WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:15.000 You'll be me beer, it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this 2 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:18.719 for July twenty one, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.800 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings 4 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.079 Live with Me Jeff Grub Today, FTC pumps the brakes on its opposition to 5 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.679 the Microsoft Activision deal, and Spider Man two is looking real, real good. 6 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:32.439 First, please join me and welcome to today's co host, the Game 7 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.560 Miss Mornings. It's Jazz, corded from Windows Central. Everybody, Jazz, 8 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.359 how are you doing? Hello, I'm doing pretty good. How are you 9 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.439 doing? I'm doing good. I'm glad we're gonna make this happen. I 10 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.840 am you know, it's it's been a it's been a week. We just 11 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:50.479 recorded a Remnant two quick look and I normally don't do like work stuff before 12 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.240 Game Mess Mornings, and it's like, am I gonna be able to juggle 13 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.840 this? But it went fine, It went pretty good. It ended with 14 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.399 Dan getting stuck on geometry though, so look out for that and a quick 15 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.520 look everybody. But yeah, I don't know. I'm good. I'm like, 16 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.040 I feel like I'm getting way behind on games this year, Like we're 17 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.280 not. It's We're halfway through the year, right, and it's and somehow 18 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.400 I'm like, ah, I played way too much Zelda and now there's all 19 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.079 these other things I want to play and I'm kind of far behind, and 20 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:15.560 Game of the Year is going to be here in no time. That's what 21 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.159 it feels like to me. I don't know. You just played World Warcraft 22 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.640 though, so you're probably not feeling that right well to some degree, you 23 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.799 know, I was. I was just thinking, like, God, I 24 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.000 didn't even I'm struggling with the backlog stuff as well, and I didn't even 25 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.079 Zelda wasn't even on my radar, and I've just installed Remnant too, and 26 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:40.680 likes the game previews coming up and the Star failed and Ahmed Core and I 27 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:45.000 haven't even like and then and then Diablo has got a new season, and 28 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.000 like World Warcraft has just done a content drop as well, and it's like 29 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.640 it's like they are like hitting the things that are like Core to Jazz. 30 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.439 It sounds like a lot of yeah, all that stuff is happening at the 31 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.439 same time. Are you do win the season stuff for Diablo? I honestly 32 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.840 don't know, Like I was, I did get a dabble this morning with 33 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:08.000 the malignant hearts and stuff, and I was just like, I've my main 34 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:13.199 character, it still isn't at level one hundred maning or whatever. It turned 35 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.919 a realm, and then it's kind of like, so do I just abandon 36 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.319 that now and then start grinding the battle pass? And I just I'm really 37 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.199 not feeling it, to be honest, I'm just kind of like, man, 38 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.080 do I really want to do this again after just doing it already? 39 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.039 Did you like you've got a good time out of Diablo four? Right? 40 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.840 Like, like trying to force yourself to still turn it into another hobby. 41 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:36.120 It is kind of stuffing me. And like we're talking about and it's like 42 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.159 you don't have to do that, Like it's okay to put the game down 43 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.879 for a while if you had your fill of it, right, Yeah, 44 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.960 I mean I was actually thinking about that this morning because loads of people complaining 45 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.439 it like there's not enough content and all this, and and then like my 46 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.039 friend was joking with me, she was saying, like, yeah, the 47 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.879 people complaining and there's not enough content. Probably I have like three hundred hours 48 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.680 playing and stuff, and I have about I have two hundred hours playing or 49 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.479 something. Like that. So it's kind of like, yeah, it's it's 50 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:07.280 encroaching on World Warcraft, which is a hobby definitely, and that's having a 51 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.000 really good content cycle as well. So right now, so I'm just kind 52 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.680 of like I kind of want to well, well, yeah, I just 53 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.759 I heard about I heard about World Warcraft getting Globo. Do you see this 54 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:24.520 global coming to World of Warcraft. I love that. That was so funny. 55 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.319 I wanted up player in real time because you know, I was scrolling 56 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.439 in bed and then you know, the World Warcraft stibready comes up. Like 57 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:37.319 for those who don't know, what essentially happened was someone on the World Warcraft 58 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.199 sib ready noticed that this gaming app called zed League dot gg. I've never 59 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.080 never heard of it until this. Yeah, this is a hilarious in introduction 60 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:52.280 to zed League whatever it is. Yeah, z League Americans, Yeah, 61 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.439 we we got it. We knew what you meant. I want to get 62 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:59.840 a translate for you, but yeah, go ahead. But essentially what happened, 63 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.159 well, some people in the World warcrafts already and they noticed that the 64 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:10.400 articles coming out of this ze League thing were suspiciously like the threads on World 65 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.319 Warcraft. It was like, well, I remember one of the article titles 66 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.319 was like what characters should I played this season? World Warcraft players react? 67 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.319 And it was like it was just a ready thread that had been run through 68 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:27.279 chat Gypt to produce content for Google's algorithm or whatever. And so some one 69 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.519 of them was like, let's let's ship post for a few hours and see 70 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.879 what happened. And so there was a spread like, oh man, I 71 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:43.639 can't wait for Globo to bebo in what they say in Hertstone in nineteen ninety 72 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.120 four, and I've been excited ever since then. It's finally coming to World 73 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.240 Warcraft. And it's like being that's what the story is, just just AI 74 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:56.160 taking these points and turn it into a story being fooled. That's like, 75 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.800 yeah, I love that's that's that is Subwright. It's being pretty clever and 76 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.879 I appreciate that. All Right, we're gonna get into this mess, but 77 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:06.560 before we do, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I Jeff 78 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:11.279 grabbing will help peace your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and 79 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.279 maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll 80 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.240 get the input of a bona fide expert who will make me look smart. 81 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.600 If you were watching live on Twitch Welcome. You can always listen to the 82 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:25.360 show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game Mess Mornings or find the RSS 83 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.480 on GiantBomb dot com. You can also catch the show later with chapters and 84 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.959 timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. Okay, we have a lot to get 85 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:38.199 into, so let's start the Morning Mess with The FTC is suspending its in 86 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:43.480 house antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. This comes from Hailey Williams at game Spot. 87 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.439 The Federal Trade Commission's case against Microsoft's intended acquisition of Activision Blizzard is slowing down 88 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:54.240 after it announced they would be suspending its in house lawsuits. As reported by 89 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:58.720 The Verge, the administrative challenge that was set to go before its own administrative 90 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.480 judge in August has been suspended. In addition to its own lawsuit, the 91 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.759 FTC also filed for a temporary restraining order while seeking a preliminary injunction that would 92 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:10.439 keep Microsoft from closing it steal to purchase Activision Blizzard. That injunction was of 93 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.360 course denied by a US district court, and further appeals by the FTC also 94 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.040 failed to extend that after the district court ruled that the FTC failed to raise 95 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:23.519 any strong points and its objection to its Microsoft deal. It's unlikely its own 96 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:27.160 in house judge would have reached a different conclusion. There's a little bit more 97 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.319 of this story, but we'll jump off there for now. Jazz. That 98 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.879 seems to be what's happening here. I think trying to nail down how the 99 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:39.000 FTC was going to behave early on was difficult because the FTC is changing to 100 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.800 how it used to behave in the past, and so in the early days, 101 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:43.800 it's like, well, FTC is pretty much gonna like let this go 102 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:45.879 through, and it's like, no, they're not. Actually, they're gonna 103 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.879 try to stand in the way. And the way to understand that was they 104 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.680 were trying to be a bother. That was their strategy. They think, 105 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.319 if we can cause as many headaches for these companies as possible, they will 106 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.839 second guess doing the merger in the first place. That is the theory behind 107 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.720 what they're doing. That has clearly met its end, and you could kind 108 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.600 of see why, sure they could continue to be a bother and kept this 109 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.920 internal in house you know, in junction thingment before the judge here inside like 110 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.319 their own court. But that would have been a problem, especially if they 111 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.680 lost, because that would have looked real rough. The FTC can't even win 112 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:25.519 this case in its own court, and they're facing some scrutiny from US Congress, 113 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.079 and they probably don't want those bad headlines popping off. This seems like 114 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.040 the right exit point for the FTC to be like, we did our best 115 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.759 to try to like cause as many problems for Microsoft as possible, and the 116 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.680 end they won that we just have to accept that and move on. Is 117 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:45.240 that how you read this? I have a subsequent appeal at some point or 118 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.720 something. I haven't completely dropped the appeal, just their internal hearing, if 119 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:53.959 I'm understanding that correctly. U. Yeah, they might have an appeal still 120 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.720 on going, but like, I don't know who they would be appealing to 121 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:03.040 because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denying them already, and then the next 122 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.199 one after that that they could go to. I think, you know, 123 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.839 and I'm no expert on law, but my understand would be the next court 124 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.079 after that would be the Supreme Court. And again I don't think they want 125 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:16.240 to like take this to the Supreme Court risk embarrassment there. So I think 126 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.319 that yeah, they pretty much see the rhin on the wall now and like 127 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:24.439 the the you know, not to get conspiratorial, but you know, there 128 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:30.959 was this whole narrative that they were colluding with the UK CMA to further spiratorial 129 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.480 seems like that's what they were doing. Well yeah, I mean they admitted 130 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.720 it, yeah, to an m please committee. But it was like, 131 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.519 you know, the the you talked about causing headaches. At the end of 132 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:43.960 the day, it seems like everyone I have headaches that can cause or they're 133 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.159 getting very close and we're in head aggs I can cause. CMA is also 134 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.799 going through it's going through the motions of giving Microsoft and out and the divestiture 135 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.720 or whatever they're going to do. Per reports from Bloomberg or at Financial Times 136 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:58.320 or something like that. I don't know. So it does look like we're 137 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:03.000 coming to the end of speech. Jeff, Yes, coming to a little 138 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.039 bit. Let's just let's hop to that so we can just wrap it all 139 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:11.360 up a CMA awaiting Microsoft's proposals to reach agreement on activision deal from Ocean kun 140 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.240 Ka. In a recent interview, chief executive at the UK's Competition and Markets 141 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.720 Authority Sarah Cardell shared that the organization is waiting on Microsoft's proposal for how it 142 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.840 will address concerns regarding its Activision Blizzard purchase. Speaking to Sky News predominantly on 143 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.200 the topic of food inflation in the UK, Cardell was also asked about the 144 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:33.320 current state of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Earlier this year, the CMA 145 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.759 blocked the deal over concerns regarding cloud gaming, with Microsoft later filing an appeal 146 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.440 over the group's decision. According to Cardell, the CMA is still yet to 147 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.159 receive word on how Microsoft plans to address the concerns raised, saying we're waiting 148 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.159 for those proposals to come to us. We've agreed with Microsoft to stay on 149 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.879 the litigation, which means that we can focus on understanding whether it is possible 150 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.000 for them to provide a restructure that addresses our concerns. The ball is very 151 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.879 much in their court at the moment. When asked about whether the CMA has 152 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:05.960 compromised with Microsoft, with some accusing the group of caving into pressure from the 153 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.200 tech company, Cardale responded, we certainly haven't compromised. Our decision to prohibit 154 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.720 the deal stands. We understand from Microsoft that they would like to put forward 155 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.279 proposals to us to restructure the deal, to potentially renegotiating that deal to address 156 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.720 our competition concerns. And I think Jays you were right when you said that 157 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:24.720 they are also looking for an out. They're also looking for a way to 158 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:30.799 gracefully get out of this. They at the same time they are looking to 159 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.279 save face. And when they were before the judge earlier this week, I 160 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.879 think it was the CMA and Microsoft talking about like, hey, what are 161 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:39.320 we going, what are we gonna do going forward again and get this deal 162 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.039 wrapped up? The CMA is like, we are not. We still stand 163 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.440 by our reginal ruling. We stand by our original ruling, and they haven't 164 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.799 backed off from that. I think the moment they get a new offer from 165 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.879 Microsoft, they are likely going to be like, no, this is this 166 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.679 magic resolves everything. Let's get out of this, but we don't want this 167 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.720 in our hair anymore again. Is that how you read it? Yeah? 168 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:05.440 Pretty much? I mean the whole the economic issues are a big talking point 169 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.519 in Britain right now. Are inflations like sixteen percent I think something like the 170 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.159 core inflation. I don't know. I don't keep track of that because I'll 171 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.759 cry a lot, But the UK inflation is a bit a big, big 172 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.039 problem right now, and the governments in the UK is actively trying to avoid 173 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.600 any sort of suggestion that they are involved in preventing investment from occurring in the 174 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.960 UK. Now. The CMA is of course independent of the government to some 175 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.200 degree, but you have to expect that, like ministers have been leaning on 176 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.799 the CMA to be like, hey, this is a this could be a 177 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.399 really bad look if we if you guys messed this up, and you know, 178 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.879 you might have MPs calling for a restructure the CMA, and the CMA 179 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:50.120 doesn't want that kind of heat. They don't want that kind of attention. 180 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.799 And you know, everyone's having budget cuts left, right and center right now. 181 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.480 So if it sort of becomes this sort of political issue, which it 182 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.399 has to some degree in America, we've seen some some Yeah, Elizabeth, 183 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.320 Elizabeth Warren doesn't fully understand the deal that that's pretty obvious. You know, 184 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.200 she's on these sorts of subjects of pretty often, and this looks very similar 185 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:15.080 to things where she's been correct in the past, and I think she's just 186 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.360 sort of going through those motions again. But I mean, it's become political 187 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.720 for the FTC, I think where you know, they were dragging before the 188 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.720 US Congress to talk about these sorts of you know, four losses in a 189 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.759 row, and if you look at their record, it's it's not like O 190 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.080 and four that they've They've won a lot of cases, just like when you 191 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.000 cherry pick these kinds of deals. They've been Yes, that's been pretty rough 192 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.840 for them, But I think I could see what you mean, like in 193 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:37.639 the for the CMA in the UK. UH, I think it's very easy 194 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.559 for Microsoft to point two if we go, if we bypass the UK, 195 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.440 if we do take our business out of the UK. For one, that 196 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.799 is the investment leaving the country and that is going to look bad. But 197 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.919 also you might get the worst prices out of all of Europe because the game 198 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.480 pass effect and the US like driving up prices because we're trying to give everyone 199 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.759 a deal. If they get in the subscription, it's going to make it 200 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.879 very easy to access a lot of these games. In the meantime, they 201 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.399 might it might be that might be impossible to do in the UK based on 202 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.480 whatever the original ruling was, and so you'd have to pay more there, 203 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.600 and that's just more inflation and it's yeah, so you could see how those 204 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.720 political factors are beginning to be like making the CMA question this and say, 205 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.759 hey, Mike, so please give us something to figured this out. Well, 206 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.559 this was one thing I said in the MP's committee. I can't remember 207 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.039 exactly what the quote was, and I can't remember exactly who said it, 208 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.840 but CMI was dragging in front of MP's to discuss some of this stuff. 209 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.559 And I can't remember if it was actually in that hearing or if someone had 210 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.399 said it to press, but someone fairly saying you're in the government said the 211 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:48.320 SMA needs to remember its responsibility to you know, the to the to the 212 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.039 globe, you know, global consumers, you know, and how blocking this 213 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.639 deal might effect. It was. It was basically saying like this deal might 214 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:00.240 effect relations with certain US politicians and stuff like that and marks them no more 215 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.759 self the desperts. I gotta try some kind of tried deal out of out 216 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:09.519 of Joe Boden. Oh that's right. Yeah, political stuff going on, 217 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:11.840 right, because it's like not in the EU, so they're looking for those 218 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.039 bilateral deals and yeah, that's that. Anything that stands in the way of 219 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.240 that they probably don't want. On the table that said, you know, 220 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.639 the reason this deal feels like it's really going to go through is that it 221 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.799 probably it's mostly going to accomplish what like what Microsoft says it's gonna accomplish, 222 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.120 especially now after they've made all these agreements with everyone else to keep things on 223 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.759 an even hand. So, uh yeah, we're probably very soon going to 224 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:41.240 be living in a world where Activision actually is under Microsoft. After more than 225 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.679 a year and a half of waiting for this deal to close, it was 226 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.000 a hell of a ray jazz. All right, let's move on here. 227 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.600 Marvel Spider Man two reveals more villains in story trailer. Uh this is from 228 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.960 Eric Hittelbeck threw at Game Reactor. Insomniac had been hyping up at San Diego 229 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:00.440 Comic Companel for a while, so it was clear the develop i was going 230 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.679 to share some juicy stuff about Marvel's Spider Man two that included a new trailer. 231 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.039 Marvel Spider Man two's story trailer reveals that Mister Negative returns from the original 232 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.600 game, something that obviously affects Miles in a major way, as Martin Lee, 233 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.039 who is Mister Negative, killed his father. That's on top of Craven 234 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.720 and Venom being the big new Batties and Tonight's trailer finally gives us a much 235 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.480 better look at the latter. Yeah, we saw a lot more Craven in 236 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.320 this. I also saw a lot of Harry Osborne, who is clearly going 237 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:28.519 to be Venom in this in this story, I don't know you are you 238 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.799 big Spider Man guy? Of all the place they should exclusives, the Spider 239 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:37.639 Man games have been by far my favorite, so I am very excited about 240 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.080 this Jazz. I mean, I'm pretty sure the fondom of Spiderman, like 241 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.480 it's become so big and so ubiquitous. Like when I was a kid, 242 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.279 it was all Botman, Batman, Batman, but never feels like the next 243 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.960 generation. It's little Spotoman spun Man. Spunman. Yeah, a little bit. 244 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.720 Spotoman was obviously big when I was a kid as well. But I 245 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.840 haven't played, I regretfully, I have not applied it yet. But it's 246 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.399 one guy I've been all in for. My isis Roge. Sure, Yeah, 247 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.960 the rog Yeah they're having that debate, Yester, I have and I 248 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:15.360 love I love the idea of calling it rog Roger. Ally here I was 249 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:22.200 calling it the rogs on ironically for the longest time, I think I could 250 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.480 see that like that, like because like rog is, it's not really how 251 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.799 you would say wrong. But the Republic of Gamers sounds like it was shortened 252 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.879 to then. But if you ask a suits, they're like, no, 253 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.279 it's just ROG. I'm like, what what are you even doing over here? 254 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.159 All right, guys, whatever, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep calling it 255 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.480 shorthand ROG. I think, yeah that this. I mean, those Spider 256 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.960 Man games are great on Steam Deck. They're clearly going to run even better 257 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.320 on the ally. They're very good, and I think this trailer is the 258 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.440 one that has done the most for me for Spider Man two. I think 259 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.159 what they showed at the showcase, I don't know, it didn't show as 260 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.879 well as I would have wanted. This feels like, Okay, they are 261 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:08.200 going for the emotions. All the characters look really cool there, you know, 262 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:14.000 the relationships between Miles and Peter Parker, and then their relationships between the 263 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.519 of them with like with their superhero alter he goes and then their normal lives 264 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:21.359 looks like it's just gonna be so dramatic. So yeah, I'm super into 265 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:22.720 this. Ready for this game to pop off here pretty soon, and I'm 266 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:27.039 glad that way we're here where they're actually starting to really promote this game. 267 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.359 It's going to be here in no time. Part of promoting that game is 268 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:36.759 Sony reveals Spider Man two PS five consoles and controller. This comes from Andy 269 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:41.000 Robinson at VGC. PlayStation and Insomnia Games prepared a new Spider Man trailer at 270 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:47.079 San Diego Comic Con on Thursday and revealed a special Vision PS five console and 271 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.920 controller. The trailer sets up our story in the game blah blah blah. 272 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.720 Senior narrative director John Piquette told PlayStation Blog. At the beginning of our story, 273 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.319 our Spider Man are at the top of their game, but both Peter 274 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.519 Parker and Miles Morales are struggling with their personal lives. Miles is trying to 275 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:04.680 find time to write his college entrance essay, but he keeps procrastinating to focus 276 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:10.480 and focusing on Spider Man work instead. Meanwhile, Peter is underwater on payments 277 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.960 for Aunt May's house, but he can't sell. It means too much to 278 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.960 him, and just like Miles, Peter tries and fails to find balance with 279 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.680 so many responsibilities. MJ wants to help Peep with the mortgage, but her 280 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:23.960 job is on the line now that Jay Jonah Jamison is back at the bugle 281 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.039 and looking to clean house, our heroes have arrived at a confluence of crossroads 282 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.440 with uncertain futures and some tough decisions ahead. The Marvel Spider Man two Limit 283 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:37.079 Edition PS five Bundle, which they announced as part of this reveal of the 284 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.599 trailer as well, features a custom PS five console cover design and matching dual 285 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.279 Sense wireless controller for those who already own a PS five console. However, 286 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.279 PS five console covers and the Spider Man two duel since wireless controller will be 287 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.279 available to purchase separately. And boys, that real nice jazz. This is 288 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:56.279 the thing where it's like you can do this where you could just remove the 289 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.359 covers or the PS five slap other covers on. So please don't be to 290 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.640 buy a whole new PS five if I want a cool looking limited edition thing. 291 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.319 And that's that they're doing exactly that they are going to sell those panels 292 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.680 separately. I think it's pretty cool. What do you think. I think 293 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.960 it's really awesome, and it's it's kind of it's kind of you know, 294 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.079 I look at my Xbox. And yeah, it's really easy the skin because 295 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:19.680 it's a cube, but it's it's not easy to type a part, So 296 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.640 it would have been cool if Microsoft had some kind of shelling system as well. 297 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.880 Yes, but some of the third party shells for the PS five really 298 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:30.559 cool. I really like the Deep Brand ones, which are sort of a 299 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:34.599 little bit more subtle, I would say, than the lip thing they are 300 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:40.359 going on. But I'm really intrigued what the rumored PS five Slim is going 301 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.599 to look like. Yeah, I know, I'm wondering if that's It sounds 302 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.319 like it's going to be similar in terms of aesthetics, just actually slimmer, 303 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:53.640 just actually smaller. And for video viewers right now you could see the look 304 00:19:53.640 --> 00:20:00.200 of the PS five Spider Man two addition, it looks really cool. Well, 305 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.279 although I think I still prefer my original PS five Digital Edition, so 306 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:06.640 I think I probably will stick with that, But hey, if I want 307 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:07.559 to just get the panels, I don't have to spend a whole bunch of 308 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:15.799 extra Has Microsoft announced a Starfield Xbox yet? Because we have the headset, 309 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.680 we have the controller, is there a limited edition Xbox? And do you 310 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.160 think that would happen? Certainly have announced anything, and I haven't heard anything 311 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.400 to suggest that we are going to get one. I mean, there's a 312 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.960 lot of there's a lot of great fun renders out there. I mean, 313 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.799 it makes complete and total sense. This is the first Xbox exclusive worth really 314 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.640 getting excited about for like that sort of rebroad audience in a long time. 315 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:47.079 So for them to not have a console already's either negligent or they don't have 316 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:51.240 the chips available to indulge in such a thing right now, which yeah, 317 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:55.200 well I'm more inclined to believe, right, And it could be any like 318 00:20:55.279 --> 00:21:00.200 a combination of supply materials, right, the systemount of chip is probably all 319 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.680 going to one factory, But they also might not be able to like spin 320 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.960 up a whole another fabrication facility to produce a different kind of of Xbox with 321 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.680 a different paint job or whatever like that requires tooling and stuff like that, 322 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:15.440 and like, hey, we're just trying to get above water in terms of 323 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.039 producing of Xboxes as it is. That would call that would put a kink 324 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:23.319 in the works or whatever. So yeah, I mean, but I really 325 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:29.359 really like my Starfield controller in that set. It looks so cool. I 326 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:33.839 would definitely be willing to consider getting a like a special edition Xbox Series X 327 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.119 branded with Starfield with like twice the amount of storage. That would be great. 328 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:41.920 I mean, they are Microsoft's lining up everything else for the launch of 329 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.039 Starfield, right the switch from Xbox Live Goal to Xbox Game Pass Core. 330 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:49.880 It's happening literally the first day you could play Starfield. All this stuff with 331 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.440 like Activision feels like it's lining up for that as well. They're like, 332 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.559 this is the future, Xbox getting all lined up right now. It just 333 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.480 feels like a little bit of a shame they can't get a Starfield an edition 334 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.920 console at the same time. We're so cool they've had like a transpier and 335 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:08.559 side panel. Yeah yeah, because trans Yeah, the transparent triggers. Yeah. 336 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:14.240 Absolutely, But yes, this Spider Man two console looks very slick. 337 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:21.160 Okay, let's move on here right here. Square Innex response to Final Fantasy 338 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:26.000 sixteen sales concerns points to PS five install base. This comes from Wesleyan Pool 339 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.200 at IgM. Square Innex has insisted sales or Final Fantasy sixteen are extremely strong, 340 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:34.440 telling IGN the game has sold well relative to the PlayStation five install base. 341 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.000 The PS five exclusive sold three million copies during launch week, a figure 342 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.319 that sparked a debate online about whether it had met Square Enix's sales target. 343 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.599 US Final Fantasy seven remake shifted three point five million copies in three days when 344 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.640 it launched as a PS four exclusive in April twenty twenty. Final Fantasy fifteen 345 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:55.400 sold five million units in its first day, but that game launched at PlayStation 346 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.480 four and Xbox One in November of twenty sixteen and remains the fastest selling game 347 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.720 in the history the series. The debate was fueled by a Bloomberg article that 348 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:04.920 pointed out sales of the game in Japan had dropped dramatically in the second week 349 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:08.640 after launch. The initial sales had lagged behind previous games in the long running 350 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:14.119 role playing series, and Square Nix itself was grappling with weak momentum on its 351 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.079 flagship franchise, and a statement from Square Ennis issued exclusively to ign the company 352 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.960 pointed to the difference in installed an inn install base between PS four when a 353 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.480 Final Fantasy seven remake came out and the install base of the PS five when 354 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.640 the Final Fantasy sixteen launched last month, with thirty eight million PS five consoles 355 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.960 shipped globally, as of March thirty one, twenty twenty three, sales of 356 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.559 Final Fantasy sixteen surpassed three million units worldwide several days after its release on June 357 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.759 twenty, twenty twenty three. Taking into consideration the sales figures of the acclaimed 358 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.759 Final Fantasy seven remake and the difference in size of the install base of the 359 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:49.200 PlayStation four at the same at the time of that title's release, we could 360 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:55.359 see that the attachraate of Final Fantasy sixteen is considerably higher given the PlayStation five 361 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:59.599 install base. And for me, just as all of that sounds about right, 362 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:06.400 three million copies sold exclusively on PlayStation five seems pretty good. Not many, 363 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:08.000 I don't. I don't think any game has done that exclusively on PS 364 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.880 five. So it's like the fastest selling PS five exclusive, and I think 365 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.240 that number is probably going to be pretty strong. The question is, does 366 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.680 it have the legs to get to a higher number as more people get PS 367 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.920 fives. I don't know, what do you think? Well, I think 368 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.680 like, I think it should probably have legs. I mean, I kind 369 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.119 of I kind of upset some people by stepping into this debate, and honestly, 370 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.359 the fact that there's even a debate. It's SQUARINGX is fault, yes, 371 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:38.000 because Square Nix is the one who has become notorious for being like, 372 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.440 oh, toumb rate to miss sales projections. This game miss sales projections. 373 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.559 That game miss sales projections despite selling millions of copies, and they've kind of 374 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.519 they've created this sort of like, well, what are your expectations Square Nicks? 375 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:52.680 You know, do you want this to sell like fifty million copies or 376 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.480 something? Do you want attach rate of one hundred percent? Like what is 377 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:59.400 a win for you? You know? So that's where that kind of debate 378 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.079 I think from it's Square because his own doing to some degree, but also 379 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.759 I think like there's some back and forth about the fact that he's not turn 380 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.759 based. It's a completely different genre, Like they've dropped all all sort of 381 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.839 pretense of keeping the tactical heritage that the game has or whatever. By the 382 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.319 way, I apologize if you can police on our side, everybody that you 383 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:22.359 don't feel like you can get a pull over if you're trying. Yeah, 384 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.839 I live on a main road, so there's just constantly police and ambulances and 385 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.920 all times I think it's fine. It adds texture to the podcast. Good. 386 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.200 Well, I do think I'll have legs. Though fin Fancy is a 387 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:41.319 brand just has legs. You know the fact that the people of our generation 388 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:42.880 or our age, you know, they're kind of like there's a lot of 389 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.200 styles of fin Fancy, but Final Fantasy has become this, It's become a 390 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:48.720 monster and mobile as well, and not a lot of people sort of talk 391 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:52.960 about like Brave X give us or whatever it's called the Gatcher game and stuff. 392 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.039 Yeah, the brand has a lot of legs. And even just like 393 00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:00.680 because I don't have a play side five currently, it's one game that as 394 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.759 a Final Fancy, a life lifer, you know, a void final Fancy 395 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.839 Lifer. I'm just say it's it's one of the first games or amongst the 396 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.559 you know, another compelling reason to buy a PlayStation, I think for a 397 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:17.759 lot of people like me. But yeah, I do think I'll have legs. 398 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.640 And you know, it'll come out on PC inevitably, and then he'll 399 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:26.200 get all the mods and that'll give it some extra legs as well, like 400 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.519 the Battle Thomas the tank Engine and Fancy. Yeah, I think I think 401 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.920 it's hopefully it's doing well and it will do well, and I think it's 402 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:37.079 it's it's it's tough because it's like there are so many factors in like trying 403 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.839 to figure this stuff out, and these companies are so quiet, and you're 404 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:45.319 right, Square is notorious for having these high expectations for certain games, and 405 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.880 you know a lot of that's driven by the costs of the games and ips 406 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.960 associated like those the Marvels Avengers, right, that was like that probably saw 407 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.759 like three million copies. I think I'm pointing that from memory. I think 408 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.519 that was right, and that was unquestionably not enough, as they were paying 409 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.599 a lot for the IP and they had like bigger designs and all this stuff, 410 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.880 and that game came out everywhere, so it's like, oh, that 411 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.759 should have done better as a as a PS five exclusive. Three millions probably 412 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.480 pretty I gets pretty strong, and then uh it really Now it's gonna be 413 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.960 down to that word of mouth. Are people going to be excited? And 414 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.079 I think the word of mouth is is mostly pretty positive. There's some people 415 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:23.759 that have that are you know, are a backlash against it, but that 416 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.839 happens with every Final Fantasy game, and I don't think that's gonna hurt it 417 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.319 too much. And it does feel like a big Prestige PS five game. 418 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.480 If you're gonna spend five hundred dollars on a console, then yeah, you 419 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.400 want me to turn on the video game for you? Sure, think kid? 420 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:38.480 Oh yeah, yeah, hey, there you go. You just gotta 421 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:41.599 shake it. There you go? All right? Yes, good good. 422 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:47.960 She's got great timing, she really does. And you so you could see 423 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.319 like that that word of mouth actually like carrying the game forward because it's like, 424 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:56.480 hey, this it looks big and expensive and pretty, and it is. 425 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:59.240 It's kind of Hey, if you like a Game of Thrones, it's 426 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:00.759 got some of that in there, and that's going to register with a lot 427 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.359 of people like that, that bigger, slightly more casual audience that comes to 428 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.000 games for the bomb bast and to feel like they're playing something that's cutting edge 429 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:11.839 and technologically impressive and has cool storytelling. And the game has all of that. 430 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:18.000 So I think that this is a game that can catch on as time 431 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.400 goes on. But also I think their final fantasy is in this weird spot 432 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.880 where it is it feels like it should be bigger, and maybe it's not 433 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.240 going to be as big as the biggest games on PlayStation. The biggest games 434 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:34.160 sell about ten million copies. The you know, Spider Man's are above that. 435 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:37.079 Everything else though, are like the big games sell about ten million copies. 436 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.160 So I wonder if this game can even get to there over time. 437 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.400 Maybe it can, especially if they put out like a Game of the Year 438 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:48.559 edition or something like that, and once it gets still with DLC, but 439 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.400 I think to get at the start though, three million copies seems pretty strong. 440 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:57.119 I think I think like the fact that it launched within the Diablo window 441 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:03.519 as well probably really overshadowed it in some ways. And yes, it's not 442 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:08.799 only Diablo overshadowing it overshadowing it, but like because they didn't have that big 443 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.079 multi platform launch, there's there's less word of mouth. You know, if 444 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.359 it was if it launched, if it did launch Sumertonius on PC, it 445 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.519 would have had more, you know, word of mouth. I don't know 446 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:26.319 what you call it, grown, swelling, gast all that stuff. Yeah, 447 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.640 but I think it's right. Yeah. Do you think that when it 448 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.559 does come to PC though, it could get that second win because that happened 449 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.319 with Death of Stranding, Like that Stranding was like, oh, I don't 450 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.519 know if this is doing super well and they can PC and it's like, 451 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.880 actually, now it's like that get that game sold five million copies and that's 452 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:47.319 really good for that game, I think, Yeah, I think like I 453 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:51.559 think it will and like DLC that's trying to have that DLC boost as well, 454 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.119 which I think, you know, elevated elevated the products a little bit. 455 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:00.240 And I kind of feel like this part of punt C sixteen will probably 456 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.799 get fair fairly large amount of day. I'll say five amounts of fifteen did 457 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.559 get quite a lot of day, I'll say, so, I would imagine 458 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.000 that they'll keep it rolling, you know, and hopefully we'll end will be 459 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.160 in a big success. You know, just as a fan of the series, 460 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.240 I don't want to see I don't want to see them abandoned the Core, 461 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.240 the Core franchise and just you know, side off into the sunset with 462 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:29.720 the mobile gotcha games because yeah, yeah, yes, it's it's Square Nix 463 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.680 is always such a weird company, where like they put out so many games 464 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.640 and so many of them don't seem to hit in the last couple of years, 465 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:37.920 and they put out a lot of bad games too, Ballad Wonder World 466 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.000 and The Quiet Man and all that stuff. Them. Yeah, that's them, 467 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.039 Yes, absolutely, they published those games at least, so then like 468 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.720 you're like, well, they're gonna take Final Fantasy seriously, and it does 469 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:51.559 feel like they did that. So they made the investment. You kind of 470 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:55.079 hope like the lesson they learned is that investment is worth it, so they 471 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.279 keep doing it because there's not a lot of publishers out there making that level 472 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:02.440 investment on that kind of game is But you're like, and the screen Nix 473 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:04.519 was cruly trying to replicate Sony's model here, and it's like, is that 474 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.680 even possible? It feels like it should be. You know, the game 475 00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:15.119 seems for all intensive purposes to meet meet those that those lofty goals. But 476 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.400 it's like, it does that not make sense for a third party publisher? 477 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.759 Is that something that only really makes sense for the biggest company that is also 478 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:25.680 selling hardware where they get a thirty percent cut when you buy the system for 479 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:27.240 their big prestige game and then you spend a lot of money on Fortnite and 480 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.799 they get all that money. Hopefully that's not the case. I want I 481 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.559 want these other publishers to be like this was worth it, so we'll see. 482 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.960 Okay, Moving on Xbox's top ten best selling games are mostly old Xbox 483 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.119 three sixty Call of Duties. This comes from Zack Wise and at kataku Quick 484 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.440 without looking it up or remembering the name of the headline of the story. 485 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.559 What's currently the best selling game on Xbox? Is it Elder Ring? Maybe 486 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.559 a new Call of Duty? Perhaps that popular Diablo four? Nope, it's 487 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.039 Call of Duty Black Ops two for Xbox three sixty, and the rest of 488 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.839 the top ten is filled with other classic Call of Duty games as players flock 489 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.519 back to the popular shooters. In the wake of Microsoft ironing out some long 490 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.480 standing server issues on the weekend of July fifteenth, with no heads up or 491 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:15.440 announcement, Microsoft and or Activision fixed the match making issues that have plagued numerous 492 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:20.960 old Call of Duty shooters on Xbox three sixty, Xbox one, and Xbox 493 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.000 Series X and S. At the same time, a vast majority of the 494 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:28.119 classic online first person shooters were put on sale, going for only fifteen dollars 495 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:30.119 a pop. The end result of this, a shitload of players returned to 496 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.400 these aging Call of Duty titles, making in making them some of the most 497 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:37.880 popular games on Xbox and now. As the sale continues and word of the 498 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.240 fixed match match making spreads. A bunch of classic Call of Duty titles have 499 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.440 flooded the best selling games list on Xbox dot Com. Jess, I have 500 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:51.400 the list here. It does start with Black Ops two, then Modern Warfare 501 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.279 two, Black Ops Modern Warfare three, then we get NBA two K twenty 502 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:59.720 three, and then it's backed Call of Duty with Modern Warfare two. That's 503 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.839 the twenty twenty two version. Two thousand nine versions is actually in number two, 504 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.480 and then Black Ops three is after that Diabolo four and then Called Duty, 505 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:13.119 World at War and then Red Dead Redemption two. Man Called Duty is 506 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.559 still just that popular. I guess maybe it's entering its nostalgia era as well, 507 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:19.160 where people are like, oh, I grew up on this stuff. 508 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.319 I want to go back to that. But that is something that it seems 509 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.319 ripe for exploiting by a company putting these games in game pass. I don't 510 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:29.799 know, what do you think I would think? So yeah, I mean, 511 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.480 I just I just pulled up the store list of my xbooks as well 512 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:34.680 to say what it's like, and it looks pretty much the same in the 513 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:39.160 UK, like NBI two k is Koya than some of the Cool of Duty 514 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.359 games but a lot of the styles of recorder ju in the UK as well. 515 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.839 Of course, I've just started in Stolen could Jerry World at War because 516 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.400 that's yeah, highest World at War, the one I want to play too. 517 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.279 I'm like, I liked World at War at a time a lot, 518 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.319 but it was not like Water Warfare Model Warfare two were definitely my games. 519 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:57.519 But I'm like, I'm gonna go back to World at War for some reason. 520 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.079 I don't know what that is. I think it's maybe because the recent 521 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.279 World War two game they put out was so so bad. Yeah, maybe 522 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.839 maybe that's what it was. World was just like real classic. That's that's 523 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:09.679 the one I wanted, Just the World War World at Warked two. I 524 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.880 guess that would have been cons that's what Yeah, yeah, that's what I 525 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.800 want to But I think the fact that this has happened now is no, 526 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:21.039 it's no, it's no coincidence. I mean, these are the games that 527 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.400 probably are going to go to Nintendo Switch, you know, and I imagine 528 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.840 they'll go to Nintendo Switch with cross play probably and probably having that server infrastructure 529 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.599 in place is something that microsost have been working towards because obviously they're the ones 530 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:39.360 with the native versions backwards compatible. I don't think. I don't think PlayStation 531 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.079 five has those back was compatible. I don't know, I don't, I 532 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:45.360 don't think so. I mean they're three sixty games, yeah, right, 533 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:51.760 and when Duty was a three sixty associated game, Like people thought of Call 534 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:55.039 of Duty as a three sixty game at this time. So it's it's pretty 535 00:34:55.079 --> 00:35:00.840 interesting. I you know, are we going to see like a classic Call 536 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.159 of Jury Xbox SERIESES bundle at some point? It's like, hey, play 537 00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.840 these old games for really cheap game pass, you know, and stuff like 538 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:14.280 that. It's it's just under the one of those weird gaming curveballs where like 539 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:20.119 some really old ass game starts going viral on Twitch or something and then suddenly 540 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.760 there's a sequel in production and all this kind of stuff, you know. 541 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.000 But it's cool to see, you know. I was I was saying on 542 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.679 twitterlier day, like what what Call of Duty is today? It's just not 543 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:32.320 what I want from Call of Duty personally. I don't I don't want Homeland 544 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.000 of Skin and yeah, I'm being very old man, you know, get 545 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.400 off my lawn right now, but I don't want Yeah, I don't want 546 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:45.440 all this stuff. This this what is Yeah, I mean Call of Juty 547 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:51.360 Duty was just a product you bart and then yeah there was you could buy 548 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.760 map packs and stuff like that. That was a big thing, right, 549 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:55.599 But it was not a live service game, not really. It was just 550 00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:00.400 an online multiplayer game like anything else they had come before it. And now 551 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.559 they are one one thousand percent live service games, and of course they are. 552 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.920 That makes them more money, but it also turns it into something that 553 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.360 feels different. So if you want that classic feeling, you have to go 554 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.199 back to the classic games, and you know, the reality lose these Call 555 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.280 of Duty games, these even these classic ones have been expensive for a very 556 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.960 long time. They rarely go on sale. I've never seen them for fifteen 557 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:28.000 dollars. They are usually like forty dollars if that especially on like Steam. 558 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.280 Like you look on Steam, I you know, everything goes on sale, 559 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.320 and Steam the Call Duties they're like, oh it's on sale. It's like 560 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:36.800 it's down to forty dollars. Like, okay, that's that's still too expensive. 561 00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:38.119 I already played that game. I own it on a disk back there. 562 00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.639 I just want to play on my PC two. But you know, 563 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.239 it makes me wonder, like what are they doing here. It's just like 564 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.440 them like one last hurrah before like they know all this stuff goes into game 565 00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:52.199 Pass or like, let's just let's get this stuff ready, let's get everything 566 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:53.480 fixed up, and then let's just sell it. Let's do like the best 567 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:57.639 deal ever on these games. I mean, it's working whatever, whatever it 568 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.519 is. But I which I wonder what the motivation is for Active and you 569 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.559 know, before Microsoft starts calling the shots there, it's just like, oh, 570 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:07.320 let's just get one big pay day. Yeah, I mean, Microsoft 571 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.639 was involved with making this happen. So I do think, like, and 572 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.840 I've got it on good authority that there's already plans in place for what it 573 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.320 looks like, yeah, after the acquisition because of the assumption right now between 574 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.199 all partis is that it's it's inevitable now and then they don't want to think, 575 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:29.880 don't want to like take like my guess here is that deal closes and 576 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:34.280 things start happening very quickly after that. Right, Yes, there's a lot 577 00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.760 of there's a lot of prep work being laid down right now for when the 578 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.920 deal closes and and what that means for customers in the ecosystem, the Xbox 579 00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:46.039 ecosystem and the call of du We've obviously seen Overwatch go to Steam, which 580 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:50.159 is his classic. I mean over Watching it needs a bit of health right 581 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:53.360 now. But like, I feel like that's a very Marcsoft thing to do. 582 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.000 He's like, you know, oh, the game is not doing so 583 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.840 well. I mean that is what Microsoft has done, right. Microsoft don't 584 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.239 exactly that putting their games on Steam to like reach more players on PC, 585 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.480 and now Activision is doing that. Yeah. It feels like, yeah, 586 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.039 I think Mike Show's not technically allowed to call the shots, but the friends 587 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.559 are allowed to have conversations, and then Bobby Cotics allowed to go say, 588 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.599 hey, now do this, so uh yeah, I think that you're right 589 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:17.800 that there. That's what all this stuff feels like. Everything we've had in 590 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:23.039 the last two weeks since the FTC thing was denied, the preliminary injunction was 591 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:27.840 denied, all the moves we've heard out of ACTISI, Activision of Microsoft related 592 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.519 to the stuff sounds like putting ducks in a row and yeah, that's it. 593 00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:35.639 Seems like once that goes through, yes, and now they're making them 594 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:40.320 quack exactly. Man, I think I will play some Call of Duty. 595 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.039 A World at war seems like the one to go for I bought all those 596 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.360 games on discs, so I think I do have to buy them digitally again. 597 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.880 I should just buy buy a couple of those and just have them. 598 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:55.320 Although we were talking about back clogs earlier and now now I'm like, I'm 599 00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.039 Dan loud in cold. Yeah. But this is the thing, like modern 600 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:04.159 cool of Judy is that kind of investment. It's like a battle pass you've 601 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.679 got to You've got to invest your whole life into it. And it's like, 602 00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.480 well, like I got well the Warcraft season to do, and then 603 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:13.400 they want me to play Diablo as well, and I have time and I 604 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:17.559 ain't even got kids. So I was like you you mentioned, like, 605 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:20.960 oh, I you know, I don't know if I'm gonna keep playing Diable. 606 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.280 I put two two hundred hours in and I'm like, man, I 607 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.400 put one hundred and thirty hours in the Zelda over a course of like two 608 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.599 and a half months, and like that's been all I've been basically been playing, 609 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:32.199 and like this is what happens, Like all right, I got some 610 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.880 time to play Zelda and I'll look over over here and she's playing the Switch 611 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.280 and I can't get on as I need to get what the other switch set 612 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:40.239 up again so she can play with that, but she likes to play on 613 00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.480 the TV. I'm like, look, you could take it with you and 614 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:45.000 have it. She's like, no, I want on the TV, and 615 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.400 like that's the one that I play Zelda on som pain in the ass. 616 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.159 But yeah, that's what happens with gaming, you don't you. There's all 617 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.960 this new stuff and I am always I'm always looking for what to new, 618 00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:58.920 absolutely, but I also like, I have these old games I love going 619 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.440 back to, and right now it's been a lot of PS one games and 620 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:07.280 Supernintendo games and now apparently called Ditty World at War, So that's gonna be 621 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:13.199 it too, alright. Moving on Borderland's film to release in August twenty twenty 622 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:16.800 four. This comes from Marie de Lessandri at Games Industry Dot is Borderland's film 623 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:21.199 adaptation will hit theaters on August nine. At twenty twenty four. The release 624 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.199 date was revealed by Deadline, which noted that the screenplay was co written by 625 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:29.840 Eli Roth of Hostile and Kevin Fever Fame Fame, and Joe Crombie. Crombie 626 00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:35.559 is actually a different name for Craig Mazin who wrote the Last of US TV 627 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.519 show and Chernobyl and all this stuff, and he wanted his name removed, 628 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:45.599 so he gave that fake name instead, which is just incredible. Yeah, 629 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:47.480 he actually said, I am not credited, not a credited writer of the 630 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.239 film, so I cannot claim any kind of authorship on Borderland's much less co 631 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.039 writing. He said, I did see the report about the pseudonym. Oh, 632 00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:57.440 he says, this is false. Excuse me, which is false. 633 00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.480 I did not use a pseudonym. If the name in question was indeed a 634 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:04.079 pseudonym, all I could say is it's not mine. Okay, this is 635 00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.760 this was a previous thing that people speculated a gone I guess because Joe Crombie 636 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:13.960 is the name, and no one knows who Joe Crombie is. So I 637 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:20.159 wonder if that's like like a combat like a composite of like Craig Mazon and 638 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:22.599 some other stuff, or maybe that's Randy Pitchford's stage name or something. Now 639 00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:28.599 Joe Crombie out there doing magic tricks. Mazin was initially reported to be involved 640 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:30.320 in the film in twenty twenty, when Eli Roth was revealed as director, 641 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:36.239 The Hollywood Reporter said The script was written by Mazon The Borderline's The Borderlands film 642 00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.840 was initially announced in twenty fifteen. Jesus hasn't been that long. The cast 643 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:45.199 includes Cate Blanchet, Edgar Murmirez, Kevin Hart, Arianna Greenblatt, Florian Mutinou, 644 00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:51.679 Jamie Lee, Curtis, Jack Black, and Moore. This is something 645 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.239 that like recently we were tired about, hey, that that movie has been 646 00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:00.360 finished, completed with filming for a long time now, like eighteen months or 647 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.239 something like that, a year and a half and we haven't heard anything about 648 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:05.440 it. And then a week later they come out with the dating like it's 649 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.159 coming out next year. There's nothing else to like really tell you about it, 650 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:12.119 although Randy Pitchford did confirm on Twitter that he does not have a cameo 651 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:17.480 in the movie. Jazz, how devastated are you by that? I don't 652 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.760 know. I think I'll be okay. I think I'm gonna be okay, 653 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.679 You're yeah, I'll be honest. I didn't know they were doing a movie 654 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:31.239 until this, until I heard that the dude was it was a pseudonym. 655 00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:37.280 But now it's not even true that maybe it was all a marketing ploy. 656 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.760 YEP, it's I know about the movie now, So Joe Cromby's actually probably 657 00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:47.400 the screen name for chat GBT. They probably just had AI rewrite the script 658 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:50.719 or something, and I'm like, we'll just call it Joe Crobby. Here 659 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.559 we go on the right. All the rights are on strike right now. 660 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:59.880 So yeah, maybe it was yeah, yeah, I don't know. I 661 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.599 don't really know how much about the movie and or it's development history, but 662 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:08.800 the fact who was announcing twenty fifteen and it's taken this long to give it 663 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:15.039 a date, I kind of I would that's a a've read reddish flager, 664 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.159 Yes, a maroon flag, and there's there's been some other maroon ish reddish 665 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:23.960 flags along the way, which is mostly U that you know, what happened 666 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:27.599 with Mazon here him being like I no, I'm not writing it and like 667 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.920 this weird pseudonym thing. That's one thing, obviously, but also there's been 668 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:35.239 like reports that that it's in production post production hell, where the film is 669 00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:37.840 complete and now they're trying to do you know, the the editing and the 670 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.920 effects work and that stuff apparently is not going super well. But that's you 671 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.079 know, maybe that's how it happens with a lot of movies we'll see. 672 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.360 I just the thing I remember the most was during the E three twenty twenty 673 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.079 one Randy Pittchford being on set of the movie and showing it off and then 674 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:57.000 just running up to every major star on the set be like, I'm Randy 675 00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.679 Pitchford, I made Borderlands, won't you be my friend Kevin Hart? And 676 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.880 it was like super awkward and embarrassing. So somehow that's gonna turned into a 677 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.599 major feature film. I need to say that. I mean, I know, 678 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:13.079 I know the film that's sort of in some kind of weird studies, 679 00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:16.519 the Minecraft movie, Like what yeah, right, wasn't that was announced like 680 00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:20.800 ten years ago? Right? Yeah, it's a ridiculous amount of time ago. 681 00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.880 Originally it was gonna be worked on by rod Rob mcelhaney from It's Always 682 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.719 Sunny in Philadelphia. I know he's no longer on the project, but for 683 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.159 years he was attached to direct that, and then there was another director who 684 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:36.039 I can't remember, attached to direct. I think that's that's typical with games, 685 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.000 right, games get licensed by Hollywood. H they they say they're gonna 686 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.079 make the movie. I mean, how many times did that happen with Milk 687 00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.000 You're solid and Halo I mean, I know they made the show, but 688 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.440 we pretend that doesn't exist and then uh yeah, So it's like that happens. 689 00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.760 This is normal. It's almost weirder when a movie actually does come out 690 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.920 and it seems like Borderland somehow is going to be one of those. But 691 00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:00.119 Hollywood's I just just correctly, like, Hollywood's gonna be like they're going to 692 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.719 be looking a movie like the Mario movie and some of the success stories of 693 00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.719 vide there's money to be made, yes, if they just do it properly. 694 00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:13.480 There one percent. Looking at Mario, everyone in Hollywood is like, 695 00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:15.400 Okay, that's what we're doing now. So video games are going to be 696 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.679 right for the picking for them, and there's some good chance for if you 697 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:21.480 have an IP that is relatively popular, to make some money. So a 698 00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.119 lot of these game studios and publishers are going to do that. And when 699 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.960 we see like Sony, a lot of their strategy is can we make a 700 00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:32.119 game and a movie or a TV show, And it's like, that's what's 701 00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:36.280 happening with Twisted Metal. You know we're getting I think we're getting a Twisted 702 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.320 Metal game because they thought we can make a twisted metal TV show and it's 703 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.239 like, okay, we'll see how that goes. But but that that is 704 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.679 the thinking right now at all these companies, so it's not too surprising that 705 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.679 that's the route they went, all right, last handful of stories here. 706 00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:55.760 Roadblocks suffers a substantial data leak. This comes from Sophie macavoy at Games Industry 707 00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:01.360 dot is. Roadblocks has experienced a significant data breach containing nearly four thousand developer 708 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:06.400 profiles, as reported by pc game. That's such a like. I get 709 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:09.760 that that's true. They're developer profiles, but developers on Roadblocks are like kids 710 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.159 and a lot of times miners. So that's like man, four thousand profiles, 711 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.039 probably mostly kids. As reported by pc gamer, the personal information included 712 00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:23.119 those who attended the Roadblocks Developer conference between twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. According 713 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:28.079 to I have been poned a website reporting data breaches, which emails me pretty 714 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.239 much every day to say another thing has been breached for me. By the 715 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:32.800 way, The breach originally took place in December twenty twenty, and the information 716 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:37.360 was republished on a form in July twenty twenty three. The data leak included 717 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.480 email addresses, names, user names, data states of birth, phone numbers 718 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:45.679 of physical and IP addresses, and T shirt sizes. Of course, a 719 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.719 source told I told Have I Been Pooned? Creator Troy Hunt via email that 720 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.239 the initial breach was not publicly disclosed by Roadblocks and those affected were allegedly not 721 00:46:54.360 --> 00:47:00.760 contacted. Hunt set on Twitter, geez crazy. So Roadblocks is a a 722 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:05.440 company I think has a pretty notorious and scummy reputation at this point for its 723 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:10.159 practices of taking most of the money that its content creators produce and kind of 724 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:16.239 being this content mail that monetizes children in a way that's pretty rough. Combine 725 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:21.719 that with having your data breached and then not doing the accepted best practice of 726 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.119 immediately as soon as it's possible informing the people who are affected by that, 727 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.800 just that's that's a screaming red flag, right, I mean, yeah, 728 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:37.679 I mean one of the things that emerged from the FTC trial was that the 729 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:44.480 reason Roadblocks wasn't on PlayStation was because Sony was not happy with Roadblocks is diet 730 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.840 A policies and stuff like that, and their approach to their approach to some 731 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:53.039 of this stuff. Microsofts are generally like pretty Usually it's a Microsoft who's the 732 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:57.719 one who's who's really funny about data and stuff like that. But like for 733 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.239 Sony to be like that, you know, and for forego access to one 734 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:06.519 of the biggest games in the world, that is a huge maroon flag. 735 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:08.519 You know. Well, that's not that's not even a room. We're going 736 00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:14.079 full blown crimson with that fight exactly. So. So Roadblocks is a scummy 737 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:15.800 company, like you said, and this is just part of the course. 738 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.880 I just wonder if some some some regulator or some day or authority will actually 739 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:28.119 give them the kind of fighting they need to get their ship together, because 740 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:32.599 it's there's a long laundry list of stuff they have done that is just scumming. 741 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.239 I might actually, I might actually write that list next week when Essential 742 00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:50.559 a scummy company? Scummy coming everybody, No, not that one. A 743 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:55.760 scummy company. Here's a long list of reasons why. Yeah. Yeah, 744 00:48:55.760 --> 00:49:00.440 well that was a fun way to misspeak. It's listen, it happens almost 745 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:05.800 every day on this show. Yeah, I think I would read that list. 746 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:07.960 I would be interested. I know. There's like long form videos on 747 00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:14.079 YouTube about about Roadblocks and about their monetization strategies from people are really good at 748 00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:16.639 that. I think people make games. I think is who did it originally? 749 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:20.800 I and it's like, yeah, I have. I've never got around 750 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:22.800 to watching that, but because it's like I don't have so much time for 751 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.079 those those kinds of videos that I would like to give my attention to. 752 00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:30.480 But I would love to read more reports on what's going over at roadblocks. 753 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.559 All right, let's do this last one. Despite Nintendo in valve, emulator 754 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:38.920 dev isn't worried about legal dangers for Dolphin. This comes from John walkerret Kotaku. 755 00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:44.880 While Nintendo loves a lawsuit and emulation is often a contentious issue for publishers, 756 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.000 few situations have been quite as high profile as the recent attempt to launch 757 00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:53.000 Gamecuban we emulator Dolphin on Steam. The twenty year old emulator engine has been 758 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:57.599 long available online. Man, it's really been around for twenty years, but 759 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.239 this attempt to become more mainstream ended pretty p pictably. But now, after 760 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:05.079 a few months of silence, the emulators he keeps saying EMU, which is 761 00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:08.239 not going to call it an EMU. The emu's creating. The emulators creators 762 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:13.719 have spoken up and claimed Nintendo's suggestion that their software breaks the law are completely 763 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.039 false. Back in March, it was revealed that the well loved emulator Dolphin 764 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:21.679 will receive surprise release on Steam. The software used to run both Gamecubing Week 765 00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.360 games on modern hardware, had a store page on Valves PC Gaming Store, 766 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:30.119 giving the unlikely impression that the decades old emulator was going mainstream inevitably. This 767 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:34.159 caused consternation, with the initial reports saying Nintendo issued demands the Valve that the 768 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.400 page be removed and the software not distributed on Steam. It was later revealed 769 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.400 that in fact, it was Valve that went running to Nintendo to tapball on 770 00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.320 the project, with a Nintendo of America lawyer then requesting the removal used. 771 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:52.079 Using the DMCA as its rationale, Dolphin claimed Nintendo unlawfully circumvanced its cryptographic keys 772 00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:58.719 and so distributing the software constitutes unlawful traffic and copyright infringement. Despite all of 773 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.760 this, often the people responsible for Dolphin Jazz were asked, hey, so 774 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.960 I mean you still have those those important codes in Dolphin where people can download 775 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:14.360 that elsewhere outside the Steam Are you worried about a lawsuit from Nintendo to come 776 00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.960 and come after you in the long run, to remove you from the Internet 777 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:21.239 completely, and the and the emulator people are like, no, not really. 778 00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:25.840 Nintendo hasn't really ever taken an emulator itself to court. They haven't gone 779 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:30.519 after the emulators of themselves. And I think people argue that's because Nintendo thinks 780 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:35.239 still lose. I think it's more like Nintendo is worried if they do lose, 781 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:39.039 then they enshrine in law in precedent that emulators are protected, and then 782 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:43.559 they lose the threat of a cease and desist and stuff. So like right 783 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.920 now they can threaten these things and say the DMCA and use that as like, 784 00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:50.199 okay, well, if we don't want it on Steam, we can 785 00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:52.199 like draw a line in the sand and say this is the hard line. 786 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.360 Do not pass this. Stay in your own little corner of the Internet, 787 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:58.159 and if you can get outside of that, if you get big for your 788 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:00.159 bridges, we will come after you. But if they losing court, that 789 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.960 would have a long term ramifications for their ability to threaten legal action, and 790 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.559 I think that's what they're more afraid of. I think the complexity of the 791 00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:15.639 issue is is really important here because not only does you know third parties like 792 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:21.920 Dolphin use emulation, but Nintendo itself uses emulation for some of its stuff. 793 00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.239 Microsoft uses emulation, and you know all the other companies use emulation. I 794 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:30.119 think like someone someone took a part that Snares not Snais Mini, the Mega 795 00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:35.239 Drive Mini, sorry, the Genesis, that's right, the Spirit. Thank 796 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.679 you for recognizing. Someone took apart that device and found that. I think 797 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:44.519 it was that it was might have been another one, but like Saga or 798 00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:46.079 someone, I can't remember, it's likely who it was, but they'd use 799 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:51.599 like literal literal ROMs that they downloaded off the internet. So to make those 800 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:53.440 devices, right, it was a big I can't remember which company was. 801 00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:58.920 I think was it like was it the PlayStation Many actually because it might have 802 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.760 been. Remember Nintato has done this in the past two where they've used ROMs 803 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:10.840 downloaded from the internet. Yeah, now them the romcras names exactly. So 804 00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.599 it's it's kind of like, you know, emulation serves a technical purpose not 805 00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:22.920 just for for you know, for for pirates as I would suggest, right, 806 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.519 and that scene is like they draw information and they draw resources from that 807 00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:30.480 that emulation scene because a lot of that stuff is going to be open source, 808 00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:32.320 and if these companies didn't decide, hey, we want to go make 809 00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:37.920 a commercial emulator, they're often looking to what these open source projects have done. 810 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:42.039 Sometimes they even license the open source projects themselves like that, that's not 811 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.679 some rare occurrence. And so this is like free work being done for them, 812 00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.719 and they don't want that to go away through regal threats. You're right, 813 00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:53.320 it's very complicated. So yeah, and like try and we've seen like 814 00:53:53.480 --> 00:54:00.679 regular as completely must understand the nuances of cloud gaming and the whole sort of 815 00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:06.000 the the what call of duty being on getting past means and all that kind 816 00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.800 of stuff, asked them to understand this. I mean, it's it's it's 817 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:14.440 like a headlight. Nintendo's legal Tan's probably just like no, we can't, 818 00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:17.239 right, we mustn't, We mustn't not, just we can we mustn't. 819 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:22.880 I think Nintendo's very happy to be in that zone of we can threaten all 820 00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:27.360 we want, and that's way more powerful than actually suing people. Like we're 821 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:30.519 very good at threatening people. So we're gonna just stick to that. So 822 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:35.440 Nintendo is scary. Nintendo scary. That's that's what we always say over at 823 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:38.519 giant bomb dot com. All right, let's get to the pull. I'm 824 00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:44.920 gonna pull this up from yesterday where we asked have you avoided Blizzard games because 825 00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:47.519 they have not been on Steam, only twenty three percent said yes. Seventy 826 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:52.920 seven percent said no. But at twenty three percent now it was an opportunity 827 00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.119 to play Overwatch two. I think this is gonna make moves for that game. 828 00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:01.159 Jazz. No, the reason over What's two is failing is because it's 829 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:06.239 not in a good position right now. The game, the development of the 830 00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:08.480 game has been poor. And this is coming from someone who actively plays Overwatch. 831 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:12.800 Well not not so much anymore, but the community over there is not 832 00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:16.559 very happy, you know, and the disruption that switching to five v five 833 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:21.079 is brought to the game, and switching from free to play and all that 834 00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:24.159 kind of stuff. They've sort of they've sort of seeing the industry run away 835 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:29.760 from them, you know. And you know, CS goes doing doing Gangbox 836 00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:34.400 and Gangbusters Sorry, and like you've seen like you know, battle Rail games 837 00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.880 doing really well as well, and sort of the sort of Hero Shooter sort 838 00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:42.239 of came and went. But then TF two is blowing up again. People 839 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.000 are so tired with Overwatch. They're going back to TF two because it got 840 00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:51.000 seals. You know that seals TF two and that was enough to remind people, 841 00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:52.000 Oh yeah, there was a bet there was a better version of this 842 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.880 at one point. Let's go back and play that. So it's it's a 843 00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:59.760 mess of Blizard Zone doing and I think putting on Steam ain't going to do 844 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:05.559 JAF. I think it's uh. I think it's it sets it up for 845 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:08.440 success in the future, but only if they address the issues with Overwatch and 846 00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:12.719 get people excited about it again. And that's where the real work will actually 847 00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:15.039 have the you know, the feet meet the pavement and all that. All 848 00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:17.119 right, I have another pull question I'm gonna get to in a second. 849 00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:20.639 But in the meantime, Jazz, why don't you tell people where they can 850 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.039 find you on the internet, where you got your you got your shows, 851 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.320 you do tell people about all of that. Well, you know, thanks 852 00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:29.800 very much for having me, Jeff. Of course, time we've actually managed 853 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:35.480 the podcast like this, we did the we did XP two plus one, 854 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.320 Yes, we did XP two plus one, but like a live podcast for 855 00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:40.639 everybody, Yes, I think so that's awesome. Yeah, well you very 856 00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:46.679 much having me, And I'm Jeess Cordon Window Central dot com on Twitter Jezz 857 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:51.880 Cordon, and we also do the Xbox two podcasts on the Rundel Thought nineteen's 858 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:57.000 YouTube channel and at the XP two dot com. So thanks very much. 859 00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:01.519 Absolutely, Uh, let's see Giant Bond dot Com. We're gonna have that. 860 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:06.400 The results of the pull question, are you upset that the Borderlands movie 861 00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:09.599 won't have a Randy Pitchford cameo? Your answers to your options are yes, 862 00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:13.800 I'm devastated by this lack of real magic and no, I should not have 863 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.960 to suffer a magician. So go ahead vote for that. And on Monday 864 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:21.639 on GiantBomb dot com Game US Mornings, we will get that. Also on 865 00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:25.760 giant bomb dot com, speaking of we're gonna do UPF today early. It's 866 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:30.760 a early unprofessional Fridays. It's gonna be one pm Eastern ten am Pacific. 867 00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:36.199 Look out for that. So we're gonna be playing See If Thieves. We're 868 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:37.480 gonna be going in there and doing a little bit of that. That new 869 00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:42.440 content, the Monkey Island content. Looking forward to that. It's going to 870 00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.599 be me Jan and some friends. So look, that's very exciting. And 871 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:49.920 then next week we'll get back to the normal schedule. We'll have games mornings 872 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:53.480 most mornings, bomb cast all that stuff. We'll do Blight Club on Wednesday, 873 00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:55.400 and then I'm out for the rest of the week. Next week, 874 00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:59.039 so yeah, look out for all that and A written it too quickly. 875 00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:01.159 We'll be going up soon as well. All right, Jess, thank you 876 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:04.400 so much for spending today talking with me about video games. Man, I 877 00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.360 really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you man, so awesome. Thank you 878 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.960 all for watching your the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have 879 00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:13.199 a good one, take care of yourself. Goodbye.