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The No. 1 Games Journalist (sorry Andy) has left his post. What does Jason Schreier leaving mean for Kotaku and the gaming press? Blessing and Greg discuss! Time Stamps - 00:04:00 - Housekeeping TLOU STREAM TODAY Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:07:08 - JASON SCHREIER LEAVES KOTAKU 00:22:00 - With Jason Schreier announcing his departure from Kotaku where do you think Jason goes next? - Best Friends Q:The 5 Star Man 00:30:30 - PS5 Consoles to be Limited, Ta-ka-shi Mochi-zu-ki and Yuki Fu-ru-kawa @ Bloomberg 00:45:32 - FOLLOW-UPS 00:45:00 - Do people reasonably think that the current switch can handle ray tracing? - Best Friends Q:Borzen00 00:58:00 - Out today - Squad Up: RobbyRob (Stadia (it lives)) RobbyRob#4566 - You‘re Wrong 01:07:05 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing and Greg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Apr 20201h 16min

Gary Whitta and Greg have a discussion-heavy show tackling Fortnite's new delay, Cooking Mama's drama, and the possibility of no gaming cons until 2021. Time Stamps - 00:02:25 - Housekeeping Streaming The Division 2 Raid today with Fran and friends! It’s all benefiting the American Cancer Society’s College Streaming Tournament -- help me help Mizzou at kindafunny.com/mizzou. Gary Sent me a present Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:06:20 - Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 2 Extended 00:16:40 - Cooking Mama Drama Gets Weirder, James Batchelor @GIB 00:20:40 - What motive does Planet Entertainment have to keep trying to put this game on shelves? - Best Friends Q:Frankfurtter 00:24:25 - RIP EGM, Again. Kinda - Josh Harmon @ EGM 00:37:35 - Gamescom Officially on Ice for Live 00:48:16 - Indie Megabooth sunset during Covid19 00:55:10 - Amazon France 00:57:25 - Pokemon Go Adding Remote Raid Passes 00:58:20 - Out today 01:05:12 - Squad Up: 01:07:00 - REQUIRED READING:18 Months After Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Has Made Big Cultural Changes Jason @ Kotaku https://kotaku.com/18-months-after-red-dead-redemption-2-rockstar-has-mad-1842880524 01:09:52 - You‘re Wrong 01:09:49 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Apr 20201h 18min

Blessing and Imran talk about the newly announced XCOM: Chimera Squad coming next week. Time Stamps - 00:06:14 - Housekeeping PSILY episode 15 is live Kevin got a bug bite Greg is streaming the Division 2 tomorrow Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, & Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:10:20 - There’s a new XCOM game! And it’s coming NEXT WEEK - 2K Release 00:16:30 - Star Fox & Team Fortress Voice Actor, Rick May, Has Died From Covid-19 - Luke Plunkett @ Kotaku 00:20:00 - WWE 2K21 reportedly has been cancelled in favour of a new game - James Batchelor @ GIBiz 00:26:38 - With an already tarnished record, with 2K20s release last year, will not putting out a 2K21 hurt the developers reputation even further? - Best Friends Q:Frankfurtter 00:29:43 - Switch’s new 10.0 update is live - Richard Lawler @ Engadget 00:33:24 - PlayStation announces their Play At Home Initiative - Jim Ryan, President & CEO, Sony Interactive Entertainment @ PS Blog 00:41:00 - There’s a new trailer for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope @TheDarkPictures on Twitter: 00:47:30 - Hims 00:49:00 - quip 00:50:08 - Out today Reader mail - 00:53:17 - Over the weekend CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk will receive a Witcher 3 sized DLC expansion eventually and I just wanna know, how much content is too much content? - The Nano Biologist 00:59:30 - Squad Up:JChicago(PS4) - justWONmore 01:00:30 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Gary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Apr 20201h 8min

Blessing and Tim talk about the reports of a Resident Evil 4 remake coming in 2022. Time Stamps - 00:08:30 - Housekeeping We Have Cool Friends featuring Genevieve St-Onge is live right after this. You can watch that on Twitch.tv/KindafunnyGames, Youtube.com/KindaFunny OR listen to it on the We Have Cool Friends Podcast feed. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, & Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:09:30 - Is Resident Evil 4 Remake Happening? - Andy Robinson @ Video Games Chronicle 00:20:40 - 1. Is Resident Evil going to release games yearly going forward with RE2 last year, RE3 this year, RE8 next year and 4 in 2022? 2. Will RE4 remake, if released in 2022, be on both current and next gen consoles? Or just next gen? 3. Is giving the developer until 2022 to work on RE4, which seems like more time than the other remakes, due to Capcom wanting to release 8 in between remake releases? - Best Friends Q:Frankfurtter 00:27:03 - Resident Evil 3 remake ships 2 million in five days - Brendain Sinclair @ GIBiz 00:33:20 - That Final Fantasy VII Remake really do be sellin in the UK - Christopher Dring @ GIBiz 00:39:08 - The ESRB is acknowledging loot boxes - Brendan Sinclair @ GIBiz 00:42:30 - Is Crysis making a return? - Liam Croft @ Push Square 00:48:05 - Out today 00:49:00 - HIMS 00:51:00 - QUIP Reader mail - 00:53:00 - - Jamie S 00:59:50 - Squad Up: Jay Yi (Podcast platforms) - We Are Not Game Devs 01:00:42 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing and Imran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Apr 20201h 9min

Blessing and Greg talk about Final Fantasy VII Remake possibly coming to PC. Time Stamps - 00:04:45 - I’ve literally never played a Final Fantasy game, but the FOMO for Final Fantasy VII remake is starting to get to me. Should I just get it? I play all different kinds of games, and I’m always down to try something new. Also, is there any similar game you could compare it to so I could know what the gameplay is like? - Best Friends Q:Aidan Dean 00:10:23 - Housekeeping Greg’s in the Gamers vs. Cancer tournament today. Greg, what is that? kindafunny.com/mizzou Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:15:20 - A New Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trailer Hints at PC Release - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:26:35 - Final Fantasy 14’s next patch is delayed - Rebekah Valentine @ GIBiz 00:30:30 - Cyberpunk 2077’s Next-Gen version is coming sometime after launch - Jordan Gerblick @ GamesRadar 00:39:42 - New World, Amazon's Upcoming MMO, has been Delayed to August - Matt Kim @ IGN 00:38:50 - Out today Reader mail - 00:43:08 - When there is a game that you are really looking forward to playing, how do you set yourself up so that you enjoy it fully? - Alex aka Coync 00:48:12 - - jonbx32 00:53:35 - Squad Up: Kayla (PS4) - beruset 00:54:00 - You‘re Wrong Next Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Blessing and Tim TUESDAY: Blessing and Imran WEDNESDAY: Greg and Gary THURSDAY: Greg and Blessing FRIDAY: Blessing and Greg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Apr 20201h 1min

Blessing and Greg talk about CD Projeckt Red's commitment to Cyberpunk 2077's September release date. Time Stamps - 00:06:50 - Housekeeping Streaming TLOU with Nick today @ 2 p.m. The Roper Report - 00:07:25 - RELAX: Cyberpunk is on track, Andy Chalk @ PC Gamer 00:30:00 - Valorant is popular 00:39:18 - An MTV of Gaming, Patrick Shanley @ THR 00:51:08 - Manscaped 00:53:00 - Out today 00:57:15 - Are we digging this new PlayStation controller design? - Under Goat 01:01:45 - Squad Up:RobbyRob(Steam) - RobbyRobPlays 01:03:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing and Greg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Apr 20201h 10min

Get 20% off and free shipping with the code GAMES at http://manscaped.com. Time Stamps - 00:03:10 - Housekeeping PS I Love You Shirt kindafunny.com/store Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:04:01 - DualSense, Hi-dea-ki Ni-shi-no SVP Platform Planning and Management 00:21:00 - What might the two-tone color design tell us about the final design of the PS5 console? Will it also be white, black, and blue? - Best Friends Q: Jamie S 00:33:10 - With the reveal of the DuelSense controller and the fact that it has a microphone array, do you think this is opening up PlayStation gamers to targeted marketing in the future? With a controller in our hands that is possibly listening to us at all times could they use this data in the same way companies like google would? - Best Friends Q: Tim Currey 00:38:20 - Inside Xbox Report 00:42:05 - Play Stadia Pro for free, starting today, Phil Harrison, VP and GM, Stadia 00:46:15 - Borderlands Science 00:49:35 - Should gearbox have made this new feature a free to play stand alone game rather than lock it behind the full game? Also what are some other ways other devs can be helping the scientific community? - Best Friends Q: Frankfurtter 00:53:30 - MANSCAPED 00:56:00 - Out today 01:01:09 - Squad Up: twitch.tv/garywhitta 01:02:06 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Apr 20201h 10min

Blessing and Imran discuss what digital-only events mean for Microsoft, a new No Man's Sky update, and the answer to the Cooking Mama mystery. Time Stamps - 00:02:00 - Housekeeping PS I Love You Shirt kindafunny.com/store Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Al Tribesman, Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:04:00 - No Man’s Sky has fucking mechs now - Matt Wales @ Eurogamer 00:12:45 - Japanese ratings board stops assigning ratings - Brendan Sinclair @ GIBiz 00:15:38 - What exactly is involved with reviewing a game to give it a rating? - Best Friends Q:The Nano Biologist 00:24:12 - The Cooking Mama mystery has been solved? - CHRISTOPHER TEUTON @ Screen Rant 00:33:00 - That E3 Online Event is not happening - Andy Chalk @ PCGamer 00:35:40 - All Microsoft events will be "digital-first" until August 2021 - James Batchelor @ GIBiz 00:40:00 - There’s a new Inside Xbox happening today - Adam Bankhurst @ IGN 00:45:12 - Manscaped 00:48:06 - Sony Automatically Issuing Refunds For The Last Of Us Part 2 And Iron Man VR - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:48:53 - Sony is automatically refunding preorders for both the Last of Us Part 2 and Iron Man VR. I'm wondering why they don't leave it as an optional choice instead of making it automatic. - Best Friends Q: Frankfurtter 00:51:33 - Mafia 2 And Mafia 3 Definitive Editions have been Listed By Ratings Board - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:55:00 - Chrono Trigger Composer Yasunori Mitsuda Will Contribute Music to Sabotage’s Upcoming RPG Sea of Stars, PRESS RELEASE 00:58:20 - Out today 01:00:45 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Gary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Apr 20201h 8min