Steam Machine Will Be HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.20.25

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Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.20.25

Episode Title: Steam Machine Will Be HOW MUCH?!
Date: November 20, 2025
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr. & Andy Cortez

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Episode Overview

In today's energetic episode, Blessing and Andy break down the hottest news in gaming: Valve’s new Steam Machine and its eyebrow-raising price speculation, Battlefield 6's record-breaking launch, and a detailed rundown of the 2025 Golden Joystick Award winners. Between deep dives into industry trends, the duo's witty banter keeps things fresh, while their honest takes on tech specs, hardware pricing, and game awards make this a can't-miss discussion for anyone following the modern gaming landscape.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Steam Machine Pricing & Valve’s Approach

[09:39–22:54]

• Main Story: The anticipated Steam Machine from Valve will not follow traditional console pricing. Insider info and context suggest a price much higher than expected, likely $700 or more, possibly even up to $1,000.
• Specs: The machine will feature a 7600 CPU & GPU, 8GB VRAM, relying on AMD's FSR upscaling for 4K gaming.
• Industry Comparison: Valve appears unlikely to subsidize hardware as Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have; while those companies offset costs through software revenue, Valve's model is different and less reliant on recurring revenue like PlayStation Plus or Game Pass.
• Consumer Perspective:
  • Andy: "If that's not close to ballpark, if that's not close to like where we're at, I’m really worried about that." [13:24]
  • Blessing: "Once we get into 800-900-1000, I don’t think there’s success for this thing in the way they want it." [15:07]
• Usage & Marketing: The machine is positioned as an "approachable" entry point for those intimidated by PC building, but at high prices, Andy and Blessing question its viability: "Why not just build my own PC? Who is this for?" [18:32]
• Community/Listener Interaction: The chat debates whether PlayStation 6 will also hit $700 or more.

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2. Battlefield 6 Smashes U.S. Sales Records

[22:58–31:35]

• Historic Month: Battlefield 6 had the best single-month launch sales in the U.S. in the past three years, outselling recent Call of Duty entries in their debut months.
• Other Chart Highlights:
  • Pokémon Legends ZA is #2, notably only on physical sales (Nintendo doesn’t share digital figures); the hosts marvel at Pokémon’s persistent power.
  • The top 20 chart includes Red Dead Redemption 2 at #20 (still!), Grand Theft Auto V at #19, and recent releases (Little Nightmares 3, Ninja Gaiden 4, Outer Worlds 2).
• Borderlands 4: Despite strong sales, Andy notes it's strangely absent from multiplayer award nominations and current gamer conversation, reflecting on how the franchise’s relevance has shifted.
• Memorable Moment:
  • Blessing: "Pokemon Z to A is number two, not counting digital sales. Meaning this could be Pokemon in the headline if they told us what the digital sales were. That’s the power of Pokemon." [24:18]

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3. Golden Joystick Awards 2025 Winners

[39:13–53:36]

• Award Rundown: Blessing and Andy recap and react live to key categories and winners.
  • Best Storytelling: Claire Obscure
  • Best Audio Design: Ghost of Yote
  • Best Multiplayer Game: Peak
  • Best Game Expansion: Lies of P: Overture
  • Best Indie: Claire Obscure Blueprints
  • Studio of the Year: Sandfall Interactive (Claire Obscure devs)
  • Best Remake/Remaster: Elder Scrolls IV Remaster
  • Best Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (over Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam Deck Pro)
  • PC Game of the Year: Hollow Knight
  • Console Game of the Year: Ghost of Yote
  • Ultimate Game of the Year: Expedition 33
• Comedy Highlight: The hosts joke about the increasing complexity and funding behind "indie" development, and propose new fun categories for their own awards.
• Favorite Quote:
  • Andy: "[Claire Obscure] is about to have a lit award season. It’s about to be crazy." [52:35]

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4. File Size Follies: Final Fantasy 7 & The Game Show

[53:36–62:12]

• Big Download Woes: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Integrate’s Switch 2 version will require upwards of 90–100GB, confirming huge modern file sizes and storage concerns.
• "Games With The Biggest File Sizes" Game Show: Andy surprises Blessing with a pop quiz on the games that top storage requirements.
  • Notable entries: Red Dead Redemption 2 (150GB), Call of Duty (~175GB), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and the shock #1: DCS World on PC.
  • Blessing struggles hilariously, earning or losing pizza parties for every right/wrong answer.

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5. WE News: Quick Hits

[62:12–65:39]

• Dispatch hits 2 million players.
• Silent Hill 2 Remake shadow drops on Xbox with a 50% discount.
• Avalanche closes Liverpool studio (Just Cause devs) after Contraband cancellation.
• PS5 Welcome Hub revamp brings new widgets and dynamic backgrounds.
• Alice Dupor Percier, vocalist for Claire Obscure and Expedition 33, is the 4th most-streamed female artist in the U.S.
• Thank Goodness You’re Here! is finally coming to Xbox December 9th.
• Inazuma 11: Victory Road sells over 500k.

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6. Steam Machine Debate: Community Responses

[65:48–70:44]

• Viewers react and share their own skepticism about the Steam Machine's role, questioning its value versus building a PC, especially at $700–$1,000.
• Andy clarifies: "It is for ease of use. It’s the reason why people prefer consoles over PCs—plug-and-play." [67:59]
• Blessing wonders if Valve will take special steps to optimize games for the new hardware, similar to Steam Deck’s verification program.

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7. Listener Super Chats & End-of-Show Banter

[70:44–73:00]

• Gift recommendations for a Magic: The Gathering fan: secret lairs, special collectors’ boxes, or themed precons.
• More jokes about ads and podcasts possibly using AI voices.
• A final shout-out to the show's producers and patrons before wrapping up.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Steam Machine price:

  • Andy Cortez [13:24]: “This throws a lot of predictions out the window for me... I’m really worried about that.”
  • Blessing Adeoye Jr [15:07]: “Once we get past that, once we get into 800-900-1000, I don’t think there’s success for this thing...”

• On Battlefield 6’s surprise dominance:

  • Blessing Adeoye Jr [24:18]: “Pokemon Z to A is number two, not counting digital sales... That’s the power of Pokemon.”

• On Borderlands’ weird reception:

  • Andy Cortez [26:43]: “It’s crazy to me that game is always so popular... and for it not to even be [nominated] is kind of crazy.”

• On the Joystick awards:

  • Andy Cortez [52:35]: “Clear Obscure is about to have a lit award season. It’s about to be crazy.”

• File Size Game Show Antics:

  • Andy Cortez [55:00]: “Welcome everybody. To name the most games with the biggest file sizes!”
  • Blessing Adeoye Jr [60:04]: “Valhalla?”
  • Andy Cortez [60:05]: “Valhalla is number five!”

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Timestamps of Key Segments

| Topic | Start | End | |---------------------------------------|------------|-------------| | Steam Machine Price Debate | 09:39 | 22:54 | | Battlefield 6 + U.S. Sales Charts | 22:58 | 31:35 | | Golden Joystick Awards 2025 Recap | 39:13 | 53:36 | | Final Fantasy 7 File Size + Quiz Game | 53:36 | 62:12 | | WE News & Quick Hit Stories | 62:12 | 65:39 | | Steam Machine Community Reactions | 65:48 | 70:44 | | Listener Super Chats & Wrap Up | 70:44 | End |

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Episode Tone

Banter-heavy, playful, and occasionally incredulous—Andy and Blessing maintain their quick, joking rapport while offering savvy industry insight. Whether dissecting corporate marketing or poking fun at themselves (or Greg Miller’s gaming habits), the episode is as much a comedic performance as it is a news rundown.

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Recommended For:

Anyone interested in where gaming hardware is headed, how giant franchises are performing, or simply looking for sharp, funny, real-time analysis of the industry’s latest events—with plenty of camaraderie and inside jokes to spare.

Transcript

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[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Today's stories include Steam's new hardware might cost more than a console. Battlefield 6 had a historic month in sales and golden Joysticks winners have been revealed. Well of all this and more because this is kinda Funny Games Daily Foreign. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Thursday, November 20, 2025 one of one of your host blessing Addie Oye Jr joining me is Andy Cortez. Hello.

[Andy Cortez]

Good morning. Bless.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Morning, Andy. How's it going? Good, good.

[Andy Cortez]

We've had an eventful morning already.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Very busy already.

[Andy Cortez]

Lots of video games.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Always cool to do with friends, you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Know, Always fun to. Yeah. Hang out, watch some trailers.

[Andy Cortez]

Try to think of. Of gaming terms that can replace action rpg.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, because it's not that.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's not. It's not that it's not enough to explain it. It's just that, you know, we used to have character action games, Right. That were character action. I'm thinking Devil May Cry in modern days. I think of a bayonetta. Right. Or even a. I was gonna say Nier automata, but that's even more action rpg. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

But.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But then we have souls likes that are more Dark Souls or Elden Ring or Lies of P. But I feel like we have something that's kind of in the middle of the two. When I think of a stellar Blade, Unless I'm wrong about that. Unless Stellar Blade neatly fits in one of those. But I don't know if it does.

[Andy Cortez]

In my heart, I think it brings a lot of the flashiness of character action games, but it still has the Sekiro deflecting.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, go. Then you go attack, and you bring down that stagger meter or whatever.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because then there's Tides of Annihilation, which I haven't played it. So I don't know. Like, the vibe on. Is this more character action, or does it have that stellar Blade kind of meeting in the middle of it a little bit?

[Andy Cortez]

First Berserker Kazan, which came out this year.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Crazy.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. That's a crazy one.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Ben Starr is just doing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Ben Starr had a special request when I posted the wall that I'm kind of working on for the goatees.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, I have a picture of Verso there and I have a picture of Kazan there. And he was like, do me a favor and add Prometheus in there. I was like, God damn. You want to be shown off our section? Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Pretty much bundle them all in the same.

[Andy Cortez]

And how many times is. Does Luna appear on that wall? So far I have upped it to three. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Lunae may get a fourth.

[Andy Cortez]

Just defeat.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You got to add in the door. Whatever. Like door Ben Star voices and. And what's the.

[Andy Cortez]

Dorian.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Dorian. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Date everything. That's a good coffer. I haven't included that game in there.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And Then you add in his character from Dead Take, which is just a picture of.

[Andy Cortez]

Just a picture of Ben Starr.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Had him in the middle.

[Andy Cortez]

He did say I should add a picture of me as Verso.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, I like that as well too.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like, I might hide it, man. Do a little Easter egg for there.

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[Andy Cortez]

That's good.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's good. We'll have to see enough about that though. Remember, this is kind of Funny Games Daily each and every weekday run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free 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. January 28th. We're doing a live in person in review event as part of SF Sketch fest. What movie are we doing? The missing link in our Marvel in review ranking. Howard the Duck. Remember, we're an 11 person business all about live talk show. So today you already got the games cast. Breaking down the Xbox partner direct after kfd you're going to get games cast and then afterwards it's me playing Kirby Air Riders. A last minute audible.

[Andy Cortez]

Last minute audible.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, because I, I got the code from Greg because usually you only get one Nintendo code, but then sometimes day of Greg will get like, here's an extra one. I mean it's like when LeBron invented bonus tracks on mixtapes.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Here's one more.

[Andy Cortez]

That is exactly what it's like.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Nintendo's like, here's one more.

[Andy Cortez]

Such an innovator.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Yeah. So what's up, Barrett?

[Andy Cortez]

Just a quick correction. After Games Daily is game showdown just to not confuse people. Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, what did I say?

[Andy Cortez]

I said gamescast game cast.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yes. Game showdown is after Games Daily. And then yeah, I'm playing Kirby Air Riders because we looked at the schedule me and you wanted to play Elden Ring Night Rain. And then I was like, well, why aren't we playing the big new Nintendo game that just released that I really want to play?

[Andy Cortez]

Pretty big deal.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Pretty big deal. And so we're going to do that if you're a kind of funny member. Today's greg way is 16 minutes about game awards hype and what some 8 year old should play.

[Andy Cortez]

Is he saying what some 8 year olds?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

What I assume is that somebody wrote in and was like, I have an 8 year old. What should he play? Oh, and Greg is answering what that H. Okay. Girl should play, I assume. Or maybe it is games for 8 year olds.

[Andy Cortez]

Went. Went to CVS. There was a mom with her kid there, and he was like, what? You know. Oh, you like. It's like, here's some eight year old.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. He's like, oh, yeah, I have my son Ashton with me. What should he play?

[Andy Cortez]

Aston Martin.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Ashton Martin. That's his full name. First name Ashton, last name Mart. How many of y' all didn't realize that there's no H in Aston Martin? It's just Aston Martin.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Did y' all know that?

[Andy Cortez]

Did you see the H was silent the whole time?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, I thought people were saying it.

[Andy Cortez]

You thought people were saying Aston Martin?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, because the bulk of. When I hear Aston Martin is from Rick Ross the rapper.

[Andy Cortez]

Does he have, like, a little bit of like a. Like a. Like a speech?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Barrett, play Aston Martin music by Rick Ross.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, yeah, yeah. No, no, hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me see if people are pronouncing. Hold on. Let me do my Michael Caine impression.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Ashton Martin. I guess I'm doing kind of. You do kind of an H. Yeah. Maybe a lot of Brits say Ashton.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Martin, because also there's a lot of ash. There's Ashton Kutcher's. There's.

[Andy Cortez]

There's so many of those.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

The Ashton I.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a lot of Ashton Kutchers.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

There's multiple Ashton Kutchers.

[Andy Cortez]

Why'd you put an S in the.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I don't know, plural. There's. There's this kid Ashton, who I grew up with. Okay. Not Addison. Ashton.

[Andy Cortez]

Two man. Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Are both of these white kids?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, of course they're both.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

There's a black kid out here named I.

[Andy Cortez]

Look, I just.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Or Addison.

[Andy Cortez]

I do think that I did kind of stereotype and, like, assume that they were white. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, Addison. Yeah. Was lived in the neighborhood. Ashton went to the same church.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm thinking about yesterday when we were talking about Martin Scorsese. You're like, oh, I didn't want to. Stereo time.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I don't want to.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't want to assume he was Italian.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. He said, what if he's not? Then I'm in trouble. Yeah, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna have that. Well, the last name scores from Honestly Italy. But, like, I didn't want to assume.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because then it's like, no, man, that's. I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

It was just funny.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It was just funny to me that.

[Andy Cortez]

You wanted to say, but you're like.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I was like, well, what if not.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, I'll let Andy do it.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know, there's a lot of countries out here. I don't want to stand stand on the ledge. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have seven stories today. Baker do starting with our number one. I'm hitting a timer, by the way, just because we didn't start this right at 12. So I don't know how far we've been going, so I'm going to assume it's been about seven and a half minutes. Seven and a half minutes. Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Story number one, don't expect the Steam Machine price to follow a console pricing model of $500. This is from Wesley Yanpool at IGN. Valve's announcement of the Steam Machine has sparked much debate online about the company's return to the PC in the living room space. But one key piece of information remains unknown price. The Steam Machine is a gaming focused PC designed to be more accessible than a standard desktop PC with a sleek cube like design and Steam O on board. We here at IGN have offered our thoughts on how much the Steam Machine will cost, suggesting it'll probably be higher than people think. But chatter about pricing has ramped up again after Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips recalled a conversation he had about the subject with Valve itself ahead of the Steam Machine reveal with the birth name.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, okay. See, I was going to say I didn't know.

[Andy Cortez]

Sebastian didn't know that was his last name.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like, it's like Michael Rexford Howard, Honestly, yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

On a recent episode of the WAN show, do I say Juan Wean probably w a n WAN show A WAN party. A WAN party. Linus recalled that he had expressed his disappointment to Valve that Steam Machine wouldn't follow a console pricing model where it is subsidized by manufacturer because it takes a 30 cut of sales made on the platform as the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo do with their consoles. Linus said he was then asked by Valve what he meant by a console price, to which he responded, $500. Here are the comments in full. Quote so Basically it's a 7600 CPU and a 7600 GPU. This is not a super powerful machine. Valve is upfront saying that they're going to be relying on FSR in order to achieve 4k. And even then, man, like 8 gigs of vram. Anyone else would be taking a ton of flack for shipping a game console today with 8 gigs of vram. And I can't tell you what the price will be because I literally don't know. But when I said I'm disappointed that it isn't going to follow a console pricing model where it is subsidized by the fact that the manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel like that would be more of a meaningful product. They kind of asked what I meant by. Well, what do you mean by console pricing? And I said, well, $500. Nobody said anything. But the energy of the room wasn't great. End quote.

[Andy Cortez]

Ish.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Hard hairs.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean this throws a lot of predictions kind of out the window for me, especially if, you know, him mentioning yeah, everybody kind of in the room wasn't giving off the best sort of vibes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I hadn't even considered the whole, you know, manufacturer thing taken off the percent. Like that wasn't even part of my.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Thought processing it at a loss. Like a lot of.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I, I am looking at this product as a machine with these 7600 process processor and GPU that don't quite match up to the power of like a current day PS5, they're like almost there. But the fact that, yeah, him mentioning a great point that like eight gigs of vram, you know, everybody's, everybody has been hoping and even listening to the Digital Foundry podcast over there, they're mentioning that they were hoping or hoping to have at least minimum 16 gigs of VRAM because 8 is not the best to do nowadays. So because of those sort of, you know, tempered expectations of what the tech can do and what the tech is, that made my brain go, okay, well I'm factoring in tariffs and you know, pricing of shipping now and everything's gotten more expensive as it is, but it is lower priced hardware and lower quality hardware.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Therefore my prediction was 650. And if that's not like close to ballpark, if that's not close to like where we're at, I'm really worried about that. Where are you at now, price wise?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I'm still where I was when they first announced it and we're predicting what prices was going to be because I said $700 and that's what the idea that they don't bundle in the controller with it. I think you'll have $700 for the box itself with no controller and then you can buy a controller for $100. And I think it comes back to him mentioning console pricing. I think this is console pricing in 2020. Right? Like this is console pricing for past consoles. I don't think this is going to be console pricing for the PlayStation 6 and whatever the next Xbox hardware ends up being. Even though I guess that's not even a conversation anymore.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Can I even call that a console still? I don't know. But for where we're going with this going forward, yeah, like I think a PlayStation 6, I'm already expecting $700 minimum.

[Andy Cortez]

I think minimum.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And so looking at this is something that is lesser powered by I guess contemporary standards. Still going to be expensive because of tariffs. Because of these things. Because of. Yeah, like you're, you're not making or you don't want to sell at a loss because you're not making as much off of software. Unless they're looking at like the Steam Store and all that and are able to subsidize.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the thing. They are making 30% off the Steam store.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, 30% off the Steam store. But they're not making like PlayStation plus or Xbox Gold and Game Pass and all these things. And it's not like they're pumping out these first party games as well. So it's a weird, it's weird arithmetic to factor into it and trying to look at it as one for one because you can't look at it as one for one. But I think I still stick by that $700 because I think once you get past that, once we get into 800-900-1000, I don't think there's success for this thing in the way that they want it. I don't think you can have this be a widely adopted machine at $1,000.

[Andy Cortez]

Man. I mean I, I don't think you're wrong there. My problem is just this, this hardware that is not up to snuff with modern day stuff that's been out for five years. You know, like when we're talking about the, the, the level of power that it will be doing it, it won't even be hitting the likes of what everything else can do. Now granted, they're hoping. I, I guess they're really leaning on what FSR is, is capable of doing. And for people that don't know FSR is AMD's version of DLSS, it's their AI up sampling. And FSR is always my least favorite option to go with. Well, I guess it's always like either dlss, FSR or if intel has their version xcss. But FSR is always the noisier option. It's always like the less good looking of all of the upscalers, the AI upscalers. It's always a bit blurrier, a bit noisier. Things are never quite as sharp as you would want them to be. But it seems like they're really hoping to bank on that for to. To be able to say the words 4K.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, you had to be able to say the words 4K, man.

[Andy Cortez]

I just, I don't know. This all kind of, this all kind of bums me out. I was hoping. The way Valve has operated so much recently is that they, they operate without any rhythm or reason. They operate to the beat of their own drum. Nothing that they do is really ever something that all the other manufacturers do or all the other companies do. And they're just kind of, they do their own thing. They're not Sony, they're not Xbox, they're not Nintendo. They kind of just out of nowhere will not even tease that there's going to be three new pieces of hardware coming and there they are, you know, and so, and even with something like a game like Deadlock not even formally announced, just like we're working on this thing, we got a team working on it. They don't really, you know, they are so kind of. And it feels like they're kind of like a PR nightmare. Like if you, if you were to bring in any other PR firm to like do their stuff, this PR firm is probably like, man, you all don't do anything like the way.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Rollout.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like heard of a rollout. Everybody else does like so much different things that have. They have such a different thinking process when it goes to Manu or when it comes to marketing. So like I would have expected that like yes, you're going to get this little Steam box and guess what? We're going to really kind of like, we're going to really blow the doors down and say like it's way cheaper than you actually expected. I don't know why. Maybe just because they're a massive company. Well, kind of reminds me of like real quick just as a small analog. But back in the day when Google released like the first Nexus phone before Pixel was a thing and it was like this phone is like awesome quality, does this and that and it's 300 bucks and it was like, what the fuck? But that can't be good. And it, and it was, and it was like, whoa. I, you, you re. I didn't expect this gigantic company to do something so kind of consumer first. Yeah, if this thing's going to come in with the specs that it has and it's going to be closer to 1000 than 500, then that really I sucks.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

The reason why I still stick by closer to like 700 and not closer to a K to a one K is at a certain point you ask what's the point? Why not just build my own PC? Who is this for? And the more you start to ask that who is this for? Question, I would have to imagine Steam is too smart of a company to put out a box that looks like. Seems like the whole point of it is to be approachable and accessible for people who don't care to get that deep into trying to build a PC and get the latest and greatest hardware and all that stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But to do that, money is the factor. You have to be able to sell that at a price where people look at it and go, oh yeah, I would buy that for a pre made PC. Yeah, for sure. And I know $700 is still a lot of money, but that's also just where we're at as far as tech and tariffs and the economy where that is going to be I think more and more standard for these prices to move up as we go. So I, I don't think it stings as much when the PlayStation 6 comes out and is $700 when you look at the Steam machine or whatever. But yeah, like they're in a really weird spot where I don't think it makes sense to put this thing out at over a thousand dollars. I think that's like the cutoff line.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Because you mentioning the approachability and the ease of use, I think the reason why people wouldn't say, well why wouldn't I just build a PC? Well, because you would probably send up, you would end up spending way more. But it's the whole like it's going to operate like a Steam deck. It's not going to boot into Windows, it's not going to have the need to. Where's my fucking Bluetooth keyboard and mouse? Where? Yeah, hold on, let me, let me, you know, switch over the mon. No, I got a display on this monitor. God damn it. You know, like this is supposed to be a lot more user friendly for the person who has maybe wanted to dive into. This is like the gateway drug For PC gaming, I would say for.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

The person who is used to a console couch, like experience the same way.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That me and Greg via the Steam deck are now loving Steam right now, I'm like, oh, yeah, well, for sure. I'm. Let me have Kevin build me a PC and like, oh, snap, now I want the latest GPU so I can play games. So Black Myth Wukong can look incredible and all this shit.

[Andy Cortez]

Right?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Like, yeah, that's the gateway drug. Like you're mentioning Steam Machine, I think should be another one of those.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Somebody in chat mentions PS6 isn't going to be $700. I'm curious on how much you think it's going to be chat. Because, like, are you saying it's going to be more than $700? Because that. I'm willing to like that. I believe if you think it's going to be less than $700. I think there's more of a conversation as far as how to set expectations because things are getting more expensive.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I just, you know, hearing this story off on the back of me listening to that Digital Foundry podcast last week when they, when it was all first revealed and them just talking about, yeah, tech specs and here's what it's kind of comparable to and what it could do visually and what it can do power wise. I guess I just kind of set my expectations accordingly based on kind of what areas it was falling into. Yeah. And also while factoring in all the outside financial turmoil that the world is going through right now. So, yeah, kind of a, kind of a bummer. I'm now, I guess now I'm sort of expecting the worst, so maybe I can have my expectations. What's the worst for you? I think, like, I think 800.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Would be like. And 800 and up would be like, you got like, what are you all doing? That's where I would be like, you had, you had everybody by the balls. Yeah. And this is not the, this is not the move right now, you know, 800.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I agree with you that 800. 800 to a thousand is I think the worst. 800, especially where that's one that I believe that it could come out and be that much and I'd be like, dude, yeah, that makes sense. If we get above that. That's where I'm kind of like, okay, you're joking me right now. Like, you're kidding me. 800, though, I think is realistic. But then also I'm like, damn, dude, that sucks. Damn, that sucks. 700. I'm kind of like, all right, yeah, that makes sense. But it's not easy to digest, but still makes sense. 600 that's where I'm like, all right, slam dunk.

[Andy Cortez]

We did it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Did it. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Kind of. Kind of a bummer. So we'll, I guess we'll see how everything nets out and when any of this news actually does come out.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it'll be a random ass thing because Steam does whatever the fuck they it'd be tomorrow.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Story number two Battlefield 6 just had the best month of sales in U.S. let me say this again. Battlefield 6 just had the best month of sales in the U.S. of any game of the last three years. This is Rebecca Valentine at IGN. October was an incredible debut month for Battlefield 6. It's officially the best selling title in franchise history in the US and the best selling game in the US as of last month. This comes from Circana's monthly report which states that Battlefield 6 is the best selling game of 2025 on both Xbox and PC and the second best selling on PlayStation so far behind NBA 2K26. It also says that Battlefield produced the highest single month tracked full game dollar sales, a total of any video game in three years. That means it sold more than the last few Call of Duty games did in their in their debut months, including Call of duty Modern Warfare 2 in October of 2022. Is this troubling news for Call of Duty Black Ops 7? When the November report comes out, we'll see. Battlefield 6 is followed by Pokemon Legends ZA, which is the second best selling game of October and per Circana, the best selling physical game year to date. Notably, because Nintendo does not share digital sales data, its second place spot is entirely based on physical sales. Say Pokemon is nuts.

[Andy Cortez]

They just do it. They don't like.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Let me pause there. Think to let's talk about this headline. Battlefield 6 just had the best month of sales in the US of any game in the last three years. Pokemon Z to A is number two, not counting digital sales. Meaning this could be Pokemon in the headline if they told us what the digital sales were. That's the power of Pokemon.

[Andy Cortez]

That's unbelievable.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That doesn't make sense. In fact, I like this story.

[Andy Cortez]

Just became a Pokemon story.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, it's like hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

Good for. Good for Battlefield.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Good for Battlefield. But goddamn Pokemon. Other debut games for October included The Outer Worlds 2 at number 7, Little Nightmares 3 at number 8 and Ninja Gaiden 4 at number 11. Dragon Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D Remake didn't make it to the top 20, but it was number 6 on Nintendo platforms for the month. There weren't any other major outliers in the charts. This charts this time around, the top 20 bestselling games of October 2025 in the US look like this. I'll start at number 20. So from 20 up, you got Red Dead Redemption 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. You got GTA 5. Number 19, Rockstar rolling in money and laying off their employees. At number 18, you got hell divers two. Then you got Minecraft, Silent Hill F, Sonic Racing, Crosswords. Let's go. Final Fantasy Tactics. Let's go.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Super Mario Galaxy plus Galaxy 2, EA Sports College Football 26.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike's been vindicated. Yeah. People are still buying college games all around the world.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

These are.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, this is us, though.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. And it's number 12. What's happening? Ninja Gaiden 4 being a new entry on the list. That's number 11. At number 10, you got Borderlands 4. Then you have Digimon Story Time Stranger. At number 9. Huge. Number 8, Little Nightmares 3 as a new one. And number 7, the Outer Worlds 2 as a new one. Number 6, Madden NFL 26. Number 5, EA Sports FC 26. Number 4, NBA 2K 26. Number 3, Ghost of Yote. And at number 2, Pokemon Legends ZA and the number 1, Battlefield 6.

[Andy Cortez]

I look at this and I think that in every other year there has been a version of a game like this. We see in the game awards, nominees, best multiplayer Game, Borderlands, Something just no mention. Like, they like.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's crazy. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's crazy to me that that game is always so popular. And even this one, you know, coming off the heels of three being what feels like a kind of a disappointment to a lot of people to come out with this brand new one that is Borderlands 4. We are revamping all these systems, New movement, new mechanics. Those previews were stellar. And it comes out and everybody's like, this doesn't run on my machine. And it runs like garbage. Like I. It's so shocking to me just how out of the conversation Borderlands has been. Now, granted, it is in October's best, you know, number 10 or whatever, but that's still so surprising to me.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And it's. When did Digimon Story Time Stranger come out? Because this is right below Digimon Story Time Stranger. And I think both those.

[Andy Cortez]

It came out in October.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, Digimon, I'm pretty sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because it doesn't have the new thing next to it.

[Andy Cortez]

Came out October 2nd. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, okay, then. Yeah, that is new by default.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay, so that then makes. That makes sense. That makes sense.

[Andy Cortez]

I wonder just because, you know, they do their reporting so late into the month for the previous month, if they had data for Digimon last month as well, you know. Now, granted, you know, Borderlands had been out a month already. I. I guess I'm not really even talking about sales numbers. I'm more talking about just the discussion and. And people talking like, I've not heard about Borderlands. I'm just so used to seeing. It just felt like a given that that would be a Game Awards nominee for best multiplayer game. And for it not to even be there. It's kind of crazy to me.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I was gonna say that, like, maybe they should adapt it into, like, a movie or something like that, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Really reach a lot of people.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. I feel like you need to broaden the reach. They did.

[Andy Cortez]

That could be a good idea.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. No, they put out the movie. Yeah. I don't know about Borderlands because I don't know what the next step is now. I think maybe the next step is to just. For 2k or take 2 to be like, all right, that is what Borderland, who owns Borderlands, changed hands, didn't it? The hands get changed back with Borderlands to remind me what happened.

[Andy Cortez]

Gearbox and Take Two. Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because I thought it was, like, didn't gear. There's a whole story around this where, like, didn't Gearbox get embraced?

[Andy Cortez]

Man, I forget. You're right. You're right. So from 2021 to 2024, Gearbox was under Embracer, and then 2K took Gearbox last year.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay, so we're back.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy. It really feels like, you know, we could make a horror movie based on, like, what's that one Mark Wahlberg movie where the trees are like, Transformers? That's the one. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Uncharted.

[Andy Cortez]

It's one with the trees, you know, Or I'm thinking, like, the movie called the Following. But there could be a horror movie in the games industry called the Embracing.

[Sponsor/Promoter]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. Where it's like this. And the movie starts off just like from the years 2019 to 2023. A conglomerate took over the games industry and made everything real bad. Oh, it's called the Happening Happening. The Embracing could do something like that. We got to make a little parody film about it.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Genuinely.

[Andy Cortez]

Nick, do something.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But to finish my point, right? Like, I guess maybe it's a thing of, hey, this is what Borderlands is now. Like, these are our expectations for it. It's not at the height of what Borderlands was before, but it still makes a lot of money. And so now we're just going to adjust and accept that when every seven years when we put out a Borderlands, these are the numbers that it's going to do because we've kind of. The people have kind of moved on from it. I don't know if there's anything left to do. You put out the movie, you took a break. Even though they put out Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, they took a break, they came back. Borderlands 4 kind of landed all right. Didn't really want run well on PCs, but it was Borderlands. I heard the end game wasn't that.

[Andy Cortez]

Great, but now I am.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It is what it is.

[Andy Cortez]

A month ago from Circana, September 2025, Borderlands 4 generated the highest launch month dollar sales of any title in franchise history. Nearly 30% the previous best. Borderlands 3 Borderland 4 was the first Borderlands title to launch as the best selling game of the release month. So doom and gloom for me. But I guess I'm only talking about.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But I think it's what you're talking about is conversation.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Which like on the gearbox and 2k.

[Andy Cortez]

Side, they don't care if it comes and goes. I they got the money but I.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Think they, I think they do care about the continued sales because that Borderland strikes me as one of those games that usually sells well over time. Like a launch. Great. But then people keep buying it because Borderlands I think just has more of a staying power than a lot of other franchises. I wonder if they're still going to have that. But we'll have to see if launch is great then. Yeah, maybe we don't worry yet.

[Andy Cortez]

Still making a lot of money.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Maybe we get some cool dlc.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, maybe. I just know that when I try to play it, it just didn't run great. And I was like I have a really good dlc. Yeah. What's going on here?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Let's talk about the Golden Joysticks. But before we do, let me talk to you about patreon.com kindafunny and YouTube.com kindafunnygames where you can get the kinda funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

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[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

As a Raider scavenging a derelict world, you settle into an underground settlement. But now you must return to the.

[Andy Cortez]

Surface where arc machines roam. If you're brave enough, who knows what you might find?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Arc Raiders, a multiplayer extraction adventure video game. Buy now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC. Rated T for Teen. As a raider scavenging a derelict world, you settle into an underground settlement. But now you must return to the.

[Andy Cortez]

Settlement surface where arc machines roam. If you're brave enough, who knows what you might find?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Arc Raiders, a multiplayer extraction adventure video game. Buy now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC rated T for Teen.

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[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

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[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And earlier today we put up a new Video all about a fun partner that we have.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, right.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Starring you.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm the fun partner.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Andy's the fun partner.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I'm the fun partner.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

What is this?

[Andy Cortez]

Tim wanted me to say, like, hey, can you showcase Nvidia GeForce now and just how awesome their cloud gaming sort of, you know, product is and that, you know, I was like, yes. Because I used to never be a believer in cloud gaming until GeForce now came in knocking. And. And I also kind of in this video, I shocked the world with a big, stunning reveal.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Shock the world.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

All right, go check that out. YouTube.com/kind of funny games or kind of funny games. Okay. Co. I didn't know if it was on a highlight channel, this one. So, yeah, go check out the video. And he put in a lot of hard work on it. I saw it pop up on Instagram as I was scrolling. And also I also saw a pop up. Nick has a new review of the Eddie Murphy documentary, so good for him. Check that out. That's awesome. I really want to watch.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, good for him too. He's that.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, he's the security guard for Cyber City.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh. If you really. If you want.

[Andy Cortez]

If you want some good, pure 10 minutes of Andy humor, watch this video. Thank you. Thank you, Barrett. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Somebody in chat says ad for sketchfest when it's in housekeeping is excessive. First of all, all right, don't tell me how to do my job. Second of all, didn't realize it was in the ad.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. That's good to know.

[Andy Cortez]

Did the image of Howard the Duck not tip you off every time we've played it? Ah, that's true.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I don't look at this. I'm looking at my phone because I'm doing the wordle of the day.

[Andy Cortez]

You're right. Yeah. I will say to Nick J. If you. If you want to win the lottery and give us a lot of money, we won't do ads.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, I agree with that for you. Yeah, I'm down to stop for a lot of money. Story number three, let's talk about all the winners at the Golden Joysticks Awards. 2025. I'm pulling from Rhiannon Bevin at the gamer who writes the Golden Joysticks Awards. I don't know why I said all those plural. The Golden Joystick awards are upon us, giving us our first major award show of the year. Millions of votes have been counted, but now it's time to see who will be taking home the big prizes of the year. I got the list, Andy. Oh, I'll go through. Maybe not all of them, but hold.

[Andy Cortez]

On, let me predict. Give me the nominees.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best storytelling. The nominees are Clear Obscure, Silent Hill F Blueprints Mafia, the Old Country, Lost records in the 100 line, last defense, Academy Game.

[Andy Cortez]

What is that?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best game, Best storytelling.

[Andy Cortez]

Best storytelling. Obscure.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That is correct. Player Obscure did win Best storytelling for that. Best audio design. I'm not even gonna give you the nominees. I want you to predict Raw Arc Raiders. Now, Ghost of Yote. Arc Raiders wasn't even nominated. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Ghost of Yote won Best audio design. Best multiplayer game.

[Andy Cortez]

Best multiplayer game. Elder Ring Night Rain.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, it was nominated though. It was nominated. Peak was the winner.

[Andy Cortez]

Good, good for them. Good.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, sorry. I looked at the screen a little bit, but I only saw a picture of Matsu.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best visual design.

[Andy Cortez]

Best visual design. Oh, Hades 2.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, Claire, obscure again. You gotta think game awards.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're right, you're right, you're right.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Big winner like Clear obscure is gonna clean everything.

[Andy Cortez]

Really. I started off strong with one.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best game expansion.

[Andy Cortez]

Game expansion. Liza P. Overture.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's correct. Oh yeah it is.

[Sponsor/Promoter]

Liza.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Come on.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Let's go. We did it.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Also nominated in that was Indiana Jones, the Great Circle, no Man's Sky, Voyagers, Adam Falls Story Expansion, Pac, Assassin's Creed, Shadows, Claws, Waji and Still Wakes the Deep Sirens Rest.

[Andy Cortez]

That made my day.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Come on. That.

[Andy Cortez]

That made my day. That is a top five gaming experience for me all year. And if I didn't feel bad about putting in my top 10, I'd put it there.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Now this is an interesting category they have here. They have best indie game, self published, which is. I like how they do that. I like that. Self published.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because that eliminates some things.

[Andy Cortez]

Is there a.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Is there another category?

[Andy Cortez]

Is there a category? There's within that category that's like, yeah, but they had rich parents or something. They had a family member who owns a business that helped them out financially.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

There's only one game here. There's all. There's two games here where I'm like, they got. But like this still. I'll say no.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't even know if I could name any self published indies. I would say Despote. Is that nominated?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's not nominated. No. Hollow Knight, Silk Song. See that's tough thing. Like Hollow Knight and Hades2self published. Like do they have the resources more than other people? Yeah, they're indie.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. We sold, we sold 18 million of our last game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And then they have Straight up, just Best indie game. As a category.

[Andy Cortez]

Best indie game is going to go.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

To Claire Obscure Blueprints.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And not even nominated for Best Indie.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Which is weird.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, you fucked me there. You could have told me the nominees.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But no, because I want to do this wrong. I will say Desperate was nominated for this one. I don't know if they were self published, so they're probably just published by somebody who knows.

[Andy Cortez]

Got you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, Citizen Sleeper 2, also nominated here.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yes. Yeah, that's a good one.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I like this one. Studio of the Year.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow. Okay. So Studio of the year. We're talking game, you know, Obsidian, Sandfall Interactive. Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Obscure.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Also nominated for this was Team Cherry Aggro, Crab, Bloober, Team Slow Clap and Rebellion. What is, what did Bloober team do?

[Andy Cortez]

Silent Hill 2.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But that was last year. Oh, is this like a weird windows thing? Are we going October to October?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no, they're Kronos. Kronos. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But like, we're not nominating them.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess, like, I mean, Obsidian, I would have, you know, they put out three games.

[Sponsor/Promoter]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Obsidian put out like. Yeah. And they have two people working there. They put out eight games.

[Andy Cortez]

Three games. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's crazy. Ten games from Obsidian and it's like one guy and his dog that worked there.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best Early Access.

[Andy Cortez]

Best Early Access. Okay, let me think of everything. Let me think of the landscape, the gaming landscape.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Now I'm trying to think of like the window.

[Andy Cortez]

What was in Early Access series. I played a lot of it. Oh, actually, you know what?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Everything was in Early Access.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on, let me just. Well, I guess like Hades 2. No. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Hold on, hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

Hades two. Megabonk. No. Windblown.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Shit.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Repo.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, Repo.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't even know that was an Early Access. I thought that.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I just assume every game nowadays. Did you know Grounded 2 is an early Access?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes. Barrett.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Barrett knew.

[Andy Cortez]

Fascinating. I didn't know that.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best soundtrack.

[Andy Cortez]

Best soundtrack, Claire Obscure.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yes. Best game. What? Best game trailer. Best game trailers. It's a wild category, but I like.

[Andy Cortez]

It for like next year we should.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Have that for Smiley's. Can you tell me?

[Andy Cortez]

It's just, it's. It's both stuff that maybe came out this year and then also next year.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, there's a trailer that came out this year. No, no, that's a Good shout out GTA 6 trailer too.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. Yeah, I gotta get a tip of the Hattie right There.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Write that down. For Smiley's Best Game Trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

I forget who it was in chat that said that. We should have a game showdown thing called Tip of the Hatties.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I like that. We need Best Game Trailer. We'll also. We should do best Showcase.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I think that could be a Smiley's thing. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Best snack brought into the office. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I feel like my dog's Oreos.

[Andy Cortez]

You were really mesmerized by them.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Those are really good.

[Andy Cortez]

Those really shock the world. I didn't like Greg talking. I mean, he was like, once again, the peanut butter overtakes all of it. I was like, you're crazy.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

He doesn't like peanut butter.

[Andy Cortez]

This is one of the most delicious things ever.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, it's like me with pickles.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, I just don't like pickles. So anything I feel, though, pickles, like, I. It just overtakes all the. The taste of everything. But I think that's just, you know, peanut butter is his pickles.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I'm gonna surf through some of these.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Still playing award for mobile is Pokemon Go. Still playing award for PC and console is Minecraft. Streamers Choice award is peak. Oh, here's one. I want you to guess.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best remake slash remaster.

[Andy Cortez]

Best remake slash remaster. Final Fantasy Ivelisse Chronicles.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No Elder Scrolls for.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Remaster.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a good call.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Final Fantasy was even nominated, which. I wonder if that's a window thing, but Tony Fantasy Pro Skater.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. The one they released. The one I just said. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But, yeah, they got Snake Eater on the list. They got Tony Hawk on the list.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you believe I haven't played Snake Eater yet?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Like the one from this year?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I just like it. It came out when I was out of town on a trip somewhere.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And by the time I came back, it was like, are we going to. We were at one point going to stream it, then we. I just never got to it. That's unbelievable to me.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Did most of the office play Snake Eater? Because I feel like a lot of people didn't. I did.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But it's like, it's. I think you. If I would have told young Andy, they're going to remake this shit in, you know, 15 years, and it's going to look unbelievable. I feel, oh, my God, I'd be all over that shit.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know what? It probably was, they sent us one code because me, I bought mine. Me, Tim and Greg, before the review, had a pass. Greg's PS5 back and forth for that review.

[Andy Cortez]

That's Right.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Some more. I'll just read through. Breakthrough award with Schedule 1. Best gaming. Best gaming hardware. Interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Steam deck.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Shit, that's nuts. And they have Nintendo Switch 2 on there and the Pro controller I love.

[Andy Cortez]

They also have like the new like WD Black SSD on here. Like they get really fucking into it. Yeah, that's great.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's a wild category.

[Andy Cortez]

I got this Anker USB ca. Yeah, my dog bit it for a couple hours and it survived.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

They got the Elgato face Cam 4K on here.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nice. Good for Elgato.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Best Game adaptation. Oh, do you want to guess that.

[Andy Cortez]

One for like to movie to TV?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Movie or TV? Last of Us Arcane Season 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's a good.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

When did that come out?

[Andy Cortez]

That's a weird one. That's. They probably got a cut off thing happening there.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. But now I'm like, was that a Game awards Arcane Season 2. That was last. Because November last year.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It hit the cutoff of the last game awards, I guess.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay, running off some more of these. Best supporting role was Ben Starr as Verso. Best lead performer, Jennifer English is my L. Wow. Let's go. Hall of Fame award is given to the Sims PC Game of the year, Hollow Knight. Console Game of the year, Ghost of Yote. Critics choice is Don Kong Bonanza. Most wanted game is GTA 6. Oh, here we go. What do you think is ultimate game of the year?

[Andy Cortez]

Ultimate game of the year.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, and they have them arranged by places. There's like up to five placements.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you mean?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

So like they rank them. Rank the top five is basically what they do.

[Andy Cortez]

So they all get awarded?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Well, no, there's like 10 on the list.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And then they give you first place, second place, third place, etcetera.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, five.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

So Expedition 33 was number one. That was the winner. Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Number two.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Silksong. Wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

Hades two. Wrong ass. Borderlands four.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

What is it?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Kingdom come deliverance too. Oh, second place. Yeah. Third place is split fiction. Fourth place was Hollow Knight. And then fifth place was Death. Rating two on the beach.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm really contemplating actually like going through with my promise of playing that over the Thanksgiving break.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Kingdom Come. Deliverance to Yote will be over the winter break. Yeah. Oh, Deliverance. I'm really kind of like, do I actually want to do that?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because I just.

[Andy Cortez]

It. I don't know. I just don't. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know, you don't have to I don't know. I give you permission. Permission not to.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. You don't have to.

[Andy Cortez]

I appreciate it.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I do think about Hollow Knight Silk song and I'm like, do I go back to it? I down. I re downloaded Silent Hill. F.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a shorter game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's a shorter game. It is a shorter game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And I think it. Honestly, it's probably more my type of game than Hollow Knight Silksong.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I feel like I'd with. With Silent Hill.

[Andy Cortez]

Just the platformer in you. I just want you to fall in love with Hollow Knight.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. But it's like, it's. I'm. I don't know what's weird about me, because I love action games. I love kind of like that. That tone that Hollow Knight gives, that kind of reminds me of like some soulsy stuff, like a cartoony fashion. Yeah. I like the 2D. I like 2D platformers, but weirdly enough, 2D action games don't grab me as much as you think. And I like fighting games as well.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, you like Brawl? I like Brawl or Ultimate.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, like Subspace, but that's. That's for the cutscenes.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, of course.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's the story. That's where the narrative. And I'm not joking.

[Andy Cortez]

Read Playboy for the articles. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But like, weirdly enough, it's that how. When you bring everything together like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. That is, you know, the perfect game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It should be my favorite genre.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody commits sins, you know, Like Greg's biggest sin is he was so high up on Tears of the Kingdom and then never got back to it, and then, like, now acts like it's a bad game. But I know that he loves Donkey Kong Bonanza.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Do you remember? I'm never gonna forget because after Tears of the Kingdom came out, Greg was the one talking about we should do a game Game of the Year thing. And that's not tears. That's like, not tears. We should. We should just assume tears is number one and like, remove it from the con. That's how high he was on Tears of the Kingdom.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I. When I walked by his desk and I saw him playing Octopath Traveler 0, which we could talk about.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Preview.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, he previewed it. And I was like, oh. I was like, damn, you're playing that and you're not playing exhibition 33. Like, you didn't play exposition. Like, I. He read the Wikipedia synopsis for the story, so he gets it. I was like, turn based hater. And he Goes. I know I'm a piece of like. He realized. He knows, man. He knows.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's fucked up.

[Andy Cortez]

It really is.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's really messy. But yeah. Silk Song. I'll think about it. I'll think about it. Silent Hill F though, I think. I think that's the one.

[Andy Cortez]

What if I just told you that there's like a side scroller with amazing action and like insane hype moments and with story that is impactful as well. You're not just doing. This isn't a. The type of, you know, souls experience where it's all. I'm reading item menu. You know, I'm reading descriptions and getting. No, no man. Like shit's happening and you are actively in the action with like. Ah, good.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's funny too because like I Metro. I was thinking about this because Metroidvanias I like but like it really depends but like when you put them in like a 3D environment, I with it like Metroid Prime. I love. And like Arkham. Arkham Asylum has like a lot of Metroidvania elements to it.

[Andy Cortez]

Arkham Asylum is a Metro.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's a Metroidvania. And I love Arkham. That's my favorite Arkham games.

[Andy Cortez]

Arkham Returns got a lot of that as well.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You know, open things and now you can zip line over there, whatever the hell.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's the 2D space thing. Which is weird because it's only that genre other 2D, the one that started it all. Yeah. Fighting games. I love platformers. I love. I'm gonna get into Hollow Knight. We'll see.

[Andy Cortez]

We'll.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

We'll try it. But yeah, that's it.

[Andy Cortez]

That.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Those are your golden joystick nominees or sorry winners there. Congratulations. Clear Obscure is about to have a lit award season. It's about to be crazy. Story number four Final Fantasy 7 Remake integrates file size on Switch 2 is making us sweat. This is Ollie Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Square Enix had just posted an update on the expected file size for Final Fantasy 7 Remake integrate on the Switch 2. As we had perhaps expected, it's big folks. Like real big store listings on the Eshop already have some pretty lofty numbers attached to them. But according to Square Enix, these actually aren't accurate. As stated on X, the file size for the standard edition will be 90 gigabytes. 95 gigabytes. Meanwhile, the limited early purchase edition and limited early purchase Digital addiction Digital Deluxe editions will be 93.8 gigabytes to 99 gigabytes. This means of course that the game simply won't fit on a 64 gig cartridge for its physical release. And so Square Enix has, like many others, opted for a game key card release.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Really quick.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you unplug and then plug your mic back in?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Did a lot of people miss out what the story was about? It was like kind of crackly and kind of lower, but you could. You. You got the gist. Okay. I mean that's insane. That's going to be a lot of.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know, a lot of swords, a lot of material.

[Andy Cortez]

Go buy, go buy another one of them Big old SD card sort of things, you know. Oh yeah. For the switch. But yeah. You talking about file sizes. Bless. It's. It's time everybody. It is time to play the most games with the biggest file sizes. Everybody's favorite game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

When did you have time for this?

[Andy Cortez]

Welcome everybody. To name the most games with the biggest file sizes. This comes from a game ran article in October of. Of this year where they listed the games with the biggest file sizes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. I put, I put this on. I put this new story on the dock like 40 minutes ago. By the way, when did you do all this?

[Andy Cortez]

I was panicking a lot before the showcase this morning. Welcome in to. Here's our first. First contestant is our everybody's favorite game show. Our first contestant, Blessing Addie Yoye Jr. I am going to challenge you and ask you to name five.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Of the games with the biggest file sizes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And if you could go above 5, everyone after 5, that will be another little pizza party for the rest of next year.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

So every marking this down. If you hit 5, pizza party 6, pizza party 7, pizza party 8, pizza party 9, pizza party 10.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

10 is the ultimate goal you want. That's the most bonus.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. So I'm naming games with file sizes higher than file.

[Andy Cortez]

The biggest file size to date.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

To date.

[Andy Cortez]

To date.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Red Dead Redemption 2, Blessing Audio Junior. Red Dead Redemption 2 is on the list. That is number 11 with 150.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Number 11.

[Andy Cortez]

Number 11 with 150. 50 gigabytes of storage.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. Wow. Yeah, that's. I didn't. I thought that'd be much higher.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Pretty shocking.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I'm going to say. Call of Duty now. Are. Do you want individual entries?

[Andy Cortez]

I will accept. I will accept Duty franchises.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. Yes. Call of Duty.

[Andy Cortez]

Call of Duty Blessing. Call of Duty is number six.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

With modern games ranging from 125 gigabytes to 175 gigabytes, this article does come courtesy of Hamza Haq and Mark Samut over on Game Rant once again.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

See, now this is where it gets real.

[Andy Cortez]

You got two right there.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Because those were the ones I for sure knew I want to. I flirt with the Final Fantasy 7.

[Andy Cortez]

Stuff because don't look at the chat also.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I meant to go, like, minimize it, but, like, we're already in it. We're in the game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I'm not seeing chat, okay. Because I played some of it and I know how good this game looks and how many cutscenes are in it, and this is a big game. Kingdom Come Deliverance two.

[Andy Cortez]

Blessing Adeyoye junior Kingdom Come Deliverance two is not on the list.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, that's tough. How's it not. How's it not on the list? Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Not on the list.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. Okay. Oh, see, this is tough to know where to go from here because I thought that was a really good guess.

[Andy Cortez]

You have four more incorrect guesses before it's over.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay, I'm thinking big worlds.

[Andy Cortez]

These very arbitrary numbers I'm just throwing out.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I'm thinking big worlds. I'm thinking cut scenes. Oh, how many guesses do I have again?

[Andy Cortez]

Four more incorrect guesses.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay, that's training too.

[Andy Cortez]

Blessing. Adio. Yeah, Junior Death Stranding 2 is not on the list.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, you think about that game is like, you know, a lot of landscape is, you know, it's just.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, it's just like empty land.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And I guess they do save a lot by having it be like holograms and. But, like, for as much like video and cutscenes stuff that's in that game.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me give you a hint.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, so far you have two incorrect guesses. I'm gonna give you a hint. A lot of these games on PC because of, hey, we're unlocked now. Let's go file size Buck wild. Now. They were on console at one point as well. Yeah, a lot of them. You know, they're not just PC exclusive.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

But you know what? I'm gonna go back to the Final Fantasy VII thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Right?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I guess because the new story is about Rebirth. Am I allowed to say Rebirth as an answer?

[Andy Cortez]

Blessing Adioia Jr Final Fantasy Rebirth is on the list. 155 gigabytes. Number eight on the list. And Final Fantasy 16, as a little tip of the head, is also on the list at 135 gigabytes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, because I was thinking of, like, the two discs, these games that came in two discs, which I think did remake. I think remake came with two discs as well. But like, that was 2020. You know what I'm gonna say? Remake blessing.

[Andy Cortez]

Adioi Jr Final Fantasy Remake is not on the list. That is three incorrect guesses.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay?

[Andy Cortez]

Five strikes in your house for this arbitrary game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And what am I going for?

[Andy Cortez]

You need five minimum to get a pizza party.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Fuck. And I have three correct. Correct.

[Andy Cortez]

You have three correct so far?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yes. Okay. Oh, this is a tough place to be in.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, interesting. Being part of a game show and being on the other side of it, huh? Yeah, really tough sometimes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. Okay. I have one in my head.

[Andy Cortez]

Sometimes your mind just blanks, you know.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

I have one in my head, but I feel like I've been going open world, and that's been me because I part. I want to say Asset, like an Assassin's Creed, and I would probably say the latest I'm Assassin's Creed Shadows busing.

[Andy Cortez]

Adioia Junior. Assassin's Creed Shadows is not on the list. You. I will say this. You're close, though. Oh, you're close.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

See, and you saying I'm close makes it tough, because now I'm like, is it a different Assassin's Creed or is it something that's, like, adjacent? Is it Ubisofty? Okay, so I said Shadows because it's the latest one. I really wanted to say Odyssey.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna give you a hint. It is an Assassin's Creed game.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Okay. I want to say Odyssey because of all the dlc, and that was one of the big. I'm Odyssey. Odyssey is my answer.

[Andy Cortez]

Blessing. Adioia Jr. You have four strikes. Currently, Assassin's Creed Odyssey is not.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Valhalla.

[Andy Cortez]

Valhalla is number. Number five. 100.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And you're right. I was trying to mouth it to you. Plus you weren't looking at me. You're right.

[Andy Cortez]

Number four is Ark Survival Evolved at 170 gigs. Number three is Medal of Honor above and beyond. Oh, for 100 with 180 gigs. God of War, Ragnarok is 190 gigabytes on PC. And number one is a game that I have never heard of, Blessing. It is called DCS World PCs World. It is a digital combat simulator on PC.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, I was gonna guess it was that comedy crew with, like, Mark and all those people.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no, no, that's not them. Unfortunately.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Now, a lot of the games are, you know, you got Forza Horizon 5 there with 148 gigs. Stalker 2, Heart of Chernobyl flight Simulator, Blackmouth, Wukong, Blackmith, Wukong for spoken is at number 18 with 120 gigabytes. And number 19 kind of a shocking one, but kind of makes sense when you put in context the amount that's in there. Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Really? Because of the large upris textures. And there's three damn games. It's 120 gigabytes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Horizon. Forbidden west is 150 gigs at number 10. Three at 150 gigs as well.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

In our game does make another edition of Name the most games with the biggest file sizes.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That was a long. Yeah. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.

[Andy Cortez]

No problem. Got you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

We might need to workshop like the little jingle there. This is kind of long, but.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I thought it was good. I thought it was really smooth. I think it's like really short and like to the point and punchy. Like if you roll some back tongue. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, we're doing again. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Games with the biggest file size.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know when you play it again. Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it tells you what you need to know.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You know, It's. It's good.

[Andy Cortez]

It's good. Thank you.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Wow. I could have put up a bigger performance there. I feel like Andy. But if I wanted something smaller I needed to know about.

[Andy Cortez]

Where did I go? You go to the WE News channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Story numbers five and six. I'm demoting to WE News Dispatch. Tops two million players.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah. That was story number five.

[Andy Cortez]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Congratulations, Dispatch. Top two million players.

[Andy Cortez]

Shout out to Alanah Pierce who was streaming it yesterday with the voice actress for Coupe. Oh, the voice actors there with. With Alana. It's awesome.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And then number six, Silent Hill 2 remake. Shadow drops on Xbox Series X with a 50% launch discount. I'll read a little bit from Tom Phillips at Igen. It's happening. The brilliant Silent Hill 2 remake is finally arriving on Xbox Series X and it's releasing with a hefty 50 launch discount. Fans have spotted that the game is already available to purchase via the Xbox Store in Australia, where it's already Friday. It was already Friday over in Australia.

[Andy Cortez]

So the game wasn't.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Crazy how time works.

[Andy Cortez]

The game wasn't there yet.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, game was. It was a PlayStation exclusive.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Really makes you think you can honestly. You can probably name a video game right now and it's probably not on Xbox for some reason. Chat. Is Marvel Fighting Collection 2 on Xbox? Let me know.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Just curious.

[Andy Cortez]

Landscape.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Getting into the actual official Wii news story number seven from Eurogamer. Just cause developer Avalanche has closed its Liverpool studio following the cancellation of Xbox exclusive contraband earlier this year.

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus Christ, man.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Average on in chat says I think it is. Prolicia says yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nice.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Natty says nope. So we don't have a.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Definitive answer.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

You have a definitive answer. Timo says console warrior blessings entered. It's not console worrying. I'm just making acknowledgments of things that are happening.

[Andy Cortez]

It's just shocking to me.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's just shocking. It's surprising.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

The games aren't coming to the Xbox. To the Xbox. I was gonna just say the box, but I feel like the X part.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Important part of the Xbox. I said it like an AI. I was listening to a podcast this morning and I'm pretty sure they were using AI ad reads, but I couldn't prove it. But I was listening and it was like a dude who. It sounded like a man trying to sound like a real man. I didn't like it.

[Andy Cortez]

Was it about. Was it about, like, generic Viagra?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Oh, no.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

What'd you say, Barrett?

[Andy Cortez]

Knives up.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Up the Kulo. No.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

From Noble PS5 Welcome Hub update is now available. It adds a new widget showing your recent game stats and a dynamic animated background that changes with the season.

[Andy Cortez]

That's pretty.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, I like this. From VGC. Alice Dupor Percier, the vocalist behind Clear Obscure Expedition 33 soundtrack is the fourth month. It's been a long day, guys. The fourth most streamed female artist in the US this year.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

That's awesome. Congrats to her.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Thank goodness you're here. It's coming to Xbox. That wasn't there either. God damn. Damn. Holy. Hey, Phil, you gotta get together, man. You gotta get these games going to Xbox. For thank goodness you're here comes the Xbox December 9th. And then Inazuma 11 Victory Road has sold over 500,000 copies. I want to play that game.

[Andy Cortez]

AJBTain Times says Halo finally coming to Xbox.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And that is it for we news. Let's hop into super chats where Zeke Speak says Jacob Geller has a Silk song video that made me cry. That's cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Smickly18 says, I got a friend who's big. Who's a big MTG fan for Secret Santa. Do you have any recommendations on a good gift to get him? I would say pay attention to the secret layers. The secret layers. I like the fun limited time cards that are usually crossovers with other things, but. And I know, like, MTG fans can get shaky with whether or not they're into the crossovers or not secret layers though, usually cool, usually fun. And so I'll say. And they're limited, so that makes them cooler. So maybe pay attention to the secret layers that are coming out. If not that, then like, if you can figure out what decks they have, what pre cons they have or whatever. And if they have an IP that they like, maybe there's a pre con there that you can buy them. Or if they're like, no, fuck the ip, then I guess, yeah, just buy them. Any. Like I'm trying to think maybe like a collector's box. A collector's box is fun, expensive, but like, it's good for the dopamine. If you're a card game fan. Jesse Wilson writes in and says, never get to watch live. But finally had the chance using this opportunity to say, y' all cute and tell to tell grifters to step on so many LEGO bricks.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you, Jesse.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Thank you, Jesse. Kyle said I'm catching up, so I'm late to the discussion, but I don't understand why people think the Steam Machine is going to be 500 or. Oh, I see. 5 or $600 when the steam deck. 512 gigabyte. God, I can't talk today. 512 gigabytes is 550. This will easily be 7 to 800.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I mean, you know, when you're talking about packing stuff into a portable, that takes a whole lot of extra will and wherewithal and knowledge. Yeah, yeah. Like I think it's perfectly fine to be thinking the price would be around what current consoles go for. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a screen and stuff with the, you know, handheld and like all that stuff that like, would drive up that price than other stuff.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Sheriff 2.1 says I don't get the hype for the C machine. It's just a crappy PC that'll perform worse than consoles that were released five years ago.

[Andy Cortez]

The hype for it is the ease of use and somebody it's so it's for someone like me who always wants to play games on my tv. But I hate the whole process of all of it. And like even that process is enough for me who someone likes to tinker with settings and gadgets and all sorts of shit. I hate the long HDMI cable, needing to click on the right monitor, needing to make sure the game. Oh, the game's in windowed mode. Why is it displaying that resolution? Ah, fucking shit. Oh, now it's showing on that monitor. Let me unplug that. It's that whole thing that happens anytime I try to do something like that. It is for people like that. It's for ease of use. It's the reason why people prefer consoles over PCs because it is so plug and playable and it's as plug and playable as what your Steam deck is. When you open it up you see your Steam little, the big picture mode UI and it's like it's presented and you just play the game and you hop in and that's it.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, and I think it's the nice thing too where when we talk about PCs and all these things, it being more, hopefully more affordable than a big PC. But also with it being Steam. Steam is such a fixture within PC, the PC gaming ecosystem, that you expect games to be somewhat optimized for the Steam machine. You would hope in the same way that you have Steam deck things that are, hey, this runs great on Steam deck because we've done the checks and we're Steam and we have the infrastructure to be able to do that. You would hope that they do the same thing with the Steam machine. That way when the new game is coming there, hey, I expected to work on the Steam machine because it's Steam and because there's a infrastructure here that, you know, Steam is able to make happen.

[Andy Cortez]

0 that's a fascinating little tidbit right there. I don't know how accurate this is from Sergio Pew Pew, but says Valve says 70% of Steam users have lower spec PCs in the machine.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

There you go.

[Andy Cortez]

Whether that's true or not. But that's an interesting little tidbit.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

0427 says if you buy the machine you don't have to use Steam at a low price. Companies could mass buy the machine, not use Steam and Valve, Valve just loses money. Interesting. Yeah, I think, I mean I think the fact that it's a Steam machine though, it's like I would imagine with the points I just made, I would think the bigger benefits would be to be using Steam regularly. I think if you're a PC gamer, most likely you're using Steam. Although I guess they're talking about like companies as far as oh, I can buy this instead of a desktop.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I see. Okay, okay. Because they did advertise that as like being able to use it for different stuff. But then it's also like, do those companies want to go through the headache of like it's running Linux in the.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Back, it's running Linux.

[Andy Cortez]

Do I want to reinstall Windows on this and stuff?

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Like, like there's weird like on that.

[Andy Cortez]

End, not Ease of access for what you're talking about that I. I don't think companies are going to be thinking.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

About it that way. Steam machine. Imagine a Steam machine under Roger's computer and he's using it to like edit premiere and shit. Gary Yarbrough says, I'm so adhd, I can't. I can't start working until KHD starts. I'm sorry for being late today. Hopefully you're watching the gamescast and the reaction there and you were able to work with that. And then Jeffrey Kirby says you should use the same. You should use the meme of Ben from the Game Awards talking about all the bends on the screen.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, right. That's a good call. That is a really smart call.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

That is it for the super chats. Now it's time for kindafunny.com you're wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe, somebody titled Show Tim this video just posted an Instagram link here. No. And I'm deleting this. And don't DM me, all right? I'm never showing Tim your video. I don't know what it is. Yeah, it could be like something to save Tim's life. It's like Gia trying to communicate with us. I'm stuck. Fallen. Please show Tim this video.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm locked in the restroom, but I don't have access to my phone. Phone. I'm on my laptop.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

It's the code to the restroom. It's the only way I can communicate this information. And then, I don't know. Master 8008. Oh, I see. They're riding booby. No, that they say Red Bull can make me fly. I don't know what that's a reference to. I don't know if I just activated.

[Andy Cortez]

I hope you do. I hope that's not some sort of code word.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Yeah, some like whistle for four chan or something. Yeah, exactly. Dog whistle. Thank you. I was going to say some kind whistleblower. That's not. That's not what I mean. But yeah, I don't hope that's not a dog whistle.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

And that is it for kind of funny games. Daily reaching. Every weekday, we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and all podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with a kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. Good luck. Gia out there.

[Andy Cortez]

Hope you're safe.

[Blessing Adeyoye Jr]

Enjoy. Game showdown next and until next time, Game daily.