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Speaker 2: It's dregs day? Baby? Yeah, actually it's not dregs Day.
Speaker 3: It's not that Yeah, you know what it was.
Speaker 1: It's like we had a couple of drags thish days
earlier this week as I think like some people were
coming back cromification slowly, so like, wow, we don't need
to make any news. And now now it's starting to
happen again. It's a Friday. We're getting out there with
some actual news today. But yeah, ma'am, how are you
doing Friday boring again?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Right, come on, I'm a human being. I deserve a break.
Speaker 2: I'll too good. You know, I'm all right. You know, Uh,
you can verify the truth of that. I'm sure you
can figure that stuff out. Whever I'm actually telling the truth.
Who knows, I'm huh.
Speaker 3: What I said?
Speaker 1: What I don't know? I didn't hear anything. I don't
know if the great to see it though. Yeah, absolutely,
you you were kind of like, got stuff going on
with your YouTube channel. I'm noticing quite a few. Yeah, yeah,
I got some stuff happening over there.
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Bethesda confirms Obsidian Fallout game and that Fallout five is
in production. This is from Jordan Midler at VGC with
us the Game Studios is confirmed that Obsidian is working
on a new Fallout game, Fallout five is in pre production,
and that several Fallout remasters are coming, and a lengthy
note published on Friday, the studio revealed what's planned for
the future of its biggest games. Fallout five is one
of our biggest priorities today. The note reads, Fallout five
remains our long range destination and we have multiple Fallout
product in active development right now. A new Fallout seventy
six expansion was also confirmed, which will service the prequel
to Fallout three. The note also confirmed that both Fallout
three and Fallout New Vegas will receive remasters, as previously
reported by VGC, we also know many players want to
revisit previous Fallout experiences. While we're not announcing any dates today,
we have been working on remasters on both Fallout three
and Fallout New Vegas with us. The Game Studios also
confirmed there won't be a Fallout Day broadcast this year,
but the company will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the
franchise with fans in twenty twenty seven. As part of this,
a live event will be held in Washington, DC later
in the note that has to confirm that that Obsidian
is working on a Fallout project. The wasteland continues to
expand as we team up. Man does it?
Speaker 3: Does it? Ever?
Speaker 1: The wasteline continues to expand as we team up once
again with our longtime friends at Obsidian Entertainment. We're happy
to confirm they're working with us on a new Fallout project.
We'll have to share more in the future. It was
reported last week that Avowed in Outer World so Studio
in the Outer World Studio would be working on a
Fallout game following Microsoft's recent restructuring effort. Speaking of Bloomberg franchise,
that director Todd HOWARDZ said that he could not be
more excited to work with Obsidian again. He did a
couple of interviews out there about this stuff, making it
feel very much like, Hey, look at all the cool
stuff we're doing, which I mean kind of can't be
more obvious with kind of what's going on here, Tam,
because this, you know it, this would hit a little
bit harder if this was not the same company that
announced Elder Scrolls six seventy five years ago, right, and
that we're still waiting to see anything from that from
that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Elder Scroll six. And it's also not
the same company. You know, it's very clear what's happening here,
and that's not to diminish the fact that this is
cool good news. I think that we live in a
world where we now have to just have the good
exist along the bad, because if we allow the bad
to impact the good, it's it's just pure awful all
the time. So it sucks that it's great that we
have new Fallout news and they are fall Like games coming,
but very much we have to accept the reality that
this is Keys being jingled in the opposite direction of
a match that was just thrown into you know, a
barn like a week ago, and so yeah, it's yesterday.
I believe there were people like protesting outside of a
Cenemax studio or but says that I think it might
have been a bunch of people were their developers were
there protesting the layoffs and that kind of stuff, And
it's all a very very convenient time to bust out Fallout,
a beloved franchise that you know, people have been desperate for,
and it's pretty much every bit of news that you
want from Fallout right, like you want people are like,
when are we going to hear about fall Out five?
There it is, when are we going to hear about?
You know, something happening with a remake? There's a fall
Out three mate remake and the one that everyone truly
and deeply loves and have been asking for ages New
Vegas is being remade. It is a literal fire hose
to try and change the kind of pr around the
studio and the company of Microsoft. So yeah, it's a
little bitsweet knowing that how many hundreds of thousands of
people had to lose their jobs for this to be
something that gets messaged. And it's not great that, you know,
Todd Howard doesn't really do any interviews and then comes
back and is like now out there doing Yep. It's
unfortunate for him because I like Todd. I've spoken Todd.
He's very smart and candid and and like is an
interesting person to talk to and fun to talk to,
but like he's being kind of pushed out there to
be the kind of face of the PR recovery effort
right now, which is I'm sure not great for him
and some in some regards, he's doing probably the best
he can at the behest of people who you know,
are way more powerful than he is. But yeah, it's
just a weird place for the to happen. It's a
bit sweet, like I'm happy that this is happening. At
the same time, I wonder like, if none of this
xbox layof stuff happened, would this be a thing that
they'd be communicating. I would yes.
Speaker 1: Not, especially not in this way like you pointed out,
like having Todd Howard going out there doing multiple interviews
running down and the.
Speaker 2: Fact that they kind of like mended bridges with Jason Schreyer,
which shot out generations everyone round o replots for ja
let out of jail. Good job. Finally, the press sneak
fuck is has been freed.
Speaker 1: For people I don't know, but there's the Blackballdom for
for years and years and years because.
Speaker 3: Of a report he did forever ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was it was wild and I'm glad
that that has been fixed now. It was crazy and
it's been insane that it went on for this long,
but like that truly shows you the extent of what
they how far they're going to try to change the
lot the pr Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I remember I was like asked times them. I'm like, hey,
why you guys, We'll talk to Jason Schreyer. And I
became very clear.
Speaker 3: They still took that very seriously, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, oop, and I took that personally, Yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Right, well clearly you're not going to answer that question.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so they were serious about that for a
long time, and I'm you think, like I was always like, hey,
that that seems like something like Phil Spencer should step
in and deal with and like make them change and
be like you should just fix that, address that. But
that was a part of a time when when they
were like, oh, no, each studio has their own culture,
including they can make that decision. And that has obviously
been flipped completely upside down. Now everyone's doing what they're told,
and god, if you're one of these studios that's underneath that. Now,
it's probably hard to argue that having the autonomy worked
out if you're if you're Pathesda and you've delivered Starfield,
and that clearly was a disappointment from from the expectations
that it had. But also it's like, do you trust
the people making decisions now that are now now that
now do get to tell you what to do? Go
out there, do your interviews, Talk to doctor Jason Trier,
talk to Jess Cordon that They were probably like, I know,
I have to do this, but it's probably hard to
trust the leadership right now based on the recent decisions
and just so the baffling way that those decisions have
been executed.
Speaker 3: Tam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like again, I hate to be cynical,
but that's how I'm programmed. But like, we live in
a while where you should probably shouldn't trust any leadership
and any corporation like that is I'm I'm sure anyone
who's you know, a human in those positions will probably
be like, yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't trust me either
if I was, like, you know, an executive and I'm
working way below that person. Yeah, it's you know, you shouldn't.
These executives are not your friends. They even if you
work for them, they're still not your friends, because ultimately,
whatever humanity they hold and whatever personability they have is
at the whims of numbers and shareholders. When time comes,
it doesn't matter how good that person is inside and
how friendly they have been to you. They're going to
have to make the call, man, And it doesn't matter
how many times you've played pickleball with this person. If
it's you that needs to go, they ain't gonna stop
to do it. So yeah, I mean, like, I think
a lot of the people who are going through this
are probably not surprised by this situation, and I think
they probably were more surprised by the fact that they
previously had their culture kind of enshrined and left to themselves.
This is how it works everywhere else. This is this
is the norm, which sucks, and it sucks in a
lot of ways.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, yep, it's worth pointing out that, you know,
the Oblivion remake remastered, that they did clearly pay the
way for them to do what they're going to do
with Fallout three and New Vegas. That those are all
from the same time and same engine sort of stuff,
So they probably built those tools to make it so
they could do exactly those games. Nice to see, that's confirmed,
especially in a time when you know, one of the
one of the unsung aspects you hear about these Microsoft
cuts and layoffs is sure they're laying off their employees,
but they're also turning off the spigot of of money
that was going to contractors, and and that's that's affecting
a ton of contractor studios, which then are also laying
off people because they're no longer getting that Microsoft money.
Speaker 3: At the very least, that that contract.
Speaker 1: Team that seemed to do to do or that was
doing Oblivion probably is going to end up doing these
as well, so that those aren't going away.
Speaker 3: That's a uh.
Speaker 2: Author Geese on Blue Sky postaid that it has the
Fallout remake has been in development since the Oblivion remake, Yes,
so you know it's probably further along than we imagine.
That's the other thing where it's like how far along
are these things? Like these feel like they are just
they've been like something out in an emergency, which yes,
which is like another thing that kind of lean leans
into the idea of would we or the of would
we have any of this if it didn't wasn't you know,
proceeded by crazy amo like I I doubt I doubt it,
but like this is again, it's good news, it's exciting news.
Just don't forget as fundamentally this is a pl move.
Speaker 3: Yeah we can move on.
Speaker 1: But like you know, Tam, if they like brought you
or I in there to like say, oh, way, how
should we be handling our future?
Speaker 2: Like this is it?
Speaker 1: Well you, I mean, this is it, but also like
you need to like put out a game that's really
good first, but that's that you need to like make
sure that you kind of clean up your own image
in terms of your ability ability to deliver, and then
you can like really start talking about the future again
in a lot of ways. If you're not ready to
release a game, then sure this is the way to
do it. And that does feel like that's exactly what
happened here. Is it's gonna take a long time for
them to deliver Elder Scroll six and make a game
there that can like win back their their reputation if
it even can do that. In the meantime, they sort
of have to make big promises and keep writing what's
left of the reputation.
Speaker 3: So yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Sony, killing physical games doesn't matter at all, says
Game Stop CEO who is not constantly on Ketamine. This
is from Dave Aubrey at VGC GameStop CEO. Ryan Cohen,
a normal person has shared his thoughts on Sony ending
PlayStation disc production, saying it doesn't matter at all. Cohen
gave the quotes in an interview with Bloomberg, saying Sony's
all digital move is totally irrelevant. He continued, Software it
mattered in the past. Software today makes up less than
twelve percent of the business, and collectibles makes up over
half the business, so it's totally totally irrelevant.
Speaker 3: Twelve percent is irrelevant, okay, he continued. He said, the
story continues. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: While this may sound like an unusual sentiment to come
from the CEO of a retail store known for video games,
as the Bloomberg article highlights, software sales only account for
eighteen percent of game Stops business, so he was about
his own numbers. Collectibles like Pokemon trading cards have become
a much larger chunk of the business, accounting for forty
one percent of sales. This is a large change to
what was once the main driver of sales, which was
buying and reselling physical video games. Cohen said, I said
GameStop made one hundred and forty three million during Q
one of twenty twenty six, calling this the highest operating
earnings in the company's history. He did not know his
own percentage of how many copper how much software he sells,
so I kind of don't trust him on that either.
Either way, he went on to claim, everybody's everybody in
the media wants game stop to fail.
Speaker 3: Explain that to me. Explain to me why.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the mainstream media media wants game stop to fail.
Speaker 3: Uh, this guy's a loser.
Speaker 2: What like, who is who is trying? I don't remember
anyone in media saying we want game stop to fail.
You know who I remember saying indicating that they want
game Stop to fail him? The stuff you just said
is any way to make game stop fail faster? Are
you all right?
Speaker 3: He's not all right. He is the furthest thing from
all right.
Speaker 1: But he does need to say that last part because
that continues to be part of the narrative of like
what game stops true businesses, which is manufacturing these insanely
contrived moments to jump up the stock price versus the
people trying to short it they're trying to, you know,
to undercut the short sellers, and that means putting pressure
on them, and that means, hey, we they want game Stop.
Excuse me, these people expect Game Stop to fail. They
want it to fail. Why don't you come back and
do another run on us and see if we can't
get us up to one hundred dollars per share? Because
if that happens, he does get a major bonus.
Speaker 3: But it's not Brian.
Speaker 2: You know why people might want game stuff to fail
and why you did fail. It's because you would take
a brand new game a week off is released and
give people five dollars for it and then sell it
for thirty five. That's why people want you to fail
and why you are failing. I'm not saying everyone wants
you to fail, but like, maybe you weren't in charge
back then, but that's is reaping what you saw. Unfortunately
you built up. There was no trust and no kind
of loyalty built up with the consumer, so that when
trouble started, you had none of that loyalty. People turned
on you immediately because they GameStop. It felt like it
was a retailer that people went to beiggrudgingly.
Speaker 1: It was like if I without having the other options,
I went, yeah, I have no other options.
Speaker 2: If I want to trade in a game and I
want to get a little bit of money towards a
new game, I have no options but to go to
these and get scammed by this retailer, which is exactly
what happened. So the fact that people I have no
goodwill towards you is no one's fault except for your
own companies. And then you follow that up by like
bouncing on and off every single trend that was coming
to try and save the business, NFTs, whatever it was.
You're selling all kinds of nonsense, and then at the
end of it when they're like, oh everyone wants us
to fairs, like, no, man, no one cares. Like you
did this to yourself. Don't play the victim now, and
if anything, has made it much worse for everyone, because
like this is this is this is creating permission for
a company like Sony to do this. Now that like
the biggest retailer for games at least in awareness has
said it doesn't matter, we don't really use physical games
that much. Now Sony can be like, why are you mad?
Look GameStop set it themselves like, this is not us.
They said that they don't sell it. They said, it
doesn't matter. It makes sense for us to do this.
Prove us wrong. We can't now because this dumb ass
has been taking drugs and being in front of a
camera doing.
Speaker 3: This or whatever, you know, allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 1: Of course, yes, he yeah, and this is the guy
that you know. The last time we talked about him.
Listeners will remember it was the eBay story of him
trying to acquire eBay with a fart and a dream,
where it was, hey, yeah, we have some cash and
then we'll just issue new stock until we can acquire
the rest of ebad.
Speaker 3: It's like, honey, that's not how it works. And when
asked about.
Speaker 1: That on a CNBC I think he just kept muttering,
go to the website. I don't know, there's more, there's
there's more details there. He didn't understand his own plan.
It was clear that he was distracted. I think it's
the kind way of putting what he was experiencing there.
And then this continues to see that, this seems to
continue that trend of him not really understanding his own
business or trying to spin a tale to make the
manufacture reality, and he is, Yeah, he's damaging the sort
of movement that's happening around the effort to save physical
games because he thinks that the writing's on the wall,
and he doesn't that was never his future plan.
Speaker 3: His future plan was I don't know, cryptocurrency or right now.
Speaker 2: This is a pump and tump like Ruckapol style, Like
this is a lot of these companies now just all
places for people, for people in the right positions to
go make some money in and get out. And that's
pretty much what this looks like is happening. Like I
don't know how anyone continues to allow him to be
the CEO of this company given the numerous mess ups
that he's had up until this point and the stuff
that he is actively saying, like that's a company that's
a company that doesn't care, Like there's no desire to
bounce back from this, so why should anyone else care?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Uh, fuck game stuff?
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Jeff Grubb. That's to more who's saying we are getting
right back into it. I rate PlayStation fans want you
to buy games anywhere, but PS five. This is from
Sammy Barker at push Square. I rate PlayStation fans are
now encouraging their followers to buy great third party in
indie games elsewhere is The fallout from des Sony's decision
to stop manufacturing physical discs rumbles on. As we reported recently,
every time the Japanese giant promotes a game on its
social media accounts, it's attracting an onslaught of anger from
frustrated fans and I can't help but wonder how the.
Speaker 3: Devs feel about it. We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: There's that game Tito that got a PlayStation YouTube channel.
Trailer promotion got up on there and all of the
comments are about, hey, stop killing discs, we want discs,
and that stuff is spreading to like every.
Speaker 3: Social media post.
Speaker 1: PlayStation posted about Dnsha attack earlier this week when it
did so everyone was just saying, hey, stop killing games,
stop killing physical games, and also maybe do not play
this on PS five. And it's worth noting Tam that
like this is. I continue to think this is a
pretty good tactic for people who care about this, because
a company like you know, the studio that didn't attack
you know, this PlayStation post if they didn't pay for it,
it definitely was presented to them as something that had
monetary value. It's supposed to deliver something that has value,
and instead what it seems to be delivering is a
bunch of angry people to the doorstep of all of
these studios that.
Speaker 3: Have nothing to do with this decision. And it does.
Speaker 1: It just keeps feeling like someone's going to go back
in these conversations and say, hey, my rep at Sony,
what's going on here? Why do we keep getting heat
for this thing? Can you explain that? And what does
that mean for our next deal? What does that mean
for the money that you that I already spent here
or that you promised the value I was getting out
of this deal was. I hope this kind of keeps
happening to a certain extent now, of course, telling people
not to buy a game is going to hurt some
of these games, But.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just don't think. I think most
people will find a way.
Speaker 1: To play Densha Attack one way or another, And even
if it is on PS five, that's almost not the point. Like,
I don't think people actually super need to follow through
with not buying a game on PlayStation. They need to
keep just the noise up and creating annoyances for people
who are dealing with Sony so Sony can't escape it.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a PR problem that is kind of spiraling
out of control, and I think as if it is
sustained by whoever is doing this into other games, like
it carries through and builds momentum from one game to
the other. Eventually, I think there's going to be like
a lot of these developers like you said, and Cook
or publishers who have partnership deals who are going to
be like, what why is this happening?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Like you can't be you have to do something about this,
because you know, PR for them, they don't want to
be tarnished with this kind of stuff that like you said,
it's not their decision. They had nothing to do with it.
But now they are visibly from an aesthetical and also
like how people would see it. They are the ones
who are suffering because of it. Whether it actually translates,
who knows. I mean, like, yeah, as you said, people
can buy where people are going to buy this physically,
probably not anyway. So even still knowing that most people
weren't gonna buy it physically anyway, the fact that you
go there and you can see do not buy us
on PS don't play this on PS five, it's still
disheartening for a lot of people. And eventually I think
it's going to reach a a kind of critical mass
of something needs to be done, and either Sonny will
stick to their guns and just be like it's a
small group of people, don't worry about it, or they'll
have to do something to change it. I do wonder
whether they can reverse on the decision. Yeah, I don't
know if it's possible. I don't know how you approach it,
but I don't know. Maybe it's so bad that they're like,
hey guys, we're making blood born.
Speaker 3: Too from It's like, hey man, this is your fucking problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you're right, Like, what what
is it? Like, let's say they do reverse it, what
does that even look like? And and the reality is
it's it's probably not great either. Uh, you know, this
does require a lot of effort to manufacture not just discs,
but discs optical drives, and yeah, so I I do
think like there is a solution that can keep this
going longer term than PlayStation should being like, I guess
we will go for the next generation and.
Speaker 3: Let it naturally peter out.
Speaker 1: And and maybe that does involve letting a third party
step in and treat it like a more boutique business,
similar to how physical media works in just about every
other medium at this point. And I do think that's
still possible and on the table, but even that that
that was not going to look like games on the
shelves at GameStop. It's going to be games still come
out digitally only first, and then a handful of select
games are big enough to earn a physical run later
and a collector's edition that costs one hundred and fifty
dollars and and you know, but that's going away too.
That's not even going to be an option at this moment.
And I think people are like want some sort of
road going forward, and at the very least, maybe an
optical drive for as long as possible to keep playing
the discs they already own.
Speaker 3: That clearly is just also going to go away in
the next generation. They've not brought that up at all.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, we can delay this and hopefully
get a few more years of physical but I do
hope there's a way to come up with some other solution,
and that conversation needs it starts, but it needs Sony
to participate in that, and it's not happened so far.
Saudi backed fifty five billion dollar EA acquisition reportedly nearing
EU approval. Reuter's reports that the consortium, led by Saudi
Arabia's public investment fund, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity
Partners Hooray, is expected to secure European Union approval for
its fifty five billion dollar purchase of electronic arts. The
EU's preliminary merger review is due by July twenty second,
well a separate foreign subsidies review run through July thirtieth,
so the transaction has not formally cleared yet. It would
be the largest leveraged buyout ever completed, which man congratulations, EA,
I guess and The question does remain tam of like
once this goes through, because it does seem like now
it's got pretty clear sailing. If it's clearing the EU
and it's not gonna happen, it's not gonna be Jared
Kushner is not going to be held up in the
United States. The question remains like, once this goes through,
how does this debt burden and ownership priorities like eventually
just affect everything about how they make games over there?
Does can Madden continue the way it's gone when now
they have to service excuse me, a massive pile of
debt with payments each month going forward.
Speaker 2: Mostly Arabia, Silver Lake, Jared Kushner the most nightmare blunt rotation. Yes,
all the stars are in a long time Holy. I
mean yeah, it'll be naive not to think about what
could change. I I don't know if I think there
will be any meaningful changes to the way games are
presented to us. So like the the I'm never going
to Saudi Arabia, so I'm just going to play my things.
Saudi Arabia is responsible for numerous humanitarian issues and war
crimes and you know, human rights violations that kind of stuff,
and it's there's been a very noticeable and very obvious
way to kind of launder its relationship globally. It's a
reputation globally through culture. So when you see very astutely
they've figured out that they can align themselves with certain
parts of culture to try and change how people feel
about them and kind of neutralize it. And sports is
a big, big part of it. You see it happening
with WWE. There's a reason why the wrestling suddenly was
very very into going to Saudi Arabia, has been happening
with the NBA, and the same has happened that will happen,
if not already to the NFL and FIFA and that
kind of stuff. So this is just another kind of
move in that way of laundering their relationship through video
games culture and the acquisition of numerous video game companies
by Saudi BA Saudi backed companies is part of that
as well. Unfortunately, So I in a situation where this
goes through, I imagine that they will do something similar
to the King of Fighters thing, where you know, suddenly
there's a Saudi prince in the King of Fighters in
the same way they put like was it a Ronaldo
they put in there, and it's.
Speaker 3: Like Ronaldo and NBS's favorite DJ was in there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, So I think that's more likely to
be what happens where you know, you'll find very weird,
very ineffective ways of trying to like change the way
people see about them. But largely, I think it would
be an issue if they made such drastic changes that
the product that they purchase is now no longer of
interest to people and it's like degraded to the point
where it loses the effectiveness of being able to launder
their reputation. So I think the acquisition sucks if it
does somehow go through. I'm hoping that the European Union
is smart enough not to allow this to happen. They
have done in the past where they've been like, this
is not happening. That's and it's been a block. But
these days everything and everyone has corrupt, so who knows,
But at the very least, I think they leave it
how it is for the most part.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I do like I do think like that
interference side of things matters a whole lot less than
just the money side of things.
Speaker 3: The uh, you know, the leverage buyout.
Speaker 1: Means that they are going to be taking on debt
to pay for themselves EA itself. It takes on debt
so to help pay the people who now own EA to.
Speaker 3: Get out of that.
Speaker 1: Now, there's a lot of other money, but it's like
a massive amount, like it's twenty billion dollars or something
like that is the leverage buyout proportion, and that will
create like the loan payments basically that they will have
to service every month. And that so a lot of
money that could have gone toward keeping these games running
or making them bigger and better will now be going elsewhere.
And that I think that's going to show up. I
think the cheapness that we know EA for in terms
of man this manning game, that's just I guess there's
one new feature here that is going to be more
obvious than ever, and not just in Madden and and
what was what's FIFA now EA Sports Football Club that's
gonna be obvious in all their games.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be. You're gonna write that out, yeah, please.
Speaker 2: I just thought of it. And it's both the funniest
and most horrifying thing I've ever thought. You're gonna be
playing Mass Effect five and suddenly you can have a
Saudi crown Prints in your fucking party. Yes, hanging out.
Speaker 3: Like it'll be even worse than that.
Speaker 1: It'll be it'll be Mass Effect five, you like, you'll
have the Saudi crown Prints, but he will be the
one like five star card they give you for a
Mass Effects Ultimate Team mode that they will shove into
that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be how that works.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna be like the craziest bios you said
ever yested and is it gonna be the funniest ship.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: Speaking of EA, NHL twenty seven Bring Back brings back
a fan favorite mode not seen in years, but it's
not what it seems. This comes from ediemcoo, a game spot.
EA Sports has officially announced NHL twenty seven, with twenty
year old Macklin Celebrainy gracing the cover. The new entry
in the Pro ice Hockey series includes all the stuff
fans would expect, including better graphics, rebuilt playbooks, and updated
camera work, but there were also a few reviewals fans
might not have seen coming. One of the marquee new
additions to NHL twenty seven is Connected franchise, a future
fans have requested for years. It hasn't been in an
NHL game since twenty thirteen's NHL fourteen. People were initially
excited about the mode coming back, but hype didn't last
for some after key details about the mode were uncovered.
The NHL twenty seven website confirms that Connective Franchise only
supports human control teams, and a screenshot from the announcement
trailer states teams without human users cannot be controlled, traded with,
or played against, given that players will need to have
thirty two real human players in a league. This is
upsetting some fans who are asking EA to add in
AI teams just like it used to have. There was
also some confusion about if Connective Franchise would be limited
to a single season, but that is not the case. Yeah,
just one of those things where it's like, yeah, this
is already how EA operates. Where people ask for something
and it gets delivered and it's half asked or just
not exactly what they wanted, or it's built in such
a way to better serve dark patterns and money spend
rather than anything else, and that's already really bad at EA.
It's just gonna get worse under this leverage buyout that
they have happening. But yeah, there's there's sports games are
so disappointing already and and they control all of them
for the most part. Uh, it's just gonna be it's
gonna be more and more devastating going forward.
Speaker 3: Just how grim that's going to look.
Speaker 2: Yep, it sucks. I don't know anything about NHL, so
I don't have much to say other than I know
Maclin Celebrini's dad, and by by what I'm saying, I know,
I know he exists because he's the head of sports
medicine for the Golden State Warriors, and he's basically some
sort of medical genius. Like it is insane how he
like he manages to fix players who have been going
through long standing issues like and make them better again.
So like everyone wants whenever someone's being pitched to come
to the Warriors, they're like, we have Rick Celebrity. He
will keep you alive for years that you have you
never thought you would be alive, and you will be healthy.
Speaker 1: So he's maclan celebrity. Also magical, like he is may
and he is very good at hockey.
Speaker 2: He pops up at some Warriors games every now and
then with his dad obviously so and McCain's always goes
insane for him. He's basically like the adopted son of
San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean yes, see his play is not
He's like twenty maybe now and almost one MVP.
Speaker 3: It's it's crazy crazy.
Speaker 2: The only sports game I currently play is NBA.
Speaker 3: JAM, like I one, are you playing?
Speaker 2: I got the I got that Arcade one up machine
ages ago, and I finally set it up. So over
there is my NBA m machine and there I played
tournament edition every now and then. I was talking about
it on my stream. I wish I had set this
up earlier so I could get a feel for how
good these cabinets are. Because if I had touched this
and realized like, oh this is really nice, sour, yeah,
I would have bought the Marvel versus Capcom one in
an instant, yep. And now it is not available anywhere.
If you want to buy it, you have to buy
off eBay for like three thousand thousand dollars and it
really is, so it making me so sad, man, I'm
so mad at myself.
Speaker 1: But then it felt like, you know, you could see
some of those cabinets at Walmart for two hundred dollars
on sale or whatever, and I was wondering, like other
second hand market probably won't get crazy, but yeah, they're
arcade one ups, not really doing stuff anymore. So no, man,
Now those cabinets are expensive. That's crazy, all right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The live action God of War show is recasting Credos
after Ryan Hurst was injured on the set. This is
from Dave Aubrey at VGC. The live action God of
War series is replacing its lead actor after an onset
injury took place last month. Ryan Hurst was announced to
play Credos in February, but he's now being recast after
sustaining sustaining an on set injury in June. TMZ originally
reported last month that Hurst has had sustained an onset
injury when he tore his bicet while filming a stunt
and required surgery as a result. That that is a
torn biceps.
Speaker 2: Note joke, send him over to Rick SETEBREMI.
Speaker 3: Yes, staring at Rick will fix him.
Speaker 2: I'm not even Joe Kidney.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At the time of the report, set production had been
halted on the show and there was no sign of
when it would resume, with some sources worried that it could.
Speaker 3: Be as late as twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Now Deadline reports the show's production studios, Sony Pitchers Television
and Amazon MGM Studios, have taken the unfortunate decision to
recast Credos after realizing that recovering to full strength for
a bicep tear can take up to a year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rough. Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, they're if they would just delay this, if
this if this was their guy, is what I would say.
So I feel bad for this guy. This is a
little bit of a Yeah, they're they're dump you because
of an injury, and they want to get on with
the production. Uh, the other productions will wait for their stars,
and so this guy's kind of being left left.
Speaker 3: Out to dry a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the reaction to the to the
set photo didn't help. But man, that that is on
Sony and the production company MGM. That's on Amazon because
they that didn't look great because of the lighting and
the way they set that up. They needed to like
do more effort there. And so yeah, this is pretty
rough from all accounts.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's part of that. Also, I
think to a degree, like they a year for that
kid who's playing a trace is a big deal.
Speaker 3: Like that's a good point.
Speaker 2: That's between episodes. You could be like, what the hell happened?
This kid is an adult, now, what's going on? But
I don't doubt that there's an element of fortuity that
allows them to recast this character to be to have
less of the baggage of you know, the initial reaction
which they screwed up for sure that you did not
need to put out a picture of him squatting looking
like he's going to take a shin of forest and
like have the worst lighting ever. But yeah, it's unfortunate
for him. But I know, like actors spent so long
getting prepared for this stuff, like getting into the mindset
physically mentally, like learning the lines and all that kind
of stuff, and just generally changing their entire life to
embody a character and to have to go out like
this is so unfortunate for that guy. Man that sucks.
Speaker 3: But yep, yeah, either way, I'm not gonna watch the show.
I don't care. I'm not gonna watch the show.
Speaker 1: So good luck to u MGM and Sony figured out
I guess all right, mes are back in Nintendo Switch
Sports Resort. But should they be because they look they
look the proportions on this The proportions apparently need to
match the Sports Friends, which is what the ME replacements
in We Sports Resort were called.
Speaker 3: I know about all this because my child watched a YouTube.
Speaker 1: Video and she hates the Sports Friends and loves the
mes and she's so she's glad that they're back, and
she was, But if she saw a Sports Friend on
the street, it would be on site.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 1: This is from Dave Aubrey at BGC. One of the
biggest fan complaints for the release of Nintendo Switched Sports
was the lack of playable ME characters, and it seems
Nintendo will be remedying this in the sequel. A photograph
of a Japanese magazine appears to show an advertisement for
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort along the Alongside the series is
sports Mate avatar character. A classic ME character is also
shown to match the taller, more human like proportions of
the sports made characters. The selectable me has elongated arms
and legs. He looks like weird Mario Maker. It looks
so weird it's it's rough, it's bad to look at.
Speaker 3: I don't like that. I wouldn't trust this guy, Yeah,
but I don't.
Speaker 2: But I don't know how you fix that like you do.
I don't know. You have to fundamentally change that how
that game is designed and played like to to accommodate me's.
It's just funny, you know what they should have done.
They should have just made it like you pick It's
like Mario call it double dash. Well you pick two
me's and then you have one me on the shoulder
of another me and you just animate that. Yeah, just
do that, Like, make its stupid as hell.
Speaker 3: That's to me, that's always the answer. Make it stupid
as hell me.
Speaker 2: He's in a trench coat.
Speaker 1: That'll fix everything, or just like put them on stilts
or whatever. I don't know, it doesn't matter. All right,
that does it for the headlines. But we do have
a quick update for some stuff happening today. Fixed Force
joins game Pass, fog Piercer joins PC game Pass, and Outlaws,
plus a handful of missions. Remaster that old Lucas Arts
shooter which we've played on the site a little bit.
It's really good. Launches worldwide for Switch to today, so
another chance to check out that game. Okay, that does
it for the headlines for sure. Now let's get onto
the poll question from yesterday. I have the results right
over here, but let me refresh to get the most
up to date results.
Speaker 3: Are you getting GTA six on day one?
Speaker 1: We just got those reports about how much money it's
expected to make in the first week. I am I will,
but you know, of course, for the job or whatever
I would have. Anyhow, I'm curious. Only thirty one percent
of our respondents are saying yes, tam. That's with five
thousand votes. Sixty nine percent are saying no, nice.
Speaker 2: Lies, liars, Yeah, liars yes.
Speaker 1: Do you think like that is just an easy thing
to say and people won't be able to ignore the hype?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's the kind of thing where people will
be like, no, I'm not buying it, and then everyone
they know is playing in and everyone's talking about it,
and then they'll be like, I'm not saying everyone in
that sixty whatever percent is going to be like. But
I think most a lot of people are going to
be like, ah, fucks, I'll buy it. But I know
there's a bunch of people who are like no, I'm good,
I'll skip it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people will be like, I'm waiting for
the PC version, which yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2: That's fine. But also I don't kid yourself, like, if
you voted for that, there's a high chance, hey, you're
buying it. Don't be crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like the reason it's like, you know, thirty
one percent is maybe even still a little bit high
for this audience where it's like they were happy to
be like we're cool. We don't need the cool, like
the biggest thing in the world we know about the
real video games whatever. But that number probably needs to
be like even higher to match what these expectations are
for this game of five billion dollars in a week
and fifty million copies in a week like that's.
Speaker 2: Also we've seen little to no gameplay. We haven't seen
so the moment one of those a few of those
gameplay videos come out, I think that that kind of
ratio will change.
Speaker 3: Yep. I mean that's gonna happen soon, but maybe maybe
not that soon. We'll see.
Speaker 1: All Right, that does it for the poll question. No
new pole question. Because it's Friday, We're gonna end the
week with the bomb twelve. We'll get to that here
in a second. Before we do, Sam, tell people where
they can find you on the internet, what you have
going on, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Check out agains dot com. But also more importantly, go
to my YouTube channel and subscribe there. Watch a couple
of videos I am posting there weekly. I am building
up to try and get two videos out a week
so I can be a little more reactive and have
some fun times, you know, in my own little corner
of the world, build something up for myself, for myself,
and you can find me also on Instagram. If you
don't use Instagram, just follow me anyway. You know, I
hate it, but like there's a weird amount of power
in having a high Instagram number that opens so many doors.
That is really frustrating. And I wish I had just
accepted it earlier and just been one of those people
who's instagramming. But exactly, I stayed out of it. But
now I'm I'm paying the price. You know, I'm gonna
have to start pointing out some taty pics on on
Instagram or something. Yeah, but I would prefer not to
say if you can follow me there as well, that'd
be great.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see it's it's giant bomb. Thank you
for watching, everybody. We got some more stuff happening today.
That is UPF. We're gonna be hanging out, Sean, what
are we doing for you? PF, I can't remember Chameleon, Yes, Metrocamellion.
Everybody tune in for metri Chameleon.
Speaker 3: Uh. It's gonna be a good time. You get to
see just how bad I am at art and oh
you got the consumer.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be using this this weekend. Me and
Sean had a nice little chat about it and this.
I'm so excited for this. This the other day, I
cannot wait the reudition of the Kitsune.
Speaker 3: I did buy it.
Speaker 1: I had one, but the eight bit do switch version
like went on a deep discount, and so I got
that sitting over there.
Speaker 3: I want to get mad as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see. So yeah, UPF, Metricamileion. Looking forward to that.
Everybody can't wait to hang out. In the meantime, though,
it's time to wrap things up with the Bomb twelve.
That's right, everybody, these are the twelve games that really
matter to people who are really playing video games.
Speaker 3: That's you.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it with number twelve Lego Batman Legacy
of the Dark Knight, still hanging in there. Number eleven
is Rhythm Heaven Groove. Number ten is Stellar Blade. Number
nine is Dizzy the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure somehow still making
it on here. Number eight is Double O seven First Light.
Number seven is Hades two. Number six is Final Fantasy
seven Rebirth. Number five is Gothic Remake Number four Mina
the Hollower. Number three is star Fox, Number two is
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Recinc. Doing very well, and number
one is Dinch Attack, which hell yeah, I also kind
of started that game recently, Tam, and it really it's
winning me over it. It's like, you know, to rewire
my my Tony Hawk brain a little bit. But once
I've done that, it's like, Okay, there's more going on
than the game. Let's on early.
Speaker 2: So really easy shortcut to make a game that people
will probably be interested in. Imagine you're making a dream
cost game. Yep, do that and people are gonna be like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dreamcast is time again once once again. Seeing here?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is that is Crystal there in that picture,
isn't it? Thanks for producing the shan the show today. Yeah,
thanks for producing the Shawn Show. Thank you everybody for
watching and listening. Tam, thank you so much for hanging
out with me and talk about video games.
Speaker 3: Man, I really appreciate me.
Speaker 2: You'll see more of me in the future. Who knows.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, let's make it happen. Been made, it made
my Friday.
Speaker 3: Let's again.
Speaker 1: Thank you everybody for watching, Thank you for listening. You're
the best audience in gaming. Show that love everywhere. We'll
be back next time. Take it easy, take care of yourself,
and goodbye.