Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 156 PT 2 // "IS EXPEDITION 33 THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME!?"

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

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First off, it is finally time. It is finally time to recognize the recognition that we've been giving Expedition 33 this entire year, to the point where not only was the Game Awards, some would say a glorified glaze fest for Expedition 33. But I'm not going to say real gamers because, you know, artist's objective. But I feel like the consensus was rewarded heavily, especially in this award show. because if you look at Expedition 33, winning nine total, which is the most in Game of Wars history, it's a humongous accomplishment, but also the 13 nomination, so they did lose some, right? It was also a record-breaking total.

And the reason why I say it like that and set it up for us diving into the Game Awards, because that's essentially what happened. The Expedition 33 fandom was through the roof, deservedly so, because if you don't watch sports, then this analogy or comparison may lose you. But art is subjective, right? When it comes to Expedition 33 and everything encapsitated in it being at a high level, it's comparable to how OKC is just by far in the way the best team in the NBA. You look at the record. I think they've only lost like what one game out of 30. And at OKC is like the Expedition 30. of the NBA. And Expedition 33 is like the OKC in the gaming industry. So when people are glazing

Expedition 33 to the moon and back, it's because everything about the game from the music to the voice acting, to the storyline, to the gameplay mechanics, and then also having a development team of 30 people making that type of game is really one of the most groundbreaking revolutions we've seen in the gaming industry. Because I cannot tell you the amount of AAA developers, that was looking at Expedition 33 and hating like Kendrick Lamar I was like damn

look at the state of hip hop like what's going on I mean not even Kendrick Lamar could sum up the hatred that was directed towards Expedition 33's way I watched the entire war show when I tell you nobody seemingly was excited

for Expedition 33 I'm telling you nobody I mean it was to the point which I don't want to call out anybody specifically but let's just say the voice actor for Atsu as far as Ghost of Yote.

I'm not saying that she purposely ate popcorn while they was announcing the only nomination that she was for and had a camera on her for a reason because she knew Expedition 33 was going to win. Because that's a stretch, right? So that's a stretch. So let's just pull up. Let's see, Expedition 33. Let's see Ghost of Yote. Let's just pull up their development team, right?

Interestingly enough, their development team during the award show and because I watch this I'm gonna have to research you on the spot because I'm like I know what happened in the war show but I still got researching analytic dreams video on Spotify

to see the video along with the audio ladies and gentlemen the only other award that they was nominated for I think these are the well the caption says the director so I'm just going to assume it's the director and look at this this is the full this is just a zoom in right

if you look at, let me switch my scene, when you look at Best Game Direction, as soon as these on camera, the director holds up three. Now, I don't know what planting y'all are from, but usually if you're trying to do the P sign, you put up two fingers. So I think he's trying to be hilarious in the way of hating on Expedition 33 sweeping the entire award show. So that's just one of the examples. And that's not even the example I was talking about as far as the voice actor,

of Atsu from Gose Yote, basically eating popcorn while the only camera time she had, she was eating popcorn. Like, I mean, it was just hilarious the way that she was nominated. And you know how they have these scenes exactly like this. And it was for, I think, best actor or whatever, or best voice actor or whatever. And she was in the shot. The only time she's going to be in the shot in the whole award show and she was eating a bucket of popcorn, basically acting like they're just watching the Expedition 33 Glaze face. So when I tell you that a lot of AAA developers are highly upset, remember, Ghost of Yote came after Ghost of Tashima that was hilariously beaten by Last of Us 2,

which was a very egregious win as far as on the Last of Us 2 side. So to come back with Ghost of Yote and then get beaten by Expedition 33, but this one is rightfully so, I can see how they could have some animosity, especially being backed by PlayStation. when once again Expedition 33 was made of a team of 33 people so with that being said I just wanted to show you all

just a little evidence because this is a lot more but I just want to show you all a little bit a little evidence on how people was just hating on Expedition 33's Glaze Fest right the main thing you need to know is that there were other games that won and hilariously enough when HoloNate Silk Song

who you know completely skipped out on the show because they knew it was going to be an Expedition 33 Glazeathon they basically won an award and during it Jeff said himself he was like hey look guys you actually won an award right let me see if I can find it hollow night so Jeff was like hey guys you actually won and that was one of the highlights to me because he was basically poking fun at everybody being so mad that Expedition 33 was winning everything so let me see oh release this year no that's not it it was when they won the award i don't know if they have it oh i'm tripping why don't i just go to my own tweets if you don't know your

boy was tweeting throughout the whole show and one of my replies was uh to them actually winning and i actually talked about how they threw a lot of shade so as far as the game awards breakdown we have to get into this guy i want to pinpoint stuff specifically because i watched the whole show so i was like let me just pinpoint certain things i noticed so um interestingly enough we do have an interest we have an aspiring content creator that talked about jeff with the shade right he was tweeting throughout the whole event. And basically, as you see right here, oh, this is the picture.

I'm tripping. It doesn't have the video. So does anybody else? Oh, let me not scroll down too far. But, you know, Twitter's wild. Wild place. Anyways, Jeff basically say, hey, look, guys, you actually won when Hollow Night Soxon

won Best Action slash Adventure Game. And, you know, they wasn't up against Expedition 33. So, you know, so I could say they had to win because you look at Hollow Nake Sixthong, I think that was one of the better games, in my opinion. Like, as far as out of the games, at all the games I play, obviously I'm biased,

because I like split fiction, can I play it with my cousin. That's one of my favorite games. No, it is my favorite game of the year. My top three would probably be split fiction, ready or not. And I really don't know what the third one would be. It'll be Marvel token, really,

but you know, that hasn't came out yet. I ain't trying to flex. My bad. I ain't trying to flex. My bad. So anyways, that would be my top three. So as far as a clear obscure expedition, getting back to the Glazathon, they basically had 13 nominations, which was a record breaking total. They won nine, which was the highest of all time, right?

They won Game of the Year. They won Best Game Direction. Best Narrative. Best Independent Game. debut indie game. Best RPG. Best art direction. Best performance.

Specifically, Jennifer English. if you don't know for the best performance they had three i repeat three voice actors for expedition 33 in best performance just to let you know how the night was uh already foreshadowed by the game awards and then of course last but definitely not least they won best score and music now if they was to win or lose certain categories we're going to get to that in a second but because i want to go over the whole list even though i was contemplating on doing it because i mean expedition 33 won everything but i do want to comment on certain wins but i don't want to comment on certain wins they had. Other notable category winners, of course, was Arc Raiders, best multiplayer,

Mario Car World, best sports slash racing. I don't know how in the world, pun intended, they won that award because Sonic Racing Cross Worlds and I guess, you know, the Kirby ones a stretch, but Sonic Racing Cross Worlds, I believe that came out this year, if I'm not mistaken. Let me see. Sonic Racing Cross Worlds release date. Let me see. Oh, September. September 25th. Now, I don't know if that was before the Game Award show or not as far as the eligibility period, I think it was. I don't know what Jeff Keely has against Sonic because it also wasn't even nominated for Best Adaptation. When we all know, let's look up that, let's look at that release date. Sonic 3 release date. It came out December 20th, 20th, 24. So technically amidst the 2024 eligibility.

So that would have made it eligible for this award show, right? So I don't know if they forgot about it because it came. out late 2024 but still in the 2025 eligibility period which you know how do you forget about one of the most engaged with new movies but also as far as from the critics and a general audience perspective a higher quality type of video game adaptation how you just completely leave that out of the nominations and i think last of us ended up winning again which i'm like come on man you guys what type of money see that's the problem what type of money is is the Last of Us publishers paying the game awards to give them whatever award they want

because they was winning. Like, as far as the adaptation, they was winning against Minecraft. They won against, who's the other one? Fallout, which I thought either one of those should have won if it wasn't going to be Sonic 3. And Last of Us ended up winning, which if you even know the history of Last of Us 2

is really so bad that it made us look differently at The Last of Us 1. Because at the end of the game, try to spoil it? I'm not going to spoil it. But let's just say the whole revenge storyline was not really handled the best. Because, of course, when you have Joel, which I think was the main male character, he's out here being the, you know, an interesting gray, he's in a gray area in the first game. But in the second game, yeah, I'm just going to spoil it.

The way he gets killed shortly into Season 2, I mean, shortly into Last of Us 2 is insane. It's really the pacing's just super off with the Last of Us 2, which makes you look at Last of Us 1 in a different light. So, and I think they even came out with a re, a restructured Last of Us 2 as far as the pacing to fix that issue, I believe. As far as you plan as Abby and I think the other girls, Ellie, that's how you know I don't watch the, watch the movies or whatever. I don't play Last of Us.

I don't even, I don't get the hype. I ain't going to cap to you. So anyways, with that being said, I don't know what type of money they're paying the Game Awards. That's all like I say. And then, of course, there was a lot of surprise announcements, which we will get into later. There's a three hour, well, the Game of Wars in general was three hours, right? Three hours of all type of unexpected reveals from the controlled resident to Leon being a part of Resident Evil Requiem to the Street Fighter movie cast also appearing live for the war show, which I thought was a huge deal.

I mean, they're cast, like, they, they did not hold back on any type of budget for the casting of my opinion. Like, I know people making jokes about Andrew Shultz, 50 Cent. But if you look at them in their individual careers, it's a lot to get them to get away from that and come to a whole movie. I mean, you see how it's a lot because 50 Cent is currently promoting for Netflix and it's the number one show in the world as far as the Diddy Dog. So, and then Shouts, I believe, has sold out Madison Square Garden like multiple times. Like, these guys are big pulse on their own. but as far as getting them away from their almost successful career

to be in the street fighter movie cast I would seemingly say and of course they got Jason Momoa as well I think the budget was through the roof for the acting part of for the cast so to get them in person for the Game Award show was pretty phenomenal I'm not going on and then the shot that Andrew Schultz

through at more to combat I think I'm the only one that can tolerate Andrew Andrew Schultz everybody else I watch just haste on him like what do you do But then you come to realize he did advocate for Trump and things that nature. So I kind of understand. So with that being said, and then moving on, if we was talking about the location for the Game Awards,

just know it was at the Peacock Theater, downtown Los Angeles, distributed through Amazon Prime Video, because if you don't know, Amazon owns Twitch. So the show was also on Twitch and it was on YouTube. And when you look at the industry details as far as Expedition 33 winning, which is 33 developers, or no, yeah, 33 developers as a team, it makes you look at AAA dominance in a way that is fading. Because if indie games keep winning the Game Awards

as far as best game, best art direction, best indie game, I mean, obviously with the indie game, but you look at dispatch, you look at Expedition 33, these are people who left Ubisoft to make their own game. And now they're being highly regarded to the point where they're about to receive all the funding in the world. And this time, they may play things differently because of how it went with Ubisoft. If Ubisoft keeps letting people leave their development studio and making these highly creative games,

such as dispatch, such as Expedition 33, I mean, we got to have a real conversation about what these suits are doing in the boardroom to take away to creativity. Because at some point, somebody got to point out of them and say, hey, hold up now. What are y'all saying to these developers to make them less creative? You know what I'm saying? Like, how are the, how are 33 people leaving you and making a better game that 100 plus people can't make? Like, it's almost like Iron Man won all over again. They're in a cave with box of scraps and they're making something better than you.

And you have a 200 plus team. Somebody got to walk in there like Coach Carter and get to grilling the lead for the creative team and telling them the Expedition 33. made this in a cave but on a development team for Expedition 33 made this in a cave with a box of scraps

and that's all you got to say in the walkout so I don't know if that helped but you know basically it'll get the point across because indie developers are going crazy and as far as the reception and is resulting into actual sales

because quality isn't always equal to quantity or even boost the quantity really when it comes the quantity is the marketing budget is a lot of things they have to fall in place so there's a lot of luck in play you know people don't want to tell you that because they want you to show up first because the hardest part is being consistent but then of course luck has to play a part and you become a successful because they always say you know this is you know cliche it's not really a cliche because it's

inherently true but you know it's like preparation and then it's preparation and there's opportunity and then you get success now sometimes sometimes people prep like Batman you know what I'm saying they got all type of prep time but then they may be in a certain location when they never get their opportunity and that ladies and gentlemen is why they say it's a lot of luck that goes into success but you still have to prep like you are going to be successful at some point or your chance is going to be inherently zero um with that with that uh old man life lesson out of the way overall expedition 33 just had an insane glaze fest and that's probably the ultimate summary could give you for the game award so let's go through every single category as when you look at

most anticipated game it went to gt 6 which i think is a a crime we don't even know if this game's going to come out in 2026 they need to worry about its developers trying to do um i think i think um i forget who was actually going at them but basically gta well rockstar is being accused of union busting so now a lot of people who's working for rockstar once those people reinstated because they fired them right we don't know the real reasons but we do know the people who's working for a particular studio for a rock star is revolting and one of those people hired back which i just think is you know it's just a match it's a recipe for disaster like if you already have bosses that feel the way about you fired you and now your uh employees advocate you for

come back like that's a huge great area as far as how you're going to be able to have a uh um a workable an amicable situation as far as going uh going forward so basically I say all that to say this GT6 may get delayed again and if it's not delayed it may come out a buggy mess similar to cyberpunk 277 when it first came out so with that out the way let's get into uh so I think it should have

as far as uh I think they should have went to Marvel's uh Wolverine or even Resident Evil honestly The Witcher? I don't know if the Witcher's Actually some of these games I don't know it's gonna come out I know for a fact well not for a fact but Marvel's Wolverine I'll definitely put money on to come out next year best adaptation

went to Splinter Cell Death Watch Oh I actually watched that TV show Oh no that's my vote I'm tripping Hold up What was this one? I voted for GTA 6 Oh man

Well Dang I'm part of the problem You guys See that's the problem I still stand on what I said Oh past me Didn't know the error in his ways but ultimately

GTA6 is the most anticipated game but will it come out in 2026 the world may never know let's keep going best adaptation i voted for splinter cell last of us two um last of us season two actually ended up winning i have no idea how to happen over minecraft and oh i guess the uh

what's the hell of the movie um i guess the fallout tv show came out before that so it winning over Minecraft is just insane I mean, I think they literally had people bringing chickens to certain movie theaters because of the stand on being so insane, which I don't co-sign. You know, the chicken jockey and throwing chickens across the theater. I don't know who has to say it, but that's insane behavior. Like, y'all should be ashamed of yourselves. Anyways, so last of a season two actually won best adaptation.

And, yeah, I just think what the last of us is like, they're just paying off Jeff Keely. Like people talk about Kojima and Jeff Keely's relationship. How in the World? Last of a season two, I think one game in the year. and now the show's winning best adaptation like oh my y'all talk about the expedition 33 glaze uh the last of a season two glaze has to stop it has to stop man it's not that good it's not that good of a franchise maybe i'm hating because i've seen like walking dead or whatever but looking at it in totality i just i just don't i just don't get it man i just don't get it so anyways uh best multiplayer

my vote was for split fiction i don't think split fiction won any awards which you know poor enough for split fiction you guys sad day in history Shepherd just look at the state of gaming like what is going on I had to have a moment of silence for a split fiction man they ain't walk away with any awards

so yeah best multi-player went to arc Raiders I'm not mad at that at all all of these could have won I wouldn't have been mad at it actually this is probably one of the more competitive lists in the whole show

yeah so let's keep going all these games could have won it anyways best sports slash racing okay so Sonic racing cross worlds was on this list. How in the world? Okay.

So when it comes to the gaming universe, I'm not mad at Mario getting unnecessary glaze because Mario saved the gaming industry. I don't know if y'all know. But when it comes to my banner, I had to bring this up every time because, you know, I put immense respect on Mario's name. When it comes to the banner,

Mario's right next to Biggie. And really, the whole notorious Mass Effect banner is to showcase the biggest gaming and music IPs. And yes, I'm calling them IPs, that notoriously affect the masses, right? And I just had Biggie and Shepard next to me because, of course, that's the name of the podcast. But when you look at Mario and Drake, inherently,

I'm not going to say Drake's the savior of hip-hop. That'd be crazy. But as far as the engagement, he's definitely the top. And Mario's the top for gaming, right? So the reason why I say that is Mario actually saved the entire landscape of gaming, like all the way back when people just thought gaming was stupid, right? Literally. They was like looking at gaming the same way.

that people looked at animate watchers back in the day and you know how it's like cool the game now people rappers bringing their PSP to certain WWE events the similar well that wouldn't have been able to happen without Mario especially the way that the gaming industry I had a whole deep doubt on this I ain't on I don't feel like talking about it like in depth because when it comes to Mario it's a lot of segments I've done like specifically deep diving into how Mario saved the gaming industry but if you was wanting to see this that basically the Super Mario Galaxy movie official trailer November 14, 2025. So recently I dove into how Mario saved the gaming industry.

But basically with the NES and Mario, the platforming being innovative, the money that it made, turning people's opinion on gaming upside down as far as them thinking it was stupid for kids to the point where you come to realize that gaming is honestly one of the best things you could do especially as a hobby if you enjoy creativity and of course the way that gaming honestly challenges your brain on certain puzzles and just hand-dye coordination things is a lot of things that go on to you know just the benefits of gaming so anyways with that being said um Mario car world won for best sports slash racing and because Mario save the entire gaming industry I'm not mad at it um but sonic crossing you know Sonic racing cross world should definitely win

Best Sims slash strategy. I don't know who is going to win this. I pick Sid and Myers Final Fantasy Tactics won. You know, hey, kudos to them, man. You know what? Hey. What do they do? I don't know what in the world this category is about.

I mean, I know it's sim slash strategy, but I don't know any of the games on this list. Best Family Game went to Donkey Kong Bonanza. By far in the way, best family game. Split Fiction is on here. Another L for them. I thought if they was going to win, it was going to be the other category

that we just talked about that they was in. I did not think they was going to win this one. Nintendo notoriously wins Best Family. It's almost like when Nikki Minaj, and I'm going to keep having music references throughout this whole review, when Nicky Minaj kept winning Best Female Rapper at the BETT Awards,

that's basically what Best Family is for Nintendo. Nintendo's going to always win Best Family because that's literally what the whole platform is dominant as far as the discography and their fan base. Best Fighting Game. I placed mine for 2XCO. I didn't even know. 2xk0 was able to make it on this list um but i guess it makes sense because technically it's out is it out right now

let me see 2xk oh i thought it didn't even i don't even know so it comes out january 2026 i don't know how the world that's on here they how is that maybe i'm tripping i don't know how that happens um but yeah somehow they just completely you know you know they didn't the the laws of physics as far as the laws of eligibility at the game wars that now affect 2xK0. but they ended up still losing. So I don't know if this, if there would be nominated again in 2026. I think that's cheating, but whatever.

Final Fantasy, no, Fatal Fury ended up winning as far as City of the Wolves. And when it comes to them, they're OG. I think Fatal Fury is definitely one of the foundations of fighting games, so I'm not mad at them winning. Looking at the other games, it's really, other than them, I couldn't see another, I mean, maybe Capcom, but I really thought I was going to go to X-K-O, but shout out the Fatal Fury.

And then, of course, you have Claire Obscure Expedition for Best RPG, which this one a lot of people is mad at. They thought if Expedition was going to lose one, it would have been Kingdom Come because I believe there's a lot more customizable aspects and Kingdom Come deliverance to, which this is the one category where I'm like, okay, I kind of understand that people are upset about the Glazeathon with Expedition 33. But at the end of day, Expedition 33 is an RPG and is by far on the way the best complete game. But when it comes to best RPG, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gives you way more customization to the point where I wouldn't have been mad if it won over Expedition.

But guess what? It didn't. So best action slash adventure ended up going to Hollow Night Silk Song. Now, I placed mine for Split Fiction. I did not think it was going to win this category, but I thought it should because it was one. favorite game um i'm pretty sure when it comes to hollow night silk song kojima is highly upset he's like hold up now now jeff you know me and you go way back and team cherry literally came out and said they're not attending because they know they know it's going to be an expedition 33 glazedathon so you know

i'm here in attendance and you still give the award to hollow night silk song i would have been thinking you guys see that's the problem i would have been thinking wow man we've really got to put our friendship and perspective because what in the actual world what what in what world would you turn on our friendship to give it to a development studio that didn't even show up so anyways um hollow night six song one best action slash adventure i'm not mad at it if it didn't go to split fiction i would have chose hollow night but of course it's a bias i like split fiction it's my personal favorite game of the year and one thing about having a favorite game of the year is that technically Art is subjective.

So any game of the year in your heart is your game of the year, right? You don't need a word shows to tell you what's the best game of 2025. If you say a, if you say a specific game is the best for you, then guess what? It was your game of the year. You should, you know, in all totality, well, in, in all honesty, when you look at it in a grand scheme of things, developers, having certain fan bases is really more important than awards. call of duty would rather be the best selling game than to win these award shows right so the reason is basically why i say that as far as quantity to quality it's vice versa if you think a game is higher

quality then guess what to you personally you gave it your game of the war game of the year so um as far as best actress last adventure and went to a hollow nice hook song and i am not mad at that but once again poor went out for split fiction not winning anything sad day in history shepherd Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I don't know how many moment of silences we're going to have for split fiction, but let's just say it was a fantastic game. And guess what?

Team Cherry you're watching this? Well, not Team Cherry, I'm tripping. Who made Split Fiction? Was it a Hayslight? I don't know if it was Hayeslight. Let me see. I get these studios mixed up. I cover some of many games.

It's kind of crazy. Split fiction. Game Debs. That should pull it up, right? that should pull up okay so oh it is hazelight hey shout to me

that's what's up so hazelight studios if you're watching this I did not have to look up your name to know if you developed this game but all I gotta say is in my heart of hearts use my game at the year

you know what I'm saying no I had to let them know you know what I mean you know hey use my game in my heart use my game of the year so anyways best action slash adventure

went to hollow night sox song Okay, so Best Action Game went to Hades 2 as far as what I voted for. Oh, I voted for Hades 2. Oh, shout out. Okay, that's what so. I'm trying to think of what else. I don't even know my dooms on this list. I remember saying that when I was going over this list too.

Best VR slash AR. I voted for Deadpool just because, you know, I'm a Marvel fan. I really had no weight in this. I went to Midnight Walk. Shout out to them. Best Mobile game. I voted for Persona 5. I think that's the only mobile game I even saw

And went to What in the world? You, you, you, my moose What? Museum? It went to the game called Museum, bro. Yeah, that's what so. Best debut indie game.

Dispatch could have won this award And I don't even think Expedition 33 would have been mad. But you know it's Expoision Glazathon. So, you know, they won that award. You know, if you're going to win game of the year, it's safe to say, you're probably going to win best debut indie game. It won't make sense if it was vice versa.

Like, wow, the best, the game of the year didn't win the indie game. But once again, dispatch and Clear Obscure developers left Ubisoft. So I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been mad. They would have been like, oh, look at our brothers or sisters actually thriving in creativity outside from the suits, right? Shame, man. What are they doing in those AAA development studios, man? Crazy Dan History. Best Independent game went to Clear Expedition 33.

So when you look at that, this is what I think. Why in the world is the difference between best indie game and best independent game? Because when I look at it, best indie game, it says for best debut game created by a new independent studio. I don't know why I clicked that. My fault. Best independent game for outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside of traditional publisher system. So the main thing I'm looking at is debut versus non-debue. when I looked at I forget what game came out

it was a game on this list that's not on this list anymore because they basically came out and said it's not our debut but if you look at Clear if you look at dispatch technically it's not their debut either because it was under

Ubisoft developing games but as a studio it's the first game so I don't know I think it's very I think it's very much a great area like should the best debut

indie game go to the development studio that has the least amount of experience that has the best game or should it go to you know what i'm trying to say i don't know if that makes sense as far as rewarding somebody for actually being a rookie it's like going from the mavericks to the lakers but then you're luca don't know looka donkich put in up 40 points right how many you're just going to put up 40 points on another team so i don't know if that makes sense you know as far as the experience i think that should play a factor and best debut indie game like we look at your resume and it'll be the opposite of a job interview tell me how unqualified are you for this job

and then show me your game you know what I'm saying and then you know I guess that would end up you know giving a word to the worst game possible so I don't know I was just a little confused on that so anyways best independent game uh clear obscure expedition won this one as well um best community support interestingly enough four night did not win this and you know what their simpsons uh revitalizing the overall player base I thought for sure they was going to win this. But it went to Borders Gate 3, which actually won game in the year when they initially came out. I think it was, I want to say it was last year.

Let me see. Borders Gate 3. I think it was last year at 1. Last year. No, that was 2023. Okay, let me see. 2024. Game of the year winner.

Oh, Astrobaugh. I'm tripping. Interesting. Okay. So, yeah, it makes. since that they got best community support. If people are still playing the game two years out. Best ongoing game.

I voted for Marvel rivals. It's safe to say No Man Sky won. I'm not mad at that any of these games could have won because all of these games have a phenomenal community support. No Man Sky is the more interesting pick, I will say. So, yeah, shout to them. Games for Impact, South of Midnight One, and I don't want to be that guy.

So I'm not going to be that guy. But I'm going to say, the representation, is interesting. But also to play devil's advocate, the people who accepted the award, you can kind of put the representation to the side because technically that's what we want people to do when they make games centered around our culture,

actually deep dive and get constructive feedback from people who grew up in the culture. Seems as if the developers for South and Midnight did this. Because I believe the developers, for this game. It's not even like from what they made this game about. You know, I think they're from like, basically they're not black. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't know any PR way to say it, no corporate way to say. They're not black. And they made South of Midnight a very black-centric game really feel like it was made by black people. You know what I'm saying? So they did a great job.

Basically, what I'm saying? As far as a research part, it just threw me off with South the Midnight one and then developers got out there. I was like, oh, hold them now. And I thought to myself, well, you know, like I said, there's some phenomenal research because you, hey, you fool me. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to South of Midnight. You definitely deserved it. Definitely wasn't impactful, especially the music. I think the music was one of the more underrated soundtracks for 2025.

Innovation and Accessibility. I voted for South and Midnight, Doom the Dark Ages won. I'm surprised they even got a win. What, the world? Innovation and accessibility. Huh. I wonder what they did. I don't know, man.

I wasn't a big fan of Doom. the Dark Ages and I like majority of the games almost all the games I played this year but you know this award for some difference so it's probably some technical settings aspect best performance went to Jennifer English just back to while saying they had three people from clear obscure expedition on this list basically foreshattering the way that how this award show was going to go and then also you look at the ghost of yote voice actor and she was eating popcorn I already said this I'll say that at the beginning I'm not going to say it again but let's just say everybody knew the expedition 33 was going to win and of course um

the reason why i chose benstar is because i thought his performance was better in in the game i know there's a hot take i know it's a hot take a lot of people was um liking um male mile or have you said name um which all of them are top tier it's it's kind of like choosing who's the MVP of the go and state warriors like there's no incorrect answer in my opinion um i would have just went with ben star but that's just me um best audio design went to battlefield six i voted for silent hill f i thought really silent hill f should have won this award if you ever like i don't play scary games but as far as from audio perspective if you watch a good you know if you watch enough people play through the game entirely because just like i don't want spoil it let's just say multiple

playthings ends up helping your overall understanding of the story let's just put like that and the sound of the game, especially in the horror aspect, is just really intuitive to how scared you're going to be, you know? And I think Silent Hill have had a lot of interesting sound effects to make it really intense, especially in the tight corridors and monsters coming closer to you when you're looking away and you look at them and they're just frozen. Like there's a lot of interesting cues, audio cues,

that you had to pay attention to survive in that game. So I think that's why I paid attention to the audio. more. But if Battlefield 6 is going to win for this, I think it's just because, you know, it's the best selling game of the year. I'm, you know, because Call of Duty, Battlefield, I mean, how different can the guns get? You know,

the gun sounds are the same, ain't it? Am I tripping? I don't know how different the sounds could get. And literally, there may be a hot take. But Battlefield 6 may have had worse audio than Call of Duty. I know a lot of people is coming out and saying, like, RedSec, the audio was off to where I don't know if they said the footsteps was too loud or too low

or whenever the tanks will come by or be too loud I think that's what it was something like that the balancing was off now for me when I played the game I didn't really find it too much but you know I'm not like a hardcore

Battlefield 6 but a lot of people saying the audio was off for Battlefield 6 Red So maybe the original package the audio was fine but I did hear their complaint specifically about the audio so I was like hold of now how they wouldn't this work but you know at the end of day any of these games could have won it and it's justifiable so i'm not mad at battle for

the six win and definitely uh definitely put you know like i reported um may activation come out with the statement that's how you know you won the battle well yeah you definitely won the battle because the war is still going but uh activision said i covered back on december 10th 2025 activation was saying it would no longer do back-to-back modern warfare or blackouts releases So that only happened, ladies and gentlemen, because people voted with the wallet, and they basically said that Battlefield 6 was better than Collard Duty. And Collard Duty is now, you know, switching it out. And remember last, I think I brought this up last time.

In 2023, the best selling game was Hogwarts Legacy. The following year, we got the Omni movement with Blackop Six. I think we're going to get a similar innovation, if not multiple innovations, to the next call of duty installment but that's just me having high hopes you know i don't know how that's going to go but um yeah that's just me having high hopes so i think call of duty losing in this fashion is is one of the better things that could have happened because uh um if it was going to keep being on top it wasn't going to change a thing so yeah shout out the battlefield six um best score and music so clear obscure expedition 33 i voted for this and it won i'm not going to

lot to you this is the only award where I was like you should have now they would definitely call it an expedition 33 glazeathon but I think there should have been like some special type of award for expedition for this one because now about the glaze but the soundtrack for Expedition 33 I think it's the first time ever I took a track I think it was Lumiere it was multiple but I think one of them specifically was Lumier and put it on my actual playlist that I listen to along with Drake, 21 Savage, Taylor Swift, yes, I listen to Taylor Swift.

I know, judgment. K-pop, Paisal Pluma. I mean, it's just, I mean, I ain't going to cap. My playlist is pretty, it's a lot of variety. But it never really has gaming soundtracks. So, multiple from the Expedition 33. Like, if you listen to it, I don't know if I could play without getting a copyright strike.

I think I should be fine. Yeah, let me play it right quick. So this specific track right here is straightfire. Exhibition, let me see, 3030 sound track. I'm trying to see. Because it's really part of the game. So if it was a copyright, it would happen when I was playing the game.

It never happened. So I think one of these should be it. No, not the official music video. Actually, is it? Hold on, maybe. Yeah, this is it right here. This right here? This is some heat.

I'm not going to cap. For this to be, because the main thing is like, oh, I've heard that before, but you really haven't. Like, this is original. This is strictly for the Game Exhibition 33, and it sounds like this. I mean, it's just heat. Hold on. And then when they get up to the buildup, like, I thought I was listening to a weekend album. I could keep going for days.

I ain't going to have to you. Because I think there's another track. Actually, yeah, we're about to glaze it right quick. There's another track on here. Wait, uh, let's see. Like, I'm, come on, man. Come on, man.

You know, the weekend's album was my favorite album of the year, so that should tell you a little bit about my taste. Like, I kind of like these melodies where they could really sing and they just hit the notes, you know, effortlessly. Not that one.

Okay, that's one here. There's a certain one I was wanting to play. It's not that one. Making sure we're still live. You know, take me down. But if people listen to the after fact, I'm live right now. Okay, I'm, I'm live right now.

I don't know if I'd be able to find it, but they never stopped me. So we're about to do a little Mickey research. Talk about glazing. What I'm saying? Jeff Keely ain't got nothing on me. Pause. Oh, yeah, I think it's this one right here. Okay.

I think it's this one. That may have been too loud, my fault. Trying to see if I can find it. We're just having it. We're just vibbing right now. I ain't going to cap to you. But that's just top tier. I mean, this is just like, it's just top tier, man.

Like, I barely don't even know what else to say. Like, I'm just in. all like this is really like I don't really talk about soundtracks like this so in general it just really struck me while I was playing the game I was like wow this music is like

every single track is it's phenomenal it's a specific track I'm trying to look for it I don't know if I can find it it's like when you're in the campfire I don't know if y'all know what track I'm talking about I don't know if I could just type in can't fire track but um I think that was basically it

okay so yeah no need for more of the glazedathon because I could keep going So anyways, we just spent like, I think like five to ten minutes. Well, I don't know five, but, you know, basically we spent a lot of time strictly on playing Expedition 33 music to let you know that they are not, it's not even close. Like the type of quality in the soundtrack is just, it's really top tier. It's probably one of the best gaming soundtracks of all time. So anyways, yeah, by far in the way they won this. Best scoring music, if they was only going to win one category, this would have been it right here.

I think the music is the best part of the game, in my opinion. anyways um best art direction now this one was uh i think this was uh controversial because uh death strand and two has a very unique art direction but clear obscure like has whole upside down cities and sideways castles and like in space and you have a flying person where you travel and stuff like that my fault if i sported again i ain't sport too much and you know you're just transverse in the environment um but yeah the the main thing is that you know clear obscure especially being fictional um it just it really took it to the to the heights as far as just your imagination running wild and everything you could imagine being in every single atmosphere so best art direction

i'm mad at going to expedition 33 best narrative going to clear obscure expedition 33 now that's that's that is interesting because when you look at expedition especially when you first play i could see how people be like why did expedition 33 win best narrative when you have all these other games that seemingly had a better narrative especially if you only play like two to three hours because now may really have to i don't really want to sportily but um so you know how a lot of people praise kotor and they talk about how the story is immaculent right There's a certain part in Cotor where you come to realize that, and it's a really old game. So if I'm spoiling, I really don't care.

The main protagonist is the antagonist. And it just blows your mind. You're like, one in the world. You're like, hold on now. Shepherd, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? And the whole time, you never figure that out. Whole time, just know, I mean, I guess it was hints, but you just never figure that out.

I will go into detail, but I don't want to go into too much detail before the Cotor fans killed me. They play what you're doing, man. It's a sacred storyline. You never post a ruin that for people. But guess what? It's like a 50-year-old game. If they ain't played it by now, hey, man. Hey, what young thugs say?

My fault. So anyways, yeah, something like that similar to that happens to Expedition 33. I don't want to spoil it for you. But I think that's why a lot of people hold it in the high regards of best narrative. So I think a lot of people is thinking, oh, Death Strand 2 should have won best narrative. But, yeah, y'all should really like finish Expedition 33. That's what I got said. Let me see.

Best game direction. I mean, I thought split fiction sure won this, but you know, I'm biased once again. It's my personal game of the year. I like the different directions it took granted. A lot of people say that it was just a bunch of other games mashed into one, which I still think is a huge accomplishment, especially the way they pulled it off. Especially at final mission and split fiction. I don't think I've ever experienced like that in the video.

I've never experienced anything like that in a video game as far as the final missions in split fiction. The way the screen contorts and shapes and shit. shifts it was crazy while also playing with somebody else it was crazy um pause um clara expedition excision expedition uh well clear obscure expedition 33 the game direction was also immaculent so i'm not mad at it game of the year now it's the last category so safe to say you already know who it went to because i already read off that's why i started i started off this uh deep dive the way that i did i wanted to give you the synopsis of the game awards basically letting you know that expedition 33 won each and every award well no not everyone because it what was it nominated for 13

and one nine yeah it was nominated for 13 which was the the most ever right and then and one nine which was the most ever so it was basically lay you know hey what about to glaze expedition to the moon and back to wrap this up clear obscure expedition 33 one game of the year shout out to them you look at the top nominated games clare obscure expedition had 13 nominations death stranding has seven ghost of yote has seven hollow night silkson had six had six hades two has two has six so it's not like other games didn't get also like glazed it's just whenever you're going against jordan you're just not going to look as um you're not going to look as as as good as you may of if you if jordan didn't exist and the reason why i'm using these sports analogies is because

you know one my audience also um if you look at it from a sports perspective you come to realize why everybody in their mama was just seeing the expedition 33 should win each and every category. It's just from a totality aspect. It's just so complete and so high quality on the music side, the story side, the voice acting side, everything. Everything's just fantastic about the game. Yeah, it probably, like if you're a real gamer, I don't like saying that because, you know, then you sound like elitist. Or if you're a real gamer, you have to play Expedition 33. Like, you know, spoiler alert, I never played ball to skate three. So you don't have to be a real gamer to play every single game of the year.

But I will say clear obscure is a great game if you are interested in broadening your horizon as far as what you think about video games. Because it will really change your opinions about video games, especially playing it from start to finish and understanding what they was trying to tell you from start. And then what ends up happening at the end, you come to realize your mind just blown. He's like, wow, who? Like when it was in the room writing this story, you had to know it. It was like, bro, we're sitting on some heat right now. Like, I can't wait to get this game out to the public, because this game was definitely heat. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming.

Like, what is going on? And ladies and gentlemen, that's technically the state of gaming. The Game Awards, 2025, once again, is subjective. Art is subjective. So whatever was the game of the year to you in your heart, guess what? That's your game of the year. Art being subjective means that the award shows really just showcases the masses and what they

basically wanted to win. But for you specifically, in your personal heart of hearts, like me, I'm gonna keep saying that split fiction was my favorite game of the year. Last year, I think it was Astrobaugh, honestly, as far as it actually winning game of the year. And the year before that, I think it was Star Wars. So, you know, my personal favorite game of the year

isn't always the winner. Like for this year, split fiction, then, it's not even on this list, which is I think it's a criminal. It's just a crime. Split fiction, not being on this list. I think it's a crime. If I had to take a game out, I'm not going to lie, bro. I know a Nintendo game has to make Game of the Year list because, you know, it's Nintendo,

but bro, Donkey Kong Bonanza wasn't nowhere near split fiction. And y'all can't, y'all can't, no, no, no, there's no way Donkey Kong is over split fiction. But now we're talking my nominations because ultimately everybody was just going to end up losing the Expedition 33. Yeah, and that's basically the story. Everybody ended up losing the Expedition 33. So that being said, click my link, sure in my bio. on one of my social medias, what did you think about my in-depth breakdown of the winners of the game awards? And at the end of the day, another successful year, not only for the notorious

mass effect, as you can see, we surpassed 16 million downloads on the way to 17 million downloads, but at the end of the day, the day has the end. No, just plain. I say that a lot, so sometimes I like to make that joke. For the most part, for the people who enjoy gaming, 2025 has been one of the greatest years in gaming history and i know expedition 33 made it look like it was the only great game on the market which you know is the it's just basically the power of marketing the game awards the gamers the consensus well you know some people was like our creator should you know those are other people but in general exposition 33 was amongst a plethora of games that could have gave it a run for its money like split fiction

nobody even talked about Kazan I think Kazan was a very highly underrated game Ready and not I think it's highly underrated as far as this year I know it's a shooter game but and technically came out earlier on PC but you get the point

The console version came out this year Hollow Nets song What else? I already say split fiction Another games I think Gose Yote was better than you know Zero wins. It's kind of crazy it's kind of crazy but a lot of other games like dispatch i even say dispatch yet like 2025 as far as like a cream of the crop has so many games you could put in it as far as um just the competitiveness in the year of

2025 which really goes back to um the consumer port i make all the time especially when i talk about how nintendo had the worst movement of all time as far as the uh drop the price movement if you want things to change then you have to act like it you can't support things that you want to change or else they're going to keep doing the same thing. They wanted Call of Duty to change. And guess what? They play Battlefield 6, morning Call of Duty, and now Activision put out a whole statement,

talk about no more back-to-back modern warfare and Black Ops releases promising innovation. When you look at Nintendo, people folded like cheap, lawn chairs, and bought all type of Mario Kart World's to the point where it was like, hold up now. Y'all not serious about us dropping the prices on these Nintendo Switch 2 games.

So we're just going to keep the price, especially going for it. So if you vote for you a while, wallet as a consumer brace and I mean you had it right there to drop the price movement was phenomenal and y'all dropped it pun intended so you see what happens with battle six versus call it duty when you actually vote with your wallet so now that's basically it so with that been said click my link show in my bio let me know on one of my social media is what do you think about my deep dive of the game awards 2025 and what game do you think got disrespected the most at the game awards 2025 and more importantly

personally to you, what was your favorite game of 2025? It is time to dive into the Fallout IP because of course they have set a precedent along with other video game IPs such as Sonic, such as Mario, coming to the movie or the TV landscape and notoriously affecting the masses to the point where a lot of executives are saying to themselves, why haven't we been transferring the video game stories into the movie aspect? And that's because

most of them was garbage. No, I mean, I got to tell it eight more than 92 because you know when you look at it in totality, safe to say we just recently got into a video game, the movie, as far as it resonating with the masses, and of course,

Fallout, Sonic, Mario, and you look at other IPs, such as the last, Last of Us, you can see how video game is taking over movie theaters and actually successfully putting people in the seats to watch these movies. But of course, it's a TV show. But I'm just talking about video games to the big screen or to your favorite digital provider, whether it's Amazon, Disney Plus, et cetera.

Because of course, when it comes to Minecraft, you already know how people are going crazy for Chicken Jockey. It's safe to say when it comes to Fallout Season 2. Not only did they already have a successful season with season one, but season two currently is standing with a whopping 95% audience score and 96% critic score as of right now on Rotten Tomatoes. So the main thing I was going to get into. Of course, if you're watching a video version or analytic dreams video on Spotify,

just know that there's no spoilers. I'm basically just playing a trailer as we talk about season two. So season two just premiered December 17th. And of course, this specific season is going to. tie in a lot to fallout new vegas because it's new vegas and it's tying into the fallout new Vegas 2010 video game now when you look at how critically acclaim season one is for people to say season two blows it out of the water as far as quality then it should make every fallout fan excited especially diving into the overall tv show as season one already had tremendous success

and safe to say the production budget for that season was 153 million so safe to say season two had a lot more because of course season one drove significant value to the point where season one has 65 million viewers in the first 16 days and later surpassed a hundred million making it the second most watch prime video title ever and it's only behind rings of power and that's uh the source for that as nilsson because it had 2.9 billion minutes viewed in the first five days so there's a lot of fans as far as from the Fallout or just a general TV connoisseur landscape really enjoying this TV show, which also reflects in video game land. So for the Fallout fans, I hate to treat you like rock star fans, but just know, you're supporting this to the point where you probably won't get a new Fallout game in a foreseeable future.

Because when you look at Xbox specifically, Fallout 76 is currently the fourth most play game on Xbox. And then interestingly enough, which I do have some tidbits on this, but. interestingly enough fallout shelter is on one of the is one of the top trending games on steam specifically and i think it's because if i could fall out if i can find it let me see yeah it's because there's a new ten dollar season pass system which is the first ever in fallout shelter so a lot of people revisit revisiting that specific game on steam but like i said on xbox fallout 76 is the fourth most play game on Xbox. And then you look at it from a video game aspect

and as far as all the installments, Fallout 4 have 25 plus million units shipped in overall 750 plus million as far as initial growth. I think when it comes to the video game landscape to TV and movies, they're finally doing it correctly to the point where I'm going out on the limb and I will say we are in the golden age of video game movie and TV shows

and then of course I don't know what gives it away but a lot of people look at me and they say to themselves are you a massive fake fan and I just think to myself what in the world like honestly if I was to like you know if I was to look at y'all specifically you know as far as on the video version

analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio I do not understand why people just deem me as a Mass Effect fan. Shepard. No, I just can't get it. You know, I can't call it. So anyways, with that being said,

and completely irrelevant news. Well, not irrelevant, but you know, side tangent. Mass Effect is currently, it's already got greenlit for development at Amazon. It's currently being developed. And of course, it's a brand new original story set after the original trilogy as far as Post Mass Effect 3, and it's not retelling Commander Shepard's arc. Looking at the success of Fallen's,

as far as season one and season two, safe to say, I am thoroughly excited for this mass effect TV show to come to Amazon. It seems like Amazon can do no wrong. And especially with Fallout having a lot of moving parts, I'm not going to say it has more moving parts in Mass Effect, because that would be a stretch. But with they having more games in a franchise, safe to say that in itself could say you have more moving parts, but you know, Mass Effect trilogy is a classic. It already has a lot of moving parts. Y'all get the point, Come on now. Shepard.

No, I'll just letting them know. So anyways, when it comes to Mass Effect, the TV series, safe to say, I think it's going to be just as high quality as his Fallout TV show. Now, I could be put in a cart before the horse or whatever the Western saying is, but that's just my high hopes. So getting back into Fallout, you know, I don't want to take too much time away from Fallout talk. So looking at season two, I think I already talked about the, okay, I don't think I did. So episode one just came out December 16th.

And of course, if you just want to keep up with season two, just know of subsequent episodes, meaning that it's weekly on Wednesdays. Episode two is coming out December 24th. And of course, the final episode is coming out February 4th, 2026. So they're definitely elongating pulse. You guys. They're definitely elongating the season as the season has eight episodes total, shifting from season one's binge release to weekly drops. So now Amazon's looked at the data. they basically say we want weekly conversation about this phenomenal TV show so they're not giving

it to you all at once like they did with season season one so getting back in the fallout as far as as what you should know as as far as the video game landscape because you know it's very interesting how a lot of people are tv connoisseurs but they're not really into the games and so it's uh i'm not saying it's a bad thing it's just interesting and i like how it helps out each medium it helps out the video game medium, as I just talked about, with Fallout 76 being a fourth most play game on Xbox, and of course, Fallout Shelter being one of the most top trending games on Steam, not like top engaged with, the top trending. So anyways, looking at it from a video game aspect, if you're a TV connoisseur, you don't even know how to even access these particular

games. So safe to say, that's why your boy dreams is here. So it's safe to say as far as a platform break down. Fallout 3, New Vegas, 476, and Fallout shelters on Xbox series XS and 1. As far as PS5 and PS4, I believe it only has Fallout 4. Now, I may be mistaken about that. But as far as Fallout 3 in New Vegas, I think it was removed from PS Plus. So I think it would be best to get on Xbox. And then, of course, PC, which I think is the best place because it has all the games.

which has Fallout 1 through 4 tactics new Vegas shelter and 76 we look at the nintendo switch two somehow they have the fault or shelter available to them but they may be getting fallout 4 because like i said that's the most successful game out of all the installments in the franchise fallout 4 had a whopping 750 million as far as initial gross so with fallout 4 being the most popular video game and the seasons not even they have i don't even think they've only think they focus on Fallout 4 yet. So they're working a way up to having a iconic fallout storyline. And it's reminding me of, and once again, I'm not trying to jump, you know, I'm not trying to jump the gun. But it is reminding me of when Walk in

Dead had a fantastic show. And then they made the, um, the video game by Telltale, I believe. Yeah, with Clementine. Yeah. That's what it's reminding me of. As far as the high quality video game story being just as high quality as a tv show which is very hard to do if you ask any fallout fan because it's really make your own story in fallout which you know similar to mass effect which you're going back to why i'm so hype about the mass effect tv show coming out so that being said it's not really too much again too with fallout i think when you look at it in totality a lot of people enjoy nostalgia man let's just say fallout has all type of nostalgia in it as if new is seemingly to, you know, certain fallout connoisseurs are their favorite, then season

is going to be the perfect season for them to get into the show. I do believe you should still watch season one. But of course, if you just want to skip around, hey, you know, I'm not going to stop you. You know, hey, if you want to jump around, and that's up to you, right? So getting back into the rest of the, um, continue, well, again back into the continuation of season two, currently it is dominating both critics and audience ratings like we already talked about before on rotting tomatoes so now if you look at bethsda aggressively monetizing the renewed franchise spotlight through season passes re-releases and cross-platform campaigns safe to say

that they already have acknowledged the tv show and now they're trying to get people who only watch tv to try out some of their video games because guess what you know the core IP came from somewhere so now when you look at fallout five that is likely post-20 2035. Ladies and gentlemen. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I hate to break that news to you so abruptly,

but just, hey, you're not going to get Fallout 5 anytime soon. I think I said it early in this segment. Y'all was supporting this TV show so much to the point where not only is it helping out the ratings for Amazon, but it's also helping out the past Fallout game. So you're not going to get Fallout 5 anytime soon. And, of course, you can say the same to me, you know, as far as Mass Effect, you know.

But hey, you know, please don't bring that up. You guys. See, that's the problem. It hurts my heart every time I think about how the next Mass Effect is never going to come out. And, you know, I'm just a wee little lad. And still may that come out in my lifetime. Shepard. I'm just keeping it eight more than 92.

So anyways, without being said, I think that's essentially it. You know, don't forget, it is subsequent episodes. So it means, like, weekly on Wednesdays. And episode two is set to come out December, 24th and the finale which is episode 8 it's set to come out February 4th so if you just want to catch up on season 1 let's just say you still have a lot of time to do so so that been said click my link sure in my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about fallout currently having the best show on Amazon and also aside from mass effect could you know we already know that

what video game story would you like to be adapted by Amazon now save to say I may or may not have brought some holy water with me. Shepherd. Nah, because I'm letting them know because safe to say, a lot of y'all should have done the same. As not only did this particular game that we're about to get into sell 666 million. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, those with three sixes back to back to back. $666,66 million revenue in five days, which is blizzard, blizzards fastest seller of all time, right?

And then of course you look at 10 million plus players in June 2023. And then of course you look at 276 million hours played in the first month. No, I got finished off my point because it also beat Diablo three's day one sales. Ladies and gentlemen, this may be Diablo's best game, most impactful game of all time. Now, getting into Diablo for as far as the review and sales roundup, safe to say, the revenue is off to charts. And of course, as of right now, 2025, because let me remind you, this game came out June 5th, 2023. Ladies and gentlemen, it is December 19th, 2025. And guess what?

is still the eighth most played game on PlayStation. And not only that is one of the top trending games on Steam, as it has 28,000 concurrent players, but a 24-hour peak of 31,000, which of course isn't the greatest numbers compared to the top engaged with games on Steam, but it's doing something to make it appear on the trending charts for Steam. So if you knew,

if you're just completely oblivious to Diablo. Well, first off, you know, hey, God is with you. But if you wanted to learn about Diablo, just know that the development duration took six years post-reaper of souls. And the creative direction was to return to, quote, dark Gothic roots, end quote. It's an open world plus live service focus. And then, of course, it has crossplay, a shared world,

and seasonal content mode. Now, the main thing I was going to get at is that it's on game pass. So if you have the ultimate tier, I don't think it's on the other tiers, but if you have the ultimate tier, it is on game pass. So if you just want to get it quote unquote for free, if you already have the game pass, then you can't. So one of the continuations of the engagement for this game is based off of installments, future installments that a lot of people call DLC.

as Lord of Hatred is releasing April 28th, 2026, and it's going to be multi-platform. So a lot of people, I believe I just showed that as far as the trailer for that specific DLC, analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. But as far as the DLC, you look at it and you come to say to yourself, oh, I totally get why people still play this game two years later. Because of course, when you have a live service type of strategy, there's so many live services that's free that you look at this particular game, you're like, I could just play Fortnite or I could just play Marvel rivals or I could just play other live service games

that are for free. I mean, I believe Counter Strike 2 is for free. There's a lot of different games that are for free that's high quality. So if a Diablo to still have their stature in a video game universe, it's still a sight to behold and definitely a monumental accomplishment. So as far as the genre, Diablo 4 is an action. Action RPG, more of a hacking slash loop grinder in the world is more of a sanctuary with open world with five regions plus vessel of hatreds Nahantu. How do you say that? Nahantu.

I think I said that right. I don't know. The core loop is basically killed, loop, upgrade, and then repeat. So that's essentially it. But of course it gets deeper than that. I was just want to lay it out in lamest terms. So when we look at the multiplayer, it is a shared open world with four player co-op max. There's PVP zones.

is optional and then of course you have to have you know an online subscription to play it so when you look at it as far as the seasons is quarterly resets with gameplay twists such as season 11 the divine intervention and sanctification system which had gear re-rolls and it includes free and premium battle passes for cosmetics so i believe this game is not like a pay-to-win type of game but of course for cosmetics if you just want to subscribe to the battle past then they have that available for you now when it comes to the unique features a lot of things when you look at it as far as the different classes coming later after the game was announced such as you had the barbarian right at lunch right and then you had the druid and necromancer and rogue and the sorcerer the sorcerer

that came out in 2023 but then in 2024 as far as the vessel of hatred you had to spirit-born, which is more of a mobile DPS, right? And then of course, in 2025, you had a pre-order unlocked in the full and Lord of Hatred, which was Paladin. And that had, that character had holy light powers in a place that was divine melee warrior. And of course, for the upcoming DLC, we don't know who they're going to add, but just know, that's essentially the rollout and how to keep people engaged in the specific game. Just think of more of a rival's and the way they put out characters. I just believe what Diablo 4 is just not as often. Now to be devil's advocate ironically this game is 26 hours in length if you play the main story. But when it comes

to main plus side content is basically 50 to 60 hours 50 to 60 plus hours of exploring because you know you could really make do what you want in this particular game. And of course you could spend countless of hours just you know crafting and homes. your skills on this specific game now when you look at the revenue we already talked about that as far as the lifetime as of september 2024 as one billion plus so safe to say has way more than that as of uh in 2025 but now when you look at estimated 10 to 25 million copies sold when you look at the active player base keeping all of the platforms in consideration being 3.2 million monthly safe to say people are continuously coming back to this game and there's a lot of

reasons why and when you look at it from a micro transaction aspect like I touched on earlier there's 20 plus dollar cosmetic skins and once again it's a 70 dollar base game so when you look at the pay to it's like quote unquote pay to vein now that's definitely a diablo slain I never heard that before cosmetic skins I don't think it's a pay to win type of thing but you know maybe they're just making fun of the game being $70 and you charge in $20 for micro transactions because of course net ease with marvell rivals could get away with it because it's a free game fortnight could get away with it because it's a free game but like i keep saying diablo four is not a free live service game so it it does have a lot of competition and you will

have people pointing out there certain business practices because of you have a fortnight and you have a counter strike two you have a marvel rivals uh games that are free to play that's still high quality and they don't charge as much for micro transactions like Diablo 4 is doing. So with that out the way, I think the main thing is especially for the DLC is what a lot of avid Diablo 4 players want to know about. So when it comes to the DLC, Lord of Hatred expansion coming out April 28th, safe to say it's going to have a final battle versus Mephisto. And it's going to be the age of hatred climax. So Lilith, returns for a reluctant alliance now i've heard lilith used a lot what was the last time on oh that was a

marvel midnight suns huh crazy so i guess lilith must i really i'm not to bring my holy water for real this time anyways as far as the themes it's corruption redemption and desperation and a new region is named scovos a volcanic coast storm forest and ancient ruins and is ruled by the oracle and amazon queen So like I always said, you know, when you look at it, you can see why people continuously come back to the game because they're always adding things to this game, such as, let me say the developer's name once again. It's developed by Blizzard, well, develop and published by Blizzard Entertainment, and they've been making Diablo since Diablo, since the original Diablo in 1996. Man, it was putting out Diablo since Michael Jordan was hooper. Okay, so they've had a monumental run. longevity is not a question for these developers and they definitely know how to keep people engaged so switching gears from pocket watching to actual review roundup safe to say when you look at the reviews they've been glowing all across the board as you have PC gamer giving this game a 90 out of a hundred saying quote RPG fans have waited for this one for a long time and they won't be disappointed game spot gave it a 96 out of a hundred saying quote

Quote, a title that combines the elegant simplicity of an action game in the addictive storyline of an adventure game with a personalization and exploration of an old school RPG. The best game to come out in the past year and you should own a copy, period. Dang, GameSpot, I got a little sassy with that review. Is it okay? I got my dope on me? You know what I'm saying? Anyways. And then, of course, I was wanting to.

read off other ones um well that was that was a great summary of the game i mean you know a lot of people enjoying it um i haven't seen the score lower than lower than 80 so i think when you look at the review round of a lot of people are really scoring it very high as i was wanting to get one more game uh well let's let's talk about this one that gave it a hundred of a hundred game zilla gave it a whopping hundred out of a hundred that is crazy i don't think i've seen that before GameZilla said, quote, hands down, the best game I've seen in years. Dot, dot, dot. The fantastic design, intuitive gameplay, spectacular graphics, inspired music, and sound effects, comma.

Shear number of monsters and unique items, another comma. And the free battle.net service put Diablo as a lot of, at a high level of excellence that future releases may never reach. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Safe to say Diablo, you know, let the major corporations tell it is a success and a masterpiece on every single level. And when you look at the longevity, when you look at the sales, like we just went over,

you look at it still being the eighth most play game on PlayStation, you can see why people come back time and time again, not only is the developers, you know, such as Blizzard continuously adding to the game, but the fan base is continuously adding to the game by coming back and enjoying the gameplay loop. So, a reminder, this game came out October, 2023, and it's December 2025. Shout to them for longevity. So that be said, click my link, sharing my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias.

What do you think about Diablo for? And if you're a huge Diablo connoisseur, what is your favorite Diablo? I'm a blow game of all time. Now, when talking about games that notoriously affect the masses, safe to say, CounterStrike, unfortunately, has never been dove into on this particular podcast. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Sad day in history, as you already know, especially if you're a gamer.

Well, if you don't, but now you do know, because guess what? Counterstrike 2 currently, and for the foreseeable future is the most popular game on Steam. And interestingly enough, that whole drop that I just played is from the actual game. That's my first time diving into. Now, if you don't know, when it comes to Counter Strike 2, the overall player count as of right now is 1.2 million players, like concurrently playing the game.

The 24-hour peak is 1.5 million only on Steam. Now think about that. This particular game, Counter Strike 2, is only available on PC. So you're probably thinking to yourself, how in the world is Counter Strike 2 completely dominating the Steam charts month after month, year after year, decade after, okay, I get the point, right? So with that being said, Counterstrike 2 currently has made an egregious amount of money. And guess what the kicker is?

It's a free-to-play game. as Counter Strike 2 has earned 6.7 billion with a B lifetime sales and these are estimates up to 2023 so it's even more in the current year of 2025 well as of me recording this and then when you look at the ongoing revenue coming in it's from a lot of particular things but the main reason why consistently raises on the charts on steam is because of free prime drops a lot of yeast event, a prime example, the latest esports event that's going on right now, I believe. It's, or I think it may have just ended. But it was called the Star Ladder, Budapest major 2025 finals that ran from November

2024 of 2025 to December 14th of 2025. And I guess I'll spoil it. Well, I don't, yeah, I'll spoil it. It's already over. So, Vitality won versus phase. And it was 32 teams in total. and guess what the cash prize was $1.2 million. I know that ain't who I think it is.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you look at a price pool of $1.2 million, safe to say the game itself is generating way more as far as in totality. Now, of course, we do have to talk about the foundation of CounterStrike because when you look at Counter Strike 1, that initially was a beta mod for Half-Life on, June 19th, 1999. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, technically, this game was out in the 90s and technicality. Now, when you look at the full release version, as far as version 1.0 by Valve, it was on, it was released on November 9th, 2000. And of course, the 1.6 version was released in 2003.

Now, safe to say, when Counterstrike 2 came out, September 27, 2023, was. which, you know, it was also free to play. I think the main thing that encapsulates people, not only it being free to play is a huge factor, but when you look at the specs specifically for Counterstrike 2, they, as far as Valve, the developers, they intentionally lowered the specs so a lot of people can play the game

as far as on a broad spectrum. Because if you look at it, the low specs, you need a minimum, of Windows 10, ITEL core I-5, 8 gigabytes of RAM, which really isn't a lot. And then, of course, when you look at the upgraded hardware that we have the capabilities in the advancement of hardware as of right now, you could tell why they lowered the specs when you look at the player count in the Steam charts. Because of course, when you lower the specs, safe to say everybody in their mama could play

this game i mean you could mess around and run this game on a toaster if you wanted to so that's also a factor for this particular game but then of course when it comes back to counterstrike two and you look at the platform only being steam you come to realize that this is definitely a cult like fan base that we're talking about and when covering counter strike i definitely wanted to let people who was outside of the counter strike universe know why this game is so popular as if you don't know it's a tactical fps right popularized the 5v5 format as far as the bomb defusal which you know my iconic drop comes from you know what I'm saying so when it comes to that there's also modes like hostage rescue for counter strike two specifically the match format is mr12 which is first to 13 rounds and oh round wins

and of course you have the economy system which is the money earned from kills wins objectives and you can use that currency for weapons, armor, utility, like smokes, flashes, grenades, moletops, etc. So when you look at the ranking system, that's the main thing that a lot of people try to get better at, because of course we just talked about the latest tournament, having a 1.2 million prize pool, which is insane, by the way. And so now, when you look at people trying to go professional in the gaming ecosystem, safe to say Counter Strike 2 is probably on the top of their list, if not in the top three at least so now you probably think of like what makes this game unique

from other tactical shooters where if you look at counterstrike two specifically it's free to play now i don't know how more unique it gets from a famous tactical shooter being free to play i can't name any other tactical shooter that is as popular as counterstrike that doesn't have a price tag attached to it and it's not like demeaning the other tactical tactical shooters because I think the biggest one that I could think of it as of right now is probably Rainbow Six Siege and of course it has a price tag along with it but with CSGO being easy to run on whatever platform you're using or whatever PC you're using safe to say it's very unique in that aspect as far as it being free to play now when you look at the content because of it being

free to play that's also another accomplishment under valves belt as they have 29 weapons and total, 13 factions, over a thousand skins. And of course, when it comes to the economy, Valve takes 15% cut on steam market trades. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this may be the original cryptocurrency. Shepherd, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? As when you look at the most expensive skin ever in history, it was the carombid knife. Hopefully I'm saying that right.

If I'm not Counter Strike 2 coat, please don't kill me. But when it comes to the carambid knife, it went for, and I kid you not, $1.5 million. And then of course, the AK-47 skin sell exceeded $1 million. Now these millions of dollars being thrown around for one particular item should obviously showcase why people are very acclimated into this game and can't get enough of it. As one time I posted one of my clips on social media because I always touch on Counter Strike 2. I just never dove deep into it like we're doing in this specific segment. So when I talked about Counter Strike and Dota, I was basically asking the question because, you know, as far as me who never played Counterstrike, I was wondering, why is this game so popular?

And then you come to realize a lot of people are so addicted to Counterstrike, for lack of a better word, that they continue to play the game, time and the timeout. It's almost the equivalent to people who still play GTA 5 online and don't play any other game, right? It's basically the same drive time and time again that makes them come back to the game. And, you know, let alone the way that you can go professional, if you're really good, if you basically get good, like a lot of gamers say at the game. So now when you look at that as far as you actually being able to go professional in this game, because I think the main thing about GTA 5 online, as far as going professional, It's probably making a popular online roleplay server like T. Grizzly did.

I think that's the equivalent of going pro in Counter Strike 2. As far as the monetary value, that's what I'm talking about. So now, as far as the review and sales round up, we already got into the sales more particularly. Well, I guess we didn't talk about the counter strike sales. So when Counter Strike 1 came out all the way back in the 2000s, right? Up to 2004, it was estimated to have around $75 million in retail revenue, as a free to play game remind you this is a free to free to play game so anyways and then with counterstrike two um the successor of course um overall i was wanting to look at the uh franchise so you look at valve

and the lifetime value of valve up to 2023 is 6.7 billion and in counterstrike two added one billion from cases in 2023 alone and 610 million and the halfway quarter quarter of of 2024 and then 82 million in March 2025 so safe to say when you look at counter strike it's not showing any sign of slowing down as you look at the overall charts the all-time peak was eight months ago which is tremendous especially for a game of counterstrike statute because now you're looking at 1.8 million as far as an all-time peak of eight months ago and you come to realize these people are not slowing down than the slightest. They're going to continue to dominate the steam charts. And when it comes to another factor, as far as the Counter Strike 2 sales, safe to say,

a lot of people were upset about, you know, certain things about the game because I believe when you look at the continuation from Counter Strike 1 to Counterstrike 2, a lot of people was a little upset. I'm not going to say completely because, you know, it's still selling well and immensely popular. But they didn't enjoy how. CS go was fully overwritten as far as the second one and they said was missing a lot of modes slash maps and then of course When you look at the cheating crisis Apparently people get banned weekly like tens of thousands and when you look at the prize pool that I just talked about in the latest tournament mind you It's not tournament from three four years ago the latest tournament had around

What was the number like one point something billion? Yeah basically the latest tournament which was the Budapest major 2025 finals. The ultimate winning pop was $1.2 million, which is crazy, right? So a lot of people get banned weekly because they're just out here cheating. Just blatantly cheating. Like, come on, now you can't be doing that in a competitive game. You know that they are going to catch you at some point.

So apparently, Valve is out here banning tens of thousands weekly, right? 85% of players report encountering cheaters. So they're pulling a page out of my favorite artist, page. the pulling a page out of my favorite artist's playbook basically saying to themselves is it okay i got my dope on me as they pull the obri graham in the courtroom so now when you look at 85% of players reporting encountering uh cheaters and always talking about oh we got to keep the game basically fair because if the cheaters ran rampant then no telling how much revenue they'll be able to stock up if valve never caught them so that was a little um

obstacle for Valve when Counterstrike 2 first came out. And then of course, when it comes to the overall economic impact, already talked about that. The community is alive and well, one of the best communities in gaming. As one of the knives in this particular game, as far as Counterstrike 2, well, some of the knives, they remain around $50 plus. So when you play a certain game, you could really turn it into a hobby, well, a side job, really. because the hobby is like technically for free but if you do it as a side job if you get very equipped at selling certain items and counterstrike you could turn it into a plausible side job and that's basically what i just wanted to say as counter strike two is not only immensely popular but it's one of steams most

profitable games ever like of all time so now when you look at valve always stepping in to let y'all know who's boss basically disrupting a lot of different things when it comes to the player driven markets because of course, if the player resell price was dominant over the influence factor, then I don't think CounterStrike would be where it is today. That's why Valve always has to step in and have a willingness to disrupt a lot of player-driven markets. Because of course, to put in a music landscape, because you know, I do cover music and gaming for the people who's watching as a Counterstrike fan, basically in music, it'd be the equivalent to letting to, uh, what's, um, not rock nation, Live Nation. It'd be the equivalent to Live Nation letting everybody resell tickets and never setting a precedent on basically how many tickets you could buy at first as far as the scalpers, right? They always try to play as a hindrance to the scalpers and things of that nature because if you let them run ramp it, then you ultimately mess up their whole ecosystem. So that's why Valve always steps in from time to time and takes away certain power as far as in the player markets. And when it comes to that,

safe to say when you look at the review roundups everybody has glorn reviews to say about this game as pc gamer gave it a 90 out of a hundred saying quote in an error of flagging service games it is refreshing to see an old favorite so thoroughly rejuvenated blizzard take note this is how it's done well why they have to send that shot you guys see that's the problem blizzard caught a straight for no reason anyways uh i was trying to find Oh yeah, PC Gamer, PC Games with the N, capital N, gave this an 8 out of 10 saying, quote, Valve has improved the Counter Strike formula with the release of CS2, even if there's still a lot of work to be done before its feature complete. While we're in the dark on specific timelines, the developer's work rate has been promising since launch. And if it continues at this pace, we're in for an exciting 2024 as Valve us. ushers in a new error of CounterStrike. Now, of course, keep in mind that this particular game, Counterstrike 2 came out September 27, 2023.

So when they're talking about 2024, they're in the past and obviously we're in the future. So keep that in mind. A Eurogamer gave it an 80 out of 100 saying, quote, for all it, where in the world is that? Fallibles? No, what is this word? I ain't going to lie to you. I need Jarvis to read this out to me because I've never seen a word like this in the history

of words. I ain't, okay. to you. Hold up. Nope, that's not it. All right. So I literally highlighted it and safe to say it just completely didn't read it at all. It was like, I'm not trying to read it either. Okay, I think it's about to read it. Hold up. Okay, hold up. Okay, it's not going to read it. So that's, that's fantastic. I don't know what this word is. I ain't going to lie. Fuller Bulls. It's F-O-I how to say. Let me see, how to say. Because I've never seen this word like ever.

like what in the world you can listen to audio pronunciation um let me see all of those oh here we go we're about to learn a new word today guys hey listen up class listen up but i learn the word foibles um one more time foibles foribles now i ain't on cat tee i'm never going to use that word in the history of life even though i just did kind of so anyways um yeah so foyerbles whatever that word is i don't know why euro gamers use you that word. For all those fouribles, though, I have confidence that Valve is at least pushing the game in the right direction. The bottom line, this is already an incredible game that's well worth playing. After all, it is Counterstrike 2. Wow. You know what I'm saying? Clap at the, you know what I mean?

They could be a writer. You know what I'm saying? They could be a rapper or something. You know, out here using words and double entendres. I see what they did. You know, they used two with the T-O-O-I. Y'all, y'all get the point. All right? So people like the game, right? And, and, you know, and, you know, I didn't mean to make this review longer than it is, but you know, at the end of day, I do like to dive into the entire Review and sales roundup. So I just want to give you all synopsis of why people Hold this in such high regard and also you know me as a professional pocket watcher You know, I had to dive into the actual game because of course if I'm if I'm gonna have a sound bite On my soundboard that's not going anywhere because I love the sound effect I ain't okay to you

I love that sound effect Then I might as well at least once dive into the particular franchise that as of right now it's worth billions of dollars so that being said click my link to you in my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about counter strike in general as far as a franchise and if you play counter strike to comment down below what is your favorite aspect of playing counter strike now safe to say clap it up for me because of course starting off the christmas season with putting immense respect on the mobile game community.

Safe to say I picked a particular game just because it has snow in it. Shepherd. All right, my fault. I'm lying. Actually, the reason why we're covering this particular game is because not only is wide out survival one of the most popular mobile games

as of right now in the year of 2025, but as far as lifetime revenue estimated for mid-2020, so it's probably more now, it's estimated to be around, is estimated to be around $3 billion. So when I put a misrespect on the mobile gaming community, it's reasons like this. It's because they are a significant portion of the pie

as far as revenue that goes into the overall entertainment. We call gaming, right? So the annual revenue for whiteout survival, once again, estimate for 2025 alone, is $2 billion plus. Now, of course, the lifetime revenue is $3 billion. So what does that mean? And this year alone, it's been running rampant as far as everybody and their mama talking about this game, which leads me into another point. When are we going to stop being misled by mobile game ads?

Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Because you look at the state of gaming and safe to say, you know, there's only particular, there's certain games that we just run into the misleading advertisement type of route. and one of them I've covered before I forget the Anthony Star let me see Anthony Star mobile game ad I remember this particular ad had a lot of people upset last war survival that I also covered when I'll cover that last word I covered that November 2nd of 20 of this year so when it comes to last war survival safe to say wide out survival is having the same type of campaign as far as a lot of people coming out and saying that the ads are misleading because

of them showing an addictive mini game but guess what the overall gameplay loop is way more expansive the whole ad is based off that one mini game so a lot of people think that's going to be the only portion of this particular game so a lot of people are going into the game expecting it to be like a brain dead type of gameplay loop where you're enjoying the mini game gameplay but then you realize hold them now you actually have to play the entire game because there's a lot more expounding mechanics that you have to learn before you dive into that particular mini-game. So I don't know if it's the mobile game aspect or the mobile game developers, which if you don't know, it's Century Games, PTE, LTD, which, you know, all the alphabists in the world,

still don't know what that mean. But when it goes to Century Games, safe to say, their particular advertisement strategy is obviously working. So if you're saying it's misleading, along with a lot of last war survival game, play you're saying their advertisement is also misleading because mind you we're not going to go into a deep dive on that because already talked about it in specific but in layman's terms there were fake games having advertisements and last war survival was the only complete game that also had that mini-game gameplay loot so a lot of the fake game advertisements was just targeted the hatred was targeted

was sent towards last war survival when ultimately it should have been sent to the person who made the advertisement off of the fake game. So that's just putting it in lamest terms. If you want to hear me go more in depth, just type in last word survival, analytic dreams with a Z. So anyways, getting back into wide out survival, safe to say the lifetime revenue is through the roof. And especially in this year alone, as this year is one of the most downloaded games, one of

the most popular games to the point where specifically August of this year, it generated a whopping $136 million, which was number one. worldwide. And of course, this is the fastest, as far as getting back into the annual of 2025, it's the third, no, no, I'm talking about 2023 specifically. It's the third fastest 2023 game to one billion. Only behind Monopoly Go and Honkai Star Rail, which we dove into Monopoly Go, but I don't think I've talked about Hancock. Yeah, I haven't talked about Han Kai, but I've doved into a monopoly go the mobile game as well so when you look at the revenue split safe to say it has a lot of strong markets in south korea japan taiwan china but of course

the united states has majority as far as 28 to 35 because the rest of the percentage is lesser when it comes to south korea japan taiwan and china so united states have the majority of downloads when you look at it in totality so of course for people who aren't even aware of this game and maybe they don't play mobile games and if you don't hopefully this is informative for you because when it comes to these breakdowns for mobile games i started doing this because of course if i say i cover the entire gaming industry then why am i leaving god billion billion dollar games only because it's in a mobile gaming format i don't think that's fair what y'all think you guys see so anyways for people who don't know about white out survival just know as a free-to-play mobile

and is developed by Century Games, which a little bit about them. Century Games is from Singapore, Registered Entity, and it's basically the official arm of Century Games, a mobile game development studio and publisher, founded in 2010 as D&DN or Diane-Di-N-D-N, or Diane-How have you pronounce it, interactive. So to Zey-Jang Century,

who are a Tong group. I'm completely butchering these names for $1 billion in 2016. 16 and it has over a thousand employees so safe to say is a huge conglomerate and it develops strategy slash casual titles like the mobile game we're getting into today which is white out survival but it also has games like frozen city which is the spiritual successor it has games like family farm adventure dragon scapes adventure you get the point this is not the first rodeo so when getting into them specifically safe to say they've already had a mammoth amount of of success with Whiteout Survival. So hopefully at some point the other games can have that same

type of success because wide out of survival is essentially out of here as far as popularity. So the core gameplay, you're probably wondering, well, what do you do in this mobile game? Well, I'm glad you asked. As it's set in a glacial apocalypse, humanity is nearly extinct. Shepherd, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I look at the state of gaming, and I'm telling you nine times out of ten, if you have a storyline, incorporates humans going to stink then you already have a fire storyline I ain't gonna lie to you yeah so anyways as far as the player role you are the chief rebuilding the last city amid extreme cold so you have a lot of base building which

is fixed slot structures you have a lot of resource management that you're having to do whether it's wood meet pulse you guys and of course a cold iron And they have a lot of survivors assignments, whether it's hunters, cooks, workers. So you're doing a lot of micromanaging in this particular game. But of course, in most micromanaging games, you know, for the Sims, for example, they end up making the gameplay loop fun as far as being able to micromanage certain things if that's up your alley as a gamer. Some will call this more of like a cozy game, but you do have certain things that happens,

you know, that's tied to your ability to micromanage as there's a lot of snowstorms that period out oh my goodness that's not how you pronounce it periodically hopefully i said that right kill unheated survivors and when you look at the city expansion it's locked behind furnace upgrades there's a lot of things you have to do in the game to actually progress your specific town and if you don't do it then guess what the snowstorm is going to say who if you don't prepare efficiently and effectively the snowstorm is basically who do dee do and we beat he folk what they do we beat them we go forward and the snowstorm is going to go for it so ultimately one of the main things along with this game being very in captivating for mobile

gamers is that it has multiplayer as is state slash server-based progression pvp wars rallies territory control um for example Sunfire castle in this specific game and then you have state versus state which is SVS events which you know state versus state um state generates unlock content no state generations unlock content every 80 days so that's one of the main reasons why people come back is to unlock certain elements that of course is because of you achieving certain things and playing the game for a certain amount of time now of course when you look at the heroes there's 38 plus heroes in this specific game 14 plus generations now when you look at it the rsrr and mythic so when you're trying to unlock

certain things, especially in this mobile game where a lot of gotcha elements is alive and well, right? Safe to say a lot of people are going to be trying to go for those mythics and the rarest and things of that nature. So some of the standouts in this game is Geronimo, which is a DPS, Mia, which is a healer and Molly, which is a F2P staple. I don't know if it's free to play. I don't know what that means.

What was F2P? As far as like, yeah, I don't know what that means. They ain't going to have to you. So of course, now when you look at the late power enhancements, you have Natalia and Gina. And basically, as far as the design, it's designed to have you have new generations to force reinvestment. So the structure is already there. And of course, when it comes to the time spent, that's what some people, well, most people will want to know. Well, how much time am I going to have to spend on this particular game to get good?

That's the ultimate question for everybody. So as far as the tutorial length is one to two hours. So not that long. Of course, mobile games like to take into consideration the time you spend on mobile games because a lot of people aren't mobile gamers. So they try to get you in quickly as far as learning the gameplay loop. So it only takes about one to two hours for the tutorial. The main campaign, which is basically getting a city level to 30, I believe, is weeks to months of F2P.

Now, now I have to look this up because we're in the world. What does F2P mean? I got to do some Mickey Research right quick. I ain't going to come to you. What does this mean? I know y'all probably saying this is completely Mickey Research. I know it is. Okay, so it is free to play.

I was thinking it was free to play. I was like, why did it keep saying F2P? Anyways, yeah, so I lost my place. Oh yeah, so weeks, months as far as free to play, but it is faster with spending. So of course, the full completion is ongoing as far as two plus years of veteran players. And if you look at the main story,

It's basically an endless live service. So think of this as an easy game to pick up, but harder master, especially when you get into the depths of building your certain economy. So you can kind of realize while a lot of people are spending certain micro transactions to speed up the process, because like I said, as far as the main campaign to get your city level to 30, weeks to months with free to play, but way faster with spending. So, of course, a lot of people are spending because they're not trying to spend all that time,

but at the end of day you do have to like the core gameplay loop to actually spend that those amount of dollars so as far as the revenue no as far as the yeah the revenue in the sales we already dove into that uh that now i want to get into a little bit of the reviews as this is a review in sales roundup so when you look at a lot of different reviews safe to say they're all over the place i mean there's one review which is from google play which i believe is like just some random that gave it a one at a five And then of course there's multiple app store reviews from people giving it a four or five at a five. And then of course you have VG times giving it a seven out of ten, which I think, you know, sometimes what they say about the consensus being in the middle of the extreme right and the extreme left is true.

So you look at VG times giving it a seven out of ten saying, quote, a survival game based on the theme of the glacial apocalypse. and then of course plane forge gave it an 8 out of 10 saying quote for a mobile strategy game white out survival

looks surprisingly good the snowy environments actually feel cold now I don't know how that's possible but oh my fault I was just saying I don't know how that's possible but you know at the end of the day that was their review not mine

so one more review for the review roundup hardcore droid gave it a six out of ten saying quote is not that

white out survival isn't a fun game ladies and gentlemen that's all I have for you I ain't going to capture you it seems like a lot of these reviews aren't really long-winded let's look at sharp coater

okay sharp coder blog gave this a nine out of ten so you know they're ecstatic right they say quote white out survival stands out as a compelling entry in the survival strategy genre combining resource management, tactical combat, and social collaboration into a seamless experience.

Shout out to them. That's a review right there. Even though they gave it a 9 at 10, which is a little high, but of course, when you look at the review, no, when you look at the revenue, safe to say, a lot of people are really enjoying this game, which I always say, just because you sell a lot does not mean you make the highest quality, and just because you don't sell at all, does not mean you're making the most egregious, the most monstrosity. Shepherd.

All right, y'all get the point. It doesn't mean like you're making the worst game. So with that being said, white out survival, surprisingly, is on my radar because of it notoriously affecting the masses. And you know this whole podcast is about covering the entire gaming and music IPs that notoriously affect the masses. So with that being said, click my link, sure in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. Have you played white out survival?

And if you're a mobile gamer, what is your favorite mobile game of 2025? Now here I am thinking to myself. Is Kirby the neglected stepchild of Nintendo? And, you know, after some extensive research, safe to say, I still haven't found the answer to my question. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Now, all jokes aside, when I first dove into Kirby Airwriters,

which we're getting into today, as far as the review and sales round up, because, of course, this particular game, when it initially came out November 23rd 2025 safe to say well no no they came out November 20th

2025 safe to say I was extremely perplexed on how they could come out and basically say ladies and gentlemen this is it you guys see that's the problem

as if you don't know what I'm referring to Sakurai but Sakara, Sakurai, I think it's Sakari, I don't know, man, totally, one of those is right. One of those pronunciations is right. So anyways, Sakurai, that's what I'm gonna call him. He basically came out and said,

that this game is in this complete state. I was thinking to myself, hold him now. Usually you have some type of roadmap for any game that comes out because of the support that you're probably gonna garner because safe to say, I know Kirby may not be the Mario or the Pokemon or the Zelda's of the way,

world but you know it still has a respective of respectful fan base as far as them being respected and also them being very respectful of the Kirby IP so I was thinking to myself why on the world will they not give an overall roadmap to like a racing game you would think that would be definitely fitting for this type of game right but safe to say Sakura a Sakurai did not think the same as he basically came out and if you don't know this is the director right uh and the kirby franchise creator so let's not you know he put a misrespect on his name this is no um we're not disperging his name in the slightest i'm just completely confused as no d lc pipeline exists right and so he came out and said the team will disband in the near future and the goal is to quote final balance that can be enjoyed even years

from now, end quote. So clap it up for that. That's not the worst quote in the world, right? It's not like the borderlands dev that basically came out and said, create your own engine. You know what I'm saying? All right, my fault. I didn't mean to throw his name in there.

So anyways, when it comes to this particular game, safe to say, even though it just launched, like literally last month, as far as, well, specifically November 20, 2025, and it was a Nintendo Switch to Exclusive. when you look at the revenue and of course when you look at this game being developed by bandai Namco

and Sora published on Nintendo for exclusively the Nintendo Switch 2 Safe to Save is an immensely successful project as if you compare it to his predecessor right the original Kirby Air Rider you come to realize that

not only did a Kirby Air Rider game sell out I'm trying to see if I actually have it right here. Yeah, not only did the original AirRite game have 1.3 million in sales, but compared to this particular game, as far as the updated version, safe to say the lifetime sales are projected to overtake that. So that's the success in itself, right? And while I was talking about that, I was literally looking it up.

I was like, I know this is in my notes. Anyways, so there's estimated global early sales of 300,000, right? Currently, if you didn't know, it's the second most play game on nintendo now that could change mario cart is number one p o'tckelm is number three and kirby air riders is sitting around 288 000 lifetime copies mario pokem oh no let's not combine it to mario has 2.3 lifetime copies as of right now mario car world and pokema legend zah nintendo switch 2 edition or z hyphen a depending on how you want pronounce it um it's sitting around 8662 000 lifetime sales so basically what i'm saying is and that's the

nintendo switch two edition the original version or just the nintendo switch version of pokemline legends is around 1.3 million lifetime copies so basically marion and polkimo will overtake kirby on the charts at some point but kirby is still having a respectful stature on the charts when it comes to nintendo so when you look at the lifetime projection of this particular game compared to the 2003 original Kirby Air Riders. It's doing phenomenal as the lifetime projections for this Kirby Air Riders is set for two to four million units. And the original Kirby Air Riders back in 2003 had a lifetime sales of 1.3 million.

So shout out to them for actually making a successful continuation of the Kirby Air Riders franchise. As you already know, Kirby, I already know. here racing, Sonics out here racing, and basically Mario's like, you know, we can put out any type of quality and they're nominators for a game of the year. Not only nominators, but they'll let us win the best racing game of the year. All right, my fault. You know, I ain't trying to throw no hate towards Mario Kart fandom, but of course Mario Kart World, like we have to admit it was not the greatest out of the continuation, out of the installments of that particular franchise. Anyways, when it comes to the review, right? Or not the review. When it comes to say,

I already talked about the lifetime projections, but in Japan specifically, because of course, this is a Nintendo product. So I wanted to dive into Japan specifically, as it was the number one, Kirby Airwriters, it was the number one Japan retail launch as it had 195,000 physical copies. So that's, that's phenomenal. And in week two, it had 46,000 physical copies. So we're not talking about the world. I just wanted to dive into Japan specifically, because if you didn't know, for me particularly, I've always personally, and I, you know, I still, it's towards the top of my bucket list. I've going to Japan and in going to not only Nintendo World, I know, I'm a nerd,

don't care. You guys. But also going on the Mario Kart world, like, Lifetime replica, or not Lifetime, the IRL, basically the real life replica of Mario Kart. I don't know why I phrased it like that. So going to Japan, it's towards the top of my list. And of course, I like the overall culture and things that nature so um just to let you know how encaptivated i am by like japan's culture so um when it comes to japan specifically we talked about those um sales for kirby air riders but of course amazon japan charts it topped that and it topped the japan e shop ranking so shout out to the fandom and nintendo for completely supporting nintendo no matter what it puts out and that may sound like shay but it's really not you know when you come to the nintendo coat and you

You realize that they would support anything to the point where I always say the Nintendo dropped the price movement. You know I had to mention it. It's one of the worst movements of all time. Basically, the Nintendo stands saw that Mario Kart World was one of the most egregiously priced games known to man. And they basically said, They looked at Mario Kart World, and they looked at their fellow gamers thinking that they was about to band together to lower the price. And they basically said, What do they do? And we beat these folks.

What do they do? We beat them. We go forward. And safe to say, they did not go forward, as Nintendo completely kept the same price of Mario Car World. So as far as the Nintendo dropped the price movement, one of the worst movements I've ever seen in history. A great premise, but terrible execution, one of the worst. To the point where when you look at the Call of Duty fans and what they just did to Blackop 7 and may Activision rethink the whole release strategy, I mean, shout out to them. And that's how you do a movement right there. ban it together as consumers holding your dollar amount to make the to make the company earn your

dollar is one of the best things you could do as a collective because guess what when you look at any any successful effective of the masses that basically is in the entertainment realm their fans is what makes them if their fans left nobody would care it's like when the tree falls in the woods and nobody's around does anybody hear it of course or not so guess what if you let that tree fall in the woods and nobody attends guess what that's guess what the guess what the going to do next time you're probably going to build a fair they're going to have all type of attractions they're going to have your favorite artists all for the same price that they was going to charge you for watching that tree fall in the woods now hopefully that random side comparison made sense to you so would that be

saying again back into kirby air riders there's really not too much to say about this particular game that's negative because i think it's a solid continuation of the kirby air riders franchise as if you don't know like I was just talking about at the beginning this game will receive only one additional balance update before the development support ends right so basically the game released you know via uh saccharis saccharide why can i can't i can't mess up his name i swear i'm not doing it on purpose uh saccharis name no basically saccharide yo that was crazy uh he came out and said that this is this game is in his final state and it will receive one more adjustment patch before uh everybody just disbands right and with that being said with original product intent

i think nintendo is the greatest right a lot of its iPs is some of the most notorious ips in the world safe to say when you look at mario it has around 872 million as far as the franchise ip Pokemon has around 489 million Zelda has 168 animal crossing 81 million and then you know there's Kirby you know lower down on the list at 52 million so it's still respectable right so now if you're not familiar of Kirby Air Riders at all just know it's a racing game of course 20 plus riders 20 plus machines there's 18 tracks in total there's nine new tracks There's non-remakes. And when you look at that in the overall aspect of the original Kirby Airwriters,

safe to say that they already made a solid game when it initially came out in 2003. But now in 2025, they added non-new tracks. So they basically are saying this is technically the DOC for Kirby Airbriders. So maybe that is why they don't have no type of roadmap for the people who really enjoy the Kirby Airwriters game. When you look at the modes, there's air ride, which is six player races. There's top ride. There's city trial, which is 16 player online slash eight local. There's a roadmap, which is more of a rogue-like story mode.

There's all type of challenges throughout the racing game. And as far as people who have 9 to 5s, right, the main story, because there's a story, right? It'll take you 90 minutes to beat. Full completion will probably be around 50 plus hours. Because if you look at it, racing games don't end. but if you want to continuously collect things you'll probably run out of things to collect around a 50 plus hour mark so you know do have the information which you will when you look at the critical reception as this is a review and sales roundup your review is an outstanding for this particular game nintendo life came out and gave it an eight out of ten basically saying kirby air ride well saying quote kirby air riders is a cracking sequel that gives solo players much more to dig into with this story campaign whilst also bring in all new levels of shiny graphics, bells and whistles to its returning city trial. Air ride and top-down racing modes.

With lots of excellent tracks, riders and machines to unlock sat alongside some surprisingly deep machine customization. Kirby's latest air riding adventure is off to a strong start. Now, of course, IG also gave it an 8 out of 10, and they said, quote, Kirby Air Riders is totally bizarre, and I love it for that. This is unexpected This unexpected sequel to a niche single button game Q racer Makes a significant leap forward

I'm not sure what's crazier the fact that Kirby Air Riders exists or that Or the fact that it's this great Hang on a lot they're killing it with these quotes you see other video game reviews and they just be like hey bro, it's I You know check it out these are actually pretty solid Game Informer gave this an 8.5 added to him which I believe is the highest score actually yeah that's the highest score out of the publishers that i usually look at so um game informer well no actually famitsu gave it a nine at ten but i'm not gonna say they bias because i use their charts all the time so i love y'all you know what i'm saying i'm not trying but you know they gave

it nine at ten let me just say it like that um game informer gave it an eight point five at a ten basically saying quote kirby air riders overflows with saccharize signature style making bold creative choices even if it limits the game's appeal to a slightly narrower audience so that being said um kirby air riders is a success don't let people tell you that it's not a success when you look at it in the totality of the original air riders coming uh that came in 2003 basically this is a continuation they added nine new tracks when they already had nine official tracks as far as back in 2003 so they remaster the old ones they have nine new ones so take Technically, you shouldn't look at this as like a completely new game with a new roadmap.

You should look at this as the final complete edition of Kirby Airwriters. As a lot of people enjoy the game, I'm not going to say that is making it. Like, it's not one of the best racing games of 2025. I think Sonic Crossing, I know Sonic Racing Cross Worlds is probably up there. I can't even think of any other racing games. I'm not trying to be funny. Probably, what was it, Forza? they may be up there. I haven't really heard too much about that.

But basically, what I'm saying is when it comes to the racing genre in 2025, it hasn't been the most competitive. I will say Mario Kart World still did not deserve to win best racing game. I don't know what it is with Jeff Keely and Sonic fans. I don't know if he just haste them. But I think Sonic Racing Cross Worlds not winning. And then Sonic 3, not even being nominated for Best Adaptation. I don't know what type of beefy ass was the Sonic fans, but somebody has to figure it out.

Because that man does not like y'all. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? You look at the state of gaming, and I think ever since Jeff Keely called out Sonic fans for Botten, the fan vote, they've had indefinite smoke. So anyways, carbon air riders, also with the music, right? That's also a big thing as far as the marketing,

because, of course, it's promoted across 30-plus public radio stations. So do have that information with you will, because I have no idea what that does for the actual video game. But apparently, there's a lot of radio stations somehow promoting this game. Maybe they're just playing the audio trailer. That's why I would assume they're not just playing the Kirby music, which a lot of people like Kirby music. So maybe that is a selling point.

So I'm trying to see if there's anything else I was going to talk about. That was basically it. So yeah, shout to Kirby. I still respect you. You know, when it comes to you being the stepchild of Nintendo, you know, it's a little harsh. At the end of the day, I will come, you know, full circle. well, I would pull a 180 and basically say that you are indeed respected by not only Nintendo fans, but of course, gamer fans in general.

And to Sakurai, if I messed up the pronunciation to your name, just know, it wasn't on purpose. So with that being said, click my link to your bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about Kirby Airwriters? And if you've played the game, what is your favorite aspect of Kirby Airwriters? And also, because I don't know too many racing games that made a lot of noise. What is your favorite racing game of 20, 25?

It is time to get into one of the most notorious rivalries in gaming history. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? As when you look at the announcement of Caller Duty, finally coming to its senses, basically with Activision confirming that there would be no more back-to-back modern warfare or blackoff releases but then you probably think it to yourself how do they come to this conclusion

well ladies and gentlemen when I say time and time again that voting for your wallet voting with your wallet is one of the best things you can do as a community safe to save the Nintendo audience as far as the drop the price movement could have easily had this happen

as far as Nintendo lowering the price of Mario Kart World because really the console wasn't that overpriced but lowering the cost of Mario Kart World due to them banning together and having consumer friendly practices as far as not buying overpriced mid-games and yes I have to say that about the one and only Mario. As Mario Kart World we already know was very underwhelming compared to the previous cart installments. So anyways the reason why I say that and how I continuously say that that the Nintendo dropped the price movement is one of the worst movements of all time is because this could have happened for Nintendo connoisseurs out there.

I just want to let y'all know. Now when it comes to voting with your wallet, it's a real thing. As a lot of people were fed up with Activision's business practices. And especially when you look at the landscape of how people voted with their wallet, you come to realize how Activision came to this conclusion. As Call of Duty, ladies and gentlemen, Blackop 7 specifically, had a phenomenal year in 2025. But guess what? It wasn't up to Call the Duty standards.

You guys. See, that's the problem. Because as of right now, Call of Duty Black Op 6 is the sixth most play game in the year of 2025. But where is Blackop 7? So safe to say, when you look at the high player accounts of Blackop 7, as far as it being the fourth most played game on Xbox currently,

it being the third most play game on Xbox on PlayStation currently and then you look at Battlefield as far as being the 10th most play game on PlayStation currently and nowhere to be found in the top 10 on Xbox you know that that's understandable but then you look at Battlefield being the 15th most play game on Steam currently and uh black ops 7 being nowhere to be found safe to say that black ops is still highly successful it's just not up to snuff as far as the black O black ops it's black ops six counterpart which which literally came last year so when it comes to that black ops seven underperform exponentially right this despite what we just talked about as far as the high player counts on console as when you look at it in totality that the black ops seven

game launched 63 percent below black ops uh below battlefield six So when you look at Black Ops 6 in general, it was 50% below. So to reiterate, Blackop 7 was 63% below Battlefield 6 and 50% below Blackop 6. Now when you look at the actual numbers as far as Black ops specifically, you come to realize that it is one of the better selling games at the year, but it's not in the top 10 because guess what? that would be black op six ladies and gentlemen and not only is black op six one of the better selling games of the year um but when you look at battlefield in totality safe to say battlefield six came out on number one as far as estimated reports of the top selling games in the year of 2025 so now you look at the list which you know it does have battlefield six Pokemon Legends Z-8 and then you have NBA 2k 26 monster hunters that's the top three to four and then you have ghost a Yote in the top five but ultimately when you look at the actual sales of black

off six it did tremendously as would they be in the best selling game of 2025 and then of course you're looking at it's record-breaking October month where it was the highest in three years even topping call a duties modern warfare two's 2022 peak and And of course, with that being said, it basically surpassed Black Ops 7 in every first month, first month metric and hit 10 million copies overall. Well, not overall, but as far as in the month. So now, the fatigue is a real thing when it comes to Activision side, as you would think after putting out Blackop 6th that was doing phenomenal, literally the bestselling game of 2024. And then one year later, everybody in their mama. seemingly had switched up on Activision.

So the point where they're playing Blackop Six even more than Blackop Seven as far as in totality. So now with Battlefield 6 being number one, Activision looked at themselves and they basically had an honest reflection on their actions and said to themselves, You guys.

We're sorry. They basically said, You guys. We are immensely sorry. As when they came out and confirmed that there would be no back-to-back modern work Fair or Black Ops releases. They basically say that their ultimate goal is to, quote, absolutely deliver unique experience each and every year. And then of course, they literally came out

and said this, which is crazy. Because of course, if you have investors and things that are nature in your company and you come out and say these type of things that can always be used against you, because now you technically said what investors never want to hear as when they come out and talk about how black op six and black up seven were too similar investors are thinking to themselves well where all uh where is all my money going and basically Activision is saying we have no idea because even though black up six and black up seven is so similar that nobody could tell the difference they basically say that overall people still have mixed reviews and say as a discipline pointing launch to the point where

Trey Arc Senior Director production Yale Yale Miller came out and expressed concern that Blackop six and seven were also too similar. So that was the nail in the coffin. I mean, you have the director coming out saying they're too similar. It's safe to say it's time to switch some things up.

As he also gave a direct quote saying, we will drive an ovation that is meaningful not incremental. But then you know what I'm saying? I was like 10. They're basically saying all the right things, but one of the main things we have to do as consumers is continue to put that pressure on them because of course competition is phenomenal because we get these type of statements, right? But now when you look at the competition in the grand scheme of things, we still have to keep them accountable as far as that next call of duty installment being a higher level of quality instead of just a rescand of the past or the previous year, right? So now when Activision talks about their future roadmap and how they're going to innovate, they basically say that they are building the next era of Call of Duty.

So they say that there's a meaningful innovation, which I believe Black Up Six with the Omni movement is one of the more meaningful innovations that they've had in quite some time. But of course, they need to do more of that, right? Activision also says that they are going to push the genre forward, right? and they have strong confidence in the depth and talent of their development teams of course they didn't give any specific details when it comes to the continued annual releases this is what activation had to say Activision will not end annualization basically saying a new call of duty every year continues but not modern worth of warfare or black ops back to back so safe to say when you look at the landscape of things Activision definitely sees whether where we're

they went wrong but they still are not going to stop putting out a game every year because they basically look at the overhead and they say to themselves hold on now we have to make certain type of revenue every single year and that is via putting out a game but let's promise them innovation because of course we just received the biggest obstacle as far as in the year of 2025 but not only battlefield six but arc raiders doing phenomenal and then quiet is kept ready or not is still the third most played game on Xbox so now when you look at it and in the landscape of competition some could say call of duty has received more competition than has ever had in this previous years so and that goes along with black up six selling

tremendously I mean seven million plus copies in his first three days right best selling game of 2025 and then of course when you look at that as far as what call of duty usually does as far as having the best selling game safe to say um the only time they was ever beaten by a game was hoggworth's legacy and then what happened we got the omni movement and black ops six so i do believe this is a great evolution as far as as activation looking at themselves saying that okay we didn't come out on top this year what could we do for next year because quiet is kept as far as the competition call of duty has continuously been putting bta on the entire video game industry because when you look at their revenue as far

Activision specifically they generate two billion plus annually right because they've dominated US sales since 2006 and that's insane and then you also look at the way that they lost money it's not only due to the downfall black up seven but they even had it with their phenomenal reception of black op six because once again the game has reportedly cannibalize itself as far as them giving such a consumer friendly product that they ended up reportedly losing around $300 million plus dollars. Which is why when you look at the game pass and you look at the raising the prices, basically I'm on the side of consumers always, but let's just say I could see how Xbox came to that decision. I just don't agree with it.

You guys. See, that's the problem. I mean, if Microsoft denying Walmart and Target is pulling Xbox products, that they have way bigger fish to fry. So when it comes to Black Ops, losing it around $300 million and them trying to sweep it under the rug, you know they're dealing with way bigger problems than that. And then, of course, when you come to EA, as far as Saudi, right, Saudi investors in Jared Kushner buying EA for $55 billion, safe to say when you look at the landscape, there's a lot of money being thrown around because these companies are beyond profitable i mean you

don't need me to tell that i tell you that but obviously i don't know if you've heard the exact numbers like i'm laying it out because of course once again activision generates one billion right like with a be so you look at at not one billion my fault um Activision as a as a company generates two two billion annually right and those are estimated reports and then of course when you look at the game pass losing it 300 million some would say that's a loss but they make a lot of money so then you look at EA specifically right and how much of a how much revenue that's that specific company makes as safe to say is also a lot but compared to cod franchise it's not even close as the cod franchise dominates as far as lifetime sales but of course when it comes to specific games battlefield six is one another know blackout a battle yeah I don't know why I mixed it up battlefield six is one of its magnum opus as far as selling points right but in totality Activision have been putting on bta for on the music or on the gaming industry for quite some time so getting back into the original point so now that you're looking at the industry shifting as far as

activision actually looking at itself and say hold on now what could we do better instead of blaming a consumer safe to say I think they're actually going to give us one of the better innovative games as far as in the call of duty franchise but we still have to hold them to that promise right because when you look at historically infinity ward and tray arc alternated yearly so now what the new approach that means they're going to have to bring somebody as far as a whole new development i don't know if it's going to be a whole new development team but they're basically got to switch it up from the infinity ward and tray or hot potato right because now God forbid the next call of duty sells horrendously.

Maybe, just maybe, we'll get a new IP from Activision, which is a non-modern warfare or a non-Black Ops title, which I believe is the best case scenario if you really look at what they're trying to say. So hopefully they keep innovating. I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt until I actually see it. Because now, when you look at it, safe to say Blackop 6, no i mean battlefield six has laid out an unprecedented run as far as sales and topping the charts in the year of 2025 so now with Activision looking at itself saying what can we do better with all the

resources in the world i can't wait to see you how it plays out so with that being said click my link through my bio let me know on one of my social medias what do you think about the notorious rivalry as far as call of duty versus battlefield and at the end of the day do you believe the next Call of Duty installment would be one of the best ever in franchise history. Now, some would say, It's time for a rap battle! But ultimately, this affects everyone. You guys, see, that's the problem.

As you already know, with YouTube beefing with Billboard to the point where they said they will stop sharing music streaming data with Billboard, mm-mm-mm. But then you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? And the reason why I play that drop, ladies and gentlemen is because there's a particular gentleman. Some would call him a savage in the streets. Shepard.

All right, my fault. I mean, I mean to say that, police, if you're listening. But basically, that gentleman's name is young boy, never broke again. I know that ain't who I think it is. And safe to say, for the year of 2025, not only has he been running rampant on the charts, but also, as far as YouTube. He has one of the top trending songs in 2025 as far as, um, him leading what track was shot calling i think it was shot calling but in totality really that's

what i'm talking about he has in totality the top trending songs as far as youtube's 2025 year end list via billboard right so keep that in mind but the top artists via youtube is young boy yeah bruno mars and lady gaga you have um rozy and bruno mars or ap t i'm trying i'm trying to name some of the top youtube artists you have for as a redos or rosa roose Jeter, you have, of course, the goat, Morgan Wallen, Bad Bunny, K-pop Demon Hunts. Okay, you get the point, right? As far as the indication of Billboard and YouTube, usually both charts coming together makes it the epitome of what the success is like in the music industry.

And with them separating, I think, and, you know, I'm definitely taken from Russ as far as this particular quote, because he said, Billboard would no longer be the chart. It would just be one of these charts, right? it's essentially splitting the vote as far as what's the most popular as far as the objective analytics because if you can't look at the YouTube and Billboard combined chart now you got to start going to multiple charts which I already do really but now as far as the general public not really caring that much about who sells the most the YouTube and Billboard separation will start to make it way more harder to figure out who's really affecting the masses so anyways

this is effective January 16th, 2026. Do I think this will go through? Honestly, I don't. Now, you got to keep in mind the timeline. 2013, Billboard began to incorporate YouTube data into chart formulas, right? 2018, Billboard

starts waiting paid slash subscription streams more heavily than as supported streams. December 17th of 2025, that's when Billboard, board announces the update chart mythology i think it's mythology yeah and then of course january 17 2026 billboards revised chart rules officially takes effect now of course what else is happening right before that right before that day you two will stop sharing music streaming data

with a billboard you guys if y'all don't see what's happening basically this is business on the level possible because of course billboard is looking at you to basically basically saying we don't need you all we would just adjust the rules to basically take out what y'all usually contribute and basically have our own list set in stone we're going to give a boost to a lot of different artists so that our product doesn't look watered down but at the end of the day because we will get into that specifically as far as billboard lowering the amount of streams you need for one unit right but basically that helps artists that strictly dominant on Billboard and strictly dominant on YouTube not need both dominances as far as particular platforms.

You can still be as dominant on Billboard. Not as dominant, but just close to it as far as the indicator of how effective you are as far as a musician. Now, I did bring up NBA Youngboy, but ultimately this is going to affect every single musician. As when you look at Billboard and. the streams which you're going to get we're going to dive into specifically but as of right now I just want to give the overview so for one album unit it used to be um I remember covering this and I don't think I have it up here let me see uh let me see as far as Billboard because I had it on somewhere

let me see okay here it is okay so 33000 no 33 3,750 as supported streams used to be the number. Well, still is, but as of January 17th, it's gonna change. So this is the current number. 3,750 as supported streams to equivalent to one album unit. But now, Billboard has changed it to 2,500, which is 2,500 as supported streams.

Now, why would they do that? I don't think it's a coincidence that January 16th, YouTube will stop sharing music streaming data with the billboard. And then January, 17th, Billboard will have its revised chart rules officially take effect. I think it's plain as day that Billboard and YouTube is ultimately beefing and this is going to lead to some very interesting changes in the music field. Because a lot of young boy fans, you know, a lot of

naysayers of young boy fans will always say like, oh, that's kids. They don't have any money to go out and support the actual artists. And then what Young Boy did this year put all those comments to rest as far as his fans not having any money because I think young boy ultimately had some of the most representation from the black community I've ever seen on my measles 25 years on earth as far as selling out multiple arenas not just one I'm talking about multiple arenas as far as a world tour I think young boy had the most black representation and you look at Kendrick you look at drake who's objectively speaking way bigger than young boy and when they're selling out arenas the same arena mind you they're not

bringing out majority black people as white people is all type of ethnicities and of course that's not like to discredit drake or kendrick obviously because you know some would say variety is better when you become to young boy him bringing out mostly black people to sell out arenas is very hard to do especially because we're a minority so you do have to have a certain um engagement factor from different demographics to sell out these type of arenas but for young boy to do that specifically with the black community i think showcase how effective he is as a musician so basically the whole oh you're just a youtube artist it was put to rest this year i mean he i wanted to top selling rap towards bringing out most of the black people so anyways getting back into it lear cohen the global

head of music at youtube said that streaming represents 84% of u.s recorded music revenue and he said quote every fan matters and every play should count basically talking directly to billboard as he literally said billboard was quote unwilling to make meaningful changes you guys see that's the problem and youtube came back well no no no no youtube uh states that it already pays billions goodness gracious billions of dollars with the b ladies and gentlemen billions of dollars to artists and labels via ads and subscriptions and then also it wants equitable chart representation not partial weighting i know that ain't who i think it is billboards saw that and they said it themselves i know that ain't who i think it is they told them boys who do and we beat these folks

we beat them we go forward i'm not going to lie this is definitely one of the biggest uh developments in the music industry because billboard and youtube if they're going to split like this as far as YouTube leaving them completely and not streaming and not sharing any music streaming data. I don't know if it's legally possible for Billboard to just have a researcher development team to take YouTube's numbers and incorporate into Billboard. I don't know if that's legally possible because YouTube, I think, was officially given the numbers to Billboard, which if you really think about it as a musician, they really limit the amount of data we receive, which is why Spotify

rapped when it first came out with such a big deal because it's showing the analytics to the world, right? Nowadays, you see more and more corporations giving a rap. I mean, I even saw Uber. Uber East was given a rap. I was like, hold up now, academics? Anyways, that was

just random stray. Y'all see my name. Y'all know who I'm inspired by. So anyways, as far as that, in particular, I do believe everybody and their mama being more transparent with their numbers, which, you know, to be fair Apple's still not doing it Apple music still not being as transparent as Spotify and you know of course people call Spotify botify things in nature like Drake just did and at the end of day

corporations being transparent is is very sparse especially to the general public so but this data sharing starting to be more restrictive even between billboard YouTube really shows you how dire of a situation it is and of course billboard came out to say that They hope that YouTube will reconsider and rejoin the data sharing. Basically, I don't know if they're going to be outside YouTube's window saying, baby, come back, but that's what that statement sounds like. As Billboard in the response statement basically said, the charts aim to reflect different forms of fans support appropriately

and it emphasizes measuring reach, popularity, and engagement across platforms. platforms. So this marriage coming to an end is very unfortunate. As you look at Charlie Hellman, him coming out is one of the Spotify leadership people. And he basically said, pay listeners spend roughly $150 per year. Now I'm hearing that number. I'm saying to myself, that's not a lot. My fault. I mean, you know, I ain't trying to shame nobody. But that's, hey, my fault. Basically, he said that indication. stronger fan intent and believes that page streams are quote better for artists in the ecosystem so i don't know what in the world youtube and billboard's going to do but basically youtube doing his own thing

billboard doing its own thing it makes me wonder which chart that comes out will way more and i do believe r i double a goes off of billboard instead of youtube actually let me fact check that doing some mickey research right quick if y'all are new okay so basically after doing some mickey research safe to say that it doesn't go off of billboard or youtube you know we don't try to do fake news over here basically r i double a uses different streaming equivalences equivalencies but align philosophically with valuing pay streams higher for where the world so i guess they're the own thing okay sorry no let me see numbers let's see use to use because the main thing is of course not

one on the spread fake news I want to know if they actually use either or or if they have their own database I'm sorry okay so R I double A relies from direct data from record labels slash distributors directly including sales and on-demand streams from platforms like Spotify Apple Music YouTube title etc so it seems like they use everybody except for maybe except for billboard because technically billboard is not like where you distribute your music interesting interesting so maybe just maybe billboard needs youtube more than youtube needs billboard i think i mean i think it's safe to say that youtube has way more money in the billboard let me see uh which company i would assume youtube has way more money than billboard

i mean i'm just looking it up just for the actual number because you know i love the pocket watch over here you guys see that's the problem okay So, parent company alphabet is a 3.7, 3.8 trillion. Goodness gracious. As far as Billboard, the estimates, I love looking this up. I ain't know lots. I love just, because these are such big players in the music industry that you try to see how much are they making. Use a little bit.

Okay. So 250 million. Yeah, it's not even close. This estimate to be around 250 million for Billboard. by private company pin pinsky pinsky media court so 250 million to 3.7 3.8 trillion yeah youtube i'm sorry i disrespect you yeah billboard um they need to get outside of youtube's window expeditiously and hold up the the boom box with baby come back playing i ain't gonna kept to you that that's that's insane so with that make your research out of the way click my link to my bio

let me know one of my social medias what do you think about youtube stop stopping the share of music streaming set to go effective January 16th and do you think the billboard could ever recover now ladies and gentlemen I just want to start off with a few Instagram posts by the one and only Curtis Jackson as the first post interestingly has a picture a 50 cents interview and he's showing all 32 right he I mean his smile couldn't be even his mouth couldn't be bigger if you tried all right And basically, the caption of this picture says, Finding Out 50 Cent agreed to do an interview with ABC News Station only because it's one of the few stations they're allowed to watch in prison. You guys.

See, that's the problem. And that's not it, ladies and gentlemen. Before we get into the, you know, the crust of the Netflix dock, safe to say, 50 Cent is already out here popping all type of champagne like he's Kevin Garnett in the NBA Finals. Because of course, this man said, let me zoom in, Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. This man said, number one in 36 countries, number two and 11 others, still going up. And he says the reckoning. Now, you're probably wondering, what is he referring to?

Well, I'm glad you asked. There's a particular documentary that's been taking the world by storm. And as somebody with the podcast titled, Notorious Mass Effect, half of it for the Mass Effect legendary video game franchise. And then, of course, half of it for the notorious B.I.G. Sticking to that side specifically, as far as notorious B.I.Diddy is one of the most influential people in hip hop and especially for notorious. So with that being said, there was a documentary made about him.

And no, ladies and gentlemen, before you think about it, it was not a fluff piece as far as trying to make him look the greatest ever. It was basically a hit piece, allegedly, because I ain't trying to get sued. you know did he team suing everybody right now but when it comes to that the title of the netflix documentary is titled sean combs the reckoning i know that ain't who i think it is but then hold on now you know 50 cent got his own production studio in louisiana i believe i think it's louisian i forget what's that but basically a whole production studio like he's tyler perry and he went to netflix for this documentary now one thing that stood out to me is that it has Netflix as the platform

So you already have this monumental platform. You have 50 Cent executive producing this documentary for his arch nemesis. And you want people to believe that it's going to be a fair depiction of Diddy, Sean Denny Combs. And it's safe to say, when you look at the viewership, people was eating this up like hotcakes as the series serves to number one. Yes, number one, ladies and gentlemen, over Stranger Things season five within days. and with that being said we don't know the particular numbers because really Netflix doesn't like publicly put out their numbers like that but when it comes to the director is Alexandria Stapleton when it comes to executive producer

is Curtis 50 Cent Jackson and because of the success of this documentary and what it has inside of it Diddy's team have came out and gave a seasoned assist even before the release so they already knew the mom monumental impact that it's going to make. But when you look at the charts, you see Stranger Things in number two, and then you see Netflix and number one. You see the deity doc and number one, which I believe he put out a picture. Yeah, here we go right here.

You know, 50 cent got everything. 50 cent got entirely everything labeled on his Instagram. So that being said, the main thing I was wanted to showcase is that when you look at 50 in general and it says Sean Combs' reckoning number one, when you, say Stranger Things number two when you see top 10 series in US today also having Sean Combs at number one and Stranger Things and number two you say to yourself you guys see that's the problem when it's executive produced by your arch nemesis and arises to the top like this and also is backed by a monumental

a monumental company like Netflix safe to say then that you are in very peculiar territory because I'm not going to to say he should be scared of Diddy. Like when 50 cent came out and said Diddy send him flowers. I think a lot of people is like, no, you got to be joking. Why would Diddy send 50 cent flowers when he's already in prison, right? When Diddy's already in prison, which if you don't know, we already covered that as far as we've been covering Diddy extensively.

Pulse, goodness gracious. You guys. But when it comes to Diddy, let me see if I can find this right quick. So I don't find the actual date. Yeah. Okay. So October 4th, 2025 is when I covered this. this basically saying Sean Diddy Combs sentenced to four years, two months in prison over the

man act violations. Now he was found it he was found not guilty for the RICO accusations. But you know, as far as the transportation with the intent to prostitute, I forget what the charge we call. But basically that's what he was guilty for, the transportation part and the prostitution. But he wasn't guilty for the RICO, which would have put him away seemingly for life. So he's kind of get out soon, which is why a lot of people are looking at 50, and asking themselves, why in the world are you going so hard at Diddy? Like, do you not know this man's going to be a free man soon? You already know the type of Joker, the type of Thanos, the type of dark side level of villain

arcs, supposedly Diddy has had, why would you put yourself in the crosshairs as the number one arch enemy when he's going to be out in the free world soon? So anyways, enough of that. The main thing I was going to let you know is, that this is a monumental Netflix documentary. It's breaking all type of records. The footage was shot in September 24. The biggest deal about this Netflix documentary is that the footage was shot by Diddy's scene. But then you come to realize that Diddy didn't, you know, Diddy was saying it was stolen footage. But 50 Cent came out and said it wasn't stolen. You didn't pay the people who

shot the footage. So now they sold it to the highest bidder, which was Netflix. And now 50 Cent joins Netflix as an executive producer. That's how these two come to. together because you're probably wondering why doesn't 50 cent just keep it for himself it's because Netflix was the highest bidder not 50 cent so if you're wondering this is a four-part series it was released all at once and when it comes to the content there's footage uh of diddy in his hotel room there's footage of diddy discussing his legal danger like it's all the way up to him getting locked up and did he's talking about quote we're losing quote we have to find somebody that'll work with us that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business when it comes to

the legal context safe to say it being recorded six days before did he was arrested is the most intriguing factor about this because if this is a documentary about diddy you would think that diddy's team will hold some of the most sacred footage but it seems it seems as if everything is in this documentary as all the way up to his arrest more specifically six days before it's arrest having all that footage I think is one of the most interesting aspects of this documentary which is why Daley's team is coming out saying there was stolen footage but like we already talked like I already said before he didn't pay the people who film the footage so they went to the highest bidder which was Netflix and then Netflix part in 50 cent when it comes to Netflix's response the director

came out Stapleton that person came out and said quote we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights. And then she went on to say, well, I don't know if this is this year. Let me see. It says Alexandria Stapleton, okay, I'm not going to assume. So we're just going to say Stapleton said, quote, we moved heaven and earth to keep the filmmaker's identity confidential. Safe to say. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not joking when I say we need to pray for 50 cent, but also pray for the person who gave Netflix that footage. You guys. See, that's the problem. When we talk about certain things in the hip-hop field and why people are scared to say certain things.

I just, I don't want to get too morbid. Look up the most Googled rapper of the year of 2025, look into his story, and then come back to why people are so scared of ditty. I'm not, I'm not being, I'm just not hyperbole. I'm not exaggerating. There's a reason why people are scared of ditty, right? So when it comes to Netflix, to variety, they basically, you know, cemented once again, that the footage was legally obtained no one was paid to appear and a documentary is quote not a hit piece so now when you look at the industry insiders as far as this particular um documentary you have roger bonds which was the former bad boy security you have kirk burros which is the industry exec you have wayne borough barrow i think that's how you say it that's notorious b ig's a state manager and all of these people are saying very interesting things throughout this documentary

of Roger Bonds, he came out and said that did he hired videographers 24 hours of the day, often didn't pay them leaving footage ownership in limbo, right? And then Roger Bonds says, quote, that 50 had to be the highest bidder.

I think he was mistaken with that. Even though that is, the former bad boy security, I'm just saying that when it comes to the highest bidder, I don't think 50 cent would pay so much and then put it on a competitor. Netflix is a competitor to what 50 cents trying to do because of course 50 cent has his own production studio he could do it himself right so i think i'm just i'm going out on the limb and saying that netflix was the highest bidder and then they

agreed to have 50 cent executive produce it because of the uh perception no no just the publicity that it would bring for because of 50scent versus ditty which is why i'm focusing on 50s since versus ditty i mean Netflix definitely knew what they was doing because if you look at the director is alexandria stapleton 50 cents not the director Alex Alexandria Stapleton is. The executive producer is Curtis 50 San Jackson. And he came on, he was involved in the development since December 7th, 2023. So when it comes to that, another thing I was going to get at was somebody else from Diddy's team was saying counter arguments. Who was it? It was, I think it was Wayne Barrow. So the notorious BIG, his estate

manager, basically came out and denied all the funeral claims. Because if you don't, know basically when kirk burrows the industry exec claimed that diddy made biggie's estate paid for biggies on funeral and called it a recoupable charge or called it a recoupable charge wayne barrow came out to basically refute those statements saying he denied all of the funeral claims and he basically said that the story is is quote completely not true and he says did he himself and planned to serve it. So whoever you want to believe, I'm just giving it to you eight more than 92 and letting you do the information, which you will. So then, of course, coming back to the overall leaked footage, it shows Diddy yelling at attorney Mark Agnifalo.

And Agnifalo was reportedly unaware he was being recorded. You guys. See, that's the problem. So not only did they get their hands on that footage, but then also they recorded footage includes. Diddy saying quote, we're losing. Y'all are not working together the right way.

Now, this is how I know, ladies and gentlemen, that I can never be a lawyer because of course, if somebody like Diddy is yelling at me, screaming at me, telling me we're losing, y'all not working together the right way, I would have simply said, well, brother, if he didn't use the baby oil,

you wouldn't be in this position. I know that ain't who I think it is. My brother, if he didn't say you was going to take Curtis 50 Jackson shopping, we wouldn't be in this position. I know that ain't who I think. And then, of course, brother, if you kept your hands off women, we especially wouldn't be in this position. You guys. See, that's the problem. So that's not I know I can never be a lawyer because Mark Agnifalo was taking all that and still being the greatest lawyer you could imagine for Diddy.

Because once again, he was found not guilty for the racketeering charge. So if you look at it, he was acquitted on racketeering and sex trafficking charges that could have meant life, right? With one year already served about three years remaining plus a 500,000 fine and five years of supervised release. Basically, Sean Diddy Combs is still in prison for violating the Man Act, which is transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution. So as far as all the accounts that were serious, he was found not guilty. but he was found guilty for the man act for transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution which is why some some could say that mark agnifalo did a fantastic job which is why i say i can never be a lawyer because imagine doing that much of a phenomenal job and the baby

orio man is out here still yelling at you so i know what y'all thinking in the midst of all day information what is jarl rule thinking the time like this but then you know what i'm saying like to say he must have heard you because he came out of all day in the time like this And it's safe to say he must have heard you because he came out and basically said, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson is a dry snitch. And he said, quote, 50 Cent is a cancer to the culture. I know that ain't who I think it is. Jaroos saw this diddy documentary.

And when he looked at the executive producer credits, he said to himself, I know that ain't who I think it is. And basically, when he came out again to talk about 50 cents, he said 50 Cent doesn't care about victims, only revenge. And he told 50 cent, he told 50 cent due to the profitability, the popularity of this Diddy documentary. He told Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, you should donate the domestic violence. You should donate the profits to domestic violence charities.

Now I'm not a better man and I can't predict the future. But I'm pretty sure 50 cent looked at this and said to himself, What do they do? Everything Jaru was saying, which is really really, on point honestly 50 cent responded with who do now that's just me assuming right that's not an official statement but at the end of day 50 cent could care less which y'all rule has to think um you already know their history goes all the way back to 2013 i believe so um no no not 23rd it goes all the way back way uh like 25 years i believe what's that like 2000 yeah goodness

gracious these gentlemen are dinosaurs anyways um the big picture takeaway is basically when you look at 50 cent executive producing I think this added another layer of popularity then it otherwise wouldn't have had if he wasn't the executive producer and if they just kept the director as the main mascot

of Alexandria Stapleton they just kept that director as the main mascot but putting 50 cents the mascot makes this documentary 10 times more popular because one is beef you already know how hip hop has been in the year of 2025 safe to say side seven i mean uh white tank top versus

Aubrey karen was one of the greatest avenger like in game moments in hip hop but safe to say it was actually an end game moment because now you look at my report as far as when I first talked about this and on October 31st 2025 and i said there's been no rap songs in the billboard top 40 for the first time in 35 years safe to say people love drama when side seven and Aubrey karen was going

back and forth that were percolating in the top 20 and now seems like nobody cares about hip hop because the in-game event has already happened and this is seemingly the same thing this is the type of anticipation the type of build-up that's leading to another avengers in-game type of event because i don't think did he and 50 syn going to again a rap and a rap back and forth but the back and forth as far as publicly as media games is so intriguing that it could bring back the interest not could as you can look at the numbers it did bring it back everybody's watching this documentary everybody in the mama is watching this diddy documentary so um and that's not to say the quality has been bad in hip-hop it does not when i cover the the charge which is what i do as far as notoriously

what uh the mass the gaming and music i piece that notoriously affect the masses basically if you sell a lot does not mean you make high quality and if you don't sell or not is that it does not mean you're making the most egregious thing possible the two don't correlate so whenever covering the charts i just do that i do that to gauge consumption amongst the superstars but essentially speaking there's been a plethora of quality hip-hop albums whether it's j-d whether it's waleigh whether it's the clips whether it's russ and i'm gonna get a lot of flack for that one whether it's uh i could i could keep who else uh basically i could keep going right there's a lot of albums that don't get to shine that it deserves via its quality so anyways the reason why i say all that

It's because the eyes are right back on hip hop, but I think it's for all the wrong reasons. As we already know that Diddy is a monster, but really this documentary puts it into a light that we never knew before with so much unseen footage leading up into his arrest. So with that being said, that's all I have to say about this. Lastly, y'all may think I'm joking, but definitely pray for 50 cent for Curtis 50 cent Jackson because it's going to be a tough outing whenever Diddy gets out in a free world. I'm not you know I ain't trying to cast no aspersions but the same time I am but then you know I'm saying I was like damn look at the state of hip hop like what's going on so that being said click my link true in my bio let me know one of my social medias have you watched the diddy doc what do you think about the integral parts that came out as far as the unseen footage and how do you think

diddy will respond once he gets out into the free world do you believe diddy and 50 cent will bygones be bygones or do you believe there be some repercussions for 50 cents actions via this documentary is it okay i got my dope on me now ladies and gentlemen when it comes to the firing of ebro in the morning safe to say somebody couldn't wait but then you know what i'm saying i was like damn look at the state of hip-hop like what's going on as you look at the state of hip-hop and safe to say e-bril is one of the most iconic people to ever cover the sport of hip-hop and yes i'm calling it a sport because it's moments like this that lets you know that at every moment not only are you competing with your peers but you're also competing with the musicians that you cover as when you look at it

in totality ebro's been putting bta on the entire coverage of the music industry for for quite some time but then you come to realize Drake is also my favorite artist of all time so i have to keep it ain't more than 92 so that means ladies and gentlemen that we're going to get into the full length pulse you guys of this back and forth because of course drake expeditiously took it upon himself to put that ax emoji because of course ibro in the morning from hot 97 which is a huge deal by the way just ended uh just ended and with that being said allegedly ibrough came out and said that ownership needed to raise $500 million related to casino licensing in New York City

and that's the reason he got fired. I know that ain't who I think it is. Now of course like I said, I'm gonna keep it eight more than 92, but I'm definitely calling out where I see Cap and I can't lie to you. That sounds like Cap to me. How in the world are we bringing up

the casino fundraiser when talking about you getting fired for talking about music, my brother? you're not in the NBA anyways with that being said Drake came with the ax emoji if y'all wanted to see it in 4k safe to say

Drake definitely had a lot of and left a lot of bread crumbs as far as him definitely going to ebro so when ebro in the morning when ebro had this video right here analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio all of them

look at all of them they all got to fold up because they all trying to renew their deals their licenses, they all, well, in this particular situation, we'll get into more specifics another time. Bro just got, bro, bro, bro's a casino owner. You know, that little stutter and the intermission of thoughts, right, and the continuation of your sentences was basically trying to put together a reason for why you got fired.

And the simple truth was, hot 97 was ready to get rid of you. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of heaven. So for him to figure out whatever he needed to say, to construct the sentence to make it seem like he was unfairly fired, he basically blamed it on the casino fundraiser, which is, you know, not the greatest excuse, right? So keep six solid, shout out to them. They posted that specific response from Ebro, right, to be in let go. And basically, your boy, Champagne Poppy, pause. He put an ax emoji right here.

Yep. ladies and gentlemen that is that's definitely drake putting an axe emoji basically letting ibro know that he's glad that he got ax by hot 97 and that's not it ladies and gentlemen when you come to the continuation of that ibro was not going to take that one standing down or sitting down as he basically came out he basically said drake is so no no drake is quote right wing now where did that come from and so is act Now, of course, y'all could tell by my name that I'm hugely insanely inspired by academics. But of course, if you're a long time listening to the podcast, you could tell we have very unique approaches to covering music in general.

So, yeah, we're a little different when we come to elecuting our points. So Peter Rosenberg, he chimed in because obviously, you know, to take a page out of Dave Chappelle's book, we wanted to know what Peter Rosenberg thought in a time like this. Obviously everybody was like, you know what? The iconic Ebro just spoke. Let's now get Peter Rosenberg's opinion. So Peter Rosenberg, he came out and said, it's behavior like this that has made it impossible, huh? For people to defend the whack.

And you know, there's a PG podcast. Let's just say the whack stuff that he does. Dot, dot, dot. But happy Hanukkah. Ladies and gentlemen, what type of random you turn did this man just make? What in the world? to my one-time pal What am I seeing that

You guys See that's You guys See that's the problem Sometimes I wonder If you know Backbones exist in certain Covers of music

When a certain artist speaks to you A type of way to never speak on him again Right Because Drake be cussing out these covers of music left and right And I think the main thing about showing that you have a backbone is basically saying that you know what forget you too right but obviously rosembourg has a different approach so this man said happy hanaica to my one-time pal i truly wish you well

even if you're celebrating what you believe is our demise and he went on to say in quotation marks no in parentheses spoiler alert we are about to be much bigger now that we won't be held back by company i'm-mm-mm-mm-i i feel like that's what every indie person says That is and has been completely lost ever since they bought the station. And Ebro basically put out the axe versus the ice cube. What in the world does that mean? The world may never know. So with that being said, another thing I was going to get at is, of course,

this is going to be an extensive coverage of Ebro and just the landscape of music covers because, you know, over here at notorious mass effect. You know, shout out to my supporters. This was just the past 16 million downloads. as far as the podcast, you know what I'm saying? So when it comes to the notorious mass effect, safe to say, stuff like this does not bring me any joy.

I never like to see people get fired, especially right before the holidays, or literally right at the holidays, because of course, Christmas is just next week. So now you look at it, and you say to yourself, wow, the Hot 97 really fired them and said, we're not bringing y'all back and seemingly gave them no notice,

because, of course, as I'm showing right here, that their show responding and breaking down how they get fired, they basically said they were not aware. Or Ebro said he was aware. And then Peter said he had no idea why he got called. And, you know, it's just a lot of interesting conflictions in their story. So anyways, with that being said, the axe was not the big as a deal. Right.

But then, ladies and gentlemen, then Ebro took it upon himself to release the DMs from Drake and when I tell you it's some of the craziest words I've ever seen constructed by Aubrey Graham I looked at this and said to myself is it okay I got my dope on me because guess what this man is incriminating himself to the highest extent y'all may think I'm joking but when you look at this analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio this man said die slower I kid you not you guys see that's the And not only did he say that, he also said, we got, and this is a PG podcast, let's just say, he said, we got some stuff for you. I wonder what type of stuff he's talking about. You know, it is Christmas. You know, maybe he got a gift for you, bro, you know, like a maybe new headphones. You know, he liked to wear headphones from covering music doing radio stuff. That's probably what he's talking about.

Anyways, so, you know, because of one of the greatest covers in this music genre, I ain't going to cap to you. I took it upon myself to look up the hole back and forth because I was like, that's not doing that enough for me. I know I saw the full context and every single publication is out here just putting up that screenshot, right? So of course, shout out to me. I ain't going to lie to you.

So with that being said, we're going to bring this up right now. So I have to say, this is the full conversation between Drake and Ebro and ladies and gentlemen, you're in for a treat. As this is very interesting in general, especially the way that Peter starts it off by saying that, you know, you was basically, hold on, I want to get him verbatim. Let's quote him verbatim.

Some, uh, you guys had some shit back and forth that was funny to see from 2020. And this was very interesting from Peter. There was love. It was all love in 2020. It was nice in 2020. It looks like you cleaned it up. Wait, hold on, hold on. What you say?

Looks like you what? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't be trust. It can't be trust. No, he ain't say why. I know, hold on, no. It doesn't connect to her. It wasn't a thing in her house.

She doesn't. I'm here to remind you. You forget. Now you support that. So you guys had some, you guys had some shit back and forth that was funny to see from 2020. It was love. It was all love in 2020. It was nice in 2020. It looks like you cleaned it up. Looks like you cleaned it up. Ladies and gentlemen. I know that ain't who I think it is. Not from your co-host. Now he doesn't make sense. Do it? That's crazy. Anyways. So this is the whole back and forth between Ebro and Drake. And I'm going to read it. out to you just in case you're listening to the audio-only version. August 19, 2020, ladies and gentlemen, Champagne Spicey responded to Ebro, mentioning him because you can see, can you, can I see that? Okay, yeah, I can't see that.

Hold on, give me one second so I could be a W-tech guy, not too crazy. Actually, should I just take away the whole screen? I'm just going to take away the whole screen. There we go. All right, I'm going to pop back up whenever I want to give my facial reactions. Pause, goodness gracious. You guys. Yeah, I get the point, right?

Anyways, let's get back to it. August 19, 2020, Aubrey Graham responded to Ebro, because as you can see, Ebro posts a story mentioning Drake. That's why it says you mentioned at Champaign Poppy in your story. So Drake saw that from Ebro's page, and he said, LOL, spicy talks. So even back then, they knew, you know, they knew what was going on, right? Ebro definitely knew the temperature. So after Drake said, LOL, spicy talks, Ebro said,

laughing emoji. Well, he responded with the laughing emotion. He says, sizzling. And then, to my surprise, Drake's in a whole soliloquy. This man said, hold on now. I appreciate you saying you're proud of me. And I might have to feel some words in it because I don't think he, you know,

he is a lyricist. He is a penmanship. You know, Paul is my fault. I ain't either. You guys. Y'all going to say I'm glazing. Anyway, I'm just going to read it. So Drake said, I appreciate you saying you're proud of me, though. I think that's the nicest thing you ever said dot dot dot but you can't say i'm whining or complaining because i say i because you because i say quote

i never been embraced end quote in a bar dot dot dot dot that's life energy for me stuff wasn't easy dot dot dot dot no the punctuation is important and it still feels like there's plenty debate and plenty scrutiny and plenty to prove and fight for it ladies gentlemen this is 19 this is august 19 2020 safe to say my goal in 2025 is the undisputed champion y'all call that glazing i just call that stating the facts you know what i'm saying anyways um but that being said he continued like i said a whole soliloquy and it stills oh no i said that i love it though i need it dot dot dot pulse rather that energy than you hearing me telling you how important and solidified I am in every bar laughing emoji i just still got more to show is it okay i got my dope on me that's essentially what he's saying so anyways

let's keep going and then ibra responded he basically said you know this is a very playful exchange um ibra basically responded with when you're great people hate period I ain't gonna lie. That's a bar. In the very ironic sense, that's a bar. As this man went on to say, literally everyone from Beyonce to Jesus. Goodness gracious, the Lord's name can never stop being played with.

Everybody put anything on Jesus' name. It's crazy. I put that on God. I put that on Jesus. Like, Jesus saying back, what do I do? I know that ain't who I think of it is. You know what I'm saying? Anyways.

Ebro said, literally everyone from Beyonce to Jesus gets criticized, analyzed, picked apart and doubted. I am proud of you and so is hip hop. Ibrough went on to say Ebro Darden, mind you, went on to say one thing to remember

comma, hip hop is a street culture, another comma. The streets the streets are dysfunctional. And the way hip hop shows love is also

dysfunctional. I'm not pronounced the first dysfunctional incorrectly, but you know, y'all got to excuse me, you know what I'm saying? So, Drake responded with a hard emoji, another pause. You guys. But then, of course, we went on to say, no, the Ebrook went on to say

because he knew he wasn't going to get another response from Drake. He probably talked about this back on 2020 on era. Like, hey, I had a whole conversation with Drake, you know, because this is the first time we've seen this. So back on 2020, he was like, me and Drake chopped it up. You know what I'm saying? We had a whole hour, two hour long conversation.

me so anyways um he finishes off by saying i'm gonna need you to get some sleep though oh no what in the type of the type of bromance they haven't are they having right now see that's the problem type of bromances is ebro having with drake right now y'all let me know anyways this continues ladies and gentlemen that's not the end of it this goes deeper right so drake finally responded after he saw that ebro was baiting because you know he saw that drake liked it which you know every significant other that gets ignored knows that when they put the love emoji, the conversation is over. But they wanted to keep going, right?

So Ebro said, I'm going to need you to get some sleep, though. Drake responded and said, it's a PG podcast. So he said, hey, I never do. Is it okay? I got my dope on me? That's my goat, man. That's my goat. I ain't okay to you.

All right, so let's keep going. Because essentially, after that, after he says he never gets sleep, and they cut away from it. So I wonder what else is in that conversation. I don't think, yeah, I don't think anything else in that conversation. because then you come to the screenshot that everybody and their mama be showing around. So, let me see.

Yeah, then you get to the screenshot that everybody and their mom have been seeing, right? So the continuation from Drake saying, I never sleep, that's how you know this is a continuation because Ebro says, not good, period. Well, actually, let me see if he, there's more. I think there's more to that.

Let me see. I think there's more to that. Let me see if he goes higher. Because I don't think he, I don't know if he starts off the sentence would not good. Nah, okay, I guess he does. Whatever.

All right, so let's go back to that. So he says, not good. Learn to sleep each night, period. Actually, it's two periods. Not good, period. Learn to sleep each night, period. Change your life, improve your life. Another period.

And he said, trust me, I ain't gonna lie. He broke really trying to shoot his shot in the DMs right now. Drake's saying, who don't they do? You know what I'm saying? He's trying to give him sleep advice. You know what I mean? he double texting

and Drake just like who need do you feel me he ain't trying to deal with none of that anyways then you come back to Ebro not only double texting but now ladies and gentlemen he has continued

into the triple texting territory you guys see that's the problem so the second text says even if you sleep to 5 p.m. to 11 12 a.m. goodness gracious this man is trying to be a whole infomercial

for mattresses outside because what in the world is going on right now what you mean you're trying to dictate his sleep schedule that's a grown man that's a that's a that's a grown man is it okay i got my dope on me all right anyways so that being said ibro told him the sleep schedule you know what i'm saying trying to be an infomercial trying to be a salesman he probably sold him a mattress we just don't see right here probably like the extra hard version you know because you know ebro got some type of bromance going on with him. So he said even if you sleep 5 p.m. to 11, 12 a.m. Then his, and then hit, okay, he meant to say hit instead of his, then hit the studio all night. So after being his therapist,

his love interest, his partner all in one, he ended with a triple text saying, you are in the second, maybe third stage of your run. Shout out to authenticity. Honesty for one of the ghost media coverage. I ain't going to lie to you. So Ebro finally admitted that Drake has goaded, of course, because who in the world gets the second, maybe third run in this game? Hip-hop is always like a running back in NFL. You only get like three to four years

of prime time, and then that's it. I think Drake's been running the game for like decades at this point. So, what is it 2025? I think around I want to say, it's been a minute. It's almost been two decades. It's been one definitely going on two decades. So y'all get the point,

right? Ebro finished with health is wealth. It's the realest stuff. Shout to him. And then now, ladies and gentlemen, we get to the point where we're at today. 2025, which is, you know, five years from then. Ebro announced that he just got axed from hot 97. And basically, the way that Drake responded is,

it's very in the incriminating stuff. stature, right? If I was a part of the political, not political, if I was a part of the police force, safe to say, somebody got this message sent to their desk. Whoever's the head honcho at the police officer station in New York, they got this message expeditiously sent to them via the EO. I'm not going to be, I kid you not, they probably printed this out 50 million times and sent the whole stack of papers just this just this picture to to the the head of the police force of new york as drake not only says dies slower which is crazy not only did he say die slower but he also said we got some stuff for you now ladies and gentlemen when i say this is a crazy

incriminating text because it was authenticated by drake himself as you look at the iG account You look at what Ebro was saying about it as far as him releasing it because Drake put the axe. So Ebro was probably thinking to himself because, you know, Ebro is a very smart individual. When it comes to the axe emoji and him celebrating you getting fired right before the holidays, I'm pretty sure if you're listening to this, that will also make you upset. What's the way to get back at somebody if they also DM you die slower and we got some stuff for you? Put it out to the internet. Aren't you a content creator?

It's time to go to the authorities. It's time to... What they do? My fault. I thought I had a snitching drop, but they just play young thug. What do they do? I don't know why I was doing that. Anyways, so if you go to the police authorities

and basically let them know that the biggest artist in hip-hop history just told me to die slower and said they got some stuff for me and I don't think it's a Christmas gift. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip-hop. Like, what's going on?

So, Ebro, respond. and he said relax period you're salty about losing to size seven i mean uh kendrick period you're not mad at me dot dot dot love bro another period yeah that man trying to be a significant out there i ain't gonna cap to you you guys see that's the problem all right ladies and gentlemen that's the fool back and forth and that's why i had to find that because i'm not going to lie to you i was looking at this saying to myself hold up now i know drake did not just tell this grown man to dot slower the holidays that man drake is um he is unhinged um you know i say he's my favorite musician i do not co-sign a lot of actions from obri graham right the musical aspect i believe he's screaming to

croc as far as from a pin aspect don't forget he wrote he did for bioncet just one of the random stuff i just wanted to tell you just off the top of my head pause but basically he's one of the greatest musicians ever these type of actions i also don't co-sign but it is hilarious in the sense of the comedic stature. But when you look at it in reality of Ebro getting fired and you telling somebody to die slower, that's very interesting in the aspect of

what that could mean with the influence that you have, right? And Ebro is spawning with love, bro. I'm not saying he backed down. I'm just saying he, interestingly enough, did not have a lot of smoke for Aubrey Graham after that specific statement. So if somebody tells you to die slower after you lost your job, right before the holidays like the week before Christmas I don't know if you would tell them love bro

I think you'll probably tell them a lot of other things that may be more provocative that I can't say on this podcast so what that being said that's basically all I wanted to get into I did not know I was going to go this long on this ebro drag back and forth but really is a big deal I mean like I keep saying ebro's insanely iconic some of the greatest figures I think in the music coverage space has Ebro in it. You know what I mean? If you look at the, I'm not going to say Mout Rushmore

because if I was to give it, it'll probably be like academics. Charlemagne, I'm trying to think of a top four. Probably like Big Boy. And it'll have to be Joe Button. I feel like Joe Button and Charlemagne's very, very similar.

Yeah, I don't know. As far as the top four, that's probably what I would give as far as Mount Rushmore. Now, I'm probably leaving somebody out, but that's my personal, my Rushmore. I would like to call myself a student in the game.

So I've been influenced by some of the greatest coverage, or coverers of music. And I like to, you know, take certain things and apply it to myself. I mean, y'all see my name. Like, come on now. So with that being said, that's basically it. You know, Ebro got fired. Drake celebrated in a fashion I've never seen,

I even think was possible to celebrate in this fashion. I mean, somebody losing their job before the holidays. And you say die slower. Safe to say even Funk Flets. Funflex, who's also iconic. He's not on the Mount Rushmore, but he's also iconic. He has something to say about Drake coming out and throwing hate towards Ebro's way. And that's what he had to say right here.

I know Drake don't like me. Oh. Hold on them now. How you just throw your name in the mix? We saw that little slick shot you took. See, but I know that wasn't just an Ebro. That was at Hot 97. It's not wrong.

Hey, that's facts. That's facts. Matter of fact, no, I don't. Drake. Oh, I don't know. Should be wondering about Kendrick and his next album. And I say that politely, Drake, because listen, you're a veteran just like. Now, if you don't know, Funkflex basically took over the morning slot for Ebro.

So it's not just out of left field. I think he's also taking up for Ebro. I don't know if Ebro and Funkflex are like on the greatest of page. But it does seem like Funkflex definitely took up for Ebro in this stature, basically seeing that Drake should be focused on Kendrick. which he's just kind of deal with that for the foreseeable future. Because of course, you already know how I feel about the rap back and forth. I believe that Drake had the greatest rap track out of the battle with Family Matters because he took out multiple artists and then focused on Kendrick at the end.

And then Kendrick undoubtedly took out him in a specific track. But he never really, who was Kendrick going at besides Drake? Y'all let me know. I mean, maybe some people in the OVO crew like Chubs, Drake took out ASAP, he took out the weekend, took out Rick Ross, who else, took out future, Metro. I mean, a lot of people just really skip past the amount of people Drake was going against. I'm not saying that Drake won the battle against Kendrick, but overall, Drake took out enough

people and family matters to me to make that the best track of the rap battle. So in the back and forth between Drake and Kendrick, Kendrick won, and the back and forth between Drake versus the field, which is literally why he said it was a 20v won, which, you know, that was a little exaggeration, but it was a lot of people. A'sab, The Weekend. I mean, they had a whole album called We Don't Trust You. We Still Don't Trust You. And all type of people was going at Drake.

And Drake was taking them off, knocking them off one by one. You would have thought he was in the DOC for Hitman, the way he was taking out people left and right. Whether it was Aesad, whether it was the weekend, whether it was Rick Ross. I mean, this is an actual, like, bars sent to their way. And they basically was like, you know what? Let's just let it slide. You got to deal with Kendry. Like, no, if I'm a rapper and you come at me the way that Drake came at ASAP talking about

you hear my baby mom around that time will tell me who I was hitting in like y'all know what he was referring to like at the end of day this may have really poignant surgical bars sent towards a lot of these artists way that people just completely dismiss because the one-on-one lyrical back and forth was won by side seven but it wasn't the overall quality that I believe uh kendrick won it was just the back and forth between specifically drake now hopefully I made that you know Anyways, at the end of the day, Drake is the goat, so I'm a little biased, but that's how I feel. When you look at Ebro getting back in the helmet with Funkflex said, do I finish? I don't know if I finished.

Oh, yeah, I guess I got 10, 13 more seconds. All of us, it's not that easy anymore. Now, these young rappers is touching you. Kendrick definitely touched you up, or should I say he definitely grinded your gear. Hey, yo. Wow. All right. so it's basically it so um yeah funkflex basically uh stood out for uh for ebro as far as the academics

are shade from ebro i think it's warranted i mean academics definitely went at uh ebro kind of crazy and you know back in the day ero went it at kind of crazy so it's an interesting back and forth they're having i believe the what he called him sack when he explained it with peter rosenberg he was talking about you know like as sacademics that's how he said it um i thought he was trying to hear that at something else which that would have been crazy and if you was trying to do that type of uh entangra but um yeah i think that's i'm not going to die deeper into that so when it comes to what else yeah ebro drake it was a it was a very historical back and forth i'm not going to say it's as big as like when lebron went at uh stephen a it's up there but it's not it's not it's not there

It would be, when Drake threw that whole soliloquy at Joseph talking about everything that popped into your head left you broke as a rapper, that was like the Stephen A versus LeBron. But as of right now, you know, Ebro versus Drake, you know, it's just another back and forth that Drake has had with a media cover. Because I literally had a segment where I talked about the amount of people that Drake was going as far as in the hip-hop field because hip-hop media. I don't know if it's this one. but Drake had a whole back and forth for the rollout of Scorpia where he was just going to hip-hop media and this is a while ago so

I think let me see so this is one with a partner next door Irish free cell steak goodness gracious there's a lot of Drake coverage pause you guys see that's the problem okay safe to say I can't find it

I was doing some Mickey research and safe to say I can't find it at all versus Kendrick Oh I'm tripping I made a whole episode about it Okay so October 10th 2023 I had I titled the episode Drake versus hip hop media

And that was basically his whole strategy When he was releasing Scorpion Because I think Scorpion was around that time Let me see So Drake has done this before For some reason this is just the I think as far as the MJ J.F. I think this is what helps him make better music when he feels like everybody's against them.

I mean, side seven, I mean, a white tank top did the same thing on GNX. He literally said, the industry don't love me, even though he's one of the most Grammys in one night. But, you know, that's a, you know, side seven fans be coping. So, um, 2023 is when, for all the dogs came out. Yeah, that's when he went at everybody. He went at Anthony Fantano. Anthony Fantano. He went at Joseph Anthony Budden. He went at, um, what else he go at uh he went at somebody it was somebody he really went at oh elliot y'all yeah he hates oh hey he said dot's lower the ebro you know y'all don't even want to know what he hey yeah he hates elli let's just let's just put it like that um so yeah this is this is a page out of drakes's playbook

and he's going to continuously use this as the time goes on for the foreseeable future so with that being said click my link through my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about the Ebro versus Drake battle? What do you think about Ebro losing his job and getting cut from Hot 97 right before the holiday season? And what is your biggest takeaway between this whole debacle of Ebro and Hot 97 and also having to go at Drake? Getting into the overview for episode 156, which of course was titled, is Expedition 33

the greatest game of all time. Shepard. Just look at the state of gaming. You know what I'm saying? What is going on? And as far as what's going on, safe to say, I told y'all that there was going to be a lot of drama, you know what I'm saying? Curtis Jackson and Sean Denny Combs are going to forever be at odds.

But with that being said, of course, starting off with the first topic of episode 156, we got into Abraham. Shepard. I mean, 21 Savage as, you know, of course. us when it comes to 21 Savage we got into his album what happened to the streets expected to sell 53,000 first week and then he ended up selling around that it's no actually I think he ended up selling more you know as far as his first week sales safe to say he saw that for uh that 53,000 first week and he said to himself who do need it's time to get the snitch into my label if y'all don't

start buying some bots I mean if y'all don't start promoting my album so as far as first week sales I think it was in the 70 range So at first it was going to be in the 50,000 range And then of course it was projected to be like a hundred or something like that But then chart a billboard brought it all the way back down And then it ended up selling Let me see What was it? What was it called?

What happened to the streets First week and then probably had to put the sales where That's probably how it works So anyways His album What Happen to the Streets Had a boosting sales right? It was gonna be in a hundred thousand billboard looked at it and they said hold up now look kind of fraudulent So they brought a lot of streams down it was gonna have a six figure type of first week sales but a billboard brought it down to 90,000 so officially Abraham I mean 21 Savage ended up selling 90,000 first week so we broke that down like a kilo mile size and of course

We transition into the cover as you can see right here as far as the music side of episode 156 as Tito double P and peso pluma did the unthinkable as far as putting out their first ever collab album and notoriously affecting the masses to the point where they currently have two tracks on the top 100 which usually for Latin musicians because you know of course the dominate the Mexico scene they have around I think 14 tracks charting in the top 50 in Mexico but as far as overall usually you don't see Latin musicians especially if it's not best Bad Bunny. So as far as the album, Dynasty is currently the 10th most play album in the world. And then when you look at the singles, their specific track, their specific track Dopamina is

currently the 78th most played track in the world, which is the most popular off of their album. And then of course, the second most popular is their track Dano, which is the 88th most popular track in the world. But keep in mind, they're running rampant as far as in Mexico, all type of chart placements, 14 tracks, and the top 50 as far as Mexico being considered. So with that being said, we got a Tito double P and Paisal Pluma and broke down the latest album as far as Dynasty.

And then, of course, we went into the one and only pooh shiasty. I can't believe it. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? As first day out was literally one of the more interesting outings for a rapper, pun intended, as not only is it doing phenomenal, but it was doing phenomenal when all the Christmas anthems was taken over the charts.

So now that the Christmas anthems are no longer there, it rose even higher. So to this point, it is the 17th most play track in the world. Shout out to Poo Shishti bringing ignorance back in the most shiasty way possible, pun intended. You guys. So that being said, of course we covered that. And, you know, Poo Shisie, definitely had one of the more interesting and surprising. hits as far as just out the gate and of course it starts 2026 and then another surprising act was ESD which is not because of him specifically but let it was because of the name he had attached

to him which if you was wondering who did he have did he have drake did he have trap Travis Scott Kodak 21 Savage no ladies and gentlemen I want to go full screen while I say this basically this man went to the box office. You guys. And brought out one of the biggest stars in the box office to be on his track as Timothy Shalame. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the actor Timothy Shalame was actually on the four raws remix. And as of right now, I believe the original track without Timothy Shalame is currently the 36 most played track in the world. But then, of course, E. S.D. Kid is also having Phantom as the 70 second most play track in the world.

So shout out to that man for actually putting up some phenomenal impactful music while also keeping his identity hidden somehow. I don't know how he does it, but somehow he's been able to keep his identity hidden this whole time. So that was it for the music field, not getting into the industry news, which we had a lot because Warner and Netflix basically had all type of deals and dealings to the point where,

when Netflix ended up buying out Warner Bros. Basically, they spent, I'm trying to see how much they spent because, you know, it was a good, it was a lot. Oh, $83 billion to buy Warner Bros. Crazy. And as far as that specific deal, I think the main thing you need to know is that Netflix is not playing around. They're throwing around a lot of money to acquire a lot of popular IP. And guess what? They may be a monopoly.

Now, I ain't trying to snitch, but they may be a monopoly. So that being said, it's safe to say, we broke that down like a kilo of Coke. And one of the things I forgot to say in the intro is basically my coverage of Billboard. So as far as Billboard, I believe we covered that recently. So that were also being here, but I didn't say that in the intro. We talked about how Billboard is set to increase the weighting of on demand. stream starting January 2026 and guess what guess what the date is and then of course for the drama portion i forgot to say as well that billboard uh and youtube was going at it so we're also going to have

that in there but of course um i forgot to say that intro but i wanted to say that again so we covered that as far as youtube versus billboard that was a huge deal especially just two mammoths of a company beefing i don't know what's what it's going to do to the music industry but it's going to do a lot as billboard's already trying to counteract the falling out of their relationship with YouTube as they're increasing the waiting of on-demand stream starting January 2026. And of course, you know we had to get into the Game Awards as... Shepard. Yep. Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on?

So, of course, the Game Awards is one of the most highly acclaimed award shows to basically tell you what's going on in the gaming industry. And safe to say, clear, obscure, Expedition 33. completely swept and I think it was well deserved. So we get into the Game Awards, break down the winners, what I thought about who should have won. As far as Jeff Keely, I broke down how he has some type of turmoil and animosity towards the Sonic fans.

And we haven't got to the bottom of it yet, but I think I laid out enough information and facts to let you know why Jeff Keely may not like Sonic fans like that. Because don't forget, the previous Game Awards show, he basically claimed that the Sonic fans was botting their votes for the fan vote and basically disqualify them. So I think he may have held some animosity continuing into this award show because there's no way Sonic Racing Cross Worlds shouldn't have won best racing game and was even more egregious. There's no way that Sonic 3 shouldn't have won best adaptation because it came out in the eligibility period and it was nowhere to be found on a non-average. list let alone to win I thought it should have won it's not even on the nominee list so yeah Jeff

keely definitely has some some hidden uh grievances with the sonic fandom and we got to get to the bottom of it so I would that being said and of course we talked about fallout season two as you already know with the original fallout basically season one did phenomenal as far as box office as far as critical acclaim and it's already seeming like season two is going to be just as phenomenal as it already has a higher rotting tomato score than season one. So we dove deep in the fallout season two to end off industry news. And now, as far as transitioning into the gaming industry, we started off with Diablo four.

We got to CSGO, which is currently the top most play game on Steam. So, you know, there was only a matter of time before our deep dive into CSGO. Then we talked about Whiteout Survival, the mobile game. We got into Kirby Airwriters, which interests. Lessingly enough, it's currently the sixth most played game on Nintendo. I thought they was going to be completely disrespectful when I saw it first come out. But it seems like it's holding that top six slot pretty solid. So it debuted kind of lowered and I thought it should have, but it's really holding that placement.

So I think they're dedicated fan bases are not even leaving. They're basically playing Kirby as much as they were when they initially came out, which was surprising to me because usually it tapers off. Then, of course, for the section that I know that everybody was, looking forward to the drama portion and you know we had to start off with Sean we had to start off with Curtis Jackson aka 50 cent versus Sean Diddy Combs you guys see that's the problem and we basically broke down 50 cents Netflix documentary towards Diddy and talked about everything you needed to know about the 50 cent Diddy documentary which went number one as soon as it came out so you already

know that diddy when people said that did he sent flowers to 50 cent and i say people like 50 cent didn't confirm it himself also with a picture um hold of you y'all want to see a picture you want to see how diddy sent flowers to uh 50 cent whole time i was looking i was like where's the baby oil shepherd no i'm just saying you know if you're going to send flowers you already about that life might as well send to johnson and johnson along with the uh boutique you know what i'm saying so anyways diddy 50 cent let me see flowers so confirmed by 50 cent himself basically

Sean Deddy Combs sent 50 cent flowers and I don't think it was to congratulate him and you know if I was to be a betting man I think it's basically letting Curtis Jackson know that you've made a powerful enemy as 50 cent captioned this I'm not going to read it off because you know I'm gonna let you all cancel 50 cent not me

I'm not going to read it off but basically he confirmed the flowers as you can see right here. Ladies and gentlemen, those are funeral flowers, by the way. And if you watched the Diddy documentary, pray for Curtis Jackson, man. But then, you know what I'm saying?

I was like, damn, look at the state of hip-hop. Like, what's going on? And Safe to Say, that's where I'm going to leave it at. So with that being said, we continue from that drama coverage into Call the Duty versus Battlefield 6, and we basically talked about how when it comes to the mammoths

of the shooting genre, safe to say arc Raiders came out of nowhere i know what y'all said hold up now you was just talking about call of duty and battlefield where arc raters come from where if you don't know arc raders is currently eating um battlefield and call of duty's lunch as of right now and call of duty versus battlefield was really just the opportunity to art for arc radius to get that back door in because ready and not really uh quiet is kept is also one of the more popular shooters that really i'm not going to say nobody's talking about but it's i feel like the flowers that they deserve is it should be a little more maybe i'm a little biased because i played it with my cousin it was one of my top three games as far as last year

but i will say ready and not deserve more of his flowers because it just came out last year on console it's been out on pc but it just came out recently on console so it's doing phenomenal along with arc raters but arc raters is seemingly getting all the credit for taking call of duty and battlefield's uh player base so anyways then we dove deep into billboard versus youtube as if you don't know that's a big thing in itself because youtube streams would no longer factor into all billboard charts after internal dispute so that's a huge deal how it's going to affect the industry or the music industry we're going to see very soon because it just went into effect literally i think i got a quote um got a notification that just went into

effect because i think today was the day they officially did it so yeah three hours ago charted day to put out YouTube no longer contributes to the Billboard charts effective today. And as you can see right here, January 15, 2026. So safe to say, it's very interesting. And I don't know what's actually going to happen because of this, because Billboard and YouTube is really to go to sources for how music is impacting and affecting the masses. So for me personally, I'm very interested to see how this impacts and affects the music industry. So ending off

with the last topic of episode 156, we got to the one and only Ebro. And even though I think it's a huge legend, is it okay, I got my dope on me? Somebody thought they had some dope as far as things to say to Ebro, and he said to Ebro, I kid you not. Drake,

Aubrey Graham, said to Ebro after he got fired. I hope. No, no, he basically said, die slower. And he said some other things. But let's just leave it at that. then you know what i was like damn look at the state of hip hop like what's going on and of course ibro darton turned into who he basically turned into i don't know why i keep playing young thud that's supposed to be my

snitch and drop anyways um ebro basically released the drake dms and of course you can see it right here i'm just giving you a little snapshot of you know all the topics but basically as you can see right here this man was playing no games as if you really look at it safe to say what drake said right here I don't think that's really what you try to say to somebody that just lost their job. And that's my favorite artist. You guys. See, that's the problem. So, of course, Ebro responded with, relax, you're salty about losing to Kendrick.

You're not mad at me. Dot, dot, dot, love, bro. What in the world? But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? One of the most iconic coverers of hip hop. And one of the most iconic artists in hip-hop beefing like this is just a sad sight to see.

because of course, I don't know what type of resolution we're going to get from these two gentlemen. So with that being said, I thought it was very fitting to end off the drama portion and end off the episode with Ebro versus Drake. So that's about it for episode 156 that for one last time, I mean, I said it's one last time, but, you know, notorious mass effect episode 156 title is Expedition 33, the greatest game of all time. You know, as far as that specific episode and, this entirety of the episode, thank you for tuning in to the notorious mass effect podcast.

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