB says Lego Build Stream with Snow bike. Mike and Andy. When. Oh, God, they would. They would rip each other apart, and he'd rip himself apart.

[Greg Miller]

Quit for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Alvaro. CN Says Tim choked on kinder eggs. I did.

[Greg Miller]

When? When the British candy arrived yesterday. The gentleman who brought it was very clear. I did not bring kinder eggs.

[Tim Gettys]

You didn't want to kill me. He didn't want to kill me. I don't know why. Story number six. We got the first look at Johnny Cage and more from the upcoming Mortal Kombat 2 movie. Hell, yeah. This comes from Nick Romano at Entertainment Weekly. The ending of 2021's Mortal Kombat signaled where the franchise would go next. Hollywood, baby. After a bloodbath between the champions of Earth Realm and Outworld, former MMA fighter Cole Young, who I did not have any respect for in this movie.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Thought he was an unnecessary original character. Like, we have the most iconic fighting characters of all time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

What are we trying to do here? But since have grown to love this actor, Lewis Tan.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Standout performance in the final couple seasons of Cobra Kai.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Incredible martial artist. Excited to see where he goes here.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

A descendant of Scorpion set out for Los Angeles to find a new recruit to aid in the battle ahead. Johnny fucking Cage. A prominent and eccentric character from the video games as well as past movie adaptations. Johnny was only teased in that first film through a poster for his Citizen Cage flick. But now the boy star, Carl Urban, officially takes his place alongside other earthrealm champions in Entertainment Weekly's exclusive first look at the sequel, Mortal Kombat 2, coming to theaters and IMAX locations October 24th.

[Greg Miller]

Hell, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Look at him.

[Greg Miller]

He looks great.

[Tim Gettys]

He looks great. I got Jax in the back.

[Greg Miller]

How stoked are you for this movie? Did you like Mortal Kombat?

[Tim Gettys]

I was very let down by Mortal Kombat it wasn't the worst thing, but it lacked the sauce.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

There was a couple laugh out loud moments because they were so bad.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I think it was Cyrax. At some point. I'm gonna suck my sou.

[Greg Miller]

Got it.

[Tim Gettys]

And it was great. They, I feel, didn't commit hard enough to some of their ideas. They introduced this idea that each character final kind of like finds their magic ability. And like, then they get to do their magic thing.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Which, like, could be cool to kind of like give a story more story for a movie of Mortal Kombat. But I feel like doing that, they didn't commit hard enough. So fans of Mortal Kombat were just kind of like, like, all right, that's not what it's supposed to be. And then the cool stuff they did with it, I just feel like, well, Mortal Kombat could have just been cooler if you just like bought each other and fatality each other a bit more. You know what I mean? But overall, a sequel, I'm ready for it. I feel like it. I'm expecting this to be better than the first one.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

So there's that. At the end of the day, I like watching people fight. You know what I mean? Characters we know Scorpion saying, get over here.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm a simple man.

[Greg Miller]

People getting frozen.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? Oh, dude, he froze.

[Greg Miller]

He like cut Sub Zero still alive.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't remember the fucking details. You kidding me? But Scorpion, like cuts into Sub Zero and Sub Zero takes his own blood and turns it into a dagger. Like a frozen dagger. It's really sick. Movies, Movies, man, they're so big. When you see that IMAX screen, it's.

[Greg Miller]

Like every time I start one of these movies, how long is it? Oh, my God. So big.

[Tim Gettys]

It is so big. Such a big runtime. But if I want to know about something way smaller, where would I look?

[Greg Miller]

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

[Tim Gettys]

Wario 64 says the Star wars turn based tactics game from bit reactor slawn entertainment will be revealed at Star wars celebration Japan on April 19th. I'm excited for that. I want to see what that looks like. Yeah, could be fun. Always interested what Respawn's up to in any way.

[Greg Miller]

What do you think it's gonna be?

[Tim Gettys]

Little turn based Star wars game tactic.

[Greg Miller]

Is it gonna be cool? We like it. Are we gonna be cool, everybody?

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's gonna be cool, but I. This to me reads like, oh, My God. Midnight suns.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Where like I think it could hit and the people that enjoy it are gonna really dig it, but I don't think it's gonna like break out because. A mega hit from Forbes. Ubisoft's bracing for dev harassment over Assassin's Creed Shadows. A new report from Canada's BFMTB cites anonymous Ubisoft employees giving details about what's happening internally, including advice to not post on social social media that they even work at Ubisoft to avoid harassment. In fact, an entire anti harassment plan has reportedly taken shape, bringing in Canada's communications security establishment. Ubisoft Quebec made Assassin's Creed Shadows to respond to issues including offering psychological and legal support. How the did we get here?

[Greg Miller]

Gamergate, man. Giving bad people voice.

[Tim Gettys]

Incredibly horrible.

[Greg Miller]

Importantly, right now we're doing the review after this, but right now I'm at a cricket in 82.

[Tim Gettys]

82.

[Greg Miller]

82 right now. Stay tuned. Me, Barrett and Lightweight Gaming and Blessing. Think about it, you'll find out next.

[Tim Gettys]

New games for Game Pass have been announced. March 18, we're getting 33 Immortals, which looks awesome. March 19 you got Octopath Traveler 2, which knows is awesome. We have Train Sim World 5 Standard Edition. March 20 we got Mythrex Ambrosia Island. March 25, Blizzard Arcade Collection. March 27, Adam Fall. What's the word on Adam Fall?

[Greg Miller]

Hopeful. Good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? It seemed like the previews caught people by surprise a bit in terms of like, oh, okay, like, you know, this is like a fallouty survival, you know, alternate history, British thing. I'm. My interest is piqued.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to play Ark Survival Ascended DLC Lost Colony has been announced. Fatal Fury, City of the wolves. Second open beta test is set for March 26 to March 31. And then the last one just says Greg has some.

[Greg Miller]

I have said this on this show before and I will say it again. We reward kind of funny best friends for being dope. So every day I open my inbox, pour myself a coffee, bend yak yak yaks in my face. You know what I mean? But I look at my phone and I have hundreds of emails. All press releases, hello, game journalist. Or you know, Miller. Like I went to Miller. Yeah, like, all right, fucking form letter bullshit. But if you're gonna go through and send an email that starts WE news colon, I'll get you on the show. So we have WE News from Jonathan who writes in it works in the industry. This just a guy or whatever he wanted. He Says congrats on the live stream yesterday. Wanted to bump the launch news from Friday with the update that DC Dark Legion was the number one free to play game on the US App Store over the weekend and still ranks number one on the Google Play and number three on the App Store. If you all can squeeze the launch news into kfgd, that'd be awesome. DC Dark Legion is available now on mobile devices and apparently killing it.

[Tim Gettys]

There you go. Check it out. Help it kill more.

[Greg Miller]

Oof. I was like, I'll download it. And then I read collect and upgrade DC superhero and villains for epic multiplayer PvP battles. I wish you well not be doing that.

[Tim Gettys]

You got some fuzz in your beard. Little fuzz. Kevin.

[Greg Miller]

Show me.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you can't see it, but it's there.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, there it is. Yeah. Thank you. He was right. Everybody wasn't lying. Hey, we don't drop it there.

[Tim Gettys]

Didn't even see it. Didn't show up. It's fuzzy, though, in real life, I promise you. We got some super chats. You can cut the Wii News music, Kevin. Kinetic says, Kevin's like, I can't.

[Kevin Coelho]

There's so many buttons.

[Greg Miller]

I know. No, no. Okay. That was fun you did. And Kevin, again, just. I want you to know I can't appreciate you enough at the start of the show being having my back. You know what I mean? Tim wasn't with us. Tim wasn't vibing.

[Kevin Coelho]

But you were vibing. I know what you're talking about. But we were vibing about Bounty.

[Greg Miller]

We were vibing about coming. We were all over.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah, Bounty.

[Kevin Coelho]

It's the new Korean coffee.

[Greg Miller]

Joey, make a shirt.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. Joey, make a shirt. Mr. Janice in the chat says Tim needs to look into the new Xbox Joy Con. I haven't seen this. Can you. Can you do a little Google? Sure, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

I'm on it.

[Tim Gettys]

Kinetic says, please do an Invincible Season 3 screencast. I will pay. I want to so bad. I have not had time to even start the season. I finally, Kevin. Finally. I'm caught up on severance. Very exciting stuff.

[Kevin Coelho]

You know, it's an hour and like 15 minutes.

[Tim Gettys]

I know. I'm real excited.

[Kevin Coelho]

Hard as a rock.

[Tim Gettys]

But once. Once we get through that, once she gets back from a little vacation she's going on, we're gonna start Invincible. But how far have you made it?

[Greg Miller]

Haven't started it. Yeah, this is. I. This is the conversation we've had on Greg Way in the previous weeks here, where people have been asking about screen cast, and I've just Been upfront that gdc, Chicago Life, the reviews were all on. Assassin's Creed is about to get reviewed. We just did Monster Hunter. There's redactive coming at the end of this week. Possibly. You know, I mean, there's a million things going on.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. It's just hard. Trust me, I wish that there were more hours in the day because I.

[Greg Miller]

Cannot find anything about this Joy. Xbox. Joycon.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, we got more of these here. We got. We got more fam saying Glenn Powell as Johnny Cage. Still love Clint. Carl Urban. Yeah, that'd be interesting. I. I prefer Carl Urban, though. Like, God, I love Glenn Pal. Like, I'm not one of those haters.

[Greg Miller]

No, no. Oh, come on now. That's because he's too popular. Too cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. I. I'm. I'm a big Glenn Pal fan, but I'm a bigger Carl Urban fan. So. Carl Urban.

[Greg Miller]

I saw someone in the chat go, are we over Carl Urban? I say no.

[Tim Gettys]

Never.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know impossible. Star Trek 2009.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Never forget Bones. Dread.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. Dread.

[Greg Miller]

He knows, Jack.

[Tim Gettys]

He does. He does know. Dewey there.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you, Kevin.

[Tim Gettys]

Adam. Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Look, he's just what I like about Glenn. Power.

[Tim Gettys]

Jolly other.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. He looks. He's just happy to be alive.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, the cute little dog. Adam2Time says, Thoughts on a Lego Pokemon game? There's a chance, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that's smart. Yeah, I can. I can see that happening for show. El Capitan 22 says. Greg, have you been paying attention to Helldivers? With Singularity now destroying two planets as it creeps towards Super Earth.

[Greg Miller]

I have not. I've been too busy on other games.

[Tim Gettys]

Mr. Hawk says Fallout 76 Ghoul updates live today. Ghoul it up.

[Greg Miller]

Ghoul it up, everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

You go to Ghoul?

[Greg Miller]

Maybe eventually, but probably not. Again, too many games right now. I mean, if as soon as you knock down one review, there's another review, and then there's two more, and then it's gdc. And then I, I last night. I'll tell you what. As everybody knows, Christopher Columbus was a bad person in a lot of ways, right? But he did some good, right? Apparently. Let me. Who's a better discuss. Who's a better person? Who's discovered the world? Who's a better discoverer? Vespucci. America Vespucci. Everybody knows that I'm the American Vespucci of PC gaming. All right? Like, it was bad. And then I showed up and I'm making it better with the Steam deck. Yesterday I went on after I watched our showcase right at home, scanned the QR code, went to the Steam page, started wishlisting all the games I wanted. Right. So I'd be there and I'd support devs. Just like you should. Right. And then what do I see? Well, there's a sale going on and Chrono trigger is like $3.49. And I've tried before on my Vita to play Chrono Trigger. I know I should and will love Chrono Trigger. Bought it on the Steam deck. I was like, you know what? Let's roll the deck dice. So even if I got through all this stuff to go back to Super Earth, to go Back to Fallout 76, these are things I would love to do in infinite time periods, but I don't have that with me. I'd much rather go play a 40 year old JRPG.

[Tim Gettys]

Good for you.

[Greg Miller]

But I don't even.

[Tim Gettys]

I say that I know those words.

[Greg Miller]

Come out of my mouth. I know when will I actually have the free time to start that?

[Tim Gettys]

Here's my thing, Greg. I feel like there's a couple important facts to keep in mind. We're doing our top hundred games of all time and I do feel like.

[Greg Miller]

We'Re about to get to a quieter period.

[Tim Gettys]

And the question I have for you is what's your travel schedule coming up?

[Greg Miller]

We. There's a lot going on. But you forget, of course I got a Gremlin named Ben, you know. Now, now the good news about Ben is he loves. He has his own Nintendo Switch now.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So he's gonna be on these planes parked on that.

[Tim Gettys]

I think what you need to do, and this is advice I need to listen to as well. And I never ever do. You need to just choose a game and commit to that game. And do not even bring another device. Don't do anything stupid. Just if you're gonna play Chrono Trip, play fucking Chrono Trip bigger, you know. Yeah. And I think that when you. You're talking about portable games, I mean thanks to the Steam deck, pretty much everything is available.

[Greg Miller]

You're welcome.

[Tim Gettys]

But America Vespucci, I do think that, you know, with the Switch 2 info being imminent.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

We're not. You're not gonna really have too many Switch things, too many portable things that you're looking forward to.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I think now's the perfect time. But you got to commit the one and only. And it should be Chrono Trigger.

[Greg Miller]

It's the time I feel like it's possible that it'll work out because I Got through. On my last Boston trip, I knocked a few things off the Steam deck where I was like, oh, not for me. Not for me. This is touched. This. Okay. And so what. It's the Chicago trip. Come see me. Oh. Remember everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Kind of funny.com Chicago, April 10. I'll have multiple stars in the bank by then, and you can come watch me perform in Lyle, Illinois. Please do it. We're doing a fundraiser for post school. He needs it. There's a Chicago trip to fly. Ben's got a switch. I'm all set then. We've never talked. We don't get to go to lunch anymore because there's too much happening in May. I'm doing a long weekend where I'm going to Montreal, so that's a long flight there. I. I got. And again, that's just. That's just me and Ben.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, right.

[Greg Miller]

Because Jen will already be there.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

I'm meeting up with her over there. Right. So the thing there is like, you know, on the trip to Chicago, Jen the whole time be. Don't do this, don't do that. You know, Bed girl. He plays so many. I'm kidding. This doesn't happen. But, you know, it'll be switch time for him and switch Steam Deck time for me. I think it'll work out pretty good.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So me.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's like, is Trigger the one? The answer is yes.

[Greg Miller]

I'm thinking of the reviews that I'm on right now. And I did ask for one of the games that I have for review on Steve. I had. I have it on PlayStation. Then the thing they emailed about Steam Deck and I was like, oh, give me a Steam Deck too. But I'm gonna keep going on PlayStation so that won't be in the way. Monster Hunters tied to the p. My PlayStation. So I can't worry about that. I'm on a plane too. So it's. Whatever. It's pretty good. Then I think you got. It's a pretty good shot.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But who knows what'll happen?

[Tim Gettys]

Who knows what's going to happen? Everyone just. Jerstan says. Tim, Greg, Kevin. Love you guys.

[Greg Miller]

We love you.

[Tim Gettys]

Love you, Jersen. Dexter H. Says, was I dreaming? Or besides Greg choking on change, didn't he share a story where he would pee in cups as a child and throw it behind his dresser? Both of those stories did happen, actually. Yeah. Zach Brown says day late birthday tax, but also before trilogies on sale through Criterion. Hashtag before trilogy and review.

[Greg Miller]

Let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

Happy birthday, Zach.

[Greg Miller]

I Have to go to criterion.com together. How do I get it?

[Kevin Coelho]

Probably Greg, I can't remember.

[Greg Miller]

Did.

[Kevin Coelho]

Did your mom ever have a conversation with you about peeing?

[Greg Miller]

No. No, they didn't catch me. Remember my mom's conversation was that when we moved, she thought the cat had been doing it. The cat had peed behind it. That was her. Her interpretation. Oh, it's a 50 off flash sale.

[Kevin Coelho]

No way.

[Greg Miller]

That's what she said.

[Kevin Coelho]

Do you believe in that or is she just just saving face now?

[Tim Gettys]

I believe in it.

[Greg Miller]

I believe in it.

[Tim Gettys]

I believe. Have you watched Solo Leveling? I have not, but I've seen a lot of people hyped about it. And the Frog Night and all craps just says Chrono Trigger. Which I imagine Frog Night is a reference to Chrono Trigger. One of my favorite themes from Chrono Trigger.

[Greg Miller]

So I'm in here.

[Tim Gettys]

Criterion Channel the before trilogy.

[Kevin Coelho]

Oh, half off.

[Tim Gettys]

We got some.

[Greg Miller]

The whole trilogy is 50 bucks right now in a Blu Ray set.

[Tim Gettys]

Says Brussels is the capital of Belgium.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. I knew I was, you know how well versed I am in Europe. So I like I fucking knew.

[Tim Gettys]

Robbie. Rob says for Costco, Lego. Greg. The classic non set bricks are available during the holiday seasons. Around Christmas you can get 1500 colored bricks.

[Kevin Coelho]

That's cool, you know, Greg, but the problem is this is just blu ray, not 4k ultra.

[Greg Miller]

Do I need to care about that Him?

[Tim Gettys]

I wasn't listening.

[Greg Miller]

I mean before Trilogy here is on sale for 49.99. Yeah, that's down from 99.95. Okay, but they're just Blu Rays.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I mean, yeah, I will Criterion, they're really, really good about the transfers.

[Greg Miller]

2K digital transfer. Yeah, so I mean, they probably didn't have 4k back when they filmed this. There's discussion, there's behind the scenes footage, there's audio commentary.

[Tim Gettys]

You should be fine. Unless there's a 4K version available with.

[Greg Miller]

His nice TV episodes program, Fresh Air. Oh, I have.

[Tim Gettys]

And then Mr. Jantix, it's fun to.

[Greg Miller]

Read this because there's no way I'll ever do this. I don't want the digital. I'll keep buying them on Amazon. Thank you. Oh, you don't want to watch them on the phone. I can watch them on my tv. I watch them on my iPad. I don't have to go disc, disc, disc, where you go.

[Tim Gettys]

It's fun to do that though. Kevin. Sending assets a link to this Joy Con situation.

[Kevin Coelho]

Oh, you found it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, hold on. Mr. Jantic. Sent it in the chat, in the you're wrong section of the show that we do here. The Xbox adaptive joystick, which, yeah, I guess you've always wanted. It is what I've always wanted. I'm very happy that people are finally understanding there's a better way to play. Designed as a companion for Xbox controllers. Plug directly into your console or PC. Customized with button remapping. Very cool. Very cool. $30.

[Kevin Coelho]

Why do they animate that?

[Greg Miller]

Because there's such a satisfaction to the way Xbox boxes open.

[Tim Gettys]

It's true.

[Kevin Coelho]

I mean, but isn't that true for most companies?

[Greg Miller]

No. Go back to that box and tell me that Amazon opens like that. No way. Amazon tearing them open. Nick sent me another football.

[Kevin Coelho]

You open up an Nvidia bot. Well, now this won't play. No.

[Greg Miller]

We haven't talked about on content. I don't know what I mean. I feel like he should be here for it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I feel like he should, too.

[Greg Miller]

God forbid you hide the football on the top shelf in the office where he can't reach it with his little legs. And now I got to fucking get a football delivered to my house every goddamn day.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep. How many days in a row has it been?

[Greg Miller]

Three.

[Kevin Coelho]

Has he really been doing that?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. He's sending threatening notes, too.

[Kevin Coelho]

What do the notes say?

[Greg Miller]

I'll give you the most recent.

[Kevin Coelho]

He's sending you football.

[Tim Gettys]

He's literally sending him footballs.

[Kevin Coelho]

He's there. There's something in him that has awoken. Yeah, it might be a tumor.

[Greg Miller]

The last note was, you can't ignore this from the reckoning.

[Tim Gettys]

Everybody. You can't ignore kind of funny. We're live each and every weekday on Twitch and YouTube with a bunch of different shows, various shows for your amusement, Whether it's kind of funny games Daily cover in the News, the kind of funny games cast we're about to do. Given our reviews of Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Greg Miller]

The first one was, I know what you did from Unknown. Then the first football showed up, no note. I thought grandma said one. I was like, okay, Grandma said a football. Weird. Then second day, the exact same box showed up. Like, oh, no. Oh, no.

[Kevin Coelho]

For the short credit.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no.

[Greg Miller]

I started giving away to people at the school.

[Kevin Coelho]

You're gonna be the football guy.

[Greg Miller]

Trust me. It was weird when I was. I was walking out yesterday with two parents, and I have two footballs in my car. I was like, oh, by the way, do either of you want a football? Someone from my work keeps sending them to me as a joke or a prank. And the mom was me, like, no, I don't have a use for the football. And the other dad was like, oh, yeah. He's like, so, what's going on? I'm like, me and my.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't worry about it.

[Greg Miller]

Pranking me by sending footballs. He goes, that's a nice prank. And I go, oh. They come with threatening notes.

[Tim Gettys]

We're doing cool stuff all day. Hang out. If you're on Twitch, stay where you are. Found YouTube. Make the jump over to the Gamescast link. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve.