WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:14.599 Yo, got me bad. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.960 this for March fifteenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:21.359 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Best Mornings 4 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:25.879 Live with me Jeff Grubb Today, the return of a fan favorite game isn't 5 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.039 going great and respond dev's report getting hit by major layoffs. But first, 6 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.799 please join me and welcoming today's co host to Game Best Mornings. It's two 7 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:37.200 more. Who's saying, everybody, Tam, how are you feeling? I 8 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:42.159 am feeling good? And if you were listening to the pre show, you 9 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:48.679 will know that was a lie. Well, I'm glad you could stole lot 10 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:52.159 to the people so effectively. I bought it and you just told me that 11 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:58.320 thirty seconds ago, so ckly good at it. I will say, it's 12 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.799 been another busy week. I'm looking forward to getting to the weekend. I'm 13 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.439 gonna be spending time with some games, so I'm just that's gonna be what 14 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.680 I'm doing still, but just being able to do that during the day, 15 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.400 kickback and play some stuff for a bit. And I already like did my 16 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.359 chores for this week, like getting the house cleaned up, and like stuff. 17 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:15.599 I was like, oh, I was gonna put that off to the 18 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.000 weekend. I got a lot of a lot of that stuff done, So 19 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.079 I'm set up for a relaxing weekend if I so choose to do that. 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:29.599 But Sundays I've got I've got one day because Sunday's Day of the devs, 21 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:34.040 right god, yeah, man, and then straight into GDC for a week. 22 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.920 My understanding is you've got a really relaxing GDC schedule almost nothing, nothing 23 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.599 booked like that. Yeah, it's a cake walk. Yeah. Since since 24 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.879 we're basically leaving on Wednesday night Thursday morning for packs, correct, right, 25 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.159 let's cram all of GDC into two or three days and then we got a 26 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.519 back we got packs later that week. Everybody, which you're not going it'll 27 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.359 be all. It'll a lot of fun, yes, absolutely, yea for 28 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.560 those we just we show up to our panels, we do our thing, 29 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.920 and then you know, say hi to people who are nice to us. 30 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.800 I think it's great. So I think we're planning to like walk the show 31 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.240 floor as well. So if you see us, please please please don't come 32 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:19.800 anywhere near us. Yeah, how dare you look at me? Also, 33 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.759 we do need to come near us so that we can get video messages for 34 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.080 a voicemail dump truck that we're doing live. So if you have a question 35 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:31.000 and you want to get potentially on voicemail dump truck live at packs, let 36 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:36.360 us know. We'll record your short and sweet messages for that. I cannot 37 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.280 be held responsible if you come near me and somehow become lactose. Yeah, 38 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:44.680 right, isn't it. I prove the most contagious I would believe. I 39 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.319 mean everyone is lactose intolerance, So yeah, you know what to say if 40 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.680 if someone accidentally folts on you, you are like us intolerance. So I 41 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:55.520 can't promise anything. Let's explain. Let's explain what we do here other other 42 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.280 than fart and be lactose intolerant most week days, I Jeff Grevell hell piece 43 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.560 of gaming life back together that includes breaking news and maybe even some of our 44 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:07.479 own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of a 45 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.919 bona fide expert who will make me look smart. If you were watching live 46 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:14.879 on twitch Welcome, you can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds 47 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.879 by searching for Game mess Mornings, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot 48 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:23.280 com. You can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. 49 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.240 Hello YouTube, I love YouTube. All right, we have a lot 50 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.639 to get into, so let's start the morning mess with Star Wars Battlefront Classic 51 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:36.719 Condition debuts to stuffed servers and angry players. This is from Kevin Purdy at 52 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.879 Ours Technica. The latest version of Star Wars Battlefront released by Electronic Electronic Arts, 53 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:45.159 was so stuffed full of loot boxes and play to win blah blah blah 54 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.719 that people got very mad at that game. And people have been waiting for 55 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.319 this one to return, and so people were very happy when it did, 56 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.840 and now it's having issues of its own. Around ten am Eastern, this 57 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.680 is the author here. I decided to kick the exhaust ports on the Ion 58 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.360 Thrust myself. The game asked me to register my copy on launch, which 59 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.039 timed out when I tried to do so. Moving on, I chose Battlefront 60 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:11.400 two Karabia profile, then requested an online quick match. The result was an 61 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.399 air message cannot join session is full. Not that I had selected a particular 62 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:18.879 session, mind you. I encountered the same air two or three more times, 63 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.160 then decided to try the first Battlefront game instead. I did get into 64 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.480 one match and play it to conclusion a loss on my side. Feeling lucky, 65 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.199 I jumped into another quick battle and made it through a few deaths, 66 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.360 only to get stuck during the countdown to responding, and it got stuck at 67 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.720 one. People are encounting are encountering a lot of different issues with this re 68 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.600 release of these games, which I say re release tam because they are not 69 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:46.600 really remasters. This is a collection of the two thousand and five Battlefront two 70 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:49.759 and whenever Battlefront one came out, and they're just re released mostly as as 71 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.920 with a few quality of life improvements here or there. It's those games, 72 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.920 but they are there are a lot of issues, which is like connecting, 73 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.160 and the big problems was at launch there were about twenty thousand people trying to 74 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:09.160 play, and the game had three official servers set up which could support about 75 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:14.319 two hundred total players at any more time. I just got a hey, 76 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:19.240 no, you know that is I am unwilling to believe that was a mistake. 77 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:27.920 I am only allowing myself to believe this was intentional either because they were 78 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.040 like all just all just the three and see what happened and then add to 79 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:35.199 it if it looks like we need more, oh sure, or like, 80 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:44.279 I what is EA doing with that license? Man? Just like this is 81 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.519 such a bad look, like this is a beloved collection of games, and 82 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.920 I don't think he is involved in this one at all. This one seems 83 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:55.319 like it's all on a spire, which oh yeah, sorry, not Aspire, 84 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.800 not Aspire my bad. Yeah, it's a I always I'm still like 85 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:02.439 my brain connect eh oh yeah, of course to stall wars right now. 86 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.639 Well, they mean they do well you asked what he is doing start They 87 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:09.920 just canceled another Star Wars. Can that's what they do. They're doing something 88 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.279 else, They're doings in a different way, yes, but like what is 89 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:16.439 inspired there? Like you cannot screw this up like it is. You are 90 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:23.480 everything that people get mad about now, and the level of mad they get 91 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:28.560 is probably something they could have predicted. It is also weird that it's a 92 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:35.360 sixty gigabyte install. Sixty gigabytes for two PS two era games Xbox era games. 93 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:42.240 That is weird whatever that that does happen these days. But the servers 94 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.959 they did by the next day get a lot more servers up and running when 95 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.560 we played we did this for for tn T yesterday for Thursday Night throw Down 96 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.480 here on John Bond, which is a lot of fun. I had a 97 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.519 good time and had almost no issues. And the issues I did have was 98 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.519 for one of the matches, Sean was hosting it and his game crashed, 99 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.040 so we all got kicked out and had to get back again. But after 100 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.480 playing for about an hour and a half, almost two hours, that was 101 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:09.040 the one thing that I noticed that I didn't notice anything else, but that 102 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.399 was us I think, connecting peer to peer to Sean, so we weren't 103 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.519 using any of the official servers or quick matches or matchmaking or going to the 104 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.600 server list and picking some random public thing, so that probably helped. But 105 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.399 you know, from my experience, it was mostly fine. I had a 106 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.560 good time playing the game, and I still worked the way you would want 107 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.920 them to. I saw a video of someone positive of the PlayStation version, 108 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.600 and it looked busted, like the textures were just not there, and it 109 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:40.399 was like parts of the map were like purple and black checkered, and it 110 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.680 looked like it looked unfinished, and I was like, oh, wow, 111 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.959 they really haven't to go a time with this one. And then I saw 112 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.000 it online. I was like, oh, the servers are screwed up, 113 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:55.120 and I'm just like, okay, you this is the kind of thing where 114 00:07:55.160 --> 00:08:00.439 I feel like people will also be very mad immediately and probably drop it. 115 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.079 Like if you if you want to, yes, if you wanted to maintain 116 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.399 a like an actual player base, you need to come out of the door 117 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.800 swinging. But like with this, people are gonna be like, well, 118 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.439 I got fucking scammed. I'm gonna get a refund and move on with my 119 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.560 life. I think so too, like what you're doing. I mean, 120 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:20.839 it doesn't help that the game is pretty expensive for a collection of older games 121 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.560 that haven't really been remastered. I believe it's it was like thirty five dollars 122 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.639 and that might I think that might have been on sale, but it was. 123 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.439 You know, it's at least thirty five dollars to get this game new, 124 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.000 and that is I think that is exacerbating it. I was when I 125 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.000 was playing with Jan and Sewn yesterday we were talking about this, and it's 126 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.600 like, I think a lot of people are kind of jumping off that price, 127 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.600 and any sort of problem is really heightened by that, where like I 128 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.080 spent a ton of money on this for what it is, so everything's gonna 129 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.759 annoy me that much more, and I am going to rush to go get 130 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:54.879 a refund, which people are. That's fair. I get that, And 131 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.840 Aspire has a bit of reputation for doing this with the Star Wars games. 132 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:05.279 Aspires has a long history of porting things to Mac. Recently, they have 133 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.240 been doing these remasters and re releases mostly of Star Wars games, putting them 134 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.840 out on the Switch, putting up, putting them back out on PC, 135 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.440 and frequently some like not every single time, but most of them have had 136 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.440 some sort of issue, at least for the first couple of weeks. I 137 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.559 think Commando what's the Star Wars Commandos? Is that? Is that what it's 138 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:31.200 called, the one with the Commando Cheppers? Yeah? Yeah, that one 139 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.879 like had some serious performance issues on the switch, and again we're talking about 140 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:41.840 an Xbox era game Republic Commandos. Thank you, Dunk. And I think 141 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.720 maybe the good news is, on one hand, a Spire probably will get 142 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.679 this stuff fixed up. They did immediately add a bunch more servers. But 143 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.559 dam I think you're right. I don't think you necessarily bounce back if the 144 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:54.960 first impression here for a lot of people is that's expensive and it's broken. 145 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.279 I am just going to skip out on this. And also, I don't 146 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:03.720 think it helps that this is something primarily driven by nostalgia. It's it's I 147 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:05.919 think it's still a fun game. I had a good time. I think 148 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:07.720 people are going to go back to him and be like, Okay, I 149 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.559 mean it is still that game, and they haven't made a ton of improvements, 150 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.200 so I think it is easy to go. I will just keep that 151 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.279 in my memory and not actually go back to it. Did John have a 152 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.919 good time? I think so. I think jan you had a pretty good 153 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:22.919 time. Yeah, it seemed like he was having a really great time. 154 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.200 You know. It's the kind of thing where when you when you got you 155 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.120 know, Mike Minatti trolling you and killing you every chance he gets, you 156 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.879 can only have so much fun. But no Chancy to be having a pretty 157 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.720 good time. Wonderful. Uh. And I'm as someone who has talked crap 158 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.679 about that game, because people always like want to like, hey, no, 159 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.399 that's one of the best Star Wars games ever, and I'm like, 160 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.600 it's okay, I'm coming out of be like okay, it's it's better than 161 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.480 okay. It's a fun game. But I just still say all those friends 162 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:56.879 have got a really low bar. Well, listen, we know that Apex 163 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.360 Legends developer Respawn has been hit by e A layoffs. This is from Cameron 164 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.440 co at GameSpot. Not even the creators of Apex Legends, EA's premier shooter 165 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.320 are safe from recent industry layoffs, with multiple members of the team confirming on 166 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.840 social media that develop a Respond has been affected. They're not personally personally let 167 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.039 go. Respond level designer Aaron Stump confirmed the layoffs had hit the team in 168 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.879 a post on Twitter, the Apex team was hit with layoffs today, Stump 169 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.200 said, it sucks seeing some of the people I've worked with for almost three 170 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.879 years now get let go. Hopefully they land on their feet sooner rather than 171 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.799 later. Peter Stewart, a senior writer at Respawn, additionally confirmed the news. 172 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.240 Rough day at EA, Stuart said on Twitter, rough day at Respond. 173 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.440 Although I'm thankful to be safe, my thoughts are with everyone affected by 174 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.799 the ongoing layoffs, and if there's any way I can help or signal boost, 175 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:50.080 I will do do so. There's some confusion here whether these are new 176 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.120 layoffs or this is still part of the layoffs that EA was talking about a 177 00:11:54.120 --> 00:12:00.159 few weeks ago. Regardless, at the time when those layoffs were announced by 178 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.240 EA, it seemed like Respond mostly went unscathed other than having their Star Wars 179 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.519 game canceled. The way the story went at the time was the Star Wars 180 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.519 game, the first person shooter that everyone at Respond really likes and everyone who 181 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.799 who's played it thinks it was amazing. It was very frustrated got canceled. 182 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.600 That game got canceled because because EA was trying to reduce their budgets and they're 183 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.559 like, we're not going to put the budget into that game for the next 184 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.279 two years to finish it and put it out and whatever. But the people 185 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.600 that worked on the game would get would be able to get reassigned to other 186 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:31.480 teams inside of EA. They'd go work back on Apex Legends, there's other 187 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.360 projects at Respawn, and then there's other projects throughout EA that they would work 188 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.360 on. And now it's like, oh, well, yeah, but not 189 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.679 everybody. We're gonna still lay off some people at RESPOND, and so now 190 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.799 Respond being affected by this, and it feels like, damn. When we 191 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.639 look at these layoffs, it's it's indiscriminate to a point, but it also 192 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.639 feels like every team is potentially at risk of these layoffs. Even the studio 193 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:00.360 inside of EA that was like the poster child. It was the hey, 194 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.039 they are doing things right, and we want everyone INSIDEBA to be like Respawn, 195 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.639 even they are affected by this. That's where the industry is at right 196 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:15.039 now. Yeah. I mean if if a developer that has made two incredibly 197 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:20.799 well received and commercially successful Star Wars games, that also made one of the 198 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:28.000 precious few games as a service title which basically strengthened and kind of became a 199 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:35.679 pillar, a foundational pillar of the genre and has continued to be super successful, 200 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:43.879 can't avoid these layoffs and can't avoid the economics of the detrimental economics of 201 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.840 video games. Who is safe right Surely no one like Respawn is one of 202 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.879 those developers where on paper you would think they're untouchable right now because they're putting 203 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.919 out banger after banger. They have AX Apex is doing really well. The 204 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.559 interest level is still high on it, the quality is still super high, 205 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:11.639 and there's a lot of people that are really into Apex still. And if 206 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.559 they can't like reassign these people to something else, like you know, we're 207 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.519 working on a bunch of new projects let's just put you over there. If 208 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:26.399 they can't do that, that is a very dire situation. Yeah, and 209 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.960 I wonder what the future of RESPOND looks like. I think we just saw 210 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.159 you know, Stig asbus and who did leave Respond a few months ago, 211 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.399 but he started up his studio and Stig it was the director of the first 212 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.399 Star Wars Jedi games, the first two of those, and he brought many 213 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.879 key people with him. And that is not some new phenomenon with Respond. 214 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.360 There have been multiple times where new studios have popped up in the orbit of 215 00:14:54.399 --> 00:15:00.360 respond or from people who's whose stock has vested at at EA. Once they 216 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.759 got acquired and they went off to start their own thing with investment from from 217 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.440 wherever, and they took a lot of people from Respond with them. And 218 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.279 I think there's a potential here where it's like that studio is still has a 219 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.360 ton of talent, still has a ton of great people there. But EA 220 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.000 might just be like, well, you know, the Apex Legends was great, 221 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.159 but that's we're looking towards the end of that now, and we'll Respond 222 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.799 be able to create some new thing in the future. And they might have 223 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:28.879 lost the face somehow, which is a kind of absurd, because EA, 224 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.879 when it tried to like oversee stuff with Dice and Battlefield and get all these 225 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.600 other games into a situation that looked anything close to what Apex Legends did, 226 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.960 it would always stumble and fail. And then meanwhile Respond was over there doing 227 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.600 its own thing and doing things its way. That's a big thing that happened 228 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.720 there. It was like Apex Legends came out of Respond building games their way 229 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.360 of prototype and for a long time making sure you have something great and then 230 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.720 enacting on that and make it something that was commercially viable. And EA was, 231 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:00.840 oh, my god, you know what, You're right, we've been 232 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.600 doing things wrong. Vince Sampello, leader of Respawn. You are now moving 233 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.320 up the chain. We want you to make the rest of ya look like 234 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.519 that. And now they get, you know, a little bit far away 235 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.879 from that, and it's like it's reverting left and right back to EA just 236 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:18.399 being scared of every possible risk, scared of reinvesting in Apex Legends. And 237 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.159 now the people that made all the money that kept EA sort of standing up 238 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.200 right over the last couple of years are as always with these stories paying the 239 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:34.639 price. It's frustrating Yeah, that sucks. Next up, Saber COO confirms 240 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.919 development status of three games after embrace Or sale raises doubts. This is from 241 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:45.000 Chris Scullion at VGC, The chief operating officer of Saber, has confirmed the 242 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.559 ongoing development of three of its games after its recent sale from Embrace Group led 243 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.600 to questions being asked about their status. In a post on Twitter, Tim 244 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:59.679 Willitts confirmed that Warhammer forty K, Space Marine two, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, 245 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.480 and Jurassic Park Survival are all still in development. I've received a lot 246 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.279 of questions concerning the status of some of our previously announced projects now that Saber 247 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.160 has separated from Embracer. Will Its wrote, I'm happy to confirm we're still 248 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.000 working on a number of titles, including Warhammer forty K, Space Marine two, 249 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:21.119 John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, and Jurassic Park Survival. We're so excited about 250 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.960 these titles and can't wait to share more with everyone soon. Space Marine two 251 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.079 was set to release this past winter, but it was announced in November it 252 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.680 had been significantly delayed. The game is now set to release on September ninth 253 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:36.799 of this year. John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is a cooperative first person shooter in 254 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.920 which players have to destroy the Sludge God, an evil creature that can turn 255 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.640 people into zombies. The game will use Sabers Swarm engine and will be released 256 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.240 in twenty twenty four on console and PC, and then announced in December. 257 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.599 Jurassic Park Survival is a single player action adventure game set in the day after 258 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.599 the events of Steven Spielberg's nineteen ninety three film. It was officially confirmed earlier 259 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:02.799 today that Embracer Hell that's separate from that. Yes, so Sabers spun off 260 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.839 from Embracer after Embracer bought them. We talked about that earlier this week a 261 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:08.519 couple of times, but people have been like, Okay, so what's happening 262 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:14.319 with these games. I think it's mostly good news for these games because Saber 263 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.880 is a proven studio at being able to ship products that it announces. It's 264 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.599 not, uh, that doesn't mean that they're always going to ship with, 265 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.759 you know, the highest quality, but they do. Sometimes they do ship 266 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:26.960 with the highest quality, and sometimes they say, Okay, this is going 267 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.039 to take some time to get to where it needs to be, but at 268 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:36.440 the very least people were excited about something like Jurassic Park survival A. Well, 269 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:37.440 yeah, I mean, listen, I like the concept. You don't 270 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.559 think the concept is good like Jurassic Park, but alien isolation, like, 271 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.680 that's a good idea. Name the lost goo Jurassic Parking. Okay, well 272 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:51.799 listen, that's aside from the that's not fair one Jurassic parkat that's okay, 273 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:55.920 the the Jurassic Park of parks. Builder games? Were those good? I 274 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:00.359 didn't play them. Tam helped me out here. None tell you. I 275 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:04.359 still think the idea of an alien isolation but with a Vlassar raptor is a 276 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.559 fantastic idea. I think that's on paper good. But Drassic Parking video games 277 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.799 have been taken l since the beginning of time. So you just hit any 278 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.039 think that has John Williams music. Dam I hate this, Listen, that's 279 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.200 true. I I firstly, I just want us to return to Sludge God. 280 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.160 What's going on? And then I I never, like really have seen 281 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:33.559 Toxic command I google Toxic Commando Sludge God, and the first thing is a 282 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:38.759 normal day for obsidian ceo Leon Dorsey becomes horrific when his search for clean energy 283 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:45.599 accidentally awakens an ancient sludgie evil. Oh man, that's an allegory. Don't 284 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.880 wake ancient sludgy evil. Just give us fall Out New Vegas. Yeah, 285 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:53.519 the Obsidian CEO of and CEO. Yeah, this is what everyone wants. 286 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:59.119 What are you doing there? Mess around with green energy? I like Saber. 287 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:03.440 I'm a Saber fan. You're right about Durassic Park games. You know 288 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.720 what. That one for the three D O was pretty okay where you get 289 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.599 taste by of a loss of rafter and it's kind of doing this funky little 290 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:18.119 dance behind me with man. That was good. That's funny. I I 291 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.440 feel like, I'm glad that these are still in production. Yes, I 292 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:27.359 am of these games. I am very very excited about Space Marine too, 293 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:33.480 the rest of them. I'm glad they're in production for people who are excited 294 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.440 about those games. But yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, say. 295 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.920 It was a good studio, and I'm glad that they're kind of like 296 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.400 taking more projects on of their own, you know what I mean. It's 297 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.920 of being like, oh, yeah, we your your first past shooter to 298 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.519 the PC. Please don't yes, we we we put what you're on the 299 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.920 switch. This was a lot of very hard work. Please don't complain about 300 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:03.400 the way it looks. It shouldn't be possible. Yeah we Hey guys, 301 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.640 we created a We pulled off a miracle. Please. Yeah, this wine 302 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:15.519 is bill. It's like I turned it. Yeah water, I mean war 303 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.640 dude used to be war War on other platforms. So yes, Sabers got 304 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:26.519 a ton of studios still after this deal, including so Nimble Giant who does 305 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:32.000 Star Trek Infinite three D Realms, Uh, Iron Fury, that Sandbak Strategies, 306 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:34.400 New World Interactive, which makes Insurgency, Slipgate, Iron Works which makes 307 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:40.440 Graven which I'm unfamiliar with, mad Head Games Scars above, also unfamiliar with 308 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:44.839 that Fractured Bite, which worked on the Borderline, Borderlands, Legendary Collection, 309 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:51.079 Lawns, border Loan, Borderlando. Know me, Jeff Grubb, where is 310 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:56.519 Kate Middleton? She's dead? Okay? Cool? You had her first. 311 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.920 You know all those people that going to overdrive whenever Jeff Grub reports something, 312 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.279 I need you to do that, right, yeah, Jeff Grubb reports? 313 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:11.160 Uh dead? Please everyone just spread it far and that would be a good 314 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:17.000 nice treat for my weekend. What make it happen? Yeah, I'm like 315 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.880 you saw as it would be great if that's if it was a reset aer 316 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:26.480 post and then that's where it bloomed out of too, that would be fantastic. 317 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.519 Uh. Like you said, I like Sam Saber, all these teams 318 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:33.079 that they have underneath them when they're like also a publisher, and the fact 319 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.559 that this deal where they were able to extract themselves from Embracer and then continue 320 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.160 to make most of these games that that have a lot of people excited mostly 321 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:47.319 good news here, and I think they stand a much better chance of putting 322 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:51.000 these games out and like making a profit on their own than they ever did 323 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.599 under Embracer. Right Space Marine two comes out in tam Let's say that game 324 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:59.519 sells a million two million copies. That is nothing to Embracer that has all 325 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:02.599 this debt because they messed up so bad. The fact that a game could 326 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:04.920 be really successful and it would do nothing for them, This team on their 327 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:10.359 own with you know, private investment, that that's a really strong number for 328 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.480 a game like that. So I think they're in a much better situation than 329 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:17.359 they were. Listen, I wish nothing but the worst things on Embrace always. 330 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:23.000 Yeah, I mean I feel like I feel like not enough bad things 331 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:27.839 have happened to the people responsible for what Embracer's done're gonna go to where Kate 332 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:30.880 Middleton is. That's not really a death right, everybody. I don't think, 333 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.559 yes, that's that's what happened. Pocket Pair is in talks to bring 334 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.839 Power World to new platforms. It's from Tom Ivan at VGC. Pocket Pair 335 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:47.319 has said it's in discussions to bring its smash hit Powerworld to additional platforms. 336 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:52.799 Released in January via Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, Power World attracted 337 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.519 twenty five million players in its first month, according to the studio. While 338 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.400 he didn't specify if the game could come to PlayStation, Nintendo, or mobile 339 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:04.640 devices in the future, Pocket Pair CEO and game director to Kuro Musobi told 340 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:08.240 Bloomberg the company is in talks to bring it to more platforms. I think 341 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.079 it's going to be on PlayStation by the end of the year. Oh yeah, 342 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:17.480 oh yeah, I very likely. I don't mean this to be disparaging 343 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:22.920 or even like doubt into it. Like this feels like the kind of game 344 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.480 that's got like a moment. It's going to have a moment where it needs 345 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:33.599 to maximize you know, the interest and also the potential of it becoming a 346 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.640 long term thing that sticks around. And one of the crucial ways you do 347 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.039 that is ubiquity, Like you make that available for every Yeah, you grow 348 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:48.720 the audience. That's a way to rapidly grow the audience, revitalize interest, 349 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:55.400 and thus make a stronger case and justification for injecting new content in which obviously 350 00:24:55.400 --> 00:25:00.200 requires resources, money, investment, that kind of stuff. So I I'm 351 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.240 not surprised at saying of this. I would certainly expect it to be on 352 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:08.279 various other platforms as quickly as possible. Yeah, Like I think PlayStation by 353 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.000 the end of this year, you know, switch to it once that's out 354 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:15.920 is a possibility. Sure, do you think it shows up on switch or 355 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:21.160 do you think I think one company is like standing there with a gun and 356 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.759 being like, I date you. That's a good that's a good question. 357 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:27.759 I actually don't know. Yeah, I think Nintendo would be like, your 358 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.839 money's green, we'll take Yeah, we'll take We'll take thirty percent of this 359 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:36.759 money. But yeah, maybe not with the Pokemon Company stuff. I think, 360 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:40.920 you know, Digimon's been on there and all these other games, Robopond 361 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.079 and all that stuff. We're on Tame Boy. So I wonder how Nintendo 362 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.279 feels actually or how salty they really feel about this game. But I think 363 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.480 by the time the switch twos out and they would be ready to run this 364 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.519 game on there, the moment you were talking about might have passed, So 365 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.559 PlayStation by the end of this year and then maybe mobile early next year or 366 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.480 something like that. I bet they're working on a mobile version. Yeah, 367 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:10.079 yeah, joy, I expect a mobile version all right. Former Pokemon lawyer 368 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:15.680 says fundraising and press coverage lead to fan project takedowns. This is from Chris 369 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.160 Scullion at VGC, The former chief lawyer for the Pokemon Company, says fan 370 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:23.599 projects are more likely to be taken down if they get press coverage and start 371 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:30.480 making money. In an interview with Aftermath, former Pokemon General counsel Don McGowan 372 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.480 was asked how the Pokemon Company finds fan projects before issuing them with the cease 373 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:38.400 and desist orders. McGowan replied to the press that the press often did the 374 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:42.319 work for him, because when a fan project becomes popular, it's coverage will 375 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:45.759 likely gain more attention. This is this is the literal quote and why I 376 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:49.559 saw this. I wanted to crawl into a cave short, short answer. 377 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:53.519 Thanks to you, folks. I would be sitting at my office minding my 378 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:57.039 own business when someone from the company would send me a link to a news 379 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:02.920 article, and I would I would still all cross it myself. Yeah, 380 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:07.160 oh my god, that is so funny. Yeah, it's like, yeah, 381 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.279 okay, right, you're definitely right, man. I love that. 382 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:18.640 He's basically like you guys have been snitchings forever. You you're just professional knocks 383 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:23.039 for the pocon company and you didn't know it sucks. That's almost certainly what 384 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:27.519 happened to Like another Metroid to remake that felt like that was one where it 385 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:32.720 was operating under the radio so long, then everyone reported on it, and 386 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.000 then a week later it was gone. It was gone. Yeah, all 387 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:40.000 right, new rule everyone, do not report or do not draw too much 388 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:45.000 attention to Nintendo remakes. Now that we have established this, if you are 389 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:52.039 out there remaking Mother three, yep, don't tell anyone. Just stfu Friday, 390 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:56.519 everybody. That's that's how we're doing it. Don't tell anyone. Okay, 391 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.599 don't tell anyone anyone. Don't worry about it. And and I got 392 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:06.839 a copy of another Metro two remake on my drive. If anyone. Let's 393 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:11.960 see here. The most played Steam Deck games list is full of amazing time 394 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.440 thinks. This is from Nicole Carpenter at Polygon. Is Balder's Gate three playable 395 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.240 on the Steam Deck? That's a resounding yes from Steam Deck owners Larry and 396 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.880 Studio's twenty twenty three hit is the most played game on the handheld gaming device, 397 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.519 according to Valve's list of the top one hundred games played on Steam Deck. 398 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.559 The Steam deck might not be the most ideal place to play a humongous 399 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.039 game like Balder's Gate three doesn't look great and small texts could be hard to 400 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.000 read, but it's place it's placed at the top of the charts shows just 401 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.240 how much players will put up with to play their fer favorite fervert their favorite 402 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:45.519 games on the go ferver girns on their ger Balder's Gate three rules, even 403 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.319 if your Steam deck is on the verge of overheating. Honestly, I looked 404 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.640 at this list tam Balder's Gate three is hardly the game where I'm like, 405 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.519 well, how hard people eve been playing that on the Steam It works very 406 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:02.359 well, all right. I know multiple people who play purely only exclusively on 407 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:04.519 Steam Deck, and an old steam Deck. Actually had my old Steam Deck 408 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.680 and I gave it to a friend purely so she could play bold As Game 409 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:12.599 three on it, and she's having a wonderful time. It works like there 410 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.000 are games on here where I mean, like elden Ring. I played all, 411 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.119 almost all. I played one hundred and fifty hours of elden Ring on 412 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:25.519 the Steam decks. I first got it disgusting, Yes, immediately, five 413 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.799 frames per second. Damn, that's the good day. I remember. I 414 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.279 think I said this before. I remember when the elder Ring reviews were happening 415 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.319 at the same time as Steam decks went out for review and one day I 416 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.640 was like, I'm gonna try this and it was like, oh, this 417 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.599 works pretty well. And then the next day I feel like someone at a 418 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:48.720 valve just behind the scenes saw how many reviewers tried it on on Steam decks, 419 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.680 and like the next day there was like a update out for Steam Deck 420 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:57.759 that was like and it optimized just and was it just like an update, 421 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:03.240 Like it was like this like targeted thing where elden Ring would run better in 422 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.559 some ways than it done on anything else, because earlier it was wild Eldern 423 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:12.440 was having those stuttering issues where It's like the the the shaders were getting compiled 424 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:17.079 while you were playing the game, and so that was like, We're just 425 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.839 going to compile the shaders and put that in the steam Deck update for you, 426 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:22.759 and it's a whoa, you could do that role good. It was 427 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.200 so funny. I was like, Oh, these guys, they're hitching the 428 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.039 wagon. Tell yeah smartly. So it is still in the top ten here 429 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:34.319 for most played games on the Steam Deck, as is games like Vampire Survivors, 430 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.839 Dave the Diver is near near the top here, Hogwarts, Legacy, 431 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.920 Pow World, Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Grand Theft Auto five, Stardow Valley, 432 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.519 things like that. Hades is on there. I the one that like 433 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.680 stood out to me because I've tried to play this on the steam Deck and 434 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.880 it's I feel like it's really unplayable in terms of its frame rate. Is 435 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.079 a Star Wars Jedi Survivor? How are people playing that on there? That's 436 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.160 it does not work for me. I'm wondering maybe maybe got an update and 437 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.960 works better. It's the last time I tried it, but I doubt that 438 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.160 game's still rough. Do you know what this story reminded me of? One 439 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.559 of my favorite headlines from recently, and I don't mean this to be mocking, 440 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.279 I just it is. It is like a sign of how news gets 441 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:22.119 written and picked up in this day and age. It's the story about the 442 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:29.039 headline is dream like Valley Devs making a life sim RPG set in boulders Gate 443 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:34.319 three universe, which is really funny because what is effectively happening is they're making 444 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:40.319 a D and D game. Yeah, it's just really funny to be I 445 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.319 love that. I saw that and I was like, I see why that 446 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:48.960 happened, and I'm very amusing. That's fun. What do you play? 447 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.759 What was the game you've played the most on your steam deck? Oh? 448 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.400 On my steam deck, so I played a wild amount of Older Ring obviously. 449 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.880 I also played a bunch of Dog Souls three, which works really well 450 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.319 on it. And then beyond that, I think it was Vampire Survivors. 451 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.480 Oh. I'm playing a lot of Bilateral right now, but I'm kind of 452 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:16.119 splitting that time between the Roger ally and the Switch Switch now the steam deck 453 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.200 oled, but yeah, I think that was. I played some of the 454 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.319 secur on there. It was good. I think that's everything that stands out 455 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.880 right now. Yeah, yeah, I've elden Ring God, what was the 456 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:36.599 big game in the last year that I played a ton of on there, 457 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.240 because it's like, uh yeah, Rice Evil four. I played all of 458 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:44.799 it on the steam Deck and it worked really well actually, and that was 459 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.200 a great way to do it. And now I remember, I think I 460 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.599 had this subconscious thing where I don't play very many like big budget, like 461 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.799 heavy games on it, and I just I think I need to get over 462 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.240 that because my brain is always like it automatically does the calculations in the background. 463 00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.000 It's like, oh, it's probably want work, but like it apparently 464 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:06.440 can run resvenueill for so I should just you know, get on with that. 465 00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:08.559 And it looks good on the on the o led screen. It really 466 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.920 does. Apparently like Cyberpunk is fine on it, so right, they have 467 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.920 a they have a in the setting through Cyberpunk just of Steam steam Deck like 468 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.920 preset graphics option, which a lot of these games will just like do that 469 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.759 for you, but they'd like, actually just name it and they call it 470 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:24.519 out. Hey, you're playing on steam Deck, select this on Cyberpunk, 471 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:28.759 and that's pretty cool. Yeah, I've been like jumping in and out Cyberpunk 472 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:35.680 still I think I might switch over to the steam Deck. I do wonder 473 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.640 if if Dragon's Dogma two will be steam Deck friendly, because that will be 474 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.880 that will pop off pretty hard. Then we'll see I think, you know, 475 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.920 we have the early reports and how it's running on console. It seems 476 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:47.119 pretty heavy on there, so we'll see it. We'll see how it does. 477 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.480 I bet eventually they'll get it there, but who knows. I remember 478 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.880 what it was. It was. It was like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. 479 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:59.559 That's the way I played all of that, like near really like eighty hours 480 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.000 on the steam Deck, and that that was a really good experience. I 481 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.480 you know, you can stream games from your computer. I don't know how 482 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.679 like that. I've never really been able to keep that flow going because what 483 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:14.840 happens is is like I'll be playing it and I'll be like, Okay, 484 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:16.480 I'm thirty minutes in and I got to do something, so I'll put my 485 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:20.039 steam Deck to sleep, and then in the back of my mind, it's 486 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.800 like that game is just running on my computer right now, waiting for me 487 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.280 to come back to it, and that drives me crazy. And and then 488 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:30.159 I do cut back to it and it doesn't like necessarily like jump right back 489 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.360 in the like connection will break. So it's like it's just not ideal. 490 00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:39.480 Nah, I'm not about streaming games from PC. I just I just I 491 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.880 feel like my internet is good, but also like if even the slightest issue 492 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.119 happens, I'm just like, oh my god, my internet is broken. 493 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.239 I just can't deal with that anxiety. Yeah I was. I was streaming 494 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:53.119 a game the other day to the steam Deck, just trying it, trying 495 00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:58.400 to get myself to like it, and it was really chunky and it's like, 496 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.920 oh, yeah, I'm not connected to the right wife and that's annoying. 497 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:02.000 And then I got connected to the six G and it's like, now 498 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.360 it's smooth as butter. It looks really great. So it's like the actual 499 00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:08.920 tech of streaming it to the steam Deck, that stuff is all great now 500 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.599 for me with this specific specific setup that I have now, But it's still 501 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.440 I'm most of the time like it's just not. The thing I like about 502 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:21.840 having games on the steam Deck is I want to play a game, I'm 503 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.280 gonna pick up my Steam Deck. I turn it on, and nine times 504 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.440 out of ten, the game that I was just playing is still running. 505 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.480 It pops right back up and I continue with it, and I can keep 506 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.800 that momentum going because I'm like, oh, yeah, I was playing this 507 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.320 game. I'll just keep playing that. I don't have to select game or 508 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.440 get you know, analysis prowlyssis trying to decide what I should be doing next. 509 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:42.159 I'm just gonna go right back to what I was doing, and that's 510 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.000 what got me through like a Dragon and eld Ring and all that other stuff. 511 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.400 And if you kind of throw any w rench you to that work, 512 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.159 we're into those works of oh, it's gonna break the connection and I got 513 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.480 to go get it up and running on the PC again. Remotely. I 514 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:58.000 feel like it's just not going to be the same thing for me, So 515 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:00.440 yeah, you know, I just remember I did play a decent amount of 516 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:07.239 stream Fire that works really well on the Steam deck. Yeah, especially if 517 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.119 you can like obviously connect some sort of like device to it and just be 518 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:13.679 like, oh, I'm gonna play on a controller or an ARCA stick whatever 519 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.960 whatever. It's fun. But I like jumped in and hung around and training 520 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:21.280 mode for a bit. I think Techan is okay on it as well, 521 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:27.239 But yeah, fine games are fun on there. Yeah, Teken, it 522 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.559 was one I was gonna play more of on there, but I started playing 523 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.360 that on the on the the stick, the leverless stick, and I'm like, 524 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.800 I don't want to mess that up by learning the control controls on a 525 00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.280 pad instead. I one of those for techn as well, and I need 526 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:42.840 to play it. It's it's a really good game for that. All right, 527 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.920 we're gonna take a quick break. We'll we get back a couple more 528 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.880 headlines, and then we'll bring it out here for the weekend. Everybody right 529 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:58.280 back after this. All right, we're back, and Epic boss Tim Sweeney 530 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:02.639 called Valve execs asshole over Steam platform fees. This from Tom Ivan at VGC 531 00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.119 ahead of the Epic Game Stores launch in twenty eighteen. Epic Games boss Timsweeney 532 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:13.880 called Valve executive's assholes in a heated email concerning platform fees. Valve has traditionally 533 00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:17.079 taken a thirty percent share of game sales on Steam, although in October twenty 534 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:22.599 eighteen, it introduced a revenue share tier system, which offers more developers of 535 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.519 their games. It offers more if developers meet certain sales thresholds That includes seventy 536 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.760 five percent and twenty five percent, which with seventy five percent going to developer 537 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.880 on games that earn more than ten million dollars, and the net switches up 538 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.679 to eighty slash twenty, so eighty percent goes to developers for games that make 539 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:43.840 more than fifty million dollars. The move seemingly riled Sweeney, whose company would 540 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:47.639 launch Epic Game Store in December twenty eighteen with a eighty eight slash twelve revenue 541 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:52.400 split, with eighty eight percent going to developers, as spotted by Game discover 542 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.639 Co. The email in question has been made public as part of the discovery 543 00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:01.719 phase of the antitrust lawsuit filed against Valve by developer woolf Fire. Right now, 544 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.119 U assholes are telling the world that the strong and powerful get special terms 545 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.360 while thirty percent is for the little people, Sweeney wrote in a message to 546 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:13.639 Valve boss Gabe Nowell and Eric Johnson, one of the company's business development executives. 547 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:16.239 We're all in for prolonged battle of Apple tries to keep their monopoly in 548 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:22.159 thirty percent by cutting backroom deals with big publishers to keep them quiet. Why 549 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:24.800 not give all developers a better deal? What better way is there to commence 550 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.679 Apple quickly that their model is now totally totally untenable, you know, first 551 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.679 weird as sweety is, and as much as I think he goes about these 552 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.000 things the wrong way, this was the thing that always struck me about that 553 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.760 progressive sort of split that Steam had, where it's like, why do the 554 00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.360 small developers have to pay more of their revenue to you? Shouldn't it be 555 00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:51.480 the other way around, or something like that. Are special exemptions for like 556 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.400 really small teams that are going to sell ten thousand copies? Why can't we 557 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:59.519 give them more money? I yeah, so I Sweeney rightfully called that out. 558 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.800 But this is how he handles everything. He's just like, you're an 559 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.440 asshole, I'm gonna sue you. And it's not too surprising that, like 560 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:15.079 I mean this in the most charitable and lovable way possible, he's the world's 561 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:20.239 most powerful nerd or one of you, and he's going to act like one 562 00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:23.119 of the world's most powerful nerds, right and fight other powerful nerds in the 563 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:29.239 least sort of way possible so that he can become the more powerful nerd, 564 00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:31.159 which is what he's trying to do. Like, and it just so happens 565 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:37.559 along the way that sometimes like they the things that he advocates for are on 566 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.679 point and can be like beneficial to the industry. And I think, like 567 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.199 the the major thing is like he clearly The thing that I come to come 568 00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:50.639 back to is like he clearly wants to make the industry better. It's just 569 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.960 so unfortunate that every kind of like way that he tries to do it, 570 00:39:54.280 --> 00:40:01.119 it can be read in a very like h doing this to benefit Epic games 571 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.519 kind of like angle where everything looks like, oh, yeah, you want 572 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.559 this because you own epic games, or like you put your significant investor and 573 00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.079 a significant a significant founder have a stake in Epic games. That's why you 574 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.760 you want this to happen. But yeah, I get it, and you 575 00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.360 know what, he's getting the job done. So if his approach is to 576 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:27.159 act like a it's going to flame everyone on the internet like he's a Reddit 577 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.679 user, fair play man, do do it whatever you want. Yeah, 578 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:36.079 for you. Honestly, I like emailing executives calling the massholes way more than 579 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.559 I like him trying to do the whole hashtag free fortnite, Let's mobilize this 580 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:45.599 army of children. Cure's an advertisement that mocks Apple's nineteen eighty four ad. 581 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.840 Aren't isn't that cool? And it's like no one cared why. Yeah, 582 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.599 this is when you when you like get the marketing team on your campaign, 583 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.800 that's when everyone goes, shut up, man, you're you're you're rich too. 584 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.159 But if you're out there being like eat my ass gay new people are 585 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:07.199 like, hell yeah, brother, that's that's just cool. I think the 586 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.800 issue like, oh, it's benefiting epic. I think it even goes deeper 587 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:12.239 than that, where it's like it is clear. A lot of times these 588 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:16.400 are like personal grievances. This is Tim Sweeney got annoyed at someone, and 589 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.519 then he got angry at someone, and now he is going to enact his 590 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:24.320 revenge by suing or any of these other things. And it's at like and 591 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.239 then and then he does stuff in a way that's like, oh, I'm 592 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:31.239 a cheeky little boy. I'm gonna put I'm gonna put out a game a 593 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.440 link so you can like download our games off of the App Store or whatever. 594 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:37.639 And it's like, you know that this is going to get you kicked 595 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:39.320 off. It's against the rules. He's like, yeah, I do know. 596 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:43.400 I'm doing it on purpose so that we can get in a fight and 597 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.920 say, oh, man, Okay this, you don't have to do the 598 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:50.440 theatrics. Just frigging sue him. Just be an adult about this. But 599 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:53.159 whatever if and then if you're not going to be an adult email on the 600 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:58.440 calm of a prick, that's that's cool too. I would I would love 601 00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:01.800 it if Gabe Newel, having basically been out of the spotlight for so long, 602 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:08.199 just released another like a knife showcase video right now, right, just 603 00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:12.880 like hair all my knives, no reason, just putting this out there. 604 00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.119 Look how big this knife is. How big this knife is the nerd version 605 00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:20.199 of a disk track, just like, yeah, exactly. And then like 606 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:23.079 maybe if we're lucky, we get like like Stall Wars Kids style, like 607 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:29.639 him holding two That would be so fucking good, Like if he did that, 608 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.840 and then like it ended with like the epic game splash screen or something 609 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:39.800 like that. He's so funny, all right, last story here. Sonic 610 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:44.119 and Angry Birds are crossing over in five mobile games for the next week. 611 00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:46.840 This is from Chris Calling at VGC. As announced on the official Sonic the 612 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:52.360 Hedgehog YouTube channel, the following five mobile games get crossover events starting today. 613 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:58.039 Angry Birds Too, Angry Birds, Dream Blast, Angry Birds Friends, Sonic 614 00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:02.320 Dash, and Sonic Forces Speed at each like it does he need to pay 615 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.880 rent? Well, what's going on? Okay? I was I read this 616 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:09.039 story very brief this morning because I was running behind, and I put this 617 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.480 in here mostly because I'm like, that's They're like, this is the biggest 618 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.800 crossover game at the end of the year. I'm like, oh, honey, 619 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:19.519 no it's not. But did Sega buye Rovio? I think Sega bought 620 00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.639 Rovio? Right? Is that what happened? Like I think I remember that. 621 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.199 No, sure they did. I think they did a partner ship. 622 00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:31.000 Oh they did they bought Okay, yeah, oh my god. I just 623 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:36.599 put that out on my brain. Yeah, Like we definitely talked about on 624 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:37.920 the show. And then I was seeing the story, I'm like, what 625 00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.599 the hell, what are they talking? And then I was like, I 626 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.880 think they bought Rovio and that must be what this is. Okay, oh 627 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:52.280 fine, right? This was this the idea like Birds to raise the profile 628 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:57.639 Sonic. I. If this doesn't do well, I just want to be 629 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.719 in the room when the executive look at you and go like, yeah, 630 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:06.119 a mistake. No, Like yeah, okay, so LEXI is like what 631 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.199 you should really be doing here is all the other cares like, Okay, 632 00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:10.840 yeah, I get you do Sonic first, it's Sonic whatever. But I 633 00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:16.519 do want to see Cure You and Iachi band in in Angry Birds. I 634 00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:21.360 do not want leave them, leave my boys out of the I want to 635 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:24.679 see angry birds in like a dragon. I'll take that. I will take. 636 00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:29.440 I will take. What I will take is you're walking around like Yokohama 637 00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:32.920 or like I don't know any of the games, and then there's just a 638 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.320 bird there and you get to beat the ebbing loving ship out of angry bird. 639 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:39.480 You do. It's it's going to be just a game where you're like 640 00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:43.719 you're gonna throw the angry bird at something, but it's gonna be extremely comically 641 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:47.519 violent. I think that would be that would be really fun. How are 642 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:51.880 you feeling about Sega these days? I'm so up and down with them. 643 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:55.360 I'm excited for that. Like they had that moment where they they had that 644 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:58.719 moment where they're like, hey, we've been away, I hit the gym, 645 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.760 I've been eating well, I saw a stylist, and I'm back with 646 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:06.320 a new golden axe, the new streets of rage. I've got crazy taxi 647 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.320 come in and look at me. I'm hot again, and I was like, 648 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:14.360 damn, blow up. I'm still waiting to see what comes of it, 649 00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:17.199 but I'm excited at that part of it. The rest of it, 650 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:24.079 I am like, I like Atlas Atlas rules, but that's about it. 651 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:34.079 Yeah, I am. I have let myself, let Sonic go. I've 652 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.559 made that piece. I was a Saga kid when I grew up. I 653 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:40.920 loved Sonic so much. And now I'm just like, wherever you are, 654 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.039 Sonic, I hope you're doing okay, but you know, stay the fuck 655 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.480 away from me. I mean one of the places he is like they've finished 656 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.360 filming on the third Sonic movie that's coming fast. You know. It's like 657 00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:57.079 they're in a good place with these things in a lot of ways. And 658 00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.960 yet you're right, I don't like I don't like thinking about the Sonic game 659 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.880 too much. That last Sonic game of the two D one was a real 660 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:08.199 stinker. What Sonic, That Sonic neuro Automatic game that was out there was 661 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:13.719 Sonic for teens, which like my kids all the times and work for that. 662 00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.800 I felt like I was being gas lit by the entire world by that. 663 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:20.320 By that when that game come out, where everyone was like, this 664 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.280 is really good. And I played it and I was like, what's going 665 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.159 on? People? Okay, what the fuck is going on? I think 666 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.840 is okay, but I get what I do understand that. It's like it 667 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:37.320 was like, oh, it's people have been like so just abused by Sonic 668 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:44.960 so long. Part of it this barely functional, fucking drab looking I was 669 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.440 so unfun game. It's people are like, yes, it's not. It 670 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.880 is on the mount rushmore games that like that are real products that look like 671 00:46:53.599 --> 00:47:00.199 YouTube videos of kid remakes Sonic and unreal exactly, it's exactly that. And 672 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.239 then like people are like, oh, yeah, it's got this part of 673 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:08.119 the game where it's just unplayable. Huh yeah, what it's fine. You 674 00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:10.079 know when my kids playing they need help with it. I'm like this, 675 00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:15.199 this is all right. I would rather be playing Sonic Frontiers than Sonic All 676 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.320 Stars or whatever that was. Yeah. Yeah, Sonic Mania was was incredible. 677 00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.199 So that now that's that's a long time I was. I was on 678 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.559 every now and then I'll be like, yeah, it's only cool, but 679 00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.639 its Frontier is just everyone grow up, get out of here with that, 680 00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.400 all right, So let's let's get to the pole question, which I'll get 681 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:37.280 set up here in the second. Well, I get that set up, 682 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.519 damn. Want you want to tell people where they can find you on the 683 00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:42.880 internet, what you have going on, or if you wanted to leave you 684 00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:45.639 alone? Tom that too, You know what, I always want to be 685 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.400 left alone. But I'm also on the internet, you know. I'm on 686 00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.440 Twitter at tomorrow, age on Twitch at tomorrow. I swear to God, 687 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.079 I'm going to be streaming soon. I keep like, you know, same, 688 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.800 finding little bits and things to like cueak and do that kind of business. 689 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:04.320 I also need to figure out what I'm gonna Oh, I there's only 690 00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.119 so many times I can play through Securo before people are like, do you 691 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:12.000 play any other games? And the answer is no, but definitively yeah, 692 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:19.320 definitely. But yeah, maybe maybe I'll stream Sonic Frontiers. That could be 693 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.519 fun. Okay, this whole questions bested me up. Yeah, play Sonic 694 00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.800 Frontiers. You're not allowed to stop until one get the platinum on it and 695 00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:35.840 then something else we got We've got upf It's no, we've got yeah, 696 00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:40.400 yeah, we have got replaced the Bilatro and then BCO has happened. That's 697 00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:44.880 right, We're gonna be BombCast Revenge. It's everybody. We will get a 698 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:47.280 we'll talk about some stuff that's like we can catch up on this week, 699 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:51.880 and then we're gonna do amount rush more of wrestling games that is that is 700 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.800 not I'm excited about that. I hope war Zone is on there because I 701 00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:01.559 love war Zone and I am making the submission right now. The deaf Jam 702 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.159 games count as wrestling game. Okay, they count as the best wrestling game. 703 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.679 And if there isn't at least one Deaf Jam Vendetta if that isn't on, 704 00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:14.719 no way, Fight for New York, Fight for New York. If 705 00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:19.239 that isn't on there, I personally will delete the Giant bomb cms. Okay, 706 00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:23.119 what can do dances? It's not eligible, so you might want you 707 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:28.840 might have them the old m I think it's eligible, but maybe him. 708 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:30.719 How do I ban him? Oh yeah, you can? You can do 709 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:36.320 his count all right, Paul. Question, have you ever heard of Monopoly? 710 00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:37.920 Go tam? Have you ever heard of the game Monopoly? Go? 711 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:45.360 Let me? I don't think so. It made two billion dollars in ten 712 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.960 months ten months? Excuse me, billion dollars in ten months. Is this 713 00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:54.119 like the latest thing, like the hit man go I wish, I wish 714 00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:59.880 that they would deserve three billion dollars. The duck is murdering everyone on the 715 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:06.119 the Temple's just out there doing work. It is it's going to jail for 716 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.920 harassing people. It's just it's just another mobile game. Whatever. But it 717 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:13.480 made two billion dollars to ten months, and I'm like, I never heard 718 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.400 of this. This is weird. Apparently I'm just missing the bout because fifty 719 00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:20.320 two percent respondents said yes they had heard of it. Oh no, forty 720 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.519 eight percent said they haven't. You have turned this. They turned Monopoly into 721 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:28.239 a full game. Oh, explore the city. Yes, it's wild, 722 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:35.440 explore the world. What people say, Tracy Parker theirs? Okay, what's 723 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:38.599 Tracey got to say about this? Probably can say but nice and relaxing. 724 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:43.119 Love it. Dylan Buchanan says, what a creative game. Love this. 725 00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:47.480 No comma is about English, said Fons Twists on the board game. They 726 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:55.000 have only three reviews and one million percent fake. No shot that anyone's writing 727 00:50:55.079 --> 00:51:00.599 the new pole question community is Sonic Cross Angry where it's the crossover event of 728 00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:06.280 the year, Yes, sir, yes, or of course yes, I 729 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:10.519 don't know. Make Sonic a Monopoly game. There you go. You did. 730 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.119 There probably is a Sonic Monopoly board game, right, do you Sega 731 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.159 Monopoly? Where you have like Sonic? You've got a taxi from Crazy Taxi 732 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:30.360 Sonic column from column from Colin. Probably Sonic as border on the streets of 733 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:37.760 rageous punching buildings. Sega Monopoly, Yeah, hook it up. I didn't 734 00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:45.920 sa Monopoly, Monopology Mono. The only thing I'm getting is Monopoly was on 735 00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.599 the Sega Masters fair enough, all right. Well, if they haven't made 736 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:52.079 one yet, they'll make one eventually. They make monopoly games out of everything, 737 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:58.480 and Sonic crosses over anything. Apparently there is a Monopoly Sonic the Hedgehog 738 00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:04.679 board game. It's called any Gamers on the Hedgehog Edition board game. There 739 00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:07.920 it is. Okay, there you go. All right. I think we're 740 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.159 gonna wrap it up. Tam. Thank you so much for spinning today talk 741 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:13.760 with me about video games. I really appreciate it. Man. Thank you 742 00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:19.679 for having me everyone as always, love to see everyone. We'll be back 743 00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:22.719 soon. We'll be back soon. You see our asses up packs next week? 744 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:25.960 Yes, look out, look out for us at packs. It's gonna 745 00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:29.320 be a good time. And people are like, hey, like, I'm 746 00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.360 gonna be a pas, Like what's going on? I don't know where I'm 747 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.599 gonna be, but we will find some way. Why we're right here right 748 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.159 now if you want to meet up and stuff like that, and then we 749 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:39.239 have some other plans for things, so we'll keep you guys all post it 750 00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:43.920 on that. Yeah, well just keep If you see us, wave, 751 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.000 come up to us, say hello, Yeah, there's a giant bomb as 752 00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:51.760 loud as you can. Yeah, yeah, just say that, Oh my 753 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:59.559 god is giant bomb and then play that me. Yeah. Thanks for watching 754 00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:01.599 everybody, buddy. Until next time, have a good one, take care 755 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.679 of yourself. Goodbye. You the best audience in gaming