Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

The Guardian's Keza MacDonald joins Greg to talk about Xbox/Bethesda, Super Nintendo World, and more! Follow Keza: https://twitter.com/kezamacdonald Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:08:24 - Housekeeping The Kinda Funny Podcast is live; come here about when I almost lost my eye to a parrot: youtube.com/kindafunny Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:43 - Microsoft/Bethesda Deal Inching Closer, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:24:40 - Watch Dogs Legion MP Indefinitely delayed on PC 00:31:18 - Super Nintendo World Opening, Marie Dealessandri at GIB 00:34:02 - Ad 00:36:50 - Avengers Devs Respond to XP Issue via Reddit 00:42:20 - Division 2 Update 00:49:10 - Tomb Raider Collection Spotted, Gabe Gurwin @ GameSpot 00:53:35 - Out today 00:54:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Gary Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing is joined by Gamespot's Michael Higham to talk about Hogwarts Legacy losing its lead designer, Artifact support coming to an end, and more. Follow Michael: https://twitter.com/michaelphigham 00:00:00 - Start 00:08:07 - Housekeeping Right after this live episode of KFGD, we’re streaming Super Mario 3D World in collaboration with Rooster Teeth to raise money for a good cause. That’ll be me, Tim, Andy, Snowbike Mike, and Alfredo Diaz right here on Twitch.tv/KindaFunnyGames. We revealed the new MCU In Review intro yesterday: https://twitter.com/KindaFunnyVids/status/1367892752420147200 In case you missed it: There’s a brand new episode of The Blessing Show up right now where I break down “What makes a good puzzle game”. I interviewed the dev behind one of my favorite puzzle games “Manifold Garden” and it has some of Roger’s best editing work to date. You can catch that on Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames right now. The Roper Report - 00:12:01 - A Hogwarts Legacy lead designer quits Avalanche following public backlash 00:24:12 - Valve ends development on Artifact 00:32:20 - 2 Million People have downloaded the Outriders Demo 00:37:59 - Ghost of Tsushima devs are becoming permanent ambassadors for the actual island of Tsushima 00:45:33 - Ad 00:50:13 - Animal Crossing New Horizon has detailed its March Update 00:54:44 - Ant-Man Might Be The Next Fortnite Character 00:55:58 - Out today Reader mail - 00:58:00 - Squad Up: Fernando Rodrigues - Twitch - roll_twice 00:58:53 - You‘re Wrong 01:02:49 - Post Show Next Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Greg and Keza MacDonald TUESDAY: Greg and Gary Whitta WEDNESDAY: Blessing and Janet Garcia (Mario Day) THURSDAY: Tim and Tamoor Hussain FRIDAY: Greg and Alex O’Neill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parris Lilly joins Greg to talk about Bloomberg's report on the new Switch, Avengers making some dumb and smart decisions, and more! Follow Parris: https://twitter.com/vicious696 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:15 - Housekeeping The Blessing Show has a new episode on youtube.com/kindafunnygames! It’s all about puzzle games! The Kinda Funny Podcast is live with the new voice of Cleveland on Family Guy, Arif Zahir. MCU IN REVIEW RETURNS TOMORROW! WandaVision Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:39 - New Nintendo Switch Details, Takashi Mochizuki and Sohee Kim 00:17:45 - With the news of a Switch 2 potentially releasing this year, I have to ask, will Horizon get positioned against BOTW again? - Best Friends Q:Branddnh 00:21:39 - Super Nintendo World on Hold for 2 Years, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:24:38 - Avengers is making dumb and smart decisions XP Rework 00:40:46 - Guilty Gear Strive Delayed 00:46:30 - Ad 00:51:03 - Out today 00:56:20 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Blessing and Michael Higham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim and Andy breakdown the latest PSVR news, PS2 texture swaps, Valheim sales, dope beats, and more! Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:44 - Housekeeping New Gamescast Is up Come Draft the FINAL REGULAR SEASON squad for the Wild Aces tonight! 5:30 p.m. pt twitch.tv/kindafunnygames Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:00 - PSVR Spotlight (PlayStation BLOG)PS VR Spotlight 00:25:15 - Sony's controller tech is literally bananas | Patent Trawling (Brendan Sinclair at Games Industry.biz) 00:29:45 - PS2 Emulation Gets Even Nicer With Custom Textures 00:33:04 - Ad 00:37:02 - Valheim's Success Continues, Passing 5 Million Copies Sold [Updated] 00:40:10 - AMD Announces Its Mid-Range Radeon RX 6700 XT, Costs $479 - (Kevin Lee IGN) 00:43:40 - Out today Reader mail - 00:45:30 - There's a lot of people on the internet saying Gears 5 is the best looking game of the generation. What do you think? - Richard Oliver Bray 00:50:20 - What are you guys most looking forward to seeing in a Bethesda focused event? - Dan 00:52:50 - Squad Up: Zach (PSN) - ICosMossI 00:54:10 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Parris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a huge Whitta Wednesday on Tuesday! Gary and Greg talk about Epic buying Tonic Games Group, Nick reports in on Aliens: Fireteam, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:07:50 - Housekeeping On top of that, PSILY is live, it has my Maquette review! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:10 - BREAKING: Epic Games is buying Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, @olgakharif and I have learned. Story hitting shortly 00:20:00 - Aliens: Fireteam Announced 00:32:09 - Harry Potter Game allows Trans Characters, Jason @ Bloomberg 00:44:30 - Why So Many Cutscenes in Outriders? Wesley Yin-Poole @ EuroGamer 00:47:35 - Ad 00:52:12 - TLOU 2 Cleans Up on BAFTA Noms, Matthew Handrahan @GIB 00:54:00 - Goodbye PlayStation Store Movie and TV purchases, PS Blog 00:55:00 - Layoffs reported at Hardsuit Labs, Marie Dealessandri @ GIB 00:55:35 - SDCC Canceled Again, Shocking No One 01:00:40 - Out today 01:05:20 - Squad Up:Chris(PSN/Xbox) - PSN- twitch373, xbl- Dickybird373 01:05:40 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Tim and Andy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing and Tim talk about E3's live event being cancelled, Elden Ring leaks, possible Square Enix remakes, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:.30 - Housekeeping PS I Love You XOXO is recording live later today on Patreon then as always it’s out for everyone on Tuesday morning. It’s been a HUGE week of PlayStation news so you don’t want to miss this week’s episode. Then, as always Kinda Funny Xcast went live over the weekend. You can join Snow Bichael Michael, Gary Whitta, and Parris Lilly as they go back and forth about Bethesda and what to expect from them. This Month’s Patreon Platinum Tier Print is….https://twitter.com/KindaFunnyVids/status/1366440599985942530 Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, David Meintel, Mohammed Mohammed,The Nano Biologist, Frankfurter, Shiraz Razak, Patrick Higgins,Travis Gajkowski,Drew Gardiner, Dominic Shorter,Ginny Berndt,Joseph Soler,Katie Gallacher, &Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:04:30 - E3 2021's Live Event Has Been Cancelled... According to LA City Documents - Adam Bankhurst @ IGN 00:18:58 - Forever Entertainment is developing multiple remakes for Square Enix - Sal Romano @ Gematsu 00:28:20 - Ladies and gentlemen, we got Elden Ring leaks - Andy Robinson @ VGC 00:31:30 - With Elden Ring news on the horizon, do we see this being a 2021 launch or further? Also do we think this is going to be a next gen game? - Best Friends Q:Neo Aoshi 00:37:07 - EA’s delayed the next Need for Speed - Owen S. Good @ Polygon 00:42:40 - Ad 00:45:00 - Bandai Namco trademarks “Bandai Namco Next” - Stephen Tailby @ PushSquare 00:57:29 - We’ve got even more stories of Stadia’s struggle - Jay Peters @ The Verge 01:02:00 - Out today 01:02:50 - Squad Up:Greg(PS5) - GregoryGerdes 01:03:08 - You‘re Wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg and Bless talk about the rumor that we're FINALLY getting extra storage on PS5, open-world Pokemon, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:20 - Housekeeping Our Pokemon Direct reactions are up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames! Did you know that Kinda Funny Best Friend Belinda Garcia wrote her first video game?! Stonefly was announced today, Belinda worked on it, and you should check it out at twitter.com/stoneflygame. It’s from Flight School -- Creature in the Well and Island Time VR devs -- and it’s sick as hell. Wild Aces take on the Zipper tomorrow! Coverage starts at 4:30 p.m. PT on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames The Roper Report - 00:07:41 - Expandable PS5 Storage Coming this Summer 00:16:26 - PlayStation’s Japan Studio is being re-organized 00:22:42 - “Does legacy really not mean anything anymore in a gaming industry that seems to be pushing more towards pleasing Western and European audiences?” - Nathan Choquette 00:31:06 - “Do you think that we will get a version of Astro that is more game focused and less tech demo-y?” - TheSheepWhisper 00:34:35 - Ads 00:39:07 - Dragon Age is ONLY single-player 00:42:39 - EA Cancelled Gaia 00:53:27 - State of Play Recap 00:55:19 - “I have a PlayStation conundrum I want your opinion on…” - luciddre4m 00:58:03 - Pokemon Presents Recap 01:01:27 - Out today 01:04:46 - You‘re Wrong 01:07:00 - Post Show Next Week’s Hosts: Monday: Blessing and Tim Tuesday: Greg and Gary Wednesday: Tim and Andy Thursday: Greg and Xcast’s Parris Lilly Friday: Blessing and GameSpot’s Michael Higham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iron Galaxy Co-CEO Chelsea Blasko joins Greg to talk about the death of Anthem Next, Halo coming to TV, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:30 - Housekeeping There’s a PlayStation State of Play TODAY. We’ll be live and reacting to it at 2 pm PT on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames, but if you’re watching later, those reactions will be on youtube.com/kindafunnygames. We drafted a new FCF Team last night, and Saturday we take on the Zippers! Coverage starts at 4:30 p.m. pt on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: GrahamOfLegend, David Meintel, Trent Berrie, Black Jack, Luiz Aguiar (@8bitLuiz), James Davis (@JamesDavisMakes), &The Nano Biologist The Roper Report - 00:05:45 - Anthem Next Is Dead, Christian Dailey @ BioWare 00:16:18 - What’s Henry Cavill Doing with Mass Effect? Karol Laska @ Game Pressure 00:21:50 - It’s Real Bad over at CD Projekt, Jason @ Bloomberg 00:30:30 - Ad 00:35:32 - Bravely Default 2 Review Round-up 00:38:55 - Amazon Luna Boss Bounces, @Tom Warren @ The Verge 00:40:20 - Is now the time to consider game streaming dead? - Best Friends Q:The Nano Biologist 00:43:20 - Pokemon Presentation Tomorrow 00:43:55 - Halo TV Series Moves to Paramount+, Nellie Andreeva @ Deadline 00:49:00 - Out today Reader mail - 00:53:30 - I've just logged into Bloodborne (chasing the platinum) and was met with a message that servers will be down for several hours for essential maintenance on Tuesday morning. With a State of Play imminent, is this a reason to get excited for a 4k/60fps patch, or just a coincidence? - Katie G 00:54:53 - Squad Up:Tyler Fisher(Pokémon Go) TJFtheGREAT 00:56:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's Good Games' Andrea Rene joins Tim to talk about PlayStation's State of Play, Cyberpunk's delay, and more! Follow Andrea: http://www.twitter.com/andrearene 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:30 - Housekeeping Kinda Funny Contracts are now live in Hitman 3! Go play and see if you can kill the people in-game that Greg wants you to! Blessing is playing Among Us on IGN’s Black History month stream today at 2 pm PT! Our 3rd FCF draft is tonight! 5:30 p.m. PT join Greg, Snowbikemike, and many more as we have a beer and draft the team that will face off against Johnny Football and the Zappers this Saturday! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: GrahamOfLegend, David Meintel, Trent Berrie, Black Jack, Luiz Aguiar (@8bitLuiz), James Davis (@JamesDavisMakes), &The Nano Biologist The Roper Report - 00:05:50 - PlayStation State of Play Tomorrow! Sid Shuman @ the PlayStation Blog 00:18:15 - Have we considered that this strategy is Sony's "response" to gamepass vs. making their own gamepass alternative (Ps Now + day and date first party launches)? - Best Friends Q:dhruvenator (pronounced drewvenator) 00:23:28 - Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Delayed Because of Hack, via Cyberpunk’s Twitter 00:27:15 - Do you see CDPR delaying further big fixes for Cyberpunk due to "unforeseen events" "beyond their control"? - Best Friends Q:Bilbo Baginzezz 00:29:40 - Valheim hits 4 million copies in 3 weeks, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:33:02 - Notre Dame Won’t be in EA College Football, Brendan Sinclair @ GamesIndustry.biz 00:36:28 - Alien coming to Fortnite 00:39:45 - Sar Wars Republic Commando Release Date, via Press Release 00:44:00 - Ad 00:48:50 - Out today 00:52:30 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Iron Galaxy’s Chelsea Blasko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary Whitta and Greg wade through a ton of PlayStation news and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:45 - Housekeeping - The Roper Report - 00:05:07 - PLAYSTATION PANDEMONIUM 00:12:30 - “What are your thoughts on the new PSVR for PS5 still requiring a single cord?” - DJ Brad Chill 00:33:35 - “Could you see Sony releasing PSVR exclusives on PC or occulus quest?” - The Floofy Boy 00:38:40 - Ads 00:43:15 - PlayStation in 2021 00:44:32 - “ I wonder if Kratos’ omission of a similar announcement means good things…” - Lexus 00:52:15 - Vampire the Masquerade is screwed 00:56:06 - Quick Hits 01:06:27 - You‘re Wrong 01:07:34 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing and Andrea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices