Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Blessing and Fran celebrate Zelda's 35th anniversary and ask the question: What will Nintendo do for #Zelda35? 00:00:00 - Start 00:05:15 - Housekeeping Me and Andy reacted live to the Behind The Scenes of Overwatch 2 presentation at BlizzCon. It’s a glorious 38 minutes that you can catch that right now on youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames. The latest Blessing Show episode is also up right now on Kinda Funny Games. That’s 8 minutes of me breaking down what’s up with the next-gen consoles now that we’re a few months past launch. 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 - 00:06:45 - RIP DaftPunk 00:07:50 - The Legend of Zelda turns 35 years old - Tom Phillips @ Eurogamer 00:27:18 - BlizzCon 2021 round up - Felicia Miranda @ IGN 00:42:10 - A ‘Twisted Metal’ Series From ‘Deadpool’ Writers is in the Works at Sony Pictures TV, PlayStation Productions - Joe Otterson @ Variety 00:47:55 - Ad 00:52:50 - CD Projekt Red is taking down stolen Gwent Code - Marie Dealessandri @ GiBiz 00:56:50 - Rare's Cancelled N64 Game “Dinosaur Planet” has leaked online - Adam Bankhurst @ IGN 00:59:23 - We’re about a year away from an AEW game - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 01:00:40 - Out today 01:01:50 - Squad Up:Andrew(PS5) - kfhelpme 01:03:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Gary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg and Julia Hardy talk about Kojima's book, Animal Crossing manga, and more! Follow Julia: www.instagram.com/gametotrain 00:00:00 - Start 00:09:00 - Housekeeping FCF Tomorrow! Beasts @ 5 pm PT WandaVision Reactions! New episode of The Blessing Show - Next Gen Four Months Later 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 - 00:12:50 - BOOKS! 00:21:50 - GDC Goes All Digital for 2021, Ian Carlos Campbell @ The Verge 00:26:40 - Fortnite News 00:32:10 - Follow-Up from Yesterday: Tarsier is done with Little Nightmares, Bandai Ain’t, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:34:30 - Ad 00:42:35 - Out today 00:51:30 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Monday: Blessing and Tim Tuesday: Greg and Gary Whitta Wednesday: Blessing and Andrea Rene! Thursday: Greg and Chelsea Blasko from Iron Galaxy Friday: Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg and Tim recap yesterday's Nintendo Direct, Bungie's big moves, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:03 - Housekeeping There’s a new episode of the Blessing Show up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames! It’s all about Next-Gen 4 months later. Need more Blessing? He, Tim, Andy, and Kev’s reactions to the MK trailer over on youtube.com/kindafunny The Wild Aces Take on the Beasts Saturday at 5 pm PT on twitch.tv/kindaufunnygames, but Austin Ekler is on the Kinda Funny podcast right now! 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 - 00:06:30 - Nintendo Direct Report, Adam Bankhurst @ IGN 00:12:00 - Do you think hard-core fan's personal expectations of Nintendo's release schedule (from 2017-2019) have warped fans perception and their expectations with 2020-2021, when we are living in different times? - Best Friends Q:Sapphire Diamond ruby 00:24:00 - Did Nintendo need to bring directs back or are they better off with out? - Best Friends Q:TomDac99 00:29:25 - SILENT HILL What’s Bloober Team Up to? Brendan Sinclair, GIB 00:36:00 - Ad 00:41:48 - Big Moves at Bungie, Eddie at GameSpot 00:48:00 - Would this bring you a lapsed player (or any lapsed player) back? - Best Friends Q:Borzen00 00:54:25 - Fall Guys Coming to Xbox 00:55:40 - COD Zombies Leak, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:56:50 - No More Little Nightmares (Probably), Joe Skrebbles @ IGN 00:59:20 - Out today 01:02:40 - Squad Up:Nick F from NY(Xbox) - th3 b0y won1da 01:04:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Julia Hardy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing and Andy give some last minute Nintendo Direct predictions, talk about some insider scoops on Stadia, and discuss why FPS Boost is awesome for Xbox Backward Compatible titles. Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:009:20 - Housekeeping That long awaited Nintendo Direct is going down today and we’re reacting live to it. It’s 50 minutes of new Nintendo announcements and you can join me, Andy, Greg, and Tim Muhfuggin Gettys right here on Twitch.tv/KindaFunnyGames at 2pm pt to watch it all go down. Then at 5:30 pm is the FCF draft once again going down right here on our Twitch channel. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: 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 - 00:11:20 - We got a few more details on what happened over at Stadia - Nathan Grayson and Ethan Gach @ Kotaku 00:24:50 - Microsoft’s started a new program to help make more accessible games - Kait Sanchez @ The Verge 00:29:25 - Speaking of Xbox: Some Xbox backwards compatible games are running even smoother now - Xbox Wire 00:34:20 - What game would you guys wanna see get a boost up to 120 fps? - Best Friends Q:Kendrick Luckenbach 00:39:26 - Ad 00:47:20 - It Takes Two has gone gold and Josef Fares wants to give you money 00:51:03 - You can adopt a pet now in No Man’s Sky - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:57:18 - We’re getting a DOTA Anime - Dota 2 on Twitter 01:01:40 - Out today 01:03:45 - Squad Up: Donald Eckels(Youtube) @Sirsonik on Twitter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ&list=PLTiv_XWHnOZo89xfQyRUub76zNlQTLNrJ&index=10) 01:05:10 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim, Greg, and Gary Whitta talk all about the Nintendo Direct we're getting tomorrow! #zelda #nintendo #nicksucks Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:05:20 - Housekeeping FCF Draft tomorrow! 5:30 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 - 00:07:09 - Nintendo Direct: Are We Getting Breath of the Wild 2 News? 00:29:03 - Rainbow Six Parasite isn’t Rainbow Six Quarantine, Iain Harris PCGamesN 00:35:15 - Avengers new stuff 00:53:00 - Ad 00:58:15 - Xbox Has a New Wireless Headset 00:59:25 - Out today 01:04:45 - Squad Up:Clint Gilmore(PSN) - Clint__g (2 underscores) 01:05:10 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Blessing and Andy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing and Fran kick off the week talking about huge sales for Valheim, possible hope for Stadia, and more. 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:10 - Housekeeping Tomorrow is an Avenger’s War Table which means we’ll be reacting to it. Join Greg and a cast of misfits tomorrow at 9am Pacific Time to check out what’s coming to the world of Marvel’s Avengers. That’s happening right here 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 - 00:11:05 - Valheim is Steam's Biggest Ever Launch for a Survival Game - Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:22:10 - The first PS5 drift class action lawsuit has been filed against Sony - Marie Dealessandri @ GiBiz 00:28:15 - Remedy Entertainment Just Had a Record Financial Year without releasing a single game - Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:36:28 - Ad 00:41:09 - Google Stadia is Getting More Than 100 Games In 2021 - Eddie Makuch @ Gamespot 00:51:00 - Metro Exodus is getting an enhanced edition - Sal Romano @ Gematsu 00:53:20 - Out today 00//;56:15 - Squad Up:Alex Irish(Xbox) - Alex IR esq 00:57:05 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Gary Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come say goodbye to the former Informer Imran Khan. 00:00:00 - Start 00:13:55 - Housekeeping Saturday is a huge day for Kinda Funny Saturday is Wild Aces Game Day -- the Fan Controlled Football season starts with the Wild Aces squaring off against Quavo and Richard Sherman’s Glacier Boyz. We’ll be streaming the game at 5 p.m. PT on Saturday. AFTER the game, stick around for Love, Sex, and Stuff’s live Valentine’s Day Call-in show. PLUS Jim Lee is drawing on my PS5 DURING LSS, so flip between us and twitch.tv/jimlee! 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 - 00:15:25 - Six Days in Fallujah Dev Says US Gov not involved, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:28:35 - Halo Dump! :: - Ad 00:46:35 - Destiny 2’s Cosmodrome Ain’t Getting Bigger, Ethan Gach 00:50:00 - Hackers claim to have sold Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3 source code, James Batchelor @ GI.biz 00:55:20 - Out today 00:56:50 - Squad Up: Imran 01:01:15 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: Monday: Blessing and Hopefully Fran? Tuesday: Greg and Gary Whitta Wednesday: Blessing and Andy Thursday: Greg and Tim Friday: Greg and Julia Hardy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PC Mag's M.H. Williams joins Greg to talk about HBO finding its Joel and Ellie, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart getting a release date, and more! Follow M.H.: https://twitter.com/AutomaticZen 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:50 - Housekeeping Barrett’s Assassin's Creed In Review: a Kinda Funny Games In Review special is two hours long and up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames Roger’s Little Nightmares II review is up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames. Saturday is Wild Aces Game Day -- the Fan Controlled Football season starts with the Wild Aces squaring off against Quavo and Richard Sherman’s Glacier Boyz. We’ll be streaming the game at 5 p.m. PT on Saturday. AFTER the game, stick around for Love, Sex, and Stuff’s live Valentine’s Day Call-in show. 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 - 00:07:12 - Pedro Pascal Joins Bella Ramsey to Star in HBO's 'Last of Us,' 00:09:35 - Could The Last of Us casting be anymore fucking perfect? - Best Friends Q:Luciddre4m 00:14:20 - I WANT ANOTHER 'THE LAST OF US' GAME!! - Best Friends Q:rita 00:18:50 - Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart Coming June 11, 2021 00:22:10 - Do you think the industry has finally gotten over that hesitancy to put out games during the usually-barren summer months? - Best Friends Q:Nathan Choquette 00:25:42 - Borderlands Info Dump 00:32:50 - Six Days in Fallujah is Back for some fucking reason, Andy Robinson @ VGC 00:41:14 - Ad 00:43:25 - DICE LA Working on a Battlefield? Sherif Saed @ VG247 00:46:26 - Pokemon Go Developer Creates Black Developers Initiative To Fund And Support Games, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:50:02 - Out today 00:51:55 - Ashley Palek(PS5) - Apricot99 00:53:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Imran Khan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing and Imran talk about new futuristic tech from Epic, Ubisoft relying less on AAA, and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury reviews. 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:18 - Housekeeping It’s a HUGE week at Kinda Funny: Barrett is back at it like a bad habit! After releasing Zelda In Review last year, Barrett immediately started working on Assassin's Creed In Review: a Kinda Funny Games In Review special, where he played through all 12 mainline games throughout 2020, wrote his reviews for each one, ranked them, and then compiled it all into one 2 hour video for your viewing pleasure! AC In Review releases TODAY, February 10th, at 2:30pm PT on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames as a YouTube Premiere! So watch the video as it debuts, and hang out in the chat with Barrett and other best friends to talk about everything we love about Assassin's Creed! Also today: the FCF activities begin with the first draft. Come to twitch.tv/kindafunnygames to draft OUR Football team with Snowbike Mike and Greg on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. PT Then, Saturday is Wild Aces Game Day -- the Fan Controlled Football season starts with the Wild Aces squaring off against Quavo and Richard Sherman’s Glacier Boyz. We’ll be streaming the game at 5 p.m. PT on Saturday. AFTER the game, stick around for Love, Sex, and Stuff’s live Valentine’s Day Call-in show. 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 - 00:09:15 - Epic has revealed their MetaHuman Creator - Nick Statt @ The Verge 00:20:20 - Ubisoft is Moving Away From Reliance on AAA Releases - Rebekah Valentine @ IGN 00:30:55 - Speaking of: Ubisoft Could Rename Rainbow Six: Quarantine - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:37:00 - PS5 DualSense is having some drift issues - Marie Dealessandri @ GiBiz 00:42:22 - Ad 00:45:10 - Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Review Round Up 00:52:05 - We have the title of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie sequel - Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:55:45 - Out today 00:59:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and M.H. Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary Whitta and Greg talk about Anthem's deadline, CD Projekt getting hacked, and so much more! 00:00:00 - Start :: - Housekeeping PSILY is all about Bloodborne and features IGN’s Brian Altano, GameSpot’s Tamoor Huassain, Andy, Blessing, and me! https://youtu.be/COJY0iEP5MY Roger has a brand new First Impressions for Little Nightmares 2: https://youtu.be/V5imKclDFD4 Somehow, BEYOND all of that, it’s still a HUGE week at Kinda Funny Assassin's Creed In Review: a Kinda Funny Games In Review special releases this WEDNESDAY, February 10th, at 2:30pm PT on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames as a YouTube Premiere! Barrett played EVERY AC for this last year. Wednesday, the FCF activities begin with the first draft. Come to twitch.tv/kindafunnygames to draft OUR Football team with Snowbike Mike and Greg on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. PT Then, Saturday is Wild Aces Game Day -- the Fan Controlled Football season starts with the Wild Aces squaring off against Quavo and Richard Sherman’s Glacier Boyz. We’ll be streaming the game at 5 p.m. PT on Saturday. AFTER the game, stick around for Love, Sex, and Stuff’s live Valentine’s Day Call-in show. 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 - 00:12:40 - Will Anthem Survive the Week? Jason @ Bloomberg 00:25:40 - CD Projekt HACKED 00:33:03 - Crash 4 Comes to Next-Gen 00:39:29 - Ad 00:42:30 - Persona Strikers Review Round-Up 00:46:50 - Ubi Call Quick Hits, Daniel Ahmad on Twitter 00:56:02 - QUICK HITS! 00:57:50 - Out today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices