Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Imran Kahn joins Andrea Rene for their first KFGD! They chat about the WoW Classic mania on Twitch, Overwatch on Switch rumors, Bungie's new comments on Activision, and news about the upcoming blockchain-focused PC marketplace Turboplay. Time Stamps - 00:03:15 - Housekeeping PAX is THIS week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 9! kindafunny.com/events Andrea is hosting two panels: Life is Strange Friday at 12pm and The Outer Worlds Saturday at 1:30pm - The What’s Good Games Live! Panel is Sunday at 7pm. Come to the What’s Good Games x Life is Strange 2 PARTAYYYY! Friday night 7-10 - free admission - giveaways and cool stuff. Follow @imranzomg to see what he’s up to at PAX The Roper Report - 00:08:26 - WoW Classic Launch Surpasses Fortnite On Twitch By Hitting 1 Million Viewers 00:14:10 - Destiny Dev Says Activision Was Not A "Prohibitive Overlord" 00:20:24 - Is Overwatch coming to Nintendo Switch? 00:21:37 - “I'm more interested in what you think this means in terms of the industry going cross-platform play/progression…” - Lee Pollero 00:28:08 - New challenger to Steam and Epic Games Store arrives 00:37:33 - Out today 00:45:33 - Brooklinen 00:47:11 - Upstart Reader mail - 00:48:55 - “How do MMORPGs get to a place where people are clamoring for the old versions of what they have now?” - Riot Goes Woof 00:52:15 - “I wanna hear what you guys think about the new Battlepass in Rainbow 6 Siege…” - The Nano Biologist 01:05:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time Stamps - 00:04:55 - Housekeeping My Control review is up! Kinda Funny Gamescast PAX is THIS week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 9! kindafunny.com/events Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:07:24 - CONTROL REVIEWS 00:10:00 Best Friend Q. - You recorded your initial review thoughts on Thursday but were still trying to determine if the game was good or great. Have you spent more time with it since and if so, how has that impacted which side of the line you fall on? - Trevor Starkey 00:17:35 Best Friend Q. - So Control, how does it compare to other Remedy games? What kind of improvements do you hope for? Is there a clear line where DLC fits in, like omitted content or wall that will clearly be a door in the future? Or is it vague enough where the story will go next for DLC content? - The Nano Biologist 00:20:18 - ION FURY WHIPLASH 00:43:05 - Persona Franchise Crosses 10 Million Copies Sold, Jeff Grubb @ Venture Beat 00:44:16 - Final Fantasy VIII Sales 00:47:10 - Out today 00:49:36 - BROOKLINEN 00:51:10 - UPSTART Reader mail - 00:53:48 - “Do you think the Marvel Games slate will ever get near as big as the Movie slate?” - TwoHeadedGiant 01:01:30 - Which one of the new character/series announced/talked about at D23 this weekend would you like to see turn into a game? A Gears of War-like Mandalorian game? An Assassin Creed-like Winter Soldier game? A Sims 4-like LIZZIE MCGUIRE GAME?!?!?! - BJ Bernardo 01:02:40 - Squad Up: David Scott(Game Development: Discord) - DemonWaffle#6387 01:03:30 - You‘re Wrong This Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Greg and Tim TUESDAY: Andrea and Fran WEDNESDAY: Greg and Whitta GAMESCAST: Wednesday, August 28th @ 2 p.m. - Tim, Greg, Fran, Imran THURSDAY: Tim and ??? FRIDAY: Tim and ???? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got a new cohost! Imran Khan stops by for his first official gig as a Kinda Funny part timer and talks about leaving Game Informer, PlayStation getting involved with the Uncharted movie, and more! 00:00:30 - Imran is here! 00:11:45 - “So what's next for you?” - The Nano Biologist 00:17:07 - Housekeeping Batman Stream Sunday - noon PAX is next week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 8! kindafunny.com/events The Roper Report - 00:19:53 - PlayStation is coming to “save” the Uncharted Movie 00:30:28 - Riot Class Action Suit Settled 00:37:40 - DICE Cancels Battlefield V Competitive Mode 00:49:48 - Out today 00:53:17 - WHCF & PM Reader mail - 00:54:00 - “As a majority of people listening to this podcast will be working for someone someday I figured a good question would be what was the process like?” - Borzen00 00:58:07 - “With the recent news about Spidey leaving the MCU, do you think this will have any repercussions for Insomniacs’ Spider-Man?” - Wizard of Rhyme 01:04:35 - Squad Up: Kavin - Facebook: Kevin Gara - Portland, Oregon 01:06:27 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: Monday - Greg & Tim Tuesday - Andrea & Fran Wednesday - Greg & Whitta Thursday - Tim and ??? Friday - Tim and ??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrea and Greg talk about contractors listening to your Kinect commands, GameStop stock, and more! Time Stamps - 00:02:00 - Housekeeping New Party Mode today! Borderlands 3 Proving Grounds! PAX is next week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 9! kindafunny.com/events Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:06:00 - Xbox One Was Spying on you?! Joseph Cox @ Motherboard at Vice 00:17:28 - GameStop Stock Bump, Fred Imbert @ CNBC 00:23:34 Best Friend Q. - Will Gamestop be around in 5 years - The Virtual boy 00:25:45 - Alloy Comes back to Monster Hunter in Iceborne, Steve Watts @ GameSpot 00:26:55 Best Friend Q. - Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to Monster Hunter World Iceborne. Does this make you excited to play the DLC? What is your dream crossover character? - GameJumperX 00:29:40 - Out today 00:35:15 - Morning Shows Reader mail - 00:37:02 - What are your opinions on game demos being exclusive to trade shows and conventions? - Ignacio Rojas 00:43:37 - Are we seeing the beginning of the content wars in the video game industry? - Parker Petrov 00:48:10 - Squad Up:Cory from Tech Geek Gamers(PS4) - clean_mod 00:49:52 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Imran Khan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Praise be to GamesRadar! Gary Whitta and Greg talk about Josh West's preview of Death Stranding's gameplay! Time Stamps - 00:03:10 - Housekeeping PAX is next week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 9! kindafunny.com/events Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:17:35 - Someone Finally Explains Death Stranding, Josh West @ GamesRadar Required reading - https://www.gamesradar.com/death-stranding-news/ 00:23:05 - GameStop Lays Off More than 100, nearly half of GI, Jason @ Kotaku 00:36:55 - Publish Your Games Somewhere Else 00:41:10 - Are games as service required to have giant, dissertation sized breakdowns to be understood and perhaps forgiven for mistakes? Best Friend Q - Legend Of Kanto 00:52:35 - Best Friend Q - Do you believe Microsoft when they claim they have "no plans" to release more Xbox exclusives on PS4 or, more importantly, the Switch? - Chad Betteridge 00:55:28 - MK Adds Terminator and Joker 00:57:38 - Out today Reader mail - 01:01:18 - Not a question, but a thank you. - TJ 01:04:32 - Squad Up: Jonny Samsonite(IRL) - @swanja311 on Twitter 01:05:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Andrea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrea and Greg talk about how devs, gamers, and everyone else have to re-learn how to talk to each other. Time Stamps - 00:03:15 - Housekeeping PAX is next week! Guild Wars event Friday morning, KFGShowcase Friday at 4:30, Inter-Site Championship Saturday at 9! kindafunny.com/events The Roper Report - 00:05:22 - Respawn CEO Vince Zampella on the Apex/Reddit Explosion 00:19:56 - “Are developers really supposed to just roll over and take it from some of the more vitriolic members of the gaming community?” - The Virtual Boy 00:26:15 - Shawn Layden on Insomniac Purchase 00:32:02 - Shawn on PS4 Exclusives on PC 00:33:30 - Hotline Miami was in Australia for a hot sec 00:34:23 - 2D Sonic and Mario Go to the Olympics 00:36:14 - Out today 00:39:06 - Imran Khan 00:40:31 - WHCF & PM Reader mail - 00:42:45 - “When are we going to see Nintendo reciprocate?” - instagram.com/wondercreme Please Follow 00:44:26 - “I recently got an oculus quest and was a bit disappointed by how much better it is from a technical standpoint than my PSVR headset…” - Parker Petrov 00:50:36 - Squad Up: Zack - PS4 - SONofTHOMP8264 00:51:35 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Insomniac is officially part of the PlayStation first party stable. Time Stamps - 00:01:50 - Housekeeping Thank you to Toronto! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:03:00 - PLAYSTATION BUYS INSOMNIAC 00:08:00 Best Friend Q. - Sony is to acquire Insomniac Games! I'm really excited about it, and it throws an interesting facet. For the past few years Insomniac have been making VR games like Edge of Nowhere, The Unspoken, Feral Rites and the upcoming Stormland exclusively for Oculus headsets. Do you think the acquisition means these titles will find their way to PSVR at some point? - KBABZ 00:11:15 Best Friend Q. - Exciting news announced today with Insomniac being acquired by Sony. Obviously this means Spider-Man 2 is basically confirmed but what do you think the focus of the studio is going to be. Will we see a lot of new IP or do you think we will see new entries in existing franchises such as Ratchet and Clank or even Resistance - Steven James Oslund 00:16:00 - NINTENDO 00:25:40 - STADIA 00:31:10 - Opening Night Live 00:47:40 - PUBG Cross-Play 00:49:26 - Stranger Things comes to Dead By Daylight, Matt Kim @ IGN 00:51:02 - Out today 00:56:00 - WHCF & PM Reader mail - 00:58:33 - How possible is it that xCloud could also be implemented onto the Switch? - DJBradChill 01:01:10 - I am on the fence about buying an Xbox One X or a Stadia Founders edition - David Scott 01:02:50 - Greg you made a big deal during the stadia stream on whether you would go from ps4 to stadia for the big triple A releases. My question is why not go to Xbox? - Tommy boy 01:05:50 - You‘re Wrong This week’shost: TUESDAY: Greg and Andrea WEDNESDAY: Greg and Whitta THURSDAY: Greg and Andrea FRIDAY: Greg and Tim GAMESCAST: Thursday, August 22nd @ 2 p.m. Tim, Greg, Fran, Andrea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quip starts at just $25 and if you go to http://getquip.com/GAMES right now, you can get your first refill pack for FREE. Boost is only available at http://Experian.com/kfgames It's Frandrea Friday that means Andrea Rene and Fran Mirabella chat about the new details from Phil Spencer about Xbox Scarlett, NPD numbers for July, a producer leaving Anthem, and EA reveals no lootboxes in Need for Speed Heat. Time Stamps - 00:01:35 - Housekeeping We’re going to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto next week! August 16-18, Greg, Tim, and Andy will be hosting two panels a day in the Gaming Garage! kindafunny.com/events The Roper Report - 00:04:06 - Xbox says Next-Gen Scarlett Will Focus on Framerates and Load Times 00:26:52 - NPD: Nintendo sweeps July, though Madden takes the crown 00:31:37 - “Wouldn't people be holding off on buying a current model if they knew the switch lite, a cheaper version is coming out next month?” - The Nano Biologist 00:37:29 - Anthem Producer Leaving BioWare After 8 Years 00:42:14 - Need for Speed Heat Won’t Have Loot Boxes 00:44:57 - Quip 00:46:56 - Experian 00:51:06 - Out today Reader mail - 00:52:51 - “With all that free time not hosting KFGD, can you talk about what you will do in LA?” - BJ Bernardo 00:: - “Phil Spencer just killed Greg's dream of a streaming only console today but is this a bad thing?” - Borzen00 01:00:57 - “As someone who hasn’t touched Destiny since the launch week of Destiny 1…” - David Scott 01:05:10 - Squad Up: JuanMalvaes - Battle.net - Infrno_player 01:06:20 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s host: Monday - Live Stadia Connect Reacts with Fran and Barrett at 10am, with Greg and Tim joining for the Gamescom Live Reacts, and Games Daily with Greg and Tim afterwards Tuesday - Greg & Andrea Wednesday - Greg & Whitta Thursday - Greg & Andrea Friday - Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quip starts at just $25 and if you go to http://getquip.com/GAMES right now, you can get your first refill pack for FREE. Boost is only available at http://Experian.com/kfgames Time stamps - 00:03:43 - Housekeeping The KF crew is going to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto this weekend! August 16-18, Greg, Tim, and Andy will be hosting two panels a day in the Gaming Garage! Head to kindafunny.com/events for all the details. What’s Good Games is throwing a party at PAX West and you’re invited! We’re once again partnering with Square Enix and Life is Strange for Relax at PAX 2019 - this year we’ll be at Art Marble 21 from 7-10pm on Friday Aug. 30th. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:06:05 - Star Wars: Rogue One Writer Gary Whitta to Deliver PAX West 2019 Keynote 00:10:15 - The INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: GROUP STAGE BEGINS 00:15:50 - Superhot launches indie development fund - via James Batchelor, gamesindustry.biz 00:24:00 - Out today 00:32:10 - QUIP 00:34:33 - EXPERIAN Reader mail - :: - What are your thoughts on these new PS4 controllers? - Alec Bobko 00:45:10 - Speed Questions - The Nano Biologist 00:48:10 - What games, from any time throughout your life, have you found yourself "addicted" to? - Tucker 00:57:10 - Squad Up: Dan the Intern(PS) - DSRohovit#1548 00:58:50 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s host: Fran and Andrea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quip starts at just $25 and if you go to http://getquip.com/GAMES right now, you can get your first refill pack for FREE. Boost is only available at http://Experian.com/kfgames Gary and Greg gab about a bevy of THQ Nordic news and then get riled up about a Fortnite re-skin. Time Stamps - 00:09:51 - Housekeeping We’re going to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto next week! August 16-18, Greg, Tim, and Andy will be hosting two panels a day in the Gaming Garage! kindafunny.com/events The Roper Report - 00:10:31 - THQ Nordic comments on TimeSplitters and Acquires Darksiders Dev Gunfire Games 00:14:09 - Dead Island 2 is on its 3rd Dev 00:19:10 - There’s a New Saints Row Coming 00:26:39 - Epic is Selling a reskinned dog and people are pissed 00:47:43 - Video Game Tariffs aren’t hitting the US JUST yet 00:50:53 - Borderlands 3 Tidbits 00:57:42 - Quip 00:58:58 - Experian 01:00:20 - Out today 01:05:27 - Squad Up: Vince - Xbox One - Overlord342 01:06:15 - Required Reading - https://bit.ly/2PbKJPJ 01:06:53 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Andrea & Barrett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices