PlayStation State of Play Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Podcast Summary: PlayStation State of Play Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast (May 29, 2026)

Episode Overview

The Kinda Funny Gamescast crew—Tim Gettys (host), Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, and SnowBikeMike—gather to share and debate their predictions for the upcoming PlayStation State of Play. With a showcase on the horizon promising major first- and third-party announcements (including the much-anticipated Wolverine), the hosts make their best educated guesses about what PlayStation fans will see, what surprises might drop, and what strategies Sony will employ heading into Summer Game Fest and beyond.

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Key Discussion Points & Predictions

Setting the Stage

• The hosts are in a buoyant mood, excited about the full week of gaming news ahead: PlayStation’s State of Play, followed closely by Summer Game Fest, Xbox, and possible Nintendo news.
• State of Play is confirmed to be over an hour long, featuring Wolverine and potentially much more ([01:28]).

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Major PlayStation Studios & Big Announcements

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

• Andy’s prediction: Gameplay shown (actual in-game, not cinematic), featuring Kumail Nanjiani's character; Dated for 2027 (likely to be delayed) ([03:27]).
• Greg is skeptical: Argues it's too early; PlayStation will focus on nearer-term releases, not far future titles ([04:19]).
  • “PlayStation needs to come out at this state of play and not be talking about the far flung future... I think Intergalactic [is] still so far away” – Greg [04:37]
• Blessing & Mike believe: They think it could appear, noting Sony won't let the rest of the year pass without mentioning it ([11:46]).
• Team consensus: Split; Andy and Blessing say yes, Greg and Mike are doubtful.

Cory Barlog’s "Freya" (God of War Spin-off)

• Greg’s prediction: Trailer & gameplay for the Valkyrie-focused game starring Deborah Ann Woll; magic/melee-heavy, possibly Hades-influenced third-person action (“melee with magic” – Tim [07:06]; “Hades style in third person” – Andy [07:16]).
• Naming Debate: Tim feels “God of War” will be in the title; Blessing is 50/50 ([08:28]).
• Implication: Not necessarily Kratos-centric; aimed to feel like a new IP but tied to the God of War universe ([08:42], [09:00]).

Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 ("Return")

• Mike’s prediction: The next chapter will be shown, likely “Final Fantasy 7 Return”. Debate on exclusivity:
  • Tim: “I believe it’s going to be multiplatform. I believe that the PlayStation exclusivity is done.” ([13:26])
  • Most others: Expect a year-long PlayStation exclusivity ([15:18])
• Emotion: Mike, now a big FFVII fan, is deeply excited to see the next part ([16:00]).
• Release Timing: No date predicted, but anticipation for announcement ([15:02]).

Media Molecule’s Next Game

• Blessing’s prediction: Media Molecule will reveal a new, whimsical survival crafting game (possibly LEGO Fortnite-esque); targeted for 2027. Not Sackboy-related ([16:48]).

Team Asobi / Astrobot

• Tim’s prediction: Next Astro Bot game revealed; possibly Astro Bot 2, a full 3D platformer. Blessing argues it's too soon, proposes a potential side project instead ([18:54]).
  • “Making 3D platformers a thing. I think it’ll be a 3D platformer Astro Bot...” – Tim [19:53]
• Dream scenario: Incorporate Astro Bot into various PlayStation worlds (“He’s now... rather than having the references to everybody... it’s one level based on whatever it is in Metal Gear or whatever” – Greg [20:51]).

God of War Trilogy Remake

• Andy’s spicy prediction: A God of War trilogy remake snippet is shown—remake in line with current third-person action format ([22:39]). Others are skeptical; think it's too early given recent development confirmation ([24:14]).

Monster Hunter Wilds Expansion

• Greg’s prediction: Trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds expansion, new biome revealed, release in Spring 2027 ([25:22]).
  • “I want three heads on something. Give me... a Cerberus” – Greg, on potential monster concepts [26:46]

Silent Hill 1 Remake

• Mike’s prediction: Silent Hill remake teased at the show, likely by Bloober Team. General agreement it’s about time ([28:01]).

Infamous Remastered Collection

• Blessing’s bold call: Infamous 1 & 2 “remake” (or “light remake”) collection, released this Fall 2026. Skepticism from the team—possibly too early in development ([32:42]).

Kena: Scars of Kazmar

• Tim’s prediction: Release date announced (either September 2026 or January 2027), with a full release trailer during State of Play ([35:56]).
• Greg challenges: Offers a pizza bet with Tim, doubting the game will launch in the next year ([38:07]).

Phantom Blade Zero

• Andy’s prediction: New trailer with “Play the demo now!” drop. Trend towards more demos for action games at showcases ([41:11]).

Wolverine (Insomniac)

• Greg’s prediction: Full gameplay reveal, skill trees, possible X-Men cameo, with the release date moved up to September 1, 2026 ([43:00]).
  • “I think we had an X Men cameo... some one liner from Wolverine... the date gets cut in half and it goes to September 1st.” – Greg [43:33]

Gran Turismo 8

• Mike’s prediction: Teased or shown; possible open-world “World Tour” variant to counter Forza Horizon’s success ([45:07]).

PlayStation’s Online/Service Games

• Blessing’s “Trilogy of Weird PlayStation Decisions”:
  1. Foamstars/For Loop gets an imminent release date (within two weeks) ([49:03]).
  2. Fairgame$ (now called Break In) re-revealed, likely as a PlayStation Plus/free-to-play title ([50:23]).
  3. Marvel Token Fighting Souls: Trailer shows a PlayStation exclusive fighter, possibly Aloy from Horizon as a surprise character ([51:25]).
• Greg’s input: Suggests Break In will relaunch with PlayStation Plus integration ([50:38]).

Stray 2

• Tim’s prediction: Blue Twelve Studio announces Stray 2, following their silence and success of the first game ([53:13]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “PlayStation needs to come out at this state of play and not be talking about the far flung future” – Greg [04:37]
• “Making 3D platformers a thing. I think it’ll be a 3D platformer Astro Bot...” – Tim [19:53]
• “I think it’s got to be bam. Right. PlayStation Plus or free to play.” – Greg on relaunching Break In ([51:02])
• “I believe it’s going to be multiplatform. I believe that the PlayStation exclusivity is done.” – Tim on FFVII Remake Part 3 ([13:26])
• “I think they do it... the date gets cut in half and I think it’s moved up two weeks and I think it goes to September 1st.” – Greg on Wolverine's launch date ([43:37])

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Additional Side Topics & Rapid-Fire Fun/Speculation

• Uncharted by Bend?: No concrete predictions; skepticism that Bend could take on Uncharted reliably ([57:16]).
• PSVR2 Support: Little hope for pure VR announcements; maybe mode add-ons at most ([64:07]).
• Dragon Quest/Capcom/Bigger JRPGs: Potential for small news—Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary bundle or update ([59:00]).
• Stellar Blade 2 and other wishful DLCs: Mentioned as possible, with “out now” shadow-drops for Sorrows/Stellar Blade 2 ([55:09]).

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Wrap-Up & Community “Points”

• Everyone grades their expectations: 8.5/10 and higher predicted for overall show quality ([61:28]).
• Amusing segment about passing along a fan’s Skies of Arcadia remake plea to a Sega exec—response: "passed it along, but that doesn’t mean anything” ([60:06]).

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Timestamps for Major Predictions

• [02:57] – Andy: Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet gameplay prediction
• [04:19-06:57] – Greg: Why Intergalactic won’t be shown (counter-argument)
• [06:57-09:16] – God of War/Freya game details
• [13:13-14:34] – Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 title & exclusivity debate
• [16:36-18:19] – Media Molecule’s new game, style, and timing
• [18:22-21:33] – Astrobot sequel debate, platformer dreams
• [22:04-24:14] – Andy: God of War Trilogy Remake
• [25:22-26:27] – Monster Hunter Wilds expansion trailer
• [28:01-29:05] – Silent Hill 1 Remake
• [32:42-34:14] – Infamous Remake/Remaster hopes
• [35:56-38:32] – Kena: Scars of Kazmar release/bet
• [41:11-42:30] – Phantom Blade Zero demo drop prediction
• [43:00-44:43] – Wolverine release date moved up, gameplay prediction
• [45:07-47:36] – Gran Turismo 8 or open world variant
• [49:03-51:36] – Blessing’s weird PlayStation decisions: For Loop, Break In, Marvel Token
• [53:13-54:00] – Tim: Stray 2 prediction

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Closing Thoughts & Ratings

• Expected Showcase Score: Most expect a very strong showing (8.5–9.5/10) ([61:28]).
• Advice: Watch for surprises, but PlayStation may focus on already-teased titles and timely third-party partnerships.
• Final Reminder: More predictions to come for Summer Game Fest, with even broader multiplatform potential.

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This summary covers all the key moments, predictions, and debates—with personality, detail, and the signature energy of the Kinda Funny crew. If you missed the episode, you’re fully up to speed (ads, intros, and outros omitted)!

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Mike]

What's up?

[Tim Gettys]

And welcome back to the kind of funny gamescast for Friday, May 29, 2026. Of course I am your horse, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Blessing out of Yoye junior.

[Blessing]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Snow Bike Mike. Good day. Hey, Snow Mike. Mike.

[Mike]

What up homie? Great to hear your voice, Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

I love bareback riding. You Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah. Greg. God damn. And congratulations. Shout out to our boy Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Game Game seven tomorrow.

[Tim Gettys]

They're doing it everybody. Game seven tomorrow. How you feeling?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm nervous as all. Yeah, just constantly nerves.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a game of runs. Tim M is a game of runs. Mike knows this.

[Mike]

It's all about momentum.

[Tim Gettys]

The run coming out soon. The run this weekend.

[Andy Cortez]

A 15 point lead is never safe. I do wish the rest of the series had been more entertaining. First game was the closest game ever G. Everything else has been a blowout. So it's like, you know, hopefully the game saves a blowout as well. Go Spurs.

[Tim Gettys]

Go spurs everybody. If you're watching live, you can be part of this show by super chatting on YouTube.com kind of funny games. And I want to give a shout out to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining. But for now let's be in with the topic of the show. PlayStation is doing a state of play next week. Week we of course will be live reacting to it. We of course will be breaking down everything we saw after that in the gamescast. But right now we need to predict what we think we will see at this showcase. Of course for context, this is just the PlayStation showcase. Days after that we will get the summer Game Fest showcase hosted by Keely. That will have multiplatform and all that stuff going on. We'll get Xbox to showcase, maybe a Nintendo thing at some point. A bunch of other things in between. But PlayStation kind of kicking off with.

[Greg Miller]

When are we predicting the SGF showcase

[Tim Gettys]

that would be on? Monday.

[Greg Miller]

That's right, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Monday.

[Greg Miller]

That's my horse. Give him a carrot.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you very much. But yeah, very excited for all of this stuff. What a time to be alive. Summer Game Fest, always a very exciting week. PlayStation State of Play is always very exciting. This one Promising over an hour of announcements and contents. Promising Wolverine to be shown once again. Who knows what else is going to happen? Maybe we do. So let's try to predict. Each one of us has brought three predictions to the table. I want to start with Andy Cortez. And we're going to go back to me. And around and around we go, Andy, around the table. What is your first prediction for the PlayStation State of Play happening next week?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, there's a lot of things written down here, Tim. Lot of possibilities out there, Tim.

[Greg Miller]

For the record, he's just looking at his own slack. And then there's just a black part of the screen. He keeps shrinking his own slack. I don't know what he's doing.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I don't want you to look at my predictions. I want you. You know, I do have a couple, like, screenshots of James Bond that I was saying.

[Greg Miller]

I saw that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

For the record, my eyesight so bad. I assure you there's no way I could even.

[Andy Cortez]

Good video game, my God.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

No, but I did, Tim. I did that thing you told me about.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, man.

[Blessing]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

We okay a lot of stuff out there, everybody, but I think we see gameplay as gameplay, not just cinematic stuff. Intergalactic Heretic profit snippets of gameplay we will see in game Kumail. We will see him fully rendered. I don't know if he's got a shirt off or not. I don't know if Kumail Nanjiani is like, actually, you know, showing off the pecs and the abs, but we will see in game Kumail and it will be dated 2027. And then a future prediction that I'll get tip of the hat in two years from now. It'll. It'll eventually get delayed to 2028. Like, but that's not going to, you know, happen. It's neither here nor there.

[Tim Gettys]

I like you out the gate jumping into intergalactic boys. How do we feel about this?

[Greg Miller]

I'm willing to make the pizza bet right now that Intergalactic the heretic prophet isn't even at this state of play.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

Get spicy, Mike.

[Mike]

Let's get spicy, Greg. Why would you say that? That is number two on the Sony roster of things that we know about.

[Greg Miller]

I would predict that PlayStation needs to come out at this state of play and not be talking about the far flung future. I think they need to show you they have more games ready to go right now. Both third party partnerships, slash second party and first party. I just don't think I think Intergalactic still so far away that Neil and team is like, we will not be talking about that until we are ready to say something.

[Blessing]

You think it's far away as in past 2027?

[Greg Miller]

Yes, I think 20.

[Blessing]

You don't think they even think 2027?

[Greg Miller]

I think that they are realistic about how. Where they're at with it and they look at that game and understand with we're not. We're not there. And Even if it's 2027, I think more. Well, not far flung. Back half 2027. Front half of 2027, we can say, right? I think even if they thought it was back half of 2027, I still

[Blessing]

think they're going to say PlayStation CEO and Neil Druckmann's like, yeah, we're. I don't know. Well, probably at least 2028 before we put out this game.

[Andy Cortez]

Stop this.

[Blessing]

I'm taking. I'm whipping off my belt and I'm like, neil, come here.

[Greg Miller]

Neil's picking up a shoe and saying, why'd you let us go on that live service game for so long? Why'd you let us go on that live service? We wasted years of time and energy. The last game was, you know what's going to happen. Door gets kicked in. Cory Barlog walks in and goes, I got this state of play. I'm saving this state of play. Let's talk about this Freya game. And that's what you got. You don't need intergalactic when you got Deborah and Wolf ready to roll in w

[Andy Cortez]

Wool. It's Faye and it's Wool.

[Greg Miller]

I nailed it. I was on a roll. Let me go. Let me go. I was on a fucking roll.

[Andy Cortez]

So that's your prediction?

[Tim Gettys]

That's my prediction. I want more. I want more than that, though. I feel like that's too easy a prediction. I feel like we need to put. Give me. Give me some detail.

[Greg Miller]

I think you get a really great trailer and you get really a game, get great gameplay. I think it's all together. I don't think we're getting two things, but I think you have a. You have the Deborah Wool. Sorry, everybody. Wolf got.

[Blessing]

Put some respect.

[Greg Miller]

What did I. Wait, what did I say?

[Blessing]

Wolf. Wolf.

[Greg Miller]

What's her name?

[Andy Cortez]

Deborah and Wool.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I just said Wool. The second time was a Wool. I was Deborah Wool.

[Blessing]

Our boss is gaslighting.

[Greg Miller]

Listen, I might be in the middle of a stroke, all right? We don't know Deborah here. You know what, Debbie? We're to call her Daw Daw Daw. Daw's going to be out there. She's going to be doing a cool voiceover on a trailer. You'll see a lot of like, quick cuts and shit. And then there'll be a section where boom, it is her doing the Valkyrie kind of fucking giant gameplay or whatever she's going to be doing.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, yeah.

[Mike]

What's.

[Andy Cortez]

What, what do you think her gameplay looks like? Because obviously, yeah, super fast.

[Blessing]

Some melee.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's lots of magic.

[Blessing]

Melee with magic.

[Greg Miller]

Yep. And I think it's ranged magic from the back. You know, you have a little dagger, you're getting up close, but I think you're gonna love it. Could be a lot of dashes, a lot of par.

[Blessing]

I think it's gonna be third person action. Hades.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a great.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it gonna so. So like kind of control, like, will she be flying doing or maybe like getting it, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Will there be her levitating somebody off the ground to like, probably.

[Blessing]

I don't know her powers, but maybe neither do I.

[Andy Cortez]

But like, the fact that we're even thinking that it could be a magic first kit, it makes me.

[Tim Gettys]

Because the rumors are magic first kit and multiple mythologies, Right. So you combine those ideas and it's like, all right, I can imagine a lot of. Now you just brought something in that I'm like, I just got chills again thinking about what you just said, Hades style in third person, like.

[Blessing]

Because that's what I think of, like, think about, man. Think about a few things, right? Think about the rumors and how they've talked about the game, the fast action, different mythologies on all this stuff. And then also think about God of War, Valhalla.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And what the structure of that game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, man, you're.

[Blessing]

Think about what you can do with the multiple mythologies and maybe building that into like, what you fight. Jesus. Yeah, well, that's this mythology, man.

[Mike]

Now.

[Tim Gettys]

So here's the thing. Me and you went back and forth and this is Greg's prediction, but I'm just adding some more shit here on Games Daily. We were talking about what this game's going to be titled and we were arguing over will it include the words God of War in the title? And I am putting my foot down. Yes, I agree. Yeah, 100%.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe it's, you know, I want it

[Blessing]

to not be called God of war, but I'm 50, 50 on it.

[Greg Miller]

Prey is torment, but it'll be a God of war adventure.

[Andy Cortez]

What if it's Gods of War, Adonis?

[Tim Gettys]

I Still count. Yeah.

[Roger]

I think back a lot to Shrier's reporting where it's an old IP that is going to be made to feel like a new IP or presented like it's a new thing. That's why, like, I think. I don't think we get a God of War title, especially because I think that evokes Kratos. And I don't know if Kratos is going to be a focus in this game at all.

[Blessing]

I agree with that. I think the most you get is an original title and then under it, like a God of War. Yeah, something.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

But like, you know, very small.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's God of War. Colon is a baddie.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think it's that dark Pictures anthology God.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Blessing]

Okay, can I go back to Andy's thing for a second? Because both of these. I had both of these in my predictions. One of the things I wanted to say about the intergalactic trailer in my prediction, but I'll. We can have a conversation.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Please.

[Blessing]

Is I think this trailer is going to take place way more on the planet that it takes place on. And we're not going to have any like spaceship exploration stuff because I think this game is going to take place on just that planet. I remember reading the synopsis or not the synopsis, the PlayStation Blog earlier on and it sounds like that game is on whatever planet she crash lands on. So I think we're going to get way more of that and we're going to get way more of the melee gameplay. And I think we will say the words control resident when we're describing.

[Tim Gettys]

You're wrong. I want to drive the space Porsche.

[Blessing]

I don't think you'll get to drive the Space Force.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean, I think there could be flashbacks because her crew is so much of like the core of this story, you know, Kumail. And I'm blanking on his name. The guy who played Lalo Salamanca Barrett. Blanking on the actor's name. But he's amazing. He's amazing. I could picture some flashbacks too. Like maybe their old space faring days or whatever.

[Roger]

Tony Dalton.

[Andy Cortez]

Tony Dalton. Thank you so much. But I would love if. I mean, there's just nothing that quite hits as hard as that 2014 God of War trailer. And if there was some. Was it 2014, the E3 1, 18, 8? No, but like.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, when it first came out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Was it 2016? Maybe it was 2016. I was a rooster teeth when they. I would love like a. You know, she's in the cave. She's kind of like, prepping some, and then it's like, you know, the camera's kind of on her and she's like, kind of prepping to go out. And then it's like, here we go. Now you're out into the.

[Blessing]

I. I think me and you are going to. And probably all of us here are going to pop off because it's going to be that. But then as we get into gameplay, we're going to look at it and we're going to go, oh, this is Dark Souls. Yeah, this is Elden Ring.

[Andy Cortez]

This is a.

[Blessing]

Like, Neil has been playing a lot of Fromsoft and then made this game.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope not personally,

[Greg Miller]

I was for you. Where'd you come down on, like, the Jedi? Fallen Order and stuff? Did you like that?

[Tim Gettys]

Fine. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Mike]

I love that close to that. Right. I would say it's more along.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think it's gonna be dark.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that's my thing is, like, clearly. I guess the thing that I like least is the. How straightforward the stories are for Star wars compared to an Elden Ring. And I imagine Intergalactic will be much more.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I don't think. I don't think it'll be the Elden

[Tim Gettys]

Ring story, but, yeah, I. I don't expect we'll see it tomorrow, but I don't think that it's a hard. No, I. I would be pleasantly surprised. Yeah.

[Mike]

Can we get a quick raise of hands? Who thinks that we'll see Intergalactic on next week? So we got Andy and Bless here. Yeah, I have that written down in my notes. You know, I. It's an interesting one, Greg, really coming out the gate saying, no, we won't. It's got me kind of like, oh,

[Greg Miller]

interesting, Greg, you got to be spicy out here.

[Mike]

All right, I'll go with. I think we see it. I'll go with the. I'll go with the two youngsters over here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think I'm like 70, 30.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Where I'm like 70. I don't think we see it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think if we don't see

[Blessing]

it, then we'll see it. Maybe September. Like, I. I think they view it as a 20, 27 game. I don't think you. I don't think you'd go the rest of the year without talking about.

[Tim Gettys]

I agree with you there.

[Blessing]

I guess game awards exist.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say I want to do game War or something.

[Mike]

Yeah. Mike, we got Intergalactic and God of War now. Talked About. I got some fun ones. I got some pretty by the book ones, Tim. But I'm going to go with one that will get you up and excited here. Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 will be shown here at the PlayStation State of Play. We've had a long lifespan now of the remakes with Sony in particular. It is time to show this off. We've had of course the director Hamaguchi talk about playing the game. What blessing you and I read 40 times during games Daily. And so yeah, I think it is. We've talked about it a lot here of hey, we're excited. We're going to show it. It's time. I do think we show it at PlayStation State of Play. We'll probably get a more another look at Jeff's thing. But I think you will start here at PlayStation State of Play with Final Fantasy.

[Andy Cortez]

Stop the bullshit. Mike. All we need to know from you right now. What the fuck is the word called at the end of this title?

[Tim Gettys]

I know the answer. We've been saying the answer.

[Mike]

What do you got, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

Return. It's gonna be returned. I mean that like that's all signs point to that right now. And it's like I would be very surprised if it's not. I think we're getting it this week or next week when you know, I'm talking about Summer Game Fest week. I just. I'm 50. I'm not 50. 50. I think it's going to be at Summer Game fest, not at PlayStation. You had Jeff and you saying that it might be at both. Wouldn't be surprised. They. They have done that. These games have been announced. Well actually that's not even true. They haven't all been announced at PlayStation events. Like the Rebirth was announced at a Final Fantasy 7 anniversary event. So I, I believe it's going to be multiplatform. I believe that the PlayStation exclusivity is done. So I do. Wow, Tim. And we'll find out next week if that's true.

[Andy Cortez]

Good call.

[Tim Gettys]

But I think it's done and there's a lot of evidence to that. Mainly just like how long it's been since the development of all this first started. We never got the details of was the full trilogy exclusive or was it one off every time as they're figuring it out and them now being by the time these events are happening, Rebirth will be out on Xbox and Nintendo Switch too.

[Mike]

Yes, that is correct.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's like. And with all that Hamaguchi's been saying about wanting players to be able to be prepared for the final chapter. Clearly Square wants it to be multi platform. Was there a prior deal in place that means that can't be the case. That is the X factor question to me. But even if it is multiplatform, that doesn't prohibit it from being at state of play and then followed up with at Summer Game Fest. But my gut says it's Summer Game Fest.

[Mike]

Rest the table.

[Andy Cortez]

Do we think it'll be a day and date on PC and everything else or even just PC?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it'll be day and night everywhere when it comes out.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's PlayStation.

[Tim Gettys]

Unless it's. Unless there's a pre existing deal.

[Mike]

Yeah. I'm expecting this is going to be a year delay for everybody else. I do think that we will still see the exclusivity.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope not.

[Greg Miller]

I agree with Mike.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I agree with Mike as well. I think the exclusivity probably helps them get it out quicker as well. And then you can put out the other, other SKUs in a year.

[Andy Cortez]

They've also been like really nailing down development on UE4 and still using the older versions of Unreal Engine. And I think they're like, they're singing with their development. It all just depends on like I don't. I don't really see the tech part as a. A roadblock. I'm really pumped that they're kind of. They're in rhythm right now, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep.

[Mike]

But on the positive side, I'm so pumped to see this, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Mike]

Like this journey that I've gone on and sharing it with Andy here on the second part of like this has been amazing as a Final Fantasy first timer. To go through this and to have the remake and the combat system, the incredible graphics, the story, the music. Like I am all in on Final Fantasy and I never thought I would say that like now playing 10 too as well. It's like I'm.

[Blessing]

I'm in on this.

[Mike]

I. I want to be in this universe and I need this game as soon as possible. I need more content. I need to see it. I want to. I want to believe. I want to be all part of it

[Tim Gettys]

and just give some secrets as nd of secrets I want to go to. Bless. Bless. What's your next one?

[Blessing]

Okay, first one, you guys took the exciting ones because I was gonna either do intergalactic or Corey Barlocks thing. So let's talk about Media Molecule. What are they doing? What's going on?

[Mike]

2019. Blessed.

[Blessing]

It's been a long time for Dreams for dreams. Dreams is like 2020.

[Mike]

I looked it up, it said 2019.

[Blessing]

I worked here during Dreams. I remember that. I think we get a reveal of their next game. I think it is a survival crafting game as we've talked about before. I think it's the survival crafting game, an open world one. I think the energy, the vibe, the, the style of it is way more whimsical for survival crafting. Maybe something like LEGO Fortnite, but obviously not with the LEGO license.

[Andy Cortez]

That's exciting.

[Blessing]

And I think it drops 2027.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of 2027 on the horizons. Like speaking of horizons. Exactly. I mean that gets me stoked. I would love to see when you see their level of creativity, what do you.

[Greg Miller]

Do you have a vision for what you think it's going to look like? Look like? Is it going to be kind of that crunchy dreams impy feel which kind of had like the fluffy edges? Is it going to be more Sack Boy? Is it going to completely different?

[Blessing]

I mean, I think we'll look at it and go, okay, that looks like a Media Molecule thing, but I don't think it'll look like Sackboy or Dreams. I think it'll be. Or terrible. I think it's gonna have like an original sort of style to it, but something that feels very Media Molecule, if that makes sense.

[Mike]

Jack Boy's grand home and it's just viva pinata slash animal crossing. You know, something like that.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think it'll be sackwork attached?

[Blessing]

No, I think it'll be a new ip. There have been reports. Well, not. But there was a. Some from an interview where a guy was like, and There's a new IP, right.

[Greg Miller]

I think there's a new LinkedIn.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I guess I'm going to stick with the let's talk about the heavy hitter PlayStation developers here places and studios team of Sobey

[Blessing]

wore the shirt.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's. It's time, you know, doesn't need to be time, but I think that this is as early as time can be for them.

[Mike]

2024.

[Tim Gettys]

Correct. Yeah.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

But they put things out very quickly. Right. Like think about that game being announced to being released. Think about them working on Astro's playroom.

[Mike]

Like Blessing and Roger when they went, they said the team is lean and mean and they, they know what they want to do. They're focused. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So I, I can see them putting something out. Will it be Astrobot 2 though? That is my bigger question. And I say yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

I do. Maybe not called that, but it will be the followup to this, I think.

[Blessing]

No shot.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I. I just don't know if that's even the right move. You know what I mean? Put out an Astrobot 2. Only a couple years after Astrobot 1. Astrobot 2 strikes me as something that you put out maybe either towards the end of the generation or early on in the next console. You know, I don't think we need to overdo Astrobot. I think they're probably working on something very small, something that works as a side project for them.

[Tim Gettys]

I agree with what you're saying. Personally, I just feel like there's too much left on the table for them, like from PlayStation, looking at all of this, like, I think that they're going to want to make Astro Bot a thing and not just like a thing that, oh, you can be a kart racer and you can be this. He can be that. Like making 3D platformers a thing. I think it'll be a 3D platformer. Astro Bot that.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

That maybe is a smaller thing than this, but, like, I don't think it's going to be small. Like, I think that it'll be looked at as like a full game.

[Blessing]

What's left on the table for them to do right now? Like, for. If you're making an Astrobot, do we just get more PlayStation mascots? Like, do we get. I think for me, it's hard to think of how you immediately directly followed up. I guess you could just get more PlayStation characters and be like, all right, we didn't include this person, so now you can find them on the PS6.

[Greg Miller]

I think, honestly, I think the way to do it right would be to stop putting other games into Astrobot and start putting Astrobot in other games. I think it is that he gets sucked into the PlayStation that is his whatever. You know what I mean? He's sucked into the psn. And so it is. He's now, rather than having the references to everybody in the play, whatever, we're in The Final Fantasy 7 Badger game. Midgard.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Where he's getting.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it's.

[Greg Miller]

It's, you know, it's one level based on whatever it is in Metal Gear or whatever. And this thing, if we had a

[Andy Cortez]

virus, has infected a PS1. He's got to go into Spyro, he's got to go into Crab.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, and that's a great way to do it.

[Blessing]

Like, yeah, I think that was like the original dream we had before they announced Astrobot. And even when we. What we got, we were like, dude, thank God we even got this right. But yeah, if we got a full game that was filled of the Ape Escape level, the local Roku level, like that would be. So that would be. Like, that would be the dream for what an Astrobot game could be.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Day's gone.

[Tim Gettys]

I see it as Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 situation. There's more ideas there. There was more post it notes there.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Like it won game of the year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, do you think it's too soon?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I. For what Bless is saying, again, I agree with him of like, yeah, it is. But also, what does that even mean? Like, this game will sell well and be critically well received and people are gonna love it. And it. I believe that they can get it done in this time frame. So the only thing holding me back is they did all those Speedrun levels, but I just have so much faith in them that I think that they have been doing that and working on another game and I think it's a real game. Well, let's get to Andy's second prediction.

[Andy Cortez]

Man, so many things written down, Tim. Did my homework, studied up. Read the books.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna say also, but shout out to Andy, who did lean over to me in the middle. Don't look at my notes, I'll break your goddamn head wide open. Who did the lean over to me goes, anybody? Is anybody writing this down? And I was like, no. And he started doing it and he's taking notes on the.

[Andy Cortez]

So we know. So we know, you know, who's right or wrong or whatever. I. Because part of me doesn't feel like God of War, you know, Fader.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember Wolf of the Dog?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know. Something like that. Because I don't think that that will show up here. I think it will be the God of War trilogy remake where we. Early on.

[Greg Miller]

We're that far in there, that good with it.

[Andy Cortez]

I think we'll see a glimpse of the gameplay, especially when the original voice actor said, and you'll hear about it, you know, later or soon or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Wasn't it not soon though?

[Mike]

It felt like he was saying like, we're gonna.

[Tim Gettys]

We're just starting on this.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, let him burn his prediction.

[Blessing]

I thought.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought he meant like, and we'll. We'll hear about that soon or whatever. Because I thought it was even weird to even make that announcement there or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Barrett, can you.

[Roger]

I'm looking for like a little direct.

[Tim Gettys]

The difference between we'll hear about that soon. Yeah, about that later. Are different things.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, well, that's what. Yeah, that's why, you know, whenever we talk about the predictions, it's like at. You'll have like the Xbox thing and then they'll go and we'll hear about that at the whatever showcase. I. To me, it felt like later in the year sometime we will hear about more of it. We will get a glimpse of it, and I think it'll be third person action. I think it'll look just like the God of war that we are used to currently. The modern day God of war. Who's Greg? Who's Mike talking to?

[Mike]

I'm letting the chat know I see him over there.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's interesting, Andy, because, yeah, I very much took it as like, hey, we're starting this now. You're not going to see me for a while. But yeah, I'm bringing the hype at this moment because we're gonna hit you with Sons of Sparta. Yeah, I know you thought you were gonna see Corey's game, but, like, hey, we got something cool cooking. So, like, get hype, but I'm not gonna come back here for about a year and a half. That's how I took that.

[Greg Miller]

That was mine as well. I thought that was very much like, we understand you want this. And we underestimated you wanting this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Roger]

The trilogy remake is now in development.

[Tim Gettys]

Play it out. Let's hear this

[Greg Miller]

from the top.

[Tim Gettys]

Trilogy remake is now in development. Yeah, man, I know, I know, I know.

[Greg Miller]

Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down.

[Tim Gettys]

Now, look, this project is still in

[Andy Cortez]

the early stages, okay?

[Tim Gettys]

So it'll be a minute before we get back to share another update. Right, But I'm telling you, I'm telling you, next time we come back, we coming with something big, baby. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

God, I love him. He's so good.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it's been a couple minutes.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll stick with it. I'm gonna stick with it.

[Tim Gettys]

It's spicy.

[Andy Cortez]

I like.

[Blessing]

I mean, yeah. What if he's implying like, we're coming back with something big and that thing's gonna be Faye. We're coming back with Faye in June.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, keep saying next time we talk about this.

[Blessing]

I know. Yeah, I know. That's the implication.

[Tim Gettys]

That's just him having style. He doesn't know.

[Greg Miller]

Just like the goofy voice. Acting just like goofy.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that a segue, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

No, I have nothing to say.

[Andy Cortez]

Kingdom hearts are goofy.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't look big. What do you got?

[Blessing]

Kingdom hearts.

[Greg Miller]

I'm looking through the nine predictions I brought to the table. All right. Because I did my homework, Andy. Because I want the point, so just give it to me. All right. Monster Hunter Wild's expansion trailer is shown. It's time to go back. All right, we're gonna jump in. We're gonna be looking at a brand new biome. Very different than what we saw before. And of course, what could it be like, what could it be? Because we were all over the place before. We had the sand, we had the lava.

[Mike]

We were everywhere.

[Greg Miller]

We had the snow. Right. You know what I mean? What are you getting into some like glass? Are we getting this? You know what I mean? Just pa. It's not cold. This is a new buy and we don't know what we're doing. I know. Gemma. This is crazy. Make me a great sword right now.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's what we got to be talking about.

[Mike]

I like that Capcom has showed up at these PlayStation State of Plays. Of course the last one we had pragmata at this one. I mean it's time for the DLC at least tease.

[Greg Miller]

I think it's a. I do have a 27 date on this as well. I know we've been talking a lot about 2027. I think I like 27 expansion. Probably spring. But get out there, go back and hunt. Come on. And let the hump be the hunted.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I have nothing to say uninformed on that one. I believe you though.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. I appreciate what what I spawn had a year between world.

[Andy Cortez]

Give me a cool monster concept. Something that you go. Man, I wish we had something like this in the earlier game. In the first game, I think you

[Greg Miller]

come in with like a Cerberus. I want three heads on something. Give me whatever that. If Roger was here, he'd punch through the wall and tell me. I'm talking about that one Godzilla guy. But Roger of course dead.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me tell you about a game called Elder Ring Night Rain Man. You'd love it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike]

The dog's three headed dog turns into three different dogs and then morphs back and forth. Very cool game.

[Greg Miller]

That's awesome. It was very cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Very sick. Very sick.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, I like that. Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What kind of monsters do I want? You know, a giant turtle. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

We.

[Mike]

We fought a squid. It feels like.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I mean that was the thing. They really killed it with monsters in the last.

[Tim Gettys]

We've seen them all.

[Greg Miller]

It feels like it's.

[Mike]

It's tough because they.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe it's a man. A big man.

[Andy Cortez]

We really let you down on the goatee voting, huh?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no. That was with Worlds With Wilds, we were. I didn't even have it that high on my list.

[Mike]

I really like that prediction.

[Greg Miller]

I appreciate you.

[Mike]

I really like that. Could be a summer game fest thing. But yeah, Capcom showing out for sure.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, that's the thing.

[Greg Miller]

Capcom has such a relationship with PlayStation.

[Tim Gettys]

But the reality is Capcom, in the last couple years, that relationship has shifted from PlayStation to Jeff quite a bit. But it's not always like, they do end up showing up back and forth. So there's a couple things that we may or may not get to today that I just don't know where they're gonna go.

[Mike]

Yeah, of course.

[Tim Gettys]

Mike, what's your next one?

[Mike]

I have. I have still safe, fun one that's just kind of boring. I have another one that. This one's for Roger out here. Silent Hill remake will be teased, of course. We have Silent Hill Townfall on the way. We do know that a Silent Hill remake is being done by Bloober team right now. We're hot off the Tail of kronos, which was 2025, so we're a little bit tight on that. But I do think we get a Silent Hill remake. The first one teaser.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel good about that and I think it'll be here.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

If it's here this week, I mean.

[Mike]

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Was it the last state of play that we had? The. The sort of big konami?

[Greg Miller]

How far was that the last one? Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Remember when we thought they were just going to straight up show like war Metal?

[Tim Gettys]

It was crazy, man.

[Andy Cortez]

It was very exciting.

[Tim Gettys]

That whole segment was insane.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it was weird.

[Mike]

It was building. There's an energy there.

[Andy Cortez]

They flew to different locations. Yeah. They took us on a. The journey.

[Mike]

I haven't played Silent Hill, Tim, so I'm very excited.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Mike]

Roger and I got into Silent Hill 2 in a big way. Silent Hill F we enjoyed on the marathon.

[Andy Cortez]

F stands for friendship.

[Mike]

F stands for friendship, man. And I'm going to haunt you every day, Andy Cortez, with my friendship and my love for you.

[Blessing]

I don't know what one is.

[Mike]

Right. Like, I'm excited to see what one is and learn all about the only

[Tim Gettys]

man that threatens with friendship.

[Andy Cortez]

That's how it is every single day for Andy, I guess. Man, Roger's so mad at Mike right

[Mike]

now because I stole his. I stole his thing.

[Greg Miller]

No, he's being legitimate about. Oh, your buzz recording.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. You don't want to know about the buzz, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

I did a whole video.

[Greg Miller]

Do a. Do a dramatic reading of this of the Chat.

[Andy Cortez]

Get a slack out of nowhere from Roger who says Mike recorded the buzz without me. This screen.

[Greg Miller]

Hold on, hold on.

[Andy Cortez]

Screenshot.

[Greg Miller]

You play the role of Roger and I'll play the role of Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Roger asks, why is it so many parts? Stop, Mike. The microphone isn't working on half of these.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's broken up day by day. That's why I know.

[Andy Cortez]

Hahahaha.

[Greg Miller]

That's why I said you would be pissed. The $300 microphone didn't fucking work.

[Andy Cortez]

I hate you. And then Roger sends me a clip of Mike with a stationary camera. Mike's on location, he's at the beach and it's Mike with a, with an umbrella going, welcome to the bus we're gonna be saying. And the voice just fades away as he walks out of the ditch and he's talk time. There's just no audio and it's just

[Tim Gettys]

a lot of wind.

[Andy Cortez]

You have to use that in that

[Greg Miller]

main footage, the show that was supposed to just be shot at their desk. Every day, a more and more tremendous waste of time.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

Bless.

[Blessing]

Oh, a very big man has been pointing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Is he Scottish?

[Blessing]

He is Scottish. He's very Scottish. And let me tell you, he loves some bean soup. What's it called again? Barrett Broth. Rothril. Brothril Dog.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know.

[Blessing]

Something like that infamous remastered collection is announced coming later.

[Greg Miller]

Don't give me that kind of hope. Don't give me that kind of hope.

[Blessing]

We're getting a collection. It's one in infamous one plus two. And it looks great.

[Greg Miller]

How soon am I getting it?

[Blessing]

This year? This fall.

[Andy Cortez]

Are the models remade? Not. I'm not talking like I'm expecting Naughty Dog love, but like, does it look similar to when we saw the gothic remake yesterday and we were like, wow, yeah. That doesn't look like an old game. It looks like a really well made modern game.

[Blessing]

100%.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Because is this a remake or remaster? Who knows what that prediction anymore? Your prediction one.

[Blessing]

What's gothic one called?

[Tim Gettys]

That's a remake.

[Andy Cortez]

One was a remake.

[Blessing]

We'll call it a remake. Okay, but like light remake.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

If it's a remake, you got to redo all the guys and do all the stuff. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Hot.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, give him, you know, modern day, like sort of like hair tech. I mean, he's bald, but you know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Favrel is what the bean soup is. This is the whole conversation I have.

[Andy Cortez]

That sounds like something for Lord of the Rings.

[Blessing]

Yeah, right. No, exactly. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Do you worry it's too early? Because if Midler right now is just hearing the light raindrops over here, you know, Miller, of course, infamously hasn't reported this on VGC News because he can't get a second source on it. Right. So I feel like it's still so nascent, it's still so brand new.

[Tim Gettys]

Who's working on it?

[Blessing]

I think we'll see the PlayStation.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, it'll be like he makes games, you know, do they have anybody timid?

[Greg Miller]

It's a sore spot we got rid of. We didn't think we didn't think we'd ever do this again. We fired them. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, maybe. Maybe they cut ties, but they're like, we'll still. You know, it's like, Mike, when. When a team releases a player or they waive them, but then they sign them back when nobody picks them up on waivers.

[Mike]

We'll still back up the truck for you one last time. Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing]

Making the PC ports that Nixus that are all getting canceled now. I mean, it'll be like. It'll be a studio where we're like, oh, okay. Like Fire Sprite or something.

[Greg Miller]

We're like, all right, Ben. Studio. Just, like, punching the walls over there. They just could not make an original game to save their lives.

[Blessing]

Maybe Sucker Punch did it themselves. They're like, oh, yeah, we had a side team doing this.

[Greg Miller]

They always talk about how small they are. They're not.

[Blessing]

They are very small. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Andrew Goldfarb couldn't be doing this and talking about.

[Blessing]

He's doing it just by himself.

[Greg Miller]

By himself.

[Blessing]

Between the PlayStation blogs that he writes once a year. I'm sorry, Angel. No, I did that.

[Andy Cortez]

I gotta learn Java.

[Greg Miller]

I want to believe in that. I just think it's too early. I think we would if it was that close. I think we. There'd be more smokes, as we say at this company, because we say that.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we'll see. I don't think. Honestly. Well, I don't believe this strongly enough to where I'm like, he's embedding all the predictions. I'm just doing. That's my. That's my Steph Curry from Half Court.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. I like that.

[Blessing]

Maybe not Steph Curry. That's my Wendy from

[Tim Gettys]

Cana. Scars of Kazmar will get a release date, and. And it will either be September 2026 or January 2027. But we will hear about that at the State of Play.

[Greg Miller]

Now, let me try to catch you. Do we hear about it, the state of play, or in a blog post after the fact? Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

Say to play.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. The trailer ends.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, Yeah, I like where we have that. No, no, this will be a release date trailer.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That we get for this. Okay. But, yeah, I. It's. I'm feeling September, but I. I also can see this. Them just being like, we gotta call our shot here. We're not gonna be able to get it done in time. We don't want to get too close to the fall with all the big hits. I'm not even talking about gta. I'm talking about all the other things, and then just call the shot for a January because this feels like it would hit.

[Blessing]

Then I'll say, don't put this on in December.

[Tim Gettys]

Nah, don't be doing it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, don't do that. Like two weeks after GTA 6.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

No, no, no.

[Tim Gettys]

So, but yeah, I'm feeling good about September this year, and I can't wait. This looks so good.

[Blessing]

Or you said September or January.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, sorry. I heard December or January.

[Tim Gettys]

No, September.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Dude, it's going to be.

[Tim Gettys]

So the first game was September as well.

[Blessing]

Yeah. September feels right for this game.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

I Tim. I. The amount of times that I've googled Kana, Bridge of Spirits, Physical Edition, Nintendo Switch, it just doesn't exist. But I want to willing to so badly. This game is going to kick so much ass, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

I really do think this is going to be an example that we use as, like, God, the sequel difference between one and.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, I hope so.

[Andy Cortez]

Hopefully we don't have a gauntlet of face every boss at the end of it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think. I think this is going to be based on all the criticism they got. You know, I was one of the, I think the more critical reviews of Cannabis Spirits, and it wasn't. I didn't like it. I just felt like it was a game out of time. And I think there was enough people saying stuff like that that I really expect this one to sing. When was that? Was that 2020 or 2020. 2020. Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Wait. Am I right about that? Hold on.

[Blessing]

That might have been 21.

[Roger]

I think it was 21 because I was.

[Greg Miller]

We were at home, and that's what makes it hard.

[Blessing]

21.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I got so mad during the last boss rush in the game that I got on Twitter and I was, stop making your final boss fight so hard. Like, way harder than the rest of the game. And then Twitter just got real mad at me, and I was like, you guys don't know what I'm going through right now.

[Greg Miller]

Y' all don't know what I'm.

[Blessing]

You don't know what I'm going with you right now. Reviewing Kana.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I love Kayna.

[Blessing]

I can't believe.

[Greg Miller]

Here's the pizza bet I want to make with you.

[Tim Gettys]

Go for it.

[Greg Miller]

I bet you that one year from today, you still haven't played this game. I don't think it's come out.

[Mike]

Whoa.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

All the way to May, one year from today.

[Greg Miller]

Love. Spicy.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Actually, you just said you think it's coming out in September or June.

[Tim Gettys]

I Do okay, but like also very small team. We haven't heard from them in so long.

[Greg Miller]

Sounds like he doesn't believe in his predictions enough to bet a pizza.

[Tim Gettys]

If you were saying by the end of 2027. If you were saying by the end of next year, I would take the bet.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

But by May. Now the difference between January and May

[Greg Miller]

is not getting songs pierced in my brain right now.

[Blessing]

Are you putting these in the Google sheet?

[Greg Miller]

Wait until he didn't accept the bit

[Blessing]

previous one in the Google sheet.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, Andy did that. And I think that's what then motivated Andy to go to the thing. Katie G. Super chat and said, andy, you don't have to worry. I'm taking notes. But we don't trust Katie G anymore because she always screws me over and kind of. I mean, no, Everybody. Kayfabe. Great character for a second.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

In the meetings we have every week, we talk about we don't trust KDG anymore. I understand on camera I gotta be the bad guy. But we've all openly talked about her screwing me over. On points. On game showdown.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the idea of a company like being that serious about something like this. And guys, can we all like, let's be serious during a meeting. Holy shit.

[Greg Miller]

I love you guys.

[Andy Cortez]

Greg, I need your help with like bullet points formatting. Yeah, it's tough, man. These Google.

[Greg Miller]

What's wrong? Okay, what are you trying to put here?

[Andy Cortez]

But why is it like an invisible circle? Why can't it be a bullet, like a dark circle?

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's because you. When you. Well, because you're going for like that. This is what they do for when you go from a three to a dot, they give you that one.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

And they see they have all these different ones.

[Andy Cortez]

They're like, okay, we're learning about Google Docs, everybody.

[Greg Miller]

I'm not. I knew.

[Andy Cortez]

Telling him we're all learning together.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, hit me your final prediction.

[Andy Cortez]

All of us are learning. Oh, man. I'm going to go with one that isn't even on my damn list because I want to be excited about something. I believe that we will get yet another trailer of Phantom Blade Zero. Still sticking to their release date. September. Whatever it is. September1. September 9th. Yes. But there will be a playable demo now. And it'll be the. The preview stuff that maybe the same boss that I played a while back. The one in that sort of red area with the like the puppet dudes or whatever. I think there will be like playable demo now go play that. Let us know what you Think you're

[Tim Gettys]

cooking so hard because I was trying to figure out what to say about Phantom Blade Zero. And I always say when it comes to showcases, you need to have something new. And we already knew the release date for this, so it's like, what are they gonna do? Unless there's a delay? And I don't think that there is. So this is one of the rare cases where I'm like, if they were to just drop a trailer with the same release date again, I wouldn't even be mad at them. Because it's the type of game that it's like, they're like, no, no, no, no. It's actually happening. We're actually going to be playing this game this year. I didn't even think about a demo. And that's a great idea.

[Andy Cortez]

We're going to see more demos. They're get.

[Blessing]

They're hot out there, especially for these kind of games.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think this one, like a demo will be a very good idea.

[Andy Cortez]

A demo with all of the accessible stuff that you would hope to see from people that would go, I'm not going to play that. That shit's going to be way too hard. It's like, no, there will be options to make this easier for you. Like, there are going to be in the game whenever it launches.

[Blessing]

And I. I think action games like this demos work so well. Like, I remember playing the Wo Long Fallen Dynasty demo and I thought that was game of the year. From the demo. I was like, this.

[Greg Miller]

That was amazing.

[Blessing]

I played the full game. I was like, that's okay. But like, there's something about.

[Andy Cortez]

You can't say that. Bless.

[Blessing]

You can't say that about Wolong.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, just about.

[Blessing]

You can't say about Neo 3.

[Andy Cortez]

No, just about Team Ninja. They're gonna come after you, man. Be careful.

[Blessing]

I mean, listen, I like Ninja Gaiden.

[Andy Cortez]

Be careful.

[Blessing]

Whatever the last one was, I gave it an 8 out of 10.

[Andy Cortez]

It was 7. It's a good game, unlike some people.

[Blessing]

But, yeah, no getting this kind of experience at a condensed hour. There's something magical about just that hour of getting into it, you know? And so I agree that I think that'd be a slam dunk.

[Andy Cortez]

This boss fight is so sick. It's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

It really is. Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Hi.

[Tim Gettys]

Final prediction.

[Greg Miller]

Got some money here.

[Andy Cortez]

Would you like to borrow any of mine?

[Greg Miller]

No, I'm just between which one I want to do.

[Blessing]

I thought you're calling out the Eliza P demo as well.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, I'm gonna go with one that I see in my Mind's Eye.

[Blessing]

Oh, we already know Mind's Eye.

[Greg Miller]

Logan's gonna be there. That's Wolverine. Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

I thought you're talking about Gabe Logan.

[Blessing]

Same.

[Greg Miller]

We already know Wolverine's gonna be there. Slicing and Dyson. I think we get a great Marcus. Hey everybody. Here's the game. We had a new trailer, of course, but then I think it's one of those that leads into the gameplay. Maybe not even trailer. Maybe it's a cutscene that leads into the gameplay. We actually see how this game plays. We see some skill trees, we do all that jazz, blah blah, blah, blah. I think then you get to the end, right? And it's like, you know, Wolverine, blah blah, blah. I think we had an X Men cameo. They'll do somebody there. But here you're nodding.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Greg Miller]

There's no way you're on the same wavelength where I'm going.

[Blessing]

All right.

[Greg Miller]

I think they do it. The date comes up. Then there's some one liner from Wolverine sneak. The date gets cut in half and I think it gets moved up two weeks and I think it goes to September 1st.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I like this.

[Blessing]

That's fun.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

That's awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

That's exciting.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope it happens exactly like me too. That would be crazy. Yeah. No. Not what I expected you to say.

[Greg Miller]

What do you think?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna project He's a different insomniac project.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought you were going to include some non X Men.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, like Spidey or something like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Daredevil or something like that.

[Greg Miller]

Probably mj. She's doing a little interview. Yeah, we gotta play a self section.

[Andy Cortez]

Insomnia is like.

[Greg Miller]

We heard you. You said you didn't want these in Spider man anymore. You didn't say you didn't want them in Wolverine.

[Andy Cortez]

That'd be so sick.

[Tim Gettys]

What are you just.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know. I just had that feeling. Yeah, I just had that feeling of first. I mean, I don't think it's a. We're running from gta. I don't. I don't have a good reason for why you would move the data up other than we're ahead of schedule or we want more time or we whatever. You know, I just think. I don't know. Something in me says they're going to move that data up.

[Tim Gettys]

I like it. And I don't think you're crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate that, Mike.

[Mike]

I like it as well.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that.

[Blessing]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

I appreciate that, Tim.

[Mike]

I have a lot of fun ones.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know I want to talk live service games with you. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Gummy bears.

[Mike]

That's a dirty word when you talk about. But you got a get some live service games to talk about for lo. Fair game.

[Blessing]

Some here too.

[Mike]

Let's rev up our engines though. It has been four years since me and my main man Geo were buying a bunch of cars. Now here's the catch. Gran Turismo, of course, is a PlayStation first party franchise. It's a great game. Forza Horizon has now come over there, has made a big splash. So I don't know when they plan on putting Forza Horizon from Xbox onto this. So it's like, do you announce GT8 at this with Forza Horizon in the next. Let's call it six months to a year? Do you keep it away from them or do you just say, you know what, fuck it, it's a different style of game. It's our game. Let's announce it here. It's been four years. I think it's time to show off the next Gran Turismo.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, the thing is, Mike, like if they announced gta, it's not coming out this year. So them announcing it along around GT

[Greg Miller]

BT7 or GT GT8.8 definitely heard GTA.

[Tim Gettys]

So GT8 is not coming this year, right?

[Mike]

They show it off for next year.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Grand Turismo games never come out the year they're announced. Correct.

[Mike]

I just feel like when I think of racing games, I would prefer the marketing to be we announce it, we're coming out six months at the most. Yeah, I don't want to be hanging out with a racing game.

[Andy Cortez]

This isn't something we're that stoked about. Call the investors. We got to let them know.

[Greg Miller]

I mean the GTA fan base used to be that way. I mean they're still very big and very well. I mean that used to be a stop everything. I remember working at IGN and Roper constantly reporting on the newest news rumor car that they were teasing out about this.

[Andy Cortez]

I think we're in a different land.

[Greg Miller]

I agree. I agree 100%.

[Andy Cortez]

What if, what if Gran Turismo World Tour and it's their version of Forza

[Mike]

Horizon that will be the catch of Door start to like, I have this thing of, you know, Forza Horizon is so dominant in this genre right now. Does PlayStation make a move to say, hey, we want to get into this now we see that people are really going towards the open world racing as the casual market as opposed to like just the Die Hards. We know GT has Just the Die Hards. How do we get more out of this?

[Andy Cortez]

Right, but it's also my wishful thinking in the same way that when Helldivers 2 starts dominating on PlayStation and PC and I'm like, xbox, you got to make your version of this now. And then. That never happened. That hell divers just went over.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think PlayStation. I mean, they have Forza Horizon now,

[Mike]

so let them make.

[Greg Miller]

How long will they have?

[Tim Gettys]

I think, you know, that's a good. That's true. But they have six, though, and that's all that matters right now.

[Greg Miller]

They don't.

[Tim Gettys]

Six.

[Greg Miller]

They have a promise of six, right?

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

They don't have a. They don't have six.

[Mike]

We're gonna make hard decisions.

[Andy Cortez]

I think we're gonna have six. I think they're gonna have six.

[Greg Miller]

I'm just saying they don't have it right now.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but you think there's a chance that they don't end up having six?

[Greg Miller]

No, I'm saying they don't have it right now. I'm being very clear for the audience,

[Andy Cortez]

but it seems like you're intimating.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

What the hell?

[Greg Miller]

You know? What do I know?

[Andy Cortez]

And maybe. Hey, actually, we take it back.

[Greg Miller]

She could. She might.

[Andy Cortez]

And then. No, takes these backsies.

[Blessing]

They have a lot of hard calls. A lot of hard calls, a lot

[Roger]

of employees to cut, a lot of games to not put on other platforms.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a tough economic landscape.

[Mike]

Remember when we had that conversation with us and the new leadership? We said, get ready for scripts. No cuts yet.

[Blessing]

I said, get ready for June. But you think we're.

[Mike]

No, you just. Yeah, I just remember you bringing up, like, get ready, Mike. And say, I just wanted to celebrate. It's only been two weeks, but it's

[Blessing]

like, hey, what are you celebrating?

[Andy Cortez]

What the are you celebrating, Mike?

[Blessing]

Hey, we're through the storm. They're not going to have 14 days, baby.

[Andy Cortez]

They had a Memorial Day.

[Tim Gettys]

Also,

[Greg Miller]

if you eliminate weekends in Memorial Day, hey, we made it.

[Blessing]

Let's move to Xbox. They haven't fired anybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Is my guess.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless.

[Blessing]

Yes. I. I'm taking a group of predictions that I have. I'm turning them into one prediction.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that.

[Blessing]

That I'm calling a trilogy of weird PlayStation decisions.

[Greg Miller]

Nice.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay.

[Blessing]

Weird PlayStation, weird PlayStation decisions. This first one's not a weird decision, per se, but it's a weird game. That game is called For Loop. Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

State of Play.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

That's the game that I actually. I don't even know how I describe that game. Multiplayer Co opting it's the one that's

[Mike]

like with Bad Robot. Yep.

[Blessing]

I think we get an announcement that that game is out in the next few weeks. Oh I, I, I at first I had Shadow drop on here but that doesn't the vibes don't feel Shadow droppy right now. I feel like that would have a bit more conversation around it. So I'm just going to say it's out very soon. My prediction is in the next two weeks.

[Andy Cortez]

Has there been a public beta?

[Mike]

Let's stop with that. Yes, they've had, they've had a very I believe closed beta recently.

[Andy Cortez]

You had to request.

[Mike]

Yeah, you had request to get into that. I think I'm on the opposite side but I think this game is going to take more time. They're going to try to do similar to a marathon of hey we've let people come and play this. We're going to take a lot of feedback and we're going to come back and try to win over the sentiment of the gamers because right now I think this game is ice cold to anyone watching these things right now. I don't think anyone's clamoring for this.

[Blessing]

How far away do you think it is?

[Mike]

Another year I think this will take.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think you ever play it?

[Mike]

We should not know but we will.

[Greg Miller]

I'm saying. I mean. No, no I'm but I mean what if PlayStation pulls the plug, ends the deal, doesn't do the thing?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't think so.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm kind of just asking everybody just

[Greg Miller]

putting out there just I think can I say, can I add one of my ones that you didn't get in there or whatever. I think you're, you're smell. You know, you're smelling. You can smell something's going on. You caught the scent.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I think you just got misled there at the end because I think it'll be that we get break in as a.

[Blessing]

See that's that's one of my trilogy.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. I think, I think that, I think for looping dropped a shadow drop. No, I could see Break in being like listen, we've scuttled the name Fair Games. We're reintroducing it right now with some really cool trailer and I would say if I was them it's including your PlayStation plus right now.

[Blessing]

You know what I was trying to figure out because in my trilogy so I had Fair Games is back. It's called breaking. That's been with the reports about it. I put it's free to play but I couldn't figure out where to put it as far as like, is it out this fall? This fall feels too busy. Is it out next year? That feels too far away.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I like free to play on it because I do think there. No one's going to organically go to no. So I do think, yeah, the PlayStation plus or the free to play is the way to move. And I think it's got to be bam. Right.

[Blessing]

I agree with that.

[Greg Miller]

You also don't want. You want to show it and not even mention fair games and just people and those who know when they see the Haven logo go, oh, that used to be fair games. Obviously every IGN article us will talk about that. But the people watching go, oh, that's a really. I can play it right now for free. Whether through plus or free to play.

[Blessing]

I like that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Break.

[Andy Cortez]

What was your for loop prediction once again?

[Blessing]

My for loop prediction was that it's out in the next two weeks.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then my final part of my trilogy, Marvel Token Fighting Souls, it gets a trailer and surprise. There's going to be one character That's a special PlayStation special guest character.

[Greg Miller]

Worked out really well for Avengers.

[Blessing]

That character Aloy from Horizon 05.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing]

And we're all going to go. What?

[Tim Gettys]

I like it. Yeah, I like that. I don't think it's going to happen, but I like where you're going.

[Blessing]

I think the chance is small, but I think there's a chance.

[Tim Gettys]

I will also say that I feel like we predict Marvel Token Fighting Souls announcing new characters at every single state of play and it never happens.

[Greg Miller]

Got to happen eventually.

[Blessing]

I think it just like happened every single time.

[Mike]

I don't think.

[Andy Cortez]

I think last.

[Blessing]

I think they're always dropping like groups

[Tim Gettys]

of characters because are they in Marvel talk?

[Mike]

I.

[Blessing]

We saw the trailer that I was wrong about this.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like during the showcases we're not getting the character reveals and we're just assuming that that's how they're going to do things. Because fighting games don't with fun characters normally do that.

[Blessing]

Maybe they're not the state of plays, but I feel like there's maybe game awards is what I'm thinking of. But I remember being like, oh, all right. They're putting this person here and seeing it at some reaction.

[Andy Cortez]

Who the heck is this?

[Tim Gettys]

The chat splitting it because people are saying they do it in between state of plays, which is what I remember.

[Blessing]

I think they do both.

[Tim Gettys]

But I'm saying people said they announced that the last one. Interesting. What characters? Let me Know.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I'm saying we're gonna get it. I mean, this is the last day to play probably before we get Token

[Tim Gettys]

Fighting Souls, which we have a release date for.

[Blessing]

I think we have a release date for. Chad, remind me. I think I pretty sure we have a release date for that. And so like, this is your last chance. This and Summer Game Fest, I guess for like a bigger splash on it. August 6th. There it is. So, yeah, you're going to show it off one more time here and aloy.

[Greg Miller]

That's the move. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

My final prediction. We will see the next project from Blue 12 Studio. Does anyone at this table know who Blue 12.

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

At PlayStation State of Play. We will see straight to. Oh, meow.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I was trying to dig into this a bit. Just be like, it's been a while. They ported that thing literally everywhere. We got a Game of the Year nominee, right. They're gonna do a follow up at some point. Looked at their website, it doesn't exist. The website's just down. Not a good sign. They were hiring people not too long ago and then kind of went silent after some stuff. But it was like HR managers, they're hiring. I'm like, this is telling a story that is very convoluted and interesting, but I think it's happening. I think that they went silent after like. I think the HR high was like three years ago. And I think that that was the thing of like, I cool lockdown. We got our team.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you just did? Is experience like Dark Souls and eldering storytelling. You could do this, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You read the context clues. You read the item description. When you mentioned do you know who Blue 12 is? I was just going to assume it. Former developers from. From Blizzard and bioware and Rockstar. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

We have a Bander ascending. The chat saying Ember Labs was just as silent. And that's what made me think of this prediction is I was like, is there any other weird thing I can pull from that?

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Reminds me of that.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like straight, oddly silent. Oh, man. Now. Now I'm just thinking about freaking blanking on the dev for Death's Door.

[Blessing]

Oh, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Acid Nerve. Nailed it, Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Good.

[Greg Miller]

Damn.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, that store was so good.

[Blessing]

That was my game of the year.

[Andy Cortez]

God damn.

[Roger]

No, it wasn't.

[Andy Cortez]

It was.

[Blessing]

I was the one hater. But I like that. What a good game.

[Andy Cortez]

What a good game, huh?

[Blessing]

Love Returnal.

[Tim Gettys]

Now that we're done with our official predictions, y' all want to throw any fun ones out there? Because I'll just say A lot for me. I'm just holding back for Summer Game Fest because I think. I almost don't even want to say it because we're doing our predictions on Monday.

[Blessing]

I got one. Soros. I think we get an expansion or some sort of dlc. I think it'll be the exact same as like the returnal stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I think you get a co op mode and then some kind of like Endless Tower wins it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh,

[Blessing]

August.

[Greg Miller]

See on mine, I Got Sorrows dlc. Keep me honest. Out now.

[Andy Cortez]

Out now.

[Greg Miller]

I think like a tower. I wouldn't say co op. I would say like a tower. Some kind of, you know, some kind of new mission drop, whatever little bit mode. I like that they plan for. To have another bump. You know what I mean? To get people stoked for it. Because I do think they are definitely. Especially when we're coming off news of sales. Right. I think they're gonna want to remind you that that's out and ready to go.

[Blessing]

Or Star cos and modifiers.

[Andy Cortez]

I had written down stellar Blade 2 debut or just like a tease of something and then Gummy Bears from Team lfg. But I also wonder, like, are they at a point where they even want to put their multiplayer stuff on this big of a stage? And I know that sounds like the opposite thing that you would want to do, but, like, there's just something about.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, kiss it up.

[Blessing]

I feel it is similar to the Horizon Hunters Gatherers game. Whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Hunter's Gathering, where I think if

[Blessing]

you put that at a state of play, that gets more hate, that gets a bit more like, oh, we don't want to see this type of. Right. Like, I think the Team LFG thing. Save it for, I don't know, like a PlayStation Blog thing or like, treat it as something separate. Because I. I do think you get unnecessary heat if you put that in

[Andy Cortez]

a state of maybe just put it in one Achilles things or something.

[Blessing]

Yeah. You know, but I view that as. See, that's gonna be such an interesting game to show because as far as what we know, I think it's gonna be like they said it's a frog type game, but like I imagine they say it's a MOBA with Smash Smash Bros elements. I think that's really tough at a showcase to show off.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. You have to have it like immediately available to play.

[Blessing]

Yeah. You have to have some kind of like beta.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The Horizon Hunters, Gatherers, whatever the hell called. I'll probably be here.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

They've been doing their betas you know what I mean? So who knows where they're at. How close are they? Yeah. Maybe a bigger beta that just. You don't have to get the invite

[Tim Gettys]

for Feeling about Uncharted by Bend by Ben.

[Greg Miller]

No, I do have a new Uncharted, but it's not from Naughty Dog.

[Tim Gettys]

Then who is it then? Right? That's. That's only. I got to bend. Like it's obvious. We fucking talked about a million years. Like Golden Abyss. They have lineage with Uncharted. Right. What the hell are they doing?

[Greg Miller]

They wanted to do their own thing. It didn't work out. This idea. I don't. They're one of those cons tumultuous what is actually going on over their studios that we really don't know what is happening.

[Tim Gettys]

And because that I feel like at a certain point they either get cut or hold you're making an Uncharted.

[Greg Miller]

But here's my thing is I think for as much turmoil there's been there in terms of the pushback of not wanting to just go make other people's games. You get days gone. They don't let you do a sequel. Every leadership leads. There's all this turn. Like we're really talking about something. We don't know what's going on inside of those doors. But I'm with you. But I just don't think hey, we want to. Let's. We want someone to make an Uncharted and put their own stamp on it and yada yada, yada. I just feel like there's so much for the people that would be there and this is speaking out of turn bad blood there from doing Golden Abyss from then going to days gone. Not getting a days gone too. Even if you've brought in new people then is this. If you have studio people who are in there who are like angry about it and then you have brand new people who have never shipped a game. Do you want them tackling Uncharted? Like I just feel like that's a bad recipe to take a flagship PlayStation IP, give it to somebody and be like yo, here you go. You're following in the footsteps of our greatest first party studio. You know, depending on what you think of Uncharted as a franchise, whatever. But like people expect this to be bombastic and awesome and a pulp adventure.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

It's just you got to have a studio that knows what they're fucking doing to do that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And that's where it gets tough of like totally.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know anyone have anything else they want to do. Before I get to some super chats

[Greg Miller]

I toss on my list. I mean, this is weak. Dragon Quest, I think might get something there. They're celebrating their 40th anniversary. They got a big steam sale. They just had their own little event where they were talking about 12 and this and, you know, the monsters and blah, blah. Maybe there's some kind of sale they toss out there. Maybe there's something going on there.

[Tim Gettys]

They're.

[Greg Miller]

They packaged them all up in a bundle and then. Yeah, my last one that I had on here was in with you, Tim of Astrobots new game is announced with the teaser trailer I had.

[Andy Cortez]

Control resident gets a October release, I

[Roger]

think, not a June release.

[Andy Cortez]

No, unfortunately not.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think that Astrobot game, I'm just taking another 1B shot from half court. I think it's a 2D platformer.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, wow. That'd be hot.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that. JBC super chat saying, I'm taking a half day to watch this at the Alamo.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, nice. That's awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Remember, you can go watch these. Watch the state of play at the Alamo Drafthouse.

[Andy Cortez]

But let's know what the menu is.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say if the menu leaks. Anything we need to open.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah,

[Tim Gettys]

let's see what else is. Do you want to bring up here?

[Greg Miller]

Can I bring up one?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

As you know, I'm always happy to help people out. Christopher Burnett super chats and says, can someone at Kind of Funny Games, whoever has the most pull with Sega, tell them it's time to remake Skies of arcadia. It turned 25 last year's. Please and thank you, Andy. I'm a man of the people, as you know. So without naming names, Is that someone who's high up at sega?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

I texted that person and I said, can I call you on the show right now? I'd like to read this letter to you. And he said, sadly, you cannot. And I sent the message of what the message says. This high up person at SEGA responds, you can say you passed it along to someone at SEGA and that they agreed it should be, but that doesn't mean anything about whether or not it could or would happen.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So there you go. I've passed your message to sega.

[Andy Cortez]

I like it.

[Greg Miller]

Congratulations.

[Tim Gettys]

Did any of y' all play Skies of Arcadia? No, it was. It's awesome. Such a. Like what? A Dreamcast gamecube game. And guess where it was? Dreamcast and gamecube Science Dog official says, watching on a delay, but do we finally see Little Devil Inside?

[Andy Cortez]

No, no.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't think so.

[Blessing]

I think we should send a wellness check. Yeah, I think we should knock on the door. Yeah, but y' all get in there,

[Andy Cortez]

you walk by, you're like, man, it smells really smells weird.

[Blessing]

Or out here. What do you guys predict the score is going to be for the state of play?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I like that.

[Blessing]

I think this is gonna be a big one.

[Greg Miller]

I do too. I think 8, 5.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna go with 9.

[Mike]

I'm gonna.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna go 9, 5.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

It's so tough between this and game Awards. Like, I feel like a lot of my predictions here. I tried to air more on the PlayStation Studio side or at least the confirmed, like, exclusive console side of things, because I. I imagine that a lot of the big Square and Capcom, like, the things that are really getting me going, that's going to be a game awards or summer game fest. But I mean, if they come through, if. If the new God of war is there, this is great, right? Again, we already know Wolverine's here, so I kind of have my expectations starting at a 8.5 and I feel like it's probably only going to go up from there if they can deliver even a handful. A couple of the things that we talked about today.

[Andy Cortez]

How long do you think the Wolverine section will be?

[Tim Gettys]

However long The Spider Man 2 section

[Andy Cortez]

was at that showcase, so we know they said 60 minutes. Alamo has it shown for 90, like as that that's the slot of time or whatever. And there have been plenty of times where they're like, hey, this is gonna be over 40 minutes and ends up being 58 or something, you know, like that's happened before. I would hope that the Wolverine stuff is like 10 minutes.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Blessing]

I hope not.

[Greg Miller]

I think that's too much. Yeah, I think five is on the high end. I would say between three and a half and five.

[Blessing]

I'm weird though, because I'm like, I them saying Wolverine's gonna be here. I'm like, I don't want to see more Wolverine.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I'm with you. I already don't want to, but they need to put it.

[Blessing]

They need to put it in. But I'm also like, just give me a trailer and like, let's keep going. I'm already sold on this thing.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't wanna.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I don't want to over Wolverine myself before I get there.

[Roger]

The gameplay reveal for Marvel's Spider Man 2 was 10 minutes, and I think that was broken out into its own video, but I'm pretty sure I Think we saw this entire thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. The whole water section, right? Yeah.

[Roger]

With this and then going into the sneakies.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. This stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

The interior sneaking section.

[Roger]

I want to say God of War 2018. When that happened in 2016 or 2017 as well. That was like a. A 10 minute thing.

[Tim Gettys]

This game rocks.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I'm looking at a freaking three, four year old game being like damn that looks good. Heaven says GT7 just announced a new update with five cars just a few days ago. So that's a bold call. I'd bank on a Forza Horizon port release date. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know where. I don't know if Forza is the time to stay to play.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

DJ Kento says shockingly there's been 20 PSVR2 titles released so far this year. Do you think we'll see a single PSVR 2 reveal?

[Greg Miller]

Not one? What was the last first party PlayStation VRs?

[Blessing]

What was the last first party PSVR 2 game? Oof. Do you think it was Horizon? The classic.

[Greg Miller]

I think your best and only hope because I remember when we did this, you know the it's 2.5 over under. I think your best and only hope is there's some game that has a VR2 mode that you could play in. And so when they get to the title card, release date, card, whatever it says, you know, PlayStation, PlayStation VR 2. But I don't think you're going to see a purely PlayStation VR 2 game yet any time of day here.

[Tim Gettys]

Final super chat. This is an interesting one I want to bring in for your thoughts on Bob asks I don't or says I don't think any PS Live services come in the state of play window talking about for loop or even break in. Because Marathon season two drops that day. It needs all the attention it can get.

[Mike]

I have a big question mark next to my marathon note here of like how do you show that right. I think that's my more interest in it. I do think they will show that.

[Andy Cortez]

But yeah, getting a week for free.

[Mike]

How do we re engage the audience? How do we get people fired up to check this out. It has been really just disheartening news from the Bungee camp, right. Of like hey this is destiny's to the end. We're here like it's nothing. Feels like tears and sadness, right. And marathon has not stuck with many people. People who have given it a try, they're like hey, it's pretty positive. It's a good game.

[Greg Miller]

What was the prediction Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

You read that they don't think that any that for loop or breaking are going to be released.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Because marathon. Okay, I got you.

[Mike]

I still think you show everything else

[Greg Miller]

a really good call.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, but it's more just about coming out with it.

[Greg Miller]

You don't want to drop break in on the exact same day. That makes sense.

[Mike]

Yeah. I wasn't expecting four games to be within a month. No, I. I think those are still a ways out for sure. But yeah, I'm more interested in how do you get people actually engaged and fired up for this product because it. It is far from that. I don't think people are even interested in this at all. And I don't think they'll win them back with whatever they show here. Damn.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of seasons, let's talk about skate season 4x games. You kidding me right now?

[Mike]

Are you kidding?

[Tim Gettys]

The arena and Street Shadow corrected me saying they revealed the X Men in the last day to play. So three new characters there plus they reveal token characters in teams. Next team is villain so probably no Aloy guest character I think is different.

[Blessing]

I mean a lot of people view Aloy as a villain.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. Wow.

[Roger]

No, they'll bring in like the really memorable villains that get introduced in the last act of Horizon 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Remember them?

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, yeah, of course.

[Tim Gettys]

Let us know your PlayStation State of Play.

[Andy Cortez]

Carrie Ann Moss, right?

[Blessing]

Yeah. Carrie Ann Moss. I was trying to think of the name.

[Mike]

I was like I don't want to

[Tim Gettys]

say the person from Matrix in the comments below. And remember next Monday we will be doing the same thing for our game summer game fest. I keep calling it game awards summer game fest predictions and I'm excited. Should be a fun one. Till next time stay tuned for James Bond stream we have Greg Twitch only Twitch only everyone.

[Greg Miller]

Nick's first Nick art of course Double oh seven expert and super fan is has held off he's playing it for the first time. Here we have me as in the co captain chair. You got Mike as our bartender which I'm very horrified by.

[Mike]

Mike will be a really fun time.

[Andy Cortez]

You got to say shake and not stood. One of you has.

[Mike]

I have some special names for all the drinks.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

Can I. And I. Can I. I was looking at this.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

My favorite here is number two live and let rye and old fashioned and we'll be starting off made with bourbon not rye. So you know what I mean like there was.

[Andy Cortez]

It's you know he's doing his best.

[Tim Gettys]

He's doing his best.

[Andy Cortez]

Broken.

[Mike]

There's one button on it.

[Tim Gettys]

I love you all. Goodbye.

[Greg Miller]

Wow. That was.