Game Mess Mornings 07/21/23

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for July twenty one, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so,
let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings
Live with Me Jeff Grub Today, FTC pumps the brakes on its opposition to
the Microsoft Activision deal, and Spider Man two is looking real, real good.
First, please join me and welcome to today's co host, the Game
Miss Mornings. It's Jazz, corded from Windows Central. Everybody, Jazz,
how are you doing? Hello, I'm doing pretty good. How are you
doing? I'm doing good. I'm glad we're gonna make this happen. I
am you know, it's it's been a it's been a week. We just
recorded a Remnant two quick look and I normally don't do like work stuff before
Game Mess Mornings, and it's like, am I gonna be able to juggle
this? But it went fine, It went pretty good. It ended with
Dan getting stuck on geometry though, so look out for that and a quick
look everybody. But yeah, I don't know. I'm good. I'm like,
I feel like I'm getting way behind on games this year, Like we're
not. It's We're halfway through the year, right, and it's and somehow
I'm like, ah, I played way too much Zelda and now there's all
these other things I want to play and I'm kind of far behind, and
Game of the Year is going to be here in no time. That's what
it feels like to me. I don't know. You just played World Warcraft
though, so you're probably not feeling that right well to some degree, you
know, I was. I was just thinking, like, God, I
didn't even I'm struggling with the backlog stuff as well, and I didn't even
Zelda wasn't even on my radar, and I've just installed Remnant too, and
likes the game previews coming up and the Star failed and Ahmed Core and I
haven't even like and then and then Diablo has got a new season, and
like World Warcraft has just done a content drop as well, and it's like
it's like they are like hitting the things that are like Core to Jazz.
It sounds like a lot of yeah, all that stuff is happening at the
same time. Are you do win the season stuff for Diablo? I honestly
don't know, Like I was, I did get a dabble this morning with
the malignant hearts and stuff, and I was just like, I've my main
character, it still isn't at level one hundred maning or whatever. It turned
a realm, and then it's kind of like, so do I just abandon
that now and then start grinding the battle pass? And I just I'm really
not feeling it, to be honest, I'm just kind of like, man,
do I really want to do this again after just doing it already?
Did you like you've got a good time out of Diablo four? Right?
Like, like trying to force yourself to still turn it into another hobby.
It is kind of stuffing me. And like we're talking about and it's like
you don't have to do that, Like it's okay to put the game down
for a while if you had your fill of it, right, Yeah,
I mean I was actually thinking about that this morning because loads of people complaining
it like there's not enough content and all this, and and then like my
friend was joking with me, she was saying, like, yeah, the
people complaining and there's not enough content. Probably I have like three hundred hours
playing and stuff, and I have about I have two hundred hours playing or
something. Like that. So it's kind of like, yeah, it's it's
encroaching on World Warcraft, which is a hobby definitely, and that's having a
really good content cycle as well. So right now, so I'm just kind
of like I kind of want to well, well, yeah, I just
I heard about I heard about World Warcraft getting Globo. Do you see this
global coming to World of Warcraft. I love that. That was so funny.
I wanted up player in real time because you know, I was scrolling
in bed and then you know, the World Warcraft stibready comes up. Like
for those who don't know, what essentially happened was someone on the World Warcraft
sib ready noticed that this gaming app called zed League dot gg. I've never
never heard of it until this. Yeah, this is a hilarious in introduction
to zed League whatever it is. Yeah, z League Americans, Yeah,
we we got it. We knew what you meant. I want to get
a translate for you, but yeah, go ahead. But essentially what happened,
well, some people in the World warcrafts already and they noticed that the
articles coming out of this ze League thing were suspiciously like the threads on World
Warcraft. It was like, well, I remember one of the article titles
was like what characters should I played this season? World Warcraft players react?
And it was like it was just a ready thread that had been run through
chat Gypt to produce content for Google's algorithm or whatever. And so some one
of them was like, let's let's ship post for a few hours and see
what happened. And so there was a spread like, oh man, I
can't wait for Globo to bebo in what they say in Hertstone in nineteen ninety
four, and I've been excited ever since then. It's finally coming to World
Warcraft. And it's like being that's what the story is, just just AI
taking these points and turn it into a story being fooled. That's like,
yeah, I love that's that's that is Subwright. It's being pretty clever and
I appreciate that. All Right, we're gonna get into this mess, but
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grabbing will help peace your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and
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into, so let's start the Morning Mess with The FTC is suspending its in
house antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. This comes from Hailey Williams at game Spot.
The Federal Trade Commission's case against Microsoft's intended acquisition of Activision Blizzard is slowing down
after it announced they would be suspending its in house lawsuits. As reported by
The Verge, the administrative challenge that was set to go before its own administrative
judge in August has been suspended. In addition to its own lawsuit, the
FTC also filed for a temporary restraining order while seeking a preliminary injunction that would
keep Microsoft from closing it steal to purchase Activision Blizzard. That injunction was of
course denied by a US district court, and further appeals by the FTC also
failed to extend that after the district court ruled that the FTC failed to raise
any strong points and its objection to its Microsoft deal. It's unlikely its own
in house judge would have reached a different conclusion. There's a little bit more
of this story, but we'll jump off there for now. Jazz. That
seems to be what's happening here. I think trying to nail down how the
FTC was going to behave early on was difficult because the FTC is changing to
how it used to behave in the past, and so in the early days,
it's like, well, FTC is pretty much gonna like let this go
through, and it's like, no, they're not. Actually, they're gonna
try to stand in the way. And the way to understand that was they
were trying to be a bother. That was their strategy. They think,
if we can cause as many headaches for these companies as possible, they will
second guess doing the merger in the first place. That is the theory behind
what they're doing. That has clearly met its end, and you could kind
of see why, sure they could continue to be a bother and kept this
internal in house you know, in junction thingment before the judge here inside like
their own court. But that would have been a problem, especially if they
lost, because that would have looked real rough. The FTC can't even win
this case in its own court, and they're facing some scrutiny from US Congress,
and they probably don't want those bad headlines popping off. This seems like
the right exit point for the FTC to be like, we did our best
to try to like cause as many problems for Microsoft as possible, and the
end they won that we just have to accept that and move on. Is
that how you read this? I have a subsequent appeal at some point or
something. I haven't completely dropped the appeal, just their internal hearing, if
I'm understanding that correctly. U. Yeah, they might have an appeal still
on going, but like, I don't know who they would be appealing to
because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denying them already, and then the next
one after that that they could go to. I think, you know,
and I'm no expert on law, but my understand would be the next court
after that would be the Supreme Court. And again I don't think they want
to like take this to the Supreme Court risk embarrassment there. So I think
that yeah, they pretty much see the rhin on the wall now and like
the the you know, not to get conspiratorial, but you know, there
was this whole narrative that they were colluding with the UK CMA to further spiratorial
seems like that's what they were doing. Well yeah, I mean they admitted
it, yeah, to an m please committee. But it was like,
you know, the the you talked about causing headaches. At the end of
the day, it seems like everyone I have headaches that can cause or they're
getting very close and we're in head aggs I can cause. CMA is also
going through it's going through the motions of giving Microsoft and out and the divestiture
or whatever they're going to do. Per reports from Bloomberg or at Financial Times
or something like that. I don't know. So it does look like we're
coming to the end of speech. Jeff, Yes, coming to a little
bit. Let's just let's hop to that so we can just wrap it all
up a CMA awaiting Microsoft's proposals to reach agreement on activision deal from Ocean kun
Ka. In a recent interview, chief executive at the UK's Competition and Markets
Authority Sarah Cardell shared that the organization is waiting on Microsoft's proposal for how it
will address concerns regarding its Activision Blizzard purchase. Speaking to Sky News predominantly on
the topic of food inflation in the UK, Cardell was also asked about the
current state of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Earlier this year, the CMA
blocked the deal over concerns regarding cloud gaming, with Microsoft later filing an appeal
over the group's decision. According to Cardell, the CMA is still yet to
receive word on how Microsoft plans to address the concerns raised, saying we're waiting
for those proposals to come to us. We've agreed with Microsoft to stay on
the litigation, which means that we can focus on understanding whether it is possible
for them to provide a restructure that addresses our concerns. The ball is very
much in their court at the moment. When asked about whether the CMA has
compromised with Microsoft, with some accusing the group of caving into pressure from the
tech company, Cardale responded, we certainly haven't compromised. Our decision to prohibit
the deal stands. We understand from Microsoft that they would like to put forward
proposals to us to restructure the deal, to potentially renegotiating that deal to address
our competition concerns. And I think Jays you were right when you said that
they are also looking for an out. They're also looking for a way to
gracefully get out of this. They at the same time they are looking to
save face. And when they were before the judge earlier this week, I
think it was the CMA and Microsoft talking about like, hey, what are
we going, what are we gonna do going forward again and get this deal
wrapped up? The CMA is like, we are not. We still stand
by our reginal ruling. We stand by our original ruling, and they haven't
backed off from that. I think the moment they get a new offer from
Microsoft, they are likely going to be like, no, this is this
magic resolves everything. Let's get out of this, but we don't want this
in our hair anymore again. Is that how you read it? Yeah?
Pretty much? I mean the whole the economic issues are a big talking point
in Britain right now. Are inflations like sixteen percent I think something like the
core inflation. I don't know. I don't keep track of that because I'll
cry a lot, But the UK inflation is a bit a big, big
problem right now, and the governments in the UK is actively trying to avoid
any sort of suggestion that they are involved in preventing investment from occurring in the
UK. Now. The CMA is of course independent of the government to some
degree, but you have to expect that, like ministers have been leaning on
the CMA to be like, hey, this is a this could be a
really bad look if we if you guys messed this up, and you know,
you might have MPs calling for a restructure the CMA, and the CMA
doesn't want that kind of heat. They don't want that kind of attention.
And you know, everyone's having budget cuts left, right and center right now.
So if it sort of becomes this sort of political issue, which it
has to some degree in America, we've seen some some Yeah, Elizabeth,
Elizabeth Warren doesn't fully understand the deal that that's pretty obvious. You know,
she's on these sorts of subjects of pretty often, and this looks very similar
to things where she's been correct in the past, and I think she's just
sort of going through those motions again. But I mean, it's become political
for the FTC, I think where you know, they were dragging before the
US Congress to talk about these sorts of you know, four losses in a
row, and if you look at their record, it's it's not like O
and four that they've They've won a lot of cases, just like when you
cherry pick these kinds of deals. They've been Yes, that's been pretty rough
for them, But I think I could see what you mean, like in
the for the CMA in the UK. UH, I think it's very easy
for Microsoft to point two if we go, if we bypass the UK,
if we do take our business out of the UK. For one, that
is the investment leaving the country and that is going to look bad. But
also you might get the worst prices out of all of Europe because the game
pass effect and the US like driving up prices because we're trying to give everyone
a deal. If they get in the subscription, it's going to make it
very easy to access a lot of these games. In the meantime, they
might it might be that might be impossible to do in the UK based on
whatever the original ruling was, and so you'd have to pay more there,
and that's just more inflation and it's yeah, so you could see how those
political factors are beginning to be like making the CMA question this and say,
hey, Mike, so please give us something to figured this out. Well,
this was one thing I said in the MP's committee. I can't remember
exactly what the quote was, and I can't remember exactly who said it,
but CMI was dragging in front of MP's to discuss some of this stuff.
And I can't remember if it was actually in that hearing or if someone had
said it to press, but someone fairly saying you're in the government said the
SMA needs to remember its responsibility to you know, the to the to the
globe, you know, global consumers, you know, and how blocking this
deal might effect. It was. It was basically saying like this deal might
effect relations with certain US politicians and stuff like that and marks them no more
self the desperts. I gotta try some kind of tried deal out of out
of Joe Boden. Oh that's right. Yeah, political stuff going on,
right, because it's like not in the EU, so they're looking for those
bilateral deals and yeah, that's that. Anything that stands in the way of
that they probably don't want. On the table that said, you know,
the reason this deal feels like it's really going to go through is that it
probably it's mostly going to accomplish what like what Microsoft says it's gonna accomplish,
especially now after they've made all these agreements with everyone else to keep things on
an even hand. So, uh yeah, we're probably very soon going to
be living in a world where Activision actually is under Microsoft. After more than
a year and a half of waiting for this deal to close, it was
a hell of a ray jazz. All right, let's move on here.
Marvel Spider Man two reveals more villains in story trailer. Uh this is from
Eric Hittelbeck threw at Game Reactor. Insomniac had been hyping up at San Diego
Comic Companel for a while, so it was clear the develop i was going
to share some juicy stuff about Marvel's Spider Man two that included a new trailer.
Marvel Spider Man two's story trailer reveals that Mister Negative returns from the original
game, something that obviously affects Miles in a major way, as Martin Lee,
who is Mister Negative, killed his father. That's on top of Craven
and Venom being the big new Batties and Tonight's trailer finally gives us a much
better look at the latter. Yeah, we saw a lot more Craven in
this. I also saw a lot of Harry Osborne, who is clearly going
to be Venom in this in this story, I don't know you are you
big Spider Man guy? Of all the place they should exclusives, the Spider
Man games have been by far my favorite, so I am very excited about
this Jazz. I mean, I'm pretty sure the fondom of Spiderman, like
it's become so big and so ubiquitous. Like when I was a kid,
it was all Botman, Batman, Batman, but never feels like the next
generation. It's little Spotoman spun Man. Spunman. Yeah, a little bit.
Spotoman was obviously big when I was a kid as well. But I
haven't played, I regretfully, I have not applied it yet. But it's
one guy I've been all in for. My isis Roge. Sure, Yeah,
the rog Yeah they're having that debate, Yester, I have and I
love I love the idea of calling it rog Roger. Ally here I was
calling it the rogs on ironically for the longest time, I think I could
see that like that, like because like rog is, it's not really how
you would say wrong. But the Republic of Gamers sounds like it was shortened
to then. But if you ask a suits, they're like, no,
it's just ROG. I'm like, what what are you even doing over here?
All right, guys, whatever, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep calling it
shorthand ROG. I think, yeah that this. I mean, those Spider
Man games are great on Steam Deck. They're clearly going to run even better
on the ally. They're very good, and I think this trailer is the
one that has done the most for me for Spider Man two. I think
what they showed at the showcase, I don't know, it didn't show as
well as I would have wanted. This feels like, Okay, they are
going for the emotions. All the characters look really cool there, you know,
the relationships between Miles and Peter Parker, and then their relationships between the
of them with like with their superhero alter he goes and then their normal lives
looks like it's just gonna be so dramatic. So yeah, I'm super into
this. Ready for this game to pop off here pretty soon, and I'm
glad that way we're here where they're actually starting to really promote this game.
It's going to be here in no time. Part of promoting that game is
Sony reveals Spider Man two PS five consoles and controller. This comes from Andy
Robinson at VGC. PlayStation and Insomnia Games prepared a new Spider Man trailer at
San Diego Comic Con on Thursday and revealed a special Vision PS five console and
controller. The trailer sets up our story in the game blah blah blah.
Senior narrative director John Piquette told PlayStation Blog. At the beginning of our story,
our Spider Man are at the top of their game, but both Peter
Parker and Miles Morales are struggling with their personal lives. Miles is trying to
find time to write his college entrance essay, but he keeps procrastinating to focus
and focusing on Spider Man work instead. Meanwhile, Peter is underwater on payments
for Aunt May's house, but he can't sell. It means too much to
him, and just like Miles, Peter tries and fails to find balance with
so many responsibilities. MJ wants to help Peep with the mortgage, but her
job is on the line now that Jay Jonah Jamison is back at the bugle
and looking to clean house, our heroes have arrived at a confluence of crossroads
with uncertain futures and some tough decisions ahead. The Marvel Spider Man two Limit
Edition PS five Bundle, which they announced as part of this reveal of the
trailer as well, features a custom PS five console cover design and matching dual
Sense wireless controller for those who already own a PS five console. However,
PS five console covers and the Spider Man two duel since wireless controller will be
available to purchase separately. And boys, that real nice jazz. This is
the thing where it's like you can do this where you could just remove the
covers or the PS five slap other covers on. So please don't be to
buy a whole new PS five if I want a cool looking limited edition thing.
And that's that they're doing exactly that they are going to sell those panels
separately. I think it's pretty cool. What do you think. I think
it's really awesome, and it's it's kind of it's kind of you know,
I look at my Xbox. And yeah, it's really easy the skin because
it's a cube, but it's it's not easy to type a part, So
it would have been cool if Microsoft had some kind of shelling system as well.
Yes, but some of the third party shells for the PS five really
cool. I really like the Deep Brand ones, which are sort of a
little bit more subtle, I would say, than the lip thing they are
going on. But I'm really intrigued what the rumored PS five Slim is going
to look like. Yeah, I know, I'm wondering if that's It sounds
like it's going to be similar in terms of aesthetics, just actually slimmer,
just actually smaller. And for video viewers right now you could see the look
of the PS five Spider Man two addition, it looks really cool. Well,
although I think I still prefer my original PS five Digital Edition, so
I think I probably will stick with that, But hey, if I want
to just get the panels, I don't have to spend a whole bunch of
extra Has Microsoft announced a Starfield Xbox yet? Because we have the headset,
we have the controller, is there a limited edition Xbox? And do you
think that would happen? Certainly have announced anything, and I haven't heard anything
to suggest that we are going to get one. I mean, there's a
lot of there's a lot of great fun renders out there. I mean,
it makes complete and total sense. This is the first Xbox exclusive worth really
getting excited about for like that sort of rebroad audience in a long time.
So for them to not have a console already's either negligent or they don't have
the chips available to indulge in such a thing right now, which yeah,
well I'm more inclined to believe, right, And it could be any like
a combination of supply materials, right, the systemount of chip is probably all
going to one factory, But they also might not be able to like spin
up a whole another fabrication facility to produce a different kind of of Xbox with
a different paint job or whatever like that requires tooling and stuff like that,
and like, hey, we're just trying to get above water in terms of
producing of Xboxes as it is. That would call that would put a kink
in the works or whatever. So yeah, I mean, but I really
really like my Starfield controller in that set. It looks so cool. I
would definitely be willing to consider getting a like a special edition Xbox Series X
branded with Starfield with like twice the amount of storage. That would be great.
I mean, they are Microsoft's lining up everything else for the launch of
Starfield, right the switch from Xbox Live Goal to Xbox Game Pass Core.
It's happening literally the first day you could play Starfield. All this stuff with
like Activision feels like it's lining up for that as well. They're like,
this is the future, Xbox getting all lined up right now. It just
feels like a little bit of a shame they can't get a Starfield an edition
console at the same time. We're so cool they've had like a transpier and
side panel. Yeah yeah, because trans Yeah, the transparent triggers. Yeah.
Absolutely, But yes, this Spider Man two console looks very slick.
Okay, let's move on here right here. Square Innex response to Final Fantasy
sixteen sales concerns points to PS five install base. This comes from Wesleyan Pool
at IgM. Square Innex has insisted sales or Final Fantasy sixteen are extremely strong,
telling IGN the game has sold well relative to the PlayStation five install base.
The PS five exclusive sold three million copies during launch week, a figure
that sparked a debate online about whether it had met Square Enix's sales target.
US Final Fantasy seven remake shifted three point five million copies in three days when
it launched as a PS four exclusive in April twenty twenty. Final Fantasy fifteen
sold five million units in its first day, but that game launched at PlayStation
four and Xbox One in November of twenty sixteen and remains the fastest selling game
in the history the series. The debate was fueled by a Bloomberg article that
pointed out sales of the game in Japan had dropped dramatically in the second week
after launch. The initial sales had lagged behind previous games in the long running
role playing series, and Square Nix itself was grappling with weak momentum on its
flagship franchise, and a statement from Square Ennis issued exclusively to ign the company
pointed to the difference in installed an inn install base between PS four when a
Final Fantasy seven remake came out and the install base of the PS five when
the Final Fantasy sixteen launched last month, with thirty eight million PS five consoles
shipped globally, as of March thirty one, twenty twenty three, sales of
Final Fantasy sixteen surpassed three million units worldwide several days after its release on June
twenty, twenty twenty three. Taking into consideration the sales figures of the acclaimed
Final Fantasy seven remake and the difference in size of the install base of the
PlayStation four at the same at the time of that title's release, we could
see that the attachraate of Final Fantasy sixteen is considerably higher given the PlayStation five
install base. And for me, just as all of that sounds about right,
three million copies sold exclusively on PlayStation five seems pretty good. Not many,
I don't. I don't think any game has done that exclusively on PS
five. So it's like the fastest selling PS five exclusive, and I think
that number is probably going to be pretty strong. The question is, does
it have the legs to get to a higher number as more people get PS
fives. I don't know, what do you think? Well, I think
like, I think it should probably have legs. I mean, I kind
of I kind of upset some people by stepping into this debate, and honestly,
the fact that there's even a debate. It's SQUARINGX is fault, yes,
because Square Nix is the one who has become notorious for being like,
oh, toumb rate to miss sales projections. This game miss sales projections.
That game miss sales projections despite selling millions of copies, and they've kind of
they've created this sort of like, well, what are your expectations Square Nicks?
You know, do you want this to sell like fifty million copies or
something? Do you want attach rate of one hundred percent? Like what is
a win for you? You know? So that's where that kind of debate
I think from it's Square because his own doing to some degree, but also
I think like there's some back and forth about the fact that he's not turn
based. It's a completely different genre, Like they've dropped all all sort of
pretense of keeping the tactical heritage that the game has or whatever. By the
way, I apologize if you can police on our side, everybody that you
don't feel like you can get a pull over if you're trying. Yeah,
I live on a main road, so there's just constantly police and ambulances and
all times I think it's fine. It adds texture to the podcast. Good.
Well, I do think I'll have legs. Though fin Fancy is a
brand just has legs. You know the fact that the people of our generation
or our age, you know, they're kind of like there's a lot of
styles of fin Fancy, but Final Fantasy has become this, It's become a
monster and mobile as well, and not a lot of people sort of talk
about like Brave X give us or whatever it's called the Gatcher game and stuff.
Yeah, the brand has a lot of legs. And even just like
because I don't have a play side five currently, it's one game that as
a Final Fancy, a life lifer, you know, a void final Fancy
Lifer. I'm just say it's it's one of the first games or amongst the
you know, another compelling reason to buy a PlayStation, I think for a
lot of people like me. But yeah, I do think I'll have legs.
And you know, it'll come out on PC inevitably, and then he'll
get all the mods and that'll give it some extra legs as well, like
the Battle Thomas the tank Engine and Fancy. Yeah, I think I think
it's hopefully it's doing well and it will do well, and I think it's
it's it's it's tough because it's like there are so many factors in like trying
to figure this stuff out, and these companies are so quiet, and you're
right, Square is notorious for having these high expectations for certain games, and
you know a lot of that's driven by the costs of the games and ips
associated like those the Marvels Avengers, right, that was like that probably saw
like three million copies. I think I'm pointing that from memory. I think
that was right, and that was unquestionably not enough, as they were paying
a lot for the IP and they had like bigger designs and all this stuff,
and that game came out everywhere, so it's like, oh, that
should have done better as a as a PS five exclusive. Three millions probably
pretty I gets pretty strong, and then uh it really Now it's gonna be
down to that word of mouth. Are people going to be excited? And
I think the word of mouth is is mostly pretty positive. There's some people
that have that are you know, are a backlash against it, but that
happens with every Final Fantasy game, and I don't think that's gonna hurt it
too much. And it does feel like a big Prestige PS five game.
If you're gonna spend five hundred dollars on a console, then yeah, you
want me to turn on the video game for you? Sure, think kid?
Oh yeah, yeah, hey, there you go. You just gotta
shake it. There you go? All right? Yes, good good.
She's got great timing, she really does. And you so you could see
like that that word of mouth actually like carrying the game forward because it's like,
hey, this it looks big and expensive and pretty, and it is.
It's kind of Hey, if you like a Game of Thrones, it's
got some of that in there, and that's going to register with a lot
of people like that, that bigger, slightly more casual audience that comes to
games for the bomb bast and to feel like they're playing something that's cutting edge
and technologically impressive and has cool storytelling. And the game has all of that.
So I think that this is a game that can catch on as time
goes on. But also I think their final fantasy is in this weird spot
where it is it feels like it should be bigger, and maybe it's not
going to be as big as the biggest games on PlayStation. The biggest games
sell about ten million copies. The you know, Spider Man's are above that.
Everything else though, are like the big games sell about ten million copies.
So I wonder if this game can even get to there over time.
Maybe it can, especially if they put out like a Game of the Year
edition or something like that, and once it gets still with DLC, but
I think to get at the start though, three million copies seems pretty strong.
I think I think like the fact that it launched within the Diablo window
as well probably really overshadowed it in some ways. And yes, it's not
only Diablo overshadowing it overshadowing it, but like because they didn't have that big
multi platform launch, there's there's less word of mouth. You know, if
it was if it launched, if it did launch Sumertonius on PC, it
would have had more, you know, word of mouth. I don't know
what you call it, grown, swelling, gast all that stuff. Yeah,
but I think it's right. Yeah. Do you think that when it
does come to PC though, it could get that second win because that happened
with Death of Stranding, Like that Stranding was like, oh, I don't
know if this is doing super well and they can PC and it's like,
actually, now it's like that get that game sold five million copies and that's
really good for that game, I think, Yeah, I think like I
think it will and like DLC that's trying to have that DLC boost as well,
which I think, you know, elevated elevated the products a little bit.
And I kind of feel like this part of punt C sixteen will probably
get fair fairly large amount of day. I'll say five amounts of fifteen did
get quite a lot of day, I'll say, so, I would imagine
that they'll keep it rolling, you know, and hopefully we'll end will be
in a big success. You know, just as a fan of the series,
I don't want to see I don't want to see them abandoned the Core,
the Core franchise and just you know, side off into the sunset with
the mobile gotcha games because yeah, yeah, yes, it's it's Square Nix
is always such a weird company, where like they put out so many games
and so many of them don't seem to hit in the last couple of years,
and they put out a lot of bad games too, Ballad Wonder World
and The Quiet Man and all that stuff. Them. Yeah, that's them,
Yes, absolutely, they published those games at least, so then like
you're like, well, they're gonna take Final Fantasy seriously, and it does
feel like they did that. So they made the investment. You kind of
hope like the lesson they learned is that investment is worth it, so they
keep doing it because there's not a lot of publishers out there making that level
investment on that kind of game is But you're like, and the screen Nix
was cruly trying to replicate Sony's model here, and it's like, is that
even possible? It feels like it should be. You know, the game
seems for all intensive purposes to meet meet those that those lofty goals. But
it's like, it does that not make sense for a third party publisher?
Is that something that only really makes sense for the biggest company that is also
selling hardware where they get a thirty percent cut when you buy the system for
their big prestige game and then you spend a lot of money on Fortnite and
they get all that money. Hopefully that's not the case. I want I
want these other publishers to be like this was worth it, so we'll see.
Okay, Moving on Xbox's top ten best selling games are mostly old Xbox
three sixty Call of Duties. This comes from Zack Wise and at kataku Quick
without looking it up or remembering the name of the headline of the story.
What's currently the best selling game on Xbox? Is it Elder Ring? Maybe
a new Call of Duty? Perhaps that popular Diablo four? Nope, it's
Call of Duty Black Ops two for Xbox three sixty, and the rest of
the top ten is filled with other classic Call of Duty games as players flock
back to the popular shooters. In the wake of Microsoft ironing out some long
standing server issues on the weekend of July fifteenth, with no heads up or
announcement, Microsoft and or Activision fixed the match making issues that have plagued numerous
old Call of Duty shooters on Xbox three sixty, Xbox one, and Xbox
Series X and S. At the same time, a vast majority of the
classic online first person shooters were put on sale, going for only fifteen dollars
a pop. The end result of this, a shitload of players returned to
these aging Call of Duty titles, making in making them some of the most
popular games on Xbox and now. As the sale continues and word of the
fixed match match making spreads. A bunch of classic Call of Duty titles have
flooded the best selling games list on Xbox dot Com. Jess, I have
the list here. It does start with Black Ops two, then Modern Warfare
two, Black Ops Modern Warfare three, then we get NBA two K twenty
three, and then it's backed Call of Duty with Modern Warfare two. That's
the twenty twenty two version. Two thousand nine versions is actually in number two,
and then Black Ops three is after that Diabolo four and then Called Duty,
World at War and then Red Dead Redemption two. Man Called Duty is
still just that popular. I guess maybe it's entering its nostalgia era as well,
where people are like, oh, I grew up on this stuff.
I want to go back to that. But that is something that it seems
ripe for exploiting by a company putting these games in game pass. I don't
know, what do you think I would think? So yeah, I mean,
I just I just pulled up the store list of my xbooks as well
to say what it's like, and it looks pretty much the same in the
UK, like NBI two k is Koya than some of the Cool of Duty
games but a lot of the styles of recorder ju in the UK as well.
Of course, I've just started in Stolen could Jerry World at War because
that's yeah, highest World at War, the one I want to play too.
I'm like, I liked World at War at a time a lot,
but it was not like Water Warfare Model Warfare two were definitely my games.
But I'm like, I'm gonna go back to World at War for some reason.
I don't know what that is. I think it's maybe because the recent
World War two game they put out was so so bad. Yeah, maybe
maybe that's what it was. World was just like real classic. That's that's
the one I wanted, Just the World War World at Warked two. I
guess that would have been cons that's what Yeah, yeah, that's what I
want to But I think the fact that this has happened now is no,
it's no, it's no coincidence. I mean, these are the games that
probably are going to go to Nintendo Switch, you know, and I imagine
they'll go to Nintendo Switch with cross play probably and probably having that server infrastructure
in place is something that microsost have been working towards because obviously they're the ones
with the native versions backwards compatible. I don't think. I don't think PlayStation
five has those back was compatible. I don't know, I don't, I
don't think so. I mean they're three sixty games, yeah, right,
and when Duty was a three sixty associated game, Like people thought of Call
of Duty as a three sixty game at this time. So it's it's pretty
interesting. I you know, are we going to see like a classic Call
of Jury Xbox SERIESES bundle at some point? It's like, hey, play
these old games for really cheap game pass, you know, and stuff like
that. It's it's just under the one of those weird gaming curveballs where like
some really old ass game starts going viral on Twitch or something and then suddenly
there's a sequel in production and all this kind of stuff, you know.
But it's cool to see, you know. I was I was saying on
twitterlier day, like what what Call of Duty is today? It's just not
what I want from Call of Duty personally. I don't I don't want Homeland
of Skin and yeah, I'm being very old man, you know, get
off my lawn right now, but I don't want Yeah, I don't want
all this stuff. This this what is Yeah, I mean Call of Juty
Duty was just a product you bart and then yeah there was you could buy
map packs and stuff like that. That was a big thing, right,
But it was not a live service game, not really. It was just
an online multiplayer game like anything else they had come before it. And now
they are one one thousand percent live service games, and of course they are.
That makes them more money, but it also turns it into something that
feels different. So if you want that classic feeling, you have to go
back to the classic games, and you know, the reality lose these Call
of Duty games, these even these classic ones have been expensive for a very
long time. They rarely go on sale. I've never seen them for fifteen
dollars. They are usually like forty dollars if that especially on like Steam.
Like you look on Steam, I you know, everything goes on sale,
and Steam the Call Duties they're like, oh it's on sale. It's like
it's down to forty dollars. Like, okay, that's that's still too expensive.
I already played that game. I own it on a disk back there.
I just want to play on my PC two. But you know,
it makes me wonder, like what are they doing here. It's just like
them like one last hurrah before like they know all this stuff goes into game
Pass or like, let's just let's get this stuff ready, let's get everything
fixed up, and then let's just sell it. Let's do like the best
deal ever on these games. I mean, it's working whatever, whatever it
is. But I which I wonder what the motivation is for Active and you
know, before Microsoft starts calling the shots there, it's just like, oh,
let's just get one big pay day. Yeah, I mean, Microsoft
was involved with making this happen. So I do think, like, and
I've got it on good authority that there's already plans in place for what it
looks like, yeah, after the acquisition because of the assumption right now between
all partis is that it's it's inevitable now and then they don't want to think,
don't want to like take like my guess here is that deal closes and
things start happening very quickly after that. Right, Yes, there's a lot
of there's a lot of prep work being laid down right now for when the
deal closes and and what that means for customers in the ecosystem, the Xbox
ecosystem and the call of du We've obviously seen Overwatch go to Steam, which
is his classic. I mean over Watching it needs a bit of health right
now. But like, I feel like that's a very Marcsoft thing to do.
He's like, you know, oh, the game is not doing so
well. I mean that is what Microsoft has done, right. Microsoft don't
exactly that putting their games on Steam to like reach more players on PC,
and now Activision is doing that. Yeah. It feels like, yeah,
I think Mike Show's not technically allowed to call the shots, but the friends
are allowed to have conversations, and then Bobby Cotics allowed to go say,
hey, now do this, so uh yeah, I think that you're right
that there. That's what all this stuff feels like. Everything we've had in
the last two weeks since the FTC thing was denied, the preliminary injunction was
denied, all the moves we've heard out of ACTISI, Activision of Microsoft related
to the stuff sounds like putting ducks in a row and yeah, that's it.
Seems like once that goes through, yes, and now they're making them
quack exactly. Man, I think I will play some Call of Duty.
A World at war seems like the one to go for I bought all those
games on discs, so I think I do have to buy them digitally again.
I should just buy buy a couple of those and just have them.
Although we were talking about back clogs earlier and now now I'm like, I'm
Dan loud in cold. Yeah. But this is the thing, like modern
cool of Judy is that kind of investment. It's like a battle pass you've
got to You've got to invest your whole life into it. And it's like,
well, like I got well the Warcraft season to do, and then
they want me to play Diablo as well, and I have time and I
ain't even got kids. So I was like you you mentioned, like,
oh, I you know, I don't know if I'm gonna keep playing Diable.
I put two two hundred hours in and I'm like, man, I
put one hundred and thirty hours in the Zelda over a course of like two
and a half months, and like that's been all I've been basically been playing,
and like this is what happens, Like all right, I got some
time to play Zelda and I'll look over over here and she's playing the Switch
and I can't get on as I need to get what the other switch set
up again so she can play with that, but she likes to play on
the TV. I'm like, look, you could take it with you and
have it. She's like, no, I want on the TV, and
like that's the one that I play Zelda on som pain in the ass.
But yeah, that's what happens with gaming, you don't you. There's all
this new stuff and I am always I'm always looking for what to new,
absolutely, but I also like, I have these old games I love going
back to, and right now it's been a lot of PS one games and
Supernintendo games and now apparently called Ditty World at War, So that's gonna be
it too, alright. Moving on Borderland's film to release in August twenty twenty
four. This comes from Marie de Lessandri at Games Industry Dot is Borderland's film
adaptation will hit theaters on August nine. At twenty twenty four. The release
date was revealed by Deadline, which noted that the screenplay was co written by
Eli Roth of Hostile and Kevin Fever Fame Fame, and Joe Crombie. Crombie
is actually a different name for Craig Mazin who wrote the Last of US TV
show and Chernobyl and all this stuff, and he wanted his name removed,
so he gave that fake name instead, which is just incredible. Yeah,
he actually said, I am not credited, not a credited writer of the
film, so I cannot claim any kind of authorship on Borderland's much less co
writing. He said, I did see the report about the pseudonym. Oh,
he says, this is false. Excuse me, which is false.
I did not use a pseudonym. If the name in question was indeed a
pseudonym, all I could say is it's not mine. Okay, this is
this was a previous thing that people speculated a gone I guess because Joe Crombie
is the name, and no one knows who Joe Crombie is. So I
wonder if that's like like a combat like a composite of like Craig Mazon and
some other stuff, or maybe that's Randy Pitchford's stage name or something. Now
Joe Crombie out there doing magic tricks. Mazin was initially reported to be involved
in the film in twenty twenty, when Eli Roth was revealed as director,
The Hollywood Reporter said The script was written by Mazon The Borderline's The Borderlands film
was initially announced in twenty fifteen. Jesus hasn't been that long. The cast
includes Cate Blanchet, Edgar Murmirez, Kevin Hart, Arianna Greenblatt, Florian Mutinou,
Jamie Lee, Curtis, Jack Black, and Moore. This is something
that like recently we were tired about, hey, that that movie has been
finished, completed with filming for a long time now, like eighteen months or
something like that, a year and a half and we haven't heard anything about
it. And then a week later they come out with the dating like it's
coming out next year. There's nothing else to like really tell you about it,
although Randy Pitchford did confirm on Twitter that he does not have a cameo
in the movie. Jazz, how devastated are you by that? I don't
know. I think I'll be okay. I think I'm gonna be okay,
You're yeah, I'll be honest. I didn't know they were doing a movie
until this, until I heard that the dude was it was a pseudonym.
But now it's not even true that maybe it was all a marketing ploy.
YEP, it's I know about the movie now, So Joe Cromby's actually probably
the screen name for chat GBT. They probably just had AI rewrite the script
or something, and I'm like, we'll just call it Joe Crobby. Here
we go on the right. All the rights are on strike right now.
So yeah, maybe it was yeah, yeah, I don't know. I
don't really know how much about the movie and or it's development history, but
the fact who was announcing twenty fifteen and it's taken this long to give it
a date, I kind of I would that's a a've read reddish flager,
Yes, a maroon flag, and there's there's been some other maroon ish reddish
flags along the way, which is mostly U that you know, what happened
with Mazon here him being like I no, I'm not writing it and like
this weird pseudonym thing. That's one thing, obviously, but also there's been
like reports that that it's in production post production hell, where the film is
complete and now they're trying to do you know, the the editing and the
effects work and that stuff apparently is not going super well. But that's you
know, maybe that's how it happens with a lot of movies we'll see.
I just the thing I remember the most was during the E three twenty twenty
one Randy Pittchford being on set of the movie and showing it off and then
just running up to every major star on the set be like, I'm Randy
Pitchford, I made Borderlands, won't you be my friend Kevin Hart? And
it was like super awkward and embarrassing. So somehow that's gonna turned into a
major feature film. I need to say that. I mean, I know,
I know the film that's sort of in some kind of weird studies,
the Minecraft movie, Like what yeah, right, wasn't that was announced like
ten years ago? Right? Yeah, it's a ridiculous amount of time ago.
Originally it was gonna be worked on by rod Rob mcelhaney from It's Always
Sunny in Philadelphia. I know he's no longer on the project, but for
years he was attached to direct that, and then there was another director who
I can't remember, attached to direct. I think that's that's typical with games,
right, games get licensed by Hollywood. H they they say they're gonna
make the movie. I mean, how many times did that happen with Milk
You're solid and Halo I mean, I know they made the show, but
we pretend that doesn't exist and then uh yeah, So it's like that happens.
This is normal. It's almost weirder when a movie actually does come out
and it seems like Borderland somehow is going to be one of those. But
Hollywood's I just just correctly, like, Hollywood's gonna be like they're going to
be looking a movie like the Mario movie and some of the success stories of
vide there's money to be made, yes, if they just do it properly.
There one percent. Looking at Mario, everyone in Hollywood is like,
Okay, that's what we're doing now. So video games are going to be
right for the picking for them, and there's some good chance for if you
have an IP that is relatively popular, to make some money. So a
lot of these game studios and publishers are going to do that. And when
we see like Sony, a lot of their strategy is can we make a
game and a movie or a TV show, And it's like, that's what's
happening with Twisted Metal. You know we're getting I think we're getting a Twisted
Metal game because they thought we can make a twisted metal TV show and it's
like, okay, we'll see how that goes. But but that that is
the thinking right now at all these companies, so it's not too surprising that
that's the route they went, all right, last handful of stories here.
Roadblocks suffers a substantial data leak. This comes from Sophie macavoy at Games Industry
dot is. Roadblocks has experienced a significant data breach containing nearly four thousand developer
profiles, as reported by pc game. That's such a like. I get
that that's true. They're developer profiles, but developers on Roadblocks are like kids
and a lot of times miners. So that's like man, four thousand profiles,
probably mostly kids. As reported by pc gamer, the personal information included
those who attended the Roadblocks Developer conference between twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. According
to I have been poned a website reporting data breaches, which emails me pretty
much every day to say another thing has been breached for me. By the
way, The breach originally took place in December twenty twenty, and the information
was republished on a form in July twenty twenty three. The data leak included
email addresses, names, user names, data states of birth, phone numbers
of physical and IP addresses, and T shirt sizes. Of course, a
source told I told Have I Been Pooned? Creator Troy Hunt via email that
the initial breach was not publicly disclosed by Roadblocks and those affected were allegedly not
contacted. Hunt set on Twitter, geez crazy. So Roadblocks is a a
company I think has a pretty notorious and scummy reputation at this point for its
practices of taking most of the money that its content creators produce and kind of
being this content mail that monetizes children in a way that's pretty rough. Combine
that with having your data breached and then not doing the accepted best practice of
immediately as soon as it's possible informing the people who are affected by that,
just that's that's a screaming red flag, right, I mean, yeah,
I mean one of the things that emerged from the FTC trial was that the
reason Roadblocks wasn't on PlayStation was because Sony was not happy with Roadblocks is diet
A policies and stuff like that, and their approach to their approach to some
of this stuff. Microsofts are generally like pretty Usually it's a Microsoft who's the
one who's who's really funny about data and stuff like that. But like for
Sony to be like that, you know, and for forego access to one
of the biggest games in the world, that is a huge maroon flag.
You know. Well, that's not that's not even a room. We're going
full blown crimson with that fight exactly. So. So Roadblocks is a scummy
company, like you said, and this is just part of the course.
I just wonder if some some some regulator or some day or authority will actually
give them the kind of fighting they need to get their ship together, because
it's there's a long laundry list of stuff they have done that is just scumming.
I might actually, I might actually write that list next week when Essential
a scummy company? Scummy coming everybody, No, not that one. A
scummy company. Here's a long list of reasons why. Yeah. Yeah,
well that was a fun way to misspeak. It's listen, it happens almost
every day on this show. Yeah, I think I would read that list.
I would be interested. I know. There's like long form videos on
YouTube about about Roadblocks and about their monetization strategies from people are really good at
that. I think people make games. I think is who did it originally?
I and it's like, yeah, I have. I've never got around
to watching that, but because it's like I don't have so much time for
those those kinds of videos that I would like to give my attention to.
But I would love to read more reports on what's going over at roadblocks.
All right, let's do this last one. Despite Nintendo in valve, emulator
dev isn't worried about legal dangers for Dolphin. This comes from John walkerret Kotaku.
While Nintendo loves a lawsuit and emulation is often a contentious issue for publishers,
few situations have been quite as high profile as the recent attempt to launch
Gamecuban we emulator Dolphin on Steam. The twenty year old emulator engine has been
long available online. Man, it's really been around for twenty years, but
this attempt to become more mainstream ended pretty p pictably. But now, after
a few months of silence, the emulators he keeps saying EMU, which is
not going to call it an EMU. The emu's creating. The emulators creators
have spoken up and claimed Nintendo's suggestion that their software breaks the law are completely
false. Back in March, it was revealed that the well loved emulator Dolphin
will receive surprise release on Steam. The software used to run both Gamecubing Week
games on modern hardware, had a store page on Valves PC Gaming Store,
giving the unlikely impression that the decades old emulator was going mainstream inevitably. This
caused consternation, with the initial reports saying Nintendo issued demands the Valve that the
page be removed and the software not distributed on Steam. It was later revealed
that in fact, it was Valve that went running to Nintendo to tapball on
the project, with a Nintendo of America lawyer then requesting the removal used.
Using the DMCA as its rationale, Dolphin claimed Nintendo unlawfully circumvanced its cryptographic keys
and so distributing the software constitutes unlawful traffic and copyright infringement. Despite all of
this, often the people responsible for Dolphin Jazz were asked, hey, so
I mean you still have those those important codes in Dolphin where people can download
that elsewhere outside the Steam Are you worried about a lawsuit from Nintendo to come
and come after you in the long run, to remove you from the Internet
completely, and the and the emulator people are like, no, not really.
Nintendo hasn't really ever taken an emulator itself to court. They haven't gone
after the emulators of themselves. And I think people argue that's because Nintendo thinks
still lose. I think it's more like Nintendo is worried if they do lose,
then they enshrine in law in precedent that emulators are protected, and then
they lose the threat of a cease and desist and stuff. So like right
now they can threaten these things and say the DMCA and use that as like,
okay, well, if we don't want it on Steam, we can
like draw a line in the sand and say this is the hard line.
Do not pass this. Stay in your own little corner of the Internet,
and if you can get outside of that, if you get big for your
bridges, we will come after you. But if they losing court, that
would have a long term ramifications for their ability to threaten legal action, and
I think that's what they're more afraid of. I think the complexity of the
issue is is really important here because not only does you know third parties like
Dolphin use emulation, but Nintendo itself uses emulation for some of its stuff.
Microsoft uses emulation, and you know all the other companies use emulation. I
think like someone someone took a part that Snares not Snais Mini, the Mega
Drive Mini, sorry, the Genesis, that's right, the Spirit. Thank
you for recognizing. Someone took apart that device and found that. I think
it was that it was might have been another one, but like Saga or
someone, I can't remember, it's likely who it was, but they'd use
like literal literal ROMs that they downloaded off the internet. So to make those
devices, right, it was a big I can't remember which company was.
I think was it like was it the PlayStation Many actually because it might have
been. Remember Nintato has done this in the past two where they've used ROMs
downloaded from the internet. Yeah, now them the romcras names exactly. So
it's it's kind of like, you know, emulation serves a technical purpose not
just for for you know, for for pirates as I would suggest, right,
and that scene is like they draw information and they draw resources from that
that emulation scene because a lot of that stuff is going to be open source,
and if these companies didn't decide, hey, we want to go make
a commercial emulator, they're often looking to what these open source projects have done.
Sometimes they even license the open source projects themselves like that, that's not
some rare occurrence. And so this is like free work being done for them,
and they don't want that to go away through regal threats. You're right,
it's very complicated. So yeah, and like try and we've seen like
regular as completely must understand the nuances of cloud gaming and the whole sort of
the the what call of duty being on getting past means and all that kind
of stuff, asked them to understand this. I mean, it's it's it's
like a headlight. Nintendo's legal Tan's probably just like no, we can't,
right, we mustn't, We mustn't not, just we can we mustn't.
I think Nintendo's very happy to be in that zone of we can threaten all
we want, and that's way more powerful than actually suing people. Like we're
very good at threatening people. So we're gonna just stick to that. So
Nintendo is scary. Nintendo scary. That's that's what we always say over at
giant bomb dot com. All right, let's get to the pull. I'm
gonna pull this up from yesterday where we asked have you avoided Blizzard games because
they have not been on Steam, only twenty three percent said yes. Seventy
seven percent said no. But at twenty three percent now it was an opportunity
to play Overwatch two. I think this is gonna make moves for that game.
Jazz. No, the reason over What's two is failing is because it's
not in a good position right now. The game, the development of the
game has been poor. And this is coming from someone who actively plays Overwatch.
Well not not so much anymore, but the community over there is not
very happy, you know, and the disruption that switching to five v five
is brought to the game, and switching from free to play and all that
kind of stuff. They've sort of they've sort of seeing the industry run away
from them, you know. And you know, CS goes doing doing Gangbox
and Gangbusters Sorry, and like you've seen like you know, battle Rail games
doing really well as well, and sort of the sort of Hero Shooter sort
of came and went. But then TF two is blowing up again. People
are so tired with Overwatch. They're going back to TF two because it got
seals. You know that seals TF two and that was enough to remind people,
Oh yeah, there was a bet there was a better version of this
at one point. Let's go back and play that. So it's it's a
mess of Blizard Zone doing and I think putting on Steam ain't going to do
JAF. I think it's uh. I think it's it sets it up for
success in the future, but only if they address the issues with Overwatch and
get people excited about it again. And that's where the real work will actually
have the you know, the feet meet the pavement and all that. All
right, I have another pull question I'm gonna get to in a second.
But in the meantime, Jazz, why don't you tell people where they can
find you on the internet, where you got your you got your shows,
you do tell people about all of that. Well, you know, thanks
very much for having me, Jeff. Of course, time we've actually managed
the podcast like this, we did the we did XP two plus one,
Yes, we did XP two plus one, but like a live podcast for
everybody, Yes, I think so that's awesome. Yeah, well you very
much having me, And I'm Jeess Cordon Window Central dot com on Twitter Jezz
Cordon, and we also do the Xbox two podcasts on the Rundel Thought nineteen's
YouTube channel and at the XP two dot com. So thanks very much.
Absolutely, Uh, let's see Giant Bond dot Com. We're gonna have that.
The results of the pull question, are you upset that the Borderlands movie
won't have a Randy Pitchford cameo? Your answers to your options are yes,
I'm devastated by this lack of real magic and no, I should not have
to suffer a magician. So go ahead vote for that. And on Monday
on GiantBomb dot com Game US Mornings, we will get that. Also on
giant bomb dot com, speaking of we're gonna do UPF today early. It's
a early unprofessional Fridays. It's gonna be one pm Eastern ten am Pacific.
Look out for that. So we're gonna be playing See If Thieves. We're
gonna be going in there and doing a little bit of that. That new
content, the Monkey Island content. Looking forward to that. It's going to
be me Jan and some friends. So look, that's very exciting. And
then next week we'll get back to the normal schedule. We'll have games mornings
most mornings, bomb cast all that stuff. We'll do Blight Club on Wednesday,
and then I'm out for the rest of the week. Next week,
so yeah, look out for all that and A written it too quickly.
We'll be going up soon as well. All right, Jess, thank you
so much for spending today talking with me about video games. Man, I
really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you man, so awesome. Thank you
all for watching your the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have
a good one, take care of yourself. Goodbye.