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Be bad. It's the Internet.
You're busy. Let's do this from March

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seven, twenty four, for the
next hour or so, let me help

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you sort through the world of gaming
on Games Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb.

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Today, everything from that Xbox showcase
and what is the future of Final

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Fantasy seven remake on other consoles?
But first, please join me and welcoming

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today's co host of Game mess Mornings. It's Janet Choa. Everybody, jan

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how are you doing? I am
here to further my agenda across the Internet.

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I'm ready to inundate folks with my
ideals of tiles, black coffee and

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corgy companionship. Consider me one of
your acolytes. I'm an acolyte of tiles

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and coffee. Let's make it happen
fantastic, and then I'll take a deep

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breath and I'll step outside. That's
what I'll do. Over here. I'll

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let you hold scout. Thank you
appreciate that. Yeah, No, how's

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it going this week? You you
got the internet figured it out? It

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seems Oh my gosh, it turns
out I love it and I hate it

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when a technician will head to your
place. Yeah, look at the problem

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and then just be immediately upset,
not with me, but with the previous

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technician that's set it up. Oh
fun, God, bless this dude.

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He comes in, he looks at
the setup and he goes like, do

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you know who did this? Like
I didn't catch the guys. I'm sorry.

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Yeah, he goes like, I
can't believe someone from our company would

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do this this, no wonder you
have a problem here, boss, Like,

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okay, you you got the right
the right one this time. It's

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not like you got the one that
actually does all the work around here.

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Yeah. And like this dude like
went on to explain to me about like

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all this other stuff about like why
this was wrong here, why that was

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wrong? Uh, and then like
very cordial, very nice, managed to

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fix it. Oh also, grub, I wasn't expecting this dude until one

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pm my time. He calls me
in the morning and goes like, hey,

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boss, I finished my other appointments. You want me to just come

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over earlier. I'm like, yeah, do that please, let's go.

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Okay, fantastic, it worked out
great, Like it's in so how long

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did it take me to actually actually
fix? For my side of things?

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It seemed like he just did one
thing and magically it was on. It

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took him about half an hour.
Like I heard some I wanted to give

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him some space and want to make
sure that Scout wasn't freaking out. So

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I heard some drilling, some some
wrenching, and some zip ties happening.

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Fair enough, Well, uh,
you got it on just in time to

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send Dan his video Oh God for
Super Dance sixty four, which was excellent

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work, Jan seriously, great work. Absolutely obviously they had any very good

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But let's not sell the mid Atlantic
accent you're doing in there for the newsreel

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that is incredible stuff. Is that
what that accent is? I've always just

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considered that like an old timey radio
voice. I could be misplacing the the

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the gnomer, I could be misnomering
there, but I I understand. I

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thought that's what a mid Atlantic is
like in movies. Mid Atlantic is,

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you know, kind of sounding fancy
but still American, not quite British.

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But I think that is also qualified
as like when in those new newsreels they're

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using a mid Atlantic sort of hey, well we're talking it up here and

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we're not like show where this voice
is from, and it's like yeah,

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okay, but you nailed it and
I it took me a couple of seconds.

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I'm like, no, that is
just Jen. I'm like the Jan

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hire a voice actor he did named
Jannahoa. That's why I'm here, Folks

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hire me. I'll be in your
game. I'll whatever fanfic you have going

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on and you need a voice I'm
not yeah, I'll do it. Careful

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man, I'll do it. You're
ready to sell out. I am so

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ready to sell out, y'all.
Let's let's make it happen, everybody.

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Let's make Let's make Jans dreams or
reality. If you have an old man

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character, oh I got shut out? Yeah, come on, come on,

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people cut the check or you know, just reach out to them.

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All right, let's explain what we
do here most weekdays, I, Jeff

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Grebel, help piece your gaming life
back together. That includes breaking news and

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maybe even some of our own original
reporting. For all these topics, I'll

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lot to get into, so let's
start the morning mess with everything announced in

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the Xbox Partner Preview showcase from yesterday. This is from Lottie Lynn at Eurogamer.

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The Xbox Partner Preview Showcase offered us
a look at a number of third

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party games heading Xbox Series XNS this
year. We were shown a variety of

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trailers during the thirty minute presentation,
including the taste of Japanese mythology inspired Kunitsu

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Gami, Path of the Goddess,
and the announcement of the Seekings Sinking City

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too. Whether you missed the presentation
or not, here as a rundown,

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there was quite a few games in
this thing. Jan you were busy at

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the time, so I don't know
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catch. I think it was like, it was a pretty good show.

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It was a pretty good presentation.
They just went trailer after trailer, and

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there was enough like I'm at least
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feel about it that I was pretty
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started with the Unknown nine Awakening.
This is a game from developer Reflector and

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publisher Bandy Namco. It's a body
hopping adventure and it will be arriving this

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summer. Yes, it looks very
assassins Creedy. It likes surprisingly like Assassin's

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Creed. I could get into that. I think it's funny that I don't

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have an appetite for actual Assassin's Creed. But if someone tells Assassin's Creed,

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like all right, all right,
I could get into this right, And

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that's why I'm like, right now, it's like very excited, like okay,

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ghosts Sushima. I'm gonna hop into
that because that sounds great. You're

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right, I don't need all the
baggage that comes with Assassin's Creed. Not

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that that would weigh me down.
I would just ignore it, but something

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about it, just like, I'm
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although I was interested in playing a
little bit of Mirage Slight of Hand,

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this was a CGI trailer, so
it's hard to like fully understand what was

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happening here. They sleight of hand
references the fact that this character does seem

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to be holding cards that might have
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was a card game. They said. It is like a third person action

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maybe stealth game. It looks very
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I imagine cards will probably play into
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And maybe the cards are, like
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thing you actually throw the cards and
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I don't really know. Again,
it's CGI trailer. A little bit like

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annoyed that we're still having to get
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like, I just want to understand
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that that's a little bit easier to
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you're a development team and you're not
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do all this work to get the
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this probably just doesn't make sense these
days. The Altars this is you'll have

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to explore an alien planet, ensuring
you stay safe from its deadly sunrises by

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creating alternate versions of your self.
They say, sounds easy, right.

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This one was really difficult to get
a beat on, Jen because it looked

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like so many different games, and
at one point it looked more like Fallout

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Shelter than anything else, but the
shelters in this giant wheel that goes across

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the land. I don't know it
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on there. At the very least, it looked interesting. I was particularly

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interested in this because apparently the main
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There you go. So I'm all
in game of the year. Maybe it's

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all it takes, everybody it takes. I do get excited when I hear

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a character named Jeff. We're underrepresented
in video games because not enough Jets around

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here. Slide of Hands coming to
both PC and Xbox Series X. That's

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yes, PC and Xbox Series X
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far all these games, I think
most of the games in this list are

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going to be out this year.
Next up is Creatures of Ava. This

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one I'm like very curious to,
like, see how you feel about it.

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Jan. It is a Pokemon adjacent
thing. It is about this lady.

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I think she has like, you
know, the pied piper flute thing,

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and she's going going out and maybe
not capturing creatures but saving them,

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and then she's not bad. I
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I think she's using them to like
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a shelter and keep them keep them
safe. So what a Pokemon game with

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that deemphasizes combat? Does that sound
interesting to you? Uh? It's not

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specifically what I come to Pokemon for, but I do like the look of

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this. I think. I think
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of Pokemon snap clones, and an
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main character pulling out a camera.
Also, it looks like she's kind of

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doing like a Ghostbusters beam at some
of them to free them. I'm really

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curious as to how the gameplay will
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look of it a lot. Yeah, I like I'm also curious what it's

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actually gonna feel like in the end. I can imagine like if you were

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to take Pokemon and sprinkle on some
Viva pinata where it's like we are going

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to save some of these creatures,
but you need to do specific things and

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have certain items with you to be
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that would be very interesting. Why
not just more Viva Pinata? Yeah,

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maybe a lot more Viva pinata.
They should just make a Viva Pinata.

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That's that's what we really need.
That one's from eleven Bit Studios and they

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do like make it and it is
about it's a conservation allegory. So yeah,

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if you're looking for your game to
have a little bit more mindfulness in

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there, this might be it.
This is another one that's coming to both

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PC and Xbox Series X and S
later this year, and it will be

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on Game Pass. Roadblocks Griefville Cross
Chucky. This one really through before a

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loop Jan. It was just straight
up Chucky running around and we're like,

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oh, is this what is this? And then the characters, the other

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characters turned around and they were roadblocks
characters with the flat faces and everything,

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and it was very confusing because I'm
just like, is are there are horror

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games inside of Roadblocks now? And
then I remember they had that Kissing Update,

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which is like, well, we're
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that's what the fans called it.
The Kissing Update was like, they're going

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to have new parts of Roadblocks that
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guess that involves what is basically a
four v one asymmetrical multiplayer game like Dead

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by Daylight, but with Chucky and
roadblocks, characters? How much you're you

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gonna play this? Listen, grub
you all know me. I don't like

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to poop poo on people's interests.
But maybe the kids shouldn't have grown up

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with ropeblocks. Maybe a mistake.
Yeah, it does feel like, man,

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we could have done better by these
kids. Huh. Yeah. I

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don't think I've ever seen a Chucky
movie in full, but I don't.

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I don't think they should add chuck
you to anything. Have you seen the

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Simpsons episode with the Krusty of the
Clown, the Evil Krusty the clown doll?

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Yes, Okay, we'll just watch
that because it's just set to evil.

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That's that's all kind of need to
know, all right, Okay,

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The Sinking City Too was announced.
It's riving next year. It's one of

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the games actually is coming out in
twenty twenty five. I forgot I forgot

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about that one. And it's also
grimming to PlayStation five. It's a sequel

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to The Sinking City, a horrific
standalone tail set in the nineteen twenties United

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States. I never played much Sinking
City, but I know people who really

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like that game, so hey,
you're gonna get more of it. Final

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Fatous fourteen Online got its date.
It's coming March twenty first to Xbox Series

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X and ST after years and years
of being rumored, finally making leap over

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to Xbox. Yeah, with the
Starter edition beginning twenty first of March.

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I feel like they would have made
this a bigger deal or made it more

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prominent rather than just like sticking it
tacking it on at like the first ten

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or so minutes of this yeah,
I mean review. I think there was

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a time in it, like previously
when the guy did get announced, but

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they did it at I think a
Final Fantasy concert and Phil Spencer came out

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or something like that, or maybe
it was a Final Fantasy event. I

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wasn't paying too much attention. I
didn't care, but I think they previously

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made a bigger deal out of it, so now it's like, now here's

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the date. But you're right.
It kind of feels like this is going

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to be the thing that, despite
the game being available in so many places,

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it's probably going to be very very
popular and more popular than a lot

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of the things on this list.
Monster Jam Showdown, a monster truck game

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coming out t twenty four. I'm
excited about this the Grave Digger was there.

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I had no idea that the monster
trucks could leave the arena. I

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didn't know they were allowed to play
in the world. Yep. Now they've

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broken free of the confines of the
arena and now they're taking over the world.

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It's off road racing and freestyle driving
game arriving later this year. Then

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the Persona three reload expansion Pass was
announced. This is episode aegis aegis I

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don't know how to say it,
but it is that previous DLC episode that

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people are like, Hey, is
that going to actually get included in this

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and then they're like, well,
no, it looks like they're not doing

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that. They're remaking the original,
they're not remaking Fez, which I think

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had this, And it's like,
no, they actually are going to do

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it, and it is an expansion
pass. You do have to buy it

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separately, but it is included with
game pass. All that said with people

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are like, man, are they
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They haven't done that. Every person
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that was set by saying I hate
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I'm like, oh, okay,
you are weird. I just okay,

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thank you, Sean. I don't
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you said it right. I feel
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you're right. Yes, thank you. I think you're right that I'm right.

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That's a very good point. Then. The First Berserker Kaisan a new

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action RPG from Nexon. With the
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you'll be able to slash foes to
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on Xbox Series X and S.
This is a from software Like. It

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is a Soulsborn looking game. Uh
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or drug excuse me, dungeons and
fighters universe. I can never keep all.

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There's dragons and eggs and dungeons and
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is a spin off of that,
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It looks I think it looked pretty
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the more I watched the combat,
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a little bit underwhelming, and I
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the whole game. Yeah, it
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of that trailer. Yes, definitely
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a date, so hopefully it has
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bunch of times before, coming out
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It is a Metroid Venua, and
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one that plays a little bit more
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projectile weapon and that's how you fight
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I'm excited about that. Parts of
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Metroid VNA head. We already got
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another one of those. It looked
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with a ton of movement abilities,
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So cannot wait. Frostb so go
go ahead. Yeah. For whatever

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reason, low keirabites me of Crash
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but my brain is broken, y'all. Uh yeah, Crash fandic you're

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definitely like eightped some of that style, and it's uh not, maybe the

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best way at all times els Gatzera
Zal. However, doing it in the

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best way, it seems very in
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mindful way. Frostpunk two coming out
July twenty fifth sequel to Frostpunk. I

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think it looks It looks like a
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very well the first time around.
I like Frostpunk a lot, and it

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just seems like they're like, Okay, let's do that again, but spend

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it even more money on it this
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I really like frost Punk. And
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announced at the Xbox Showcase last summer
summer. Before that, something like that

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got it. I can't place it
now, but it's that Capcom action game

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that has a whole bunch of other
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saw some tower defense elements, but
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mechanics than they showed in this trailer. The very least, it's very stylish.

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being like Okami Layer, so there's
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game. It looks very interesting,
and it also looks like they are like

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minimizing dialogue, which I was excited
about. It's like, no, they're

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just gonna do a lot of visual
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love it, give me more of
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this. But like with most games
in this showcase, Jan and that was

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the final game, it's like,
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play it to really know how I
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well, Nintendo showed their game that
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remaster, and I know I'm excited
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like, hey, I think this
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forgot Stalker. The original trilogy was
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like most of these I just need
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Goddess at the very least looks good, but I'm gonna have to play it.

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I still thought, for a second, is this only Musha? Oh right,

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right, right, It's not only
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looking at the trailer, I'm I'm
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and I hope it just isn't one
of those games with too many ideas

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where it doesn't feel like it delivers
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again, it's a it's a wait
and see. It is a wait and

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see, and that's totally fine.
You're allowed to be that kind of game.

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this is all green light. I'm
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with this. I will check in
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show it, or if we get
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be great. But that's another one
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will be on game Pass, so
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have game Pass. Pretty good showcase
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is still a pretty good deal.
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PlayStation Plus is also a very good
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you know, there's there's occasionally just
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it comes to game Pass, and
I think this was a good example of

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that. Yeah, I think if
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of like game pass is pretty good, but also PC game pass is also

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pretty good. Grub yep, absolutely
and most I see it. Okay.

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I was gonna ask, was there
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xboxes, they're cool, go buy
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focused on the games, like nothing
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you know, the under current to
all of their messaging continues to be and

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has been for a while, and
it was present here is we don't care

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where you play the game. Play
the game, play the game where you're

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gonna play it. Uh, you
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but you should probably play it in
a game pass, but play on play

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game Pass wherever you want to play
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changing, And if anything, the
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doubling down on that messaging going forward. All right. Next up, Sony

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has the Final Fantasy seven Remake trilogy
on lock or maybe not. This is

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from Levi Winslow at Kataku. I
hope you weren't holding your breath for Final

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Fantasy seven Remake Rebirth and whatever the
will be called to come to a non

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PlayStation console. The first two installments
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console exclusives. In an interview with
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president of Second and Third Party Content, Mentors and Strategic Initiatives, Christian Spinson,

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said that SNS, Sony and Square
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Final Fantasy seventy console exclusive when development
on the project started. Spinson added that

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the focusing on third party content is
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connects to how we've worked together on
Final Fantasy seven Rebirth. They go on

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for a bet, but there is
later an update. This is later in

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the day. Washington Post reporter Gene
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has amended his interview with Final Fantasy
seven Rebirth producer yosh Nori Katase to state

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that only the first two games in
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exclusives. It was a mistake on
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The entire Final Fantasy seven trilogy is
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The Post journalist wrote on Twitter now
Jan that clarification, you know notwithstanding,

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the next game is going to be
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little while at the very least,
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This almost certainly just comes down to
we don't want that messaging out there

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because that's one of the bargaining chips
that we want Sony to pay us a

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lot more money still for to confirm
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fully exclusive, because as it stands
right now, I'm sure it's like,

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no, we have an agreement,
there's some stuff out there, but you

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can't just go out there and say
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would have, and we would need
that to be figured out and ironed out

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before we go out there and start
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like to me. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah,

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and I it would feel very weird
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not be a PlayStation exclusive. I
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PlayStation exclusive or PS five exclusive right
now? Exclusive? Although I get this,

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I get a sense that this next
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odd to expect it, like at
and Launch, to also be on Xbox

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or Switch or whatever the switch to
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it does feel like this is a
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Squares side, one of the only
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business wise correctly versus a lot of
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don't know, I feel like,
further down the line, maybe after the

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third final Fantasy seven remake game is
out and there's enough time you do a

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collection on the Xbox and like you
make that a big deal. After that

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exclusivity deal runs out, yeah,
like years from now, like then,

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yeah, yeah, and that I
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Even if it's like as it stands
today, this is always going to be

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inclusive, always is in like through
this generation, it's not. There's no

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way that that the deal that they
have is in perpetuity, no matter how

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much money Sony is given for this
franchise to be exclusive to PS five as

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it is in PS four before it. It does have an expiration date and

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things can change at that point.
But if you are someone out there who

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is waiting, don't do that.
You're you're you not. It is a

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big question mark about when and then
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Sony's or Square Inex, I should
say, their interest may have moved on

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to something else and they might not
have demand power, the development power to

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actually get to the this ported over
to other stuff in any quick way.

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So just play it where you can
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Fantasy seven Rebirth gonna come to PC
at some time, and if you want

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to wait for that one, I
suppose that's fine. But yeah, this

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thing is going to be a PlayStation
game for the most part, and if

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you really want to play it,
you should be doing exactly that. I

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saw. Maybe this was last week
when the reviews were rolling out, but

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I saw Gene Park saying that this, if he didn't already have a PS

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five because of his job, that
this would be the thing to motivate him

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to do so to finally pick one
up. I think I agree with Gene

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in a major way. I feel
like, if you have played Spider Man

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or Miles Morales on your PS four
you can know what to expect with Spider

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Man two, and in like,
looking back at it now, it's like,

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ah, you know, maybe I
didn't need to play Spider Man two.

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I really enjoyed it a lot,
Don't get me wrong, it's amazing

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game. But man, g Rebirth
and all the miscellaneous shenanigans I've wound up

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falling into this would make me get
a PS five if I didn't have one

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for the job. Yeah, and
I wonder. I think that that is

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a sentiment, a word of mouth
sort of marketing that is going to pick

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up a little bit here, because
so far it hasn't. That hasn't quite

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happened, at least according to the
data, like in places like Japan,

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where we see Game Data Library says
retail launch sales for Final Fantasy seven Rebirth

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in Japan a sa drop from Final
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Final Fantasy seven Remake of sixty three
percent. Now, digital sales are expected

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to be higher than either of those, but with the drop of retail sales,

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I wouldn't expect it to be much
higher than sixteen, and it is

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definitely below seven remakes. So based
on the numbers we have so far,

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it seems like the people who are
playing Final Fantasy seven Rebirth are the ones

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who already played remake and then it's
like a smaller portion of them. And

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I think people are going to recognize
here pretty quickly. It's like this is

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a big tent pole thing that even
if you were even if you didn't play

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remake, well, now it's the
time to go back. And they're probably

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think they're going to have a two
pack of both games that is going to

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get a lot more people on board. But I think people are gonna realize

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that, no, you don't need
the one with the bigger number. This

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is where a lot of the interesting
stuff is happening with Final Fantasy right now.

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I also think that splitting this remake
into three parts is also still going

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to bone them. Yeah, I
think that's showing up in the numbers here

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a little bit. And I mean, you know, selling it to the

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same people over and over again,
three three different different different times probably was

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beneficial. But I think there are
there is a certain subset of the audience

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that I think is sitting now waiting
till the end, and then maybe at

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the end they don't actually pull the
trigger on EXU like, well, I

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waited this long and I just I'm
playing other stuff now that that that could

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happen. Let's see the Yeah,
the game data library, who does keep

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track of this stuff from like Famitsu
sales, and this is just retail again,

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not digital, points out. The
more sluggish PS five sales for February

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would also indicate the game is selling
to its existing base. But it is

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the second biggest retail launch on PS
five yet, so that's a good sign

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for Rebirth. The only game that
was bigger in terms of retail else was

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Final Fantasy sixteen, which did about
three hundred and thirty seven copies in its

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first week. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth
did two hundred and sixty two thousand copies,

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and then the next closest is Armored
Core six which did one hundred and

405
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.559
fifteen thousand copies, so it's like
and then you know, like a dragon

406
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.920
if it well did one hundred and
two thousand copies, So it's like kind

407
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.599
of shows you like where things are, at least in Japan. So I

408
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.440
think it's a good sign. Final
Fantasy is still very big, but more

409
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.400
people are showing up for the for
the new sequel than necessarily for seven and

410
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.839
remaking Rebirth, but fair enough.
The power of ben Star. Ben Star

411
00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:41.599
moves moves people like like nothing else, that's absolutely right. All right,

412
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.240
We're gonna take a quick break when
we get back. A lot more headlines,

413
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:57.119
including what's happening with Princess Peach in
her Showtime right after this right back,

414
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:02.319
and Princess Peace Time demo was available
now. This is for my Nintendo

415
00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:04.599
News and a little more than two
weeks from now, Princess Peach show Time

416
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:10.839
will be releasing exclusively on the Nintendo
Switch. Nintendo has been gradually providing more

417
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.119
details about the game since they revealed
it in a Nintendo Direct last year.

418
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.680
Of course, seeing it as one
thing, but playing is another thing entirely,

419
00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:21.000
and it is available now on the
E Shop. I think I'm gonna

420
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.720
get this. I might try to
play it, but I mean, the

421
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.720
game's out so soon. I might
just wait for that as well. I

422
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.640
uh, I feel like we've gone
it to a point grub where where demos

423
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.920
are back, Baby demos are.
Yeah, Nintendo does a lot of them,

424
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:36.359
and I think if Nintendo's doing it, must there must be some evidence

425
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:38.799
that they that it works. Yeah, Like, uh, I don't think

426
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.920
I would have checked out Pickman four
if it wasn't for that really good demo,

427
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.880
because they give you a really good
chunk of it, but then going

428
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.039
back to something like Triangle strategy.
I believe Octopath Traveler too also had a

429
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.319
pre le demos, huge on demos, and they like use it as like

430
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.960
a feedback tool. They use it
as clearly it's marketing, but they also

431
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.319
like have they've done a great job
of like letting you pick up from where

432
00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:03.599
you left off, and the demo
like squerre Inix is like s tier demo

433
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:07.559
development company. Uh I kinda wanna, I kind of want to check out

434
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.799
show Time. Yeah, I do
too. I am uh at the very

435
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:12.400
I mean the very least I want. I want to show it to the

436
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.640
kids, But I think even you
know, if I didn't have kids,

437
00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.240
I'm like, I want to see
what's going on with Princess Peach. I

438
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.400
like that character. This is cool
that she's in her own game again,

439
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.519
and you know, there's like a
lot of fun like costumes that she's wearing

440
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.759
like that. That's the conceit here, is that she's got all these costumes

441
00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:32.200
that give her different powers, which
is kind like a pretty common thing in

442
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.119
games these days. Obviously that goes
back to Odyssey in a lot of ways,

443
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:37.359
but I don't know it's it seems
pretty cool here. So ye,

444
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.759
I'm gonna I'm gonna check this out. Uh, And I'm like, I

445
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:42.359
could wait. Maybe I'll wait until
we get code, but we won't get

446
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:47.000
code until it's out, so I
might as well just play this demo and

447
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.240
see how I feel about it a
little bit. Maybe we could stream it

448
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:53.559
on the site at some point.
All right. New Fallout trailer gives our

449
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:59.200
best look yet at Walton Goggins,
fascinating Gooul and Fallout. This is from

450
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.119
Michael McWorter at Polygon. A new
trailer for Prime Videos Fallout TV series released

451
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.759
Thursday and gives us our best look
yet at the show's gram posts apocalyptic story.

452
00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:11.799
Did you get a chance to check
this out? Jan? I did?

453
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:18.000
I love the Gog. I'm I'm
down with the Gog. I love

454
00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:22.279
Walton Goggins. He is both the
Ghoul, he's also the He sets up

455
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.680
the story sort of as the narrator
and at least in this trailer, and

456
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.839
he's probably gonna do do so in
the show. And the narrator slash you

457
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.000
know, Vault Tech salesperson, and
I think that was a good choice as

458
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.960
well, to like get use use
every part of the GG right, if

459
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.000
you got him, you got them. Yeah, I'll see if I gott

460
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.119
bring this up. But I don't
know what what's your knee jerk reaction from

461
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:48.920
this? It looks much better than
I was expecting. I feel like we

462
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:55.519
run the gamut when it comes to
video game adaptations for for shows like I'm

463
00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:59.680
still not quite sure what Twisted Metal
was going for. I have no interest

464
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:06.599
in the TV series, and my
own experience with Fallout is pretty slight.

465
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.839
But I think I could get into
the show. I kind of like the

466
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:15.799
the tone they're going for. It
doesn't look bad grub that is. I

467
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.759
think that's where I'm at where I
will say it doesn't look bad. I

468
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:25.640
am not sure it's like looking unmissible, it's like, oh, this is

469
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.240
this, can't it must see TV
or whatever. I don't feel that way

470
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:30.440
about it after this trailer, But
you're right, I'm not. Like.

471
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.960
That's also not criticism because I don't
think it looks bad. I just work.

472
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.960
I hope it's not run in the
middle. I hope it's not bland.

473
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.559
I hope the story is not just
kind of like okay, like yeah,

474
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.680
so that's a lot of plot.
I hope it like it is going

475
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.880
for something and actually nailing something,
and we'll see that there's every possibility does

476
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:56.200
get there. It does have Jonathan
Nolan who can write something that is you

477
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:59.319
know, intriguing at the very least. Uh, And I think that's something

478
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:02.519
that fall Out me. You know, you can't just be vault dweller trying

479
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.839
to survive in the world. Yeah, there's gotta be some mystery, some

480
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.119
other thing happening there, and I
think Jonathan Nolan can do that. But

481
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.880
I'm you know, they have they're
not really setting that up too much unless

482
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:17.319
this trailer is about here's this vault
dweller who is naive going out into the

483
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:21.720
real world after living in the vault
for forever, like you know, like

484
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.920
they said two hundred years something like
that, going out the world and now

485
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.160
that that has hardened her. It's
like, okay, yeah, I get

486
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:34.240
that. That's very familiar well Troden
territory, especially for Fallout, Like that's

487
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.480
like the basic stuff you do in
every single one of these games. I

488
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.319
saw that they had a dog in
it. I remember the game has a

489
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:44.839
dog. So that's exciting, right, the meat, the dog for meat,

490
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.319
the dog meat, dog meat,
that's right. Yes, good name

491
00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:52.240
for a dog. Yeah, I
don't know. It looks you know,

492
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:59.680
actually, the the Brotherhood of Steel
stuff looks very good. I'm not sure

493
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.160
exactly if I think the suits look
great on film, but they don't.

494
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.279
Again, they don't look bad.
I think this character talk about like,

495
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:08.039
oh, you know, why did
you join the Brotherhood of Steel? I

496
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:10.519
want to hurt the people that hurt
me. It's like, okay, that's

497
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.640
sound. There's something there. I'm
like very interested to see what happens with

498
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:20.480
that. Yeah. I also think
they did a good job with the makeup

499
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.680
on Walter Goggins. He looks gross. Yes, definitely. I think it

500
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.240
looks like a combination of practical makeup
and probably CG for like the nose and

501
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.599
stuff like that, and they nailed
it. It looks. It looks very

502
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:37.720
good. And I'll say it looks
like the game. I mean all of

503
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.799
the art looks like just straight up
adapted from the game, not like Okay,

504
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:44.880
we're gonna like, yeah, here's
one thing from the game, and

505
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:45.880
the rest of it is, well, we got to do our own stuff.

506
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.880
It's like, no, every like
the Vault suits are the exact blue

507
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:55.599
and yellow from the game, The
Brotherhood of Steel Power armor is exactly from

508
00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:00.519
the cover of the game. The
you know, flying ships look at exactly

509
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.880
like they do in Fallout three and
Fallout four. The dog, I mean

510
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.039
it looks it's a German shepherd shure. It's just like, looks exactly like

511
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.960
the dog. Everything is exactly from
the game, and I kind of appreciate

512
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.719
that. It's like, if you're
going to adapt these these properties, like

513
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:19.199
use them, and this game or
this show seems like it's doing that.

514
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:23.679
I want to see if they're gonna
highlight how impractical a pit boy may actually

515
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.760
be in real life. Yes,
yeah, right, that very frustrating to

516
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.079
use or whatever. I bet that
would be a clever thing and good source

517
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:37.480
of comic relief. We'll see.
Also, it looks like the world in

518
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.800
the show smells bad. Yeah,
and that's always important. You want that

519
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:44.639
from apocalyptic thing. You know,
all these people look like they need to

520
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:50.199
shower, all right, Ea,
says APEX Legends will expand beyond the traditional

521
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:54.320
Battle Royale universe this year. This
is from tom Iban at VGC. Apex

522
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.840
Legends players can expect to start seeing
the game expand beyond the traditional batteryal universe

523
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.079
over the coming year as Electronic Arts
looks to attract more players to the franchise.

524
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:08.320
Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology,
Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday,

525
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:14.559
EA CEO Andrew Wilson outlined a plan
which he believed can lead to incredible growth

526
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:19.559
for response live service game, which
celebrated its fifth anniversary in February. Already

527
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.840
five years, Wilson said Apex Legends
is one of the most successful new game

528
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:27.159
IP launches of the last ten to
fifteen years, having built a community of

529
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:31.440
hundreds of millions of players with an
enviable churn rate. Always envy people's churn

530
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:37.519
rates if you're thinking about streaming streaming
services which are dealing with fifty percent churn.

531
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:43.079
We've got a core community in Apex
Legends that has seventy five percent retention

532
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.880
over the course of a five year
period. It's an incredible franchise. But

533
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.880
in the growth of the franchise,
we do see ebbs and flows, and

534
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:53.360
where we've gotten to with f Apex
is we've got that first cohort of community

535
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:57.519
that have been with us now for
five years, and it's big, it's

536
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.159
large, it's global, and it's
deeply engaged but then Wilson went on to

537
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.440
discuss the a strategy for growing the
franchise over the next five to ten years

538
00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.599
and said, this initially will be
focused on making the game more accessible and

539
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.880
after that more culturally relevant to different
markets. It's an incredible game. It's

540
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.840
a core game. It's not for
the faint of heart when you come into

541
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:17.719
it, and that's part of the
charm and part of why people love it.

542
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.679
But job number one for us is
how do we make that a little

543
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:24.000
bit more friendly? And that's what
you're starting to see. You're starting to

544
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:28.360
see it with season twenty, which
is really built around how do we drive

545
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.639
more acquisition and more engagement. Let's
start there real quick, Jan, is

546
00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:35.039
that something you think you can that
they could pull off with this? I

547
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.840
mean, making it a little bit
more friendly is like maybe turning the dial

548
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:42.800
a little bit, right? Yeah? Do you lose too much of the

549
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:47.639
Apex Legends identity by making it more
friendly or more approachable? Right? I

550
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.400
mean that's not really an option,
right, yes, Because like you can't

551
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.519
lose that core that he's talking about, because those are the people they haven't

552
00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:59.440
lost so far, and that's one
of the big reasons this is still a

553
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:05.159
viable frame, viable game because it
isn't growing super fast. So whatever they

554
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.920
do, they can't be too risky
with it because they can't scare off who

555
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:14.199
they have. And do you see
this greb as them launching a separate game

556
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:19.119
entirely with all of the Apex stuff, or maybe just like a separate mode

557
00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.239
like you know how Fortnite has had
several different modes like or brought back like

558
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.440
no build mode or something similar to
that, like do they just have no

559
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.440
abilities mode? Right? So I
mean, he says. Wilson says.

560
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:34.840
The next phase will then be how
do we think about more modalities of play?

561
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:38.119
How do you expand Yeah, I
think, which just means modes beyond

562
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:42.079
the traditional Battle Royale universe, and
we'll start to see that in the coming

563
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.559
year. So this goes back to
Titan Fall Legends, which was going to

564
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:51.119
be like the big Marquee thing,
and that was always going to be Titan

565
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:58.480
Fall three in spirit, but inserted
into the Apex Legends launcher in game browser,

566
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:01.719
and it will be all these different
articles inside of Apex Legends that included

567
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.840
the Battle Royale and had and we'll
start to have even more other ways to

568
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:09.679
play inside of there, and then
the other big one will be Titan Fall

569
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:13.840
Legends. Now they're not doing that
anymore, titan Fall Legends, but all

570
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:19.400
the other sort of smaller modalities of
play will still pop into there. So

571
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.119
now this is all going to be
part of Apex Legends as one launcher,

572
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.360
similar to what happens with Call of
Duty these days, which yeah, like

573
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.639
right, it's like, okay,
yeah, I definitely give that a shot.

574
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:30.559
But boy, I think this would
have worked a lot better if you

575
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.679
were doing Titan Fall Legends still,
but of course I think that, yeah,

576
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.480
yeah, can you just slide Titans
into this game? Can you just

577
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:44.960
do that? I mean they better, I mean yeah at certain points,

578
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.719
like how they not pull that trigger
in five years and these other modes.

579
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:52.320
I guess that gives you a chance
to do that, But like, what

580
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:58.599
has taken so long? I don't
know. I feel like they just don't.

581
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:04.800
It feels like EA has been searching
for an answer with Apex to increase

582
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.719
the player counts and player interest from
folks that aren't already in the ecosystem,

583
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:15.360
and I think the world is screaming
at them. Jeff Grubb mes Ad mechs

584
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:20.039
add Titans, but they don't want
to do it. I don't know if

585
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:22.199
I want another mode grub. I
don't think I want a death I don't

586
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:30.719
think a dedicated deathmatch or dedicated maybe
like four person squad dropping into the battle

587
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.440
reale is enough to ASSUAE me to
check out APEX legends again. What about

588
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:40.440
an extraction shooter? Huh jahan,
you know actually maybe? Okay, Well,

589
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:45.360
how about let's say you have four
characters and you go down and you

590
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:51.920
run co op missions against like bugs. Maybe you know these robots and you

591
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.920
work together and you can call down
maybe mechs being called down other things to

592
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:01.079
help you. You know what,
what about they just make Rainbow six siege

593
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.079
but with AX. That's actually that's
not a bad I get Yanks. They

594
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.079
already got the characters. It's not
a bad idea. All have abilities.

595
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.840
They do most of them could like
not most of them, but some of

596
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:17.159
them can set up defense like items
and stuff. What about you do that?

597
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.760
EA cut the check there? Uh. The third phase will be how

598
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.320
do we really think about broader culturalization? Which is what you always want to

599
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.039
hear from CEO. There are so
many markets, particularly in Europe and through

600
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:36.079
Asia. Where we just haven't broken
through yet, and if you haven't yet,

601
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.679
you kind of just don't, right, Like people pick their game,

602
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:44.719
like go look at the steam most
playlist, and I guarantee every single one

603
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:46.480
of you listening to the show will
be shocked at how high PUBG still is

604
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:51.320
because of Asia, because people in
Asia are still playing PUBG every single day,

605
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:55.480
five hundred thousand of them. They've
picked their game, and Apex Legends

606
00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:01.880
is not PUBG and people in throughout
Asia want to play PUBG. So yeah,

607
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:05.760
you're gonna they're gonna put the Monkey
King in there, right, they're

608
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.519
gonna do that thing and the Journey
to the West like that we always see

609
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:12.519
and then that's that's cool, But
every game does that you're not. That's

610
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.880
not gonna make much of a difference
for you. So to me, this

611
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:22.440
is all part of the the broader
We are actually looking toward the long end

612
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.639
tailoff of Apex Legends, and this
is about growing where we can, but

613
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:31.679
understanding that smaller investments are the only
thing we're gonna do because those bigger investments

614
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:35.679
are not gonna get the return we
want. That's why type of fall Legends

615
00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.400
got canceled because They're like, we
can make this big triple A game development

616
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:43.000
investment into Apex Legends, and it's
we don't believe it's gonna pay off in

617
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:45.159
the end. That's where they are
with Apex Legends, So all this stuff

618
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:50.760
should be couched in that understanding that
this is not about like turning the Apex

619
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:54.800
Legends from a big game into an
even bigger game. It's about getting some

620
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:59.159
spurts of growth here and there so
that they can have some pretty good quarters

621
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:01.760
in the future and make some you
know, squeeze some more money out of

622
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:07.039
this before the end, which probably
again is like five years away. I

623
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.519
also feel like them adding stuff like
now we got the Monkey King is not

624
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:16.360
enough of like whatever cultural bag they're
trying to go for grub, because it

625
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:20.440
feels like that's the most low hanging
fruit. It's like if we added a

626
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.639
panda to the game, like,
what's up, Asians? We got pandas

627
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:28.960
now, yeah, instead of actually
having a character that is like, you

628
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.440
know, deeply rooted and has their
culture as a main facet of their character,

629
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:36.639
or at least like that is just
like who they are. Like I

630
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:40.360
believe folks watching live correct me if
I'm wrong. But one of the original

631
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:47.159
Apex characters very heavy on like the
Polynesian influence in how they present themselves.

632
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:51.320
And I think that carries more weight. It does to me at least,

633
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:54.719
rather than someone did you, like, we threw it Maui into the game,

634
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.079
right, gibraltars is Duglan's Plinty that
Gibraltar, right totally, And I

635
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:05.320
think right that that carries more weight. And yet that only does so much

636
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.400
as well, right, like you, at a certain point, it's like,

637
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.119
hey, Overwatch already did all this
and in many cases better in terms

638
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:17.000
of having these characters from different backgrounds
and ethnicities, and and what you're doing

639
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.440
here is like, it's welcome.
You should be doing it. That's what

640
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:25.360
we want. It's not going to
shift markets, it's not going to ship

641
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:32.559
entire cohorts of players. Also,
if you're I feel like having a culturally

642
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:37.559
authentic character is not just appealing to
that specific culture, but to other people,

643
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.559
you know, Like I don't want
to fucking play as a leprechaun ground

644
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.280
yeah, but someone that is like
strongly deeply rooted in like Irish culture,

645
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:47.239
I could get down with that.
Let me do that, Yeah, I

646
00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:50.280
mean, and you know, that
this is the thing, you know,

647
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:53.280
goes to the current controversy right now
where people are freaking out about the consultancy

648
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:57.559
firm. But what that consultancy firm, sweet baby ink, really does is

649
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:00.760
make it so that when you do
a character, you can make them really

650
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.559
specific and authentic. And that stuff
is I love that stuff. Yeah,

651
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:08.960
give me Gibraltar is awesome because I
could tell that it is born out of

652
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:16.360
a reality that feels true and that
specific specificity is the real storytelling. And

653
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.199
I think that is something that you
kind of can't make anay that that at

654
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.039
a certain point, that's table stakes
these days. So it's like, yeah,

655
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:30.079
when he talks about culturalization and trying
to appel worldwide, it's another uphill

656
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:31.800
battle. It's another like, hey, yeah, you should do more of

657
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:37.280
that. No one's saying you shouldn't. But but the like that being the

658
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.679
three the third pillar of this three
tier strategy, Yeah, that's gonna get

659
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:45.280
you another couple percentage points, another
turn of the dial, and it's worth

660
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:46.960
trying. You should do it.
But it's not going to turn Apex legends

661
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:51.920
into you know, continuing to be
the next Fournite or something like that.

662
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.199
I just looked at those PUBG numbers. Grub It's insane, it's shocking and

663
00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:02.159
absolutely like adores PUBG and when I
see them, like, oh my god,

664
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.199
there are so many people still playing
that game. I enjoy finding like

665
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:12.599
quiet storms like that of like oh
y'all, y'all have been here? Huh

666
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.960
okay cool. And that doesn't include
PUBG Mobile, which is also huge,

667
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:23.360
just massive, massively popular. All
right, let's see here. EA says

668
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.599
generative AI could make it thirty percent
more efficient and boost monetization by up to

669
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:31.960
twenty percent over five years. Good
luck. This is from Tom Ivan and

670
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:38.360
VGC Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has
outlined the transformative impact he believes generative artificial

671
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:43.079
intelligence can have on the company and
the wider games business over the next five

672
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:47.119
years. Speaking at that conference,
he basically said greater efficiency coupled with deeper,

673
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.239
more immersive experiences will lead to significant
audience expansion over the next few years

674
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:57.079
and provide a multi billion dollar growth
opportunity. Wilson said that in the past,

675
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.159
it might take six months to build
an in game sports stadium. Over

676
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.280
the last twelve months, that time
is shrunk to six weeks and over the

677
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:06.320
coming years, it could be it
could maybe be cut down to six days

678
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:13.599
now. Efficiency and uh uh you
know, uh workers being able to do

679
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.000
more with less is a natural part
of the you know, growing economies.

680
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:22.400
And so there is no way on
God's green earth that a CEO is going

681
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:27.480
to ignore something like generative AI.
They are going to try to implement it.

682
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.639
Now. I think that they are
going to be stepping into a bit

683
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:37.000
of a beehive there if people see
something that is obviously AI, and it's

684
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:42.840
going to feel like I'm paying full
price for this and you are giving me

685
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:47.039
this shlock that you're giving me this
this absolute slop, and so they're gonna

686
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:51.119
have to be very careful with it. And yet, Jan I'm just gonna

687
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:54.199
speak for myself. I use Photoshop
and I started us the generative AI stuff

688
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:58.239
in there to like, hey,
here's I'm gonna highlight this part of the

689
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.840
of the image. Can you just
create border for me here? And it

690
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:04.960
does it, and it's like,
okay, being able to speak English to

691
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:07.280
a computer and getting the results from
it. I'm not going back either.

692
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:10.519
So, I mean, I can
only be so much of a hypocrite here.

693
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.360
I think the reality will be we
get through this and the end of

694
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:20.639
the day, EA is still going
to need creative, artistic people to make

695
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:24.360
their games better than other people who
all have these same tools. So hopefully

696
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.639
these efficiencies are a small, little
speed bump and then we get on the

697
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:32.119
other side and once again we are
just actually making bigger and better games with

698
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:36.440
as many people, if not more
than ever before. But I don't know,

699
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:39.119
Jan, I think you're you know, you use creative tools more than

700
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:44.880
I do. How do you feel
all about this? I think with CEOs

701
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:50.840
and like these big shareholder people only
see is just the reduction of staffs,

702
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:55.440
right, Yes, of course yes. And I don't think the know or

703
00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:00.960
have been able to see yet that
just because you reduce the staff and you're

704
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:08.559
using more AI doesn't actually lead to
anything more substantial or more creative at all.

705
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.800
You're kind of just filling in holes
at this point, right, Like

706
00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:15.960
like you said, Greb, like
you're your use case for it is you

707
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:21.480
just needed a border versus like,
Okay, you could tell Photoshop to make

708
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.519
a border, but if you're not
gonna be able to articulate to it,

709
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.480
and it's not gonna be able to
make an artistic border, of what you

710
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:30.480
actually want in your head. If
you have like a grander idea, yes,

711
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:34.800
if you have specific ideas, yes, it's it is very unreliable.

712
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:36.880
I mean, listen, and I
think it's gonna get better, jan It

713
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:40.119
will get better totally. Yeah,
it gets better for everybody. Right,

714
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:44.320
and then the person, yeah,
who is most creative is still gonna be

715
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:46.840
able to use those tools the best, right. I mean that, I'm

716
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:52.719
definitely that's an optimistic view. Sure, I just don't think Andrew Wilson is

717
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:54.519
gonna be a We're ever gonna be
able to go to an AI and say

718
00:48:54.800 --> 00:49:00.440
make me Madden twenty six and then
it out ops a perly pristine game where

719
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:04.400
it was never touched by any human
hands. It's just not gonna happen.

720
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.760
And if it does, the company
that competes with him it says it says,

721
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.880
hey make me mad at twenty six, and it still has a thousand

722
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:15.320
people working on it to spruce up
every aspect of it will outperform that game.

723
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.679
I think that's how this is going
to work here. Yeah, like

724
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:22.559
you are never going to be able
to tell AI at least where it is.

725
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:25.760
Right now, make me into the
Spider Verse right, that is not

726
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.400
going to happen after Spider Verse comes
out. Hey, I can totally rip

727
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:36.679
it off and appropriate all of that
art style and all of those resources,

728
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.760
but you're never going to be able
to come up with that type of stuff.

729
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.079
I saw the most insane thing,
and someone is trying to make an

730
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:52.519
AI camera where instead where it will
take the image in front of you and

731
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:59.000
then kind of spit out all these
different I guess, like the scripting words

732
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.559
that you would have to plug in
to an AI generator after the fact.

733
00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:05.360
So if you just saw car,
if you take a picture of a car

734
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:09.159
by a sunset, it'd be like
car sunset, old vehicle, blah blah

735
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:12.960
blah to the left, and it's
like, this isn't it Guys, Like,

736
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:16.599
I don't know what y'all are thinking. Also, like I want to

737
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:22.280
believe grub and this may be wishful
thinking. I want to believe that the

738
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:29.880
consumer at home is smarter and better
enough to tell when something is made better,

739
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.079
right, And that's not just in
terms of products that we're consuming,

740
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:37.199
in terms of food or things that
we're using, but also media that we're

741
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.039
consuming where it's like, hey,
you know, maybe this cartoon that I'm

742
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.519
putting on for my children isn't as
good as the cartoons I was consuming for

743
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.760
a specific reason. Or when that
comes to games, right, like,

744
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:54.239
huh, this mobile game. I
know it's a Mario ripoff, but like

745
00:50:54.400 --> 00:51:00.800
Mario ripoffs used to be good,
this feels like garbage. Yeah. I

746
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:05.599
mean, I think most consumers probably
won't be able to tell the difference at

747
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:12.239
a certain point here in the future, but maybe, like subconsciously, maybe

748
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.480
still they will be able to,
I hope, And at the very least,

749
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:21.400
I think that if something is just
made with AI, people probably won't

750
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:23.280
care. But if another thing is
made with AI and then also made better

751
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:29.760
by heavy people involved, I just
think that that thing will be actually better.

752
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.480
And I don't see how that changes, because what we're here for is

753
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:37.679
I want to play something that feels
like it was made with passion, and

754
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:44.639
that's just not going to happen if
it's all automated. Yeah. For instance,

755
00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:50.639
like in terms of using AI in
a production atmosphere, I saw a

756
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:53.400
YouTuber bragging like, oh yeah,
I don't cut my podcast anymore. I

757
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.960
just set it to AI and AI
does it, and then I tuned in

758
00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:01.960
or I fired up there podcast.
The thing is, I get what they're

759
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.079
trying to do with AI, where
I'll do like that Google meet or that

760
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:10.400
zoom style thing of cutting to whoever's
talking. But in that process that this

761
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.239
creator has has yet to realize,
you lose any type of reaction or like

762
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:22.000
facial recognition of like, oh okay, this person is responding to me nonverbally

763
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:27.960
by nodding their head or their furs
or eyebrows. For by what asshole take

764
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:31.639
I have to say? I just
grab I don't know, I don't know.

765
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:37.079
Yeah, yeah, listen. What
we know for sure is they're gonna

766
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:42.039
try, and they're gonna try to
do it as cheap as possible. And

767
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.400
I just continue to think the good
news here is there will be someone right

768
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:50.840
next to them spending a little bit
more money, using people to do a

769
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:52.719
few things here and there that will
do things better. And then we're just

770
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:57.239
right back to the arms race.
There are two. There's too much competition

771
00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:00.519
in games for them to be able
to actually get away something that is legitimately

772
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:07.159
worse. So if you know,
as good as AI can be, someone's

773
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:08.920
gonna be able to do it better
with a little bit more work. And

774
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:14.639
then it's hard to see it going
any other route than that just means we

775
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:16.519
balloon right back up and have as
many people making games as always. But

776
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:20.800
I could be naive here, and
if I am, let's find out,

777
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:23.920
we will find out. I want
to hear and see the other folks in

778
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:27.960
this room that Andrew is in,
like I want to. I want to

779
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:31.000
feel the pulse of all these people
and see where they're a Stanley event,

780
00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:37.800
Jen, I tell you that they
love the idea of cutting labor costs.

781
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.960
Hey, your biggest biggest expense is
labor costs. What are you gonna do

782
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:46.079
about that? And then Andrew Wilson
screams ay, leave me alone. That's

783
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:50.639
that's what that's the vibe of that
room. I promise you I know that

784
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:54.840
it is. But I'm just morbidly
curious. I want someone to propose,

785
00:53:54.880 --> 00:54:00.679
grub that we replace all of these
CEO folks with AI have them, right,

786
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:02.800
wouldn't? I mean they already have
been replaced by them? Like think

787
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.000
about like, how does Netflix make
their decisions on content? Excuse me,

788
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:10.880
it's a little sick. They have
algorithms that tell them what to green light

789
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:15.039
and what not to green light.
What the fuck do we need the CEOs

790
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:17.159
for them. They're not the ones
programming those algorithms. What are we doing

791
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:22.440
here? Everybody? It's they should
already be replaced, all right. EU

792
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:28.280
says it's investigating why Apple terminated Epics
developer account. From Tom Ivan at VGC,

793
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:31.920
the European Union has said it's investigating
Apple's decision to terminate Epic Game's iOS

794
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.360
developer account. On Wednesday, it
emerged that Apple had rescinded a recently granted

795
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:42.440
developer account created by Epic in Sweden
with the aim of launching Fortnite and the

796
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.760
Epic Game Store on Apple's devices in
Europe. We have requested further explanation on

797
00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:50.599
this from Apple's Apple under the DMA, the Digital Markets Act, a European

798
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.239
Commission spokes first and told Reuters referring
to a new EU regulation which aims to

799
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:59.159
ensure that so called gatekeepers like Apple
don't use their dominant position in the market

800
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.199
to stifle petition. But basically,
right, we're gonna like look into this.

801
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:09.559
Apple has like basically said that Epic
is demonstrably untrustworthy, and then Tim

802
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:16.320
Sweeney argues back, like, you
guys are basically doing the malicious, malicious

803
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:20.760
consent or whatever. It is just
like agreeing to do things, but in

804
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:24.719
a malicious way. And so they're
still fighting. They're still fighting, and

805
00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:28.480
the EUS kind of having to be
mom and like go and breaking them up.

806
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:30.639
So we'll see what happens between them. But as it stands, like

807
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:35.840
Apple and it's Apple and Google are
both like, listen, we're gonna do

808
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:37.079
what we have to do to abide
by the law. But if we could

809
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.159
still say fuck you, epic,
we're gonna It's like, oh boy,

810
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.320
we're not gonna hear the end of
this from Tim Sweeney. I don't think

811
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anytime soon. So these companies are
still retaliating and gets one another another absolutely,

812
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:52.440
but we don't know where this is
going to land anytime soon. Tim

813
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:57.400
Cook is ready with some spray cans
to tag up that epic. Mall right.

814
00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:00.079
I just I always think about like
Tim Sweeney, like emailing Tim Cook

815
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:05.400
and Tim Cook just kind of being
like, man, that scene from Uncut

816
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:07.800
gems of like keep that guy out
of here, don't let him in no

817
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:12.840
matter what. That's That's that's what
I think of Tim Sweeney, all right.

818
00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.840
That that's for the news. I'm
gonna get the pull up here here

819
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:16.840
in a second, while I'm getting
that set up, Jan, what do

820
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:19.960
we have going on on the website? Where can people find you on the

821
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.480
internet? All that good stuff?
People don't find me on the internet.

822
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:28.239
Don't find me alone. Like I'm
tired of being perceived as the children say,

823
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.679
actually, no, perceive me away. Today we got voicemail dumb truck

824
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:39.599
popping off. We have special guest
Matt Shipman joining the pod today. The

825
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.960
tomorrow very exciting. I don't know
how we're gonna do this with a schedule.

826
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:49.800
We have set out grub, we
got game this morning's popping off tomorrow,

827
00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:54.480
but we have unprofessional Fridays, the
Mario Grand Prix, Grand Prix Artcard

828
00:56:54.519 --> 00:57:00.119
eight Deluxe where you Sean, Mike, Manati and Damn are going to set

829
00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:06.840
off and racing all those courses.
Why we have a podcast to do later

830
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:10.000
that day. But hey, we'll
see if we'll see how we can wind

831
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:15.119
up scheduling everything and yeah, exciting
things. Exciting things are always around.

832
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:21.079
If folks missed yesterday's new season of
Blight Club, I highly suggest that you

833
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:24.280
check it out because I think the
hubris that Dan Record had and in terms

834
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:30.679
of conquering those rings was quickly stomped
out by the rest of them. Put

835
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:36.000
them in his place. Absolutely jin
But speaking of like those tools real quick,

836
00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:37.679
you said mentioned rotoscoping. What else
should I be doing if I want

837
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:43.519
a rotoscope something? Oh well,
okay, so a little bit inside baseball,

838
00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:45.119
folks. My internet connection has been
up and down for the past couple

839
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:49.199
of days, so I had to
do some resource flipping to like a couple

840
00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.679
other computers, iPads, and then
eventually my phone to cut together the super

841
00:57:52.760 --> 00:58:00.639
Dan intro. But the current iteration
of after effects the photoscoping tool is as

842
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:05.679
easier and as good as it has
ever been. There's a lot less correction

843
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:08.800
going on, where you just trace
over what you want to cut out and

844
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:15.079
then they'll pop it out. Huh
technology, what concept? All right?

845
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:21.639
Pull a question from yesterday. Let's
get that up here. You yes?

846
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:25.079
No? All right? Are you
excited for multiverses to come back? Fourteen

847
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:29.840
percent say yes, eighty six percent
say no? How about you? Jan

848
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.280
No, not at all, Like
it feels like they're trying to pull the

849
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.800
wool over my eyes again and make
money off of me. Yeah, even

850
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:40.199
though it's free to play, I
mean, yeah, it's free to play,

851
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.400
but it's like they or is it? Yeah? It is free to

852
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:45.719
play, right, Okay, I
can't. Yes, this one was free

853
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:47.480
to play and that you could buy
characters and stuff, and people were doing

854
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:51.519
that, and then they took the
game away. I mean, why would

855
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:54.360
most people who did that be excited
about that game? Just wait till it

856
00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:58.159
comes out and see if they're actually
going to leave it out this time.

857
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.079
It's it's uncertain at this point,
like the future of that game, So

858
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:07.840
I don't blame most people for being
skeptical. New Pole question pretty similar.

859
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:10.400
Have you played Apex Legends? Yes? No? Or I have no interest.

860
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.559
I just kind of like to see
if people are still like thinking about

861
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:16.960
maybe I should get in an Apex
Legends. It feels like most people have

862
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.320
already made their decision on that game, But I at the very least like

863
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:23.880
there are people who are continuing to
work on that. I hope that that

864
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:29.039
all that stuff they're doing with the
new modalities of play take off. If

865
00:59:29.079 --> 00:59:31.559
you put mix in there, I'll
show up. I'll be there. I

866
00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:35.920
think I've always like, I like
Apex Legends, and I think I've always

867
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:39.280
been curious about going back. But
yeah, in the same way where it

868
00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:45.519
feels like everyone else has outpaced me, and that might like any newbies around

869
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:51.880
me are are aren't existent on the
platform. That's the intimidating part. Grub.

870
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:53.760
Yeah, I'm like, I'll just
go play titeh All two again.

871
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:59.159
Are they gonna white modalities? I'm
thinking about this now. Are they just

872
00:59:59.159 --> 01:00:01.920
going to try and do Valorant?
Are they gonna just try to make see

873
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:06.559
us go with Apex? Probably?
Yeah? Probably they probably will do that

874
01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:08.880
and Beck again. That could work, But they should just put Titanfall two

875
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:12.519
in there. It's an option,
that's what they should really do. Yeah,

876
01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:15.880
that would be very cool. All
right. I think that's gonna wrap

877
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:19.039
it up. Yeah, I think
we're all set here. Jim, thank

878
01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:21.360
you so much for spinting today talk
with me about video games. Man,

879
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:24.079
I really appreciate it. I appreciate
you, Grub. It's my favorite way

880
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:29.400
to start a Thursday. Hey,
we'll talk about Unicorn Overlord tomorrow and BCR.

881
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:30.960
Yep on BCR, we'll make it. We'll mix some stuff happen with

882
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:35.440
that, and then thank you everybody
for watching. You're the best audience in

883
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:39.079
gaming. Until next time, have
a good one, Take care of yourself and goodbye