Report: PlayStation State of Play Coming in June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.23.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Episode: Report: PlayStation State of Play Coming in June
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Hosts: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr.

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PlayStation State of Play Slated for June

Timestamps: 10:04 - 19:42

The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the anticipated PlayStation State of Play event expected to take place in June. Blessing Adeoye Jr. references a Super Chat from Chris Golian at Video Games Chronicle, highlighting rumors from Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb about Sony potentially favoring a State of Play over a traditional PlayStation Showcase this summer.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. notes, "I don't think it matters if it's a state of play or PlayStation showcase" (12:08), suggesting that regardless of the format, PlayStation continues to deliver substantial announcements. The hosts discuss the nature of State of Play events, with Greg Miller emphasizing the strategic shift: "PlayStation's not missing the beat for a summer thing" (12:07).

Blessing provides a hot take, asserting that State of Play events have historically been impressive and effective: "They’ve always been able to hit that May to June timeframe" *(12:35). Greg concurs, highlighting that while State of Play may not showcase blockbuster titles like the PlayStation 6 or a new handheld device, it effectively presents a mix of third-party and first-party updates without overshadowing major announcements.

The conversation also touches on potential announcements, including rumors of a new God of War title set in a Greek-inspired setting. Blessing speculates it might resemble an "Assassin's Creed 2D title" (15:37), while Greg remains skeptical about the scale, likening it to an "Uncharted: Lost Legacy" type of release (15:56).

A Super Chat from Street Shadow supports Blessing's perspective, suggesting that PlayStation uses State of Play as a flexible marketing tool, reserving major announcements like the anticipated Wolverine project for more prominent platforms such as Summer Game Fest or the Jeff Keighley show.

Confirmation of Elden Ring Movie Adaptation

Timestamps: 28:46 - 40:50

The second major story reveals the confirmation of an Elden Ring live-action film, a collaboration between Bandai Namco Entertainment, A24, and director Alex Garland, known for Ex Machina and Annihilation. Blessing Adeoye Jr. cites the press release, emphasizing the involvement of George R.R. Martin in crafting the mythological backdrop for the movie.

Blessing asks Greg whether he's excited for the adaptation, to which Greg responds with cautious skepticism: "I'm not an Eldening guy, though. Nor am I a fantasy guy" (29:57). He expresses doubt about the movie’s potential to capture the essence of the game but remains open to being impressed by a compelling trailer.

The hosts engage in a discussion about the challenges of adapting a game like Elden Ring, which thrives on exploration and player-driven narratives. Blessing articulates concerns about losing the game's depth and player agency in a film format, comparing it to other game adaptations like Fallout and The Last of Us. She elaborates, "Elden Ring is a game that is about exploration...that is going to be so difficult to do through a movie" (31:23).

Greg echoes these sentiments, noting the difficulty of translating interactive experiences to a passive medium like film. However, he acknowledges that Alex Garland's involvement brings a level of credibility and creative potential to the project. The hosts conclude that while the movie could be financially lucrative due to the strong brand and legacy of Elden Ring, the true measure of its success will hinge on its ability to honor the game's intricate lore and immersive world.

Take-Two Interactive Withdraws DEI Praise from Annual Report

Timestamps: 40:50 - 51:57

The podcast shifts focus to a corporate controversy involving Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Borderlands. Blessing Adeoye Jr. reports that Take-Two has removed explicit references to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from its 2025 annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Greg Miller reacts strongly to this development, stating, "I mean, fuck them. Fuck everybody" (43:21), expressing frustration over the apparent backtracking on DEI commitments. Blessing elaborates, critiquing the company's shift from emphasizing diverse teams' effectiveness to a more ambiguous "diversity of thought," which she interprets as a step back from genuine inclusivity: "We firmly believe that diversity of thought drives the innovation that is integral to our success" (45:43).

The hosts discuss the broader trend of major corporations softening or removing DEI language from official documents, attributing it to political pressures, particularly from the Trump administration's stance on DEI initiatives. Blessing emphasizes the importance of holding corporations accountable, arguing that taking a stand against discriminatory practices is crucial, even if boycotts and public criticisms only impact the company's bottom line: "If you want to piss off a fan base, you do" (31:43).

61 Indie Launches Publishing Label to Support Developers

Timestamps: 51:57 - 55:31

Celebrating positive news, Blessing Adeoye Jr. announces that 61 Indie, known for its indie game showcases and awards, has launched its own publishing label. This initiative aims to provide comprehensive support to indie developers, including launch strategies, media relations, QA testing, and localization.

Greg Miller praises this move, stating, "That's really cool" (53:54), and highlights the importance of such support structures for the burgeoning indie game scene. Blessing explains that while 61 Indie doesn't offer direct funding, they facilitate connections and help indie developers navigate the complexities of game publishing: "We don't offer funding at this time, but we'll gladly research funding opportunities, help you craft pitches and connect you with potential partners" (54:12).

The hosts encourage indie developers to explore 61 Indie's offerings, noting the platform's dedication to authenticity and creative control, which are essential for indie success in an unpredictable industry.

FTC Concludes Case Against Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Timestamps: 55:31 - 56:50

In the final major news segment, the hosts inform listeners that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Blessing Adeoye Jr. quickly summarizes the closure, while Greg Miller expresses a sense of relief, stating, "I can rest. This happened" (55:42).

Additionally, the episode covers minor updates such as the release of SteamOS version 3.7.8, which includes system fixes and introduces a battery saver feature for the Steam Deck. They also mention Nintendo's new security measure requiring phone numbers for their Switch to Game Chat feature, aimed at enhancing online safety for users.

Super Chats and Community Interaction

Timestamps: 40:50 - 64:00

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with their audience through Super Chats, addressing questions and comments related to the discussed topics. Notable interactions include:

• James Collier asks about Chris Pratt's role in the Elden Ring movie, leading to humorous speculation about casting.

• Rowan Malcolm inquires about the story direction of the Elden Ring adaptation, prompting Blessing to suggest potential narrative structures that stay true to the game's lore.

• Audience members debate the effectiveness and sincerity of corporate DEI initiatives, with Blessing passionately advocating for genuine inclusivity over superficial corporate gestures.

The hosts use these interactions to deepen the discussion, offering personal insights and fostering a sense of community engagement.

Closing Remarks

Timestamps: 64:00

The episode concludes with Greg Miller and Blessing Adeoye Jr. expressing their appreciation for the listeners and encouraging support through memberships and Patreon. They tease upcoming content, including the finale of their ESO podcast series, and sign off with enthusiasm for future episodes.

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Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.: "I don't think it matters if it's a state of play or PlayStation showcase" (12:08)

• Greg Miller: "PlayStation's not missing the beat for a summer thing" (12:07)

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.: "Elden Ring is a game that is about exploration...that is going to be so difficult to do through a movie" (31:23)

• Greg Miller: "I mean, fuck them. Fuck everybody" (43:21)

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.: "We firmly believe that diversity of thought drives the innovation that is integral to our success" (45:43)

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This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily offers a comprehensive overview of upcoming events, corporate developments, and community sentiments within the gaming industry. From the strategic shift in PlayStation’s presentation formats to the controversial corporate retreat from DEI initiatives, the hosts provide insightful analysis and foster engaging discussions with their audience.

Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Today's stories include the Elden Ring movie is actually happening. Take two removes DEI from its annual report. And a state of play will reportedly happen in June. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Friday, May 23, 2025. I'm one of your host Blessing Adioa Jr. Joining me is WWE legend Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Hello. Bless. Welcome back to the office.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thanks for having me.

[Greg Miller]

I'm happy to have you. You and I are rarely in the office at the same time anymore, so it's nice to see you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was. I was hanging out with friends. We're doing interlock fingers.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was hanging out with friends in L. A yesterday. Name and Rihanna and Danny. And I was telling them because I saw them. I saw Danny last because I saw both actually last week as well.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it was one of those things where we're having a conversation about how often I'm coming to la. And I was like, dude, I'm in L. A more weeks than not for the next, like six weeks.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And we were talking about. And we're like, is this a sign of, like, maybe people are getting out of summer game fest to do their own events throughout the month of May because it feels like. It feels like maydays. It doesn't feel like play days. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

That was good. I like that. I like that. I think, honestly, that's a great interpretation of reading the tea leaves and seeing something that used to be what we call judges week. Do you remember ever hearing about this? Judges week used to be something that Jeff set up before E3. And the idea was, hey, at E3.3, all of the major publications are going to be too busy to see smaller games. So let's do an event in May for one week. Everybody would go down there and go to all these different hotel lobbies and different hotel ballrooms to see presentations from game developer XYZ that would then go through and show you their biggest thing. You'd get hands on with it that way. At E3, you could focus on the coverage, the news, the whatever, and not do it. So it's interesting. Yeah. To see that happening now, but in an unorganized fashion. So it is similar to what you had to do this week where we got hit up about an event on Wednesday. Right. And then I was like. And sure, bless will go. And then two days later, a different event hits up for an event on Thursday. And I was like, well, blessings already. There. So if you'll pay for hotel room, that'll work. And they said, yeah, like it's very much an unorganized version of that because, yeah, you're going to get lost in sgf. I think that you. We talk about how we cover Play Days itself from sgf, right? We're doing it very differently this year where only I am going to Play Days for kind of funny.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We talked about that.

[Greg Miller]

We haven't. This is a reveal that information, everybody. Hey, how are you? You know, years past we have sent all of us down to SGF to. And that's not 100% true, but last year we said all of us. The year before that we said all of us. And this year, I mean, like the Switch 2 launches on Thursday of that week. You've seen the articles and headlines already that Nintendo is not sending them out ahead of time. So it's like on top of reacting to SGF, reacting to Xbox, reacting to Outer Worlds 2, having pre and post shows for all of that, all of those things and you're now reviewing a console. How are you going to send. How could we send people down there to play Play Days? Games that are great and cool, but Play Days rarely is. Here's the latest PlayStation exclusive. Here's the latest Nintendo. That's not what Play Days is. Play Days is kind of what judges week was of. Hey, here's a day of the devs area booth of all these different games to play. Here's Sega trying to get the newest Sonic out to you. And that's a big deal because it's one of them. Here's, you know, Annapurna or here's this, like, here's this double A space, indie space we talk a lot about that is faded away in terms of its veracity, but it's still there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The first one that I went to must have been like 2021, 2022. The biggest game there was Sonic Frontiers, which. Which is probably saying something, right? I think the other biggest game there would have been Street Fighter 6. But then, yeah, you have like just a bunch of other things. Things that are exciting, right? Like every year I think we have the tradition of playing Escape Academy going for the role.

[Greg Miller]

We do it. We set that record every time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but that's the kind of scale you're talking about when you're talking about the kind of games that are showing up.

[Greg Miller]

And that's awesome and we love that. It's kind of funny, right? But it is also how do we serve you, the audience and what's the better use of our time. And obviously we will be here to react in like, rather than do the thing two years ago, right, where we got stuck on an airplane and missed Xbox. And then last year we'll do the same thing where we'll just tell you we're going to be late to Xbox, have a team here to do Xbox Live, not have to worry about that. Stick with the normal thing. While you can also play all the Mario Kart and Switch stuff you can handle to make coverage for that the next week. And then I come back and I'll tell you about what I played in LA and what I thought was cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And to be fair, I do have like a little bit of the feeling of fomo.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In the sense of leading into Summer Game Fest. I've had so many people hit me up like friends hit me up. They're like, are you going to be in town for play days? And I'm like, no. Like, we're not sending everybody this year. And they're like, what? Why? What's happening? I'm like, well, no, like, we had a meeting and it was one of those things where I think I was the one that was like, I think I'd rather stay home and just play the Switch too. Like, I'm such a, like, Nintendo freak when it comes to getting my hands on a new Nintendo console. Like, I think so fondly on my first day getting the Switch one and just playing Breath of the Wild the whole day and just being. Getting lost. Right. Falling in love and being like, yo, this is what it's about. I prefer that experience than for the fourth year in a row, like, get on a plane, go down, play, play. Like, I don't say random games, right, because, like, big upcoming games, but I think because of the nature of what's happening this year, it serves better to divide and conquer and tackle it in a smarter way. But that's what it looks like right now.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And, you know, I think I'll be interested to see your results on that and a reaction to that. I think, you know, one of the conversations we had in that meeting of discussing that was like, well, does it make sense to throw this many bodies at play days? We love play days. We love indie games, we love smaller games. But are those games cast moving the needle for that many people? Can we get the same kind of headlines out of just me going and playing a bunch of stuff and coming back? And we think so. So we'll see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll see. 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 YouTube, Patreon and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watches 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 ESO podcast finale.

[Greg Miller]

Yay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And what does that talk about?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, it's everything, right? Of course. Thank you so much to our partners over at eso, the other Scrolls Online, Zenimax Online, Bethesda, who came to us, you know, last year, we're talking about, hey, we've been doing ESO for 10 years. We want to celebrate that in a big way. Would you be down to do a podcast series that is a limited run Elder, Elder Scrolls Online podcast? And we said, yeah. And we broke it up into four episodes that have all been an hour plus. That literally is the deepest dive of my career. Thank you so much. Kind of funny. Best friends. We knew when we launched this, I was very clear, like, I know you don't play eso. Probably this is going to be about how games get made. And to see y' all flock to that, celebrate that, share it online, talk about that and be like, I don't like eso. I haven't played eso. I don't know if I'll ever play eso. But talk about and celebrate two developers coming in and really pulling no punches, talking about the things they fucked up, the things that went well, the mistakes they made, the changes they had to make. Like, it's been awesome to see how the sausage got made. So yeah, we're here for the finale now and the one, the way I've been promoting it to try to get the ESO fans in is they do talk about will Crossplay ever come to eso, which is a big deal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So get to the end of the episode and you ask the questions like, no.

[Greg Miller]

And that's it, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bye. And then after that, gamescast is going to be a long ESO stream celebrating the end of our four part limited series.

[Greg Miller]

Very excited about that. Yeah, you know, I had played a, I had played ESO at launch a little bit on PC and then thought I'd come back for console, and then life got too complicated. And I've touched it on console a few times since then. But when they did this, I stayed away from playing it because I wanted to be the noob Mike, be the expert and go. So we're. I'm starting a character from scratch with their whole new creation thing, the whole new intro they've talked so much about in this show. So it'll be fun. So come hang out with us. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And of course, if you're a kind of funny member, you can get today's Greg Way, which is Greg's review so far of the Starfield Watchtower dlc. There's a new Starfield dlc?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Big news yesterday, actually. And it's a. It's a creation, so not a Bethesda dlc. It's from the thing. It's from the people who made the best Fallout 4 mod, though. They're like professional modders. So it's got voice acting, it's got cutcenes, it's got this, it's got that. They put out a trailer yesterday that we watched on Gamescast that even though I know Starfield. Haha. Watch this to go. Holy. I can't believe what people can create. Because even the. I talk about in the. The. The review so far, but the intro to this and how it all starts or whatever. If I was Bethesda and I was watching this, I'd be like, we got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To hire these people.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it. These guys did it better than we did. Because it's a. It's really. Well, this is one of the. This start is one of my favorite starts to a question in Starfield, for sure. Hands down. Yeah. It's got the character people miss, it's got the humor people miss, it's got the intrigue.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think it's one. This is what I want. The Forgotten City was one of my favorite things the year that it came out. The fact that that started off as a Skyrim dlc and then they were like, oh, this is so good that we're going to spin it off into its own game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to see that happen more and more. Because the way that you're talking about this Starfield thing, I'm like, oh, shit, I want to play that. But I also kind of don't want to play Starfield.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so now I'm like in this weird place of do I find the time? Just say it and pick up Starfield and deal with it and like, maybe play a quest that I end up falling in love with. Or do I? Or do I cross my fingers that they just get all the awards and are able to fund a studio and spin that out onto its own thing? I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you're going to hold your breath on that one for a while, so maybe you take the easy money right now and go play this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining Terror, brought to you by Subway Surfers in Factor, 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.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Baker's do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Starting with story number one. Sony's next PlayStation State of Play was will Reportedly be coming in June I got a super Chat question for you. This is from Chris Golian at VGC at Video Games Chronicle. By the way, my super chat question is what big announcement do you expect from a state of play coming this summer? The article reads. The next PlayStation presentation is coming in June and is likely to be a state of play instead of a showcase, it is claimed Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb stated during today's episode of Game Mess Mornings that other reliable insiders were saying that they hadn't heard anything about a May event from Sony coming this year. Well, I haven't either, grubb said. And that's because something's happening in June. It's a June thing now. Is that going to be a big showcase? I don't think so. Grubb said back in February that according to his sources, Sony hadn't yet decided whether to hold its annual PlayStation 5 showcase this summer or a smaller scale state of play in today's claims. He says the company has likely opted for the latter. Quote I said a couple months ago that I heard that they were discussing going back and forth about a showcase or a state of play. Sounds like they probably settled on a state of play, he said. Quote I'm not 100% about that aspect of it. It's probably a state of play though. But I have heard June they're being very guarded, he said. Just getting the details that there's something happening in June was kind of difficult to come by. So it does make me feel like they are hiding some stuff. Although that is pure speculation.

[Greg Miller]

Rumor and speculation from Jeff Grubb, of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg, does this do anything for you?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, yeah, State of Plays are exciting. I want to do this, but it's also like it makes perfect sense to do one. Right. It is the E3 time frame. It is SGF time. It is whatever. I'm sure PlayStation has something to say. It's more the is it going to be just a third party showcase of other stuff that we've seen or whatever with another look at Yotei, you know what I mean? Or is it going to be a big deal? And here is something fresh and exciting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I give my hot take?

[Greg Miller]

I'd love a hot take.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think it matters if it's a state of Play or PlayStation showcase. Yeah, the way this news hits me is of course we're getting something. I think the fact that it's June, it's like, all right, cool. We're not usually getting the end of May thing that we, that we get from PlayStation every year, but PlayStation's not missed the beat for a summer thing. Right. It's either a state of play or a PlayStation showcase. But they've always been able to hit that May to June timeframe. I think more often than not. Like the state of plays have been fairly impressive even compared to some of the PlayStation showcases. Of course, PlayStation showcases usually mean you're getting more first party announcements and so we have that level of anticipation. But like the last big state of play we got the announced Soros, the. The follow up to Returnal. So they're not above announcing first party stuff at a state of play. And then also like, but a state.

[Greg Miller]

Of play means you're not getting a Naughty Dog game. You're not getting a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure. But that could still happen at a summer game fest. Right? Like we've seen stuff pop up there and then also like, I look at the. I believe it was the last showcase was. Was it the showcase where we got Concord and Marathon and Fair games and it was trash. Like, I don't want to say trash. It was not good.

[Greg Miller]

It was the, the wrong tone to set and it has blown up in their face repeatedly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so I look at this and honestly think like I've been of. Of this mind for a while that, that I think when it comes to oh, are we going to do a state of play? Are we going to do a showcase? It really is PlayStation freestyling and going, all right, how. What is the level of pomp and circumstance that we want to launch this thing with? And more often than not, I think that pomp and circumstance gets a bit overblown as far as leveling up people's expectations and then people being disappointed at the end of the day.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, of course I think, yeah, I think if you, the. If you're going to do a showcase, it needs to be. Here is the next year, year and a half, two years, three years of PlayStation Studios, like what we're talking about. Here's what Ben's doing, here's what Santa Monica is doing. Here's this, here's these gigantic announcements. We want to make hardware changes, whatever it's going to be. Right. The new PlayStation handheld, please, God. So, yeah, state of play. I think you can still pepper in one probably. Right. In terms of like we're doing this thing or here's the big announcement from us alongside our partners or whatever. I. That's my thing is like a showcase. I would be like, oh, wow, fuck. Okay, there is. They have something to say, a state of play. I'm like, oh, cool. They have something to say. But my expectations aren't. We're going to see the PlayStation 6. We're going to see a handheld. We're going to see Gran Turismo, whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't think we'll see a handheld at a state of play for first look for.

[Greg Miller]

I mean. Yeah, I mean, no, I don't. I don't think you would. I think if anything as weird as PlayStation is, a handheld would be announced in the blog and Wired would have the exclusive with it and then we'd get something in a state of play about it, you know, soonish.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. What do you think? If this is a state of play, what new announcement do you think there is to get? Because I immediately jumped to. There has been. There have been the rumors of the God of war Greek thing. I believe the Greek thing. This is also confirmed by Jeff. I believe that is that it's a game. And so a God of war Greek game coming out later this year or maybe early next year. Yeah, I could see that. But I don't view that as like, I don't expect that to be a big like God of war Ragnarok, Ragnarok style thing. I assume that that's going to be a smaller scale project. I think it's like way more of a side project.

[Greg Miller]

And so what we're talking like an uncharted lost legacy kind of thing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I'm thinking of like, you know how Assassin's Creed had like the 2D titles? Oh, that's my speculation.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't, I'm not, I don't remember the details on the God of War 1. What the rumors are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I believe I can look it up as we're going. Right. But I believe this Is like a Jeff Grubb thing of like, oh, yeah, there's a God of war Greek thing that's coming out later this year. And then people, I think us on the show were like, maybe it's a comic book. Maybe it's. And then he said it's a game, but I still don't think it's a big thing.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Yeah, no, that's fair. Yeah. I would not expect a ragnarok out of that or whatever. You know, what else do I see? You start running through who's available to do something. What. We imagine Fair Games is going to be canceled soon, so nothing there. Do we need another look at Marathon? Probably, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, but not this soon, though.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

As far as reports, it seems like they're pushing some of that. Some of those marketing beats.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Maybe this is the beat that. Where you push it because it wasn't a thing of pushing it to changing the verbiage from being an open beta to like, play tests or something like that was what they were talking about. Maybe that's where you do it. Of like, there's a trailer that ends with public play test Begin July or whatever. You know, Is Sony Bend anywhere close to having a game ready to show anybody? No. You know, what is Polyphony doing? I think you get into the more weedy stuff of like, all right, cool. Like, where's my infamous remaster? You know what I mean? That's what I'm looking for. Get that out there. You see all this oblivion shit?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not saying the word Wolverine.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not. You're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is this time.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's the time again, back to what we're talking about. About expectations and this, that and the other. If I have Wolverine and I want to make a statement about Wolverine, I'm closing out sgf or I'm holding the old Game Awards, I think. I think, granted, those. It is. It is a big thing, but it's a big thing where it could be anywhere. I think it's too big for a state of play. Very first look at gameplay, I assume. Right. I mean, we've had the teaser trailer before, and now I'm ready to see something from it. I would think you hold off till you have a far grander stage for that or make it your own announcement. The only reason. No, I take it back. I would say the only reason I would see it happening here is because you want to do it at Comic Con. But if I want to do a Comic Con, I would still Do SGF have the trailer, drop it, close out at SGF and then be able to say we're doing a panel at Comic Con and come hang out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, what's the, what's the timing of Comic Con July, end of July? Because I do find it interesting that this is happening in June. Usually when we get the PlayStation State of Play or PlayStation Showcase that happens before Summer Game Fest. If it's happening in June, that makes me think it's not going to happen before sgf.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What if it is a late June thing to accommodate for the fact that hey, Wolverine is the big thing here, let's see that into a comic.

[Greg Miller]

But again, see here's where you get into the whole trying to market a game where I think if Wolverine was going to be the big thing, you get its own State of Play. I think Wolverine would be in the YOTE slot. And so since it's not in the YOTE slot, I think you have to not overshadow yota. So I think you want to get through the Ghost of yotei marketing cycle before you really lean into Wolverine. I think you can, I think you can have SGF and you can end with Wolverine and it's a fucking trailer of Wolverine tearing people apart or whatever. And it says 2026 and we stop there and then. I don't think State of Play has anything for Wolverine in it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, by that, yeah, I would, for me, I would lean more toward sgf for Wolverine.

[Greg Miller]

100%. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's too big for that. So I think you do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to bring in a super chat from Street Shadow who writes in and says, I think Bless is right. PlayStation are using state of Play as their flexible marketing beat. Then they can use all the other, they say all the others we big events or outlets to market for them. It costs a lot of money to put put on these showcases. I think, I mean my big read is that, I think not big read but like my read on this is that PlayStation has been more buddy buddy with Jeff Keighley as we go.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They've been appearing more and more at Summer Game Fest and more and more at Game Awards. I think. I really do think like the balance of it is all right, we got a big ass game announcement happening around Summer Game Fest season. We're still going to do our State of play where we have all those third party stuff and we have a lot of the. Or some of the first party stuff. But we saved the Big guns for Jeff Keely show. That way we can close out and have that pomp and circumstance, have it be that big moment, have it stand out as maybe the biggest announcement at Jeff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean you're talking about prestige titles, right? Something that's going to come in with gravitas in the same way last of us did. And I think yeah, that's where you get into a. Not slim pickings. PlayStation has plenty of that IP but what's ready to go? What are you ready to show and talk about that way? I think that's more where it's like, you know, Street Shadow says, then you can use the other. The other big events or outlets to market them. I think the other big events, PlayStation thinks they're bigger than all the other big events. That's my one thing where PlayStation does believe that they're bigger than SGF and game awards. And so I think that like they see the value in being there and doing it, but they also understand that if they wanted to stop everything they could drop a Wolverine trailer. And I think that's where it gets into the whole thing too where like we're talking about like well, State of Play is less than right. Like they don't want to do. It's also you don't want to overshadow everything. You don't want to have a. Hey partners, we're bringing you all in. Capcom ub. We're showing your game, we're doing the thing and at the end we're closing with Wolverine. So no one will talk about your thing that is part of this whole equation, right. Of how do you give the spotlight that you are contractually obligated to give all these different games that you've made these deals with.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now when we're talking about State of Play and probably third party stuff, what would you expect on the third party side? Because I've seen Starfield come to the chat a couple of times.

[Greg Miller]

Starfield. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. See, Starfield's interesting and I would say no, as we all have seen and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this one. Xbox is very cool saying we're coming to PlayStation. PlayStation doesn't make that big of a deal about Xbox coming to PlayStation. So I would imagine if we're getting Starfield coming to PlayStation 5, which I still think at the way they've done this is going to happen when they're done with Starfield. Like and I is this, this is plays in today's Greg way, right? Of like IGN has an article up that I read right before I was like, wait, what's the. Who's the. Who's the creator who made this? You know what I mean? I had to go look at it. And their article goes from talking about it to then also being like. But still no news on another story expansion or a PlayStation 5 game. And like Bethesda said that they wanted. There's at least one more going. Todd Howard said in this interview with Mr. Matty plays they'd hope to keep it going for a lot longer. I think we all know, and I'm saying this as a Starfield fan, that like Starfield has underperformed expectations. You're working on the Elder Scrolls. You're working on theoretically the next Fallout somewhere in there. Right? Like, I think you're getting more and more people off of Starfield as fast as you can. So my prediction would be whatever the next story expansion is, whatever the Bethesda thing, like similar to Shattered Space, which I hope is on that level, whenever we get there, that comes out. And I think that probably comes with the PlayStation 5 version. And I think that's the end of big Bethesda updates. I think you still get similar to how the Escape Quest that I liked a lot and the Doom or the Doom actually was somebody hired. But you still get creations that drop in the creation thing, but not a giant DLC for it. I think anyways, I think when that that'll be the thing. So that could theoretically be here. But I see that being on Sunday's SGF Xbox presentation. Remember we're getting the XP Xbox Direct, followed by the Outer Worlds. Outer Worlds two Direct. I would imagine if you have to assume if they are doing any kind of expansion update whatever for Starfield this year, it gets a section in there to talk about it. And that's where I would think if you're doing PlayStation 5, you say it's all coming to PlayStation 5, but I don't think PlayStation's like, come on our state of play and talk about it. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To bring in another super chat, CJ split in and says, will we see a new Ember Lab game? The studio who did Cana Bridge of Spirits? Eventually, I think. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

How long was. How. When was Kayna.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That must have been 2021 pandemic, I remember. Yeah. I mean, I think it's on the table. Right. Like, I think as much as any other indie paddle that's partnered with PlayStation could appear. Right. Like, where is Little Devil Inside? Is that even still a video game? Right. Like, I think that could pop up at any state of play. And so. And I think that's the level of announcements that we're talking about. And I also think, like, again, I. I feel like we downplay like the level of games that we get at State of Play sometimes or at least for like the summer season. Because, like PlayStation likes to divide and conquer a little bit between the state of play and like an sgf.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think even if we don't get a big new blue point title, because I don't think anybody expects that anytime soon at this point. Right. Like, I do think that there's the potential for the third party, first party stuff where it is like, oh yeah, we gave our IP to this studio to make something cool or like a team of sobe style thing. Right. Of, oh, Astrobot was announced and came out the same year. I think we could get a couple of those this summer from PlayStation.

[Greg Miller]

I think if you stay to play, I think you get Astrobot dlc, more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Levels, more stuff like a bigger. Like a. I guess. Because I'm trying to think of the Astrobot DLC that we've gotten already because they did like the Speedrun levels.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that Holiday planet, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Are you thinking something like along those lines or something bigger?

[Greg Miller]

No, I think something along those lines. I'd love it to be bigger, but I would think that Perhaps even for PlayStation, they didn't expect this to do as well as it did. And so you have. You're working on something smaller for that to announce here, put out maybe at the holidays. I think, you know, we're. Then I start. I don't. As I start to say it, I start to build it. I feel what would be a more of a PlayStation forward state of play than they usually are. But in terms of usual suspects that could be there, I think Astrobot would make sense. Right. I think Helldivers would as well. You know, Gary was on yesterday and gave us the run. Well, he came in to celebrate his soccer team winning a championship. But then he gave us his review so far of the new Helldivers update where, you know, they've invaded Super Earth and he's doing its combat inside of gigantic buildings and all this stuff and whatever. Like, I feel like making a cool trailer out of that that you would show at a state of plate in, like drop a new battle pass at the same time. That could make sense. If you could tie that battle pass into a PlayStation IP. That could be fun. Something there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Calvin Perez has one more. I'll pull in Venom spin off Slash DLC or intergalactic Minor update.

[Greg Miller]

Intergalactic. No way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I think we're so far from intergalactic still, and I think that you want to talk about a prestige title. The next update you'd get from that is either going to come from Neil in a variety interview or. Yeah, they have a deep dive, a big trailer. They drop. I think Game Awards again would be something that. That's the caliber you'd be shooting for there or whatever. Checking on that venom spin off is interesting, but.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I'm a. I'm a venom spin off doubter.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because people are pulling that, like, straight from the leaks as, like, the confirmation that this thing is happening. And I don't think that's a good confirmation that a thing is happening.

[Greg Miller]

Happening.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

I think for sure they looked into it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But I just don't think that's. Yeah, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, projects get canceled all the time and like the fact that we haven't heard about it already and you look at the timeline and stuff that they had in those leaks, I'm like, there's no way. I don't want to say there's no way it's coming out. I just don't believe that it's coming out. I see it.

[Greg Miller]

100.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg. We're gonna move on to story number two, but before we do, I want to tell you about patreon.com kind of funny and YouTube.com kind of funny games where you can get the kind of Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Off and we're back with story number two. The Elden Ring movie has been confirmed. I'm pulling directly from a press release and I do have another super chat question for you. Are you excited for an Elden Ring film? Let us know. Bandai, Namco Entertainment Inc. And A24 today announced their collaboration with writer and director Alex Garland for a live action film adaptation of FromSoftware. FromSoftware's world renowned video game Elden Ring. Elden Ring was created under the guidance of FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki. Based on a mythological story written by George R.R. martin, author of the fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire.

[Greg Miller]

Remember when we made a thing of just calling every time George Railroad Martin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

George Railroad Martin to bring the epic world in the intense action of Elden Ring to film. The project will be led by filmmaker Alex Garland, known for Ex Machina, Civil War and Warfare as writer and director. The film will be produced by Peter rice alongside Andrew McDonald and Alan Reich from DNA and George Railroad Martin and Vince Girardis. Greg, you hype for the Elden Ring movie. You excited for this?

[Greg Miller]

No, I'm not an Eldering guy, though. Nor am I a fantasy guy. So I don't know. Like, I. I'm not. Like, this would be my best chance of getting into Elden Ring, right? And so, like, if the trailer was dope and there was some cool shit happening there, whatever. Did he do Annihilation?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Why are they not. Why they say Ex Machina? Civil War?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, first of all, for them to say, you watch your mouth about Ex Machina goes hard. But warfare, I feel.

[Greg Miller]

Which one is Ex Machina? I think I watched it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ex Machina is the one robot. Yeah. With the.

[Greg Miller]

Scarlett Johansson.

[Unnamed Speaker]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's his name?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Ex Machina. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Oscar Isaac.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oscar Isaac.

[Greg Miller]

And then the guy from the time traveling movie. Yeah. Sorry, everybody. I loved Ex Machina movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Civil War. I never watched.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It was too close in Annihilation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But it was a bad movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It wasn't a bad movie.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It was not a bad movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's what. Here's what I'll say again.

[Greg Miller]

It's bad on the good bad scale. If I'm exploring the entire. I. If we're using our. It was mediocre.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I don't think you got it. I don't think you got it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I remember loving Annihilation, but right now, I couldn't tell you one thing that happens in Annihilation.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A woman goes to a place. I remember that.

[Greg Miller]

Yep. Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shit's weird.

[Greg Miller]

Somebody leaves that isn't who they thought it was. Is a dreamy thing. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Could have been really cool. Wasn't.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Anyways, the bubble changes you.

[Greg Miller]

I am interested to see how you do an Elden Ring move movie. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So much of it is. And this is the same with any role playing game. We talk about Fallout. Right. But like, so much of it is your build, your character, this, and then the bosses and the thing. So is it like, are we doing a Minecraft thing where it's like, I'm just a normal guy. Oh, I've been dropped into this war.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You want to piss off a fan base? You do.

[Greg Miller]

Like, what are we doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You do an elder ring. Isakai is how you piss people off. I am very fascinated by this because I think it's. I mean, it's. They got a super crew of money makers here. And I. I think that's the thing that. That fascinates me the most is I. When I think about an eldering movie, me personally, as somebody who really, really.

[Greg Miller]

You know, the source material.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I know the source material, and I really, really, really love Elden Ring. I wouldn't want an Elden Ring movie. And that's. And I'm somebody who I think is more on the skeptical side as a whole when it comes to video game adaptations and, like, the acceleration of video game adaptations, right? Whenever we get a new video game adaptation story, I'm like, all right, here we go. They're making a split fiction movie. All right? They're making a, you know, to a T cartoon. Even though I. I would love a 2A T cartoon, but it feels like they're announcing a new one of these every other week. And when I think about why I love video games, I. I think that some of that gets lost in the translation of removing the gameplay and putting a thing on screen. And even when I'm watching you bring up Fallout, right? I'll bring up, like, a conversation of Fallout versus Last of Us and how they. How they tackle their adaptations, because I think both of them are very good. Last of Us, for me, as somebody who likes the show and loves the game, I feel like is less of a necessary adaptation versus something like Fallout, because Fallout does do a great job of going, all right, what do people want out of the world from Fallout? What do you get when you play the game of Fallout? And they give us an original story, they give us these original vaults, they give us essentially new quests to go on with this crew of characters. And it feels so true to Fallout. Whereas Last of Us, in a lot of ways, is giving me the cutscenes again in a reinterpretation. In a lot of ways, I feel like when I think of season two of Last of Us versus Last of Us 2, right? Like, they have to figure things out as far as, all right, how do we invoke the violent, like Bloodthirst of Ellie in the Last Was two when we remove the gameplay of it and, like, this stretch of the player having to kill a bunch of people to, like, get to Nora and get to these things, right? Like, they have to, like, figure out how to change things and figure out how to make that make sense for tv. And I think in a way that kind of inherently strips away what makes playing the Last Was two special. I think that game works better as a game than it inherently does as a TV show. Elden Ring is another one that I think works inherently better as a game than I think it can as a movie, because that's a game that is about exploration. That is a game about uncovering items and seeing with Your eyes like, oh, I walked into this village and there are these up weird frog people that are now coming at me. What the fuck is the story behind these frog people? And then learning it later down the road in like these unique ways. That is going to be so difficult to do through. Not even difficult. That's impossible to do through a movie. And I think they can find their own thing with it. Alex Garland is fucking talented, right? As far as like on the back of the box, the money making aspect of this, this is going to do so fucking well. Because they get to put George R.R. martin in a theater, right? Like his name on a theater poster. They get to, you know, be like, oh. And it's adapted from this very, very popular video game. We have Alex Garland, who did Ex Machina and Annihilation. Like, this was concocted by people at like the moneymakers at a studio. Like the people at. At the top of a studio. And they're, they're mixing this concoction and they were like, oh, we're, we're cooking. We got something here. And I totally understand how this is the natural process of things. An Elden Ring movie has to get greenlit because Elden Ring. An Elden Ring movie is going to make so much fucking money. That said, I don't know if an Elden Ring movie has any way of living up to an Elden Ring video game and what that experience is actually about.

[Greg Miller]

Loss for me to unpack there. I agree.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I went off.

[Greg Miller]

I let you cook. Yeah, I agree with you. On Fallout, Last of Us, I think that was a conversation we had at the review of Fallout, the TV show where I think this is the best video game adaptation because again, the way the stim packs look. Exactly. It's happening in the same world of Fallout and they do such a great job of bringing that to the screen, but not robbing you of the agency of it. Making it feel like I'm watching someone's Fallout Journey, not losing mine. Whereas Last of us is watching the game again, right? Even down to the lines and repeating them as they say them or whatever, which is fun and great and I like it. But, you know, different. I think I push back on you saying Elden Ring is going to make so much money as a movie. Movies are so hard. I mean, games are hard too, but movies are so hard to call the ball and nail. Of course, as we've talked about so many times on this show, even this announcement, take with a grain of salt until you have the first thing of them with the Clacker going where it's day one of the shoot. I don't believe a fucking video game movie's happening until it happens. What then gets interesting is. And somebody else in the chat had my exact same thought as it went through, right? Like Alex Garland doesn't make Blockbusters. Now that's not to say this couldn't be. It's not to say whatever, blah blah blah. And then it's also I, I and this is my own personal preference and bias coming in of like if I'm sitting in a theater watching the trailer for Elden Ring, the name doesn't resonate with me. Sure, George Railroad Martin does. Okay maybe. But it's like game of the year and I'm watching it like s and I know I'm gonna piss off every Vaati video fan out there. Like as somebody who doesn't understand the story of any of the souls games or whatever, like I struggled and I'm just stupid and very weak willed and small minded to of what the story would be in a narrative sense of what you're being told of why you're on this. And I know that's like their job to then sell me on it and show me why but I, I think of a mainstream person in there. Is it going to look enough like Lord of the Rings that you're going to go, oh George Railroad Martin, Game of Thrones. Oh my God, you're in a man. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean I think that's what it would have to be. Right? It would have to be like a fucked up Lord of the Rings.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Given like what the setting of Elden Elden Ring is. I think I jump in on the point.

[Greg Miller]

Let's just stop for a second. I'm sorry, what the fuck is going on in Elden Ring?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh man. Because I'm.

[Greg Miller]

I know it's been. I'm a, I'm a maidenless tarnished and I've been dropped and there's a whole. There was a ring.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I could have told you the story of Elden Ring like a year ago when I was fresh off of watching all the, the V bit stuff. If I were, if I were to recap it for you here, I would butcher the hell out of it. But yeah, like it involves a lot of royalty and like a lot of magic and like yeah, you're a tarnished that you're essentially like kind of hired by one of the people that are one of the top dogs or whatever. But you don't really know that coming in. But you're coming into, like. Like, take out the Elden Lord and become the Elden Lord. I don't know, man. It's a lot. It's a lot of weird that. Honestly, I think if anybody, as far as a studio coming in and making the eldering movie, it makes sense. I think A24 makes sense because they make weird, like. Yeah, right. Like, I think I said this on a previous episode that I think you. You're gonna have to lean into what they did with something like Green Knight, where Green Knight is another movie from A24 that was this fantasy. A dude is going on an adventure. And, like, the vibe, like, the plot is very, like, not as, I guess traditional would be the way I put it. Right. Like, it is. It is kind of a weird slash, hard movie to follow. And it's more about, like, kind of the experiences that he's having along the way that informs, like, what his character is going through and who he is and all that stuff. It paints the vastness of his fantasy world by, like, zooming into a specific character story. And I think that might be a way to capture what's going on in Elden Ring. The other way would be to go grand with it and make it this big, gigantic Game of Thrones thing and focus on the big characters of the Elden Ring story and maybe try to tell the story before everything goes to shit. And that would be like, I think a big. Almost like a blockbuster sort of thing. But to your point of Alex. Alex Garland isn't somebody who makes blockbusters. I view it as the same with Greta Gerwig wasn't somebody who made blockbusters. Right. Like, I put her. I put Greta Gerwig and Alex Garland kind of in the same conversation as far as the kind of filmmaker they are. And Greta Gerwig made Barbie.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And turned that into a blockbuster. Right. Like, I think for what video game adaptations are today. Right. Like, these studios are going after it and they're trying to find out or they're trying to look into what are the popular games of today. Elden Ring. And who's going to do justice to, like, make that something that's going to sit well with people and hopefully make them a buttload of money. And I do think that's Alex Garland. I do think this is a way for them to.

[Greg Miller]

Again, like, I'm not. This doesn't smack. Of the dozens and dozens of other video game adaptation announcements we've seen that falter and go nowhere. Right. Because it is a 24. A studio. I really like Bandai Namco publisher that knows what their IP is and is trying to protect it. Alex Gar like, you've got a bunch of good names connected. It's actually really funny to be reading this and talking about this today, because yesterday Tim again put it into me. You gotta watch. He put it into me. You gotta watch the studio. So Jed and I watch Studio. The Studio Episode one last night. Have you watched it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

So of course episode one's all about we got to make this fucking Kool Aid movie and they want to get Martin Scorsese. You know, I mean, it's all these different things connected to it. So it's funny to be here and talking about it in a very similar fashion. But again, these people know what they do. They've seen the success of Last of Us, they've seen the success of Mario. Let's treat everything with the respect it deserves and go for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Story number three Take two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report Scrubs diversity references this is Stephen Totillo at Game File, Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K and Borderlands publisher Take Two Interactive has deleted references to diversity and inclusion from its annual report to investors this year. In a list of employment awards it boasts about each year no longer include two accolades it was granted for its support of LGBTQ employees. Those changes are among the most eyebrow raising in Take Two's voluminous 2025.

[Greg Miller]

Didn't see that one coming.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. 10K annual report, which was filed to the securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The changes resemble the disappearance of diversity language from the most recent annual reports for some of America's biggest corporations, including Disney, Google, GM and Intel. Those firms deleted or softened their DEI language from their big corporate filings, according to a report from NPR in February. 10K reports are filed by all publicly traded companies in the US to inform investors about its operations. They offer a thorough look at how a company defines itself, how its business works, the risks it believes it faces, and how it has performed financially. Take Two has not explained its changes and it declined to comment when I wonder why.

[Greg Miller]

I can't imagine why they made these.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Changes and declined to comment when asked about them by Game File. The changes are nevertheless consistent with a company that would want to avoid the attention of the Trump administration. In March, the Justice Department and Equal Employment opportunity Commission, amplifying U.S. president Donald Trump's disdain for DEI, stated that, quote, DEI initiatives, policies, programs or practices may be unlawful if they involve an employer or other covered entity taking an employment action Motivated in whole or in part by an employee's or applicants, race, sex, or another protected characteristic. End quote. Intake 2's 2024 10K report to investors. It began a section titled Diversity, Equity, Inclusion with the sentence, quote, we firmly believe that diverse teams are more valuable and effective in that diversity is key to our success, end quote. In the 2025 version, that section has been relabeled as community and engagement. In the opening line now states, quote, we firmly believe that diversity of thought drives the innovation that is integral to our success. And quote.

[Greg Miller]

So they're still about diversity? Just of thought.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just a thought.

[Greg Miller]

Just of thought.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Greg, what's your response to this?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, fuck them. Fuck everybody. It's the whole. I mean, like, what it really strikes me with is when Pride Month comes around or when Black Lives Matter was happening, and every. All these companies change their profile pics and everybody's like, you're not gonna. You're not gonna stick with this. This isn't. You know, you're just doing this. This is embarrassing. Why? Why? And then, of course, they change them back and never. They act like they're on everybody's side. They act like they're on the right side. They're on the side of the money. They're on the side of the money because they're a giant corporation. And it's, like, funny to sit there and wrestle with it in your head. Not even wrestle with it, but just go back and forth on it of, like, on the one hand, you and everybody else who was like, diversity, equity, inclusion really matters to us. We're making a stand. And then as soon as it wasn't popular, like, I'm gone on that. Not. Not that. Then you can flip to the other side of just like. Because stick with that for a second of like, fuck you. And then it's like, do you really think this is going to matter, that Donald Trump and his cronies are going to see that? And then you flip to this. I'm like, you know what? They might actually. They might actually. They are so fucking crazy that they're tanking the fucking country. And they might actually look at that and be like, well, definitely fuck them and make a whole big point. Like, it's like such a crazy world we live in right now where it's like, God damn. But, yeah, no, I. Come on. What the fuck are you doing? Go to Costco, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, the. Oh, what's that? Costco? What's going on there?

[Greg Miller]

Costco didn't back down. This came up On Costco, this is the whole thing. When Target, fucking. They. They went stupid, stupid about it, and everybody's like, well, fuck you. We won't go there. Costco were the one. Like, they came up to their board and like, they, like, I'm. Now, I'm very much out of school and don't have the facts in front of me, but it either was unanimous or near. It was like, overwhelming majority of the board was like, no, fuck that. We're not taking away the dei, but we're keeping that in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And their numbers went up while Target went down.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. For me, the immediate read, when we get to that last line of quote, we firmly believe that diversity of thought drives the innovation that is integral to our success. Right. Having that replace the previous year's thing of. We firmly believe that diverse teams are more valuable and effective and that diversity is key to our success. What that tells me is that you are more open to the idea of somebody maybe being a bigot or somebody maybe having, like, views that. That don't include people of certain races or don't include people that have disabilities or people of certain sexualities or whatever. Being able to include those kind of views is more important to you than including people who are people of color. Right. Or people who have disabilities.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Lgbtq. That's my immediate read on it. And I echo every. Every single thing you said there. I put up a tweet, kind of going off a little bit about this yesterday, and I learned from that tweet.

[Greg Miller]

The tweet or skeet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry, not a tweet. It was a blue sky. So it's skeet.

[Greg Miller]

Hate it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I. And I learned from that post the word anthropomorphizing. Anthropomorphizing.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Morphizing. Right.

[Greg Miller]

So something that isn't a human. And make it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, making it a human.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I got a couple of responses from people talking about, like, we got to stop anthropomorphizing companies. Right? And, like, because my thing was. And I can find it, so I can, like, make sure to read it verbatim, right? Because I, quote, tweeted the article, and I was like, cowards and bigots. And then I responded, the one thing I do appreciate about the current moment is that we're seeing the masks come off. The same companies that hashtag their asses off about caring for the marginalized in 2020 never actually cared. It was obvious. But nobody has to pretend anymore. We can call it like it is. Right. I still hold that, oh, 100%.

[Greg Miller]

The masks are off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The masks are off.

[Greg Miller]

Don't ever fucking change. If you just go, don't change to the rainbow, don't change the Black Lives Matter blackout, stuff like you can't have it both ways is I think the biggest thing where it was that people are doing this and you get, I, you wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt, but here we are where the rubber meets the road and everybody's just bending the knee.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. And yeah, to that like I had some people respond. I had one person say, corporations and capital have no morals, empathy or cultural impact. They are for profit machines of consumption. I am begging people to stop anthropomorphizing Target or a massive multinational media publisher. And I responded to that person and I was like, yo, can you tell me more about anthropomorphizing? Just in the sense of when I talk about like fuck Target or I'm saying like fuck take two for this, right? I'm thinking about the people at the top, I'm thinking about the shareholders, yada, yada. And they responded, you know, it's not about how you specifically are talking about it. It's more along the cultural tendencies toward the inclination to think of brands and so on as persons. Even if you talk about the boards and shareholders, by law they're doing the right thing. Subjective as it is, we have to remember that fiduciary responsibility is a self fulfilling, subjective, made up thing that rich people have that labor does not. When we accidentally or otherwise misapply humanity as a plea for reasoning, it can feel like we're missing the forest by the trees to appealing to it, you know, and I, I try to give it like a fair back and forth because I, I think there's some legitimacy to what's being said there. As far as like Target, take two in this example, they're not people, right? The purpose of a business is to make money. And that's the inherent problem with it is that, oh, in 2020, the right thing to do to make money is to say we like black people. And in 2025 the right thing to do to make money is to say, oh, actually we don't need a, we like everybody. We like everybody. We don't need to uplift specific black people or like people with disabilities or whatever, right? Like, oh no, everybody, if you're a bigot, come up, come over, work here. We're not going to stop.

[Greg Miller]

There's thoughts on both sides and I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think my, like, I hear that and I accept that, and I agree with parts of that. I think where I still stand is that there are lines that are too, that, that I think as people, right, There are lines that we should have that should be too hard to cross. As far as if Target came out today and they literally put out a tweet that says fuck black people because Donald Trump wanted to say it or whatever, right? Like, do I look at that and go, I mean, they're not a person. They're. They're doing that because that's going to make the money and not get the company shut down. And like, that's going to have a trickle down effect. Because if Target goes down, then that means that, like, you know, all these people that work for Target that might not share those views are then going to be impacted. And like, there are black brains at Target, there are different kinds of, like, I, it's a whole bag of worms that I understand the complexities of it and we should be able to navigate in those complexities and be able to kind of pick and choose a little bit. And that's, I think that's the, the part where I'm kind of getting to with this because like, when I made the tweet, right, there are multiple people that are like, we're going to boycott Take Two or we're going to do, do X, Y, Z thing. And I look at that, right, And I appreciate the sentiment in the thought, especially because it was reported a couple of days ago that Target, their numbers are down because everybody's boycotting Target for being pieces of shit, which is fudgeing great. I appreciate, I appreciate the thought. But I also think there is that like, targeted effort thing of boycotts that kind of like we all need to be locked in. Like, if just kind of, if just me boycotts Take Two, like that's going to affect me more than Take two, right? If I don't review talk about Grand Theft Auto, you've come right back to.

[Greg Miller]

The conversation from what, Monday or Tuesday with me and Tim about Microsoft, right? Whereas Microsoft's, you know, AI stuff in Azure, which I say wrong, maybe Azure, you know, working with the Israeli military, right? So theoretically for Palestine against Palestinians. But Microsoft says it's not, but people says it is. This has been an ongoing conversation, right, of like, what do you do with that information? Like, yeah, again, to your point, what is the line for all of this stuff? And back to a boycott. What is it? What does it matter? What does it mean for you? Me? Kind of funny, like, you got to have a big buy In. Right. You have to have an organized effort to stop this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. And so, like, I. Then the boycott conversation gets deep and very technical as far as, like, the purpose of boycotts, when to boycott all that stuff. Right. Like, I'm very pro boycotting, but I also think that a boycott has to be targeted. We can't just boycott everything because then, like, nobody, like, nobody's participating in, like, those efforts, I think are going to waste and like, well, becomes white noise. Then at that point it becomes white noise and we're fucking up ourselves more than we're fudging up these corporations. Right. But I think the thing that I'll say people need to do, right, is to not get numb to the actions of these companies and the actions of the people at the top. And like, when this happens, like, remember what's happening here. Take two. Here is saying, hey, we don't need to support the marginalized people that are in the world. We don't need to support people of color. We don't need to support people with different sexualities. We don't need to support people who have disabilities. Like, essentially fuck those people in the programs we have for those people because we want to appease the president and because we're fucking scared.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's inherently wrong. And I don't think people are being, like, loud enough. I know a lot of people are, right, but I almost feel like the shock should be way more than it is. And I know we're just in Trump's world now, so maybe that is what it is.

[Greg Miller]

On fire at any point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I feel like I go crazy sometimes when I see the shit.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, that was the conversation at the beginning of the week with me and Tim about all that. This right, where it's just like, everything sucks. Every corporation sucks. So what do you do about that and how do we do. And the idea was from our side, right, of use our platform to continue to call out like this and when is needed organized in a meaningful way. But what is the meaningful way for everyone? Because you can't be boycotting everything all the time. Right. Like, especially when the world's just crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there because I can go. I keep going.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Fair.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm believe it. Story number four. Six One Indie launches a publishing label. This is Sophie McAvoy at GamesIndustry Biz. The team behind the Six One Indie showcase and the Indie Game Awards has launched its own publishing label. 61 Indie publishing describes itself as an integrated indie first platform for developers. It'll offer support in launch strategy, media relations and showcase integration, as well as development support in areas including QA testing and localization. Quote the number of games hitting the market grows by the day, but unfortunately the people to cover and amplify them seem to dwindle just as fast, said six one Indie Creative director Mike Townroe. Quote six one Indie has evolved into an ecosystem that can now offer a unique opportunity to get indies in front of players through fresh, unconventional means, end quote. He added, we're not building a publishing label for the old industry. We're building one for the new wave of indie where where passion, connection and creative control comes first. Indies deserve more than a checklist. They deserve a major push backed by authenticity, genuine enthusiasm and a new approach for an unpredictable industry. End quote that's fucking awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's really cool.

[Greg Miller]

Huge shout out to six one Indy. We talked to their obviously their six one Indie Showcase was yesterday. We talked a little bit about it and we news urged everybody to go over there and watch it because it wrapped up obviously. Obviously just as we were going live. But yeah, this was big news out of it. Super cool for it. Obviously there are a lot of indies out there who need help, you know what I mean? There's so many games happening at all points in time that it'll be interesting to see this. I'll be interested to see who runs to it, who their first games are when they're coming out. I do think you can go to 61indie.com publishing to learn more about it if you're an indie developer and want to work with them. [e-mail] it is important I think to call out since we're talking about publishers, right? Usually when you talk about publishers, not usually I guess, but most of the time you're talking about people giving money right over on their site. What we don't offer while while we're still indie ourselves, we don't offer funding at this time, but we'll gladly research funding opportunities, help you craft pitches and connect you with potential partners to kickstart conversations. So it really is a great resource it sounds like to come together, team up and you know, hey, you're a small team, you don't have to do it all by yourself. You can work with Mike and Kyle over there at 61 Indy, right? Get off the ground and go through and really find avenues to get your game out to people and hopefully find the money if you need that as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, congrats six one Indy, Kyle and Mike. That's big news.

[Greg Miller]

You're telling me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And they're working on some small games, some small indie titles.

[Greg Miller]

They sure are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What if I wanted something even tinier? Say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Greg Miller]

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

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To know about WE News for you. Story number five the Federal Trade Commission has officially dropped its case against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It's finally over.

[Greg Miller]

I can rest. This happened. I didn't know. I was like, I'm not going to read it. Who cares? It's done.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From GameSpot. A big new update for Steam OS is here after months of development in beta. SteamOS version 3.7.8 includes a lot of fixes and improvements on a system level and will also introduce a battery saver feature for the Steam deck for the first time. Really exciting. Another story from GameSpot. Nintendo will need your phone number to use Switch to Game Chat, the new social hub for the upcoming hybrid system. The company states that the mobile digits are an additional security measure for using the feature that provides online voice chat and sharing game channel play streams with friends.

[Greg Miller]

Personally, I say good, yeah, right. I, I, I know I saw some people bristle about this. Obviously a million different things have my phone number for verifications. And I think when you're talking about Nintendo and what they're they seem to try to be doing with Game Chat of really opening it up and having it be a platform kids can use and do like there needs to be additional protections there. And I like the idea that you can't just, I know through like a Google Force voice number, you probably could, but you can't just like, like be whipping up weird accounts and stuff to be weird. But I could be wrong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Next up, NetEase Games has announced that the official launch timing for Marvel mystic mayhem will be June 25, 2025 for both iOS and Android. Speaking pre registered. Oh yeah, I don't know if I'll ever what is that?

[Greg Miller]

It looks like an auto battler. Yeah, it looked like one of those things where they're just gonna go on smash, but I don't care, you know, give me superheroes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Marvel characters Smashing Marvel Games and Net Ease Games have also unveiled full details for Season 2.5 Hellfire Gala for Marvel Rivals, the continuation of the game second season is set to kick off May 30 and will introduce Ultron as a playable hero along with it. That's, that's how he sounds along with me. Along with a new map. Arako. Arako. Arako. Season 2.5 will also introduce new features, special events and team ups. And then lastly, four new games are now available for Game Boy on Switch online. They are Survival Kids. That's not the day. Survival Kids. Colon. Banana. You gotta work better.

[Greg Miller]

He got me real good yesterday. You didn't get him. You didn't get him. Yeah, you don't get to celebrate the banana he got me, you guys.

[Unnamed Speaker]

All I want is you guys to save Banana.

[Greg Miller]

You gotta work harder. Okay, fine. Then that's the game, though. Now that we know the rules, that's the game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You gotta work harder. Kevin, you haven't gotten me, like, three times in a row.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I know. This is the first time I actually put effort into it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You all. I will say.

[Greg Miller]

You all.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah, I know. I saw it in your face. Your little pause and you're like, it's not Banana.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The problem is that I knew, like, I know Survival Kids because Tim's brought up before. If you put it like, next to this next game.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I thought about it. I looked at all four games. This is what I'm saying. This is the first time in a while that or the first time with you where I sat down and I'm like, all right, where makes the most sense. Too many words in the next game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gradius the Interstellar Assault was the next game.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And then also Banana just doesn't fit there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's true. Gradius, the Banana Assault. Maybe Kirby's Star Tracker. And then the Sword of Hope. And that is it for we news. Before we get out of here, let's take one more look at Super Chats, see what you guys are saying. Falcon4196 writes in and says, can't wait for Jack Black to say, let me solo her. There was another one. Oh, yeah. James Collier writes in and says, who does Chris Pratt play in the Elden Ring movie? Godrick.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, you know Godrick, Rick?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, of course I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Napoleon Blown Apart says, that's a great name. I think Sony could have done a showcase, but with the. With the odd rollout of random trailers and announcements, recently, they decided to do a state of play. I mean, what have been the recent PlayStation announcements? Was it like the remaster, the Helldivers.

[Greg Miller]

Thing that just happened? Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. This marathon.

[Greg Miller]

There was one. There was that I was on the blog recently for. That was a bigger deal. I forget.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Aaron writes in and says, any reactions to the new Snake Eater intro? Did you check that? Out.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've been trying to save like a lot of the Delta stuff for when the game comes out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because like the whole point of that game is for me to re experience the game that I love. So if I just watch it then it's like, okay, well I'm doing it early. I don't want to spend.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. If I'm not forced to watch something for a reacts, I'm usually going to let it go. Like playing Outer Worlds on stream. Some kids were like, oh man, have you been watching the IGN first coverage? I'm like, actually no, because I just don't want to get that deep of a dive. I'd rather get the direct to be set on that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mick Platypus writes in and says, why did Sucker Punch drop Infamous like a sandbag from a hot air balloon? Why have thy. Why have they forsaken us?

[Greg Miller]

Well, that's a great question, but it's actually a pretty simple answer. Believe it or not, when Infamous released way, way, way, way, way, way way back on the PlayStation 3 and I reviewed it, superhero games sucked. What we had do we have. We didn't even have Arkham Asylum yet. Or we just got Arkham Asylum. I think we didn't even have it. So licensed superhero games were complete trash. And then they made Infamous and it was great. And then guess what, everything changed. The market changed and PlayStation was like, hey, we're just gonna make Spider man games. I think Sucker Bunch was like, we don't need to keep making this superhero game. Especially because we've made so many of them now. 3. But if you toss in Festival of Blood first light 5. Right. I think they were like, let's stretch our legs and do something different. Especially if, you know, we can get actual IP now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And then. Oh, we got some more. We got one from Rowan Malcolm who says, I'm just genuinely curious about what the story is going to be about. Talking about the Elden Ring movie. I'd rather them do a specific event from the history as opposed to trying to adapt the entire game itself. My thing is that I'm trying to. I. I think you have to think about what the fan base would most likely be into slash not be mad at. Right. And I think you have to do like me. I. And I also. Okay, here's the thing that I also think about is in marketing this movie, I think you just want it to be called Elden Ring. I think once you get into like weird side stories or very specific things, then it turns into Elden Ring colon. Whatever, Whatever, whatever. I think for them, for a 24, the slam dunk is to just have the movie be called Elden Ring. If you're gonna have a movie called Elden Ring, it has to be. You're following the tarnished, like we do through the game, and they're like, you know, going through and I guess, you know, facing off against these bosses, which I don't think works as well for a movie. Or you do get the, like, the overall story between all those, like, characters that you meet, like the bosses and shit. And, like, you get, like, America and like, all these different people. Like, I think. I think that is it. I think you do the history of Elden Ring, essentially. You get the. The war. What's the name of the war chat? There's a war.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Like a shattering. A prequel, what you're saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's what I was. I guess a lot of words stay prequel.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's what I was gonna say. Like, I feel like that would be cool. Like, can you imagine? Like, the. The pantheon. Someone said their pantheon. That's why that word just popped in. Like, just falling apart.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, that'd be cool. I mean, that'd be. Yeah, no, then that's. I think. I think that's what it would have to be. But that also, I think, would take a lot of budget.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Like, that sounds like a show. That's. That sounds like a great HBO show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it does. And, like. Yeah. How many seasons was Game of Thrones? It has that many seasons?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Seven.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You give it seven seasons.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Three really disappointing ones.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You call it a day. I think Game of Thrones dropped the ball. I'm getting the Elden Ring show. I'll say it. And then Foxy Steve says an Elden Ring movie could be. The setup of the main character has no dialogue as the. As they traverse the lands between. And the story is told via flashbacks. I'll be honest. Sounds boring as. But I'm with it. And that is it for super chats.

[Unnamed Speaker]

We were saying it was eight seasons.

[Greg Miller]

Eight seasons in the movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There you go. Let's hop into kind offunny.com you're wrong. You're right. And let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so you can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe, Joanie writes in and says blueprints was patched on PS5. Let Kevin know.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's a good wahoo, Kevin.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was like a Tom and Jerry wahoo. Like, when he gets like his tail smashed by Mallet.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Icy Wiener says Arkham Asylum came out three months after Infamous. So Greg's not wrong.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's it. That's all we got for Kind of funny dot com. You're wrong. We killed it. Me and you, Greg. We did it.

[Greg Miller]

That's what we do here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We did the damn thing. Of course this has been Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news that 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 Gamescast next and the stream after. But until next time, Game Daily.