REPORT: Nintendo Direct Next Week?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.28.26

Summary

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Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.28.26

Main Theme:
An energetic discussion and analysis of video game news—highlighted by a major Nintendo Direct rumor for next week, massive Amazon layoffs and leadership shakeups, Nintendo censorship debate, and updates on Ubisoft labor unrest. Hosts Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller and Roger Poorny navigate industry headlines with trademark banter, candid hot takes, and live chat engagement.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Nintendo Direct Rumors & Community Predictions

(Starts ~05:11)

• Insider Report:

  • "The first major Nintendo Direct of 2026 will be held in the first week of February, according to a noted insider, Nate The Hate." (Roger, 05:11)
  • Rumored date: Thursday, February 5th, but not confirmed.
  • Possible format is unknown—could be standard Direct, Indie World, or Partner Showcase.

• Recent Directs Recap:

  • Jan 25 – Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct
  • Jan 28 – Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct
  • Upcoming: Nintendo earnings on Feb 3 (potential timing tie-in).

• Speculation & Wishlists:

  • Greg and Roger wonder if the next Direct will be the “big one,” kickstarting the Switch 2’s first full year.
  • Questions around release dates for Fire Emblem, Mario titles, Pokémon, and third-party updates.
  • "Is it one of those where it's, like, no, it is twenty-five minutes just about Mario Tennis? Or is it, ‘Hey, we're gonna talk about lots of games’...?" (Greg, 07:56)
  • Chat theories: Luigi’s Mansion 4, Mario Maker 3, Zelda Maker, Ocarina of Time remake.
  • Barrett highlights Zelda’s 40th anniversary as a context for Ocarina/related announcements.

• Notable Quotes:

  • "Nintendo is known for the WNDs. Like, I don’t think they are necessarily sitting there going, ‘Oh, we have to have that for it.’” (Greg, 08:41)
  • "I do think there is—you look forward to the rest of the year. It is not empty, but compared to the launch year... we need to fill that out." (Roger, 09:29)

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2. Amazon Mass Layoffs & Games Division Shakeup

(Starts ~17:41)

• Major Layoffs:

  • Amazon is laying off over 16,000 employees across various divisions.
  • Christoph Hartman (Amazon Games boss, ex-2K) is exiting as Amazon pulls away from PC/console gaming toward cloud (Luna).

• Sharp Critique of Tech Industry:

  • Roger: "I just am so angry, so deeply angry...You guys are laying off 16,000 people and putting $50 million into some dumbass Melania movie. It is just full-on—this is the most evil corporation in the world." (18:22–19:27)
  • Greg explains cyclical "new revenue stream" chasing among tech giants, resulting in expansion, failure, layoffs, and pivots—now the latest being AI.

• Discussion of Corporate Oversight:

  • Greg: "Nobody is buying the product because they believe in the product. They're buying the product because they think it can make them money... that's all any of this is." (23:01–25:37)

• Hope in the Indies:

  • Both hosts stress that truly original, passionate work is coming from independent creators, and encourage support for indie games and local businesses instead of megacorps.
  • "If you want to come in and control the means of production and make the most bullshit, bland stuff...it's gonna fail. It's not gonna matter. And the cool shit's gonna be elsewhere. You just have to look for it." (Greg, 30:38)

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3. Nintendo Censorship: Dispatch on Switch

(Starts ~36:06)

• Headline:

  • Visual censorship in Dispatch, a superhero narrative adventure, is mandatory on Switch.
  • All spicy visuals (nudity, gestures) are covered by uncensorable black bars; one steamy scene loses audio entirely.

• Nintendo’s Spotty Standards:

  • Hosts find Nintendo’s censorship policies inconsistent, especially referencing uncensored titles like Cyberpunk 2077.
  • "If it was they’re blocking the old vulvas and penises on Cyberpunk—okay, you’re weird, Nintendo...But for it to be, ‘Oh, that’s fine, but this isn’t,’...what are we talking about?" (Greg, 38:25)

• ESRB and Parental Controls:

  • Confusion over rating system’s role if M-rated games are still being censored; inconsistency with other mature content on eShop.

• Chat and Co-host Reactions:

  • Barrett points out that bigger studios don’t face the same scrutiny—"Do you have to be a really big established studio with better connections to Nintendo to not get censored?" (41:17)

• Memorable Moment:

  • On “deluxe edition” art censorship:
    • "What am I going to goon to? You know what I mean? Let it be. Let the titties be. Let the middle fingers—" (Greg & Roger, 42:21)

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4. Ubisoft Unionization & Strike Action

(Starts ~42:48)

• Strike Organizing:

  • Five French Ubisoft unions are calling an international strike (Feb 10–12) protesting forced returns to office, layoffs, and restructuring.
  • Statement: “This work stoppage is in response to Ubisoft's return to office mandates, studio closures and game cancellations...enough is enough.” (Roger, 43:25)

• Company Culture:

  • Unions cite disregard for creativity and dignity, and that layoffs/disclosures are disguised as “voluntary exits.”
  • “Ubisoft seems on shakier ground than ever...It would have been awesome to see this happen a while back.” (Greg, 46:51)

• Subscription Price Hikes:

  • Just Dance+ subscription prices to increase in April.

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5. Industry Updates & Lightning Round

(~51:27 Onward)

• Bloober Team’s Project M Teaser:

  • New horror project with a cryptic website; countdown to February 14.
  • “A vision that could only exist on Nintendo hardware...fans of Resident Evil and Silent Hill will feel at home.” (Roger, 53:01)

• Just Dance Audience Query:

  • Greg tries to contact Matt Piscatella for stats—demonstrates show’s live, interactive nature.

• Quick Hits (Wii News Channel, ~54:42):

  • Dead by Daylight “Balatro” collab (Feb 20)
  • Bluey DLC in Minecraft (Feb 5)
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and Switch family updates
  • Scott Pilgrim EX launches March 3; discussion of expanded Netflix canon
  • PlayStation Plus February line-up: Undisputed, Subnautica: Below Zero, Ultros, Ace Combat 7

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Nintendo is known for the WNDs...I don't think they are necessarily sitting there going, 'Oh, we have to have [a big Mario game].'" (Greg, 08:41)
• "It is just full on—this is the most evil corporation in the fucking world." (Roger on Amazon, 19:27)
• "Nobody is buying the product because they believe in the product. They're buying the product because they think it can make them money." (Greg, 23:10)
• "Let it be. Let the titties be. Let the middle fingers—" (Greg, 42:21)
• “Ubisoft seems on shakier ground than ever. So it’s—you gotta make your move when you make your move.” (Greg, 46:51)

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Important Timestamps

• 05:11 – Nintendo Direct rumor breakdown and speculation
• 17:41 – Amazon layoffs and tech industry rant
• 36:06 – Nintendo censorship of Dispatch and eShop inconsistencies
• 42:48 – Ubisoft union news and strike action
• 51:27 – Just Dance+, audience questions, and Bloober horror teaser
• 54:42 – Wii News Channel lightning round, including Minecraft/Bluey, Donkey Kong news, PS+ games

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Tone & Style

• The discussion is casual, irreverent, often comedic, with hosts riffing off live chat and each other.
• Serious industry concern (layoffs, labor rights, shifts to AI) are voiced honestly.
• Moments of absurdist humor ("Let the titties be," Mario’s nipples, etc.) are balanced with sincere calls for support of indie gaming and workers.

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Summary for Non-Listeners

This episode is a lively, honest, and sometimes biting rundown of gaming’s current headline issues—highlighted by the imminent Nintendo Direct rumor and the broader industry’s labor and economic troubles. The hosts blend jokes and sharp commentary, making it informative and entertaining whether you’re a diehard or casual fan. If you want predictions, unfiltered takes on corporate overreach, or a sense of where the gaming community’s energy is pointed this week, this is the episode to check out.

Transcript

[Roger Poorny]

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[Gregory James Miller]

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[Roger Poorny]

Patreon.Com kinda funny today in the gaming news you need to know about. We might be getting a Nintendo direct next week. Amazon lays off over 16,000 people and dispatch is being censored on Switch. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny. Games Daily. What is up everybody? And welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Happy birthday, J. Cold. I'm Roger Poorny and today I'm joined by Gregory James Miller.

[Gregory James Miller]

J. Cole.

[Roger Poorny]

J. Cole.

[Gregory James Miller]

Any Jermaine? Is it Cole World music. He sings music.

[Roger Poorny]

He sings? Yeah, he sings music. Raps music too.

[Gregory James Miller]

Is he related to Nat King Cole? Natalie King? Natalie Cole?

[Roger Poorny]

No. No, I don't think so.

[Gregory James Miller]

Okay.

[Roger Poorny]

I don't think so.

[Gregory James Miller]

That'd be cool. That'd be a good lineage.

[Roger Poorny]

That would be a good lineage. Have you ever listened to a J. Cole song?

[Gregory James Miller]

Probably.

[Roger Poorny]

Do you know anything about him?

[Gregory James Miller]

No.

[Roger Poorny]

A good guy.

[Gregory James Miller]

Sure. Is he a good guy? Roger? Is he a good guy?

[Roger Poorny]

I mean. Well, he was part of that beef.

[Gregory James Miller]

If I Google J. Cole controversies, I'm sure.

[Roger Poorny]

But he slapped Diddy. He was one of the first people that like, are the only rappers in the world that like beat the out of Diddy and like, he was. Had a beef with him before everything blew up.

[Gregory James Miller]

Okay. So he's like on the right side of history there. All right.

[Roger Poorny]

Which I was surprised that 50 Cent didn't try to throw into the documentary. Sure. That would been a good one.

[Gregory James Miller]

Sure.

[Roger Poorny]

Greg, how you doing?

[Gregory James Miller]

Good, how are you? I'm ready.

[Roger Poorny]

I'm ready. I'm ready for today. I mean, this is. This is a weird news day with the good. We got the. We got a good massive fucking layoff. But you know, I'm excited today specifically because it's in review day.

[Gregory James Miller]

It is in review live in San Francisco. It's in review this afternoon or evening. Cobbs Comedy Club is part of SF Sketch Fest. We're all very excited. I'm percolating with ideas. I'm gonna try to get two martinis in me before. Whoa.

[Roger Poorny]

Before you get to the stage.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Everybody, you want to hang out with us? This is the last day you are able to buy tickets and hang out with us.

[Gregory James Miller]

It's the last day you. I think it's because it's today.

[Roger Poorny]

Today that is going to be at Sketch sketch fest at Cops Comedy Club in San Francisco. Confine.com sketch fest to hang out with us and watch Howard the Duck today.

[Gregory James Miller]

Because review Howard the Duck. Yeah, yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Well, I'm saying watch Howard the Duck and then watch us review Howard.

[Gregory James Miller]

If I'll tell you right now, if you're watching this and this is breaking news to you and you go, oh, I'm coming and you buy the ticket right now and you watch Howard the Duck and you come to this show tonight, you got to get busier days. I don't know how you could do all that.

[Roger Poorny]

I thought you were going to give them a prize of some sort.

[Gregory James Miller]

I mean, no, because there's no to prove it. You know what I mean? There's no way to prove you did that.

[Roger Poorny]

But honestly, I will say I don't spoil anything. Everybody, but everybody should watch Howard the Duck. Everybody in this world should watch.

[Gregory James Miller]

It's a live MCU interview which has never happened with an audience. All right, so yes, you should watch Howard the Duck.

[Roger Poorny]

No, but just in general life lesson.

[Gregory James Miller]

I mean, yes, you should watch Howard the Duck. This is going to be I. The live audience adds adrenaline to the mix no matter what.

[Roger Poorny]

Sure.

[Gregory James Miller]

This is going to be a banger. It's going to be an all time interview, exciting one.

[Roger Poorny]

And if you can't make it, of course next week's in review. It's going to be.

[Gregory James Miller]

Oh, we'll post. Yeah, but you want to be there.

[Roger Poorny]

You want to be there.

[Gregory James Miller]

You want to be, you want to be part of it, don't you?

[Roger Poorny]

You want to run to San Francisco.

[Gregory James Miller]

You want to see Tim there, right?

[Roger Poorny]

He won't be there.

[Gregory James Miller]

I'm going to bring a sack of potatoes, put his face on it. It'll be just like he was there.

[Roger Poorny]

Same idea. Remember, if you're watching this live, be part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com kindafunnygames you want to hear your opinions on what's going to happen with this Nintendo Direct. What are your biggest predictions there? And of course, we couldn't do it without our Patreon producers over on kind of funnies Patreon. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The song twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper aboard. It's time for something six stories today.

[Gregory James Miller]

A baker's dozen.

[Roger Poorny]

Why are you looking at me?

[Gregory James Miller]

You're the host. Oh.

[Roger Poorny]

You just looked at me like you had something to say.

[Gregory James Miller]

I mean, I always have something to say. Somebody in the chat asked, she got the Samsung trifold. No. Buy an iPhone, Be a normal person. You know what I mean?

[Roger Poorny]

Don't get a fucking trifold. We all need less phone. We don't need more phone. I don't know why we've got to the same. Like, we need ipod, iPhones. We did all this shit. We didn't know. We know. Just get one fucking small little phone. We need the iPhone. Mini mini. Yeah, that's what we need.

[Gregory James Miller]

You want to go back Tolander? Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, that's what I want. I want a BlackBerry. We should bring them back.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, they're fully gone away now.

[Roger Poorny]

They're fully gone away, but there's like a clicks communicator thing, which is like a BlackBerry that's coming out soon. I think I might get that.

[Gregory James Miller]

Okay. Oh, good.

[Roger Poorny]

Story number.

[Gregory James Miller]

How often you use the buttons on your watch accidentally? You got this watch with your calculator thing.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. Oh, you mean the calculator. Yeah. Sometimes I write boobs on it. That's about it.

[Gregory James Miller]

Cool. Yeah, cool.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, cool. Story number one, Nintendo direct coming up next week. Report says is from Eddie Maka. Maka as at gamespot. Jesus Christ. The first major Nintendo Direct of 2026 will be held in the first week of February, According to a noted insider Nate the Hate said on his podcast this week. From what I have been told, the first direct of 2026 will be held during the opening week of February. He said the event may take place on Thursday, February 5, though he was not able to confirm this with, quote, his best contacts. He said we he will let people know if things change, but right now, this seems to be the timetable that I'm hearing from my contacts. He went on to say that there is.

[Gregory James Miller]

Barrett, don't. Don't. Barrett, don't. I don't want to dream. Barrett. Don't let me dream. Barrett.

[Barrett]

This is going to be the new silksong. For every Nintendo direct, I always would put a silksong footage up.

[Gregory James Miller]

This is an audio listener. It's ocarina time. He's throwing ocarina time out there because we want a remake. We want the remake.

[Roger Poorny]

He wanted to say that there is, quote, consensus building that a direct will take place in the first week of February. However, Nate the Hate said he does not know what the rumored show's format may be, so he can't say for sure, if it's a direct focus on first party games or a partner showcase. But he said he is confident that some form of direct is coming soon. It would be the third direct of 2026, following a Super Mario Galaxy movie direct on January 25th and the Tomadachi Life Living the Dream direct on January 28th 9th. While the rumored Nintendo Direct in February is not confirmed, Nintendo has announced that it will release its next earnings report on Tuesday, February 3rd. We're getting a Nintendo Rec next week, right?

[Gregory James Miller]

I think so, yeah. It seems like it's the time. It seems like the rumblings are there. The question. Yeah, is this some indie world thing? Is this some Nintendo first party thing? Is what are we going to get?

[Roger Poorny]

You always hope that you get the big one, right? You get the big one in the beginning of the year. So we can look forward to it. I mean, we have kind of like an empty, ish Nintendo year in terms of like dates and everything.

[Gregory James Miller]

Of course.

[Roger Poorny]

We have Tomodachi Life. That's going to be a huge fucking hit. We got to get that right before we get the February one. We want to make sure everyone's focused on Tomodachi Life. But then past that worth the date for Fire Emblem. Where the fuck is some type of Mario game? We have to get something right?

[Gregory James Miller]

Well, you're getting Aces, which I think are pretty, or Mario Tennis. Sorry, not Ace. Mario Tennis Diva, thank you very much. Which is imminent. That's like, what, two weeks away. So you imagine again, you're getting your direct. Okay, cool. Is it just a Mario Tennis direct? Not that. That would be horrible. I'm excited for that game. Want to see more?

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

Is it one of those where it's like, no, it is 25 minutes just about Mario Tennis. Or is it, hey, we're going to talk about lots of games and we put Mario Tennis in there as a way to sell it. Obviously in imminently. But then, yeah, talk about the rest of the year. I, of course, am the Pokemon guy, so I'm a little out of my realm when it comes to Mario.

[Roger Poorny]

Nothing else.

[Gregory James Miller]

I don't hold my breath for a Mario this year. I just like a 3D Mario. We're back just because, of course, the team that did Odyssey is the team that did Donkey Kong. So, like, what are we talking? Like, they just put out a game. It wasn't a Mario. And I don't know if you have someone else working on that. I know there's always these rumors and desires for a Galaxy 3. Well, we have the movie. We should tie in and do something there and there should be a blah blah like yes, all that makes sense. But Nintendo is known for the WNDs. Like I don't think they are necessarily sitting there going oh, we have to have that for it.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. When I was doing my predictions of the year that I saw the future from the pills that I was taking, I looked forward to some form of spinoff or something to coincide with the movie. But the more I'm thinking about it, we have the wonder DLC that they.

[Gregory James Miller]

Just which is also imminent. Right.

[Roger Poorny]

March and you play as Rosalina in that one. They have the Yoshi game that is already announced that is you know, coming TBD this year. So we have enough Mario adjacent things of course adding on tennis there. So I, I, I am one of the in the camp that I don't think we're getting a 3D Mario specifically but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some type of spin off thing. But again, Yoshi kind of scratches that itch. So what is that? But I do think that there is you look forward to the rest of the year. It is not empty, but it's comparatively to the launch year. You are of Nintendo. There's we need to fill that out.

[Gregory James Miller]

You are correct that the dance card is empty right now and empty out use loosely again Mario tennis. Well, the Pokemon Pope, whatever the fuck it is that I'm excited for, I want to do. I'm going to. I'll be a creepy ass. Ditto. And have a little animal crossing world farming life. Sure.

[Roger Poorny]

Why splatoon in the Ether?

[Gregory James Miller]

That's the thing where it's like there's a lot of Ether and there's a lot of games that I would say are that B tier. We need the A tier, we need the S tier. And you need Nintendo to come out and tease that because they had a great year last year for the Switch 2. So what do you come out here and toss your way? What do you toss our way to get us excited and keep us excited to have our switches in our hands. And again, I think as Nintendo continues to make such strides with the Switch 2 and third party support, one of the big things we talked about at the launch of the Switch 2 was the fact that third parties didn't have dev kits. Well, now they have. What do you have? What have you been working on? What are the games that haven't come to Switch to yet that could have a great addition to it? What are the ones that you know, you look at and go okay, we are already coming out this year. What can we announce as a switch to version of that? You know, I was, I was talking about yesterday, the reigns. Witcher got me back into the Witcher and playing the Witcher. Witcher 3 doesn't have a Switch 2 version. I could easily see that being a slam dunk announcement from them of like, hey now Witcher 3 does have a Switch 2 version. It runs at whatever frames and does this dock that yada yada yada.

[Roger Poorny]

Like a big one for me is Minecraft 2. That's an easy. I'm sorry, Minecraft Switch 2, not Minecraft 2. That's Hightail.

[Gregory James Miller]

Minecraft. Minecraft 2 would be big news.

[Roger Poorny]

I agree. But Minecraft Switch 2, I think that's a, that's an easy slam dunk for I think an early this year announcement. I mean that's a, that's a big one right there. Yeah, but yeah, of course you want to, you want to build it out with those Switch 2 updates. But yeah, I, I am very interested in as something that a super chat right here from Bander Ascent says Luigi's Mansion 4 out this October takes place in a haunted peach castle. Levels are spooky versions of Mario 64 levels. Last level is a big booze haunted. Something like that. I think would. Would kind of go hard. Do you think it's about time for like a Luigi's Mansion type deal?

[Gregory James Miller]

When was Luigi's Mansion three? I reviewed that. I know we then had Luigi's Mansion to remaster hd, whatever the fuck that was. I reviewed that one as well. Um, I think the time is always right for another ghostbusting luigi's mansion game 2019 chat saying 2019, 2019. Thank you very much. So, yeah, that could easily be something you slot in here, but again, I don't know what it is, but I feel like you need a Mario title game in there, not a Mario. I don't think Mario 3D, I agree. Wonders getting updated. So I don't even know if it's just a Mario Golf. I mean, no, we got tennis.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. I feel like it can't be a sports thing. It has to be its own thing. Yeah, but we also. Yeah. Mario Galaxy Mario Galaxy 2 being already remastered and out there is just kind of like up the whole thing for me because I would have predicted like, oh, we remake one of those games.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah. But what are the odds of a new Mario rpg?

[Roger Poorny]

Well, you think so? I don't know. I'm tossing. Yeah, I mean, you're right. We put them both.

[Gregory James Miller]

I Do not think we're getting a 2D. Ah, rusty pawn, you son of a. There it is. Mario Maker 3. I've been talking about it since they showed that mouse controls and all that jazz. Mario Maker, Mario Maker in general, amazing. Mario Maker 2 for some reason didn't feel like it had the impact. Mario Maker 1 Did you put out? Hey, here it is. Mario Maker 3. And there's new levels and there's new.

[Roger Poorny]

Whatever in there and it's 3D and you could do it in 3D.

[Gregory James Miller]

That would be. I mean.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, fucking blow everything out.

[Gregory James Miller]

Would blow it away. They would never blow it away.

[Roger Poorny]

Never fucking do.

[Gregory James Miller]

But I think with the switch to power and the mouse controls and even. I mean it'd be lame. But a Mario Maker to switch to Edition.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

Like I really think there's juice there somewhere if people would let them get out there and go.

[Roger Poorny]

Two super chats over here for more predictions if they hold on to.

[Gregory James Miller]

And then Mental Gaming says, hear me out, Zelda Maker. I don't need to hear you out. I'm in. Go ahead and make me a Zelda maker. Obviously we're making like a 2D Zelda. You know what I mean? Fuck yeah. Let's go back to you, Roger.

[Roger Poorny]

This is big from Aaron Lime Super Chat and say Nintendo is announcing my parents are getting back together and the Tooth Fairy's real. By the by that I mean we're getting the next MGS collection with MGS4. No fucking way.

[Gregory James Miller]

They don't announce it.

[Roger Poorny]

Never at a Nintendo event. No. And also that game is. Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Items in.

[Gregory James Miller]

I wish. I mean I'll take that anywhere I can get it. Peace Walker. Let's go.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. Openness prime says if they updated DKCR this Donkey Kong country returns. We're getting Odyssey S2 Edition play as Luigi New World. Also, remember when Greg threw baby Ben over his shoulder the first time we saw him? Does Tim. Tim have the balls?

[Gregory James Miller]

Well, we know Tim doesn't have the balls, so no, that wouldn't happen.

[Roger Poorny]

That wouldn't happen.

[Gregory James Miller]

You know what I mean?

[Roger Poorny]

Interesting. With the, with the two switch to editions, it's. We already have a free update. That's like where we get into that weird bag of like. Sure, I guess we could do dlc. But we already have just the free update there. So. I mean why didn't they just wait on that one?

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel too like to what we're talking about as we look into this black hole of Nintendo.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

It's got to be. It can't. I don't want. They can't be leading us on for the rest of the year on a switch to edition. Switch. Two editions are cool. I'm glad they exist. I'm gonna play Tears of the Kingdom that way soon. But I'm not sitting here going like, oh, yeah, Super Mario Galaxy or I'm sorry, Mario Odyssey. Switch to edition is what's coming sometime later in the year. And that gets me hyped to be a Nintendo fan. No, like, we need something new. You need something cool. And also I go Mario Maker 3. A Luigi's Mansion for sure. I. But again, even Luigi's Mansion, which gets its just due, doesn't get the pomp and circumstance of a million other games. Like, you know what I mean? So it's like. No. Yeah. Bear, can you run the Luigi. God damn it. The Yoshi thing that you're talking about. Because I remember it, but I forgot about it as well. Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

It kind of has like a little bit of a stop motion. Motion. Yeah. I don't have like super exciting hopes for that one. But I mean, it's going to be a cute little kids game.

[Gregory James Miller]

Jake says Wind Waker hd. Somebody else in the. Sorry. It was a super chat. Animations1000 said. What are the chances of a new mainline Zelda? No.

[Barrett]

Very low.

[Gregory James Miller]

No, maybe like another Link's awakening kind of thing. But then we're into just what we're talking about before of. All right, here's an Ocarina remake.

[Barrett]

Or yeah, like I would say almost like a way to play Link between worlds on the Switch is way more likely than a new Zelda game in the next three years.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

I forgot about this. Yoshi.

[Roger Poorny]

Right?

[Gregory James Miller]

You're right. They're going to do stuff with it.

[Roger Poorny]

Lucid Dream has a really fun one. SimCity. Except you play as Mayor Bowser building up an evil mushroom kingdom and Mario is a natural disaster threatening citizens. That's very.

[Gregory James Miller]

I love that.

[Roger Poorny]

I love that.

[Gregory James Miller]

I love that. I wish they would do that.

[Roger Poorny]

I love that too. This is from Yo. Call me Rob. Roger seems like a guy who loves shit movies.

[Gregory James Miller]

I can confirm that that's true.

[Roger Poorny]

Yo mama.

[Gregory James Miller]

Whoa.

[Roger Poorny]

Moving on to story numbers. Are we done with this? So do we have any other big predictions? I guess the link. Yeah, the Ocarina of Time remake thing. But I mean like, man, that's. There's got to be something. How many times I'm gonna say that?

[Barrett]

There's got to be something. Zelda this year. Because Tim always points out, like, they do something. Maybe it's not the biggest thing, but there's something, right? It could be Ocarina of Time. It could be something much smaller. The thing that I was going to bring up as well, we're coming up on what, seven, eight months with the switch to. We haven't gotten like a significant update to Mario Kart World.

[Gregory James Miller]

Ah, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Maybe that's something out there.

[Gregory James Miller]

I hope this is true. I love a good direct.

[Roger Poorny]

Yes.

[Gregory James Miller]

I love. I love an excitement in the air. See what that's going to be. Yeah, but it's like, what do they got?

[Roger Poorny]

What do they got?

[Gregory James Miller]

I know what they got.

[Roger Poorny]

What do they got? But we've been here before.

[Barrett]

It's also the 40th anniversary of Zelda, right?

[Gregory James Miller]

Is it this year? I think that's a good one.

[Roger Poorny]

The big four. Zero.

[Gregory James Miller]

Do Ocarina. Just do it. Just do it. Just do it.

[Barrett]

They barely did anything for the 30th.

[Gregory James Miller]

Toss Majora's mask. Do it.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. Come on, come on, come on. Have fun.

[Gregory James Miller]

Can you believe how good that trailer was that Barrett showed at the start for Ocarina Time?

[Roger Poorny]

It's crazy.

[Gregory James Miller]

You watch it like, that's a fucking game right there.

[Roger Poorny]

I got to play it one day.

[Gregory James Miller]

You wait for this.

[Roger Poorny]

I'll wait for the remake.

[Gregory James Miller]

For the remake.

[Roger Poorny]

This is for story number two. This is breaking. This was happening right as we were going live. Amazon lays off layoffs and also the game. The game's boss has left the company. We're going to start over with Sophie McEvoy over at GamesIndustry Biz. Amazon announces further layoffs. 16,000 roles impacted. And then following up on that, we have Jason Schreier on bs. That is Blue Sky. Tim. Breaking. Amazon Game Studios boss Christoph Hartman, formerly the head of 2K, is leaving the company. Bloomberg News has learned as Amazon continues its retreat from the PC and console video game space in favor of its cloud gaming service.

[Gregory James Miller]

Luna.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, this is massive news. I mean, I was watching some of it when I was at the gym of just the general Amazon layoffs. They're closing all their retail brick and mortar.

[Gregory James Miller]

No shit.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. So the go, the freshes, they're all gone. Of course, Whole Foods is still around, but that's kind of where a lot of these layoffs are coming. But it seems like this is just a company wide situation. This is just. I. Greg, if I'm being completely and utterly honest with you, it's just been A fucked up few weeks. And like when I look at this news, I just am so angry, so deeply angry. Especially when Amazon is over here funding a fucking Melania Trump puff piece movie that they're opening up the entirety of the stock market this morning. They have Melania up there and they fucking Amazon executives. And it's like you guys are laying off 16 fucking thousand people putting $50 million into some dumbass Melania movie. And it's just, it is just full on like this is the most evil corporation in the fucking world. It breaks my heart. And they have no idea what the fuck they're doing when it comes to video games. And it just keeps on showing that they're just going to continue to chase Luna and cloud service until that inevitably goes on.

[Gregory James Miller]

And I mean, Reuters is reporting, right, that like these layoffs that are coming to Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and Human Resources department are really funded by them pushing AI, right? Like they're doing that. And I think then you come down to what we're always talking about on this show. Sadly, you have to hear the same headlines, insert a different company, and then the same explanation from me, right, of what you have here are the usual stock market grifters, right, in these companies where it's like you have a company that continues to get bigger, they're a giant success, but then they got to keep fueling that success. So how do you do that? You have to go look for new gimmicks, new lanes, new revenue streams to chase. And so as you've seen with multiple other companies, hey, Meta, how are you doing? You go, oh, if I'm Meta, virtual reality, if I'm Amazon, I go, oh, video games, cloud streaming, whatever, try this stuff out. And as you get into those markets that you did not fucking understand that you did not stop and actually listen to anybody who knows what they're fucking talking about, you realize, oh God, there isn't triple digit revenue here, there's maybe single digit revenue here, right? So you do it trying to make a buck, but really not making anything out of it. You end up stopping links, people off, closing and then chasing the next fucking thing. And AI is the next fucking thing for all these companies to chase right now as they try to make a buck and as they inevitably figure out they can't do that there, they close that up and then it's the next fucking thing, the next fucking, the next fucking next fucking thing. Yeah, until they're all out of business.

[Roger Poorny]

It is, it is so interesting to see Amazon, which I think is kind of uniquely incompetent at creating and entering into these new businesses. Right. I look at their, the move, their movie division, right, Buying up the entirety of MGM and, and just not knowing how to market a fucking movie. Not able to make a hit. And you have infinite money. You have the infinite money glitch and them going into games like we can do this, we can make all this happen. And yeah, start with New World. Yeah. And everything. It's like, no, that's definitely not going to work out. And yeah, I just, I look forward to, you know, the Tomb Raiders and everything. It's like that's not going to last. Like that is going to be. They're going to put those out and they're not going to do as well as they want to and they're going to shutter those teams. They're just. It is, it is so deeply upsetting to see the reach of our basically tech overlords that own every single part of everything. Like the fact that Amazon owns fucking James Bond like is just, is. Is dystopian in a very interesting way. And I think I've been more and more sensitive to that in the last few weeks. And I think I'm like not in the hope phase. I think I'm in the doomer phase for sure. More in my life than.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Because I think when I was younger I would be like the person that's like, man, like this all sucks. But like we'll figure it out. Like we got. This is the American experiment, we'll figure this out. And now I'm just like full on doomer, you know, gloomer. Like I don't know what's going on and what, how we can fix this, but it doesn't help when we are all barreling towards an AI future that is, that doesn't respect human beings. And I think that that is the biggest thing here that of course frustrates me and frustrates everybody is that we have these companies that truly want a fraction of the human beings that are working under them so then they can make even more money and save and hoard it all. And I don't see any people in our government doing anything about it. Like we are just barreling towards this future where the human actual hours and investment in work is going to be demeaned, demeaned, demeaned until we are all living in this hellscape where we have the not top 1%, top 0.0001% and then everyone else is just living below the poverty line. Yeah, it's nihilist. But like that's just where I'm feeling right now.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah. I think, you know the way to combat that in terms of the outlook, right. And especially in this example is to look outward. I think when you look at Amazon and you look at these big companies buying up ips, buying up studios, buying whatever, you have to realize I think as much as it, there are exceptions to the rule and whatever you're looking at them going to retirement home, slash their death walk like you're. When Amazon buys something, how long they support it is unknown. But it will end at some point, right? And you can insert any mega corporation here, right? Because the problem to what you're talking about in a sense is that nobody is buying the product because they believe in the product. They're buying the product because they think it can make them money. That's all any of this is. There's no love that you have when you're a creator making a thing. When you buy something on Etsy and you see somebody who poured their heart and soul into this thing and they just want to make fucking magnets. They just want to make phone cases, whatever it is, right? That's them with a passion project doing something they love because it's for the love. And then maybe you get successful, maybe Taylor Swift wears the sweater, you see these stories and then it blows up and they have more orders and it's quit the job and yada yada, that's all awesome. It's the argument of shopping local and I think that gets weird. I'm talking about Etsy, but I'm talking about shopping from independent creators, businesses, restaurants, grocers, whatever it is, where they're more. In San Francisco, we're so lucky that we have so many different outlets that are all independent businesses, that yes, the shirt at San Francisco costs more than a shirt at fucking Walmart or Target, but it's because I know Christian did it and source the material and did the thing and paid the artist to get the art on the. You know what I mean? Like there's all those things that go into it to make it what it is. And so when you talk about this nihilist view of Amazon and the 1%, yadda yadda. Yeah. Like I feel like you look at this and especially where we are with all the tech conglomerates, with all the billionaires we have right now, and it's all of them circling the same drain. They've been circling for a long time. And I'm not saying they're going down the drain. But it is the idea that when something here gets bought, when Amazon goes and does this and buys Tomb Raider and I'm, I'm always unsure about this. Do they own Crystal Dynamics or they're just partnered with Crystal Dynamics? I can, I think they're partnered right now. Right. But they own Tomb Raider, whatever the fuck it is. Like, it's like, that's bad news for Tomb Raider. That is bad news for Tomb Raider, who they will eventually walk away from, not treat with the respect it deserves, yada yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. But there are so many different IPs, so many different games, so many different ideas that are happening each and every day from independent developers and independent businesses and companies that you can go support and you can go find.

[Roger Poorny]

Absolutely.

[Gregory James Miller]

And I know we all want to. I mean, I'm the fucking Ghostbusters guy, Superman guy. I know we all want to be attached to these IP because we remember them when they were in their glory days and the nostalgia and being a kid and yada yada yada. But at some point you got to realize that that isn't what this is anymore. It isn't those people making this anymore. Right? And that's why you got to turn your attention to the game developers who are doing stuff that is speaking to you. You know, you and me looking at that game yesterday over your shoulder that I've already forgotten the name of, but it's like, that's an RPG I want to play. I'm going to go get codes for that. I'm going to go try to buy that. I'm going to go do that. Like, you gotta go do that. And I know that that isn't. Doesn't solve the problem of the fucking AI bullshit we're all doing. But it also seems like every so often the headline squeaks out of like, man, they're defaulting on the loan because it isn't doing what is like, AI sucks and isn't a slam dunk across the board in any way, shape or form. So as they chase this for video games and as these video games come out that clearly are gonna fucking suck with AI. Like, yeah, back to yesterday's Games Daily. Back to the Xbox developer Direct, right at the Direct, we see, hey, there's a thousand npc' fable. And we all immediately go, but is it going to be just fucking nonsense garbage AI? And then they're like, no, they're all handcrafted, they're all personally written, they all have their own stories. And it's like, if that's true. When we get Fable and we get into that game and that's fucking awesome, fucking celebrate it for that and talk about that. And then inevitably in a few months, when we're given a game from whatever giant publisher who did use AI to make the most generic bullshit here it is like I always joke around about the fucking trough of bullshit, open world stuff like demonize that, say that that sucks. Make a point to do that. Like that's what you got to do. And what we got to, where we have to walk on the lines we have to go for.

[Roger Poorny]

You're right. And I think that that is the, the glimmer of hope is that I think through the hellscape that I just laid out in the beginning and then I think about the media that is going to rise to the top and you hope, and I believe that it will be the handcrafted ones. I don't think I know for a fact that I cannot create the amount of art, the high quality art that games like exhibition 33 are there, right? Like you cannot be just typing in a prompt and then create something that is special. That handcraft people are going to resent AI slop even more than they already are, right? Especially when it's going to be thrown down our feet, our faces. Especially when I'm sure Amazon will one day make a AI movie or whatever. Like, look, it's the first AI movie in theaters and then we're all going to be like, fuck you. Like, this is not what we want. Yeah, so that is the hope there. I think I just again with the nihilistic point of view that I don't genuinely feel in my heart of hearts, but I think I'm feeling it more so today.

[Gregory James Miller]

It's easy to.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, it's easy to fall into that is just the. Oh, no, sure, of course they own James Bond, they own all these franchises. We don't support these franchises. But they also own like the back end of the entire Internet, right? Like, like Google back in the entire.

[Gregory James Miller]

Internet right now you're talking about like just stacking the deck, right where TikTok gets bought up by these American folks or whatever. And now Epstein is like a blocked word on it. It's like, you know what, where people are getting tanked, like, exactly.

[Roger Poorny]

We don't know what truth is. And even when there's truth to power and people are set like you can't even, you can't even organize sometimes, right? It's, it's really tough and I, My heart goes out to every Single person that is laid off.

[Gregory James Miller]

Because that's 100% true. The people who are laid off hearts go out to them. Yeah. You know, but for Amazon failing at this and trying to find it. Meta failing at VR and trying to find a way. I have no sympathy for the corporation, nor do I mourn those losses. And even if they have the IPs I care about, I don't mourn those losses. I mourn the jobs. I mourn the people or whatever. But I also know that they are going to go out and make other games and they're going to make things outside of this manner and make things that are way more interesting.

[Roger Poorny]

You know what I mean?

[Gregory James Miller]

I think about that all the time. To use the movie analogy, right? Like I have the reputation of I want to see movie theaters fail. Because I've said that before. It's a boiled down statement. But what I really mean is like, no, I'm not going to go watch Fast and Furious. I'm not going to go watch Mission Impossible. I don't like, I don't. And I'm talking very much to the US as an interview team or whatever, right? Like that's just not a film I give a shit about. Like just explosions and whatever. Like I'm not an action movie guy, but a great independent movie like I'm going to want to go see. When I lived in Colombia, like I went to Ragtag Cinema all the time. Like that would be a place I would go out and get my money. And again, I know that's hard as theaters go away, but let's be honest, Cinemark isn't making room for the biggest independent film. Or so it is that idea that I still think in the same way games like Consume Me or and Roger are going to eke out and find their place and be two hour long experiences that we fucking love and are able to celebrate. And somehow the top five of the kind of funny top ten are independent. Wasn't that what it was? Or what was the all indie games, right? I see that in film and I see that in other art as well, where if you want to come in and control the means of production and make the most bullshit, you know, fucking maltoast. Yeah, Fucking milk toast. That's what I'm looking for. Like bland bullshit. You know what I mean? We're gonna appeal to the most people and the most gamers. It's gonna fail. It's not gonna matter. And the cool shit's gonna be elsewhere. You just have to look for it.

[Roger Poorny]

Absolutely, absolutely. I will fight you though on I mean Cinemark. Sure, absolutely. We can cut down on a few of the Zootopia screenings, but you know, they got some of the indie movies there. They got some indie movies there. Shout out to Cinemark everybody.

[Gregory James Miller]

You're an idiot. What? What?

[Roger Poorny]

What?

[Gregory James Miller]

I said Happy Birthday.

[Roger Poorny]

Oh, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that everybody. We're going to continue to talk about a bunch of stuff including some censorship going on with Dispatch over on Nintendo Switch. But before we do that, I want to remind you about the kind of funny funny membership on patreon.com how's episode.

[Gregory James Miller]

4 going to open? I can't wait to hear about this.

[Roger Poorny]

Explain that. Yeah, we do on Kind of Funny and also kind of funny Games over on YouTube to get our shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let me tell you about our sponsors.

[Gregory James Miller]

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[Roger Poorny]

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[Roger Poorny]

And we are back. Let's do some super chats before we get to the next story. This is from Nick. Yeah, Nick Showtime.

[Gregory James Miller]

Oh, okay. I thought it was Nick.

[Roger Poorny]

No, no, not Nick. He would never give us money.

[Gregory James Miller]

He doesn't know we're alive yet.

[Roger Poorny]

Birthday tax for myself and twin bro Graphic Mark and J. Cole. Hope you had a great birthday yourself, Roger. Good luck tonight, gents. Thank you so much.

[Gregory James Miller]

We don't need it. I'm gonna be two martinis in. Kickboxing on stage just fall to the table immediately. I have to drive home eventually. So I gotta drink early. I gotta drink early.

[Roger Poorny]

I gotta get.

[Gregory James Miller]

You know what I mean? That back half of interview got sober up. Gotta be sobered up. Comedy. You got a pot of coffee, send it my way.

[Roger Poorny]

I'm just the Billy super chats and says. Morning, y' all excited to go to the sketch fest tonight? I'll be wearing the KFAF hat. Say hi to me because I'm going alone and a little nervous. You're gonna meet a lot of cool people and you're gonna have a great time.

[Gregory James Miller]

As I always say about the kind of funny live events, if you are going to this remember, you are not alone. You are surrounded by kind of. I assure you, I assure you, everyone else in this sparsely populated comedy club is a kind of funny fan. Nobody is there because they heard, oh, Howard the Duck. I have to watch it beforehand. Yeah, you are surrounded by. You can turn to anybody. Say, what are you playing? What do you love about Greg? What do you hate about Tim? They'll have. You can have a conversation right there.

[Roger Poorny]

That's easy. Professor White super chats and says we wearing our red wings and ripping heaters tonight. And Greg, I brought you a present. Would I be able to give it to you?

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, I think. I don't know what the. I don't know much about the evening. I don't. I. 7:30 Showtime. I know. Yeah, I know. We have a call time before then. I don't know how long we're there. I don't know if there's a show after ours.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, that's.

[Gregory James Miller]

But I imagine we're going to meet and greet afterwards.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, we'll figure it out.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, yeah, we'll.

[Roger Poorny]

We'll hang out with you. And one more before we continue the show. This is from Kobe. An art as. Yes. A company worth $2.6 trillion needs to save money for AI, have people have people I know affected by this. Fuck Amazon. Well, let's continue talking about fucking. This is PSA Dispatches Visual Censorship Setting can't be Removed on Switch this from Jim Norman over at Nintendo Life Ad Hoc Studios. Superhero narrative adventure Dispatch made quite a splash when it arrived on PC and PS5 last year with its sweary humor and adult themes and yes, spicy visuals. It launches on Switch 1 and 2 later this week, but don't expect to see everything if you're playing solely on Nintendo systems. As noted in our review, the visual censorship toggle, which lets you decide whether to see any rude visuals like nudity.

[Gregory James Miller]

Or Did a grandmother write this? Some rude oh, you got the sweary humor, adult themes and yes, spicy visuals.

[Roger Poorny]

Like nudity and profane gestures in the PC and PS5 versions, has been removed from both Switch releases. The censorship setting is automatically turned on and there's no way to change that. So what does this mean for the full experience on Switch and Switch 2? You will still get to see every scene in the game's eight episodes, but a black sensor bar will pop up to cover any spicier visuals by default. The usual stuff, genitals, bare nipples gets covered, obviously, but we also noticed the odd middle finger getting the bar treatment too. We reached out to Ad Hoc Studios to ask why the setting has been removed and got the following response. Different platforms have different content criteria. Throw up the WNDs and submissions are evaluated individually. For our Switch release, we worked with Nintendo to adapt certain elements so dispatch could be on their platform. To be clear, no scenes have been cut from the Switch versions, but the profanity censorship toggle remains, so you can still hear swearing if you choose. If you so choose. However, the most drastic edit we noticed was a particularly steamy scene in episode four, full of moans, groans and swearing in the initial release, which now takes place with no dialogue or vocal audio whatsoever, even with profanity enabled. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen censoring from Nintendo platforms, from the famous Mortal Kombat gore removal in the 90s all the way to more modern examples like the Tokyo Mirage Sessions Encore Switch release. Nintendo is no stranger to wanting things clean on its consoles, bar some notable exceptions, like Cyberpunk 2077's detailed character customization naturally. So that was not censored at all with Cyberpunk 2077. Greg, what's your take on this?

[Gregory James Miller]

What the fuck, you know what I mean. It's oh God. Like ah, what are we fucking talking about why? Why? Like it's like there's. I guess here's the problem. The problem just comes down to consistency.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

If it was they're blocking the old vulvas and penises on Cyberpunk. Okay.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

You're weird, Nintendo. And that's a weird thing to make a decision for. For all your content. But for it to be, oh, that's fine, but this isn't. And that's okay. But that's not like what are we talking about? What the fuck is going on? And Nintendo has so many of the weir little like undressed people game.

[Roger Poorny]

Dude, I was looking at that last night. There's the feet stuff and everything. It's weird.

[Gregory James Miller]

Dude.

[Roger Poorny]

It's crazy that they just have games that are literally entitled Hentai. Yeah, of course it doesn't have Hentai in it. And that's like a. Like a little swerve right there. But still like that's wild that they have probably some of the most lax like Eshop like up Hentai session for Nintendo Switch Nuts. Yeah, it's nuts that they do that. And then yeah, of course here you can't.

[Gregory James Miller]

Welcome to Hentai.

[Roger Poorny]

We can't put up a middle finger.

[Gregory James Miller]

Hentai Session. A relaxing puzzle experience full of color, style and charm. Take your time to assemble vivid illustration featuring elegant and expressive characters. Each completed puzzle unlocks a detailed image designed with care and creativity for your collection.

[Barrett]

And you're.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, you're assembling photos of beautiful women. Yeah, I imagine. AI.

[Roger Poorny]

Yes, it is.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

There's a lot of AI. Of course.

[Gregory James Miller]

Of course.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. This is just. Is so stupid. Yeah. I expected when I saw that this was coming to Switch, I was like there's going to be some fuckery. Like there's going to be some type of fuckery here. But the fact that we're going as far to like actually like, like put up the black bar with the middle finger is wild.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, that's a.

[Roger Poorny]

That's a wild Nintendo decision.

[Gregory James Miller]

That's. Yeah. I don't know man. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I get it wnds, but it's just like, aren't we beyond this to a degree? Nintendo, don't you understand that the Switch 2 isn't just for kids? What kid is picking up fucking Dispatch?

[Roger Poorny]

I would have played Dispatch when I was.

[Gregory James Miller]

Well, yeah, but not like a kid.

[Roger Poorny]

But I was a cool kid. You know what I mean?

[Gregory James Miller]

You were a cool kid. Yeah. Look how cool you are now.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, look how cool I am right now.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, it's a dumb decision. It's a stupid one. I, I can get it again if you did it for everything. Yeah, but it's like, oh, this high profile game that has sex in it and middle fingers and stuff. I guess we have to make sure we protect the children.

[Roger Poorny]

And it is quite like as Barnell puts in the chat, it is a rated M video game also.

[Gregory James Miller]

And that's the thing. It's like if you didn't rate, like what's the point of the ratings? And like if I'm a parent and I buy dispatch for my kid and I see they blocked this all out, I go, great, that means all M rated games, this kind of shit's blocked out. And then I buy something else and it's not blocked out. What do we do?

[Roger Poorny]

The only thing that I can think Nintendo, the reason they did this is because this game is cartoony. And that's maybe the only reasoning that.

[Gregory James Miller]

They'Re like, hey, this bringing a younger audience.

[Roger Poorny]

This is already like the number two. I thought like before it even came out. It's like number two on the entirety of like the Switch. Like, like sales or whatever in total. Like even though it's a pre order so it's like I could see them being like, oh, it's a cartoony thing, it's superheroes. Maybe kids are going to buy this, but even then fucking who it's rated. But again, yeah, video game.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Why do we have the ratings board to begin with?

[Roger Poorny]

There's parental controls. You can make sure that the kid doesn't buy rated in video games. That's what it's made for.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

And it's also weird of like this being high profile, but also Cyberpunk and Witcher are also very high profile, neither with censorship. So it's like do you have to be like a really big established studio with better connections to Nintendo to not get censored? Yeah, exactly. Precedent.

[Gregory James Miller]

Not going to push back. Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Motor World Hype super chats and says, you would think Nintendo would have learned their lesson after Mortal Kombat on the snes.

[Gregory James Miller]

Right? A lifetime ago. Whatever. And also the Tokyo Mirage sessions thing is out of bounds. During the song Feel where Tubasa is performing was modified for the western release. In the western release, the cleavage was reduced and the breast line was digitally removed and the V lines around her waist were airbrushed out. Not the cum gutters. We're going to airbrush those out. What fucking society we are living in. You know what I mean?

[Roger Poorny]

I believe also chat. Let me know if I'm speaking out of school but for the dispatch like artwork of them at like the pool or whatever, like the deluxe edition. They also censored some of the cleavage out of that as well. So this is. Yeah, that thing. That's that was a reason why I.

[Gregory James Miller]

Was like what am I going to goon to? You know what I mean? I got to be go on google.com over here. Go goon googling Let let it be. Let the titties be. Let the middle fingers.

[Roger Poorny]

Hey listen Coxby.

[Gregory James Miller]

You know what I mean? In fact, that's woke show me Mario's it's time.

[Roger Poorny]

You know what I mean? Let's just see it uncut or not. We already.

[Barrett]

We've already seen his feet. That's enough.

[Gregory James Miller]

Remember his nipples too.

[Roger Poorny]

Story number four Ubisoft Unions call on workers strike in February Enough is enough From Levi Winslow over at Gamespot Ubisoft workers in France are summoning their collective power to protest the latest restructuring and cost cutting decisions at the mega publisher, with five unions calling for a massive international strike in early February, according to a joint statement on Blue sky and reported by game developer 5 Ubisoft Unions. ST J V Solidaire's Informatica CGT CFE CGC Barrett Help.

[Gregory James Miller]

Roger's having a stroke. Something's going wrong.

[Roger Poorny]

Tim Pimps Eco leak cheek I apologize. Everybody are proposing that all Ubisoft employees stop working from February 10th through the 12th to combat a quote CEO who doesn't even dare talking to employees anymore. This work stop dream just be siloed, just be silent.

[Gregory James Miller]

I take over the conference room, the.

[Barrett]

Walls that we put up around my desk when I was working on Game of the year. Put that around your dad.

[Roger Poorny]

This work stoppage is in response to Ubisoft's return to office mandates, studio closures and game cancellations in the wake of its major restructuring, workforce reduction suggestions and general employee disrespect. But we are not fooled. Rather than taking responsibility for layoff, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable, the statement reads. It's outrageous. Our colleagues carry on, hold fast, endure out of solidarity, out of love for the industry and out of passion. But enough is enough. It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. The unions cited how the latest decisions, particularly at particularly the rupture conventional collective of voluntary mutual termination agreement that could see upwards of 200 French developers lose their jobs were news they learned at the same time as everyone else, noting the dismissive way with which Ubisoft management has disregarded or ignored its workers creativity and dignity. The unions said they felt compelled into stringent action. It's time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or with the work of hundreds of people. The statement continues, without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transferred the video games as it has done. We are history. We are Ubisoft. This comes just two days after a report found that anger and despair reign supreme at the company. With all of the news that is coming to light following the massive restructuring.

[Gregory James Miller]

Greg. Yes.

[Roger Poorny]

Is it time that they strike?

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, of course.

[Roger Poorny]

Yes.

[Gregory James Miller]

Everybody's getting treated like shit at Ubisoft. I mean, everybody's getting treated like shit. Every big publisher. But yes, I, you know, we're always very pro unionizing. We're always very pro workers rights were always very pro developers being treated right. Especially when it seems like the upper brass of every major publisher is being treated very, very well. So, yeah, I think the time to their point has come, maybe even pass. And that's the biggest concern I have, is that as Ubisoft is closing things down and shutting down games and lay, it's like I feel like they are setting themselves into this autopilot sleep until they get acquired or whatever the fucking next big thing is. So I don't know how much this is able to rattle the cages of the Gimon family, because I know it doesn't seem like they're in this anymore for the long haul, but who the fuck really does know what's going on over there? But Ubisoft seems on shakier ground than ever. So it's. You gotta make your move when you make your move. But it would have been awesome to see this move happen a while back when it seemed like there was more of a firm ground for Ubisoft and its employees.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, I mean, collective action is always great. I'm glad that they're coming together and they're making their voices heard. But yeah, I think you're right. Like, they're checked out. It feels like Ubisoft is. Especially when the, when you break down the five pillars of what their studios are, it's like, oh, you're trying to sell these, you're trying to break these off into pieces. You're trying to have. Here's the fucking splinter cell division. Well, I mean, not the split, I guess the division, the guy, the shooter division.

[Gregory James Miller]

Right.

[Roger Poorny]

You have the just Dance division, essentially. Right. So, yeah, they're, they're ready to go. Yeah. So I, I hope that they're able to be heard and things are able to change. But it seems like they want pretty much as much people, as many people as possible to leave this company. Yeah, because they're trying to just cut costs without having to technically fire people by bringing them back into the office and everything. Five days a week. Splinter Soul Division is a broom closet. That's great. Great. A little bit more Ubisoft News it's.

[Gregory James Miller]

Good news though, right?

[Roger Poorny]

A week from its company reshuffle, Ubisoft has announced a Just Dance plus price increases from Tom Phillips over at ign. Ubisoft's next change following last week's major company reorganization will be a price increase to its Just Dance plus service as Ubisoft tightens its belt across the company. It's Just Dance plus service streaming service rather will be more expensive whether you purchase access via a 1 month pass, 3 month pass or a 12 month pass. In a blog post to fans of its veteran music franchise, Ubisoft says it has reexamined the cost of running Just Dance plus over the last few months and come to the decision that the prices price rises were necessary to ensure it remains quote meaningful and substantial, meaningful and sustainable for players. As a result, a one month pass will increase in price from 399 to 599499 rather, while a three month pass will rise from 999 to 1299. Finally, a year long pass will go up from 2999 up to from 2599. These changes will be applied from April onwards. Quote Just Dance plus is built around music and that comes with some important truths, ubisoft wrote. Every song available in the service relies on licensing agreements that evolve over time and these conditions directly affect what we can keep, renew or add to the catalog. Taking this into account, we've had to make a few adjustments to ensure that the service can keep growing in the long run. I just want to read this really quick. Upcoming content coming to Just Dance plus includes songs from the franchise's 2023 and 2024 editions, such as Toxic by Britney Spears, Driver's License by Olivia Rodrigo and Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. A new Wonder Tales pack inspired by the Melogia Realms Danceverse will arrive this spring. Another new track, 360 by Charlie XCX will will arrive later this year. A two year old song I did not know what Just Dance plus was. I just assumed it was all the games in one. Yeah, no it's not. It is them like piecemeal taking the old stuff and then Putting it into this thing that you then have to spend, what, fucking $30 a year on. It's just like, I guess, sure. Bizarre. That's a bizarre concept. I didn't realize. I thought this was just all the games in one.

[Gregory James Miller]

No, you'd wish that.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, you fucking wish.

[Gregory James Miller]

Another subscription service to go dance for. I would love to know what we're looking at in the Just Dance audience. Like how big it is, how many people are actively playing Just Dance. Yeah, and stuff like that. I mean, Ubisoft's keeping it around in creative house, whatever. You know what I mean? Good for them. I know, I know it sells. This isn't me saying there's nobody playing it. I mean, how many people are actually playing it? It's clearly success. It's clearly a money maker for them. And yeah, these incremental increases. Right. Whether it be a dollar or five dollars, they think can do it. And will the audience respond to that? Do they care? Will they notice? What are they doing? It's just crazy of. Just like that is a subset of gamers I just don't have eyes on and wouldn't know anything about.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

In terms of who's doing whatever.

[Roger Poorny]

And they keep on expanding it. So it's like how many people are playing on their like LG tv. Right.

[Barrett]

Like, I just noticed my LG TV had it just forcibly downloaded on there and I was like, that's against your will. Yeah, against my. It was like the YouTube album all over again. I was like, why the is this on my TV? I didn't realize it was on TVs like that.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, no, it's. It's super interesting there. But yeah, I mean, heads up for all the Just Dance players and you know, maybe something to look forward to to Ubisoft plus, if that service still exists. I'm sure that's.

[Gregory James Miller]

I'm going to try to hit. I'm going to try to get Matt Piscatel on the line. I want to know about it. Just Dance.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah, I love that.

[Gregory James Miller]

I'm working on it.

[Roger Poorny]

Okay, let's jump over story number six while we try to do that. Silent Hill 2 Remake Studio teases something with a creepy website. This from Eddie Maku over at Gamespot. Polish developer Bluber is teasing some kind of new announcement with a creepy website. The teaser website at. And I'm not even going to try to read this website because it is just fucking gibberish. And sure there's good, you can decode it, but it is just pure gibberish and it's very long includes a countdown clock ticking to February 14, at which time the announcement will be presumably made. The teaser website doesn't give much away, but it states some things never leave the walls. They only learn to wait. The teaser website was first discovered in 2025, at which time Bloober team said dare to peek into the darkness. Bloober team has multiple games in the works, including project M for switch 2 and a silent Hill remake that's in development with Konami in 2024. The developer said it was doing something. It was done making shitty games. I forgot about that quote. That was a great quote. Pierre Bibino told Nintendo Insider that Project M will introduce a bold twist and one that quote, no horror game has ever explored before. This is a vision that could only exist on Nintendo hardware, he said, adding that fans of Resident Evil and Silent Hill will be right at home. It's rumored that there will be a Nintendo Direct and State of Play events in February, but whether or not Bloober's reveal is unknown.

[Barrett]

I got it. Project M M Mario. A game that can only be on the Nintendo platform.

[Gregory James Miller]

A Mario horror game.

[Barrett]

But this, it's Luigi's Mansion. Project M. Mansion M. Oh, but Mario is the one in the walls and.

[Gregory James Miller]

He'S hunting Luigi Mario bad. Now you got to catch his soul.

[Roger Poorny]

Finally bring him back. Interesting. I'm so interested in Project M because first of all they're doing a countdown. So if you would think that project would be connected to some type of Nintendo Direct. But usually you don't do countdowns leading up to an internal direct. Usually it's just there.

[Gregory James Miller]

Well, my thought on this would be you're not getting a countdown to the Nintendo Direct. If that's you're right on the money. And I think that Nintendo usually pretty notorious on not wanting people doing their own fucking thing.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

If this was Nintendo Direct related, I think you get the cinematic Project M trailer at the direct and then it's like go to the website for more details. You go to the website and the countdown is five days till gameplay review.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

And it's like, hey now we're going to walk you through what the big thing is here. Whatever.

[Roger Poorny]

Are you excited for what bloopers got up their sleeve?

[Gregory James Miller]

I am, yeah. You know we like Bloober here. You know, I like them taking the swings, I like them taking the chances. I like the horror stuff. They're out there doing it. So yeah, to see what they are doing and what they can do. Only on the Nintendo Switch that's exciting.

[Roger Poorny]

What's the update on Matt Piscatella?

[Gregory James Miller]

I've DMed him. I'm waiting for it. I said you around, not in a meeting.

[Roger Poorny]

You up.

[Gregory James Miller]

I want to know how popular just dance is. You got any vision on that, huh, tough guy?

[Roger Poorny]

Well, if Matt were able to join, that'd be really big news.

[Gregory James Miller]

Huge news.

[Roger Poorny]

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

[Gregory James Miller]

You can go to our last news story, the WE News channel, where we run you through all the tiny news you need to know about.

[Roger Poorny]

We knew this time, everybody. New upcoming hashtag dead by daylight collab Balatro, featuring new head for the Unknown, available February 20th. I didn't put a link here. I should have put a link here. Bear, whenever you get a chance, if you can look that up. It is horrifying. The Balatro character is nuts. I can't believe they're doing it, but I'm very happy.

[Gregory James Miller]

Good for them. Great.

[Roger Poorny]

As we figure that out, I'm gonna keep on reading. Bluey, the incredibly popular animated TV show, is crossing over with Minecraft as part of the upcoming Bluey DLC. Bluey's House, arriving on the Minecraft Marketplace on February 5th. The DLC is developed by Jaigarbov in partnership with BBC Studios and Ludo Studios. That's very nice. That's exciting.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Has Ben tried Minecraft?

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, we did it a long time ago, him and me. Jumped in co op, and he liked it fine, but not enough that he's wanted to go back to this kid. I mean, one day. One day smash brother. He smashed with his pill and. I'm sorry, Barrett. I need your help. And it's not a bit the Donkey Kong they just updated. He was playing that the other day, too.

[Barrett]

Whichever one returns HD or whatever.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't there. It was when he's been home sick the last two days, so Jen let him play it. That one. And then Tim said when she sent it to him, he sent the sticker brush symphony sound. Is that whatever one has sticker bush. He's such a simple thing. I know.

[Roger Poorny]

I ain't such a nerd. Dude, look how horrifying. Horrifying. You think Ben Starr is voicing him?

[Barrett]

No.

[Gregory James Miller]

Hope so.

[Roger Poorny]

That'd be great. God, that is horrifying.

[Barrett]

Like, if you hear a handsome voice come out of this, it makes it less scary.

[Roger Poorny]

He's got range, though. He can do. He can do a shriek. He can do a. He can do an Unsexy Shriek.

[Barrett]

I don't.

[Gregory James Miller]

I don't know if it's possible.

[Roger Poorny]

Possible. Scott Pilgrim EX launches March 3 on Xbox, PlayStation 4 and 5, Switch and PC. We got a new trailer that shows off Matthew Patel and Robot01. What is Robot01? I've read these entire books.

[Barrett]

Robot01 I think might have been a newer character from the Netflix adaptation, which was a really smart. Like, at first they try to sell it as like, oh, it's us retelling Scott Pilgrim and then it's not actually that.

[Gregory James Miller]

Spoilers.

[Barrett]

It's like essentially a sequel series that I think is a really great.

[Gregory James Miller]

Really?

[Barrett]

Oh yeah. And it's a fantastic kind of look back and critique of like the I think problems of the original Scott Pilgrim and like what they were going through and like actually breaking that all down. So I'm pretty sure Robot 01 was. I forget who. I forget if Patel made Roboto 1 or what, but.

[Roger Poorny]

Oh wow. Okay. Well that gets me. I should have watched that. Yeah.

[Barrett]

Cuz show is fantastic.

[Gregory James Miller]

Yeah.

[Roger Poorny]

Because I was. I was actually kind of annoyed that they were doing like the. Oh, here the whole cast is back. I was like, okay, like whatever, I guess. But we're just doing it again. But that's cool. I didn't know that.

[Barrett]

Yeah, that's like full on sequel.

[Roger Poorny]

That's neat. February's PlayStation plus games have been revealed. That's undisputed. Subnautica, below zero, below zero, Ultros and Ultron. Ace Combat 7. If you're trying to get excited for Ace Combat 8. Perfect time. Never been a better time.

[Barrett]

Also check out Ultros if you're in the mood for a neat, weird, artistic Metroidvania.

[Roger Poorny]

Oh, okay. Well, shout out there. And that is the end of WE news, everybody. Some super chats before we sign off. Zach lives super chats and says happy belated birthday. Roger. Listen to Bunny is a rider by Caroline Polachek. Yesterday got goosebumps and now going through her entire discography.

[Gregory James Miller]

Nice. The taste maker's still at it out there.

[Roger Poorny]

I Love it. Golden Spider666 Super Chat says the hope, IMO, is that when AI slop like AI movies comes out, it'll be so bad that it won't sell. And then that will force companies to realize that people want creative, succeeding industry. You have to support that. I completely agree.

[Gregory James Miller]

Correct.

[Roger Poorny]

I completely agree. Kevin. Super Chats and Kevin. No, different Kevin. Kevin and Nick are not watching this.

[Gregory James Miller]

Kevin might be.

[Roger Poorny]

Is he Kevin? No, he doesn't.

[Barrett]

Every once in a while he'll check in.

[Roger Poorny]

Have fun, Kevin.

[Gregory James Miller]

I keep telling the rest. Kevin tried to come in today.

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah.

[Gregory James Miller]

You don't worry about it.

[Roger Poorny]

Barricade.

[Gregory James Miller]

We got it covered.

[Roger Poorny]

You're good.

[Gregory James Miller]

You rest. This is. I'm glad you feel like you. You could. Don't stay home today. We love Kev.

[Roger Poorny]

Have fun at the live in review tonight. My flights. My flights kept getting canceled. So I won't be able to make it. Will you guys be recording it? Yes, we will. Just for you, Kevin. But that will go up next week. We're so sorry you can't make it. I know everything is fucked when it comes to flights.

[Gregory James Miller]

But just as a heads up. Remember. Can I get the one?

[Roger Poorny]

Yeah. I don't know why I said, Kevin.

[Gregory James Miller]

There are rental cars. You know what I mean? Like you say, my flights keep getting canceled. And it sounds like you were trying to get in earlier than today because today would have been cutting it close probably so. I really do feel like you could easily sat on Sunday when the flight got canceled. Shit. Better get in the car and drive power through the storm. Get on the other side and get over here because where are you coming from, Kev?

[Roger Poorny]

Huh?

[Gregory James Miller]

New York? I doubt it. All right, so it couldn't have been that bad. Should have gotten in the car taking you two pudgy little fingers turned on the radio. Listen to some Vanessa Carlton drove.

[Barrett]

How are they only driving with two fingers?

[Gregory James Miller]

That's what they're using for the radio.

[Roger Poorny]

Greg almost died trying to go to San Francisco. I did so if he almost died, you could almost die.

[Gregory James Miller]

Exactly. Don't you want to be like me?

[Roger Poorny]

Kids? Sam Hazaret super chat says Greg and team apologies. This isn't gaming related and not sure if mentioned but Bruce Springsteen was just released an anti ice protest song written and released in three days. Hard hitting love to all that was not mentioned.

[Gregory James Miller]

I did not know that. I don't follow the Boss that closely.

[Roger Poorny]

No, I don't follow the Boss.

[Gregory James Miller]

Did you watch this movie?

[Roger Poorny]

No, I don't think anyone did.

[Barrett]

I heard it was really bad.

[Roger Poorny]

No one saw that movie. Fucking no one saw that movie.

[Gregory James Miller]

Good for the Boss.

[Roger Poorny]

Shout out to the Boss though.

[Barrett]

Everybody looked at that trailer was like why is Jerry Allen White?

[Roger Poorny]

Well, no, he's going to be. He's going to be Jabba the Hut son now. So it's going to be good. Sergio McDonald super chats and says fallout just dropped a new 76 ad promoting free to play week and is also running a sale on Steam. Don't think we're getting Those remasters anytime.

[Gregory James Miller]

Then what's the fucking countdown to Fallout 76?

[Barrett]

Something Amazon related and nothing Xbox specific.

[Roger Poorny]

And what that Aaron Lime super chats and says? According to Grub a couple days ago, a State of Play showcase. Whatever. Should be the week after next. Any predictions for a Sony show? Give one, Greg.

[Gregory James Miller]

Oh, shit, that makes a lot of sense. Remember, there's always a goddamn state of play when I'm at dice, so of course there'll be a state of play when I'm at fucking dice. Predictions you want what?

[Roger Poorny]

One prediction is one.

[Gregory James Miller]

Legends release date, ma'.

[Roger Poorny]

Am.

[Gregory James Miller]

Wow. Ghost Yote Legends release date.

[Barrett]

Is Legends officially announced or we just.

[Gregory James Miller]

It's officially announced. Okay, cool. What I do want to call out while Barrett thinks is the protest strong song is Streets of Minneapolis, which of course he had a song called Streets of Philadelphia, right? Oh, so did he just change the words? I hate that. Elton John should have written a new song for Princess Die when she died. I'm saying it. All right, I'm sorry. I know, I know it's a hot take. I've been sitting on it since I was 6 years old or 7 years old when it happened. All right. Elton John fucking hat phoned it in and I know he was sad because his friend died, but you're Elton fucking John. Sit down at the piano and fucking create something brave. Don't tell him.

[Barrett]

I feel like it's too early for Wolverine release date, but.

[Roger Poorny]

Oh, you think so? I don't know.

[Barrett]

February, like that early in the year.

[Roger Poorny]

I don't know.

[Barrett]

That feels like a summer. We announced it the date in summer time. Coming out sometime in the fall, I think.

[Roger Poorny]

We did the God of War 2d Metrovania thing. And that's around June, July. You can play at Summer Game Fest.

[Gregory James Miller]

Okay.

[Roger Poorny]

Get some impressions there and then right before release. Few more super chat before we round out. Mike on drums. Remember, Echoes of Wisdom started as Zelda Maker. Oh, good call. Yelsing says UBI has been behind on every trend for the last 15 years. Burning so much money, going to catch up sooner or later. And meta with the final super chat for the day. Can we still buy Sketchfest tickets last minute?

[Gregory James Miller]

You sure can. Kind of funny dot com. Sketch Fest.

[Roger Poorny]

Sorry. Greg's listening to the song.

[Gregory James Miller]

I gotta know. I gotta know. I gotta know about it. I gotta know what's going on here with the fucking goddamn.

[Roger Poorny]

First of all, I was like, man, he's really checked out with this episode. He's ready for this.

[Gregory James Miller]

I'm so checked in, you know? What I mean, like it's the opposite. I'm not checked out.

[Roger Poorny]

I need to know everybody that has been kind of funny Games Daily while great continues to listen song. Is it the same song?

[Gregory James Miller]

I can't tell. I don't know. I haven't listened to the other one. I don't know the streets of Philadelphia well enough. I don't know if that's the name of the song. So Bruce, you get a pass I.

[Roger Poorny]

Think from you get a pass everybody.

[Gregory James Miller]

You're not fucking half ass like Elton John.

[Roger Poorny]

And also you get a pass. Matt picks Piscatella because you didn't call in fast enough. This has been kind of funny Games Daily for January 28th. Of course J. Cole's birthday if you love we do support with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show Enjoy the games cast next which is. I don't know.

[Gregory James Miller]

Okay, what is it?

[Barrett]

Blessing and Mike finally reacting to the IGN Top 100 Xbox games. We know they're out on assignment but we we pre recorded this.

[Gregory James Miller]

We did. We did. We want to make sure we got that for you.

[Roger Poorny]

Or they just have teleportation powers. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Gregory James Miller]

You're checked.