Opening Night Live 2025 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Opening Night Live 2025 Review

Date: August 19, 2025
Hosts: Tim Geddes, Greg "GameOverGreggy" Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Snowbike Mike

Overview

The Kinda Funny crew recaps, reacts to, and reviews the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 showcase. They provide in-depth analysis on the show’s highs and lows, break down their favorite (and least favorite) announcements from both the pre-show and main show, and reflect on the state of industry showcase fatigue while highlighting notable moments, unexpected reveals, and ongoing gaming trends.

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Episode Highlights

General Impressions & Scores

• Show Structure:
  • Pre-show: Well-paced, energetic, and humorous; lauded by everyone for quality, humor, and strong game selection.
  • Main Show: Criticized for being long-winded, repetitive, and trend-driven with too many similar announcements and ad spots.
• Overall Reception:
  • Scores ranged from 6/10 (Mike, Greg, Blessing) to 7/10 (Andy, Tim).
  • General consensus: Good for a Gamescom, strong pre-show, but bogged down by filler and industry trends.
• Quote:
  • Greg: “I think Gamescom is often, if not always a bloated show… At that point, how many fucking games do I need to see black slime ooze up and become hands and do it? It all just runs together.” (04:00)
• Main Takeaway:
  • The showcase met expectations but rarely exceeded them—the pre-show stood out as the best segment, with several surprises and a lighter, more playful atmosphere.

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Key Themes & Industry Trends

• Showcase Fatigue & Predictability:

  • Blessing remarks on the glut of similar Soulslikes, “Genshin Impact-likes,” and crafting/horror games, making showcases less impactful and more predictable.
  • Blessing: “I can kinda predict the next game that's coming up. Cool, another one of these... another Genshin Impact-like.” (13:12)

• The Value of Pre-shows:

  • Strong consensus that the pre-show had better pacing, stronger reveals, and more personality than the main event.

• Trend Analysis

  • Overabundance of Soulslike clones and “trend-chasing.”
  • The importance of distinct visual style or a clever twist for a game to stand out.
  • Showcase structuring that combines ads, indie reveals, and big budget announcements sometimes hurts momentum.

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Notable Reveals, Reactions, and Quotes

Pre-Show Standouts (from 15:20)

• Bubsy 4D:

  • Hosts praise the tongue-in-cheek approach.
  • Blessing: “There’s something about the energy of this Bubsy game where... I’d play it.” (05:29)

• Dench Attack:

  • “Tony Hawk but you’re a train” went from laughable to genuinely intriguing after seeing gameplay and hearing about T. Lopes on the soundtrack.

• He-Man: Dragon Pearl of Destruction:

  • Crowd loved the presentation/toy commercial-style reveal, even if the game itself wasn’t for everyone.
  • Tim: “Let’s just get weird... Where’s my Beetleborgs game?” (20:34)

• Absolum (now Absolu):

  • Beat ‘em up roguelike praised for fresh energy and boss fights.
  • Blessing: “This is the one I’m really hoping pulls me in and changes me.” (21:52)

Main Show (from 29:45)

• Swords of Legends:

  • Applauded for wild and creative enemy designs, compared visually to Miyazaki’s works.

• Road Kings:

  • American truck sim with deep plot—unexpectedly exciting for multiple hosts.

• Sonic Racing X Pac Man Crossover:

  • Fun, crowd-pleasing DLC, notable for character crossovers.

• Void Breaker:

  • Andy: “This game is the real deal, man... destruction as a main method of game design... Loved it at Steam Next Fest.” (64:39)
  • Touted as one of the week’s most exciting releases.

Headlining Announcements

• Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (56:25)

  • TT Games returns; open world Gotham; humor and references to all Batman eras; customizable Batcave.
  • Greg: “As a huge DC fan, get back to a DC world to run around and do the LEGO superhero business.” (56:44)

• Ghosts of Yotei: Legends (105:21)

  • Four-player co-op expansion for Ghosts of Yotei, coming free for existing players.
  • Blessing: “I'm shocked that this was here... just excited that it exists.” (105:35)

• Resident Evil: Requiem (107:00)

  • Showed more background for new protagonist; praised as a positive change in tone and performance.
  • Andy: “What a wild change and improvement... this sounds awesome.” (107:25)

• Sekiro: No Defeat Anime (55:09)

  • Crunchyroll exclusive, original cast returns; everyone hyped for action and faithful translation of parry-based combat.

• Onimusha: Way of the Sword (61:27)

  • Keen interest, but concern that visuals on RE Engine feel flat compared to Resident Evil benchmarks.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Full Recap (45:33 / 47:47)

  • Mike details a major shift for the franchise:
    • Four-player co-op campaign (PvE “endgame” mode in open-world map Avalon with up to 32 players).
    • XP shared across campaign, multiplayer, and zombies; new 20v20 skirmish mode; biggest round-based zombies mode ever.
  • Mike: “Four player co-op across all of the different ladders of Call of Duty... The big one is this end game they're teasing.” (47:47)
  • Andy: “For this to be able to experience [the campaign] with friends is even cooler. Like that's super surprising.” (49:57)

• Hollow Knight: Silksong News & Team Cherry Reveal (43:36)

  • Trailer confirmed launch “this year”; Team Cherry hosting their own event with likely major reveals imminent.
  • Tim: “For them to open this show hyping up Team Cherry's own thing... is a really powerful move.” (13:38)

• Black Myth: New Sequel Teased (108:22)

  • Single-player ARPG confirmed; new protagonist and theme; likely years away.

• Cult of the Lamb Major Expansion Announced (98:34)

  • Greg: “I would want it to [pull me back in], but I doubt it... For me to play, it would be like, let's start over.”

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Memorable Moments & Banter

• Running Jokes:
  • Semi-truck/Optimus Prime confusion, road sim games, sunflower seed bucket card reveal (Mike), Tim’s inability to describe trucks.
• Greg breaking Hollow Knight “news” with a Cisco parody skit:
  • “I am indeed doing Hollow knight silk thong. That's what's been taking so long!” (42:56)
• SeaWorld concert tangent:
  • Removing “animal shows” for 2000s rappers—“I think this is all a distraction because they didn't change a thing. I think they're still up these fish.” (101:00)
• World of Tanks “Heat” tanks suddenly going F1 speeds:
  • Blessing: “I was like, tanks don’t go that fast. There’s no way this is World of Tanks.” (104:50)
• Void Breaker Hyped
  • Multiple hosts declare this the indie to play right now.

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Segment Timestamps

• General Impressions & Scoring: 04:00–11:49
• Pre-Show Deep Dive: 15:20–24:40
• Main Show Game-by-Game: 24:40–45:33
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Full Details: 45:33–52:00
• Major Reveal Breakdowns (Lego Batman, Onimusha, RE, Ghosts of Yotei, Cult of the Lamb): 56:25–100:37
• Ad Breaks / Sponsor Segments: [Skipped]
• Final Reacts, Q&A/Superchats: 111:07–End

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Quickfire Reactions to Game Announcements

| Game/Reveal | Host Reaction | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------| | Bubsy 4D | “If they’re putting out Bubsy 4D, they’re in on the joke.” – Tim | 15:47 | | Dench Attack (Train Skater) | “This looks awesome.” – Greg | 18:59 | | He-Man Beat ‘Em Up | “Love the presentation, but not for me.” – Greg | 19:52 | | Valor Mortis | “First-person Soulslike, Ghostrunner devs. Super surprising and cool.” – Andy | 24:46 | | Road Kings (Truck Sim) | “Not the truck game, having a whole ass plot.” – Greg | 31:17 | | Swords of Legends | “How can we out-weird the last Soulslike? This is how.” – Andy | 30:04 | | Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight | “Exciting to see TT Games doing something like this again.” – Greg | 56:44 | | Void Breaker | "This game is the real deal, man... destruction as a main method" – Andy | 64:39 | | Call of Duty Black Ops 7 | “Four player co-op never done before for the campaign, tied into multiplayer/zombies.” – Mike | 47:52 | | Resident Evil Requiem | “What a wild change and improvement from Ethan Winters.” – Andy | 107:25 | | Ghosts of Yotei: Legends | “Just excited that it exists. Did not expect like this.” – Blessing | 105:35 | | Sekiro: No Defeat Anime | “Crazy. Very, very awesome. Super stoked to see this.” – Andy | 55:19 |

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Closing Thoughts

• Showcase structure, game fatigue/trend-chasing, and long runtimes remain pain points for everyone—but multiple standout games gave the 2025 Opening Night Live some staying power.
• Pre-show format lauded as a blueprint for future showcases.
• Several reveals (Lego Batman, Void Breaker, Ghosts of Yotei Legends) seen as genuine positives; indie and mid-tier games often outshined bigger announcements.
• The crew’s trademark banter, running jokes, and rapid-fire hot takes made for an entertaining, insight-rich review of one of the year’s biggest gaming events.

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Key Quotes:

• “Are we grading on a curve? This is, I think, the best Gamescom I’ve watched, maybe ever.” – Andy Cortez (11:21)
• “Getting Ghost of Yotei Legends, like, that’s a big deal... That’s pretty cool.” – Tim Geddes (10:31)
• “More consequential announcements than expected.” – Tim Geddes (10:33)
• “Void Breaker’s the game. Don’t forget it. Void Breaker. It’s out now.” – Andy Cortez (116:08)

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[Tim Geddes]

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for August 19, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Geddes. I'm joined Today by Blessing Adioa Jr. Good day Tim Snowbike Mike what up Tim. Greg Miller I have two championships, Tim and Andy Cortez. Hello hello hello to you all. We just watched Gamescom Opening night live for 2025. We're about to break it all down here on the Kind of Funny gamescast where each and every weekday we get together to talk about the latest in video games. Whether it's reviews, previews or just big topics we want to talk about. You can watch it live on YouTube, Twitch or later on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free and a daily exclusive show today is a very special one. Greg Way Roger and Mike talking for 45 minutes all about Mike's trip down to see Call of duty Black Ops 7.

[Mike]

That's correct, Tim. I will give you the big scoop of all things Treyarch, Raven and Call of duty Black Ops 7. I'm going to give you the information here during this post show of what we saw, what I really want to highlight. But if you are a true Call of Duty nerd. Call of Duty nerd and you want a lot of it, I give you 45 minutes of everything I saw.

[Tim Geddes]

Go check that out. If you're a kind of funny member for a chance to be part of this show, please YouTube super chat your thoughts in your questions questions. What you thought of the show overall, what got you most excited, what you're sad that wasn't there. Super chat in and we'll talk all about it. A little housekeeping for you. We are an 11 person business all about live talk shows. We already did an extra bonus episode of Gamescast today breaking down everything that Nvidia showed off at its little showcase yesterday for a sponsored bit there. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Gregory, like I was saying, is Mike's Call of Duty adventures. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Factor Shady Rays and Aura Frames. But we'll tell you about that later. For now let's begin with the topic of the show. Gamescom, baby. There was a pre show, it was 30 minutes. There was a show show. I don't know how long it was, but it felt very long. It was, was it like two hours, something like that? Yeah. Okay, okay. Two hours, two and a half hours of video game announcements, updates and commercials. I want to start with Greg Miller. What do you think of Gamescom 2025?

[Greg Miller]

You know, at the start of the show when we were getting ready to react, there was an expectation conversation and we went around on it and it was that like I'm expecting Gamescom and it was Gamescom. I think Gamescom is often, if not always a bloated show. A bloated conference that has highs in it for sure. I enjoy hanging out with my friends, you the kind of funny best friends and watching these and reacting to them. But there's so many things in there that could have been an email where it's like, you know, we kept doing, checking you're 30 minutes in, you're an hour in an hour 20. And I was pretty much okay, we're still going and it wasn't bad. But it's like at that point, how many fucking games do I need to see black slime ooze up and become hands and do it? You know what I mean? It all just runs together. You just get to that point where it all runs together as our industry is so trend based that you have so many things in there that happen next to each other and keep on going. So this is one I'm ready to not get out of this show, this conversation. But like I'm happy it's over. I. I felt this one, this felt long to me.

[Tim Geddes]

Bless.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, I agree. Are we giving scores? We're giving scores.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, go for it.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'd say it's 6.5, right. Like I wasn't underwhelmed, I wasn't, you know, overly. I don't think it over delivered by any means. This is exactly what you expected to be. I feel like if I sat here and gave my full impressions of this Gamescom, it would sound exactly the same as the last five years as I've given impressions of Gamescom. Right. It's everything that Greg just said. I think the one thing say that stood out for me was the pre show.

[Greg Miller]

If anything, if I'm more personality there.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

If I was to grade the pre show separately from the show, the pre show would probably be like an 8 out of 10. Oh wow. I think the pre show as far as pacing, as far as humor, as far as the games are being shown had a really good thing going for it. Right. Like I go down the list and you know, we saw, we started off with Bubsy 4D and usually when you start off with Bubsy, that's not great news. But like you, Andy said it jokingly, right? Of like, you don't have to lie, lie that this looks good. But genuinely, I look, I look at that trailer, I'm like, if you showed me any other Bubsy thing, I would not give a fuck. There's something about the energy of this Bubsy game where I'm like, if I was at a convention and that was in front of me, I'd play it.

[Andy Cortez]

He's different this time.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

He's different this time.

[Tim Geddes]

There's an Artscope Bubsy 4D. Like they know what they're doing, they're leaning into it. They know that it's bad and like how good can we make it? I think there might be something there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

And then there's the Zench attack. The bus.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. The train. You're a train.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, the Train. Like Tony Hawk game. That game looks insane. It looks super fun. Apparently Greg told us about it, but I don't remember, you know, routine. This pvk Valor Mortar keeper. Getting like a short interview there, right. Like I think there was a lot of good energy in that pre show and then once you get into the main show, it's the Gamescom thing of a lot of downtime. It's awkward positioning of it in the year where there's not. It doesn't feel like developers slash publishers are ready to announce a bunch of brand new, you know, year defining games for the next year. And so we're caught in a place where we're just getting updates. And some of those updates might be exciting like Ghost of Tsushima Legends or Ghost of Yotei Legends. And then some of them might be boring like two World Tanks trailers for separate.

[Greg Miller]

Well now, come on now he's going to change the game for World of Tanks. I mean that's a standalone game. That's not even World of the Tanks.

[Tim Geddes]

He does look cool.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm not going to lie. He does look cool. But I ain't playing it like none of us here are going to pick up heat. I imagine maybe Mike will.

[Mike]

I'll try it. I'll try.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

He's going to try it. But yeah, this is Gamescom. That's really all I have to say about it.

[Greg Miller]

Friday, July 25, 6:45am Anyone wanted pre brief on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater but you're a train. And then I put the entire description I put in TR and I knew this was a game you'd care about.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you wrote T Lopes in there. Like Tim really fucked up not seeing that one.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn. I did not.

[Andy Cortez]

You would have been all over it.

[Tim Geddes]

Smart man, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah, Tim. These guys have said it so well, so I don't have to reiterate a bunch of it, but I'm gonna give this a 6 out of 10. Just an okay. I'm right there with blessing of like this is an okay to a good time. Right? Like the first 30 minutes I thought it was pretty good. Meeting my expectations. A little bit of an exceeding expectations. I'm really happy that you got us together to watch the pre show. This is something normally we either talk over or we kind of miss. And this pre show was fun, right? I got a he man beat him up, which I enjoy. Road Kings, which all of a sudden were just, you know, dude, wait till we get to.

[Greg Miller]

If we're going game by game, wait till I give you some information on.

[Mike]

You that stood out to me, Tim. There was some decent pacing and then of course we slowed down by 30 minutes plus and so it was just another all right time.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah Andy, I would give this a 7 out of 10.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I enjoyed my time I. And I think a lot of it was that a bunch of the games with the. With them jumping on trends are kind of right up my alley.

[Tim Geddes]

It.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, the Ghost Runner devs game, one more level. Them coming out with Valor Mortis and being a what seems to be like a first person shooting, like souls game.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks amazing. I. Ghost Run is one of my favorite games ever and I'm stoked to see what they're working on. So that came out of left field. That was super surprising and cool. But yeah, I think there was just a lot of games that I did not know about. And it's always those unknowns and that, you know, those little surprising delights and yeah, I feel I'm happy to be here. You know, it's great to be here with you, with my friends.

[Greg Miller]

Good to be back. Yeah. I would have given it a six as well. And. Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'm with Andy. I'd give this one a seven at. Good. And I think that there's a lot of elements of this that we've talked about that I think are at that six. Okay. Or even lower than that where it's just. There's just a lot of stuff that I don't care about. And I watched them like, I don't know, who cares about this? And I think that's the bigger thing is I. I can watch stuff and be like, this isn't for me, but it's for someone else. And that's cool. There's a lot of things here that don't even kind of hit that level. And I'm also okay with the World of Tanks, like AD Ass AD because like, that's where the money comes from. I get that stuff. I think overall this was an enjoyable watch. I feel like that enjoyment did fall off a cliff eventually where I was like, I'm tired of watching this. Like, you got to bring me back. And I feel like we never quite got out of that slump despite their best efforts. Because I. I do say that I'm a little higher on that seven because we got Lego Batman. That's a big announcement of a cool thing that looks great. Getting Ghost of Yote Legends, like, that's a big deal that we didn't think was gonna happen. And they pulled that off. I think that's pretty cool. Getting the one last thing of Game Science's next game. Like, it's not dlc. This is a sequel. Like, that's big news. That's very Sakuro anime. Sekiro anime. That's rad too. Like, there's just a lot of stuff in here that I'm like, oh, wow. Like, there's more consequential announcements in this than I would have expected in terms of what we knew was going to be here. Resident Evil looks awesome. I thought that was an excellent showing of that. And I say that going in. I wanted Leon really bad. I didn't get it. I'm not even disappointed. But they showed was awesome. And yeah, overall I think that the pre show was by far stronger than the main show. But they showed the pre show to the audience. I do think that there's. That it is part of the show and I appreciate that they presented it that way. I thought Kai Bossman killed it and more. So the games that they had in the pre show are my type of games. There were so many things in there that I'm like, all right, these look freaking sick. Absolute absolum coming October 9th. Getting that release date. That's awesome. Yeah, unbeatable. Getting on November 6th release date. Like, yeah, a lot of, A lot of good news for I think a lot of us here from this. But yeah, just overall, I think that it's an energy thing where I know why they do it, but I just don't really love the. All right, here's a trailer. People come out and we kind of talk and you ask questions that no one really gives a fuck about and then they're answering it, but it's like, who cares? You know? But I also get it. That's just part of how this game goes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I, I think if we're grading on a curve, I can get more positive and go, this is, I think, the best Gamescom I've watched, you know, probably ever. Maybe. Like, I, I think. Was it Barrett that mentioned that Mafia Old country ended last show and like, if we're just grading off of like what we expect from Gamescom, knowing that this is the one that is least likely to bring heavy hitters, I, I was still like pleasantly surprised by this one.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, getting the new Black Myth title right, like, that is. I, I know among us, we're not like, oh, this is a game of the year kind of thing. But Black Myth, when you talk about popularity, was one of the best selling games of the year came out. If not top two, top three best selling game of the year that it came out. So for Gamescom, that's a huge deal for a closer. When we're talking about the last years being closed by. Yeah, Mafia or Dead Island 2 or Saints Row. Right. Like, there's almost a curse if you're closing games. Combo of. Oh, man, you're a game that's going to come out and be like a seven at most, maybe.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I think this was a good seven.

[Tim Geddes]

Lucky, I think, for even a couple of those. Right?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Like Saints Row. Yeah, exactly like Saints Row. But I think for me, one of the big symptoms that I'm feeling here from this one and maybe translates to the other Jeff Keighley shows, but I think is more felt at Gamescom is the joke prediction, real prediction I made of like, oh, we're gonna get over under like four Genshin Impact, like games. And then during the show being like, oh, man, you know what? I should have said the same thing about soulslikes. And as the show's going, there's maybe three or four packages I could put so many of these games into. Whether it is an update from a game that we just saw a month and a half ago at Summer Game Fest, the souls, like the Genshin Impact, like, game, the commercials that are here to pay the bills, right. Between all of those, there's only so much time that it feels like the producers and Jeff have to show us stuff that's really actually gonna pull us in and blow our minds. And sometimes, like, the souls likes look cool to us because we like souls likes and shit. But I don't know, I feel like I'm at the point with these shows now to where I can kind of predict the next game that's coming up. And I'm like, all right, cool. It's another one of these. Or it's another. It's another horror game that's first person and we're running from a thing. All right, cool. It's another crafting thing. All right, cool. Like, we're getting a lot of these back to back. And I know that's just the video games industry. I know that's trends, but I wish there was a way we could break that a little bit.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I also want to talk about Hollow Knight. Like, I like, obviously all the jokes aside about the clown stuff, which I will commit to, but I like what they did here. Like, I feel like Hollow Knight, we've spent years at this point predicting where is it going to be shown, like, when we're finally actually going to get the release date. And for them to open this show hyping up Team Cherry's own thing to, like, that's cool. You know, like, they could have just had the release date here and be like, check that out later, but giving the carrot on the stick to get that. Millions, I imagine, of people watching this to go check out Hollow Knight on their own thing, I think is actually a really powerful move. And we used to talk all the time about doing predictions of like, oh, this game's coming out. Like it would be cool if they did like a baton pass between the showcases during E3 or whatever. And they just didn't do things like that. So I, I appreciate this. I think that that's like a cool move. And I mean, we're days away from figuring out what the release date of this is and they're still committing to it being this year. So. Wow, people are playing it. We're going to hear about people playing it, like as of today, you know, by tomorrow we'll probably get previews from people.

[Mike]

Right?

[Tim Geddes]

Like, that's pretty damn safe.

[Andy Cortez]

What time did the posting initially go up? Do we remember? Like, did this sort of YouTube link that team Cherry tweeted out, do we remember, like it was like seven in the morning or eight in the morning or something.

[Greg Miller]

I threw it into Games Daily pretty quickly.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it was around 7 because somebody tweeted out like Andy waking up at 7 to this news or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

And the shrier put it out at 7:31am okay. For Wario 64, whatever time he's on Warios.

[Andy Cortez]

So you know, when I checked four and a half, five hours later or whatever, the 30,000 people in the waiting room, like just sort of sitting there with nothing happening, just kind of talking about, it's like, man, it's finally happening. I can't believe this shit.

[Tim Geddes]

Very cool. All right, let's go through game by game of what they announced and see if we have anything to say. Start with the pre show. Bubsy 40. Bubsy's back, baby. Bless. You have more to say about this?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

No, not really. I've never played a Bubsy game. I've always heard it through like almost like meme conversation of. Oh man. Yeah, it's a generic platformer kind of thing, but it's been around forever. This is the first time where I've seen a Bubsy trailer. I was like, I kind of want to try that. And so I think that bodes well. Like that's a good way to open it with them turning me around on Bubsy.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'm right there with you. Never played any of these. Totally. Just think of it as a meme. But I, I feel like if they're going to put out a game called Bubsy 40. They're in on the joke and definitely down to give this one a shot. I don't know if I'm going to see it through, but definitely down to. To play this. I'm unfamiliar with the devs as well, so hopefully this is a fun little surprise. Next we had Battlestar Galactica Scattered.

[Mike]

Scattered Hopes. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. On my notes I wrote scattered hoes. That would be a wild battle start, easy battle start. Early 2026 almost.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know if everyone. I feel like you would be the one here.

[Mike]

It had some moments when I was watching the gameplay of like, oh, I'm kind of interested in that. It looked like there was some dialogue choices that Andy brought up, but when it went to the kind of tactical map of what was happening on. On the gameplay side of things, that kind of drew me in. I know nothing about Battlestar, but this might be one of those. If you catch me at the right time, I might jump into it. I'd love a good little tactical game. So maybe this is my step into the Battlestar Galactica world.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it had a cool little very lo fi look to it. Like I. I like these sort of low five, low poly assets.

[Mike]

Kind of when we were looking at. I thought it was Homeworld for a little bit because I like that outer space spaceship stuff. But yeah, we'll see.

[Greg Miller]

It's interesting right there. Describing as a rogue light. They want you to go through and have these different runs, right? Yeah. Every difficult choice made in Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes brings consequences. And each run varies in its challenges. Encounter planets and galactic points. Decide whether to spend precious resources addressing the incidents, the incidences within your fleet, or upgrading your forces and make the most of your crew's time while preparing for assault. That I look at it and I'm like. But the idea of, oh, I'm doing, let's say 20 minute runs or whatever it's going to be, I don't know how long but like you're going through and figuring it out and it's like, oh, wow, that was cool. But what if I would have gone with the Cylons? What if I would have. That could be interesting to kick the tires on and be a part of then.

[Tim Geddes]

Outlaws plus handful of missions remaster. It's a faithful modernization of Lucasart's classic 97 Western first person shooter Outlaws. Complete with the 1998 handful of missions expansion. It's coming out everywhere later this year. Yeah, this is a game that I. I have never seen or heard Anything about like I, I not that aware of all the the Lucas Arts games, but this is definitely off my radar.

[Andy Cortez]

I just think of the one comment that said did any of those shots hit?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, it's a weird one. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I mean I, I like for it.

[Greg Miller]

I remember I can, I remember this. Look, I never played this. Po and I were full throttle guys. That's play. So I'm glad it's here for people who want it.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, I'm all in on companies bringing back games like this because that means one day maybe I can get a Jeff Force Gemini remake. That's what I'm thinking every time I see one of these.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we have Dench Attack. It's a train game that we ignored. Now we're all lovers of it. You can jump, launch and flip trains on the abandoned railroads of a futuristic and dystopian Japan. From developer Undercoders who did KOA and the Five Pirates of Mara and publisher Fireshine Games who did Core Keeper. It's come in to PC, Xbox and PlayStation 5 early next year. Day one on Game Pass. This one looks cool as shit.

[Greg Miller]

This looks awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, definitely want to get my hands on it and see how it feels. But love the energy and vibe of it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, great vibe. It seems like it's really going to be funny, you know, they're saying all the right things here and they're talking about 50 plus levels. Mastering fast, fluid and deep gameplay, conducting trains and combos through such extreme situations takes practice and precision and. Yeah, that sounds interesting. That sounds fun.

[Andy Cortez]

The music was great. And now after reading your slack several weeks later, I don't know why anybody doubted you, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

So yeah, it's David Jamindro from Ninja Gaiden, Ragebound and T. Lopes doing the soundtrack. So very, very, very cool. More guest composers are planned for announcement later, but I mean if they're starting there, this is going to be good. Then next up we had he man and the Masters of the Universe Dragon Pearl of destruction coming in 2026. Fight through over 12 action packed levels using character specific moves, abilities and power ups to stop Skeletor.

[Greg Miller]

Absolutely don't care about the game but I love how they leaned into this presentation. The idea of hey, we're gonna make it a He man commercial like it was with the toys. Amazing. Then even having the kids say he man the Master Universe Dare. I probably just like making fun of how long the title is leaning into that. I was a He man kid, very, very young, but I'M not like. Yeah, I'm not. This is. I mean this predated Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters. Right?

[Tim Geddes]

Like it was like do you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Any of the characters names?

[Greg Miller]

She Ra He Man Skeletor.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice. That's three.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

What's the man of war? Manowar was the guy. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Also is in the thundercats. Thundercats for a little bit then.

[Mike]

Thundercats.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. That's one for me. It's like I'm just not a he.

[Andy Cortez]

Man guy at all.

[Tim Geddes]

I know very, very little about it and I love that these games are being made because to bless his point about Jet Force Gemini, it's like, yeah, let's just get weird. Of course we're gonna do the Ninja Turtles and Marvel and like getting down to Power Rangers and like we can get even weirder. Let's get me my weird Beetleborgs game. Where's my Beetleborg?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh man.

[Tim Geddes]

Somebody get on.

[Mike]

Yeah. This one's high on me. This one's high on the show for me. I think it really stood out. We're in this kind of beat em ups fun moment right now and I want all the cool IP that you can bring back and have a cartoony and colorful and fun. Why not?

[Andy Cortez]

Is he meant the one that you bought a skin for and was it Call of Duty or Fortnite? Which one was it you were really wanting to. Oh, Skeletor.

[Mike]

Skeletor. You really wanted the Skeletor Skeletor was. But he looks cool.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know who this guy is. Great look.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up we have Absolu, the game for formerly known as Absolum.

[Andy Cortez]

Absolum.

[Tim Geddes]

Absolum.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like Absolute but it's Absolum October.

[Greg Miller]

Now I'm confused. What's the real title?

[Andy Cortez]

Absolute.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, coming October 9th. This game's freaking awesome. It is a roguelike going through doing a 2D beat em up. But it feels way more modern and action focused than like combo focus and abilities than some of the other games that have a similar style. I think they're really cooking with this. This is the team that did our Streets of Rage.

[Greg Miller]

Looks beautiful.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm like I'm a beat em up hater to some degree. This is the one I. I'm really hoping pulls me in and changes me.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Boss fights are awesome in it. Very cool. Can't wait for an October 9th. Then we have long gone. This is the outer sloth adventure game. Amazing sprite art there. Narrative adventure. Love the Visual style.

[Mike]

This.

[Tim Geddes]

A lot of games have kind of been leaning into this type of look but I feel like each one brings like a something new to it. I like that the camera work here of like the tilt shift kind of going down and like getting different angles of them. Interested in how this game actually plays. Exactly. It's an adventure game but I wonder how point and clicky it is versus kind of making it more console accessible, you know for it to be a fun experience. But I'm interested in it.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I think Greg kind of had that like I don't want an adventure title. Right. Whenever we saw him sort of rooting through the inventory and it was opening a drawer or something like that. That's the part that I really enjoy just because I love it. Reminds me of that one game that is coming out I believe from it's devs in Poland where it's like an old school sort of Resident Evil top down game but then whenever you shoot it goes to third person from behind the back. It just kind of reminded me of that like oh you know, go into an inventory sort of changing up the view on you. I love the different shifting perspectives but yeah I can see that if this game isn't maybe actiony enough maybe it's not going to be our jam.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Obviously a zombie game, a narrative game. It starts this amazing art style here piques my interest quite a bit. Right. But. But yeah I get to the same thing of like you know there was a time before Walking Dead the video game from Telltale Games when Telltale were the adventure games people making Back to the Future and making Jurassic park and making Sam and Max and making games that were very much in the Tim Schaefer Ron Gilbert Wheelhouse of LucasArts which were the point and click adventures of how do I make the Mike's cup turn on the light. And you walked around putting it on every. And I hated that shit.

[Andy Cortez]

I hated it.

[Greg Miller]

And walking. There was such a turning point for them doing that. I'm like hopeful that this won't be as nerdy in the weeds yet. But it will be uphill for me. The things I like about it. Of course the publishers outer Sloth of course that's the you know Inner Sloth was the folks who did among us they got so successful they decided we're going to help out other indies start publishing their games Developer is Hillfort Games which I appreciate on their Steam page they talk about it's designed to be played on a controller or a mouse and keyboard. So they're Already on that, which I know we mentioned. It's a linear story driven adventure where you explore the lives of people long gone through their items left behind. That sounds like my kind of. It really just gets down to rummage through this everyday stuff and then yeah, read, collect, drop, combine. Like where are we going with that? Am I going to enjoy that or not? I'll have to wait and see.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Next up we had Valor Mortis. This is from the Ghost Runner team.

[Andy Cortez]

Andy Dude, I mean I such a complete different game than what I thought they would have been working on next. I it's still first person obviously but I yeah Ghostrunner is a game that like so special to me. It just caught me at the right time as I was learning keyboard mouse and I really really vibed with it. And to see from the creators of Ghosts are like oh what is this? And to have this like Napoleon Napoleon sort of era of first person shooting and seeing this dodge mechanic work headshot like you know, having the melee in one hand with the pistol in the other. Very kind of like third person first person bloodborne almost blessed. Like can I give you the.

[Greg Miller]

I think they do a really good job in their press release of talking about what it is. All right. Unveiling Valor Mortis. A single player first person souls like game which combines brutal methodical combat, Metroidvania inspired levels and a compelling narrative shrouded in horror, corruption, temptation and conspiracy. Located in a warped version of war torn Eastern Europe during Napoleon's 19th century conquest. A resurrected French soldier must wield the corrupting power of a mysterious plague like substance to save humanity from the very horrors of the war it creates.

[Andy Cortez]

Always a plague and a corruption, always correction. I was just kind of really blown away by when when this trailer actually gets into the action and gameplay of it all was like I love a game. Whenever game developer game developers play around with like that one, there was that one shot where that body was flying and the dude shot him in midair and like I love that type of. I love how weird that that first person action can get. And everything they were doing in here looked just so up my alley. I'm into this.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up we had Planet Vertide Gunkan no Commandant AKA pvk. Players will use the bunker's handy teleradio device to read more about the planet's daily affairs, test their mental might with command sanctioned examinations, purchase new items to be delivered directly to the comfort of their bunker, and even enjoy some downtime with a fun retro style minigame. Mike I like this.

[Mike]

I Actually I enjoyed watching this. I got interested in this. Kind of gave me some papers please.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Mike]

Doing the mundane task for your job. And every single day you're gonna do it but then something different's gonna happen. And actually it really got me excited and interesting. Interested. Right. Of like you're getting these orders. Hey, someone's coming down on the planet. You gotta stop them. But then you see this message on top of your bunker. There's. And so something's gonna happen. But it gave me, it gave me some vibes of like oh, I would like this.

[Andy Cortez]

This gives me like Kevin Coelho is going to fuck with this. Like tinkering around with machinery and then you know, learning about, you know, this greater story. Like I feel like he's gonna, he's.

[Tim Geddes]

Gonna mess with this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I. I'm really intrigued by the limitations of it and how they kind of play with that. It's like when you first watch the trailer for that movie, that movie Phone Booth and you're like this whole movie's gonna be enough. Like how is that going to become a thing? And so like to. You're obviously we've seen some shots where you're traveling a bit more than just this area but it just felt like you are going to be in this bunker for a majority of the time. And how, how the world changes around you is kind of the big element you have to. To deal with.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we had routine coming late 2025 to Game Pass. It's a first person sci fi horror game set an lunar base where players explore and investigate their surroundings. They as they survive against unknown threats.

[Mike]

This one had that water in the camera Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Looking water.

[Mike]

I love. I love a good horror game. I like a good first person horror game depending on where we're at. This is definitely a checkout for me for sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I liked the. I like the visual style of this one. Very VHS leaning into those VHS like grainy vibes. Cool.

[Greg Miller]

From their press release. Yeah. To jump off that investigate a retro analog future. Roam through contrasting sectors of the lunar station. From abandoned malls to deteriorating living quarters. Immersive design and gameplay, full body awareness. Diegetic audio. I probably said that wrong. And a minimal UI create a gripping and atmospheric experience. Explore using tools. The cosmonaut assistance tool Cat. Yeah. Is vital for players to use to access terminals, navigate the environment, identify clues and survive the unknown. Run, hide or attempt to defend against threats using CAT as a last resort work.

[Mike]

We're always looking for more outlasts in our lives. Can never go Wrong with another horror game to add to your catalog for spooky season. See if this has got it.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, it looks stunning. Yeah, I think this game looks really awesome visually.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up we have Swords of Legends, which this is one of the few games I bolded and put. This looks cool. Like this one looked super, super awesome. Like very inventive action game. It's the one we thought was Winds of Winter. But yeah, I love, love the creativity of all the enemies and like the.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

The.

[Tim Geddes]

The man's also a house and the house is chasing you and grabbing. It's like that looks crazy, man. It's like very. You're saying it was the Chinese developers, right? But I. It very Miyazaki like seeming to me.

[Andy Cortez]

Right. And you're talking about Hayao, not hi.

[Tim Geddes]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

You're talking about Haya.

[Tim Geddes]

Exactly.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I agree. I love the cre. The creativity behind these enemies. I just love that like every sort of souls like action game is like, how can we out weird the last game?

[Mike]

How do we stand out? It's a tough one.

[Andy Cortez]

Seeing this floating head holding a sword in his mouth, like it's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

That's doing it.

[Andy Cortez]

I think visually it looks super stunning as well. Just kind of reminded me of the first. I don't know. Well, I was gonna say the first couple times, but it felt like the first four years of seeing blackmouth Wukong footage.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That's exactly what I was gonna say. Right where I think this one came is it came dangerously close to falling into that trap in my brain of looking like all the other ones. Except they pushed it far enough to where I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. This is weird. Like having a house chase after you or having these. This. This enemy with a head separate that's holding a sword and do all this.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm.

[Mike]

I'm right there with these guys. This is the first of like we're back here. Got another souls like genre and it's like easy for you to quickly turn off, but it's on the developers team and the marketing team of like, how do we recapture you and get you excited? And they did all that in this trailer. So I'm definitely interested in this walking out of it now.

[Andy Cortez]

Khalif Adams tweeted out, I think it was during this one say. He said, man, I would love to see the souls like genre take a break for a while. And I replied, I'd love for you to shut the hell up.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up we have Road Kings. Greg, you want to talk about this one?

[Greg Miller]

What's not to like about Road Kings, everybody. You've seen truck simulator too many times. Road Kings. It's flipping all that on its head. Drive a 40 ton semi. Hauling cargo across the coastal plains of the American South. Managing multiple jobs, trailers and routes. Grow reputation from rookie to veteran owner. Opera from rookie to veteran owner operator. Dodging disasters and rivals to become the hero of the open road. If that wasn't enough, M.H. williams over on B.S. that's blue sky. Blue sky calls out. Not the truck game. Having a whole ass plot. And then has this quote, I believe from the YouTube description. As you deliver critical supplies and rescue communities. Uncover a dangerous corporate threat that puts everything at risk.

[Mike]

It's all the way at the top.

[Andy Cortez]

It's all the way at the top and deeper than we could have ever imagined.

[Mike]

Me and Nick Scarpino will play this on stream with the wheel.

[Tim Geddes]

You will be the Road Kings. I'm excited for this.

[Mike]

I Tim, just so you know. You know I have the confidence. I have all the confidence in the world. I could drive a semi truck.

[Tim Geddes]

Man. I was driving to work today and there was a. There was a big like Optimus prime looking truck. Like just the front part. Like with a big nose semi. Yeah, but. But it didn't have the back part of it.

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, but I did. It had like a. You know what? This doesn't matter. It doesn't fucking matter. Let's move on. We're talking about sonic racing.

[Greg Miller]

I'm interested enough in this one. When they get into. It'll do the wheel support. We gotta get one of those setups they see on TikTok where they got the whole wheel. They got this thing and there is in front of the little.

[Mike]

Tim, there's this guy who drives a big rig that I love on TikTok. He's got a bunch of GoPros inside of the front of it and he plays music real loud and then he dances while he's backing up and then he parks it and moves all the cameras while dancing around. It's pretty great.

[Greg Miller]

Tim, that doesn't sound safe.

[Tim Geddes]

I do.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I guarantee you that whenever this game comes out, if you happen to wake up to go pee at 2 in the morning, Fran Mirabella will be playing this and streaming it.

[Greg Miller]

But he won't have gotten out of the truck stop yet.

[Andy Cortez]

He was.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I got to be able to get down.

[Mike]

I got to get my weight down lower.

[Andy Cortez]

There was two months straight that he was playing the snow.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Snow truckers or snow snow runners.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Snow. Wait, no.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the game where you're just like driving in snowy areas with.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Is it Snow Runner? It's Snow Runner.

[Andy Cortez]

It may have been Snowrunner. Yeah, yeah. I believe in man.

[Mike]

Take a look at it.

[Andy Cortez]

But he loved that game.

[Mike]

Just.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that he loved it. It just. It was so funny.

[Tim Geddes]

God bless you, friend. Sonic racing. Cross worlds. Cross Pac Man, Pac Man World 2 Repack. Collab of the century, everybody. The Pac Man DLC pack is coming on September 25th. Repack is also getting Sonic DLC on the 26th. In addition, it was announced that an open network test will be live starting Friday, Aug. 29 until Monday, Sept. 1. You could play as Pac Man. There's a Pac man maze level in this kart racer, which is awesome. And then, yeah, Pac Man's also in Green Hill Zone.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I think that's the part that I'm more interested in is like what's going on in Repack.

[Greg Miller]

You get it now? Yeah. Now you got to get Pac Man World to Repack to get that Sonic dlc. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Sonic Crossroads look. Looks great. Like, I love all the crossover shit they're doing. They're getting weird ass characters. You had spongebob. You had Hatsune Miku. Now you got Pac Man.

[Mike]

So they got Ichiban.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, you got Ichiban.

[Mike]

Yeah, Big deal.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

But I'm. Now I'm like, man, this Repack game, Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

What's up with that?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, man, you know, it's a nice little 6.57.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Platformer. Let's get it on.

[Andy Cortez]

Optimus.

[Tim Geddes]

I did, guys. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

I saw the truck, I saw the cab, I saw the Sam. Yeah. There's like so many things.

[Tim Geddes]

Optimus his prime didn't even get to the point that matters. And I never will. Everybody, you'll never know. We'll be right back. After.

[Greg Miller]

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[Mike]

Tim, sorry to interrupt you before we get started. You know, blessings out there. Eating a slice of pizza. Andy's cooking his. Let's just take a moment break. I bought myself something. I treated myself to something. And of course that's not a list. No, this is Mike, I bought this. I bought this and I just want to show it off real bad now. Of course, Tim, as you know, if you watch the Gamescast episode where we predicted what could happen at Opening Night Live. Greg, hold this T shirt up. I said, hey, backyard sports is back, baby. And I've been vibing with the kiddos back at the sports yard, okay? And there's an opportunity for backyard basketball to be coming back very, very soon. And it didn't get announced here, but I'm happy to announce that my smack EMS team up with backyard baseball sunflower.

[Tim Geddes]

Seed bucket has arrived.

[Mike]

Oh, fuck y Tim, this bucket right here is packed with all of your favorite bags. Smack them sunflower seeds. But Tim, I don't give a about the sunflower seeds. They're good. I'm only here for one thing.

[Tim Geddes]

The bucket.

[Mike]

The collectible card that's inside. You can get the 1 of 100 holographic Pablo Sanchez the goat card or a Keisha Phillips card.

[Tim Geddes]

Tim, I in the bucket or is.

[Mike]

In every package in the bucket.

[Greg Miller]

It we're going diving for.

[Mike]

We're going in the bucket, Tim. Now, I don't care about Pablo Sanchez at all because the goat is Keisha Phillips. KP right there, Tim. She got my team all the way to the city. You know what?

[Andy Cortez]

I think they hit me up for a sponsorship.

[Mike]

You should have said yes, cuz Mike would have been on that, so.

[Andy Cortez]

But they do have pickle sunflower seeds.

[Mike]

Give me a moment. Chat.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, give a moment. Chat.

[Mike]

Why?

[Tim Geddes]

You're going in, everybody.

[Mike]

I'm going in.

[Tim Geddes]

Mike is almost in the bucket. The bucket seems hard to open.

[Mike]

It's very hard to open.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm not holding this against Mike.

[Andy Cortez]

Have you ever been to a little league dugout, dude? There's like 20 of these just laying around every day.

[Tim Geddes]

The answer is no.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Mike]

When coach Mike and coach Greg help baby Ben become the very best at Little League. This is the bucket I'll bring with all the baseballs.

[Tim Geddes]

Cards on top, everyone.

[Mike]

Cards on top.

[Tim Geddes]

First reveal, ladies and gentlemen.

[Mike]

It's Pete Wheeler. It's Pete Wheeler. Pete Wheeler, your left handed speedster. I'm not mad at it, but hey, hey, if you're listening, smackums. Send me a Keisha Phillips.

[Andy Cortez]

You gotta say the name right.

[Tim Geddes]

It's.

[Mike]

It doesn't matter.

[Andy Cortez]

It's smacking.

[Mike]

I just gave him $80. They can have whatever they want. I gave them.

[Greg Miller]

Why don't you break it out and send it to Smack Ass or whatever it's called.

[Andy Cortez]

Dig them.

[Tim Geddes]

God. Okay. Yeah. So backyard basketball was not there. You know what else wasn't there? What are my predictions? Gray. No less than five Marvel characters announced across Marvel rivals. Marvel Cosmic Invasion and Marvel Fighting Souls Token.

[Greg Miller]

You got a big fat whatever.

[Tim Geddes]

0. I am pretty surprised by that.

[Greg Miller]

Capcom was like the best we can do is a Final Fantasy Chocobo. How about that for Monster Hunters?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, man. Wild stuff. Let's get into.

[Greg Miller]

There's coming off Comic Con the next time we're totally announced. I'm into cosmic evasion, by the way. I'm sorry.

[Tim Geddes]

So have a hand. Like more characters.

[Greg Miller]

We're getting. I think we're getting dangerously close with Cosmic Invasion of the next time we hear about that game, you gotta give us a date. How many more. How many more marketing beats do you have for cosmic advantage?

[Andy Cortez]

Especially because they're still out of it about this year, right? Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

I think you heard there. That's always exciting.

[Greg Miller]

Snake oil salesman at Comic Con hosting a panel telling everybody was coming this year.

[Tim Geddes]

I promised them that. I did promise that.

[Andy Cortez]

You also promised us Final Fantasy. We don't bring that up anymore.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

You promised.

[Tim Geddes]

We started with peak selling over 10 million copies. Jeff giving them some props, which is very good. Then top my Hollow Knight Silk song. It's launching this year.

[Greg Miller]

They claim Thursday. There's a big presentation for it. But that wasn't the big news. Tim. I broke some news while this whole Gamescom thing was happening. Barrett, I assume you have it. But just to give an intro to it. I was minding my own business yesterday, taking Ben to school. This kid's got to go back to preschool.

[Tim Geddes]

You know what I mean?

[Mike]

Send them back.

[Greg Miller]

You gotta take care. And I open my phone and what do I get pulled into on bs? That's Blue Sky Tim.

[Andy Cortez]

Blue Sky Tim.

[Greg Miller]

A conversation between a bunch of Game Informer chuckleheads going Hollow Knight silk thong. Hollow Knight thong song. They're making all these references to which one of the Game Informer chuckleheads calls me and he's like, greg, could you get Cisco on the line? And I said hold up. And I went and talked to the man himself. Cisco Bear. Can you play what we find out?

[Mike]

The dragons out the cave, the cats.

[Tim Geddes]

Out of the bag, if you will.

[Mike]

Yes, yes, I am indeed doing Hollow knight silk thong. That's right. That's what's been taking so long. I'm doing the full soundtrack to Hollow.

[Tim Geddes]

Knight silk song, baby.

[Andy Cortez]

Man, he still got it.

[Mike]

Holy night. Song, song, song, song.

[Tim Geddes]

Thong.

[Andy Cortez]

You get it?

[Mike]

You get it.

[Tim Geddes]

So you got the silk thong and apparently you can't tell these guys anything. Hollow knight's never coming out. Shout out to the dragons, Cisco.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

That is awesome.

[Mike]

That guy rocks.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, man. That's very, very cool. Yeah. Hollow night silk song. Two days away from getting everything. Andy, do you have anything to say?

[Andy Cortez]

Sunflower seeds are really good.

[Tim Geddes]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, really good.

[Andy Cortez]

The dill pickle ones especially. I love dill pickle sunflower seeds. I mean, I'm excited for whatever this presentation is. I. You know, seeing new footage is always neat, but the fact that there are people that are playing it right now makes me extremely jealous. I'm not happy about it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, damn.

[Andy Cortez]

What if Germany. Big, big prediction time here. What if either demo out now after this presentation on Thursday or out now. Demo out now.

[Tim Geddes]

Now here's the thing. I'm with Barrett. Well on what he said the ladder there.

[Andy Cortez]

The second part.

[Greg Miller]

You think it's out now.

[Tim Geddes]

That to me is the only accept acceptable shadow drop is if it is your own event and you have another event hyping that up.

[Andy Cortez]

You're doing a 48 hour countdown to.

[Tim Geddes]

It to get eyes on it. It.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't you do this to me. Both of you.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm just saying I think that's it.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like you doing this to me.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

You know, I think I'm with you.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't want three of you going big.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm with you.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I think it's that.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That would make more sense.

[Tim Geddes]

Cuz I've been team. Don't shadow drop this. It's too big. This is different. This. This is. This is how you do it.

[Mike]

There's a build up. They're building the snowball up the hill.

[Andy Cortez]

There's four of you now.

[Mike]

It's time to push it.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

People are playing it right now at Gamescom.

[Andy Cortez]

Smack. Ems.

[Greg Miller]

Smack.

[Mike]

Shackums. They made $6 a month.

[Tim Geddes]

Much.

[Mike]

86. I needed the bucket, Tim.

[Greg Miller]

I mean that's a lot of packs.

[Mike]

He got exact packs of suns.

[Tim Geddes]

He doesn't want that. He just wanted the card that he didn't get.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know, we'll write him an email.

[Greg Miller]

If only. I was going to say we'll write.

[Andy Cortez]

Him an email like they owed you.

[Tim Geddes]

The card you want, like how do.

[Mike]

We work this out? Give me the card. You know what I mean?

[Tim Geddes]

That's how it works, man. One of a hundred super special. Give me the card. Oh, man. Call of Duty Black Ops 7 coming November 14th. 4 player co op campaign with an end game.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike, tell us all about it.

[Mike]

Yeah, Call of Duty Black Ops did not show well here. The audio was definitely off there, Greg, as you said. But of course I got to go down to Treyarch down in LA to go hands on with or to just go check out Call of Duty Black Ops 7. And so here's the deal with it. Four player co op across all of the different ladders of Call of Duty from zombies to multiplayer to campaign. The big one that I want you to know is they're changing up campaign. There is a four player campaign now that will see you go through all the awesome insane missions that you kind of saw in Black Ops 6. They're going to crank it up to 11 here with Black Ops 7. A lot of ties to Call of Duty Black Ops 2. If you're an old school fan of the series, you're going to see a lot of love and care from that into this. But the big one here is this end game that they're teasing. This is the one that you want to want to keep your eyes on for if you're into PvE experiences with your friend that I know Andy Cortez really, really likes. This four player end game campaign is going to be something that you might be drawn to. It is set in the world of Avalon. The map Avalon, which is kind of their big open world map that they're showing right now where you and four friends and up to 32 others in a lobby will be running around doing different activities and then also doing really big NPC driven PvE missions inside of that as well. So it was something interesting that I'm looking forward to learning more of. We didn't get to see a lot of it, but it kind of gave me destiny vibes of hey, you're this avatar and this avatar is going to earn xp and then you're going to learn different skills that you've kind of gathered throughout the campaign and use them as this avatar. When you're in the world of Avalon, so you have the mega jump that you saw. You're going to have different abilities as well. There's a drone in there. And so yeah, there's some really cool stuff in here that you're going to want to check out if you're into the PvE4 player shared experience that Call of Duty is known for with the Zombies now kind of PvE campaign. I like a co op campaign though. Yeah, co op campaign, Tim.

[Tim Geddes]

Like that's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Halo won't do it no more.

[Tim Geddes]

They will.

[Mike]

Four players, never been done before with Call of Duty. I think they've done two player with Spec Ops, but they've never done a four player. This is our campaign. You can play with four friends and all of the XP is shared across every vertical of Call of Duty. So what you do in the campaign will follow you into multiplayer. We'll follow you into zombies. Right. And so they'll have different things skin wise, gun skin wise, that you'll earn. But really all that XP that you would earn in the umbrella that we talk about that is Call of Duty now is going to follow you everywhere you go. So no matter where you want to play, you're gonna have a good time.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you remember if Modern Warfare 3 was 3 or 4? Or is it just.

[Mike]

That's when they tested the two player kind of old school spec op vibes.

[Andy Cortez]

And that, that, that campaign largely sucked. Like that, that was one that was incredibly rushed and that's one where they were just reusing areas in Warzone and they're like, hey, we're testing out this sort of open world vibe. But it just felt like, hey, we don't got the budget or time to work on a big story thing. So we'll have you kill a certain NPC in that one area you're always playing in the battle royale and then you go to the other area in the other in the battle royale map. Yeah, but yeah, like, like I mentioned when Greg called me a money hat for Call of Duty campaigns, I feel like, like we, we get a lot of complaints from the gamers, the capital G gamers about like man, enough of these multiplayer games. Just give me a straightforward story. Give me a minute. Give me a. And that's why like when they showed that first reveal at Summer Game Fest and it was that, hey, you haven't been eating real sugar cookies. That's actually like some ingredient that's like, like, oh, I don't want that. I don't want Call of Duty. But the trailer looked awesome. And it's because the campaigns have been awesome. And the last, again, Modern Warfare 3, excluding that one. But thinking back to the 2019 Modern Warfare 1, thinking back to the last couple of black ops, including last year, those campaigns were fucking great. And they are super compelling high, you know, massive Sort of blockbuster campaigns that are 10 hours long. And for this to be able to experience that with friends is even cooler. Like that's super surprising.

[Mike]

And of course you can still play solo Tim. So if you're a solo player there, you can experience it all solo. You can share it with up to four friends with the co op. Give you a quick couple of hits. Launching with 16 maps at launch or 18 maps at launch. 1666 standard multiplayer maps. Two maps for a new 20v20 skirmish mode. Of course players of four will join up together to make 20 man teams and go out into Avalon. Avalon is really big. They've cut small pieces of Avalon out out to two small maps that you will be playing in a 20 versus 20 situation going on there. And then after that it's Call of Duty Zombies. Of course this is going to be their biggest round based zombies to date. They say this every year. They continue to expand on this one but this time there's a vehicle in this one and you're going to go from. If you can imagine a NASCAR ring, a big track. There are six standard spots in that circle and then there's traversal areas between them and you'll go from spot to spot continuous doing your zombies world tour campaign of all that. And then they're throughout that they're gonna stop during the year and stop on each one of those six spots and make it its own standalone round based experience which is really, really cool. They said Liberty Falls Back in Black Ops 6 was one of the most played ones that was kind of its own self sustained zombie story plus mode that you could just go all the way through with. They want to do that with this big map and each one of the zones that they have to showcase.

[Andy Cortez]

I love how little I know about about zombies that they show that top down mode and I just thought it was a new thing but I guess they've had it forever.

[Mike]

And so I'll keep it real short. Six or 45 minutes of me and Roger going through every detail that I have from this experience right now on Greg Way over at Treyarch. So go check it out.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Listen to him giggling earlier.

[Andy Cortez]

Why are you giggling? Why are you giggling?

[Greg Miller]

Mike goes if you can. He's talking to Tim goes if you can imagine a NASCAR track. And it's like well, Tim couldn't imagine a semi truck 10 minutes ago.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm gonna help you. Lords of the fallen two come in 2026 blessing and it'll, it'll.

[Andy Cortez]

If I'm going to go based off of what they did to make the first one more improved, because I think the game launched and was very mid and you could see the potential, but it just wasn't this. It wasn't what we all thought it was going to be. And then they did a gigantic revamping and we're like, hey, we're going to rebuild this video game and. And do a lot of tweaking to the way enemies work the way. They just did, like, a whole sort of overhaul to it. And players were a lot happier after that. But again, this is the. The lead of this studio is the guy that is just, like, going after the asthma gold crowd and said, like, we, you know, games should have male and female instead of just type A, type B. And that's when I replied to him, like, like, your game was mid as hell. Regardless of what your characters do like you, that won't make your game better, you know, and so it's one of those games that I'm probably not gonna play because that guy's like, just even getting more and more shitty on the Internet as we go on. So I'm real with this one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That's unfortunate because I believe a bad.

[Greg Miller]

Guy would double down.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I remember them coming to the office to show off the preview for Lords, the previous Lords of the Fallen game game. And, like, ideas there are cool, right? Like, the idea of dying and going to, like, the Other Realm and then having to, like, fight your way back, essentially, I thought was cool. And, like, boss fights in there where I'm like, okay, cool, like y' all are doing. Doing the souls thing. But I think one of these. This game's bigger problems is just that there's too much competition. Like, this game came out the same fall as Liza P. Yeah. And I replaying Liza P. And being like, oh, this is so good. And then being a little bit fatigued going into Lords of the Fallen and then playing and being like, yeah, no, this just isn't doing what I needed to do. And so that combined with what Andy's.

[Andy Cortez]

Saying, I. I fell off of it pretty quickly before any of that other sort of controversy stuff happen on Twitter. I had fallen off just because it wasn't keeping my attention. And it was like. It reminds me of what the developers at S Game were talking about. The developers of S Game are making Phantom Blade zero, and when I got to play it during gdc, they were talking about how when you are Hidetaka Miyazaki fromsoftware You are given so much freedom, obviously, to kind of do what you want to do. But if you're making a game that is may like causing you a lot of frustration and you don't got that from software label on it, people are like, you have to sort of battle with that, knowing that people might drop off of this if it gets a little too frustrating because we're not from software. And that might go, ah, well, you know, I know what's in store for me. Maybe I'm not vibing with this. So, you know, you, like, I wish it. Maybe Lords of the Fallen at the beginning had taken a lot of that. You know, maybe they'd gone down that path and said we shouldn't make this game relentlessly frustrating. Where a flying mob followed me from like seven miles away and I'm getting shot at and it's just like, oh, this is too frustrating. And I'm not enjoying the game that much anyway, you know.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up, we had Sekiro no defeat anime exclusive to crunchyroll. The main three cast members from the game will also reprise their roles. Pretty fucking cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

When they were like, oh, yeah. The previous game of the year when I was like, Astrobot, like, this makes no sense, but yeah, no, very cool. This makes a lot of sense with all the news that's been coming out recently of acquisitions and mergers between companies up on the Sony side.

[Andy Cortez]

So, yeah, very, very awesome. I'm super stoked to see how this gets, how they tell this story, how. How many episodes it'll be. Yeah, just super fascinating.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm excited for the action. Like, already in the trailer, we're seeing that, like, orange spark off of some of these, like, sword deflects. And that is such a staple of Sekiro, obviously, like, you're there for the parries and the deflections and so if I can get really badass sword fights out of this, that. That I'm good.

[Greg Miller]

It looks like he will. Right when he shoved the blade down at his throat.

[Mike]

Yeah, that aerial assassination looks so.

[Andy Cortez]

Saw the horse.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fought him so many times.

[Mike]

Yeah. And the monkeys, it looked like they had the. The three monkeys that you chased.

[Greg Miller]

Apes.

[Mike]

Yeah, the apes. That was cool. That was really dope.

[Andy Cortez]

Sort by first name. Thank you for gifting. 8 subs. Wow.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we had Lego Batman, Legacy of the Dark Knight. Going through all the movies, the entire journey of Batman, they're saying, 2026. This comes from TT Games. Gotham is open world. It's the definitive Bruce Wayne story. You get to choose Which Batmobile you're driving? Everything about this was like, yep, you're doing it right.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, 100% right. Let's take these best moments from these movies, put them all together in this hodgepodge, do what LEGO does that I feel like we haven't seen in a long time. Like, I know they referenced the success of Star wars, but I mean, those have been, what, bundled and redone or whatever. But now you think LEGO Horizon, which wasn't TT Games. TT Games has been so quiet for so long. It's exciting to see them coming. I know there's been a lot of turnover there too, obviously. I think it was John who came out right. He's been there a long, long time. Time exciting to see what they have up their sleeves for this one. But more importantly, yeah, just for me, as a huge DC fan, get back to a D.C. world to run around and do the LEGO superhero business. Because I love LEGO Marvel as well. But this interaction he has here with the Joker, right, where they go back and forth and, you know, let's get nuts. And I'm allergic to nuts. Like, that's the kind of humor you expect from a LEGO game. And I'm there for it. I want to go collect all this stuff. I want to go through this. I think what's exciting watching it and hearing them talk about it is that it really sounds like, all right, they're not making Arkham games anymore for some fucking stupid reason. So we'll just put the Ark consistent into this clearly. And then they were talking about there being different, different difficulties. Right.

[Tim Geddes]

Which I think is a great move.

[Greg Miller]

That's always been a problem with LEGO games that they are family games, but they're kid games, they're easy, they're brain dead. You can just go, if it's going to be like, hey, we're actually gonna take the combat seriously and give you something like Arkham. Not nearly, probably to that level, but a reason to go through. That's super exciting. I can't wait to see what they. They're up to with that.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

It's probably the first time where I've been like, man, I really want to play a LEGO game. And I. It seems like they're balancing all the right things. Seeing the gameplay and yet seeing it look like the Arkham style stuff, between the fighting system and the grappling hook and even spraying the Batman symbol and having that be the exploitable thing on a gameplay level, I'm like, oh, let's go. But then, yeah, seeing the references to the different Movies, including Dark Knight, including the the latest Batman movie like that has me all in. This seems like a great way to just experience all the Batman.

[Greg Miller]

One of the criticisms we saw from LEGO Horizon, which again was not TT games, but was a LEGO game and obviously carries a lineage to some degree with it. So many people were like, well, it doesn't have that tt. It doesn't feel like the hub world in Horizon didn't feel like you're in the hub world of Batman or the games that have come before DC or Marvel or Star wars for that matter. I think one of the things they have in the press release is cool that the Bat the Batcave can be customized to display vehicles, trophies and collectibles. Plus an assortment of wearable batsuits based on past Batman related media. So I think making your own little home base there in Batman's actual home base makes it sound pretty cool and super exciting. And you know, we remember these old LEGO games, at least I do, of going through and having the different kits and building them and walking around your open space with it in open world Gotham. I do really wonder how that's going to vibe. Is that going to be like we're playing Arkham City and it is. I'm going around, there's random crimes, yada yada yada. You know, obviously we've seen that before in Lego Batman 2 and 3. Right where it was originally Gotham, then it was beyond Gotham. We had Metropolis and everything else in there. I'm stoked. I'm happy to see TT games doing something like this again. And I'm happy to see like even right there we're talking about like what I want out of this game. Him fighting dudes. And in the background is a trailer that says Court Industries. Fuck yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Warhammer dawn of War 4. Come in 2026.

[Greg Miller]

Go get them, Rahul.

[Tim Geddes]

Mike.

[Mike]

I'm gonna try it, Tim. Yeah, I'm gonna try it. This is another one of those strategy RTS looking games. And you know, the world of Warhammer has now grabbed me since Space Marine 2. And so I'm interested of like, could I vibe with this? Would I be interested? I love the total war games. I love Age of Empires. We always talk about Warcraft 3. I can't stop playing right now. And so yeah, put me in some sort of strategy giant army RTS game in the world in Warhammer. Maybe I'll give it a try. So yeah, put this down.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm gonna be on that Monster Hunter Wilds getting a Final Fantasy 14 crossover. That's working both ways. September 4th for Monster Hunter getting Final Fantasy. And October for Final Fantasy getting Monster Hunter. Greg, you ready to get a little chocobo up in there?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna turn it. I'm gonna do it. I was talking shit during it because I got like, you know, I love Monster Hunter Wilds. I'm not expecting a massive dlc. You know, we've had two seasonal events so far. We have little updates. Obviously, there's the weeklies even to go through to get new costume parts. When this dropped and it was another crossover over, I immediately get excited. But then I'm just. This is a Greg Miller personal taste thing of like. Most other Capcom franchises aren't my jam. So even the Street Fighter stuff, they already did. I didn't really get into here. Turn on to get a chocobo. Sure, I'll go do that. For my sake or do it. That monster they show there I thought was way more interesting. Of like, oh, that's a different vibe from what we've had before. I'd rather. I'll be excited to turn it on, jump in, earn the chocobo. Because I love playing it. But more importantly, fight that and see what the armor set looks like. Go for there.

[Andy Cortez]

You said you love Monster Hunter Wilds? Not more than Capcom and Monster Hunter love collaborations.

[Greg Miller]

They love working hand in hand with themselves.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up, we have onimusha. Way of the sword. A little bit more than we've seen so far. This game just keeps showing up everywhere, which, like, on one hand, I'm like, hell yeah. I can't believe this game is real. On the other, I'm just like, ah, we can't just be showing. It's like, we need answers. We need like, I want to know when the date is for this thing, if we're going to show it this month much 2026. That's what we know. But very hyped for it, obviously. So stoked that the franchise is back.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this one looked great. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I was gonna say this is what I want to hear. Hands on for. Right? Like, for some reason, the trailers, I think the first trailer was cool. Second trailer, I was like, okay, this is cool. And now that we see more and more of it, there's something about it visually that I feel like isn't hitting as hard for me. But I'm hoping that it's one of those things where it's like, gameplay is king. Once we will get their hands on, they're gonna be singing and spraying phases.

[Andy Cortez]

I. Part of me wonders if that is what RE Engine can look like at its weakest sometimes. And when it looks amazing. We've seen what it looks like with Resident Evil, but there are tons of moments playing something like Monster Hunter Wilds and going like, man, there's no reason on this amazing engine this should look this subpar where it. It looks flatter than it should be. And what's really awesome is when the PC versions of these games come out, modders always do a lot to make the game look better. But yeah, I do think there were a couple of shots in this that just look like. Is anything casting a shadow? Does any. Everything looks like it's floating in this area.

[Tim Geddes]

Everything looks desaturated in this way. That's just like, not the RE engine, man. But like, sometimes it's like that can really shine when there's, like when there's lights, you know?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, that's the exact thing I was thinking where I've seen RE Engine. I mean, we've all seen our Engine games look incredible. But, like, if I'm using Resident Evil as. As an example, this looks like Resident Evil, but Resident Evil just looks way better and I can't tell why.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I mean, I really do think it's just the substances of, like, how they interact. Where it's like lights on water or wet things or light through dust. It's like, that's what Resident Evil is all about. Whereas this isn't any of that stuff. So we'll see. Obviously very excited for it.

[Andy Cortez]

What we needed in that. In that one sort of fight that looked as flat as can be. We need like, a hole in the roof with moonlight coming through it and having just like a light shaft that, like, makes, you know, I always.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I always talk about the death room.

[Andy Cortez]

I always talk about the light dancing off a body I love, man. Oh, my gosh. I'm playing Dark Souls 2 right now with all the crazy lighting mods and from soft servers. Been helping out a lot from the chat. And there's this one area where you're like, in the forest of the Giants. And when these dudes walk through the tree shadows and the lights dancing on the so delicately on their bodies, like, I love that dude.

[Mike]

Give me more of that stance on it.

[Greg Miller]

Candlelight flickers.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we had Enfield something or other.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is when we go into that ad section where it's like, nobody's talking about these games. Here's trailer. Back to back to back to back. We're paying some bills. Here's Damon Machina.

[Tim Geddes]

And yeah, Damon X Machina.

[Andy Cortez]

I think there's a September 5th for that, by the way.

[Tim Geddes]

Demo out. September 5th release void breaker out. Now, Andy, this is an ad, but.

[Greg Miller]

I want to go home, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Like this. This game is the real deal, man. First person shooter using destruction as a main method of game design. And it's so satisfying with how these buildings and structures break around you. And when they do break and if you happen to have those structures break and land on enemies, you hear the sound effect of them becoming like it breaks their posture or whatever. You know, it gets them stunned and they. They take a lot more damage that way. It is so freaking satisfying to kite a bunch of enemies towards a room. And you know that there's a gigantic roof above you and you chuck a grenade up top, it hits the destroys and falls down on them. You hear all the sound effects, you start shooting them, but with the telekinesis powers that control has where. Where you are constantly flying and zipping through this world with rails and slide jumps and little ramps that lift you all across the map. And while you're doing that, you are picking up, you know, explosive to throw it at these enemies to, you know, either it's a fire thing or an ice thing. That and the roguelite elements. The way that you upgrade your weapons is so freaking cool. It's the. When I played it, I think it was like Steam next festival, either this year or last year, I was like, oh, this is one that I need more of immediately. And it's the one that I've been looking forward to the most this year.

[Tim Geddes]

Endless Dark in the chat saying it's on the Void breakers on Game pass right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Game Pass. I thought it was just an early access thing, though. That's cool. But it is out now. I thought it was out tomorrow.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

If I were to pick one to play this week. Call of Duty, Black Ops 6, the Campaign, or this, or Void Breaker. Because as you were talking about earlier, I was like, man, I gotta play that Black Ops campaign that I missed.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, but now you're kind of selling.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Me on Void Breaker more.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, Void Break is just so much fun with the whole run aspect. Like, it's you and I love Roguelites. And at the end of her, I'm like, oh, but I just got this new thing that would be really awesome the next time I want to go out. I. I don't know, man. It's tough to say.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I might say, I might go Void Breaker. Liza, I like a run. Oh, man, you're right. I gotta get back to that dlc. I started it.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we got the trailer for Fallout Season 2 coming December 17, and this looked awesome.

[Greg Miller]

So good. Let's go. So excited to have this back. Fallout Season one, what a treat. What a surprise and delight. And to see this look just the exact same. Have the character interactions. New Vegas, of course. Let's fucking go.

[Mike]

Got to see Mr. House. That was a nice little reveal right there. Saw a little tease of the deathclaw. We go to New Vegas. There's a lot of unanswered questions in this. Right. There's a lot of characters that we can't wait to go see. I think about her brother in the vault. Right. I enjoyed that. Yeah, I like that side story there. I'm excited to see these two travel along. I love the question of like, will the ghoul impart upon her or will she impart upon the ghoul? How will we go through the wasteland here? Like, this is going to be fun. And man, talk about nailing it. This team over at Amazon and Fallout and Bethesda, they've absolutely nailed this show.

[Tim Geddes]

The New Vegas looks awesome. Can't wait to see this. As somebody that never played Fallout but watched the show, I'm like, damn, man, I am all in. And I love that they're delivering this hard shout out to webheaded hero Andrew Mlan, who says he's flying out to Gamescom here in a couple hours. Can't sleep on planes. Wish me luck.

[Mike]

That's my dude.

[Greg Miller]

Good luck.

[Tim Geddes]

That's tough for you, man.

[Mike]

Nice. Long day is right.

[Tim Geddes]

Have fun out there. Indiana Jones in the great circle, the order of the Giants coming September 4th and also coming to switch two in 2026. Indiana Jones. The great circle order of the Giants takes place during the events of the main game when a young priest sends Indy on a perilous journey journey to find a mysterious artifact.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

This was a good game.

[Tim Geddes]

Cool.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

This is a real good game.

[Greg Miller]

These reviewers chances to make things right and give this DLC a great score for my. My. My fantasy critic.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, God. Oh, God.

[Andy Cortez]

Greg.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah. I don't know if I'm gonna be there for the DLC because I never even finished the actual game. I probably got like, I got to the snow, snowy area. Quite a few areas in, but okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah. You're like you're almost there, buddy.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Am I really? Yeah. Well, I'm going to stay. I'm going to stay almost there, but good for the people that are that want more. Indiana Jones.

[Tim Geddes]

Barrett, as seemingly the biggest indie guy Here, would you play this DLC specifically?

[Andy Cortez]

I would say the biggest indie game guy may maybe it's a busy year, unfortunately. Like I really adored the base game and I love where it went. And then like seeing a lot of these like puzzle rooms reminded me like I did have fun doing the more like temple stuff. When I think so much of this game about like kind of stealthing around and doing kind of like the very dishonored sim light aspects of this game.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

But I don't know. We'll see.

[Andy Cortez]

There's too many games right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Many games.

[Greg Miller]

Too many.

[Tim Geddes]

Deadpool VR. November 18th. You aka Deadpool crash land straight into Mojo World, which is pretty cool. It's always a fun thing. Voiced by John Lego Leguizamo the fucking goat. Love that. Love seeing him in any.

[Greg Miller]

The clown from Spawn.

[Tim Geddes]

That's what they say.

[Greg Miller]

That's what he's best known for.

[Tim Geddes]

Best known for not Luigi my man. So cool. But yeah, this game, I don't know. I'm not a big VR guy. So this, this is the type of thing that's doing everything it can to speak to me and it's still not speaking loud enough.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I, I, I'm in a similar boat, you know, VR we've all tried here at Kind of funny we were high on in the beginning and then as it's matured into what it's matured into, it's stuck with that. It's just an arcade experience for me at least. And doing the demo that I did before SGF with it, that's how it felt. All right, cool. It's fun. I can, you know, my arm gets cut off and I can pick up my, my arm and use it as a weapon and do this thing, blah, blah. And it's like I look at this and like they're showing all the villains and I know they're doing a whole Mojo World thing. I put in the, the document right. That it's the, you're going around get it capturing villains, it looks like is the story to bring to make them fight on Mojo World or whatever. That sounds cool, but I look at this trailer and I don't see a villain. I particularly care about where I'd be interested in going after them and getting them and getting there. And like I said, I didn't think Neil Patrick Harris performance was up to snuff in a way that I'm. I gotta go play this.

[Andy Cortez]

You're not a Mephisto guy.

[Tim Geddes]

No, lady.

[Greg Miller]

I thought they nailed him in that one X Men movie we watched. With Kevin Bacon.

[Tim Geddes]

It's a zazel.

[Greg Miller]

My apologies. I thought they nailed him in the tick tock clip I've seen of Sasha Barricone from Iron Head. Iron Heart. Iron Heart. Really excited to see that payoff in the upcoming moves.

[Tim Geddes]

World of Tanks 2 coming September 3rd.

[Greg Miller]

2.0. 2.0.

[Mike]

2Point0. There's a world out there, Tim, of Tanks, where all of us could be in the world of Tanks, you know, but we're just not.

[Tim Geddes]

There is one. Yeah, that's true.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Once we all turn over. 45 years old.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

We all hold hands.

[Mike]

I mean, you got a shout out to Jeff for having a great connection with them. They must have a bunch of money to become the ad supporter of this. Which is great, but it puts it in front and we're talking about it. And it gets me thinking of World of Tanks of like, what is this game at its core? There's clearly an audience here. What am I missing? Well, how come I've never stumbled upon this in my years of gaming?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

You gotta be old enough.

[Mike]

I'm getting older.

[Tim Geddes]

We had John Carpenter's Toxic Commando. Not to be confused with the Toxic Avenger. This is coming early 2026.

[Greg Miller]

When I saw Toxic Commander, I did the same thing like, oh, Toxic Avenger with the guy with the mop. And I'm like, wait, that was like a Troma film. That's not John Carpenter. I was like, wait, what the fuck is this? John Carpenter loves video games, so that's cool. I'm glad he's being brought in to make more games, I guess.

[Tim Geddes]

Cool.

[Mike]

Is this a fort four person brute force type of experience where we're going to play four player co op.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

It is a co op.

[Mike]

Some crazy experience. I like that. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it definitely seems like a mission based sort of deal. You know, we had a. These were kind of a dime a dozen back in the day with Aliens, Fireteam Elite and World War Z. Yeah.

[Mike]

Back for Blood.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

On their website they say if you're the kind of person who likes buddy movie vibes and over the top humor, action and horror of the classic 80s cinematic inspired by the legendary John Carpenter. If you like teaming up with friends to face down hordes of monsters who want to eat your face.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

An explosive cocktail of visceral FPS action and apocalyptic environments. Upgrading your skills and testing new abilities against increasingly hardcore challenges and saving the planet against impossible odds, this is your time to go commando.

[Mike]

I think we're in.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think it looks horrible.

[Tim Geddes]

Somebody said look horrible.

[Mike]

I like the look of it for sure. It caught my eye. I'm interested in this game game, Death.

[Tim Geddes]

By Scrolling new game from Ron Gilbert and friends. Vertical scrolling rpg. You battle enemies, hoard gold. Welcome to Purgatory. Now, under new management, Death by Scrolling is a rogue like vertically scrolling RPG where you kill enemies, collect gold, and avoid the Grim reaper long enough to pay the ferryman's exorbitant river crossing fee to the afterlife.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I would say, honestly, as goofy as it will sound, one of my most anticipated games from this presentation. And I say that because so many of the ones that are bigger we knew about, like, oh, I can't res. Evil. Yeah, that looks awesome. I'm obviously gonna be interested to see where it goes. I didn't expect a Ron Gilbert game today. As I said during the show itself. Ron Gilbert, of course, most known for his adventure games, but somebody who. I didn't remember what he was promoting, but he came through for up at Noon a few times. And it's just a fascinating, funny game developer person that if I see his name, his name attached to a property, I'm gonna be excited about it. But as I was saying earlier in this show, adventure games really aren't my shtick. Usually the point and click, that's not my vibe. So to see something here that is in quote unquote, a simple game, right. But it gives me a new look at something I would think of like Rogue Legacy. What are we going to get in here? What am I going to be doing? What I think of Vampire Survivors, which Poe and I put an obscene amount of hours into when him and his son were visiting this.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you did that co op.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we did that co op. We did every night we were being. And then we started getting really. Greg and Poe about. About mid. Maxing this. You die like God. All right, get it, hit it again. But this time you stay over. Like, we're having a great time with it. So to see something like that, a smaller game from him, somebody I haven't seen a game from in a while. I'm excited about that. I'm.

[Mike]

That.

[Greg Miller]

That this is one of those, like. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I don't think this is a crazy one to say it's one of your most anticipated from the show. I think this is one of the highlights of the show for sure. And I had the same feeling of like. I think the thing that I always joke about, right. Are the three options that you see. And really what that comes down to is that I like Roguelites because I like run based things and seeing this, I'm. I'm like, oh, this looks like a game I can pick up for 10 minutes. Do the thing where I try to stay alive as long as possible, collect as much gold as possible, and like, yeah, just try to get to the end or try to get as far as I can in a run and then be done with it and then come back whenever there's downtime or whenever I feel like it. Jeff Keeley. This is one of those ones where I think the prompter work on here worked for me. As far as Jeff Keighley talking about how he's been playing it for the last however many weeks and he's addicted to it. That's exactly what I want to hear about this type of game. This is the kind of game that I want to. To have that vampire survivors feeling with. Have that loop hero thing of, oh, I come in, I get real addicted and I have to put it down so I could actually take care of the rest of my tasks for the day kind of thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Plus, let me tell about the game called the King is Watching. It's so good. I got it down. I'm buy for you. I'm buying.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I have it.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you think the family, the. The, you know, the. The family whose ancient ancestor who is. Let me read it right here. Hesiod, who is the Greek poet that created the story of the river Styx. Do you think they're like, hey, hey, give us some. Like we deserve money. Our great, great, great, great, great, great, great great grandfather created the story. The river sticks. Everybody's using this damn story. Give us our residuals, you know what I mean?

[Mike]

Like, check.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, look it up.

[Greg Miller]

One of my most favorite facts about Ron Gilbert and I don't know if it still exists this way because 2012, 2013, 2014 or whatever, but I thought this is the most fascinating thing I had ever heard is I was like, we were sitting there right up at noon. Like we would. Me and Brian would take somebody to lunch or whatever. I'm like, so what are you watching now? And he's like, oh, well, you know, me and my partner were going through and whatever they were watching. We'll say West Wing. I'm not sure if it was West Wing. I was like, oh, man, I love the West Wing. So, yeah, where are you at right now? He's like, I'm still in season one. We'll say whatever. Like, oh, man. Like, are you. He's like, oh, I don't marathon him. What I do is I Take a note card, and I write Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. He puts the days of the week on it and then scheduled programming like the old days. So West Wing, in his world, he. They would watch it every Monday but one episode. I'm. I was like, you are insane. But it's how they broke up the streaming economy and the ability just to binge everything.

[Tim Geddes]

What if I told you that Gia literally has a spreadsheet where she does exactly that?

[Andy Cortez]

She's just.

[Greg Miller]

She's so much better than you.

[Tim Geddes]

She's insane. I was better.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not sure.

[Tim Geddes]

Deranged. Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Want me to call her right now and ask what the front of us have? My truck's called.

[Tim Geddes]

To be clear, I was trying to explain that it was the modern Optimus prime, not the flat Optimus prime from the cartoons, because those are both semi trucks. Trucks, but they're different.

[Andy Cortez]

You're not helping your kids.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

You're not helping at all.

[Greg Miller]

The better reference would be, it wasn't a normal semi truck. It was a semi truck like the one from Terminator 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Tim Geddes]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

T1000 knocks out the window. Can't wait for that game. I go on vacation. They delay it till October. What the going on?

[Mike]

But I saw you put it on the calendar.

[Greg Miller]

I put on the counter. I'm so excited.

[Tim Geddes]

It's not the one from Terminator 2. No, I'm saying.

[Greg Miller]

But the flat one. A flat one is Terminator 2.

[Andy Cortez]

2.

[Greg Miller]

When C1000 knocks out the thing.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So that's why I said it wasn't. It wasn't a normal semi truck. It was a truck from Terminator 2.

[Tim Geddes]

Zero parades.

[Greg Miller]

Idiot. You know what I mean? Sometimes, like, I'm talking to a sack.

[Tim Geddes]

Of potatoes and a beautiful people kind of.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they've gone through a host of things.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They've. Yeah, they've gone through, quote, unquote, a host of changes. This game, unfortunately, looks kind of good.

[Mike]

I got to the game plan.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I like, was like, that's kind of what I want out of this game. Yeah. I want to see more, hear more. I want to, like, even hear more reports about what the happened slash is happening at the studio. How many of the same. How many of the same people are there? Obviously had the leads that were ousted and have, you know, spread away from the studio in, like, a salty fashion. Changes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Do I have to play this and mentally prepare myself going, like, I don't feel okay playing this. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Like, should I.

[Greg Miller]

This is a game you play, but you never tell anybody to play.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Should I feel Guilt while playing this is what it comes down to. But it looks like a game from. From that studio, from Zalom, so that bodes well.

[Andy Cortez]

That's good news. Yeah. As soon as they cut into. Here's what props and art direction is with, you know, the tiniest of glimpses of a character running around like, oh, shit, they're doing another one of these.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah. Which I. Which I want.

[Andy Cortez]

That's great.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I want more games like Disco Elysium because few games are like Disco Elysium.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of reading, right? Yeah, they got voice acting now.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, they added voice acting in the final cut. And let me tell you, you so good.

[Greg Miller]

If you want to play a game with a lot of reading, that's great. Citizen Sleeper, let's go.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, baby.

[Andy Cortez]

Come on.

[Greg Miller]

One and two.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Does that have voice acting?

[Andy Cortez]

No, no, I can do it.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of reading.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

If you want. If. If that's what it takes, you can play. Me and Andy will stand over your shoulder.

[Tim Geddes]

Then they had the Darkest Files. Seemed whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

The what?

[Tim Geddes]

The Darkest Files.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Those. The commercial.

[Mike]

This was the Gamescom cares Inspiring Change with democracy section.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. That was the game, right. Kind of breaking down. Like how quickly fascism can take over like a country. I think it came out like a few months ago.

[Tim Geddes]

They just wanted to spotlight.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That was cool.

[Greg Miller]

Which, thank God we have to worry about that.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Somebody in chat said that. He's talking to you. Bless. Which really makes me wonder. What did I say? What did I say?

[Tim Geddes]

Then we had unbeatable coming November 6th. A rhythm adventure where music's illegal and you do Crime Times. Follow the story of Beat and her band on the run in a narrative experience full of big emotions. Powered by arcade, flawless rhythm gameplay and a excellent art style.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

This shit's so sick. You can play the demo now on Steam. Can't wait for it.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Can't wait for it.

[Greg Miller]

Me neither. This one looks awesome. I like the vibe of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Music was so unbelievably good.

[Tim Geddes]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a lot of original music I think in it.

[Tim Geddes]

Sick.

[Greg Miller]

The Darkest Files came out in March, by the way. It sounds fucking awesome. I'm ready to buy it. Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these quote unquote ordinary men to court? Yeah. And it's seam deck verified.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice, dude, nice.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we have Honor of Kings World and Fortnite Cross Squid Games again, we're in that.

[Greg Miller]

We're paying ads. We're paying some ads.

[Mike]

Damn, I missed that. Fortnite. Fortnite Squad Squid games 1. You see Kaiser Natsky in the Fortnite skin took over the Las Vegas sphere.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

A lot of people met.

[Mike]

Oh, Mafia thon.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

A lot of people mad that Speed didn't get it. How do you feel about that?

[Mike]

He's going on a US tour, so you never know.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, he's finally making his way back after just traveling Europe.

[Mike]

Traveling, Traveling the world.

[Andy Cortez]

Feels like he's been there for six.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Years, I swear to God.

[Tim Geddes]

Next up, we had the musical performance from Claire. Obscure performance of Alicia. Awesome stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I love this. I just wish it wasn't here. I wish they saved this for the Game Awards. I mean, maybe the Game Awards will have a more. But it did feel. We felt like it was also just in a weird spot. Like not just the fact that it was on this showcase, but where they place. It also felt kind of like, okay, that was like really beautiful and moving. And here's some more ads or whatever. Like, I think we cut straight to ads after that. Yeah, we came out of an ad break to go back into an ad break.

[Greg Miller]

I thought it was so good though, that I was like, I'm not mad at it. And I thought the audience was with it and I thought, you know. Yeah, it's like, whatever. Surrounded by ads. But what a performance.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

It's not like a pre Game of the year celebration. Yeah, like, oh, you've already won it. Here's a performance.

[Andy Cortez]

It made me want to have a medley, but I'm hoping like we get a medley performance at game Awards. That's outside of just like the Game of the Year nominee medley, you know?

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not looking for eight seconds of Clare upscore. Like, give me that exact performance. But in the third or whatever chorus, let's have the symphony come in.

[Tim Geddes]

And now it's the concert already, man. Come on. That's what I want. Cinder City. Andy, you want to talk about this?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

No, I don't.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks. It looks cool. It's.

[Greg Miller]

That's the one you were talking about. It's a little bit. It's scratching the division itch.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. And it's, you know, like I mentioned, as generic as can be. Robots, multiplayer, shooting, shooting zombies.

[Mike]

What was the game that we played recently? First Ascendant. That.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, there was that one and there.

[Mike]

Was 100 vibes like this. There was no one human. Was the dune like one where we're Building homes. First descendant. First descendant was very shooter heavy, like.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah. Again, I don't think it's doing anything mind blowing with art direction or anything. It's like, it just feels very much. You typed in an AI Give me a sci fi art style helicopter.

[Mike]

There's a helicopter. Okay, let's stop everything right now.

[Andy Cortez]

There is a heli, but I. I just really enjoy, you know, hanging out with the squad, you know, trying to hit those. The critical spots on the enemy. We call the. We call it the Critterus. You hit those spots like you do it great.

[Tim Geddes]

I am not part of it. Mike saying, wow, who's the Wii?

[Andy Cortez]

I've muted his mic. He's banned for the rest of the time. Wow. I. I said it on the street with me and Alana and bless one time a Night rain. We were playing Elder Ring. Night rain.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Oh, yeah, you did say it.

[Mike]

Now that's a first person shooter mmo. That's what this is.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Third person. Yeah. Fight like zombies and then, you know, hang out with your friends and shoot the big mechs or whatever. It just.

[Greg Miller]

It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's what I've been looking for. And again, we got to go back to the vision.

[Mike]

We got to go back, you know, what the game was with the TV show? Tired from Sci Fi. Defiance.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Defiance.

[Mike]

Defiance is giving major Defiance vibes, and I'm down with that. Andy, I'll be there for you.

[Andy Cortez]

One of my best friends, his wife was an actor on Defiance. On Sci Fi.

[Mike]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know, the. The show tied into the game, but the game tied into the show.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of, how many chapters into Leviathan Wakes? Are you Tim?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, one.

[Andy Cortez]

What were you.

[Greg Miller]

Four, baby. Four chapters.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

This guy's not a real reader.

[Tim Geddes]

I know. I said I was gonna read one, and I did.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, whoa. Don't get mad.

[Tim Geddes]

I l. Page more. Super cool. Not cool enough for me to keep rolling, though.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn. Then Time Takers is up next.

[Greg Miller]

Too busy reading the Bible, I guess.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I hope this game comes out and is good. See, I think when it was showing off, when it was showing that when we were seeing the trailer, one of the things I think Andy might have said was the finals, which is the same impression that I got as far as the kind of energy that is bringing. But the one thing where I'm like, ooh, okay. There's this, like, little time mechanic where it seems like you're fighting for time or you're taking time away from people. I didn't get an exact read on how that system works.

[Tim Geddes]

But.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

But that seems like something that could be interesting for this kind of game.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was out of the room for this one, but yeah, it gave major Finals vibes. And that's one of those games that's like. That's a nice thing to say of like, hey, we're trying something different in the team arena genre that maybe will be like a play style you like. Right. And Finals brought us in for the crazy destruction. They brought in this different kind of gameplay where we're going off collecting coins and then filling it all up. This time mechanic could be really cool of having that 60 seconds countdown and my character might die, so I got to go kill someone to add another 15, 30 seconds is kind of cool. And yeah, this is one of those. It stands out amongst the crowd for a. I'm going to give that a try.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I will say. I will say though I would add this to the list of trends as far as like, how this kind of.

[Tim Geddes]

Leads into the game.

[Mike]

AI like make a game.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

And this is what make a 2025 video game.

[Mike]

That's what this looks like.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. And the health bar essentially seems to be the time as that person was getting shot. They. They're going down.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

The time was going 47, 46, 45. That's cool.

[Greg Miller]

And.

[Andy Cortez]

And I guess when you kill them, then you would add whatever a 30 seconds or a minute to your time or. I don't know exactly what the game rules are, but. But it, you know, it's another one of these. Mike. We played Frag Punk at one point. We played Spectre Divide at one point.

[Mike]

Wild Star.

[Andy Cortez]

Wild. Wild Star. Wait, no, that's the. Mm.

[Mike]

Wild Gates.

[Andy Cortez]

Wild Rift.

[Mike]

Wild Gate.

[Andy Cortez]

Gate. Wild Gate.

[Mike]

God, man, that was so good for four days, Tim. It's crazy, bro. What a game.

[Tim Geddes]

Getting back to it, Silent Hill F, where the F stands for friendship. September 25th. Roger's super hyped on this one. Anyone else here at this table hype for it?

[Mike]

Yeah, Mike and Roger are super hyped for this. Coming off of of course, Silent Hill 2 remake where I got my first experience in Silent Hill alongside of course the movie. But now really being into the idea of Silent Hill and what could be. I love F is for friendship. I. I love the kind of themes that we could play with and I want to see this journey. We've already seen previews come out of them. They seem to be pretty positive. It seems to be kind of more of an action spin on it as well. So yeah, let's see how far they dive into the kind of that actiony genre as opposed to what we just experienced with Silent Hill 2. But this is something me and Roger will definitely be all over for the team theme for all of you later on in the year then.

[Tim Geddes]

La Divina Comedia, inspired by the monumental work of Italy's most celebrated poet, Dante.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody popped off with this one. I guess it's like a Dante's Inferno thing.

[Greg Miller]

The Divine Comedy. Yeah, yeah, we all popped off and then they got to them. No, we could read the name.

[Tim Geddes]

What is this font treatment?

[Mike]

This is one of those that blends the world of, oh, this looks like another soul's like. And you just don't stand out on the initial showing. And so, yeah, this one kind of came and went for me.

[Greg Miller]

It's an action RPG with dark fantasy touches and hack and slash gameplay feature set in a visionary universe that reinterprets the legendary imagery of Dante's work with the iconic style of JAMA games.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Dante is such a good name.

[Greg Miller]

It is.

[Tim Geddes]

Clerks. Oh, good. My friend just had a kid named Dante. I'm like, that's a cool ass name.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I would name my kid Dante Kronos.

[Tim Geddes]

Up next, he was on stage himself, Mr. Kronos.

[Greg Miller]

Cool suit. We all said it was a really cool cosplay suit.

[Andy Cortez]

I think this was the coolest showing of it. I think every other time they've shown it, it's always.

[Greg Miller]

They hold back too much.

[Andy Cortez]

It's always way moody and like, you know, you just see the person walking for as many seconds to build up the tension. And you see a body cross the walkway or like something fall down and then it cuts the black. This was like, okay, we're seeing action. We're seeing how the, how your character is moving in these battles. I think this one looked a lot more interesting and gave me a lot more of those dead space fires. Like Michael's mentioning the precision shooting of it all, you know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, listening to Mike and Roger's preview of this when they came back and did the games cast with us. Their preview set the expectations for me to have a pretty run of the mill right in the. That 7 out of 10 survival horror thing. But I like that idea and I'm hoping that when we get past where their demo cut off, we really get weird and that's where I want to get with what's going on with the time, why are we doing this, etc, etc.

[Tim Geddes]

We got the Outer Worlds 2 companions trailer. They confirmed not gonna sleep with Them.

[Greg Miller]

Fuck them.

[Andy Cortez]

Never can anyway.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, good. I think romance and games is often.

[Andy Cortez]

Very bad, but I think they're baddies though, so I mean, they look cool.

[Greg Miller]

The fan fiction will do what I need.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I can't wait. We're, you know, so close down outer worlds too, which is insane to think about. October right around the corner. Yeah. This looks like a colorful cast, like I said, coming off my E3 preview. What I played an of it, 45 minutes of it. I think it's on track to be Obsidian's best RPG if they don't fuck it up. Like, I think they're doing a lot of really cool stuff that's going to make for really varied playthroughs, really varied fighting styles or I should. I should say gameplay styles. And then of course, yeah, the combat being way more up the alley of what we saw out of a vowed and how much we appreciated that.

[Andy Cortez]

But hopefully not the NPC. You know, the enjoyment I got of the NPCs from avowed because that was very low on the list.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, 100%.

[Andy Cortez]

Not really caring about any of these people, not vibing with them. And then they would give you one little hint of, oh, this might be a cool thread of us. And then it would. I just never really. I've. I've just been chasing the Garrison, Thane and Liara vibe from Mass Effect way back in the day. But a lot of games have lived up to that since then and Avowed was pretty disappointing in that department for me. So I'm hoping these are a lot more enjoyable.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm shocked Greg doesn't like romance in games. That would have struck me as like.

[Andy Cortez]

A. I made fun of him and like, dude, you played like, you played starfield 17 times to marry the lady. And then he went, well, I, you.

[Greg Miller]

Know, we did a Gamescast or maybe we stole a tweet way back in the day and included Imran on the Gamescast. But Imran had a hot take. Maybe it was on a hot take episode about romance in games often being bad, always being bad, it shouldn't be there. And when it. When it was said and thought it was like, now you're right. Yeah, I think we. You get in these situations and like there's the. It's all. It's all. It's the same thing you see from every show that's ever. Will they, won't they? They do. And then the show falls apart because then it's the tension. Like when I got Andrea and now she's my Partner. She's like lovey dovey with me. I'm like, that's not how you would. You wouldn't do that. You know, Just a fucking plot point. I'm gonna go through the unity again.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Interesting.

[Tim Geddes]

Maybe we should try Enjoy.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

It's coming out tomorrow in Enzo.

[Greg Miller]

Enzo.

[Tim Geddes]

Everyone saw me. It's pronounced Enjoy.

[Greg Miller]

Was. You can be John Cena. There he is right there. This computer see him again last time is now Bliss Bay Park. Yeah. This is the Sims knockoff thing, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Mike]

This is the hyper realistic. Yeah. Sims one that just recently came out, took the world by storm. But that character creator had a lot of promising stuff going on in the gameplay mode. I don't think anyone here tried that and went deeper into it. I have so much money invested in Sims, it is very difficult for me to back out of the Sims. And so I have not given this a try.

[Greg Miller]

Mike's locked into a 14 year barrier.

[Mike]

That's why they can't make a Sims 5, because they know there's people like me who's like, ah.

[Andy Cortez]

The character grader is really neat. It lets you turn on your webcam and use it to like, you know, overlay over your sliding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

[Mike]

NBA 2K did me dirty a couple of times.

[Greg Miller]

Never looks good. Never ever looks good.

[Andy Cortez]

The creative characters, we did the KFFL Madden like tournament thing. Like, oh my God. The get ones that they give you off the rib. It's like, holy.

[Tim Geddes]

Who approve.

[Andy Cortez]

These guys look like freaks, man.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we got some more ads here. We got fate triggers and then the Seven Deadly Sins origin. Then it was a Xbox Ally X commercial kinda the transition pretty quickly into moonlight or two. Coming early access October 23rd, starting place. Like, are y' all surprised we didn't get a date and price or something for the Ally X, I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

If they want to announce that price at a showcase.

[Tim Geddes]

But even the date then like, it.

[Greg Miller]

Was just a bizarre way of doing it where it's like, I still think of the Xbox Ally as a new upcoming cool thing. So for it to show up after a bunch of ads, nothing from Jeff being like, our friends at Microsoft are about to have just like it pops up. I was like, oh, we're getting a hype reel for this. That'll give us a date at the very least. And it's like, no, it's the two seconds of the front of it into a Moonlighter 2 trailer. That's just about Moonlighter 2. From there on out, I was like.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, that was weird. Xbox is doing something at Gamescom, right? Like not like a showcase, but like there's a dream thing happening.

[Mike]

There's a theater experience, I believe, and then there's just a giant booth. Like a lot of stuff going on.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I mean, weird. Then we got vampire masquerades, bloodline, moonlighter 2 though.

[Greg Miller]

Fuck yeah. Early Access again, a bit bizarre. You know, I've been talking about this game. Can't wait for this game. I was waiting for a release date. They've said summer. They've said summer. Summer. Now it's going to be October and it's going to be Early Access, which again, if you were watching the earlier stuff, Fantasy Critic has had a flag on it forever that one of the trailers mentioned Early Access. But a PR person said, we assure you it's not early access. And now it is early access. I wonder what we're looking at to get to a 1.0 on this game. I'd love some actual conversation from the developers on this.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Are you going to play Early Access?

[Greg Miller]

I will, yeah. No, no, this one I won't be able to hold off on like I can like Hades 2. I can't wait for Hades 2, but I'm like, I can wait for the. No, this one. I'm right in day and date, depending on reviews.

[Tim Geddes]

Then we have empire masquerades, bloodlines 2 coming October 21st.

[Greg Miller]

Again, I. Years and years and years ago, being at E3 behind closed doors, I was like, this seems like it's gonna be a really cool rpg. Yeah. And then everything went to hell and changed and da da da. And then since then it seemed like vaporware where trailers get dropped and stuff. But I'm not. Not paying close enough attention to know what is cool or different or whatever about it. So I wouldn't say I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm interested. My. My interest is peaked in this. To see what the hell this is. Cuz I hope it's awesome. Cuz I want to be a vampire. Just like that's how I do it.

[Mike]

Would you let him bite you, Tim? So you let him.

[Greg Miller]

Would you let me bite you right now? Here's what I'll do too.

[Andy Cortez]

Let him bite.

[Greg Miller]

I'll wrap my. I'll wrap my gums. I'll wrap my lips on my teeth right now.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I'd let you, but like, I.

[Greg Miller]

Mean, that's friendship, right?

[Tim Geddes]

That's friendship right there. I don't want to be a vampire.

[Greg Miller]

No, this is me right now as a person.

[Mike]

Oh, Tim. You would thrive as a Vampire.

[Andy Cortez]

I would love being.

[Mike]

You get to avoid the sun. You live forever.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So much reality television.

[Greg Miller]

You'll get to sleep, but I guess you sleep. Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm.

[Greg Miller]

I'm always kind of confused. Are they sleeping in the coffin? Are they just getting out of the sunlight and resting?

[Mike]

Yeah. What's up?

[Tim Geddes]

But that jerking it.

[Greg Miller]

Jerking it.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Y' all different today.

[Tim Geddes]

Kingdom Come Deliverance to dlc.

[Greg Miller]

The second big pack, apparently.

[Mike]

Enjoy.

[Tim Geddes]

Like, enjoy not. Get your goddamn mind out of there.

[Andy Cortez]

You're talking different.

[Tim Geddes]

Damn.

[Mike]

You said enjoy. Joi.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

Holy. Kingdom Come. You can start Coming countdown. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 DLC Legacy of the Forge coming on September 9th.

[Mike]

Tim slipped that one in there. Blessing and Andy said, they're gonna beat it for you.

[Tim Geddes]

They're gonna play it, we're gonna beat it.

[Greg Miller]

I said, they're gonna play it. They didn't say they're gonna beat it.

[Andy Cortez]

I plan on playing and beating it this year.

[Greg Miller]

No way. There's so much going on this year still. You have so many other games. Yes. A ginormous video game.

[Mike]

Big game.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I take it back.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll download a mod that maybe. Let me just play the fast. Give me. Give me the fast. Track me to the campaign. Know I'm not trying to.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

What are the streets saying about Kingdom Come Deliverance to, like, what's good about it?

[Mike]

People celebrating it.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, people think it's, like, celebrating. It's the RPG of the year. People are so mad at me for not giving it more time with it.

[Andy Cortez]

Up with you, Greg. A lot of is.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I'm like, I'm the. I love RPGs. I love Western RPGs. They're like, you're a liar. You couldn't even. You didn't even give this a fighting chance. Like, they're way too complicated. I don't like medieval stuff. I don't know. You want me to do everybody who.

[Andy Cortez]

Beats it at the end of it goes, damn, that story made me cry. Or that was like an incredible whole, you know, ending and storytelling, characters, all that sort of stuff.

[Mike]

What if we all three get together, we just stream it one whole weekend? It's only 52 hours.

[Greg Miller]

Only 52 hours. And we know when you guys marathon stream games, you.

[Tim Geddes]

You play them the whole time and.

[Andy Cortez]

You definitely beat it.

[Greg Miller]

Steaks every goddamn 15 minutes. I walk in, I'm like, can I. Hey, Nick, can we get a bidet in here? He's like, no, there's no more money left because they tried to order all this goddamn food. My Filthy. And they've got no goddamn money. Finish the game.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

That marathon stream, like in the middle of the week. Like, had to be the weekend.

[Greg Miller]

Don't put me out.

[Mike]

Don't put him out.

[Greg Miller]

Break out.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

I have breaking news, by the way. I have reached out to Smacking sunflower seeds.

[Mike]

Oh, snap.

[Greg Miller]

They're going to give us another shot. They're sending another bucket.

[Tim Geddes]

We're going to try for Pablo.

[Greg Miller]

We're going to try for Pablo.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my Lord.

[Greg Miller]

I want you to know too. I'm so out of the loop that I searched Petey Pablo.

[Mike]

That's a good search.

[Greg Miller]

I'm like, oh, this is a real man. This isn't what I want.

[Andy Cortez]

I haven't heard that name in a decade.

[Mike]

Peter Pablo could be performing at Sea World. Genuine recently.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

We gotta go to SeaWorld.

[Andy Cortez]

What's SeaWorld doing?

[Mike]

Like, they told us they make a great concert.

[Andy Cortez]

No, they just turned. They're torching animals. We're gonna get every big 90s and 2000s R&B A rap star to come perform.

[Mike]

Perform on a dock. What do we do? They change their whole business plan.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, it's crazy.

[Tim Geddes]

Cult of the Lambs getting a major expansion, a paid one coming in 2026. A lost God calls you from a mysterious mountain. You must rebuild the flock to reawaken winter to uncover the truth of the fallen lambs. Greg, I know you like this game a lot. Would this get you back in?

[Greg Miller]

I would want it to, but I doubt it would be. And this is. There's been so many expansions to Cult of Lamp. Cult Lamb has been so well supported, both free and paid and every other way around it. Right. And I feel like at this point, for me to play it would be like, let's start over. I reviewed it on PC and put however many hours in back when we reviewed it, it would be a let's roll it on PlayStation or let's just start a new save and go from there. Because I wouldn't remember much of it. I loved Cult of the Lamb, but it's, you know, we've moved on so many times and so to see even some of the stuff they're doing in here, it's like, oh, yeah, I should have. Okay. It's exciting. It's, I'm glad they're supporting this game. I love this game. But I, I don't think this will pull me back in because it's just looking at a very deep ocean out there that I'm unfamiliar with.

[Tim Geddes]

Anybody feel otherwise?

[Andy Cortez]

I, I, I mean, it coming Out. What is it? Did they say January 2026?

[Greg Miller]

They just said 2026.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. Never mind then. Well, I guess depends on the date. But I always enjoyed it. It just never felt like it had that roguelite thing where every run you go, oh, I just got this fire weapon and I have this one fire ability. This is going to be an all fire run every. We're going. I never felt like I could do that in Cult of the Lamb or in Hades, where you go, oh, we have these two bo. These two gods boons or whatever. We're going full on into this or whatever. Never felt that rhythm with Cult of the Lamb. And I haven't played it since launch though. And there have been a ton of expansion since then and hopefully I can download a mod that keeps my dudes alive longer. Cuz I always. I wanted to like really get a let you live a long time before you die instead of just like recycling through everybody. I wanted Greg Miller, my one guy until him who were, you know, fighting at one point. Let's, you know, in the chat here.

[Greg Miller]

Kurazzle says, is it paid expansion or. Or is it free? No, it's a paid expansion. They, they, they were saying the first major paid expansion for the game.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They got to be hiding something at SeaWorld. I'm looking through the concert series right now.

[Andy Cortez]

It's crazy.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They got Baby Bash. Baby Bash, Ying Yang Twins, Soldier Boy and Bow Wow. Fat Joe.

[Mike]

Together.

[Tim Geddes]

Yo.

[Mike]

Together together.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah, that's true.

[Tim Geddes]

Why are they together?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They had that one song, Marco Polo.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Yeah, well, I know, I'm aware of that.

[Mike]

How about Waka Flocka?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They got Waka Flocka.

[Mike]

Waka Flocka was at the Juggalo gathering.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They got Trina. They got genuine, like you mentioned. I think this is all a distraction because they didn't change a thing. I think they're still up these fish.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really?

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I think they're still.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Abusing these dolphin or whatever they do.

[Tim Geddes]

World of Warcraft midnight. There's a new housing feature. This is the world. So Saga. World Soul Saga Part 2 too. We just saw the. The cinematic for this. Mike, I want to hear what you have to say. I just want to come in real quick before that and just say, like, I love these like awesome cinematics and all that. Yeah, this did nothing for me. Like, the choreography wasn't that interesting. What was going on. Even though I don't have context. These are usually at least like, I remember, you know, one last year.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're looking for the ships, the boats.

[Tim Geddes]

I don't know man. I'm just looking for something more than this. And even like the big portal moment is the end. It felt like they were trying to do something, but it just. This did not hit for me. Did it hit for you?

[Mike]

No, Tim, I agree with that. One is out of all the cinematics, I think if we were ranked them that would probably be near the bottom. This one didn't do much for me but I am a blood elf guy so I do want to learn more about them. I think the homes is really the big one for WoW players right now that you're really looking at. The excitement of like being able to build and craft your own home is going to be pretty special in the World Cruise Warcraft universe. But anytime there's a new update expansion, if you're a die hard World Warcraft fan, you will find that news outlet, those YouTubers that you love and you're gonna go get lost in it. Me and Andy will have our two weeks of paid subscription time paid up.

[Andy Cortez]

And we'll cancel it.

[Greg Miller]

Just two weeks, huh?

[Andy Cortez]

I hope I cancel my non time.

[Mike]

We'll play, we'll die, we'll laugh and we'll be happy to be back in but we're just. You got to be hardcore of the hardcore team him to dedicate and really be in this dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Being able to build a house in World of Warcraft could be very detrimental to me like because I, I've always just enjoyed the nostalgia of World of Warcraft and when we hopped in that one time during the perma death run, that was fun for the day that it lasted. But like again I, I love, I love building my houses in any sort of game possible. And if you can put that into the World of Warcraft to go out an adventure, then come back and go, oh, now I can build that little loft that I always wanted.

[Mike]

You know, I'm gonna hang this cool little head up here.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, exactly. Forest head, dragon head or something, you know. Yeah, it's always dragging his head, always dragon heads.

[Mike]

I'll be giving him money. I'll be back. Yeah, it's a, it's a guaranteed. Yeah, it's like clockwork.

[Andy Cortez]

You're betting on this. You put money on it.

[Mike]

So you know, I'll be giving them money.

[Tim Geddes]

We have Project Spectrum up next. Developed by Team Jade, it's a free to play asymmetric PvPve thriller tactical shooter coming to PC where players manage, customize and become a diverse cast of agents to explore mysterious reality, warped realm, confront deadly monstrosities and Hostile Agents didn't do.

[Mike]

Well navigating this trailer too well. But it gave Hunt Showdown vibes, which me and Andy recently really got into. And as we talk about this kind of kind of shooter landscape, the genre, you're always looking for something new or something that's trying something to build off of another game that you really love. And like I said, we were into Hunt Showdown. I would love to try another game kind of similar to that. And this is giving that kind of freaky deaky vibes, other teams possibly being around you. So yeah, we're going to try this for sure.

[Tim Geddes]

World of Tanks heat is next up. This shit's Wild Man. A new standalone free to play tactical vehicle shooter set in an alternate post World War II era.

[Andy Cortez]

Just wild Man.

[Tim Geddes]

You can, you can. Part of the press release. You can slide your tank into the menu. Dude, that was crazy.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

The whole, the whole time during the trailer, I was like, this looks like. This looks like World of Tanks, but the tanks are too fast. Like, this can't be a world of tanks.

[Tim Geddes]

I think you walked away for this, Andy, but it's like these tanks are drifting.

[Andy Cortez]

They're way faster now.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I was like, tanks don't go that fast. There's no way this is a world of tanks.

[Greg Miller]

I was wrong.

[Andy Cortez]

Faster now.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They added Heat to the title.

[Greg Miller]

10V10 battles.

[Mike]

I was just going to say a new standalone free to play tactical vehicle shooter set in the altar. Alternate post World War II era, but it's fast paced. 10v10 battles. Okay, I like that. I'll give it a try. Tim, write it down. I'll definitely force Nick to play it with me once, so be prepared for that. He needs a friend playing this.

[Tim Geddes]

Oh, God damn. Next up, we had Ghost. They announced Ghost legends come in 2026. It's free if you own the base game. Game 2 and 4 player co op missions. You get to fight giant versions of the the O6. Lots of new enemies, cosmetics and more to come.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Ooh, all four players is cool. Yeah, no, I'm. I'm shocked that this was here also. Man, I was so spot on until that ending of like, man, this trailer was not really going to do much.

[Greg Miller]

They came for you.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They came for me.

[Greg Miller]

They wouldn't blow you away. Blew you away.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

They heard. They were like, we're going to target Blessing with Ghost of Yote Legend. It coming in 2026 and being part of the main package is interesting to me.

[Mike]

I would.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I always speculated that this would be maybe a standalone thing as opposed to like a DLC drop for go see Ote. That might bode well. As far as maybe they saw how Legends did on Tsushima and we're like. And we're satisfied with it. And that's. If that's the case. I'm happy with that. And yeah, I'm down to play it this way. I'm just excited that it exists. I did not expect like this.

[Greg Miller]

The two player missions are going to be story missions. The four player missions will be survival matches. This time around. You'll play as one of the four character classes and try to defeat the thing where I talked about there with the hubby there.

[Mike]

I hope they keep the photo mode in it. Me and Washy had a really good time lining up photos with two people at the same time. It was really sick taking photos of him. No one's watching. Washy has the talent. That's why I. I called Peter Bob. But he has the talent of what you got to do. The issue was there's only one person can control roll all the things. So I'd have to watch Washy like change the contrast and stuff. And he's super smart with it. And I'm like, this is boring now. Like get it going.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, go fight. Let me take a photo.

[Tim Geddes]

Very, very cool. Then we had Resident evil requiem coming February 27th. We already knew that. This gives us a little bit of insight into the background of our protagonist here. And I'm all about it, man. This trailer did a lot for me. I. I feel like this. They. I. I'm a big fan of Resident Evil overall, but I feel like this is kind of the tone and direction that I had really hoped that they would go. And to see this compared to freaking Ethan Winters is dude, so nice.

[Andy Cortez]

That was the first thing I thought was like what a wild change and improvement from. You know. It just. It sounds super mean to say but like just not an enjoyable protagonist with or an enjoyable performance to like to. To feel a performance from the fear that this voice actors is emoting with. Like dude, this sounds awesome. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

100 agree.

[Mike]

I love how it flowed from the cinematic right into the gameplay. That was very cool.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. Very, very clean.

[Mike]

A nice little setup. Right. Because the last time we watched this they were talking about a bomb being dropped and she was like, ah, I got to go back. Right? Tim is where we were last at kind of.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah. I mean like. Because like, yeah, the. The bomb stuff with. They're referencing RE2.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Tim Geddes]

So this is like way, way, way in the the future of that.

[Mike]

But then she Was like my mom died there and I don't want to go back. Right.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I know.

[Mike]

I like that setup stuff.

[Tim Geddes]

Anyway, then we got Black Myth. I don't know how to pronounce it. They said.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I said. I said que and I got that wrong. I think it's Quay John.

[Andy Cortez]

I think either way cool.

[Tim Geddes]

They've started development. It's a single player arpg. Good for them.

[Andy Cortez]

One of those things that we saw Blackmouth Wukong for about six years it felt like we kept on seeing new trailers and then the next year there would be another one and go oh shit, there's more trailers at this other random conference happening somewhere. And it took a long time and I gotta assume that we're about five years away from whatever this is.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I hope he has a sword and not a stick dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Me too.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Give me a slashy slash. I don't want a little tappy tap.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe a big hammer or something but.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Oh, that'd be cool.

[Mike]

I don't want.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm sure we can look up this. This person.

[Andy Cortez]

Just thwacking a twig against was just not satisfying for me. All the abilities were amazing and I don't think there is a. I don't think there were a whole lot of games that could compete with Blackmouth Wukong. Production quality wise guys like quality of cutscenes and what the camera work is doing was some of the most mind blowing. In addition to secret bosses and secret areas that you didn't know existed unless you did this one small specific thing like it. It did a lot of awesome things. I just personally did not love the combat but I'm hoping this could maybe change that. And it looks amazing so far visually. But I gotta assume this is. Is. I got to assume this is in Engine but not maybe it's just cg. I can't. Couldn't quite tell from sitting back here with the lights kind of this. That one light right there.

[Tim Geddes]

I know dude. Every. Everything there's some life.

[Mike]

Oh my God.

[Tim Geddes]

The Resident Evil trailers played. I'm like ah.

[Mike]

Do you think it'll be really five.

[Andy Cortez]

Years though if they're saying that it's in development now? Like it took so long for Wukong to come back out and now it could be that hey, we made bank on that game. We are rich as hell. We hired 700 developers to come make this next one. In addition to. They also confirmed that they are still working on Wukong. You know content. Whether that's DLC or whatever. But yeah, I think it'll. I think it's maybe four or five years away.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Shangway is known traditionally as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings. I couldn't find anything about weaponry, but I did find a Reddit post.

[Tim Geddes]

Post.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

There is a Reddit post on R Smite where they say, what is Shanghai's weapon? They say, proton pack.

[Greg Miller]

Ghost trap.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Multiple people are saying, like, a paintbrush situation. One person says, mickey, a paintbrush that shoots some sort of energy.

[Andy Cortez]

So it better be a metal paintbrush.

[Tim Geddes]

We got a bunch of super chats I want to get to before we exit for the day. From Russell Loot. We got Kingdom Hearts 4. Here we come. Some of these are coming in before the showcase, so I'm sorry, bro. Bro.

[Greg Miller]

Now we get to just laugh at. You.

[Tim Geddes]

Are my. My hound writes in, says, you're right in. That's my real name here. Hell yeah. That's awesome. Big fan. Finally got a day off. First super chat and birthday tax. Can I get a shout out to my first born? Happy birthday, Koda. Elliot.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Tim Geddes]

Raiden and their son Koda. Awesome.

[Greg Miller]

C O D A K O D A K O, D S. Another child, Dante.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Koba from Planet of the Apes. What a movie.

[Tim Geddes]

What a movie, man.

[Greg Miller]

God.

[Tim Geddes]

We're getting Legends of Zelda. Come on, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Director.

[Tim Geddes]

Shrek. Squirt. Oh, think about it. Think about what they're talking about there. What? Squirty guy. Oh, my Lord.

[Mike]

Probably green.

[Tim Geddes]

Rumored Lego Batman 4 reveal today.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, you were on the money.

[Tim Geddes]

Congratulations. Richie just says let's go. Resolute says, are we getting a mixtape release date? Unfortunately, Logan Mcon says, Mike, I have 100 hours in Umamu Sumi. Never played a gotcha game before.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, that's what it did to people. The horse game was special.

[Greg Miller]

That's what it did to people.

[Tim Geddes]

I want it so clear.

[Mike]

I'm telling you, this is one of those things.

[Tim Geddes]

I. I don't want answers. Every time I've heard y' all joke or talk or whatever. The amount of horse racing. Horse girl.

[Andy Cortez]

You buy young women. You make them race.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, you don't buy that.

[Tim Geddes]

Them.

[Mike]

They come to the academy.

[Tim Geddes]

You're the.

[Mike]

You're the instructor. You're the instructor. They come to the academy. You help them be the best. You're not buying young.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me see your. Your purchase history on.

[Mike]

We all know what's happening.

[Tim Geddes]

Resolute super chats again. Saying, oh, no. Kingdom Hearts with a sad face. Roma Mara says, thought the show was fine, but I'm bummed they didn't reveal anything on Martin Marvel 1943. Do you think they show something at Game Awards 2025, man, I just don't.

[Andy Cortez]

Know what's happening with that video game. So Namey had a game. That's what.

[Tim Geddes]

Yeah, I mean, I also wouldn't have.

[Andy Cortez]

Ever expected that level of game to be at the Gamescom.

[Tim Geddes]

That game was out of gdc, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's my thing. It's Skydance. I could actually see them doing that.

[Tim Geddes]

Resolute says, shock. There wasn't anything. Borderlands 4.

[Greg Miller]

That is interesting. You're this close. You'd expect them to have Randy pop up with them.

[Tim Geddes]

Alvaro says, what do you think, Randy Pitch?

[Greg Miller]

Don't get me started.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Yuck.

[Tim Geddes]

I'm all wrote in with more stuff about ghosts that we already talked about. Benderson says, are we surprised at no Ace Combat 8? Or as Tim likes to say, no Star Scream 8? Yeah, not surprised. I. I did think I was going to get that prediction correct, but, you know, not this time. But guess what?

[Greg Miller]

What?

[Tim Geddes]

Next time there's a wide show to predict, I'm gonna predict Ace Combat. I'll get it right one day. Everybody. Geralda Rivia says, when I was at college, someone had their car. Nope.

[Mike]

You.

[Tim Geddes]

That's. That's what we do here. I. I promise you I'll never say that man's name correctly because I don't care. I don't care about his dumbass white hair. When I was at college, someone had their car wrapped look exactly like Lightning McQueen. That's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

That is awesome. Awesome.

[Tim Geddes]

Then Resolute says it's just a transit remake from Black Ops 2 from 2012.

[Mike]

Transits the map. There's some transit vibes.

[Tim Geddes]

Rans Cox says, Greg, since you're four chapters in, are you going to keep going if you got the time?

[Greg Miller]

It'll end up like all the other books on my shelf where I have the best intentions to do that. But when will I have the time again? Yeah, I gotta be playing games.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I gotta get audio list, you know, audiobooks.

[Greg Miller]

No audio books. I drift. I can't do it.

[Tim Geddes]

Really.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

I'm the same way. I listen to so many podcasts.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I love audiobooks.

[Mike]

I once did the Game of Thrones audiobooks and the guy changed his voice every single character. It was one of the best times ever. 36 hours of that.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

Loved it.

[Andy Cortez]

I listened to a. An audio book that was in 200 made in 2012, I believe. And the person narrating also changed the voices and likely didn't age very Good because this white guy started doing Japanese accents. Just didn't work out with this didn't age great. Know it's a different time 2012.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

We're thinking about different things. Think about Cony.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Tim Geddes]

Me, my brother and Kevin watched the 1990 Ninja Turtle movie in theaters over the weekend for the 35th anniversary. Incredible. It was so good. Some of the stuff in that movie, not much, but some of it is like, oh no. Why would you do that? Everyone, thanks for hanging out with us today for this Gamescom live reaction and breakdown. We will be back tomorrow with a whole bunch of cool stuff. Stay tuned for what the schedule is going to be. I think we're going to make a couple changes because based on some stuff that's been happening but I can guarantee you it'll be a fun, awesome day full of content. We got a lot of good game stuff for you. That's all I can say right now. But you're gonna want to tune in tomorrow.

[Greg Miller]

Embargos.

[Tim Geddes]

Void Breaker.

[Andy Cortez]

Void Breaker's the game. Don't forget it. Void Breaker. It's out now.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

No Michael Ironside.

[Tim Geddes]

No Michael Ironside.

[Andy Cortez]

He just went to Munich.

[Tim Geddes]

He just went to Munich.

[Blessing Adioa Jr.]

He just wanted to go to Munich.

[Greg Miller]

How dare he.

[Tim Geddes]

That's crazy. Love, y'. All. Goodbye.