Game Informer Returns!

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Breaking News with me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning
<v Speaker 1>in on this episode, we're gonna be talking about Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>actually announcing a new Direct just six days before the
<v Speaker 1>switch to Direct. We have Lucy James on the program,
<v Speaker 1>so you know it's gonna be a good one. Let's
<v Speaker 1>get right into it by saying hello to said Lucy
<v Speaker 1>James games. How's it going?
<v Speaker 2>I E it is going well. Thank you.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to give a shout out to past
<v Speaker 3>Lucy James because she really.
<v Speaker 2>Really helped out present Lucy James when she was setting
<v Speaker 2>up her office yesterday.
<v Speaker 1>Good job. Yeah, that's a that's a bit a big one.
<v Speaker 1>I always count on past and present Lucy James. I'm
<v Speaker 1>glad that you can also count on past Lucy James.
<v Speaker 2>She labeled every single wire every.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, one okay, So I didn't know we were getting
<v Speaker 1>that serious.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And then this is the first time I've had a
<v Speaker 3>camera like directly above my screen since maybe twenty twenty,
<v Speaker 3>and it feels weird that I'm not like looking off
<v Speaker 3>to the side.
<v Speaker 2>But we will. We'll get there.
<v Speaker 1>Looks good. What's the plans for, you know, decorating, getting
<v Speaker 1>everything set up in there. You know, to be fair,
<v Speaker 1>you know that you don't. It's not like there's an
<v Speaker 1>echo in there or anything.
<v Speaker 2>So oh I'm using. I'm using in video broadcasts.
<v Speaker 1>That's why. Is that helping listen? It is?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they just updated it and it is very good.
<v Speaker 2>Green Wayne Scotting cream top.
<v Speaker 3>Nice comfortable chair is going in that corner, and at
<v Speaker 3>some point the next couple of days, I'm going to
<v Speaker 3>be putting my junk on these shelves. Shout out to
<v Speaker 3>the miller's forgiving me that junk.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, Oh fantastic you were painting right. This
<v Speaker 1>is a fresh paint job, it is. It looks great,
<v Speaker 1>so thank you.
<v Speaker 3>The one problem is is that it was I painted
<v Speaker 3>this like a salmon pink, which you know, there was
<v Speaker 3>a vision and I'm totally fine in saying that the
<v Speaker 3>vision didn't work. But I've just kind of gone back
<v Speaker 3>to an ice cream. Someone's telling me to turn on
<v Speaker 3>the Nvidia blank no blank mode.
<v Speaker 2>Shall I do it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm listening. I'll look away, but chat can't. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's finely me.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wait, I have to change it in here.
<v Speaker 1>That's always a good thing to do to yourself as
<v Speaker 1>a lady on the internet is give yourself crazy eyes.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what people like.
<v Speaker 2>So it just it just it just flat out breaks everything.
<v Speaker 1>It did just break everything.
<v Speaker 2>It just breaks everything.
<v Speaker 3>So I guess with the thirty ninety and so all.
<v Speaker 1>Right, well you know what, We'll try the no blink
<v Speaker 1>next time. Everybody, all right, let's explain what we do
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<v Speaker 1>life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even
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<v Speaker 1>we have a lot to get into, so let's start
<v Speaker 1>the morning mess.
<v Speaker 2>You didn't say it, you didn't say it, you didn't
<v Speaker 2>say it.
<v Speaker 1>Hello YouTube, Thank you man. That I do people do
<v Speaker 1>get mad if I forget to say it, so it's.
<v Speaker 2>Never you didn't say it.
<v Speaker 1>It's never been written down. I just you know, it
<v Speaker 1>just happens, so yeah, or if it is written out,
<v Speaker 1>it's not on this Wednesday, doc anyhow, give different docks
<v Speaker 1>reach day of the week. Everybody a little.
<v Speaker 2>But that's how that's how we do things.
<v Speaker 1>That's all we do things over here. That's called efficiency.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it is all right. Let's get into
<v Speaker 1>some headlines. Lucy James tomorrow. It's been confirmed and Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>announced it. It's not they're not really holding back in
<v Speaker 1>terms of like setting expectation expectations even I suppose they
<v Speaker 1>can do that because they do have switched to Direct
<v Speaker 1>coming next week. But a Nintendo Direct is happening tomorrow.
<v Speaker 1>The Kennis Shepherd headline over at Kotaka reads sounds like
<v Speaker 1>it could be the switch's last hurrah. Don't know why
<v Speaker 1>it wouldn't be. I think the numbers on this it'll be.
<v Speaker 1>It'll start at seven am Pacific time, ten am Eastern.
<v Speaker 1>We will find somewhere seven am Pacific time is like
<v Speaker 1>man just one hour later, and that's like actually kind
<v Speaker 1>of reasonable. Seven am is not their.
<v Speaker 2>American offices in Seattle. I'm sure they love it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I wonder if they ever like try to like
<v Speaker 1>get them to moving around, and that's like, now you're American.
<v Speaker 1>We don't care. So thirty minutes is the time we've
<v Speaker 1>been given. And of course they did say that there
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be any Switch to stuff here, so that is
<v Speaker 1>as far as like the setting expectations, that's the one
<v Speaker 1>thing they have done. Beyond that, Nintendo doesn't go into
<v Speaker 1>any specifics about what games we might be seeing during
<v Speaker 1>the showcase. Usually the company says if a stream will
<v Speaker 1>be made up of third party partner games rather than
<v Speaker 1>its own in house projects, but it makes no such
<v Speaker 1>distinction here. So we may see some of Nintendo's last
<v Speaker 1>big Switch games before we move on to Switch too.
<v Speaker 1>As far as we know, Nintendo is winding down first
<v Speaker 1>party games for the Switch, but some big games like
<v Speaker 1>Metroid Prime for Beyond and Pokemon Legends ZA are still
<v Speaker 1>coming to the console this year, So okay. There's been
<v Speaker 1>some other like developments recently Lucy that have like definitely
<v Speaker 1>thrown a little bit of muck in our understanding what
<v Speaker 1>might be happening in which direct there was a report
<v Speaker 1>a week or so ago that said there would be
<v Speaker 1>this big Metroid Prime four blowout, it would take up
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the spotlight in the Switch To Direct.
<v Speaker 1>On April second, now we're hearing that from someone else
<v Speaker 1>that Metroid Prime four won't be in the switch to
<v Speaker 1>Direct at all. So I'm thinking you told me, if
<v Speaker 1>this sounds right to you, that maybe there were some
<v Speaker 1>cross wires there, and METROI Prime four is going to
<v Speaker 1>be a big thing in this direct, and then maybe
<v Speaker 1>it gets a mention or something, or Nintendo refers to this.
<v Speaker 1>Director says all those games that are for Switch one, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they'll run great on Switch too, and that's it. But
<v Speaker 1>METROI Prime four is probably in this one, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I hope it's in this one, just because yes, all
<v Speaker 3>eyes will be on the Switch too thing. But if
<v Speaker 3>you're talking about giving Metroid like a chance to have
<v Speaker 3>its flowers, you know, and also just like be the
<v Speaker 3>star of its own it's own direct that a lot
<v Speaker 3>of people are going to be watching without having to
<v Speaker 3>compete with all the Switch To stuff. And then you
<v Speaker 3>get the good news a week later that hey, it
<v Speaker 3>is going to be able to come in the it
<v Speaker 3>will be playable in the Switch Too.
<v Speaker 2>I think that's great. Switch has an incredibly large install base,
<v Speaker 2>and hey.
<v Speaker 3>If Metroid is coming, you gets to play it on
<v Speaker 3>either console hopefully.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And I think they definitely have talked about it
<v Speaker 1>as a Switch one game up, you know, until the
<v Speaker 1>very last minute their last earnings call, they made a
<v Speaker 1>big deal about it being Switch one. It is a
<v Speaker 1>Switch one game. I think the question up until this
<v Speaker 1>point has been, Okay, does it become a cross generational launch,
<v Speaker 1>like similar to the last couple or a handful of
<v Speaker 1>the last couple of a couple of Zelda games. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess, those came out
<v Speaker 1>the end of one generation, launched on both essentially as
<v Speaker 1>dual skews. Is that going to happen here or is
<v Speaker 1>this going to be as you know, I theorized on
<v Speaker 1>I think this show, or maybe it was a BombCast
<v Speaker 1>somewhere that maybe this becomes the poster child for here's
<v Speaker 1>how a Switch one game is going to be improved
<v Speaker 1>on switch to. That could still happen, although you know,
<v Speaker 1>if it's if they're not going to talk about it
<v Speaker 1>in the switch To direct and they're not going to
<v Speaker 1>mention switch To. Here are they going to make a
<v Speaker 1>big deal out of that. I kind of don't see
<v Speaker 1>why they wouldn't they did? You know, they want you
<v Speaker 1>to go into the store by a switch To, especially
<v Speaker 1>if you're someone who's elapsed as a switch gamer, because
<v Speaker 1>you're you know, there's a lot of people out there
<v Speaker 1>who enjoyed the switch, but they're not like me where
<v Speaker 1>they're like, oh, Nintendo, I just like Nintendo. They're like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>I liked some of those games. I like the Switch
<v Speaker 1>when it felt fresh and new. It's felt old for
<v Speaker 1>a hell a long time now. I kind of want
<v Speaker 1>to be excited about something new. So I have not
<v Speaker 1>bought a lot of switch games recently. So I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>go in the store. I'm gonna get the switch To.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna get the new Mario Kart because everyone's just
<v Speaker 1>gonna get that. It's the law. And then what else
<v Speaker 1>do I want to get there? Well, Metroid Prime two
<v Speaker 1>or Metro Prime four beyond is just waiting for you
<v Speaker 1>on the shelf, and I think anything that you can
<v Speaker 1>tell yourself about, oh, well, this will take advantage of
<v Speaker 1>you know, up the upscaling technology on the switch to
<v Speaker 1>and it runs at a higher, more steady frame rate.
<v Speaker 1>Although I expect this game to run just fine on
<v Speaker 1>Switch one, anything you could say to yourself, bless you,
<v Speaker 1>Jan is going to help I think so. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if Chat can hear him. Actually so, I might
<v Speaker 1>just sound like a crazy person. But anything you can
<v Speaker 1>tell yourself when you're going to buy these games, especially
<v Speaker 1>for like a cross gen you know, a game like
<v Speaker 1>this or last Gen game, I should say, we don't
<v Speaker 1>know if it's cross Gen, is going to help it.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm still very curious about how they position this thing,
<v Speaker 1>although in this moment it does seem like they're gonna
<v Speaker 1>be like Metro Prime four rules on its own merits
<v Speaker 1>and you should just go get it because it's going
<v Speaker 1>to be a good game.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, hey, look, I'm just excited from one
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo stuff. At this point, my switch has been gathering
<v Speaker 3>dust for do you know the last game I think
<v Speaker 3>I played on my switch.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm curious.
<v Speaker 2>I have no idea, right dead Redemption.
<v Speaker 1>Well that's fucking weird. That's that's whole that was. I
<v Speaker 1>would not have guessed that I would know, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>but I guess that. I mean, that was interesting to
<v Speaker 1>see that on the switch although that was when We're Great. Yeah, no,
<v Speaker 1>I mean it should should better run. Great's you know
<v Speaker 1>an older game. It's an Xbox three sixty games.
<v Speaker 2>It is three sixty. It was May game.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah you should.
<v Speaker 2>Why is why I bought my Xbox three sixty It
<v Speaker 2>was red down.
<v Speaker 1>I uh. In terms of what else people might be
<v Speaker 1>able to expect from this Nintendo direct, I you know.
<v Speaker 2>So give people, give people a crumb gone.
<v Speaker 1>Have Everybody still thinks that, And I'm you know, if
<v Speaker 1>if not here, you know where else, I guess it
<v Speaker 1>could be in the switch to one. It could be,
<v Speaker 1>it could be anywhere. I think there's no reason to
<v Speaker 1>assume like this one makes more sense than anything else.
<v Speaker 1>So if you want to be skeptical, sure go ahead.
<v Speaker 1>And at the same time, it's like this feels like
<v Speaker 1>all the eyes will be on Nintendo for these next
<v Speaker 1>two directs. So if you are a game that is
<v Speaker 1>coming out soonish, and that game, you know, there's been
<v Speaker 1>a lot of like movement on that game recently, tiny
<v Speaker 1>little movement, but you know there's a lot of it.
<v Speaker 1>It's voluminous. It's like, Okay, if that game is ready
<v Speaker 1>to go, what showcase of what like, if you could
<v Speaker 1>choose any showcase to be in, the Nintendo Direct just
<v Speaker 1>is the biggest one because you can get excitement from
<v Speaker 1>and I've said this before, from PlayStation and Xbox or
<v Speaker 1>a PlayStation, yeah, an Xbox, m PC gamers sort of
<v Speaker 1>just by getting out there in the news cycle and
<v Speaker 1>making your announcement. Nintendo gamer is a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>siloed off to the side and don't pay as much attention.
<v Speaker 1>If you can get into a direct, you'll get their
<v Speaker 1>attention immediately, and then that also gets everyone else's attention.
<v Speaker 1>So it's the place. It's the place to be. So
<v Speaker 1>I get that, but I don't know. I wouldn't want
<v Speaker 1>to get people's hopes up anymore. That game's not real.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's where we've settled on it.
<v Speaker 2>Well, didn't want to pick it the fan secretic. I
<v Speaker 2>don't think they did.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they've maybe at this point maybe
<v Speaker 1>you know, If they haven't, I'll go pick it real quick.
<v Speaker 1>Other than that, you know, there's a fire Emblem game
<v Speaker 1>that Nintendo. It's a remake. I think of Genealogy of
<v Speaker 1>the Holy War, which is a Super Nintendo game. Uh
<v Speaker 1>that was a Japan only Japan only. It's never been
<v Speaker 1>localized for the for the West at all. And so
<v Speaker 1>it's like, Okay, that's been finished for going on like
<v Speaker 1>two years now. It's been a long time. It's just
<v Speaker 1>been sitting there. So, uh, does it pop off here
<v Speaker 1>or is yeah, I don't know how Nintendo thinks about
<v Speaker 1>these sorts of things, like does it make more sense
<v Speaker 1>to announce it now and launch it and risk it
<v Speaker 1>kind of getting lost in the shuffle of people getting
<v Speaker 1>more excited about things that are switched to exclusive or
<v Speaker 1>do you save it and be like, uh, that is
<v Speaker 1>going to be for switch to instead? That fire on
<v Speaker 1>fire emblem game certainly probably doesn't need switch to. So
<v Speaker 1>and then you know, there has been rumors of a
<v Speaker 1>new Mario sports game, this time baseball. Uh, there is
<v Speaker 1>a you know they had that story Nintendo switch to
<v Speaker 1>logos are going to be on the shoulder of Seattle
<v Speaker 1>Mariners players for this uh baseball season.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the did you see the New York like there
<v Speaker 2>was a big switch to thing in New York.
<v Speaker 1>No, I didn't say, Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I opened up Blue Skirt and I didn't save it.
<v Speaker 1>This is like a like a big sign. Okay, and
<v Speaker 1>times square.
<v Speaker 2>Ah, yeah, I think so.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, we're right there for that direct. So
<v Speaker 1>the advertising kicking in feels right and all, okay, all
<v Speaker 1>the rumors right now, and you know it sounds right
<v Speaker 1>to me. June is kind of when this thing is
<v Speaker 1>probably coming, uh at this point. That's what everyone is saying,
<v Speaker 1>and I tend to agree. And so that they as
<v Speaker 1>soon as we get out of this direct, the marketing
<v Speaker 1>campaign will be in full effect, because it'll be the
<v Speaker 1>beginning of April and let's say like this goes all
<v Speaker 1>the way through the end of June. They want it
<v Speaker 1>to give themselves a little a little bit of time.
<v Speaker 1>That's you know, two full months.
<v Speaker 2>And me head down to Union Square. Yeah yeah, Union Square.
<v Speaker 1>Baby.
<v Speaker 3>Get that that new Nintendo store that I still cannot
<v Speaker 3>believe is happening in some Francis Yeah, all the places
<v Speaker 3>San Francisco.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's that's I'm excited for you all. That's I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna definitely visit that Nintendo story.
<v Speaker 2>I'm to become so popular. Yes, for the for the
<v Speaker 2>all of the exclusive stuff. I've already had Jordan Midler
<v Speaker 2>already had him.
<v Speaker 1>But are they even gonna have a lot of Pokemon
<v Speaker 1>stuff there?
<v Speaker 3>No, but they'll have they have exclusive stuff for the
<v Speaker 3>store in general. Okay, Like the Pokemon store in Shibuyah
<v Speaker 3>was oh my god, like everything was sold out like.
<v Speaker 2>An opening, Like it was ridiculous.
<v Speaker 1>So it's it's going to be the same for that store.
<v Speaker 1>But hey, we better to have a store than no
<v Speaker 1>store at all.
<v Speaker 2>Those things saved downtown Town Francisco.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and they that they do a good job just
<v Speaker 1>like making those places of fun place to go and visit.
<v Speaker 1>Any like other games, I'm like they gonna like they
<v Speaker 1>could show up here.
<v Speaker 2>We think in like third party.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I'll say, God, I wonder how I can phrase this.
<v Speaker 1>The reason I heard about it direct originally is because
<v Speaker 1>of a partner game. And I think that when we
<v Speaker 1>get out of this direct if no matter like what
<v Speaker 1>is the most exciting game, there will be one game
<v Speaker 1>that causes the most conversation and it won't be about
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo necessarily. That's all I can say. I'm sorry for
<v Speaker 1>teasing it, but that like I know, I'll tell you
<v Speaker 1>when we're done here, Yeah, I'll tell you. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's because you know this, it's happening tomorrow, So it
<v Speaker 1>all goes down the way I think we'll see all right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead it No, No, I don't want I don't
<v Speaker 3>want to play the guests and game almost Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That's ever fun for old Jeffy. Yeah. See if I'm
<v Speaker 1>looking at chatting now to see if anyone has any
<v Speaker 1>other guesses for what they want to see, I don't.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Like, is there any other franchise like
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't be surprised if like a weird franchise from
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo comes back, like an Excite Bike or I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>something along those lines. We could see something like that,
<v Speaker 1>but they're not gonna have it would have to be
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these games that have just kind of
<v Speaker 1>been cooking for a long time. Anything that was in
<v Speaker 1>development in the last two years almost certainly was getting
<v Speaker 1>ready for the Switch two, and at one point they
<v Speaker 1>were gonna be really, we're gonna do a Switch pro.
<v Speaker 1>So they probably were making a lot of games with
<v Speaker 1>that thing in mind, and maybe they were holding onto
<v Speaker 1>some of these because of that. So we'll see looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to it, though, we will talk over it one
<v Speaker 1>way or another. Everybody, Oh, thank you, Mike Manati. Metroid
<v Speaker 1>Prime two, Yes, Metroid Prime two and three, those remasters
<v Speaker 1>are also done in a similar way to Fire Emblem,
<v Speaker 1>so they're not as big of a remaster as Metroid
<v Speaker 1>Prime one was, but still that would be very cool
<v Speaker 1>to get those games with dual analog stick controls on
<v Speaker 1>Switch one. They should run really good on that system,
<v Speaker 1>So I'm hoping we get at least two, but boy,
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't be surprised if they just say, hey, here's two,
<v Speaker 1>and then a week later you can get three or
<v Speaker 1>something like that, or just maybe drop them as a
<v Speaker 1>bundle all in one go. And then of course everyone
<v Speaker 1>always wonders about Zelda, Twilight Princess and win Waker HD
<v Speaker 1>been ONU. Do they have anything else Zelda announced for
<v Speaker 1>this year? They always want to do one Zelda thing
<v Speaker 1>per year, and I don't think so. They had the
<v Speaker 1>Zelda Game, the Zelda Zelda Game last year, and so
<v Speaker 1>I don't think they have anything announced for this year.
<v Speaker 1>If they have a gap, that thing could pop off,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know at this point they have a gap. Yep,
<v Speaker 1>they have not had a gap so far, so I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. We'll see, Okay, let's keep going here. Game
<v Speaker 1>Informer returns after being shut down by Game Stop. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Sophie McAvoy at games industry dot biz. Game
<v Speaker 1>Informer has returned after being shut down by GameStop in
<v Speaker 1>August twenty twenty four. We wanted to talk about this
<v Speaker 1>on the BombCast just yesterday everybody, but they just took
<v Speaker 1>a little bit longer to get the official announcement out
<v Speaker 1>there and actually launched the website. The website's been getting
<v Speaker 1>a lot of attention. I've been trying to register. I
<v Speaker 1>can't even register because it's, uh, it's getting so much traffic.
<v Speaker 1>In a letter from editor in chief Matt Miller, he
<v Speaker 1>review that the publication had been purchased by Gunzilla Games,
<v Speaker 1>which is, you know, their Web three company. But we've
<v Speaker 1>talked to some of the Game Informer people and they've
<v Speaker 1>said we're independent, Like they're not gonna you know, you know,
<v Speaker 1>of course they say this, but I believe it so far.
<v Speaker 1>It could always change, but I believe that they're gonna
<v Speaker 1>be independent. And the good news is like everyone working
<v Speaker 1>there got a pretty good pay raise and the back
<v Speaker 1>they all are all rehired. It is such an overall
<v Speaker 1>a feel good story, and we'll talk about I got
<v Speaker 1>another story right after this about game stops plans, you know, sure,
<v Speaker 1>like we don't have to do a competition for you
<v Speaker 1>know what's like less evil. But it's not like they
<v Speaker 1>were completely free from interference before in terms of like
<v Speaker 1>working for a terrible company. But Gunzilla, I really don't
<v Speaker 1>didn't know much about them other than people saying they're
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's so kind of a Russian Web three company.
<v Speaker 1>But they're given money to Game Informer to get back
<v Speaker 1>up and running. And I think in the end, the
<v Speaker 1>magazine it's just gonna be its own business that will
<v Speaker 1>have to justify itself. And it sounds like they also
<v Speaker 1>have a couple of years to build up that business,
<v Speaker 1>so it's not like they have to like begin churning
<v Speaker 1>out a profit immediately and if they don't, they're all
<v Speaker 1>screwed again. So having some runway, having their jobs, getting
<v Speaker 1>a raise, that's a bunch of green lights to me.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm just happy for everybody over there. I can't
<v Speaker 1>wait to subscribe to the magazine again.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry.
<v Speaker 3>And like a massive thing just fell over and there
<v Speaker 3>was a bunch of paint on it, so.
<v Speaker 1>Rif risky paint, yes, paint shouldn't fall That's my opinion
<v Speaker 1>on paint as far as you know Game Informer coming back,
<v Speaker 1>I do think that we probably we will probably get
<v Speaker 1>the magazine here in the next couple of months. It's
<v Speaker 1>gonna I can't imagine what it's like to be like,
<v Speaker 1>all right, we're taking over printing this magazine all entirely ourselves.
<v Speaker 1>So like, what is the actual process of making that happen?
<v Speaker 1>Although I beg they do have a lot of experts
<v Speaker 1>on that team that have done that for a long time,
<v Speaker 1>so if anyone can figure it out, it's them. But boy,
<v Speaker 1>I would not want to be in the business of
<v Speaker 1>having They're like, okay, let's release and ship a print
<v Speaker 1>magazine around the United States all by ourselves right now.
<v Speaker 1>I guess they and they might even ship around the world.
<v Speaker 1>So it's a big undertaking.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, hey, I'm very happy for everyone that
<v Speaker 3>they're back. Yeah, like talking to Alex tomorrow kind of
<v Speaker 3>understanding more about what they're what they call their mission is.
<v Speaker 2>It's just I yeah, the company does give me.
<v Speaker 3>Pause, but I think it's just because been burned by
<v Speaker 3>so many private companies.
<v Speaker 1>Like yes, you know, I mean to be fair, though
<v Speaker 1>they're not private equity. It is just like it's a
<v Speaker 1>business a different kind of business, not that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And that's the thing them being separate. It just
<v Speaker 3>means that, hey, if web three, if bitcoin, if that
<v Speaker 3>all implodes, I just like I want gave informa to
<v Speaker 3>be separate it and you know, not be impacted by
<v Speaker 3>the whims of that exactly.
<v Speaker 1>You know. But they were previously under a company called
<v Speaker 1>game Stop, who closed them down us US. Not game Spot.
<v Speaker 1>They were under game Stop, which plans announced yesterday I
<v Speaker 1>had its earnings call, announced plans to buy a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of bitcoin as it closes even more stores. So it's
<v Speaker 1>not like it was all roses over in the other
<v Speaker 1>place beforehand. It was you know, this is also web
<v Speaker 1>three bullshit. Now that's the plan for game Stop. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Ethan gotcha Kutaku. Game Stop might be dying,
<v Speaker 1>but thanks to its unprecedented good fortunes as a meme stock,
<v Speaker 1>it's still as a whopping four billion dollars in cash reserves.
<v Speaker 1>The video game retail chain announced this week it now
<v Speaker 1>plan has a plan for what to do with it,
<v Speaker 1>plow it into bitcoin. Game Stop today announced that it's
<v Speaker 1>its board has unanimously approved an update to its investment
<v Speaker 1>policy to add bitcoin as a Treasury reserve asset. The
<v Speaker 1>company wrote in a press release published on March twenty fifth,
<v Speaker 1>we have not set a maximum amount of bitcoin we
<v Speaker 1>may accumulate, accumulate and may sell any bitcoin we may acquire,
<v Speaker 1>it added in a subsequent SEC filing. Cryptocurrency is currently
<v Speaker 1>trading at eighty seven thousand dollars, just off its historic
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and five thousand dollars peak set back in January. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so this is just then being like, we're going to
<v Speaker 1>become the Berkshire halfaway of you know, not NFTs, but
<v Speaker 1>of cryptocurrency. So they're going to kind of become a
<v Speaker 1>holding company. And you know, they do say like the
<v Speaker 1>retail business, you know, making the retail business profitable is
<v Speaker 1>the other part of the strategy. But they did number
<v Speaker 1>it and the number one part of their strategy is
<v Speaker 1>this cryptocurrency stuff, and then number two was the retail
<v Speaker 1>stores and like, yeah, like the retail stores are dying
<v Speaker 1>and they will continue to die, but that like this
<v Speaker 1>is going to be this business is going to transform
<v Speaker 1>into something unrecognizable and kind of the kind of sounds
<v Speaker 1>like a nightmare to me. You know, this is a
<v Speaker 1>company now run by Ryan Cohen, who is also a nightmare.
<v Speaker 1>Dude sucks. I don't know if everyone's anyone's ever seen
<v Speaker 1>his tweets, but he's a sniveling little weirdo, and he's
<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of kind of trying to turn this
<v Speaker 1>into yeah, the pip Kids Berkshire Hathaway, which is a
<v Speaker 1>weird thing. It probably won't work, but at the same time,
<v Speaker 1>Bitcoin is just only ever bounced back when it's you know,
<v Speaker 1>gone down, so it probably will make them a lot
<v Speaker 1>of money. I don't know, but you think we have
<v Speaker 1>game stops? Okay, Actually here's a good one. Dan posted
<v Speaker 1>this on Blue Sky. He mentioned this before and I
<v Speaker 1>talked to him. What do you think lasts longer at
<v Speaker 1>this point, GameStop, RETEP retail stores, or Game Informer, this
<v Speaker 1>new magazine.
<v Speaker 2>Game inform of the new magazine.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean game stop. It
<v Speaker 3>just seems that they've been trying to get out for
<v Speaker 3>so so long. Oh yeah, I just don't see them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I mean they're closing stores really fast.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, I know.
<v Speaker 3>There's like a couple left in San Francisco, which I'm
<v Speaker 3>still amazed by. In the Bay Area because got the
<v Speaker 3>cost of rent and everything.
<v Speaker 2>But everyone one's going digital. Everyone's going digital. So I
<v Speaker 2>don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I went to go get a haircut a few
<v Speaker 1>weeks back.
<v Speaker 2>And at your local game stop.
<v Speaker 1>Well basically it's the only time I walk into a
<v Speaker 1>game stop because it's right next to the great clips
<v Speaker 1>that I go too. I think everyone could tell by
<v Speaker 1>my haircut. And I, uh this time, and it was closed.
<v Speaker 1>I you know, I had no idea it was closing.
<v Speaker 1>It just disappeared and.
<v Speaker 2>Just went one day.
<v Speaker 1>It just went one day. Yeah, and it's I don't
<v Speaker 1>know where the next nearest one even is. I know
<v Speaker 1>some like local mom and pop shops and sort of
<v Speaker 1>these regional chains that are trade end stores that do
<v Speaker 1>a lot of retro games. We got a handful of those,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know where the next closest game stop is.
<v Speaker 1>To me, it's and it's.
<v Speaker 2>Not like whenever I'm going there white a few up here.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, there's they have tens of thousands of
<v Speaker 1>stores or something like that. Like they had tons of stores,
<v Speaker 1>and so it's going to take a long time for
<v Speaker 1>them to burn through all of that. Yeah, and that
<v Speaker 1>probably you know, each year they probably would they cut
<v Speaker 1>off the stores to ten percent that makes the least
<v Speaker 1>amount of money or something like that, and eventually they'll
<v Speaker 1>just do that until there's basically nothing left.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing left.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Okay, let's see here, I am Yeah. Let's do
<v Speaker 1>this next one right here. That's this's a fun one.
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft scores a ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform,
<v Speaker 1>which hopefully marks the end to all this Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 1>Shadows culture or nonsense. This is from Harvey Randall at
<v Speaker 1>pc Gamer. Assassin's Creed Shadows has landed some solid success
<v Speaker 1>on online storefronts and an overall decent critical reception. PC
<v Speaker 1>Gamer's own Morgan Park gave it an eighty in his review,
<v Speaker 1>which is none too shabby. To celebrate you. Besoft has
<v Speaker 1>gone from avoiding trading on egg shells to getting its
<v Speaker 1>biggest chunky egg shell stomping boots and the marauding through
<v Speaker 1>an eggshell field while laughing uproarously, scoring one of the
<v Speaker 1>biggest ratios I think I've ever seen on social media.
<v Speaker 1>For context, Ubisoft has found itself in the un unenviable
<v Speaker 1>position of being caught in the midst of an ongoing,
<v Speaker 1>ongoing culture war over whether video games are woke or not.
<v Speaker 1>Blah blah blah. Woke is this and blah blah blah.
<v Speaker 1>This time they were bristling over the inclusion of this
<v Speaker 1>is the people who are anti woke. They were bristling
<v Speaker 1>over the inclusion of historical black Samurai Yaske. Never mind
<v Speaker 1>that over the top historical fiction is the series' whole thing.
<v Speaker 1>Leonardo da Vinci, you'd be surprised to find out never
<v Speaker 1>built a working tank, nor the fact that Yaske and
<v Speaker 1>characters characters inspired by him have both popped up repeatedly
<v Speaker 1>in Japanese anime and video games. Ubisoft's Yeah, basically what
<v Speaker 1>happened here everybody is Ubisoft is marketing their game, and
<v Speaker 1>they paid Hassan over on Twitch to play the game,
<v Speaker 1>and Hassan promoted it, and I think originally Grums, who
<v Speaker 1>was a shitheadshut was like, oh, they had their paying
<v Speaker 1>a guy who platforms terrorists to promote their game. And
<v Speaker 1>Ubisolf responded to that by saying, our game is out
<v Speaker 1>because Mark Kern Drums has been more apparently working on
<v Speaker 1>a game for eight or nine years and no one's
<v Speaker 1>ever seen anything of it, or if they have, it
<v Speaker 1>looks like AI bullshit, and so that was a pretty
<v Speaker 1>good one they and the response to that was, you know,
<v Speaker 1>Grums had a few thousand likes and the Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 1>account on Twitter had over like one hundred thousand likes
<v Speaker 1>the last time I looked. And then Elon Musk got
<v Speaker 1>in and basically just said that Hassan is a sellout
<v Speaker 1>and called them a bunch of other names. And the
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed account responded to that by saying, is that
<v Speaker 1>what the guy who plays on your Path of Exile
<v Speaker 1>two account told you? And it's like, okay, that that's
<v Speaker 1>referring back to everyone finding out. I don't know how
<v Speaker 1>they didn't know that Elon Musk was paying someone to
<v Speaker 1>play his accounts for games like Path Ofexyle and Diablo
<v Speaker 1>to put him in the top ten of like the
<v Speaker 1>highest scoring accounts. I don't even know how you play
<v Speaker 1>those games for a score or in the first place,
<v Speaker 1>but whatever, the highest scoring accounts in those games. And
<v Speaker 1>he never really played it, and it was pretty obvious
<v Speaker 1>when he streamed it and didn't know what he was doing. So,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Assassin's Creed kind of like going headfirst into
<v Speaker 1>this did a backfire. It doesn't seem like it did.
<v Speaker 1>If anything, it has kind of revealed that people are
<v Speaker 1>officially sick of this culture or bullshit coming into every
<v Speaker 1>single game. And the ratio for this one, which is
<v Speaker 1>like when someone posts something kind of like pointed and
<v Speaker 1>then someone else replies to that and gets a lot
<v Speaker 1>more likes, Well, this definitely did. It has like five
<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand likes now Assassin's c Assassin Creeds response to
<v Speaker 1>Elon Musk. I think it's I don't know. I want
<v Speaker 1>to like believe it could be a turning point of
<v Speaker 1>people just being like, all right, you know what we did,
<v Speaker 1>just get hoodwinked. I know it won't be that, but
<v Speaker 1>I want to believe that this is a sign of
<v Speaker 1>the fever breaking a little bit. Lucy. Do you think
<v Speaker 1>there's a chance of that or is this just like
<v Speaker 1>a moment we should just enjoy and try to move
<v Speaker 1>on from.
<v Speaker 2>As someone who has been gloriously offline a lot of
<v Speaker 2>the last few weeks, I can't tell you how much
<v Speaker 2>better it is for your mental health to not be
<v Speaker 2>I ain't.
<v Speaker 1>Everyone, especially Twitter, like that this is the first time
<v Speaker 1>in a day or two, a couple of days, and
<v Speaker 1>it's like kind of. It's like, at least this felt good,
<v Speaker 1>but then you get five feet away from this and
<v Speaker 1>it's still a nightmare.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, everything is a nightmare.
<v Speaker 3>Protect your piece, be offline if you want to be
<v Speaker 3>I yeah, I mean, just enjoy games like Dan put
<v Speaker 3>it in charge. Like, just enjoy games and just play them. Seriously,
<v Speaker 3>it's been That's what I've been doing that in pain.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yep. The people that are in this culture war,
<v Speaker 1>they don't play games at all, Like this is just
<v Speaker 1>a fertile ground for them to get people angry about
<v Speaker 1>something so that they can get engagement or you know,
<v Speaker 1>get recruits for their white nationalist groups. Like that's really
<v Speaker 1>what it is, over and over again. So yeah, they
<v Speaker 1>are never going to go play games. They never liked
<v Speaker 1>games in the first place. And then the people who
<v Speaker 1>do get hoodwinked. It does seem like they are finally
<v Speaker 1>turning away at least in this moment, for this one situation.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, it was very embarrassing for Elon Musk and
<v Speaker 1>I hope he can still feel that, or if the
<v Speaker 1>ketamine has killed his ability to feel that, that would
<v Speaker 1>that would be a real shame. All right, let's take
<v Speaker 1>a quick break. Will we come back more to talk about,
<v Speaker 1>including maybe Mortal Kombat remasters and when is the Witcher
<v Speaker 1>for an Intergalactic going to launch? No time soon. We'll
<v Speaker 1>talk about that right after this. All right, everybody, it's okay.
<v Speaker 1>Jan has apologized for the sneeze. Just don't let it
<v Speaker 1>happen again. No bodily functions on this show.
<v Speaker 2>Nice Ron, Oh, I'm not allowed to sneeze. There's a
<v Speaker 2>classic there was no vine.
<v Speaker 3>Well, like a couple of looking at this beautiful deer
<v Speaker 3>and the guy just lets out like a jan As
<v Speaker 3>sneeze and scares the deer away, and the woman just
<v Speaker 3>goes nice Ron.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Mortal Kombat remasters are just a matter of time.
<v Speaker 1>According to Ed Boone. This comes from Marcus person over
<v Speaker 1>at Game Reactor, more than thirty years have passed since
<v Speaker 1>we were first introduced to Raiden Scorpions, sub Zero lu Kang,
<v Speaker 1>excuse Mchano and all the other married combatants in Ed
<v Speaker 1>Boone and John Tobias's Blood Knuckle Sandwich or Bloody Knuckle Sandwich.
<v Speaker 1>I guess it says a lot has happened since then,
<v Speaker 1>not least the soft reboot that took place with Mortal
<v Speaker 1>Kombat one launch the other last year was that I
<v Speaker 1>think I was last year. But for the other two creators,
<v Speaker 1>not the not the least ed Boone, it's not all
<v Speaker 1>about renewal, and according to him, there is a strong
<v Speaker 1>desire to return to the series' roots, something that he
<v Speaker 1>also talked about in an interview with Cleveland Gaming Classic,
<v Speaker 1>where Boone mentioned that remastering older titles is only a
<v Speaker 1>matter of time. When did the Cleveland Gaming Classic happen?
<v Speaker 1>I didn't go to this. What's this? I need to
<v Speaker 1>go to this apparently, and something he really wants to realize. Basically,
<v Speaker 1>he wants to make some remasters. I would love it
<v Speaker 1>if we could just revisit some of those moments with
<v Speaker 1>the latest technology remasters another action of venture game. There's
<v Speaker 1>great opportunities for that. One day, the stars are going
<v Speaker 1>to align and we're going to make that happen.
<v Speaker 2>And I think timber.
<v Speaker 1>Man, okay, I wonderful. I wonder wat'chs just getting transcribed
<v Speaker 1>now that's sound. I think I did go to it
<v Speaker 1>in September. Mike can remind me. Mike went, I think,
<v Speaker 1>and I couldn't make it happen. So yeah, I think
<v Speaker 1>that this is something that we're probably hearing about because
<v Speaker 1>it's not happening. Like if he was working on this
<v Speaker 1>stuff actively, or if it was even like in the
<v Speaker 1>planning phase, it probably would be the kind of thing
<v Speaker 1>where he would be a little bit more koy about it.
<v Speaker 3>Him saying someone someone from Warner Brothers was like a
<v Speaker 3>red dot site would yes.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly on even himself, like you know, he does like
<v Speaker 1>the t stuff, but he doesn't. He's usually yeah, he's
<v Speaker 1>more coy about it than this usually. So I am.
<v Speaker 1>I would like to see this, but I don't expect
<v Speaker 1>it anytime soon. What form would you want a remaster
<v Speaker 1>of Mortal Kombat to take? Would you want whant to
<v Speaker 1>be like, hey, remake the first two games but with
<v Speaker 1>the exact modern technology, or or something where it's like
<v Speaker 1>HD two D. You're a huge Mortal Kombat head?
<v Speaker 2>Come on, what about me? Says I'm a Mortal Kombat head.
<v Speaker 1>You're the most violent person I know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know what. I don't care. Yeah, no, I
<v Speaker 2>don't really play Mortal Kombat.
<v Speaker 3>I think collective time I have played Mortal Kombat is
<v Speaker 3>probably like ten fifteen minutes. I Hey, I'm all about
<v Speaker 3>game preservation as long as those original games are still
<v Speaker 3>available to play. In terms of Mortal Kombat, if people
<v Speaker 3>are wanting that kind of modernization of controls and stuff,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. For me, it's that weird one where
<v Speaker 3>it's like, are people asking for this or is this
<v Speaker 3>a stop gap between your next mainline release it's going
<v Speaker 3>to take four or five years to make.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think I don't know if people are really
<v Speaker 1>like clamoring for it, because you know, if you want
<v Speaker 1>to play Mortal Kombat one too, the trilogy, those games
<v Speaker 1>hold up because they are the exact kind of estyle
<v Speaker 1>debate where you know, they're timeless in their own way.
<v Speaker 1>They have that nineties rotoscope ugliness to them. You know
<v Speaker 1>that isn't really ugly. It's fascinating to look.
<v Speaker 2>At Damn brk at clamors for it.
<v Speaker 1>He's stand record Clamors. I just like, what do you want? Yeah, Dan,
<v Speaker 1>what do you want? Because do you want Mortal Kombat
<v Speaker 1>to remade with the same visual style that that they're
<v Speaker 1>using now for Immortal Kombat games? Because I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to lose the rotoscope?
<v Speaker 2>Because what was the what was the street Fighter one
<v Speaker 2>that came out? The one that what's his face? Did
<v Speaker 2>that great video where he's like screaming.
<v Speaker 1>At the Maximilian du because he did that for MVC too,
<v Speaker 1>Marvel versus Capta. I love that for a lot of
<v Speaker 1>the announcements, and it's always very charming.
<v Speaker 2>Joy.
<v Speaker 3>Have you seen it where someone put the Mario party
<v Speaker 3>trailer over it and it matches the very perfectly.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's like Peach going up the escalator.
<v Speaker 1>He just goes.
<v Speaker 2>Made me cry laughing anyway.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you say you only played it for ten
<v Speaker 1>fifteen minutes, obviously that does include the hours you've spent
<v Speaker 1>on Mortal Kombat mythology sub zero. And he does mention
<v Speaker 1>an action adventure game. Do you think there's a chance
<v Speaker 1>they could like retell the story of early Mortal Kombat
<v Speaker 1>games with a new action adventure game. Do you think
<v Speaker 1>that anyone wants that?
<v Speaker 2>Hey? Maybe, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I this is just one of those things to me
<v Speaker 3>where it's like gaming is just so focused on the
<v Speaker 3>past because everything is so screwed up towards looking to
<v Speaker 3>the future, and so I really don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Mortal Kombat is not a cultural touch point for me.
<v Speaker 3>I think, hey, as long as they do a justice,
<v Speaker 3>as long as they do it, I mean, but also
<v Speaker 3>you've got interest in the series, so they're not going
<v Speaker 3>to have a mainline game in time for the next
<v Speaker 3>movie to come out.
<v Speaker 2>I oh wait, that's the one bit of Mortal Kombat
<v Speaker 2>media that I have consumed. I actually did really enjoy
<v Speaker 2>that movie. I thought it was a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>Which movie the original one.
<v Speaker 2>Or the twenty twenty one?
<v Speaker 1>I turned that off halfway through, right, I went to
<v Speaker 1>the cinema.
<v Speaker 2>I had a little line it was great, Well, my
<v Speaker 2>love is going to be in this one, Carl eb
<v Speaker 2>And that's gonna be in this one.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, okay, that's where he plays Cano. That's pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>I thought he was playing Johnny.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, you brot. He plays Johnny Cage. That's right.
<v Speaker 1>I think I just assumed, because of his cultural heritage
<v Speaker 1>there that he'd be Kano. And I apologize because that's
<v Speaker 1>not even the right. He's from New Zealand, right, and
<v Speaker 1>Caanos from Australia.
<v Speaker 2>It's yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 3>One of them, I guess, right, But I mean, hey,
<v Speaker 3>never forget if Hey, all of my almost almost human
<v Speaker 3>heads out there, the ten of us who watched that show,
<v Speaker 3>was it almost human?
<v Speaker 2>The one with the wall? Do you see this, No, this.
<v Speaker 1>Show, the one with the Wall. Pretty sure that was
<v Speaker 1>Game of Thrones.
<v Speaker 2>Wait, oh that game Almost Human TV show.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was Almost Human where he played a cop
<v Speaker 3>who hates who hates androids, but then his part it
<v Speaker 3>was an android. Oh.
<v Speaker 1>I did watch that show.
<v Speaker 3>And then at the end of this season it revealed
<v Speaker 3>there was a massive wool and no one knew what
<v Speaker 3>was on the other side of the fucking wall, and
<v Speaker 3>then I got canceled.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah I remember this now. Yeah, that was Carl Arvin's great.
<v Speaker 1>I like him mostly because occasionally someone who is being
<v Speaker 1>overly kind will say I look like Carl Arvin. I'm like, yeah, hey,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's wrong. But thank you. All right, let's keep
<v Speaker 1>going here. Jason Schreyer has said that neither The Witcher
<v Speaker 1>for or Intergalactic The Heretic Profit will be released in
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. It's from Jonas Mackie at Game Reactor.
<v Speaker 1>The two possibly heaviest announcements during the Game Awards were
<v Speaker 1>The Witcher four and Naughty Dogs Knew Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet,
<v Speaker 1>Intergalactic the Heretic Profit. So will we get to.
<v Speaker 2>Play them inside of twenty The Beastie Boys not a.
<v Speaker 1>Very good one. No few of us expected that, and
<v Speaker 1>now a real heavyweight is joining the chorus. More specifically,
<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg journalist to Jason Schreyer, known for countless scoops in
<v Speaker 1>the gaming world rights of via reset era, that what
<v Speaker 1>we have seen so far have been very early teases.
<v Speaker 1>This is This in turn means that neither of those
<v Speaker 1>games will be out next year. And as soon as
<v Speaker 1>as soon as that like headline got posted, I got,
<v Speaker 1>you know, messaged from a source in Yeah that I
<v Speaker 1>didn't know that this is people could happen. Yeah, these
<v Speaker 1>definitely aren't coming out next year. And then I think
<v Speaker 1>we got some details from CD project read that said
<v Speaker 1>don't even expect the Witcher four before twenty twenty seven,
<v Speaker 1>And I, you know what, I also I think I
<v Speaker 1>was not expecting that one anytime soon. So that sounds
<v Speaker 1>right to me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, sounds sort of right to me. I think which
<v Speaker 2>was it? Which of four only just went into full production?
<v Speaker 2>Was in the earnings yesterday? Okay? Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I Naughty Dog loves to release their a console swan song.
<v Speaker 1>So well, you know, is it even mean? Is it
<v Speaker 1>even this console?
<v Speaker 3>Like if it comes down, say it's either to console
<v Speaker 3>or it's the Swan song for PS five.
<v Speaker 1>If it's if it's twenty twenty seven, and that probably
<v Speaker 1>is still PS five. Yeah, because PS five so PS
<v Speaker 1>six probably twenty twenty eight at the earliest, I would
<v Speaker 1>think at this point, because we did get a pro,
<v Speaker 1>we did get a pro but that you know, okay,
<v Speaker 1>they made it. If that's the case. But if they
<v Speaker 1>if they even if they do, that means they went
<v Speaker 1>an entire generation and just barely got one game out
<v Speaker 1>for the PS five from Naughty Dog, one new game.
<v Speaker 3>I was gonna say, we got a bunch of uag McCollums,
<v Speaker 3>remasters and remasters.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're just talking about that. Those are definitely like
<v Speaker 1>you know, I like remasters and remix so I'm not
<v Speaker 1>really complaining. But we know what, we know what's happening there.
<v Speaker 1>It's what you said, there's stop gaps there. You know,
<v Speaker 1>they fill in these crevices between releases. Crevice was a
<v Speaker 1>weird word to use, but I did it. Yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>fills the crabs, and I I sure, and that keeps
<v Speaker 1>people employed, right because they have something to do. Well,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the creative leads at the company take years
<v Speaker 1>figuring what the next game looks like. And so this
<v Speaker 1>being a very early early tease means a lot of
<v Speaker 1>that studio is probably just now being activated to work
<v Speaker 1>on that project, like, you know, full time. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>years and years.
<v Speaker 3>Away we said activated to work on that project. Makes
<v Speaker 3>you feel like a cylon.
<v Speaker 1>Like they're just human resources. That's what they are. That's
<v Speaker 1>what we all know.
<v Speaker 2>They're called the people team. Now, oh, really human resources anymore?
<v Speaker 1>Oh shit? Is that is that a thing? I've never
<v Speaker 1>heard that term.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's did in fandom that the people team.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't read. What's our our resource
<v Speaker 1>thing called convalescence, concurrent, confluence, confidence? Yes, yes, I got it.
<v Speaker 2>I got it.
<v Speaker 3>Think the other day where it was like, hey, Lucy,
<v Speaker 3>you haven't checked in on confluence in a while, I
<v Speaker 3>was so, yeah, because the only reason I'm going there
<v Speaker 3>is to see when on the holidays.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like that's how might check that thing? Uh
<v Speaker 1>all right, yeah, twenty twenty six, No way for either
<v Speaker 1>of those. Maybe twenty twenty seven for Intergalactic or.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, it's hard to do. I'm sorry for taking
<v Speaker 2>the piss.
<v Speaker 1>No, No, it's I'm actually bad at it too, so
<v Speaker 1>that's fair okay, But more going out with CD Project
<v Speaker 1>red Wichard dev is partnering with the company that now
<v Speaker 1>owns Pokemon Go Scope Lely. This is from Eddie McCoo
<v Speaker 1>at GameSpot. CD Project assigned a deal to work with
<v Speaker 1>Pokemon Co owners scope Ly to make a game based
<v Speaker 1>on one of the Polish companies franchises. CD Project made
<v Speaker 1>the announcement during its latest financial briefing, but didn't elaborate
<v Speaker 1>much on the deal. In fact, they were asked for
<v Speaker 1>more details from an investor or someone who represents investors,
<v Speaker 1>and the leadership there over at CD Project right just
<v Speaker 1>said no, no thanks, We're not going to say anymore.
<v Speaker 1>So this is an early deal. Scopely is owned by
<v Speaker 1>Savvy Group. It's you know, which is owned by the
<v Speaker 1>largest corporation in the history of mankind, Saudi A Ramco,
<v Speaker 1>or really the family that owns Saudi A Ramco, the
<v Speaker 1>Saudi Royal family. And so yeah, this is a Saudi
<v Speaker 1>Arabian sort of company now that a lot of companies
<v Speaker 1>are working with and Scope if you're trying to like
<v Speaker 1>place where you've heard that name. They've been making mobile
<v Speaker 1>games for a very very long time. Most recently they've
<v Speaker 1>had the breakout hit billion dollars a year game Monopoly Go,
<v Speaker 1>so they have a lot of money to throw around.
<v Speaker 1>Whether or not that turns into a success for a
<v Speaker 1>Witcher game from Scope Lee, I don't know, or I
<v Speaker 1>guess we don't even know if this is a Witcher game.
<v Speaker 1>I guess it could be cyberpunk. They're just saying it's
<v Speaker 1>a property owned by or controlled by CD Project Red
<v Speaker 1>being made by Scope Le. So what do you expect here?
<v Speaker 3>I mean, also, Jen just posted that Nantick is let go,
<v Speaker 3>letting go of sixty eight or so people from San
<v Speaker 3>Francisco in particular, because all the shit is.
<v Speaker 1>Coming the largest company in the history of mankind can't afford.
<v Speaker 2>Oh sf Gate, Jesus Christ, what the hell was that? Yeah? So,
<v Speaker 2>in terms of what game like a Witch's.
<v Speaker 3>Style, Pokemon go walking around and attacking, Months says, I
<v Speaker 3>could see it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, they've tried that a bunch of times now and
<v Speaker 1>it just hasn't worked with Harry Potter. I don't think
<v Speaker 1>it works with Witcher any better.
<v Speaker 2>What about cyberpunk walking around and hacking?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it doesn't have to be you know, this
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have to be a Niantic game. Either. It could
<v Speaker 1>be the Monopoly Go but Witcher version. I mean, it
<v Speaker 1>could be something else completely different. They've given us no details,
<v Speaker 1>which is kind of like grasping in the dark because
<v Speaker 1>it's this company working with that company, and then they
<v Speaker 1>haven't said anything else. So you know, the reality is,
<v Speaker 1>I probably never think about this again. Even if it
<v Speaker 1>comes out gets announced, I probably will barely even notice
<v Speaker 1>because it's just not the kind of game that I'm into.
<v Speaker 1>You're muted, Lucy, I'm not hearing you anymore. Yeah, no problem,
<v Speaker 1>take your time, get that fixed up. But I think
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime, why don't we keep moving. Monster Hunter
<v Speaker 1>Wilde's Title Update one has a release date and loads
<v Speaker 1>more details. Title Update two is set for summer twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. This is from Wesley end Pool at IGN.
<v Speaker 1>Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Wild's Title Update one comes
<v Speaker 1>out on Thursday, April third, Pacific time. That's a weird
<v Speaker 1>way to phrase it. It comes out on Thursday April
<v Speaker 1>third in America, I guess, and then April fourth in
<v Speaker 1>the UK. Essentially they're saying UK time, but they don't
<v Speaker 1>actually give a time. In a showcase video below, Capcom
<v Speaker 1>confirmed the release date, as well as what players can
<v Speaker 1>expect from Monster Hunter Wild's first major post launch update.
<v Speaker 1>The headline here is the Grand Hub, a new gathering
<v Speaker 1>place in which players can interact in new ways. Here
<v Speaker 1>you can play a new mini game called Barrel Blowing,
<v Speaker 1>which sounds like a Donkey Kong sixty four minigame, and
<v Speaker 1>listen to the Diva perform at night. Visit Sune a
<v Speaker 1>Leviathan monster with Dangerous Bubbles, hits Monster Hunter wilds with
<v Speaker 1>title Update one alongside a Zoah Shia quest arch Tempered
<v Speaker 1>ray Daweh. I guess I say that arch Tempered ray
<v Speaker 1>Daw launch later via an event quest. Overall, what's really
<v Speaker 1>happening here is it's gonna They're gonna have a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of new content and they will likely make the game
<v Speaker 1>more difficult for a lot of the fans who have said, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>I like this game a ton it plays really well,
<v Speaker 1>it's super fun. I just wish it was more difficult
<v Speaker 1>or it was more challenging. And I think a lot
<v Speaker 1>of that stuff will come in these updates. So uh,
<v Speaker 1>yay for Monster Hunter Wild's players. I want to get
<v Speaker 1>back in there. Lucy James are we back. No, no,
<v Speaker 1>what okay, just stopped out of nowhere. Well, you know what,
<v Speaker 1>we can probably get through the rest of this stuff.
<v Speaker 1>And if you come back, just yell at me and
<v Speaker 1>let me know. Super Monkey Ball, Banana Rumble, Unleash's pac
<v Speaker 1>Man in Pellett Fielled DLC crossover. This is from Chris
<v Speaker 1>Sculling and VGC. They're just putting pac Man in a ball,
<v Speaker 1>which is where he belongs. They're doing this for his
<v Speaker 1>forty fifth anniversary. All right, we lost? Oh wait, are
<v Speaker 1>you back?
<v Speaker 2>Good?
<v Speaker 1>I hear you? Do you hear me? Oh?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but now you.
<v Speaker 1>Don't have my me it's only one thing working at it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh I see, okay, there we go.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's how we'll do it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right? What what died my mic? Yeah? It
<v Speaker 1>just seems like it just cut out with no warning.
<v Speaker 1>It didn't make a sound or anything that was bizarre
<v Speaker 1>weird I'm blaming.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, and now also all of my like, uh
<v Speaker 2>is it a USB thing? Like because my life just
<v Speaker 2>died too.
<v Speaker 1>And should be all right? Do you have everything going
<v Speaker 1>into a hub or anything? Is it? Did it get
<v Speaker 1>bumped power? Don't? Well? You know what this this is
<v Speaker 1>working just fine, did you did you keep up with
<v Speaker 1>Monster Hunter Wilds you? Yeah, I kind of fell off.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not a.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm gonna try it. I think with this update
<v Speaker 1>kind of go back and I want to just finish
<v Speaker 1>the campaign at least, I think, and then we'll see
<v Speaker 1>if I get into any of this new stuff. And
<v Speaker 1>then I don't know if you heard it, but they're
<v Speaker 1>putting Man inside of a ball and putting him in
<v Speaker 1>super Monkey Ball and that's how they're celebrating his forty
<v Speaker 1>fifth anniversary.
<v Speaker 2>Is he just not a ball already?
<v Speaker 1>Though he is kind of already a ball. That's like
<v Speaker 1>a very good point. It's kind of perverse when you
<v Speaker 1>think about it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's like you know, when you have you seen
<v Speaker 3>those those in Japanese grocery stores where they put bananas
<v Speaker 3>in like plastic wrap.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, which I like, even though I know I get
<v Speaker 1>what's happening there. They're putting a rap on her, on
<v Speaker 1>the thing that already has a rapper, and it's, you know,
<v Speaker 1>like pac Man, it is also a living thing. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I I like looking at this because mostly because I
<v Speaker 1>really like Super Monkey Ball and I do like pac Man,
<v Speaker 1>so that's that's interesting. Pac Man, not one that has
<v Speaker 1>kept up his cultural cachet, right, like that is I
<v Speaker 1>think that there's a strong chance I show my kids
<v Speaker 1>pac Man and they're like, maybe he like was a reference.
<v Speaker 1>It was referenced in a like reck at Ralph movie
<v Speaker 1>or something like that, and maybe there the ben still
<v Speaker 1>a one Oh pixels, Yeah that wait? Or is that
<v Speaker 1>Adam Sandler or is it both?
<v Speaker 2>Oh, Adam sand it was one of them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think it was okay than our Adam Sandler
<v Speaker 1>expert was here, Thank you very much, Janachoa, Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>fair enough pac Man. Though I'm not hip with the
<v Speaker 1>kids these days, that's fine. Things don't have to last forever. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>all right, there was one other thing some and sent
<v Speaker 1>over here. PlayStation Plus Essential games for April include a
<v Speaker 1>highly rated eighties throwback. This is from Jordan Middler over
<v Speaker 1>at Video Games and I don't know they're hiring some
<v Speaker 1>weird new kid over there. PlayStation Plus Essential games for
<v Speaker 1>April have been announced. The games are RoboCop, Rogue City
<v Speaker 1>for PS five, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Digimond's Story
<v Speaker 1>Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory just three different phrases. That's the
<v Speaker 1>PS four version. Players can claim these games starting on
<v Speaker 1>April first, and they will be available until May fifth.
<v Speaker 1>I never really played that RoboCop game, and I should
<v Speaker 1>because it looked like.
<v Speaker 3>Feel bad for not playing the robo Cup game because
<v Speaker 3>everyone says so so good.
<v Speaker 1>I bet that runs okay on Steam Deck. I should
<v Speaker 1>just install it on there and just play it a
<v Speaker 1>little bit. Although maybe it's one I want to have
<v Speaker 1>keyboard and mouse for, so I don't know, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'll pick that up. And then that Texas Changsaw Massacre game.
<v Speaker 1>We had a lot of fun with that, but I
<v Speaker 1>just don't know how much place there is in the
<v Speaker 1>market for multiple of those asymmetrical online multiplayer horror games. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I don't have any time to kind of do that
<v Speaker 2>at this point, like there's too much going for my attention.
<v Speaker 1>I think.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like twenty twenty for me, that was perfect lucy
<v Speaker 3>time to do all that stuff because I had nothing
<v Speaker 3>but time.
<v Speaker 2>But now I actually go outside again, so do Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Man and myself watched though.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean we played Overwatch again a few weeks
<v Speaker 1>back and really enjoyed ourselves. It was a good time.
<v Speaker 1>I think I did decide I do like this better
<v Speaker 1>than Marvel Rivals. Actually this is this is a better game.
<v Speaker 1>Although my Marvel Rivals is pretty good. Beat RoboCop on
<v Speaker 1>steam Deck last week. It runs well. Thank you, Marcus
<v Speaker 1>in chat. I appreciate that. Yeah. For something like Texas
<v Speaker 1>Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it's like, I'm glad I played it.
<v Speaker 1>Like it's fun to like have the reference of feeding
<v Speaker 1>Grandpa blood or whatever you did in that game. That
<v Speaker 1>was a good time. But those games do have to
<v Speaker 1>kind of become a hobby, Like this needs to be
<v Speaker 1>like this is what me and my friends do on
<v Speaker 1>Friday nights every week. And I like the idea of that,
<v Speaker 1>but there's so many, like you said, so many things
<v Speaker 1>vying for my time that this is never going to
<v Speaker 1>be that for me. All Right, that does it for
<v Speaker 1>the headlines. Let's get over to the poll question that
<v Speaker 1>we asked