Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Go to http://thirdlove.com/games now to find your perfect-fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase! Hurry to http://upstart.com/KFGAMES to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate is! Go to http://getquip.com/games right now and you’ll get your first refill FREE. Imran and Greg run through all the noms for this year's Game Awards. Time Stamps - 00:04:02 - Housekeeping Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack, Zack Parsley, and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:04:48 - The Game Awards Nominees 00:45:44 - “What do you think the backlash from all of these nominations will be, especially if Death Stranding ends up winning some awards?” - Ignacio Rojas 00:51:11 - Half-Life Is Happening 00:51:38 - “Valve announces a new Half-Life game...but it's NOT Half-Life 3!” - Anakin jmt 00:56:19 - Amy Hennig’s New Gig 00:59:59 - Thirdlove 01:01:28 - Quip 01:02:31 - Upstart 01:03:44 - Out today 01:05:50 - “Why would Deep Silver originally choose to have the review embargo be lifted 2 days after release date?” - The Nano Biologist 01:11:22 - Squad Up: Evan - PS4 - Drepplay 01:12:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to http://thirdlove.com/games now to find your perfect-fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase! Hurry to http://upstart.com/KFGAMES to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate is! Go to http://getquip.com/games right now and you’ll get your first refill FREE. That Nerdy Site's Trevor Starkey and Greg run you through the brutal Google Stadia reviews. Time Stamps - 00:05:50 - Housekeeping LONDON, BABY! 00:06:24 - Mark Freeman & MC Fixer in London! - @Theindieboy1 & @Mcfixer The Roper Report - 00:07:58 - Stadia Stumbles… 00:22:01 - “What can Google do to make Stadia more appealing?” - Aman 00:31:36 - Required Reading: “People are using xCloud to create couch co-op” - https://bit.ly/35eR28c 00:35:40 - ...but Stadia Also adds Games 00:40:45 - “With Borderlands 3 releasing on Stadia later this year and not as a day 1 title…” - Dan rolls 22 00:46:57 - PS5 Controller Patented? 00:51:18 - Animal Crossing Pocket Camp getting Paid Subs 00:53:00 - Thirdlove 00:54:27 - Quip 00:55:42 - Upstart 00:56:57 - Out today Reader mail - 00:58:30 - “I know Kinda Funny promotes and preaches be nicer to one another, but what if people don't?” - Frankfurtter 01:01:16 - “Is Jedi: Fallen Order actually good?” - Henry from Sydney 01:06:23 - Squad Up: Greg Atlus is streaming tonight at 8pm PT! - twitch.tv/sandman420xl 01:07:12 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Imran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get 10% off AND free shipping, go to http://brooklinen.com and use promo code games. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Go to http://escapetheinvasion.com/kfgames for 20% off your first box! Unemployed Gio Corsi comes to talk about his 25-year video game career, X019, and Star Wars games with Greg. Time Stamps - 00:07:54 - Housekeeping Love, Sex, and Stuff tonight! Major Nelson: 18! The original @Xbox turns eighteen years old today. :birthday::video_game: Happy birthday you big black beautiful box. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:09:23 - Xbox Highlights 00:27:18 - “Do you think other Japanese series will be willing to make the jump onto Xbox?” - ArkWing 00:29:42 - Phil Spencer Speaks! 00:33:36 - “Do you see Xbox coming out guns blazing at whatever event they'll hold in February revealing the console or at E3?” - The Nano Biologist 00:38:44 - Anthem Overhaul? 00:42:07 - Star Wars Review Round-Up 00:46:39 - “Do you believe the very positive reception for Jedi Fallen Order is an affirmation of critical and consumer desire for single player Star Wars titles?” - Eamon_in_DC 00:51:03 - “Do you think that it will be in the running for the Game Awards Game of the Year or did it possibly come out too late to be considered?” - Vince 00:53:18 - “I don't want to shit on this game or diminish its accomplishments…” - Constantine 00:58:00 - Star Wars in Fortnite 01:00:59 - Brooklinen 01:02:15 - Manscaped 01:03:42 - Escape the Invasion 01:04:57 - Out today 01:06:09 - Squad Up: Bob - Mobile/Marvel Puzzle Quest - BuGambit 01:07:03 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Greg and That Nerdy Site’s Trevor Starkey TUESDAY: Greg and Imran WEDNESDAY: Greg and Whitta THURSDAY: Greg and Imran FRIDAY: Imran and Fran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get 10% off AND free shipping, go to http://brooklinen.com and use promo code games. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Go to http://escapetheinvasion.com/kfgames for 20% off your first box! GameXplain's Ash Paulsen joins Greg to talk about a bunch of stuff Stadia isn't shipping with, Xbox Game Pass, and more! Time Stamps - 00:05:15 - Housekeeping New KF Merch! This crewneck sweatshirt and a coffee mug! kindafunny.com/store Thursday’s schedule is nuts: 9am-ish: KFGD 10am: Kinda Funny Screencast on Disney+ Noon: Inside Xbox Watch-a-long 2pm: Gamescast The Roper Report - 00:06:51 - Here’s What Else Stadia Won’t Have at Launch 00:14:25 - “Do you think the lack of games and lack of announced features being ready at launch caused some people to drop their pre-order?” - BJ Bernardo 00:18:56 - “How could it turn around and succeed?” - The Nano Biologist 00:22:43 - X019 SPOILERS? 00:26:20 - Out of XO19 Spoilers 00:26:41 - John Carmack steps down as Oculus CTO 00:31:18 - Xbox Game Pass Subscribers are buying more games 00:34:48 - Gamescom Opening Night Live Is Coming Back 00:35:11 - The Game Awards is coming to the big screen 00:38:09 - Out today 00:44:55 - Brooklinen 00:46:04 - Manscaped 00:47:35 - Escape The Invasion Reader mail - 00:48:30 - “WHAT IS EA DOING!?” - Reclusive Dragon 00:53:16 - “Is it harder to keep quiet about an embargoed game you love?” - BJ Bernardo 00:55:12 - “My question is for Ash…” - Son of THOMP8264 00:57:12 - Squad Up: Frankfurtter - PC - Activision: Frankfurtter, battlenet: frankfurtter#1271 00:58:20 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get 10% off AND free shipping, go to http://brooklinen.com and use promo code games. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Go to http://escapetheinvasion.com/kfgames for 20% off your first box! Gary Whitta and Greg talk Pokemon reviews, Death Stranding numbers, and Stadia woes. Time Stamps - 00:07:28 - Housekeeping New KF Merch! This crewneck sweatshirt and a coffee mug! kindafunny.com/store Thursday’s schedule is nuts:9am-ish: KFGD,10am: Kinda Funny Screencast on Disney+,Noon: Inside Xbox Watch-a-long,2pm: Gamescast Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack, Zack Parsley, and Mohammed Mohammed. The Roper Report - 00:11:23 - Pokemon Sword & Shield Review Round-Up 00:14:50 Riot Goes Woof!- Do you think reviewers are giving the game a pass on some things others would get docked for simply because it's Pokemon, or was the fan outrage making things seem worse than they actually were? - Best Friends Qs 00:33:30 - Bethesda Gets Human Head 00:31:37 - Death Stranding the BIGGEST new IP Launch in Japan in a while, Game Data Library on Twitter 00:35:50 - Grid on Stadia’s 40 Cars couldn’t happen anywhere else, Alessio Palumbo @ WCCFTECH 00:50:27 - BROOKLINEN 00:51:50 - MANSCAPED 00:53:55 - ESCAPE THE INVASION 00:55:22 - Out today Reader mail - 00:56:48 - An online retailer that goes by ShopTo presumably leaked the release date to Dreams this morning with the artwork of the game. The release date on the tweet is February 14th, 2020 which would have been a week before TLOU2's original date. My question is, is this release date real? - Fendyy 00:59:05 - REQUIRED READING: Dept. of Veterans Affairs believes games can help soldiers reconnect, reduce suicides. Here’s how. - Alex Andrejev @ the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/11/11/dept-veterans-affairs-believes-games-can-help-soldiers-reconnect-reduce-suicides-heres-how/ 01:01:12 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Ash Paulsen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get 10% off AND free shipping, go to http://brooklinen.com and use promo code games. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Go to http://escapetheinvasion.com/kfgames for 20% off your first box! Imran and Fran are back to talk Sonic’s new movie trailer, EA pulling back on Fallen Order early access and more. Time Stamps - 00:02:04 - Housekeeping The Kinda Funny Kansas City community of best friends is having a meetup at Tapcade on November 16th. Details @KindaFunnyKC. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mathew, Carolina, Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:03:00 - New Sonic the Hedgehog trailer reveals the speedster’s redesign 00:17:15 - Monster Energy Stock Rose with Death Stranding Release 00:31:02 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order won't get EA Access early trial 00:32:09 - “Do you feel like more games will follow Star Wars: Fallen Order and not have an Early Access to prevent spoilers?” - BJ Bernardo 00:36:14 - Nintendo announces digital sales are way up 00:45:17 - Out today 00:47:52 - Brooklinen 00:49:00 - Manscaped 00:51:25 - Escape The Invasion Reader mail - 00:52:21 - “I purchased my founders edition of Google Stadia on June 06, 2019 at 11:29 AM and that is that last time Google contacted me about it.” - Ray Briggs II 00:55:03 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get 10% off AND free shipping, go to http://brooklinen.com and use promo code games. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Go to http://escapetheinvasion.com/kfgames for 20% off your first box! Snowbike Mike joins Greg to talk about Death Stranding reviews, Blizzard, and more! Time Stamps - 00:07:02 - Housekeeping Love, Sex, & Stuff: After DarkPremieres this Friday Live 8PM-10PM PT! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mathew, Carolina, Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:09:15 - Kojima on US Criticism of Death Stranding, Alessio Palumbo @ WCCFTECH 00:18:18 - Concerns about Famitsu in Death Stranding, Brian AShcraft @ Kotaku 00:21:15 With a prominent figure from the company appearing in the game should their score still count towards the average? - Frankfurtter - Best Friend Qs 00:28:30 - Kojima Won a Guinness World Record for Social Media, Joseph Knoop @ IGN 00:31:15 - Stadia Launch Line-up 00:47:51 - Since we have an Xbox fan in the building, what are you most excited for about this year's XO19? - The Nano Biologist 00:41:15 - Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan on Blitzchung, Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:45:18 -Twitch Streamer 'Trained For 3 Months' To Try And Break 566-Hour Streaming Record Cecilia @ Kotaku 00:52:08 - BROOKLINEN 00:53:40 - MANSCAPED 00:55:13 - ESCAPE THE INVASION 00:56:12 - Out today Reader mail - 00:59:06 - Do you think PSX is officially dead, or is the chance of it's return even higher now? - Alex Wolfe 01:02:52 - “should I get an Xbox now, or wait for the Scarlett?” - MaDogNik96 (from Massachusetts) 01:06:20 - Squad Up: Follow @SnowBikeMike! https://twitter.com/snowbikemike https://www.instagram.com/snowbikemike https://twitch.tv/snowbikemike/ 01:07:20 - You‘re Wrong This week’s Hosts: TUESDAY: Greg and Imran WEDNESDAY: Greg and Whitta THURSDAY: Greg and Ash Paulsen FRIDAY: Greg and Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get started with the Hims complete hair kit for just $5 today right now while supplies last by going to http://forhims.com/gamesdaily. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Will Grand Theft Auto V ever catch Tetris and Minecraft? Tim and Greg discuss! Time Stamps - 00:03:32 - Housekeeping Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mathew, Carolina, Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed Today, we’re brought to you by Mascaped and Hims, but I’ll tell you about that later. The Roper Report - 00:04:26 - Can Anything Stop GTA V? 00:17:03 - Death Stranding Coming to Steam AND EGS Summer 2020 00:19:31 - “Is Playstation wasting their marketing money?” - Mizukey 00:25:11 - EA HASN’T Abandoned the Skate Trademark 00:31:44 - 2K Exec Disappointed with WWE 2K20 00:33:40 - The Outer Worlds Sales Are Good! 00:34:25 - PlayStation Opening Development Studio in Malaysia 00:36:03 - Out Today 00:42:17 - Hims 00:43:39 - Manscaped Reader mail - 00:48:38 - “What do you think we can expect from XO19?” - Michael Gulliver 00:52:20 - “Yesterday Beat Saber released new soundtracks…” - Lawn Biologist 00:53:36 - “Jarvis Khattri has received a lifetime ban from Fortnite…” - RITA 01:00:05 - Squad Up: Hideindoors - Extra Life - tinyurl.com/KindaNYC2019 01:01:04 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: Monday - Greg & Snowbike Mike Tuesday - Greg & Imran Wednesday - Greg & Whitta Thursday - Greg & Ash Paulsen Friday - Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get started with the Hims complete hair kit for just $5 today right now while supplies last by going to http://forhims.com/gamesdaily. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Guerrilla's Hermen Hulst gets a promotion, Shuhei Yoshida gets a new job, and there are three studio heads at the Horizon Zero Dawn studio! Imran and Greg recap it all. Time Stamps - 00:02:01 - Housekeeping Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mathew, Carolina, Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed Today, we’re brought to you by Mascaped and Hims, but I’ll tell you about that later. The Roper Report - 00:02:32 - PlayStation Power Moves 00:29:09 - “Do you foresee a big change in direction for Sony Worldwide Studios?” - BJ Bernardo 00:33:31 - Jim Ryan on PlayStation Now Strat 00:45:21 - Out today 00:50:54 - Hims 00:52:16 - Manscaped Reader mail - 00:54:06 - “Where does Bioware take Mass Effect from here?” - Eamon in DC 00:59:39 - “Activision Blizzard have seem to stepped in muck again but for reasons that aren’t in their control?” - Frankfurtter 01:04:56 - Squad Up: Robby Rob - PC and Xbox - Xyameax 01:06:35 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get started with the Hims complete hair kit for just $5 today right now while supplies last by going to http://forhims.com/gamesdaily. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Tim and Greg run through the top PS4 downloads, and the list might SHOCK you. Seriously. This isn't clickbait. Time Stamps - Housekeeping Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mathew, Carolina, Black Jack, Zack Parsley, Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:03:45 - Top 20 PS4 Downloads of October 00:05:22 - Why did Ubisoft consider the game to be a commercially underperforming in their Q2 earnings call? What do you think were the projections for this game? - Best Friends Qs 00:19:40 - Hold your horses on Halo: TMCC PC, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:26:06 - Playtonic isn’t making another Banjo! 00:29:18 - US Gamers Spend about $30 Billion SO FAR, James Batchelor @ GIB 00:32:40 - Speaking of Sales, GameStop Announces it’s Black Friday hours… 00:34:00 - Orioto makes a game! 00:38:30 - Out today 00:43:20 - Nintendo's 45 minute press conference on super smash Bros new inclusion, Terry Bogard, has come and gone. Overall it was a lot of information and a lot of good additions except for the pointed out exclusion of an SNK heroine, Mai Shiranui. If you do a quick Google search on her she is a scantily dressed heroine who is popular in the SNK/Kingdom of Fighters franchise. While I'm someone who personally isn't close to the SNK franchise do you think this takes away the enjoyment for those who are - Frankfurtter - Best Friends Qs 00:49:47 - HIMS 00:51:22 - MANSCAPED Reader mail - 00:53:20 - Playstation Now seems like a great service and competitor to Game Pass. But, why do they have such quick turnaround for players to play newer games, compared to Xbox? - The Nano Biologist 00:57:20 - Squad Up: Anton from Atlanta(Fortnite and Modern Warfare) - AntonSixxx on everything but PlayStation. PlayStation Anton6xx 00:58:18 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Imran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices