Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Blessing and Gary talk about a new Star Wars leak and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation 2. Time Stamps - 00:17:55 - Housekeeping Gary promotes stream We’re hosting and producing a debut stream for the game CORE. On Thursday, March 19th at 3 p.m. PT, you can tune in to twitch.tv/kindafunnygames. You can follow @CoreGames on Twitter for details and catch their write-up on the Verge right now. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Drew Gardiner, Black Jack The Kinda Funny Destiny 2 PC Clan The Roper Report - 00:20:25 - A new Star Wars game has leaked??? - Joe Skrebels @ IGN 00:31:17 - Google Stadia announces a new, second studio - this comes from a blog post written by Jade Raymond, VP and Head of Stadia Games and Entertainment 00:38:15 - Valve Wants There To Be More Half-Life After Half-Life: Alyx - Alessandro Barbosa @ Gamespot 00:47:33 - With Half Life Alyx less than 20 days away, what is your hype level? - Best Friends Q:Chris RVA 00:50:56 - Epic cancels Unreal Fest Europe - James Batchelor @ GIBiz 00:53:42 - Out today 00:56:00 - Ad Reader mail - 00:57:24 - Why do you think Sony stopped supporting PS2 on PS4 games? - dhCanada 01:01:48 - Squad Up: MrMitchGeorge(PS4) - Kinda Funny TO clan in The Division 2 01:03:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Blessing and Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Mar 20201h 10min

Blessing and Imran talk about the BAFTAs along with new Half Life: Alyx gameplay. Time Stamps - 00:06:00 - Housekeeping Barrett’s The Legend of Zelda In Review comes out TODAY: https://youtu.be/SftdpUVXQLA The Roper Report - 00:08:54 - The BAFTA nominees have been announced 00:14:30 - “I noticed one really odd choice…” - Charles Jakobsen 00:18:00 - Valve dropped some Half Life Alyx gameplay 00:33:26 - The ESA says they’ll move ahead with E3 2020 despite coronavirus concerns 00:37:05 - “Do y'all think they're stuck in a position where they CAN'T cancel E3?” - Ricky Mcflyy 00:42:21 - Marvel has announced a new open world RPG 00:44:10 - “What do y'all think mobile games need to do to break into the public conscience in a positive way?” - Ricky Mcflyy 00:46:31 - If you love cheap-ass Platinums like Greg, great news… 00:47:56 - Out today 00:51:40 - “Ad” Reader mail - 00:53:32 - “What's the likelihood (% wise) we get Part 2 and Part 3 of the FF7 Remake in the next 6 years?” - Jonathan Arleo 00:58:03 - “The number of devs who were unaware they were on GeForce now suggests no efforts were made to contact smaller developers. Is this wrong?” - Jamie S 01:04:12 - Squad Up: Gary - Steam - RealZombro 01:05:16 - You‘re Wrong 01:10:38 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing & Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Mar 20201h 16min

Blessing and Greg talk about GDC's postponement, Valorant's reveal, and more! Time Stamps - 00:04:06 - Housekeeping TOMORROW’S THE BIG DAY: Boss Baby Barrett’s Zelda In Review Premieres at 2pm PT: https://youtu.be/SftdpUVXQLA The Roper Report - 00:06:45 - GDC is Postponed! 00:25:43 - “What is going to happen that week is it gonna be a normal week or is something gonna happen its place?” - William Di Angelo 00:32:13 - Death Stranding PC Release Date, Half-Life Crossover 00:34:58 - Valorant Revealed 00:36:52 - “Do you think Riot's Valorant can have a break-out into the shooter scene like Apex did?” - Jeff from Philly 00:41:35 - Out today 00:43:13 - “Ad” Reader mail - 00:44:14 - “More bad news for Nvidia this weekend…” - Jamie S 00:54:23 - “Yesterday Platinum said in an interview that the reason for The Wonderful 101's kickstarter was not for funding at all…” - Arvin 00:59:25 - Squad Up: Marty88 - Xbox - Reillyda86 01:00:55 - You‘re Wrong 01:03:44 - Post Show This Week’s Hosts: TUESDAY: Blessing and Imran WEDNESDAY: Blessing and Whitta THURSDAY: Blessing and Tim FRIDAY: Blessing and Imran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Mar 20201h 9min

Blessing and Greg have a fun rumormill Friday with Kojima Productions' Tweet, talk about Borderlands 3 expansion content, and more! Time Stamps - 00:05:01 - Housekeeping Today! IGN is putting on a livestream in celebration of Black History Month AND Blessing is going to be a part of it! Starting at 1:30pm pt, come hang out as Blessing and others get to talk to black folks in the games industry about their experiences breaking into games. It’s happening from 1:30PM to 4:30PM over on IGN.com and Blessing will be on it periodically hanging out, playing games, interviewing folks, and more. Zelda In Review, an In Review Special where Barrett reviews every Zelda game he played, ranks each game, and rediscovers what makes The Legend of Zelda special on the 3rd anniversary of Breath of the Wild...March 3rd, NEXT TUESDAY, as a YouTube Premiere at 2pm PT on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames! The Roper Report - 00:10:16 - Kojima Productions Announcing Silent Hills Next Week? 00:17:44 - Riot’s New Game Leaked? 00:22:54 - Borderlands info Dump From PAX East 00:36:55 - Epic Swings on SuperData 00:39:11 - New GDC Pullouts 00:43:01 - Out today 00:46:41 - The Besties 00:47:44 - Gaming Ride Home Reader mail - 00:48:57 - “Can a company pull of out GDC and not E3?” - Wesley LeBlanc 00:49:44 - “Could this possibly end up impacting E3?” - anakinjmt 01:00:07 - Squad Up: 01:00:51 - You‘re Wrong 01:04:01 - Post Show Next Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Greg and Blessing TUESDAY: Blessing and Imran WEDNESDAY: Blessing and Whitta THURSDAY: Blessing and Tim FRIDAY: Blessing and Imran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Feb 20201h 10min

Listen to The Besties free, only on Spotify! Search your podcast app right now, and subscribe to Gaming Ride Home. It's Whitta Thursday! Gary joins Blessing to discuss the continuing affects of Coronavirus in the industry along with even more Xbox Series X details. Time Stamps - 00:03:20 - Housekeeping Tomorrow! IGN is putting on a livestream in celebration of Black History Month AND I’m going to be a part of it! Starting at 1:30pm pacific time, come hang out as I get to talk to other black folks in the games industry about their experiences breaking into games. It’s happening from 1:30PM to 4:30PM over on IGN.com and I’ll be on it periodically hanging out, playing games, interviewing folks, and more. Zelda In Review comes out on the 3rd anniversary of Breath of the Wild...March 3rd, that’s TUESDAY, as a YouTube Premiere at 2pm PT on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, Frankfurter, Drew Gardiner, Katie Gallacher, David Meintel, Shiraz Razak, Dominic Shorter, Mohammed Mohammed, Patrick Higgins, Ginny Berndt, The Nano Biologist, Travis Guy-kow-ski, Joseph Soler The Roper Report - 00:09:08 - Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be able to resume games even after a reboot, this is by Tom Warren of The Verge 00:23:32 - Dreams is looking to improve its trending tab to feature more original content, this is by Matt Kim of IGN 00:29:30 - Is it better for Media Molecule to focus on supporting the creators and players who are already invested or should they be pushing viral content to catch the eyes of the uninitiated? - Best Friends Q:Jamie S 00:33:20 - PlatinumGames is Opening a New Studio, this is by Michael McWhertor of Polygon 00:37:45 - BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Drops Out Of GDC, Too This is by Ethan Gach on Kotaku 00:39:07 - The hits for GDC continue as Unity pulls out, this comes from a blog post written by John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies titled “An update on our GDC 2020 plans” 00:43:03 - As news of the virus spreads and gets in people's ears do you think it will have a long term effect on the games industry? - Best Friends Q:Frank Furtter 00:46:25 - Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Gets First Details and Release Window, this is by Wesley Leblanc of IGN 00:50:12 - ANNAPURNA REVEALS A NEW GAME, this is from their twitter 00:52:42 - THE BESTIES 00:53:50 - THE GAMING RIDE HOME PODCAST 00:54:35 - Out today Reader mail - 00:56:55 - how do you suspect that Xbox and PlayStation will expand on the “Share” features built into each console? - Fatality 89 01:04:15 - With all the talk of Smart Delivery, and the likelihood of only one copy of a game being sold, with the system determining what version to load, do you expect all versions to be on the disc itself? - Alexis 01:10:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Feb 20201h 19min

Tim and Greg talk about Square Enix's plan to stay away from next-gen exclusives for a while, a bunch of new games, and more. Time Stamps - 00:01:45 - Housekeeping Zelda In Review comes out on the 3rd anniversary of Breath of the Wild...March 3rd, that’s NEXT TUESDAY, as a YouTube Premiere at 2pm PT on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, Frankfurter, Drew Gardiner, Katie Gallacher, David Meintel, Shiraz Razak, Dominic Shorter, Mohammed Mohammed, Patrick Higgins, Ginny Berndt, The Nano Biologist, Travis Guy-kow-ski, Joseph Soler The Roper Report - 00:04:18 - Square Enix won’t make PS5 or Xbox Series X Exclusives for a bit, Samuel Tolbert @ Windows Central 00:06:45 - Today Square Enix confirmed that all of their games currently in development (including FFVII Remake and The Avengers) will be available on "next-gen consoles". What got my attention was the use of plurals: "consoles". Does this mean that the PS5 will have a Smart Delivery system like what the Series X will have? - Best Friends Q: KBABZ 00:16:15 - Hey, New Games From Devs you Like! 00:23:55 - Even more Horizon on PC Evidence, Fraser Brown @ PC Gamer 00:25:00 - If Sony is moving it's first party games to PC as a new initiative for next gen wouldn't it make more sense to save something like this for when you drop all the PS5 details? - Best Friends Q:Frankfurtter 00:31:40 - Facebook buys Sanzaru, Reb @ GIB 00:34:25 - Konami Code Creator Has Died, Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:35:55 - Modder Gives Cuphead a Celeste-like Assist Mode, DualShockers 00:39:35 - Out today Reader mail - 00:47:56 - With Resident Evil 3 feeling more action based than RE2; do you feel like this could possibly be laying the groundwork for a much desired Resident Evil 4 Remake? - Alex Duez 00:53:59 - “What other famous cheats do you remember growing up with video games?” - Shawn G. 00:56:26 - Squad Up: Taylar Allan (PS4) - Purger4382 00:57:52 - You‘re Wrong 01:24:17 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Blessing and Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Feb 20201h 8min

Blessing and Imran talk about the hits that keep on coming as Coronavirus fears continue to cause companies to drop out from events. Time Stamps - 00:04:15 - Housekeeping Zelda In Review Premieres NEXT TUESDAY on YouTube.com/KindaFunnyGames! The Roper Report - 00:06:57 - EA pulls out of GDC over coronavirus fears 00:12:23 - Capcom Developers and Square Enix pull out of PAX East 00:14:00 - “Does GDC get canceled?” - Jeffrey P. Long 00:18:58 - A FIFA Pro Has Been Permanently Banned From All EA Games 00:26:02 - Etika has been memorialized as a Pokestop 00:28:39 - A Resident Evil 3 Demo is on the way 00:29:23 - Out today 00:38:32 - The Besties 00:39:51 - Gaming Ride Home Reader mail - 00:41:10 - “Do you think smart delivery will support discs?” - Lexus 00:46:10 - “There’s a rumored Overwatch animated series coming…” - Ricky Mcflyy 00:52:18 - Squad Up: Caleb Sitler - PS4/Xbox - SuperSitler - Wizard World Cleveland 00:53:10 - Required Reading: https://bit.ly/392TtwI 00:53:43 - You‘re Wrong 00:56:55 - Post Show Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Feb 20201h 2min

Blessing and Greg dive deep into Phil Spencer's rundown of what the Xbox Series X has under the hood. Time Stamps - 00:09:50 - Housekeeping Firewall: Zero Hour PS I Love You Play Date is tomorrow! 6 pm PT! It’s free this month! https://www.youtube.com/UploadVR Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, Frankfurter, Drew Gardiner, Katie Gallacher, David Meintel, Shiraz Razak, Dominic Shorter, Mohammed Mohammed, Patrick Higgins, Ginny Berndt, The Nano Biologist, Travis Guy-kow-ski, Joseph Soler The Roper Report - 00:06:35 - Xbox Series X Specs, Phil Spencer 00:27:00 - With the recent announcement from Microsoft that your xbox one games can be upraded to the series x version for free (TIM WAS RIGHT BABY!) do you think Sony will be forced to take a similar approach? - Best Friends Q:Paulo 00:39:10 - Does the Xbox news this morning get you any more excited for the Series X or just next gen in general? - Best Friends Q:DJBradChill 00:51:49 - DualShock 5 to use BioFeedback? Jake Bishop @ RespawnFirst 00:55:49 - THE BESTIES 00:56:37 - THE GAMING RIDE HOME PODCAST 00:57:32 - Kojima Bails on GDC Over Coronavirus, Julia Lee @ Polygon 01:00:40 - Bethesda Bounces from GeForce Now, James Batchelor @ GIB 01:03:30 - Out today 01:06:35 - Squad Up: Come play Firewall with us tomorrow night! 6 pm PT! youtube.com/uploadvr 01:07:12 - You‘re Wrong This Week’s Hosts: MONDAY: Greg and Blessing TUESDAY: Blessing and Imran WEDNESDAY: Greg and Whitta THURSDAY: Blessing and Tim FRIDAY: Greg and Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Feb 20201h 15min