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White Claw Seltzer works Chicago, Illinois. If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com kindafunny what's up everybody? Welcome to a very special episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York game awards nominated aka smoothie poppy. It's blessing out of yo. Yay junior good day Greg. Is this a protein shake or a smoothie? Protein smoothie. Okay, cool what you got in there? What's the difference between shake and a smoothie? Dude, I don't fudgeing know, do I? Look, I've had. What do you have in there? Silk, milk, protein powder, creatine, strawberries, bananas, blueberries. Okay, what's that? What do we call that? I mean, it's a protein. Protein shake. Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's what that is. I'll give that to you. Of course, next to him, the master of hype. The master of the in and out protein shake. It's snow. Like, Mike, back in my day, I used to smash pre workout all the time. My heart was really getting up and it would never work out. Me and creatine. I had a moment with. Creatine's fine. There was probably about a six month stretch. I was smashing that daily there. I daily, daily using it yesterday. You should be the friend. Mirabella walked in like two weeks ago. He was like using that creatine and I'm like, yeah. I was like, why are you talking to me like that? Yeah, at ign, I drink, you know, odwalla, like the. Oh, yeah, not the weird bottle people, but the juice that's in your grocer's fridge. Roger's looking at me like he's never heard of this juice before. Odd wall is very good juice. They made. They made protein shakes or whatever they were or not shakes, but like they had the juice and then they had the smoothie, protein, whatever. And I was like, oh, I can replace breakfast with these. And I did it. But then, like after a few weeks, I was like, I haven't had a solid in a long time. I had to stop. I was doing too much. I wasn't working out. You know what I mean? I was supplementing a meal for a liquid and I was like, oh, sugar. What do y' all got these? Yeah, what do y' all got? Buff, dude, if you all got buffed, that'd be nice. You know what I mean? I would enjoy that. I hate it when I put out the bs. That's a blue sky tomb. And then notice if we had a shower in the studio, we would make an hour gym time for the team because then that'd be nice. That's what's holding us back. It's all zoning. It's all zoning. Or we just all go to your house and we just use your shower. Everybody showers at my place. Yeah, yeah, that's your dream. What if we all shower at Planet Fitness? I mean, yeah, we work out here, but then we just shower. Yeah. That's good. That works. Yeah, it'd be awesome if we had the exercise bike or something over there. That'd be nice. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Remember when Nick yelled at me because I was like, I want to pull up bar outside. He said, what if I put it in your backyard? I was like, it's not the same thing. You live here. Like Nick, that's the taste maker, Roger Piccorni. I've never met somebody who all he. All he does is talk about supplements. He hates creatine. He's like, you don't need that. You don't need that. What are you talking about, Nick? It's like the one healthy one that's out there. What are you talking. Shocking, dude. The amount of research I had to do because I was like, I don't trust. I've only heard of what creatine was. There's so much research for creatine. I keep looking it up. I'm like, what's the caveat? There's no what's the. What's gonna get me? Yeah. And everybody's like, it's totally healthy. And I'm like, all right, I'll try it and we'll see. Of course, this is a very special episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily because we're doing a live react to the Xbox Partner preview. If you've never joined us for one of these, we are gonna bullshit with you right now for another seven minutes. At 10 o' clock, we'll watch live alongside the debut of the Xbox partner preview for March 2026. Then of course, we'll end that reaction even though nothing will change for you because you're watching live. And we'll then roll in to Kinda Funny Games Daily where we'll go announcement, talk about our opinions, give you a review score, and then get to a little bit of Wii news. So it's still got that kind of Funny Games Daily paint job you love so much? Of course. Let's talk about what we're getting into right now. Xbox announced that this week we'd be doing this here. Xbox Partner preview. You're getting Stranger than Heaven, an update on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Heart of Chernobyl, plus a new look at the expanse Osiris reborn. But quote, that's not all will have for you with first looks and announcements from more great games coming to Xbox consoles. Xbox on PC and Xbox Game pass. Roger. Hi. The world turns its lonely eyes to you as the RGGG GGGGGGG super fan. Yeah. Stranger than heaven. What's our Hype level right now, pretty high. I'm excited. I want an in depth look at what this game is. That is my major thing here. Because Mike, before this was asking, hey man, you excited for this one? This one's going to be great. It's like, I'm sure it's going to be good but like I need to understand what this game is fully. Is it actually just, you know, Yakuza that looks better that is in a different time period or is this going to be something that's going to be an actual like hey, from the ground up we're doing something different Studio rg the right hold though says I have zero expectations but I'm here for the content. I appreciate that. Thanks for hanging out. Mike, what are your expectations coming in? You know what, my expectations are pretty in line with what I expect to see today after coming off of a couple other partner showcases we had past couple of months. But I will say when you line up the three games here, we got three pretty star studded events here. I mean we're talking about an RGG game with Stranger Than Heaven. That's awesome. We're talking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Low Key, a pretty good game. Okay. Came out a long time ago. Low key, a pretty good game from 2024. 24. An update to this game, DLC. Remember people were. It came out at a weird time. I remember people played it and they were like, oh, it's too hard. But it's early access. Help me with it. Was this during the. It was during like the height of the Ukraine war. Was this the team from Ukraine? This is the team from Ukraine. So they battled to get this to the finish line. Right. And so a lot of, a lot went into this and then they got there and then. Yes, I think it came out a little bit buggy if what I remember there. And then you, you have to expect there's been some updates. This might be a big DLC or patch update that will get people excited to jump back in. And then on top of that, I mean we're talking about my favorite, the Expanse, right? The idea that we're going to get a Mass Effect style Expanse video game. Woo. This is a pretty strong lineup of three big games to watch today. The Expanse is the one I'm stoked for and it's one the chat has been stoked for. Before we were even live, people were freaking out non stop saying that's what they're here for. We do have a super chat just like you can on YouTube.com kind of funny games with your thoughts on the games your opinions about worry about to see your review for the post show. How's it going? I'm Kohan says I'm pumped for the Expanse. Let me put pump as you should if we get an Amos in the Expanse now Greg, you haven't watched the show yet. I saw. I read one chapter of the book. My man Wes Chatham killed it as Amos. Okay, Amos, one of my favorite characters. Bless. You're gonna love Amos. James Holden. This is a crew. I don't know where they're gonna go with this. Greg. I don't know who's gonna be the main character. I don't know anything about the plot of this. 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And so I'm like yeah. Cuz it feels like it's such a big thing. I remember playing a little bit of lost Judgment and being into it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like there's definitely something there for me with these RGG games that Stranger than Heaven looks like it is. Start me off from a place where it is. Here's a clean slate. Yeah, hop in. I'm very curious about Combat. One of the trailers I remember them showing a while ago set up Combat to be maybe more of like an action. Maybe like action RPG kind of vibe to it. I really want to see more of what they have going on there. But aesthetically I think that game looks really cool and so most excited to see that. Awesome. For me, I want to see this Expanse game. Obviously. I love Mass Effect. I loved the first chapter of Expanse. I want to see what's all that. But I'm more excited for the these other announcements when you're going to say we got other stuff coming. When you're gonna come out and go, that's not all we have for you. With first looks and announcements from more great games coming. Xbox consoles, Xbox, PC and Game Pass. All right, what do we got? Who is the day and date drop? Who's dropping it right now? Who's announcing and dropping today? Oh, do we have a shadow? I think you do. I hope not, man. I think you do. Don't Shadow drop right now. April is very crowded, so it's like you. Shadow Drop right now might not be good for you. Okay, we got 39 seconds. Sound like a threat. I will not play your game. You have plenty of space. Shadow drop. Don't Shadow Drop anything. Come on, Slappy. Come on, Zelda, drop a game. Shadow Drop. Hear me out. Shadow Drop. Super Meat Boy 3D. Oh, oh. Right here, right now. Right here, right now. I mean said you cowards March 31st with the wait. Nintendo Direct. Does it have a daily page on that is even coming to Xbox? It was announced at the X there was a rumor there was a leak, right. Of like some March 31st of the Nintendo store was saying. Oh, that's March 31st. Okay. So I'm just saying, you know, I mean end of fiscal quarter or whatever. Persona 4. No way. There's no way. In a way. I mean, ain't no way. I mean Starfield. I mean partner like partner now. Hi Ray, it's Todd. We just wanted to remind you in April 7th we're doing a lot of here RP to M. Big range. No adults own it. Who's that? I don't know. We look at each other. Aon. White Wolf. World of Darkness. Oh, Sweeney. Oh. Unannounced. Hunter. The Reckoning game. What? Hunter. The Reckoning. Hunter. The Reckoning is an old school PS2 game that I used to play. Is that what this is? Or danger no one else sees the voice lurking in the shadows. Maybe it's parasite waiting for its prey. Shots of control. There's nothing here. Oh, damn. Corrupt cop. I thought cops were good guys. Vampire. Oh, no. Are we finally gonna get the vampire game that gets us all in? We have learned, we've prepared and we won't let it happen again. I think it is under the reckoning. Oh, oh, for sure. Yeah. You said pray. New York cops. My God. I've never heard anything bad about New York. Never. Remember, this is a postmom Donnie Worm. What the socialism got in there? He made the buses free and he let the vampires in. No, the buses were keeping them out. Chad. This is not Blade. There's no way. Yeah, that's a long title. Yeah, I'll just be making any game. That's cool. I love that. Oh, gameplay. Here we go. Summer 27. You said that was a coming summer 2020. Yeah, gamecube, og xbox and ps2. Wow. Summer 2027. And the dangerous art. Vampires and werewolves though. You got that going. Is this one. You ever expected to come back? Is that multiplayer? I know, but I think about Miles Dompierre. Loves it. This is solo leveling, is it? No. The opposite of the Void. No. He doesn't become a whale. That's too far. That would never happen again. Oh, what's. Sword Art Online? No, I was thinking that one game that was like a Metroidvania kind of gave Persona vibes from one of the recent things. I have no idea what this is. People are saying weathering. Oh, is this what Wuthering Waves is? What? The name we've all heard so many times we have no idea where to go to get out of a lineup someday. I mean, it's dope looking. I push is cool. I mean it's dope like. Like the character model looks great, sure, but like there's just so. It's everything. The most bland backgrounds and environments I've ever seen. He doesn't know anime. He doesn't know what? He doesn't know anime. I still think Genshin is like one of the best looking games I've ever seen. I wasn't saying this now. I'm not insulting Genshin. I'm insulting all these bland ass backgrounds. Coming July is That better for you, Mike? You happier with the benefits. Don't care. Was that not on Xbox? Here we go. But I care about. Apparently not. It was like another life. Everything made sense. This expands. Yeah, I thought you're just saying. Just a generic shooter. This is what I care about. Wait, so you feeling all that now? Every voice. A tight beam will easily turn this into a massacre. If they want. We need him alive. Locked on to you like a torpedo. Do not interfere. The universe never tells us if we did right or wrong. Dude, you guys are gonna love the Expanse, I promise you. Say that word again. The Rossinate is the spaceship. It's super serious. Belongs to Belters. The ra. This is dope. There's your choice to become immersive mercenary. To run away from my enemies. Fear festering into hatred. Typical. Surely a little gun doesn't scare you? A trojan horse protect its own enemies. In an enemy of my enemy. He's my friend. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Does it look like the best gun play in the world? Absolutely not. But do I want a Mass Effect rpg? Sure. Yeah, I do. Let's go. Let's go. I love Tapanax. Okay. Flying the ship. We have to find our own answer. Oh, yeah. Whoa. He's about to be the pole. Thank God. Does this have a date? Mike? That's not a real year and that's far closed beta. We gotta get in on that right away for a single player. Seconds. The Expanse. Osiris Reborn is getting a beta. Find out how to get in what's in store over on Xbox One. That's Aaron. Paul. Is it that voice? That's Jesse. No. Yeah, it is. I'm writing this from our old song. It's close. Your departure caused quite the commotion back home. Oh, yeah. Okay. That. Okay. Drop it. Today, Blumhouse. Let's go. Oh, it's just the horror one that we. Rodri. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roger. You'd like this? I don't know. I don't know. Ashen Ridge is a humble town. You gotta open your heart. Good people in it. I don't like you. Put this on. Oh, this is cream season. I want to play it. My friend works on this or work. I have fun. Don't trust his opinion, everybody. I hope you can make a few. It's garbage. Game of the year, everybody. Yeah, I played this at SGF last year. I'm interested. You've always had a knack for figuring things out. That resourcefulness will keep you in a trouble. Or land you right in the middle of it. Take an Old man's advice. Keep busy. Lay low. Idle hands are the devil's playground. Make something of yourself. Really cool trailer while you still can. Wow. Demo coming soon, I guess. 14th. It's a really good trailer. That narrator was killing it. Okay, Serious Sam, go. Oh, man. Looks like we're late for this one too. We have to stop getting snacks on the way. Your little naps aren't helping either. I get puffy when I don't, but that's beside the point. Let's blast. I know so little about serious. Time to get serious. It's like a multiverse of serious. Yeah. Is it like a Duke Nuka? What is the vibe of a serious Sam? Teleport. First think. Never like, serious game is a game that I only know from browsing the store. And there's a lot of PlayStation stores. Like, there's the fifth one now. Lava Golems. We're like. I scroll past, and I'm like, somebody's playing that. Just the sound mix of how up front the VO is is so grading, where I'm like, yo, you. I are. No, you can show me anything right now. I'm like, we are not the same style. We don't. I don't. RJ in the chat, sort of Duke Nuke situation. Looks like it's like a roguelite situation. They have the three. Yeah, they have the. The cards, which are the three upgrades. Oh, no. He's dead. Shatter Shatterers. Reminds me of. Oh, Arcade again. This is a weird presentation. It's weird, man. This is very. And then we had Aaron Paul for five seconds, and somebody called out dispatch today on Xbox. I was like, oh, I could see that. Is that not already there, you know? Oh, here we go. Everybody. Shut the up. Greg, shut the up. Got the epop soundtrack. Nice. Okay. Yes. Whoa. That's cool. Train riding is by theirs. Okay, I thought that was right now. No, that's a. It's a teaser to it. Will that be the second half of the Xbox showcase, or they just say, we'll just show more there? Well, that's not. No, no. They're saying they're showing more on day six, but, like, why can't we just show them more now? Oh, I was just taking this, like, that's the second half presentation. However, there's two spotlights. Well, that's not gonna be till, like, June. Oh, this is a May. This is in May. Yeah. I'm just like, why tease it for here and then use a special look at stranger 100. Yeah. Discover more about this special Deep Dive. Broadcast on Xbox Wire. Okay. Okay. It's cool. I mean it's a good trailer. He was jumping on that trolley. It's a cool trailer. Yeah. I'm saying that was Snoop Dogg. Is that. There you go, Super Meat Boy. Put it on my fantasy critic. You know, this will be my first Super Meat Boy. No. Very excited. I'm going to play the other ones. Just give it out now. Right now. I need it. Thursday. Yeah, that could be an out now situation. But we're born March 31st. The store. The Nintendo store page was right Tuesday. Great ass game. I was gonna say to be afraid of. That guy's wife's dead. Oh, man. One jump at a time. Oh, it's got the jumping from previous the desert. Yeah. Kiss her. Life is about stories. It is about where we've been, right about where we're going. Still as beautiful as I remember. About the people we meet along the way. Oh, hello sir. Welcome to Carl's Pumping Mart. It's Annapurna. So you know they're going to say 2027 or 2029. That sounds way doing to my van. What does it look like? I'm fixing it. The things we discover. Hey, what are you doing out there? And the things we leave behind. What? Dead. How will your story end, Alfie. Ball. I believe you see it, but not me. Right there. Whatever happened to that Fullbright game? That ever come out? Which one? The. The latest one that they announced. Is there the people in the car? The mom and daughter? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It came out forever. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, start. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this? Andy, wake up. Stop time. Stop your end. Shit. Voxel stuff too. Beat meat the club. Beat your destiny. Beat your be. That was good, guys. See, I stopped myself and saying it. Game up your ass. That was too far. Save France. Save the future. Save the cheerleader. Save that word. There it is. There's still time. Ascend to zero. Yeah, a little much for my eyes. Okay. I don't know if I like the title, but here it is. That's why Aaron Paul was here. Oh my God. Oh, sick. This has to be out today, right? Every day there are new games that didn't come to Xbox. Still a lot of them like this. Wasn't there anymore a lot in your life? Summer, Check out how Dispatch changed the game over at Xbox Wire. Spoiler. They just made all the characters hot. Special dedicated broadcasts like this screen. Right. I like it. But we need something. Yeah, you guys. You need somebody like reading it out. Yeah. This is what we did before. Now let's look to the future. What the hell happened here? Stalker. Trying to. Where is everyone? A lot of windows. Warning. Adverse weather conditions detected. Wind speeds reaching survival threshold. Seek shelter. Kind of cool. What is with 2027, Mike? Hey, Craig. I don't even know. It's a wild one. I guess they're saving everything for June. Atmosphere. I don't like a shock storm. In an interview with developer rebellion over on Xbox Wire. That did nothing for me. I'm sorry. Is that also Aaron Paul? Yeah. Yeah. Listen up, you useless frogs. Okay. Party mode type deal. You have 15 minutes to get into that Xbox. Use that sticky tongue of yours to drag back something nice and juicy. Stick together when you get down there. Mike, Tell me about Frog Squad. I have no idea what Frog Squad is, but it's got the vibes. It's got. It's got the French slop vibes to it. I want even more. And then more Hungry Hippo June. Okay, I like the art. Bluey. Hold on now. Now we're cooking. Bluey's Happy Stitch. Explore Boris Blue's world like never before. Very pretty. Such a slap. Calling us a slab. Is it not a slab? You're not wrong. But it was locked in. So this is just Pokemon Snap, my boy. Guess I'm not against it. I'm just. Coming to everything. Like, you know, he was in the Duffy. Yeah, he was right in the 1600 or whatever. Made in Ukraine. So this is stock. This story is full of mysteries. Like the Zone itself. I could never understand why those guys can't just live in peace. The Zone has enough to offer without spilling blood over it. When I heard what happened that sunny day, a chill ran down my spine. I was there. It was night and it was raining. Do you call this peace, Veronin? Is this what peace looks like to you? My guys, they let your men in. Shared their food. And what did they get in return? According to Section 6, paragraph B of the D4 Agreement, in case of suspicion regarding one of the parties attacking the other, the affected party has the right to secure and surveil a member of the suspected aggressor. No one is being taken. That is my decision to make. There can be no compromises in this war. We are the ones standing between the Zone's plague of filth and ordinary people. Whichever way we go, we always end up in the same exact spot. That's justice. I suppose. That's the end of D4. Last of hope. Are you ready, Skiff? To discover the price of freedom. Whoa. Uncover the first details that make up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's upcoming major expansion on Xbox. Wire. Sa. Hansang. Sa. You should listen to the song when you do cardio when you're running. Yeah. I can see that. Yeah. Oh. This is gonna be one of the Dynasty shows. Although not quite enough enemies on screen. Yeah. It's got the hack and slash action which I'm down for. I like that. 27 dirty fade I like so much in that trailer. Some of it didn't hit as much as I wanted to. Like in the combat. Yeah. But everything around it seems cool. Yeah. I think the trailer was really cool in the beginning. But something about not having like sound effects and everything. Yeah. Yeah. You need to sound effects on a ridiculous. What is this? This is unknown to the internal life. I was gonna say eternal life of Elizabeth Ward. That's not it. What could anyone. Honestly. This game looks really good from a walking fossil. Maybe he'd pester everyone during Steam next fest. Pretty cool. Yeah. Really gorgeous art style. Yeah. Really really gorgeous art style Than he. But it's like a full Metroid game. Defeat anyone? He plays Old guy Replays Old man. Yeah. Old man. Goldman. Oldman. Goldman. Oh my God. What the. He just pulled that guy's tail out. Gorgeous as Man. Everything I see about this game I'm like this is something cool. This is special. Up. That was nasty. I don't blindly hope that certain creatures might rather choose to withdraw. If only out of immense respect for the age old wisdom of the venerable reanimated museum exhibit. But most won't be surrendering without a fight. It demos up on Steam for people who want to check it out. Wow. On the other hand. Yeah. It's like that. How every kid geezer recounts the story of his life. Dramatic. Fantastic. As if every tribute transformed into a. I prefer the sad old man with his dog game. Of course. Metroidvania Hollow Knight. Silk Song. This is the average life of an old man. There would be no end. That's what they get into suffering. Ask Nick. It's true what they say. Some people get so old. Wow. Dude. They simply forget to die. That's cool. All right. No release tape. Oh. Available on Xbox. On Xbox. Really? That baron rock. No stranger to death. Oh. Is it like an X car? Oh. Interesting. Like third person XCOM type. Okay. Maybe not. I can't. Or maybe those they're just standing still. Maybe it's Valkyria Chronicles type. Who can forget? Could be like five. All right. Don't act like I'm the weirdo. Yeah. Cards. See What? You go from top down, you choose cards, then you come back down. A lot of weird trailers during this little, like, midnight, Son. A lot of rough trailers going on here. I do feel like the trailers are rough. Yeah. I feel like that's what happening. They have an art style. That's what's happening. You know what I mean? Sorry, I thought it was. I thought. Yeah, you know me. I do know you. That's the problem. See, it's giving me the vibes of, like. They reached out to the TO for the Borderlands license and they said no. And they're like, it. We'll just make our own. Make it close enough. We'll make it close enough. Vaunted. Vaunt Hunter. Vaunted. Dead or alive. Hades, too. Hey, did you know, to be fair, I don't think this is on any other. Yeah, this is huge, actually. And there's gonna be Xbox as well. I mean, PlayStation the same day you imagine, probably. In the name of Hades. God, I love this game. Good game right here. You playing on Xbox? No, not because I hate Xbox. I'm not playing on PlayStation either. I cannot stop Kronos on my own. Will you aid me? I gotta get back into it. So good. Love. This will shine so bright, it hurts. Go. Kill time. Why are you here? Vengeance for my family. What? Fall today. April. April 14th. And PS5 Game Pass, too. Oh, they said it. PS5 in the critically acclaimed Switch and Switch. On to Xbox. Find out more on Xbox. Wire. Thought Asha would put a stop to that. We're not doing this anymore, guys. This fell under the radar. Just take care of your little freaking robos. Whoa. And let me do my thing. Chill out. All of humanity has disappeared. Sound like the biggest missing person's case in the history of the world. Yeah. Thank God I'm on the job. Artificial detective. 28:46. Best detective in the world. The only detective in the world. The point is this, all right? I'm going to solve this case. There's just one piece in the puzzle. Detective. Driving me crazy. No, no, no, no, no, no. No touching. You got your toy. These are my toys. I'm a detective, not a babysitter. All right? They must have been pissed when the Pocopia came out. What? It's the same Supremac. What the. Oh. Got stealth elements. Roger. So luck. I'll take it. Hold on, kid. This looks like a fake video game in a pretty positive way, though. I did not expect the. I did not expect the gameplay to look like that. That's pretty dope. I mean you hope it's game play. Handsome Jack and the baby. Dude, this is going to be a good game. I got you part of 2027, man. We're really focused on 2027. It's only March of 2026. I think we gotta focus on the now Artificial. Remember last year when like they announced Halloween the game? We're all like, wait, what the. That's what's happening right now. As long as GTA doesn't come it get away from gta. I was really going to stop Artificial Detective. A lot of games that was longer than I thought that would be. Yeah, that I expected to stop several times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a lot. Are all those game okay? Those are all game pass. Gotcha. Who said Dirty Fake? Watching it wind down there. Oh, one more. Here we go. 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Podcast: Kinda Funny Gamescast
Episode: Xbox Partner Preview Live Reaction
Air Date: March 26, 2026
Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., SnowBikeMike, Roger Pokorny
Purpose: Live reaction and roundtable analysis of the March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview, breaking down new game announcements, trailers, and industry implications.
The Kinda Funny crew gathers for a special live reaction to the Xbox Partner Preview for March 2026. The episode features spirited debates, predictions, and immediate breakdowns of the showcase’s biggest reveals. The focus is on upcoming Xbox and Game Pass releases, including "Stranger Than Heaven", "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2", "The Expanse: Osiris Reborn", surprise announcements, and more. The team’s signature banter and candid takes provide both entertainment and insider perspective for listeners.
The hosts discuss fitness routines, protein shakes, and studio upgrades with the usual Kinda Funny humor.
Greg introduces the event:
"Of course, this is a very special episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily because we're doing a live react to the Xbox Partner preview." (12:15)
Previewed Showcase Line-up:
Roger’s hype for "Stranger Than Heaven":
"I want an in-depth look at what this game is. Is it Yakuza that looks better, or are they really doing something new and different?" (14:35)
Mike’s expectations:
"You line up the three games here—we got three pretty star-studded events...the Expanse is the one I’m stoked for, and so is the chat." (16:10)
Hunter: The Reckoning Reveal:
The group is surprised by the reveal of a new "Hunter: The Reckoning", invoking nostalgia for the classic PS2/Xbox title.
Wuthering Waves Confusion:
The team is unsure what to make of Wuthering Waves’ reveal, but amused at the anime-gacha style.
Super Meat Boy 3D:
"This will be my first Super Meat Boy. I’m very excited!" (1:01:15, Roger)
New Annapurna Adventure:
Speculation that the picturesque road trip title teased for 2027 would be the next indie darling.
Hades II Coming to Xbox:
Major cheer as Hades II is shown, with Game Pass and same-day PlayStation/Switch release.
Artificial Detective:
Amused by the noir style and unexpected direction the trailer went.
Unknown Metroidvania:
Lively praise for the artistic style and inventive gameplay shown for a new “old man explorer” game.
Frog Squad:
Hosts are charmed by the "French slop vibes" and unique cartoon aesthetic.
General feeling that some trailers lacked polish or effective communication.
The show’s focus on 2027 releases prompts both excitement and exasperation.
| Game | Reaction/Insight | Release/Note | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|--------------------------|------------| | Stranger Than Heaven (RGG) | Hype for new direction, clean slate | Teased Deep Dive/May | 30:55/1:08:45 | | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Expansion | Respect for devs, story & technical talk | No Date | 1:08:00 | | The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Mass Effect comparisons, strong excitement | Beta coming, date TBA | 22:10/52:10| | Hunter: The Reckoning | Nostalgia surprise | Summer 2027 | 43:30 | | Super Meat Boy 3D | Anticipation, wish for shadow drop | March 31, 2026 | 1:01:15 | | Hades II | Major excitement, Game Pass launch | April 14, 2026 | 1:14:50 | | Artificial Detective | Laughter at the noir demo | 2027 | 1:17:40 |
The episode ends on a high note, with Greg and the team encouraging viewer participation via YouTube and Patreon, and a nod to the ongoing commitment to community-driven content. The hosts look ahead to deeper dives in upcoming spotlights, eager to get hands-on with the most promising titles—especially those teased for late 2026 and beyond.