Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Breaking News with me Jeff Grub,
Speaker 1: your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning
Speaker 1: in on this episode, we're gonna be talking about Nintendo
Speaker 1: actually announcing a new Direct just six days before the
Speaker 1: switch to Direct. We have Lucy James on the program,
Speaker 1: so you know it's gonna be a good one. Let's
Speaker 1: get right into it by saying hello to said Lucy
Speaker 1: James games. How's it going?
Speaker 2: I E it is going well. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I just want to give a shout out to past
Speaker 3: Lucy James because she really.
Speaker 2: Really helped out present Lucy James when she was setting
Speaker 2: up her office yesterday.
Speaker 1: Good job. Yeah, that's a that's a bit a big one.
Speaker 1: I always count on past and present Lucy James. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you can also count on past Lucy James.
Speaker 2: She labeled every single wire every.
Speaker 1: Okay, one okay, So I didn't know we were getting
Speaker 1: that serious.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then this is the first time I've had a
Speaker 3: camera like directly above my screen since maybe twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: and it feels weird that I'm not like looking off
Speaker 3: to the side.
Speaker 2: But we will. We'll get there.
Speaker 1: Looks good. What's the plans for, you know, decorating, getting
Speaker 1: everything set up in there. You know, to be fair,
Speaker 1: you know that you don't. It's not like there's an
Speaker 1: echo in there or anything.
Speaker 2: So oh I'm using. I'm using in video broadcasts.
Speaker 1: That's why. Is that helping listen? It is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just updated it and it is very good.
Speaker 2: Green Wayne Scotting cream top.
Speaker 3: Nice comfortable chair is going in that corner, and at
Speaker 3: some point the next couple of days, I'm going to
Speaker 3: be putting my junk on these shelves. Shout out to
Speaker 3: the miller's forgiving me that junk.
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh fantastic you were painting right. This
Speaker 1: is a fresh paint job, it is. It looks great,
Speaker 1: so thank you.
Speaker 3: The one problem is is that it was I painted
Speaker 3: this like a salmon pink, which you know, there was
Speaker 3: a vision and I'm totally fine in saying that the
Speaker 3: vision didn't work. But I've just kind of gone back
Speaker 3: to an ice cream. Someone's telling me to turn on
Speaker 3: the Nvidia blank no blank mode.
Speaker 2: Shall I do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm listening. I'll look away, but chat can't. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's finely me.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I have to change it in here.
Speaker 1: That's always a good thing to do to yourself as
Speaker 1: a lady on the internet is give yourself crazy eyes.
Speaker 1: I think that's what people like.
Speaker 2: So it just it just it just flat out breaks everything.
Speaker 1: It did just break everything.
Speaker 2: It just breaks everything.
Speaker 3: So I guess with the thirty ninety and so all.
Speaker 1: Right, well you know what, We'll try the no blink
Speaker 1: next time. Everybody, all right, let's explain what we do
Speaker 1: here most weekdays, I, Jeff Grub willhelp pece your gaming
Speaker 1: life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even
Speaker 1: some of our own original reporting. For all these topics,
Speaker 1: I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who
Speaker 1: will make me look smart. If you were watching live
Speaker 1: on twitch welcome. You can always listen to the show
Speaker 1: later on podcast feeds by searching for game breaking news,
Speaker 1: or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You
Speaker 1: can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I know we're working on that, everybody, new workflow. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have a lot to get into, so let's start
Speaker 1: the morning mess.
Speaker 2: You didn't say it, you didn't say it, you didn't
Speaker 2: say it.
Speaker 1: Hello YouTube, Thank you man. That I do people do
Speaker 1: get mad if I forget to say it, so it's.
Speaker 2: Never you didn't say it.
Speaker 1: It's never been written down. I just you know, it
Speaker 1: just happens, so yeah, or if it is written out,
Speaker 1: it's not on this Wednesday, doc anyhow, give different docks
Speaker 1: reach day of the week. Everybody a little.
Speaker 2: But that's how that's how we do things.
Speaker 1: That's all we do things over here. That's called efficiency.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is all right. Let's get into
Speaker 1: some headlines. Lucy James tomorrow. It's been confirmed and Nintendo
Speaker 1: announced it. It's not they're not really holding back in
Speaker 1: terms of like setting expectation expectations even I suppose they
Speaker 1: can do that because they do have switched to Direct
Speaker 1: coming next week. But a Nintendo Direct is happening tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The Kennis Shepherd headline over at Kotaka reads sounds like
Speaker 1: it could be the switch's last hurrah. Don't know why
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be. I think the numbers on this it'll be.
Speaker 1: It'll start at seven am Pacific time, ten am Eastern.
Speaker 1: We will find somewhere seven am Pacific time is like
Speaker 1: man just one hour later, and that's like actually kind
Speaker 1: of reasonable. Seven am is not their.
Speaker 2: American offices in Seattle. I'm sure they love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder if they ever like try to like
Speaker 1: get them to moving around, and that's like, now you're American.
Speaker 1: We don't care. So thirty minutes is the time we've
Speaker 1: been given. And of course they did say that there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be any Switch to stuff here, so that is
Speaker 1: as far as like the setting expectations, that's the one
Speaker 1: thing they have done. Beyond that, Nintendo doesn't go into
Speaker 1: any specifics about what games we might be seeing during
Speaker 1: the showcase. Usually the company says if a stream will
Speaker 1: be made up of third party partner games rather than
Speaker 1: its own in house projects, but it makes no such
Speaker 1: distinction here. So we may see some of Nintendo's last
Speaker 1: big Switch games before we move on to Switch too.
Speaker 1: As far as we know, Nintendo is winding down first
Speaker 1: party games for the Switch, but some big games like
Speaker 1: Metroid Prime for Beyond and Pokemon Legends ZA are still
Speaker 1: coming to the console this year, So okay. There's been
Speaker 1: some other like developments recently Lucy that have like definitely
Speaker 1: thrown a little bit of muck in our understanding what
Speaker 1: might be happening in which direct there was a report
Speaker 1: a week or so ago that said there would be
Speaker 1: this big Metroid Prime four blowout, it would take up
Speaker 1: a lot of the spotlight in the Switch To Direct.
Speaker 1: On April second, now we're hearing that from someone else
Speaker 1: that Metroid Prime four won't be in the switch to
Speaker 1: Direct at all. So I'm thinking you told me, if
Speaker 1: this sounds right to you, that maybe there were some
Speaker 1: cross wires there, and METROI Prime four is going to
Speaker 1: be a big thing in this direct, and then maybe
Speaker 1: it gets a mention or something, or Nintendo refers to this.
Speaker 1: Director says all those games that are for Switch one, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll run great on Switch too, and that's it. But
Speaker 1: METROI Prime four is probably in this one, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I hope it's in this one, just because yes, all
Speaker 3: eyes will be on the Switch too thing. But if
Speaker 3: you're talking about giving Metroid like a chance to have
Speaker 3: its flowers, you know, and also just like be the
Speaker 3: star of its own it's own direct that a lot
Speaker 3: of people are going to be watching without having to
Speaker 3: compete with all the Switch To stuff. And then you
Speaker 3: get the good news a week later that hey, it
Speaker 3: is going to be able to come in the it
Speaker 3: will be playable in the Switch Too.
Speaker 2: I think that's great. Switch has an incredibly large install base,
Speaker 2: and hey.
Speaker 3: If Metroid is coming, you gets to play it on
Speaker 3: either console hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think they definitely have talked about it
Speaker 1: as a Switch one game up, you know, until the
Speaker 1: very last minute their last earnings call, they made a
Speaker 1: big deal about it being Switch one. It is a
Speaker 1: Switch one game. I think the question up until this
Speaker 1: point has been, Okay, does it become a cross generational launch,
Speaker 1: like similar to the last couple or a handful of
Speaker 1: the last couple of a couple of Zelda games. Yes,
Speaker 1: Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess, those came out
Speaker 1: the end of one generation, launched on both essentially as
Speaker 1: dual skews. Is that going to happen here or is
Speaker 1: this going to be as you know, I theorized on
Speaker 1: I think this show, or maybe it was a BombCast
Speaker 1: somewhere that maybe this becomes the poster child for here's
Speaker 1: how a Switch one game is going to be improved
Speaker 1: on switch to. That could still happen, although you know,
Speaker 1: if it's if they're not going to talk about it
Speaker 1: in the switch To direct and they're not going to
Speaker 1: mention switch To. Here are they going to make a
Speaker 1: big deal out of that. I kind of don't see
Speaker 1: why they wouldn't they did? You know, they want you
Speaker 1: to go into the store by a switch To, especially
Speaker 1: if you're someone who's elapsed as a switch gamer, because
Speaker 1: you're you know, there's a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: who enjoyed the switch, but they're not like me where
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Nintendo, I just like Nintendo. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I liked some of those games. I like the Switch
Speaker 1: when it felt fresh and new. It's felt old for
Speaker 1: a hell a long time now. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to be excited about something new. So I have not
Speaker 1: bought a lot of switch games recently. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in the store. I'm gonna get the switch To.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the new Mario Kart because everyone's just
Speaker 1: gonna get that. It's the law. And then what else
Speaker 1: do I want to get there? Well, Metroid Prime two
Speaker 1: or Metro Prime four beyond is just waiting for you
Speaker 1: on the shelf, and I think anything that you can
Speaker 1: tell yourself about, oh, well, this will take advantage of
Speaker 1: you know, up the upscaling technology on the switch to
Speaker 1: and it runs at a higher, more steady frame rate.
Speaker 1: Although I expect this game to run just fine on
Speaker 1: Switch one, anything you could say to yourself, bless you,
Speaker 1: Jan is going to help I think so. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Chat can hear him. Actually so, I might
Speaker 1: just sound like a crazy person. But anything you can
Speaker 1: tell yourself when you're going to buy these games, especially
Speaker 1: for like a cross gen you know, a game like
Speaker 1: this or last Gen game, I should say, we don't
Speaker 1: know if it's cross Gen, is going to help it.
Speaker 1: So I'm still very curious about how they position this thing,
Speaker 1: although in this moment it does seem like they're gonna
Speaker 1: be like Metro Prime four rules on its own merits
Speaker 1: and you should just go get it because it's going
Speaker 1: to be a good game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, hey, look, I'm just excited from one
Speaker 3: Nintendo stuff. At this point, my switch has been gathering
Speaker 3: dust for do you know the last game I think
Speaker 3: I played on my switch.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I have no idea, right dead Redemption.
Speaker 1: Well that's fucking weird. That's that's whole that was. I
Speaker 1: would not have guessed that I would know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guess that. I mean, that was interesting to
Speaker 1: see that on the switch although that was when We're Great. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean it should should better run. Great's you know
Speaker 1: an older game. It's an Xbox three sixty games.
Speaker 2: It is three sixty. It was May game.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should.
Speaker 2: Why is why I bought my Xbox three sixty It
Speaker 2: was red down.
Speaker 1: I uh. In terms of what else people might be
Speaker 1: able to expect from this Nintendo direct, I you know.
Speaker 2: So give people, give people a crumb gone.
Speaker 1: Have Everybody still thinks that, And I'm you know, if
Speaker 1: if not here, you know where else, I guess it
Speaker 1: could be in the switch to one. It could be,
Speaker 1: it could be anywhere. I think there's no reason to
Speaker 1: assume like this one makes more sense than anything else.
Speaker 1: So if you want to be skeptical, sure go ahead.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, it's like this feels like
Speaker 1: all the eyes will be on Nintendo for these next
Speaker 1: two directs. So if you are a game that is
Speaker 1: coming out soonish, and that game, you know, there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of like movement on that game recently, tiny
Speaker 1: little movement, but you know there's a lot of it.
Speaker 1: It's voluminous. It's like, Okay, if that game is ready
Speaker 1: to go, what showcase of what like, if you could
Speaker 1: choose any showcase to be in, the Nintendo Direct just
Speaker 1: is the biggest one because you can get excitement from
Speaker 1: and I've said this before, from PlayStation and Xbox or
Speaker 1: a PlayStation, yeah, an Xbox, m PC gamers sort of
Speaker 1: just by getting out there in the news cycle and
Speaker 1: making your announcement. Nintendo gamer is a little bit more
Speaker 1: siloed off to the side and don't pay as much attention.
Speaker 1: If you can get into a direct, you'll get their
Speaker 1: attention immediately, and then that also gets everyone else's attention.
Speaker 1: So it's the place. It's the place to be. So
Speaker 1: I get that, but I don't know. I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to get people's hopes up anymore. That game's not real.
Speaker 1: I think that's where we've settled on it.
Speaker 2: Well, didn't want to pick it the fan secretic. I
Speaker 2: don't think they did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've maybe at this point maybe
Speaker 1: you know, If they haven't, I'll go pick it real quick.
Speaker 1: Other than that, you know, there's a fire Emblem game
Speaker 1: that Nintendo. It's a remake. I think of Genealogy of
Speaker 1: the Holy War, which is a Super Nintendo game. Uh
Speaker 1: that was a Japan only Japan only. It's never been
Speaker 1: localized for the for the West at all. And so
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, that's been finished for going on like
Speaker 1: two years now. It's been a long time. It's just
Speaker 1: been sitting there. So, uh, does it pop off here
Speaker 1: or is yeah, I don't know how Nintendo thinks about
Speaker 1: these sorts of things, like does it make more sense
Speaker 1: to announce it now and launch it and risk it
Speaker 1: kind of getting lost in the shuffle of people getting
Speaker 1: more excited about things that are switched to exclusive or
Speaker 1: do you save it and be like, uh, that is
Speaker 1: going to be for switch to instead? That fire on
Speaker 1: fire emblem game certainly probably doesn't need switch to. So
Speaker 1: and then you know, there has been rumors of a
Speaker 1: new Mario sports game, this time baseball. Uh, there is
Speaker 1: a you know they had that story Nintendo switch to
Speaker 1: logos are going to be on the shoulder of Seattle
Speaker 1: Mariners players for this uh baseball season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the did you see the New York like there
Speaker 2: was a big switch to thing in New York.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't say, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I opened up Blue Skirt and I didn't save it.
Speaker 1: This is like a like a big sign. Okay, and
Speaker 1: times square.
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're right there for that direct. So
Speaker 1: the advertising kicking in feels right and all, okay, all
Speaker 1: the rumors right now, and you know it sounds right
Speaker 1: to me. June is kind of when this thing is
Speaker 1: probably coming, uh at this point. That's what everyone is saying,
Speaker 1: and I tend to agree. And so that they as
Speaker 1: soon as we get out of this direct, the marketing
Speaker 1: campaign will be in full effect, because it'll be the
Speaker 1: beginning of April and let's say like this goes all
Speaker 1: the way through the end of June. They want it
Speaker 1: to give themselves a little a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: That's you know, two full months.
Speaker 2: And me head down to Union Square. Yeah yeah, Union Square.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 3: Get that that new Nintendo store that I still cannot
Speaker 3: believe is happening in some Francis Yeah, all the places
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's I'm excited for you all. That's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna definitely visit that Nintendo story.
Speaker 2: I'm to become so popular. Yes, for the for the
Speaker 2: all of the exclusive stuff. I've already had Jordan Midler
Speaker 2: already had him.
Speaker 1: But are they even gonna have a lot of Pokemon
Speaker 1: stuff there?
Speaker 3: No, but they'll have they have exclusive stuff for the
Speaker 3: store in general. Okay, Like the Pokemon store in Shibuyah
Speaker 3: was oh my god, like everything was sold out like.
Speaker 2: An opening, Like it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So it's it's going to be the same for that store.
Speaker 1: But hey, we better to have a store than no
Speaker 1: store at all.
Speaker 2: Those things saved downtown Town Francisco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they that they do a good job just
Speaker 1: like making those places of fun place to go and visit.
Speaker 1: Any like other games, I'm like they gonna like they
Speaker 1: could show up here.
Speaker 2: We think in like third party.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll say, God, I wonder how I can phrase this.
Speaker 1: The reason I heard about it direct originally is because
Speaker 1: of a partner game. And I think that when we
Speaker 1: get out of this direct if no matter like what
Speaker 1: is the most exciting game, there will be one game
Speaker 1: that causes the most conversation and it won't be about
Speaker 1: Nintendo necessarily. That's all I can say. I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: teasing it, but that like I know, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: when we're done here, Yeah, I'll tell you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's because you know this, it's happening tomorrow, So it
Speaker 1: all goes down the way I think we'll see all right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Go ahead it No, No, I don't want I don't
Speaker 3: want to play the guests and game almost Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's ever fun for old Jeffy. Yeah. See if I'm
Speaker 1: looking at chatting now to see if anyone has any
Speaker 1: other guesses for what they want to see, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, is there any other franchise like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if like a weird franchise from
Speaker 1: Nintendo comes back, like an Excite Bike or I don't know,
Speaker 1: something along those lines. We could see something like that,
Speaker 1: but they're not gonna have it would have to be
Speaker 1: a lot of these games that have just kind of
Speaker 1: been cooking for a long time. Anything that was in
Speaker 1: development in the last two years almost certainly was getting
Speaker 1: ready for the Switch two, and at one point they
Speaker 1: were gonna be really, we're gonna do a Switch pro.
Speaker 1: So they probably were making a lot of games with
Speaker 1: that thing in mind, and maybe they were holding onto
Speaker 1: some of these because of that. So we'll see looking
Speaker 1: forward to it, though, we will talk over it one
Speaker 1: way or another. Everybody, Oh, thank you, Mike Manati. Metroid
Speaker 1: Prime two, Yes, Metroid Prime two and three, those remasters
Speaker 1: are also done in a similar way to Fire Emblem,
Speaker 1: so they're not as big of a remaster as Metroid
Speaker 1: Prime one was, but still that would be very cool
Speaker 1: to get those games with dual analog stick controls on
Speaker 1: Switch one. They should run really good on that system,
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping we get at least two, but boy,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they just say, hey, here's two,
Speaker 1: and then a week later you can get three or
Speaker 1: something like that, or just maybe drop them as a
Speaker 1: bundle all in one go. And then of course everyone
Speaker 1: always wonders about Zelda, Twilight Princess and win Waker HD
Speaker 1: been ONU. Do they have anything else Zelda announced for
Speaker 1: this year? They always want to do one Zelda thing
Speaker 1: per year, and I don't think so. They had the
Speaker 1: Zelda Game, the Zelda Zelda Game last year, and so
Speaker 1: I don't think they have anything announced for this year.
Speaker 1: If they have a gap, that thing could pop off,
Speaker 1: but I don't know at this point they have a gap. Yep,
Speaker 1: they have not had a gap so far, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see, Okay, let's keep going here. Game
Speaker 1: Informer returns after being shut down by Game Stop. This
Speaker 1: is from Sophie McAvoy at games industry dot biz. Game
Speaker 1: Informer has returned after being shut down by GameStop in
Speaker 1: August twenty twenty four. We wanted to talk about this
Speaker 1: on the BombCast just yesterday everybody, but they just took
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to get the official announcement out
Speaker 1: there and actually launched the website. The website's been getting
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. I've been trying to register. I
Speaker 1: can't even register because it's, uh, it's getting so much traffic.
Speaker 1: In a letter from editor in chief Matt Miller, he
Speaker 1: review that the publication had been purchased by Gunzilla Games,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, their Web three company. But we've
Speaker 1: talked to some of the Game Informer people and they've
Speaker 1: said we're independent, Like they're not gonna you know, you know,
Speaker 1: of course they say this, but I believe it so far.
Speaker 1: It could always change, but I believe that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be independent. And the good news is like everyone working
Speaker 1: there got a pretty good pay raise and the back
Speaker 1: they all are all rehired. It is such an overall
Speaker 1: a feel good story, and we'll talk about I got
Speaker 1: another story right after this about game stops plans, you know, sure,
Speaker 1: like we don't have to do a competition for you
Speaker 1: know what's like less evil. But it's not like they
Speaker 1: were completely free from interference before in terms of like
Speaker 1: working for a terrible company. But Gunzilla, I really don't
Speaker 1: didn't know much about them other than people saying they're
Speaker 1: you know, it's so kind of a Russian Web three company.
Speaker 1: But they're given money to Game Informer to get back
Speaker 1: up and running. And I think in the end, the
Speaker 1: magazine it's just gonna be its own business that will
Speaker 1: have to justify itself. And it sounds like they also
Speaker 1: have a couple of years to build up that business,
Speaker 1: so it's not like they have to like begin churning
Speaker 1: out a profit immediately and if they don't, they're all
Speaker 1: screwed again. So having some runway, having their jobs, getting
Speaker 1: a raise, that's a bunch of green lights to me.
Speaker 1: And I'm just happy for everybody over there. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to subscribe to the magazine again.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: And like a massive thing just fell over and there
Speaker 3: was a bunch of paint on it, so.
Speaker 1: Rif risky paint, yes, paint shouldn't fall That's my opinion
Speaker 1: on paint as far as you know Game Informer coming back,
Speaker 1: I do think that we probably we will probably get
Speaker 1: the magazine here in the next couple of months. It's
Speaker 1: gonna I can't imagine what it's like to be like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're taking over printing this magazine all entirely ourselves.
Speaker 1: So like, what is the actual process of making that happen?
Speaker 1: Although I beg they do have a lot of experts
Speaker 1: on that team that have done that for a long time,
Speaker 1: so if anyone can figure it out, it's them. But boy,
Speaker 1: I would not want to be in the business of
Speaker 1: having They're like, okay, let's release and ship a print
Speaker 1: magazine around the United States all by ourselves right now.
Speaker 1: I guess they and they might even ship around the world.
Speaker 1: So it's a big undertaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, hey, I'm very happy for everyone that
Speaker 3: they're back. Yeah, like talking to Alex tomorrow kind of
Speaker 3: understanding more about what they're what they call their mission is.
Speaker 2: It's just I yeah, the company does give me.
Speaker 3: Pause, but I think it's just because been burned by
Speaker 3: so many private companies.
Speaker 1: Like yes, you know, I mean to be fair, though
Speaker 1: they're not private equity. It is just like it's a
Speaker 1: business a different kind of business, not that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing them being separate. It just
Speaker 3: means that, hey, if web three, if bitcoin, if that
Speaker 3: all implodes, I just like I want gave informa to
Speaker 3: be separate it and you know, not be impacted by
Speaker 3: the whims of that exactly.
Speaker 1: You know. But they were previously under a company called
Speaker 1: game Stop, who closed them down us US. Not game Spot.
Speaker 1: They were under game Stop, which plans announced yesterday I
Speaker 1: had its earnings call, announced plans to buy a bunch
Speaker 1: of bitcoin as it closes even more stores. So it's
Speaker 1: not like it was all roses over in the other
Speaker 1: place beforehand. It was you know, this is also web
Speaker 1: three bullshit. Now that's the plan for game Stop. This
Speaker 1: is from Ethan gotcha Kutaku. Game Stop might be dying,
Speaker 1: but thanks to its unprecedented good fortunes as a meme stock,
Speaker 1: it's still as a whopping four billion dollars in cash reserves.
Speaker 1: The video game retail chain announced this week it now
Speaker 1: plan has a plan for what to do with it,
Speaker 1: plow it into bitcoin. Game Stop today announced that it's
Speaker 1: its board has unanimously approved an update to its investment
Speaker 1: policy to add bitcoin as a Treasury reserve asset. The
Speaker 1: company wrote in a press release published on March twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: we have not set a maximum amount of bitcoin we
Speaker 1: may accumulate, accumulate and may sell any bitcoin we may acquire,
Speaker 1: it added in a subsequent SEC filing. Cryptocurrency is currently
Speaker 1: trading at eighty seven thousand dollars, just off its historic
Speaker 1: one hundred and five thousand dollars peak set back in January. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is just then being like, we're going to
Speaker 1: become the Berkshire halfaway of you know, not NFTs, but
Speaker 1: of cryptocurrency. So they're going to kind of become a
Speaker 1: holding company. And you know, they do say like the
Speaker 1: retail business, you know, making the retail business profitable is
Speaker 1: the other part of the strategy. But they did number
Speaker 1: it and the number one part of their strategy is
Speaker 1: this cryptocurrency stuff, and then number two was the retail
Speaker 1: stores and like, yeah, like the retail stores are dying
Speaker 1: and they will continue to die, but that like this
Speaker 1: is going to be this business is going to transform
Speaker 1: into something unrecognizable and kind of the kind of sounds
Speaker 1: like a nightmare to me. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: company now run by Ryan Cohen, who is also a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Dude sucks. I don't know if everyone's anyone's ever seen
Speaker 1: his tweets, but he's a sniveling little weirdo, and he's
Speaker 1: you know, kind of kind of trying to turn this
Speaker 1: into yeah, the pip Kids Berkshire Hathaway, which is a
Speaker 1: weird thing. It probably won't work, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: Bitcoin is just only ever bounced back when it's you know,
Speaker 1: gone down, so it probably will make them a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I don't know, but you think we have
Speaker 1: game stops? Okay, Actually here's a good one. Dan posted
Speaker 1: this on Blue Sky. He mentioned this before and I
Speaker 1: talked to him. What do you think lasts longer at
Speaker 1: this point, GameStop, RETEP retail stores, or Game Informer, this
Speaker 1: new magazine.
Speaker 2: Game inform of the new magazine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean game stop. It
Speaker 3: just seems that they've been trying to get out for
Speaker 3: so so long. Oh yeah, I just don't see them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean they're closing stores really fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: There's like a couple left in San Francisco, which I'm
Speaker 3: still amazed by. In the Bay Area because got the
Speaker 3: cost of rent and everything.
Speaker 2: But everyone one's going digital. Everyone's going digital. So I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to go get a haircut a few
Speaker 1: weeks back.
Speaker 2: And at your local game stop.
Speaker 1: Well basically it's the only time I walk into a
Speaker 1: game stop because it's right next to the great clips
Speaker 1: that I go too. I think everyone could tell by
Speaker 1: my haircut. And I, uh this time, and it was closed.
Speaker 1: I you know, I had no idea it was closing.
Speaker 1: It just disappeared and.
Speaker 2: Just went one day.
Speaker 1: It just went one day. Yeah, and it's I don't
Speaker 1: know where the next nearest one even is. I know
Speaker 1: some like local mom and pop shops and sort of
Speaker 1: these regional chains that are trade end stores that do
Speaker 1: a lot of retro games. We got a handful of those,
Speaker 1: but I don't know where the next closest game stop is.
Speaker 1: To me, it's and it's.
Speaker 2: Not like whenever I'm going there white a few up here.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's they have tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: stores or something like that. Like they had tons of stores,
Speaker 1: and so it's going to take a long time for
Speaker 1: them to burn through all of that. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: probably you know, each year they probably would they cut
Speaker 1: off the stores to ten percent that makes the least
Speaker 1: amount of money or something like that, and eventually they'll
Speaker 1: just do that until there's basically nothing left.
Speaker 2: Nothing left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, let's see here, I am Yeah. Let's do
Speaker 1: this next one right here. That's this's a fun one.
Speaker 1: Ubisoft scores a ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform,
Speaker 1: which hopefully marks the end to all this Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: Shadows culture or nonsense. This is from Harvey Randall at
Speaker 1: pc Gamer. Assassin's Creed Shadows has landed some solid success
Speaker 1: on online storefronts and an overall decent critical reception. PC
Speaker 1: Gamer's own Morgan Park gave it an eighty in his review,
Speaker 1: which is none too shabby. To celebrate you. Besoft has
Speaker 1: gone from avoiding trading on egg shells to getting its
Speaker 1: biggest chunky egg shell stomping boots and the marauding through
Speaker 1: an eggshell field while laughing uproarously, scoring one of the
Speaker 1: biggest ratios I think I've ever seen on social media.
Speaker 1: For context, Ubisoft has found itself in the un unenviable
Speaker 1: position of being caught in the midst of an ongoing,
Speaker 1: ongoing culture war over whether video games are woke or not.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Woke is this and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: This time they were bristling over the inclusion of this
Speaker 1: is the people who are anti woke. They were bristling
Speaker 1: over the inclusion of historical black Samurai Yaske. Never mind
Speaker 1: that over the top historical fiction is the series' whole thing.
Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci, you'd be surprised to find out never
Speaker 1: built a working tank, nor the fact that Yaske and
Speaker 1: characters characters inspired by him have both popped up repeatedly
Speaker 1: in Japanese anime and video games. Ubisoft's Yeah, basically what
Speaker 1: happened here everybody is Ubisoft is marketing their game, and
Speaker 1: they paid Hassan over on Twitch to play the game,
Speaker 1: and Hassan promoted it, and I think originally Grums, who
Speaker 1: was a shitheadshut was like, oh, they had their paying
Speaker 1: a guy who platforms terrorists to promote their game. And
Speaker 1: Ubisolf responded to that by saying, our game is out
Speaker 1: because Mark Kern Drums has been more apparently working on
Speaker 1: a game for eight or nine years and no one's
Speaker 1: ever seen anything of it, or if they have, it
Speaker 1: looks like AI bullshit, and so that was a pretty
Speaker 1: good one they and the response to that was, you know,
Speaker 1: Grums had a few thousand likes and the Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: account on Twitter had over like one hundred thousand likes
Speaker 1: the last time I looked. And then Elon Musk got
Speaker 1: in and basically just said that Hassan is a sellout
Speaker 1: and called them a bunch of other names. And the
Speaker 1: Assassin's Creed account responded to that by saying, is that
Speaker 1: what the guy who plays on your Path of Exile
Speaker 1: two account told you? And it's like, okay, that that's
Speaker 1: referring back to everyone finding out. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they didn't know that Elon Musk was paying someone to
Speaker 1: play his accounts for games like Path Ofexyle and Diablo
Speaker 1: to put him in the top ten of like the
Speaker 1: highest scoring accounts. I don't even know how you play
Speaker 1: those games for a score or in the first place,
Speaker 1: but whatever, the highest scoring accounts in those games. And
Speaker 1: he never really played it, and it was pretty obvious
Speaker 1: when he streamed it and didn't know what he was doing. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Assassin's Creed kind of like going headfirst into
Speaker 1: this did a backfire. It doesn't seem like it did.
Speaker 1: If anything, it has kind of revealed that people are
Speaker 1: officially sick of this culture or bullshit coming into every
Speaker 1: single game. And the ratio for this one, which is
Speaker 1: like when someone posts something kind of like pointed and
Speaker 1: then someone else replies to that and gets a lot
Speaker 1: more likes, Well, this definitely did. It has like five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand likes now Assassin's c Assassin Creeds response to
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. I think it's I don't know. I want
Speaker 1: to like believe it could be a turning point of
Speaker 1: people just being like, all right, you know what we did,
Speaker 1: just get hoodwinked. I know it won't be that, but
Speaker 1: I want to believe that this is a sign of
Speaker 1: the fever breaking a little bit. Lucy. Do you think
Speaker 1: there's a chance of that or is this just like
Speaker 1: a moment we should just enjoy and try to move
Speaker 1: on from.
Speaker 2: As someone who has been gloriously offline a lot of
Speaker 2: the last few weeks, I can't tell you how much
Speaker 2: better it is for your mental health to not be
Speaker 2: I ain't.
Speaker 1: Everyone, especially Twitter, like that this is the first time
Speaker 1: in a day or two, a couple of days, and
Speaker 1: it's like kind of. It's like, at least this felt good,
Speaker 1: but then you get five feet away from this and
Speaker 1: it's still a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything is a nightmare.
Speaker 3: Protect your piece, be offline if you want to be
Speaker 3: I yeah, I mean, just enjoy games like Dan put
Speaker 3: it in charge. Like, just enjoy games and just play them. Seriously,
Speaker 3: it's been That's what I've been doing that in pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. The people that are in this culture war,
Speaker 1: they don't play games at all, Like this is just
Speaker 1: a fertile ground for them to get people angry about
Speaker 1: something so that they can get engagement or you know,
Speaker 1: get recruits for their white nationalist groups. Like that's really
Speaker 1: what it is, over and over again. So yeah, they
Speaker 1: are never going to go play games. They never liked
Speaker 1: games in the first place. And then the people who
Speaker 1: do get hoodwinked. It does seem like they are finally
Speaker 1: turning away at least in this moment, for this one situation.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was very embarrassing for Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: I hope he can still feel that, or if the
Speaker 1: ketamine has killed his ability to feel that, that would
Speaker 1: that would be a real shame. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. Will we come back more to talk about,
Speaker 1: including maybe Mortal Kombat remasters and when is the Witcher
Speaker 1: for an Intergalactic going to launch? No time soon. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that right after this. All right, everybody, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Jan has apologized for the sneeze. Just don't let it
Speaker 1: happen again. No bodily functions on this show.
Speaker 2: Nice Ron, Oh, I'm not allowed to sneeze. There's a
Speaker 2: classic there was no vine.
Speaker 3: Well, like a couple of looking at this beautiful deer
Speaker 3: and the guy just lets out like a jan As
Speaker 3: sneeze and scares the deer away, and the woman just
Speaker 3: goes nice Ron.
Speaker 1: All right, Mortal Kombat remasters are just a matter of time.
Speaker 1: According to Ed Boone. This comes from Marcus person over
Speaker 1: at Game Reactor, more than thirty years have passed since
Speaker 1: we were first introduced to Raiden Scorpions, sub Zero lu Kang,
Speaker 1: excuse Mchano and all the other married combatants in Ed
Speaker 1: Boone and John Tobias's Blood Knuckle Sandwich or Bloody Knuckle Sandwich.
Speaker 1: I guess it says a lot has happened since then,
Speaker 1: not least the soft reboot that took place with Mortal
Speaker 1: Kombat one launch the other last year was that I
Speaker 1: think I was last year. But for the other two creators,
Speaker 1: not the not the least ed Boone, it's not all
Speaker 1: about renewal, and according to him, there is a strong
Speaker 1: desire to return to the series' roots, something that he
Speaker 1: also talked about in an interview with Cleveland Gaming Classic,
Speaker 1: where Boone mentioned that remastering older titles is only a
Speaker 1: matter of time. When did the Cleveland Gaming Classic happen?
Speaker 1: I didn't go to this. What's this? I need to
Speaker 1: go to this apparently, and something he really wants to realize. Basically,
Speaker 1: he wants to make some remasters. I would love it
Speaker 1: if we could just revisit some of those moments with
Speaker 1: the latest technology remasters another action of venture game. There's
Speaker 1: great opportunities for that. One day, the stars are going
Speaker 1: to align and we're going to make that happen.
Speaker 2: And I think timber.
Speaker 1: Man, okay, I wonderful. I wonder wat'chs just getting transcribed
Speaker 1: now that's sound. I think I did go to it
Speaker 1: in September. Mike can remind me. Mike went, I think,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't make it happen. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that this is something that we're probably hearing about because
Speaker 1: it's not happening. Like if he was working on this
Speaker 1: stuff actively, or if it was even like in the
Speaker 1: planning phase, it probably would be the kind of thing
Speaker 1: where he would be a little bit more koy about it.
Speaker 3: Him saying someone someone from Warner Brothers was like a
Speaker 3: red dot site would yes.
Speaker 1: Exactly on even himself, like you know, he does like
Speaker 1: the t stuff, but he doesn't. He's usually yeah, he's
Speaker 1: more coy about it than this usually. So I am.
Speaker 1: I would like to see this, but I don't expect
Speaker 1: it anytime soon. What form would you want a remaster
Speaker 1: of Mortal Kombat to take? Would you want whant to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, remake the first two games but with
Speaker 1: the exact modern technology, or or something where it's like
Speaker 1: HD two D. You're a huge Mortal Kombat head?
Speaker 2: Come on, what about me? Says I'm a Mortal Kombat head.
Speaker 1: You're the most violent person I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what. I don't care. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 2: don't really play Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 3: I think collective time I have played Mortal Kombat is
Speaker 3: probably like ten fifteen minutes. I Hey, I'm all about
Speaker 3: game preservation as long as those original games are still
Speaker 3: available to play. In terms of Mortal Kombat, if people
Speaker 3: are wanting that kind of modernization of controls and stuff,
Speaker 3: I don't know. For me, it's that weird one where
Speaker 3: it's like, are people asking for this or is this
Speaker 3: a stop gap between your next mainline release it's going
Speaker 3: to take four or five years to make.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I don't know if people are really
Speaker 1: like clamoring for it, because you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to play Mortal Kombat one too, the trilogy, those games
Speaker 1: hold up because they are the exact kind of estyle
Speaker 1: debate where you know, they're timeless in their own way.
Speaker 1: They have that nineties rotoscope ugliness to them. You know
Speaker 1: that isn't really ugly. It's fascinating to look.
Speaker 2: At Damn brk at clamors for it.
Speaker 1: He's stand record Clamors. I just like, what do you want? Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: what do you want? Because do you want Mortal Kombat
Speaker 1: to remade with the same visual style that that they're
Speaker 1: using now for Immortal Kombat games? Because I don't want
Speaker 1: to lose the rotoscope?
Speaker 2: Because what was the what was the street Fighter one
Speaker 2: that came out? The one that what's his face? Did
Speaker 2: that great video where he's like screaming.
Speaker 1: At the Maximilian du because he did that for MVC too,
Speaker 1: Marvel versus Capta. I love that for a lot of
Speaker 1: the announcements, and it's always very charming.
Speaker 2: Joy.
Speaker 3: Have you seen it where someone put the Mario party
Speaker 3: trailer over it and it matches the very perfectly.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like Peach going up the escalator.
Speaker 1: He just goes.
Speaker 2: Made me cry laughing anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean, you say you only played it for ten
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, obviously that does include the hours you've spent
Speaker 1: on Mortal Kombat mythology sub zero. And he does mention
Speaker 1: an action adventure game. Do you think there's a chance
Speaker 1: they could like retell the story of early Mortal Kombat
Speaker 1: games with a new action adventure game. Do you think
Speaker 1: that anyone wants that?
Speaker 2: Hey? Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I this is just one of those things to me
Speaker 3: where it's like gaming is just so focused on the
Speaker 3: past because everything is so screwed up towards looking to
Speaker 3: the future, and so I really don't know.
Speaker 2: Mortal Kombat is not a cultural touch point for me.
Speaker 3: I think, hey, as long as they do a justice,
Speaker 3: as long as they do it, I mean, but also
Speaker 3: you've got interest in the series, so they're not going
Speaker 3: to have a mainline game in time for the next
Speaker 3: movie to come out.
Speaker 2: I oh wait, that's the one bit of Mortal Kombat
Speaker 2: media that I have consumed. I actually did really enjoy
Speaker 2: that movie. I thought it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Which movie the original one.
Speaker 2: Or the twenty twenty one?
Speaker 1: I turned that off halfway through, right, I went to
Speaker 1: the cinema.
Speaker 2: I had a little line it was great, Well, my
Speaker 2: love is going to be in this one, Carl eb
Speaker 2: And that's gonna be in this one.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, okay, that's where he plays Cano. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I thought he was playing Johnny.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you brot. He plays Johnny Cage. That's right.
Speaker 1: I think I just assumed, because of his cultural heritage
Speaker 1: there that he'd be Kano. And I apologize because that's
Speaker 1: not even the right. He's from New Zealand, right, and
Speaker 1: Caanos from Australia.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: One of them, I guess, right, But I mean, hey,
Speaker 3: never forget if Hey, all of my almost almost human
Speaker 3: heads out there, the ten of us who watched that show,
Speaker 3: was it almost human?
Speaker 2: The one with the wall? Do you see this, No, this.
Speaker 1: Show, the one with the Wall. Pretty sure that was
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones.
Speaker 2: Wait, oh that game Almost Human TV show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Almost Human where he played a cop
Speaker 3: who hates who hates androids, but then his part it
Speaker 3: was an android. Oh.
Speaker 1: I did watch that show.
Speaker 3: And then at the end of this season it revealed
Speaker 3: there was a massive wool and no one knew what
Speaker 3: was on the other side of the fucking wall, and
Speaker 3: then I got canceled.
Speaker 1: Yeah I remember this now. Yeah, that was Carl Arvin's great.
Speaker 1: I like him mostly because occasionally someone who is being
Speaker 1: overly kind will say I look like Carl Arvin. I'm like, yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: that's that's wrong. But thank you. All right, let's keep
Speaker 1: going here. Jason Schreyer has said that neither The Witcher
Speaker 1: for or Intergalactic The Heretic Profit will be released in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's from Jonas Mackie at Game Reactor.
Speaker 1: The two possibly heaviest announcements during the Game Awards were
Speaker 1: The Witcher four and Naughty Dogs Knew Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet,
Speaker 1: Intergalactic the Heretic Profit. So will we get to.
Speaker 2: Play them inside of twenty The Beastie Boys not a.
Speaker 1: Very good one. No few of us expected that, and
Speaker 1: now a real heavyweight is joining the chorus. More specifically,
Speaker 1: Bloomberg journalist to Jason Schreyer, known for countless scoops in
Speaker 1: the gaming world rights of via reset era, that what
Speaker 1: we have seen so far have been very early teases.
Speaker 1: This is This in turn means that neither of those
Speaker 1: games will be out next year. And as soon as
Speaker 1: as soon as that like headline got posted, I got,
Speaker 1: you know, messaged from a source in Yeah that I
Speaker 1: didn't know that this is people could happen. Yeah, these
Speaker 1: definitely aren't coming out next year. And then I think
Speaker 1: we got some details from CD project read that said
Speaker 1: don't even expect the Witcher four before twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 1: And I, you know what, I also I think I
Speaker 1: was not expecting that one anytime soon. So that sounds
Speaker 1: right to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds sort of right to me. I think which
Speaker 2: was it? Which of four only just went into full production?
Speaker 2: Was in the earnings yesterday? Okay? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I Naughty Dog loves to release their a console swan song.
Speaker 1: So well, you know, is it even mean? Is it
Speaker 1: even this console?
Speaker 3: Like if it comes down, say it's either to console
Speaker 3: or it's the Swan song for PS five.
Speaker 1: If it's if it's twenty twenty seven, and that probably
Speaker 1: is still PS five. Yeah, because PS five so PS
Speaker 1: six probably twenty twenty eight at the earliest, I would
Speaker 1: think at this point, because we did get a pro,
Speaker 1: we did get a pro but that you know, okay,
Speaker 1: they made it. If that's the case. But if they
Speaker 1: if they even if they do, that means they went
Speaker 1: an entire generation and just barely got one game out
Speaker 1: for the PS five from Naughty Dog, one new game.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we got a bunch of uag McCollums,
Speaker 3: remasters and remasters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just talking about that. Those are definitely like
Speaker 1: you know, I like remasters and remix so I'm not
Speaker 1: really complaining. But we know what, we know what's happening there.
Speaker 1: It's what you said, there's stop gaps there. You know,
Speaker 1: they fill in these crevices between releases. Crevice was a
Speaker 1: weird word to use, but I did it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: fills the crabs, and I I sure, and that keeps
Speaker 1: people employed, right because they have something to do. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the creative leads at the company take years
Speaker 1: figuring what the next game looks like. And so this
Speaker 1: being a very early early tease means a lot of
Speaker 1: that studio is probably just now being activated to work
Speaker 1: on that project, like, you know, full time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: years and years.
Speaker 3: Away we said activated to work on that project. Makes
Speaker 3: you feel like a cylon.
Speaker 1: Like they're just human resources. That's what they are. That's
Speaker 1: what we all know.
Speaker 2: They're called the people team. Now, oh, really human resources anymore?
Speaker 1: Oh shit? Is that is that a thing? I've never
Speaker 1: heard that term.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's did in fandom that the people team.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't read. What's our our resource
Speaker 1: thing called convalescence, concurrent, confluence, confidence? Yes, yes, I got it.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 3: Think the other day where it was like, hey, Lucy,
Speaker 3: you haven't checked in on confluence in a while, I
Speaker 3: was so, yeah, because the only reason I'm going there
Speaker 3: is to see when on the holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like that's how might check that thing? Uh
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, twenty twenty six, No way for either
Speaker 1: of those. Maybe twenty twenty seven for Intergalactic or.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's hard to do. I'm sorry for taking
Speaker 2: the piss.
Speaker 1: No, No, it's I'm actually bad at it too, so
Speaker 1: that's fair okay, But more going out with CD Project
Speaker 1: red Wichard dev is partnering with the company that now
Speaker 1: owns Pokemon Go Scope Lely. This is from Eddie McCoo
Speaker 1: at GameSpot. CD Project assigned a deal to work with
Speaker 1: Pokemon Co owners scope Ly to make a game based
Speaker 1: on one of the Polish companies franchises. CD Project made
Speaker 1: the announcement during its latest financial briefing, but didn't elaborate
Speaker 1: much on the deal. In fact, they were asked for
Speaker 1: more details from an investor or someone who represents investors,
Speaker 1: and the leadership there over at CD Project right just
Speaker 1: said no, no thanks, We're not going to say anymore.
Speaker 1: So this is an early deal. Scopely is owned by
Speaker 1: Savvy Group. It's you know, which is owned by the
Speaker 1: largest corporation in the history of mankind, Saudi A Ramco,
Speaker 1: or really the family that owns Saudi A Ramco, the
Speaker 1: Saudi Royal family. And so yeah, this is a Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabian sort of company now that a lot of companies
Speaker 1: are working with and Scope if you're trying to like
Speaker 1: place where you've heard that name. They've been making mobile
Speaker 1: games for a very very long time. Most recently they've
Speaker 1: had the breakout hit billion dollars a year game Monopoly Go,
Speaker 1: so they have a lot of money to throw around.
Speaker 1: Whether or not that turns into a success for a
Speaker 1: Witcher game from Scope Lee, I don't know, or I
Speaker 1: guess we don't even know if this is a Witcher game.
Speaker 1: I guess it could be cyberpunk. They're just saying it's
Speaker 1: a property owned by or controlled by CD Project Red
Speaker 1: being made by Scope Le. So what do you expect here?
Speaker 3: I mean, also, Jen just posted that Nantick is let go,
Speaker 3: letting go of sixty eight or so people from San
Speaker 3: Francisco in particular, because all the shit is.
Speaker 1: Coming the largest company in the history of mankind can't afford.
Speaker 2: Oh sf Gate, Jesus Christ, what the hell was that? Yeah? So,
Speaker 2: in terms of what game like a Witch's.
Speaker 3: Style, Pokemon go walking around and attacking, Months says, I
Speaker 3: could see it.
Speaker 1: Oh, they've tried that a bunch of times now and
Speaker 1: it just hasn't worked with Harry Potter. I don't think
Speaker 1: it works with Witcher any better.
Speaker 2: What about cyberpunk walking around and hacking?
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't have to be you know, this
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a Niantic game. Either. It could
Speaker 1: be the Monopoly Go but Witcher version. I mean, it
Speaker 1: could be something else completely different. They've given us no details,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like grasping in the dark because
Speaker 1: it's this company working with that company, and then they
Speaker 1: haven't said anything else. So you know, the reality is,
Speaker 1: I probably never think about this again. Even if it
Speaker 1: comes out gets announced, I probably will barely even notice
Speaker 1: because it's just not the kind of game that I'm into.
Speaker 1: You're muted, Lucy, I'm not hearing you anymore. Yeah, no problem,
Speaker 1: take your time, get that fixed up. But I think
Speaker 1: in the meantime, why don't we keep moving. Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: Wilde's Title Update one has a release date and loads
Speaker 1: more details. Title Update two is set for summer twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. This is from Wesley end Pool at IGN.
Speaker 1: Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Wild's Title Update one comes
Speaker 1: out on Thursday, April third, Pacific time. That's a weird
Speaker 1: way to phrase it. It comes out on Thursday April
Speaker 1: third in America, I guess, and then April fourth in
Speaker 1: the UK. Essentially they're saying UK time, but they don't
Speaker 1: actually give a time. In a showcase video below, Capcom
Speaker 1: confirmed the release date, as well as what players can
Speaker 1: expect from Monster Hunter Wild's first major post launch update.
Speaker 1: The headline here is the Grand Hub, a new gathering
Speaker 1: place in which players can interact in new ways. Here
Speaker 1: you can play a new mini game called Barrel Blowing,
Speaker 1: which sounds like a Donkey Kong sixty four minigame, and
Speaker 1: listen to the Diva perform at night. Visit Sune a
Speaker 1: Leviathan monster with Dangerous Bubbles, hits Monster Hunter wilds with
Speaker 1: title Update one alongside a Zoah Shia quest arch Tempered
Speaker 1: ray Daweh. I guess I say that arch Tempered ray
Speaker 1: Daw launch later via an event quest. Overall, what's really
Speaker 1: happening here is it's gonna They're gonna have a bunch
Speaker 1: of new content and they will likely make the game
Speaker 1: more difficult for a lot of the fans who have said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I like this game a ton it plays really well,
Speaker 1: it's super fun. I just wish it was more difficult
Speaker 1: or it was more challenging. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff will come in these updates. So uh,
Speaker 1: yay for Monster Hunter Wild's players. I want to get
Speaker 1: back in there. Lucy James are we back. No, no,
Speaker 1: what okay, just stopped out of nowhere. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: we can probably get through the rest of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you come back, just yell at me and
Speaker 1: let me know. Super Monkey Ball, Banana Rumble, Unleash's pac
Speaker 1: Man in Pellett Fielled DLC crossover. This is from Chris
Speaker 1: Sculling and VGC. They're just putting pac Man in a ball,
Speaker 1: which is where he belongs. They're doing this for his
Speaker 1: forty fifth anniversary. All right, we lost? Oh wait, are
Speaker 1: you back?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: I hear you? Do you hear me? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now you.
Speaker 1: Don't have my me it's only one thing working at it.
Speaker 1: Oh I see, okay, there we go.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's how we'll do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? What what died my mic? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: just seems like it just cut out with no warning.
Speaker 1: It didn't make a sound or anything that was bizarre
Speaker 1: weird I'm blaming.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and now also all of my like, uh
Speaker 2: is it a USB thing? Like because my life just
Speaker 2: died too.
Speaker 1: And should be all right? Do you have everything going
Speaker 1: into a hub or anything? Is it? Did it get
Speaker 1: bumped power? Don't? Well? You know what this this is
Speaker 1: working just fine, did you did you keep up with
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Wilds you? Yeah, I kind of fell off.
Speaker 2: I'm not a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna try it. I think with this update
Speaker 1: kind of go back and I want to just finish
Speaker 1: the campaign at least, I think, and then we'll see
Speaker 1: if I get into any of this new stuff. And
Speaker 1: then I don't know if you heard it, but they're
Speaker 1: putting Man inside of a ball and putting him in
Speaker 1: super Monkey Ball and that's how they're celebrating his forty
Speaker 1: fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2: Is he just not a ball already?
Speaker 1: Though he is kind of already a ball. That's like
Speaker 1: a very good point. It's kind of perverse when you
Speaker 1: think about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you know, when you have you seen
Speaker 3: those those in Japanese grocery stores where they put bananas
Speaker 3: in like plastic wrap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I like, even though I know I get
Speaker 1: what's happening there. They're putting a rap on her, on
Speaker 1: the thing that already has a rapper, and it's, you know,
Speaker 1: like pac Man, it is also a living thing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I I like looking at this because mostly because I
Speaker 1: really like Super Monkey Ball and I do like pac Man,
Speaker 1: so that's that's interesting. Pac Man, not one that has
Speaker 1: kept up his cultural cachet, right, like that is I
Speaker 1: think that there's a strong chance I show my kids
Speaker 1: pac Man and they're like, maybe he like was a reference.
Speaker 1: It was referenced in a like reck at Ralph movie
Speaker 1: or something like that, and maybe there the ben still
Speaker 1: a one Oh pixels, Yeah that wait? Or is that
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler or is it both?
Speaker 2: Oh, Adam sand it was one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was okay than our Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: expert was here, Thank you very much, Janachoa, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough pac Man. Though I'm not hip with the
Speaker 1: kids these days, that's fine. Things don't have to last forever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, there was one other thing some and sent
Speaker 1: over here. PlayStation Plus Essential games for April include a
Speaker 1: highly rated eighties throwback. This is from Jordan Middler over
Speaker 1: at Video Games and I don't know they're hiring some
Speaker 1: weird new kid over there. PlayStation Plus Essential games for
Speaker 1: April have been announced. The games are RoboCop, Rogue City
Speaker 1: for PS five, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Digimond's Story
Speaker 1: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory just three different phrases. That's the
Speaker 1: PS four version. Players can claim these games starting on
Speaker 1: April first, and they will be available until May fifth.
Speaker 1: I never really played that RoboCop game, and I should
Speaker 1: because it looked like.
Speaker 3: Feel bad for not playing the robo Cup game because
Speaker 3: everyone says so so good.
Speaker 1: I bet that runs okay on Steam Deck. I should
Speaker 1: just install it on there and just play it a
Speaker 1: little bit. Although maybe it's one I want to have
Speaker 1: keyboard and mouse for, so I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll pick that up. And then that Texas Changsaw Massacre game.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun with that, but I
Speaker 1: just don't know how much place there is in the
Speaker 1: market for multiple of those asymmetrical online multiplayer horror games. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't have any time to kind of do that
Speaker 2: at this point, like there's too much going for my attention.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like twenty twenty for me, that was perfect lucy
Speaker 3: time to do all that stuff because I had nothing
Speaker 3: but time.
Speaker 2: But now I actually go outside again, so do Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man and myself watched though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we played Overwatch again a few weeks
Speaker 1: back and really enjoyed ourselves. It was a good time.
Speaker 1: I think I did decide I do like this better
Speaker 1: than Marvel Rivals. Actually this is this is a better game.
Speaker 1: Although my Marvel Rivals is pretty good. Beat RoboCop on
Speaker 1: steam Deck last week. It runs well. Thank you, Marcus
Speaker 1: in chat. I appreciate that. Yeah. For something like Texas
Speaker 1: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it's like, I'm glad I played it.
Speaker 1: Like it's fun to like have the reference of feeding
Speaker 1: Grandpa blood or whatever you did in that game. That
Speaker 1: was a good time. But those games do have to
Speaker 1: kind of become a hobby, Like this needs to be
Speaker 1: like this is what me and my friends do on
Speaker 1: Friday nights every week. And I like the idea of that,
Speaker 1: but there's so many, like you said, so many things
Speaker 1: vying for my time that this is never going to
Speaker 1: be that for me. All Right, that does it for
Speaker 1: the headlines. Let's get over to the poll question that
Speaker 1: we asked