WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:11.000 You'll be like a gummy beer. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's 2 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.880 do this for July twenty seven, twenty twenty two. For the next hour 3 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:17.920 or so, let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game 4 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:22.239 Mess Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today they got women in video games 5 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.640 now. Surely this is witchcraft. But first please join me and welcoming today's 6 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.559 co host to Game Mess Mornings. It's Lucy James from Giant Obama GameSpot. 7 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:35.079 Everybody, yay, women in games? One? Next? What next? 8 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.359 Man? Wow, I got them in video games now, and we don't 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.479 know what to do about it. Everyone's gonna freak out. We'll talk about 10 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:43.399 that. It's one of the stories today. But Lucy, how are you 11 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:49.159 doing? I'm okay, yeah, I'm it's a am over here. So 12 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.039 this is peak waking up hours. So I've got my big thing of coffee 13 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:58.840 and I'm ready to dive into the news. So I like the little thing 14 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.840 of coffee that just stays. The espresso. They just compresses it down and 15 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.840 just like makes it puts it right into my eyeballs. You like, just 16 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.040 slowly sipping on the coffee all day? Is that how you do it. 17 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.000 I typically I have like a little routine. I make it one of these 18 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.719 and I have it over the course of like I have, I always have 19 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.920 loads of meetings in the morning. So I need to stretch that out because 20 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:25.480 typically I am just sat here for three hours, right exactly, you need 21 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.560 to be doing something to like be like triggering that brain to like be like 22 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.680 firing up here and there. I get that, I need a constant drip 23 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:36.439 of dopamine and caffeine, not just like the one shot, not just like 24 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.920 the adrenaline shot. That's probably smarter. I probably should just be sipping on 25 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.159 something throughout the day. But I'm like, right before the show, let's 26 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.040 just do a whole bunch of caffeine and then that'll go really well. And 27 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.120 everyone's about to see the results of that. Right now, before we get 28 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.040 into what is certainly going to be a mess, let's explain ourselves. Each 29 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.560 weekday, I Jeff Greb will help piece your gaming life back together. That 30 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.200 includes breaking news, the catchup where we discuss the biggest topics consumer in the 31 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.400 lives of gamers everywhere, and maybe even bring some of our own original reporting 32 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.520 for all these topics. I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who 33 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.000 will make me look smart. If you are watching live on twitch Welcome. 34 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.039 You can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game 35 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:21.240 Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on GiantBomb dot com. You can also 36 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.479 catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. If you are watching 37 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:28.039 on there, please be sure to hit that like button helps people find the 38 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.159 show. Okay, we have a lot to get into, so let's start 39 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.680 the Morning Mess with Grand Theft Auto six. Details have league to come from 40 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.360 Jason Schryer over at Bloomberg. I'm just gonna go through these bullet points and 41 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.680 then we'll talk about some of the other meat and potatoes in this story as 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:45.840 well. Up It will feature a female protagonist for the first time in series 43 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.560 history. She's a Latino who and one of two characters inspired by Bonnie and 44 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:54.719 Clyde. The working title is Project Americas. The main location is Miami and 45 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:00.360 the surrounding areas, but the game is going to evolve over time, adding 46 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.199 new cities. The game's scope is huge, with more interior locations than previous 47 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.199 GTA games. What does that make you? Who thinks just off the bat 48 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:12.039 like hearing those bullet points like this that sound like what you want from the 49 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:19.000 next Grand theft auto. Yes, I mean I'm I you know, selflessly, 50 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.680 I would have loved I have gone back to London somewhere we haven't really 51 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.319 explored since, like the old top down, old old GTA, and I 52 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.039 think they could have done something really fun with it. But I kind of 53 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.199 appreciate that, Like London is a very tight city. You know, it's 54 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.800 very windy. It's not necessarily as fun. You don't necessarily have I don't 55 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:44.840 know, I don't think you have the zany and I think that's crucial to 56 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.039 grand theft, all right, especially now after GT five, you need an 57 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:52.080 element of the zany and I. And while I think London can be plenty 58 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:57.319 zany, I don't think it's as it translates as easily. There's still colorful 59 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:01.439 popping as as an American sort of when you're when you're skewering American culture, 60 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.280 it's very easy to take that color and like spin on it, and you're 61 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:09.680 like you, I do I associate with like not up type, like it 62 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.599 is a certain sort of pristine quality, and then you have to like get 63 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.160 outside the city to like get to those that Zanius and even that Zaneus is 64 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:20.959 like shades of gray rather than Miami's neon pink. Right, Yeah, that's 65 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.680 the thing. I mean, like, even if you were to go outside 66 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.879 of the city in London, you were going to go to the you know 67 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.120 outside gasp, outside of the M twenty five, it's all kind of green, 68 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:36.480 and like sure, you know, it's I'm just saying because I've obviously 69 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.639 been in the US for a long time and there are still moments where my 70 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.399 humor and like the humor of my American friends and stuff doesn't necessarily gel not 71 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.920 gel, but like I'll say something and they just have like no knowledge of 72 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:53.160 it. And so when you're thinking of like making a game as mass marketable 73 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:58.199 and your biggest audience is probably in America, yeah, it makes more sense. 74 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.240 I'm sad. I'm still sad though, Yeah, I think, I 75 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.560 think. God, this is the problem with this the series taking so long 76 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:09.800 from one entry to the other. It's like they were doing these every you 77 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.480 know, three to four years. It'd be like, Okay, well we 78 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.720 got Miami, then let's try something different next time, because we all like 79 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.519 we hit the you know, the highlights we did, you know, sant 80 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.360 Andreas, then we're gonna do Miami. Now. That gives us, that 81 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:25.600 affords us the opportunity to try something different. But they are taking forever between 82 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.800 these games, and so it's kind of like we're putting a lot of eggs 83 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:30.639 into one basket. This has to hit. What is something we could do 84 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.560 that sort of feels like a guarantee and going back to Miami does it definitely 85 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:39.680 feels that way. Now do you think what the adding excuse me, adding 86 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:45.240 cities over time, that they will expand beyond like the East coast of America, 87 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.319 because I'm kind of thinking they're gonna like add Liberty City and stuff like 88 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.279 that. Yeah, that makes all the sense in the well. That is 89 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:57.480 actually quite exciting to me because it's one of the reasons why I don't necessarily 90 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.399 play a bunch of G two online is because I feel like Vic's blowed that 91 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.720 map and I feel like I know Los Angeles pretty well. But you know, 92 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.800 you you think about the lifespan of a game like GCA online, right, 93 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.959 and they have these substantial content drops, and you know they do include 94 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:19.800 new locations and cutscenes and whatever, but like adding a whole new city adds 95 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.639 just so much more to the game. So I'm I'm very intrigued by the 96 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:27.000 prospect of it. But also isn't that not like, is this just what 97 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.639 games are going to be now? Like A c and Fintansy or whatever it 98 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.800 is? Yeah, it really does, I think. I mean, okay, 99 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:40.000 I suppose if we are in a situation where we have Grand Theft Auto 100 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:46.319 five from twenty twelve, is that when it came out and then we like 101 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.600 that game, you know, last forever because of GT online. If they 102 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.759 would have like predicted it was gonna last this long when they put it out, 103 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.959 wouldn't they have maybe made it easier to add big new cities to it 104 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.759 and like and like new stuff so they could really keep it going and at 105 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.920 the same time satisfy these two varying audiences that they have, the audience that 106 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.480 wants the GT online stuff and the audience that would be like would come back 107 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.759 to the game because there's more big single player content. And then if one 108 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.720 of those if by doing one of those things they could serve the other audience, 109 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.360 they could serve both audiences at the same time. That makes it make 110 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.079 sense. I'm like, if we are going to be stuck with a GT 111 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:25.399 six four ten years or something like that. I kind of like it maybe 112 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:27.600 should be this way. Maybe this is the way to make these games from 113 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.199 now on. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's kind of the 114 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:34.560 not running joke, but it is certainly running criticism now of rock Star that 115 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.720 you don't necessarily get the big single player DLC, like you don't you We're 116 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:44.319 not getting a ballot of Gaytony anymore. We're not getting on Dead Nightmare anymore. 117 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.399 We're just getting updates to the online stuff. And so if this is 118 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.439 one way to kind of and we've seen them experiment with this with GTA online, 119 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.160 like this is not, you know, to be completely unexpected, like 120 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:59.399 recently they put Franklin DLC out and Doctor dre was in it, and you 121 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.040 know, they they've done all of these big content shops with story and so 122 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.000 this makes all the sense in the world. And it's exciting, like I 123 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.399 am ready to be excited about a new GTA. And it also it's like 124 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.720 it really plays into this conversation that we've had. People been asking stuff like 125 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.600 our game's going to be easier to make and so they will take less time 126 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.639 and One of the examples that people use for that is an unreal and gym. 127 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.439 They've shown these buttons you could press that basically just makes an open world 128 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.600 city for you. And so if artists aren't stuck making an open world city 129 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.559 for years, won't these games take less time? And I think we can 130 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.759 look at what they're saying about GTA six just sort of immediately disprove that based 131 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.600 on what they're talking about. They're like, yeah, maybe the city's easier 132 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.320 to make, but we are making more interior locations than in any Grand Theft 133 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.360 Auto before, and there is no button to just automatically do that. So 134 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.799 it's just the scope keeps getting bigger and shifts to new things, new exciting 135 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:56.519 things that would set this game apart from the previous games. And so the 136 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.320 timeline, according to this story is maybe two years out from now is when 137 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.679 we will get this game that late twenty twenty four at the earliest. Do 138 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:07.759 you buy that or you think like the thing's just going to keep creeping out. 139 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:15.000 I honestly, I don't ever put a timeline on rock Star. They 140 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:20.399 are they don't need to worry about that, you know, they don't need 141 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:26.720 to hit anything for a financial I twenty twenty four would be fantastic, twenty 142 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.440 twenty five would be great. But I think regardless of what people clambering for, 143 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.360 they're going to do it on their own timeline. So I'll still be 144 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.320 here. I'll be here waiting. Ideally, I'll still be here, and 145 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.240 yeah, I'll be ready for it, absolutely, like, provided the world 146 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.480 doesn't implode, you know, exactly, and then in that case, I'll 147 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:50.840 just go back to charging my DS to play Chinatown Wars in the post apocaly 148 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:58.399 waste land with my little solar panel charger thing in the wastes. The other 149 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.840 big thing here the Bonny Clyde characters. This is the first time that a 150 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.320 woman character will be playable in a GTA game, I believe ever. Definitely 151 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.240 in any of the major three D games, in major numbered games. Yeah, 152 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.639 I believe you could in one of the top down ones. Yeah, 153 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:22.399 I'm like right exactly, the completely different era of games and era of Grand 154 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.960 Theft Auto. I mean, I guess, okay, your initial reaction and 155 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.240 then well, this will take us into the other part of this story, 156 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.360 which is the change of rock Stars culture. Is this something that you've needed 157 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.159 from this series or is it just like that is finally nice or you know, 158 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.440 what is what are your feelings regarding this? I think it's been needed 159 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.120 for a long time. I mean, Grand Theft Auto is at this point 160 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:48.240 one of the biggest entertainment properties in the world. It's got it's got staying 161 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.080 power. Grand Theft Auto has always made such an imprint on popular culture, 162 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.399 and I think it's it's really I think it's great that if I'm only putting 163 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.519 a female protagonist, and that's very exciting to me. I also think like 164 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.039 their humor has and the writing like it's always been good, but it's it's 165 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.759 definitely got a lot more biting and a lot more sharp, and I think 166 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:13.600 a lot better over the past few years. And I would have been, 167 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.759 you know, if you'd asked me around the time of maybe GTA four is 168 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:20.240 like, oh, what do you think they'll do with female protagonists? But 169 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.960 then after seeing characters like Sadie Adler and Abigail Marston in Red Dead two, 170 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.399 obviously like a different team. But you assume that a Houser will be on 171 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.960 it in some capacity, It'll be you know, Sam will probably be on 172 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.799 it. I'm intrigued by what the kids do. I think it could be 173 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.720 very exciting, and I think like the Bonnie and Clyde element of it, 174 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.360 where it is going to be I wonder if that's going to be you know, 175 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.799 a love story that there that's that's what ties them together, or if 176 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.879 it's going to be you know, something else, like something that makes them 177 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.440 really reckless, because you know, we in the in DTA five, the 178 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.759 protagonists were all kind of bound by greed, which is fine, that's in 179 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.559 keeping with the GTA game. But if you are going for like maybe a 180 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.000 love story between the two, that's also a very intriguing party. Yeah, 181 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.960 Like it opens up new possibilities for storytelling. It also, you know, 182 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.440 it opens new possibilities for like ways of viewing the world through the prism of 183 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.200 these different characters. And we've kind of had a certain kind of character from 184 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.000 for forever. It does sound like the development team is more interested in that 185 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.360 stuff, and that's because of the cultural changes at the studio. At least 186 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.720 that's the way the story puts it. Over at Bloomberg that you know, 187 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.080 they were like the team was pretty insistent on having a female character, and 188 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.039 then they were also pretty insistent on things like okay, maybe we should change 189 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.840 up our humor and make it more sharp in terms of who were we attacking 190 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:45.200 with these jokes, like we maybe we should be careful about punching down something 191 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.000 that the GJ series has never really been worried about before. Do you think 192 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.279 I have my take on this, but I want to want to hear yours, 193 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.919 Lucy. Do you think that is going to lose the spirit of grand 194 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.639 theft Auto if they are worried about that sort of thing, or do you 195 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.799 think a modern GTA can still make perfect sense even if it is taken into 196 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.279 consideration things like who is the target of a joke? I think at this 197 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.480 point, given everything that's happening in the world, and you know, obviously 198 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.919 we saw some of this in GT five when they were taking a piss out 199 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:18.200 of like the Facebook equivalent, like the fruit phone, I think there are 200 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:24.200 just so many targets to punch up to that I am not worried at all, 201 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.720 because I think, you know, there was kind of the I think 202 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.480 it was like the long running rumor that g T six was taking so long 203 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.720 because the world was beyond parody, right, And I think we're at a 204 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:39.919 point now where we all just kind of need to punch up a little bit, 205 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.519 So I'm not worried. I'm not worried. I think they will still 206 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.639 find. Like one of the things that I always really enjoy is about Rock 207 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:54.440 Star games is like it's not necessarily the big bad who is the easy, 208 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.240 the one that you kind of latch onto. It's the random side characters. 209 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:03.159 And I think a huge game like whatever GT six will undoubtedly be, will 210 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:09.480 be full of those, especially in a place like Miami, because you know, 211 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.759 you just have to google Florida, man, and you get some wild 212 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.799 shit. So there's no you know, there's a bunch of inspiration there, 213 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.759 but there's also a bunch of inspiration just from what is happening in the world 214 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.840 right now. Yeah, And I think these two things, like what you're 215 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.200 talking about there, go together to where it's there are so many targets, 216 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.279 but the world like it seems beyond parody. I think the way that a 217 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.399 comedic approach can sort of thrive in that environment is to try to like force 218 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:41.480 yourself into the difficult joke, force yourself to not go for the easy punchline, 219 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.480 and try and try to like you know, maybe have even like a 220 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.480 sort of positive attitude in many of your jokes, and then when it comes 221 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.879 time to really take something down, that is this like punching up situation where 222 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.639 like this is a target that obviously needs to be taken down a peck. 223 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.279 That is when you can really kind of get mean and then has more of 224 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:03.039 an approach to or more of an effect, because it feels like, Okay, 225 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.559 they've held themselves back and now the thing they're going after, it's like, 226 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.639 Wow, they're really going for it. And I think like they're having 227 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.759 that sort of really deliberate approach to joke. Writing into you know, writing 228 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.120 to the story and presentation of the characters can be really effective. It can 229 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.240 help Grand Theft Auto six stand apart in a world where Grand Theft Auto five 230 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.440 and everything before was sort of everything was just as whimsical as possible. And 231 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.080 maybe they'll they'll maintain some of that, but I think that there's a strong 232 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:33.320 chance that some of the whimsy will be turned down until they get into those 233 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.399 situations where they are like taking down a Facebook or something like that or something. 234 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.840 Yeah, who at Photography, We've done, We've done Facebook, who's 235 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:46.759 headquartered in Miami? Can we take down? I mean, well, you 236 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.840 got Ron de Santez. So maybe that's it. Yeah, I mean I 237 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.559 think it's like probably the right time just to go back to attacking like the 238 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.919 core of what's wrong in America, and that's people, I don't know, 239 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.600 religion, a million other things, like just as an immigrant into this fine 240 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.799 country, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm so sorry. Let's 241 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.600 make sure we don't mess anything up for you. So, moving on the 242 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:17.200 work culture improvements, here's another bullet pointed list of things that have been improved. 243 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:22.559 More producers to help avoid overtime and crunch, conversion of contractors to full 244 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:29.879 time employees, removal of abusive employees, new additional mental health and leave benefits, 245 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.440 and staff is more flexible with how they use their time. A lot 246 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.480 of these things just sound like common sense ways to approach this stuff, like 247 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.600 having more producers so that people can better manage how people are using their time 248 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.720 so they don't have to crunch. It's kind of the first thing everyone always 249 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.080 brings up when they're like, well, why are you crunching? Like, 250 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:49.639 shouldn't management better be overseeing this project so they could scope it out better. 251 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.799 But it's still nice to hear that they're implementing this stuff, right. Yeah, 252 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.639 it's really nice, and you've got a hope that it's not a change 253 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.519 that's from sort of a public reckoning. You know, you've got to hope 254 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.200 that it is a change that has been wanted to happen from within. But 255 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:12.359 these are all really positive, especially the removal of abusive employees that's fantastic, 256 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.519 and mental health and leaf benefits. It is really great. So, you 257 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.839 know, it's rock Star has always kind of been you know, we all 258 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:25.799 remember the La Noir crunch accusations especial and accusations on most of the games, 259 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:30.880 right, So I really, I really hope that this is a sea change 260 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.039 for them, and then it's going to be great for the folks who work 261 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.240 there. Yeah, and it's great games, right exactly. Yeah, Like 262 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.720 you want to be able to enjoy their games sort of as guilt free as 263 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.319 you can enjoy any consumer product. But it's the kind of thing where like 264 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:47.880 it does seem like this the change that is needed to sort of modernize the 265 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.880 studio to last into the future, and then to also bring these sorts of 266 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.720 concerns into the games you're making and make them games that feel like modern games 267 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:03.039 that aren't that can exist for a long time and and withstand scrutiny in many 268 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.880 ways. I'm I'm all for this obviously. I think that it is nice 269 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.519 to hear that this is stuff that seems like they implemented it in the last 270 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.640 several years and many of the things have stuck. It's not like they were 271 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.359 failed experiments. It sounds like they are sticking. And that's like a very 272 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:25.160 encouraging I think, yeah, very excited for them all rights. Uh More 273 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.839 news out of Bloomberg from Jason Schreier. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 274 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.599 indefinitely delayed. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, a remake of a 275 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.960 two thousand three role playing game, is delayed indifferently as developers at Austin, 276 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.440 Texas based Aspire Media try to figure out what comes next. Aspire also abruptly 277 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.599 fired the game's art director and design director this month. In a series of 278 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.759 meetings throughout July, aspires two studio heads told employees that the project is on 279 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:56.000 pause and that the company will look for new contracts and development opportunities. And 280 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.680 this is this comes from Jason's Sourceson's been busy, man, busy busy, 281 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.720 especially this week, just like Bam Bam. On June thirtieth, the sp 282 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.680 finalized a demo of the game, known as a Vertical Slice, to show 283 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:11.960 to a production partner's Lucasfilm Limited and Sony Group Corporation. The developers were excited 284 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.440 about it about it and felt they were on the right track, according to 285 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.000 a person familiar with the project, so they were shocked by what happened next. 286 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.720 The following week, the company fire design director Brad Prince and art director 287 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.799 Jason Minor. Neither responded to request for comment, but Miners suggested a social 288 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:33.720 on a social media page that his dismissal was unexpected. Spire Studio heads told 289 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.119 staff that the Vertical Slice wasn't where they wanted it to be and that the 290 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.240 project would be paused, according to two people who were in the meeting. 291 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.920 One person familiar with the discussion suggested that a disproportioned amount of time and money 292 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.559 had gone into the demo and that the project's current course wasn't sustainable. Another 293 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:52.519 point of contention maybe the timeline. At the outset of development, Aspire told 294 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.319 staff and partners it would release the game by the end of this year. 295 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.720 According to two people familiar with production developers said a more real, listic target 296 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.240 now would be twenty twenty five. The fate of Star Wars Knights of the 297 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.799 Old Republic remains unclear. In May, Embracer announced that Saber Interactive would also 298 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.039 join the project. Some at a spire believe that Saber, which has mainly 299 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:17.200 been doing outsourcing work for the project, may take it over completely. What 300 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:22.079 is going on here, Lucy, Oh my god, I mean it's wow, 301 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.119 What a heartbreaking situation for the team. Like if it's been in development 302 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:30.200 for three years and then you kind of show it to your partners, so 303 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.559 I guess Lucas and PlayStations or something they really didn't like. I mean, 304 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.480 the story doesn't like explicitly even say that though, it's like no, but 305 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.680 it's like yeah, the following after showing it to Lucasfilm and Sony, Yeah, 306 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:51.559 a week following week, shit just went right. I wonder if it 307 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:53.400 wasn't even that they didn't like it, there was something they really didn't like. 308 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.640 I wonder if it was like they liked it, but like, okay, 309 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:00.839 go back and you need to make just a couple changes here and there, 310 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.559 and even that much was too much for a spire, because what it 311 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:10.440 sounds like is a spire looked at the costs of what it took to make 312 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.720 that much of the game, that vertical slice, and like, if we 313 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:17.000 extrapolate from there, first of all, this is gonna take years. This 314 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.279 is gonna take until twenty twenty five, which is something like I've heard previously. 315 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.440 I've reported that previously, that this game's not coming until twenty twenty five. 316 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.200 But they're like, okay, and then on top of that, that 317 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.160 means significantly more cost. We don't have the money to do this, and 318 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.160 our partners that we just show this too, they're fine, but before they 319 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.079 want to give us, before they'll give us more money, they want us 320 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:38.799 to make these changes, and even that is too much. That's kind of 321 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.759 where it sounds like it's going for me. And that is like even kind 322 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:47.160 of worse because that means that they were like just trying to like they were 323 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:49.960 running on fumes and trying to get to this finish line, and they got 324 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.480 there, and all of a sudden, it's like, maybe we should have 325 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:56.200 realized the long time ago we didn't have the capacity to pull this off, 326 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.720 which is, yeah, gotta be frustrated. Its super unfortunate and like in 327 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.440 my and if you are a dev who's babing up privy to that sort of 328 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.960 information, you make something that you think is great, and then this happens 329 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.200 super super unfortunate and it's like as well, it's you know, it gone 330 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.400 at so much good will when it was shown off right, everyone was super 331 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.079 excited about it. You know, you hear Jennifer Hale again and everyone's like, 332 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.359 oh, you know, it's happening ye. And then this it's the 333 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.519 kind of kind of thing where you can you can see like all these problems 334 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:30.359 maybe creeping up just from like looking from the outside. You're like a spire. 335 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.799 They haven't worked on a game a big remake like this before. They've 336 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:40.279 done. They do remasters, they do ports. What's that mobile they do? 337 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:42.480 They move a lot of games to mobile. They've recently they've been moving 338 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:48.000 a lot of Star Wars, lucasoilm Older games are LucasArts games to Switch and 339 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.480 other platforms like that. But it's all just like ports, and they launch 340 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.640 with kind of like some issues and they do get fixed with patches eventually, 341 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.599 but it's like, okay, this is this is the company that's gonna do 342 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.799 this, And of course you're like think, well, they must just have 343 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.519 a team that they've built up that is capable of all this. And that's 344 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:04.759 just why you know, the resources aren't going to these sports, because it's 345 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:10.359 going to this big other project. I still think like it's very easy, 346 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:17.359 even if you are a long running development studio, to underestimate what is required 347 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:21.079 to make a giant, modern day triple A video game, even if it's 348 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:22.799 one that you are remaking and sort of using the bones of the old one 349 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.200 to remake. I bet it's like, man, this seemed like it was 350 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.279 going to be something we could pull off, and the scope just keeps creeping 351 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:36.319 up and up and it's getting out of hand. Aspire is a subsidiary of 352 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:41.000 the Embracer group I I and so listen at this point exactly so hearing that 353 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:45.960 that, uh, Starry, what's the name of the team, Saber Interactive, 354 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:51.119 which is a pretty it's a similar team, but they're also pretty impressive, 355 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.839 Like they're the ones to put the Witcher three onto the switch. Oh 356 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:56.680 god, yeah, yeah. So it's like they have like some technical chops 357 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.960 and stuff like that. It's like maybe Saber coming in it might be able 358 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.799 to like get this over the finish line. But I'm like of the opinion 359 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:10.759 that maybe we never see this game. What do you think? I hope 360 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.960 I was just looking up and seeing what else Sabers don't obviously you see that 361 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.359 name and stuff, but they do a lot of work for higher stuff and 362 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:21.319 then they're pretty well and you know, they did snow Runners, one of 363 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.759 my favorite games. But yeah, nice, yeah, Halo PC stuff as 364 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:26.319 well. It seems they've worked on. But now, I mean, I 365 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.680 think it would just be super, super unfortunate. And I know I've said 366 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:36.519 before I'm not necessarily a Star Wars person. I've accepted that, but you 367 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:40.039 know, you are talking about one of the most beloved Star Wars stories and 368 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:41.400 just Star Wars video games, to talk about one of the most beloved Star 369 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:49.920 Wars stories, a game that undoubtedly changed shifted the perception of BioWare and what 370 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.400 and the games that that team would eventually make, and so it's very important. 371 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.480 Obviously the original still exists, but you know, people were so stoked 372 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.839 for this, this remake, and it's really sad if it doesn't come to 373 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:04.799 fruition, I guess, but you know, totally understand kind of like the 374 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:08.279 business side of things, but I hope it makes it out though. The 375 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:14.720 one interesting point, and someone brought this up in chat, this is Embracer 376 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.720 Group and recently acquired under the Embracer Group Idos and Square an Ex Montreal, 377 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:23.000 which are probably gonna change their names pretty soon, but like Triple A studios 378 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.799 that maybe like are looking for work. I've heard some of the stuff they're 379 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.400 working on. I'm still like trying to back that stuff up before I report 380 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.039 it's it's not this, but it's like, you know, those are still 381 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.799 in the pitching face because it's really early. So maybe those don't go well 382 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:38.039 and they're like, hey, well, maybe could you work on this instead? 383 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.519 Those studios seem like they'd be able to pull this off and then would 384 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.759 kind of keep the deal under Embracer, right, I mean I would say, 385 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:51.000 yeah, I would thinking about like Idos Montril. Certainly that's a really 386 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.279 talented team. I would be reading entreat to see if they could do it. 387 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.240 Yeah, that's that would be a small move. I just wonder if 388 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:02.359 it doesn't get messy with the rights set up. Sure. Yeah, I 389 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:06.359 mean like the deal too, Like the deal was a certain group of certain 390 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.880 studio studio, right, and it's like three years. I think that might 391 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:14.400 predate Aspire being under embraceder. I can't remember exactly, but you know, 392 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:15.960 I think at a certain point everyone just kind of would want to see it 393 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.119 done and would want to be like, would be willing to say, okay, 394 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:22.039 whatever it takes to make it happen. Yeah, so you know, 395 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.960 I think it's crossed. I mean, yeah, Embraca has a lot of 396 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:30.480 talented studios, and there is certainly the question mark about what teams, like 397 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:32.880 you know, obviously the day sex team we're going to be doing next. 398 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.440 So yeah. I also I think Dander and Chests. I think we get 399 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:38.920 a code of remake, just not this version of the remake, and I 400 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.039 think that that's also very likely sort of like I think, what's happening, 401 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:45.400 excuse me with Beyond Good and Evil two, which is in testing this week, 402 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:48.440 but like how a lot of people like to tell me about that, 403 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:52.799 but it says it like it looks pretty good, but it's the world is 404 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.000 pretty What is that game? What is that game? Exactly saw? There's 405 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.559 zero chance it is the game you saw that trailer, right, So it's 406 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.359 going to be a similar situation with this remake. I am amazed they didn't 407 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:08.039 put NFTs in it. Yeah, well time, Yeah, there's still time, 408 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:14.000 all right. Xbox closes it's fiscal year with record annual revenue. This 409 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:18.839 comes from Tom Ivan at VGC. The Xbox division reportedly generated record revenue during 410 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:25.160 Microsoft's fiscal year ending on June thirtieth, twenty twenty two. Microsoft reported its 411 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:29.039 fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, when It's said gaming revenue decreased two hundred and 412 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.799 fifty nine million, or seven percent, compared to the period the same period 413 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.119 last year, but that is in line with its previous guidance for that quarter. 414 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:40.960 Xbox hardware revenue decreased eleven percent and Xbox Content and Services revenue fell six 415 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:45.440 percent. And this is a quote driven by lower engagement hours and monetization in 416 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.160 third party and first party content, partially offset by growth in Xbox Game Pass 417 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:55.599 subscriptions. Microsoft said the decline you're seeing in Xbox hardware is partly a reflection 418 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.720 of the fact we had we had that launch about two years ago, so 419 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:03.359 it's supply constraints strengths that we've had seen over the last couple of years. 420 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.039 It kind of extended out that period for consoles, So basically they're saying, 421 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.559 like a year ago even it was still like this really chaotic launch period for 422 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.720 the system where people were buying like they just would see a system, they 423 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.440 would immediately immediately buy it, and that has sort of slowed up a little 424 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:22.960 bit. According to Microsoft, we're still seeing strong demand, but coming off 425 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.559 those highs that we saw in the last couple of years with the launch. 426 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.839 But we are coming off those highs. Nevertheless, three point four five billion 427 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:34.000 and quarterly sales for Xbox represents the division's second best fourth quarter ever, according 428 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:40.559 to independent market analyst Dom's playing and he says, assuming three point four five 429 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:45.680 billion in quarterly gaming sales, annual revenue for Xbox reached sixteen point two two 430 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:49.240 billion. He tweeted, that's while that's down a bit on a rolling basis, 431 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:55.480 it's the highest fiscal year sales ever for Xbox. Kind of not too 432 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:59.839 surprising, like where we were seeing sales are still super high historically, kind 433 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:03.160 of coming back down after the pandemic, but not coming down to pre pandemic 434 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.200 levels, sort of finding this equilibrium of or a lot of new gamers here, 435 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.000 still a lot of demand for the new consoles, but not quite able 436 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.599 to keep up the momentum they had in twenty twenty twenty twenty one. Right, 437 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:18.119 Yeah, it's also a wild way of saying just not that many games 438 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.680 just don't have many big games, is it, like even Halo? Uh? 439 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:27.000 But yeah, no, I mean to be expected to increase in game 440 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.799 Pass subs as they kind of continue to invest in that service, and probably 441 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.279 the people buying new xboxes are probably a lot of them are getting game Pass 442 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.079 all outside it, right, that just hand in hand. Yeah, So 443 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:42.079 I mean it makes sense. Like and also the three point there are three 444 00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:47.599 point four five billion in quarterly sales kind of puts a lot of xboxes acquisitions 445 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:53.240 into into perspective where you know, we kind of book at figures like however, 446 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:57.359 maney sixty nine billion for Activision or was it twelve or whatever for Zemax, 447 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:00.920 and it's like seven or eight Yeah, yeah, and it's like, 448 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:06.000 oh no, they actually they get a lot of money, yeah exactly, 449 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.119 And it's like that's the kind of money where it's like when you're turning through 450 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:12.720 that much once they close the deal, like Activision, that three point five 451 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:17.759 four or five quarterly gaming sales is going to immediately double. It's going to 452 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.160 go to like six seven eight billion every quarter, but just because the activision 453 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.400 can add that much. So yeah, it's the kind of thing they want 454 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.839 to that's and that's the reason they like are excited about this is because that's 455 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:32.400 what they report right our quarterly gaming sales. And if that number is going 456 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:34.119 to a balloon after the acquisition, it's going to make it the division look 457 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.680 even that much stronger. It will be that much stronger, and investors will 458 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:44.319 be really be into that sense it gets some kind of Xbox knighthood or something. 459 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.359 Yes, And like even Satian Adela he tied his bonuses to the growth 460 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.839 of game Pass right, So yeah, like if game Pass grows a certain 461 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.319 amount, he gets major bonuses. So like he's interested in that, Like 462 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.279 that's like how important it is to the to the company. Satan Adela a 463 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:06.160 Gama confessed, He's he's always been one of us, Satia, come come 464 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.200 hang out on the show someday. Well, we'll get you on here. 465 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:12.359 Returnal's PC listing updated to show steam Deck support. This is by Jordan Midler 466 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:18.119 at VGC. The Steam database entry for what is almost certainly Sony's Returnal has 467 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.720 been updated again. This is refueling speculation that house Marks twenty twenty one shooter 468 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.279 could soon be revealed for the platform now. Eagle eyed users have noted further 469 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.000 updates to the listing, with several rapid changes being made within the space of 470 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:36.160 a few days. These include, uh, this has come from Mocha Joe 471 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.480 on reset Era. Shout out to Mocha Joe, I love people's user names. 472 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.799 Joe, Sorry, I forgot your beans. That's what is the curb 473 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:48.920 your Enthusiasm reference. There we go, he says. Eight depost slash app 474 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.680 changes on July eleven, ten depost slash app changes on in the past twenty 475 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:59.279 four hours. Six more made after that, and then the external ship got 476 00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:02.160 an update for the first time in twenty days. Doesn't happen often, but 477 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:07.279 it's an interesting coincidence. And then steam Deck controller profile was added to the 478 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.880 to the database century, so a lot is happening, like with the scheme 479 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.920 of like if someone is in there updating frequently, and I mean, I 480 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.480 don't I don't know if that means that, Okay, a release is eminent 481 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.680 or an announces eminent, but it certainly feels that way, right And I 482 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.880 mean, we know that PlayStation is committed to putting more of its first party 483 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.440 stuff on PC, it would this be the first Steam Deck. I don't 484 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:36.000 have a Steam Deck yet. I'm still waiting. Well, it says Q 485 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:40.200 three, but then I checked the calculator it was like January twenty twenty four. 486 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:45.119 Oh no, I don't know right now. Now I think it must 487 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.839 be key three. But is this the first any of the PS games playable 488 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:51.799 on Steam Deck? Like Death, Strunding and stuff is right, God of 489 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.920 War is God. You could play God of War on there. So here's 490 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.079 the thing. They I don't think that all those games are Steam Deck verified. 491 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.440 The God of War probably is because I seen it pop up, so 492 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:07.000 that must be verified. But like Spider Man is coming in two weeks and 493 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.319 I emailed them, I said, hey, can I get a code? 494 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.240 And they're like, tuck to tam, we already gave him a code. 495 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.880 I'm like Jesus, and I'm like, well, I almost going to try 496 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.559 it on the Steam Deck. And they're like, oh, well, we 497 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.799 haven't say anything about the Steam Deck yet, and I'm like, well, 498 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.279 yeah, but I mean if games on Steam, I'm still gonna try it 499 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:22.559 on the Steam Deck. I didn't say that to them, but I mean, 500 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.359 yeah, so like there's still this thing where they're like, we haven't 501 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.920 verified it for for Steam Deck, but like the fact that with a game 502 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:34.000 sort of coming out after Spider Man, likely with Returnal, they are saying, 503 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:36.279 hey, we are verifying this for Steam Deck right out of the gate, 504 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:38.319 it does seem like that is more important to them and sound. I 505 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:43.279 think it's just speaks to their how determined they are to take advantage of all 506 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.119 the features on on the Steam and you know, appeal to the PC gaming 507 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:51.720 audience. Yeah, and I mean imagine just like that feels like a really 508 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.519 good game on the go. Yes, it feels like both a good game 509 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.559 on the go and a good mouse and keyboard game. And the fact that 510 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.079 I could just bounce between both. Yes, absolutely, Yeah, because I 511 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:07.440 bounced off Raso Guns Gun wrong game. But I mean saying development, I 512 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.800 did enjoy rose Gun, but no, I bounced off Returnal because I just 513 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:15.440 like I was playing it before this sort of rest patch stuff was sold, 514 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.079 and I was like, I need to be able to stop playing this at 515 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.280 some point. But if they it sounds like they fix all that and yet 516 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:23.119 just to take it on the go and just like, you know, be 517 00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.599 sat on the bus or something. It just Yep, it's a game that 518 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.440 I think is uh it's it's really solid with mouse and keyboard controls. I'm 519 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.559 probably really gonna I'm really gonna dig it and the fact that you're at Yeah, 520 00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.119 when I'm like into a run and I want to take it with me, 521 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.440 I can just throw it on a Steam deck and keep playing it. 522 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:40.960 But uh, yeah, I'm excited to get back into that game. It's 523 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.320 the game I like a lot. I don't love it, but I like 524 00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.719 it a lot. One hundred million dollar Riot settlement has been approved. The 525 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:52.639 studio must submit to three years of independent oversight. This comes from Gray spin 526 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:58.320 Fell at game Spot. The settlement represents material restitution for hundreds of aggrieved women. 527 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:02.239 On Friday, July twenty second, a California judge preliminarily approved a one 528 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:06.559 hundred million dollars settlement between Riot Games and the women who sued the League of 529 00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:10.360 Legends developer on the grounds of gender discrimination. Via a report from Axios, 530 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.719 the court sign off means that the agree of women will finally receive that material 531 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.800 restitution. The payout will be thousands of dollars for both current and former Riot 532 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:22.800 employees who worked at the company from November twenty fourteen to December twenty twenty one. 533 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:27.440 Those eligible for the payout will receive a notice by the end of August. 534 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.320 According to the court, the settlement has further conditions. Riot has agreed 535 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:36.199 to three years of independent oversight to address paid disparities and other means of discrimination. 536 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:39.400 The settlement also means that Riot will hire forty of its female contractors full 537 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:44.519 time. There's like some other small details here, but like, like this 538 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:49.119 speaks to our first story of the day where rock Star doing It has done 539 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.239 a lot of these things, you know, voluntarily. It has brought on 540 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.320 a lot of contract workers to be full time. It has worked on its 541 00:35:55.320 --> 00:36:00.000 pay disparity between men and women, like that was one of the key points 542 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.039 that they try to take care of. And like, you know, the 543 00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:06.719 alternative here is maybe you might end up in a situation that Riot's and where 544 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.280 this deal was originally ten million dollars and then the women fought back and said 545 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:14.320 that's not enough, got pushed up to one hundred million dollars, and then 546 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.960 on top of that they still have to improve their workplace It's like what if 547 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:21.119 what if we just improved our workplace before all this happened, Like it kind 548 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.280 of just seems like just do that, right, Yeah, I mean, 549 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.880 the one thing is like I think this is, you know, a great 550 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.239 resolution, you know, and I'm gonna glad they push back on the ten 551 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.320 million to get one hundred million. But my one question would be, like 552 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.880 what about the people who did not sign or did not take part in the 553 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:43.639 lawsuit for fear of retaliation? You know, so like they are they gonna 554 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.800 be cared for? Are they gonna be cared for? Yeah? Let me 555 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.000 see. I'm like, because they this mentions like who's eligible, and it's 556 00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:53.280 like the payout will be thousand dollars both current and former RIGHT employees who worked 557 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:57.480 at the company from over twenty fourteen to December twenty twenty one. I hope 558 00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.440 that that is without caveat. I hope that is without sort of any like 559 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:04.440 condition. And I don't know if that's the case. I'm trying. I 560 00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:06.760 would read through it again. But as far as I understand, it seems 561 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.159 like even if you didn't like sign your name to the lawsuit, this is 562 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.760 like a lawsuit that still applies to you, I hope, but yeah, 563 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:15.920 I'm not not one positive about that. Still, Like, yeah, like 564 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:21.920 this the kind of thing where it's like it's a few thousand dollars for each 565 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.679 woman is great. The idea is to sort of discourage the company though in 566 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:29.719 the long run. And one hundred million dollars to a company that you know, 567 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:35.880 it's still for Ryota. Yeah, sallions of dollars, but yes, 568 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.119 you still want to like cause some pain there. That's you know, eating 569 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:43.800 into bonuses for some executives. Right, So hopefully this hurts them enough that 570 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.360 they want to change and never want to be in the situation again. And 571 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:52.119 also independent oversight is also fantastic, so right, and hopefully that is the 572 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.639 real deal and and yeah, I agree. Uh. Multiverses is Warner Warner 573 00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.840 Brothers biggest Steam release by far. This comes from Chris Scully and a VG 574 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.559 see. Multi Versus is easily Warner brothers games biggest Steam release to date based 575 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.639 on active players. The free to play Flighter entered open beta on Tuesday, 576 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.480 and it's number of a number of active users quickly started to build. By 577 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.719 the end of its first night, the game had reached a peak concurrent player 578 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:21.199 account of one hundred forty four four hundred and fifty six players at the time. 579 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:23.760 That put it ahead of Apex, Legends and behind only Lost Arc, 580 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.719 Dota two and Counterstrike and all. The peak was the seventh highest on Steam 581 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.760 in the last twenty four hours, ahead of such titles as Team Fortress two, 582 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:37.400 Monster Hunter, Rise, Arc Survival Evolved, Rust and Destiny too. 583 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.480 And that's the peak versus like at the time of its concurrent. So the 584 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.119 case you're winder like, I was only two games three games ahead of it 585 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:46.000 like that. Yeah, it's two different measurements. It also marked the highest 586 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:51.159 peak concurrent player account ever achieved by Warner Brothers Games by some distance, and 587 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.840 this is for First Steam. The ten previous highest peak concurrent recurrence recorded by 588 00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.679 Warner Brothers Game Slash, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment are Lego Star Our Wars had 589 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:04.920 Lego Star Wars, Scott Walkers Saga Excuse Me had eighty two thousand. Then 590 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.960 it was back for Blood, Middle Earth, Shadow of Mordor, Mortal Kombat 591 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:12.079 eleven, Mad Max, Batman, Arkham Knight, and then Batman Arkham Origins, 592 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.320 Mortal Kombat X, and Justice Gods, among us. In Gotham City 593 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.599 imposters are free to play Audition. Wow, Gotham City impostas. I want 594 00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:22.679 to forgot about that one had seven thousand, two hundred forty nine peak in 595 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:24.480 currents and then you got all away up to Lego Star Wars at eighty two 596 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:30.320 thousand, all those you know, kind of putting the putting the riverview mirror 597 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:32.519 by multiverses, which fair, which, to be fair, is a free 598 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:37.039 to play game, right, it's pretty play. And also it got like 599 00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:40.280 you know, they had they were very clever by doing Twitch integrations. They 600 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.000 were Twitch drops and stuff. And now like, obviously a bunch of people 601 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.760 are playing it. Have you have you played at all? I have? 602 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:52.280 Actually, yeah, I used my my Steam account to get the the premium 603 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.400 version so I could have all the characters and locked and stuff like that. 604 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:59.239 I think it gets pretty good. I get some extra good game. It's 605 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:04.400 not a fighting game player at all, Like the only the only real character 606 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.920 I can play is Bayonetta, just because I'm button Mash and I'm like, 607 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.239 oh wait, and she's really tough, so yeah, yeah she's you know. 608 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:15.719 But I was playing some multiverses the other day. I Peanut, sorry, 609 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.280 my cat just like peanut. Uh, I know, I was really 610 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:25.000 fun, but then I got beaten up by a cpu who was a I 611 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.480 don't know, a character from a show that I'd never heard of, and 612 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:31.000 I was like, well, this makes me feel old. Described what they 613 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:38.719 look like. I was speaking, guess a boy with like curly Stephen Stephen 614 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.800 Universe. Stephen Universe. Yes, does he have like a kind of a 615 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.079 star on his chest or whatever? Yeah? Yeah, Stephen Universe. Yeah 616 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:51.239 you yeah, he's And it's like one of those shows that like appeals to 617 00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:55.079 multiple generations just because it's really really really good writing. But Mike McNaughty, 618 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:58.280 big fan of Stephen Universe. There you guys in chat. I knew he 619 00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:00.320 would be there. Stephen Universe rules, says Mike. It's yeah, it's 620 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.119 good. But yeah, I don't. But I'm not sure how I feel 621 00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.039 about the roster overall in terms of like how they appeal to me anymore. 622 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:09.840 But that's probably just a me problem. I think I think most I think 623 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:15.679 its successful in the way Nickelodeon Battle Arcade or whatever it was wasn't, because 624 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:17.800 I think Nickelodeon was appealing to a very certain audience, and this one's got 625 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:21.679 like, well, we have Batman and Superman, but that we have Steven 626 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:25.599 Universe, and then we have you know, Lebron James is coming and stuff 627 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:30.400 like that. Yeah, it's a pretty like wide appeal there, so I 628 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.239 think that they are. Yeah. Also compared to the Nickelodeon on this game 629 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.400 by she seems well fund That's also a very good point, which is weird 630 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.760 because this wants the free to play one and that one was a premium priced 631 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:44.559 one. Yeah. But also like I don't know, I had Cartoon Network 632 00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:49.280 growing up for a very limited time when I was a kid, and so 633 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.599 maybe this just feels like I, yeah, I might not know, I 634 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:58.480 might not know Stephen Universe, but I know the other one and Brothers stuff 635 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:05.119 that's in that, like Shaggy and Velma and you know Arias Stock. What 636 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:08.239 a weird one. But no, I'm stoked Tim. I think Tim was 637 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:13.440 saying yesterday, how did they not call this Warner Brothers Ultimate? Yep, 638 00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:17.840 because you know it's right there. But I guess I guess someone smash Warner 639 00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.519 Brothers. Yeah, absolutely, someone an Intenda might have been a bit mad. 640 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.519 But also that's good for them, because I you know, they Warner 641 00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:30.599 Brothers has not necessarily had sure for a while, except I mean except for 642 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:32.639 Lego Star Wars. So they've actually had a pretty good year. But overall, 643 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.400 you know, their releases have been relatively relatively few and far between compared 644 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.719 to where they used to be a few years ago. So this is cool. 645 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.199 And the longer this game succeeds, the more likely we are to get 646 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:49.000 ross from friends. All right, no, oh my god, the biggest 647 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.280 friend. Yes, the biggest friend. There we go. Roadblocks? Has 648 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.239 the oof sound effect gone? Or okay, this is from BBC, that's 649 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:59.360 how they put at Roadblocks? Why has the oofs sound effect gone? The 650 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.800 famous sound effect has been removed from Roadblocks. Roadblocks announced the news on their 651 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:07.800 social media same Due to a licensing issue, we have removed the oofs sound 652 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:12.039 from Roadblocks and have created a replacement default sound which launches today. Previously, 653 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.039 when a character died or respawn and Roadblocks, they heard a sound effect that 654 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:19.599 said oof. The sound effect is hugely popular and is a well known is 655 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.360 well known in and out of Roadblocks communities, and has been used in countless 656 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.880 memes and videos around the world. As of July twenty six, fans will 657 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:31.079 hear a different default sound when their character respawns the roof. The oof sound 658 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:36.119 effect wasn't made by anyone at Roadblocks. It was actually made by a man. 659 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:39.719 And this is the BBC puts it by a man name Tommy Talarrico. 660 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.199 Harry is everybody Tommy Talariko back at it again? Let's see. Tommy has 661 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:47.960 worked in the video game industry as a composer, meaning he made the music 662 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.119 at Soun Effects and Games for more than thirty years. And it's the former 663 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:57.400 CEO of gaming company in Television. The oofs sound effect was originally used in 664 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.679 a game Tommy worked on that was released in two thousand. Fast forward to 665 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.280 twenty nineteen and Tommy discovered how similar the Roadblocks oo sound effect was to the 666 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.519 sound he made for the game he worked on, so he decided to contact 667 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.239 Roadblocks. In twenty twenty, an agreement was reached between Tommy and Roadblocks, 668 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:15.519 which meant that anyone making a Roadblocks experience would have to pay one dollar around 669 00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:20.840 eighty three or one hundred Roadblock rodebucks to be able to use the sound in 670 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:24.440 their game. Tommy also agreed to work with Roadblocks to develop other paid sounds 671 00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:28.360 for them. He spoke to the BBC in twenty twenty and said, it's 672 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.800 amazing to think that such a small sound I did over twenty years ago for 673 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.880 a different game ended up being one of the most iconic pop pop cultural audio 674 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:42.719 clips of the twenty first century. Jesus Christ, this motherfucker, I swear 675 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.119 to God. Oh, hey, don't you talk about don't you talk about 676 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:52.920 Stephen Tyler's second cousin like that? Right? So Stephen Talarico and Tommy Talarrico 677 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:58.360 hanging out at at family reunions and collecting. So we were talking about this 678 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:05.320 earlier before we went Tommy teller Eco collects balsamic vinegar. I feel like that's 679 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.760 all you need to know. Yep, that sounds like Tommy Okay. And 680 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:12.760 you asked about before about like how the in television Amiko's doing. He's no 681 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.760 longer CEO, but he's still at that company. It's there's no way that 682 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.159 thing actually ever comes out, and if it does, it will be farted 683 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:24.239 out and immediately like just completely demolished by the market. All right, Moving 684 00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:30.159 on from the infamous balsamic vinegar collector and creator of the most iconic sound of 685 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.920 the twenty first century, we have Okay, yeah, yeah, let's go 686 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.320 to the ketchup where we have the August PlayStation Plus essential games that have been 687 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:42.840 added. Let's see here, Yeah, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater one plus two. 688 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.480 Yeah, Kuza Like a Dragon and Little Nightmares. Those are pretty that's 689 00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:51.639 a pretty good lineup right there. And so I checked the the classic eighth 690 00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:57.800 the am tweet in from PlayStation. We're also adding eight Yakasa games, including 691 00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.599 six zero. I don't have my glasses. I think that yeah, that's 692 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:07.760 three four, I'm just all of them right, eight, that's there are 693 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.679 eight yeah, Cuza games, right, So I mean it's they're coming to 694 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.559 play Station Plus in twenty twenty two, with the first titles becoming available in 695 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.519 August. Kind of I mean, I'm always down for more. Yak is 696 00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.079 amazing. Kind of sucks if he started playing them all on game Pass and 697 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:27.559 then I think someone is still on I think a couple of months ago, 698 00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.079 like a lot of them just came back to game Pass. So I'm like, 699 00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.559 how many you could play on? Right? It's like this is maybe 700 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.519 ideal. Then if everyone could play all of these everywhere, that's fantastic, 701 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.159 Like you could start with zero wherever you want right now, and like that's 702 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:43.480 probably the way to go. Play Zero, play maybe H five or six, 703 00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:45.800 and then play like a Dragon and if you want to go back to 704 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:47.880 all the other ones at that point, like that, you're all in, 705 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.679 go for it. I mean, Zero is just one of the best games 706 00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.880 I think about. Maybe it's in my top ten. Yeah, downloading it 707 00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.719 on my Steam deck, so I'm like gonna not really going twenty twenty. 708 00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:04.800 So no, Yeah, because is zero fantastic? So that's great. And 709 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.239 I'm also I'm just really glad that, yeah, because is is enough of 710 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.039 a selling point because it feels like even a few years ago it was still 711 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:15.079 relatively a more niche title, but now everyone is kind of on the yak 712 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.440 as a train. That's right, Yeah, hell me, let me just 713 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.360 let's just get this real quick. There we go. There's just there's there's 714 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.039 our boy, just very happy that it's coming to play station. Glad. 715 00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:30.559 Okay, let's let's get back. I messed up. I knew I was 716 00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:34.239 going to do that too vertical. There we go, All right, what 717 00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:37.079 else is in the catch up? Here? We got? Okay, so 718 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:39.760 Meta raised the price of the Oculus Quest two. Everyone's sort of talking about 719 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:44.199 how weird this is. We talked about this on the bomb Cast, and 720 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:49.960 my point was like people only raise prices when they not because like components become 721 00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:52.199 more expensive, like that obviously encourages it, but they raise it if they 722 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.079 feel like they can get away with it, and with inflation being what it 723 00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.639 is, obviously meta thought they can get away with it. But even then 724 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:06.119 this is where because PlayStation and Nintendo and uh an Xbox probably during the like 725 00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.280 the really intense parts of the pandemic, could have also got away with raising 726 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:13.760 their prices, but they didn't and wouldn't because they're like, that's it's too 727 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:20.599 much of a bad pr move, and we would and yeah, right, 728 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.079 exactly, that's what it is, right. They just they don't look around 729 00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:27.280 to learn from the other industries or other companies, and they're just like, 730 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.599 we're gonna do what we're gonna do. We know better than anyone this. 731 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.760 At the same time, though, I think when it comes to like this 732 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.440 holiday, and if these things are on the shelf for one hundred and twenty 733 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.000 one hundred, twenty gigabyte version for four hundred dollars, I think most people 734 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.519 are just gonna be like, yeah, all right, uh, you know, 735 00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:45.480 I need a president. I said I was gonna get a your headset 736 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:46.559 for my kids. Here it is, I'm just gonna pick it up. 737 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.360 I don't think this is actually gonna hurt them too much. What do you 738 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.639 think? No? I mean, it just kind of sucks because like if 739 00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:59.320 you bought it after, like if you didn't realize the price was going up, 740 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:00.840 and then you know, it feels like, yeah, you're getting beat 741 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:06.880 Saber included now, which is the probably the only thing I really play on 742 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.679 my concert. Shout out to the person at Readventures who bought one for his 743 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:14.000 door for Christmas and then ended up selling it because she didn't want to play. 744 00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.159 So thank you because I bought it and he was great. He charged 745 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:20.719 he threw in shipping for me, so you know, I just want to 746 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:23.559 say shout out to that person because it was great. But yeah, I 747 00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:27.960 don't know, like it feels like a weird price hike. I think you're 748 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.719 right. I think they just they do think they can get away with it. 749 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:37.480 But like I know that was it isn't metsas VR section sort of hemorrhaging 750 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:39.719 money a little, right, and it's like, what does this say about 751 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:44.960 they had the future of this whole VR industry if like the main system that 752 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:46.679 has sold pretty well, like the ideas, you sell it, you get 753 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:50.400 people's hands, and then you make money on the games. Like they still 754 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.599 have a store where you can buy VR games through Meta whatever, and they 755 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:58.679 should be getting to cutter those are. They're probably not selling as many games 756 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.679 as they need to make this whole thing makes sense. It's kind of what 757 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:04.119 this says to me. Yeah, And I mean, I don't know. 758 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:07.639 I think in terms of the pr ship show that Matter is going through right 759 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:12.119 now, this is maybe has last priority over the fact that everyone is saying, 760 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.719 you know, leave Instagram, which is one of its big big brands. 761 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:19.840 Yeah, and it's yes, and they yeah. I mean Facebook was 762 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.360 flailing and now the fact that Instagram is flowing flailing, Yeah, because they 763 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:27.639 changed They changed it. And I'm not lying, like I don't use Instagram 764 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.840 that much, but it is wild to see the backlash against it. You 765 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:35.400 know, people have been talking a long time about discoperability on that platform and 766 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:40.920 then how it's pivoted into a shop model and now changing basically trying to become 767 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:45.559 more like TikTok. So Yeah, Meta has its hands film I feel like 768 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:49.519 this is probably going to be people are not going to remember the VR price, 769 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.719 Like heait that mean they might release the meta quest. The meta quest, 770 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.199 it's it's awful to say, I'm sorry, do you have the hell 771 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.840 rebranded it? It sounds that's terrible mouth feel we do we talk about this, 772 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.440 yeah, meta quest like it's like there's too many like harsh consonants in 773 00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:06.920 there that really like bring your mouth to a halt. And then it's like 774 00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:08.760 you have to do this, you turn ameret that quest. It's like, 775 00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:15.079 yeah, it's crust. I don't have to pronounce the t so questions like 776 00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:20.000 yeah, terrible. Uh yeah, let's see. Uh okay, here's a 777 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.760 rumor I just want to bring up from Zippo, who who does a pretty 778 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.280 good job of getting Nintendo rumors right. We're still waiting to see if that 779 00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:29.400 Donkey Kong game is real, but it hasn't been you know, debunked either, 780 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:31.360 because we don't know what the Mario team is doing yet. Zippo says, 781 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.239 kid Icris Uprising is getting a remaster. You'll be happy to hear that 782 00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.199 a full remaster of the game is in development at Bandai Namco. There will 783 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:42.440 be a new, much more accessible control scheme, and the visuals are getting 784 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.960 a much needed boost. There's one snag, however, the games multiplayer mode 785 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:50.519 will return, but will reportedly be running on bamcost legendarily awful net code. 786 00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:54.440 If you played any of Bamcoast games online before Smash Fighter, Z Tech and 787 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.719 seven, you'll know how disappointing this piece of news is The remasters due for 788 00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.400 release some time next year. This is in line with what we heard previously 789 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.880 about Bandai. Napco was working on remastering an action game for Nintendo, and 790 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:12.360 I think that was in like an earnings report or something so and I think 791 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.079 at the time a lot of people like kind of came to a consensus like 792 00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.360 the one game that makes the most sense is probably Kiddick or is Uprising, 793 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.639 even if it's just like because they have experience working on Sacarai games, and 794 00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.079 that was a Sacarai game, so why not, And that was a game 795 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.519 that you could rescue from the three DS and sort of ensure that it had 796 00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:31.679 has a longer legacy so you don't have to do the weird touch screen with 797 00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.760 the stand thing. Which do you remember how you played? Did you ever 798 00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.519 played Kiddick or uprising. I had it. I played it a bit. 799 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.400 I don't think I stuck with it very long though, right. I had 800 00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:44.360 that weird thing where like you'd put it on like a stand and then you 801 00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:45.920 sort of like hold it for you and then you can use the aiming with 802 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:52.039 the stylists on the bottom screen. Yeah, weird thing. I'm glad. 803 00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.039 I hope this is true though, because that's a pretty good game. That's 804 00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:58.840 nice and we get rescued it. Okay, let's get to the polls here. 805 00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:02.199 After a ven do you still have any interest in Marvel superhero games if 806 00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:06.039 they go a single player? Let if I can get it up here. 807 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:09.679 Let me get your response real quick before I will I get the actual being 808 00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:14.760 up here. We talked about Black Panther earlier this week. The fact that 809 00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.599 they committed to it being well internally they've committed to it being a single player. 810 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.719 Is that enough to be like, Okay, maybe I could get excited 811 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:27.480 about superhero games again. So again with my Star Wars takes, I think 812 00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.480 I'm kind of done with Marvel. Well, that's what I think. That's 813 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.360 exactly what I think. There's people who are in that same camp. Right 814 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:37.280 after like maybe not even getting burned, but either either burned or burnt out 815 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:42.519 of being like there's just too much. It's just there's just too much of 816 00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.800 it. And like I was looking at the Phase five reveal stuff and I 817 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:51.039 was like, nothing about this is really gelling with me, Like yeah, 818 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:53.280 cool, I like Charlie Cox. I would probably watch Dad Deevil. I 819 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:58.480 will watch Blade because I am TAM's friend and Blade is very important to time, 820 00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:05.599 and then I'll watch Black Panther two another than that. I was like, 821 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:08.599 I don't I don't know if I mean you did, but you did 822 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:12.239 play Star Wars Jedi fallon Order though, right, and you're kind of Dune. 823 00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:15.079 You were kind of like mostly Dune with Star Wars, like I done 824 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.039 because it was it was different enough. So like if it's a similar sort 825 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:22.239 of vibe where it kind of divorces itself from the movie stuff, maybe right, 826 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.679 I could be it. But also I just you know, it's not 827 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:30.639 It's not where I was ten years ago, where like every new Marvel thing, 828 00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:32.599 you know, off the high of the Avengers movie and I was like, 829 00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:35.679 oh god, you know everything that they do is great. You're great. 830 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:38.880 Now. I'm just sort of like a lot of Marvel. Yeah, 831 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:44.599 Mike, I'm not quite to that extreme, but I'm definitely like trending in 832 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:47.679 your direction a little bit. But after like hearing that this game is could 833 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:51.199 be like Star Wars Jedi fallon Order, I'm kind of like, if it's 834 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:53.039 if they can get in there, if they get near there, I'll be 835 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:57.000 I'll be really happy. I'll be very happy to try those games. But 836 00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:00.559 it is, so it is the team from U like Middle Earth Shadow. 837 00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:05.800 It is. It is the new team founded by people who worked at who 838 00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.840 were like oversaw that studio but now Ada. So I don't know. I 839 00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:14.159 think I think they have they have a great experience working with sort of licensed 840 00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:16.800 stuff and kind of trying their best to make it their own. I think 841 00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:21.920 with the Middle Earth Enterprises and the Tolkien Es state, it's way more difficult 842 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.119 to do that. I hope Marvel is a much more forgiving partner because that 843 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:28.199 team has some great ideas and like they ended up giving us the Nemesis system, 844 00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:30.320 so you know, I'm treat to see what they can do. But 845 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:35.239 uh. In the in the Twitter poll, seventy nine point eight percent said 846 00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.800 yes, twenty point two percent said no. So I think most people are 847 00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:43.519 still kind of like, yeah, I mean adventurous was this misstep or thing 848 00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:45.840 I wasn't interested in because they were trying to go the Destiny route. All 849 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.039 I wanted to single player games, and if they nail that, then I'll 850 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.039 be happy. Yeah. I mean, like I think in terms of like 851 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.239 all the Marvel games out there right now, I think the only one that 852 00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:59.079 I'm really super excited for is the Wolverine game from Insomniac, But that's only 853 00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:05.159 because we have an necessarily had. You know, however, many X Men 854 00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:08.199 games X Men movies, either at least at least on x Men within the 855 00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:13.840 MCU, right, we've had some x Men movies. Well there we were 856 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:17.800 getting lost, and it's like, man, I got that got to the 857 00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:22.039 point where I was just like, I wait this came out and yeah, 858 00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:24.320 no, look I don't know Oscar Isaac was apocalypse. What the hell are 859 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:30.159 you talking about? That didn't happen apparently did. I fucking loved X Men 860 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:34.559 too, though, X Men x Men and it was a great movie when 861 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:40.480 he goes berserk and he starts stabbing people, but then O of them that 862 00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.039 know, you haven't had a single X Men movie since then, and they 863 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:51.159 definitely didn't bif the Wolverine are good. Okay, Logan's good, but they 864 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:57.320 definitely didn't biff Doc Phoenix twice. Of course, Jan is a Cyclops fan 865 00:56:57.400 --> 00:56:59.480 boy. Oh my guy, Sis, when will we ever do my boys 866 00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.519 side clups? Justice Ge and you are the Cyclops of Giant Bomb, and 867 00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:05.840 I mean that in a nice way. I mean that in a nice way. 868 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:07.880 All right. For the tomorrow's poll, do you think that Star Wars 869 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:13.840 Nights of the Old Republic remake from Aspire ever comes out? Yes or no? 870 00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:17.199 We'll talk about it tomorrow. I hope it does too. This I'll 871 00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:22.639 take it, okay, very good? All right? I am What are 872 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.159 we doing now? Yeah? What is happening on Giant Bomb for the rest 873 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.360 of the week. What's up with you? I guess, Lucy, what's 874 00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.960 up with you? You got anything happening this week? Today? Oh god, 875 00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.639 it is it Wednesday already? It should be the One Punchment, the 876 00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:37.639 finale of One Punchman, of Jeff jeff Bizarre Adventure, the One punchmin Guiding. 877 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:40.800 So we should be talking about the final episode of One Punchman today and 878 00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:45.119 then we're gonna start I already watched the episodes, but we're recording it on 879 00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:49.679 Monday. We're going to be starting back with Joe Joe's Bizarre Adventure to start 880 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:54.519 Ust Crusaders next Wednesday. I am so excited to talk about those because there's 881 00:57:54.559 --> 00:58:00.840 a wild stuff in there. And then we've got rest of today. We 882 00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:07.320 also have Pit Pit Pit YEP, Arcade Pit album or hit Man three DLC 883 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.679 stream, So yeah, I'll be playing Hitman three and there will be a 884 00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.519 couple of devils. I don't think I'll have any angels on my shoulder time 885 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.079 each side. Uh yep, oh my god. Yeah. And then then 886 00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:24.960 on Arcade Pit we've got was it the team team Maynai? Yes? Was 887 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:28.840 it? Jean Luke and Jacob Decker? Is that what it is? Yeah? 888 00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:32.320 From from gangs playing and then who are they playing against? They're playing 889 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:37.559 against seven Mall and Jan. I think Seve Mall does our best of edits 890 00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:44.840 a right or I think he does either or he does the the clips on 891 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:46.880 social media. I can't remember which it's not. That's not my department. 892 00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:50.519 I don't know. Ask Jan like he's playing with seven Mall, so look 893 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.440 out for that today. It's gonna be a good one. Everybody, and 894 00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:54.280 then yeah, the rest of the week, you know, well, voicemail 895 00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.599 dump truck, we'll have We'll have gamest Mornings every morning. And they turned 896 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:00.599 in for a tune in for are the what is likely going to be the 897 00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:05.960 finale of Ranking of Tech and Endings, which I'm really looking forward to watching 898 00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:08.119 with everybody while I drive down to Cleveland and go pick up some of my 899 00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.760 work mail. Oh oh wait, someonesen did we already shout out with the 900 00:59:12.760 --> 00:59:15.199 new shirts? Yeah? So the new shirts are in the store. Yes, 901 00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:20.079 and there's a way to get ten percent off. There's a post. 902 00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:22.039 I think Rory put a post on the site, and if he hasn't, 903 00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.440 it will be up soon. So yes, if you're a premium member you 904 00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:27.960 can get ten percent off. Go look into the details for that. Those 905 00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:32.920 shirts are fantastic, right with the cat, Yes, with the giant bomb. 906 00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:36.599 Oh yeah, absolutely, it's good stuff. I'm gonna pick up a 907 00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:37.920 shirt as well. All right, everybody, let's get out of here. 908 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.320 Thank you so much, Lucy for joining me. I really appreciate it. 909 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:44.079 Thank you all so much in the audience. You're the best audience in gaming. 910 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:46.280 I appreciate it. Until next time, have a good one, take 911 00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:49.480 care of yourself and goodbye.