ONE MONTH UNTIL SGF 2025 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: ONE MONTH UNTIL SGF 2025

Episode Overview Released on May 6, 2025, the "Kinda Funny Gamescast" episode titled "ONE MONTH UNTIL SGF 2025" delves deep into the upcoming Summer Game Fest (SGF) 2025. Hosted by Kinda Funny's ensemble—Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez—alongside Roger Pocorni, the discussion spans anticipated game releases, industry updates, and interactive streamer events. The episode offers insightful analysis, playful banter, and exclusive sneak peeks into the gaming calendar as SGF approaches.

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1. Introduction to Summer Game Fest (SGF) 2025

Blessing Adeoye Jr. kicks off the episode by highlighting that SGF is exactly 30 days away from its commencement. The hosts express heightened excitement for the event, discussing the plethora of game announcements, trailers, and reveals scheduled for the fest.

"We are one month away from the big summer kickoff and celebration. And just like we did yesterday on the Gamescast where we were talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 being one month away, today we'll talk about Summer Game Fest."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [00:55]

The team emphasizes the global streaming of SGF, ensuring fans worldwide can participate regardless of their location.

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2. Upcoming Streams and Events

a. Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) Trailer Release

Andy Cortez shares his excitement about the new GTA 6 trailer, though he expresses skepticism about the high-quality screenshots and their feasibility on the PS5.

"I can't imagine how it's going to look in like it doesn't feel real. Yeah, the screenshots look way too good."
— Andy Cortez [01:09]

The conversation reflects both anticipation and cautious optimism regarding the game's development progress.

b. Death Stranding Marathon Stream

Snowbike Mike announces an ambitious marathon stream where he and Roger Pocorni will attempt a full playthrough of Death Stranding over a weekend. This endeavor will be uniquely intertwined with physical activity, as Mike plans to walk on a treadmill synchronized with the game's protagonist, Sam Porter Bridges.

"On the treadmill, Mike will go step for step with Sam Porter Bridges. He steps, I step. We walk for greatness."
— Snowbike Mike [05:09]

This initiative aims to blend gaming with fitness, engaging the audience through an interactive and entertaining marathon.

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3. Ubisoft's Current Standing and Future Prospects

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing Ubisoft's upcoming projects and the company's current challenges.

a. Game Announcements and Remakes

The hosts express mixed feelings about Ubisoft's direction, particularly focusing on the potential remakes of classic titles like Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia. Snowbike Mike is particularly vocal about his desire to see these franchises revived.

"I like Splinter Cell more than anything. It has been longer than GTA 5 since the last Splinter Cell game."
— Snowbike Mike [44:12]

b. Financial and Development Concerns

Andy Cortez critiques Ubisoft's strategy, suggesting that the company may be overextending itself by chasing trends like extraction shooters, which may not align with their traditional strengths in storytelling and rich game worlds.

"I think a lot of companies right now have been chasing the Extraction golden goose."
— Andy Cortez [38:00]

c. Future Projects and Potential Delays

Roger Pocorni highlights Ubisoft's ranking in best-selling games, noting that flagship franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry dominate, while newer titles like The Division lag behind. This observation leads to speculation about Ubisoft possibly reverting to their successful franchises to stabilize sales.

"Their pillars are Assassin's Creed and Far Cry and a Tom Clancy like Rainbow Six Siege X. I guess Rainbow."
— Roger Pocorni [46:32]

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4. Interactive Audience Engagement

Throughout the episode, the hosts encourage live audience participation via YouTube Super Chats and Twitch interactions. This engagement includes live polls—such as predicting how long Snowbike Mike will walk during the Death Stranding stream—and responding to viewer comments and questions about game releases and showcases.

"If you're watching live right now, we have a Kind of funny podcast after this could be a one on one."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [78:45]

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5. Notable Quotes and Highlights

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. on SGF:

  "Summer game fest, 31 days away. The excitement is coming."
  — [13:16]

• Andy Cortez on Ubisoft's Game Development:

  "The Extraction Shooter is a game that doesn't require you to make a whole lot of cutscenes and story beats."
  — [38:08]

• Snowbike Mike on Half-Life 3 Speculations:

  "Half Life 3 would be the insane choice. Will it actually happen? Probably not."
  — [20:31]

• Roger Pocorni on Upcoming Streams:

  "This Friday come witness history as Snowbike Mike, the most athletic man west of the Mississippi, is embarking on the most daring quest."
  — [07:02]

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. on Audience Participation:

  "Support us with the kind of Funny membership available on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts."
  — [01:19]

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6. Sponsorship and Advertisements

The episode features brief sponsorship segments promoting products like Imperial Aura Frames and BetterHelp, seamlessly integrated into the conversation without disrupting the content flow.

"Imperial is a complex feature rich action RPG where you'll be sent to a planet in a far off corner of the galaxy to explore an imposing monolith."
— Roger Pocorni [29:08]

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7. Concluding Remarks and Future Episodes

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts reiterate the upcoming events and encourage continued audience interaction. They tease future discussions, including a dedicated Ubisoft segment and potential game reviews, ensuring listeners remain engaged and informed about what's to come.

"Let's end this episode with some YouTube super chats. Thank you for supporting us here at Kind of Funny."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [78:39]

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Conclusion

This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast serves as a comprehensive preview of Summer Game Fest 2025, blending informed discussions with lighthearted interactions. From dissecting Ubisoft's strategic moves to orchestrating unique streaming events, the hosts provide a multifaceted look into the current gaming landscape. Engaging listeners through quotes, live interactions, and future forecasts, the podcast remains a pivotal source for gaming enthusiasts anticipating the next wave of game releases and industry developments.

Transcript

[Snowbike Mike]

Foreign.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hello and welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily or Games cast. Tuesday, May 6, 2025 I'm one of your show hosts, Snowbike Mike, join alongside the GTA boys. Blessing out of Yo Yay Jr. And Roger Pocorni. Bless. How you feeling today?

[Roger Pocorni]

I'm feeling good. What are your thoughts on Tyler Perry?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what? I like him. Roger.

[Roger Pocorni]

Not doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't have a beef with Tyler Perry.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just said the hairline was hairline and that's it.

[Roger Pocorni]

You didn't like Madea? You didn't like.

[Snowbike Mike]

I never watched Madea. Never watched.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, you haven't watched Madea?

[Snowbike Mike]

We can do a Madea marathon, you and me, dude.

[Roger Pocorni]

If we do Madea in review, that would be my time to decide.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's how you know we might need to kill the show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger, my other GTA boy, how are.

[Snowbike Mike]

You part of the GTA 3?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We've established this part of the GTA 3.

[Snowbike Mike]

GTA 3. Plus Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Plus Andy, of course. Andy Cortez. Welcome in. We just had a great Games Daily talking about all things Grand Theft Auto 6, the new trailer drop. Did you watch it and what did you think?

[Andy Cortez]

No, but I just looked at a lot of the screenshots.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I was just maximizing a bunch of these screenshots.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's it.

[Andy Cortez]

I can't imagine how it's going to look in like it doesn't feel real. Yeah, the screenshots look way too good.

[Snowbike Mike]

Apparently on a PS5 too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think about that.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't believe it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think about that about to blow up.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't believe it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course, this is today's games cast. We have a whole lot of fun coming your way. This is the kind of Funny Gamescast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in the video game world live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of Funny membership available on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get your daily exclusive show, Greg Way, which today will be hosted by one Roger Piccorni.

[Snowbike Mike]

We'll figure out what we're talking about. Maybe, maybe it's Madea.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe it could be Medea. You can't be attacking people's hairlines. That's not nice. Well, okay, you know people don't like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not saying.

[Roger Pocorni]

You know what, I'm glad you said it, Mike, because yeah, I did notice that, and I think that is insensitive.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't be called that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was not saying this hairline was bad. I'm saying it's way too good.

[Roger Pocorni]

You know what I mean?

[Snowbike Mike]

It's the Turkish hairline. You know what I mean? It's the, it's, it's like you would.

[Roger Pocorni]

Have got it done.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, yeah. I'm just saying at that point to shave it all off. You know what I mean? Just. You gotta embrace it. Why are we fighting against nature?

[Roger Pocorni]

Wait until you don't have.

[Snowbike Mike]

Exactly.

[Roger Pocorni]

Wait until I introduce you to Tyler Perry's boo to a Madea Halloween. How do you feel about when John Cena does, like, fixes his hair because he, it seems like he's been doing it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, he admitted to it. He said he did it. He said he got bullied.

[Roger Pocorni]

And you know what I said to that? Good for you. You know what makes you confident?

[Snowbike Mike]

Good for you. Good for you. He said he was bullied. He said he didn't want to do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Work on yourself.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, that they made him do it. Who's that?

[Andy Cortez]

The audience, James Gunn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For a chance to be part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Because today we are talking about Summer Game Fest. We are one month away from the big summer kickoff and celebration. And just like we did yesterday on the Gamescast where we were talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 being one month away, today we'll talk about Summer Game Fest. All the big announcements, reveals, trailers and games coming your way. So please share your YouTube thoughts over with YouTube Super Chats as we go. Some housekeeping for you. Remember, Greg is rocking PAX East Thursday and you need to be a part of it. At 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, Greg's the keynote speaker kicking off PAX east and we'll be doing a fireside chat with final fantasy and Expedition 33's Ben Star. Little woo from Roger right there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Why is it only me? You know what I mean? Like, we need to get up. We need to support. We need to support.

[Andy Cortez]

We. We congratulate Ben Starr. Enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. At 2pm Eastern and 11 mpt.

[Roger Pocorni]

Good looking man, Greg's great looking man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hosting the Mafia, the old country panel with the devs. There you go. I knew you'd get a woo right there. I'm really excited about that one. We're going to talk about that in the Summer Game Fest being one month out. Where's the hype for Mafia? We're going to talk about it here on this podcast as well today.

[Roger Pocorni]

Fair enough.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I'm excited for it. Of course, if you're in Boston, you need to be there, but if you're not, don't worry. Both will be streamed to our Twitch channel, so very exciting stuff. You can catch that live streamed on Thursday.

[Snowbike Mike]

Anslow says in chat, Roger claps in the theater. That is my half white side showing. You know what I mean? Like, every time a movie is, I want to clap. You know what I mean? I feel the flight lands. I want to clap.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what? It's a plane lands. You can clap. That's. No, you can't stop someone who has their ppl. It's a lot going on.

[Roger Pocorni]

Who has your one now?

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, okay. I heard you.

[Roger Pocorni]

I thought you. I thought you said pilot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pilot's license. Yeah, yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

You have your ppo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, he did a Microsoft flight sim.

[Andy Cortez]

He just lies.

[Snowbike Mike]

What do you mean believed it?

[Andy Cortez]

She saw.

[Snowbike Mike]

She saw his YouTube thing where it's like, I got my ppl. And she was like, oh, yeah, Mike can fly, right? I'm like, no, don't believe anything he says.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that game so much. So go tune in and have some fun. It's going to be a great time. And then the biggest news of the week. Two big streaming updates for all of you. Number one, snow Mike. Mike has tried his best to get Nick Scarpino back on the Pokemon. And today I'm happy to report we've done just that. We will finally return to Pokemon. The whole crew will be here Tuesday and Wednesday on the hunt for Lugia, trying to get Nick towards the finale of this game. And we'll go from there. And then on Friday, the biggest news you need to know about. Come join Roger and Mike this Friday as they attempt to do a full playthrough of Death Stranding 1 through the weekend. But can they do it with your support? Because guess what? It's a literal marathon. On the treadmill, Mike will go step for step with Sam Porter Bridges. He steps, I step. We walk for greatness.

[Andy Cortez]

His heart. Your heart.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, exactly. My heart explodes. Sam's heart will explode.

[Snowbike Mike]

We will show the. The BPM of your heart.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Snowbike Mike]

As the stream will go. We have a. We have a. What do you call it?

[Roger Pocorni]

Heart monitor.

[Snowbike Mike]

Heart monitor.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We have a heart monitor that will be link up to the live stream so you can watch this. I have done zero training, but in my mind, Andy, I've done all the training.

[Snowbike Mike]

No stretching.

[Andy Cortez]

If you visualize yourself doing marathons and running, you could do it. You can do it.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's what happened when you almost died running four miles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was seven.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

It was not.

[Andy Cortez]

It was half of a half marathon.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think it was a half of a half of a half.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We don't know the numbers, Kevin. Up.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, well, what we do know is for the next three weeks, he was walking as if he had just had his legs rebuilt by, by some sort of future tech. For the next three weeks, just like I, he. I have it on video and I wish I had it longer because he was walking like RoboCop.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And as he was walking, I was doing the sound effects because every slow, every step was just so methodical.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So this Friday come witness history as Snowbike Mike, the most athletic man west of the Mississippi, is embarking on the most daring quest. Jack going step for step with Sam Porter Bridges in a literal marathon stream on the treadmill. Of course, you can help support us by keeping the lights and mics on on this Friday, exclusively on Twitch with your Twitch subs. We will go for as long as you support it. I will stay on that treadmill.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I want to, I want to underscore this. It's not like as long as we want, like for like the end of the day or until Saturday nights. I'm talking until Sunday, until Monday, potentially. Right. Like we're trying to go and trying to finish this entire game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very achievable goal. Bless. Like, this is.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're such a fucking.

[Roger Pocorni]

Very achievable.

[Snowbike Mike]

He looked at me, he was like, originally, I was like, oh, we'll do like a 12 hour marathon stream or whatever. He's like, we could finish this game. And I was like, no, we can't. And I looked at the thing, it's like it was like 40 hours or something. Like 31. 31 hours. Like there's no way we're finishing it in 30 hours. But he's like, no, we can do it. We could do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I told Roger, let's set the Twitch sub goal. Achievable goal. Where we could possibly go till Sunday? Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Achievable goal beating the game. We'll see. You know you're fucking backpacking. He's a slow gamer.

[Roger Pocorni]

We'll see.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're backpedaling.

[Andy Cortez]

I've seen the way these streams go. I've been a part of a lot of these streams and 12 hours of what could be gameplay is really about 7 hours of gameplay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Especially when Mike right next to you, so happy breathing, can't hear the dialogue.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'M happy that we have Andy and Barrett here because of course, we started an office pool during kind of Funny Games Daily. We have started the official Snowbike Mike office pool. How long will he actually walk? Until I fully throw in the towel. Saying, no more. I'm not walking anymore. So from the start, at noon, how many hours, minutes, seconds will I go? Until I say, Roger, I just can't do it. And so for you and Barrett, think of a time. Hours and minutes. I'll tell you, Blessing wrote seven hours. Mike, of course, believes in himself. Wrote the whole time.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kevin wrote 10 or 22. He didn't really know where he wanted to be. And then of course, the one, the only big Roger wrote 13 hours, 22 minutes and 28 seconds. Winner of the pool will be taken out to lunch by me and Roger, of course.

[Roger Pocorni]

If I know, can I reject the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You want to switch?

[Roger Pocorni]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're going to lunch with a dog. I didn't say, want to go get you a Costco hot dog. It's a great time.

[Andy Cortez]

If I know Mike, there's nobody that does things out of spite. More. And if anybody were to, like, if you were to say, mike, there's no fucking way that you could go swim to the bottom of the ocean, I'd find he would be dead. Because he would try to figure out how to do it, you know, like, he will do stuff that he isn't enjoying to prove you wrong. I love that more than anybody that I know in life. And so I'm going to just put a number. I want to say 12 hours. 12 hours, because I know that you will push past that because I'm doubting you and saying you can only do 12.

[Snowbike Mike]

Also, the hours include, like, the cutscenes where he's not walking. Like, this is just like, from the start of the stream till when he gives up. Right. So.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And Andy's got a good one of.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, a good one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's 2am essentially. So that's a long time to be walking. Eventually give up. Barrett, you've seen me move. You've also heard me breathe very heavily into the microphone. So what do you think, Barrett?

[Barrett Courtney]

Roger, what did you say?

[Snowbike Mike]

I said 13 hours, 28 minutes or something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

22 minutes and 28 seconds.

[Barrett Courtney]

Because, yeah, I didn't consider the cutscenes. And, yeah, for.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, those are good.

[Barrett Courtney]

Considering just like, just length and not distance.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah, he's going to be taking breaks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, know, whenever he steps, I step. And he'd be stepping a lot.

[Snowbike Mike]

Not that much.

[Roger Pocorni]

Sometimes like stepping in cutscenes as well.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a good cause.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, if he steps in a cut scene, I'll step you. No you won't.

[Roger Pocorni]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You won't mess around the cut scene.

[Roger Pocorni]

No, because then I'm changing my answers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He be stepping a lot in the cut scenes. I thought it was a lot of just.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's usually talking to his mom and. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And of course the man with the scary mask, you think he's just standing.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, what do you think he's doing?

[Roger Pocorni]

You think he's sitting down? You think every cut scene he's like, all right, let me, Let me.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's not running a marathon.

[Roger Pocorni]

Let me go. Craz cross applesauce real quick.

[Barrett Courtney]

I. I didn't mean to blow this wide thing open. I'm gonna say. I want to say 12 hours. I think you go 12 hours because. Because my end. Because Andy has a great point of him being spiteful and so my instinct was like nine hours and I think he'll push a couple hours past that out of spite.

[Snowbike Mike]

So you have 12 hours as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

One of you guys has to go up or, or, or lower.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll go 14.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

14. Wow.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

You run above me.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Cuz you have 13, right? Yeah, I'll go 14.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Okay. Well, you could get a lucky lunch with me and Roger. We'll see what happens.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like you included me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You said first.

[Andy Cortez]

You said first.

[Snowbike Mike]

You said the company will buy the lunch and now you've implicated me that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have to buy half with us, of course. Don't forget, we are a small 11 person business, all about live talk shows and we would love your support. Don't forget, after today's games cast, you'll get a kind of funny podcast with the next gen crew. Plus Nick, I feel kind of bodied out of that. It was supposed to be me and Nick. Really?

[Snowbike Mike]

You replaced me?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nick was very excited to be.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really?

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, Yeah, I can step off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no, I think I would like you.

[Snowbike Mike]

I would like to do. Actually I got to record a great one. Me and Mike will fight over this. Me too.

[Roger Pocorni]

I've been also, I've been. I've been asking for a one on one with Nick for a while. They've not been letting me get it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, that could be fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One on one with you too. Okay, well, we'll talk about that.

[Andy Cortez]

It's going to grill his ass.

[Roger Pocorni]

So what do you do here? What's your job title then?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To close out today, Your afternoon stream will be Nick's return to Pokemon. The hunt for Lugia begins. Of course, you will also get a Greg Way with Roger Porny later today. Don't forget we are brought to you by Imperial Aura frames and better help. But I'll tell you all about that later. Let's kick off the show with what is topic of the show. Kind of funny. Best friends and audience around the globe. We are one month away until Summer Game Fest. June 6, 2025, I think 30 days. 30 days exactly.

[Snowbike Mike]

So 30 or 31 day, month. How does months work?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's 30 days.

[Roger Pocorni]

January, February, March, April, May.

[Andy Cortez]

So 31 when there's a knuckle, where.

[Roger Pocorni]

There'S a knuckles, there's a 31. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How about this one? How many months have 28 days?

[Snowbike Mike]

One.

[Roger Pocorni]

Well, like three quarters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Got your ass. All of them. Yeah. That's got your ass.

[Snowbike Mike]

He actually got my ass. He actually got my ass.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's 31 days.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's talk SGF about Summer Game Fest. Of course, the excitement.

[Roger Pocorni]

I nailed it with the knuckles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He nailed it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. But I'm just wanting to call it out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Summer game fest, 31 days away. The excitement is coming. Another fun time with Jeff Keighley and the crew. Games, announcements, trailers, reveals, dates for the second half of the year. We're going to be talking about that. So, guys, let's jump into it. Where do you want to start? Do you want to talk about games? We're still waiting on. There's some games that are on your mind. We'll start off with Andy Cortez because I know these two boys have been talking a bunch. Andy, Summer Game Fest. I say it to you. What are you excited for?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's too obvious to be like Silk Song freaking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Not a day and date thing. I don't think that anything like that would happen. I think we will see Silk Song in some capacity. I have a good feeling about it.

[Snowbike Mike]

At Jeff's thing.

[Andy Cortez]

At Jeff's thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Remember the Xbox?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Xbox had it on the week.

[Andy Cortez]

I think there's. I think it will be seen in some capacity. I think either on cctv, like they will. There will be like, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The.

[Andy Cortez]

Suspect is in downtown. It will. We'll get a glimpse of it somewhere, somehow. And that's really all the confidence that I have in it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now. This is going to be shown down in Australia at a museum, correct? Right. That was the latest news.

[Andy Cortez]

It's going to be play. It's playable there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Playable as well. So does that give you some good feelings of this could be this year, Andy. Or does this still feel like 20, 26 and beyond?

[Andy Cortez]

I, I, I feel in my heart of hearts it will be this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And I've, you know, for the last two years, have been doing the Clown meme. You know, like, of course it'll be out this year.

[Roger Pocorni]

And.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

But I just feel like, was it already a year ago by now that we got some Xbox listing in Korea or something for it? And then there, there are just always these little things that go, oh, it could be any day now. And then.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, half a year goes by and, you know, it's crickets. But being shown in that Nintendo little super cut for the Switch 2, very, you know, good. Remember when Xbox was like, all these games will be on the next year?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was a crazy announcement. 12 months coming to game pass. And then they just had Hollow Knight Silk Song. It was like, all right, that's crazy.

[Roger Pocorni]

It must have been an accident, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, maybe I think you could know the future.

[Snowbike Mike]

Doesn't matter.

[Andy Cortez]

I think you're allowed to just say, you know, like, I don't know if they even talk to Team Cherry about that.

[Snowbike Mike]

You just pulled that off YouTube. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Who knows?

[Snowbike Mike]

What are you gonna do? We're Xbox.

[Andy Cortez]

Who fucking knows, dude? I, I, I've. Okay. If it was a gun to my head situation, yeah, I would probably die. But I would still say, I, I think this year is the year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This year.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's this year playable in Australia. A listing about six months ago. I'm, I'm, it's co. I'm drinking the copium, you know.

[Roger Pocorni]

When is it playable in Australia? In September. Yeah. I love holiday Soul Song fans, man.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the best.

[Roger Pocorni]

Y'all are hilarious.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the best.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that. We've been doing this for years. Yeah, it's, it's that comes with this summer Game fest predictions and Xbox and we continue to talk about.

[Andy Cortez]

I laugh so hard at blessing Greg being like, man, any company would kill for this amount of pr.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like no other game. Like Big Triple a. Half Life 3. I feel like doesn't happen.

[Snowbike Mike]

Not anymore.

[Roger Pocorni]

Compared to Hollow Knight Silksong.

[Snowbike Mike]

Silksong has taken over, like, how many people?

[Andy Cortez]

It's Silksong and bloodborne type, you know, the sickos.

[Roger Pocorni]

How much did Hollow Night even sell? Yeah, because I want to know, is it like a loud group of 3 million people, you know what I mean? That are super. Well, 3 million.

[Snowbike Mike]

Over 3 million, but over 3 million.

[Roger Pocorni]

As of December 2020. So, like, that's probably a lot more, but 5 million on in total. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a good game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good.

[Snowbike Mike]

That is a really good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So let's talk about it really quick. Andy, for Roger became a believer recently, say, for people who haven't played the first one. And we look to this next one being announced and possibly dropping. Right. Should people jump on the train and play the first one? Should you. Could we just wait for the sequel and only play that? Where do you guys fall on that?

[Andy Cortez]

It's. It's kind of a tough one because I know Tim, who loves Metroidvanias.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Is always like, I know that. That's. That's the one I need to hop into. I love Metroidvanias. How have I not really played this game yet? And I don't. For somebody like Tim, I don't think it's as easily digestible. I think it is a bit more obtuse, a bit more, you know, a bit more heady. You're. You're having to listen to a lot of or read a lot of NPC prompts about where to go next and, like, infer a lot of clues. This game isn't gonna hold your hand and give you an accessibility menu and tell you, oh, maybe I want, like a radar to go exactly where I want to go. But I just. I think it's something that everybody should at least try because I think the writing is super adorable and charming, but the combat is fantastic. The movement. The, like, it. It lives up to the hype for a game that I was several years late to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's. It's so funny because it reminds me of, like, how I waited until season five to watch Breaking Bad where I was like, I've waited for four years. I'm going to play Hollow Knight. And I played Hollow. I was like, nice, dude. I don't get to wait that long for the next one. And it's been like three years since then.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, I'm in the perfect. I'm in the perfect situation right now because it can come any day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Best life.

[Andy Cortez]

It was. It was like severance waiting after that season finale. Yeah, I. I think that this game is probably one of those that whenever there's a steam sale, this sucker's probably like 10 bucks. Fifteen.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, it's like. It's like three bucks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. It goes crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody's got to play this shit. If. Especially with how popular handhelds have been. I wish I had played this kind of in the Steam deck age where like I, I think I played this maybe right before the Steam Deck came out. It would have been the perfect video game for that. I, I think that you owe it to yourself to experience one of the bests.

[Roger Pocorni]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Coming down the line, Roger, I talk about Summer Game Fest with you, Jeff Keeley hitting the stage, putting on the big presentation. What are you excited for? What do you want?

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, let's just go down the line. I've been to me, I've been hyped about one thing and I saw a report the other day and I'm thinking it and I'm feeling it and I think it might actually happen.

[Roger Pocorni]

But your threes up in the air.

[Snowbike Mike]

Half Life three, everybody. Half Life three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Stop it, Roger.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, I predicted in the beginning of this year of like the month to month breakdown of like my crazy predictions for the year. Got none of them right, by the way, but like sort of right, you know, I mean, some of them.

[Roger Pocorni]

GTA Spencer could still retire.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, exactly. We could, we could have some crazy shit going on. We can't. Ubisoft could be technically sold in a few months, even though kind of were, but whatever. The last one that I had was summer. It was at the TGA, the game awards that Half Life 3 is announced. Because I feel like Jeff really wants that hype from last year and to continue it. Right. He wants to show that the Game Awards can be a place where anything can happen. Everything can happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, he showed that last year.

[Snowbike Mike]

The more that I did show that, the more that I think about it, he needs that moment for Summer Game Fest. He needs summer. He needs Summer Game Fest to feel on the same caliber as the Game Awards. He needs it to feel like, no, this isn't just a halfway stop. We're going to see a bunch of games that we care about. But like also we're going to forget literally everything that got announced last year. We're going to have to go back.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't remember Killer Bean?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I'm sorry, I forgot about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That could have been, that could have.

[Snowbike Mike]

Been three years ago. I don't know. He needs, he needs this year, in my opinion to be the standout year or a standout year to be on that, on that pedestal. So Half Life 3 would be the insane choice. Will it actually happen? Probably not. But I do like the, the thinking and the speculating of Half Life X is in the code of deadlock. Right? People are playing this game. It exists apparently, and it's, it's being worked on and it Might be finished. So maybe crazy, maybe this could be the year. But how funny would it be? How funny would it be just for the memes, just for online, if Half Life 3 came out before GTA 6?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come on, dude.

[Snowbike Mike]

I, I don't know that that would be a fun one. And I, I, if it were to be anywhere, it would be Jeff Chicks is how, how specifically connected he is to Valve, but how connected he is to the history of Half Life. Right? He was the, he was there in the beginning of Half Life. He was there recording the creation of it. So it would be a nice. Hey, here you go, Jeff. Here's the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, okay, I like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't think it's gonna happen, but that would be, that would be the crazy dream.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that. Andy, really quick to circle back to you because you and I really loved Deadlock. Do we get some sort of public, hey, this is Deadlock. Come play.

[Roger Pocorni]

Finally announcing this game formally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that crazy? This is my game. I love this game. Do we finally get the big, like, hey, this is Deadlock world out there. Come play this.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if it was average John in the Twitch chat who was telling us about kind of their rollout. As somebody who isn't in their discords or isn't in these, like, sort of fan forums regarding Deadlock, I think that this year could be a. Hey, we're gonna acknowledge it. We're gonna acknowledge this thing and possibly have some sort of more public thing. Hey, hop in. This is open data. Never been a better time to hop into Deadlock.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is your time.

[Andy Cortez]

I think that we could get some sort of public thing from Valve or maybe even somebody like Gabe Newell mentions the video game Deadlock, like, we could have a large moment with it this year and man, that can you imagine coupling that with like A Half Life 3? Valve makes so much money, like, it's insane how much money that they make and to just be able to have these weird kind of pet projects and this multiplayer game, Deadlock, that has been making no money. Like, there's no, There was no. It's a free thing that you just kind of hop into, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You Deadlock.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's so bizarre that, but also really awesome that they are at liberty because of their funds, just kind of do whatever the hell they want and experiment with this multiplayer game. I, I don't think it would be too far off to say. I don't know if it's a summer game fest thing, but I feel like maybe between now and the end of the year we would get a. All right, the thing is in. In Beta now or Alpha. It's like an actual thing that we.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are acknowledging as opposed and install it and finally play it like without any questions.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, there will be a. There will be a. Like a little cinematic for it to introduce it or something like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just wonder if that's a summer game fest thing, right? I mean like Valve as. After I just literally said that halfway through. But like Valve is really weird with their game announcements, right? I mean, Counter Strike 2 was just announced on a random day. Right. Like all this stuff is just kind of happens.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're kind of like a rock star. They don't need.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, they like using Jeff's events to like help like promote certain things, like the Steam Decker, but they don't actually give announcements to him necessarily. So I mean, that would be cool if like, hey, here's the moment where Deadlock and Half Life 3 are here to kind of couple it together with Jeff blessing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

These two are taking me to the moon with their predictions. I need you to bring me back down. Can you give me back to reality of what could happen here?

[Andy Cortez]

I will.

[Roger Pocorni]

With four words.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Roger Pocorni]

Dying Light the Beast. No, Dying Light the Beast. That's exactly where we need to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At your predictions and realities. Right.

[Roger Pocorni]

Where is Dying Light Light the Beast? Of course, this was announced at the the opening night live from last year. I think we've gotten a trailer and a half, if you don't remember.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Pocorni]

Reading from the Steam description. Dying like the Beast is a thrilling standalone zombie adventure set in a tightly crafted rural region. Play as Kyle Crane, a legendary hero who breaks free after years of brutal experiments.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You don't know about Kyle Crane, legendary hero. Hero.

[Roger Pocorni]

D Like the Beast. Yeah, it's cool. It looks good. Well, I just want to know where this game's because here's the thing. I like, I remember watching the trailer being like, oh, shit, more dying. Like, and then erased it from my brain until like 10 minutes ago. I was like, oh, what's a good poll?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This I was like trying to think.

[Roger Pocorni]

Of like, what have we seen recently? Like, what have we seen the last few?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, I don't remember anything about this.

[Roger Pocorni]

And I don't remember anything about it. Right. Like, this is one of those ones where we speculated for a week, we got the trailer and then immediately just forgot about it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Gameplay of this game?

[Roger Pocorni]

Beats me.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, no, no one could tell. Oh yeah, this is what they showed. They showed the ending. Yeah, they show gameplay, but so, yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

I'm I would like an update on. Update to this game. I'd like.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are you a Dying Light guy?

[Roger Pocorni]

I love Dying Light 2.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, shit.

[Roger Pocorni]

I didn't know Dying Light 2 specifically. I, I with heavy. It was like the one where me, Greg and Janet played it because we got the review code in, like, a span of January where there was not much else to play. And we all played it and we're like, damn, that game is pretty great except for the ending. The ending sucks. But, like, Dying Light as a video game mechanically is so fun, right? Like, the parkour actually is, like, an integral part of what makes it fun to play, what makes it fun for the controller to be in your hand and, like, you know, solving like, the puzzles of, like, okay, I want to get there. I'm going to climb this thing, hop on this thing and, like, you know, run on top of zombies and shit. Like, I would actually be excited to, like, get some kind of information as far as a release date, as far as release timing, as far as, like, you know, what new features you're adding to this thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That feels like a good fall game.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, that feels like a good Find a niche, a fall, or even I would even go as far as to say, like, if you could, like, maybe say spring. Spring, like very early next year, like, put it in February or something, I think that could be a spot for it. Another one keeping us down to earth. Where is Dispatch? Remember Dispatch?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dispatch had the very cool trailer. Looked very awesome.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, yeah, that's like the superhero workplace thing that comes from former Telltale Devs. But it looks like it's a Telltale game with a really cool art style and it gives kind of invincible vibes as far as what you're looking at. With an insane cast too, right? It was, yeah. Aaron Paul, Moist, Carolina Pierce. Who's the other person on stage?

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, Breaking Bad. What's his name?

[Roger Pocorni]

No, I'm talking about the other girl on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, actually Johnson.

[Roger Pocorni]

No, it wasn't virtual. It was actually Johnson.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There we go. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no, no, no, it was it Laura Bailey. The other woman. Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Jesus.

[Andy Cortez]

That other girl out there.

[Roger Pocorni]

God damn.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what you said.

[Snowbike Mike]

Freaking out.

[Roger Pocorni]

Calm down, guys. But, yeah, I, I, this game was one that said 2025. Like, we're almost halfway through the year. Of course it could get delayed. But I, My vibe from that first showing was like, oh, man, you guys have something here. Like, this seems like something concrete that people are excited about, so I'd love to get more information.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This screams Jeff Keeley show. Right? Like this is a very cool game. It's a little different. I. I like that. I think this is a perfect one for Summer Game Fest right there. Of course. Get a date. Yeah, I think for sure this is one of those of like, let's get a date. Let's slot this.

[Roger Pocorni]

They could honestly say anywhere from July to next July, and I. I'd nod my head and be like, yeah, that makes sense. Okay.

[Barrett Courtney]

Do you think just because former Telltale, all this stuff. Episodic. Question mark.

[Roger Pocorni]

No, please, God, no.

[Snowbike Mike]

Please, no. We got to kill it. You saw what happened to Lost Records, Bloom and Rage, a game that came out the first thing where like, I guess it's fine. I think it's pretty good. And then we just literally never talked about the second one because it came out a month or two later.

[Andy Cortez]

I still don't know if it's out. Like, yeah, it's out.

[Roger Pocorni]

It became a lost record. Like, the game's lost to the Ether.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's insane. It's insane.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are we moving away from those episodic games like that?

[Snowbike Mike]

We should.

[Roger Pocorni]

We're moving away from those, yes.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm so interested to see this. And then also wolf Among Us 2, that's in the Ether, that's also a Jeff Keighley joint, because I think that was announced at Game Awards a few years ago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, let's pause right on that one because that's a good cliffhanger. Because people want to know about that game, Roger.

[Roger Pocorni]

Do they?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's take a word from our sponsors and maybe we'll return with that and ask, where's that game at?

[Roger Pocorni]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Welcome back, everybody.

[Roger Pocorni]

You can do me a favor, Bar. Do me a favor.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Run it back. Look up.

[Roger Pocorni]

Look up the Ubisoft showcase from last year, and let's just see how it looked in the room.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, let's just look.

[Andy Cortez]

Was that last year?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that was last year.

[Roger Pocorni]

They were at the looking, bro.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy, man. Yeah, we were just talking about Ubisoft and what is Ubisoft going to do Something where they at? And then we all started giggling because I said they went from having Jason Derulo on stage dancing with the panda in a giant, beautiful concert orchestra hall to then, hey, we're at the Lakita Ballroom over here showing you Jedi.

[Andy Cortez]

So this was 2023.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, it wasn't last year.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it wasn't last year.

[Roger Pocorni]

What'd they do last year?

[Andy Cortez]

We're in our. We're in a Marriott. Bring your Logitech webcam.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, my God, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, yes. This is how I want to see.

[Barrett Courtney]

The B roll and footage gameplay.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like the hashtag PrinceOfPerscia on the gameplay on the thing and also on the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Produce.

[Roger Pocorni]

This.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just want to talk.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, my Lord. This looks like the I hotel I.

[Snowbike Mike]

Worked at for, like, are we just talking about Ubisoft?

[Roger Pocorni]

Should we just talk about Ubisoft?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you have a Ubisoft game you want to talk about?

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, I want to talk about Splinter Cell. We have Splinter Cell.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And we have Beyond Good and Evil.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, that. That's not happening. We can say anything right now.

[Andy Cortez]

But like, Princess Xbox said hollow. Whatever.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, we have Prince of Persia, Sands of Time remake that apparently came out next year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, right.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, we had, like, those. To me, those are the two big games that I need to see. I need to see Splinter Cell. Splinter Cells remake have has been in development for years now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bones is back there saying it.

[Andy Cortez]

You're gonna be walking on foot now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. Out on foot. They're saying it's back.

[Andy Cortez]

Big update because there's the dream of.

[Roger Pocorni]

What Roger's talking about. And there's the reality of what we're seeing on screen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I know.

[Snowbike Mike]

When.

[Roger Pocorni]

Which is like, you're saying. You're saying you want Splinter Cell and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Prince of Persia new Rainbow six update.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, yeah, we're gonna have Rainbow six.

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, I do want to see cjx. Don't talk about cjx. I'll fight you, dude. Like, we're gonna get. What's the Marvel game that they had? Not Marvel marble.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, do you remember? They're banging into each other.

[Roger Pocorni]

That's what we're gonna get.

[Snowbike Mike]

Was that a battle royale?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I think it was a 3v3 arena.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, they are working on that. Like, Apex competitor.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, that might be the Marvel thing again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Man, do we ever miss just Roller Champions? What a peaceful time we have with that.

[Snowbike Mike]

I missed the dodgeball game. Knockout City.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Knockout City. Knockout City was. I know.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm just talking in general now. We're just talking.

[Roger Pocorni]

We're in a weird Marvel blast ultrasound, by the way.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, the. We're up, Rog. Wanting Splinter Cell. Like, these titles just remind me so much of the often rumored recently just fully like, confirmed canceled Apex or the Titanfall type camp. Like, we hear. We've been hearing.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're the bloodborne guy.

[Andy Cortez]

We've been here.

[Snowbike Mike]

You gotta be on my side.

[Andy Cortez]

What are you talking about? I'm just saying, like, I. Is it actually happening or not? You know, like.

[Snowbike Mike]

And we've seen concept art. They did a roundtable a few years ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Where is Beyond Good and Evil too.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's not happening. That's not happening.

[Roger Pocorni]

We're never seeing that. Also, Chad lied to me. It wasn't Marvel Blast Ultra.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's definitely not.

[Andy Cortez]

It called. It was like Orbeez or something. I forget what it was called. You were an orb.

[Snowbike Mike]

So many of those.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, they're focusing on Assassin's Creed. Do we get DLC for that? Shatters just came out. Do we get a dlc?

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, do we get Hex?

[Barrett Courtney]

We just got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do we get a teaser for the next one?

[Barrett Courtney]

We just got a year road road map for Shadow. So there's anything close.

[Snowbike Mike]

That Black Flag remake that's always been in the ether.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That would be crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's pro. That's. I could see that showing up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's actually when we get the next Far Cry. Is that next year or is that this year?

[Snowbike Mike]

When was Far Cry?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When we get the next Far cry.

[Roger Pocorni]

Far Cry 5 was like, we were thinking six.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, is this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, Far Cry 6. I like Far Cry. Far Cry 620 was a nice return to what I want Far Cry to be. I think a lot of people complained it was a little bit too big, which I understand a lot of these Ubisoft games became way too big, but it felt good.

[Snowbike Mike]

It was okay so far. CRY7 is probably on there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think Black Flag remake is. Is kind of a slam dunk. I mean, that's been in the ether right there for a minute. And then probably some Switch two versions of all those games. We didn't see Assassin's Creed. Right. On Switch 2.

[Barrett Courtney]

The only thing we saw from Ubisoft on Switch 2 was Star Wars Outlaws.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. So I can see that showing up there like, hey, all the games are coming to Switch two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I really do think you have. You have to show Prince of Persia because that game is dated for 2026. So you have to at least say that game exists or it doesn't exist. You have to show it or say 2027 or just say something about it. Splinter Cell, man, It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's tough.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's tough because literally years it has been in development. They did a roundtable discussion, I think, last year maybe or two years ago, where they're like, hey, it's the anniversary of Splinter Cell. Here's some concept art. We're working on it, man. We really love the lighting system. And they just bounced.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You want people to talk positively about your company, Maybe you put out. Maybe we talk about Splinter Cell.

[Snowbike Mike]

You got to do Splinter Cell, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, what about Andy for you, the division? Will we ever see it return to its glory of what it was? Right. Like, we get a new division, we make strides that way. Or do you think we'll never return to what that really was with that game?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if we'll ever get another proper, like, story looter shooter game.

[Roger Pocorni]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I think a lot of these. I think a lot of companies right now have been chasing the Extraction golden goose.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Because. And this sounds like super. This sounds like I'm kind of talking a little bit of shit about developers and just game development in general. But I think it's. I think it's. The Extraction Shooter is a game that doesn't require you to make a whole lot of cutscenes and story beats and a lot of stuff that requires a shit ton of budget because you're kind of relying on the players to make a lot of the content for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Because you are begging into each other.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In a multiplayer game. Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You are kind of the the players are the content in addition to the NPCs and things like that. But I think once you go this extraction shooter should be a looter shooter or whatever. We got to make the next division then that requires what. I'm just like throwing out a stupid estimate of like four times as much as what the budget would have been because now you're suddenly getting levels and now you' boss fights and you know, a massive voice cast with a lot of lines and cutscenes and all that stuff just kind of keeps on ramping up and adding up and adding up. And I, I think that there's so many big ass developers that just want to be efficient and like, let's not work on something that large right now. And I think, I don't think, I don't think Ubisoft is really in a spot right now to where they can really just kind of go all out with whatever genre that they want to like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They.

[Andy Cortez]

It really feels like we will start to see a lot more remakes and stuff to hopefully kind of just like bolster up that portfolio and get some more funds in. Because it just feels like they're in a weird spot to let's make the Division 3. And that's going to be a massive budget game that's going to be so huge. And with Star Wars Outlaws kind of not hitting the way it did, I think that really makes the fucking company be like, shit, what do we do next, man?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Someone in the chat wrote division in Vegas and it's like when I think of the tail end of Destiny and companies still wanting to get our time right on these big games so we just time sink it. It's like you give me a new division and in Vegas would be crazy. Like I would give you my time for that. I, I miss the days of the division. I wonder if we'll ever get like a Ghost Recon ever again. Where does that, that, you know, franchise fall in this? That could easily be an extraction shooter for, you know, Ubisoft. At any moment they could be like, oh, we just said Ghost Recon. Now it's an extraction.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, that's Ghost Recon, I think Broke the camel's back, right? Like wasn't that the one that was Breakpoint? But like I remember right after that, but there was like the reports of them being like, oh, we gotta. Ubisoft's delaying everything now.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like less Tom Clancy stuff.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, like they delayed gods and monsters and all their games to be like, hey, we're figuring our stuff out now, right? And I think between that, between all of the ups and downs, mostly downs that we've seen in the last years of Ubisoft between like even, you know, you talk about Division. Division. Heartland was supposed to come out, right? And that got canceled. I wonder where that puts the next division as far as like, when are we even going to see that? Or if we're going to see that. Like, I think right now it is that Ubisoft is in that tightening up stage of. All right. It is Assassin's Creed. I already forget like the details of the news story we had about them. Like, like dividing a division into like, all right, this is Assassin's Creed division. And like it's gonna be partly owned by Embracer or whatever it was. But like, yeah, I think I, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get a Ubisoft forward thing this summer because they're just figuring that shit out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me go to my man, Mr. Barrett. Courtney. He knows he, he's played a lot of these games. Barrett, I know you popped on the screen. I want to make sure you get in on whatever you wanted to say.

[Barrett Courtney]

My prediction for Ubisoft is that they don't have a thing and they only show one thing at Keely's thing and it is. Is the second story drop for Assassin's Creed Shadows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that is all we get that is safe. That's easy. Bear and I agree with you of like, you're in. We continue to promote Shadows. We hope that continues to do well. That's, you know, that's the big game right now. Let's get that. And then they kind of just go back into the shadows until it's time for.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, but here's the thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tom Clancy's Ghost or I just don't.

[Barrett Courtney]

Think they're in a spot where they can like over promise right now. Especially when they're in the middle of like re figuring out what the fuck their business is.

[Snowbike Mike]

But I mean, that hasn't stopped them before. You know what I mean?

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, like they've been this dire before though.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, well, they were in the middle of like a hostile takeover, right? Like they love getting out there and trying to. Eves loves going out there with the entire crew and being like, look at us, we're Ubisoft. We're doing the damn thing. We announced one game and we also delayed a million games and nothing matters, right? But here we are. We're here. We're Ubisoft. Look at us. Like, they love doing that. I know. Specific. I Think they're totally going to do a Ubisoft forward. It just a matters of, like. It doesn't stop them ever. If they don't have anything to show show, they'll still. They'll still do it. They don't. They don't care. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

They made up an entire game last time called beyond good and Evil 2.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, exactly.

[Barrett Courtney]

But I. I think that's what. Doing that back then, I think is partially what led them to where they're at now. And I just. I don't know if you can repeat that again, especially because, again, like, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Barrett Courtney]

It was a hostile takeover last time. It's a different situation this time.

[Andy Cortez]

Gordon Levitt was really involved.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He was telling us about Space Monkey and wanted us to give us graffiti and art.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

He's like, let me take your art. I'll take credit for it and I'll.

[Barrett Courtney]

Give you a high five.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They have the motorsport game. What's their driving game that we always talk about?

[Snowbike Mike]

The crew trials.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whatever happened to Just Dance?

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, Just Dance franchise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was always there, but, like, they put that to the side. It's still there. It's Right.

[Roger Pocorni]

But like, is it growing? Is it. It's not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, right.

[Roger Pocorni]

Like, I don't. I think when you were talking about the laurels that Ubisoft has been able to rest on year over year over year over year, I don't think any of those laurels are working anymore. Like, how long do we have Just Dance for? Right. Like, how long do we have the crew games for? How long do we have Rocksmith for, like, the Ubisoft that we talked about in 2014? Like, they're still trying to make those IPs work, and I don't think they're working anymore.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's why I think we are going to see the next three years of Ubisoft going back to the. Well, going back to the Klaxis, going back to the Black Flags, going back to the Splinter Cells. Maybe going back to Far Cries. Right. Far Cry 3 remake. Right. You know what I mean? Like, we just.

[Roger Pocorni]

How long does that last? Because you're talking about going back to the well.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, I mean, that's.

[Roger Pocorni]

That is a Splinter Cell gonna say, like, is a. Is a. I think an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake will do well, but how many Black Flag remakes can you make?

[Snowbike Mike]

One, two remake. You know what I mean? You can go. You could sort of go back to the well for a lot of these games and start to rebuild them, but I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I will continue to say Far Cry Team. Give me the Jurassic park game, Andy. That's all I want. Far Cry, Jurassic park, the cage. I'm just a lonely security guard or I'm the guy working the concession stand and I'm out of here. Running for my life with the dinos. That's all I want from a Far Cry game.

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, is that going to do is even as good as, like, Avatar?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, none of it will do good. Yeah, they're in between a rock and a hard place. They're not doing well.

[Snowbike Mike]

MC in the chat says Splinter Cell will sell better than what they've put out recently. That is not true. Splinters. I love Splinter Cell more than anything. It has been longer than GTA 5 since the last Splinter Cell game. They are. It's not going to sell as well. It's going to sell pretty okay, but it's not going. It's not going to hit the numbers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's hold the Ubisoft talk for the podcast that will one day come because this is very good.

[Andy Cortez]

I just real quick, I just want to say I'm it's wild to look at this battle for Brooklyn DLC for the Division 2. Yeah, that's coming out on May 27th. And to read that it also marks the launch of Year seven, Season one. I didn't know they were still working on the division like that. I've been kind of surprised.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Never would have guessed. I wouldn't even think it was still running, to be honest with you. And if you walked up to me before this podcast and said, mike, can we even still play the division? I'd say no. That's offline.

[Andy Cortez]

I bought it for 10 bucks on steam like two weeks ago.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, well, yeah, you can still get your division blessing. Anything before we walk away from Ubisoft for a little bit. I mean, I just get us back on moving forward.

[Roger Pocorni]

The one more thing I'll say on Ubisoft is like, you know, I'm on gamerant.com right now on a list that is the best selling Ubisoft games of all time. And it is very enlightening. As far as you know, it is at number one, Far Cry 5 and number two, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Number three, Assassin's Creed 4 Man Legends number four, Assassin's Creed Odyssey number five, Tom Clancy's Rebel 6C speech. And it reads like this as they go on, right? Number six, Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed 2, Far Cry 3. Finally you get the Division at number nine. Right. Then you get Just Dance 2, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that's why they said we have to go back to what is our pillars here. And you have to focus on that.

[Roger Pocorni]

And those pillars are Assassin's Creed and Far Cry and a Tom Clancy like Rainbow Six Siege X. I guess Rainbow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Six Siege has been the one. That's.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a great call.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

When do we get that, that sort of full reveal?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe. Maybe this summer.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe that is the summer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another fun one for you for that, that the chat brought up. What about that Jurassic park survival game? We saw the showcase for that one. Maybe it's time to put a date on that or see more gameplay of it. I would love to see that. Jurassic park, an incredible concept. Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Like you are playing a character who was also locked during the first Jurassic park movie. You got stuck behind too. It's going to be so you know what it's going to be like for people who are just, you know, hold Jurassic park one near and dear to their hearts. It's going to be similar to when we sat next to Nick Mike when he was playing the Robocop game and he was calling out every reference. He was like, oh my God, dude. He was like, oh my God. The gate makes that exact same sound in the movie.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh my God.

[Barrett Courtney]

The car bumps here. This specific place.

[Andy Cortez]

It was incredible. It was. It was awesome making this. Do we know someone looked it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But for this, right. We're coming hot off of a new Jurassic park movie this summer. It would be fantastic for this to be shown a Jeff Keighley's thing. Maybe have a fall date in the spring. But like, oh, this would ride the high off of the movie dropping this summer.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a great call.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You would be flying if you could do that, right?

[Andy Cortez]

And if you could hit the sort of viral Twitch market that loves horror games that, you know, every once in a while a random game will just kind of pop off on Twitch and that gets the word buzzing and people start freaking out about, you know, I, I think it could be one of those horror games that really pops off because it has the IP and if it's really awesome. And we know Saber puts out the non derogatory, like best double A games ever. Like, I, I'm really, I'm really excited to see what this game could be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, this is gonna be a good one. We brought up the Wolf among us too, which is crazy because I looked that up. That trailer came out in like 2002 or 2022.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, no, it's Been a long time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's been that long?

[Roger Pocorni]

As soon as you said it, I was immediately like, did that not come out years ago? But then I remembered I realized I was thinking of Tales from the Borderlands 2.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Which actually did come out. And no one played.

[Roger Pocorni]

And I don't. Yeah. I don't know a single soul that played.

[Snowbike Mike]

I played for the first half an hour, maybe two. It's fine. It was whatever. It's just like, it's too little too late. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So. Yeah. Does this excite you?

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love those. Good.

[Snowbike Mike]

I loved Wolf Among Us one, but I also played it when I was, like, a teenager, and I remember nothing about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, I remember, like, two scenes in my head, and then that's about it. This is, like, way too little, way too late. And even if this game is Great, it has a 2 right next to it. No one's gonna play this game. Like, it's not going to hit the way that it needs to. And it sucks because it's nice that Telltale, or at least some of telltale is back. Right. I know that a lot of people got laid off, and then now they're kind of, like, rebuilding the team and a lot of people making mixtape. Mixtape, no, Dispatch. Dispatch. So I'm happy that this exists, but I just wish that they just didn't do this. We waited. We. They did something original. They did something like Dispatch to kind of build up their name and then eventually maybe remake Wolf Among Us and then make a sequel. But this is just like. It feels like we're putting our hat onto something that is just going to collapse the entire thing.

[Roger Pocorni]

They also did the Expanse, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Expanse, yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Was that good?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I liked the Expanse, but I have. I've been turned off by the episodic nature. I can't be. It's tough to draw me back after you give me one where it's like, it ends and you're like, okay, I would play more of that. And it's like, well, we're not coming out for a month, three months, and it's just too long to wait.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, that's right.

[Snowbike Mike]

It looks good, though.

[Roger Pocorni]

This strikes me something that's gonna end up being episodic. Right. If they did that for Expanse.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Let me put you on to one that I'm looking forward to. Of course, this was revealed and shown last year at Jeff Keighley Keeley's event. Cuff Bust Cuff Bus. Is that super hyper cute? In your face. Gummy bears escaping prison. That's right. 12 friends screaming, running one person. We have not seen this game. This game is not released. This game doesn't have a date yet. This game has the makings of your next viral video game right here. And I cannot wait for this. Especially riding the high of this year of repo. Schedule one, right? We're coming off of content morning. You saw this trailer last year and you're like, like me and my friends are going to be laughing all night long playing this game.

[Snowbike Mike]

This game is going to be huge.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I cannot wait for this. Still waiting on a release date for this. And of course, laugh out loud. Killer beans, right? Killer beans still doesn't have a release date, which is crazy. The GTA killer bean video game. And so yeah, those are two I wanted to put on your map. But most importantly, Cuff Bus. Cause that will be the game. When that drops, it will be the talk of the town for a week to a month of how much fun that's going to be.

[Roger Pocorni]

That would. Ninja Gaiden 4 Ninja End of the year, right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, I mean it's going to probably be, you would think Xbox 5.

[Roger Pocorni]

We've not gotten a release date.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Roger Pocorni]

We got that initial trailer that gave us a lot of gameplay.

[Snowbike Mike]

So talking about release dates really quick not to but like we're going to get a lot of release dates.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

During this.

[Roger Pocorni]

Because we have GTA GTA 6 been removed from the.

[Snowbike Mike]

Do you think that as soon as that that release date came out that Jeff just got a ton of emails being like, I want to update my trailer. I want to update my trailer. I need to update my trailer right now. Yeah. Let me send you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jeff, we got a new one.

[Snowbike Mike]

We got a new one for you with the new seconds longer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another great one that was just thrown out in the chat. Of course we'll be talking about all things Xbox later on. But you do have a big Xbox showcase.

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, I think that's part of this conversation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One that I'm waiting for. Contraband. What's up with Avalanche and Xbox and this contraband game. You can't show me that so far away and then just leave me hanging. I'm excited for this. I like this team up. I love what Avalanche has done in the past. I like the idea of this co op heist video game.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, oh yeah, I need tornadoes for this tornado.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And yeah, this is another one we wait for. We had a super chatter right in as well about Jeff has. So Tundra boy writes in and says Jeff has Tomb Raider and Playdead's Next game. I think a perfect Dark. Of course this summer getting a little bit more. I don't think it's this year, but that's one of those where I think a Tomb Raider. I think a perfect Dark as well.

[Roger Pocorni]

He did. Is that my guys?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Inside in Limbo. Playdoh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are they still around? I.

[Roger Pocorni]

From what I gather.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because I've seen like five different games from the people that made Limbo.

[Roger Pocorni]

How are you still company when a million people from your company started a bunch of studios? Like yeah. How big was the studio to begin with? But yeah, because I played.

[Andy Cortez]

What was the one that I never remember?

[Snowbike Mike]

Bionic Bay. And then you have. No, no.

[Andy Cortez]

Are you thinking about the alien? Somerville.

[Roger Pocorni]

Somerville. And then there was the bug one top down cocoon. And I think there was one more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The director.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. So. So somewhat tundra boy said the. The producer made Somerville the lead designer make a coon and the director's still at Playdead.

[Roger Pocorni]

Gotcha.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's wild.

[Roger Pocorni]

Planet of Lena is not. Not related.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Roger Pocorni]

Planet of Lana.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Roger Pocorni]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

They went off to do their own little side projects and they're like, we're gonna get back together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I.

[Andy Cortez]

We do know that s game is going to reveal a freaking release date for Phantom Blade zero sometime this year. Well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

What they've said is we will this year we will release a release date year. That's how they worded it. Now, to me that's either a keely thing because we saw Fan Blade 0 at Summer Game Fest last year. It's either a keely thing or a game. Well, it still would be a keely thing if it's at the end of the year for game awards.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's a good layup for Achilles showcase. How about the Blumhouse? Remember they started making horror games?

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another one of those.

[Snowbike Mike]

We have five nights at Freddy's to the movie as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Who's gonna be the big spot? Because five nights Friendly. The movie that could easily be shown there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like maybe.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So like who. Who's the big ad? Who's gonna be the fun ad that we all giggle.

[Snowbike Mike]

Interesting.

[Roger Pocorni]

Or shick. Whatever. It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How are you the hydro man? If he needs me to wear the suit, I'll do it for you.

[Andy Cortez]

He'll do it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I will wear that suit all presentation.

[Andy Cortez]

He'll do anything for his best friend.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Talking about the PlayStation and all that jazz. And we're talking about Xbox. We Gotta talk about PlayStation. I think until dawn. A remake. A secret or no A sequel like until dawn two will be right. Yeah, that has to. I just think it just lines up.

[Roger Pocorni]

I think there's a lot that PlayStation hasn't said yet as far as, like, the rest of this year. Because, of course, that's Training two is coming out in June, so that's the summer game. You got Marathon coming out in September, and you got Ghost of Yote coming out October. Correct me if I'm wrong about any of that. That I. I think that still leaves a lot of room. Remember last year, we got multiple surprises. Astrobot was a summer showcase announcement.

[Andy Cortez]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Like Horizon.

[Roger Pocorni]

Horizon, The Lego game was a summer showcase announcement. I think PlayStation has a couple more of those to show. So, yeah, I think Until Dawn, God of War 2. Yeah, I was gonna bring that up too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Until dawn two and the God of War Greek game, whatever that is.

[Snowbike Mike]

Side project.

[Roger Pocorni]

I still don't have belief that that's gonna be, like, a gigantic thing. But, like, I think those two projects.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm convinced that's a comic book.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really quick. I'm gonna remind the audience right now as we start to. To ramp down the episode. Now is a great opportunity to get your super chats, and we're gonna have a great chat section at the end. But we are nearing the end of today's episode, so if you want to get your thoughts in the games that you want to see at Summer Game Fest, now is the time. But, boys, I'm gonna go right down the table. I want to hear maybe one more. Couple more. But, like, just know that we're gonna slowly end this right now. But bless. What do you want to see? Any other things we have?

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, this isn't a. This isn't. This is a thing that we know we're gonna see, but outer worlds too. I'm very hyped for that game. I like to see. See that out of the Xbox Showcase. Right. Like, I like that they're doing the. I. I read this episode as sgf. Just a week. I didn't know if this is gonna be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fine.

[Roger Pocorni]

Because we don't have an Xbox episode. That's fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think we do the following week, but don't worry about it.

[Roger Pocorni]

Do we have. Wait, do we have an Xbox episode next week?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you know, I'm thinking about June already. I'm thinking about before. The week before.

[Roger Pocorni]

Gotcha.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good. You're good.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is that locked into the calendar? Yeah. Sees it all.

[Roger Pocorni]

I was like, I can hold this for next week, but that's one that, like, I didn't believe was coming this year until they really said, hey, we're doing the, you know, developer Underscore Direct. Plus, you know, Outer Worlds 2 is going to get the big, big breakdown. Like I think this has potential to be. I, I don't have like the whole Xbox calendar off the top of my head, but like I would say the possible biggest release for Xbox this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I'm getting this will be the big holiday release. I believe this will be the big one.

[Andy Cortez]

Have you seen what they're doing with their dynamic? Like they're doing this weird with it. The game kind of understanding your player manners. Have you seen how they've. They teased off a couple of different mechanics in the game where if you are constantly skipping your dialogue a thing will pop up and go, hey, we'll this I, I, this is just me kind of like, you know, kind of making up a mechanic at this point. But it would be like we'll skip the dialogue from here on out and you'll get a little perk here, but you'll lose whatever health or what. Like do you want to do this? Because we notice you keep on skipping dialogue or they'll be like, hey, we notice that you keep on breaking down these sort of things and it'll kind of like pop up. I don't know how many of these things they are going to implement, but they I saw at least two glimpses of here are these mechanics that we the game are understanding player patterns and seeing that you the player keep on doing these certain things, we'll give you this little perk that will help you out here. But then you'll, you know, have a little drawback, you know, what will penalize you on this other ability. It's really weird and, and kind of neat and, and a neat way to kind of let's innovate. This game that, you know, came out several years ago that I can't wait to get back to. I know we're going to do a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

RE review, I believe are going to do a RE review.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's one that I booted up before. Avowed just to be like, yeah, you know, let's see how this game was a game that I kind of gave up on. And Roger saying that this game rocks and hopping back in and be like man out of worlds is I think this more than a vow, honestly.

[Roger Pocorni]

And that's my thing is I thought I was going to get a bit more into a vow. I ended up just not getting as into it as I wanted to, but it became A more exciting thing for me because I know that I like outer worlds, you know, like having played that game and loving that setting and loving. Yeah. The tone of the writing and all that stuff. So to have outer worlds to actually be around the corner is awesome. And I can't wait to see what they break down for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sticking with the Xbox stuff, that Gears of War announcement, Roger, come on, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Really? Really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not vibing with that?

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, it's just. It's just the ultimate edition, but better, I guess.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The multiplayer is one of the best online shooting multiplayers everywhere.

[Snowbike Mike]

Includes multiplayer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's. That's what it has. Yeah. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

So like just the first game, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The idea of people jumping back into that and being able to share that with Bless and the PlayStation community, that's a big deal to me. Who loves Gears of War of like, I love that game. And I will play hours of multiplayer.

[Snowbike Mike]

I definitely will. I mean, I got to play with a PS5. I think that'll be just fun and weird. But talking about Gears E Day, right? It's definitely not coming out this year. I have it drafted. I just did that for fun. But like, what if you know what.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, to get people excited and then E Day next year, like, how cool is this to build it up, like to just start building that ramp up of excitement that Gears of War is back. We're going to E Day, which is before the emergence day. And now, hey, guess what, PlayStation fans? You get to play Gears of War as well for the first ever time. Maybe you can jump in. I mean, this multiplayer back in the day stole the gas from Halo. Like, Halo was awesome and I love Halo to death, but man, when this came on and you were Lancer and chainsawing people and you were Nash or Shotgun and people bouncing off the walls, that looked so different from Halo back in the day that I still remember to this day, the first time seeing it going, what the hell is this? And when can I. I want to play this.

[Snowbike Mike]

Chainsawing somebody for the first time when like curb stomping them out. Holy.

[Roger Pocorni]

I appreciate you unique technique in chat that says Bless has an Xbox Mike. You could have. You could have been played with me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You've been playing, I've been bouncing.

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, I'll. I'll play now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Roger Pocorni]

Okay, well, hit me up. Say the word.

[Snowbike Mike]

Here's the board.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait for this. We're going to wait for this now because it's going to be sweet. Andy replayed it recently, which has been great. So I Know, Andy enjoys it.

[Snowbike Mike]

It.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's been having fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I. I mean, the timing just kind of stinks. I would have loved to experience it with the brand new coat of paint and to have it operating as quickly, as efficiently as it would on PC with a more modern release. Because I played it on Xbox One. Backwards compatibility with, you know, you got that hardware, sort of. We'll make it run faster and it doesn't. It'll try to. It'll hit 60 now and then and it's doing its best. But it would drop a lot of frames. We would have to restart the game. It was not the best way to experience it, but it still looked really impressive for an older title.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When you get that headshot with that sniper rifle, Crunchy, watch out. Crunchy Pork Bowen, people.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Great game.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm excited for E Day and I want an extended gameplay demo. That's what I need. I need the extended gameplay demo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Next year's summer. The second. The. The follow up, it will be the. There will be the second big showcase. They'll do the whole deep dive.

[Snowbike Mike]

So you don't think we're gonna deep dive this year?

[Roger Pocorni]

Year of E Day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of E Day? No, absolutely not.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think we will.

[Roger Pocorni]

For a game that's coming out next year.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't. I don't think that game. It will be shown.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think it Xbox underscore direct next year in the spring. It will be the summer plus one. Like Obsidian's Outer Worlds two is the tie on.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, interesting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The big deep dive and it will come out in the fall.

[Roger Pocorni]

See, I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's how this is.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think this game comes out earlier than that.

[Roger Pocorni]

I think it comes out. I think Gears, where E Day gets the Doom Dark Ages slot or I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Guess you get Fable next summer would be the plus one. And I think it's in the fall.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Because I'm thinking of a January developer direct. That is Doom, not Doom. Gears of War. E Day focused.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a great call.

[Roger Pocorni]

And then in, let's say May, you get Gears of War. I think a lot of games, I guess maybe not May, because the GTA 6.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

But you.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what I mean, the dominoes next.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The next Forza is around the corner.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is that actually happening this year?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no.

[Roger Pocorni]

Are you talking about the horizon?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The good one? Are they showing it? You know what I mean? Are we showing it this year?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, absolutely. Is all of Playground. Why not on Fable?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, they have multiple teams. They've said.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, why not though? Why.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why wouldn't it be shown freshly on PlayStation 5?

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, perfect.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You celebrate perfect time.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, we not. They're gonna be like, hey, guys, everybody go buy it on PlayStation 5. No, they'd be like, hey, you can buy it anywhere now. Here it is, Roger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you want to see?

[Snowbike Mike]

I interactive. James Bond.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They showed it at the switch too.

[Andy Cortez]

That was such a loud house.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's why I pulled away.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was like 65. That was 65. That wasn't even. But like, switch to Roger. They. They had the little teaser. Yeah, we've seen it before. But like, is it time for IO Interactive to give us James Bonds?

[Snowbike Mike]

And we say that every single time. Yeah, every single time. It's the same trailer.

[Roger Pocorni]

They showed us the same exact trailer a month ago that they showed us a year, like two years years ago. They're not seeing that today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is so lit. Yeah, the music's gonna hit if I'm excited.

[Andy Cortez]

What's James Bond gonna look like? Who's is it gonna be the voice of? Is it gonna look like the voice actor?

[Roger Pocorni]

He's gonna look like Rahul Kohli.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Troy Baker's gonna voice James Bond.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, Ben Starman. Oh, my gosh.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, Ben Star. James Bond would be actually perfect.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Do we think it's very similar to Hitman? Having these larger open environments and.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, you would hope.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Waiting through the people and getting through that.

[Roger Pocorni]

I think. I think it'll be sandboxy, like Hitman.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

But I don't think it'll be like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ass will be cool.

[Roger Pocorni]

I think it's gonna be way more gadget focused.

[Snowbike Mike]

Right.

[Roger Pocorni]

But, like, I think it has to be a different game.

[Andy Cortez]

You're getting cutscenes, you're getting like full narrative type.

[Snowbike Mike]

Do you think it would be third person or first person?

[Roger Pocorni]

Third person.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Third person. You want to see James at all times.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I want to see Jimmy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I think it's gonna be a hybrid. I think it's gonna be first person with third person elements.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like, I've heard Jones style.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

I was gonna say, if you're making a first person James Bond, I feel like you give it to somebody else. I feel like you give it to machine games.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, we said that with Indiana.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, yeah, that's true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Andy, give us another one.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, gosh.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You brought it up earlier. Yeah, during the ad break. I'm surprised you're not talking about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, because, like, that's be more like a PlayStation showcase, right? Wouldn't it not be.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are they even having a showcase?

[Roger Pocorni]

I mean, I assume we're bundling it all together.

[Andy Cortez]

They, they, they would. They'll have a showcase like a days.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Away from the summer fun. You could talk about any games. You're excited.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean Rahul Kohli and Soros like holy. We. I think this will be the gameplay reveal after getting the kind of cinematic reveal of the game period over at game awards. Yeah, I think we will get a gameplay glimpse with different looks at how the action looks over the third. Over the shoulder, third person, you know, bullet hell type that we love House Mark four. I. I'm so unbelievably pumped for this game. It's just like a first. I. I was worried when they said we are not making a sequel to Returnal. Yeah, I was really bummed out by that because I think Returnal is like as perfect of a game as you can make and I just wanted more of that, of that experience and I'm just super pumped that they are not necessarily iterating. But you know, we're gonna see the next evolution of what a housemart game can look like. And, And God damn, it's. It's been really cool seeing a lot of people being like, man, I never played Returnal back in the day, but they just came out with this PS5 Pro update and holy, what a video game. Like we. Returnal's up there with Sifu and other games that I just like. I would put those on, you know, favorites of all time type. What an experience.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, to you. Anything you want to bring up before we slowly get out? I'm going to bring up the audience for mine.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm drawing a blank. Judas.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Judas.

[Roger Pocorni]

Where is that?

[Andy Cortez]

Like they did that?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they like they did the.

[Barrett Courtney]

He, the director or whatever did the Friends per second podcast and all this stuff. It's still. I forget. Was that a year ago? How long?

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, probably about out.

[Barrett Courtney]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

We also had Tim Levine mentioned recently, Barrett, when all the EA layoffs happened, Ken Levine said we are actively hiring here at Ghost Story Games. I'm like, damn, they're like. Like they're still hiring, you know, which doesn't mean a whole lot, but wow, you're a game that I thought was a lot closer to maybe being in the final runways, maybe still a while away.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In.

[Barrett Courtney]

In a similar vein I did. I just. I think about Judas. But then I also want to shout out Clockwork Revolution, which is another kind of BioShock vibe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Exile Games.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah. I want to see what that's all about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's a good One right there, Barrett. I like that. I'm gonna have mine as the super chat. So we're gonna end out the episode with the audience out here. And I'm actually gonna pull from Twitch really quick because I have a couple good ones. Oh, tell me, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

I have one more. Okay, I think we'll get yet. And it's available now. Liza P. DLC.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

The DLC has always been slated for summer 2025.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

There's never been a definitive date. I think we will get a out now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That be sweet. That'd be sick from soft seeing anything.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are we seeing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We have night rain right before. Right. So we'd kind of be riding that high.

[Barrett Courtney]

Could do like a night rain roadmap.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

If they do character.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe character teases and maybe nothing better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Than having from software on the. On the presentation.

[Roger Pocorni]

He loves the reveal of another game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Snowbike Mike]

Xbox exclusive this time.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, my God.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's no way we see that Nintendo game though, right? That's it.

[Roger Pocorni]

Called Bloodborne two and a half.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, Bloodborne two and a half.

[Andy Cortez]

Dust blood.

[Snowbike Mike]

The squeak.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's gonna be lit.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's no way we see that, though.

[Roger Pocorni]

Also, Andy, I need you to coin a term for the sifu Sekiro Soros game type of game. You know, the fast.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Roger Pocorni]

Like, Andy knows what I'm talking about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The triple S. Let's jump into the audience, see what the. The live chat is saying. Right now we have a Witcher 4.

[Andy Cortez]

Question mark sponsored by backbone. We're not sponsored by.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can wait for a second on that one. Slammy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I brought the backbone pros here because we got them sent and we're gonna have them in Wii News. But it was a busy Wii News. It was a busy morning, so we didn't even bring them out. And then I was like, okay, I'll bring them up in the intro that we totally forgot about it. So the background pros. The Pro was announced. It is a more premium version of the backbone and even has little buttons.

[Andy Cortez]

On the back right there.

[Snowbike Mike]

And then it also connects to any device wirelessly. So you don't just have to plug it into your phone. It feel it. Let me know what you think. It's not an ad at all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Better.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, it's better. I mean, it's bigger. Like, the buttons feel bigger.

[Andy Cortez]

The satin feel.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah. Has that soft sand feel. And like, I do like the back buttons. This is something I would actually use. I was making fun of it earlier because, like, Roger mentioned of like, oh, yeah, you can use. You can Bluetooth this to your Steam deck and play Steam.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I'm like, you're like poo pooing my idea. And I'm like, listen, you guys, I'm.

[Roger Pocorni]

Still gonna poop your idea because the Steam deck has buttons, but. Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

But I'm connected to my tv. You don't have a. You don't have the great setup like I do. You know what I mean? I have a Cool.

[Roger Pocorni]

But then I picked up like a previous backbone. I'm like, I'm not. I'm not using to just like Bluetooth to something else when I have an Xbox controller. This actually feels nice enough to where I could see myself using that.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, it is $170. Very expensive.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

Insanely expensive.

[Roger Pocorni]

Tariffs.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, tariffs.

[Roger Pocorni]

But it turns out to be $500 tariffs.

[Andy Cortez]

You don't need to play games wherever you want.

[Snowbike Mike]

This does feel good, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, let's end this episode with some YouTube super chats. Of course. Thank you for supporting us here at Kind of Funny. We are an 11 person and small business all about live talk shows and we love getting to talk games with all of you. Playing games as well in our afternoon streams as we return with Pokemon and this Friday, a big marathon stream to help, of course. Keep the lights and mics on. Me and Roger playing Death Stranding together and I will walk step for step. But let's get some super chats. Roger, you said holy. Do you want to say it before get lost?

[Snowbike Mike]

Silent Hill. F. Holy. That's. That's coming out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Silent Hill.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's coming out.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah, dude, we're in. Be like, it's out now.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, no, no. But that game is like already like Steam Deck approved or whatever verified. Like that game's. You know what coming out.

[Roger Pocorni]

I'll do you one further at the state of play. They're like, it's out now.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, I think it's a Jeff thing. I think it's a Jeff thing and I think it's out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Within, like two months, this game's gonna speak to me. These themes.

[Roger Pocorni]

What kind of things?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

These themes are gonna be really simple.

[Snowbike Mike]

Mike really has a lot of themes that he's broken down that the chat has told him about. About that you didn't really understand. Hey, Roger, we gotta do a spoiler cast. Like you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know either, Roger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's a whole thing. Roger.

[Roger Pocorni]

We didn't get to talk about themes of Dead Wife.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the quote was. Yeah, the themes, man. Like, this woman died. Like, that's not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's so tough because I wanted to go into it, but then I was just gonna go full spoilers. I had to stop in the middle.

[Roger Pocorni]

Can we address this? People in chat keep saying bless. Say Lucia again. Like I keep mis. Mispronouncing Lucia. Lucia.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He said it right.

[Roger Pocorni]

I kept saying Lucia.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, he said it right.

[Roger Pocorni]

People keep thinking I'm saying Lugia.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think he said Lugia for the hunt for Lugia. The. The Pokemon we were gonna play.

[Roger Pocorni]

Oh, man. That's what it was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's what happens.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, let's jump into these super.

[Roger Pocorni]

Chat people saying, that's wrong.

[Snowbike Mike]

Lou.

[Roger Pocorni]

Lou.

[Andy Cortez]

C. C. Lucia.

[Roger Pocorni]

I don't know what I'm saying.

[Snowbike Mike]

Lucia.

[Roger Pocorni]

Lucia. Yeah. Let's see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You got to put the big C on it.

[Andy Cortez]

Lucia.

[Roger Pocorni]

Lucia.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're saying, I hate you all, so.

[Roger Pocorni]

You know, don't piss me off right now.

[Andy Cortez]

The support character in Overwatch, Lucio.

[Roger Pocorni]

Lucio.

[Andy Cortez]

She is Lucia.

[Roger Pocorni]

Lucia.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's get the whiteboard out. We got the whiteboard. Let's get the whiteboard out. We're just writing it out. All right, let's start reading.

[Snowbike Mike]

It doesn't help that everyone's doing the pronunciation thing differently.

[Andy Cortez]

That does not help.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's no. There's no universal way to do this. Everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A Walpo writes in with the five dollar super chat. Thank you for your support. Says pizza betting that Arc Raiders shows up with a. And it's available now Trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So we just had the play test. We are in an extraction shooter beta play test, period, for the past two weeks. It's changed my life here.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, we have. We had Exoborn earlier the year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We had Exoborn. That's still question mark, right? I don't think that game is actually out yet. So you have Exoborn. You have a. Arc Raiders. We know Marathon has a date here. Do we think Arc Raiders gets a date? I'll look at Andy because I know he is the guy who played the most with me. I don't think you two played it.

[Andy Cortez]

I. Arc Raiders felt the most. We. We could be closest to ship right now. Like, our creators felt the most developed. If I was to put even crazier prediction, I think Marathon says we need more time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're holding. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I think Marathon might decide to, you know, put out. You'll see a little statement and say, hey, whatever date, that's not going to happen. We need more time to kind of Cook or whatever. I think Arc Raiders might be the closest to come out. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is our creators an early Access, A premium title, early access of like, hey, it's 20 to 40 bucks, but like, we're here, but it's early Access.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I think it comes off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think they call it early access. I think that also maybe I, I, I think people are just kind of bummed out and scared by that, you know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, what's Roger laughing about over there?

[Snowbike Mike]

I just messaged Nick and I just said hearing rumors that today is pizza day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's good. Let's get Nick to buy pizza.

[Roger Pocorni]

Can I be real? I'm hangry right now, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Roger Pocorni]

My apry. I need that pizza.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Vishal writes in and says, kind of funny is my favorite sitcom. Where's my fantasy Critic episode Dead Beats. I love you guys.

[Snowbike Mike]

We'll get that soon. Yeah, I got pushed. Something big happened.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll get that.

[Barrett Courtney]

All the computers died.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what happened.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Anthony writes in and says, if Half Life 3 gets announced, I would literally cry for fans. This is our finish the story storyline. If you haven't played two, just go do it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Someone here needs to draft that game for fun. Just do it.

[Roger Pocorni]

I got two spots to open.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not gonna win. I'll do it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I might drop Gears of War you day and do it. We might have a little bidding war here.

[Roger Pocorni]

I'll be honest, I'm so up right now, I might, I might fucking do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chocolate Fox writes in and says just finished Expedition 33. What a powerful ending. We will have an official spoiler cast here from the team, I believe, coming up maybe next week. Tomorrow.

[Barrett Courtney]

Tomorrow with myself, Andy Cortez, and industry legend, industry icon Cat Bailey. So you're, you're primed.

[Andy Cortez]

Unfortunately, Tim can't be here because he beat it recently.

[Snowbike Mike]

Did he?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. De Jozer writes in and says, like to see more Exodus and where's Toxic Commando?

[Andy Cortez]

Exodus?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What, is Exodus? Not Metro Exodus?

[Andy Cortez]

No, Exodus is a third person sci fi game that like, is trying to be another Mass Effect.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, is that with Matthew McConaughey?

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah. Yes. You watch the show?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I remember that. Yeah, yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

The secret level had an episode.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I remember that. Yep. Okay. Yeah, now it's all coming to me. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, there's a Austin based developer, a lot of former Bioware people that want to just kind of make their own version and like, hey, this is our kind of version of Mass Effect. Or this is our third person Sci Fi action role playing game that has a ton of decision making and everything you would kind of want out of this game. It sounds like the dream game. It sounds like a game that is insanely ambitious. I hope that they could achieve like 70 of what they want to do because it seems like. Like they are really shooting for the stars and I. I hope that they can kind of nail it because it seems awesome. Otherwise it seems super up my alley.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is that confirmed for next year?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if. I don't think there's. I don't know if there's a date actually. I just. I've been looking at the website and kind of. I get updated a lot from Shinobi on Twitter. Our homie Shinobi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's super stoked about this school.

[Snowbike Mike]

Man.

[Roger Pocorni]

2026.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at this big ass bear.

[Snowbike Mike]

This could be the another Expedition type deal. That's cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

CJ splits on, writes in and says Wolverine. Hey bub.

[Snowbike Mike]

No shot.

[Roger Pocorni]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They have a pretty good roadmap for the end of the year, right? Like you. You kind of, you know, the big title at least. Right? I don't think you're putting Wolverine in front of ghosts.

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So like movies next year? Yeah, I mean, that's next year.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Roger Pocorni]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Krabby Patty says show me the Max Payne remake. Roger teaser and trailer.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I thought about that. I just. It's. It's a Rockstar published game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

So it all goes through Rockstar. We also have Firebreak coming out soon.

[Roger Pocorni]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Like. Like I. I just. I don't know if Rockstar even wants to think about Max Payne or even talk about it until after GTA and everything. So I could see that being next year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mac in awesome writes and says, I'm off work for a month to recover from surgery. Just want to say thanks for keeping me sane and entertained and informed. Love you guys.

[Snowbike Mike]

Feel better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gold Spider writes in and says hundred percent seeing Bond soon. You wouldn't tease it at the Switch 2 if it wasn't coming soon.

[Barrett Courtney]

Just like how you wouldn't show Silksong at the Xbox event a couple years ago.

[Snowbike Mike]

You can just do anything I like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm riding the Bond type. I do think that we will see IO Interactive with maybe more of just a teaser trailer. But I do think we see Bond this summer for sure.

[Roger Pocorni]

I hope so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Peaceful Warhead writes in and says the last one says excited for the death stranding stream. Will Mike keep walking even though vehicles can be used in the game? Or is it strictly walking? Play through. Do I will walk while he's in vehicles. We will use vehicles to have some fun.

[Barrett Courtney]

But I will start running at that point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Roger will tell you, we have a wheel.

[Andy Cortez]

You're powering the car.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're gonna spin a wheel. We have some fun stuff. Oh, we have a big wheel. We might be rolling up to Andy's house. You know, if I break this treadmill, we're rolling the Andes.

[Roger Pocorni]

It's gotta lube it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gotta leave it up.

[Andy Cortez]

I did take a photo of a treadmill I saw in the middle of the street. You never responded on my walk. And I was like, like, hey, there's a free treadmill right here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was going to write Roger, pick it up in your Yaris.

[Snowbike Mike]

I was telling you. I was telling you to pick it up and put it on Nick's desk. Get him uptight.

[Andy Cortez]

You get so mad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chat Kind of funny Best friends all around the globe. Thank you so much for watching and tuning into another episode of the Kind of Funny Games cast. Today's topic, 31 Days Until Summer Game Fest. All of your biggest trailers, reveals, hopefully dates, and your favorite video games with Jeff Keighley and the crew Crew coming very, very soon. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget, we are not done. If you're watching live right now, we have a Kind of funny podcast after this could be a one on one.

[Snowbike Mike]

It might be a one on one with blessing. He already said it.

[Roger Pocorni]

We can make it happen for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hungry Mike and Nick. We judge the Met gal outfits.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, I like that.

[Roger Pocorni]

If you're doing that, I want in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Okay. Well, we gotta be mindful of content coming your way.

[Roger Pocorni]

Sounds fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chat will be back if you're watching live on YouTube and just Twitch, stick around if you are listening on podcast services around the globe. Thank you for your support. Thank you for tuning in. Write in the comments down below what you want to see this Summer Game Fest season. Goodbye.