Speaker 1: You'll be bit.
Speaker 2: Mike, I don't say the one. It's it's just like
Speaker 2: three to two.
Speaker 3: I get it. I also was distracted because there's another
Speaker 3: breaking story that I'm adding to the thing real quick.
Speaker 3: It's okay, Hi, Should I just go?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 3: Hi? Everybody? What's to say? Okay, Hey, everybody, welcome to
Speaker 3: the Gay Mess Mornings with Me Mike Minaughty, your host
Speaker 3: from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in. In
Speaker 3: this episode, we're gonna be talking about Xbox layoffs happening
Speaker 3: right now, the death of pss R in the Outriders
Speaker 3: sequel that will never happen. It's gonna be a good
Speaker 3: one because we have Jana Choa on the show. There's
Speaker 3: old stuff here about a sponsor that we don't currently have.
Speaker 3: I've been you know, Jeff's Jeff's format here is strange
Speaker 3: and magical I've discovered. But for a show, how are
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Mike Manati. I I love the energy
Speaker 2: that game Mike Mornings brings to my Wednesday mornings. That's right,
Speaker 2: it's great. Uh. Turns out, Mike, when you move, not
Speaker 2: only does your computer not want to work sometimes and
Speaker 2: recognize all the same outputs that are that were exactly
Speaker 2: where they were. But your body doesn't want to wake
Speaker 2: up at the normal time it normally does.
Speaker 3: I bet, I bet. I mean, look, you already have
Speaker 3: my sympathy being on the West Coast and having to
Speaker 3: get up in the actual shoot morning for things I
Speaker 3: name stuff morning shows and then do them at two PM.
Speaker 3: That's how much I actually greatly dislike mornings.
Speaker 2: So it's the morning somewhere, Mike, right.
Speaker 3: It's always the morning somewhere, hopefully where you are and
Speaker 3: not where I am, because yeah, I am the opposite
Speaker 3: of a morning person. But you know, you're getting settled
Speaker 3: in though the move, you know, there's all the move
Speaker 3: usually keeps happening for months and months and months, but
Speaker 3: hopefully a lot of the big stuff is taken care of.
Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, finally cleared enough space in the kitchen to
Speaker 2: actually walk around, and now my partner's graciously going to
Speaker 2: start putting more stuff away, a little bit more shelf
Speaker 2: space than we originally had at the old place, which
Speaker 2: is a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3: I could see your nightmare before Christmas. Zero popcorn bucket
Speaker 3: behind you over there.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: I actually bought my first popcorn buckets this. Oh, they're
Speaker 3: actually at Universal. It's twofless from howitoring your Dragon. And
Speaker 3: I got them for my nephews both have birthdays coming up,
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, this is fun. But when
Speaker 3: I bought it, they were like, you know, you get
Speaker 3: like a free fill of popcorn on yeah boy.
Speaker 2: So no, okay. So that's the great thing that Universal
Speaker 2: does that I don't remember if Disney actually does. Because
Speaker 2: at Universal, if you buy the popcorn bucket, you just
Speaker 2: show up with a receipt and they'll see whether or
Speaker 2: not you ticked it off yet, and they'll give you
Speaker 2: the free popcorn refill.
Speaker 3: I got the popcorn. I put it in that bad boy.
Speaker 3: I put it around my neck and carried that little
Speaker 3: two fliss around like like my child. And I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what. I get the appeal. I get the appeal.
Speaker 3: It was kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, don't worry, folks. Soon enough, I'll get the
Speaker 2: whole crew on the boo boos, the boo boos, love
Speaker 2: boo boos, boo boos. I just love hearing you guys
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Speaker 3: a lot to get into us, so let's start the
Speaker 3: morning mess with Microsoft begins deep job cuts across the
Speaker 3: Xbox division. This is from Jason Schreyer at Bloomberg. Microsoft
Speaker 3: announced Wednesday morning it's eliminating nine thousand workers company wide
Speaker 3: and a second wave of layoffs this year. The cuts
Speaker 3: will have an impact across teams, geographies and tenure, and
Speaker 3: our main efforts of streamlining processes and reducing layers of management.
Speaker 3: A company spokesperson said. The termination follows an earlier round
Speaker 3: of layoffs in May that hit six thousand people and
Speaker 3: fell hardest on product and engineering positions. These cuts have
Speaker 3: started today jan We're kind of learning mostly about the
Speaker 3: European offices impacted. For example, the Stockholm based King division,
Speaker 3: which makes candy crushes, cutting ten percent.
Speaker 2: Of its staff.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, about two thousand jobs. Other European offices
Speaker 3: such as Xenemax also began forming employees that job coups
Speaker 3: are happening as we're going live. Jason Schreier reported that
Speaker 3: Zenemax's new MMO project and these are the people who
Speaker 3: made oer scrolls online. Their new project, code named Blackbird,
Speaker 3: which was in development since twenty eighteen, has been canceled
Speaker 3: as part of these layoffs and again US kind of
Speaker 3: layoffs here expected to be announced later in the day.
Speaker 3: The Microsoft's gaming division had about twenty thousand plays as
Speaker 3: of January twenty twenty four. Here's a clip from Phil
Speaker 3: Spencer to position gaming for enduring success and allow us
Speaker 3: to focus on strategic growth areas. It will end or
Speaker 3: decrease work in certain areas of the business and follow
Speaker 3: Microsoft's lead and removing layers of management to increase agility
Speaker 3: and effectiveness. This is the fourth mass layoff at Xbox
Speaker 3: in the last eighteen months. Rumors are also saying that
Speaker 3: ever Wild is canceled at Rare.
Speaker 2: So this is.
Speaker 3: Happening right now. We're going to probably be learning more
Speaker 3: about this, especially how it impacts US studios as the
Speaker 3: day goes on. I mean, you know, a certain point,
Speaker 3: what do we say, jan this sucks again. Microsoft is
Speaker 3: insanely rich, filthy rich, disgustingly rich. What does it need
Speaker 3: to Why does it need to cause so much misery?
Speaker 3: What is the justification possibly throughout these words like agility
Speaker 3: and effectiveness? Fuck off?
Speaker 2: This is terrible. Yeah, the aspects of this where they
Speaker 2: keep saying they're handling management, I think they should look
Speaker 2: further up the ladder, Mic because there's several several layers
Speaker 2: of mismanagement further at the top, closer to phill that
Speaker 2: needs to be addressed. Nine thousand workers laid off is insane.
Speaker 2: And I know whenever these stories come out, Mike and
Speaker 2: we report on them, people will see like ten percent
Speaker 2: of a company laid off, and that ten percent may
Speaker 2: not feel like a lot, but when you like put
Speaker 2: it on paper and you are now suddenly losing two
Speaker 2: hundred of your coworkers, that is mighty significant. Especially like
Speaker 2: I I know that I'm under the assumption that at
Speaker 2: King Candy Crush may not take the most work to maintain,
Speaker 2: but it is like still one of the top mobile
Speaker 2: games out there or so like people are still actively
Speaker 2: playing it. That getting Candy Crush under the Microsoft umbrella
Speaker 2: was definitely part of like the the acquisition motivations from
Speaker 2: like a couple of years ago. So like, this just sucks, Mike. This,
Speaker 2: this really like takes the wind out of my sales
Speaker 2: for any interest in Microsoft related things. Hearing about ZeniMax
Speaker 2: getting gutted also stinks. Elder Scrolls. The MMO just feels
Speaker 2: like one of those MMOs that was like constantly trucking
Speaker 2: along and doing well. And I was always I'm always
Speaker 2: jazzed to see an MMO scene like doing pretty okay
Speaker 2: despite me not being totally clued into it. Man, killing
Speaker 2: a game that they've been working on for seven years
Speaker 2: is insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Yeah, Elder Scrolls Online has done well,
Speaker 3: It's never quite reached that world of warcraft they're going
Speaker 3: to file on fantacy fourteen level. I think of just
Speaker 3: being an absolute money truck. But it's done well. They've
Speaker 3: continued to support, they continue to promote it, But I
Speaker 3: don't think that game has a you know, forever expiration date.
Speaker 3: At some point, you're gonna need a new game for
Speaker 3: ZENMX Online Studios to move on to. So canceling Blackbird
Speaker 3: here that worries me because what what is the plan
Speaker 3: for that studio now? Is it just ESO now forever?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna try to green light a new project
Speaker 3: or you know what I really worry about, are you
Speaker 3: gonna wind that whole thing down eventually once the money
Speaker 3: from ESO dries up. That's a difficult thing about it. Ever,
Speaker 3: while it was probably a bit of an easy target
Speaker 3: on this one, Jim, that was the kind of fan
Speaker 3: see multiplayer game that Rare announced a long time ago,
Speaker 3: and then it was kind of clear that there wasn't
Speaker 3: much of a game there and that it's maybe been
Speaker 3: rebooted a few times. So that's disappointing that we couldn't
Speaker 3: figure something out there and that you know, we're not
Speaker 3: we're not getting you know, see, if these is great,
Speaker 3: sure it does well, it's also been out for a while.
Speaker 3: They've done you know, the Pirates of the Caribbean thing,
Speaker 3: They've done the Monkey Allen thing. Unless they start doing
Speaker 3: a Muppet treasure Islan thing, they're gonna start running out
Speaker 3: of I ready ip to bring into that thing.
Speaker 2: So what if they do a treasure planet Mike, Oh, don't,
Speaker 2: don't tease me, don't tease me.
Speaker 3: Can but you know, like you know, we got to
Speaker 3: have projects that Rare, So again, hopefully this is okay
Speaker 3: to cancel ever while move on to something else and
Speaker 3: not just well, here comes layoffs for Rare of all things,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, such a legacy studio that's done
Speaker 3: so many things and could and should be put on
Speaker 3: projects like Viven Pinata, like Banjo Kazooi and things like that.
Speaker 3: Just the fact, this is the fourth round of these
Speaker 3: mass layoffs in the last eighteen months. It isn't the
Speaker 3: last one. I don't know. No, I still don't know
Speaker 3: how this is going to impact, say Blizter we can
Speaker 3: find out the layoffs a Blizzard later today, and so
Speaker 3: many other studios, so many games that are coming out
Speaker 3: that are that still seem kind of a while away.
Speaker 3: I mean, Fable and Perfect Dark had been talked about
Speaker 3: forever and we didn't We didn't see those this summer
Speaker 3: at Xbox's showcase. Right now, these games are taking forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not even like a hint of or anything of
Speaker 2: what's going on. Like they chose to put Silk Song
Speaker 2: in one of the hype trailers reels. This is a reels, yeah,
Speaker 2: instead of like a game that is actually theirs. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Like this it worries me a lot
Speaker 2: for the future of anything related to Microsoft. Really, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm not the biggest Call of Duty player at all,
Speaker 2: but if that cash cow starts to dry up, are
Speaker 2: they just going to send that out to get got
Speaker 2: further down the line? I Mean. The other aspect of
Speaker 2: this that sucks is that it's not just developers that
Speaker 2: are getting looped up in these layoffs. It's also people
Speaker 2: from several different departments also that you know, it may
Speaker 2: not be the easiest to find a new job. We've
Speaker 2: seen people that have been laid off from UH I
Speaker 2: don't know cycles ago that are still struggling to look
Speaker 2: for a new job. And it's it sucks, Mike, it's
Speaker 2: and it's really rough.
Speaker 3: It's really depressing. And again, like this news is gonna
Speaker 3: be following throughout the day here, so we don't know
Speaker 3: what other games we're gonna find out are canceled, if
Speaker 3: entire studios. I mean, there are rumors going into this
Speaker 3: that the Forts Motorsport developer turned ten might be in
Speaker 3: big trouble and they're based in Redmond, Washington, but that
Speaker 3: ends up being true. We're gonna hear about that game again.
Speaker 3: The last Forts and Motorsport came out of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: It feels like it didn't quite light the world on fire,
Speaker 3: but you know a lot of Xbox games have been
Speaker 3: having trouble letting the world on fire, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know South of Midnight I think it kind of
Speaker 3: came and it probably did okay, but nothing Crazy held
Speaker 3: Bay two and then I don't think any of these
Speaker 3: games were some giant flops or anything. But yeah, none
Speaker 3: of them are, you know, reaching that super stratosphere that
Speaker 3: maybe you're hoping for. But at a certain point, what
Speaker 3: do all these games have in common. It's it's the
Speaker 3: Xbox leadership. It's the Xbox plan, a plan that not
Speaker 3: too long ago was nothing but game pass, game pass,
Speaker 3: game pass, game pass. And now suddenly they're not talking
Speaker 3: about game pass so much anymore. There is no plan.
Speaker 3: They're retreating from hardware. There are. They want to be
Speaker 3: a publisher Solster's games everywhere. That's great, but they still
Speaker 3: talk about hard where. They still say they're making a
Speaker 3: new console and it's gonna be the biggest generational leap
Speaker 3: it ever is. You know, Mike Ibara was talking to
Speaker 3: say Form president of Blizzard, and I think that he's
Speaker 3: maybe a bit of I don't say clown, but he
Speaker 3: ruts me the wrong way a little bit. Sometimes. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's some truth in. Xbox has to get a better
Speaker 3: strategy here than just trying to do everything publish all
Speaker 3: these games everywhere and everywhere, still have a console, slapping
Speaker 3: the Xbox name on a rog ally in an Oculus quest. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: it's like the games are floundering.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're the second we hear that. I don't know,
Speaker 2: like a fable or a Perfect Dark gets canceled. I
Speaker 2: I don't know what that says about Microsoft. I know
Speaker 2: what that says about Microsoft. I don't know what that
Speaker 2: says about Uh, like the state of like these gigantic,
Speaker 2: big publishers, if they're have so much, it's less so
Speaker 2: that they are having trouble, but like it is just
Speaker 2: a fire and a mess happening internally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know how that house is going
Speaker 3: to get in order again.
Speaker 2: You know, it's such whiplash because it just was.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like that long ago when they were
Speaker 3: buying all of these studios and they just couldn't stop biatus.
Speaker 3: Thank god that we at least know there's a new
Speaker 3: game coming from Double Fine that was finally announced, because
Speaker 3: I'd been terrified for them right now, and that would
Speaker 3: be such a travesty if anything happened at that studio.
Speaker 3: So again, Wow, well we'll see more. News is going
Speaker 3: to be happening throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Mike, what is the point of trying to become like
Speaker 2: this gigantic behemoth in the games industry, if you were
Speaker 2: just going to continue to lay people off and cancel
Speaker 2: project after project.
Speaker 3: It's all about trends, right when you know, these services
Speaker 3: became a trend, right, Hbo Max and Disney Plus, So
Speaker 3: here comes game paths. That's a trend. And trends can
Speaker 3: be anything. For people in suits because they're very stupid
Speaker 3: and they have problems thinking for themselves. So when they
Speaker 3: look around they see the other people wearing suits with
Speaker 3: their nice haircuts doing things they like to just do
Speaker 3: what they're doing. And right now the trend is laying
Speaker 3: people off, like, oh, this is a fun trend. Ooh.
Speaker 3: Look if I lay these people off and take away
Speaker 3: their livelihood and their money, my numbers go up. Ooh
Speaker 3: investors happy, Ooh, I like this quick fix. Never mind
Speaker 3: the consequences of suddenly losing a giant portion of your workforce,
Speaker 3: never mind the human suffering. Human suffering doesn't impact the line,
Speaker 3: So it's all a bunch of bullshits. The market is
Speaker 3: terrible for gaming. It's never about quality. U Nobody is
Speaker 3: increasing investor value by increasing quality, at least they don't
Speaker 3: think so. So that's why so many of these giant
Speaker 3: publishers are beginning to fail us and we're getting our
Speaker 3: better games elsewhere. Anyways, go ahead, sorry, Jed.
Speaker 2: Before we move on to the next story, Mike, how
Speaker 2: much of this do you think is not only motivated
Speaker 2: and pushed forward by corporate greed and actual mismanagement that's
Speaker 2: never going to be addressed, but by these suits and
Speaker 2: exacts thinking oh well, we'll just replace everyone with AI.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some AI bullshit thinking going on there too,
Speaker 3: write and yeah, yeah, we'll see how that goes, because
Speaker 3: you know, they have to realize and I sometimes with
Speaker 3: this AI stuff like it's like I'm gonna look at it,
Speaker 3: and parties like, oh, that's just a little bit. And
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm still glad that everybody freaks out and
Speaker 3: tells them to stop that and to get ben and
Speaker 3: to review bomb them, because it is a little bit
Speaker 3: of we can't allow any of that, because as soon
Speaker 3: as you give them an inch, they're gonna give us
Speaker 3: a mile of this AI slop. So you know, that's
Speaker 3: that's there. I think with you know, AI is such
Speaker 3: a part of this train that was you know, Blockchain,
Speaker 3: then Metaverse and now AI again just another trend that
Speaker 3: everybody talks about at these ridiculous conferences where they go
Speaker 3: to and they all just you know, pass along whatever
Speaker 3: buzzword that they read about. It's annoying and it's stupid,
Speaker 3: all right. Next up here, Mark Mark Kearney's uh spar
Speaker 3: Surney excuse me says Placation vi pro will get its
Speaker 3: major replacement for the current PSSR upscaler next year from
Speaker 3: Jordan Miller VGC PS five System architect Mark Serny has
Speaker 3: discussed a major update coming to places vi pro in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, which will replace it's PSSR upscal ar tech.
Speaker 3: Ear this year, it was announced that only an AMDA
Speaker 3: partner on the project am Withthys Initiative, which is focused
Speaker 3: on delivering a version of FSR four, AMD's equivalent of
Speaker 3: Nvidia's DLSS tech to the play station vi pro. The
Speaker 3: technology will be similar to Sony's own PSSR tech, which
Speaker 3: is a machine learning based upscaler but promises improved results.
Speaker 3: And interviewed with Tom's Guide, Serny disgust the upcoming tech,
Speaker 3: which he called a drop in replacement for the current
Speaker 3: PSSR RIP pisser. I guess it's a little weird because
Speaker 3: we heard so much about that proprietary tech blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: and they're already just kind of gonna replace that and
Speaker 3: drop in FSR, which I mean, I guess, I guess
Speaker 3: that makes sense. Why devote all this money and technology
Speaker 3: into making your own system here when you have AMD,
Speaker 3: you have in Vidia already investing a ton into these things.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is this weird to you at all?
Speaker 2: Jam, I'm with you, Mike. I devote all the time
Speaker 2: in resources to make and implement your own system that
Speaker 2: may not work as well as like the leaders out there.
Speaker 2: It's like, we're not trying to make our own video
Speaker 2: hosting platform to rival YouTube or Twitch right now, because
Speaker 2: that would be silly to do. Just use the tools
Speaker 2: that are available and work with those existing relationships. I
Speaker 2: also think it's insane that no one at PlayStation brought
Speaker 2: up the idea that PSSR looks like pisser.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what this is really about, so people keep
Speaker 3: calling it pisser. It's a big problem. Yeah, this makes
Speaker 3: a lot of sense that I bet it's even going
Speaker 3: to look better. I mean, it's a little silly to
Speaker 3: continue developing PSSR, which would take a ton of resources
Speaker 3: to keep that tech going. When you can just partner
Speaker 3: with an AMD or an in video and yeah FSRSS,
Speaker 3: there's a gonna be the two kinds of these tech
Speaker 3: we always see going forward continuing here. According to Serny,
Speaker 3: he expected the investment and technology to take years to
Speaker 3: come to fruition, but due to the collaboration between the
Speaker 3: two companies, they have managed to develop a substantially improved
Speaker 3: upscaling algorithm in just a few years. It expected to
Speaker 3: release publicly in twenty twenty six. Yeah, I mean, here's
Speaker 3: what it looks like. You know, I don't have a
Speaker 3: PlayStation five Pro, and I feel kind of weird about
Speaker 3: it because it's the first time I didn't get one
Speaker 3: of these min gen upgrades. Even you know, the stuff
Speaker 3: does look kind of nice. My problem is, you know,
Speaker 3: I invested in a new PC instead, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: also get one of these. And every year I don't
Speaker 3: get a PlayStation five Pro, I'm a year closer to
Speaker 3: a PlayStation six anyway, So why jump on now. It's
Speaker 3: not like there's gonna be a sale or the price
Speaker 3: is gonna go down, of course not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike I'm in the same boat where my PS
Speaker 2: five is doing completely fine. Sure, during some moments of
Speaker 2: destraining two, it's starting to sound like a jet en,
Speaker 2: But I think that is because of my own that's
Speaker 2: just due to me being a dusty boy and not
Speaker 2: cleaning out my PS five. But yeah, I just have.
Speaker 3: Called you the pig pen of Giant Bomb, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: That's right. I have a cloud around me at all times.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I have no interest in getting a PS
Speaker 2: five pro exactly for the reasons you highlighted. And the
Speaker 2: further we keep going, Mike, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: want a PS six.
Speaker 3: We'll see. PlayStation at least does have some exclusives sometimes,
Speaker 3: although those are coming you know, later and later, and
Speaker 3: they always get PC ports and the PS the PC
Speaker 3: ports are happening sooner and sooner. I sure don't know
Speaker 3: if I'm going to need the next Xbox with you know,
Speaker 3: absolutely knowing all their games are coming to PC and
Speaker 3: with you know, the things that they have been doing
Speaker 3: all right. Next up her three former Ubisoft execs receive
Speaker 3: suspended prison sentences at harassment trial. This is from Chris
Speaker 3: Scolian at VGC three former Ubisoft execs standing trial for
Speaker 3: sexual assault and harassment at the company have been found
Speaker 3: guilty and sentence. The trial of former CEO Sergey Haskalt,
Speaker 3: former vice president of Editory Korea of Services, Thomas Francois,
Speaker 3: a former game developer Gillemi Petrue initially started in March,
Speaker 3: but was adjourned until early June following her quest from
Speaker 3: lawyers who have more time to get familiar with the
Speaker 3: cases documents. Francois was accused of systematic psychological and sexual arrassment,
Speaker 3: with alleged behavior including the watching of porn in an
Speaker 3: open plan office, commenting on the appearance of female staff,
Speaker 3: regular public humiliation, in hazing, an attempted sexual assault where
Speaker 3: he allegedly tried to forcibly kiss a young employee during
Speaker 3: a Christmas party as she was held by other colleagues.
Speaker 3: According to Liberation, Francoise has now been found guilty of
Speaker 3: moral and sexual arrassment and attempted sexual assault has been
Speaker 3: given a three year suspended prison sentence and a fine
Speaker 3: of thirty thousand euros about thirty five one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to jump in right here and editorialize
Speaker 3: and say that that doesn't seem like enough of a punishment.
Speaker 3: Hascott was accused of loop behavior, posting intrusive questions of
Speaker 3: a sexual nature, in racist comments and behavior.
Speaker 2: He was alleged to have asked.
Speaker 3: A Muslim employee if she supported Islamic state, and to
Speaker 3: have been responsible for her PC desktop image being replaced
Speaker 3: with photos of bacon sandwiches and food being placed on
Speaker 3: her desk during her ramadn Fest. Liberation reports that Ascot
Speaker 3: has received an eighteen month suspended prison sentence in a
Speaker 3: fine of forty five thousand euros or about fifty three
Speaker 3: thousand dollars petrol. He was a designer who chelves as
Speaker 3: the Crew and grow Home was accused of psychological arrestment,
Speaker 3: including violent and intimidating behavior. He has received a twelve
Speaker 3: month suspended prison that it's any fine of ten thousand
Speaker 3: years about twelve thousand dollars um. Yeah, uh boy. These
Speaker 3: people are terrible. I'm glad they're getting some punishment. I
Speaker 3: don't doesn't sound like it's quite enough to me. There
Speaker 3: was a lot of cleaning up that had to happen
Speaker 3: at UBISOFTS and I know they've done some work there.
Speaker 3: I doubt they've done enough and it's disgraceful that this
Speaker 3: ever happened in the first place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these people should be pushed down the stairs and
Speaker 2: like I'm talking like a big flight of stairs and
Speaker 2: I'll do it. That's not me threatening violence, that's just
Speaker 2: me upholding justice. What the fuck, Mike, it is.
Speaker 3: It's best up. And I know it's like uncomfortable, but
Speaker 3: I think it's important to talk about these people and
Speaker 3: the things that they have done. Yes, specifically and explicitly,
Speaker 3: it's fucking disgusting and shame on them and shame on
Speaker 3: anybody who helped to enable them.
Speaker 2: This. This furthers the case mic that I think you
Speaker 2: BISOFT should be dismantled at the top, and you know,
Speaker 2: while we're at it, let's do that for all the
Speaker 2: big corporations, right, But you bes off specifically, like we've
Speaker 2: had we've heard the cases of Eves hiding other execs
Speaker 2: and like, uh, you know, continuing to shield this boy's
Speaker 2: club at the top. This is not a boys club.
Speaker 2: A boys club is like hanging out in the woods
Speaker 2: in a treehouse and like throwing rocks at each other.
Speaker 2: This is not fucking systematic humiliation and harassment at every
Speaker 2: single level. I feel so terrible for the workers involved
Speaker 2: and the workers that have had to witness this and
Speaker 2: not feel and feel the pressure in the past to
Speaker 2: not report. This is terrible, Mike, Like I, this is Garbo.
Speaker 2: These people should get more than the twelve month eighteen
Speaker 2: month prison sentences. They should be thrown into a hole.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I hope that the victims get some sense of
Speaker 3: sassaction or justice from this, But I get the hunch
Speaker 3: that it's not gonna be enough, and there's nothing you
Speaker 3: can ever do to make it right for those people. Huh,
Speaker 3: all right, Jen, why don't we take a quick break.
Speaker 3: We'll come back. We've got some more news to talk about.
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Speaker 3: Now, all right, we're back. I think uh, most of
Speaker 3: you just saw on her from Jeff Grubb and that
Speaker 3: ad there, So there you go. You got a little
Speaker 3: bit of Jeffy. Jeff I probably shouldn't mentioned on the top.
Speaker 3: He's a he's on vacation or out on assignment. I
Speaker 3: think we'll be saying here, so maybe they get them pancakes.
Speaker 3: So I'm filling in for him today and tomorrow. No
Speaker 3: show on Friday, fourth of July. We will be off.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move along here. Sub Nautica to developers
Speaker 3: entire leadership team replaced and Shock moved Craft and said, well,
Speaker 3: bring renew to energy mometum by Vicki Blake at ign.
Speaker 3: Former Striking Distance CEO Steve Papotis is joining sub Nautica
Speaker 3: to developer Unknown Worlds as CEO, and made the Shock
Speaker 3: announcement that the previous leadership team Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland
Speaker 3: and Max McGuire been replaced effective immediately. Un World's owner
Speaker 3: crafton which is behind pubg Bill to expand on why
Speaker 3: the leadership team has been gutted, we said, well, it's
Speaker 3: sought to keep the Unknown World's co founders and original
Speaker 3: creators of the Sumnautica series and falls in the game's development.
Speaker 3: It wishes them well on their next endeavors. Crafton insisted
Speaker 3: Papoetis will prioritize development momentum and delivering best possible thing
Speaker 3: experience and will bring renewed energy momentum. It's unclear what
Speaker 3: the change means for the launch window of the game.
Speaker 3: Crafton acquired un Worlds in October twenty twenty one. At
Speaker 3: the time, it said the Subnautica Studio will continue to
Speaker 3: operate as an independent outfit. So this is strange. We
Speaker 3: don't really know what's going on over there, but something's
Speaker 3: got to happen if you just, you know, get rid
Speaker 3: of an entire leadership team and bring in somebody new.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this doesn't feel like bad people getting kicked out
Speaker 2: of the company. This just feels like a weird, dramatic
Speaker 2: restructuring that feels like it's going to lead to unfortunately
Speaker 2: poor things. I always thought sub Nautica was doing fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, people really like original Subnautica a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you know it had a basically it already
Speaker 3: had a sequel with Sumnautica Below zero and Subnautica two
Speaker 3: is kind of the third game in the series in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a well liked series.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why the heck such a overhaul would
Speaker 3: be required, you know, I don't want to speculate, because
Speaker 3: you know, maybe there was something where that happened behind this, sir. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, so I guess we got to just
Speaker 3: hold on there. So people say, but you know, I'm
Speaker 3: not someone who's played Synautica a lot. I've been meaning
Speaker 3: to get to it, but if I was a fan
Speaker 3: of the series, I would probably be concerned.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The people that love Semnautica, I feel like, are
Speaker 2: of a similar ilk to the folks that really really
Speaker 2: like No Man's Sky. Sure that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, all right.
Speaker 3: Hooded Horse to publish new Heroes of min and Magic
Speaker 3: games by Rachel Kaser at Game Speed shout Out. The
Speaker 3: game Speed publisher Hooded Horse announced today that is entered
Speaker 3: into agreement with Ubisoft and developer Unfrozen. Ho Horse will
Speaker 3: publish the latter's upcoming turn based tactics title Heroes of
Speaker 3: Might and Magic Olden Era The game launches in early
Speaker 3: access on PC layers here. Coinciding with the series thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 3: UBI Soft revealed Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era
Speaker 3: last year to be developed by and Frozen, the fledgling
Speaker 3: studio behind strategic game Irides, Lord of the Dead, Hooded Horse,
Speaker 3: also as a background in the space, having published Manor,
Speaker 3: Lords Against the Storm and Endless Legend two. CEO Tim
Speaker 3: Benderson as statement, Heroes of Might and Magic is a
Speaker 3: legendary series, one that has a place in the hearts
Speaker 3: and childhoods of many gamers. We're honored to be teaming
Speaker 3: up with Ubisoft and Unfrozen on this project. I'm and
Speaker 3: this thing is kind of weird because Ubisoft is already
Speaker 3: a publisher, so why did we have to bring in
Speaker 3: another publisher? But you know, Ubi SA's been doing a
Speaker 3: lot of weird restructuring. There's now like two halves of Ubisoft,
Speaker 3: the one that only focuses on the really big franchises
Speaker 3: like Assassin's Creed, and I'm gonna I'm gonna guess that
Speaker 3: Ubisoft does not consider Heroes of Might and Magic to
Speaker 3: be one of their really big franchises.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly forgot that it was under the Ubi
Speaker 2: Soft umbrella.
Speaker 3: Oh me too, Me too. It's weird because there is
Speaker 3: like a couple of these sort of great PC franchises there. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm a big Ano fan. We got that new Ano
Speaker 3: game coming out soon, so I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Have you Have you ever been a.
Speaker 3: Mite in Magic person? As much as I like RPGs,
Speaker 3: this is the side of it I have never seen before.
Speaker 2: I think I believe there may have been a Might
Speaker 2: and Magic game for the DS that was like a
Speaker 2: Match three that I really liked. Hell yeah, Uh. That
Speaker 2: being said, I may be misremembering a game completely.
Speaker 3: Well there, my brother AJ really liked some kind of
Speaker 3: Might and Magic game on the Game Boy Color. If
Speaker 3: I remember exactly, well.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yes, I was right. Might and Magic Clash
Speaker 2: of Heroes.
Speaker 3: Oh that sounds familiar. I mean, it's it's just, you know,
Speaker 3: very big series. It's on all sorts of things. So
Speaker 3: you know, I hope that the new game does well. Uh.
Speaker 3: Dannis Federov, CEO of and Frozen Center statement, the entire
Speaker 3: Unfrozen team is very excited that Hooded Horse is joined
Speaker 3: the project. We firmly believe that their expertise, combined with
Speaker 3: Ubisoft's legacy. Okay, well, allow us to make Heroes of
Speaker 3: Might and Magic olden era really successful, introduce the games
Speaker 3: even more fans of tactical turn based strategies from all
Speaker 3: over the world. Ah, we'll see. Yeah, chat's right, Mike
Speaker 3: and Magic. That's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: So it might be a reason to go in there
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 2: Are there any bad Might and Magic games? Because White
Speaker 2: and Magic is right there.
Speaker 3: Blatant magic there. Yeah, hmm, I gotta look at there's
Speaker 3: so many of them. One of them has to be bad, now,
Speaker 3: you know, any of them legendarily bad?
Speaker 2: Is the is the question for them?
Speaker 3: When it comes to Bike Club all right. Dave the
Speaker 3: Diver director says there's nothing indie about it, and he
Speaker 3: didn't apply for its controversial Game Awards nod Chris calling
Speaker 3: at VGC. Dave the Diver was nominated for Best Indie
Speaker 3: Game at the Game Awards in twenty twenty three, a
Speaker 3: decision which sparked some controversy by having the conventional low
Speaker 3: fi appearance some indie games have. The games developer ment
Speaker 3: Rocket is a small team within necks On, a South
Speaker 3: Korean company that made one point eight billion in revenue
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one alone. As such, many at the
Speaker 3: time claimed that Dave the Diver was far from an
Speaker 3: indie game of one of the main criteria that defines
Speaker 3: what is a team that has a smaller budget and
Speaker 3: isn't part of a into hard company. A new interview
Speaker 3: with four gamer dot Net, Dave the Diver director jahwe
Speaker 3: Long explained that he never considered the game in indie
Speaker 3: title and that it's Game Wars nomination. Uh, nothing to
Speaker 3: do with him, meant rockin or nex so on. We
Speaker 3: never intended to give David Diver an indie game feel,
Speaker 3: he said, to begin with, we're making game at Nexon,
Speaker 3: so there's nothing indie about it. However, when a game
Speaker 3: is made by a small team, the art style and
Speaker 3: game system tend to be unique. So I think that's
Speaker 3: why it was thought of as an indie game. In
Speaker 3: full disclosure, that translation of that could have just read
Speaker 3: there was done via a machine translation from where I
Speaker 3: pulled it from, So maybe that's not exactly a perfect
Speaker 3: transcription of what they said, but yeah, this was something
Speaker 3: that came but at the time, I mean, jan the
Speaker 3: big problem here is that when we say indie game,
Speaker 3: we're kind of we often mean a certain look and feel,
Speaker 3: and sometimes we just mean like small team, uh not
Speaker 3: triple A graphics kind of thing. So you know it.
Speaker 3: You know, words in terms and definitions are failing. That's
Speaker 3: a bit here. I don't know exactly how you get
Speaker 3: around it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunately. I feel like as soon as we
Speaker 2: see the like kind of two and a half D
Speaker 2: pixel graphics and it's not an RPG, we think, oh,
Speaker 2: it's an indie game. This is just feels like an
Speaker 2: ODDI issue to kind of like bring back up in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five when this whole I don't even want
Speaker 2: to say controversy, but issue was raised in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, and we just I don't know if we
Speaker 3: made too much ground, you know. I think the Day
Speaker 3: of the Diver situation has made people think a bit
Speaker 3: more about than to just look at a game and
Speaker 3: say that must be an indie game, because I think
Speaker 3: it looks and feels like one. So something for everyone
Speaker 3: to keep in mind. But yeah, I think it was
Speaker 3: never like the Day of the Diver people's fault. That's
Speaker 3: not really how the game of War It's works it's
Speaker 3: other people nominating games.
Speaker 2: People don't put their game forward. Yeah. If anything, I
Speaker 2: think the director here it feels like he's just standing
Speaker 2: on a hill saying I'm not an indie game. I'm
Speaker 2: a big boy game.
Speaker 3: Right right. Well, also, you know, I bet it sucks.
Speaker 3: You know, people get mad as you want to be clear,
Speaker 3: it's not our fault, like we're sorry. You know, we'll
Speaker 3: take the statue if they want to give us a statue.
Speaker 3: We like statues. But hey, is Claip scaring an indie game?
Speaker 2: See? That's what I was thinking after we're talking about
Speaker 2: like team size and and like not coming from like
Speaker 2: a Triple A publisher, because that is like, that does
Speaker 2: not look like an indie game.
Speaker 3: Right, that's the opposite problem because like, like I see
Speaker 3: a chat right now on the Twitch. I can see
Speaker 3: yes is in nose and it's like, you know, what
Speaker 3: what do we mean? What do we mean? Like again, yeah,
Speaker 3: like a Borders Kate three and technically an indie game,
Speaker 3: so right right, what do we really mean by that?
Speaker 3: And you know, in some sense, part of me is like, well,
Speaker 3: why do we even you know, why do we even
Speaker 3: need a separate category? Because the indie games are often
Speaker 3: just as good as all of the other kinds of
Speaker 3: games in these ways anyway, but sometimes we do because
Speaker 3: there's still is a little bit of a bias to
Speaker 3: Triple A. I mean, you had, you know, bilatro Get
Speaker 3: nominated the Game the Year last year, which was great,
Speaker 3: but you still had to deal with people being like
Speaker 3: WA's normally for game of the year because it's one
Speaker 3: of the best games of the year, you chuckle. Fuck. So, uh,
Speaker 3: it's a thing that's we're going to continue to talk about.
Speaker 2: I am sure, all right.
Speaker 3: New Monster Hunter Wild's update finally addresses poor PC performances
Speaker 3: from Blair Marnel game spot Monstergner Wild's players on PC
Speaker 3: have been making their displeasure known on Steam by leaving
Speaker 3: a string of bad reviews over some performance issues with
Speaker 3: the game. The number of concurrent players has dropped so
Speaker 3: rapidly that wild It's predecessor, Monstergner World has a higher count. Today,
Speaker 3: Catcom is attempting to address PC players issues part of
Speaker 3: the massive free title Day two. The publish also shared
Speaker 3: a glimpse at the next two free updates beyond this one.
Speaker 3: While free TEP Day two doesn't make any changes to
Speaker 3: Wild's minimum or recommended system requirements. The Steam version has
Speaker 3: been adjusted to mount of VR of the amount of
Speaker 3: VRAM used in texture streaming to lower the amount of
Speaker 3: VRAM overall.
Speaker 2: One of the bug fixes.
Speaker 3: WI also make the estimated VRAM usage displayed the correct
Speaker 3: amount of display settings in graphical settings. To soon to
Speaker 3: say whether these changes alone will turn things around for
Speaker 3: Wilds on Steam, but Calcom knows that further performance and
Speaker 3: optimization improvements are still in the works. This gives been
Speaker 3: out for a good bit now. Jan came out earlier
Speaker 3: in the year. It came in very heavy on a
Speaker 3: lot of platforms, but on PC especially, it just kind
Speaker 3: of seemed like a little bit of a resource hog
Speaker 3: and of a performance clunker. It definitely turned me off
Speaker 3: the game a little bit. Even when I got my
Speaker 3: new PC and the game was definitely running better, it
Speaker 3: still felt heavy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you were playing a monster Hunter
Speaker 3: on PC and if the performance was a bummer for you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Surprisingly, I didn't come across too many issues. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I was just lucky and maybe I turned
Speaker 2: off the right settings. But great for those monster Hunter
Speaker 2: monster hunter heads out there. I saw Jesse Vittelli post
Speaker 2: a clip of him swimming underwater and fitting a underwater monster,
Speaker 2: and that looked insane and I kind of want to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, there's I's say, yeah, there's new content here
Speaker 3: aside from this stuff. But you know, Monster Hunter has
Speaker 3: been a bit of a disappointment for me this year.
Speaker 3: I definitely enjoyed the game, and I played through like
Speaker 3: the campaign, and then I just never really felt myself
Speaker 3: drawn to go back to it very much as a game.
Speaker 3: I was really looking forward to yea, honestly like the
Speaker 3: performance as part of it, but that you know, I
Speaker 3: could have looked past that if I was really enjoying
Speaker 3: the experience, which you know, wasn't a bad experience or anything,
Speaker 3: but maybe just didn't fully deliver on the promises of
Speaker 3: a more open Monster Hunter, and maybe learning that I
Speaker 3: don't want a more open Monster Hunter, maybe the previous
Speaker 3: format actually was working really well. Do you have Do
Speaker 3: you have any concerns about future Ari Engine games like
Speaker 3: Resident Evil nine?
Speaker 2: I feel like Ari nine hopefully the team has learned
Speaker 2: that like an open open world may not be the
Speaker 2: best way to go forward, but like open zones like
Speaker 2: we've been talking about here, maybe the better way to go.
Speaker 2: While I didn't experience too many issues playing Monster Hunter Wilds,
Speaker 2: I did have a little bit of difficulty playing through
Speaker 2: Dragon's Dogma two, which kind of stifled some of the
Speaker 2: fun I had there. Yeah, I I'm slightly worried, but
Speaker 2: I hope that team at Capcom has has seen the
Speaker 2: issues and realized how not that Munster Hunter isn't important
Speaker 2: for them, but how much more important, how much more
Speaker 2: magnitude RI nine is going to have for them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good point that you brought up
Speaker 3: Dragonssongma two because that was the other open world Ari
Speaker 3: Engine game, and that game also just did not run
Speaker 3: really well. So it is kind of this pattern that, Okay,
Speaker 3: we you know, the Ari Engine had nothing but good
Speaker 3: press really for a long time here until we started
Speaker 3: getting these open world games with that, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this isn't super working out for that. Like these games
Speaker 3: obviously aren't terrible, but they just, you know, they do
Speaker 3: feel again heavy and sluggish and weird. So yeah, hopefully
Speaker 3: Resident Evil nine it's definitely going to be a big game,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure there's going to be aspects of wandering
Speaker 3: around large areas of the ruined Raccoon City. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I hope it's not you know giant open world game
Speaker 3: that is just absolutely destroying our PCs and consoles.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's it's moving so sorry, Mike. It's
Speaker 2: moving so slowishly because the swords are so big.
Speaker 3: Oh of course those big guess, yes, the big giants
Speaker 3: swords of Mustard. I am a great sword guy. I
Speaker 3: got it in Mets. I'd never I always try using
Speaker 3: something else and I'm like, no, give you that big, big,
Speaker 3: big sword, right, that feels good. I want my attacks
Speaker 3: to be slow. Hammer is slow too. It's fun to
Speaker 3: bank people in the head. But I need that sword
Speaker 3: for sure. The sword for sure. That's funny. All right,
Speaker 3: last thing that I have here for today. Outriders Too
Speaker 3: was reportedly one of People Can Fly is canceled projects
Speaker 3: by Vicki blacking in at ign. One of the projects
Speaker 3: recently canceled by developer People can Fly with Outriders Too.
Speaker 3: According to fresh reports, the Polish studio best known for
Speaker 3: Outriders and Gears of Ward Judgment confirmed even more jobs
Speaker 3: were at risk at the beginning of June, when it
Speaker 3: canceled two projects, Project Gemini and Project by Frost Well.
Speaker 3: The statement issued by CEO Sebastian will g Chowski at
Speaker 3: the time did not specify which publishers were involved with
Speaker 3: the canceled projects. PCF's own website confirmed Gemini was partnered
Speaker 3: with Square Enix and by Frost was self published. The
Speaker 3: cancelations led to the restructuring of Eternal Teams and allowed
Speaker 3: the April cancelation of Project Dagger, an action adventure game
Speaker 3: originally set to be developed and published with Take two
Speaker 3: Interacted before it pulled out its September twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Now a report from thumb Warves, corroborated by Insider Gaming,
Speaker 3: claimed Project Gemini was indeed an Outrider sequel. The game
Speaker 3: was reportably in the midst of recording motion capture when
Speaker 3: the project was canceled. I think that's definitely a bummer.
Speaker 3: Outriders one was a game that seemed to benefit from
Speaker 3: that early goodwill and interest in game Pass right.
Speaker 2: It seems like everybody who had game Pass was trying.
Speaker 3: Out Outriders, a game that had a little bit of
Speaker 3: an you know, MMO flavor, might be much. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a kind of a multiplayer online looter shooter thing.
Speaker 3: It seemed like it got some interest and it was
Speaker 3: doing well, but that interest maybe died off relatively quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. Outriders is one of those surprise games where
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that came out. Oh yeah, that wasn't that bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, And you know, I think it's I think
Speaker 3: a sequel could have really refined those ideas and given
Speaker 3: us a more interesting experience. But it's also it's also
Speaker 3: difficult to release a sequel these days to a game
Speaker 3: that did pretty good. Right, Everybody is just expecting so
Speaker 3: much out of everything. It's a shame that, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't build off of a decent start as easily
Speaker 3: as as you were used to, because there are so
Speaker 3: many games that got significantly better in the sequel, and
Speaker 3: I think I could easily see a world where Outriders
Speaker 3: Too was one such project. Yeah, all right, Jan that
Speaker 3: does it for the news Today. We do have poll results,
Speaker 3: and I look here. The last one was a whopping
Speaker 3: six days ago, which might be right because yeah, we
Speaker 3: didn't have a show on Monday, so.
Speaker 2: This pool was.
Speaker 3: This whole question was have you ever played a game
Speaker 3: on Netflix? Seventy three percent of those polls said no,
Speaker 3: and only twenty seven percent said yes. I mean, part
Speaker 3: of me is almost surprised. It's it's that high. I've
Speaker 3: never even considered playing a game on Netflix. I gotta
Speaker 3: be honest, I don't even really understand what that means,
Speaker 3: playing a game on Netflix. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: How do you play a game on Netflix? That's just
Speaker 3: the thing where I watch. I assume there's just an
Speaker 3: app on your phones and you can click a game
Speaker 3: button instead of the button to watch House of Cards
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. House of Cards is what you go to.
Speaker 3: Okay, I look, I don't watch a bunch TV. That's
Speaker 3: like Stranger Things. Kids still love Stranger Things?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Those kids are so old? Is that
Speaker 2: so old? This year?
Speaker 3: I think they're still doing more Stranger Things over there?
Speaker 3: Last one?
Speaker 2: Right, it should be.
Speaker 3: The last one, you would hope.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what it means to play a
Speaker 3: game on Netflix, but there it is. Some people have
Speaker 3: tried it. I'm thinking for today's poll question, I would
Speaker 3: like to ask people would you have played an Outrider sequel?
Speaker 3: Just yes or no?
Speaker 2: So easy?
Speaker 3: Psy right there? All right, We've got a lot of
Speaker 3: fun stuff still happening on Giant bomb this week. Later
Speaker 3: today at eleven am Pacific two pm e d Light
Speaker 3: Club is happening with me, Dan and Kayla. I think
Speaker 3: sister Carol's gonna be joining us. They're gonna guide me
Speaker 3: through the wonderful world of Guitar Room Man on PlayStation two.
Speaker 3: I was a good boy suffering through all of that
Speaker 3: Rascal Shenanigan, so now I get to have some good
Speaker 3: stuff with Guitar Roo Man. Yes, I'm looking forward to that,
Speaker 3: loing forward to hanging out with Dan team Kayla. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be a good time. And then tonight, Jan, Me
Speaker 3: and you are reconvening for Wega Man Wednesday evening gaming
Speaker 3: at mice at night. I had to push it back
Speaker 3: because I got an AM and PM mixed up with
Speaker 3: my flights on Monday. But that's okay. We're gonna do
Speaker 3: a show anyways. We're gonna check out that that Dune
Speaker 3: mro that everybody seems to be liking a lot doing Awakening.
Speaker 3: I got it installing, ready to go. I'm excited to
Speaker 3: try it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm curious what the onboarding process will be like
Speaker 2: and how instantaneously we can link up and ride worms together.
Speaker 3: Folks.
Speaker 2: Things are a little bit busy here at GBHQ. We
Speaker 2: do have several quick looks and unfinished we want to
Speaker 2: do I do, Mike, I don't know if you've seen this.
Speaker 2: This is this was put on my radar yesterday when
Speaker 2: I mentioned the Magen game I've been playing. But Uma
Speaker 2: Mussume is a game that's kind of uh picking up
Speaker 2: some Steve. Okay, what is that? Uh you know what,
Speaker 2: let's uh, I'll send you the steam leak later.
Speaker 3: Is everyone so concerned in chat? Oh it's the horse
Speaker 3: Girls game? Oh no, I wanted to.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 3: It's the horse Girl Look. Look, look, I'll follow you anywhere, Jane.
Speaker 3: If you need me to watch you play the horse
Speaker 3: Girl game, I'll watch you play the horse Girl game.
Speaker 2: Oh captain, my captain.
Speaker 3: Oh, Captain, my captain. Okay, Oh that's incredible.
Speaker 2: Hey we have one super chat bike. Uh el gro please? Uh?
Speaker 2: What game would Mike make? Jan play? Death Janding, Splinter
Speaker 2: Cell jandor Tomorrow Jan dow of the Colossus. Now it
Speaker 2: doesn't work as much Grim Jan Dango, Crypt of the
Speaker 2: necro Jancer.
Speaker 3: Oh, Grim j Dango's good. And I don't know why,
Speaker 3: but I'm obsessed with coke Toro Choa where he played
Speaker 3: Nice of the Old Republic with one of my favorite games. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love Coode toar a lot. I know that, you
Speaker 3: know there's a remake presumably happening, but I think that
Speaker 3: original game is still very, very good and I would
Speaker 3: like to watch Jan play through that at some point.
Speaker 3: And we also tomorrow on the Voicemail Dump Truck, we
Speaker 3: are going to have a super Eye Patch Wolf joining us.
Speaker 3: That is at its usual time at eleven am Pacific
Speaker 3: two pm Eastern, So look forward to that. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be another game as more mornings usual time. Tomorrow I'll
Speaker 3: be stubbing in again. Nothing on Friday. It's it's fourth
Speaker 3: of July. We will be taking that day off. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that's it. We're out of here. Jedd Shoha, thank you
Speaker 3: so much for joining me here, helping guide me through
Speaker 3: this scary experience of hosting this super Jeff grub coded show.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a it's a difficult thing he does here.
Speaker 3: I definitely have a new appreciation for it. But I
Speaker 3: had a lot of fun talking to you about video games.
Speaker 2: You did absolutely fantastic, Mike. Thank you, Jan.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, and thank you for being the best
Speaker 3: audience in gaming. Until the next morning mess have a
Speaker 3: good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye bad