2026 Video Game Predictions: Month By Month - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: 2026 Video Game Predictions Month by Month

Date: January 19, 2026
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., SnowBikeMike, Roger McCorney ("Rod Stradamus")
Key Theme:
A month-by-month breakdown of video game industry predictions for 2026, with Roger (“Rod Stradamus”) as the main oracle, joined by the hosts also tossing in select predictions. The group recaps past predictions and gamely pushes forward into an unpredictable industry year, touching on Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and more.

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Episode Structure

• 00:00–01:30: Ads, sponsorships, introductions—Skip
• 01:31–02:30: Banter and intros, Fantasy Critic League jokes
• 02:31–06:32: Recap of Roger’s 2025 predictions—What did he get right and wrong?
• 06:33–12:32: More 2025 review: Correct calls, missed big swings, blending hilarious humility and confident clairvoyance
• 12:33–13:27: Setting up the 2026 guidelines: This year, panelists must each predict for one month
• 13:28–78:08: Month-by-month predictions for 2026 (main content, detailed below)

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Recapping Roger's 2025 Predictions (02:30–13:00)

• Accuracies:
  • Switch 2 announced in January ("That was kind of a given at that point..." – Roger, 06:38)
  • GTAV 6 trailer and delay to 2026 (right about the delay, wrong about timing)
  • Underperformance of some games, success of Wilds
  • Partial call on Donkey Kong "Odyssey"-style game for Switch; near miss with Mario/Donkey Kong (08:53)
  • Black Ops 7 prediction: "It's rushed like Modern Warfare 3 and it sucks." – Roger, 11:31
  • Ubisoft subsidiary/Tencent deal partially correct
• Mistakes:
  • Switch 2 wireless dock didn’t happen ("Still wish that happened." – Roger, 06:51)
  • Several release windows and titles totally off, e.g., Half Life 3 at TGA
  • Laughed at in chat: "4 for 25" (12:52)
• Atmosphere: Good-humored self-deprecation, quick banter.
• Quote:
  • "Before I started taking the pills, I see the future now." – Roger, 09:23
  • "That first year was a building year... spending that 2025 Roger Stradamus segment honing that craft." – Blessing, 12:37

2. 2026 Ground Rules (13:13–13:27)

• Hosts asked to bring one prediction for one month each.
• Live chat encouraged to superchat their monthly predictions.
• Atmosphere: Encouraging, playful; sets up a collaborative, open-forum feel.

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Month-by-Month 2026 Predictions

January

• Main Topic: High Guard Multiplayer Launch

  • Roger predicts High Guard will succeed at launch (approx 150,000 concurrent Steam players):
    • Internet’s harsh reaction is overblown – "I don't think it's going to be a disaster." (14:47)
  • Free to play model gives it legs, but unclear long-term prospects.
  • Discussion of comparisons to Apex shadow drop at the Super Bowl (16:00).
  • Blessing and Mike supportive but wary:
    • "I want to see it...hoping High Guard delivers for two weeks to four weeks..." – Mike, 14:46
    • "I also think the Internet's been very mean to High Guard..." – Blessing, 15:10

• Mike's January prediction:

  • Xbox Dev Direct reveals Fallout 3 Remastered for Spring launch, possibly March 1st week. (17:13)

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February

• Valve's Big February
  • Steam Machine announced: $750 with controller, targeting affordable niche for PC console-box with VR ambitions.
  • Steam Frame (VR device): $1,000, controller sold separately ($90).
  • Bomb prediction:
    • Half Life 3 is announced, rumored for release March 23 (the sixth anniversary of Half Life Alyx).
      • "Second week of February. Stay with me everybody. Half Life 3 is announced." – Roger, 18:09
    • OpenCritic prediction: 94 ("My pills are saying...open Critic score of 94" – Roger, 19:52)
  • General excitement about hardware price points, mixture of skepticism and hope regarding Half Life 3 innovations ("what's the next gravity gun?" – 20:30)

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March

• Nintendo Direct Blowout
  • Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave (July)
  • Tomodachi Life (June)
  • Yoshi (June) – perfect summer title
  • Rhythm Heaven (December)
  • Splatoon Raiders (September, in classic Splatoon slot)
  • Dust Bloods (August; direct in April)
  • Ocarina of Time Remake (November): "They want to have some type of Zelda thing that's like, here's the one that you can play right now." – Roger, 25:49
  • New Pokémon generation still likely for November, but Zelda could move to October.
  • Wildcard Roger prediction:
    • A Super Rosalina game: "She's gonna be in space...an actual video game, not for little children. It's going to be like a Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom type deal..." (27:45)
    • Hosts raise skepticism about timing and sales prospects, especially with Yoshi also in same year.
    • "I love Rosalina as a character, but I don't think they would look at that as like, we put the name Rosalina on the box of the game and it's going to sell..." – Blessing, 30:16

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April

• Fallout 3 Remake releases
  • "No mention of New Vegas; Internet will demand it immediately." – Roger, 33:00
• Marathon (Bungie) launches on Steam:
  • 150,000 concurrent players; successful start, but peters out
• Group agrees that April is now a good time for Xbox to shadow drop Bethesda remakes yearly.

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May

• Blessing's prediction:
  • Team Cherry shadow drops Hollow Knight Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, Sea of Sorrow DLC drops in July (39:06).
• PlayStation Showcase finally returns (after 3 years)
  • Fair Games shown with trailer, set for next year (Roger's take: "disgusting...looks like a video game. All right." – 39:57)
  • Blessing counters: "I think by May we know that Fair Games has been canceled." (40:05)
  • God of War unannounced project: 2.5D rumored drops in August.
  • Wolverine: October.
  • Horizon Co-Op ready for early next year (not Gulf/NCSoft).
  • Witcher 3 DLC Shadow dropped.
  • Sony Pictures/TV cross-promotion (Gravity Rush anime, more game-to-screen synergy).
  • No Bloodborne news.
  • Showcase closes on Cory Barlog's new project: Not sci-fi; "not a new IP but it might feel like one."
    • "We finally see Corey Barlog's project to close out the show." – Roger, 42:23

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June

• Summer Game Fest announcements
  • Assassin's Creed "Resynced" (Black Flag remake) releases in Aug
  • Sands of Time Remake (Sept)
  • Judas is a no-show.
  • New Mainline Sonic game unveiled, features a Chao, maybe not as "good" as hoped ("I think it'll be Sonic Frontiers 2" – Blessing, 46:15).
  • Running Sonic feet joke.

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July

• EA Goes Mask-Off with Generative AI in a Flagship Game
  • Sims predicted to be the first with heavy generative AI, reflecting EA’s “we don’t care, casuals will deal” attitude.
  • Reason: Enzo experiment as the precedent.
  • "They will put AI in one of their big franchises...it's gonna be the Sims." – Roger, 47:45
  • Group generally predicts generative AI "bubble" doesn't pop yet.
  • Embark Studios (Finals/Arc Raiders) tipped as even further "AI mask-off" studio soon.
  • Observation: The monetization/automation will worsen, not improve, industrywide.

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August

• Phil Spencer Resignation
  • "I don't see Phil Spencer being here for the next four years...eventually he has to go..." – Roger, 51:06
  • Mike: 25th anniversary is the perfect, celebratory exit opportunity.
  • General consensus: Tired of the cycle, time for Sarah Bond to lead.

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September

• Halo Campaign Evolved & Halo Multiplayer Evolved – Both $40
  • Xbox splits the two; total $80 purchase if you want both.
  • "That's why they're doing it. That's why they're doing it." – Roger, 53:54
  • Strong back-and-forth: Bless & Mike believe splitting the product is wild, think a bundle is more likely or at least a free-to-play component.
  • Extended debate on the feasibility and consequences of monetization, and the possible precedent for other franchises.

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October

• Modern Warfare 4 Launch
  • "Will be really good...find out there's more Gen AI in it...but numbers will be the same or worse than Black Ops 7." – Roger, 64:12
  • GTA 6 looms; Call of Duty franchise still in gradual decline.

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November

• GTA 6 launches as planned
  • Despite boiler room leaks/explosions, prediction is that Rockstar pushes for November release:
    • “I think it’s a flip of the coin...I’m leaning toward the idea it comes out this year.” – Blessing, 65:58
    • Terminally ill child granted early GTA 6 access cited as proof it’s on track.

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December

• Game Awards: Early Access Game Controversy
  • Blessing: Either an Early Access game (unknown title) is nominated for GotY and the community is pissed, or it’s left off but there’s major discourse around it. (67:10)
    • "There will be an early Access game that's in the Game of the Year discussion, and it's going to cause everybody to go crazy." – Blessing, 67:38
  • Roger’s “pill predictions” (multiple)
    • Witcher 4 gameplay for 2028
    • Devil May Cry 6 revealed; "It's the one more thing."
    • Splinter Cell finally shown, window 2027

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "The future works because I was seeing the multiple...branches of the timeline, and now I see the one timeline, the sacred timeline." – Roger, 12:14
• "If you take away the Mario part...Donkey Kong Odyssey. That's kind of fire." – Roger, 08:53
• About Rosalina: "I think that she's the main star and they were going to try to push her as a secondary thing." – Roger, 28:03
• "Phil Spencer...I just don't see a world where he is going to be able to look around and be like, okay, well I'm going to continue to...lay off studios, close shit down..." – Roger, 51:06
• "They will put AI in one of their big franchises...it's gonna be the Sims." – Roger, 47:45
• "Some have theorized that is a new ip, but Shrier said that's not true. It's not a new ip, but it might feel like one." – Blessing, 44:21

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 2025 Recap: 02:30–12:32
• 2026 Ground Rules & Setup: 12:33–13:27
• January/High Guard: 13:28–15:44
• Valve/Steam/HL3/Hardware: 17:58–22:08
• Nintendo Direct, Rosalina, Mario theories: 22:53–32:05
• Fallout/Marathon in April: 33:00–34:16
• PlayStation Showcase & Barlog Project: 39:28–44:48
• Summer Game Fest/June (Sonic AC): 45:01–46:47
• EA, AI, and the Sims / AI industry discussion: 47:27–50:59
• Phil Spencer resignation (August): 51:06–53:32
• Halo Evolved Split Pricing: 53:44–59:51
• Modern Warfare 4 launch: 64:12
• GTA 6 November: 64:59–66:02
• Early Access/December Game Awards debate: 67:10–68:54
• Game Awards 2026 final “pill predictions”: 69:02–70:52

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Tone and Style

• Laid back, irreverent, and rapid-fire, often self-effacing and satirical.
• Heavy on inside jokes, references to prior years, and chat/audience participation.
• Playful derision of the more “out there” predictions, but ready to give credit when due.

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Useful for Listeners Who Haven't Tuned In

• Every major month is mapped to a wild (but not always outlandish) prediction, grounded in recent trends, industry gossip, or calculated guesses.
• Skepticism is the norm—Roger is not afraid to roast his own failures (or “pill visions”).
• Periodic reality checks: Panelists often pause to debate whether a prediction makes sense, reflecting broader industry skepticism.
• Recurring segments on Nintendo’s “summer energy,” PlayStation’s languishing showcase plans, Xbox business woes, and the looming impact of “mask-off” generative AI strategies.

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Memorable Closing Moments

• Recap of overall hit rate last year: "4 for 25...I would say 6 to 25 this year" – Roger, 71:18
• “Somebody hold on. Let me see if I can find this… Rosalina’s big time, big time in space.” – Blessing/Roger, 71:29
• “Generative AI will be used in a game and it will blatantly use slurs but still not be canceled.” – 74:19
• Bruno Mars is an AI? "I think Bruno Mars is an AI...his music is too perfect." – Blessing, 77:10

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Takeaways

• 2026 is apparently the year of ambitious experimentation (and potential disaster) for the games industry.
• Nostalgia monetization, IP cross-pollination, and AI acceleration will dominate headlines and business strategies.
• The community (and the cast) have their doubts about publishers’ bold plans—but that’s what makes the predictions fun.
• “The pills are speaking”—and so is the wild, unpredictable, sometimes disturbing logic of the modern games business.

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Final thought: "Everybody. Rosalina game. Everybody, look out." – Roger, 71:29

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Big bless. Great to see you. You know, just came to my mind since Roger Damas is here predicting I should check out my fantasy critics, see how it's doing right now. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean, Because I already drafted all 10 games.

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Yeah, there's no maneuverability there.

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Nothing's happened yet.

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Yeah, you know what you drafted. Why are you checking every day?

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He's gonna check, though, just in case anything changes.

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Oh, my God.

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You're like somebody who's checking their, like, savings account or, like, their retirement account.

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How much money do I have at checking?

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And of course, that is the Tastemaker, the Rochester Domus, Roger McCorney.

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Good day, Kim.

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I Like that. That's a throwback.

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That's a throwback. Come on.

[C]

Come on. Roger. How are you doing?

[A]

I'm doing great. I feel a little nauseous, you know? I mean, so if I throw up all over Mike, that's good. Definitely. Don't. That doesn't look good. Doesn't look good.

[C]

But you're nervous, or is it because you're feeling kind of sick?

[A]

No, I'm. New pills, you know, I mean, like, my new medication. So it's just, like, doing all crazy. I'm getting, like, dry throat. I'm going crazy mode right now.

[C]

I feel you.

[A]

My brain's all mushy, but you know what I'm saying? I see the future, and I think these pills are helping me see the future. Oh. I mean, like, I see it on. Last night, I just kind of sat down in front of the TV and I just went. I was closing my eyes and I just wrote down all these things. So I don't even know what I wrote down, but I know it's the future and it's all going to happen.

[C]

I can't wait to talk to you about your predictions month by month. 2026, what's going to happen, and also what happened in 2025. But before we get there, Mike, I'm playing Final Fantasy 10.

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Oh, wow.

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We don't got to talk about this too much because I talked about it on thc.

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I listened.

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Okay, so you already know I've been listening. I. I'm enjoying this game a lot.

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I'm glad that you experienced blitzball. No matter what you think about it, I'm just glad that you experienced it. No matter your wrong opinions, what happens is, at the end of that blitzball tournament, shit pops off. And when I heard you say that, I knew exactly where you were going.

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Let me tell you, Ricky, let me tell you about one character. His name, Oren Barrett. Can you look up a U, R O, n? They call him Orin because he has or ora. Oh, this man. This.

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I'll be calling him Aaron, but I, like. I don't know.

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Aaron, Oren, Aren. Let me tell you. Let me tell you, I love this character. This guy's cool, this dude. He, like, walks around. He, like, has his arm in a strapper. Oh, yeah. But, like, I don't know what he does because that arm definitely works.

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Well, he's nursing it. He's nursing. You got to keep it.

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Yeah. It's like, you know, I thought that

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was Vincent from Final Fantasy 7.

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No, Vincent thought wishes. He was yeah, Vincent wishes he was all right.

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Vince was pretty cool. He had that PS2 game where it was a shooter. That was pretty sick.

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No, when you enter the game, we're going to talk about this guy.

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This guy is.

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Oh, I love. This guy's cool.

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I've been working on a list. My top, top baddies of Final Fantasy 10 ranked.

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Yeah.

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Orange.

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I mean, there's number one.

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Orin might be number one. No, Lulu. Right. I mean, Lulu's in the. Lulu's in the running.

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Lulu's three baddies.

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But also, I just met this guy, Seymour. You know about Seymour?

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Seymour. Dv.

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Seymour's a real deep V. Seymour, you'll

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be rocking that deep of a V.

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I mean, I hope so. I'm trying. Listen, I'm trying to get there. I'm trying to rock it. I'm trying to rock a V so deep you're all going to kick me on. Be like, you got to.

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Yeah.

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Put on some clothes.

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You got to put on the clothes.

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And then shout out, Lulu. And then there's one more baddie. What's her name? Donna. You know about Donna?

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Hot Donna. That's what I'd be calling her. Hot Donna.

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Come on, come on. Shout out to final.

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I get right to that point, Donna.

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Enough about that. Of course, if you're watching this show live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in or over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames I want you guys to super chat in with what your predictions are month by month for what's happening this year. Of course, shout out to our Patreon producers, Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The song twining for now, let's begin with topic of the show. Our 2026 video game predictions, month by month, brought to you by the one and only Rod Stradamus. Roger, around this time last year. Yes, you came on this very show. I did. You gave us your predictions month by month. Kind of like against your will, Tim. Kind of just.

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Yeah, Yeah. I thought it was going to be like a group activity. And it's like, roger, we're going to make fun of you. And it's like, awesome.

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You pitched it as a group activity.

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I was like, let's hang out together.

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Like, Roger, that's such a good idea. We're just going to have you do it.

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You play, you play. And I did it. And you came here, put this podcast in my back, and we did it.

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Well, do you want to go through how you did in 2025?

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Oh, my gosh, it was amazing. I have a lot of predictions here, so we're going to run through them. I'm going to let you know if I did good or if I did not so good.

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Matt Carnage in Chat says he was wrong a lot.

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Well, you know what? I have the document in front of me and there's. There's some agreeing. There's a lot of read.

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Ask a question.

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Yes.

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Were you at least right at least one time?

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Yeah. Multiple times.

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Oh, hell yeah. Okay.

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Okay. January Switch 2 is announced. I think that was kind of a given at that point. We all knew that was coming out.

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But it's in January.

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Yeah.

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Like you thought that was gonna happen.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Did that happen?

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It did happen. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sabrina Carpenter's in the trailer and I said the big feature is that the switch can send a switch signal to the dock wirelessly. I still wish that that happened, you know? I mean, that would have been sick.

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That would have been sick.

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I use. My switch is in handheld mode. I'm lazy. I don't want to get up, you know, I mean, I just want to press the button.

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I understand that. So it looks like ass on your tv.

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Well, no, they would have the technology. They would have figured it out by then. You know what I mean?

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Power of AI. Yeah.

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My cell phone. Beam it to the tv.

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Exactly. See, I barely figured out Game Chat dog. I like that they figured it out, bro. When I'm playing Game share, it's like 144p and like you can barely see what's going on in Hyrule warriors. And I'm like, lanza, you gotta hop in. You gotta help me out. In Hyrule warriors. We're gonna make this happen.

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So we're giving you like half a point on that.

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Yeah, I'll give a half point.

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Half a point.

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Okay, well, Sabrina Carpenter in it.

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No, no. Who was in. Didn't they have a celebrity?

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They ended up having Paul Rudd eventually in one of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. February GTA 6 trailer and is delayed to 2026. This happened in May, but I got it right. There was a trailer and it was delayed. So I'll give it a 0.5 on that one. So that counts as 1 in total.

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I don't know if I'm going to be a point for that one. It didn't happen.

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February being for real on you. Yeah.

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Okay. March. I called this the February Fallout. This was me predicting where games would perform and how they would perform. I said Shadows and Avowed would underperform. Incorrect. Probably half of that. I'M Shadows did really well. Avowed and whatever Civ and Yakuza does about expected Wilds is the biggest monster hunter in history. And I said bloom and rage gets lost in the shuffle.

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So I'm definitely right about.

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Yeah, I got some of that right there. Switch to launches in April. I got that wrong. Wrong. But I have the launch window line up here. And one of these. I'm gonna give myself a big old pat in the back. Okay.

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Okay.

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Let's go through the ones that I got wrong. Animal Crossing. Of course not. Didn't happen. Elden Ring. Where the fuck is that game on Switch.

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Where is Elder Ring on switch runs

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at one, you know, 20 FPS, so they got to figure that one out. Metroid Prime 4 came out in December. So. Not launch window. I said every first party game has a 4K upgrade for $7. And I brought in parentheses included in NSO. So a little bit right. With the Tears of the Kingdom breath. The wild thing. Yeah, but the one I'm going to put on my fucking shoulder and I

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didn't get your back.

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I didn't get it fully right. But I fucking kind of got it. I said Mario and Donkey Kong Odyssey. And I'm like, that's kind of what that is, bro. I know it's not Mario, but like, I got Donkey Kong. If you take away the Mario part. I know Donkey Kong Odyssey. That's kind of fire.

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I'll give you point 75. You're like, right there.

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I fucking. I was right there, bro.

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He's right there.

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I give him for that one. Because, like, if you just remove the Mario from it.

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Yeah. Come on. You got Donkey Kong Odyssey.

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It is Donkey Kong Odyssey.

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Bang.

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It's Donkey Kong Odyssey. Is that game. Yeah.

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And this is before everybody remember? This is before I started taking the pills. These pills. I see the future now. So this is all, like, kind of

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me figuring out Roger's noggin has grown since the pills.

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I'm going crazy right now. I got dry throat. And I see the future. May PlayStation showcase. Of course, didn't happen.

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That said happen in May.

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No, there's no place in showcase at all. There's state of plays.

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Oh, state of play.

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There's no. There haven't. Hasn't been a PlayStation showcase in going on three years.

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Yeah.

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Which is crazy.

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And y' all call me crazy when I tell you they don't know what they're doing with these showcases.

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New IP from Sony Santa Monica. Of course not. Go trailer. Sure. Wolverine trailer. We saw that in one of Those Theta plays game I will talk about later is revealed. Which is until dawn too. Which didn't happen. Bloodborne remake, of course, did not happen. Summer Game Fest June Sonic Adventure remakes.

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Oh, my God.

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Remakes is what I said.

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I said two.

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I said two remakes. Persona 6 teaser for 2026 Splinter Cell gameplay.

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We were in such a different place.

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This is the kicker. No, Silksong got that one right.

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It wasn't that.

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Summer Game Fest.

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Yeah.

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Parentheses, dev, hell, question mark.

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Which is hilarious because Silksong might have been the first game that was in deaf heaven. You know that game, they were like, oh, no, nothing went wrong.

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Big Chill.

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We were just taking our time. We wanted to make sure we're making a masterpiece.

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Listen, I'll give myself some credit on this one, okay? Because I saw this one. I'm glad that I put it on the list. Ubisoft is sold probably to Tencent and I put in parentheses. This is the. The. The explanation of what I got wrong and right. They created a subsidiary for that houses most of their big franchises with a massive investment from Tencent and that happened in October. So I'll give 0.25.

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Yeah, I'll give you.

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Yeah, give a little bit of something.

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A little.

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Little bit of something.

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Now going back to back. August, Phil Spence and resigns from Xbox. Okay.

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I'm still surprised. He's hanging in there.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, he's still there. September, this is TGS Tokyo game show. Kingdom Hearts 4 is revealed. I did that for Mike. Should have believed that. It's not happening. New Yakuza game that did happen. That was kwami3. And I said more Project Century. We did not get more Project Century. December. No October until Dawn two releases Shout out Blessing. That didn't happen.

[C]

That didn't happen.

[A]

November A. This is good. I called this in January. I said new Call of Duty comes out. It's Black Ops 7 and it's rushed like Modern Warfare 3 and it sucks. That's exactly what I thought I said. I said all of that. You know what?

[C]

I'll give you your props.

[A]

I'll give you your Black Ops 7 too.

[C]

That's a good one.

[B]

I'm wearing my Black Ops 7 hoodie.

[A]

That game sucks. I don't want to.

[B]

Roger was really.

[C]

That was mad predictable. I would have said the exact sucks

[A]

after Black Ops 6.

[C]

I would. First of all, you would because they're following the exact same thing. The reason why the last Modern Warfare game sucked is the same reason why this one is. Is because they're following up. And they're rushing the next game. They're like, we're gonna do two Black Ops and two Modern Warfares. But you're actually. You're right. You're absolutely right. I don't want to be honest.

[B]

I'm Now.

[A]

And then, of course, I said December Half Life 3 is announced at TGA. So, you know, a little bit of a mixed bag. I got the new pills. I'm feeling good. And I think I see the future now. And I understand how this game works now. The future works because I was seeing the multiple, like the branches of the timeline, and now I see the one timeline, the sacred timeline.

[C]

I think that was a. Give me the Doctor Strange one really quick, Rog.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

Thank you. That first year was a building year. You know what I mean? Like, you were spending that 2025 Roger drama segment.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Coning that craft. And honestly, I see. I see so much potential.

[B]

I like it.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

I like it.

[C]

There's a lot of good shit in there.

[A]

Thank you, bro. Thank you. And loyal. Loyal freak of the chat says bro.

[C]

What?

[A]

4 for 25. Okay, listen, we don't. We don't got to put numbers on this.

[B]

Just shooting shots.

[A]

Just shooting shots.

[C]

This is what I want. Who said that?

[B]

Loyal freak.

[C]

Loyal freak. I want you to give one of your predictions for this year.

[B]

Okay?

[C]

Now we're going to hold you accountable. We're going to hold you accountable.

[A]

We're going to write down here, too.

[C]

Now this is what we're going to do. We're going to do the same thing that we did last time. Roger's going to take us through a journey month by month, give us his predictions. We're going to talk about them. But Roger's made a request for this year.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

That each of us on the hosting panel bring one prediction for one month. Each of us, each of us, each of us bring one prediction.

[B]

Uh oh, is that Mike's prediction? Watch out.

[A]

He just made that up on the fly.

[B]

Uh. Oh, my God. Association. Mike just dropped a little Yakuza teaser for you.

[C]

Mike told us before the show he didn't bring a prediction.

[B]

Now I have one.

[A]

It's just Ichiban. That he exists.

[B]

He's going to appear somewhere.

[C]

When we get to that month, we'll speak up on like, okay, this is the month. I have a prediction for Roger. Where do you want to start?

[A]

I'm going to start with January. January is almost done. So it's like, that was a tough one. But let's start with High Guard. I think High Guard, I'll read what I wrote. I said High Guard is primed to be a failure. The Internet fucking is annoyed at it. They're talking about where's this game? It ended game awards and people were mad about that. I think the game is going to be a success. I think it's going to launch pretty high with 150,000 concurrence on Steam, which is lower on the end of like a free to play, but like that's enough to get you started and to kind of build a community. And I do think that they're going to kind of knock this out of the park in terms of starting up and just having the, hey, the game's out. Here we go. And it's going to be fun enough to kind of build that community. I don't think it's going to be a massive failure as people are acting it out to be because it's free to play. And honestly, I don't think this trailer looks as bad as people are on the Internet are pretending it looks. I think this looks really good. I'm excited for this one.

[C]

Mike, where are you sitting at with High Guard?

[B]

I want to see it. I'm definitely on the, the area of like, you know, I've had my time with arc raiders. I'm in the next search of like what is going to kind of be my first person shooter for a month or two. And so yeah, I'm hoping High Guard delivers for two weeks to four weeks. That's my goal. That's what I need out of this.

[C]

I'm looking forward to this. Of course, it's hard to predict how these things are going to land.

[A]

And also the long tail of this

[C]

in the long tail is really tough to predict. I will say I don't like how the Internet's treated this game.

[A]

Yeah, I agree.

[C]

I, I think the Internet's been very mean to High Guard and I don't. I, I understand why. I don't think this game should have closed the game Awards, from what people are have been talking about since this game was announced, was that like they didn't even pay for that spot. It sounds like Jeff Keighy might have just given them that spot because Jeff Keighley saw it and really dug it and was looking for something to close out the show. I don't know how true that is, but I say that to say that like, you know, I don't know if you could have advertised this game in a way that would have gotten the entire world on its side.

[A]

I think the only way would have been to do the Apex thing of like, the game's actually out right now

[C]

and you can play it, which I think they're trying to do. At the same time, it's the tough thing where Apex had the benefit of ea, right? And it's respawn and so they can shadow drop a game.

[A]

It was a Super bowl too. They did that as well.

[C]

Oh, was it?

[A]

Yeah, it was like a Super bowl, like ad. And they're like, hey, here we go, it's out right now, let's play it right now.

[C]

And they have such a big. They had such a big machine behind them. High Guard doesn't have the same thing because they're not ea, right? Like this is an independent company working on a big multiplayer thing. And so I, I could see them trying to emulate the strategy by going, all right, we'll appear at the game awards, go silent. And then the day of release, that's when we start marketing, doing all that stuff. I think that's them trying to emulate. I think the tough thing is that that game awards thing, I don't think they expected that to get back the reaction that it did. And so I think that's really tough. I also think that like it's tough when you announce this game and you don't really tell us exactly what the game is.

[B]

You needed Rage Shooters, right?

[C]

What is a rage?

[B]

I still don't know what this means.

[C]

You needed to put out preview impressions alongside the announcement, in my opinion. But I'm not writing it off.

[A]

I mean again, for a free to play game, I think it's going to be successful. I don't think it's going in the very beginning. At the least a year from now, will this game be around? Will it be super successful? But I do think it will find it will be a pretty positive opening of like, hey, this game is fun and it needs some issue. It has some issues and we'll work it out. But I don't think it's going to be a disaster. Like people are acting like going to be. So that's a pretty safe one in my opinion.

[B]

Before you get out of January, can we jump on January?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Do you have your prediction finally next

[B]

week, I guess this week. The Xbox underscore Developer Direct.

[A]

Oh, shit. Yeah. That is a good one. I should have done that.

[B]

And you talked about last year. You said the Fallout, but you didn't mean Fallout. You said the fallout again. Fallout 3 Remastered. It's finally revealed and real and will be Coming out in spring.

[C]

Spring, yeah.

[B]

It'll be about a month, month or two away. Let's say, let's say first week of March.

[C]

What was oblivion? Wasn't Oblivion just kind of shadowed announced sand drop.

[A]

It is in April and we will get to that. We will get to that.

[C]

Talk about February.

[A]

February is a big one. Has a lot of multiple predictions, but we're just going to go through it. Valve's big February, first week of February. Steam Machine launches at the end. Sorry, launches at the end.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Steam Machine is announced and then here's the prices of Steam Machine. Steam Machine is going to launch at $750. In parentheses I put this was the price of the Valve index at launch with headset and controller. I think this is the price that they're trying to shoot for. I think once you get into the $850,000 range, it's going to be really tough. I know that with RAM and everything, it's. It's always a fluctuating situation, But I think 750 is kind of the price you want to go. And also with the leaks that have been happening from the. I forget what European website that was in the kernels that included tax and everything. So once you take it away, 750 is around where you're going to be at. I think that's a solid place.

[C]

We're talking about Steam Machine. The box.

[A]

Yes, the machine. The box. But it comes with controller. Comes with the controller. It's already controller. It's already comes with the controller. So I think 750 with the controller is. Is where you're going to be. Steam Frame, which is their new meta Quest type deal, I think that's going to be $1,000. This is the same price as the Valve Index with all of its sensors. So I think that's just replace that SKU and I think the controller is going to be $90. So I think it's going to be more expensive controller in order to try to get more people to buy that that aren't buying the Steam Machine to hopefully recoup some of the money that they're maybe breaking even at and make a profit off of the controller. So that is the first week of February. That's. Those are the prices that I'm saying right now. Second week of February. Stay with me everybody. Half Life 3 is announced. There will be an explicit reference in the trailer to Aperture Science, but you will not see a traditional portal gun. The date for the Steam Machine and Half Life 3 will be March 23rd, the sixth anniversary of Half Life Alyx. Oh, and the VR headset that they had. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

And I also will say right now, everybody, If Half Life 3 exists and will come out, but my pills are saying they will, it will be an open Critic score of 94.

[C]

94.

[A]

94. Which I believe Alex was 92 or 93.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

But not that far.

[C]

Yeah, it's up there. But I think Alex is a different thing. You know what I mean? I think Alex being in VR, it feeling like a big step forward for what you're. What they were doing in VR. I feel like that gets at those extra points. I think I would love. I would love to see half life three come out and like feel like a 94 on open critic or Metacritic. I just wonder how hard it is to innovate in like the first person shooter, space, slash, first person adventure, whatever you want to call it, right.

[A]

It's, it's. To me, it's like, what is the thing that they're doing, like the gravity gun, right? What is the thing that they're going to do that is going to push gaming forward, that's going to push game development forward? And I do think that there's that pressure within Valve to not just do a hey, we're making Half Life 3. And it's just Half Life 3 is kind of what Half Life 2 was. It looks better. They're going to do something weird, they're going to do something crazy. They're going to do something whether it's with physics, with, you know, motion, like, they're going to do something crazy that is going to feel like the portal. And I think that is going to push forward this game to be having that excitement where everybody plays it. You know what I mean? Not even the Half Life sit goes. Like everybody at this company will play this game and get excited about it.

[C]

Can I make a prediction on top of that? I think what the gun is going to be, it's going to be like a gun that deconstructs things. It's going to be kind of like Fortnite breaking down buildings or whatever. It's going to be that. I think you're going to have a fully destructible environment and you have a gun that's going to be able to kind of suck in materials and then like re spit out materials. And we're all going to be like, this is dumb. But then it's going to come out and we're going to be like, this is the best thing ever because there'll

[A]

be a puzzle we're all going to

[C]

be like, they're fortnighted or whatever, and then we're going to play it and we're going to be like, oh, shit, this is the greatest technology ever, ever made.

[A]

Perturo says, like, Gary's mod, sort of. Yeah, that's actually a good call.

[B]

Yeah. The portal gun, to me, I'm a little. I'm like 50, 50 on, right? Because I've already played Portal. We just had Split Gate Halo with portals. Right. So it's like the portal gun itself is not wowing me in any.

[A]

Well, I'm not thinking there's going to be a portal gun in this game. I'm just saying. Well, it's all in the same universe. So I'm saying, like, they will. They will try to build out this thing of like, hey, Aperture science is in this.

[C]

You're saying like, the next portal gun.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah. What is gravity? What is the type of thing that they're going for?

[C]

I fuck with that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So the 750 price point for Steam Machine. God, I hope, I hope.

[A]

I don't know the last number that you can get that is like, okay, sort of reasonable. That's about where like, a new iPhone's at, Right? Like new. Like that. Okay. 750, maybe 800. Once again to 850 to 900. It's like, yeah, once the 900 stuff,

[C]

I think if we get a price that's below 800, the controller is not going to come with it. I think it'll just.

[A]

Yeah, they renege on that and they're

[C]

like, hey, you can buy the controller for $100, which is fair.

[A]

Honestly, that's a smart way to save the money because I don't think everybody needs that controller. But also the controller is really dope and I think that they've been showing a lot of.

[C]

I'm sure they really want to sell a controller, but with these RAM prices.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, okay.

[C]

I like that.

[A]

That was February. It's a big February. Now we get into an even bigger March.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

Nintendo Direct time, baby. And this is the big one. We got to see what's going on in 2026. And I'm just putting fucking dates again. The fucking pills spoke to me and I saw the dates and I looked at the calendar in my mind and here we go.

[C]

I like the confidence here.

[A]

Fire emblem. Fortune's weave. July 2026. We're just moving.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

We're just moving. Tomodachi Life, June 2026. I don't know why Tomodachi but like, I just feel. I just feel like we could just put that game out there. Who cares?

[C]

I feel like June is worth. You know, we were talking about this on khd. What companies give summer vibes? Nintendo.

[A]

Very summer.

[C]

That's a summer company right there. Oh, yeah.

[A]

You know what else is a summer game? Yoshi 2026. June.

[C]

I think that's exactly right.

[A]

Rhythm Heaven. That's a cozy game. That's December 2026.

[C]

December.

[A]

I just feel like you end the year with.

[C]

Honestly, I agree. Yeah, 100%.

[B]

You just.

[A]

You just end with a Rhythm Heaven. Splatoon. Now that's a September game. Splatoon Raiders. September 2026. That is also where Splatoon 3 landed. So I think that's a. That's a good place for them right before GTA 6. You know, September, I think that's going to be similar. Is going to get very packed, I feel like. But that's probably a smart place for that. And then we get. Oh, Dust Bloods. I said for August with a direct delving into it in April.

[C]

I like that. I like that.

[B]

You wouldn't expect Elden Ring to come out before Dust Bloods.

[A]

I mean, I'm sure Elden Ring.

[B]

So when you guys are like, where's Elden Ring? It's like, what, what, what's the rollout here? But it's got to go Elden Ring into Dust Blood.

[A]

They delete it.

[C]

Right.

[A]

But also they're not the same. Like, it's like a. It's a Publisher is banned on Namco. And then this is Nintendo. Right? It doesn't really matter to them. Like, that's banned at Namco's problem. Nintendo's not thinking Elden got delayed out

[C]

of 2025 to 2026. Right. Is that correct what happened last time? Yeah, I think they're just struggling with what to do with it. I think Elden Ring might just show up and be like, hey, it's coming out next month. And I think that could happen in. I think that could happen in February. I think they could be like, hey, it's out in March or in March. I think they could be like, it's out in April. I think right now they can't think about strategizing Dust Bloods around that because it's just. It's a chaotic factor. It's like, hey, we've already kind of fucked up with what we're doing here.

[A]

You know, people in the chat are mentioning Dust Bloods feels Halloween in October. And that's actually a good Call. But I'm sticking with my August just to have it. But you know, also I'm saying October if it gets delayed, you know what I mean? I said the words, we can splice it together. And then I have two. Now we get. This is where we get kind of crazy. I have one that we've been talking about forever. I feel like we have to have some type of Zelda thing. So Ocarina of Time Remake, November 2026. They go right into the GTA thing because they don't give a fuck. And the reason I say that is because that's six months before the Zelda movie. Just like Galaxy released six months before the Galaxy movie. So I think they want to have some type of Zelda thing that's like, here's the one that you can play right now. And of course, Galaxy 1 and 2 was a, you know, a port. It was a glorified port. This is probably going to be a little bit more than that. But we're going to get Ocarina of Time on the switch to November 2026.

[B]

The pills are speaking to them.

[C]

The pills are speaking to. Do you believe it, Mike?

[A]

We have to Zelda thing, right? What is that Zelda thing?

[C]

I mean, you're right, we do have to have a Zelda thing. But like, I just don't know. At the same time as GTA 6. I know what everybody's going to say. Different audience.

[A]

Yeah, they're not moving, they're different.

[C]

Whatever. Like it's Nintendo. Do they care as much? I think they do. That also points out Pokemon is usually November.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

And we do have a new generation of Pokemon coming. Oh, see, I think that's even more fascinating Pokemon move because like, I think with Zelda they might care a little bit. Just as far as like the conversation online, like the media coverage, all that stuff getting eaten up a little bit by GTA 6. I think Zelda might be a thing where it's like, hey, put it on October actually. But Pokemon though, do they got their big old fucking Pikachu balls swinging? Oh, yeah, with Pokemon.

[A]

He's got some big old nuts on him.

[C]

Are they like, yo, fuck gta, we're Pokeball. It's the biggest ip. Like what is the most successful money making IP in history? Like they don't give a shit about gta. They understand that those are completely. Even where there's a Venn diagram, like that Venn diagram's still going to buy both. I think if there's one thing that would be like, hey, yeah, no, we're going to release the same week as gta. It'd be Pokemon. Yeah.

[A]

And then my final one, this is the one where the pills really spoke to me. And I just saw it. But I was just thinking about, we have this Mario movie, right? And they've had a long time to develop this Mario movie in conjunction with Nintendo. So we have Galaxy. It's like, okay, are we getting Galaxy 3? It's like, fuck, no. Like, that just seems like too, like fantasy booking. Like, I don't also don't think we're getting a 3D Mario game in this year. I just don't feel it. I don't feel it in the air. So what can we do that feels that kind of hole that we have here? And I was like, they're gonna make a Rosalina game. They're gonna make. They're gonna make a super. A Super Rosalina. And she's gonna be in space and she's gonna be doing her thing and it's going to fill that void of a 3D Mario game, like a Princess Peach.

[C]

No time.

[A]

It's gonna be better than. Than that. It's gonna be an actual video game. It's gonna be an actual video game that everybody wants to play and not for little children. It's going to be like a Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom type deal where it's like, okay, it's Zelda, but it has, you know, a little bit of a twist going on there that makes it a little bit different than the mainline stuff. That's what I'm thinking.

[C]

We're going to think it's top down, like a Zelda. Like, what do you.

[A]

No, no, no. I think it's going to be more of like a galaxy than anything. It's going to. It's going to feel and look more like a galaxy, but it's going to have. I don't know what that, you know, twist of the gameplay is. Maybe she's spawning these, you know, stars everywhere and she. That's how she creates her platforms or whatever. But, like, there's going to be something there. And I think that she's the main star and they were going to try to push her as a secondary thing.

[C]

I don't hate the idea. I just don't know. I feel like you're splitting. I think with Yoshi coming out this year, I don't know if you put out a Yoshi game and a Rosalina game in the same year. I feel like Nintendo will give you one of those a year But I

[A]

think that that takes the place of what this Yoshi game is the Mario thing for the year.

[C]

Yeah, well, yeah, because I think Mario. I think Mario usually gets two to three things. You'll get the sports game or the Mario party. Right. You'll get a platformer and then you might get like. I don't know what the third thing usually is. Maybe. Maybe it is more like two things. But yeah, like, I think. I think those slots are filled. I could see, honestly, I could see a Rosalina game coming out next year. Yeah, maybe like right after the movie.

[A]

But the movie comes out pretty soon from now.

[C]

What, March? Yeah, October game movie comes out this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Very soon. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying like, if. So if this is March. So this is March. If I'm saying that this Nintendo Direct is March. Right. This is before or right after the movie comes out and all the kids are like, oh, my gosh, Rosalina. I love Rosalina. Rosalina game. Bang. Here we go. I think that they have enough time. They had enough time to actually think about this for once. Like, the Mario movie was in, you know, motion and everything. When they're making the first one now they know that game was a hit. We have three to four years to make something right now. Let's make something. And I don't think that Nintendo is dumb enough to not take advantage of.

[C]

I would be interested to see how they felt about this success. No matter what we commentary people think about Princess Peach Showtime. What that was success wise for them internally. Because, like, if you can't get a Princess Peach game to hit, I don't know if we're gonna be able to sell Rosalina. And that's my thing is their own title. I just don't think Rosalina has it like that. I love Rosalina as a character.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But I don't think they would look at that as like, we put the name Rosalina on the box of the game and it's going to sell unless they make it like a very small thing. Yeah, I think that's kind of Princess Peach. You can wait. I think has a way higher sales potential. And that game felt like a bit of a smaller thing that they made. Yeah. I think for a Rosalina game, you might have to go even smaller than that. Like it would have to be a, like a side scroller or like you would almost have to look at another game and be like, hey, clone that game and put Rosalina on the books.

[A]

You're right. You're Right. Or it just says Super Mario Galaxy 3, but then it crosses off Mario and it's just Rosalina.

[C]

Super Rosalina.

[A]

So it's like the Birds of Prey movie where they have, like, Birds of Prey and the fantabulous story of Harley Quinn. You know what I mean? Like, we just have it all in there. We just say it all.

[C]

I love that. But, yeah, I think Mario Galaxy, the remaster remake they just put out, I think that's going to do the kind of the carrying on the game side. And then, yeah, Yoshi and Mario Tennis Fever would be the things. Do we know that Rosalina is in Fever yet? Have we. Have we seen Rosalina? Because I could see that. I could see that being like, the thing of, hey, Rosalina's in the game. Or like, here's a Mario Galaxy level. I just don't think.

[A]

Yeah, I think my thing is, like, man, there has to be a Mario 3D something. And it's like, I know that Rosalina wouldn't sell that well, but also, it's like the perfect timing. I don't know. I just don't believe in the Odyssey 2. I don't believe in them. I don't believe Odyssey 2 or Galaxy 3 is coming at any.

[C]

Yeah, we got Rosalie in the game.

[A]

There she is. She's flying.

[B]

I'm so pumped up to buy those plastic tennis rackets. It's ridiculous.

[A]

Are you gonna try to, like.

[B]

I cannot wait.

[C]

You want to play plastic tennis rackets?

[B]

Yeah, well, for, like, Nintendo, whenever they, you know, like, the wheel for Mario Kart, Like, I can't wait. When they come out with those shitty plastic tennis rackets for my little Nintendo Switch joycon. I can't wait.

[C]

Did they do that for. For Aces?

[B]

I believe so, yeah.

[C]

Oh, really?

[A]

Or Party ones. Yeah.

[B]

I can't wait.

[C]

I can't wait for this game.

[B]

Yeah, we're gonna be playing this party mode, and we're gonna be swinging away.

[C]

I was. When I was sick over the weekend, I was playing a lot of Mario Tennis 64. Nice. Just because.

[B]

Crap.

[C]

I've been getting a lot of tennis tick tocks as well.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

They were doing this thing at. I forget if it was the Australian Open. There was some tennis event that was happening recently where they're doing, like, best of one and, like, it's like a fun mini tournament. Whoever wins gets a million dollars type of thing. Very fun. Very fun to watch.

[A]

All right, April. April three remake is released. There is no mention of New Vegas. The honeymoon period is fairly short as the Internet. Internet discussion overwhelms the with questions of New Vegas. So I just think that like, the people are going to be excited about it. They're going to have like a week. Everyone's like, where the fuck is New Vegas? Like, what you. Why did you guys put this together? Like, I think that's going to be kind of the vibe around this of like, yeah, sure, finally I want to do Vegas. Like, and I don't know.

[C]

I don't.

[A]

I don't. I'm not a believer of like, they're going to do both. When is there. No, they're going to stretch this out. We're going to wait till the next season of Fallout to do the thing. But I actually think that April is a good place to have one of these remakes every year if Xbox wanted to do it. Because that's where they had the Oblivion remake. Yeah. Just kind of shadow dropped. So it would be nice if Xbox can just be like, hey, every April we're just going to give you one of these. And I mean, Vegas would be nice.

[C]

I like that. Yeah. I hope they get to New Vegas. I think Fallout 3 has been more rumored and so I'm. Maybe they've been working on it longer so I could see that being this year and then New Vegas later down the road. It just sucks because I feel like to the opposite of what we were just talking about with Nintendo. I feel like their timing has been so off. Right. Like, we should have already had New Vegas by the time the TV show is coming out. Like, we should have a version of New Vegas that people can go and play that is like modern and remade or remastered. Do like whatever. Yeah, that should be the vibe right now. Hey, like, I'm excited no matter what. If It's a Fallout 3 remake, I'm excited for it. But yeah. Yeah.

[A]

And then I also put Marathon does pretty well from the jump, but Peter's out over the year. It launches on Steam with 150,000 concurrent. So that's my number right there. But that's pretty okay for, you know, $40 release, but also not great for a Bungee type title. I don't think it's going to be Helldivers 2 or anything like that. Yeah.

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That is April.

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Yeah, no, it's very scary.

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May, Roger. I got one. Before we let Roger go.

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Oh, it's got his for April.

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This is for my one for.

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For May. For May. We finally hear back way quicker than we're expecting from Team Cherry about all of their updates that they talked about at the end of last year. We get a shadow drop of Hollow Knight Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. That up that free update for Hollow Knight 1 that's like out now. The Sea of Sorrow DLC not as quick of announced to release as we saw actual silksong. It'll be early July.

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Early July.

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Early July. I like it.

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Okay.

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I like.

[A]

I love that and I like that.

[C]

Just to give some time between Hollow Knight 1 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and this DLC drop.

[A]

And I like this because it's not at Jeff's thing and I feel like that's the most realistic thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Is that it just ends up on a random May and it's like, all

[C]

right, yeah, they're ready to talk about it. Yeah.

[A]

George Is ready here on May.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I like that.

[C]

Like it.

[A]

Well, Talking about announcements, PlayStation showcase, finally. It's been three years. This is the moment. This is the moment. We're looking around. It's like, what the fuck is going on with PlayStation? Where? What are we announcing? This is what it's going to be. Somehow Fair Games is back and releasing next year. Prentices probably won't come out next year, but they're going to say it is yuck, disgusting. The studio is still around, the game's still being made. They're going to have to talk about it and they're going to show a trailer and we're going to be like, yeah, it looks like a video game. All right.

[C]

I'm going to go the opposite way. I think by May we know that Fair Games has been canceled.

[A]

Okay. Blessing. By May, Fair Games is canceled.

[C]

Jay Raymond is even at that studio anymore.

[A]

That's insane. I'm just thinking about that.

[C]

That was her project. Like, that was her game. They founded that studio to make Fair Games and then Jade Raymond left.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

That game's not gonna come out, unfortunately.

[A]

God of War unannounced project, which is like probably like that 32.5 D thing that the rumor of Jeff grubbing.

[C]

God of War.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. That's shown for an August released, so pretty fast. So that makes a lot of sense to me because we can have that at, you know, Summer Game Fest. We can show that off with. People can play it or whatever. I think that's probably a good place for it. Wolverine. I said October out there.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I think that's not bad. Horizon Co Op game is dated for early next year. So we show that off and we were like, hey, this is what this is. Is it like Monster Hunter or is it just something different? Whatever.

[C]

Now, which Horizon Co Op game?

[A]

Not the NCSoft one, like the actual one that's being developed by Gorilla. Yeah, Gorilla. Yeah, I think we show that one off there. I don't think that NC Soft one would ever be shown at a state of Player showcase. I think that's going to be like one of those weird ones where it's just like a blog post and it exists. And it's like, okay, we hope that China gives us money.

[C]

Yeah, they're just going to put it out and we're going to be like, all right, this exists.

[A]

Here it is. Or I say that this is where we see the Witcher 3 DLC and it's Shadow dropped here. This is the place. This is the May. The date was we're getting it in May. I think that's a perfect place to just be like, here it is. And it's out right now. I like that play. Right now there will be a big presence from Sony Studios films and television department. The reason I say that is because Sony has kind of restructured their entire film business and television business around the video games. They're very focused on this because clearly they have Karate Kid and all these franchises that don't work other than Spider man. And they're like, we're gonna fucking make PlayStation movies until we die now. So there's gonna be some type of maybe fizzing. Type 5, not fizzing, but you know what I mean? They're going to be like, come out and be like, oh, and also here's the, you know, head of Sony film and he's. We're working on, you know, here's the.

[C]

Here's the building.

[A]

Here's Patapon. We're working on Patapan. We're working on Helldivers on this.

[C]

Here's the first trailer for the Gravity Rush anime.

[A]

Exactly right. Yeah. Or they're going to announce like, hey, you know, we announced God of War. Here's the cast and we're filming here. Like they're going to talk about it in some way and try to connect these two worlds more and more. And I like something to look forward to. No Bloodborne. No Intergalactic.

[C]

No intergalactic.

[A]

No intergalactic.

[C]

And it's a showcase. Here's. So here's what I'll say, right? It's a PlayStation showcase. If they call it a showcase, they gotta bring some of the big guns.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

So what's a big gun that we're gonna see?

[A]

We finally see Corey Barlog's project to close out the show.

[C]

I like that.

[A]

It is not a sci fi space game. It is not. It does not look like intergalactic. It is not a space sci fi game. It might be sci Fi elements, but it's not anything like we can we see from intergalactic. It does not feel similar. Similar.

[C]

What did Jason Schreier say about it recently? He said that it's B. It's like because we've been expecting new IP and I think Jason Shrier was like, it's not a new ip, but it's kind of like a new thing. Yeah. And so I'm still.

[A]

What is that?

[C]

What is that?

[A]

I forgot Cooper.

[C]

I feel like he might have said something about the fantasy aspect as well.

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Yeah.

[C]

But I forget if he said that it's not fantasy or if it is or. Sorry, not fantasy space aspect. Yeah, I think he might have said that it's not. But I. I gotta go back.

[A]

Is there anything I'm missing here? Is there any game that I should be looking forward to that I. That the pills didn't see?

[C]

I was gonna say you would pair this with the co op Horizon game. I think Horizon three.

[A]

Oh, you just showed both. No, I just never feel like that works every time I do the prediction of like, oh, we have like a block of Horizon stuff. We do multiple. I don't think they ever do, but

[C]

I think it's time for that game. It's been what Horizon. Forbidden west came out in 2021. 2022. That game ended with a cliffhanger. Right? Like that game ends with a baton pass to, hey, we'll see you in the third game. Where is it? Is that a PS6 thing?

[A]

Yeah, it could. Maybe they do the insomniac thing where it's like, hey, we do the Horizon thing. And then Also here's Horizon 3. Like they did with Miles Morales and then Wolverine. Yeah, yeah, I could see that. I could see that.

[C]

No, it was ghostly Yote Legends out by this time.

[A]

That's a good call. My pills didn't see that, but yeah, I would assume so. Yeah.

[C]

I think that game's out in the next. Like I'm gonna say by April.

[A]

Yeah. Long time to wait for Legends.

[C]

I don't think.

[A]

I don't think it's way too long to wait for Legends.

[C]

Yeah, I'm surprised Legends hasn't already been talked about.

[A]

Yeah, honestly too, I'm surprised we didn't end the year talking about Legends.

[C]

I'm just going to say Shadow drop at the state of play next month.

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Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, is it state of play next month?

[C]

I mean, there's always. There's always like a February or March.

[A]

The pills didn't see that one. And that was it. That's all I had for May.

[C]

Just to follow up on the Shrier stuff, I finally find it. Basically nothing is known about what the game is. Some have theorized that is a new ip, but Shrier said that's not true. It's not a new ip, but it might feel like one. Maybe that's why people are confused. Unquote. There you go.

[A]

Layers.

[C]

Thank you so much for that. Oh, wait, hold on. Keep it on the screen. After acronym's release, spread out, suggesting the company might have. Oh, never mind. This is more. More context. So he didn't say anything about the sci fi part of it, so maybe it still could be that.

[A]

Well, that's not what the pill said. June Assassin's Creed resynced is announced for August and sans the time is announced for September. Wow. This is also. Sorry. This. June is summer game fest, so.

[C]

Yeah, recent thing. Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

[A]

Yes. For. Yeah. Black Flags resync so you think Black

[C]

Flag gets announced and released before Sands of Time?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Crazy.

[A]

I think we just. I don't know what the fuck is going on. Sands of Time. I don't. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I know those rumors were all hoaxes that were supposed to come out last week. I don't think this game. I think we're just going to show it at a thing. Be like, hey, wait two months, you'll play it whatever. Three months, you will not see Judas. We will all question if that game is coming out.

[C]

I like that. I like that.

[A]

And then this for you. New mainline Sonic game will be revealed. It looks better than it has any right to be. There will be a Chow. Will it be a werewolf? I mean, a werehog? That's the big question.

[C]

Will there be a weird. Here's what I'll say. Yeah, I think you're right. Except it will not bear. What did we say? I didn't want to see a foot. You said for the next Games Daily. Not for games cast. Not for games Cast.

[B]

Damn. Do you think that's what his feet look like?

[A]

He's five toes there.

[B]

That's crazy.

[C]

I don't think it'll look better than it has any right to. That's my. That's my one thing. I'm like, I think we'll see a new mainline Sonic. I don't. I think we're gonna be like, oh, yeah, that looks like how a Sonic mainline game looks like.

[A]

I think it's.

[C]

That we're still gonna love it for all its flaws. I think it's gonna be Sonic Frontiers 2 and we're gonna. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And I think we're. I think what we're gonna say is, man, why'd y' all keep the poppin in the trailer? Like, I think that's. I think that's gonna be the reaction. We're gonna be like, why'd you keep all the dumb. Or like, all the, like, all the rush in the trailer. You're not gonna edit that out? Like, why don't you hide it better? I think that's gonna be the reaction.

[A]

Oh, God. I want him.

[C]

I prefer this over the feet because this happened. This is real.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Beautiful. This knuckles just watching in the cuff chair. Just sit.

[C]

Sonic is a franchise with many moments.

[A]

All right, July, this is the. When we come to the months of there's not really much going on, so it's like I'm just saying shit. And I like this one though. Electronic Arts reveals a major game and. Oh, what the fuck did I write? Electronic Arts reveals a major game and it uses Generative AI Mask off. No fucks giving. I'm talking full on with something like the Sims. Enzoid did it and they're. They're about to be bought by Saudi Arabia. So who gives a fuck? Fuck you. We don't care. You're a casual gamer, so we don't have to try with you. We, we will put AI in the shittiest way possible inside of our games and maybe a chatbot, maybe some type of gen AI art, but they will put AI in one of their big franchises. And my guess is going to be it's going to be the Sims. They're going to announce something with the Sims and it's going to be like, it's generative AI. Who gives a fuck? We're doing this because, you know, we don't have to worry about anything anymore because we're with Saudi Arabia.

[C]

I think it'll be specifically because of Enzo. I think they're going to look at the success of Enzo and be like, well, they did it. Success, quote, unquote, success. Right. But you know, they're going to look at the, I guess the fervor around Enzo and be like, yo, other people are doing it. People are throwing money at AI Bucket.

[A]

Yeah. And I also think that this is the franchise that they would do it in. Right. Because it is for casual gamers. Right? It is like the most like baseline, like. And also you can talk to the Sims or you can tell them to do something and they will do something crazy or you can tie something in and now you can have a pink house that's, you know, automatically you don't need to build anything. This is the franchise that they will just shit AI into. And they'll be like, well, it's fine. It's not like the core franchise. It's one of these for everybody who cares.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

This is the one that they will do it. And I think it would happen this year. They're just going to year I think they will just shut it out and they'll be like, we've been working on a New Sims project. It's a free to play project, whatever. And then it has a bunch of AI in it. Sad.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Yeah, I think that's. I think that's a good prediction.

[A]

Now one of these companies are going to do big air shit. And I just think Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts has the capability to just go mask off and not give.

[C]

See, I'm. I'm gonna go. I think that's gonna happen, but I think not this year, but soon. What's the. What's the company that makes Arc Raiders in the finals?

[B]

That is called Embark Studios.

[C]

I think Embark Studios, whenever we see their next game, it's gonna be even more AI and it's gonna be AI to a degree where it's like, damn. Like y' all really said fuck the haters.

[A]

Yeah, we're going.

[C]

We're doubling even more in. Yeah.

[A]

We're not like these guys, Larry, in studios that will back off on anything.

[C]

We're doubling down because they're already dipping their toe. They're already like doing that. Right. They had the AI voice announcers in the finals. They had the. The VO in Arc Raiders. And I think they're gonna look at the success of both those games and be like, oh, we still sold.

[A]

We can just do this.

[C]

Yeah, we sold so many million copies. We are our peak or our concurrence are still fucking high. Like, this is a net positive for us to save on doing this work and making this much money.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And it's going to be depressing.

[A]

It will be depressing. There will be a lot of AI depressing. I don't think that bubble's popping next year. We all wanted to pop. It's not popping. There's too much. There's too much riding on the AI and the powers that be that will continue to pull the strings.

[C]

How much money can continually just pass through the same companies like they're actually doing something until it all just. Just like the. Just like the crash of 2008, you know? Yeah. I just don't.

[A]

We have a few more years.

[C]

I think the bubble popping, at least on the video game side for AI is not going to look the way that we want it to look. No, I think the bubble popping is going to look like more of like a little deflation. Right. Like the bubble's going to a little bit. A little far, you know, Like. Yeah, it's going to do that. And then like AI is still going to be around and shit's going to get worse. Right. Like the games that we want to play are Going to get more expensive to make, more expensive to buy all that.

[A]

It's not going to be like, hey, the bubble pops and now you can afford RAM or anything. No GPUs.

[C]

It's not going to be the bubble pops and nobody's doing this.

[A]

I always point out to the fact that like, like people are like, oh yeah, eggs prices are down. It's like my, my safe way eggs are 8.99 still. Like, like things don't go down anymore. Like things go up, inflate and then the bubble pops. But then everyone still has to pay the more amount of money.

[C]

So it's like, yeah, nothing like when the bubble pops, it's going to be disastrous for the economy and we will have to pay for it. Yeah.

[A]

Well, in August, sadly everybody, I was wrong. I was off by a year. But it's going to happen. Phil Spencer will resign from Xbox.

[C]

He will not clapping because I'm happy about the idea.

[A]

No, but like it finally happens. Yeah. You know, of course there were the rumors last year of like, oh, he's like setting himself up to, you know, to resign. Those were debunked pretty fast. But I don't know, I just don't. I still will say this every single year because I don't see Phil Spencer being in here for the next four years. Like, I just don't see it happening. I think there's going to be something. He just has to go. Like, I think not because he's doing a bad job or anything. I think he's, he's doing fine. But like as there's been so many. How many times can you get the cuts? How many times can you see have to fight with Microsoft and have to fucking fight for this division. And I just don't see a world where he is going to be able to look around and be like, okay, well I'm going to continue to have to lay off studios, close shit down and then be a shell of what Xbox is.

[C]

How many times can you have a vision and have Satya Nadella come through and kind of. And fuck up that vision and be like, well, shit, you know, we did XYZ thing, we bought these studios, we're going to do this, this, this and this. And big Microsoft came through and said, no, no, no, cancel, cancel, cancel. Like, you know, like I, if I'm, I don't know how Phil Spencer's has been there that long. Yeah, if I'm Phil Spencer, I'm tired as fuck. And I'm like, hey, I did my best. I Did all I could. I couldn't do shit here.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, maybe he's. I know this is the dip. We are not in his head. We are not in this world. But, like, maybe he's waiting for the wins. Maybe he's waiting for some wins to go out a little bit on top of. Like, hey, I put out four banger games. We have. We don't have a bad Call of Duty this year, whatever. But, yeah, I think this seems like a good. A good year.

[C]

The. The one thing I'll say that might be against that idea is that I. I think we're close enough to the next gen that maybe you just get the next Xbox out the door, but

[A]

maybe that's the perfect time to be like, hey, I'm bowing out. This generation's ramping down. We're gonna ramp up on the next generation handheld, whatever it is. Sarah Bond. Here you go. Yeah, here it is. You know, take this fucking portable. I take the keys, though. I mean. Yeah, but, I mean, this is probably the best time to go out then instead of having to deal with, you know, competing against the Steam machine and doing all this stuff, it's like, okay, we. I made another Halo. I'm out.

[C]

Do we just. What does. What happens, Mike?

[B]

I mean, I look at it as the 25th anniversary, right? Like, no better time now to celebrate the big anniversary. Then, like, end of the year, be like, this is my time. Sarah Bond has already been the face for quite some time. We're all adjusted to Sarah. We know what she wants to do. We're going to get right with it. So I have no problem with that. Roger. Yeah, I'm a. You know, I don't want to see him go, but I get it.

[A]

Yeah. Well, September, we're not stopping when it comes to Xbox because September, Halo Campaign Evolved will be released, and so will Halo Multiplayer evolved, both for $40.

[C]

You're an insane person.

[A]

And that's why they did it. So they can charge you $80 for one video game. Oh, that's why they're doing it. That's why they're doing it.

[C]

You're an insane person.

[B]

So what is the multiplayer, then?

[A]

It's Halo multiplayer. It's Halo 1 multiplayer.

[B]

Oh, you're. It's going to be Halo 1 multiplayer.

[A]

You could buy them both for $80, or you buy them separately for four,

[C]

because then how they sell it. Roger. All on game Pass.

[A]

It's called Halo Campaign Evolved. Why not Halo Multiplayer Evolved? Put it together. 80 bucks.

[C]

I hate it.

[A]

It makes so much sense. And it was the moment when the pills spoke to me. And it sucks, but it makes so much sense. They're talking like, oh, well, we have on this one. We're focusing on the campaign. We have something for multiplayer eventually and we're thinking about it. It's like, they're not going to make Halo Infinite again. That would be the dumbest decision in the world. What are they going to do? They're not going to make a free to play another free to play Halo thing. Just make Halo Halo 1 multiplayer by itself and then have Halo campaign by itself and then just do that. And that's what they're going to do.

[C]

Speaking pills are speak. Why not just put out mass Chief Collection on PlayStation?

[A]

Well, because they want to redo all this because that's one package at 60 bucks, right? So then they can charge you $80 every few years for Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Read. Oh, no, that's what they're gonna do. I guarantee you that's what they're gonna do. I fucking guarantee you next year or the year after that, we're gonna get Halo 2 and then we're gonna Halo 3 and we're just gonna keep on doing this for three to four years until they're ready to make Halo Infinite 2 or whatever the fuck they want to do.

[B]

Wow, Rod.

[A]

That's what's gonna happen.

[B]

The pills are speaking.

[C]

Pills are speaking. Mike, you buy it?

[B]

I mean, I'm not. I'm not opposed to it.

[C]

I think I see it actually. Hold on.

[B]

It's hard not to be like, yeah, that sounds about right.

[C]

How about this? You do you campaign evolved this year, Most player evolved next year, year after that. Halo 2 campaign evolved after that, 2 multiplayer evolved. Like you stagger the years, Halo every year.

[A]

I also started thinking about this. I was like, maybe this is. I think this is what they're going to do. And then I also think that this is a test for. Could we do this for Call of Duty? Could we do this for other franchises? Could we do this for Gears of War?

[B]

I don't know. You can't do it for Call of Duty.

[A]

Maybe.

[B]

Look back at those campaigns. Most of them are swimming in sixes and sevens.

[A]

I mean, is there. Is there a contingent of people that would spend $35 to $40 on just the campaign and then maybe a few months later get the multiplayer when their friends are playing.

[B]

Well, we did go back to the multiplayer maps recently.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3, we did all the old multiplayer maps, if you remember.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And that didn't go as well as I think they thought it would. I think there was a lot of excitement for it. But then when it got there, I don't think many people were like, oh, now I'm really happy to be here.

[A]

Yeah. So I don't know, it just.

[C]

You're Madman, Roger.

[A]

It just spoke to me and it just.

[C]

I like that one.

[B]

Crazy one, but it just.

[A]

I like that. I think that that is their way because they're like, oh, we're not doing $80 anymore. It's like, okay, well, no, the game is $40 and so is this game. And they come into a package at $80.

[B]

Yeah, there's a different. Yeah, that's a different conversation. The one and the two is an interesting conversation because like, yeah, why remake one, right, if we're just going to go to Halo Infinite 2 here, right? Like, why are we remaking one if we're not going to remake the trilogy here, especially for PlayStation fans? So that makes a lot of sense of like, yeah, we're clearly just going to run this back, right? We'll call it the side passion project while they make the big one, right, and they just remake those three. You really don't think that it's just going to be a free to play multiplayer experience at the end of the year? Hey, we know. We heard Yalls feedback. We've already been working on it. This is a free to play multiplayer experience available on everything. You can buy campaign evolved for 40 bucks. But the free to play multiplayer, it's out everywhere.

[A]

I just don't see what that is like. It was. It was Halo Infinite. Like, are they going to now re. Is it just going to be off the back of Halo Campaign Evolved? It's going to feel like Halo 1 multiplayer or is it going to feel like all the Halo games? Like, I just don't see what that game is.

[B]

Well, it will feel like all the Halo games now because they've all morphed into a modern FPS, right? It is not no sprint. It is aimed down sights like all of these have morphed into now just the modern first person shooter. But it is Halo 1 OG maps remade in Unreal Engine 5 for free.

[A]

But then what's the monetization? Just the.

[B]

Yeah, it's just Halo skins.

[A]

Yeah. I don't know. I just. I think that that is something that you wait for or you have to. You have to nail it. You have to nail it. I mean, Halo Infinite nailed it for the first four months. Like that was. That was a Great package. I just don't think they got it like that. I don't think. Also I don't think like the nostalgia of Halo one can kind of push you into a free to play model for the next year. Like unless you give you three months.

[B]

I don't think it's going to year.

[A]

So then what are you doing? You're then just doing. Are you then going to start bringing Halo 2 and 3 maps into this and then just making that into Halo away from it again?

[B]

No, no, you just do this and

[A]

you just play for free to play. I don't think that's a free to play game. I think that's a $40 video game. I think that's its own thing. You just let that live or die by the $40, have that community and then. No, eventually we do a Halo Infinite.

[B]

It's, it's either free to play or it's an. It's included in Halo Combat Evolved or whatever.

[A]

They've already said they're not doing that. Right.

[B]

There's no way they're selling two different products here. There's no way. Like, I love your prediction. Yeah, I love that the chat like freaked out because it is one of your best predictions of like, this is wild. There's no way that they will do two separate products and try to sell you two $40 things.

[A]

I just don't see, I just don't see the world of how we're going to able, we're going to be able to bring in multiplayer in a feasible way and that's free to play. That isn't just doing Halo Infinite. So that's, that's the cookie that I can't, I can't

[C]

do Halo Infinite as

[A]

a free to play game. I don't think that works.

[B]

The Halo 1 maps, again, 13 maps. Yeah, you're selling just skins. I mean, we're talking so then more than iconic maps.

[A]

But then what are you going to do? Inevitably when you do Halo 2 Campaign of Alder, you just could then, yeah, just add in Halo. I mean, I'm making it like a

[B]

yearly Call of Duty. What happens with Call of Duty? Okay, you get Call of duty, it's 10 maps. Three months later you go, Man, I'm bored of these 10 maps. And on a yearly cycle they give you DLC and give you new map packs like Halo 1. It's like, hey, we gave you Halo 1. You have the full Halo 1 package now. And I also, I don't think we'll see you next year with whatever.

[A]

I just don't think that. I think people would get everything that they want out of that and never spend a dollar. Like, it's not. Like, it's even less interesting than Halo Infinite. That's like giving people Call of Duty multiplayer.

[B]

Yeah, but they might not spend a dollar, but people will spend. And we always talk about this with free to play games. Right. It's like, you could take your stance on. I don't want to jump into the monetization or it's scummy. I hate it, whatever your excuse is. But it's like there's a pie chart here that shows 40% of people will buy the $5 skin. And selling $5 is more than just nothing.

[A]

Sure. But then also, I will go back to my point earlier where it's like. That's like giving away Call of Duty multiplayer for free. Right. It's not like a war zone. It's not like a battle royale. It is just, hey, here is just something that should be paid or traditionally paid for free. And I just don't see the benefit of that. And I think that Xbox wants money right now. They clearly do. They need. They need these franchises to be successful. And giving away Halo multiplayer, which is, you know, undoubtedly one of the most, like, important and valuable things in their portfolio for free, I think that doesn't work out, especially when the way that people consume that specific type of content. Not like a multiplayer battle royale, which is very different.

[B]

Well, I agree with you. I think this needs to be bundled as one. There is no splitting this. Right. Like, if it is a Halo 1 CE Remastered multiplayer, it needs to be in the bundle of the product. It is a $40 remastered product. It is everything that Halo 1 was with multiplayer and campaign. That's it. It is not split down the middle. And if it is split down the middle, there has to be so much more.

[C]

Right.

[B]

It's like there's something else to this, whether it be an extraction shooter, a live service.

[A]

But I say that. You say that, but it's like Destiny. I would say. I genuinely. And again, I'm not. This is not me, you know, saying that. This is a good business practice. I think this is fucking. This sucks. But also, I would pay $40 if I was, you know, somebody that was outside the industry for Halo multiplayer with.

[B]

No, you wouldn'.

[A]

I think that is the. That is the thing that I'm more excited about than the campaign for me specifically, because that's the way that I engage with Halo. So I don't think that that is out of the Realm of possibility again, fucking Mario kart world is $80. So I don't, I don't think it's in the heads of these executives for them be like, hey, $80 for the package of both of this game remade.

[B]

I don't think that's $40 for just Halo 1 multiplayer.

[A]

Dude, we were talking about them literally. I, I'm not, I don't think it's out of the realm possibility. Even if this thing that I said does not come true, that Halo campaign evolved is not $40, I don't think that thing is ever going to be $40 if this is the price. No, I think $50, 50 to $60. I don't think that this is going to be as cheap as we think it's going to be. I definitely do not. And that's just for the campaign. So that's why that's my thought process is like if they split it down the middle and they give you both products separately and you can pick and choose what you want, it's $80. That seems like something Xbox and Microsoft would do. I'm not saying I can condone it, but I also know that would make a fuck ton of money.

[C]

All right.

[B]

It's going to be a fun one. I'm so interested on what this strategy is. We've talked about it since me and Tim went up to Seattle and saw it.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Our first reactions when we left that building was wow, this looks great. This plays great. That's crazy that they're not adding in multiplayer. That's crazy that this isn't one full package. What are they going to do? And we have no idea until it's finally time in June or all the way out in November when they finally make this move and if it's true or not.

[A]

Yeah, for sure. I'm scared that, man. All eyes on Halo.

[C]

October, October.

[A]

Modern Warfare 4 will be really good. Not as good as Black Ops 6, but it will be really good doing another Modern Warfare. Yeah, they are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're back to it. We didn't, we didn't do a double up years, but you know, we're back to it. Then we will find out there's more genius Gen AI in it than last time. And it will still also do the same about numbers in terms of sales than Black Ops 7. So there's still going to be a Call of Duty decline. So we number one game of that month or whatever. It's going to be huge. But we're going to find Gen AI in it. It's going to be Modern Warfare 4. It's going to be pretty okay, but the sales are not just going to fucking magically skyrocket because there's so much stuff in the marketplace and everyone's playing Battlefield and I don't know how Battlefield's doing right now. I know it's kind of in a dip. But there's competition in this world and GTA 6 is around the corner. I don't think that that's going to save that franchise and give it the huge bump it might need or want. November, surprise. Grand Theft Auto 6 actually comes out. Oh, that's my big one. Yeah, I don't, I don't. I was going back and forth like delaying it, yada yada. I don't know. Something about me feels like they're, they're like we need to make this happen like now because our entire years take two. It depends on it. We need this. The gaming industry is moving away from November like the plague. I think it's gonna happen this year in November.

[C]

Even with the boiler room explosion.

[A]

That'd be great if it's like, it's like, it's like Pixar when like that one computer like explod and then they lost the entirety of Toy Story 2.

[C]

I, I love the idea of like them putting up like a new post or a video that's like hey guys, we promise. We thought November was for sure a given. We could not have predicted. Sorry. We couldn't have predicted this. Like, I'm sorry. Like I don't know what you want for water everywhere. What do you want? Everywhere's water.

[A]

It's like, it's like the Riz's basement flooding. It's like oh no.

[C]

Oh God, half the game. Cuz it doesn't seem like anybody was harmed.

[A]

So do we think it's coming out in November?

[C]

I think so, yeah. Greg sent something to kfgd. I thought where it was like the. There's a fan who's terminally ill.

[B]

I saw that.

[C]

But they have given kind of like a version of GTA 6 to, to

[A]

be able to play.

[B]

Nice little heartwarming story.

[C]

Yeah, really nice. So it's one of those like I don't think they would have done that if they don't feel confident that it's like almost there. Like a state where it's playable. So that gives like even that little story. I, I think it's a flip of the coin. Right. Jason Schreier did a. Did a thing on it last week where he was talking about, like, yeah, it seems like it's good, but, like, if. If there's a pixel that's off, they'll delay it. Like, if there's anything. They will be willing to delay this game if it's. If there's something off, if it's not shaping up, they do not want. They cannot up this game. And so I think it could just as easily delay as it can easily make it. So I'm kind of 50. 50. But I'm leaning toward the idea that it comes out this year.

[A]

Mike, we're in December. Did you. Do you have a prediction or.

[B]

I have.

[C]

Mike gave. Oh, yes, you do.

[B]

In such a public forum. Roger.

[A]

Mike looked at me earlier today. It was so funny where he was just uptight and then he's. I was like, why are you upset? What's going on? He just said, roger, you know, my muscles hurt.

[B]

My muscles.

[C]

Your muscles hurt?

[A]

I'm like, why would I know your muscles hurt?

[B]

Golden Gate Bridge.

[C]

No, no.

[B]

First time. It was a beautiful experience. Really loved it, man.

[C]

That's awesome.

[B]

You ever done it?

[C]

No, I've never done it.

[B]

Oh, it's cool, man. It's a long walk. It's like 1.7.

[C]

And you. Did you walk back and forth?

[A]

No shot.

[B]

I never knew it was more than a mile.

[A]

I was like, oh, this gotta be

[B]

like a half mile. No, it's more than a mile.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

No, it's really long.

[B]

It kicked my butt, but it was beautiful.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Got to watch big old Air Force bomber jet fly over top. Then a cruise ship came underneath. Yeah. Beautiful. Sunday.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Sunday, beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Park on the other side.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Marin county side. Walk back over there, get a little coffee, bagel.

[C]

Oh, back.

[B]

That's the move. You know me.

[C]

You know what? You're inspiring me. I might try that. I like.

[B]

You would like it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Especially if I can go across, get something to eat and then come back. Because after a mile, a mile and a half, I want to eat something.

[B]

I'm zapped. Yeah. I was all crabby at Roger.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

My body hurts.

[C]

No, I haven't predicted my thing yet, because my prediction is for December. Either an early Access game is nominated for game of the Year at the Game Awards and everyone is mad about it. Whoa. Or an early Access game isn't nominated, sparking discussion that it should be this year. I don't know what the game is, but there will be an early Access game that's in the Game of the Year discussion, and it's going to cause everybody to go Crazy. Even more crazy than we went with Shadow of the Erdtree.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Damn. Yeah, well, it's not Deadlock. I don't think it's gonna be a deadlock. Okay.

[C]

I'm leaning towards the Spires. No, I'm leaning towards. It comes out and like it's a game that we just don't know that comes out of left field where everybody's like, yo, this shit's like a balatro, you know, I mean like a blueprints. But yeah, but whatever it is, it's early access. And we all play it and we're like hooked on it.

[A]

I like that.

[C]

And we're like, yo, this is incredible. And it ends up in that conversation.

[A]

All right.

[C]

And will it end up on Kind of Funny's Game of the Year list and upset a lot of people?

[A]

God, I wish Deadlock ended up on the Game of the Year list. Having used like, just redacted.

[C]

It was one of like. Am I gonna have to find assets?

[B]

I did that. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

There's no official assets for this game. How am I supposed to make a video like I was. Did you all see the Andy's. You play it 15 through 11.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Like the Deadlock video on the wall was going to have to look like that.

[A]

Yeah, that's sick. I like that.

[C]

But yeah. My argument here being that early access has become a bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger thing in recent years. And I think early access is only becoming more popular. People are playing more early access games.

[A]

Right.

[C]

It's becoming a more natural, normal way to release. And so I could easily see something come out where that takes us all off guard. We're like, yo, this is fucking amazing. But.

[B]

But also could be Minecraft too.

[C]

Could be my hightail.

[B]

I tell.

[A]

I think it's early access. I think she's out. Is it?

[B]

I think it's early access.

[A]

December, of course, game awards, as Blessing alluded to, I have a few, I would say modest ones. I'm not doing Half Life 3 this time, but I got some. I got some. I got three. I got three right here. Which are four gameplay. I think this is where we start. We start actually saying, hey, Richard, four. I don't know if they say, I don't think it's 2027, but 2028, right. We just, we keep on. We keep on. Every. Every year or so. We're like, hey, we're showing this. This is what it is. What's your four gameplay? 2028. Devil May Cry 6 is revealed. It's the One more thing. It's the last big thing. I think he likes Capcom. They have that connection that seems pretty realistic to be like, the one last thing you.

[C]

I don't know. Yeah.

[A]

Dante comes out in real life.

[C]

We're just trying to think of a name of any double character.

[A]

I was thinking. I tried to think about music, and I was like, I don't know what any of the music.

[B]

Dante and Virginia. Virgil.

[C]

There's Dante. Virgil. There's V. Yes, there is.

[B]

I've only played three.

[C]

I almost booted up Devil May Cry 5 again for the first time in, like, five years.

[A]

So many systems in that game. So many systems.

[C]

So many systems.

[A]

My brain can't do it.

[C]

V is a freak in that game. It's like, what are we? He's just summoning things. He's doing all this good game, though.

[A]

And then my final one, which I have to do it every year. I gotta predict it as Jeff is speaking. He's speaking. He's doing his thing. Oh, man. Game awards. I love video games. Video games are so cool. Lights turn off. Holy.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, my God. He forgot to pay the electrical bill. What's going on? Oh, the three lights go on the screen. Splinter Cell was showing off 2027 window. And what I wrote. It's a big deal.

[C]

Think. You think Ubisoft can afford all that right now?

[A]

Big deal is a big deal.

[C]

Somebody to turn off the light switch at the game awards.

[A]

And it's like, oh, oh. And like, Michael Ironside comes out finally. Remember when he was supposed to come to Game Gamescom? People thought he was going to Gamescom. He was. Yeah, he was. He was trapped. He was trapped in a fucking loop. And now he's finally here. They finally got him there.

[C]

Listen, Ubisoft's gonna have Michael Ironside handing out pamphlets like it's a mixtape Outside. Outside of the game boards. Be like, hey, guys, we got Splinter Self. Please. It's all we have left.

[A]

If that.

[C]

If this doesn't work, we're done. We're finished. Please.

[A]

That is my year. Everybody has been foretold.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

I like it.

[C]

What do you think the success rate is here versus last year?

[B]

Yeah, what were you last year? 4 of 25?

[A]

Yeah, 4 of 25 or something like that. I would say 6 to 25.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I think 6.

[A]

I mean, I got a lot of, like, you know, like, I put, like. Also, here's the open critic here. Here's this. I got a lot of things that I can kind of, like, point two fives out of this. But I think I'm gonna do pretty good.

[C]

I'm gonna do pretty good.

[A]

Everybody. Rosalina game. Everybody, look out.

[C]

Somebody hold on. Let me see if I can find this.

[A]

Rosalina's big time, big time in space.

[C]

Here we go. King Toast 24 says, I think you're more likely to get a Captain Toad in Space game than a Rosalina game. My prediction for this year is a new Vanilla Wear game. Here's what I'll say, because I was saying that, like, I think a Rosalina game would basically be another game, but, like, a clone version. I could see a. Like, a Captain Rosalina game, not called Captain Rosalina, but it's a Rosalina, like, puzzle box style of just a half.

[A]

Yeah. Just to come. Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I could see that.

[C]

I do like the idea of a new Vanilla Wear game. I hope they go back to more 13 Sentinels. Like, when did the. What was the last game that they didn't? No, not I. You didn't. No, I know what you're talking. Unicorn overlord.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Was that two years ago? Yes. Okay. Okay. Very recent. Yeah. I don't think we see one come out this year, but I could see an announcement maybe same with Atlas. I think, like, we could see P6 announcement that. This year for the anniversary. But yeah. Dead brain writes in and says Half Life's weapon arsenal is often left out of the conversation. The crossbow, FBW rocket launcher, etc. So imagine Half Life 3 with an array of aperture devices. Oh, that's sick, dude. There's a bunch of weird gadgets.

[A]

I got emotional last night watching, like, footage of Half Life 2 and, like, just breakdowns of it all. I was like, man, like, this in 2026 would go so fucking crazy. God. Yeah.

[B]

Still waiting on that Nvidia remix of it.

[A]

You gotta play Half Life, Alex.

[B]

That's the next one is. I'll put the headset.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I gotta play episode one and two first.

[A]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You didn't.

[B]

That's Half Life 2.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You finished Half Life 2. But there's still more.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Alex is important.

[C]

Black Mesa. It was tough. The gameplay wasn't clicking with me. Like, it feels like an older game. You know what I mean? But I want to push through it because I like the world.

[B]

Crazy music in those games.

[A]

I wish I just could. I wish I could finish those games without throwing up. Up. See, I got nauseous. Every single one of those.

[C]

I had that.

[A]

I watch all the gameplay, though, dude.

[C]

I had crazy motion sickness playing. Oh, what's the first person shooter on the Wii that also has, like, swords in it.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You know the one.

[A]

I know, I know. Samurai something.

[C]

No, there's like two of them also.

[A]

Steel, Steel, Steel.

[C]

Red Steel. Yes. Your mind is mine. That went.

[A]

That went triple platinum on X Play. Bro. They were talking about that game all the time for no reason.

[C]

Dude, I was playing Red Steel. I got like maybe 30 minutes in. I had to turn off the Wii and lay down. It was so bad. There was a weird, like, two year arc in high school where first person shooters would just give me ocean sickness. I couldn't play. I could not play first person shooters. Then I got over it. And then we have one from Ambrosia Jam.

[A]

There's a Red Steel 2.

[C]

Yeah. Bear, bring up footage of Red Steel 2. Red Steel 2. Big jump. Big jump from Redstone 1.

[A]

Was it also on the Wii?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. And they were banging on.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Red Steel 2 was going crazy. And then. Yeah. Ambrose writes in and says, I predict generative AI will be used in a game and it will blatantly use slurs but still not be canceled.

[A]

Isn't that what happened with Fortnite? Yeah, with Vader and Fortnite.

[B]

What's up?

[A]

Was that a meme or was that real?

[B]

They were working Vader over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You get stuck in a loop in a sequence, and all of a sudden you'd be breaking poor Vader down.

[A]

Poor Vader.

[C]

Poor Vader. And that's it. Do we have footage of Red Steel 2?

[A]

It'd be great if that game never existed.

[C]

Like, blessing. I can't find this Red Seal 2 game.

[A]

What the fuck is, like, stylized?

[C]

It looks.

[A]

Wow. This looks way better.

[C]

Art style. Looks like early Borderlands. Yeah, dude, I fuck with Red Steel 2 with me back and make me sick.

[B]

You should watch. Whenever I make Andy and Nick put on the headsets, it's always funny. They quickly get sick.

[C]

Yeah, I don't. I don't handle motion sickness well. There's a moment in Astrobot. Astrobot rescue mission for PSVR1 where they, like. You're. You go underwater and that shit was trippy. But then they put you on an elevator. Oh, that elevator. I had to take it. I took off the headset. I was sweating. I was like, oh, God.

[A]

That's the thing. When I play, like any Meta Quest game, I'm just sweating. I'm just like. I was playing Shadows and I just couldn't. I had to stop after like 30 minutes. That sucks so bad.

[B]

Did you see that? Bruno Mars concert in Roblox that I sent you got like 12 million concurrent.

[A]

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

[C]

That's crazy.

[B]

That's crazy.

[C]

Wait, hold on. Bruno Mars had a concert that had 12 million concurrent? Yeah, in Roblox. Do kids love Bruno Mars? Yeah, everybody loves.

[A]

Everybody loves.

[B]

He's back. Have you heard that new song?

[C]

I mean, yeah, Bruno Mars makes music from, like, the 80s and 70s when Bruno's on. But then he was also part of the. One of the, like, breakout songs from last year. The.

[B]

I also think it was in Capture the Brain Rotters in like, Steal the Brain Rot game, which is like one of their most popular games right now. Have you seen that game?

[C]

Oh, what a game. Steal the Brain Rot.

[B]

Yeah, Steal the Brain Rot. It's like, imagine if you had a giant Runway down the middle, a walkway, like a catwalk, and then it walks. All these small items come out and they're like, super expensive to super cheap, but they're all like brain rot themed items. And your goal is to grab them, run to your base, and then lock them up. And then you look at other people's bases that are in the game and you go, oh, my God, they got the Super Skibidi toilet that makes like $5 billion a second. I need to steal that. So when you open up your door, I can go into your base, steal it, run to my base, and then I have it forever. Children cry I watched Laser Beam make a video on it. Shout out to my man Laser beam.

[A]

It sounded like a haiku.

[B]

That's real toilet as children cry People make that. People spend a lot of time.

[A]

A lot of money too. They make a lot.

[B]

They make a lot of money.

[C]

I think Bruno Mars is an AI I. His music is too perfect.

[A]

You know what I mean? Like, too, like. It's like you took manufacturer.

[C]

It's like you took every pop artist and put them into an algorithm and spit out the perfect man.

[B]

Yeah, he's got the voice, he's got the moves.

[C]

But, like. But there's something about it where I'm like, it's too. It's too good. Yeah, it's so good that I can't.

[A]

That was my issue with the. With the silk Sonic thing that they did with, like. I love Anderson pop, but it's like together. It's just like. This is just too rounded off the edges.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You rounded off the edges is the way to put it. It's too perfect to me. That's it for this episode. Kind of Funny Games cast Roger thanks so much for bringing your predictions.

[A]

I see the future everybody. Thank you for these pills.

[C]

We'll keep track throughout the year. Did you say what the pills were? You just took pills you don't want

[A]

to share with the pop up.

[C]

It was some aspirin.

[A]

You know if the pills work I'll give them a shout out. Maybe they'll sponsor. If they don't then we won't talk about the pills.

[B]

He's chewing neuro gum.

[C]

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