Game Awards Announcement Predictions 2025 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Game Awards Announcement Predictions 2025

Date: December 9, 2025
Hosts: Tim Gettys (host), Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Mike ("Snowbike Mike")
Theme: The crew brings their wildest, most specific predictions for what will be announced or revealed at The Game Awards 2025. Expect a mix of bold bets, insider banter, and friendly trash talk.

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Episode Overview

The Kinda Funny Gamescast team gathers for one of their favorite annual traditions: making predictions for The Game Awards announcements. With so much already leaked and confirmed, their challenge is to get highly specific and have fun. Each regular panelist prepares five predictions—including wild cards, deep dives, and some friendly wagers.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Setting the Stage: Approach to Predictions

• (02:03–05:00) Tim Gettys explains the nature of this special predictions episode—focused solely on Game Awards announcements (separate from tomorrow’s episode, which is about predicting winners).
• Panelists are encouraged to add caveats and get “insanely” specific to keep things fun and avoid the obvious.
• Memorable Quote:

  "It's not about being perfectly right. It's about being right on some insane."
  -- Tim Gettys [04:54]

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2. Valve Magic vs. Valve Doubt

• Greg’s Prediction: "The Steam Machine is dated. Half-Life: Alyx 3 is revealed—not in the same trailer." [05:18]
• Blessing’s Counter-Prediction: "No Valve, no Steam Machine, no Half-Life 3, nothing." [06:00]
• A pizza bet is proposed between the two over whether Valve will appear in any meaningful announcement capacity.
• Tim leans with Greg for maximum exposure reasons, while Blessing is unconvinced, believing Valve can command just as much hype outside the show.
• Notable Debate:

  Greg: "Valve likes Geoff so much... everything is lining up for them to appear." [08:24]
  Blessing: "I think you announce Half-Life 3 on a random Tuesday... just as many clicks!" [09:10]

• The difference between a sizzle reel, a proper trailer, and whether that qualifies as a “Valve appearance” is bantered around.

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3. “Kingdom Hearts 4” Dreams & Marvel Crossover Hopes

• Mike’s Prediction: "Kingdom Hearts 4 gets its moment, maybe even a Marvel tie-in teaser" [10:48]
• Discussion of Geoff Keighley’s known “wants” (Kingdom Hearts, Elden Ring, Silksong), and possibility of Marvel synergy with the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
• Tim: "If Marvel is in Kingdom Hearts 4... I would bet on it." [11:53]
• The panel muses about how announcements are pre-social media hyped with guest imagery—wondering if the Russos or other celebs could be present.
• Greg brings up Donald Mustard’s new connection to the Russos, fueling speculation for AAA crossovers. [13:06]

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4. FromSoftware Update Hopes & Armored Core

• Andy's Prediction: "Armored Core 6 DLC and Duskbloods get the 'one-two punch' reveal." [13:40]
• Blessing and others agree Game Awards is the logical reveal venue for FromSoftware, but Andy confesses he’s not usually a PvP guy.
• It’s noted—from historic reveals like Elden Ring and Sekiro—that FromSoft and Keighley have a strong bond.

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5. Final Fantasy VII “Green” Tune Speculation

• Tim’s Prediction: "Final Fantasy VII: Return is announced with a green-tinted logo. Aerith's theme is central to the trailer." [15:09]
• Andy’s skeptical about the timing (“feels like a Summer Game Fest thing”), but Tim is convinced by prior announcement patterns and the devs’ recent world tour.
• “I think it's time. They want to be part of the Game Awards.” [16:21]

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6. Kojima, OD, and the Statue Mystery

• Greg’s Prediction: "Kojima comes out. OD gets a new trailer that starts with a tribute to Udo Kier (who recently passed), the actor from the OD trailer." [18:28]
• Blessing’s Spin: “OD is being used for something weirder—a new media hybrid that might even connect to that mysterious statue everyone’s speculating about.” [20:19]
• Lots of meta discussion about Kojima-style reality games, statues, and whether the new Divinity trademark is related. Greg confirms the “New Divinity trademark uncovered as new icon matches the statue” [22:53].

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7. Celebrity Cameo Predictions

• Mike’s Prediction: "James Cameron will present an award, plug the latest Avatar movie, and Ubisoft will announce Avatar DLC." [23:33]
• Panel notes the rollout of official Game Awards guest social media images—so far, only Miss Piggy and Todd Howard have been revealed. [24:38]

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8. Capcom Triple Threat

• Tim’s Prediction: "Capcom brings a Resident Evil Requiem demo (available now), plus Pragmata and Onimusha with release dates for all." [26:15]
• Group narrows release window speculation—Pragmata in March, Onimusha in May, demo for RE: Requiem on show night. [27:16–27:21]
• Greg and Andy: "Gotta run from GTA 6!" [27:32]

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9. Tifa Enters Tekken, Waffle House Confirmed

• Blessing’s Prediction: “Tifa is the big guest fighter for Tekken; Waffle House stage revealed in the same trailer.” [28:09]
• Tim: “That would be the fucking moment.” [28:32]
• They discuss why Tifa fits so well, precedent from previous Tekken/Final Fantasy crossovers.

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10. PlayStation Drama: Ghost of Yotei, God of War, & Art Style Theories

• Greg’s Prediction: "No Wolverine. Instead, Ghost of Yotei Legends 2 shown, with January 2026 date." [29:10]
• Blessing’s Prediction: "PlayStation will announce a 2D God of War prequel set in Greece—a Metroidvania in the Prince of Persia: Lost Crown vein—developed with a smaller Sony Santa Monica internal team." [30:28]
• Debate about possible art styles for a 2D God of War, with references to murals from earlier games. [31:28]

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11. Remedy Segment: Max Payne Remake & Control: Resonance

• Mike’s Prediction: Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake gets teaser, prepping fans for a return to Remedy’s pulp noir roots. [33:20]
• Andy’s Prediction: Control: Resonance is revealed; gameplay shown, with updated service weapon and 2027 date. [34:55]
• Banter about Max Payne’s face and Remedy taking the franchise back.

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12. Expedition 33 Content Drop

• Tim’s Prediction: Expedition 33’s big new update (announced pre-show) will be shadow-dropped during Game Awards—no Switch 2 port (yet). [36:45]
• Confirmed to include new story, bosses, and locations.

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13. Fable and Xbox’s 25th Anniversary

• Greg’s Prediction: "Fable gets a huge 2026 trailer; also Xbox launches its 25th anniversary campaign with a sizzle reel or new X25 logo." [42:39]
• Mike piggybacks with more Xbox predictions: "Gears ‘E-Day’ is teased with a bro moment from Marcus and Dom, but no date; Halo, Fable, and Forza are all shuffled to avoid GTA 6’s November release." [44:13]

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14. The Genre Overload

• Blessing’s Prediction: "At least three Soulslikes, three Genshin-likes, three friend-slop [live service looter] games, and exactly two extraction shooter reveals/updates during Game Awards." [47:27]
• Specific bets about which games could appear—Arc Raiders, Exoborn, maybe Marathon. Debate over what qualifies as an “extraction shooter.”

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15. Light No Fire Gets Date

• Andy’s Prediction: "Light No Fire Early Access launches February 12th. Will have a big gameplay trailer stressing the hand-crafted full-scale planet." [49:41]

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16. Super Mario Galaxy Movie: The Yoshi Voice Sweepstakes

• Tim’s Prediction: "We get a Super Mario Galaxy Movie clip at Game Awards; Yoshi’s voice and character revealed. Panel bets on who voices Yoshi (jokingly): Bill Hader (Andy), Alison Brie (Bless), Seth Green (Mike), Vin Diesel (Tim)." [50:55–52:31]
• Panel dreads possibility of Awkwafina as Yoshi ("Don’t bring that into the world, please." -- Tim, [52:52])

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17. Ubisoft & Sega Surprises

• Greg’s Prediction: "Ubisoft Massive reveals Division 3—set in Los Angeles. Huge map and new set pieces." [53:09]
• Blessing’s Prediction: "Sega brings a Crazy Taxi gameplay debut, Jet Set Radio reveal, and a Sonic Heroes remake." [55:26]
• Tim: "Sega, man, they're here and they have something to say ... It’s time for a new 3D Sonic." [56:28]
• Panel wants Offspring’s iconic song in Crazy Taxi trailer.

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18. Star Wars Jedi 3 & Secret Level Season 2

• Andy’s Prediction: "Ryan Gosling presents announcement of Star Wars Jedi 3: Resistance from Respawn." [58:43]
  • Panel is skeptical it’s ready, but admit the timing could fit.
• Tim’s Final Prediction: "Secret Level Season 2 is shown, with an Elden Ring episode teased." [61:35]
  • Panel acknowledges it’s an unlikely but fun pick.

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Notable Quotes & Banter

• "It's not about being perfectly right. It's about being right on some insane." — Tim Gettys [04:54]
• "Valve likes Geoff so much... everything is lining up for them to appear." — Greg Miller [08:24]
• "Kingdom Hearts 4, man." — Mike [11:09]
• "Gotta run from GTA." — Greg Miller [27:32]
• “Tifa is the big announcement. [for Tekken]” — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [28:15]
• "No Wolverine. Instead, Ghost of Yotei Legends 2 trailer." — Greg Miller [29:10]
• "I want to see another showing of Den of Wolves... Make it official!" — Andy Cortez [25:00]
• "At least three Soulslikes, three Genshin-likes, three live-service looters, two extraction shooters." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [47:27]

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Timestamps: Major Segments

• Start of predictions: [04:18]
• Valve predictions & pizza bet: [05:18–09:49]
• Kingdom Hearts 4/Marvel discussion: [10:48–13:24]
• From Software/Armored Core: [13:40–15:05]
• Final Fantasy VII Return: [15:09–18:06]
• Kojima, OD, statue speculation: [18:28–23:02]
• Celebrity predictions (James Cameron): [23:33–24:44]
• Capcom’s triple threat: [26:15–27:24]
• Tekken/Tifa/Waffle House: [28:09]
• PlayStation: Ghost of Yotei, God of War 2D game: [29:10–31:51]
• Remedy: Max Payne, Control: [33:20–36:45]
• Expedition 33 update shadow-dropped: [36:45]
• Xbox 25th anniversary & Fable: [42:39–44:05]
• Gears ‘E-Day’, Halo/Fable/Forza shifting: [44:13]
• Genre overload predictions: [47:27–49:17]
• Light No Fire launch prediction: [49:41]
• Super Mario Galaxy movie clip/Yoshi bets: [50:55–52:47]
• Ubisoft/Sega block: [53:09–57:48]
• Star Wars Jedi 3/Secret Level/Elden Ring episode: [58:27–61:41]

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Closing

The episode wraps with the crew reading and riffing on audience super chats for their own zany predictions, from LEGO Batman to a Persona 4 Revival, to whether Fallout TV cast will show at Game Awards. They look forward to their next predictions show (Game Awards winners) and streaming the show live with the Kind of Funny community.

Tone: High-energy, playful, full of inside jokes and meta references, with plenty of wild guesses and gaming deep-cuts.

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Takeaway

If you love the speculation and hype cycle of industry events, this cast is a goldmine of wishful thinking, educated guessing, and community-powered fun. The hosts keep it competitive and clever—so whether you’re filling out your own bingo card or just curious what’s “in the air” for 2025’s Game Awards, this episode is a can’t-miss listen.

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[Tim Gettys]

This episode's brought to you by Storm Lancers. Fight together. Rise together. Storm Lancers is available now on PC and Nintendo Switch 2. What's up and welcome to the kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined by blessing Adio Ye junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Snowbike Mike.

[Mike]

Hi, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Hi Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

And Andy Cortez.

[Mike]

Hello.

[Andy Cortez]

Test Test.

[Tim Gettys]

It is one of my favorite types of episodes we do here. Predicting a big showcase. Not just a big showcase. The game awards. The biggest showcase of the year where everyone comes together. Doesn't matter if you're indie, aaa, any of the big three, PC doesn't matter. You could show up and that's always very, very exciting. We do two predictions episodes. One is predicting the announcements and reveals which is what this episode is. And then tomorrow we will each go through predicting who we think is going to win each of the major CA of the game awards. So stay tuned for all of that because this is the kind of funny games cast where each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games. Live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the Globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free and a daily exclusive show for a chance to be part of this show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. So get them ready. What big reveals do you think that we'll see? What do you think we see? Super. Chat that in and we'll get to those as we go throughout the show. Little housekeeping for you. We have the inaugural Kind of Funny Games Daily awards coming up. Kind of Funny Games Daily is literally nothing without the hard work of an entire industry. So we're going to celebrate the people who make the news each and every day. Nominate your favorite sites, authors and [e-mail] awards so we can show it's last call everyone. So get in there. Kind of funny.com awards.

[Greg Miller]

I gotta finalize this stuff tonight and then I gotta get the nomin or the voting ballot out in this upcoming week so you have time to do it so we can do it on the final Friday. Games Daily.

[Tim Gettys]

We are an 11 person business. All about live talk shows today after Games Daily or we already got Games Daily. Now we have Games Cast which is predicting game awards predictions. After that we have the Elden Ring Night Rain dlc. Andy hyped on that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, we're gonna keep on playing it. We had some struggles the other night. Me and Mike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Didn't have me though.

[Andy Cortez]

Didn't go great. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's right.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, I'm liking your hair.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, thanks man.

[Tim Gettys]

It's big.

[Andy Cortez]

Got a little haircut.

[Tim Gettys]

It's good. I like it a lot. It's a nice shape going on. Look at that.

[Greg Miller]

How do you do the back?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't. I mean I just do it like it's not good but I just do it. Yeah. You know, just hope nobody looks.

[Tim Gettys]

If you're a Kind of Funny member. Today's Greg Ways. 18 minutes of Greg's hopes and dreams for the Pokemon DLC. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the som twining. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. That's damn right that's predicting the announcements at the Game Awards. Each one of us has brought five predictions to the Game Awards gamescast stage. Now here's what I want to put out there. So much is leaked. So much has been officially confirmed. So I want us to Go that extra mile, add as many caveats as you can. You know what I mean? Get specific. Let's make some fun here. Okay. It's not about being perfectly right. It's about being right on some insane. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because we all can say a bunch of stuff. It's like, oh man, this is going to be here that we know Justice Creed. We know Black Flag.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I wonder if it's called re we all talking like this. Talking like this. I'm so each one of us is going to go in order. Who should we start with?

[Greg Miller]

Number one, the Steam Machine is dated. And Half Life Alex three. Half Alex is three. I got it right. Yeah. Drop the Alex is revealed as well. Not in the same thing. I think they bookend it kind of thing where they put one in of here's the Steam Machine hot sexy thing. Here's the date. And then later on maybe directly after. But not. It won't be the same video.

[Andy Cortez]

You think that's all we're getting. And you're like okay, that's going to be it from Val.

[Greg Miller]

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Tim Gettys]

You thought.

[Greg Miller]

And then Jeff gets to do is. I'm so excited as you should to show you this. This is a big deal.

[Andy Cortez]

It is finally time. Oh man. I watched that just to feel stuck in Okami.

[Greg Miller]

He was super into Okami.

[Tim Gettys]

You should be.

[Greg Miller]

I agree.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. Go for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My number one prediction. No valve, no steam machine. No Half Life 3 nothing. No steam frame.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. Eat that, dude.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They don't show up Kevin or Baron.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know who's in there. Somebody throw up the pizza Bet we're

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

doing a pizza bet we're doing it.

[Tim Gettys]

Damn. That confidence from Greg on this one. That's the kind of wild one to be confident about because I mean I. I'm leaning towards you for the pizza

[Greg Miller]

bet Valve is there. Can I just get. I'm not. I mean my. My prediction is my prediction. But I think we at least get a sizzle reel of the Steam Machine. I mean it'd be foolish for Valve not to do this. We are making a mainstream piece of hardware to put under TV's stream show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like no new announcements. Just a sizzle reel.

[Greg Miller]

A trailer for the Steam Machine.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See that's. Are we counting a commercial?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean that's. Yeah, I mean that's what I'm counting as a trailer.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You said no Valve period. That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's what I can see.

[Andy Cortez]

Like because I will hit the pizza bed area.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm thinking no Valve announcements. If you're saying like in the commercials right next to Zenless Zone 0 or whatever I hear.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, so. Okay, I hear you and I respect you and I'll keep. I'll. Even though you said no Valve period and I said I'll take that back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. This will be. This would be a. Hey, it's Jeff and this is what happened. But I have something. You know, Valve is set to change the way we enjoy games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That.

[Greg Miller]

That level. It's not going to be Genshin Impact Zenless commercial. It's not gonna be buried somewhere. It will be. This is a big deal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm showing you.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. I'll take that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pizza bet on that.

[Greg Miller]

I already owe him a pizza from another bed too. A long time ago.

[Mike]

Andy and Tim. Do you guys.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I want to talk about. I want to just stay. Stay here on the. The Valve thing just a little longer because I want to hear.

[Greg Miller]

Don't take my moment.

[Mike]

I want to know.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't take it because I'm. I'm leaning where I would never pizza bet on this one. Where I'm not confident. But like I've been saying since the reveal of the the Steam Machine, I really do think the best place to do is game Awards and like I feel like they should do it here for maximum exposure and get the preorder date out there. Announce Half Life. The most eyes are going to be on it right now. They can do whatever they want. We understand that they will not get as many people watching as they will watching the game awards and they can continue more marketing beats after that. So I think they should be here because of that. I think they will.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's.

[Greg Miller]

And here's why I will continue. Why I'm so bullish that they will be there and do something Steam Machine related.

[Andy Cortez]

Is bullish like aggressive or like good or bad?

[Greg Miller]

That's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's good.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You know bullish fees. Feels like I'm kind of timid about it. Tim. I've always thought that.

[Greg Miller]

Also I want to pizza bet you about Tim's baby's due date. We'll get there. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Millions. Everything we just said, all these people watching all this stuff going. Yeah. But then again I go back to the fact that Valve likes Jeff so much and they don't get a chance to do stuff that often. He did the whole making of like you know when you talk about Jeff as a journalist. Right. In a life before what people know him as now. It was the final hour stuff he used to do which started with Valve. Like he's clearly got connections in DNA there and I think this is one of those serendipitous occasions where everything is kind of lining up where it would make sense for Valve. Who doesn't what are they going to run a Steam commercial usually during the. You know what I mean? Like that doesn't make sense for them to be able to play ball here. Be like. You know what Jeff? Yes. Let's give you a new look at the Steam Machine or whatever they're going to call this trailer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I think I just all the way disagree that game awards that's the most eyes that they could get for an announcement. I think you announced Half Life 3 on a random Tuesday in January and you're going to get just as many clicks on it.

[Greg Miller]

But here's again, I think, I think you might be conflating the arguments there. This is me and Tim arguing why the Steam Machine needs to be a game awards right now. I think the Steam Machine is. I'm trying to get into every John and Doe. Jane John and Jane Doe gamer.

[Andy Cortez]

Dick and Sally.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly. Trying to get there, you know, dick down. I'm trying to get in there and see what's happening with and say hey Casual gamer, PlayStation gamer, Madden gamer. This is something you need to be paying attention to. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And to your point, bless. Like it's a simple numbers game. Like every year the game awards breaks records for how many millions, millions and millions of people are watching across all the different platforms. Half Life 3 is not going to get that. It's just, it's. They.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

By definition Half Life 3 is going to get millions and millions.

[Tim Gettys]

No, it will but these are just millions more. It's simply just more. It's all that they would have got plus more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Would we say the same about GTA 6? Yeah, but GTA 6 doesn't appear at the game.

[Tim Gettys]

But GTA 6 is not coming out in March. It's not imminently timed for a preorder.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Half Life 3 coming out in March.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, because I think Steam Machine's coming out in March.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn.

[Greg Miller]

Sometime I don't know when the Steam.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean that. Wasn't that what they're talking about?

[Greg Miller]

They said early right. They said. Or whatever. I forget their exact verbiage is another time.

[Tim Gettys]

It's pre order time, baby.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you put.

[Tim Gettys]

You put the. The date and pre order time out there and I. I'm only associating Half Life 3 to Greg's point because like if they have that ready that's what you do. That's how you sell this thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But hey, what do I know?

[Greg Miller]

Not much. You should time and time again.

[Tim Gettys]

What's yours, Tim?

[Mike]

There's a rotary phone. And it's ringing. It's answered. Music starts to swell and an iconic laugh rings out. And a quack rings out. And one voice comes on. He says, come on, gang, we got an adventure.

[Andy Cortez]

Kingdom Hearts.

[Mike]

It's Kingdom Hearts 4, man.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so funny. Goofy could not

[Greg Miller]

of.

[Mike]

Six months ago, we had the random seven photos on Twitter that we saw. A library, a rotary phone, and sweet photos of my man. So I'm a man and I got a good feeling like today's the day.

[Andy Cortez]

He's a man now. He's 42.

[Tim Gettys]

But I will say, and this isn't rocket science. Heely wants Kingdom Hearts.

[Mike]

He wants it.

[Tim Gettys]

He said that. Like, he's shown that before. He loves the Elden rings. He loves the games that people are talking about in chat. He loves the silk songs. Kingdom Hearts is one of those. I don't think he has Kingdom Hearts. I don't think he has anything at all.

[Mike]

Anything. Tim, a little tease. Something small for the people out there.

[Tim Gettys]

The one it's time thing that potentially could happen is synergy. Oh, synergy. Where all signs are pointing to an Avengers Doomsday trailer in the next two weeks. Because Avatar, Ash and Fire is coming out. Right? It seems all but confirmed that we're getting this trailer. It was rated in Korea. Like, the question is, when is this trailer coming? The Russo brothers have been at the game awards before, right? There is that tie. If Marvel is in Kingdom Hearts 4, which I do not think is that big of a stretch, I would. I would bet on it. I can see somehow them doing all that, but I think they would have announced the Russos already.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Usually they would have gotten their own little social media image or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Who has?

[Andy Cortez]

Who has gotten the social media images? Has that happened yet?

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's really happened.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think the Miss Piggy.

[Andy Cortez]

Miss Piggy, Yeah, I hear.

[Greg Miller]

I like what you're cooking there, Tim, and I like that. And I think you could even take it one. So there's no Russo imagery out. Right. You could take it one step beyond that, though, or back, I guess, from that. And remember that Donald Mustard left Epic Games, was a man about town for a second, and now works on the Russos.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Greg Miller]

I forget if it's a gaming studio they're doing or whatever there is, and we know how tight Donald. He was always the fortnite guy on Jeff's thing which I assume spirals out into at least a working relationship. So I could see there still being connection connective tissue there. Even if it was, we can't get the Russos but we're gonna get some kind of announcement, some kind of thing, some kind of tease.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe they just telecall in

[Greg Miller]

on the same rotary phone.

[Tim Gettys]

I wish though. Mike.

[Mike]

Oh, hold on. I have some other fun ones. Let me know when we get to the celebrity portion of it because I have a great celebrity one.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Andy FromSoftware Armored Core DLC God, I hope. Okay, Steam DB or Steam. There was an update for Armored Core 6 about four or five days ago and nobody knows what it is. People are all, you know, speculating. Could be nothing, could just be a whatever the hell. But that's not it. We think it's only Armored Core. And then afterwards Duskbloods as a one, two punch. As a one, two punch.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And we're gonna think maybe the trailer is done, it's gonna move on. No, we're gonna. We're in for the long ass ride and we're going to get like the full ass sort of breakdown of Dusk Bloods and why you should care.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you going to care? I mean that's not part of the prediction. Yeah, that's more just.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean it's from software of course. Yeah. But you know, I'm typically not the PvP type of dude, you know.

[Mike]

Blood.

[Tim Gettys]

You buy it Dusk Bloods at Game Awards?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, why not? I mean it is the FromSoftware thing right. From software and Jeff tend to have that connection. We saw Elden Ring there. We saw Sekiro I believe was announced at Game Awards. If that game is truly next year, it's either gonna be this or it's gonna be that. February, Nintendo Direct, allegedly. February, March, who knows. But yeah, in the next few months we're gonna see that game. So I would give it a 50 chance that we see that. I'd love to see you at Armored Core DLC though.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, me too. We're overdue.

[Tim Gettys]

My first prediction and I gotta try to get fun with this because I've been saying this for almost a year now and I've been steadfast in what I've been saying. So I'm going to claim it. Final Fantasy 7 return is announced. The logo is green. The first game was blue tinted. Second one was red tinted. This will be green tinted area like Aerith's Holy. Oh, material like her holy material. Yes. And to make this even just a little bit more. Because like, I do feel like that is an easy thing to say at this point. Eris theme will be heavily used as it'll be the core music of the. The trailer. Because like the. The first one was kind of just the main Final Fantasy 7 theme. The second one aired a little bit more on One Winged Angel. I think this one's gonna be.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you sing the theme for me a little bit?

[Tim Gettys]

No. Trying to have it in here.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm trying to think of how it goes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, I had. That's from Breath of Breath of the Wild, I think. Because it's a song.

[Tim Gettys]

No, that's. Yeah, that's the rant or whatever.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Mix up with Aaron.

[Andy Cortez]

It's music, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, the Final Fantasy stuff is an interesting one because I think it's time. I really think it's time to at least get the. The name out there and get a tease. Very similar to what we got at that Final Fantasy 7 whatever it was. 30th anniversary, 35th anniversary.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know when they first announced Rebirth. Right where we got like a minute long gameplay looking thing of Sephiroth and cloud walking up the needle behind mountain and it ended with Rebirth. And I think we'll get something similar with this. The director's been going on a goddamn world tour talking about this game. This game is far along and I think it's. It's time to show it. Even though there's been a lot of interviews recently that when translated seem to kind of contradict each other. I think that's a translation thing. And I also think there is that level of tease and little white lies to throw people off the scent. He's saying that we will hear soon, but kind of implied it wasn't going to be game awards. I think it's Game awards. They. That team loves the game awards dearly and they want one. So I think that anything they can do, they're going to be a part of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Beautiful.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you buy it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to. I really want to buy it. Yeah. Like, I just think they're weird. Right? Like the last announcement we got of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, that was what a random Final Fantasy showcase thing they did. Was that an anniversary stream with the.

[Tim Gettys]

The last of the first. The first was at the Final Fantasy Anniversary thing. But then every other one was Jeff shows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Summer Game Fest.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, you're right about that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm thinking of like the first reveal we got of it. So, like, I think that puts me in a weird place of how to square, want to handle it, but I believe it. I think that would make sense.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't believe it.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I just. I just don't know if the timing's right. It feels like such a summer game fest type thing. I know that we're like, really. I know timing wise, it's all sort of lining up, but it does. It just feels like a summer game fest thing for me. I don't really have any reason why.

[Tim Gettys]

Greg, your next prediction.

[Greg Miller]

That part of it is, what's the big deal? You gotta clear your throat. We've all seen it year after year. Me, just come out and crush Mike the celebrity prediction.

[Mike]

Oh, it's time.

[Greg Miller]

You're Jordan Peele. You're Harrison Ford.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

No one had ever thought it possible that these people would arrive at the Game Awards, but I did.

[Andy Cortez]

He did. He knew it.

[Greg Miller]

This one is a somber one. Okay. Oh, no, it's not so much about who will be there. It's about who will be remembered there. Oh, Kojima will be there, of course. You know, he's nominated for Death Stranding. He'll be there to show, of course, while on top of all that, a new OD trailer. But it will start by him and Jeff on stage memorializing Udo Kerr, who, of course passed away just a few weeks ago and we all know as the old man from the OD trailer.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

He's usually a villain in a lot of different things. I imagine he gets a. They have a moment there of like, as you know, we've talked about od. We've shown od. Udo's been a part of it before. And I might be pronouncing, mispronouncing his name. I apologize, everybody. And we're gonna make, you know, do a quick thing. I bet there's some behind the scenes footage of him in the suit and like, you know, doing the mocap or whatever, what it was like to work with him, what a talented actor he was, so on and so forth. And then they'll show this trailer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Was he in his. Was he in his od? Was he in his od or was that somebody else's od?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Because Udo was going to be in od.

[Greg Miller]

Knock.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, so that's Kojima's one, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think Kojima's making all the ODs, isn't he?

[Andy Cortez]

But I thought, like, I see what

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

you're saying I got part of my prediction is part of this. Because I still. I don't know if we know all

[Greg Miller]

the Udo's not dead.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I'll get into. I'll get into mine.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Mike]

Please.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like Greg's is more realistic and more grounded.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mine is looking at this from a more ground in fantastical scale.

[Greg Miller]

Love that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course, you've all seen the statue in the desert. A weird fucking. Could be sorrows, could be fucking divinity. Original sin 3, could be some rain. Baldur's Gate shit. But everybody keeps saying, no, it's not us. No, it's not us. No, it's not us. Jason Schreier knows what it is, won't tell us what it is. But it has said that. No, it's exciting. It's an exciting thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What could that be? I think possibly could be connected to OD. OD Nock one of Kojima's other ODs. Who the hell knows? But the fact that OD is something that we've seen very little of. We saw that Knock trailer that gave us a little glimpse into this character walking into a room, lighting a candle. I think one of the candles had like a baby on it. But we didn't really get to see any creatures, any monsters. And you still don't. We still have so many questions about what this thing is.

[Andy Cortez]

Big hands, too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Saw big hands.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I pulled some quotes. Remember a few years ago when they first announced od, there was a quote from Kojima on stage that says it's a game, but at the same time a movie. And at the same time a new form of media. Could that be Kojima exploring bringing that media into the real world? We've seen him do things like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Physical media, physical, physical media statues.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We've seen Kojima do weird shit. Right? Going back to Phantom Pain, where he. They announced that game under a whole different studio name and then they loop that back around to being okay, no, this is just metal gear solid 5 Phantom Pain. I think this might be one of those things. Another one I'll pull in here is from a press release on the website for od, where they say OD explores the concept of testing your fear threshold and what it means to OD on fear while blurring the boundaries of gaming and film. I could see the different creatures on the statue being different representations of what could invoke fear. We see skulls on there. We see dinosaur, alligator looking creatures. We see a bunch of different things on here. But then also we do know that Kojima is working with an Avengers of people on stage. He also mentioned it's not just Jordan. I have other creative collaborative partners. He then goes on to say that they're the Avengers. And so I could see this being the maybe the introduction of a different chapter of od. A different form of od, a different sort of thing to it. I'm going to drop a thing in Assets.

[Greg Miller]

Well, why you do that?

[Mike]

He's going deep.

[Tim Gettys]

There's something.

[Mike]

Don't look at their PCs.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you got it.

[Greg Miller]

It's locked in. That's it.

[Andy Cortez]

Locked in.

[Greg Miller]

Throw up the asset. I threw Mario 64 while we were doing games daily today. Yeah. At 10:58. So two minutes before we were supposed to go live with this show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn it.

[Greg Miller]

MP first report New Divinity trademark uncovered as new icon matches the statue.

[Tim Gettys]

We let you go. Bless. I was trying to show you.

[Greg Miller]

We wanted. You did all this work. We did all this work. We wanted you to feel celebrated.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did say divinity original sin 3, which I'm not reverting to. This is divinity original sin 3.

[Mike]

Guys,

[Andy Cortez]

Koji, with us.

[Tim Gettys]

We'll give you. We'll give you the opportunity to rephrase your prediction about od. What do you want to say about od?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, then it just appears, but I guess that's doing. I. I wanted to make it flavorful.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Deep, man.

[Mike]

You were good.

[Tim Gettys]

You could think about it. You want. You want to think about it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me think about something.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, who's your celebrity?

[Mike]

Oh, yes, my celebrity. Okay, you ready for this? James Cameron will make an appearance to present the award for best game Direction, where he will promote his latest film, Avatar Fire and Ash. And then Ubisoft will follow to promote their DLC for Avatar from the Ashes, the new third person perspective. You have a big time movie. You have, of course, a new DLC for a game that Andy loves out there that's getting some recognition once again after a couple year, maybe two.

[Tim Gettys]

Really?

[Mike]

Did you love it?

[Tim Gettys]

It's beautiful.

[Mike]

And so I think this is just a layup. I think this is an easy win right here of like these two could be together.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's great. Yeah, he's in. He's in full press mode. He's showing up everywhere. So I kind of love it. The other thing though is I do think that that is a give him a social media post thing. So we still have a couple days though.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say, doesn't this really. I feel like we're close. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. But we're get. We're so good. We're two days away. Right? Like, that's wild. Miss Piggy, man. I like that, though, Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Has Miss Piggy been the only one?

[Mike]

No, Todd Howard has one.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So there's two official guest images.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Todd Howard and Miss Piggy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And they just started today. Three hours ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

So again, like, we're.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, let's see what happens.

[Andy Cortez]

Here's the rollout. I like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, what's your next? Your second one?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, my first one, before the show, before we even decided that we, you know, whenever we were going to do this podcast, it was like, oh, I'm going to guess the Phantom Blade zero prediction date thing or whatever. And, you know, they decided to just come out of the gate and say, hey, we're gonna be there and we're gonna have a release date. So that kind of sucks. But one that I really, really hope to see. This is more of a prediction from my heart that I. I hope to see here. I want to see another showing of Den of Wolves, the game from the people who made GTFO and Payday. And I want to see a new trailer from them with, like, early access date early, you know, because they've been so radio silent on everything for a long time. And I want to see, like something really big and official from them. Game game's awesome. I, you know, got to play it at, I think, GDC last year or maybe it was this year, but either way, I want to see like a big official thing. Like, all right, it's no longer just this concept and a game that, you know, has been loosely talked about. It's a big ass thing right now. Get ready for Den of Wolves.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be awesome. We like that game. We like what we've seen of that game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, the game very, very cool.

[Tim Gettys]

My next one, it's one of them triple or nothing type deals.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm going real big with this because I feel like any one of them would be just a little too easy. Resident Evil Requiem. He's there. We get the Leon trailer. We know that. We also get a demo that night.

[Andy Cortez]

Available now.

[Tim Gettys]

Demo that like, nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that a lot.

[Tim Gettys]

Resident Evil often puts out demos for their games. Now is the time. This game is imminent, but I think that's too easy. So I'm also adding as a prediction, the Capcom 3 Pragmata Onimusha, Resident Evil Requiem. All three will be at this show, but they need something to say. I think we're getting both release dates.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we're getting Pragmata, Onimusha, and a demo for Resident Evil. Capcom showing up now.

[Greg Miller]

Man up. Give me at least months for all of them.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so much.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, man. He said it. He said it.

[Tim Gettys]

Onimusha.

[Andy Cortez]

May

[Tim Gettys]

Pragmata march.

[Greg Miller]

Wow. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Faster for big spring.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think so.

[Greg Miller]

I was worried about Pragmata being further back. I like that a lot. There's more to see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A lot for first half of the year.

[Mike]

You're right.

[Greg Miller]

You're right. You gotta run from gta.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, gotta run from gta. You gotta take your claims from summer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They put out exoprimal.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In the summer.

[Andy Cortez]

April for one of them, November for the other. I don't know. I don't know what's what.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me preg Moden, what's what. Actually, Onomusha might be more of a July joint.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to put dates.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody's also scared of gta.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. My prediction is just. They get dates.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna throw out my whole last prediction and I'm just gonna replace it with a different one.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hurrah is last Hurrah. FIFA comes to Tekken. We also get Waffle.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Finally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's his. And we get way. And we get Waffle House in the same trailer. Yeah, the Waffle House is just like a note at the end of it of like, by the way, we did it.

[Tim Gettys]

That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We did. But TIFA is the big announcement.

[Andy Cortez]

A fantastic brand.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'd be sick.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's. That would. That's the fucking moment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

I fully believe the TIFA is going to be in intact.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

She has to.

[Greg Miller]

Can I ask a stupid question? Why? Why? Why does she have to? Why do we feel. I just don't know why.

[Tim Gettys]

The fan bases and her fighting style.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just. It's one of those things where it's like, she would fit perfect.

[Greg Miller]

She just slots in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

She moves like a Tekken character. And Tekken has had a lot of Final Fantasy dlc both in the previous second game. And then this one got Clyde from Final Fantasy 16. So they've set the precedent before.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's return to Greg.

[Greg Miller]

No Wolverine, which I don't think surprises a lot of people, but I saw people chattering about that as we were even on games Daily about it. No Wolverine. But instead, PlayStation brings the ghost of Yotei Legends trailer. I'll put the January 2026 date on it.

[Andy Cortez]

O

[Greg Miller]

I feel like that one's been flying so under the radar. Right. Like there's granted non stop news in our industry. But it was Ghost of Yote, the run up to it, them announcing it in the blog post detailing what it was going to be with these mythical stories. And then the game came out and it was great. And then it's kind of been. I don't hear people talking about it and asking where it is and what it is. This is a great way for PlayStation obviously to play ball with Jeff. Come out with something they need to promote and you know, remind people of, hey, not only is this game that you've all been playing in the game of the or the not game of the year conversation, right. Or is it one of the game of the year. I forget what the game action adventure game of the year conversation also. You can get this right now and go get it. I almost wanted to do it's out tonight but I stopped myself. I got too coward.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. They said 2026, right?

[Greg Miller]

They did. Then that's what stopped me. I think. I think they might have even said early 2026 chat. You can let me know.

[Tim Gettys]

So. So what do you. What, what's your prediction? You're locking in. Go see. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

No Wolverine, period. Ghost of Yotei Legends 2 trailer, period. And then that'll have a date for January 2026 as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Period. Love that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can bounce off that one. Go for it. I'll also talk about PlayStation because PlayStation always at these Jeff things, they always have at least one big ish announcement there. I think you're gonna get a PlayStation thing and I'm gonna copy and paste my PlayStation prediction from the summer and put it here. God of War game is announced. It's a prequel set in Greece. It's kind of like the Assassin's Creed Chronicles Games. It's a 2D platformer action game like Prince of the Lost Crown.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, lock it in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep. There was a big conversation happening earlier in the year about how this was happening. And then the same people that said it was happening said it got delayed internally. And so I think this might be the moment to do it.

[Tim Gettys]

I agree. Maybe it's the opium, but I'm. I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so.

[Greg Miller]

Well, that's a good poll.

[Andy Cortez]

What's the art style?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a really good question.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it a stylized thing? Is it like what Prince of Persia did with Lost Crown?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think it's like what Prince of Persia did with Lost Crown.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it would look too funky if they went for like ultra realism, it would just look not see.

[Greg Miller]

My thing would be even pulling it back further than Lost Crown. And what's the other Prince of Persia, one that just came out on switch?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Prince of Persia.

[Greg Miller]

I would say maybe do that because my thought on this one. Right. Would be that you're almost. Not exactly. But the vision would be kind of how in God of war 2018 and Ragnarok we have those paintings on the wall. I would think you're kind of emulating that as we tell this story of what Kratos is up to and doing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I lean more towards the Metroid Dread Prince of Persia Lost Crown, where it's like incredibly high budget 2D metroidvania, like using 3D assets. But both Metroid Dread and Prince of Persia have different but very distinct style on top of it. And I don't know, for some reason I think that this one might not. It might just be kind of a clean just. It is the realistic look, but just cameras kind of turn. Like kind of think about Mario Galaxy or Mario Odyssey when it's the 2D portions, but it's still like the same engine.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I can kind of see them doing that with God of War.

[Andy Cortez]

I just can't imagine a Sony Santa Monica looking asset of Kratos in 2D. Like that just feels so off to me. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And then that's why I kind of say I know Prince Versa Lost Crown is like stylized to it, but I think I still stick with it because I haven't made this part of my prediction. But I guess I could. Right. Like I see this being developed by Sony Santa Monica. I don't see this being like a third party or a different developer.

[Andy Cortez]

And is it a smaller team that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's say. Yeah, a smaller team that's working on it. And I don't know, like, I'm not seeing that studio, I guess, in a very long time commit to something that is super stylized. I think that'd be neat. I think that'd be cool. But I think for the sake of time and energy and resources, it's, it's, hey, we want to do this thing as a passion project. Let's take what we have already and like turn that into a really cool 2D game.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, what's your third?

[Mike]

We look at the stage and the Remedy logo appears.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you.

[Mike]

And you think to yourself, are we looking forward? No, Andy, we're looking back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Mike]

Because it's time for a reintroduction. Max Payne Max Payne 1 and 2 remake. Let's get a teaser, Taylor. And we will start to look at the future and get excited of what is Max Payne.

[Andy Cortez]

Once again, we're looking back at FBC Firebreak.

[Greg Miller]

We will not make another game until you buy this one.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm just excited about Max Payne. I'm the pumped up on the idea. It seems like we're tracking maybe 2026, maybe late 2026, so feels like a good opportunity. Like you say, Tim, all eyes are on the game Awards a great way to make a splash. And saying, hey, we're back with Max Payne. Let's get this thing going. Good excitement right there. And Rockstar would probably love that as well with GTA getting more of their name out there as well. That's an easy line. Easy win for them.

[Andy Cortez]

Do they keep Max Payne looking like the. Like he's just aged from part three where they decided to not use Absolutely the.

[Greg Miller]

Not.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

For a remake of 1 and 2. No. You gotta have him in the trench coat.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

It's gotta be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Max Payne is just Sam Lake, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Well, in one and two, yeah. But in three it's not. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think they just make them Sam Lake.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

But this is back to Remedy, making these. Yeah. So they do their thing instead of. This was when Rockstar made it. Right. But Max Payne 3 wasn't remedy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Correct.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's right. We've always talked about how it's like tied up in copyright and like weird lost shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, what's your third?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, after Max Pink comes out.

[Mike]

Talk to me.

[Andy Cortez]

After he dies, you know, he's diving on stage. Not in slow mo, though. It's really awkward. Just hurting his hip as he lands on the stage. And then we see control, whatever the fuck. Resonance. Resonance. Resonance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because we know that that got copyrighted. Copyrighted recently or trademarked. And I. I feel like maybe part of this trailer starts off looking like it's more Alan Wake type dlc. And maybe we think we're just kind of back in that world. But it's really Jesse kind of, you know, maybe she was just in those areas and now she's like, you know, headed back to the FBC or whatever. But yeah, I'm just preparing for like the best visual thing we've seen ever.

[Tim Gettys]

Give me something more. Because I feel. I feel like that's too easy saying this hours.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. It comes out. No, no, you don't have to listen to him.

[Greg Miller]

You don't have to give him anything more.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't have to.

[Greg Miller]

You've done enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What new forms does the weapon have? Do we even see the weapon?

[Andy Cortez]

It has to do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We see gameplay.

[Andy Cortez]

You have to get an update to the. Whatever the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The federal.

[Greg Miller]

The oldest house.

[Andy Cortez]

No, the gun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do they call it?

[Andy Cortez]

They call it the direct service weapon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Service weapon. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

We see it updated to like kind of a. An AR type thing. Even though it does all of those things anyway. But like, you gotta have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude, somebody in chat says a big ass sword. Which would be cool. The service weapon just has a sword.

[Greg Miller]

Go play Hell is Us.

[Andy Cortez]

We see a little. We see a little hint of that for sure. And I. I'm gonna just say it's going to say 2027 just to like put it further out there. Like, don't expect this anytime soon. So.

[Tim Gettys]

Control resonance. We see an updated service weapon. 2027.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

There we go. My next one. I'm just gonna get. Or someone else says it. The Expedition 33 new update that they've already announced, including a new dungeon bosses and more will be shadow dropped.

[Andy Cortez]

Cool.

[Tim Gettys]

They're going to win game of the year. All eyes on them. Victory lap.

[Andy Cortez]

They're fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Andy Cortez]

What do we think we see of it visually? Is it like new? Is it new bosses in. In areas we visited before? Is there just like brand new locations?

[Tim Gettys]

They said there's a new location. They said there is new story stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it expanding the map that we've already seen or is it like. Like a place that we couldn't get to on the current map? Like when you zoom out, is it like, oh, there's that extra portion that I now opened up.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it might be. I don't want to spoil stuff. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think it comes with a Switch 2 port?

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing is I don't. I think that they would want that. I don't think they're ready for a switch two port.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Like, and I'll even make that part of my prediction too. No switch 2 port.

[Andy Cortez]

They got a head down at Antenna. Give us a dev kit. Hey, Rush.

[Tim Gettys]

On the switch too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That would be awesome if they had that. I would love for that to happen. I just don't think it's time, do you?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I agree. I kind of wanted to put it in my predictions, but I don't feel it in my gut.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

I wanted to give something to the

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Andy Cortez]

He's clearing his throat.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry. Thank you everybody. Fable gets a big trailer. It gets a 2026 release date at the end of it. But they also debut some kind of Xbox 25 logo game warns here is a kickoff and it might just be what I write. All right, this is a kickoff of them making a big deal that next year is the 25th anniversary of Xbox, the original Xbox, the Xbox brand. I think they start that here. And so my hope is that It's Fable, it's 2026, and it's some kind of X25 logo they throw up there to really be like, bam, this is what 2026 is going to be about. I say it and I could easily see it being instead a Xbox Hype trailer reel of hey, it's Fable. Hey, it's Forza. Hey, it's Gears. Xbox 25. Even a narration in the beginning, like do you remember where you were 25 years? And it's like the Duke and it's the original things and it's the rock and it's Bill Gates and it's like, it's all this stuff and like we're going even bigger next year. And it's the handheld. It's this. So it's like, you know, I'm going that way. I'm doing the Xbox coming for you. I'm putting the. I'm putting. I'm putting it all in there. That there. This is a sizzle reel trailer about Xbox 25.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. I like that because I. I feel like Fable. Nah, we're not giving. They'll be in a height. A little sizzle reel that. Whatever. That doesn't count. Like, unless there's like a date or some new announcement. That's not anything. That's.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you know that.

[Tim Gettys]

It's known quantity. I'm with you though. Xbox 25 says I like that. And I feel like that does feel likely for a game awards thing. Mike.

[Mike]

Like that. I'm gonna piggyback off the Xbox One because that's where I want to go with my prediction. Because we are talking about Xbox 25 years. But the big four table. What's up with Fable? Fable seems like the one. Greg and I like that because I was going to double down on Fable. But then we also look at Forza, Forza Horizon 6 heading to Japan this year. Everybody's very excited. We also look at Gears E day. We look at Halo campaign evolved. We have four mega titles that all now need to be put on this calendar away from GTA.

[Tim Gettys]

And guess what? When's GTA's release date?

[Andy Cortez]

Tell me.

[Tim Gettys]

November 19th. When's the anniversary of Xbox? November 15th. Things aren't looking good.

[Mike]

Not looking good. Which means I think we have to go to the mega board and start moving pieces. Right? And so here's where my prediction comes in. I was going to go off of Fable, but I'm going to now move away from Fable. I'll go with a different game. We see Marcus and Dom appear old school young boys. We get a cool bro moment with the Predator high five and it ends black screen with the rev of a chainsaw. We will see all of the dates this summer. I don't think we'll get a Gears date here, but we will get one more teaser. But you will see Marcus and Dom have a bro moment. I want to go with like, Halo gets a spring date. Maybe they tease multiplayer. I think Halo and Fable are Forza and Fable are my spring summer. Halo and Gears are my holiday season. But man, you got to Move away from GTA titles. And the only one that can stand next to GTA is Halo. It's a smaller project. You know what it is? It's coming to PlayStation. It's a big deal. But that's not the one I'm banking my life on, which is the other three.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Mike]

I need Fable to succeed. I need Gears E day to be big. And I also need Fortune to be huge, like it is already. Halo. I'll give it to you. I'll sacrifice that lamb. So GTA can dominate my November for my 25th anniversary. But the other three have to be big.

[Andy Cortez]

This Marcus and Dom moment, is it just a. Is it a, hey, remember we're working on this. Or is it something bigger? Like because we. That last or the first trailer rather that they showed was pretty lengthy. It was that very cinematic looking, them fighting the. The locust. Is this like a. Just like a broom. We see the handshake, we're like, oh, that's right. Gear Z day. Or is it like show you some gameplay as well?

[Tim Gettys]

No, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

This is. This is very small. Okay. This is humorous. This is fun. This is two bros high fiving, fighting over some locusts. And then just the rev of the chainsaw. Maybe a splash of 20, 26.

[Greg Miller]

I do believe it's called a lancer.

[Mike]

That's it. The lancer. Yes. Thank you. But like, you know, we got the chain. The chainsaw is the big deal. This is because they already have a lancer. We gotta add the taste.

[Greg Miller]

The lancer. Wouldn't you. It's not a chainsaw.

[Mike]

Okay, okay, I'll give it to you.

[Andy Cortez]

He'll high five either.

[Mike]

But yeah, I'm gonna. I'm going with that. We're gonna see Marcus and Dom and we'll have. We'll hear the rev of the chainsaw because that's what the fans want. That'll get them excited. That'll give you the pass of like no dates. It doesn't matter. You know what I mean? Don't worry about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't worry about it. Bless. Number four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There will be at least three souls likes. Three Genshin likes.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Three friend slops and an extraction shooter set.

[Andy Cortez]

The over unders.

[Mike]

Yeah. You have to go two and a half. Three and a half. So we can.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm saying because I want to bed.

[Greg Miller]

It'll be at least three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There'll be at least three. So two over. Under 2.5. Right. So I'm saying over 2.5 souls likes. Genshin likes Friend slops.

[Tim Gettys]

And exactly one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And exactly one Extraction Shooter.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Andy Cortez]

Is the Extraction Shooter Exoborn? Put a stamp on it right now. Wait, hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I gotta look up which one is Exoborn.

[Mike]

It is.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I got a feeling, Andy.

[Greg Miller]

Wait.

[Andy Cortez]

But we'll see. We'll definitely see Arc Raiders here.

[Mike]

They made a buttload of money.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, I was thinking, like, new, unreleased extraction shooter, but if we're counting Arc Raiders, like an update, we have to see something. Damn. You know what? Change it to two.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Change it to two.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Extraction. Extraction.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. And exactly two extraction shooters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't see a world where we don't see arc raiders at all. It's just. It's been successful this year.

[Mike]

They show off the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm saying Exoborn and Arc Raiders update is. Yeah.

[Mike]

They say, hey, we got a great update. Thank you all for being players. Like, we had a huge success. We got this new update. They show the cold, icy map and say, here you go.

[Greg Miller]

You think they do something like log in tonight, between tonight and the end of the weekend or something and get X, Y, and Z for the game wars?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Probably a shirt.

[Greg Miller]

A new outfit for your chicken.

[Tim Gettys]

Hold on. Are you. Are you locking in those two games as your two extractions? No, you just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just saying, like, those are like Crossing Marathon, but I don't. I don't think Marathon.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. Marathon's not a bad car. I just feel like it's time for Exoborn. Mike.

[Mike]

It's so boring as next year for sure. Yeah, I got a feeling about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just think you got to be careful with marathon nowadays.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know if game awards is the place for it right now.

[Andy Cortez]

They gotta announce it on their own terms.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's a good one. Bless. Good job.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna go next.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy. You are going next.

[Andy Cortez]

Perfect. To Light no fire, Early Access.

[Tim Gettys]

February

[Andy Cortez]

12th. February 12th. Light no Fire, early access.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, the Everything game. Why.

[Tim Gettys]

Why are you getting that specific?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I like it.

[Andy Cortez]

Just getting horny with it.

[Tim Gettys]

I like it.

[Andy Cortez]

We thought that Light no Fire was going to be a shoe in for the game or for summer game fest this summer. Like, it was. It just felt like it. We saw Sean Murray tweeting out a whole bunch about it. We were like, oh, yeah, of course. He's tweeting out so much about, like, get ready for this showcase. And then there was nothing. I don't know if there was maybe no man's Sky News. Or something. But it just feels like it's. I don't think this. I don't think we've seen this game since Game Awards last year.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's time to see a further update and we're gonna get, I guess, like maybe a new game, a new trailer, a new, like, sort of gameplay trailer, kind of showing off and talking about how this is a full. A full planet, you know, because that's the whole thing with this game. How no man's sky was. It's a gigantic universe. This is like a full scale planet that you can explore. They're going to really, really dive deep into that. Damn, they got like a whole cast and shit. Oh, that's a different thing.

[Tim Gettys]

I have four more good ones. I don't know which one to start with. I'm gonna go with Super Mario Galaxy Clip. Same thing happened with the first movie where there was the teaser trailer. There was the trailer, and then there was a clip at the Game Awards. So I think we're gonna get a clip of the Game Awards introduced by

[Greg Miller]

Brie Larson and Chris Pratt.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not gonna go that far, but I will say we will see and hear. Yoshi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's your puss by? I'm gonna go with Bill Hader.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can never guess at this point.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I. I think Bill Hader.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not gonna add anything, but I will give Andy a bonus point if it is Bill Hader.

[Greg Miller]

Can I get one for Batista, Bill?

[Andy Cortez]

Bill Hader was BB8. Man, that guy does everything.

[Tim Gettys]

Bill Hayter's a good poll there.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Wasn't he also, what's his name from Power Rangers? Not Johnny Five five Alpha.

[Greg Miller]

Five Alpha.

[Tim Gettys]

Five Alpha.

[Andy Cortez]

Very racist. Robot.

[Greg Miller]

Can a robot be racist?

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's me.

[Tim Gettys]

Says Batista, Mike and Bless. Do you want to throw any bonus points, like if you nail Yoshi's voice actor,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Alison Brie?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I like it.

[Greg Miller]

Good answer. Good answer.

[Mike]

Seth Green.

[Greg Miller]

Jesus. Okay, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Are they gonna say Seth Rollins?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Vin Diesel.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I would.

[Greg Miller]

We got a squad, everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

And here's the thing. You know why Yoshi just says his name? Brute just says his name. Yeah, Yoshi, baby. But baby, Baby Groot. There's all. You know what I mean? They do all the things.

[Andy Cortez]

I remember everything.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't. I'm not gonna steal Chat's answer, even though I want to. But Chat says awkwafina.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that is the thing. It's gonna be awkwafina. That's too easy of a guess. We're just praying it's not everybody. Don't bring that into the world, please.

[Greg Miller]

Aquafina. Hate.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't know we hated.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, no, we.

[Tim Gettys]

I like Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I like Aquafina.

[Tim Gettys]

What's your number? Five.

[Greg Miller]

It's been nearly seven years, but it's time. Ubisoft Massive, the Division 3. Come on, let's fucking go. Come on, let's fucking go order.

[Andy Cortez]

We order a pizza in celebration, even if we already have some out there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Exactly, exactly, exactly. I know you're all saying, where is it set?

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Los Angeles, of course. Wow. Let's get off that east coast. Let's take the division to la, run through some Hollywood studios, the hills and whatnot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

There's gonna be some cool set pieces, Greg, with, like, movie sets. There's gonna be like a. Maybe we go to, like, Universal with the Jaws Riders. Oh, man.

[Greg Miller]

That little observatory. Griffin Observatory. We're up there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Holy.

[Greg Miller]

You'd be like, La La Land was here. I don't care. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't care.

[Greg Miller]

Joe Pharaoh's there talking about La La Land, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you just got me so high, guys.

[Greg Miller]

It's been too.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the best prediction of this show, buddy.

[Greg Miller]

That's it. We'll see you next time.

[Andy Cortez]

Great show, everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike or bless. Who wants to go next?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm debating on going back and forth. Do I get one from my best friend Roger?

[Tim Gettys]

No one.

[Mike]

Because, you know, we're.

[Andy Cortez]

We're teamed up, we miss him, or

[Mike]

do I want to give a shout out to one of my favorites out there, Tim Gettys. There's a group as a team named Saber Interactive, and they make games that make me smile. And they got two games out there, Turok and Jurassic Park Survival. Damn it awkwardly have gone quiet for quite some time. I'm still looking for Jurassic Park Survival. No bigger stage. Jurassic Park Big Time Cinema. Jeff Keighley loves movies. Everyone loves Jurassic Park. Feels like it's a perfect time to reintroduce ourselves and show more of Jurassic Park Survival. But, Tim, to add it a little bit more, it will get a date of 2026 and it will be August 8th.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I like that way out there. Right?

[Mike]

Get ready.

[Tim Gettys]

They're ready. They're not ready to say too much, but they're ready to call their stock many, many months.

[Mike]

They don't need more time. They're ready to go.

[Greg Miller]

They're ready to go. Punch it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wanted you to work on that for some.

[Greg Miller]

For some more time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm still trying to figure mine out.

[Tim Gettys]

I can go, Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I got it. I got it. In the same way that Tim's talking about the Capcom 3 getting announced, or getting talked about at least. Of course. A couple years ago, SEGA showed up to the game awards with a huge trailer talking about the future of Sega. They announced Hella Games in the span of about 90 seconds. It was ridiculous. And I think about now is the time to get the update on some of these games. You're going to get a Crazy Taxi game deal. You're going to get a Jet Set Radio gameplay reveal, and you're going to get the announcement of the next Sonic the Hedgehog game.

[Tim Gettys]

Man, I like that because that's multiple predictions in one that are like, I buy it all. We've seen a little glimpse of Jet Set Radio. We've seen a little glimpse of Crazy Taxi. But you're saying, seeing. Seeing a bit more because we also, in that same thing, saw a glimpse of Shinobi, Art of Vengeance. And now that game is nominated for some awards, I think something here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At least one award.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So, like, that's a game, I believe.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, these games have a lot of potential. Greg and I were just tied on games daily about, like, sega, man. They're here and they have something to say. So I'm all in with you on that. The Sonic thing. It's time. It's time for the next. But sorry, what are you saying? Next, big 3D one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. And maybe. Listen, if we want to dig in, we can dig in. But like clockwork, yearly you get a Sonic thing every fall. And so I think whatever it is, you just get it announced here. As far as what it is, what's up?

[Tim Gettys]

It's his 35th anniversary.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's 35 years old.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow. It's two years older than Jesus. Think about that.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about it, everybody. Think about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Older than Jesus. Oh, well, here's the thing, right? If I go back in time because we just got the racing game year before we got Sonic and Shadow Generations. Year before that, I think was Sonic Superstars, and then before that was Frontiers.

[Tim Gettys]

It's time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think it's time for a new 3D thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Are you comfortable to lock that in? I would just say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, I'm. I'm trying to think if I can go deeper, because then am I gonna say Frontiers 2, or am I gonna say a remake of an older Sonic thing? Or am I Just gonna say a brand new 3D thing. In general, I think it's likely we get a frontiers too, than a brand new 3D thing.

[Greg Miller]

You had me a Crazy Taxi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna say Sonic. Sonic Heroes remake. Okay, I'm going for my dream pick. Wow, I like that Sonic Heroes remake.

[Tim Gettys]

So Crazy Taxi Jet set gameplay and Sonic Heroes remake. Bless us. Locking in.

[Greg Miller]

I want that Crazy Taxi trailer to start with that Offspring song. You know they got it. Just spend. Give them the goddamn.

[Tim Gettys]

The biggest problem with Crazy Taxi is they need to do less. Don't try too hard. Just do the game.

[Greg Miller]

If it's going to be a multiplayer,

[Tim Gettys]

remember it's trying to make this giant thing. It's going to fail. Just let it be what it is, and it will succeed to the level that it possibly can.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean, that's what people said about skating. Wait, what?

[Tim Gettys]

Andy Cortez, what's your final prediction?

[Andy Cortez]

Final prediction. Ryan Reynolds comes up on stage and he says, you know me, man. I'm going to be. No, wait, I have the wrong celebrity.

[Mike]

I'm the face of Mint Mobile.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know me, man.

[Mike]

You know me.

[Greg Miller]

You know me. I have no business being.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought you were gonna say that. We're gonna get a new detective Pikachu. That's where you're going with it.

[Andy Cortez]

Ryan Gosling walks up on stage. You know me. And he says, man, you know me. And you know Ryan Reynolds as well. I love. You know, I'm gonna be flying a spaceship in the upcoming Star wars movie. Whatever the it's called. But until then, you could get excited about this upcoming game. And it is Star Wars Jedi. Three Resistance. Oh, I want to come up with a.

[Tim Gettys]

You know something.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Instead of Fallen Order and Survivor.

[Greg Miller]

But when do they take. They want to. If this. When they stay away from it. To not confuse it with that brand.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I mean, he's not like talking about his tv.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, what are you talking about the video game brand? Star Wars Jedi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, it is saying it's the third Star Wars.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the third.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, he's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's just like. That's a connective tissue. The Star wars is just a connective tissue. It's not a video game about him. But yeah, this is like response.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

Star Wars Jedi, third in the trilogy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought Greg was saying you don't want to confuse it with the Resistance video game. Of course,

[Greg Miller]

Insomniac. You know, a studio has never made a bad game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, of course it cuts to the audience. They're like Fall of Man

[Greg Miller]

Wait, you're making Resistance 4? And he's like, what?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I think that this is a good prediction, Andy, because the Ryan Gosling part, I don't think you need to put a subtitle on it, because the Ryan Gosling, you roll the dice. You know what I mean? That's a lot. Do we think Star Wars Jedi 3 is here? Because I'm 50. 50. I think that there is a. A really solid chance that it's here because it all goes back to timing and it comes back to.

[Andy Cortez]

Yay.

[Tim Gettys]

Didn't have a summer event.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Look, it just came out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's what I'm 2023.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's there. No, I think it's too early.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I feel like it's too early too. I feel like.

[Greg Miller]

When did the first one come out?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2019.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like it's one of the. Yeah, they got. They don't have like a three, four year old.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a good point. But games take longer to make every single year.

[Greg Miller]

2019, 2023, they got the Cameron monitor

[Andy Cortez]

model, 3D model, you know, and I

[Greg Miller]

think that would be like, this year,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

games take seven years to make.

[Greg Miller]

You know, I was. I could see him coming out to announce the game. Maybe him and Ryan Reynolds. I'm Deadpool. And I'm Cal Kestis.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Ryan Reynolds really loves Mint Mobile, huh?

[Greg Miller]

He owns it.

[Andy Cortez]

Good for him. Yeah.

[Mike]

Hey, big money.

[Andy Cortez]

Good in those ads. I like them.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, so down to my final one. It's the final Tim prediction. I want to have some fun here, and I want to have some fun for you guys. More than for me.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you, Tim.

[Greg Miller]

Been a boring show, so I'm happy you're having fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Finally, Secret Level Season 2 is shown to some extent, but I want to make it a little more fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Halo.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, Elden Ring.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, freak.

[Tim Gettys]

An Elden Ring episode of Secret Level.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow. Wow. We crazy.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that not another armored core? What up?

[Greg Miller]

Is that not another one that's like too soon figure level? Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, they talked about season two.

[Tim Gettys]

I believe they announced it like a year ago. And. Yeah, I mean, it is too soon. But those. The. But the. The teams that work on those things and especially because it's like Anthology.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And they're shorter.

[Andy Cortez]

They're like 15 minutes.

[Greg Miller]

You could just tell it's true.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. A little unlikely, but I want to throw in some fun there. I like it because if they. If they do show Secret Level Season 2, I think Elden Ring would Be like a good one to get. And I. I think that it's a stretch, but it's not impossible.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll tell you what, I'm. I, I wish that we were already in summer of next year. I wish we were doing as an SGF prediction show right now, so close to super, because I'd be like, oh, man, we're. We're going to get the first trailer for the Mass Effect TV show on Amazon. So get. Get that early prediction out. Kdg, wherever you're at, mark that for the summer, that Danny's prediction.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to go through some of the super chats before we.

[Greg Miller]

Super chats.

[Tim Gettys]

Today's episode. John Alexander says, do you think we'll get a release date for Lego Batman?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they're already. I saw Jeff Sharon stuff that Lego Batman people were putting up. That's not a bad bit.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that sounds good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Especially now that we have GTA at the end of the year. I think it's time for everybody to be like, all right, place your bets. Like, fill out the calendar. So, yeah, I like that. I feel confident in it. Jinkers says, hoping to see light, no fire. And Project Robot. Where's Project Robot at?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

Also, maybe updates on Wolf Among Us Two in the next Mass Effect, since they both debuted at Game awards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wolf Among Us 2. That didn't come out. What am I thinking of?

[Tim Gettys]

You're thinking of Wolf Among Us too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No shot.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you know what? I'm also thinking about Tales from the Borderlands too, which did come out. It's fucking crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Semi in line with this. JB Cool says Dispatch season two announcement.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, too early again. Yeah, I think they've learned a lot from that. I think if you were to come out and say, hey, we're doing Dispatch Season 2, and it's going to be years and years from now. I don't think that's the way.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Roberto says predicting the demonic statue is going to be a Dante's Inferno announcement. Seems like it's divinity at this point. Opponents prime says predict Jedi 3 Monster Hunter wilds expansion. Okay, that sounds kind of like.

[Greg Miller]

Well, yes. No, the problem with that is that we were supposed to have this, the update from Monster Hunter yesterday. So you imagine they would have done their usual update there. I mean, it's possible that that was just talking about what's up next and not like the next big, big thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Capcom is weird like that sometimes. So I should have put it in

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

a fallout prediction, like, for the TV show that comes out in, like, a Week or two weeks.

[Tim Gettys]

A week?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A week or two weeks. I feel like that's such a slam dunk.

[Mike]

Any of the cast will be there? Yeah, they were there last year. So, like, they bring it up again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. You know who, like, who from the cast was there last?

[Mike]

Well, Ella.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then was Walton Goggins there? No, because I feel like you didn't switch it up. Like, who wasn't here last year? Come through this year.

[Andy Cortez]

You see what game Ella Pernell's been playing?

[Tim Gettys]

Concrete Genie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, really?

[Greg Miller]

That's awesome.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

They're asking her, do you plan on playing, like, Grand Theft Auto? She was like, yeah, I'm sure I'll check it out. But I'm not like, super into, like, stressful games. I'm kind of relaxing with the game right now. You just paint and do, like, stuff. It's called Concrete Genie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

So cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also, Macaulay Culkin. That's what I'm gonna say is gonna show up.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That's awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And what's his name from? Oh, he's from the Silicon Valley show.

[Greg Miller]

Kumail Camille.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. Oh, wow. Yeah, because he's in the show, right? He was in the trailers.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right, he was. Oh, that's why you say Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, I thought you'd say Macaulay Culkin. Oh, just because. No, because he's the type of guy. Just. Let's show up. I'm still on the Fallout there.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, let's see. Dirty Daddy says, because the Jumanji movie. Movie. Either Rock Jack Black or Kevin Hart. Jumanji. Is that this year?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's not this year.

[Tim Gettys]

We're running out of time. No, no, no. That's too early for. That's next December.

[Mike]

It's just so much fun together,

[Andy Cortez]

you know? Like, if Mike has an opportunity to look at a Rock and Kevin Hart movie where you could buy it for $28 or rent it for 22, he's buying it for donate.

[Mike]

Oh, man. I mean, Dick talked about it with you guys on the podcast yesterday. It's like. Like, you have to buy these movies at this point. I'm going to rent them for $2 cheaper for 48 hours or just own it for a dollar more. Yeah, of course I'm going to own it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

J. Dublin says my safe Bet is Persona 4 Revival has a gameplay trailer. Although my hot take is right after that is perform Persona 6. Finally teased for next gen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought about it, but, no, the

[Andy Cortez]

Persona things makes a lot of sense.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because we were just so shocked that they had 10 seconds to show the last time.

[Tim Gettys]

The one thing none of us predicted, I think it's because of who we are. But the, the whole Yakuza project century, like the virtual fighter, like oh yeah, some of that stuff will be there. Maybe double what I just said.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

They're wild at these events. Motor World says I predict we're going to very vague, very short Insomniac Spider Man 3 Tease.

[Greg Miller]

I think there's not Switch. No, you got to get, you got to get Wolvie out first.

[Tim Gettys]

And then I'm gonna end on an amazing one here. Jameson. Peter says also I wrote a few months back about my mom being diagnosed with cancer. Happy to report as of today she's cancer free. Bring that bell, baby. Love to hear that. And I can't wait to hang out with all of you all week for a fun game awards week. Like I was saying, tomorrow is going to be our winners predictions and then on Thursday, of course we're going to be hanging out. We're going to be doing a little pre show. We're going to be live reacting to the show and a games cast afterwards giving you all our thoughts. But we're gonna try something new this year as well. We want all of your hot takes about the game awards. We will be putting out a tweet in a blue sky for you to respond to your thoughts about the winners, your thoughts about the announcements, all of that stuff. And on Friday we will react to all of those takes on a kind of funny games cast. So it's going to be a great time. Today is not over. After this we are doing the stream which is Elden Ring Night. Elden Ring Night. Reign. Hell yeah everybody. Until next time, Rain. Love you all. Goodbye.