Summer Game Fest 2025 REVIEW - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Summer Game Fest 2025 REVIEW

Release Date: June 7, 2025

In this episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez delve deep into their impressions of Summer Game Fest 2025. The discussion captures their highs and lows, providing insightful analysis of game announcements, showcase presentations, and overall event execution.

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1. Opening Remarks and Initial Impressions

The episode kicks off with Tim Gettys welcoming listeners and introducing the purpose of the show: to review and break down the Summer Game Fest 2025 showcase. Greg Miller humorously laments the absence of long-awaited titles like Half-Life 3, setting a lighthearted tone.

Greg Miller [01:24]: "Y'all gotta give up on Half Life 3, man. Like it's not happening."

2. General Evaluation of the Showcase

The hosts express mixed feelings about the overall execution of the event. Andy Cortez opens with a 6 out of 10 rating, highlighting both the enjoyable moments and areas of disappointment.

Andy Cortez [02:06]: "It was cool because I got to spend time watching my friends and enjoying some games, but I was a bit more disappointed overall."

Greg and Blessing follow with their assessments, giving scores that range from 5 to 6 out of 10. Blessing delves into structural critiques, emphasizing the lack of a coherent thesis and the overwhelming presence of similar-looking games.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [05:18]: "I think this was a year where Summer Game Fest as a presentation really didn't have those pops on top of that. It just felt like there was so much bloat and downtime."

3. Highlighted Game Announcements

Despite the overall middling ratings, several game announcements stood out, generating excitement among the hosts:

• Resident Evil 9: The return to Raccoon City was met with enthusiasm, though some felt the tease was poorly executed.

  Andy Cortez [08:37]: "If they didn't end with Resident Evil 9, it would have been, I think, a disaster."

• Liza P. Overton: Celebrated for its unique concept and humor, it garnered positive remarks.

• Lego Voyagers: Praised for its vibrant world and two-player co-op gameplay.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [35:53]: "This looks awesome. It's a two-player game sounds freaking great."

• Marvel Cosmic Invasion: The inclusion of characters like Rocket Raccoon and She-Hulk was well-received.

  Tim Gettys [34:10]: "Very excited. This is kind of like a dream situation from a team that we know can get the job done."

4. Criticisms and Areas for Improvement

The hosts did not shy away from pointing out several shortcomings of the showcase:

• Pacing and Presentation: The two-hour format felt bloated, with transitions between games and commercials being abrupt and confusing.

  Greg Miller [21:36]: "It just looked like one thing. It was hard to differentiate between the games."

• Repetitive Game Styles: A noticeable trend of similar dark fantasy and horror-themed games made it difficult for standout titles to shine.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [08:14]: "There are so many of those games that feel similar. It's like they fall into one category."

• Lack of Big Splash Announcements: Compared to other showcases, Summer Game Fest 2025 had fewer headline-grabbing reveals, leaving some major franchises wanting more.

5. Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Tim Gettys [05:13]: "Guys, yeah, we do this show. It's good. You know what the show is. I don't need to explain to you."

• Greg Miller [18:03]: "Opponent prime, give it a 6 out of 10. That wet fart of a trailer for Death Stranding set the tone for this whole show."

• Andy Cortez [21:04]: "The power dynamics of announcing Resident Evil out of nowhere just felt forced and disappointing."

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. [35:31]: "Flying Lotus did the music. Greg writes, whoever that is. You all flipped out. I do not know who Flying Lotus is, but I'm glad the children enjoy them."

6. Specific Game Discussions

The conversation delves into specific titles announced during the festival:

• Deadpool VR: Blessing shares his firsthand experience with the demo, praising the fun and expected humor but critiquing Neil Patrick Harris's performance.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [60:28]: "It's fun. It's what you'd expect, right? You pull out your swords and just kick back the bullets."

• Stranger Than Heaven (Project Century): An anticipated game with a minimalist art style and deep narrative elements was discussed. Greg and Andy expressed excitement over its potential influence on future titles.

  Greg Miller [91:45]: "Everything about this game speaks to me. I am shocked by the art style direction."

• Liza P. Overture: Celebrated for its unique aesthetic and engaging gameplay.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [48:46]: "It's an eerie feel to this devastated world. Interesting concept. Yes."

7. Concluding Thoughts

As the discussion winds down, the hosts reflect on the diverse range of games showcased. While the event had its flaws in execution and pacing, the variety of upcoming titles ensures continued excitement for the future of gaming.

Greg Miller [99:50]: "I'm excited for a lot of these games. Resident Evil Requiem, Project Sentry, Blighted—there's so much here that signals an exciting next few years for games."

Tim Gettys [99:50]: "We'll see. But overall, there's a lot to be excited about despite the showcase's shortcomings."

Join the Conversation:
The episode ends with teasers for the upcoming Xbox Showcase, encouraging listeners to tune in for live reactions and breakdowns.

Tim Gettys [100:05]: "We're gonna be back on Sunday for the Xbox Showcase. Stay tuned on Twitch or YouTube."

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Key Takeaways:

• Summer Game Fest 2025 offered a mix of exciting game announcements and some disappointing moments in presentation.
• Hosts appreciated standout titles like Resident Evil 9, Liza P. Overton, and Lego Voyagers, while critiquing the overall pacing and repetitive game themes.
• Despite execution flaws, the variety of upcoming games promises an exciting future for the gaming community.

Listeners looking to catch up on the latest in the gaming world will find this episode a comprehensive and engaging review of Summer Game Fest 2025, filled with honest critiques and enthusiastic anticipation for what's to come.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

What'S up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday, June 6, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined by Blessing Adioia junior.

[Greg Miller]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Greg Miller. Hello Tim and Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Y' all gotta give up on Half Life 3, man. Like it's not happening.

[Tim Gettys]

We just watched Jeff Keely's Summer Game 2025 co hosted by Lucy James. Very, very cool to see. She crushed it. We love you Lucy. But we are now going to review what we just saw, break it all down and let you know our highs and lows games. We're excited for new game announcements that we are now maybe putting on our fantasy critic.

[Greg Miller]

Why would you say those words?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We were all thinking.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but like maybe not everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe not everybody.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe not everybody was thinking it.

[Tim Gettys]

So man. But now I'm so out Andy, that it's like whatever. Like I just. There's no now I can only play to someone else over.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah.

[Tim Gettys]

But you know, I mean I got revenge on the mind with a couple of us.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. He's only ever been good to you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Most unlikely. I celebrated him.

[Tim Gettys]

Celebrated me. All right everyone, you know, for the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Championship parade so he could be there for his Pokemon Go.

[Greg Miller]

I still have the most money in the fans, critics actually. I'm not scared of any of you.

[Tim Gettys]

Guys, yeah, we, we do this show. It's good. You know what the show is. I don't need to explain to you. We've been kicking ass. We've been doing a lot of content. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. And the fun is not over this. We do have the Xbox Showcase. So stay tuned and hang out with us all day on Sunday as we react to Xbox and then break it down in a similar fashion to what we are doing right now. You can watch that live on Twitch or YouTube, get it later on podcast services around the globe. If you want to go above and beyond, you can get the kind of funny membership it gets you. The shows ad free and exclusive Daily Greg Way today there are two Greg Ways going up so you, you have double the fun because I missed yesterday's so thank you for your patience there. But if you're on Twitch, if you have Amazon prime that means you got Twitch Prime. Twitch prime you should use it and you can get the show on Twitch ad free. So that's fantastic too. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by X Real but we will tell you about that later. Let's get to the topic of the show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Super chat your reviews yes please.

[Tim Gettys]

Super chat your reviews of the show and what games you are most excited excited about Summer Game Fest 2025 bear, can you bring up the review scale please so we can look at it. And I want to start with Greg Miller.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why is it always me?

[Tim Gettys]

It's not. I try to shake it up. Dude, do you want to go first?

[Greg Miller]

No. I was gonna say usually it feels like it's always me because I'll go first.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy Cortez, what did you think of this showcase?

[Andy Cortez]

I will break the cycle. I thought that this showcase was cool because I got to spend time watching my friend or yeah watch video games with my friends and I. I totally agree with every initial point that Jeff makes in that intro speech of it's important to have eyes on the things otherwise my bad brain forgets a lot of these things. So like I'm not the type to even really hate on presentations anymore. Even if they were, you know, embrace a group sort of bad during several years ago during the pandemic Media coach media. That being said, that being said, this is still a Summer Game Fest showcase and I would say that I was a bit more disappointed. I I still think that, you know, with how he has been tweeting the past couple days, I didn't expect anything to kind of blow me away. There were still some awesome surprises, but I'm not the Resident Evil 9 guy or the Resident Evil fan. So like that, that doesn't do a whole lot for me. But I recognize what that does for the video game community and that's awesome. Liza P. Shadow Drop. Awesome as hell. And there was some other cool titles that I. And I can't wait to get to whenever we get to them. But I would say if I were to give a score, I'd give it six out of ten.

[Tim Gettys]

Six out of ten. Okay. On the kind of.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Scale. All right, Greg, you ready?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure. Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

Go for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I think, you know, we know what Summer Game Fest is going to be, right? As a presentation. It's going to be two hours and Jeff has to fill those two hours however he can. I think he did an interesting job of setting the stage, you know what I mean? To come out and be like, hey, here's the best selling games on Steam. So many of them are small teams. Da da da. It wasn't until we were deeper in I was like, oh, you did that. And now you're calling out, this is a 38 person team. This is a. Because that's what this year is. I think we could have gone harder. You know, I always talk about writing a review. Right. Is just persuasive writing. Writing a script for a show like this is as well. I think we could have had a thesis statement a little earlier of like, hey, this year it is all about the smaller teams and the smaller announcements and this, that and the other. Not doing that. But still being Geoff Keighley and still being Summer Game Fest and still being Hideo Kojima and Mads Mikal. Like we expect a certain level of a few pops throughout this. And I felt like this was a year where Summer Game Fest as a presentation really didn't have those pops on top of that. And I'm, you know, I'd like to imagine, you all know how much I love independent video game developers, smaller game devs. It's not that. The problem I had here was I felt so many games look alike. This is for me personally going to be one of those years of the trailer pops up or we mention the game and I'm like, all right, which one of the wet folks dripping in black stuff with a scythe fighting the thing was like there was just so many. I felt like I made a joke early on about Bloodborne ruined Action RP and here. And that was a joke for the record. But it was like, oh man, there are so many other games that I feel fall into that. It's this horror thing that isn't this thing. And so you get into a lose, lose situation for Jeff of you can't take a summer game fest off. You should highlight smaller games and smaller team teams. And if this is what's coming to you, it's what's coming to you. And we are talking about a very competitive landscape for showcases where you have things like six one indie doing theirs. Right. You have us with the mix in gdc. You have wholesome games. You have Day of the Devs happening right now. You have Xbox, you have a PlayStation data play. Clearly there are big players out there, small players out there that are doing things. But I think what you're seeing when you look at a wholesome games or a 6:1 indie, they get to massage their message better and really have a vision for this is what you're getting. And so for here, for the vision, I don't think to be as strong at the front of we're doing independent, we're doing small teams. We're here. I want to introduce you to the next Clare Obscure. I want to do something not having that and just kind of this felt like one that didn't have a through line to it. Usually the through line is it's the biggest games of the summer. It just didn't work here. So I'm now that I've given up my very long thesis, I would give this, I think a 5 out of 10 on the kind of funny scale. A mediocre. That's not a knock again. I mean it's just what I think of watching it or whatever. I think there's shine, there's shining stuff in here of like, oh, I'm excited for that game. But I think the majority of the games for me are going to be the. What was that one again? Or yeah, okay. Oh, the. Which game of Thrones is that? Oh, the RTS. Oh God.

[Andy Cortez]

If they didn't end with Resident Evil 9, it would have been, I think, a disaster. Yeah, like to have that little tease and even to see how bummed out Tim and Blessing were in that moment. Like, why would you just say we'll have something new coming up to announce. I was like, wow, that's going to be a real big bummer if you don't end with something like Half Life 3 or something of that magnitude. But they still ended with Resident Evil 9, which is nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Plus.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. With what Greg just said, Right. I think, yeah, yeah. I think my thing with it, I'm a 5 out of 10 as well, is to Greg's point, when I think of my time with the showcase. Right. It's hard for you to be salty with a showcase like this because. And I'm not either, and I don't think any of us are right. But, like, I think to kind of balance out where I'm at, where I'm about to be right, for me, it is the thing of. Yeah, I look at games like Felt that Boss Boxing. I look at games like Lego Voyagers. I look at Liza P. Overture. There's a lot. I look at Acts of Blood. There's a large amount of games here where I'm like, man, I'm so excited about video games, man. Video games are so cool, man. I'm coming out of this showcase being with a handful of games that I cannot wait for. And I think with that, I'm high on it as far as like, oh, shit, I'm really excited about the future of this. I think to balance that out, though, the big problem here is the construction of the show. And funny enough, six one indie came to mind for me as well, which is a show that most of the people watching this have not seen. It's an indie showcase and I watched it a few weeks ago when it went up and that show had way better construction. And to your point, Greg, like, they teed the games up very well of. Oh, now let's take a look at these comedy games. Now let's take a look at, you know, this category of games, right? And they're able to make those montages make sense and make those trailer showcases very exciting and interesting. I look back at the Annapurna showcases that we've gotten before that do such a great job of teeing up devs and creating stories, creating through lines that keep us engaged and interested. The big problem here and why I would give this showcase a 5 out of 10 is when I think about the goal of Summer Game Fest and what you're here to do. You're here to put people on, right? You're here to put people on to games that they might not have heard of. Of course. Here to showcase, like the big new exciting games or whatever, right? But when we're talking about years that might be down years, guess what? You want people to be hyped as for Acts of Blood in all the games, Lego Voyagers and felt that boxing, these games that I'm naming. And when you have that coupled with so much, just so much bloat, so much downtime, so much of the of a showcase where I'm kind of like bored, wanting to pick up my phone, not really caring about what's on screen. To Greg's point, having a bunch of souls games that for a lot of people do mold together even for me and I'm sure for Andy too, right? Like I see code vein. I see, I mean lies overtures, hype as fuck, right? But I see quite a few of these souls things and I'm like, yeah, like when you have these spread out through the show like this, they kind of meld together in a certain way. That's not doing the games that stand out as service because then it's like I'm just not excited throughout the whole thing, right? Like you want to do these games of service and I wonder, does this need to be two hours? Could this have been an hour long show? We get into the argument of paying the bills and the commercials and all that stuff but you got to balance it because you got to maintain the show as something that has prestige and something that people want to pay attention to and want to tune in for and are excited for. And so I came out of this with a lot of games I'm excited for but I think this year needed some work as far as the pacing and construction.

[Andy Cortez]

I think something goes with the prestige as well. Like you we've seen what keely and with the names that he's been able to get in the past. And you also can't force big developers to say show me your big game and or show me something even though you're not ready. I don't care. So I totally get that part of it. But when I like the collection of games we saw here is as stoked as I'd be if I watched the Future Game Showcase which is like a couple of weeks ago and I saw about seven to 10 games. I'm like, oh, those all look really cool. Let me write those down. I just kind of felt like that level which is, you know, that sounds like I'm kind of, you know, talking shit about it. But I think you can still have those selection of games along with the larger big titles. And if you don't it's gonna feel like another one of these showcases that is the Future Game Showcase or a wish list.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A wish List showcase.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, here's some cool stuff to see and add to your listen to it. I think it's the idea that. And I tell me if I'M out of school on this one. But it's the idea that like that's not what a Jeff showcase traditionally is or at least what we think about it. When we think about sgf, we're thinking about maybe they have Half Life three, maybe of this. Maybe we think about Jeff, we think Maybe they have HalfLife 3. Maybe they have something for Naughty Dog.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim I've never been more proud of you guys talking about the storytelling of these showcases. You know what I mean? Like yes, we need to care about that stuff in this show. Needed to care a little bit more about that stuff. This was a hard watch, I would say and I think there's a lot of reasons for that. I I'm in line with all of you. I'm between the five and the six and I think I'm actually going to settle on the 5.5 because we do that here. And the reason for that, the reason I'm thinking six is while yes, there was just a lot of games here or whatever. I'm looking at a lot of these smaller titles and how many of them I'm like, I'm legitimately interested. Not just that looks cool but the felt that boxing out of Words, Acts of Blood, the Scott Pilgrim Ex. Like there's a fair amount of games here into the unwell he blighted. Blighted, yeah. Like there's so many of those games. They're not just like the oh that looks kind of neat. It's like the these could be the next big indie games that we're talking about. So I don't want to overlook that where it's like I do think that they delivered on the let's show up for the small teams and showcase these games well. But when you surround it with a lot of let's call it noise and I'd call it that both on the the clear gotcha commercials which again commercials pay the bills. They have to happen and I totally understand that. I think they can be and should be presented better. And on top of that it's the cool the AAA games are here but when there showcases every single day legitimately, like James Bond is probably going to come up multiple more times this weekend. That kind of sucks. You know we've even back in the day we would not like when Call of Duty showed up multiple times throughout the weekend. And I feel like the big James Bond game stuff feels like a paid ad when you have a guy come up on stage that we're just like get this guy off the stage. Like that's not fun. And I feel like these showcases need to be fun. Even the Kojima stuff, I think it's like, I. I know people's opinions are split on the Kojima. I think having them there is awesome. You should always have Kojima. Maybe don't take that long though, if you don't really have anything to say. If it's just getting hyped for death stranding, which I think there's value to in a showcase celebrating games and bringing in eyes and all that. But no music performance, you know? No, no. Like, even kind of like fun thing like that to kind of celebrate in a different way that I think could have really broke up the pacing in a necessary way. And I'm not talking about paid advertisement music or like, what the. Why are you doing this? But Expedition 33 music, that would have got a lot of people hyped in a way, would have pissed other people off. That's opinions. That's how things go.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, we're going to have that for game awards. Game of the year. We can't show it.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, they. They got Resident Evil. Like the expectations for what a Jeff show could be. That wasn't at a PlayStation thing. I think the shift of power of expecting Resident Evil to be a PlayStation. But now Resident Evil 9, the next core Resident Evil game, announced a keely summer show. I think that's a good sign for the keely summer shows. But I hated how they announced it. Like, I legitimately like that. To say I'm offended is way too extreme. But like, that sucked. That was not fun. That was not cute. That was just like, I was already not into the show and it made me kind of hate the show. It's not like a fun you got me type thing. And by the end of it, it's like, yo, look, I AM hyped on RE9. Like, everything we saw there. Going back to Raccoon City after the bomb. Yeah, that sounds very, very cool to me. Requiem. So sick ass name. Like, I'm. I'm all about that stuff. But then there's other things where clearly I fucking love Animusha. I can't wait for this game to come back. Do we need to keep seeing it this way? Yeah, I don't think we do.

[Greg Miller]

When I. When we look at games like. And I don't want to compare Onimusha to Mecha Break and Split Gate two.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

But there are the brand of games where it's. Once they start showing up too much, they then turn into the noise of a Call of Duty. Presentation that makes me go, all right, cool. This is now. This is now just noise to me.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Even though there is hype for Onimusha.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So. And even then, like the Animusha trailer, it's like, it does show me even more of like, okay, they're keeping the spirit of Animusha alive and we haven't seen that much yet. Like, we are getting these like, over the top characters, which we. They could have just moved on from. And it could have been a way more modern, traditional, like, I'm serious as hell Samurai game. It's not that, thank God. But otherwise, it's like, it's just. It's tough because there was so much good stuff here. Mina the Hollower got a release date. We were looking forward to that. Liza P got a shadow drop. That's awesome. Multiple game demos and stuff dropped today that were like, that's pretty freaking cool. But there's just so much other stuff. And I think the way it was presented. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm dragged it down. Right. Like, I feel like looking through my notes and I was starting to highlighting games that I care about. I talk about, like, I'm highlighting a lot of stuff, but it's like, oh, like, yeah, you're talking about me and Hollow. Like, how long has everybody been waiting for that? And it happened. But it's kind of like, okay, this wasn't so many times. You're looking at, oh my God, we're already an hour 15 in. I don't want this to end. I was looking at the clock for sure. You're like, what's going on? How much more do we have? Real quick breaking news that me and Blessing care about For Day of the Devs. Escape Academy 2. Back to School has been announced.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2026. Can't wait.

[Tim Gettys]

That's awesome, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Me and the Hollow looks great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It does look great. Again, I'm knocking the game.

[Andy Cortez]

Really, really great news to come out of this. This is breaking news as well. I got my Soul Frame code from being in a Twitch chat.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, okay, wait. Did you have to. Did you have to chat in the chat or.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you just gotta be there.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Because I. I had. I did the same thing. Let me see.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, check your Twitch extensions or whatever your rewards.

[Greg Miller]

I got. I got Soul Frame too. Let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, let's. Let's go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sunbro said Greg is just mad there aren't more shallow Nintendo games on display.

[Tim Gettys]

Who the are you? Nintendo games?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At least give me a shallow.

[Andy Cortez]

You're the biggest Nintendo fan I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You those shallow fantasy life I gave people of 200 hours in.

[Andy Cortez]

Sir, you got to say, like, if you want to make fun of Gray, you got to talk about games with like, you know, dead dads and stuff like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, Love a good dead dad.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

A couple super chats real quick before we get into our thoughts on stuff. Opponent prime, give it a 6 out of 10. That wet fart of a trailer for Death Stranding to set the tone for this whole show. RE9 couldn't save this from being one of the most boring SGFs in years. They can always be bangers. Save us Xbox. Still have very high hopes for Xbox. I think that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me too. More than ever. Because again, I would hope that the fact that Jeff's here with stuff that is smaller team, it means that everybody's holding their things because PlayStation a good state of play now can we get a good Xbox showcase out of this? A good outer world.

[Tim Gettys]

No Xbox stuff here too. Which that I feel means we're going to get port announcements, which is cool and exciting. But then also new games, like all the new games from Xbox.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a great call out that.

[Greg Miller]

The.

[Andy Cortez]

Death Stranding trailer or new footage of Death Stranding. It was two people talking to each other. And like that is so kind of emblematic of not even The Death Stranding 2 trailer could have had. Weird. That made me go, oh, what the hell is going on? It was just two amazingly rendered actors.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Like just kind of as the person who's.

[Greg Miller]

Who went and played 30 hours of a preview. This made no sense to show, by the way. Like, made no sense to show.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not to mention we've kind of seen it already. I know this is extended, but it's like I was like, oh, when they hug at the end, I guess it's the new part. Okay, whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Didn't like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Didn't like it.

[Tim Gettys]

Says Liza P. Mina, the hollow were in re 9. Yes. Otherwise, Man Kebab says 6 out of 10 most excited for Lego Voyage. Lucy was great.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, Lego Voyage, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

That looks great. We got a two player that High.

[Tim Gettys]

Voltage says Elisa Ashcroft is a character from Re Outbreak. A very possible connection to the new game. Yeah, that's hilarious. Re Outbreak was like the first multiplayer Resident Evil game on PS2. All right. Yeah, let's go back to that. Let's start at the top of the show.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I say one thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was I wrong? I didn't see one switch to logo or wordage anywhere. All press releases are talking about switch that I'VE been getting.

[Tim Gettys]

It was just during one of the commercials there was a switch to logo that popped up at the crowd cheered and then it was just commercial for some. Not Switch 2 but for some Gamecom to switch to.

[Greg Miller]

Can I. Can I shout out a couple things that were missing? Silksong. Do we not just expect that at Xbox?

[Andy Cortez]

Absolutely not.

[Greg Miller]

We're Silksong.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't expect it this weekend.

[Greg Miller]

Don't do that.

[Andy Cortez]

Like Andy said, give up on half life 3. Give up on Silksong.

[Greg Miller]

Also the streets that this week have been talking about the God of War, like Greek Project 2 5D game. That's.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Where the fuck is that?

[Tim Gettys]

That is not real.

[Andy Cortez]

Really kind of surprised.

[Tim Gettys]

That's also my fantasy critic.

[Andy Cortez]

Really surprised by the. The arc raiders like non news. Unless there's been something that's happened in a press release after the fact that always kind of happens randomly where you're like, oh, why didn't they say this during the show? But that was really shocking to not even have a. For the June six date that was being data mined in the game to not even say that, oh, that's the new date for a new, you know, network test or a new beta.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Sean Spagener says there were no games that got me. The show is an absolute stinker. Getting a 2 out of 10 for me.

[Greg Miller]

I don't believe you.

[Tim Gettys]

It could have been a tweet. I'm here to support y' all.

[Greg Miller]

No games that got me.

[Andy Cortez]

Not even one.

[Greg Miller]

I don't believe the tweet I think is a bit much like I understand being very disappointed, but the no games that got me, that's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go through these.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm into Pong likes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If it ain't a brick breaker. I don't want to know about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Started off with Mortal Shell 2, 2026. PlayStation, PC, Xbox, heavy meta blessing.

[Andy Cortez]

What's up with that? What's up with.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know, man. Neither of us like as you were.

[Tim Gettys]

It's a game.

[Andy Cortez]

You mentioned that you played a couple hours of it and I haven't. So I was a blessing.

[Greg Miller]

I say a couple hours. I said 15 minutes. I booted it up, did one Perry and I was like, I'm good.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I mean I think. I think one thing that was completely evident in this showcase is something that Greg brought up and how, you know, the. The monotonous nature of a lot of these very dark looking fantasy games with really, really grotesque creatures and. And everything is Looking like they are going for that from software thing. I think one thing that is supremely evident is how, how talented so many of these teams are and how amazing they look. So they make so many of these visuals look. And it's no longer just going to be a thing where it's not that it is now starting, but it's. It's not. Just like you need a big team to make your game look amazing. You could be a team of 40 or 50 and you can pump out something like that. It looks amazing. Will I try it out? Yeah, I feel like I have to try it out as a Souls fan, but I don't, I don't expect much from it. As somebody who only watched Lawrence Sontag play and stream part one, it's never something that I actually booted up.

[Greg Miller]

For me it's like when you're watching one of those like scene contest reality shows. Like a whatchamacallit, Wings of Voice. Yeah. Like the Void or like American Idol or some right of like you get to the final five and they're all talented people but only one of you is going to survive. It's going to be from software. There's only one winner in this space. Like I look at the first Berserker. Kazan is like a prime example for me of a game that is so fucking good. But like I played probably half of it and after a while I was just like, brother, I played this game a million times in the last few years. Right. Like we're making souls like left and right and I don't have time for them all.

[Andy Cortez]

So.

[Greg Miller]

But it looks really cool.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks really, really impressive.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up we had Fortnite, the Galactic Battle Five Death Star sabotage coming June 7th tomorrow, gonna blow up the island. So we get Superman on Battle Pass. Let's know from Greg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's all I care. Yeah. Of course the Fortnite Battle Pass leaked as it always does, and it had Superman front and center, of course from the new movie and then Tim Drake Robin next to him. So there's rumors that maybe It'll be a D.C. pass. Maybe it'll just be Superhero Pass. Maybe it'll be just a page of superheroes. But that's what I'm excited for. So I'm excited to get through all of this.

[Tim Gettys]

Any, any. No, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My thing about. I mean to give you. I mean to give you more. The Death Star is going to blow up the island. They said, right. We always talk about, even though this isn't our game, like what a cool moment that is when they do these things that varies the game every together and then yet even for me, if it's a superhero battle pass, I don't think I'll play Fortnite. I don't think I'll play it this season. There's too much going on.

[Tim Gettys]

Next up, Kojima Death Stranding to Salt and Snake Man, AKA Neil is a porter. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Which honestly, like Again, I played 30 hours. This video game. I would prefer not to know that. I would prefer to like discover that and like.

[Tim Gettys]

Like there are things in that trailer.

[Greg Miller]

I'm like, huh, that's interesting to. Yeah, that's wild. Also made no sense to show this here. I like there are so many cool cutscenes in this video game that I can think of that you should have showed this audience, not that one.

[Andy Cortez]

You should have just showed off that nine minute trailer again and just acted like nobody had seen it before. Yeah, I would have been way more. But it's so much more into it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a. Kind of stinker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

100%.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had Chronicles, Medieval Early Access 2026, the Devs, Raw Power Games, Tom Hardy narrating little trailer there.

[Andy Cortez]

So he's not in it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They said they made a point that he was narrating. I don't know. I don't know if he's actually in it or not.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, definitely not at all my type of game. But it was kind of cool seeing like the general with like the army approaching the cliff and then having the other army. I'm like, yeah, I haven't really played a game that I felt that way, but I never will.

[Andy Cortez]

Aaron with a five dollar super chat says Daily does his cooking with Moonlighter 2 Escape Academy 2, a mixtape. Oh yeah, we're missing out. Moonlighter 2. I'm pumped for Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Let me say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait for me.

[Greg Miller]

He said, what's the Hyper Light Breaker? Developer Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Somebody said new Heart Machine game Possessors.

[Andy Cortez]

Probably.

[Greg Miller]

Probably Possessors. Yeah. I'm just gonna have it on the background.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude.

[Tim Gettys]

We had Sonic racing, cross worlds. We had no Spongebob, but we did get Hatsune Miku Ichiban Joker. Coming September 25, 2025.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You get a Minecraft dimension coming soon too.

[Tim Gettys]

Cross platform play as well. Cool. All great stuff, you know. Like, I'm excited for that game. It's such a weird one that it was announced before Mario Kart. Now we have Mario Kart. But they're different.

[Greg Miller]

Are they? Are they?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Have you played the other ones?

[Greg Miller]

Like a little bit. They're really fun. But I'm like, I have Mario Kart.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, they're. They're different. I mean, I don't think it's. I don't have high hopes for this one, really.

[Andy Cortez]

Ever get an answer of who the green guy was?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Andy is dying to know. Jet the Hawk is what Chat was saying.

[Greg Miller]

Look how cool this is.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't know the game awards did this game. I googled like game awards on YouTube and they have the Summer Game Fest ASL live stream and then they have descriptive audio livestream and then they have like their actual stream of the showcase.

[Tim Gettys]

Super.

[Greg Miller]

The green guy. There was a night where you sent me a text.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was waiting for me to bring this up.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Ben, like. Or you sent me. I think it was a. Was it a page of a book or something?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So Ben's got a five minute Sonic stories book that are all just terrible. There's all awful. I hate reading when he picks it. But there was a page of a bunch of different sonic things. I took a photo. I sent. I sent it. I'm like uncle Bless on there. I'm like, uncle Bless. Who is this guy? Boys? Like, first off, didn't answer to like 24 hours later. And it was like, I have no idea.

[Greg Miller]

I think one of them was Jet the Hawk.

[Andy Cortez]

He's a hawker, huh?

[Greg Miller]

I don't know his backstory, if I'm being honest.

[Tim Gettys]

Code vein 2. A lot of sequels to games that I didn't know were going to get sequels.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, Atomic Heart made by Bandai. We got a golden cum shot on a painting that was real. It really was something. I think they went too far and, you know, I. I'm not one of them. Oh, wow. Seeing it again. Can we see it one more time?

[Greg Miller]

Golden cum shot also is a crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Sentence, but is it wrong?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm a descriptive journalist. All right. When I make my notes here, me, man, they knew what I'm.

[Greg Miller]

I'm happy with my brain with this one because I did not put together the cum shot thing and that's why you guys were so appalled by it. I was just like, oh, yeah, she bleeds.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I mean, I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

She bleeds gold Uzi.

[Andy Cortez]

That's one I'll definitely try out because I just, you know, I heard the first one was so mid that it wasn't super worth looking into. And I got a lot of questions about it as I was streaming Kazan and I was like, no, I haven't. I heard it was always whatever. But hopefully this is one where, you know, after A year of or after many years of development. Let's kind of upgrade our our recipe here with with what a soul's like can be Greg's underneath the desk right now.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of cool looking stuff in this one.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got End of abyss was from section 92026 from Epic Game Studios has had all the Finger Creatures an atmospheric action adventure game set in a dark sci fi world with an emphasis on exploration supported by engaging intense combat in the depths of a mysterious underground compound.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just in case my notes were confusing. I'm sorry section 9 was the dev Epic is publishing.

[Tim Gettys]

Looks cool this the yeah I wrote that in my notes. Just looks cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah I didn't realize that it was a laser pointer in that first shot. It looked like just a long pointer like a. Or. Or like a fishing rod or something like that. But yeah I love the art style of it just seems yeah like a very kind of what if little nightmares and inside were a 3 3rd person like action adventure shooter.

[Tim Gettys]

This is one of those games that I want someone to taste make for me like I want someone else to play it and let me know do I need to or not. You know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah I'm sure we will.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got mouse PI for hire. No release date.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No release date. No giant new area or anything. Just choice. Well I guess this is where you fall into. Could have been a press. This could have been press release. I would have hope you'd pair it with a release date to make it really pop right of like Troy's in it.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what I didn't like is I just feel like at this point if it's gonna show up here you need the date.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah it looks good. I want to play this game. Just let me.

[Greg Miller]

I got some news for Andy. Andy. Possessors demo is out now.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh oh so many demos.

[Tim Gettys]

Game of Thrones War for Resteros come in 2026 on Steam. It's an RTS Playsides publishing officially licensed by Warner Brothers Interactive. Cool. Looks like we're getting some like what if situations. Jon Snow getting got by the Night King. No gameplay. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I was about to ask what did.

[Andy Cortez]

The gameplay look like Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean we can all assume you know what I mean. We need to see it.

[Andy Cortez]

We know Clicking on Shit.

[Tim Gettys]

I real talk like I do think this is and maybe I'm wrong but from my memory I think this might easily be the worst opening to a summer game fest we've ever had.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah it's one of those where it's hard to be like I remember them it was an encyclopedic knowledge. But I was watching this feeling that of like, wow, we aren't opening well. Which usually isn't a good sign for how this is going to go. Yeah, like, I don't think we ever ride to the ship and we're like, all right, now we're into the hype. And now the hype's happening.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Atomic Heart 2 from Munfish Action Adventure RPG coming to PC and consoles. No data or anything. It's an active development. Just a week after the announcement that Atomic heart has surpassed 10 million players worldwide, M. Fish has revealed today at Summer Game Fest that Atomic Heart 2, the sequel to the retro futuristic action adventure first person shooters in active development for PC and consoles.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that was a game pass game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. Then they went on to also announced the Cube. The Cube, an MMO RPG shooter. A giant lev levitating cube with rotating rows and edges. Hidden within is an unknown equation capable of altering the laws of reality. Coming to PC and consoles. The third note Greg wrote down was just all caps.

[Andy Cortez]

Ass.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They had some ass.

[Tim Gettys]

They looked like ass, but they were asses.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ass happening in this guys for sure. They went back to back with the. They went ass to ass with it.

[Andy Cortez]

So initially while watching this, you see atomic R2 and you go, oh, okay, this is a follow up to the single player Atomic Heart. This is going to be a single player experience. And they show something else and you go, oh, this is going to be their multiplayer thing to hopefully, you know, generate some revenue for whatever the hell. But then they said MMO RPG first person shooter. I'm like, oh, it's like a shared world.

[Greg Miller]

Like, like a destiny.

[Andy Cortez]

Like a destiny or division type deal.

[Greg Miller]

On a Rubik's Cube.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, the Cube. Yeah, the Cube is an MMORPG shooter. A giant levitating cube with rotating rows and edges.

[Greg Miller]

Crazy idea.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hidden within is an unknown equation capable of altering the laws of reality.

[Greg Miller]

They said it's in the atomic universe. So the same universe is atomic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Which again leads me to questions of what the fuck is up with Atomic Heart? Like, did that game was that game?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's so hard as an audience that they're like, we're doing every 10 million players worldwide.

[Greg Miller]

Good for them. I wouldn't have known.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Cube blends tactical combat, deep RPG progression and chaotic exploration, all powered by Mund Fish's proprietary split rendering tech that redefines real time motion in multiplayer worlds.

[Andy Cortez]

This is like a put up or shut up for Andy because it's like well, you better. You've been asking for a divi. Another division type thing. Yeah, for a while. I know that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotta ask for days. Look at Moonlighter too. Look how good it looks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't wait.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at that.

[Tim Gettys]

Then next up we had Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Two new characters announced. Rocket Raccoon and she Hulk. Both look great. This game looks awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One of the highlights of this presentation for me where again, I'm not the beat em up guy, but like I love this IP and world enough that I'm going to get in there with Cap and she Hulk and whoever and fuck around again. You won't give me another ultimate alliance. This will have to do.

[Tim Gettys]

And for me, I've said this so much, especially last year when the Marvel vs. Capcom collection came out. But there's just something so perfect about the. The not just look, but the soundtracks and sound effects and voice lines and stuff of the 90s Marvel fighting games. And I love that they're taking that and applying it to this format. We've had Marvel beat em ups before, but we haven't had ones with that style. This is kind of like a dream situation from a team that we know can get the job done. So very excited. Next up we had Audim the sword from capcom coming in 2026. A little bit more gameplay here. A couple of different weapons. There was one really cool attack. You did that like split the screen.

[Andy Cortez]

It looked like Doctor Strange. Mirror world type. Yeah. Universe.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool stuff. But like I was saying a little earlier, like the big selling point for me here is the. The goofy villain enemies and like the kind of back and forth between the characters there is exactly what I want from Animusha game. So very excited for this. Excited. They're saying it's gonna be playable soon at Gamescom.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Here's the Mirror attack Bear. Got it. Barrett got it.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett's got it. Cause he's married.

[Andy Cortez]

Are we sending you to Germany?

[Tim Gettys]

Might need to go. I don't know. Never been. Next up, we have felt that boxing from Song String Studios.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Stand out. Stand out.

[Tim Gettys]

Here you can wish list now on Steam and I definitely will. Flying Lotus did the music Greg writes, whoever that is.

[Greg Miller]

Jesus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You all. You all flipped out. I do not know who Flying Lotus is, but I'm glad the children enjoy them.

[Andy Cortez]

Fly low and people will be like, oh, he knows.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

El Fly low.

[Tim Gettys]

This got me every which way. Yeah, like starting it off, it says all right. They set it up. Oh, it's gonna be a funny thing. But it's also gonna be this. Whatever. And like, it looks stunning. It is, I think, actually funny.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And the gameplay style, my. Yeah. This reminds me of a lot of the dumb and like, old school. Not just dumb, but old school stuff that I love so much. So. Yeah, definitely excited for this one. I just played. I forget the name of it. It's like Thunder. Thunder. Not Thunder Ross and not Thunderbolt. It was a punch out. Like, that was hella stylized. I played it on Steam deck and I really, really loved it. Thunder Joe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thunder. Thunder Joe.

[Andy Cortez]

How do we get Elise Willems?

[Tim Gettys]

Thunder Ray.

[Greg Miller]

There you go.

[Andy Cortez]

Elise Williams needs to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, her spidey sense must have gone nuts.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Love it.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks so real. Yeah. It's freaking me out, man.

[Tim Gettys]

And it's just weird that it's all gameplay. Like there's like the weird HUD elements. Every once in a while pop up, it's like, oh, you're doing something.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Like, that's really looking forward to it, man. Can't wait to see more of that. That was very, very impressive. Very, very funny.

[Tim Gettys]

Great name. Then we got Killer in. In Deception We Trust. It's a murder mystery action game from Square Enix. Kill someone, a clue remains. Wolves win by killing every lamb. Loot, steal, escape and kill, etc. This coming. I'm sorry, It's a closed beta coming soon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And one that started up, I was like, okay, whatever. And then the idea of the. You leave a clue when you kill somebody. That's neat. That's a neat little wrinkle to it of trying to figure this out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I fuck with this heavy.

[Tim Gettys]

24 players, it said.

[Greg Miller]

24 players is a lot like I. For social deduction games, I prefer like a more intimate experience, you know what I mean? So, like, I want to see how they balance that. Like, I think with the Clue system, I could see it being a thing of. All right, it's 12v12. Like, you know, it really is more about the chase to take people out and collect the clues to, you know, win for your team. But I feel like that gets a little. A little bit away from like the all right, know the strategies of the players that you're playing with kind of thing. But I like it. It's unique, it's interesting. I'd like to play more Andy.

[Tim Gettys]

I got glare on that. What's that blue name in the chat room says OST by Yoko Shimomura. For sure sounded like her. It definitely did sound like her. And it being square, like potentially, I'd be surprised for this level of game. But that would be pretty cool and would definitely add some prestige to it. But I. I kind of get in a very different way Foam stars vibes from this of just like there's no way this is gonna work. Even if it's a cool idea. If it's a good game. Like seems a little.

[Andy Cortez]

You should expand to 24 players when you got confidence.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Shut up. With a player lobbies.

[Greg Miller]

Who developed a Death Note game? The social Deduction when we did the stream. Because this kind of gives me. That was a cool hint of that. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't remember.

[Greg Miller]

Chat let me know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was a Bandai Nameco one.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it was. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wasn't it?

[Greg Miller]

Never mind. I was hoping it was Square Enix.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, sorry.

[Andy Cortez]

I have heartburn.

[Tim Gettys]

Go back.

[Greg Miller]

Hold on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Control shift T. Control shift T. I'm.

[Andy Cortez]

Gonna grab an antacid real quick.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I thought it was this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, forget it. My bad. ARC Raiders October 30th. A bit of a let.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Then it didn't time that one out well.

[Andy Cortez]

Come back. Yeah. I mean every. Everything just seemed like it was pointing in the right direction. It wasn't even a. Like there are these really, really loose rumors. It just felt like kind of it was gonna happen. Especially with how awesome the. The last beta felt and. Yeah. October 30th. We'll see if they'll release a date soon for another closed network test.

[Tim Gettys]

It did seem like highly. They're hyping it up a bit in a way that I don't understand. But please explain this to me. Keely didn't promote too much stuff or hype too much stuff up, but he did post a picture of a rooster on the stage today.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Does a rooster have something to do with Arc Raiders?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a. I mean it was here and they got a release date, but. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. One of the roosters.

[Tim Gettys]

A little.

[Andy Cortez]

Little friend you have back at your base who you send him out on missions to go get random like weapons parts or things like that and he comes back and gives you things. But I didn't even see that tweet.

[Tim Gettys]

So that's like he was on the summer game fest stage.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Crazy posted rooster.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thanks, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

You gotta play. You gotta play this one with us.

[Greg Miller]

Bless this is revealed it. I've been wanting to play it.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a really cool experience. Like it when everything goes great, then the tensions are high and me and Mike and our homie Maddock are in one room talking to another team and they're like, you just let us go, we'll be totally chill. We're gonna be totally chill. Kill him and kill him right there. It's, it's, it's a lot of fun whenever things work out. Or it could be your biggest nightmare when you have four runs in a row and you just lose. But yeah, this is. This kind of the beta test happened at the perfect time. After Marathon was not impressing a whole lot of people. And this released kind of right after and it had voice proximity chat. And I start off, start off a game and I'm running and I hear somebody running behind me. I turn around and I shoot. He's like, oh, stop. I just got here. I don't have anything. I was like, all right, just turn around and run away. Like, it. It has those moments that you are super memorable because it feels like you are. Like you're interacting in a different experience with somebody. And Marathon lacked that. And that's. Yeah, I'm going to get water for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thanks, brother.

[Andy Cortez]

Sometimes it's.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had dune awakening come June 10, just a couple days away. We're planning to stream it next week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's right. Yeah. A lot of excitement around this one, I think. You know, bless talked about it. It's that game that everybody sees and like, this shouldn't work, but everybody says it works and even me, I'm not a Dune guy, but I like an mmo. I have in the past. I'd like to try it out. I like to see if it works. When we've seen the demos before, they're doing enough interesting stuff. It's like, okay, let's see if it comes together.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm kind of the reverse of Greg where I'm not a survival MMO guy, but I do love the Dune movies. And so, like, I'm looking for an excuse just to live in this universe. And this is the most you can live in a universe. So if people are in, if there's buy in from Greg and Andy and Mike and whoever, like, I'm being there.

[Tim Gettys]

We got Chrono odyssey playtest coming June 20th, and then Wuthering Waves. Do either you have anything to say about those?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no. This is definitely when you're getting into that thing of like, yes, these are titles I remember writing down.

[Tim Gettys]

They are titles, everybody. And you know what these are? Advertisements.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, Andy was so close. He could have just.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So bless. What I found interesting about it was beforehand I was talking about like there's so much going on, there's so many things to be excited about. My expectations are so low for SGF that hopefully it'll wildly exceed them, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it went the opposite where my expectations were so low and they probably met those low expectations. But everything else around it is so exciting. I was like God I wish I was playing Zelda on Switch 2 right now. I wish you were playing this.

[Greg Miller]

I wish I was at home playing Lies that, People.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This and the other. I'm like, I'm excited to play games tomorrow. Xbox. Xbox is right around the corner.

[Greg Miller]

What if we took a company day, two days off, you know what I mean? Just for. Just for catching up on games. But we just ran ads, so I still got paid.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, here's why.

[Greg Miller]

We just upload the ads to our subscribers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There is an argument. There is an argument to be made. Mike has had an obscene amount of days off recently. So if we just made Mike do all the shows for two days.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm really sad, you guys. Yeah, Walmart didn't send me Pringles. No Switch. That's messed up, man. Fucking late.

[Andy Cortez]

Where's my Mario Kart?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

God.

[Tim Gettys]

At least Joey has a Switch now, so that's good. Mio memories in orbit. Metroidvania Steam demo out right now, which is very exciting. I am very excited for this one. It popped up for the first time at a Nintendo Direct, and it looks very, very cool. Very up my alley. And it looks a lot better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's better here.

[Tim Gettys]

The Switch version, which, yeah, I'm very excited about. That was cool to see. I'm happy it was here. This is the type of game I want to be reminded of.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, just fascinating.

[Andy Cortez]

But it didn't even have a Switch logo on the.

[Tim Gettys]

It didn't. Which I thought was weird, but I think, like.

[Andy Cortez]

And then I.

[Tim Gettys]

And then I bring that part up because I do want to. There was a lot of text. I couldn't get caught up on it.

[Andy Cortez]

And then I convinced myself maybe it wasn't a Nintendo event, maybe it was at an Xbox show. But no, I remember.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe we've never seen this.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, just because it. It was at a Nintendo event doesn't mean. Oh, you're talking about the end of the. Yeah. Oh, like that. Like, not even having a logo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There it is. Nintendo Switch.

[Andy Cortez]

Man. I'm so sorry, podcast listeners. This must not be a pleasant experience.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is your 10th SGF E3 with us.

[Greg Miller]

You know what the energy is at this demo screen? Did I see PC and Xbox? PC?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Steam. Steam and Windows.

[Tim Gettys]

Xbox. PC.

[Greg Miller]

Why don't they have the demo just on Xbox, like regular Xbox, like my console?

[Andy Cortez]

They probably don't have a build ready for consoles for demo.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Okay. You know what? That makes a lot of sense.

[Tim Gettys]

But once Xbox OS gets announced, hopefully. Fingers crossed.

[Andy Cortez]

Think of the past five dollar super chat From Joe. Appreciate this.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He was dancing in the aisles over the bus.

[Tim Gettys]

Out of worlds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's not right.

[Tim Gettys]

Out of worlds, out of words.

[Andy Cortez]

Outer worlds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's not right. Outer worlds.

[Andy Cortez]

Said the same thing. What's wrong with you, man?

[Greg Miller]

He's struggling.

[Andy Cortez]

The words I'm thinking aren't mine. You're off, man.

[Greg Miller]

Take a break. I'll host.

[Tim Gettys]

Out of words. Out of words.

[Andy Cortez]

Help me.

[Tim Gettys]

Help me with two eyes, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Out of words. I think probably saying this when it popped up, I was like, oh, this is probably my game of the show. And I don't think off top of my head, anything we're going to talk about beyond here caught me as. Oh, fuck yeah. Like this is watching. This was probably the happiest moment of SGF 2025 for me. What a beautiful little game here. Epic publishing it, of course, handcrafted, as you can see. They made a big point of doing it, you know, this co op journey for two, 2026. Tim called it a happy inside, which I appreciated and thought really nailed it too. Is like you're playing with it jumping, you know, upside down, running all this stuff, the way it looks, the again, the feltiness of it, the wood of the characters and stuff. The clay looks gorgeous.

[Andy Cortez]

And I think we're finally getting to that time just because of the how long it takes to develop games. But we've set it on several gamescasts and several games dailies where you go, when are people gonna go after what. What Hazelight's doing, you know, and it's like we're. We're starting to see those seeds, you know, pop out of the ground, Tim. And they got little buds on them.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I love it, man. This another highlight for me like this. It's these type of games that I'm like, this isn't a bad showcase. It's just a mediocre showcase because it had some real, real gold announcements, right? Like things that we would not have known about. And I'm now excited for that and I want to play through that with you, Greg. I feel like that would be a lot of fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had Mafia the Old country trailer games coming August 8th.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

This is just more of like a fun reminder one, right? Like nothing new here.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I wanted to bring this up real quick. Corey Clark says that font looks like an Alexa ad. The whole time I was watching it, the font to me looked like Samsung Galaxy ad or on the out of words font.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, for me, when they popped it up, it looked the. It Looked like the EA Originals font. I was very much like, oh, is this. Oh, but it's epic. But it's also. It starts with an E and stuff. Yeah. Mafia Old country. Yeah. Just I think, hey, big stage. Remember, this is coming out in August, and it looks really great. I mean, it looks like a game that I want to play. If you're one of the blockbuster game fans like me.

[Tim Gettys]

What's the Metacritic prediction on this one?

[Andy Cortez]

I'll go 81.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn. I was gonna say, too, bro.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say 80 bet.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm gonna say an 83.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

We're all in the same.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Feel very good.

[Andy Cortez]

Same bracket. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think, you know, there's a huge Mafia fan base if you didn. Both for the organized crime organization and the games. And I think this is really a response that's going to resonate with them of like, hey, we know what Mafia is. There's these pillars of it being great having a story. We're giving you a linear story. Mafia. Yes, you can explore areas or whatever, but it's not what the bloat was of Mafia 3 with the driving across Louisiana that. That pushed so many people away. It's more doubling down on what Mafia Definitive Edition was.

[Tim Gettys]

Very cool. Yeah. The.

[Andy Cortez]

The remake that this team did for the first game had a 78 on open critic, which.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm gonna give an extra prediction. I think this will be in Greg's top five games of the year.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it won't be that, but it will be in my top 10.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Will be in my top 10.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it will be in my top 10.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. No, but he said top five. I'm asking you, do you think you'll put. I'll get it to my top.

[Greg Miller]

No, I think the fact that it's like a straightforward, like, narrative action adventure game that just sounds like something that sounds like we miss.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Uncharted.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. I don't know how much Greg likes.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you play Mafia one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I didn't. I reviewed two.

[Greg Miller]

I just know we're not getting many of those this year, at least.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Doesn't feel like I didn't play Definitive Edition, to be clear.

[Tim Gettys]

Gotcha.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

That's what I meant. Sorry.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Lego Voyagers, the deepest side from Andy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it the heartburn?

[Andy Cortez]

This is laughing so hard. Outer worlds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Outer worlds.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm telling you right now, like, look, something about the way it's bold and yellow. I'm seeing an L there. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

I don't see the L, but, you know. Oh, no, I'm not judging you we've.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All had these moments.

[Tim Gettys]

Lego Voyagers. It's a friends pass like Split Fiction from Annapurna2player Co Op game. Follow up to Builder's Journey. With years of experience under their belt, Light Brick Studio continues to deliver innovative gameplay that expertly captures these unique feeling of snapping together Lego bricks. Lego Voyagers features a vibrant world and a beautiful non verbal narrative about friendship and letting your imagination run wild when looking up at the sky. Hell yeah. Love to see this here dude.

[Greg Miller]

For real.

[Andy Cortez]

For real. Lego Builders Journey I think is such a must play for anybody. It's three hours long or something.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This was Apple Arcade. It might still be. It started off.

[Andy Cortez]

It started off Apple Arcade and then I remember it coming to PC and other platforms later and I played on PC and it was like full max ray tracing and looked unbelievable. But it's a game with no dialogue and you're just a little brick and you have a papa brick and it is. It will make you cry at the end of this. Like just beautiful little journey. Got some puzzling in there. And this looks like more of the same but two player sounds freaking great.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it all. It sells itself. This is awesome. Look forward to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Johnny Boss, super chat. Big fan of the Mafia. They saved my life.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had Nick Tunes in the Dice of Destiny. Carolyn Lawrence came out on stage, said a whole bunch of things real fast. I don't think many people caught on to it all.

[Greg Miller]

No, that is all right.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool. Fall 2025. Looks like a little Nickelodeon Diablo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can't fucking wait. When it was. When they're doing this and we're watching like all right, where's the kicker? Is it just Tiny Tina? Is it we're rolling dice? Is it. There's a lot of like. Is it going to be like a South park stick of truth? You know, whatever. And then like no, it's just spongebob running around hacking and slashing. I'm like, I don't give. There will be Nick tunes I'm sure in here that I give a about. They better have Rocco. All right.

[Andy Cortez]

You know that's a big ass.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that too old?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he got canceled.

[Greg Miller]

They brought back Rocco.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They got spongebob, man.

[Greg Miller]

When did they bring back Rocco? They probably. Rocco's Modern Life. Yeah, yeah, they brought back Rocco's Modern Life.

[Tim Gettys]

Like me, it was a movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love the idea of this one being what you call it Co op, local play. Ben getting involved with this one. Ben plays Justice League Cosmic Chaos with me a lot. Yeah. So he enjoys that. I mean you turn the easy on, he doesn't get hurt.

[Greg Miller]

See, I was gonna ask if you wanted to do this for like a stream when it comes to me and you, but like, it sounds like you wanna play with your son, Ben.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but I mean, Ben's gonna do the same thing he always does where he walks around and finds a car to drive and then I just do that.

[Greg Miller]

You want to play with Ben more than you want to play with me?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no, no, no.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the meta. The meta that Ben prefers. Like is never good. Like, you know you want to win.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hey, cool. You're Batman, Ben. You can glide around. You throw a battery. Cool. Where's a car? He goes, finds a truck. Superman gets in the passenger seat. He just drives around his truck. Fight something, Ben. Use a power.

[Andy Cortez]

I think I slipped into another universe. This never happened.

[Greg Miller]

You don't remember this?

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, you should watch it. It's cool.

[Greg Miller]

And this.

[Andy Cortez]

This came out 2019 on Netflix. The same year that Invader Zim did their little. You were all zoomed out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, because if I remember correctly, I forget those time travel involved or.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's a very cynical look at like, what if he was in modern times? The modern life of Rocco. I think you'd like it, Barrett.

[Andy Cortez]

It's on Netflix.

[Tim Gettys]

We got Eliza P. Overture available today. Wild Andy, your night is just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Andy called it. But then it still. It still caught him off guard.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I started to doubt more and more because I was like, well, we never got a review code unless they're just waiting for the game to come out, you know. And then, you know, I just. I was still excited for it, but then I was like, no, at the end of it, I ended up. Did I predict August something? Late August? Yeah, I think I predicted late August. You said August 20th something. Yeah, I should have predicted out today.

[Greg Miller]

Because I was feeling in my.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm pretty sure I said Shadow drop in the gamescast predictions, but today I changed my mind. But those still count. Those are the ones that are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Those are the ones that count. Yeah. No one remembers pre show stuff. Yeah, no one will remember out of Words, out of worlds.

[Andy Cortez]

This is the first boss that we fought in the. When me and Bless went to the preview event.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Like for 30 minutes straight. It was great.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Fractured Blooms beat this boss.

[Greg Miller]

I beat this one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Inspired by a true story.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. The. I didn't get to the Doki. Doki Cross Silent Hill. This game looked legitimately like. Like spooky and weird in a way that I don't think I'VE ever seen in a game. I don't like it. I'm not necessarily talked about playing this at all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like horror games and I look this. I was like, okay, no, it's not what I want to do. It doesn't look. I'm not looking like, I gotta play that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I just. I give him credit for obviously Doki Doki Literature Club, like some fucked up weird shit that we haven't seen. It's looking at this. I'm like, I don't. We've never seen that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The first one of the first paragraphs, the description right, from the press release. Go restore your neglected house to its former glowy glory by growing crops, cooking delicious meals, learning new recipes, and taking care of its inhabitants in this psychological life sim. So it sounds like we're trying to do like a dark animal crossing life sim. You know what I mean? Like where you're cooking and crafting. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I.

[Greg Miller]

This did not hit for me at all. I was actually kind of surprised because I'm somebody who really, really dug Doki Doki Literature Club. But that game does such a great job of kind of hiding what it's about outside of having like trigger warnings and stuff in the beginning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

But like, once you get into it, it very much plays it straight for just long enough before things go down in Doki Doki this. I mean, leading off with the trailer that already, from the get go, looks freaky, is doing a lot of things that are really dark and up. I don't know. Like, I. I want to. I want to see how they balance it in the final thing because it very much feels like they're leaning into the hype of Doki Doki. But I want to see if they get the. The same execution right. Of what Doki Doki did.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, Jesus Christ. We got into some stuff here. We just had a back to back commercial.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is just a commercial action.

[Tim Gettys]

Blade and Soul. Neo Blade and Soul Heroes. Crystal of Atlan Cross. One punch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is when they stop, like even putting black screens between them, just blending together. We're like, which game is this.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool? Seeing one punch, man, kind of. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

I wish it was cooler.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was the guy. Everybody go, what the fuck's happening? What game are we talking about?

[Greg Miller]

Well, they didn't. Do they. I don't think they ever made a good clean transition into. Oh, these are commercials. Like, the next commercial break, Jeff was like, all right, and we'll be right back. Right. And then made that Transition here. I think we're still in Summer Game Fest prime mode. And yeah, that just wasn't great.

[Tim Gettys]

But on top of, like not having a clear transition to commercials, there was no transition between games. Yeah, like, it just looked.

[Greg Miller]

It just all looked like one thing.

[Tim Gettys]

It looks so similar. Like, I don't know what's happening here. Jurassic World evolution. Jeff Goldblum. October 21st. For the first time, players can nurture juvenile dinosaurs as part of flourishing family units.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's all for you, man. Nurture a juvenile dinosaur.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, these games in theory are really like, they seem neat, but when I see a dino, I think it's going to be that first person survival game, you know? Where's that one at? Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Then Yacht Club Games Celia came out, announced Mina the Hollowers coming October 31st on Halloween. That's cool. Demo out now. The limited time demo gives players their first chance to hollow into Mina's bizarre world full of monsters and mystery. The demo's out now and will participate in Steam Next Fest from June 9th to 16th. It features the game's opening stage and concludes with the first major boss fight. Progress made in the demo will carry over to the full game. The demo will be removed after Steam Next Fest, so don't miss your chance to dive in.

[Andy Cortez]

Prediction.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

This will be Andy's number two. That's crazy. You love the Oracle games. No, I love them. But that, like.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I mean, here's the thing. That little mouse, it's adorable. You know, if this game is just good enough, it's gonna get some bonus points for that mouse.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, of course. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That was awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

The soundtrack's gonna rock.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I'm so stoked on that. Then we had Deadpool VR. Neil Patrick Harris is Deadpool. It's coming to the meta quest. Cal Penn is the voice of the man on the Dispatch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, he's a Shield agent.

[Tim Gettys]

It's his first day, late 2025. Marvel's Deadpool VR features an all new original story, lots of enemies to kill, and action packed. If you can imagine it, you could probably do it combat style. Greg, you played it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did. They came through the office a couple weeks ago and let me play the demo that I think they might have at sgf. I forget. But I got to play it. That's all that matters. It's fun. It's what you'd expect, right? It is. You pull out your swords like that and it is. You just kick back the bullets. You can switch to your guns, you can throw your swords. There's other Weapons to pick up. You get this anti grav gun that you use to rappel around the room or whatever. Obviously right there. Killing that guy is how the game starts. Deadpool's body's over on the table. Your head is on there. You have to then control your body from across the way to kill that guy. And blah, blah, blah. It's got the humor, it's got the thing, it's got the blood, it's got the guts. Like, you're cutting people in half. You're cutting them in, like long ways sideways, depending on how you're doing your sword. It's not dynamic, you know, but it's like inter. It's not dynamic in terms of every. When you cut somebody any different way, it's cutting exactly. Vengeance. But it is the idea that if you go sideways, you're gonna get that animation of sideways and, you know, at the waist, in the waist or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Were you doing crazy plays? Like all those midair type.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, they encouraged you to really around with it. They're like, you can just walk around and shoot if you want. You can just throw your sword, but you jump up, you. You know, there's different ways to jump and then slam down and do this. Like, they were encouraging me to do that and jump off the walls and shit. And so I was getting in the flow of it as I played through the lengthy demo. They're really far along with this one Neil Patrick Harris, Deadpool in it, which I love the idea of, but something about playing it didn't work for me in that very limited, maybe 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever it was that I played, where it's like, I don't feel like he's going full Neil Patrick Harris. I feel like he. It feels like that. I saw somebody in the chat called it, like, oh, it sounds like he's sleepy, like Neil Patrick Harris. And that's the entire way. You know what I mean? Like, I want higher highs and lower lows than what I was getting out there. And it does kind of sound. And I know this is reductive and I don't mean it. It does kind of sound like he's doing a Ryan Reynolds impression rather than what Neil Patrick Harris would do or Barney from How I Met yout Mother would do. But again, early on, we'll see how it is. I did, like the interplay between him and Kal Penn on the radio. I did like some of the lines of it. It's just the performance wasn't all about it.

[Tim Gettys]

Does the game have, like, meta gaming humor? Because the trailer, I appreciated the like insomniac jokes and you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yes. I don't remember any of them off my head. It was like they were making an insomniac reference in game. But they did reference. Like you're getting very gamey mechanics or a tutorial or something like that. That's. They're making that reference. Deadpool comics to run around and collect. So there's the fun bit to it. So if you're a VR person or a Deadpool person looking for that. Yeah. I think there's something here to keep your eye on. Will it all pan out? Will it work? You know, blah, blah, blah.

[Tim Gettys]

Barrett, you're about to say something.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, just the. It felt like he was given the direction of. Try to go for Ryan Reynolds in terms of his. His performance here and it just kind of lands flat. And who is this team? Do we know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We do. Did I not jot that down? Is it not over there? I didn't. Two seconds. Let me give it to you. They're a bun. I. I think they're a newer studio. I forget if they've done a lot of stuff. It is from Twisted Pixel Studio. Twisted Pixel, who I think got acquired by Oculus Studio. Twisted Game. Game development. They did the Maw, which I remember people talking about Path of the Warrior, Defector, the B team, Wilson's Heart Loco Cycle. I remember.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus Christ.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was an Xbox game. Gun. Stringer. Okay. Ms. Splosion. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The Maw. Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong about them getting acquired. I forget now.

[Andy Cortez]

So this isn't the Batman Arkham Team.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, no, no. That's. It's not camouflage. No, no, no. They are a meta, apparently.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, as somebody who doesn't with VR and still won't. And no matter how hard I try, maybe I'll just take one of them, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

The medicines you take. Those little pills you take.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Weed.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. But I. When I look at the gameplay, it's like I love an anti grab gun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

I love manipulating with gravity and then shooting. It's like if it was just a keyboard mouse game, I would probably fuck with this.

[Tim Gettys]

But I just can't do VR dying like the beast. Coming August 22nd. Bless Greg, we're popping back into the world.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I'm good.

[Greg Miller]

It depends on what time it comes out. Like, I mean, it depends what comes out around it. Right. Like, am I going to be busy? Am I going to be. I probably will be busy. Like knowing what gaming is nowadays and what it is. This Year. But, like, honestly, I would love to give it a go. Dying Light 2 was a surprise for us when it came.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Surprising delight.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it surprised and delighted us because it came out in a January that didn't have much else going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A really good time when you could play through that whole game like, all right, cool. Yeah. But it's like Dying Light is just. It's too far into the weird Resident Evil meta narrative. You know what I mean? Like, I like a zombie game. It's more like we're trying to survive the thing, not there's all these horrible things who have been tested on. So it's like, I'm not hungry for this at all. I'm not. I'm not looking for.

[Greg Miller]

I think hungry is a good word to use because I'm not hungry for it either. But if I have the space and time, I would definitely pick it up and give it a try.

[Tim Gettys]

The man mixtape coming this year. Got it. Coming soon. Soundtrack announced. Looks awesome. I'm so hyped on this, and I'm really, really, really hopeful. Artful Escape was my favorite game a couple years back, and so this looks even better to me. But I really, really like their. Their vibes and like the references and just like, they're kind of just like tone that they got going. And this just speaks to me even more. So. Yeah, hope it lives up to expectations.

[Greg Miller]

This is giving me some of the vibes that I wanted out of lost records. Bloomer Rage 100, combined with the thousand of being the studio that did Artful Escape, which is like, it wasn't a game that spoke to me as much. Right. Just because of taste or whatever. But as I look at this, it's the same thing that Tim's saying of. Oh, man, I. I want this. Like, this is speaking to me so much. I can't wait to jump into it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

As you mentioned, Pop Agenda doing PR with this one through Annapurna or whatever. So I'm gonna just give you this embargoed image. I just got, like, that's how they set up the stuff at play days or whatever. Don't comment on it. That's like you're crushing. What? The vision of it all is crazy.

[Greg Miller]

They got Reggie Feesme in there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Please let me go.

[Tim Gettys]

And then we had. Is this right, Greg?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not locked up.

[Tim Gettys]

Toa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep. I'm glad I made an impression on you.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I think you don't remember Toa. I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The world hangs in the balance as the evil Magatusa threatens the land and our ancient companions along the way.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, this one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, we're fine. It's the one that kind of had a Hades vibe. But everybody, the more you all watch, the more you're like, yeah, we're good. I don't need to, don't need this.

[Andy Cortez]

It didn't have the art style of drink box. Of the drink box one, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it's cuz they showed four choices in the perk screen. You got to stick to three if you're a roguelite.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Axe of Blood.

[Greg Miller]

Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

This looks so good. Summer 2026, a bummer it's that far, but it makes a lot of sense. Solo dev made it a game that looks incredibly cool. This is the, the seafood one where you're literally beating the living out of people. It looks awesome.

[Greg Miller]

I love that. Seafood's had an impact, you know, I mean it's the kind of game that should have an impact. It's the kind of game that developers should look at and be like, yo, this is cool as fuck. We should make cool as fuck games. And so this one is another one that looks good. Jeff mentioned that it's from a new dev in Indonesia I believe he said and I think that's fucking awesome and like good for them for making something that looks this dope.

[Andy Cortez]

I think this is the one where Jeff said. So Solo dev made this with nine of his friends. It was just like a very weird like wait. Well they order pizza and stuff.

[Greg Miller]

They give him a massage.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, I think it looked fantastic. The that one sequence of the dude rooftop running and jumping through the window. It's just they're, they're nailing exactly what they're going for.

[Tim Gettys]

People are so funny about this dab stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Like I imagine what deal with it one time, full time and one guy full time and then the rest maybe just doing part time. Yeah, it's just like a funny way to word it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's a lot of that happening in the industry I keep seeing or somebody who I don't remember the name of, which makes it easier, but it wasn't on content. It was some developer who was like very upset about the expedition thing. Like. Yeah, a team of 50 people who also work with the Korean like you know, workforce of this, that and the other. I don't know what you're talking about, but okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, you know, we start every episode that we do. We're a small 11 person team and it's like, well, you know. Plus Cameron Kennedy and Carter Harrell and Campfire.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I say contractors around the world.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I know. I'm just saying it's like. Yeah, that's just. It is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How do you want to slice the onion?

[Tim Gettys]

Scott Pilgrim Ex, dude. Yeah. Tribute games announcing their next game. What a big surprise. Cosmic invasion. Not even out yet, and they're already on the next one. And it's a sequel to the Scott Pilgrim storyline. Yeah. Brian Leo Malley. Hell yeah, man. Hooch Adam Gucci here doing the soundtrack. I mean, I got introduced to them because of the first game. So.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Love this four player co op. Early 2026. Brand new adventure. A battle across space and time. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Let's go. I love that we were. And it's been like this for a minute, right? I started at the Year of Dreams, but I feel like the year of dreams has still extended to today where we're in an era where anything can happen, anything can come back. Oh, you love the Scott Pilgrim game from the PS3 era.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We got for you.

[Greg Miller]

Guess what? There's another Scott Pilgrim Pilgrim game that's a successor of that. Like, this is fucking awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gentlemen, I'm being deployed to la. Go play a lot of these games and report on them next week with y' all. So I want you to have a great time playing the Switch, playing Lies of P. Having a good time on Saturday. I'm excited to see what you do with this Xbox thing because I'll be seeing a bunch of games redacted from stuff over there. A lot of things are happening. Everybody, that's a wrap on Greg Miller.

[Andy Cortez]

Wrap on Greg Miller.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know your princess Die is leaving, but I encourage you to keep watching this, all right?

[Andy Cortez]

Never know what he's gonna say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He's Prince Charles.

[Tim Gettys]

You're Camilla.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're one of the boys.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Have fun. Greg. Tell people I say hi.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got to the Resident Evil Village on sale section where they got the actress of. Yes. She came out and said that the Resident Evil games are on sale, which is like, cool. Whatever. This is an ad section. But we all had the feeling of like, this seems a little too expensive to.

[Greg Miller]

To.

[Tim Gettys]

To do this. Here we have the ad section. Then mind's eye again. Mind's eye for 007, first light hitman, and all that stuff that felt like still an ad, but there was new information. So it's kind of across. But Mads Mickelson is the target in a limited time event in Hitman Laszla Leif, which is awesome. One of my favorite of the the James Bond villains. So Casino Royale and having Mads come back, that's awesome. Very cool stuff. But it also, I don't know, something about this just sits with me a little weird.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, why?

[Tim Gettys]

Just the way they announced it all and stuff. That's it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It wasn't as exciting as it could have been. I think the big thing is that there's just not hype for Mind's Eye. And then also a Hitman DLC thing isn't an exciting announcement either. Like, it's excited, it's exciting for Hitman fans. But even for me, I'm like. I mean, I just play that freelancer mode, which is the roguelike. Like, that's what I go back to nowadays. And so, you know, I think for this you can kind of see the money being thrown around and like the clout being thrown around. As far as, you know, them bringing Mads Mikkelsen. Jeff, seeing like all this and being like, well, if we can, if we can get Mads Mikkelsen on stage, we can, but obviously this is a very far cry from Keanu Reeves coming out during Cyberpunk. Right. Like, this felt kind of. I think forced is probably the word for it.

[Tim Gettys]

I guess my thing is. And when the day the game comes out, if it's awesome, which I hope it is, that's going to be great. I just feel they're doing themselves a disservice to talk about James Bond as much as they are back to back right now.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

In these, like, tiny little chunks. And I think it's even worse associated with Hitman, like in a way that. Well, no, it's James Bond, but it's not our James Bond. But there's James Bond things that are cool and exciting happening in Hitman. I think it really just makes everything feel like how Hitman has just continuously been coming out. James Bond should feel different. It shouldn't feel like we're just continuing that trend, even though everyone loves Hitman.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, it's like it feels like.

[Greg Miller]

They'Re still navigating, navigating being a publisher and being a multi game dev now and what that means and how they, how they connect their things together. Because, yeah, like, it muddies the message. And like, I'll lump in Mind's Eye to that conversation of.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Absolutely.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, like Mind's Eye really muddies the message as far as. What the fuck is up with that? Right? Like, not only is that a. All right, nobody cares about this thing, but then you couple that with. If you're in the in the know, all right, the. The executives from that studio just left. Like that game seems like something that's just a trash fire as far as. As far as we're concerned. And so, yeah, connecting that to Hitman and James Bond and having that all just be this weird thing that's ever going. Yeah, it. It's weird.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Lego Party. It's Mario Party, but in Lego form, which, you know, it's one of those ones where I can't be mad at this. This game probably should exist, but it's not exciting at a showcase.

[Greg Miller]

Should it exist at this showcase is the question. The game should have existed in 2003.

[Andy Cortez]

It probably did.

[Greg Miller]

And also, honestly, still probably should exist. Right. Like, I think there's a fun market for this. But yeah, also. Yeah, like a summer game.

[Andy Cortez]

Why does it look so flat?

[Tim Gettys]

Because it's a cheap party game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But all the resources into the other. The cute looking. But like, I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we got Wild Gate open beta next week, July 24th. PCPs and Xbox. It's Sea of Thieves in space. Kinda says Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean, I. I don't know if I'll be playing this unless we put it on the. On the schedule to stream it. I mean it's. It's fun enough. It's just something that I don't. I'm not anticipating for that, you know, demo would become installable or for the. For the beta to be playable.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we had Ill Dude Munfish publish.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, this looks terrifying, but wet and disturbing. Looked amazing. Visually. This is like, I think the most impressive thing we saw here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, you're right. This one looks. This was a lot of dongs, a lot of butts, a lot of naked people, a lot of big things, a lot of small things.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Didn't like. Was too much for me. Very scary. I'm like, I don't want to play that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I'm gonna scream a lot if I play that. Maybe I should stream it, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You want to hear me scream a lot.

[Greg Miller]

I don't like that.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it looks crazy good visually. I mean, it's this in the puppet game that were the most stunning visual things that always seemed like you were watching a CG cutscene.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Like it's kind of unbelievable. Every single scene. Wild. The lighting in it and stuff. So, yeah, this is. Keep your eye on this one. Then we have mecca break coming July 1st.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy's talked about that before.

[Greg Miller]

I'm tired of this game. I'll Be honest, I'm excited for it, but I'm also tired of this game. No more trailers. Just put the game out. Do a launch trailer on your YouTube channel.

[Andy Cortez]

Keep it there though, and block me.

[Greg Miller]

I don't want to see it.

[Tim Gettys]

Infinitesimals coming from an eight person studio. Epic Publishing coming 2026. It's a third person action adventure game where players assume the role of the leader of an elite alien squadron. What'd y' all think?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I didn't. I. I appreciated some of the art design and the sci fi concepts of how their vehicles looked and things like that, but it looks like a game that doesn't run great. And I got that feeling from the trailer where it felt like in some of the gameplay moments that they were showing off, I could see some of the chug. I could see things maybe just not working out good enough. So they put a bunch of motion blur on it. I don't know, it just seems like a game that I'll wait for people to play and I'll probably be playing something else at the time anyway.

[Greg Miller]

Also, you skipped my game of the show. Blighted.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, did I? I did, yeah. Drink Box Co op. Coming soon to steam a brand new Metroidvania action RPG where players. Metroidvania.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that is. That changes everything.

[Tim Gettys]

I kind of like that, the idea of a Hades. Metroidvania, huh? Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I need to watch. I need to rewatch this trailer again.

[Tim Gettys]

Flight by defeating enemies will change the world around you. Modifying combat encounters, unlocking hidden paths and more. Award winning composer Jim Guthrie, who did sword and sorcery below and nobody saves the world is also back as composer, letting his skills create an eerie feel to this devastated world. Interesting concept. Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I was not. I was not expecting that to be a Metroidvania, but yeah, their art style is insane. Like it's crazy that Drink box is still remained Drink box. Right. Like going back to what Guacamelee and what they do with that. But looking at this, this looks like a drink box game, but it looks like a drink box game stepped into the future and like they found something cool to do with the visuals. And I like how much of it I. I also like how much Hades I see in this game. Just as far as like the perspective and like the combat and like how it moves and flows. It's real exciting.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Something about their arts. I was just really doing it for me. Yeah, we gotta get back to that one. Roguelite.

[Tim Gettys]

I need to clarify this, but CJ splits on says that's the exact same team. They said we're waking a God of war game. Jeff Grubb must have up his info.

[Andy Cortez]

They said Drink Box. We're making a gut. No.

[Tim Gettys]

What? Yeah. Cgi, give me some more on that. I trust you, bro.

[Andy Cortez]

They're saying Drink Box was making the God of war game. I don't remember hearing that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think anybody said that.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me.

[Andy Cortez]

Unless that was something else.

[Tim Gettys]

Let me know.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Misinformation. Resident Evil dude, then broke our hearts. Hype as hell. She's back. Cool. They're actually doing this. Resident Evil 30th anniversary. Going through all the games. My favorite thing in the world. Going through a history of something and then just a turd they shat on the screen. Blessing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I could not believe it, but it was an obvious tease of like, oh, we'll be back in a. Like, said it in such a weird way, but it's Capcom. Capcom is so weird that you never know. You never know. Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

God, that pissed me off, though.

[Andy Cortez]

I could see the. I could see the disappointment and the annoyance and, like, would you do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You looked so betrayed.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just like. It's upsetting. Like, it's not. Again, I said this earlier, but, like, it's not funny. It's not cool. It's not. It's just like, I feel like they clearly tried something and I think they missed the mark so hard.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

It felt like playing with our emotions more than like doing a cheeky, oh, maybe we'll see this thing later kind of thing. Like, this have felt like a. If you're going to have this moment, which you. I don't think you should have. It should have felt like a baton. A baton pass to what was going. Going to come at the end of the show. And they just did not frame this correctly at all.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Then we got the Street Fighter 6 fighter pass with Kenny Omega kind of fun commercial.

[Greg Miller]

Super fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Then last flag coming from Night Street Games. Ultimate game of capture the flag. This is a. I think, a victim of showcases where, like, game looks cool, concept's cool. But when you're just next all the stuff, like two hours into this thing, it doesn't really stand out at all.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And I think for me, it's also a victim of. I know this as I'm watching this gameplay. Right. I'm like, there's so many. There's so much original stuff they got going on here, but at the same time, it's hard for me to not come out of this being like, oh, you want to make a team fortress like thing, even if it's not one for one what Team Fortress 2 is. And I think I'm starting to get a fatigue with seeing games that look and. And feel so directly inspired by other games. You know what I mean? Like, I'm like, okay, cool. This is what this is. Okay. This is a Hades. Okay. This is a team fortress, too. I kind of get that from here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Then we got Wu Chong, Fallen Feathers.

[Greg Miller]

Andy ruined my hype for this game. I was excited for this game until Andy played it and was like, inside.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, maybe it was.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe it was just a section that they showed me. I just don't think that they showed. I don't think that they showed off the section that they should have, because every other time I see it, I'm like, damn, I would have rather play whatever this part of the video game is. It gets real gooner, I'll say that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Dang. Like, I'm not gonna start you off.

[Andy Cortez]

They started me off in the demo way early on. And you're just, like, playing as. You know, you're just doing. Doing the thing. You're your gal and a freaking, you know, the freaking karate, you know, samurai type. And then, like, they're like, all right, now we're gonna pass 42 of future portion of the game. And, like, things are jiggling all over the place. It's like. Yeah, like, different costumes. If you notice at the end of the trailer, they showed off different costumes. You get with the. Whatever. Collector's edition. And. Yeah, she gets. It gets real sexy.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

And it was like, oh, you're going for. Okay, you're going for that.

[Greg Miller]

The me just that just appeared beside us should be here in the.

[Andy Cortez]

Doesn't seem interested.

[Greg Miller]

We got protected.

[Tim Gettys]

Good lord.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, there's definitely some really cool visuals in some boss fights that I. I'd want to experience, but I don't know if they showed off the best portion that they should have at the. @ GDC, so. Something I definitely want to try out and hope that it is better. It has a really neat concept where if you. If you die and you lose your souls or whatever, every once in a while, there will be a red phantom that, as you're going to get your souls, will try to protect them from you picking them up or whatever, and you have to, like, fight that phantom in order to, like, earn them back. So that happened. There's, like, some neat concepts here and there, so don't I'm gonna look towards you.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna let you.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't let me completely write it.

[Greg Miller]

When you get the review, let me.

[Tim Gettys]

Say this before the. The chat goes away. CJ splits on says I read on Reset era. It wasn't confirmed. Some people said it was Mega Cat Studio. Some said it was M. MCS in support of Drink Boss. I'm sorry. Thank you very much for coming. We appreciate that. Cj. I knew to trust you. I knew to trust you. Continue.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'll let. I'll let you. When we get the review code for this one or if you just pick it up post launch, I'm gonna let you be the determiner for me of who I pick it up. The taste maker. Because I can't waste my time with. With action games that aren't worth it. With Souls, there's so many souls likes and action games that are coming out and it's getting harder and harder to like, sort through the ones that really deserve the lies of piece of the world. You know what I mean? Because lies of P deserves my time.

[Andy Cortez]

It does. You're absolutely right. Now, whenever it comes out, if we have a clear enough schedule, I say we give it each two hours.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I could do that. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

All right, I'm down.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not committing to a review. Well, yeah, as per my agent, we'll.

[Greg Miller]

Commit to a review so far.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we transition from Wu Chong to Wu Tang Rise of the Deceiver. Brass Lion Entertainment. This game has been announced for years. We've been waiting for it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Has it been announced for years or has it been like rumored?

[Tim Gettys]

I guess.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it's.

[Tim Gettys]

It's been just rumors.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it's been announced. It's been like known for a long time because I know one of the developers used to work at Bioware and worked on Mass Effect 2 and then was. They came on stage one time and said like we're working on a Wu Tang game or whatever at Xbox.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, really?

[Tim Gettys]

Weren't they at an Xbox showcase at some point?

[Greg Miller]

I remember there being talk about Xbox with this game of like some Xbox partnership.

[Tim Gettys]

McCarthy says it was never, never announced.

[Greg Miller]

I think it was rumors.

[Andy Cortez]

There's no way.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm almost positive that at some point they announced they're making a Wu Tang game. I don't think we got the name. The names.

[Greg Miller]

No, we never got the name, but we knew there was a Wu Tang like action. Was it action RPG or some coming from the studio.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I trust McCarthy. You're saying it was leaked to be with Xbox. It wasn't publicly announced.

[Greg Miller]

That's what I thought. I think that's what the situation was. Can you show the final screen? Because I was asking Greg this after the showcase if there was a publisher and it seems like there's no publisher. So I wonder if they're now. If they've gone now to like being a self published game. Yeah, they have epic on there. They have steam on there.

[Tim Gettys]

There's just two brass lions there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting. Wu Tang Rise of the Deceiver. The Wu Tang clan must pass on their fantastical powers to a new generation of warriors to save their home of shaolin. The multiplayer title will recruit players and their friends to fight against the forces of an invasive corrupting entity called the deceiver. Up to three co op players will harness. There's three of us.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Will harness the mystical abilities of the Wuang clan to fight nightmarish enemies in a surreal dreamscape as they wage war for the collective souls. Collective soul of Shaolin. Players can customize their fighting styles and fashion by collecting powerful jewels and killer gear. Fight flow and flex as you experience a dynamic gameplay soundtrack including classic Wuang songs and new material overseen by legendary producer Just Blaze.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, this is hype.

[Tim Gettys]

I love this because love just plays.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Love Wu Tang Clan and all the music I've heard. Admittedly, I am not a Wu Tang Clan knower. You know what I mean? I want to get familiar, more familiar with this cream triumph. Like, I know the hits, you know what I mean? But like, I. I'm hoping that this is like a deeper dive, but I've always been very into the lore of it all.

[Greg Miller]

I'm the exact same way. Like, funny enough, I think I know more from Wu Tang Clan individually, more so than Wu Tang as a group.

[Tim Gettys]

Love Ghostface. Love Ghost Face Killer 1.

[Greg Miller]

Yep, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

But even every time I say something, somebody's like, tim. They're not actually I. Because I always say Method man and Redman love both of them together and separate. But I don't think Redman's technically a Wu Tang Clan member.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, and I've listened to 36 chambers, but also I am. This is one of those blessing as young situations where by the time I listen to 36 chambers, I just don't have the palette. And maybe now I do because I've listened to a lot of Nas. Maybe I should go back to 36 chambers because I have read readone my palette. But anyway, everything about this fucking game speaks to me. I am shocked by the art style Direction because for how long this game has been rumored, I. I don't know what I thought this game would look like. I think. I thought it would look more like a Def Jam game or something like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Right there with you.

[Greg Miller]

And so seeing this, I'm like, I'm a scenario. Honestly, this looks fantastic.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I thought it would have looked ass. I was like, there's no way whatever they're doing can be good. And this, this is like the best outcome possible.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, 53 members at Bryce Brass Lion Entertainment, you know, solo developer and 52 of their best friends.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, that's a good.

[Greg Miller]

That's a good sized team right there.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Burslin Vicente says watch the Hulu Show. I did. I enjoyed the Hulu Show a lot. Hulu show, it's like the origin story. It is. It's a.

[Greg Miller]

Like a documentary for a documentary.

[Tim Gettys]

It's like, why am I blanking on this?

[Greg Miller]

Dramatization.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Yes. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Biopic.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. But it's like it's a show. So yeah, it's a dramatization of it. But yeah, I enjoyed that a lot. Then we have Guild wars too.

[Andy Cortez]

I had Liquid Swords by Jizza. That's what I have. I always thought I had a Wu Tang album, but I bought that at the pawn shop.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

My stupid ass walk, man. With the anti skip protection, you'd be in the bus. Would be like, dude, I'm clean, man. Nothing wrong here. No skibs here.

[Tim Gettys]

Then Guild Wars 2 is there. Then we got some ads that might have been an ad, I don't know. Then we got into the unwell. This looks awesome. I'm very, very excited for it. It has a, they said a classic animation art style. And I didn't love it in the beginning when they were showing it, but once it cut to like, I don't love how this looks. But then once you get into the gameplay, I was like, I love how this looks.

[Andy Cortez]

I also just don't. I don't like the character design. I don't know. It's the. The mascara looking like running for something about it just doesn't look great.

[Greg Miller]

It's almost like AI like, you know, I mean like they asked an AI to make a old school thing, but.

[Andy Cortez]

Where it really pops off is when we see it in action and the villains that are approaching the protagonist or the like the player character. And it's like, I didn't think that could really translate to 3D in this way.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Where Cuphead is very stationary and even those are like hand drawn and but like some of the 3D characters here, I just would have never expected that style to really work in a 3D environment. And I thought a lot of it looked amazing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, gameplay looks really, really cool.

[Tim Gettys]

So yeah, very, very interested in this. Then we had Split Gate 2 launches.

[Andy Cortez]

Right now make FPS great again.

[Greg Miller]

What are we doing? I like this.

[Tim Gettys]

You wouldn't be a game of wearing a stupid hat. Great, great.

[Greg Miller]

I'm so convinced that like this Jeff did not know this is happening until he ended up on stage.

[Tim Gettys]

It was just such a, I feel.

[Greg Miller]

Like he put on the hat last second.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. He came out with a baseball bat looking thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Is that a gun? I'm not really sure. Either way there was a vibe and an energy to it that like I could be wrong about this. So I reserve the right to take this back. I think he met well and I think he was trying to relate to us in a way of like bring back those classic games, man. We want this to be cool. It just came off in a really, really, really different way.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it was like, yeah, in 2025, you gotta, you gotta know what that vibe is.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm saying this from personal experience. You can't, when you're that white, you can't do certain things.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, he, I mean that dude went to like the old kind of funny studio and showed off Split Gate to us and it was awesome. Super cool and great.

[Tim Gettys]

Amazing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So I just, I, I, I with you, Tim. I think it was well meaning and it just did not work at all. But again, so yeah, Split Gate's just one of those, another one of these amazing looking multiplayer games that would be the biggest game on the planet if it weren't for a lot of other biggest games on the planets. You know, like they, it's just, it's Charles Barkley in the MJ era. Like you can't get that ring man, like even no matter how good you are. And it's such a quality video game. I, and that's to go back to the, you know, to beat another dead horse. To go back to the Concord discussion which like to if you want to take off your hater hat and be honest and take the truth serum. Concord, a very good serviceable video game. Like it just was, it just is man. I'm sorry, like, but it was really, you know, didn't have a great art style. But it also was releasing, it's $40. It wasn't free to play and there's a lot of games like this that release all of the time that in any other decade would be the biggest game out there. But there's just so many talented devs and so many games and not enough room or time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. When we did the. The beta for this one, I had a really fun time.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And we played the original like Split Gate one. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I remember rocks. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like there's some. This is. This is. If you can go back and watch the stream of this chat. There was a moment near the end of this stream where I had to give Kevin a lot of Tim. I was on like a 38 kill streak. I was frying the most I've ever fried in a game and I was like, I want to go back to watch that. I want to clip out some of the. And I. Kevin never had the footage on me. I was like, kevin, fucking read the room, dude. Like, switch the camera for Christ's sake. Unbelievable work.

[Tim Gettys]

Then Project Century gets officially titled Stranger Than Heaven. Very cool name.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Very cool looking logo. Sure, it's the minimalist like we've seen. How many times can you make this basic font look cool in any way with geometric shapes? Turns out unlimited.

[Greg Miller]

Unlimited.

[Tim Gettys]

This looks fucking awesome. It's from RGG Studio 1915. The first time we saw it. 19, 1943. This time maybe it's an entire century, says Greg Roger Pokorny. What'd you think of this?

[Barrett Courtney]

I thought it was really cool. I mean show going from the last trailer which was in 1915 and this is going to 1945 or something.

[Andy Cortez]

I knew I wasn't tripping.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

So it's really cool. I mean it's going to take place over a century. Right. So I think my theory originally.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow.

[Barrett Courtney]

I mean that's the idea.

[Greg Miller]

That's Stranger than Heaven.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I know.

[Barrett Courtney]

My idea originally with this is going to play into somewhat of the origins of the Yakuza franchise, which I still think it probably will, but I don't know. I have. I have inch. I'm so interested into what this game actually is because I have more questions that I have answers. Like it seems like it's. It's a detective thing, but it also has like some sim elements. But it also seems like it has like some type of interesting combat that they don't have in the Yakuza franchise yet. It's. It's a lot more questions than answers. But I'm happy that it seems like this game is, I would think is coming out pretty early next year. That's just my thought or vibe on that. What do you guys Think, oh, I'm.

[Greg Miller]

I'm so into this. Like, I think I want this to be my RGG like game. Right. If they make this into a series, I want it to be my RGG series. I remember last time they showed it. I hope I'm not complaining. With another game they showed combat and it almost looked more like deliberate, like slower than what you typically get out of, like the Yakuza stuff, which speaks to me like I wanna, I wanna parry. I want to do all that. Right.

[Andy Cortez]

It looked like, yeah, it was in that 1950 year 15 era. Which is why when we see this and it's a bit newer looking, I was like, I don't know, I remember it looking older.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, it's the same character for sure. Because if you look at both of of it, it has like, the character has like the same blue eyes or whatever. So it's him over time. So that, that's an interesting wrinkle.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, like a blue eyed samurai. Yeah. Cuz. Cuz you ever watch Blue Ey?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Tim, did you ever watching?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah. Dude.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, awesome.

[Barrett Courtney]

Does that have to do with like the blue eyed dragon?

[Andy Cortez]

No, just like if you're a white person in Japan, they're like, oh, you're a freak. Look at your freaky blue eyes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You freak.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you demon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus.

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus.

[Greg Miller]

God damn stupid blue eyes. But yeah, like I'm so the most I've fallen into an RG game because for some reason I just keep playing them and even though I'd never finish them was Judgment two. I played quite a bit of Judgment two and I fucked with the heavy and then I just, I started playing something else. Right. And like you mentioning the detective aspects of it, I really hope they like take a lot of those things that made Judgment like feel like its own standalone thing. Even though there was just so much Yakuza in it as well. Right. But like I, I want them to lean into those elements too because I loved, I love the story of Judgment. I love how much. Yeah, felt like an original thing. I think there's so much potential of how they can take those elements, fuse them into Project Century, Stranger Than Heaven.

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah, I'm interested to see that. And also I feel like there's gonna be, I don't know, I just feel in the air that there's gonna be some type of souls like element to it. I just, I think, see, I hope.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know saying souls like I was about to say it, but I didn't want to be the guy when.

[Barrett Courtney]

I watched the trailer for Project Century. And I see this, the. Some of the combat. I'm like, I feel like there's gonna be a parry. I think there's gonna be a dodge.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

And I'm nervous about that, but I'm also very excited about it because I think right now, rgg, I mean, they're going. They're doing the virtual Fighter fighter game, Right. They have Yakuza. They need that third pillar. And I think that this is going to take them into the next generation and potentially influence the Yakuza format and formula, because I think it needs that juj up a little bit of change.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, speaking of that combat, we. You know, we saw Acts of Blood, and we talked about Sifu. Like, I mean, I would really, really vibe with that if you. They went a bit deeper with that melee combat. And I'm not talking about getting a shield and pairing anybody, but, like, SIFU is just such a smooth video game to play and experience, and if they have combat that's trying to reach that level, that would be freaking fantastic. In addition to also having, you know, these narrative moments with characters and cutscenes and mystery. Sounds great.

[Greg Miller]

Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Roger. Did you get all the water out of your keyboard?

[Barrett Courtney]

No, it is broken. It is broken. I've taken one of the many keyboards that Kevin has that is hiding under a bunch of 3880s next to his desk.

[Andy Cortez]

Great.

[Tim Gettys]

Then we wrapped up the show with Resident Evil Requiem. They're playing with it with a Q turned into a nine a little bit, but.

[Andy Cortez]

Amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

This looks fucking awesome. I'm a big fan of Resident Evil. Admittedly, do not keep up with the lore in any type of way where you could ask. It's not like me with mcu, where I'm just like, oh, I know everything, and I want to know everything. If I don't know it right. With Resident Evil, I'm more like, I'm in it. I like the big story, beats whatever. I don't like when it starts getting incredibly supernatural and adding all this. And we're at a point now nine core entries in that.

[Andy Cortez]

That's where we're at.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that this starts off a bit more, dare I say, grounded with this whole little situation we got in the beginning where we're questioning, what is this? Is it Resident Evil? And then getting into it, we get some of that supernatural. But love the idea of going back to Raccoon City. Love the idea of going to familiar places that we've been in the original core games. But on top of that, Them talking about a hotel. I love a good sight to be in in a Resident Evil. And a hotel sounds like a great kind of like, all right, we did the Mansion. What else can we do that's like that? And it's funny. Luigi's Mansion one in a mansion. Luigi's Answer three Hotel. And it works out real well.

[Andy Cortez]

It's great having that new gimmick. It's. Yeah, it's John Wick going, oh, we did the knives fight. Oh, now we're doing these shotgun fire fights. And you know, what's the new one gonna do? You know?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So I'm stoked on this. I'm very happy that it doesn't seem to be a follow up to Village and 7. Like, thank God this is not the Winter's Kid. That excites me. I definitely need to know more. Sounds like we're going to get gameplay at. It's going to be playable at Gamescom. We got the release date. Like a lot of this stuff. Very stoked about. I can't wait to this weekend watch YouTube videos from people that like, can piece together and kind of explain to me more like the context of this. But so far very into it. Would have loved to get even just a hint of the gameplay to know, is it third person? Is it first person? But all the stuff they're showing. Fucking sick.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. This looks fucking incredible. And also I just put it together. That's not the Winter Trial. I don't know why I thought the kid was named Grace. Because as soon as they said Grace, that's what clicked it. That it's re 9 for me. And Grace is a complete. Is a new character.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

Like, we've not. Have we seen this character before?

[Tim Gettys]

As far as I know we haven't. But what's funny of you saying that is like they said Grace Ashmore and I jumped on my. Oh, it's Resident Evil. But like, I do not know this Ashmore character from Ashcroft or Ashmore. Ashcroft. Ashcroft. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. But also, I think it was just also the thing in my brain where I just know what Resident Evil or Capcom games look like. And like partway through this trailer, it's like, okay, this very much is giving Capcom really cool announcement. Really interesting that it's here instead of PlayStation State of Play. But like, you know, who cares as long as we're getting the trailer February of next year. Like, I love that. That's not too far away. Right? We're still getting that cadence of Resident Evil is a. Is consistent. Consistent when Putting out big AAA releases and that part of it definitely blows me away. But also good on Resident Evil for always staying relevant and staying consistent. And yet like I'm all in on the hotel setting and whatever they're going to do with this. I. I'm somebody who still needs to go back and play re1. Thankfully. For thanks to the remakes, I'm mostly caught up now on the Resident Evil franchise. But like, you know, you popping off for the Crater and like, you know, revisiting Raccoon City and all that stuff. Actually, no, was that two?

[Tim Gettys]

The crater is the end of two and three. You're right.

[Greg Miller]

That is the end of two and three dot it's cool, actually. No, that is cool. Right, okay, now up to speed. Yeah, no, that's really exciting.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, very, very, very cool stuff. So we'll see. But also Re 1, just so you know, it's not the Re 2 remake of 3 remake, but the GameCube remake of one that was then remastered for HD consoles and they continue to do it. It holds up today. It's not the exact same gameplay. It is more of that old school. It. It's hard to explain but like it's. It is more modern than you think. But it's not as modern as RE2 and stuff. But like I think that you could have a good time with it. And it's only like 10 hours if even.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Even. Yeah. So maybe that's a stream or something.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe that's a stream or stream.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. Any final thoughts on this summer game fest?

[Greg Miller]

I think going through the announcements is. Has gotten me a little bit more hyped than I was right then. Then I was right at the end of the showcase. Yeah, like I just wish it was paced better. I wish it was constructed better. But I'm really excited for a lot of these games. You know, like Resident Evil Requiem, Project Sentry, like we talked about into the Unwell, the Muppet looking game. Like there's so much here blighted. There's so much here that like for me signals still an exciting next few years for games coming out. And yeah, I'm. I'm excited coming off of this.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw somebody in a chat ask did the ME give his review of the. Of the showcase. Unfortunately, the me no, he's sad, he's quiet.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot of his friends were lost in the last 24 hours.

[Andy Cortez]

So do you know where your me is? That's our question to you. If you got a switch to do you know where your me is? It's 10 o' clock.

[Tim Gettys]

Where is it? Everybody? We're gonna be back on Sunday for the Xbox Showcase. We're going to be live reacting to it and then giving our post show breakdown. So stay tuned. Be here Twitch TV kind of funny games YouTube.com kind of funny games. And for tomorrow, enjoy your day. Have fun. Spend some time with some friends or some family, maybe some video games. Either way, be well and remember where your me is. If you see him, don't lose him.