Xbox Dev Kits Get HUGE Price Hike - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.21.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: “Xbox Dev Kits Get HUGE Price Hike”

Episode Date: October 21, 2025
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Greg Miller (with Barrett)
Podcast: Kinda Funny Games Daily

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Episode Overview

Today’s episode dives into a major shake-up in the gaming development space: Microsoft’s substantial price increase for Xbox development kits. Blessing, Greg, and Barrett unravel the implications for developers, Xbox’s future strategy, and industry trends. The crew also explores breaking Warner Brothers Discovery acquisition news, Nintendo’s marathon Kirby Air Riders Direct, rumors of The Simpsons joining Fortnite, and more.

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Main Discussion Points

1. Xbox Dev Kit Price Hike

(12:46–23:23)

• News Recap: Microsoft has raised the price of Xbox Dev Kits from $1,500 to $2,000—about a 33% increase—impacting developers globally. (Source: Tom Warren, The Verge)
• Reasons Given: “The adjustment reflects macroeconomic developments... we remain committed to providing high quality tools.” (Microsoft statement, as cited)
• Background: Follows recent price increases for Series X consoles and Game Pass subscription.
• Immediate Impact: Developers worldwide, not just in the US, will feel the effect.

Crew’s Analysis:

• Greg Miller:

  • “Xbox just can't stop fucking up publicly.” (13:00)
  • Suggests it looks like Microsoft is “very publicly” winding down the Series generation, “closing up shop in a way that doesn’t usually happen,” maybe to accelerate their shift to a PC-based, platform-agnostic future. (14:00–14:50)
  • Wonders if raising barriers for new Series games is intentional: “Maybe they don’t want you making games... They want you focused on... the PC infrastructure everywhere.” (17:23)

• Blessing Adeoye Jr.:

  • Compares Xbox’s console division to a “senioritis” student, “checking out” on their current iteration in favor of next-gen.
  • “I wonder how much… the console hardware aspect of this is holding us back and it has been for this generation.” (15:33)
  • Points to Xbox’s unique branding crisis: “It is the tough thing… you’re literally calling it a box, and it's not a box anymore.” (18:39)

• Barrett:

  • “There are no fucking rules anymore.” (39:00) (in reference to industry chaos beyond just this move.)

Super Chats & Community Reactions

• Yelsing attributes this to Xbox’s missteps going back to the 360 era, Golden Spider advertises a board game, others ask about the practicality of the dev kits—are they for both Series S and X?
• The crew jokes, “You just hit the button S to X.” (23:39, Greg)

2. Warner Brothers Discovery Considers Buyout Offers

(33:41–39:19)

• Situation: Warner Bros. Discovery (including WB Games) is officially reviewing buyout offers after “unsolicited interest,” notably from Paramount/Skydance.
• Host Take: Both Greg and Blessing are wary of more mega-mergers, suggesting outcomes are ethically ambiguous and can harm content quality and jobs.
  • “Do you stick with some people who are clearly incompetent at running a business... or the devil you don't know?” (Greg, 35:52)
  • Barrett: “If this goes through with a Paramount, it’s only going to be so much worse.” (38:03)

3. Nintendo’s Kirby Air Riders—Hour-Long Direct

(39:17–44:21)

• Nintendo is airing a 60-minute direct focused solely on Kirby Air Riders, hosted by Sakurai. The crew ponders: “What more is there to say for an hour?”
• Blessing: “It’s not a deep game.” (41:13)
• Greg: “If he’s about to introduce a brand new mode, you don’t even know what you’re talking about!” (43:10)
• Discussion about the $70 price tag; debate over value, Nintendo’s strategy, and comparison with indie game pricing.

4. The Simpsons Fortnite Crossover Leak

(44:36–53:19)

• Leaks hint at a full Springfield map, cell-shaded style, character skins, and even LEGO versions for the next major Fortnite mini-season.
• Greg:
  • Nostalgic deep-dive into his lifelong Simpsons fandom.
  • “Fortnite and I are never broken up, we’re always on a break.” (46:26)
  • “To have that dose of nostalgia of walking around virtual Springfield... in a modern setting... will be awesome.” (48:41)
• Blessing:
  • Compares The Simpsons’ cultural omnipresence to Scooby Doo and Peanuts.
• The crew references past Simpsons games (Hit & Run, Road Rage) and how the fun is “existing in the world.”

5. Other Stories & Quick Hits

WE News (58:43–66:29):

• Futurama Hit & Run mod: The Simpsons Hit & Run modders release a total conversion mod for Futurama; available for demo.
  • “Shout out to the modding community.” (59:10)
• Rovio layoffs: Angry Birds Dream Blast underperforms, leading to 36 layoffs.
  • “The chokehold Rovio and Angry Birds had... that thing was printing money.” (59:48)

6. Super Chats, Community Notes, and Indie Shoutouts

(23:29, 61:40, 71:48+)

• Fielding Super Chats on everything from Pokémon to indie board games to listener birthdays.
• Shoutout to “Prototype One,” an indie game developed by a best friend (Marty), which saw sales jump to over 200 after KFGD support.
• Indie recommendations: “Reluded” (platformer), “Luminous Arise,” “Thrasher.”
• Ongoing debate: Pokémon Za vs. Digimon, and the sheer difficulty of keeping up with modern release schedules.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Xbox just can't stop fucking up publicly.”
  — Greg Miller (13:00)

• “It feels like senioritis—you get that last year... You're there, but you're thinking about the next thing.”
  — Blessing Adeoye Jr. (16:55)

• “It’s the war of escalation... We have to fight Christmas.”
  — Greg Miller, on holiday creep and gaming’s fall calendar (03:16)

• “Nintendo is like, 'Sakurai, just talk for an hour. Even if it’s about Kirby. You’ve earned this.'”
  — Blessing (41:49)

• “Fortnite and I are never broken up, we’re always on a break.”
  — Greg Miller (46:26)

• “Do you stick with some people who are clearly incompetent at running a business? ...They can’t make video games. Had a decade of shitty DC movies.”
  — Greg Miller (35:52)

• “You just hit the button S to X.”
  — Greg Miller, on Dev Kit configuration (23:39)

• “I was like, ‘this ain't Bugs Bunny… these are little fucking depressed children.’”
  — Greg Miller, on Peanuts (04:49)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 12:46–23:23 — Xbox Dev Kit Price Hike — News, analysis, community Q&A
• 33:41–39:19 — Warner Brothers Buyout News, Industry Reactions
• 39:17–44:21 — Kirby Air Riders Direct, Nintendo Pricing Debate
• 44:36–53:19 — The Simpsons in Fortnite: Nostalgia & Comparisons to Hit & Run
• 58:43–66:29 — WE News (Futurama Mod, Rovio, Thrasher, Reluded, etc.)
• Throughout — Super Chats, Community Birthday Shoutouts, Indie Spotlights

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Episode Tone & Style

• Signature Style: KFGD’s trademark blend of well-researched news, warm in-jokes, sidetracks into nostalgia (“Simpsons as second language”), and candid, often colorful critique of industry moves.
• Original Language: The hosts keep it irreverent, honest, and peppered with “fucking,” “shit,” and casual banter, especially when venting about Microsoft’s public missteps.

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Summary for the Uninitiated

If you missed the show:

• Microsoft’s raising Xbox dev kit prices signals the likely sunset of the Series generation and a shift to “Xbox as a platform, not a box.”
• WB Discovery might get bought by Paramount or others, with unpredictable consequences for WB Games.
• Nintendo’s letting Sakurai ramble for an hour about Kirby Air Riders, while charging $70—raising questions about game pricing.
• The Simpsons invade Fortnite’s next season with a full Springfield map, triggering a tidal wave of nostalgia for Greg.
• As always, KFGD features community shoutouts, indie recs, and unfiltered banter about the state of gaming.

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Next Up: Kinda Funny Gamescast review of “Dispatch” (Episodes 1 & 2) and more.
Sign-off: "Game Daily."

Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Starting October 26th at Wayfair.com Wayfair Every style, every home. Today's stories include even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike, Warner Brothers Discovery is considering a buyout and Kirby Air Riders gets an hour long Nintendo Direct. This week we'll have all this and more because this is kinda Funny Games Daily yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Tuesday, October 21, 2025 presented by Five Hour Energy. Blast through the Outer Worlds 2 in style with an exclusive skin for your raptodon in Game pet. Brought to you by five Hour Energy. When you purchase a Purple Berry punch or mock Melon Brew five Hour Energy products, you'll receive a unique code to unlock exclusive the Outer Worlds 2 in game content. One of your hosts, Blessing Adio Yay Jr joining me is the legend, Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Hello. How are you? Blessing well, Greg, Adio Yay Jr. How sad is it that Halloween's almost over, everybody?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Halloween's in like nine days.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but you know, you go to, you go to these stores and it's all Christmas stuff already. Is it really started? We've Already started. It's already started. It's just ending.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

When do we put a stop to it? Because I feel like every single year, Christmas, it's.

[Greg Miller]

It's the war of escalation. It just means that, like, when I went to spirit Halloween in August, people can't get mad at anymore. We got to see. We got to do that. You got to. To start pushing Halloween earlier.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I feel like we just got to wrangle in all these holidays. No, we.

[Barrett]

We not. We don't need.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We got to start earlier.

[Greg Miller]

We have to fight Christmas. Barrett, you've said it yourself.

[Barrett]

It already.

[Greg Miller]

You said it yourself. What did I say?

[Barrett]

That it already starts in August, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You have three months. We talked about this a little bit on kind of funny podcast that we need a new holiday. I'm pro putting a holiday early August. You know what I mean? Because then it's like, we don't have to then.

[Barrett]

And then we offset the early Halloween, and then that sets the precedent to not do early Christmas.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't made any picks, but I have solidified that I'm gonna get a Halloween tattoo that I can have Halloween with me all the time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

A pumpkin?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, something like. I mean, it'll be a cute pumpkin. Probably a ghost, too. I'm sure it'll be some ghostbuster y thing. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Shouldn't go cooler than that.

[Barrett]

What about, like, one of the Peanuts kid who goes like, I got a rock.

[Greg Miller]

I hate peanuts.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What?

[Greg Miller]

Overrated. I don't hate them like Charlie Brown. They're overrated. I mean, just talk about, like, the most, like, middle of the road stand.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Thing you've ever said.

[Greg Miller]

It's just middle of the road. It got so popular because in the 50s, there was, like, nothing but this in pol. Nobody had any idea what was going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Greg, I agree with you. Fucking Peanuts.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not saying peanuts are bad, full stop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No.

[Greg Miller]

I'm just saying the. The insane popularity of fucking Lucy moving the football.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Like, shout out. Shout out to Snoopy.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Shout out to. Shout out to the stinky.

[Greg Miller]

Shout out to Linus. Shout out to Pig Pen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But, like, whenever Peanuts was on TV as a kid, I'm like, this ain't no. This ain't Bugs Bunny.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

This ain't Scooby Doo.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, these are little fucking depressed children, all right? I don't need to deal with this right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

You know, no wonder Barrett likes it. Yeah. Loves that base his whole life.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Obviously, you put Barrett in The Peanuts fucking art style. It would fit so well.

[Barrett]

Someone do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That'd be great fan art, but someone do that. Greg, how you been?

[Greg Miller]

I'm great. I was talking about this on Greg Way, which you haven't seen yet, of course. But like, I, like, I came into late work on. I came into work late on Friday and then wasn't here yesterday. And so it feels like I've been gone a week and a half. Like, I am pent up. I am ready to unleash. I am ready to hang out. I'm ready to talk about games. We got some good stuff coming this week for talking about games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Good stuff happening today to talk about games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I'm stoked to be back. And again, I talked about this to you off camera. I'll talk about it on camera. I'll put you over. I'll put Andy over. I'll put Barrett over of like, what a joy it is to listen to games daily coming in. I listen to yesterday's games daily coming. And you guys are just good. You know what you're doing. You're educated, but more importantly, you're having fun out there. And I love seeing. Oh, yeah, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Andy don't host together enough. I know we host together. I get, I guess a lot nowadays, but it's still not enough.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think me and him, like, have a natural chemistry where it's like you. I. Maybe it's because it's a rare thing because I'm hosting with you and Tim all the time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And so, like, when me and Andy get to host together, it's like, cool. We have all this pent up. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

There's uncharted territory.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Uncharted territory.

[Greg Miller]

It's the same thing where I like when you host versus me hosting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like there's a different vibe we get to go or a new vibe to play with a bit more because we did so many. P.S. i loves you. P.S. i love you. Where I was hosting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking about this with Barrett, though, of like, we were doing a Dispatch review right after this, which is going to be a fun time. But it's only episodes one and two of Dispatch.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And so I was talking like, do we have that much to say about it? Should we spend the second half of the episode just talking about review season and like, I don't know if it's a game of the year checking kind of thing, but, like, where we're at with review season.

[Greg Miller]

I like doing review season rather than game of the Year, because I think a game of the year check in is a great headline to itself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, how have we all fared through a few season? Because I'm with you of like Dispatch, I'm excited to talk about whether we liked it or didn't like episode one and two, but it is like it's basically a telltale game. So you want to talk about the choices which we're not going to spoil for them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

And it's also like they ask us not to spoil things in the review market. So it's not even like we could do the second half like what you guys do with Keeper, which are did with Keeper, which I thought was so good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I like being on the other. I mean, not that we're all the way on the other side because there's still a lot left for review season, but we've been talking for weeks and weeks and weeks about how we're playing so many things. Oh, man, I'd love to play this, but I'm so busy. Oh, man, I want to play more Kingdom Come Deliverance, but I'm doing this now. Enough games, enough embargoes have lifted to where we can just openly talk about shit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that for sure. I was thinking more of like, I talked about this in Greg way too. Of like this week really is not the end of review season, but the end of the rush of reviews. Yeah. Because I mean, like you look at, like look at the schedule next week and it's all of a sudden all the games casts are blank because all the. With the exception of a Call of Duty later on or whatever. But it's like the things think about in that rush to get all your games out before a juggernaut like Call of Duty have happened.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Except of course for the one, the only, luminesce arise. Very happy to hear you're on the same boat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yes.

[Greg Miller]

And you said you wouldn't say it, but I have said it many times and I'll say it again, Luminesce period is better than Tetris, period.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No, we can't do that.

[Greg Miller]

We can't, but we did it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I will say for somebody, Barrett, you said it early.

[Greg Miller]

I'm backing you up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

For somebody who learned. When did I say this? Yeah, Barrett, I heard you say it as somebody who learned how to play luminesce just like three days ago. Yeah. I'm not gonna say it's better than Tetris, but I'm gonna say we need to put some more respect on.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. I've been saying this for years. It might be in the conversation insulting when I think you complimented Washi for telling you to try the demo. You know what I mean? When I've been talking about Luminous my entire career.

[Barrett]

Thank you, Washy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I was like, I don't. I don't think I talked to Washy like that.

[Greg Miller]

Shout out Washy though, if you got more suggestions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, please watch it. DM me. We can be friends. But enough about all that. Let's talk about today's news. Because remember, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news and need to know about live on YouTube 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. Watch us record 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. This Friday, Mike and Roger, two best friends will be locked in a room and attempt.

[Greg Miller]

Why does he have to say that? Why does Mike say that when he writes these things?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

They're going to attempt to complete Silent Hill fuck while sharing a controller while also handcuffed. Will they rise to the task or will they break? The longer you support, the longer they'll play. Come support the madness this Friday exclusively on Twitch, right after game Showdown. Remember, we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. So today after KFTD you're going to get gamescast, which is our Dispatch episodes one and two review. And then after that is Gamescast, which. Oh no, after Gamescast is RV there yet? The stream and that's going to be with Nick, Andy, Kevin and Joey. If you're a kind of funny member. Today's Greg Way is titled slow news day ign question mark, exclamation point. And clocks in at around 18 minutes. Jesus Christ.

[Greg Miller]

Full disclosure, it's a. It's, it's, it's. I'm. What do you call it? Clickbaiting the title? No, because what it is is a question about how we handle Slow News day. And so I said, well back in the day that was at ign, we'd always joke internally Slow News Day ign. Whenever you that always the first comment or message board post.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It has been kind of a slow news week.

[Greg Miller]

But my whole point is it really isn't ever. Because then we have you guys do an hour and eight minute long games daily.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh yeah, we know. We fight.

[Barrett]

Half of us fucking around.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah, that's us.

[Greg Miller]

The content.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh yeah. But let me tell you, shout out to Microsoft and Xbox for just stepping on rakes and giving me headlines today. I was like, man, I really don't know what we're going to talk about. And then at the last moment, Xbox.

[Greg Miller]

Comes your breakdown of just like Sarah Bond. Be like, hey, we didn't do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, we didn't have anything to do with this thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Thank you for saying that, Sarah Bond, because then we get a headline. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm twining today brought to you by Five Hour Energy. 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 six stories today, a big dozen starting with our number one. Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike. This is Tom Warren at the Verge. After raising prices on Xbox consoles and subscriptions, Microsoft is now turning its attention to Xbox developers. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell the Verge that the company is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit, the custom hardware used by developers to build Xbox games. The current Xbox Dev kit is moving from $1500 to $2000, a 33% jump in price quote. The adjustment reflects macroeconomic developments, says Microsoft in an announcement to Xbox developers seen by the Verge. Quote, we remain committed to providing high quality tools and support for your development efforts. I asked Microsoft to comment on the price rise, but the company didn't respond in time for publication. The price increases to the Xbox Dev kit come just a month after Microsoft hiked the price of its Xbox Series X console for for the second time this year. The second price increase to the Series X means the console is now $150 more than it was just six months ago. The short announcement from Microsoft's Xbox Developer Relations team makes it clear that this price increase goes into effect immediately. I understand it's not just impacting US Developers as the price of these development kits is also going up across Europe and elsewhere. That's likely because these macroeconomic conditions extend beyond just US Tariffs with currency fluctuations, production costs, and other elements impacting pricing.

[Barrett]

We also have to fund, you know, our stuff too, and we're, we're looking for any sort of outlet to do that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There you go. Greg, what's your reaction to this?

[Greg Miller]

You know, it's multiple ways of just like to your point, Xbox just can't stop fucking up publicly. They just cannot stop fucking up. Whether it be the price of this, the price of that, just in general, the fact that they're the first and not first, but they're the, the prime example of all this tariff stuff. And they're the ones who keep doing it, keep having to say stuff, keep having to move prices around. There's a lot to it. I think what's the interesting angle for us is the conversation of are they just done with the Xbox series generation? Is that really what all this comes down to? They're not selling already. Let's get the put the price up. For those who are still going to come across the finish line. People, this is where we show our own lack of knowledge in terms of game development with PC game pass ultimate with everything being a PC game and play everywhere and yada yada yada, if I'm making a game on my PC, do I still need the Xbox dev kit? I'm not sure how that actually nets out anymore. If I'm just making a game and doing that and going to the Xbox PC store. Like, you know, I don't, I don't understand the shakeout of that information anymore of where that would be. And so again, if we're sunsetting the series generation, which it looks like we clearly are, right, as stores are pulling them from shelves, Xbox is raising the price. We, we're pushing the rog, we're pushing play anywhere. We're talking about, hey, next generation's coming, we're partnering with this on chips and yada yada yada, it just feels like this is them closing up shop very publicly in a way that doesn't usually happen. I feel like this kind of stuff and not the price increase, but like leaving a generation, leaving a console generation happens usually after you've got the next console out. But with Xbox series S and Xbox series X being such an not failure, that's too broad a stroke, but such a third place so far behind the competition that it's just all eyes are on them to see how Microsoft's going to respond to any of the market shifts, any of the market changes. What they're generating next generation is can their crazy play anywhere scheme catch up to PlayStation? Does it matter? Are they X? You know, PlayStations can doing straight? Nintendo went right a long time ago. Can Xbox making this left make up the difference in be like there's so many unknowns to the strategy. Microsoft is doing that something like this that normally, well, normally probably wouldn't happen, but normally wouldn't get really number one placement on a games daily on a news show gets it here because we're all so trained on what the fuck is going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, yeah. I think for me it's a number of things including everything that you just mentioned as far as kind of closing up shop. But I think even more so, I think checking out of what the current strategy has been for Xbox and strategy might not even be the right word, I guess the console focused element of being in the console games business because we talk all about how next generation, it seems that the thing is you're going to move into Xbox being more of a PC based platform. Like even what you call an Xbox is going to have things like Steam and going to operate more as a PC than a console. And so I think that's what we're talking about when we're talking about like them kind of hanging it up. I wonder how much of them is like man, we're focused in on what the future is and the console part of this is kind of holding us back. Like the console hardware aspect of this is kind of holding us back and it has been for this generation. When we talk, when we talk about games not even coming to Xbox. Right. Games skipping Xbox as a platform because they're focused in on either releasing on PC or releasing on other platforms because the numbers are just there. As far as looking at Switch or PlayStation or other places that have bigger player bases and going, well, I guess we'll prioritize Xbox last because of that. I think they're in such a weird place with the console part of their console platform, their ecosystem that like, you know, this is, this feels like a transitional man. It feels like senior senioritis, you know what I mean? Like you get that last year of.

[Greg Miller]

High school you give you two weeks notice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And you're still working those two weeks like, okay, like I'm still here. But like what are you going to do?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm thinking about the next thing. I also think that this is, this is probably inevitable news coming off of the X Xbox console price hikes in general.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Because you're hacking the prices of just the Xbox consoles on the consumer level. I would imagine that that just naturally lends to you looking at these fifteen hundred dollar dev kits and going, well we gotta hike the price on this for all the same reasons we did for the consumer product.

[Greg Miller]

And I know it sounds stupid, but I also think there's truth to it of like, oh, but then you're making it so People aren't making games for this. Well, I'm sure, yeah, they don't want you making games for the Xbox series. They want you focused on this PC infrastructure everywhere Xbox. And again, you get into this thing and I doubt it, obviously, but, like, where are we at with whatever. What are they saying internally or externally to their private dev partners who are making the games? Clearly, we've already announced we're working on another console and it's going to be this kind of thing. They've given those specs to them. But are they just saying that to PC? So just fucking make a p. You know, this doesn't matter anymore. Like, we don't. We actually want to price people out of doing this because we don't want them making games on this architecture. We want them making it on the PC architecture of whatever the next Xbox is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

And what gets so weird with this is, I think, an interesting conversation we keep having. And I was listening on the podcast and hearing it and then doing. It's like, we talk about Xbox and then there's this conversation of, are we talking about the Xbox, the physical Xbox? Are we talking about Xbox as the brand? Like, it's this weird thing, right, of how they've evolved and changed, but we still use these things interchangeably. And there's cloud and there's this. I know. And series. But like, it still is like people feeling like Xbox is abandoning them because they're leaving the Xbox behind. But it's like they're still making an Xbox, but they're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It is a weird name. Like, it is the tough thing of, well, you had to call it Xbox because that's the entire branding and it's been around for 20 something years. But also. Yeah, like, I think it is. It might be confusing to people because you. It's. You're literally calling it a box and it's not a box anymore. But you can't call it X ecosystem. Like, you can't call it X Platform, you can't call it X Store, like, but it's not a box anymore. And so I think maybe there is that association with what people have grown up with versus the brand of. I guess Microsoft and Xbox just moving on to an entirely different thing. I also wonder when we talk about things like this, what feels like them stepping on rakes over and over again. And how can I ask a question?

[Greg Miller]

Is that. Do you feel in your heart of hearts that's accurate, the rake spit? Because I don't think it's. Rakes, you know, are like, when you Make a problem. It's the stick in the spokes thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This is just bad news. This is just them being like this. Here it is. It's more. It's more the meme of the guy with his glasses like this with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth, I guess more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. PR hiccups or whatever you want to call it as far as bad news. Bad news for the audience.

[Greg Miller]

PR hiccups is like when Phil Spencer has a racial slur.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Ok, sure, yeah. When Sarah Bond just says the thing that she doesn't want to say.

[Greg Miller]

A PR hiccup. Man. No, these are all too serious. The racial slur was a joke. I was going to say a pr. A PR problem is like the BDS boycott.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Of that of like why, hey, get out. Stop supporting Israel and stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay, that's fair, that's fair.

[Greg Miller]

That's. But that's a real thing. I'm not trying to trip.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I do think that the. I guess the bad news portion of this I think gets in the way of.

[Greg Miller]

Not the one I was thinking of, but accurate. Well, I want to off of here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

The bad news that gets in the way of like I guess what Xbox is trying to build in the current time is that in the last Xbox showcase, Phil Spencer came out and talked about how we got a new Forza, we got a new Gears. Oh yeah, Miyazaki. Yeah, we got new Gears, we got Fable and we have. And you didn't say Halo, but it's going to be Halo.

[Greg Miller]

Right. We have a game that's been a franchise that's been with us since the beginning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

So Halo Zombie, it's going to be Crimson Skies. They're talking about that being their 2026.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I. I think that's honestly probably like the real weird thing about this. Like the fucked up thing about this is it feels like they're checking out in all these ways, but it also feels like they're trying to gear up 2026 as being their biggest year ever.

[Greg Miller]

And it's because again of just trying to get rid of not the skeletons in your closet, but I guess the sins of the past kind of thing of like again when you talk about Xbox and it's just there's such a large umbrella of all this. I mean, fucking keeper, man. Right. Like the reviews seller. You guys did such a great job with that Gamescast review. Can't wait to. What? We're on the precipice here of Outer Worlds 2, which as you know, I've talked a lot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Ninja Gaiden 2. We just reviewed 4. Oh, no, sorry. Yeah. Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Calling it 2 a lot. I don't know why. I guess 2 came out earlier.

[Greg Miller]

And so it's like, no, they've had a great year for games and software, but then it is the idea of like, all right, Game Pass is going up and every flips out. Okay. Consoles are going up. Every flip side, consoles are being removed from sh. Like, there's so many wins, quote unquote, for games and gamers. But then there are so many losses slash cons, I guess in a pro con list of what's going on. And so it's way easier. Yeah. To look at to next year when if you're Xbox, you got to imagine this is kind of. Even to the point of like, it's kind of like Friday afternoon, get all the bad news out. We're. Yeah, we're raising the price of Game Pass. We're raising the kind of. We're doing the. And all of this fucking sucks. Let's get it all out so that in game awards we can show this trailer. 2026 will be the conversation going in will be all the hype around what we're doing and the excitement of it. And then for us, obviously, it'll be the excitement of when do we see a new box? Are we seeing it next year? Are they talking or do we get more details next year? What's it going to be like? You get rolling on that idea.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I want to bring in some super chats.

[Greg Miller]

Get him in here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Conversation. Yelsing says, I saw the writing on the wall all the way back on the 360 days. Inflated numbers due to the red ring, making it not as popular as everyone thought it was. The one just cemented it. I mean, I don't know if we can blame the red ring.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think we can. But I appreciate your conspiracy thing. That hard.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I was gonna say they have fucking. They're putting out bangers during the 360 era. Golden Spider writes in with a large super chat. $100. Thank you so much. Golden Spider. They say, yo, kind of yo, KF and BF's. I've been making a board game for a bit inspired by Balatro and now looking for people to playtest. If there are any board game nerds that are willing to help, either on Tabletop Sim or Tabletopia, please fill out this form. And they do a bitly. Oh, here we go. I can actually read it out. Bitly slash. Arcane poker. That is arcane Spelled A, R, C, A N E. Poker. If you want to help playtest Golden Spider's game. That's really cool. That's fucking awesome. I got real respect for anybody working on a new tabletop game.

[Greg Miller]

You love Tabletop games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I love TableTop Games. Banner SN says, Does that $2,000 give you both an S and X dev kit?

[Greg Miller]

I think they're the same dev kit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, they're probably.

[Greg Miller]

You just hit the button S to X.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You hit a button and then it shrinks.

[Greg Miller]

Like a Transformer just says, oh, this one runs like shit. Here you go. You'll have no textures or frames in this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Frantic Josh writes in and hey guys, Birthday Tax. It was just last weekend. It also was the five year anniversary of me starting my indie game podcast, Indie Quest. Thanks for the over decade of entertainment and inspiration. Congratulations and happy birthday, Frantic Josh.

[Greg Miller]

Frantic Josh. I'm gonna open Spotify and add Indie Quest to my playlist.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

9Th Wonder also writes in a shout out to 9th Wonder, the hip hop producer. They say birthday Tax, it's been an unpleasant year, but you all have helped me keep it together and I appreciates that about you. Thank you so much. 9th Wonderful. This is moving off of the Microsoft conversation, but I like this one. Motorworld Hype writes and it says random, but what's up with Marvel Cosmic Invasion not having a release date yet? At this point it's either what the fuck, right? It's either delayed or being shadow dropped during ID at Xbox or at the game awards. What do y' all think I got? Actually, I don't know if I can talk about that. I'll tell you later. But you know how we get a lot of emails.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And we like it's game award season. Right. And so a lot of emails pertain.

[Greg Miller]

To like most anticipated. Here's a bunch of codes for game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yes. Like essentially like please for your consideration. And like I feel like at this point coming off of that we, this game has to shadow drop like tomorrow if it wants to be included in those conversations. Right.

[Greg Miller]

But I mean maybe it doesn't.

[Barrett]

Maybe they need to be included in those conversations. Because at this point my last hope, my expectation late October is that this is a shadow drop at game awards. That is my only hope for this year.

[Greg Miller]

I agree 100% with that. And that's what I. And I need it. That's the copium we're needing now. And I agree that that would be. I think that's the move Game Awards biggest thing. Here's a Marvel game. You can play right now. It's ready to go. Let's fucking go. I have to imagine.

[Barrett]

I don't character announcements give me.

[Greg Miller]

I know. Jesus. Shut up. About the characters in the game. When they came through before they went to Comic Con, I was busting chops on the stream about it. And they all seem confident still of 2025, and that was in the summer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's like, is there anything that happens before game awards?

[Greg Miller]

Like giving.

[Barrett]

Oh, you're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, they do a shadow drop on Thanksgiving. Like we're playing.

[Greg Miller]

The moves you could ever do.

[Barrett]

They could just do a random release date, like announcement. Because that's what I felt as well for Dispatch, what, like a month or so ago?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Barrett]

And then Dispatch just kind of did their own, like, announcement.

[Greg Miller]

So it's a good point.

[Barrett]

Maybe. I don't know, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Is there like an idea? I feel like an ID at Xbox or a Xbox developer. Underscore Direct.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, you're bet. I don't think you're gonna get that. I think your best bet at this point would be a PlayStation state of play. But even that I don't think you're getting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We got. We got the. We got that already, right? The September one. Yeah, man, I totally forgot that that happened.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I guess we got Wolverine stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, we're definitely not getting one of those. No.

[Greg Miller]

So, yeah, I think it's game awards or bust. I'm not following indie game in Indie Game podcast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Wait, you said what?

[Greg Miller]

I'm following Josh's indie game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh. Indie Quest. Interchat Stream writes in and says, finished Pokemon Zaw this weekend. How do I say the name of this game? Because Za.

[Greg Miller]

Za.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay, I've been calling it Z to A. Yeah, because you lied.

[Greg Miller]

No, I was lied to by PR and then Tim got lied to by PR in Paris and then that same person got called back up and had to apologize and set them straight. So. No, it was the one PR person who had it wrong and poisoned my mind. And I poisoned all of your mind.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Pokemon Za.

[Barrett]

It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I like. See, here's my thing is that it should be called Z to A, right? Yeah, because you're going from Z to A.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Barrett]

But it's also kind of like, you know, it's Pokemon XY and it's like a play off of like it's kind of a. Not sequel, whatever. A follow up to XY in that way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, but like, was the game called Pokemon XY or was it called Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? Like XY Is like a fan thing, right? What wasn't? Wait, wasn't Pokemon? You're saying it's a. It's a follow up to X and Y. Yeah. Weren't those two different Pokemon games?

[Barrett]

Yeah, but they're the same generation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, but we don't call it Pokemon xy. You see what I mean? Like, if we're gonna say it's Pokemon Za because of Pokemon xy. Sure, sure, sure. All right. Another one for you. Enerjet Stream. Oh, actually I never finished the interject streams thing. They say finished Pokemon Za this weekend. Despite the valid criticisms. It's definitely one of my favorite PO games. Big shout out to my female Halucha Gregina Miller for carrying me through post game.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that. Thank you so much. When I can't wait to get back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

To Z when I tell you. I sat down here with Mike the other week and he was talking about how Pokemon Za has too much reading.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And all this stuff needs. It needs voice acting. I was like, I understand the voice acting part, but like too much reading. What are you talking about? And then I started playing Pokemon Za. What a weird fucking game. Why not just put voice acting in the game? Because it starts the first hour is me reading cutscenes the entire time. Yeah, yeah, it's bad.

[Barrett]

I've disagreed with Tim. Unlike, I don't need the voice acting for the last couple of games. Right. But this is the first game where I feel like the presentation of the story almost like necessitates voice acting. There are some like cut scenes where it's like, it's comically bad and weird that they don't have voice acting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I understand. I understand why Tim was very passionate about this on the review. Because yeah, playing the first hour time, it's. It's crazy that they. I'd be one thing if like it was a Zelda situation and this franchise has never had like voice acting like that. But Pokemon, the anime exists, right? Like we've seen voice acting in this world. It's not like there's been other games that have had voice like spin off games that have had voice acting in them. Why don't you have voice acting in this almost mainline Pokemon game? I know it's not really mainline, but Pokemon Z to A is a big poke.

[Greg Miller]

Big game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Big game. What are we doing here? We're gonna put a pin in super chats and we're gonna move on to story number two. But before we do, want to tell you about patreon.com kinda 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. Greetings Taste Buddies. Wishing you could sip the bold taste of tomorrow Today.

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And we're back with story number two. Warner Brothers discovery says it is officially considering buyout offers amid unsolicited interest from multiple parties this is Wesley Yanpel at Ignition. Warner Brothers Discovery has confirmed it is now officially considering buyout offers amid report reported interest from Paramount Skydance, while Warner Brothers Discovery said it is still working towards separating into two distinct media companies, Warner Brothers and Discovery by mid-2026.

[Greg Miller]

What are you doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It had now triggered the acquisition consideration. Follow following quote unsolicited interest from multiple parties for the entire company and Warner Brothers. In an investor focused note issued on Tuesday, October 21, the company said it had initiated a review of potential alternatives to maximize shareholder value and was now evaluating a transaction for the entire company or separate transactions for its Warner Brothers and or Discovery Global businesses. David Zaslav, President and CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery said, quote we continue to make important strides to position our business to succeed in today's evolving media landscape by advancing our strategic initiatives, returning our studios to industry leadership and scaling HBO Max globally. We took the bold step of preparing to separate the company into two distinct leading media companies, Warner Brothers and Discovery Global. Because we strongly believe this was the best path forward. It's no surprise that the significant value of our portfolio is receiving increased recognition by others in the market. After receiving interest from multiple parties. We have initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to identify the best path forward to unlock the full value of our assets. End quote what a quote just said a lot of nothing I read that. I took in Zero words. The news comes following reports that Paramount Skydance was preparing an offer to buy the rival studio. The reported bid would be for the entire Warner Brothers discovery business. Now, Greg, this is not really video game news explicitly, but kind of is video game news.

[Greg Miller]

WB games are wrapped up in this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Exactly. And so making such hits as Suicide.

[Greg Miller]

Squad and Gotham Knights.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'll let you choose your own adventure as far as if you want to tackle the non video game side or the video game side first.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I think either side is wrapped up in an interesting conversation of the devil you know. It's, you know, it's the devil you know versus what's behind door number three. And is it going to open up and guess what? Paramount bottom. And it's like, okay, what's going on there? Or it's going to be Saudi Arabia bought them and now who the fuck know? You know what I mean? Like, nobody. Do you stick with some people who are clearly incompetent at running a business? You know what I mean? They can't make video games. I had a decade of shitty DC movies. It's like. And it's so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's like Birds of Prey exists, you know. That was a good one.

[Greg Miller]

Don't get me started. Please don't uncork that right now. It's the idea though, that of like, all right, cool, so you're. What do you. What do we do? We seem to be in the right direction now with the movie side. James Gunn, obviously in Superman, all that jazz game side. Right. There's been good rumors and conversations about things that are happening over that way, but it's just this idea. And like, for me, as a. DC Comics die hard, right? DC Comics is wrapped up in this as well. And obviously I think Jim Lee and crew are doing a great job over there for the most part. So it's like, what does any of this mean? It's like, well, things could be better, but they could also be a lot worse. So I don't know. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I also don't know. Like, that's my thing with this new story is I'm kind of like, man, is there. Let me ask a question. Is there any ethical result to all this?

[Greg Miller]

No, the answer, There is no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Acquisitions and mergers and big companies, corporate consolidation, buying other big companies. Like, this is all bad, no matter how you shake it, right? Because WB discovery by themselves also is just doing very bad. And so, like, I don't know. I'm with you. I fucking. I hope people keep their jobs as many people as possible. And I also hope that the content is done justice.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is the ongoing, you know, corporate hellscape, late stage capitalism. All that stuff we're wrapped up in of like this is you, you know, there, there's big fish eating up the biggest fish but every, all these other fish are dying. There's eating dead whales now. And so what happens this and who picks through the bones and what happens to the things you care about and where this all goes? Who the knows? Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Bear, you got something to say?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, he's just doing, he's just emoting. He's doing his own thing.

[Barrett]

But also like, you know, like this is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I can see the migraine forming in par.

[Barrett]

It's always there. That's my secret cap. You know, like it's been kind of a show. I think it's safe to say it's been kind of a shit show ever since like Microsoft bought Activision and Bethesda. In terms of like how they're handling and taking care of like their, their devs on that side, all the layoffs that we've seen. This like if this goes through with a Paramount, it's going only going to be so much worse. Especially for a company like Paramount who's been making very interesting, questionable decisions in terms of their content.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Actually I'm going to say this, and I say this to somebody who just doesn't know, right? Like I don't. I just don't know. Right. Isn't that like the prime example though of you shouldn't be able to do this? Like Paramount buying WB Discovery. Isn't that like Monopoly? Monopoly, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Okay. We don't give it. As long as shareholders get more money, we don't care.

[Barrett]

There are no fucking rules anymore. Blessing.

[Greg Miller]

You can just, yeah, you can just argue your way out of it and they go, okay, I guess it's not Monopoly as long then they lay off a bunch of people and jack up their prices and they run the farmers chair goes in. Oh yes. That's why I told you not to let this Xbox thing happen. None of you wanted to listen.

[Barrett]

As long as the lizard people get more money, no rules apply.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Fair enough. Story number three, Nintendo second Kirby Air Riders direct is this week and it will last an hour. This is Chris Scolion at Video Games Chronicle. Nintendo was announced that its second Nintendo Direct based on Kirby Air Riders is coming this weekend. It's even longer than the first one. The company published a Kirby Air Riders direct video on August 19 with director Masahiro Sakurai explaining the Game in great detail. The video lasted a total of 47 minutes, leading to some light ribbing on social media from people pointing out that Sakurai had spent longer explaining one game than many multi game Nintendo Direct presentations last. Sakurai seemingly isn't done breaking down the game, however, which is why a second Kirby Air Riders Direct, this time lasting a full hour, will air on Thursday, October 23rd at 6am Pacific Time. Quote. Join us on October 23rd at 6am for a second Kirby Air Riders Direct with Mr. Sakurai. Nintendo posted on his official official X account. The live streamed presentation will roughly last 60 minutes and feature more info on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game, end quote. What more is there to say?

[Greg Miller]

See you here at 6:00am Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, absolutely. Although I'm not gonna watch this live, I'm so fascinated by what you have to say for an hour. I think it might just be Sakurai playing the game for an hour. I think that's what it has to be. Right. And if so, what are we doing here?

[Greg Miller]

I don't know, man. God bless him. God bless him. His attention to detail. The people who are stoked for Kirby Air Riders. This is the one. Yeah. Right? This is the like, this is this month or November. Yeah. And it's that idea of like, this is the first, like, switch to one where I look at. I'm like, I'm good. Like, I don't. You can't sell me on this. I look at it, I'm like, good. More power to you. I haven't even fucking touched cart. I do not care about Kirby. I'm fine. I'll play with Ben if he wants to. But like, yeah, I'm not. I don't need to see another hour.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's the thing of, for me is somebody who I got to preview and play the game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's not. It's not a deep game.

[Greg Miller]

Was there a giant section grayed out where you're like, what is that? Like, don't look at that. We'll talk about that later.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Absolutely not.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Well, I guess to be fair, Nintendo is very particular when it comes to their preview. Sometimes with this one, they. They did have what felt like an army. It was like probably two people who are like, all right, now we're going to reset the station and do all this thing and now we're going to put you directly into this mode. And so maybe in the main menu there's some shit I might not have seen.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But it's all like, unless Sakurai is pulling the ultimate heist here. And he's about to announce a new Smash Brothers game in the middle of this direct, which I. I wouldn't put it past him.

[Greg Miller]

I would love. That'd be cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But like, this is. I'm so. I guess I am fascinated. And honestly, I do kind of like the fact that Nintendo looks at Sakurai as somebody who is so important and so like, I guess, beloved by both the company and the audience that they're like, hey, just. Just talk for an hour. Even if it's about Kirby, you've earned this. You've earned talk about your game.

[Greg Miller]

If you want to talk more about the stars and the smashies, go for.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Because Sakurai is a great talker. He is a great. Honestly, he's a great content creator. Like for as much as his video game development is what he's revered for.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

He had that YouTube channel for a while.

[Greg Miller]

For a long time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

He's so educated and he's so cool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And so he's usually got like a laugh track in there. He's having some fun. They'll do some stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. London in chat says Sakurai is the Bob Ross of Nintendo.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I think that's a great way to put it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Again, he's earned it and he can do it. And I'm sure for the audience chat. Are we excited for Kirby Air Riders? Is this. Leave it aside. I saw so many people like, I'm not watching this. I'm going to leave that aside. Are you excited for the game? Like, do you. Are you stoked for the game? YouTube. Alex says yes. Meh. Gimme. No. Nope. No. No.

[Barrett]

Here's the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You're seeing so many no's, but I wonder if you're saying no chat. Is it because of the price? Because I think that's the biggest.

[Greg Miller]

Is this an 80? 70. 80.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I believe it's a 70 game. Which this game should not be a.

[Greg Miller]

70 game from what you've played. If he's about to introduce a brand new mode, you don't even know what you're talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Shoe. It's a whole 3D Kirby platformer that's sitting in this thing.

[Barrett]

That is a $70 game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Okay.

[Barrett]

And we talked about this. I think. What was it yesterday? Yeah, it must have been yesterday of like, why cheaper games are doing so well and they like indie games are doing so well. It's because they're typically hitting that $20 space. So a lot of people are like, would rather spend, you know, $40 on two games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What I Do I want to say.

[Greg Miller]

What if they spend $30 for unlimited games every month?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Well, unlimited making up features now. Unlimited crazy.

[Barrett]

I don't know if people are playing that many games though to make it work.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's the thing is. Yeah, yeah. Video games are so long. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God. You're preaching the choir on that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I guess we kind of have that with Netflix. Either way, do you want to pay $20 for Silksong or $70 for Kirby Air writers? I think that's what we're faced with nowadays.

[Greg Miller]

I would say silksong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I would say Silksong also.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. But again, maybe. I mean it's not like I'm like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Not to discount Kirby fans.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. I'm not saying Kirby sucks or anything like that. Or this game looks terrible. It looks really deep and there's a bunch of stuff going on, but I don't need to watching another hour of it. Yeah. Feel so we'll see what happens.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I feel like there's got to be something in there.

[Greg Miller]

There better. I think this is also the Fallout Day. You know what I mean? That's the Fallout live stream.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There's like a Fallout cross.

[Greg Miller]

No, I just. I'm. I'm more excited for the Fallout Day stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We should just do a live reaction day.

[Greg Miller]

Just watch both those 545.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Never mind. Story number four, the Simpsons is reportedly coming to Fortnite, including an entire Springfield map. This is Chris Golian at Video Games Chronicle. Fortnite is due to get an entire mini season dedicated to the Simpsons, including new skins and a full map. That's according to leaks from numerous Fortnite insiders who have data mined the game's latest update and found more information on the apparent upcoming tie in. Whereas Fortnite has seen countless crossovers over the past few years, most of these are limited to skins or items found in the in game store. On rare occasions, an IP is considered big enough to get a mode dedicated to it, as with the recent K Pop Demon Hunters content which included the return of Horde Rush mode as the newly rebranded Demon Rush. Rarer still, however, are the times when an IP crossover is such a big deal that Fortnite commits an entire season or month long mini season to it, as was the case with the Star wars themed Galactic Battle season which ran earlier this year. This appears to be the treatment being given to the Simpsons with with leakers suggesting that not only will the game be getting Simpsons character skins, it'll also be getting an entire mini map season dedicated to the Simpsons According to Fortnite leaker, not payload, the game will receive an entire Springfield map with separate sections including Springfield nuclear power plant, not Palo. Also revealed that the Springfield map will be cell shaded, keeping in line with the art style of the Simpsons Animated Series. It's also been claimed that the Simpsons skins will have their own Lego versions for use in Fortnite's Lego themed modes. Let's do anything for you, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

I'm currently googling. When does that Xbox game pass Fortnite Battle? Fortnite Crew kick in? What is that? They put on like the 11th one? Does that start?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

November 18th. Yeah, this. This gets to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This is the thing. You know, Fortnite and Fortnight and I are never broken up. We're always on a break. You know what I mean? That we come together for hot, passionate months.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

A month at a time usually. You know what I mean? And this will be. Will I be stick around the entire month? Who knows? Or whatever. But this is a day one. This is live. I gotta jump in. Yeah, like I, you know, the Simpsons, of course. The Simpsons, of course, has gone on my entire life. I remember when it debut. I remember my parents keeping me awake to watch on the Tracey Ullman show when it was just a segment. I'm old, but even that, for the record, as old as that story is, I was way too young. I remember more distinctly being in kindergarten, maybe first grade. And when Fox 32 in Chicago WFLD was running a promotion where like you had to watch the afternoon syndicated stuff to try to jot down on a postcard when you saw Bart to win a T shirt because it was like Simpsons was that new and that big of a deal. It doesn't matter. But I'm saying I was too young to watch on Tracy Oman. And that's a hazy memory versus being there for like the first 11 seasons. Like I was in the same. Do you care about the Simpsons at all?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

A little bit. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like a lot of people, every generation. I shouldn't say every generation. Lots of generations that feel still find out into the Simpsons. But like being there from. For those first 11 seasons or whatever. Like when you'd come home from high school and probably even junior high and it would be. Fox was running it at 5 and 5:30 and then at 10 and 10:30. Like you would what? Me and Poe would watch it all. And then you all use Simpsons Simpson jokes and lines. You know, all these different things. And like now it's hilarious because of course, the Simpsons has gone another 30 years and I haven't watched any of it. And I know nothing, but I still cherish that so much. And Simpsons, I totally understand.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's me with Family Guy is one.

[Greg Miller]

Of those things that made me a PC gamer. Back in the day. Where was. We had a PC tower that I struggled to make work and do all sorts of stuff. And when they launched virtual Springfield, which was a walk around Springfield and open up desks and get cards and like all you lived in, you were walking. It was, I think, a first person. You were walking around Springfield and my computer couldn't run it. That was when I broke down to mom, like, we need a new tower. We need.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh my God.

[Greg Miller]

And it was like our tower was old as shit, so we got a new one and blah, blah. But like, just to have that dose of nostalgia of like walking around a virtual Springfield and seeing what they're doing in a modern setting with all this money and all these things. And again, even though the Simpsons has gone on forever, I still feel like those first 12 years are the one everyone likes. So I'm sure all the references I know will be in there of Blinky, the three eyed fish and yada yada, yada.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's up, Eric?

[Barrett]

Simpsons is great.

[Greg Miller]

Watch it. Does anybody still watch it?

[Barrett]

I've heard from a lot of people that the last couple of seasons have been like, really good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

So I have been tempted to like just kind of dive back in and see what it. What it's like. Because I remember forget. There was like a big article I think last year of like, hey, no one's talking about the Simpsons anymore, But it's actually been kicking ass lately. So.

[Greg Miller]

See, that's the thing is I know people still like it. I know still people fall into it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I see. I view it as one of those ubiquitous things now where I kind of put it in the same campus as Scooby Doo, where even though I didn't. I didn't grow up on watching the Simpsons week to week.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

One, it was always on. And then also so many of like the Simpsons references, the memes, like, all that found its way to me where I remember in class, like in my must have been creative writing class or like some kind of class like that. In high school, they made us watch the Halloween episode with Edgar Allan Poe.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. And so like, teaches about the raven and teaches Poe. Right. Like, I think beyond that, I remember watching the Simpsons beyond the Simpsons movie in theaters playing multiple. I played both Simpsons hit and run and Simpsons Road rage.

[Greg Miller]

Nonstop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You know, I think Simpsons just finds its way to you because it's is so ubiquitous in pop culture. And it'll forever be that in the way that a Scooby Doo where he bugs money or even like I think a Peanuts man. Smart. That's a good callback. But maybe even a Peanuts. Yeah. Like, I think it's become one of those where it's always going to be around.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So anyways, to get back to the story of yeah, they drop a Fortnite season where I'm going to run around Springfield. I'm going to want to be a part of that. At least to jump in and see what's up. And again, having this ex. The Fortnite crew I've been talking about just. I want to store those bucks forever because like, like K Pop Demon hunters turned it on. I was like, I'm not buying Ben $34 worth of K Pop Demons. I'm gone. Goodbye. Fair enough. So I was like, now if I could bank all this stuff and see. I'm excited for this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I'll jump into it. If we do a stream of it, I'll for sure hop on that stream. I think I want to see this at least once because I think for me it is the thing of missing Simpsons hidden run.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Knowing we're getting run John Drake.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But I also.

[Greg Miller]

John Drake. Come on now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Can I give. It's not even a hot take. But it's more. It's because it's not. It's not a fully developed thought. It's more so just an idea of half baked Simpsons hit and run. Was that a fantastic video game or did we just love existing in the Simpsons world? Because I think this Fortnite season might get the job done.

[Greg Miller]

I mean there's gonna be cars like again, if you haven't checked in on Fortnite lately and I'm not a current Fortnite expert, but when I jump into fortnight for this demon, remember all the modes and all the shit and the way they've continued to iterate on the Lego thing and add more stuff like, like Fortnite is building modes and I wouldn't see. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that you're going to jump in and they're going to have some limited time mode throughout this three month campaign or whatever that is. Hey, there is a driving around which hopefully kicks them in the ass. The Disney Fox side to go make this game. Go make it in one of those games. If that's what it is.

[Barrett]

I Played Hidden Run recently, allegedly, on a handheld device a couple of years ago. It's solid. I think the appeal of it is being able to walk around different parts of Springfield in segmented sections. I think some of the quest design is like, fucking bash your head against the wall annoying, but it's like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It's a fun story. Yeah. And I think the reason I ask is I think the. So much of the appeal of Hit and Run is being in a Simpsons theme park. Right. Existing in the world. And that's what this will be doing.

[Barrett]

The thing that Greg was talking about, like, seeing all the Easter eggs, seeing the references to specific episodes and all that stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Run into the power plant, go to Homer's desk, see the, you know, do it for her sign with the Maggie photos. Yeah. Like, that'll be awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Allegedly. I might have checked out Simpsons Road Rage recently.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

On a handheld. And I play that game and, like, it's fine. But also, I enjoyed going back to it because again, just. It's just existing. The Simpsons world. Hearing them do the voice lines, that's what they better have. They better have the voice lines. They better have that.

[Greg Miller]

In Fortnite, though, do you have the NPCs walking around and stuff? Like, your character won't talk, but you'll have NPCs that you can walk up. Lenny and Carl will be there doing something. Monorail, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I need. Yeah. Even if it's just one line from each of the characters, I need something. Right. I need to see these characters. I need Bart Simpson to, like, tell me to eat my shorts.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I don't have a cow, man. Something like that. Yeah. Just before we close this out is we're just sharing Simpson memories that I always find touching and cool. Like I said, you know, Po, my best friend, we grew up together, and Simpsons just became that second language for us of how you communicate. And to this day, it exists. I forget how deep into the relationship with Jen I was, but I want to say she was. We already married. She was already living here. And I made some Simpsons joke, and she laughed, and I was like, wait, how do you know that? Right? And it turns out that Jen knows the exact same seasons of the Simpsons. I know. Except she knows it in Quebecois French.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

So she, like, it's like, we'll sing songs, and then she. I'll say, I'll start doing a ditty from. And then she does the Quebecois version.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's funny is I remember, I do a vivid memory I have from being 12 years old is I. So when I was 12, that's kind of when I was. That's when I was mostly living in Nigeria with my dad.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I remember the. When I got, like, school break for about like a month and a half or whatever, I flew back to the US to like, visit the other side of my family.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And my dad sent. Sent me on the plane. Plane alone. I was an uncompanied. My plane. Right. And I had, like a nine hour layover in.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. In, I believe, Milan.

[Greg Miller]

I want to say, did an airport person sit with you or do you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Have to be alone during the layover? So they had a room where they put all the kids.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

They had, like, kind of. Yeah, like kind of a. I want to say a playroom. I think they had toys in there, but I just remember it being like, there's a big couch, there's some toys, and then there's a tv. And for nine hours straight on the TV was Spanish Simpsons non stop. And so I'll just watch the Simpsons in Spanish. And that was like my entire nine hours, Eliot. Just such a vivid memory for.

[Greg Miller]

Vivid memory for me. Simpsons, you know, starts coming to dvd, this is a big deal again. Even though you could watch them a million times, I needed to own them all. We needed DVD collections. And so I forget which volume it would have been, but one of the volumes early on timed out with me going to Mizzou for freshman year or whatever. And I remember, like, I was gonna go to Slackers, the video game DVD store in downtown Columbia, and get it from my dorm. And it was like my first time making this trek. And I remember I had to, like, MapQuest where I was going. And then I was like. And it was gonna be like a 20 minute walk. And it was. It sounded like the most ridiculously long thing I remember, like, preparing for it. Like I was going on a hike into the fucking mountains when Columbia is so goddamn small. But I remember being so. And then I got it and it came back. I watched, like, the Simpsons on DVD in your dorm room.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let's close out the report. Story number five. Pokemon is being weird again. This comes from a tweet from Pokemon where this tweet comes with no text, just an image. And it's an image of what looks like a hallway from Outlast. You're looking into a doorway. Everything looks dirty and abandoned. It looks like you have a flashlight out.

[Greg Miller]

Honestly, there is Pokemon in the back there. No, that looks like a person.

[Barrett]

It looks like a person looking through a window. And like, the window pane is like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Kind of pokeball shaped. It looks like a person I was seeing like medical equipment or something. I need to zoom in. No, no, no, no. I need. I need to zoom in. I need a Baird enhance, open image.

[Barrett]

And new tab, because I can't enhance directly.

[Greg Miller]

Well, again, remember they. Oh, you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That is a person.

[Greg Miller]

They had such a great campaign in the lead up to the game of. Here are the different Pokemon and their mega Evolutions and what they can do. You look at this. And my assumption would be. Well, first off, I mean, it kind of looks like a character in the game already.

[Barrett]

Yeah. People are saying that's a Zod character.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, cool. I didn't want. I don't know, I didn't want to spoil things for other people. I forget that it's kind of out now. People are playing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It is a weirdo.

[Greg Miller]

Freaky.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But my wonder here is of course, like, is this a lead up to the DLC announcement? Like we already know, obviously. The dlc. I forget the name of it, but it's got Raichu on it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not right.

[Barrett]

It's like a. It's Raichu and Pikachu. I thought.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, it's talking about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, I thought it was like, don't they have the X and Y versions? There's like a Pikachu evolution thing is. Maybe it's mecha. I don't know. But like, because one of them has like a Y tail and the other has an X tail. Is it those two guys?

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Mega Dimension DLC 2.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Right, right. Shoes.

[Greg Miller]

That's what you're talking about?

[Barrett]

People are saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That is what I'm talking about.

[Barrett]

February, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, they're just right shoes, but they have different tails. Are they mega evil? Mega evolved?

[Greg Miller]

Well, of course. Don't forget that. Like, you know, the tail signifies if male or female. Lightning bolt is a male. Heart shaped at the end is a female. Wait, you. Greg Miller's number one Pokemon expert.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's from the anime, isn't it? Or it's from where did you.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I read it in my Pokemon literature because I have to. I read many Pokemon books at night.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That's really impressive.

[Greg Miller]

It's in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Wow, that's huge.

[Greg Miller]

Anyways, I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. Maybe it's somehow tied to. I'm not saying it's coming out soon. People say, oh, February. I'm like, I'm. No, no, I'm not coming out, but maybe they're talking about, hey, we're gonna show you some stuff here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

They also might. I didn't realize because I didn't see the character. So this legitimately might just be them memeing. This might just be them being like, all right, Pokemon's Oz out. Here's this character that we think is goofy.

[Barrett]

And it's also like Halloween.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Also Halloween.

[Barrett]

Creepy vibes. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Weird. Be weird Pokemon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

This could be something small. This could be something big. Greg, if I wanted something tiny, the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Greg Miller]

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

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Story number six is WE News, starting with one from Rock Paper Shotgun. Speaking of the Simpsons, the Simpsons Hit and Run modders have made their own Futurama total conversion. It's predictably called Futurama Hit and Run.

[Greg Miller]

That's fucking cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And has a demo out now. If you're watching on video, Barrett has a video pulled up of the trailer.

[Barrett]

Sick as hell.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Shout out to the modding community because this is cool.

[Barrett]

Is a demo out on Steam or.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I would say I would go just Google Futurama Hit and Run.

[Barrett]

Oh my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Because I don't know if I don't know about the legalities of how modding works anymore. So just go.

[Greg Miller]

I think he's not charging for it, right? You can probably get away with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And it's like a 20 year old game. But Google it, you'll find it looks really cool. From VGC. This is a sad one. Rovio is laying off 36 staff says angry Bird Dream Blast has not been performing as expected.

[Greg Miller]

Thrasher, real quick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's that?

[Greg Miller]

Sorry to talk about. I don't want to just let that go. So yeah, the Rock Paper Shotgun, you can get the thing on Mod Baker, Mod Bakery, Donut Team, whatever. Rovio. I know I'm old and worked at IGN a long, long, long time ago, but the fucking chokehold hold Rovio and Angry Birds had in like what would have been 2008, 9, 10, right in there or whatever where it was. And I mean that thing was printing money. You know what you want to talk about like the way we talk about juggernauts today of like, well, this Angry Birds, no one's ever going to be able to, you know, I mean, it's crazy. Now here we are, it's like this game you've never heard of. Just didn't do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, Angry Bird. I didn't want to say it in the thing, but like, yeah, Angry Birds Dream Blast. I just never. I'm not even heard of. Also, when you said you're old, I thought you're gonna tell me about like the original game Rovio made or something. I thought you're gonna go back in time, but yeah, no Rovio. I feel like.

[Greg Miller]

But I mean, it was like we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, I live not even that. That doesn't feel that long ago.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's just universe Domino. You talk about this and it's like I started at IGN right before the iPhone was out. Yeah, I started IGN before the iPhone came out.

[Barrett]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So I got to live that app store. Levi Buchanan from IGN Mobile had been saying for years, like, you guys are idiots. Like, don't ignore mobile gaming. It kills in Japan. It'll kill here eventually, somehow. And then it came and then, yeah, Rovio's runaway success, it coming to PlayStation and Xbox and all. It's just like outrageous in the movies and this and that and like the licensing and they were doing Star wars collabs. Like, what the hell?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, Rovio. Were they acquired by Sega? I remember talking about this of like Sonic and Angry Bird being friends now. Such a weird.

[Greg Miller]

I like that sentence. I don't know if that's what that means, but I like that sentence that they're friends now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I think we had a conversation about this like a year ago. Thrasher launches on Steam on November 7th. I want to come back to that in a second. And then lastly, Melissa with a Y is probably going to buy yote soon. Heard is pretty good. That's the final we news for you there.

[Greg Miller]

We know Melissa with a Y. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

It'S cuz on Blue Sky I tweet, oh, Greg's running away on Blue Sky. Tweeted out what's the biggest video game news story today? And she responded with that, which is a. How to make sure to get that in there because the world should know that Melissa with the Y is probably gonna buy Go Sayote because she heard it's pretty good. I don't know where Greg went. Anyway, I'm gonna come back to Thrasher. Oh, Greg has a box. Oh, wait, is that what I think it is?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it is Melissa with a Y. A long time ago we tried to do a Ghost of Yote stream where we played the coin game that I can. I can remember the name off top. Don't worry about it. And PlayStation was like, we will send you the collector's edition so you can Play this game on stream. I said, thank you so much. And then, like, the day of, I was like, where is this thing? Like, oh, we haven't even shipped it yet. I was like, you motherfuckers. Thank you. PlayStation hashtag provided by PlayStation. So we finally got it. And so I have the coins to play with, but I also have a digital code, so Melissa with a Y will just send you the code for the game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, Melissa, if you're pressing. If you're about to press buy. Hold on. Don't buy it. Zenny Hajiki is the name of the game, by the way.

[Greg Miller]

There it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

While you're opening it, I want to come back to Thrasher because I was talking to Andy yesterday about how Whatchamacallit. Luminous. Luminous Arise is now one of my most. It's probably my most anticipated game for the rest of the year.

[Greg Miller]

My man. My man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Thrasher. I didn't get to play Thrasher, but I loved Thumper. And I think I'm just in the. I'm just in the mood for, like, a rhythm. Like, high intense, colorful. Like, I want to play this type of game right now. So, like, Thrasher might also be on the list while I'm here shouting out upcoming games. Last night I played even more Steam Next Fest demos, and I gotta shout out this game, Reluded, which I know I talked to you about recently. Reluded is the 2D, like, runner platformer, where you're stealing back African artifacts from museums.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I. We talked about it on, like, a Wish List episode. And I so loved the concept and the premise of it. Again, it's called Reluded for those listening. I love the concept so much. I played the demo last night, and what I wasn't expecting was that I. I adore the gameplay of this game. It is such a fun game. One gotta shout out the cutscenes and like, the art style of it. It almost gives claymation. Claymation, Slash, like dreams. Art style.

[Greg Miller]

A little. You're right. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

In the cutscenes, but they look great. Like, I don't know how. How they manage it, but it looks cool. And then you get into these levels.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Does anyone.

[Greg Miller]

As the tabletop master. You gotta play.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Oh, I'm. We're for sure gonna play this. But instructions too. The. The actual gameplay of it is you start up a level before you actually get into the level. You can kind of plan around. All right. I got my buddies that have special abilities and things that they can do around the level. So I'm gonna place this guy here because he has a grappling hook. I'm gonna place this guy here because he can, like, break through things or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And you are trying to get the artifacts and then escape before the time runs out. As soon as you grab an artifact, your timer goes down, and it's like this place is going on lockdown, and you got to get to the end of it. The platforming feels great. It's really fun. It's not. It's not a runner. I don't know why I thought it was a runner.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it looks like. I mean, from looking at it, it looks like aerial night.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Right when I'm looking, I'm like, oh, okay. It's a game like that, but for you to talk about, like, you're placing people.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You're placing people. You're. It's basically a 2D puzzle platformer. Huh. With, like, heist elements. It's cool. It's great. And so this shot up. As far as my anticipation list, I. I didn't see a release date for it or, like, a release timing for it, but if you're interested in checking the game out, I don't know if the demo's still available because Steam Next Fest just ended, but reluded is the name of the game. You got to put it on your radar.

[Greg Miller]

I want to tell you how much I was with you when you were, like, the 19th Steam Deck Fest and 80s. Like, nope, nope. Second, you're like, no way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No, we playing this right now. What's the deal? Oh, we got.

[Greg Miller]

Why I was. You know, they sent a box to unbox. I thought I'd unbox it and then get the code for Melissa Halloween said, hey, does anybody have in the San Francisco Bay area a good Darth Vader mask? Let me know. I gotta be Darth Vader for my son. Melissa, I'm gonna start reading the code to you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

X is now. Is that is Darth Vader Halloween costume?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. Ben's gonna be a Jedi. He. This is built by him. Ben is the Jedi. I'm Darth Vader. Mom is Princess Leia, and Lucy's gonna be a stormtrooper.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

This coin game might be more difficult than I in the game.

[Greg Miller]

Real easy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I was really like, all right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But, like, you know, I don't know. The. It's hard to manage here. Oh, my God. I'm so strong with that.

[Greg Miller]

You know, that with the dual sense, it's so easy to get out there and nail it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And that is it for we news. Let me take one more look at Super Chats before we get out of here. Let's see, let's see, let's see. EJRPG says Pokemon image is most likely related to the Ghost Girl Easter egg from the original X and Y. Oh, good.

[Greg Miller]

Forget Ghost girl.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

My homie AK98 says late, but I'm stoked for Air Riders too pricey, though. Okay, Nolan Weathers says behind on the episode, but how about A Digimon Stranger vs Pokemon ZA Gamescast Mon vs Mon.

[Greg Miller]

This is what I'll say, everybody, with this stranger thing. Everybody, I'm letting you off the leash. Take him to town. Take him to church.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah, Bear, tell them how you really feel.

[Barrett]

First two hours of that game were very sauceless. And like, I know there's something cool in that game because when I see a trailer, I'm like, ah, that game looks cool. But, you know, my first impressions of it weren't. Weren't great people. RPG mechanics seem cool, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

A lot of people are. Yeah. Bringing up Digimon Time Story Stranger, whatever it's called. In opposition. In opposition to Pokemon Za. And this is what I'll say because, like, even earlier, right, we were talking about Pokemon Za, and so I saw somebody in chat and this is not what they said, but this is how I read it is like, they wrote and they're like, you know, why don't you. Why don't you leave this Pokemon Z behind and step up to a real man? You know? Digimon Time Stories famous.

[Greg Miller]

This is a good impression of an.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You know, like, come on. It's like, here's the thing. I respect it. I love that y' all are passionate about Digimon because Digimon, I think, has a lot going for it. I played the preview. I played three hours of Pokemon Sorry. Of Digimon Story Time Stranger. And I really had a good time during that preview. I'm not playing the full game, guys. I'm not playing the full game. I'm sorry.

[Greg Miller]

I just don't have it in me, you know? I believe it was Ignacio Rojas on Kinda Funny's Happy Hour last month. Month was like, before none of this critics. Oh, no. He's like, greg, you should pay attention to this game. I have downloaded it. I am just in review season and I will eventually boot it up. Yeah.

[Barrett]

I had to bite my tongue during that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we had the game and I.

[Barrett]

Played it and I was like, oh, man, I don't feel the same way. And I'm also similar to Tim, where it's like, I love Digimon because of like the, the, the show. And you know, this world that's presented in this game is not the same world. So it's just like, of like, yeah, where's Ty? Where's where, where's the crew?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

You know, Errol M in chat says that's really unfortunate since it's very good. Guys. I've not even played Hollow Knight Silk song.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? Like we played even beaten.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I have. Yeah, you're right. I haven't beaten Hollow Knight Silk Song. There's just too many video games.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

And I, I, I gotta pick and choose. One of the reasons I'm not playing. I have. Well, I started Pokemon Za. I didn't really like the first hour of it. I might return to it. But that's also because I just have the inherent Pokemon gene in me. I just like Pokemon. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

But like I'm really picking and choose my battles right now when it comes to video games because that's what we all have to do. And so Digimon Time story, I got respect for it. I think it's cool. I like the three hours that I played. I can kind of see where that evolves into pun intended. But yeah, no, I don't, I just don't have the time.

[Greg Miller]

Melissa with a Y in the chat. Tell me the best. I'm not going to fucking twitch whisper. I'm not going to bother trying to figure that. Let me, let me know where BS me, but tell me your name. So not just a million people are BSing me. That's a blue sky thing. Or, you know, have we talked? We've talked somewhere, Right? I don't see you in my email, but I know I've talked to you somewhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There it is.

[Barrett]

This Melissa with a Y who's followed by Snowbike Mike, Joey Noel and a bunch of other people we know.

[Greg Miller]

Got it. Got it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I'm on you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

That mobile Mike in chat says bless 2xko. And to that I'd say I want to. That's like, that's really honestly the tragedy of review season is that I look at 2xko. I've been so excited for so long for this game and it's just getting lost in the shuffle for me. Once I, once I beat the game. I'm reviewing this week and Hades, do I have so much time?

[Greg Miller]

You ain't beating the game. You're reviewing this week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I'm beat. I'm beat the game.

[Barrett]

Chat asked, did you ever beat Persona 3 reload. You beat Persona 3.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

More super chats for you, Adam Cohen. At the beginning of the show they said they're just popping in to say that after just 90 hours I finally beaten Hollow Knight Silksong hack 3. I can finally start Hades 2. Congratulations Adam Cohen.

[Greg Miller]

Melissa with a Y. It's in your your DMs now. Congratulations to you for being a dedicated kind of funny best friend and being around all the time also too while we're here. You didn't talk about Prototype one yesterday, did you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

No, no, no we didn't update on it? No.

[Greg Miller]

There is if you all have been following. Marty made a video game called Prototype one. He's a kind of funny best friend. He's been around a long time. We were talking about it before we went into it of like the weekend weekend. Whereas like we talked about on the show when he super chatted and then we were like oh 56 people have wish listed it and we or bought it and we were all like we can get those numbers up. We can get those numbers up. He put up a lovely video over on the Kind of Funny subreddit thanking everybody for their support and he's followed up they've he basically here's a from the DM he sent me. You should go watch over on the subreddit the video he put up. I was never expecting this project to sell more than 20 copies, let alone 200 plus. So yeah, 206 copies have been sold. This is as of yesterday with 445 wishes lists. Great job supporting a Kind of funny best friend with their small indie game. But his video is actually amazing and it made me cry yesterday because it is chronicling him finding Greg Miller then finding Kind of Funny coming to Kind of Funny Live doing all these different things. Like yeah he's it turns out this Marty guy, dedicated kind of funny best friend. So ready to pick up Prototype one or go watch the video? Oh yeah, you can go watch the video.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

A lot of cool things happening in indie games recently. Jumps004 writes in with the Super Chat and says shout out to three next fest indies coming next month month Rue Valley. It says Dash like rpg. D E like D E. What's de.

[Greg Miller]

De like D E like I'm so hungry I'm starting to put Dragon Dead, Dragon Quest, Eric Disco Elysium.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There you go. Disco Elysium. Like you can't just put D. I understand that y' all abbreviate things because the Super Chats only have a certain amount of character, certain that you can type. You got to go further than de life. Like Constance. It's a cute Metroidvania. And then seance of Blake Manor. Detective puzzler. I saw that. I didn't get around to playing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I haven't played either, but I've seen things about that happen over there like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Pages Inc. Says birthday tax. Hope everyone has a good Tuesday. Happy birthday. Pages inked.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, one other fun one here from this Marty message I was reading on DM, right? The update was we're up to 213 sales and here's an interesting stat that only 52 of those people have actually launched and played the game. Oh, man, that's kind of funny. Best friend showed up because of what it's a. It's a499.399. I forget what it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you for taking instead of getting that cup of coffee, going over and supporting someone making an awesome game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let's see. William Chapman writes in with the late birthday tax and says, oh, no, I already read this one. I already read this one. Actually. Did I read this one? They said mine was over the weekend. Got Ghost of Yote in Pokemon Legends Za as gifts. Excited to jump in. I didn't read this one. Love all that you guys do. Happy birthday, William Chapman. I'm going to give one more.

[Greg Miller]

We got to review dispatch. Come on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

We got to review dispatch. So I'm going to do one more super chat and it's going to Dose of nostalgia. Who says wanted to chat in to say thank you, KF as a whole. Watching you guys made me take an interest in broadcasting streaming as a whole and start my first job in the field on November 1st. Thank you. Enough. Congratulations. Dose of nostalgia. That's really cool.

[Greg Miller]

That's really cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Now it's time for Kind of funny dot com. You're wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong.

[Greg Miller]

Unless he said Digimon isn't a good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Game, but it actually is a good game. Digimon writes in and says it's Digimon story time. Stranger plus disrespect.

[Barrett]

Time yourself out, you nerd dork.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Let's see.

[Greg Miller]

And I off some steam looking at some anime girl statues on Amazon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

All right, calm down, Eric Allen K says for developers using an established engine such as Unity or Unreal, development doesn't require a dev kit because those engines can natively build to many platforms. However, testing does, which is required in the approval process of publication on a console storefront.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

I feel like we got to do something about it.

[Greg Miller]

So here's what we do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

What's up?

[Greg Miller]

Well, this is a dead market, but you want a free. Hey everybody. You want a free business idea? Do you hate your job staring at the fucking spreadsheets all day? Buy one of these Xbox units for 1500. Or is it 2000?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

2000 now?

[Greg Miller]

2000 now buy that and then get an LLC and then you test games for people. Wow, there it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

There it is. Oh, can you do that? Yeah, that sounds. That sounds like a loophole, but that sounds smart.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, there's plenty of third party businesses who'll do stuff like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

Interesting. Interesting. I might just found a new side hustle, guys. Of course.

[Greg Miller]

This come in these bags under your eyes and play this broken ass Xbox game all night long.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr]

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