PlayStation State of Play Predictions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.03.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: PlayStation State of Play Predictions
Episode: 06.03.25 | Release Date: June 3, 2025
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Tim Gettys

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Overview

In this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, hosts Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Tim Gettys delve into the latest developments in the gaming world. The primary focus is on PlayStation's upcoming State of Play event, with additional discussions on Riot's new card game Riftbound, Mario Kart World previews, and other notable industry news. The hosts engage with their audience through live Super Chats, offering predictions and insights into what gamers can expect in the near future.

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1. PlayStation State of Play Predictions (00:00 - 26:25)

Announcement and Anticipation (00:00 - 07:09)
Blessing kicks off the discussion by announcing PlayStation's State of Play scheduled for June 4th. Tim expresses excitement about the event, highlighting the increasing hype surrounding various gaming announcements.

Key Predictions:

• Resident Evil 9 (07:09 - 13:04)
  Tim confidently predicts the announcement of Resident Evil 9, citing leaks and discussions from reputable sources like Dusk Golem. He envisions a third-person perspective that marks a departure from previous entries, potentially concluding Leon's trilogy in the series.

  "Resident Evil 9's gonna be there."
  — Tim Gettys [09:39]

• Until Dawn 2 (14:02 - 15:24)
  Blessing anticipates the reveal of Until Dawn 2, referencing rumors and the positive reception of last year's remake and movie adaptation. She believes the sequel will capitalize on the franchise's popularity, especially among PlayStation's audience.

  "They're going to announce Until Dawn 2."
  — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [14:02]

• New God of War Game (15:32 - 17:08)
  Tim predicts a new God of War title set in Greece, speculating it could be a 2D Metroidvania-style game inspired by classics like Castlevania. This prediction aligns with previous hints from PlayStation's creative leads.

  "PlayStation will announce a new God of War game. But it's Greek."
  — Tim Gettys [15:32]

Discussion Points:

• Format of State of Play vs. Showcase:
  Tim differentiates between PlayStation’s State of Play and traditional showcases, suggesting that the former allows for a broader range of announcements without the high expectations often associated with major showcases.

• Spoilers and Leaks:
  Both hosts emphasize the reliability of certain leaks and insider information, although they remain cautious about making definitive statements.

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2. Riot’s Riftbound Card Game (02:26 - 04:51)

Blessing shares her firsthand experience attending a preview event for Riftbound, Riot Games' new trading card game based on the League of Legends universe. She describes receiving trial decks and highlights the game's fresh mechanics and deep ties to existing Riot properties like Valorant and Arcane.

"I was very, very impressed by how new and fresh this felt."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [03:06]

Key Insights:

• Gameplay Mechanics:
  Blessing appreciates Riftbound's innovative approach to card mechanics, distinguishing it from traditional TCGs.

• Community and Accessibility:
  The game aims to be accessible to both new players and long-time fans of Riot's franchises, fostering a vibrant community from the ground up.

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3. Mario Kart World Previews (36:26 - 58:53)

The hosts transition to discussing the highly anticipated Mario Kart World, referencing previews from Polygon and IGN.

Polygon’s Perspective (40:53 - 44:34):

Michael McWhirter describes his hands-on experience with Mario Kart World, emphasizing the game's expansive free roam mode and the impressive array of collectibles. He praises the game’s soundtrack, which celebrates Mario's 40th anniversary through beautifully remixed tracks.

"I think it's going to be like the Smash Brothers soundtracks where it's just like endless classics arranged in new fashions."
— Tim Gettys [45:59]

IGN’s Take (44:34 - 47:05):

Logan Plant shares concerns about the depth of the free roam mode but commends the game's soundtrack and character roster. He notes that while some elements may feel lacking compared to previous titles like Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Odyssey, the overall experience remains enjoyable.

Hosts’ Reactions:

• Music and Soundtrack:
  Tim is particularly excited about the soundtrack, expecting it to surpass previous Mario Kart entries in quality and variety.

• Gameplay Depth:
  While acknowledging some criticisms, both hosts believe the core racing experience will resonate well with fans.

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4. IO Interactive Showcase Announcement (51:25 - 55:43)

The hosts cover IO Interactive's first IOI Showcase, highlighting upcoming projects like Hitman, Mind's Eye, and 007 First Light. They express enthusiasm about finally seeing the long-anticipated James Bond game come to fruition.

"IOI partners including Hitman, Mind's Eye and 007 First Light."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [51:25]

Discussion Points:

• Expansion of IO Interactive’s Portfolio:
  The showcase signals IO Interactive's commitment to diversifying their game offerings beyond Hitman.

• Fan Excitement:
  Fans have been eagerly awaiting more details on 007 First Light, and the hosts anticipate a strong positive reception.

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5. Super Chats and Community Engagement (26:25 - 65:22)

Throughout the episode, Blessing and Tim interact with their live audience through Super Chats, addressing various predictions and feedback.

Notable Super Chats:

• Soros with New Parry System (26:58 - 28:07):
  A listener predicts Soros will appear with a new parry system in upcoming games.

• Phantom Blade Zero Release Date (27:25 - 27:51):
  Another listener speculates on the release date for Phantom Blade Zero during the State of Play.

• Bloodborne Content in Night Rain (28:07 - 29:01):
  A fan suggests adding Bloodborne content to the upcoming Night Rain game, expressing mixed feelings about exclusivity.

• Wolverine Announcement Possibility (29:14 - 33:37):
  Discussion revolves around the potential announcement of a Wolverine game, with the hosts weighing the likelihood of its appearance at State of Play versus other events like the Game Awards or Summer Game Fest.

• Capcom’s Fighting Games (33:59 - 35:43):
  Listeners ask for a return to classic fighting game mechanics in future Capcom titles, sparking a conversation about PlayStation’s history with fighting games.

Hosts’ Interactions:

• Engagement and Humor:
  The hosts maintain a playful and engaging tone, often teasing each other and incorporating listener comments into their discussions.

• Balancing Predictions:
  They balance optimistic predictions with cautious skepticism, ensuring their audience receives a well-rounded perspective on upcoming announcements.

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6. Additional News Highlights (58:53 - 65:22)

Beyond the major topics, the hosts touch upon various other news items:

• Dead Cam by Jor Nisser:
  Announcement of a new analog survival horror game utilizing a 90s found footage aesthetic.

• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Updates:
  Free Switch 2 update brings enhanced visuals and increased Pokémon presence.

• Hollow Knight: Silksong Updates:
  Recent updates from Steam DB1 energize the Hollow Knight fanbase after 15 months of silence.

• WE News – Small Story Coverage:
  Brief mentions of Zynga shutting down extra games and updates on other indie titles.

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Notable Quotes

• Tim Gettys on Mario Kart World’s Soundtrack:

  "The Mario Kart World soundtrack is going to be even better than the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack."
  — Tim Gettys [44:34]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. on State of Play Expectations:

  "I think State of Play feels like such a slam dunk."
  — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [27:09]

• Tim Gettys on IO Interactive’s Showcase:

  "We're gonna see it."
  — Tim Gettys [52:03]

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Conclusion

This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily provides a comprehensive look into the imminent PlayStation State of Play, offering detailed predictions and engaging discussions with the audience. The hosts effectively balance excitement with critical analysis, ensuring listeners are well-informed and eagerly anticipating the upcoming gaming events and releases.

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Transcript

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Today's stories include PlayStation announced the state of play for tomorrow. We got a lot of new the Witcher 4 footage and Mario Kart World Previews have dropped. Love all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Tuesday, June 3, 2020. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing Adioia Jr. Joining me is the Croix Poppy Tim. Muh Buggin Geddes.

[Tim Geddes]

This week just keeps getting more and more hype and exciting. A state of play, A new Sabrina Carpenter song. Are we in the best timeline?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Wait, the new song.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, we get a new song.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I saw the teaser yesterday. I didn't know what what was up, what was happening.

[Tim Geddes]

Get a new song.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I was distracted by the teaser.

[Tim Geddes]

We need the song of the summer. It's not here yet. Will we get it on?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You're right. Yeah. We don't have a song of the summer.

[Tim Geddes]

8Pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's really exciting.

[Tim Geddes]

Do you want.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What's up?

[Tim Geddes]

He just gave me a months ago.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Huh?

[Tim Geddes]

You were like, guess what's going to be in the Nintendo Switch to commercial launch. Commercial.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sabrina Carpenter. It's happening.

[Tim Geddes]

She's dropping the song Man Child. At the moment that the Switch 2 launches. It's all connected, everybody.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

They had people listen to the show.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think Mr. Nintendo heard the podcast and they're like, ah, snap. That's a good idea. We gotta get the Carpenter on the phone. It's such a great week. I think a state of play being announced was the thing to really pull it all together. I think there was something about the week where I'm like, all right, I'm excited for the Switch too. I'm excited for Summer Game Fest. I'm excited for Xbox. Like, you know, it's all exciting, but I feel like there was that one piece missing and now it's like, all right.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, it's all right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Cool, we're here.

[Tim Geddes]

It's always more exciting when there's that everyone's here vibe, you know, and like, we don't have a Nintendo direct. We don't need one. We're getting the games.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

We're getting a whole new experience with Nintendo. Like, this is like, this feels like old school. That one magical week of showcases. Because I feel like sometimes Summer Game Fest and even III feels a little scattered. Feels a little like, oh, it's getting too, too, too unwieldy. There's too many showcases that we know are not going to have anything of consequence. Ubisoft. I'm talking about you. We don't got that. We're cutting that now.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, cut the fat.

[Tim Geddes]

That's.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sorry, you don't got anything going on right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Tim, speaking of things going on, I've been talking about how in the last few weeks I've been going to LA back and forth non stop because there have been hella preview events and things going on. One of the preview events I went to was for the new Riot card game, Riftbound. The embargo is up now, but I can't talk about much. There's multiple embargoes. Margo right now though, I can just talk about it very broadly. So I'm actually not going to go that deep into it. I just want to reveal this box that they gave me on the way out, which is for.

[Tim Geddes]

Look at a box.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The bag.

[Tim Geddes]

No, it's a box.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's a box, but it looks like a book. It's a book.

[Tim Geddes]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It says Riftbound League of Legends pre launch Summit. That was the thing I went to was the summit right inside the Gave me four trial decks.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

For Riftbound. Now, like I mentioned before, Riftbound is right's new card game. It's based off of League of Legends. It's kind of their. It's their attempt, slash, I think, second attempt at a tcg, a trading card game. And going there last week, I thought it was going to be straight up, like, okay, you guys are making a match at the gathering. Like I've seen the videos. Like, you guys have the mana that you spend to then play creatures that do all that stuff. All right, cool. I know what this is. Getting my hands on this. I was very, very impressed by how new and fresh this felt. And I say that as somebody who I've not played every tcg, obviously.

[Tim Geddes]

Right. Like, you also are not the biggest at all, Riot person.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

I feel like you're dabbling.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You're starting like I. I like Valorant. Like so coming two xkos coming. And I'm like super high. I know. Nobody ever gets it right. 2x. Yeah. 2x.

[Tim Geddes]

I said that with such confidence. I just want to let you know I was sure I was right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You just gotta jump out the plane sometimes. But yeah, 2xk I'm very excited about. And those have the same characters from like the League of Legends universe. I've seen Arcane. Right. Like I dip my toe in here and there. And I think Riot is doing a great job of making League of Legends something that you can get into beyond just League of Legends. The Moba video game which I really like and appreciate because as they were talking about these characters and showing off the stuff, I was like, oh I like this. Oh, I like that. Oh, I like. I wonder if this is one of the decks. Okay, the deck I want to mention is in here, so I'm not going to say it just in case but like there are certain characters where I'm like, oh, I fuck with this deck and now I fuck with this character. You know what I mean? And so I'm excited for Riftbound. I want to like, sadly Mike's been sick this week and I wanted to play this with him.

[Tim Geddes]

He's gonna be so down.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh dude. He's gonna be so fucking excited for this thing. And so I'm excited for what this sparks with me and Mike because we get to get on the, get in on the ground floor.

[Tim Geddes]

I love that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You know, magic is already like a big ocean. This is now growing.

[Tim Geddes]

It's a jungle.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's a jungle. So get to grow with.

[Tim Geddes]

That's a League of Legends thing.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It is a League of Legends thing. Jungling. Yeah, see that? But yeah, shout out to Riftbound and Riot for letting me attend the summit and also send me home with the trial decks and can't wait to talk about it more in the future. But for now, remember this is kind of Funny Games daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube and now sponsor Spotify and Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us accord them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. So today after KHD you're going to get gamescast which is our Xbox game showcase. Predictions and so you're getting predictions back to back here and then after that is gamescast or sorry after the games cast is the Elden Ring Night Rain Stream. If you're a kind of funny member you can get. You can get today's Greg Way which is Greg's review of the Rog Ally X so far. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by xreal but we'll tell you about that later. For now let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today, Baker's Dozen starting with our number one. State of Play returns June 4th, that is tomorrow. I'm pulling directly from the PlayStation blog and before I even read the blog, I want to put out a super chat question for y' all watching and listening live. What do you think is going to show up tomorrow? Right in with your predictions. Me and Tim will judge and grade your predictions. The PlayStation Blog writes. State of Play returns June 4th. Watch live for news and updates on must play games coming to PS5. The show highlights a selection of great games from creators across the globe. The 40 plus minute show begins to June 4th at 2:00pm Pacific Time. Tim, thoughts?

[Tim Geddes]

I mean it's so exciting, right? We've been talking a lot about Summer Game Fest recently. Tomorrow or actually two days from now. We're actually. Is that right? Three days from now we're getting Jeff's show. We did our predictions episode yesterday. Today we're doing our Xbox showcase predictions and now surprise predictions for a PlayStation State of Play. 40 minutes of something going on. This has been rumored. It's been talked about the last couple days, if not weeks. We saw Shinobi saying that he hears it's going to happen and Shinobi isn't always out there saying things but when he does, it's probably going to end up happening. Specifically when it's in the realm of SP of a PlayStation. Right? So not a surprise that we're getting this state of play. I do think the timing is it's a little silly. It's a little weird to be so close to the switch and like for them to announce it this late. But I also feel like PlayStation's been doing that recently with its showcases slash state of plays. If there's a difference, if it even matters anymore.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I was gonna say do you feel anything about this being a state of play, not a showcase?

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, I know that mean you disagree on our thoughts on this Overall, I do still believe that the showcase brand exists and means more and they want to bring that back when they are ready to have multiple back to back bangers. I don't think that that is going to happen and I think that them having intergalactic somewhere and go somewhere else, like they're losing the ability to have that anytime soon. That is what it is. Maybe the next one's for the PlayStation 6 lead up or something, I don't know. But this being State of Play I think if anything does at this point is not a factor. Anything can happen. We can get Cory Barlog's new game. We can only get third party bullshit games that we've seen a million times before in other places. We can get anything in between. I think it's literally a limitless conversation when it comes to the state of play branding at this point. So, yeah, incredibly excited. I'm not necessarily expecting Corey Barlock's game. Oh, I'm not expecting that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

Are you?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, define expecting. I think I. I think it's a possibility too. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. I'm not.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't think it's gonna be there. I will be sure.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay, okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Surprised if it is there. I'll be happy if it's there. I don't know. I'm not expecting. I'm not predicting that. Although there are things that I do expect to be there that I'm incredibly excited. We've been talking about this, I mean, dating back even to earlier in January when we did the Fantasy Critic. Like a lot of that was us kind of trying to make predictions of what games are going to be announced where. And you know, without getting too far into our thoughts here, we made some predictions early on that I'm sticking to. Like you want me to get into it?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Get into it.

[Tim Geddes]

Resident Evil 9's gonna be there.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh yeah. Well.

[Tim Geddes]

And I mean I feel like. Yeah, well that is one of those like slam dunk ass predictions if I ever heard one. So I want to add some spice to this. We can't just say Resident Evil 9 is going to be there. What are they calling this?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So what we had Resident Evil, what was seven called Biohazard VIII and then.

[Tim Geddes]

Turned into Biohazard like that Resident Evil Village. After that the VIII turned into Village.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's gonna come down to where this Resident Evil takes place. Right.

[Tim Geddes]

So my thing is I. There's been a lot of leaks about this game. There's a lot of conversations specifically from Dusk Golem, who is one of those leakers that get. Gets things right and is very detailed about stuff and has been right about Resident Evil's many times in the past. Sounds like this is a Leon based adventure. Sounds like the game's had a lot of potential directions it could go. So it's a little messy on what it's going to actually be, but I think it's going to be third person based on what they're saying. And it sounds like it's a pretty drastic departure from seven and Village.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Interesting. So you Think they're going back to like classic middle era again.

[Tim Geddes]

From reading the reports from Dusk Golem, it kind of sounds like it is finishing Leon's quote unquote trilogy of Resident Evil 2, 4 and then now this, which I think does kind of paint a picture, but it sounds like in the same way that four is very different than two. I think this is going to be very different than anything we've seen before from the Resident Evil games. I. What I'm about to. My prediction of the name directly contradicts what the leak is saying. The. The leak is saying that it's not going to have nine in the title at all and it's going to be Resident Evil something else. And it's not even going to play with the IX at all. I think it's straight up Resident Evil 9, not a Roman numeral 9. I think it's going to be a statement that this is the same but different. You know, it is a number. This is a core. This is not US revelations or a fucking outbreak 295 or whatever the hell. This is a core sequel to Resident Evil. And we're not getting cute. This is. We mean business.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, oh. I fuck with it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And what do you think as far as window 2026 this year? No, this fall.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean I'm 50. 50 between this fall or early next year.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

When they announced these games, they come out quickly.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I guess that's fair. But yeah, it feels. It doesn't feel like a Resident Evil is coming out this fall. I guess. Like I.

[Tim Geddes]

It doesn't need to.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's not always this way. Right. But I would think like maybe a nine month lead for announcing to.

[Tim Geddes]

That sounds about right too. Again, I feel like between six and nine months. Okay, that's not right. Between like four and nine months before.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Between four and nine. What's four?

[Tim Geddes]

Between four and you think between four and seven? Yeah, I mean I'm saying it could.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It could. Okay. Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

No, well, but sorry. Well actually, define expectant. Okay, sorry. Let me just say this.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

June.

[Tim Geddes]

So October, I think between October.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Gotcha.

[Tim Geddes]

Between October and March. That's what I'm thinking.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's going to be announced for April. I'm putting. I'm pushing one. I'm pushing one month out. One month out.

[Tim Geddes]

You're right. Between October and April. Between October and April. I'm there. I'm there. And again, we're just basing this off patterns of what they've done before. Yeah, but yeah, they've done that before. So. And this is a bigger deal. So I like apparently been working on this one for a long ass time.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I like how much detail you're putting into this prediction because I think there's a high chance that Resident Evil 9 is going to be shown tomorrow. As far as what it is, I. I would be fascinated between the third person first person thing. I think the first person thing has been working very well for them. Like Resident Evil Village had faults to it. Right. But like, I think the first person stuff between Village and seven has actually been pretty revolutionary for the franchise and I think has worked. Now granted, going back and playing Resident Evil 2 remake, Resident Evil 3 remake, Resident Evil 4 remake, there's a love for third person. Yeah, there is that classic thing. And to your point, if you want to make a statement and go, we're back, baby. Putting it. I mean, and especially if you have Leon, right? Like putting in. You got to put it third person. If you have Leon as the main character. I think, yeah, I like that prediction.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm excited for it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm going to keep it on the horror side. So for context. Right. I didn't set this up well, me and you, I asked you if you wanted to bring three predictions to the table each. So we're bringing three predictions each. We're going to hop into chat, see what you guys are saying. But my first prediction is that Fire Sprite is going to show up.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

They're going to announce Until Dawn 2. Oh, the sequel to Until Dawn. Oh, we're in until dawn season again. They brought it back last year with the remake. The until dawn movie. Is. Is it out or came and went. It came out.

[Tim Geddes]

Movie. We reviewed it on this show. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No way was I. I was probably out of town, I think.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

I would have went. I couldn't though, for some reason. Joey and Roger went. They didn't like it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I wonder why. Yeah, until dawn two gets announced. The question is, when does it come out? I'm gonna say this fall. I'm gonna say it gets announced for this fall.

[Tim Geddes]

Plus, I really like this, I really like this prediction because I feel like this is like a. One of my favorite types of predictions where it just makes sense. I haven't heard anyone else talking about it and like it just adds up to being a real possibility. There's no expectation.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Well, there's a few rumors that have popped up recently and I think the biggest, where there smokes, there's flames thing is that they changed one of the endings to until dawn with the remake. I don't know, actually chat. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think if you do a certain thing in until dawn remake, there's a post credits, like a new post credits, a sequel that teases a sequel.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And so I think it just makes sense. The PlayStation audience loves until Dawn. Like nobody else is going to do this. Right. Like you just put out a movie as well, make another until dawn video game.

[Tim Geddes]

I love it. I love it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What do you got? What else you got?

[Tim Geddes]

I didn't have time to do what I wanted to do for this one. I wanted to listen to a show so I could get this quote verbatim. But I'm gonna try my best. PlayStation will announce a new God of War game. But it's Greek.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

And it's a 2D game in the style of an assassin.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I hate you so much. Chronicles.

[Tim Geddes]

Predicted that for the summer game fest. And it's like real talk. I think if they're going to announce God of War something, it's going to be here. Now, is it like you're saying a 2D, potentially metroidvania type thing or is.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It just like a Miles Morales, A.

[Tim Geddes]

Miles Morales sized God of war game that takes place in the Greek thing? Either way, I'm ecstatic. Ecstatic. I'm stoked for it. But I saw Noble on Twitter when, in replies to his own breaking news of the state of play, put a Screenshot of Kratos vs Shovel Knight when they did that crossover in Shovel Knight in the 2D pixel art. So I'm just like, probably just playing off of the rumors that have been going around about it being a 2D game. But I was thinking a little deeper about this since you said that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Think about it. Plus think about it.

[Tim Geddes]

The director, Eric of God of War, Ragnarok, remember when he was sitting right here at this desk when we asked him, like, what game he would want to make?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

What do you say that Castlevania Symphony of the night. Yeah, this does all add up a little too conveniently.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. You know, it does, doesn't it?

[Tim Geddes]

It does.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It does, doesn't it?

[Tim Geddes]

At the state of play.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

At the state of play. And that's funny because one of the things I wrote down is that that Greek God of War game will probably actually show up here. That's one of my backup predictions. But yeah, I think that that makes the most sense. It was kind of tough to place before this state of play was announced because I still do think that no Matter what. I think a PlayStation thing is going to show up at Summer Game Fest because it's. It's law. It always happens every like Summer Game Fest and game Awards. You're usually getting some first party thing whether big or very small. But I think a Greek God of war thing aside thing like has. I mean any PlayStation thing has a liar. Has a liar, has a likelier chance of showing up at a PlayStation State of Play. Like that's just how things work. And so, you know. Yeah, I think that's probably going to happen. As far as. Yeah. What it is. I kind of hope. Here's my thing. You're right. As far as if it's a Detrius or if it's like a just a regular God of war, like third person action game but smaller. I'm totally down for that. But there's something about what if they put their full effort into making a Metroidvania style like Prince approach of the Lost Crown thing? That just speaks to me. And it's funny because like I've. I've been Metroidvania like haters. The wrong word but like I've been apathetic to Metroidvanias. Right. Like I think they're fun, but I'm not. It's not like my favorite genre or anything like that. God of war though just works when you think about like the abilities, when you think about the world that God of war is in and like the stuff you can do with turning that into a 2D metroidvania, like it just makes sense in my brain.

[Tim Geddes]

It does. Now this is the obvious, like I am a big fan of Metroidvanias and specifically Prince of Persia. I do have the concern then. I can't fathom a God of war, Metroidvania being as good as Prince of Persia Lost Crown because you talk about the abilities and all that stuff. I mean Prince of Persia has most of the similar ones, but it also has all the time stuff and it also has like just like these extra elements on top. But hey, I'm not the one making these games surprise me. Let's make this awesome. But yeah, I do think real talk there's an equal chance that it is Atreus or just a Miles Morales type smaller experience because they at game awards announced Valhalla, which was a very different but more substantial than it had any right to be game. Like I don't even want to call that a game mode. That was a game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, and if they could get that done as quickly as they did, I Think that we've had enough time to get dude a miles level project done by.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

If you. Even if you wanted to do like another roguelite style thing but make it standalone this time and a bit more fully featured, like I would be down for that. I'm down for anything from Sony Santa Monica.

[Tim Geddes]

They're like, yeah, I mean that's. That's a great way to put it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. My next prediction. A few months ago it was unveiled to The World Team LFG, a new PlayStation studio. On the PlayStation blog they wrote this about their first game. Quote. Our first game is a team based action game that draws inspiration from fighting games, platformers, mobas Life, Sims and frog type games. Tim. Tomorrow Project Gummy Bears is officially revealed with an official title. I don't have a guess.

[Tim Geddes]

Do we see a gummy bear?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, you see frogs. That's the thing is you're a ribbit. Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes, it is a not officially part of the prediction. Yes, I'll make that officially because yeah, my official thing that I have written here is a family friendly MOBA where you build up damage percentage on characters to knock them back for their distances. It looks surprisingly fun. That's part of my prediction is that I think we'll see this trailer and go, this is weird and bizarre but also we fuck with it a little bit. Yeah. And then yeah, you play as frogs, which I believe will. Will imply rivets.

[Tim Geddes]

I love that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes. That's my second prediction right there.

[Tim Geddes]

I think that's a good one.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What you got? This is your third.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay, My third and final. Obviously we're going to talk more about other things so I'm not going to say any of the obvious ones or the like bigger conversation topics. I'm going to stick to one that I actually feel surprisingly good about because of Expedition 33. That game was announced at Xbox Showcase. We were all like, wow, that looks incredible. We don't believe it. Way too ambitious. No fucking way this game sees the light of day and let alone be fucking amazing. And here we are. My front runner for game of the year so far. There was another game that I felt very similarly about a couple months ago I think at the last state of play.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Baby steps.

[Tim Geddes]

No, I do think we'll see baby steps.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

With a release date.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

With a release date, yeah, for sure.

[Tim Geddes]

Tides of Annihilation. Oh, this is a game that we saw. And I was like, holy, this looks like the most Tim thing ever. And then the next day they dropped a 10 minute gameplay demo of it and I'm like, oh my God, this looks perfect.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Kevin, can you look up Tides of Annihilation?

[Tim Geddes]

Tides of Annihilation. What a great.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Is it ties or tides.

[Tim Geddes]

Tides. Tides with a D. Like waves.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Tides of Annihilation. Because I remember this. I remember the name, but for some reason I can't picture.

[Tim Geddes]

It's the dmc. The two women. There's like giant mech. Like monster things like. Yes.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This was the one that looked like rad. Yeah. Were there like giant creatures?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

So they. They showed the game and I just feel like we're going to see it again. Like, I feel like we're going to get some more of this. Because I would have never thought that I'd be like, all right, well, it's going to be a couple of years till we see this. But Expedition totally changed my. My viewpoint on. On things like this. And I feel like the way they're marketing these games.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This looks like the British expedition.

[Tim Geddes]

Sorry to hear you. You're.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You're kind of. I was saying this looks like a British expedition. I mean, that one was based in Paris and this is. Now you got Big Ben.

[Tim Geddes]

You kind of write down he's kind of right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I love the idea of Expedition 33. We're just in different countries.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And they just go all in like a Nigerian Expedition 33 would be fucking sick.

[Tim Geddes]

But yeah. Bless. What. What's happening? Oh, God, he's gone.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, you. I saw the figure in the background. He was that great.

[Tim Geddes]

It was. Of course it was Greg and just shadowy. Ass fucker.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But yeah, look at this. What the hell?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. I remember seeing this trailer and like getting hints of like just a bit. A bunch of different types of games. Like, I think there was a moment where I was like, oh, Shadow Claw. Yeah. Seeing this, I was like, oh, this feels like Shadow Colossus as she's climbing and there's a fucking big old creature in the background. Yeah, I like this. I forgot about this.

[Tim Geddes]

It looks freaking sick as hell. And again, I keep saying this, but it's like I don't believe in this game, but now I do because I'm a fucking idio and I was wrong about Expedition, so anything is possible. And hey, just because Expedition did it, I understand lofty expectations that anyone else could pull it off, but I want to believe. And I feel like, you know, Black Myth, Wukong and then Stellar Blade. It's like there are like these teams that are just kind of popping up doing dope ass shit. So I'm hoping we see this the problem is I don't know what. I don't know that we're getting a release date or anything for it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This doesn't feel like it's around the.

[Tim Geddes]

Corner, but I mean, look at it. It's kind of like there's a lot going on in these trailers. Like gameplay and cinematics in different locations and stuff. Like, this game looks more complete than I would expect in the same way that Expedition did.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Honestly, if you guys told me this was Expedition, I don't know that I would know the difference. You know what? I understand that. I understand that.

[Tim Geddes]

God looks like Final Fantasy. All my favorite final fantasies.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. This looks like everybody. It looks like they like went into Tim's brain. Yeah. And like using one of the parts.

[Tim Geddes]

He likes the most.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

They went to chat GPT and they're like, what make a Tim Getty's ass game? And chatgpt Spit it out. My third and final prediction, Marathon is not mentioned at all. That's it. That's the prediction.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You don't hear the word marathon. The most you might see is a montage of the rest of 2025.

[Tim Geddes]

That would be crazy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's a prediction. That's what I'm here for. I'm here for crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I mean, that would be a very bad.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

With every. With everything that's happened in the last, like. Is it only been a month of like the, the. The whatchamacallit pirate or not piracy, but the theft, like it's the art theft situation and how that seemed to have like spawned articles about like the, the, like how work is going over there and like how morale is the word I was looking for. Morale being low and like seemingly marketing plans for the summer are shifting and. And what they had for late summer is now being turned from a demo to like a different thing. I feel like they're in. They're in disarray right now.

[Tim Geddes]

They are.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But here's just up in the air.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm trying to think through this right now in my mind. Has PlayStation ever had, in a marketing sense when there's controversy and stuff like this going on, the opportunity to not step on a rake and not step.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

On the rake, you know, fair.

[Tim Geddes]

Because I feel like Marathon's gonna be there.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But like my other thing, in the.

[Tim Geddes]

Most tone deaf way possible, my other.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Thing too is what do you have to say about Marathon at this point?

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know. But they'll find something to piss us off.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You know what? Fair. They're like, we're. We're up in the price. Buy this for $80.

[Tim Geddes]

Now, like, I am kind of just being snarky, but there is a reality that I'm coming from, you know?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, no, I feel that.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I, I. Let me say this. I hope we don't see it tomorrow.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You hope we don't see it tomorrow? Why?

[Tim Geddes]

Because I hope that marathon cannot be the Fumble. It seems like it's going to be. They need to do their best to regroup and figure out what to do.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes. And that's why I don't think we'll see it tomorrow is. I think that's what they're doing. I.

[Tim Geddes]

So I'm. I'm rooting for your prediction.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

All right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Those are our three predictions each. I want to hop into Super Chats to see what you guys are saying. Just to blaze through a couple here. I see Wiener writes in and says, $2 for Snow Mike. Mike's health. Of course, Mike is home sick because he went to Disney World five days in a row. Ca splits and writes in and says, nice jacket. Bless. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I'm gonna skip some of these to get to more prediction talk, but I appreciate the person who's referencing Wicked for good. CJ splits in, says Soros appears with a new parry system. Perry Bullet. Hell.

[Tim Geddes]

We will see Sorrows gameplay tomorrow.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm 50. 50.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I feel like that's one you could save for a September State of Play.

[Tim Geddes]

You're right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I don't think that has to come happen tomorrow.

[Tim Geddes]

You're right. But I'm feeling good about it. I'm 70. 30.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I like that Tim's feeling good about it. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Foxy Steve writes in, says, I think we get Phantom Blade zero release date at State of Play. They did announce that this year is the year that we're going to get the release date.

[Tim Geddes]

I could be wrong, but that feels more like a Jeff thing to me because it's been. I know. Summer Game Fest, but has it been in a state of play? I think it has been in a state of play, but it's been physically at Play days.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Like Andy played it at play days.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Did you?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I played it all.

[Tim Geddes]

And you. And you too. Yeah. So I think that the release date will be a Jeff thing.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Shayna Duffy writes in and says, I think Tim mentioned yesterday during SGF predictions, but definitely seems more likely RE9 could be at State of Play. We talked about that. Yeah, I would think. Yeah. State of Play feels like Such a slam dunk. Because every Resident Evil for the last half decade has been the last five of them. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Seven.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Two.

[Tim Geddes]

Remake three. Make remake eight. Yeah, I guess four. Oh, and then four.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Seven, five. Wait, did you say seven?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. So there's been five games. Three remakes. Seven and eight.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Matt de Hart says bloodborne content being added to Night Rain would be a cool announcement from PlayStation. Hopefully not as a console exclusive though. Man. Matt, I. I would fuck with that. So heavy. That would be so cool. I don't think that's gonna happen. I think fromsoft1. I think having to make that deal as far as. All right, we want bloodborne stuff in Night Rain, but like we don't want to make it exclusive. I think that would be too much of a thing to navigate. And I think FromSoft wants to probably like claim their identity more. Right. Like, I don't think they want to do more things that are going to connect them to PlayStation necessarily. Granted there was, there was the whole. Remember when PlayStation invested in Katakawa?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And we talked about that for a whole two weeks.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And like nothing's come of it. Like, you know, maybe that changes stuff. But I would be surprised, even though that'd be really cool. Morris Wayne writes in with a very important question. What are the odds we see Wolverine tomorrow?

[Tim Geddes]

I think slim, but it's not impossible. We need to see Wolverine at some point. And I think that PlayStation has proved with their lack of showcases and with the amount that they've shown from first party games at other events or state of plays that they are willing to drop the big guns at state of plays. So if they're ready to say something about Wolverine in the same way that when they were ready to say something about Ghost of Yote, they did. I don't know if they're ready to say something though. And in fact I don't know that they need to because here's. Here is an important thing for us to point out. This is the first summer game fest ever that we are expecting the majority of showcases. The big showcases are going to have games that are coming to PlayStation 5, whether it's the state of Play, the Keely Showcase or the Xbox Showcase. We're filling out the PlayStation 5's calendar.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You get what I'm saying.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I understand.

[Tim Geddes]

So I feel like Sony looking at that there's going to be more third party PlayStation 5 games to contend with and position than ever of consequence. We're looking at the sales of Forza and Indiana Jones. That's going to continue with Gears and Halo, right?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So with that, I don't know that you need to drop the Wolverine as well.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

When do you think Wolverine is coming out?

[Tim Geddes]

Next year.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So I'm with you there. So I think for me I'm. I don't think we get like we don't get to 2026 without seeing Wolverine again now.

[Tim Geddes]

Really?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I don't think so. I mean my prediction would be game awards stage at the end of this year. I think Wolverine is one of those things where you want to have for a. Like this is one of those ones where when we talk about state of play versus PlayStation showcase and like even though I just conflate them together and I like, I think PlayStation just freestyles with it. I think as soon as Wolverine enters the picture, it becomes a PlayStation showcase.

[Tim Geddes]

That's so funny. I'm almost the. I actually I am on the opposite side where I think that Wolverine at this point it can be anywhere from blog post to Jeff thing to anyone.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But that's one of those things where if we saw Wolverine this week now, knowing that this is for sure state of play, I would almost expect it more at Jeff show than to see it tomorrow. Yeah, I like. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a scenario where PlayStation would even announce it like outside of a big showcase. Like it could be an end of a state of play kind of thing. Right. But I think More likely a PlayStation showcase, a game awards, a summer game fest, like whatever the top tier is. The top tier is of showcase. I think that's what you say Wolverine for. Especially when you have these options.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, let's take out the.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Where it's going to be hyper games is Comic Con. That's also. No, I think that's a decent option.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know. Comic Con sucks, dude.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

San Diego Comic Con, it.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, it's just not especially like take away live streaming for the majority of panels and things. Like it's. That's not where you announce stuff like that. That's where you show stuff off later. That is not. And I know the Wolverine's already been announced, but like I. That is a third round of.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think Wolverine would show up at Comic Con.

[Tim Geddes]

You with voice actors like that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It would show up at ComicCon if we got a trailer this week. You know what I mean? Like they will follow it up at Comic Con.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. So forget where it's going to be. What's your percentage that we see Wolverine this week?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This week? Percentage. 20. Yeah, I'm there too yeah, like it's not impossible. Yeah, it'd be pretty cool. But like, I don't expect it.

[Tim Geddes]

It's. There is a chance. And if it was, it's not like, oh my God, this is life altering. But it's like, yeah, it's not an expected thing.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because I think my. My thinking too goes to the roster. PlayStation games we have announced and where things fall. Because we know we got Intergalactic, we know we got Sorrows, we know we got Wolverine. Wolverine was announced before. Like as. Like as far as the big games. Yeah. To showcase. Right. Like Wolverine was announced first. Now production schedules, scope, all the. Like, I would be surprised to get Sorrows before Wolverine.

[Tim Geddes]

I think we will.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. And like so in terms of dominoing that out. Right. Like, yeah, I don't think. I think Wolverine is like later in the year maybe if it's coming out in 2026. Like let's say sorrows, let's say first half of 2026 and then Wolverine maybe four fall September 2026.

[Tim Geddes]

That'd be awesome.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That'd be crazy, right?

[Tim Geddes]

God, that'd be awesome.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Good year. Some more from Super Chats. DJ Kento says, come on Capcom, give me stationary camera and tank controls. Do it, cowards is what the fans want in D pad only. No analog stick. Of course. Talking about Resident Evil there. It's funny, when I read that first sentence, I thought DJ Kento was just saying like a Capcom anything.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Which would have led me to your prediction yesterday about Marvel versus Capcom.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because that for me feels like more of a PlayStation.

[Tim Geddes]

Absolutely.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

They've been really doubling down on fighting games.

[Tim Geddes]

Capcom and PlayStation in general has always been. Not always, but recently has been a tight thing. So. And then, yeah, they're fighting games as well. So yeah, there was a chance that it would be there. I actually think it's more likely at a state of play than a state summer game fest.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I would put it at a very high percentage even if it's not Capcom that we see a fighting game tomorrow. I think PlayStation has done such a good job pretty much every year at their state of plays of having like some major fighting game of consequence. There have been. And we're in a weird place now where it's like, what would that game be? Could it be a. Would it be too early for another realm thing? Probably Arc. Arc System works. It's been quite a few years since.

[Tim Geddes]

Like they're Dragon Ball Fighters 2 or something. Yeah, I feel like that's. That's do.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I would say Arc System works. Next game I would be would make sense for tomorrow.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, Final Fantasy 9 is the other one. The Nvidia leak for many years ago, that tactics are still two of the things that were on the list that haven't been talked about since it is the 25th anniversary this year of Final Fantasy 9. So good one.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

One more I'll take from Super Chats before we move on. Shaggy Sasquatch writes in and says actual gameplay of Ghosts of Yote. And they go on to also say Soros Intergalactic Gameplay Trailer Wolverine or Insomniac Trailer Cory Barlog Game Tease. The two things I want to pull from here is Ghost of Yote. I feel like that's a guarantee.

[Tim Geddes]

For.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This week at least.

[Tim Geddes]

We always predict that in the state of plays or Nintendo directs or whatever, they're going to use the time to actually promote their like imminent upcoming products. And they often don't. But I think that trend's been changing and I do think that recently they, they have been actually doing little reminders. So yes, I think we'll see Ghost.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Of Be tomorrow and then Cory Broog's next game.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't. I just don't think so. It could. It definitely could.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That I put in the same like.

[Tim Geddes]

Well, it's 20 conversation.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. All right. That's where I'm cutting off the state of play predictions. Very good conversation. We're getting long in the tooth here, but we got other big news to talk about like the Witcher 4. But before we get there, I want to tell you about patreon.com so/kinda funny and YouTube.com kinda funnygames where you can get the Kinda Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

[Tim Geddes]

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[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

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[Tim Geddes]

Yes. So we're going to do just that. We're not going to cover it here on Games Daily right now because after this we're doing a Gamescast. That's the Xbox predictions. But then after that instead of the stream today, we're going to do another Gamescast. That'll be you and Andy and whoever else wants to Join Talking all about the Witcher 4 tech demo that was.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Shown because there's so much to break down with that. And let me tell you, I don't know how much of that video you watched of the Witcher 4. It's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

It's incredibly impressive.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And so that's more content for your eyes and ears right there. So the quick hit for store number two will be that, yeah, the Witcher 4 has been showing has been shown running on PS5 in a stunning new demo footage as part of the Unreal Engine 5 events. And there's a lot of footage there. So that's a quick hit for you. We'll talk about that a couple videos from now. For now, let's move on to story number three. Mario Kart World previews are up. We got a preview roundup for you, starting off with one from Michael McWhirter at Polygon. Who writes in or who, who writes? Your mileage may vary, but after spending half a day playing with Mario Kart World's various modes across dozens of new and reimagined racetracks, the headline grabbing price tag for Nintendo's Switch 2 flagship launch title is starting to feel earned. During an all day hands on event with Switch 2 in New York City last week, I spent four hours with the game and still barely scratched the surface of the kart racing game's depths. In fact, I only lightly touched Mario Kart World's all important free roam mode where hundreds of collectibles and missions await. A good chunk of my time with Mario Kart World was spent playing through the game's various Grand Prix courses, competing against 23 computer controlled opponents. Starting with a fresh save file, I wound up unlocking a handful of characters. Donkey Kong, Daisy, Rosalina, Lakitu, and Cataquack. Cataquack. Do you know Cataquack?

[Tim Geddes]

Cataquack?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Cataquack. I know all those other names. I know Lakitu. What the is a Cataquack?

[Tim Geddes]

I'm forgetting what the name of the things are from Mario Sunshine that are like big circles with the beaks that'll like flip you, but I don't think that's a category.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh no. People in chatter it is. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm such a loser.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, people in chat are saying Sunshine. So that means it's not canon is what that means. Cool.

[Tim Geddes]

These motherfuckers.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, I didn't play Sunshine. I don't play that shit.

[Tim Geddes]

Come on.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I only play good Mario games, which.

[Tim Geddes]

Is every other Mario game except Sunshine, man. Just because it's not the best doesn't mean it's not good. But everybody's out there. He's Andy Cortez, man. He's too good at games.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Every other Mario game is the best, though. So when you're the one game that's not the best, that means you're fucking the worst. You're the worst.

[Tim Geddes]

I have had the opportunity to write my sins.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But I'm going to do it right here, right now. Recently, me and you did a shit list about ranking all the Mario games. We had a very similar conversation to this of like talking all about the. That there's not many bad Mario games, if any, but there's a lot of best Mario games, and that's the problem. And we started going to like, really trying to say, are there bad ones? Whatever. And I was really defensive of Super Mario Land one on the Game Boy, which was the game that I easily have the least experience with of like, pretty much any core Mario game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And.

[Tim Geddes]

And I was like, you know what? I want to make sure I'm right about what I'm saying. And I went back and played it. That game is an atrocity. Oh, no, that game is an atrocity. No, it has an amazing theme song, has a couple cool theming things going on. Very. That is being very generous, but otherwise atrocity.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Wow. A Game Boy game that's not Pokemon is bad. That's crazy. What a Game Boy game that's not a Zelda or a Pokemon 2.

[Tim Geddes]

Still Fox.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, I. With that. Yeah, no, that's. That's a good opinion. But yeah, cataquack, you can do that. Unlock those characters by winning cups or through one of Mario Kart World's new items. In some races, the magical Koopa Kamek would inflict his wizard's curse on my character, temporarily transforming my guy Toad into one of the game's other characters. Like, say, a cataquack from Mario Sunshine. All right, says right there. But thanks to Kamek's trickery, I then got access to cataquack as a racer, one of the many new NPC racers that push Mario Kart World's playable roster to well over 100 characters. I'm going to jump from that preview over to Logan Plant's preview from ign, who says, sadly, the rest of Free Roam hasn't gripped me yet. IGN Simon Carty wrote a feature sharing his concerns about the open world mode. And while I think I'm a little higher on it than he is so far, I. I agree with the general sentiment that there's just not that much to do outside of the P switches. There are collectibles scattered throughout by way of peach medallions and question mark block panels that unlock one of hundreds of stickers you can slap on the side of your cart. But the ones I found. But the ones I found felt neither special nor difficult to discover. And I I missed the feeling of surprise and delight that other Nintendo games like Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Odyssey completely nailed. He continues. Mario Kart World might just have one of the greatest soundtracks in Nintendo history. Each course has its own dedicated theme, as usual. But beyond that, the remixes that played during Free Roam and Knockout Tour make Mario Kart World feel like a proper celebration of Super Mario's 40th anniversary. In my short time with the game, I heard references to Super Mario Bros, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong country, Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad, Treasure Tracker, pretty much every past Mario Kart, and a lot more. Each track I heard was beautifully remixed to fit Mario Kart World's adventurous road trip vibe, and I can't wait to hear every tune it has to offer. Tim, how does that make you feel?

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, dude, that last part in particular makes me feel very, very, very good. We have Guitar Hero Arrow in the chat saying it's impossible to top the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack. The Mario Kart 8 soundtrack is so damn good and just continues to get better and better as DLC was added to. It's so good, in fact, that just yesterday I finally had a package delivered to my house and it was the CD from Japan of the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack that I ordered maybe a year ago. Oh, and I forgot about Edit just showed up and I'm like, oh, you know what, what perfect serendipitous timing here. But here's the thing, Mr. Guitar Hero Arrow. I can almost assuredly say that the Mario Kart World soundtrack is going to be even better than the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack. Every single thing that I have heard and I have been so searching for any sign of new tracks and songs being dropped on YouTube or people's gameplay from the different events that Nintendo's been doing. Holy crap man. We are talking a a breath of songs and we are talking quality. So many of these are like live with real full bands, guitar, drums, orchestra, like they're going all out and it is essentially a 40th anniversary of Mario celebration of like every game ever. This is about to go incredibly hard. I think it's going to be like the Smash Brothers soundtracks where it's just like endless classics arranged in new fashions, but all with the same tone. That Mario Kart tone.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's the thing that I do love about this and even the. With our predictions that this was going to be Mario Kart crossover, like we're going to have all the different Nintendo franchises. I think the fact that we're comparing like what they do with Super Smash Brothers to this, but it is all just Mario franchise kind of makes this special in a way different way. Because I mean, I love Smash Brothers for giving me all these different tracks. Right? Like that what Super Smash Brothers did for Sticker Brush Symphony.

[Tim Geddes]

For me, that Sticker Brush Symphony remix is incredible.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

An all timer.

[Tim Geddes]

Right?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But I think there's something about focusing in on just the music of the Mario franchise specifically that allows you to kind of like, yeah, go in and make remixes of very specific, specific tracks that can, I think, I don't know, get be special in a way different way.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'm with you. And I still think that DLC is going to be a thing. I think we're inevitably getting crossover stuff with other Nintendo franchises and that's great. But I'm with you. I love that this is going to be a Mario celebration. I'm not entirely sold on a hundred characters and like, is there. Are they necessary?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Do I gotta play as cataclysm?

[Tim Geddes]

Are they? Like, that's my thing. I don't want to play as kind of like.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Don't mean play as Gabe, Logan Sunshine characters.

[Tim Geddes]

But I really feel like everything we're hearing from these previews, I'm not surprised by any of it. Like the good, the bad, the questions. I'm right there with Logan and with everything we're talking about here. Like, yeah, we look at the footage, we've played the game, we know the game is awesome. Why? Because it plays like Mario Kart 8.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Cool. It's perfect.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

But all this open world stuff, whatever, like what bums me out is my favorite phrase of 2025 with Nintendo Surprise and Delight. It bums me out that Logan Plant, who's now played way more actual free roam mode than you or I have, is saying that it doesn't have that Mario Odyssey or Zelda Breath of the Wilder tears kind of dopamine. Everywhere you go, something's popping off, something's happening. But I did also read a couple other previews of this and it sounds like some of the challenges, the Peabok challenges are surprisingly challenging. So it's not just like the most obvious. Just like, oh, I'm just hitting a. To like, do this. Whatever. It's like, it requires a bit more arcades type gameplay and I'm. I'm here for that, man.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

You mixing Tony Hawk with my Mario Kart. Let's go.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I. I think the dream of a Mario Kart Forza Horizon type experience always kind of felt like a dream, but the fact that they've gotten this close with it, even I'm like, all right, cool. Like, this might be like the thing to maybe divide people a little bit to go. Oh, yeah. This mode isn't as full fledged or as like, jam packed as I want it to be, but. What. It's still Mario Kart. You know what I mean? Like, you still have all the other things in there, the Grand Prix and all that stuff, and I'm sure I'm still going to have fun with open world stuff, so.

[Tim Geddes]

And dude, this all good news to me. If Knockout Tour is half as fun as it was for us the times we played it, that's going to be a game changer.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's enough to like, make this be a step forward for Mario Kart story number four. We got some seafood thing being teased over on Twitter by at Seafood Game where they say they put up an image and they say it's not just what you wear, it's what you represent. We've got a surprise for you on June 19th. And they have like just a bunch of silhouettes here of characters. My guess is sifu skins for rematch.

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, so Andy brought up a good point that the backgrounds of each of these things are the different levels.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

But looking at it, it's not like it's the boss characters from the levels. You know, maybe their outfits are just styled after them. But is that not already in the game? Like, I'd be surprised. There's a lot of outfits.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So I. I think that something with rematch is probably likely.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This, though, it's the fact it's like the caption here. It's not just what you wear. Right. So then what are we talking about as far as skins? Cosmetics?

[Tim Geddes]

Can you bring it back, Kev? Did you play as a man or a woman in Super.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

As a dude.

[Tim Geddes]

I. So I went the woman. And so, yeah, like the second and fourth, those are clearly the head of that sifu woman.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

So this looks like it is sifu.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

Characters, not rematch characters.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Correct. So, but when I'm thinking of rematch skins, I'm thinking like, literally, like they put you in the full getup of a sifu oh, okay. Like a Sifu cosmetic is what I'm thinking of. But maybe it could be in a multiplayer update to sifu. But also, I don't know how that would make sense with the caption here.

[Tim Geddes]

It's not just what you wear, it's what you represent.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So June 19, when does rematch even come out? Rematch is out.

[Tim Geddes]

It's June 19th. Is it June? Right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So it's definitely June. Rematch comes out. Well, now I'm opening the Steam page.

[Tim Geddes]

June 19th. Okay, so it's rematch something.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Not a surprise.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Not a surprise. I mean, let's see if this is something big, Tim.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, let's see.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But if it's not, maybe it'll be something small like the rest of the news stories. Stories we have for the rest of the show.

[Tim Geddes]

That's true.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

If I wanted to find the smallest news stories, where would I go?

[Tim Geddes]

You go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about. I just wanted to say, I'm just so happy that we're still talking about Sifu in any way, shape or form.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes. I think we're the outlet that evangelizes the Sifu the most.

[Tim Geddes]

I love that and I'm fine with that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

If Sifu is the game that we go down is like, we're the Sifu people. We've more than done our job.

[Tim Geddes]

You know what I was thinking? We gotta do a Sifu race again.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, dude.

[Tim Geddes]

But without touching it the way that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That'll last hours. Yeah. I do not think I could beat seafood like that. If I picked it up. Maybe I could.

[Tim Geddes]

Maybe. You know, I wonder if we could just unlock it like Limitless.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Steer number five is WE news. IO Interactive has announced its first IOI showcase. A live streamed and in person event revealing details from the celebrated game creators properties and its publishing branch. IOI partners including Hitman, Mind's Eye and 007 First Light.

[Tim Geddes]

Plus, like, holy. After years we're about to see 007 First Light.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like it's gonna happen.

[Tim Geddes]

We've talked about like, man, wouldn't it be cool if I.O. made a. The creators of Hitman made a James Bond game. And then they announced that years ago with just a logo. And then at the Nintendo Direct event, we lost our shit when they just showed that logo again.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yep, the same footage.

[Tim Geddes]

Here we are.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And now here we are.

[Tim Geddes]

We're gonna see it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We. And I'm. I'm excited to see what this is. Honestly, in a weird way, I'm more Excited to see what the is Mind's Eye, you know what I mean? Like they, we've seen this game pop up over and over again. This game's coming out in like June 10th. Yeah, it's a. It's from the GTA people but like they left and then they made a platform called Everywhere. And in Everywhere you can make different kinds of experiences in games. And this game is going to live within Everywhere. But I think you can play it outside of everywhere at the same time. But can I make a game in Everywhere? Does everybody has have access to everywhere? What's up with Everywhere? And also we talked more about this on yesterday's gamescast. The the Xbox or no, the SGF predictions episode. We had a segment toward the beginning about Hitman and this came up. So if you want to hear us talk a bit more about IOI Interactives Showcase over there. Elden Ring Night Rain has sold 3.5 million copies.

[Tim Geddes]

Fucking crazy, man. I know. We talk about fromsoftware and Elden Ring a lot. You're kind of funny, Kevin.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What is this? I got to know. I opened up YouTube to look up something you're talking about and there was just this games trailer video where you're an egg. And I was like, you know what, let me click it. Then I started watching it and I'm like, you know what, I'm going to show it to you. You know I'm glad you're showing this cuz I did see this when I was doing news this morning and I was like, oh, it's a game called Egging On. We probably don't need this. But now as I'm watching that looks pretty cool.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm like, that looks like a fun.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I should have put this in the show. So thank you for bringing this up, Kevin. No problem.

[Tim Geddes]

But man, it's. It's really crazy to remember back when, when my friend Daniel Ortiz in college was just like, oh man, there's this game Demon Souls, you gotta try. It's taken over my life and I watched and play. I'm like, that looks like the least fun game I've ever seen. I want nothing to do with that. And then years later the Dark Souls phenomenon starting to happen. But it still kind of felt like a niche thing. And then it built and built and started becoming way more mainstream. Elden Ring pops off game of the year left and right, but then it's backed up by sales. Dude, we're talking about Elden Ring, the core game. What? 30 plus million at this point. Like that is A bonafide hit. And then you put it out of a fucking multiplayer game that people, even the biggest fans seem a little bit like. Like, I like it, but there's a lot of butts. There's a lot of butts. No matter how much you love it, there's a lot of buts. 3.5 million already.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I've. I've never felt more wrong about. Like. Like when you. I think, was it you that we did the review with me, you and Andy, the Elmer Night Rain review? I think you asked how, like, if we thought this game was gonna be successful. And for me I was a bit more like, I don't know, man. Like, it's like you are asking a very specific thing of your players as far as what they want. It is a multiplayer co op roguelike game that is very rough around the edges. That's Elden Ring. Like, I don't know if this is going to like, go crazy in sales. And now I'm like, oh, 3.5 million copies in a week. Okay, yeah, I should have. I should have known. My bad, my bad. Elden Ring. I forgot. I forgot you're from software and I forgot who you are.

[Tim Geddes]

What that means now. That's fucking awesome. Congrats from software. Very, very cool now.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But now I'm even more fascinated by the Dust Bloods and how that does.

[Tim Geddes]

I know.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, I got so many questions about the power of FromSoftware because now it's like Elden Ring is one of those ips where you put on anything and it might just sell millions within hours. Which is scary and also cool because I love that for FromSoft, like sustainable.

[Tim Geddes]

Or is it like, is a brand new IP gonna sell that well?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, I mean, I guarantee. Well, brand new ip, we'll see what the Dust Bloods. But like, I think any proven from software thing now, like, if they put out a new Dark Souls for some reason, it's gonna sell millions and millions. I mean, man, if they put out a new Bloodborne. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. How much did Armor Core sell? This is what I want to look into. This next one's from IGN solo developer Jor Nisser, creator of last year's Don't Scream, has announced Dead Cam, a new analog survival horror game that uses a 90s found footage VHS camcorder aesthetic to scare you through a series of files. It is coming to PC, Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet's free Switch 2 update is now live. Get hype. Garfield Cart 2 all you can drift launches September 10th on Xbox Series PS5, Switch and PC.

[Tim Geddes]

The Pokemon Scarlet and Violet footage that dropped yesterday. The 60 frames per second clip. You see that?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

You didn't?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No. Is it good?

[Tim Geddes]

I mean, it's. It's uncanny Valley to look at it because you're just like this. Something's wrong here. This game's running.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It looks smooth.

[Tim Geddes]

It's buttery smooth. It's 60 frames per second.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I don't believe that.

[Tim Geddes]

But. But here's the thing. It's still ugly. Like, it's still. It's still what Pokemon Scarlet Violet looked like, art wise. Which doesn't bother me that much. I wish it. Obviously. I wish it was better, but it is what it is. But people did comparison videos of like actually taking it and going to the same locations.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

The sheer amount of Pokemon that are.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Around you, like, it's increased now.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Really?

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going. I'm gonna try to find this.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I might need to. I might need to pick up Pokemon Scarlet and Violet now. Zynga has shut down extra games. They did Horse Light 3. They've been shut down after four years of his acquisition. And then lastly, from Wario 64, Hollow Knight Silksong received updates to his packages tonight on Steam DB1, apparently receiving an update for the first time in 15 months. And the Hollow Knight Silk Song fans going crazy. They're going crazy. This look good from game Explain.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, yeah. Go. Go forward a bit.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I was just showing you the names. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

No, wait. This is. Hold on. Sorry. I want to. I'm going to.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We can end the Wii news. That's it for we. That's it for we news.

[Tim Geddes]

Although. Thank you. Stay here. This is what I was looking at.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And the left is. Switch to the right.

[Tim Geddes]

Look how many more Pokemon there are.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's wild.

[Tim Geddes]

Actually, there's a part where we get to like. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What's up?

[Tim Geddes]

Look at that. How is. How did.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How's this not blowing up your switch too? With it being Scarlet and Violet? It's not supposed to do that. You're not supposed to see more than one Pokemon at a time on screen.

[Tim Geddes]

So funny. We still haven't seen a windmill, though. That was the thing that made me sick to look at.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What are the wind. Oh, you're right. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

There's windmills that would like go at like three frames per second. Like, I'm not sure, but it was. It was.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Is horrible. Yeah, dude. Oh, man, I love Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

[Tim Geddes]

This is like.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, dude. This is like my problematic fave. Right here. Yeah, the game just. Oh, they just shat this thing out and it was what the.

[Tim Geddes]

Says. We're officially in 2008, baby.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Let's go. Let's take a look at some more super chats before we wrap up this episode. R2A Tron Robo Bartender writes in and says, kevin brings us the hard boiled content the community needs Egg. Volkdasher says, there you go. State of play will be bad. But PS5 Loki has the best roadmap since 2024, when we break it all down, all the exclusives in 2024 from all parties and now all that are scheduled. So suppose they have a new strategy for announcements. Volkdasher, I don't know what you're saying, man.

[Tim Geddes]

I feel like I agree. I understand the words.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The word, though. It's the. It's the way you wrote it. I think I understand the energy of what you're saying, but I don't think this. I don't. I don't expect state of plays to be bad necessarily. They're bad sometimes. Like the one where they had all the multiplayer things. It was a PlayStation showcase. That one was bad.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't think this one's going to be bad. Yeah, I'm also not expecting the best one ever.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No.

[Tim Geddes]

But I think there's a higher likelihood it's great than bad.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think state of plays do a good job of. Of setting expectation. I think PlayStation showcases are where expectations get out of whack and then they use. Not usually, because I think it's only one time, honestly, where they've disappointed us. But I don't think anybody's. Usually ever. Actually, I'm speaking out of there. And I was gonna say nobody's ever overhyped for a state of play. That's unequivocally wrong. But I think sensible people aren't overhyped. That's fair for a state of plays. Jeff Bowl Jr says stop the sunshine. Hate that game. Ruled. Listen, I call it like I see it.

[Tim Geddes]

Which one?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sunshine. Mario Sunshine. The game that you already forgot existed because it's so unappealing.

[Tim Geddes]

You cannot forget about Mario Sunshine.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You just did.

[Tim Geddes]

No, I just didn't hear what you said.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sunshine, man. My bad. It's the Goat Mario game. My bad.

[Tim Geddes]

No, it ain't. It ain't.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I don't know why I'm hating on it so hard.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know either.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I don't know Andy's fault. He keeps hating on you, trying to mess with you. Tundra boy says, have we all forgotten about Pragmata?

[Tim Geddes]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I won't believe Pragmata exists until we see it again. For me, that game is this generation's deep down. Capcom always has one. Deep down every generation.

[Tim Geddes]

You know, I'm with you. That if we see it one more time, the game is happening the last time. If we see it one more time, I don't think it gets canceled.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The last time we saw was in a trailer that ended off with a sticky note that said sawee and a sad face. We're not seeing that game ever again. They said they spelled it with two W's. Do not remember that.

[Tim Geddes]

I love it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

They didn't. I made that up.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Let'S see. I hate that. I was like, did they really?

[Tim Geddes]

No, but you thought they did the rest of it. They just spelled sorry correctly.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, but he's not making the rest.

[Tim Geddes]

Of that story up.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, but no, no, I remember. I. I believe I was running the show when that happened. Yeah, it was a sticky. The sawy part was we pushed it over the edge and then I was like, oh, with a lot. Thin writes in, says, insomniac post is on X, heads down, working on Wolverine. I think we'll see it either tomorrow or Friday. Hold on, let me see this. Because I get the opposite impression. If they just type A heads down, working on Wolverine. I'll check that out later.

[Tim Geddes]

That based on what's here, I imagine that means. Yeah, we're not seeing it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'll do one more. I'll do two more. Yeah. David writes in and says, does the 2D God of War game follow LEGO Horizon and come to PC and Switch, Slash Switch two on day one?

[Tim Geddes]

Holy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, that's a good question.

[Tim Geddes]

Holy shit.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I like that you're cooking.

[Tim Geddes]

Whoa, dude.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I could see it.

[Tim Geddes]

You know what?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think that makes sense.

[Tim Geddes]

Yes, I do. I think it comes to Switch and PC. It does not come to Xbox. No, just like LEGO Horizon.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I could see it.

[Tim Geddes]

But if it is a Miles Morales type game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, I agree. I agree with that. And then we'll do one more from Daniel, who says light no fire at State of Play. Sean Murray did the emoji post they do for no Man's sky updates. And the Light no Fire. Twitter retweeted it, which normally doesn't happen. Some. Some might be coming. I think that could also be summer game fest. That strikes me more as a summer game fest thing.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm so caught up on this now. God of War, if you're still thinking.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

About God of War.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, man. If it's a Metroidvania, it has to be on PC.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm on.

[Tim Geddes]

It has to be on switch.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Listen, I'm on Insomniac's Twitter page. I'm not seeing anything that this person was talking about. So sorry to that guy.

[Tim Geddes]

Sorry.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sorry to that guy.

[Tim Geddes]

Sorry. Dude.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Even dude. Yeah, I like no fire. I actually kind of expect to see it in the next week, but I. I will lean more towards summer game fest.

[Tim Geddes]

Me too.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And that is it for Super Chats. I'm cutting them off there. You guys are very talkative in Super Chats. I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for writing in, giving us money, supporting, kind of funny, all that good stuff. Now it's time for your wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe, that's King Boo to you. Says blessings said, where there's smoke, there's flames. The expression is where there's smoke, there's fire.

[Tim Geddes]

We like to, you know, jib and jazz a little bit. Here it is, you know, and we're.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That one Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone movie.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. La La Land.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

La La Land.

[Tim Geddes]

We're hollow.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Breaks my heart so much. I can't watch it. It's so sad. You can't watch La Land. It makes me too sad, the ending. That's such a good movie, though. He didn't move on. He did. Spoilers. Don't spoil La La Land for people because people should. Are you fucking joking me?

[Tim Geddes]

Are you joking me? All right, all right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Just so you know, everybody just said.

[Tim Geddes]

One thing wrong, baby.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Jib and Jab Australia.

[Tim Geddes]

Kev.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What?

[Tim Geddes]

You're not wrong. They say joking instead of kidding over there. You joking me. Australia.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, but it's the other side of the world. You know what I mean? They're upside down there. From our perspective. I feel like I've heard. Are you joking me?

[Tim Geddes]

Joking me?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Are you joking me?

[Tim Geddes]

You got to be joking me.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Actually, no, I take that back. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I hear it all the time from Australia.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, Australians are you hanging out with.

[Tim Geddes]

Admittedly, it's a lot of wwe. Oh, you know, watching Ray Ripley.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That is it for kind of funny dot com. Your wrong. Yeah. These other ones are more context. Not necessarily. You're wrong. So I appreciate you guys writing in Tim. That brings us to the end of this episode. We got a lot more content to make today.

[Tim Geddes]

Wow. What a day. What a journey. It's been bless and it's only started of course.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This has been Kind of Funny. Games Daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast Next and our Witcher 4 conversation after that. But until next time, Game Daily.

[Tim Geddes]

That was the worst that we've ever done.