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Episode Date: June 3, 2025

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for June 3rd, 2025. Of course, I'm your host Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by blessing at a Yo-Yea Jr. Good day, Tim. Greg Miller. Good day, Tim. And the order is restored. The seating order.

Yeah, and Andy Cortez as well. If you have Amazon Prime, you have Twitch Prime. That is true. Don't you ever forget it, everybody. Sometimes you're out there and you forget. You're like, what's that thing? Andy always says. They don't want you to remember it.

Amazon Prime. You have Amazon Prime. at Twitch Prime. Set a reminder so you don't forget. Set the reminder, everyone. It is Summer Game Fest season. It is announcement season. It is Switch 2 season. It is PlayStation season. It's all the damn seasons. It's exciting times for everybody.

We didn't know that a state of play was happening until we did. So we just did a kind of funny games daily where we gave our predictions being blessed of what we might see at tomorrow's PlayStation event. But we're doing a full ass Xbox showcase prediction. Each one of us bringing five predictions for what we think

Microsoft has up its sleeves on Sunday, when, of course, we'll be live reacting to the showcase, then after that, doing our Gamescast breakdown analysis of all of that, because this is the kind of funny gamescast. We each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership.

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If you have predictions or things you want to see at the Xbox Game Showcase this weekend, please let us know so we can get through all of that. Little housekeeping for you. We're throwing a Switch to launch party this Wednesday, a.k.a. tomorrow, can you believe it? Boys.

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today that looks, Andy, you want to tease it? Well, I'll like it. I'm sorry, Tim. I can't even think about that right now because now I'll just have to take on the celestial pest or whatever that thing is later. Bless. I mean, I can help you out. What's the third boss call? I forgot what it's call. you're close it's not the celestial pest

it's something pest something pest Remember the pest with John Leguizama I know you do I only saw screenshots from this Tim I haven't watched the thing

excited I watched it very excited like all the murmuring all the sort of buzz around it seems like okay it seems like another one of those

you know CD Project right we love y'all we've been tricked before I have that exact same thought first of all it's called sentient pest Secondly, I did watch

like the first like five minutes of it and to spoil a part of it, there's a part where they zoom in to the horse and show its muscles. Like it's in like the inside of its leg to show how like detailed the horse muscles move. So they should be a fun episode. Kevin loved the pest Greg.

That's who it was. I knew it was one of y'all love you. Good job Kevin. shot to Johnny L, man. I don't know that I did. I don't remember anything about the pest. Oh really? I love John Luzamo. Yeah.

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Tats, stop. The Xbox Game Showcase, 2025 predictions. Let me read a little bit. from Xbox.com for you. Make some space on your calendar. The Xbox Game Showcase, 2025 will be live streamed on Sunday, June 8th at 10 a.m. Pacific, which means we will be live around 9.30 a.m. Pacific to react to what we're about to see. Following the footsteps of the 2020 Starfield Direct and the 2024 Call of Duty Black

Off 6 Direct, this year we will again have a double feature with the Xbox Game Showcase immediately followed by the Outer Worlds 2 Direct. It all begins with the annual. Xbox Game Showcase, bringing you a look at upcoming titles from across our first-party studios. In addition to incredible new titles from our third-party partners across the globe, this year, the show will be digital only. Our live stream will bring you everything you need to know about what's next for Xbox, no matter where in the world you're watching.

Immediately following that, the Outer Worlds 2 Direct will bring you inside the walls of Obsidian Entertainment, revealing new gameplay, details, and developer insight straight from the people making the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG. Gee, that's we just reviewed again. That's right. Go check out last Thursday's games cast. Me, Andy, Stella. Out of worlds.

Touching a hand. I think Andy's out of this world. Thank you. So, yeah, check that out. No, 9.45 Pacific time. That's when we're going live with that one on Sunday because it's a crazy weekend. I said 930.

I was wrong, everybody. Somewhere around there. Somewhere around there. And then the post show after. Of course. So before we get into our predictions, I want to have a top level conversation. Digital only.

Do you think that has any effect on the announcements or anything of this showcase? No. I don't either. No, not at all. Yeah. I mean, was last year's in person?

I think all of them had some level of an in-person. Well, they did the in-person events. They showed the pre-reported thing to the audience. Yeah. No, I don't give me shit about that. You're fine. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you.

I feel like it's a cool thing that they did. And I don't really understand why they're not doing it. Turn on investment. Maybe. Live events are hard and expensive. You know this all too well. That's true. What are they really getting out of this?

And I think I've seen community members already stepping up and doing a lot of stuff. They are doing a community one. I think also possibly we see a similar thing that Sony's done in the past and other outlets where it's, you know, the green screen presentation thing. But then, you know, introducing the next game would be here's a dev with not a whole lot to say, but it's enough to, you know, put a face to the name and make it a little bit more person. personally, you know. Sure. So then let's do it. Let's get into our predictions.

Each one of us will bring five predictions to the desk right now. One thing I do want to call out is that once you put this set up and you get the green afloan on kind of funny, you can't keep Paris Lily away. True. As much as you want to, as much as you try to. It's his bad signal. He infiltrates. So I do have Paris's six predictions. Six predictions from Paris.

I love that. I love that. And then Mike is sick. So we sadly can't be here. Yes. You can't keep him away. Just let him go to Disney. Land and lick everything.

World and lick everything. I started to say World and I stopped myself. Paris points out he's hosting an Xbox community event. I wasn't sure if that was public because I got an email about it. So yes, Paris is in fact hosting one. You could go to an L.A. if you're there. Andy Cortez. Hey, Tim.

I'm going to start with blessing. Oh. In your face. I hate that because I was about to type in. What are some Xbox games? God damn it. Because I have ridiculous. I did your homework.

I did, but I don't like what I wrote. Ben there. I'll take it all back. I have a kind of a weird one that I think we'll throw people for a loop. It's nothing even title-wise. It's nothing even title-wise. It's nothing IP-wise. I think that we will get PlayStation mentioned

four plus times. Okay. You will see. logos you will see an Xbox person say coming to ever like they are not going to make this just play Xbox centric. Ampe it up, amp it up

Shuhay Yoshido be there. Yeah. Mario's going to walk up. Doug Bowser I think you're going to see PlayStation being mentioned four plus times. You know what? 4.5 plus times and then you took it over under. Here's my thing. I think

logo wise, yes. But like my one thing for you to make this like spicier. Will we hear the words PlayStation even once? Because I think that's where I'm a little bit more trepidacious. Okay. Well, that's where I want to like lean back a bit. That's where I want to like, okay, I'm cowering. I'm homer ships and going back into the bush. Because now it, it, well, that also just kind of goes against their sort of mantra of play anywhere. Yeah. And we know what they mean by play anywhere. And, you know, maybe when they say play anywhere, then, like, you get a quick little one frame of Jim Ryan or something like that.

But I don't think... I'm going to say yes, just to be extra spicy. We'll say yes. All right. Greg, what's yours? The Outer Worlds 2 releases on September 4th, 2025. Oh, fuck. I like this.

Thank you. Why? I think I'm trying to... I'm very much cribbing the homework from Starfield. feel. Remember when they did the Starfield direct, obviously, they then put the date on it there, which was September 5th, 6, 7th, somewhere in there or whatever. So I'm picking the

Tuesday that I think lines up with that to get that out. I also looked at, you know, the release dates obviously for the rest of the industry. Seems like a good enough time to drop in open world RPG to get it out there and get it some limelight before the next big thing comes. I like that it's such a specific date.

Thank you. That's good. I wanted to be specific. I have many specifics here. I give you an extra point. Yeah, if you get that exact though yeah you get an extra point I like that a lot An extra point Yeah See I feel like if you gets it wrong at all

You should not get any point Get zero I'm with that day's off It's a prediction Well I mean I guess Yeah technically Yeah yeah Well like I

I don't know I just think him Try him going the extra miles Like that's you deserve a bonus point If you get it exactly If you don't get it exactly Then you're you get zero I need like five more sentences

When the entirety Of the prediction is that Well, the prediction could be that Outer Worlds 2 gets a release date. Oh, yeah. I'm hanging brain here saying September 4th. All right. Fix your prediction. You just say Outer Worlds 2 gets a release date.

That release date is the fall, specifically. September 3rd. I will stick with September 4th there and let that go. Well, there are some of the other things I started kicking around. I'm like, oh, man, well, how would I put this? Where would I put that? See, this is fun because. I do have a them for my predictions, at least for a portion of them, because I've now started remixing some of these because I want to get more exciting.

But the theming overall for my Xbox predictions is that 2026 is a banger year for Xbox. And so to start off, we're going to start off with Outer Worlds 2 since Greg mentioned it. Outer Worlds 2 impresses at the direct, at the Outer Worlds 2 direct. It gets a fall release date, but then later this summer it gets delayed to 2026. No. Adding to the banger year that 2020. They can't do that. They can't delay it to 2026.

Don't you dare. Outer worlds? You're crazy, dude. It's an IGN first. Obsidian? Delaying a big first person RPG that's coming out in the fall? That was different though. Avowed had no juice.

They knew they had no juice with Avow. They needed to make the juice. I don't think they would do the direct without it being imminent. I agree. Like look at Starfield, look at Call of Duty. That's their MO right now. Yeah. I think to the point.

I don't remember the rumors were last year with a vowed getting pushed right. It was strictly because of how crazy everything was, thus giving obsidian more time to work on Outer Worlds 2. So it didn't seem as tight a timeline as it actually... Yeah, it would have appeared. I can't... I'm with... I think, you know, when they said...

When they put a vow at the beginning of this year, I was like, well, there's no way Outer Worlds 2 is coming this year. And then the doubling down on it and giving this, you know, direct presentation. I'm like, no, I believe now. They can't do it. They can't take it away from me. We'll see. I'm trying to get spicy about predictions.

I understand. I'll hear you. What exactly. do you think we get delighted by in the trailer? In Outer Worlds too? Oh, I like that question. Have you really liked the IGN coverage?

No, sadly. No, that's good because I think IGN's coverage you go, oh, like I perked up, listen to Michael Hiam, talk about it. Because I'm already somebody who's all the way into Outer Worlds because I fucking loved Outer Worlds One. And I'll say one of the things I liked a lot about Outer Worlds One is how much you could, how many of like the scenarios you can like solve with.

Permutations. Yeah, permutations. Like conversation stuff or like, you know, knowing the. engineering stuff or whatever. So, like, I think maybe more permutations as far as that stuff. I'm sure that's already been covered. And so people in chat are probably going to be like, oh, they've already announced that.

But I'll say that. I'm going to say they show us some kind of dialogue sequence and, like, show us how things can go differently. I'll tell you this way that, yes, Hym's coverage has touched on that, but it hasn't been as deep as you think. So I think this is going to be the deep dive of here's what it is. It's also the idea that, like, Hyam in his, the preview I watched right, didn't even get to play.

He went there and saw a bunch of stuff, but didn't get to play. play it. For me, I think the surprise and delight of it is going to be how good combat is. I think combat's going to look good. I think guns are going to be more crunchy. I think melee is going to be more physical. Even me listening to the stuff, I didn't watch a lot of it because I wanted to have that reaction to the director. It already looks miles better. Obviously, that just comes at time and that comes with engine upgrades. And, you know, I want to say they're using Unreal Engine 5. Somebody will correct me on that. But as much as I like the Outer Worlds, too, and I think it's like a really fun, good video game.

Outer World's One. Oh, Outer Worlds One. It looks really bad in some moments. And sometimes you go outside, it's like not like, I should, this whole place looks like it's just lit. Like there's like, they turn shadows off. Like, there's a lot of moments like that in the game. And already with what we've seen with the IGN first,

sort of the footage that they provided to them, like walking through those interiors look freaking fantastic. I really want more, what I'm hoping to see to kind of go off with the combat is I want to see more like gravity gun type shit you know we talk about it in the review how I kept on being asked while I was playing it on stream have you found any science weapons yeah

and I didn't and I didn't really know how to but people telling me oh that's where you shoot a thing and then it's like an anti-grab thing and like that's the stuff that I want more of from these games more wacky yeah I want us to just see bodies flying and like telekinesis type powers you know Tim all are out here doubling down on Outer Worlds 2

You're gonna triple down And that's fine Double fine Oh He's doing it He's doing it He's crazy Double Fine announces their new game

But I want to get a little spicier than that Because I think that's a little boring people named Paris Lily Who wrote and he says Double Fides do game announced Thanks All right Paris Point blank

It's gonna happen It's gonna happen Double Vines game will be here on Sunday. But I want to add a little like extra wowie zowie factor to this. This is based on nothing, but my mind. And my mind thinks about numbers a lot. It thinks about success and thinks about the business of all this. And I think you're getting there.

He's tiptoe into it. Microsoft is going to want a successful hits from Double Fad. I like where you're going. Not just a good game. Good games aren't good enough these days. Critical acclaim can only do so much. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. I don't know.

I don't know what Greg's doing. I don't know who you're doing. I don't know. Licensed, you're going to say licensed, yeah? 100%. You grab the back of his neck and tell me how to talk for him. Grab him back of his neck. I don't know if I want to.

Grab it, blast, grab it. I don't know necessarily about licensed. It'll be an existing ID. It'll be a known IP. It'll be a known. IP, not a double fine IP. It will be brutal legend too. It could be Xbox.

It could be Marvel. It could be whatever. I do think, though, it's more likely it'll be a something from, you know, a banjo or a spiral or whatever. But I don't think it's necessarily going to be those things. I'm just saying double finds next game based on an IP that's not a double fine IP. I like that. I like it.

I hadn't thought about this either until I read, you know, this milk toast Paris for prediction. It's because he's not here. Hey, man. He knows the rules. If he's not in the room, he gets dunked on. I like that. You know, immediately when you started jump in there

and we went the licensed route or whatever. I agree. It could be anything, you know, video game. I just want it clear. I went the license route. You went the, yeah, yeah, la. Because you were right there. You were about to say it.

I was helping you out. I was helping you out of stuff. I think you don't be a fun one for them to do. I think a fun one for them to do if they did like, and this is not my prediction, but I'm tossing it. There's just spice to keep you excited. You know what I mean?

Keep you up. Keep you at midnight. You know what I'm saying? Oh. I think them teamed with Marvel for a Miss Marvel game could be really fun. A Kamala Khan game of some kind. Not like, you know, behind the back third person

straight up, but like she's so creative with her and big empowers and stuff. I think you could do something really fun. I was way off because I thought you were going to say Viva Penaata. Like I mean, oh my God, yes, a Viva Penaata, yes, that's it. I mean, you want to talk about a cult classic so many people say they want. What double finds take on Viva Penaata would be?

Would be fantastic. Do you think, Tim, that during whatever this reveal is that we get a glimpse at who the main character is, because there's, or actor, because there's always,

you know, they always kind of have little celebrity cameos or just actually, you know, I think of Elijah Wood with broken age. Is it going to be

one of those level of actors, you know? I'm not saying, Jack Black as Miss Marvel. Oh, now we're talking about. I honestly, I don't know where a lot of my

thoughts are coming from, but I really feel. You know. they're not my thoughts I guess I stay up at night I'm scared it was like

the stilted way he said it as if he's fighting back on I'm not fully in control my body I just again maybe double fines doing

fucking great and like these games are like successful financially in a way that like is all good something just tells me they're not

so it's like I just feel like anything that might be a risk, they're not going to do. So I don't think it's going to be a Jack Black. You know what I mean? Like, I think that's a little too big at this point. So something smaller, perhaps, but I don't think that's what they're going to hang their cap on.

I think it's going to be more just like, yo, we make good games and this one's going to sell well. How well did Psychonauts 2 sell? Maybe it sold great. I mean, it was critically very successful. Exactly. I'm not talking about the quality of the game. Like, we know they can do that. 1.7 million copies by April 1, 2022.

Interesting. And that's sold, not played. Good for them. Yeah. By what date? April 1st, 2022. So it's like eight months, nine months? They've got to be like a 2.5, maybe three now.

Seven months. That's pretty good. Yeah. Andy. We were back to you. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Halo Studios pops up, right?

It's their first game being called Halo Studios. No longer three, four. They are the Halo Studios brand And we are going to get a game That is going to be It's going to be Nathan Philean's character From ODIF, from Reach Oh shit. ODST. ODST.

ODST. I think it's going to be like a sort of side campaign Off of one of those characters like prequel type deal Dealing with ODST. I think they're going to like go away from Cheap for just a little bit It's going to be a short little romp Don't expect this expansive open world thing I think it's going to be like

Hey let us prove you let us prove to you what we can cook with this project. I don't know what it's going to be called, but it's going to be a Halo game with Nathan Fillen. Crazy. You're fucking great. Going back to what I was just saying, they need to just make a Halo games that people love.

And you don't do that without the chief. And I understand even with the chief, it doesn't mean people are going to love it all the way. That's where I'm at. That's where I'm at. Like, Andy, I'm just like, this is your prediction? We're having,

we have that discussion all the time when it comes to, oh, tired of these remakes. a new IP or tired of movie remakes a new IP and then when there's a new thing people don't do it anyway so it's like at what point do you it does it right now halo's in a state that I'm it's always sort of like up and down are people angry in the community or people happy over halo's going I just feel like this is like their new slate but infinite gone how do you how do you just like actually make the most people happy with the product you just remake the first one on real engine 5 and it's on every console.

All of that to my prediction. Tack it on. Nathan Phillyenianian. I think that's way more likely. Yeah. Paris literally chimes in. Future of Halo is teased. Yeah.

What does that mean? Exactly. You know what I mean? Feels like we're going to make more halo. Shut up, Paris. Real talk, I do, I do think that like, you do. Paris is on to something of like

there is a high likelihood that if we get something from Halo, which I think we will. It is just an actual official announcement that a game is coming in the future. It's just an announcement. We're not getting like Chief in the Poncho. Well, because we already got Chief in like the picture of him in the Unreal Engine 5. You know what I mean? Like that feels so early that like that game, unless it's a remake, I don't, or a smaller project like Andy's saying, like we're not getting that game.

It's crazy to think that whatever the next halo thing is going to be next gen. Like that's going to be for. whatever the next thing is. I don't think that's crazy. In terms of what Paris is talking on here, I don't think that's out of the realm of possible. Because I wonder if it's too early to talk about that. Unless Xbox,

I mean, we've talked about how maybe Xbox could be trying to get ahead of it, right? As far as when they launched next gen, could we see a new gen Xbox? And I mean, next year it feels early, but in the next two years?

Yeah? Does that mean, you announce a Halo now? I mean, again, I'm standing by, I think that whether it's just Master Chief Collection being ported or a Halo 1 remake,

which I do things happening in Unreal 5 on every console. I think that's, that is the next step for Halo to be able to rebuild if they want to or if they, like, possibly even can. I think that's the bigger question. Can they? I think that, I think there's going to be a lot of studios that

the reason why I'm leaning towards these smaller projects is I think a lot of these big ass studios are going to have smaller teams working on smaller things while the big thing is cooking. Sure. The big thing is being made. So whenever that next big project happens, we

would have already had something to come out. So it doesn't, you know, like yesterday on the Gamescast, us talking about, these studios taking seven years to make their next big game because they're so expensive and things take so much time having these smaller more mobile teams within your squad to pump out something that can at least get some revenue in and not make people question whether you are existing, you know, whether you exist anymore, you know. Yeah. Gregory.

The Xbox cross-Rog ally gets a trailer slash commercial like... I just learned all of that. I haven't been drinking as far. The Xbox cross-Rog ally gets a trailer slash commercial like the console options one from last year.

You remember this? It was a 45-second. Hey, boom, space black Xbox Series X, one. Here's the white one and all that jazz, right? They show that, again, they come out. You're looking at the rag out, the rug spinning.

It's got the nubs on it. Like we know. from the leaked image, right? It's got the Xbox OS running on it. That's a big deal for everybody that, you know, blah, blah. But more importantly, I want to make this spice here since we know this is happening for all intensive purposes, right? I think they also tease the next gen Xbox here as well.

I don't think they put a date on it and say next year or anything like that, but I do think that they are open about similar to how they've been open about this to a degree, but then that they are working on a handheld. Phil's talked about that on a, this, that the other, right? I think they get into a little bit here of like, we are hard at work on the next gen Xbox. And I think they probably confirm that it is going to be what we're talking about, what the rumors have been,

right, of it will be an Xbox and it will also dual boot. I don't know if they'll mention Steam. I don't know if they'll mention Epic Game Store, but I think they'll make it clear that more than ever, what they're working on is the continuation of their promise that everything's an Xbox and now we want to make the Xbox everything kind of thing. What do you think, Tim?

You're nodding. You're not, you're nodding. You're percolating. You're thinking. I mean, I like where your heads are. that I want those answers. I want that conversation to happen. More than anything, I think one of the things I'm most excited for this week

in a very exciting week is Xbox OS and what we get from that. Sure. But I'm also just not expecting to get much from it from this showcase. I definitely think that's a blog post. That is a interview. Don't you think that the showcase kicks it off, though? That's how they do this a lot of times. And they do like deep dives and they do whatever.

So I can see you get the 45 second thing. Kevin, I just dropped in X, uh, assets, the purexbox.com article. I mean, you show what the handheld looks like, right? Scroll down a bit, Keth. Right, this guy here that we've seen leaked around. I think that's a better one. Stay right there.

Get a fucking Korox swipe. Jesus. I know. But you have the nubs on them. You show that. You show the OS on it. And then I think, yeah, at the same time, a trailer, or I'm sorry, the trailer and the blog post go live on the wire that are really

detailing what it is and when it's available and what you're doing with it. The thing that I'm the ugly things I've ever seen in my life is, is, is you bringing up the next gen console announcement. I think that does more harm than good. Yeah? Yeah. I think there's too much ammunition to everything.

Yeah. I think it just pisses people off. Like, I don't think there's any benefit to that. For like what there would be taught, especially in one of these showcases that not just traditionally, like I don't think ever has focused on

ecosystem-y stuff like this, you know? I understand, but I think ecosystem for Xbox is more important than ever. When we talk about everything, it is an Xbox, and we talk about the app. Is it, though, when I feel like, what's more important?

than ever is that their games are selling. Sure. You know what I mean? But I think actually selling. I just think it's a good way, especially if you're talking about the OS, you know, the Xbox, whatever handheld, OS, as Hossein Paris, his first prediction on his list was new Xbox experience for Windows that scales to handhelds

and cloud devices. So wrapped right in here with what I'm talking about with what the Rog ally would be because I think it's going to be this machine that runs this OS that I think is going to be available for your Steam Deck, for your existing Rog ally, etc., etc., etc. Like, I think it, I think when they make this move and they talk about this,

they need to talk about it. And I think part of the conversation is this is the evolution and proof of our plan, but that doesn't mean we're abandoning the Xbox. In fact, we're making the next Xbox right now when we're making it, so it's your traditional Xbox experience, but taking what that is

and bringing in PC gaming at large. I'm so hopeful, man. I really need to fix the Windows gaming side of things on handhelds. And I think that, I don't know why I believe in them so much, but I do with I think that the Xbox OS is going to solve these problems. I think you believe in them because they're committed to this.

I can't believe we're here. I feel like you believe in them on this one as I do too for something we don't know, but because they've seen the success of all this stuff. And again, now they are everywhere. Like the cloud gaming is everywhere. The app is everywhere. Everything is a fucking Xbox. More than ever, they need to bring over what Microsoft and Xbox is good at.

And that's, you know, getting you into this ecosystem and making you feel welcome and natural and having it be that it's pulling everything. It is showing my Steam games and my epic games and whatever, but it's giving me a not just desktop icon. Plus, Blade shows up. Bouch, sick. It gets a new trailer. It's a gameplay trailer.

It's first person. It's more detectivey than you might expect. I would say it's doing for Blade what machine games did for Indiana Jones. We're hunting down, I mean, you're doing the hunting down zombies, right? But it is more figuring out like, or vampire, sorry, it's a zombie. But yeah, you're hunting on vampires and, like, it is more so, like, following trails, like, you know,

actually like hunting these fucking vampires. Blade colon, Redfall. Exactly. Well, speaking of which, the art style is very arcane, but I'll say it's fitting for Blade. The three words I use are dark, cool, and bloody.

Blade, the character, is voiced by Tommy Earl Jenkins. Oh, and it's dated for Tommy Earl Jenkins. Dead Stranding. Guy Hardman. It's dated for 2026. I like this

This is a fun one That's the full of a lot of stuff To think about that That would be some fantastic gameplay I'm 50-50 on Blade showing up here I think it's time Yeah definitely could be I mean it's time

I just worry is it actually Are we there? I want this to happen really badly Also I take back the first person part They already confirmed Yeah they did I was Googling right I'm like you're trying though

Yeah Actually they switch it out there It's going to be like a vowed. They're adding first. Timothy, he's thinking. Expedition 33. Last year was announced at the show case. Now it's a mega hit.

Xbox is going to want to continue that relationship, partnership, association to some extent. It does feel a little early, though, to announce anything, to announce DLC or something like that. You know what I mean, Andy? And the creator did say that there's no DLC. PLC plan. Fucked up.

At the time. Yeah. You know what I mean? Give me Expedition 60. The DLC. So what I'm saying is I think we will get the announcement of DLC. But it is going to be such a vague just, we're doing it. We do it.

You know? It's just the confirmation. Something is happening. Something new is coming to Expedition 33. Wee, we, DLC. That's how they say it. Yes. Yes.

Yes. No, just two. Just two yes. Anybody of note announcing it? An Xbox head or is it somebody from... I think it'll be from a message from Sanfal. Okay. Message from Sanfal.

Is it a big group of all of them in front of a camera? Perhaps. Okay, I like that. Are they speaking in French but with English subtitles? Just a little bit. A little bit of both. I don't buy it. Yeah, I'd like to.

I just don't think that they whipped it up fast enough to get to this point. And even then to confirm, like, hey, we're working on it. feel soft for a yeah it'd be cool to have some DLC a new hat yeah a new beret

too many hats in that game green you know I don't know too many hats because I do think the next big announcement for that game that needs to happen is a Switch 2 port

so I almost imagine that would happen before a DLC because they're going to sell so many goddamn you know on that thing oh yeah might replay it on the Switch 2 Andy Cortez

I think think that we get a real big because Outer World is getting the big treatment Outer Worlds 2 is getting the big sort of deep dive treatment I think we get the most of a deep dive

in this presentation is going to be for state of decay 3 Yeah! Let's fucking go! And it will be crossplay everywhere. What the fuck? Everywhere. They're going to show some... Like, it's going to be the I don't know

lengthwise, if I just say it's going to be the longest part of just the standard showcase, but they're going to show off the most because it's like we really have to show up that this thing is real and it's happening and I'm not confident enough to put a date. See, I got my mind's on there that extended gameplay for state of decay 3 and I said ends 2026. I got bullish for a second and I went and I was like October 14th. I'm like, no, no, we're not there yet sadly.

I mean, it's just crazy. That's state of decay 2 was 2018. Sure. Yeah, like it was a good while ago. Yeah, and this one's been through a lot to get to where it is. But last year they did have that nice presentation, that trailer that led into some gameplay. I think this is the year. Yeah, you show what you do.

And I imagine early next year, 2026 is when we see that we're actually playing it. But I love that crossplay everywhere. Everywhere. A lot more, I would say we see a lot more, not just combat, but survival type things when it comes to, like, but I mean like leaning so heavily into more of the survival side of things. I think there's such a gulf in what we think of... So are you trying like bringing away like more rust mechanics and things like that? Yeah, like adding that into the formula.

Not straying away from what makes state of a K what it is, but also... I always just think back to Blizzard canceling their big survival game and how how stoked a lot of people were to go, man, it's going to be really cool to see what a big AAA Studio can do with this genre because it's always a studio of seven people working on a early access beta that pops up on Steam and maybe it never really goes anywhere or becomes anything.

But to be able to put a genre like this on this big of a stage, I think would be really cool. Yeah, it'd be awesome. I don't really like that. It's also just me really rooting for it because it's something I want to get into. I'll get into with you. Thank you.

We've got to be the Division 2, DLC, first. I know. Well, you're playing a PC? We gotta do the whole thing. You can play on PC. Well, it's on GamePast, too. We just both start fresh and jump right in and go there. Okay. I mean, I don't care. We just figured it up. Um, I'm not, State of Decade was on here. Of course, I'm not keeping it. Don't worry about it. Instead, we'll go to Starfield's latest DLC slash update. You okay, Andy? Fucking ice cubes. They'll get you, man. They'll fucking get you, dude. Uh, its latest DLC slash update and the PlayStation 5. And Nintendo Switch 2 versions are announced,

and they show the thing, and it's just a trailer. It's really quick. We're not spending a lot of time here. And it's winter. I don't know if the trailer will say winter. I think the Xbox Wirepost might say winter in there, or hint at that end of the year winter time frame, maybe even early next year, somewhere in there.

I'm saying winter, you can interpret how you want to. All right, blessing. August. But I don't think it gets a lot of stage. I don't think the ELC is big. Like, I don't know, I don't, I don't think we're getting another shattered space as much as I want that. I just don't think that moved the needle. And I think they're probably all heads down or want to be all heads down on Elder Scroll 6.

So I think there is an update here that is the final star field, whatever. That way they can say, here's the PlayStation 5 and Switch copies that ship and we're not doing anything beyond creations. I buy that. I buy that. Thank you. Thank you. Do you buy it? Sure.

I heard a lot about this mob that people are really into. Oh, yeah, I talked at length about it. Homie Washburn is like creating ship fleets and things like that. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool. Give a shout out. Bless, remember when I, when you raided me the other day on Twitch and I was streaming the Outer Worlds to, or the Outer Worlds. And then somebody randomly in chat popped up and said,

Andy, why don't, like, why don't you, so you're what, you're not into Starfield? Oh, yeah. And it was just a random person. Just a random person. And I was like, I didn't, I'd never seen them in chat, but I was also like, I don't, Well, I haven't mentioned that at all yet. And then Blessing immediately popped him with like, yeah, Andy, why don't you fuck without a world? And it was such a weird sort of thing throwing at me.

But I loved Starfield a lot. I played a lot of it. I was not happy with how a lot of the missions went. But it's always something I want to go back to because I love that sort of fantasy of this is my ship. I made my moonlight great sword like the soul's weapon. And it was, I just, I love that creativity part of it. I did a Greg way on the latest update from the creation suite to get into, right? But yeah, you'd especially love this one as much as you fucked around with ships.

Because the idea is that you're now taking your NPC or your companion characters and assigning them to the ships you have to make the fleet. And then the idea is that you have to go off on these missions on the ground, right, where you're attacking these bases. And now, again, remember everybody, I know I rant and rave. Let's actually put over the Watchtower update because it's made by the Fallout 4 mod people. like the people who are the most famous for community mods. So this isn't a Bethesda thing.

You go down with your ship and your companion or whoever, right? They have now these mechs that the creation people, you have to then call in airstrikes from your fleet in the sky by throwing the grenade, lighting them up, then the air strikes. Yeah, exactly, that blow up those guys so you can infiltrate and do it. I would make a little fighter ship, kind of reddish, maroon-looking, call it the reduvia, the dagger meldon ring. I would just make every ship out of it.

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It's a big day for me. I got three things back. I get it, dude. So I was also going to predict state of three, or state of decay three. And so I'm not going to do that now. Oh.

Because Andy took that. And that was going to fit within my theme because, of course, we could go half and half on it. All of my predictions, I mean, do you want half this hand roll that I just ordered? You know, my predictions have had the theme

of 2026 being a banger year for Xbox. So I'm going to take a vacation from that theme. Instead, this is a tough one because I actually don't expect this to happen but I'm going to predict it anyway to get it out of there, right?

Fallout 3 remaster. It's happening. We know what's happening when there's smokes, there's fires. Smokes and fires. It's going to be announced and it's going to be called Fallout 3 Remaster but when we look at it we're going to go, that's a remake. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ, can we not do this again?

Continuing the trend of nobody knowing the difference between a remaster and a remake. If all the 3D assets are remade, it's a remake. I'm gonna say that it's out this fall. Whoa!

That would be such an insane remake year for Xbox. Not that that's a problem, but we got oblivion. We're getting gears of war. That's the thing is I say it, even though, like, the reason why I say out this fall

is because it's been rumored for so long and it feels like they've been working on it forever. At the same time doesn't make sense because, like, would you drop it at the same time as you're dropping out of, worlds to you, but also just this first half of the year they dropped avowed

and oblivion, and Expedition 33 the same day. I had on here too that they tease the fallout three remaster. My reasoning being, of course, this is different than oblivion, right? Ablivian, of course, was the worst kept secret and then they shadow dropped it the best they could, right?

I think here, this is a remaster, and I do think it's a remaster, again, I think it's... Like in the same way that oblivion is? Exactly, exactly. It's Unreal 5 running on the fall of out three things, so it all looks beautiful and yadda, yeah. But I think what's different here is you are trying to

hype the people who love the Fallout TV show. The Fallout TV show hit. Everybody was caught off guard, and everybody went to play Fallout and there was no new fallout. So that meant Fallout 4, spike through the roof, and New Vegas was suddenly super popular again. Even 76 got this huge breath of life, right?

I think now coming in, they want to have something ready for those people. And where I'm at with it, is I don't think you put a date on it, but I do think it hits around the show, and season two premieres in December. So I don't know if you premiere it at the beginning of season two, at the end of season two, somewhere in the

middle of season two, but I do think the idea here is, you watch the show, holy shit, I can't believe how good fall it is, I want to play fall out again, and this is there for you. So I guess it is then premiere. I'm going to adjust me at my fall thing into a December thing. I'm with you. I'm right there with us everybody. We did it, everybody.

And I also love the idea that them going, man, we saw so many people hop in a fallout when the TV show came out. But that game's only 20 bucks. Imagine if we had a $50 title. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. This is here to make money. Tim Getty's. He's making a face. I'm making a face because you know what?

He licked his lips. I have to say this. I have to. Somebody has to, every prediction season at kind of funny slash the world. world. And I don't think you all see what I'm about. Do you have any, do you have thoughts of what I'm about to say great? Yeah, hollow night. No.

The S word. Every while. A different S word. Different S word. Super Monkey Bowl. It's black. And all of a sudden, you hear. Oh.

Three green dots. Splitter cell remake actually shown. Everyone's saying it looks so good. Oh, my God. There's no Ubisoft showcase for them to announce a game that's probably not anywhere close. Xbox. Damn. That's not bad, dude.

That's really not bad at all, Tim. Again, there's been a lot of, I've been seeing Sam Fisher on my feeds a lot recently. Why? Is it just because it's the season? We all have to have this conversation, probably. I mean, didn't UiSaw tweet out the Sam Fisher thing? I think they did. The image of Sam Fisher?

Look at this man. Okay, well look at him. We'll do it, Tim. I'm sorry. So, yeah, doesn't Ubisoft not having a showcase? I feel like they're most likely. Somewhere here and, you know, maybe I'm just a fucking old ass man and I am, but I'll always associate Splintercell on Xbox. Yeah.

I'm going to drop the tweet in assets from Ubisoft. It is kind of a bizarre tweet from Ubisoft. This looks like almost, Kevin, yeah, the asset is now in assets. This almost looks like a Fortnite, Sam Fisher from the tweet. Not what we're seeing on screen from Kevin right now. The tweet he's about to pull up from. I assume this is from some older Splinter Cell thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Now, again, here's my... He's coming to Fortnite. Again, this version of it. I want to add some fun to this because I feel like that's... It's spicy. If that happens, I'm sure everyone's going to be excited. But that's not enough.

It won't just be the three green lights. I think that we will see this game. We will see the game. Otherwise, don't fucking do it. Here's... Don't do it. Let me tack on to it, then. Let me take on it.

You've noticed sort of a running theme with all the Hollywood. It's always an actor. There's always a somebody. I would love, and I hope that in this prediction, what we see on screen, would be similar to when you beat the freaking PT demo, and that sort of zoom up, and you're like, holy fuck, what's going on here?

Oh, I guess we didn't know that there. But then the camera moves up and turns around, it's Norman Redis, and you're like, whoa, what the fuck? I expect that to happen here with whoever Sam Fisher is. and I think it's going to be John Ham. Wow. Just like 3D rendered. Wow.

You're like, what the fuck? John Hamm. Hell yeah. He's so handsome. Mizzu's own. John Ham. Yeah, dude. I love that we're just casting everybody.

I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm not going to say that. I'm going to key for Sutherland. I'm going to scan his hog. Whoa. We got to scan the hog.

Do we have the technology? You need the bulge tech. You're right. You need the bulge. He's wearing a tight little suit. I'm wearing a tight little suit. I'm going to be. Soft's Twitter just to like get a vibe of how do they be tweeting?

And it makes the tweet weirder for the Splinter South Inc. It's like when someone tweets you a questionable thing, you're like, all right, what side are you lying on? And I go to the profile, like, oh, man. Because I don't want people to be caught up in the image. You follow Timpool. Because I think Kevin brought up like Zoom did on the, or not Zoom to, but like brought up the image.

And I think people were like, oh, he looks weird or whatever. And I don't want to be caught up on like the quality of the image because it's very obviously just a screenshot of an old Sam Fisher thing. I'm more so caught up in just the text of the emoji of like, like they do two eyes and then like a mouth between it kind of meme kind of thing and then hashtag explain yourself that's not within the tweeting philosophy of how Ubisoft does things

on their ex.com page. Somebody a hackling or this? Like it's very much like a oh look at this and it's like why? Why are you telling us to look at this? Right. Look at this man. Look at this photograph. It's happening. I'm with him. Andy Cortez.

We finally see Ever Wild again. And it is starring. No, I'm kidding. Zendaya It is Zendaya We finally see Ever Wild again And

And for me If I were to guess If I were to sort of put myself In the executive room If you were to predict on say A Kind of Funny Gamescasts If I was to predict What was happening behind the scenes

That This project is like Something that just has to come out And we got like Just move on to something else You know like We've worked we've stood too long on this. I think it will disappoint. I think we'll be excited that it pops up,

but ultimately by the gameplay, it's going to be one of those by the end of our predictions where we, or by the end of the games cast, we're like, yeah, just not a, not really a whole lot shown there. We don't really get what it is or what they're going for. I think it's going to be very survivalish, co-op, massive multiplayer, kind of like a destiny shared world shooter type deal, but with whatever they're doing in this world of ever wild. And we're going to be really with it. Wow. And I'm sad. Real quick, Paris did have ever wild gameplay is one of his predictions.

I hope if we see it again, if it's like, if it's what Andy's talking about where it's like I just get this thing in a situation, I just want them to cancel it so bad and just have rare work on something that we care about. Because like rare is one of those studios where I'm like, they mean so much to the industry. And they have like, I mean, they put out

C of these, right? Like they obviously have something there. Yeah. Put it on something that matters. What I think they're going to be going for is going to be oh gosh what's the what was the Pokemon rip off Power World

I think it's going to be something along the lines of Power World where in that first trailer we saw one of the creatures helping the main characters and I think it's going to be a lot about like having

a couple of different creature friends to run around the world with you and their creature friends and you're taking on bosses or you're solving puzzles but I think it'll ultimately be like oh man

that's what it was but I also don't hold that hope yeah I mean neither I'm more leaning towards the game's done canceled oh yeah you'd think so right especially as it I mean we joke but the dominoes are falling Xbox is doing really well right now

great games really seems like really solid games so like to put one out this is just like me yeah and but I'll also say though like to Andy's point like I feel like we had that reaction for the most part two C of thieves as well of looking at and just being like sure we don't want rare doing this and then they turned it around and made it work

and now it's majorly successful for them. So they could do that, but I'm not betting on that. Greg, what's your next prediction? Indiana Jones in the great circle. The Order of the Giants gets a trailer and a 2025 date. I don't think they go into specifics. I could be swayed that they do this, but I get, it gets weird for me where I feel like with these games,

Xbox is pretty great about DLCs. That's such a vague thing to fucking say. But like, I feel like it would make sense to time it out kind of with Indiana Jones's anniversary. So December, but that feels too late for me in terms of it. But then it's like, if I'm predicting Outer Worlds 2 for September, I'm a little

wishy-washy on where I want to put this. I'm just saying they say 25. Okay. Andy? I'd like to tack on to my previous... Tack away? No, it's my time now. Tack in the mind. Talk to me. I guess we... I did the same thing yesterday on the games cast where after the fact I had a little kind of funny you're wrong.

This was a interview from Phil Spell This article is from February 17th day after my birthday of this year. And Phil Spencer was talking about the various studios and said, State of the K is just one of the franchises I love back from the original one. So that stays on the board. I do think that the work double finds doing and how Tim Schaefer kind of solicits feedback from the team. And the other one I'll say, because I was recently out at Rare,

it's nice to see the team with Everwhile and the progress that they're making. That is him volunteering info. Yeah. I think usually you know things are fucked whenever mum's the word. Yeah. And that gives me more hope. I'm with you now. Luckily, Phil's never gone back on his word.

If there was a camera over there. Oh, God. It's one of the good Greg faces that it does not be seen, right? Plus, what's your fourth prediction? I'm abandoning the 2026 thing. Yeah, because the more I think about it, the more I'm like, the far out predictions are more exciting. So I'm going to do one that would excite me a lot,

which would be coming off of machine games. Wolfstein 3 finally gets announced from machine games we don't see much it's just a short cinematic with the logo the world wants it

everybody wants it no everybody wants Wolfson I want it so bad people want it so bad I want it so bad Greg you never played a first person campaign in your life all right

people who have won it yeah what do you think of Titanfall 2's campaign man I had such a man Overblown it was the multiplayer I had exactly I had such a banger joke yesterday on the street

we need to clip that out when somebody was like Andy are you gonna play the hell of us demo when we were playing Eldon Ring on the stream yesterday. And I was like

oh fuck yeah. Like it's something that I was always stoked for and now it's Greg's most anticipated. I was like, the game is cooked then. Like this game's gonna suck. This game's gonna be six and a half out of day. Oh man. Timmy. You know it's just like

that point in the predictions where we've said so many things already. And there are the games that are like I'm sure we got to talk about gears. I'm sure We're going to talk about fours, but I don't want to do that right now. I don't want to do that. What do I want to do? Fuck it.

More spice. And this is one of them ones. I'm saying it because if it does happen, it's going to change the world. Bless. I think it's very unlikely it happens at this showcase. I think it'll happen somewhere else if it ever does. But that's not the spirit of this. I'm sticking to it.

I'm wasting one of my spots on something that bless lock fucking in. Rare. Replay. with Donkey Kong 64 Come on maybe Nintendo Switch too maybe I don't think it's time Maybe that's a later

down the line thing But I do think We will see that Eventually a rare replay With rare Nintendo games On the Switch 2 Doggong Country's 1 through 3 BK 64

With Dinosaur Planet That was it in Rare Replay right? No it was not Dinosaur Planet I've never even officially released What am I thinking of I'm thinking of Star Fox Adventures Which was dinosaur planet

Yes That was that was it was a rarestor planet. Yes that was that was one put it in there yeah that'd be crazy dream shit but like that can't happen i mean i think it's just a little too early because i firmly i'm standing on the dev kit theory of the switch two and it seems like xbox either didn't have the dev kits or just was like not prepared because they're still dealing with a lot of so many different things at once but um we're going to clearly get a slate of xbox games coming to switch too and microsoft and nintendo have had a healthy relationship in the past

they made banjo happen in smash brothers and since then i do feel like there's going to be a bit more actual love given to the nintendo side of things i just don't know when that's going to i mean switch online has had quite a few xbox owned ipes now so makes a lot of sense maybe not for now but like makes sense in the future i'm just throwing it out there because they might get spicy and it's weird that i thought for a while there we were going to have so much more Xbox and Nintendo love for those earlier type of entanglements. And then Sony just like releasing Horizon Lego on there. I was like, God damn.

Like I really thought Xbox, this is Xbox's moment to kind of make this relationship stronger than... Diddy Kong Racing, dude? Oh my gosh. Real quick, we have Michael in chat saying, did Tim forget this is an Xbox show, not Nintendo show? And then Comstock says Nintendo stuff's announced during Nintendo things. Yes.

And I absolutely agree with you that I think. Thank you, Kevin. I do think that Nintendo not only tends to, but like almost exclusively controls their own stuff and only talks about the stuff there. But remember when Starfox showed up at a Ubisoft press conference? Yeah. Yeah. Things happen. Before you pivot back to Andy, I do want to give you one of Paris is here. Okay.

Clockwork revolution gameplay. I don't even remember what the fuck. I had that ring on. Clockwork revolution is. Yeah. Can I see whatever footage we have? Is that the single player game from? In exile.

In exile. Yeah. Kind of like, it's like bioshocky. Bioshock vibes, yeah. It looks like Bioshock Infinite. Yeah. Find a lot of automaton. Yeah.

Okay. Game looks really cool. Yeah. It's a gear game. A lot of gears. Oh, a lot of gears. A lot of gears. I thought you meant like purple and blue and a rarity.

No, no, no, no, no. Okay. Andy Cortez. What's your final prediction? Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. It's kind of a bummer. We don't see any Fable 4. and that's because this is a

I get extra points if this happens later on in the year so this has to be put into effect retroactively because it becomes the after Xbox game showcase showcase next year before it comes out of the fall I agree with that for sure really really good. That becomes the next big thing but we don't even get a

movie may be seen in a sizzle rule of like and the teams are so excited for what we're working and it's just kind of you get a glimpse of it, but it's maybe footage that's already been shown in a past showcase or something. Just as a reminder, hey, it's still cooking, but no mention of it. Yeah, I agree with that.

I almost put that down there. I talk myself out of it. Greg, final prediction. I want to point out this is my seventh prediction on the list because, of course, we've been chiming in. So this is like my fucking limpest of dicks, all right? But it's the fact that both Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 are limited to trailers talking about things that have already happened.

Worm cult, season of the worm cult for ESO, which just dropped episode one. And it's June 18th, right, that that's coming to consoles. And then Fallout 76 just put out that fishing update. That'll be it. So it's just like, traditionally I feel like we get here and we do have something. You know what I mean? Last year was Skylight Valley for 76. ESO is always cooking on something.

I don't, I guess my prediction here is no big news from them because they've kind of just played a card. and I think they just need to remind you that that's happening, which isn't super exciting. Just like this prediction. Give me the points. Give them the points. I mean, again, Greg, you're saying things I think are very important to remind people. But like now that Bethesda, Xbox, Activision are all part of the same thing.

Like what used to be multiple showcases is now one showcase. And now that Xbox is also publishing on multiple consoles more often, it's like there's just going to be endless things to talk about in the way that there seemingly was endless Bethesda stuff when they would get in the nitty gritty of all these games but I also don't see them retreating from doing that still so I think you're right like we will still get those little updates but I do think they'll be condensed

even more while we're here I'll give you Paris Lily's final update as well his final prediction his sixth one on his list here was they closed the show with Elder Scroll 6 that is a wild one that is a wild one that I don't agree with I don't think it's ready for prime time and we've already had that tease

it's already there I think the less you say about Elder Scrolls the 6 the better until you're like hey, it's time to talk about Elder Scroll 6 because we are talking about it because it's imminent, right? Yeah. Hopefully two years from now, it's the showcase at the end of the Xbox presentation.

Yeah, I'm way more sold on on blessings earlier prediction about a fallout, big Fallout remake. Because I... My prediction, too. Oh, sure, yeah. But I just, I don't think Bethesda wants to wade into the Elder Scroll's waters again this year.

I think that's like three is our showcase right now, or Oblivion, four, is that's still our game. That's the thing that we still want to be talking about. Plus. All right. This is the last one, right? It is.

Last day. I did have Clockwork Revolution is coming out in 2026 as part of my... Kevin, can I please see a trailer for Clockwork Revolution? Since I don't have that one, I got two left. And one, in one less exciting one. And I don't want to do the bundle thing. Actually, no, I'm not going to do the bundle thing. Toys for Bob.

Oh, you motherfucker. They show up. and you know what they're showing up with. Bainjo. Ma. No way. Fucking Kazui. It's been long enough.

I know people want to crash. I know people want to spiral. But Banger's been gone for too long and Phil Spencer's heard the cries. All right. Do you know what? They're asking Phil Spencer. They're not asking him for a fucking Spirrower crash. They're asking him for a fucking Banger Kazui.

The fan base is rabid for it. Thank you, Kevin. Everybody wants it. They're getting a banjo. I like where your heads at. To go right up. To go right up against Don Kong Bonanza. I love that.

I think Toys for Bob will be there. I think it's Spiro 4. Boring. Don't see Spiro 4. That's not boring. How's that boring? The first new Spiro? In like, what, three years since like Spiro?

Reignited trilogy? Yeah. It's not a new one. Yeah, but it's new enough. No. Even give me a Banjo remake at least. You know what I mean? Like, Banjo's been gone since like, 09 or whatever.

What was nuts and bolts? 06. It's been too long since Banjo. I'll tell you what. The Skylanders kids. they're all grown up now. And they have minimum wage jobs and they have money to spend.

Spiro. I actually really do love Spiro. I don't know why I went anti-spiral for a minute. I'm with you in the sense that like there is a lot of internet demand for Banjo Kizui and there's a lot of love for Banjo Kizui. I think that Banjo, it is going to be harder to get that game great than it is for a Spiro or Crash. And I think that Banjo needs to be better than a Spiro.

crash to matter. So I don't think that they like just get that out. And with everything we know about what Toys for Bob's been up to slash not up to and all the shakeups, like if they're working on a banjo, I'm concerned about that game. Really? Yeah.

Ah, man. And because only because like I feel like if they announced it here, it's coming out this year. Oh, I wasn't even thinking that. I was thinking, yeah, maybe like next year or the year after. I was thinking you just come out and just say banjo is returning. I mean, then I'm, I'm hyped on that. Yeah.

That'd be cool. fuck that was gonna be my last one though I mean you can still do it and say Spiro that's not no no gear no E-Day no that's too easy no I'm not here for easy points I don't believe that I'm here

I'm here to tell you that Tommy Earl Jenkins is launching plate no Ninja Guide and 4 shadow drop no yeah what is the shadow drop so there has to be a shadow drop right well so okay I'm just gonna like

I have a list of shit to talk about here and I'll figure out where my prediction is as we go through this. But Ninja Guideon 4 will be talked about. We'll get a release date for that, for sure. I don't think it's shadow dropped, but I think we get the date. Persona 6, very like, or sorry, persona 4 remake or persona 6,

one or the other, very likely to be here, I would say. Forza Horizon 6 is the big question. And I tried writing down some dates here. It's been four years since Forza Horizon 5. It was three years between Forta Horizon 6. four and five. So we're due for that announcement. My hesitation is

Playground having just ported Forza to PS5, I don't know what that looked like, you know? But I also don't think it's like that heavy of a lift. So I think it is time for Forza Horizon 6. I mean, I'd love it. Right? I mean, I want it.

It feels about time. Like if we're going, but I guess Fable was the thing that colors my opinion on it, where I'm like, yeah, how much how much time are you spending working on that? I know it's multiple teams or whatever. Multiple teams, though. I don't even think that's the same teams at all.

Panic button was the main lead dev on the port, on the port with in partnership with turn 10 and playground, but panic button was like the lead. Other things I got here is Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth, finally coming to Xbox, game pass, shadow drop, all that stuff. I'm still not convinced that it's coming to Xbox. We'll see. So my prediction that I'm actually going to stick to.

It's pretty boring, but I made some crazy ones that I'm not going to win. So I want to win here. Gears of War Reloaded, Beta, ShadowDrom. Oh. You can download the demo right now. Yes. That'd be fun. There has never been a better time.

Yeah. I was so bummed out that I played that game on Xbox. I wish I would have waited for this version. I wish I knew. I'm just so bad a controller now, man. It's just really sad. It's a sad state of affairs, man. I want to get through all the super chats

y'all have been sending through so I can get your opinions on if you think that these things are going to happen here. I mean, let's start off with Gears of War, Ede. No one's superchatted about that, but we didn't talk about it. What do we think they're going to have or not have? I think it'll be gameplay.

And I don't know how long it lasts, but it's definitely more than last year's mainly sort of cinematic cutscene that they're showing us. like we see kind of in motion and we see the Rody Run love it man I really

going back playing gears recently really wish we had accessibility on the mind a lot more back then because the Rody Run cameras the Rody Run makes me nauseous your camera shakes like crazy let me tune that down

Nathan Maloney writes in and says Transformers War 4 plus fall-up Cybertron remaster I would mark the fuck out for that. that I would like a remaster those games, I think would be vastly preferable to just them showing up on GamePass or whatever. But even that I'd take at this point. But yeah, that'd be very cool.

I don't think it's impossible either. I do think that we're at a point that inevitably we're going to see those Hyman Studios games. You think so? Do. What about my ultimate alliance? We get an ultimate alliance ever? That stuff gets more complicated. I know it does.

Yeah. I'm aware how complicated is. I'm not sure. Damn it. Don't do this. Guitar Hero Arrow says we finally get another. Elder Scroll 6 trailer. No gameplay, but it's all an engine. No subtitle yet. Trailer ends by revealing a 2027 window. It's just we don't need to see it again. I want, but it's like to do it and then say

2027, like don't even, don't even talk. Don't even talk. Don't do it. I don't think so. Anything with Perfect Dark, a gameplay, deep dive. I hope. It's better, right? But like when is that game coming out? Like they showed a bunch of that game last year. If we're talking about the second half of next year for Perfect Dark, do you show even more? gameplay this year. But the thing about Xbox showcases the last couple of years is they have no fear about showing the games like every time

as they're like getting ready for release. Like thinking about the South and Midnights and stuff. But like what would you show for Perfect Dark? I guess maybe a story literally good stuff. Because my thing is like if you just show more gameplay then I think that's a boring showing. Unless you have something that's like a set piece moment that's going to blow people away.

Yeah. Yeah, you have to have concrete information. That's another one. Next time we see it, it needs to be that it's imminent. I feel. Like, okay, cool. Here's the set piece and guess what? We're doing a direct on its own and this set. It'll be a developer on a score direct where we get the deep dive next year. On like, our mantra, you know, we get the actual studio looking.

Our mantra. Denesta says, what are the chances forts horizon six gets announced? Will it be on PS5 Day 1? And what do you guys want from new forts a game? I think chances of it being announced are higher than not. I think it will be on PS5 Day 1. and Japan

I mean Japan I mean Japan would be really cool Japan I don't know why I'm not feeling the PS5 on day one thing for Forza I guess I I need that bandaid to be ripped off

like for like a major like oh this is an Xbox ass game and it's coming to PlayStation Day 1 type thing I know well here's a war but still that's a remaster I don't know we'll see I get this is

I mean fuck it you know what actually let me take back my Forza prediction all right Can you do that? Can he do that? Can I do it? Is it legal?

everybody. I mean, depends what we're about to say. I'm going to stand by. This is going to be the Xbox showcase that every Xbox game announced is going to be day one on PlayStation 5 as well. Wow. Everyone. Everyone? I love that. That's that's spicy. Yeah. You know what's another one? Some Vowalde DLC. Have they teased that? Have they said it there, no? I was going to say South of Midnight DLC. That's a good one.

that was going to be part of my 2026 year bangers but I was like on a three hour DLC for South of Midnight is like but like my idea for it would be that they finally fleshed out the villain character that they have in the game

that I felt like by the end of the game they didn't really do as much with as they probably should have because let's talk about my my prediction for a second here yeah he is five day one back to me back to me because I want to make sure I'm not crazy

about this because I don't think I am I was so shocked last time when they did the little developer direct thing and South Midnight was the only one that wasn't day one PS5. Right? Or the other games. Yeah, the Ninja Guyton

third party, but I think being published by Xbox. That's right. I forget everything else I show up. I'm looking it up. I just think that we're at the point of like any game coming out this year. I mean, we already know Gears of War,

the remake and things like that. So it's like what else this year? Is there even anything that's already confirmed that it doesn't have a PS5? Yeah. I think we're already kind of there. Doom the Dark Ages, which was PS5, and then you had Expedition 33,

which is like third party. But I think Doom the Dark Ages is a big one. Yeah. Because that is an Xbox game. It's also Bethesda. Which I know, whatever. But I just think that Gears is very clearly Xbox. I know it's a remake,

but I just think we're at a point that if South of Midnight was announced today weekend, it'd be announced on PS5 Day 1. Very interesting. I like that a lot. I like that. That's a good one. It's a good wrinkle.

Out of Worlds, too, is PS5 also. Yes. Damn. Yeah, you're right. I'll see. I'm going to say at the normal Keeley showcase, add this to my SGF one's predictions, because it wouldn't be mentioned here necessarily,

but at the SGF one, we'll get Halo Infinite table everywhere. Because I don't think Xbox would want to, like, have that. Hey, guess what? I was going to say that for Halo Masked Chief Collection. I feel like Chief Collection is more likely. Just because the Switch 2. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I haven't even thought about Infinite. I like it, though. I mean, I would love that. I like it. I'm an infinite truth there. Me too. What the fuck happens? Although, you know what?

I never beat the Infinite Campaign. No, I barely touched the campaign, but that multiplayer was fucking sick, dude. Yeah, it was really good. Kyle says, right. No, Casa, sorry to crash the Xbox episode with PlayStation off the bat,

both bless insider trading with this prediction on the 2D god of war. Seeing people like grub murmuring about it now, too. Let's been the conversation. Like that's been in the vibe since the Greek thing was even... I think my prediction came off of... I think Grub was the one who originated the report and, like, said like, it got a war side thing,

but then came back and said it's a game. And then I just added some sauce, maybe some thing, by saying 2D, but I think we had that conversation. Zach says, I think we'll finally see Fort So Horizon 6. I desperately want it to be in Japan, but I predict it'll be Germany. Oh. I see Weiner says,

will Snowmike Mike be around tomorrow night? Hopefully we're going to be. check in with him and see how he's feeling. He's in the iron lung right now, you know, trying to get back on his feet. Because what's tomorrow night, Tim? Switch to launch party, baby. Hang it out right here. Twitch and YouTube.

Kind of funny games. Kevin. Hell yeah. Kevin, you can throw up the blue sky. I put in assets. We can officially confirm we are streaming from the Nintendo store. So tomorrow at 745 Pacific time. We will go live probably Roger.

Hopefully, Mike, in the studio. Then kick to Tim and myself and Kevin behind the camera over at the Nintendo. store as we build up to that 9 o'clock launch from there. So we're very, very excited for that. Pretty cool. I doubt anyone else is going to do this just because we're so weird and we're like, let's try something. You just told the story recently, Greg, but 10 years ago, we were like the first people to ask, who even was making a rock band in that time, a guitar hero live. Yeah, yeah, Activision. We're like, can we do a let's play and just post that as our preview? And they're like, that's weird, but sure, why not? And it's our to this day, most popular kind of funny games video.

this feels like the same thing of us be like, can we live stream from the thing? Which doesn't sound like that novel of an idea, but I don't think anyone else is going to do it. And we got approval. So Greg and I live streaming from the Nintendo store in San Francisco for this switch too large. Lots of high jinx and shenan is we want to see as we build up to buying.

And then of course we will buy those systems and drive back here to the studio and unbox them, play with them, hang out. I will be in studio with Roger as well. I hope Mike doesn't, is in here sick. I will be masked up most likely if Mike, into showing up. Sure. If you get sick,

can I go in your place? Of course. Okay, cool. But nothing's stopping me. CJ Splits on says, will games be reintroduced with PS5 and Switch 2 logos? That's what I'm most interested to see

is like how they handle all that stuff. I don't think it's going to be a big pompant circumstance, but that's, we also have Keely's show that I do think can handle some of the heavy lifting of just, hey, these games are also coming to different platforms. Pretty dude says,

I understand Xbox is basically third party, but I don't want this show to be filled with tons of port announcements of older games. New games is fine. Yeah, I mean, I thought like we were just saying that. Like, it's going to be a mix, man. Xbox just has too much. I will say Paris Lully on one of these social media apps. There's too many. Did say that this showcase was going to be another 9.5.

I love that. When he said it last year, he was right. I hope so. And also that at this point of Xbox has a bad showcase, that is entirely on them and they fucked up. They have so much. They just have so much. Like they have too much. It's constantly.

things to get people stoked. To ask a question that we can have, this is a conversation for maybe another games cast, because I agree about how hyped that showcase was for last year, and I expect a similarly hyped thing. Do we feel like we're basking in the Xbox hypeness, though, like post showcases? You know what I mean?

Like, do you guys feel like your feeling worse? Do you feel like you're feeling the results of like, I guess the highs of the showcase? Does that sustain you in your day-to-day of like, I guess your hypeness around Xbox games? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Again, like, I'm in the weird spot right. now as I'm more Xbox than ever, thanks to play anywhere in the the ROG talking to the Xbox Series X and traded my saves back and forth and doing all that. Like, I think this is this weird thing of like Tim being like, oh yeah, well, this is going to be the one where, you know, everything comes to PlayStation. It's like, awesome. It won't affect me. I will play these on Xbox because I want to be able to play them on my ROG as well. Same thing when you're talking about, uh, C2DK3, right? And that's being stoked for that. Crossplay everywhere. That's fantastic. I will play it on Xbox so that I can play it on the ROG. I'm sure at 24 frames a second.

And it won't know what I mean. Who knows what the performance will be. But that ability to have it on a, you know, I'm right. That's what I want. My number one and two game of the year so far, South of Midnight and Expedition 33, both from the showcase last year, right? I mean, I get South of the Midnight span in a couple as well,

but like, yeah. Wait, South of Midnight's year, your game of the year? Oh, sir. My number two. So far. Expedition 33 and South of Midnight. Yeah. He said the opposite.

I was like, I'm not crazy, right? Okay. Well, I just said the two. I don't know. whatever, whatever. Tim? You got a great neck.

You got a great neck. Grab his neck. Grab his neck. Grab his neck. I'm not grabbing it. Grab his neck. Everybody says birthday tax. What a great week for video games.

Happy birthday. Mr. Paint. Happy birthday. Too. Mr. Rivia says, Greg,

I need a DLC for Mind's Eye called Minds Eye hanging brain. You're not going to get it. I mean, we are not exactly sure what this game is. And it sounds like you can make your own. own shit. So maybe you can do it. That's everywhere. Everywhere you can make your own shit. Mine's eye.

I was made in everywhere. And mine's eye was made in everywhere. Think of it like Roblox or Dreams. Or an Unreal Engine. I don't know what it is. Gene Sandoval says, fuck. Bless, can you help me here?

Cockto? Like the French playwright. The rest or the pest. It's a quote from the pest, I guess. But it's French. Cock to? What's it mean? I don't know. Can't be good. Yeah. might have said some of that you know way more French than I'd expect, but not enough to be

impressive. You know what I mean? I think it's just the last thing. It's actually very true. It's part of the Jean Jean-Cacte Clemau. Tedius says, a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, and film director.

The banger outro to this episode. Teddy says, sorry if you already said this, but do we get GamePass support for Steam Deck announced? Xbox and Steam seemed to be playing very nice recently. I think that the GamePass stuff is just overcomplicated things. I think we've got to figure out the Xbox OS stuff, and we need to see how that works before we can start figuring out how it works with Steam.

Makes sense. Right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Star Wolf says, All I want is Halo Master Chief Collection and Gears of War on Switch 2. I don't care what they add to GamePass or Xbox consoles to support every 360 game to Switch 2. Yeah, it might be a little too early for the Switch 2 stuff, but maybe not.

Yeah, that was my, I put, you know, I tack that on there for Starfield. That's why really push it out to winter. Because if it's not, if it's just the DLC slash update and a PS5 version that could happen imminently, right? But I feel like you would put Switch on there. Alec Bobko says follow-out season two trailer. No. God. Don't think so.

No, no, not big enough station. Honestly, that, I think you have a better shot at SGF, which I also don't think is going to happen. But I think Keeley's got a better shot to getting that than Xbox does. Pugles. It says, Call of Duty announces zombie chronicles 2 for July adding Barry to

Transit mob of the dead call of the dead Die rise in Newk Town Cool I understood some of those words Potentially Yeah I don't think we're gonna get too much Callow duty from this thing We'll get some but I don't think it's good

I think we go back to like how Colladdy has done it Year to year where they have their own event I think we have to yeah Trevor says probably won't happen but they show Fable gameplay and it's announced for February or March next year which will give enough time before GTA 6 Crazy prediction Final Fantasy 7 remake finally coming to Xbox.

My only thing about Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth is I do not think it'll sell well enough on the Xbox. The only way I see this happening is if it's a game pass deal. That makes sense. There's also Final Fantasy 16. That's another one as well.

Anthemetel says, Killer Instinct 2. I don't think so because Iron Galaxy is working on Tony Hawk. Yeah. Diego Review says, high off sinners, so I'm going to predict some gameplay from Arcane's, Blade. That'd be sick.

Come on. What's just saying? Come on. And then Tundra Boy, and in here saying, Flight Sim DLC that lets you fly around the Halo ring. Oh, that would be neat. Yeah, that could be cool. We'll probably see Flight Sim to some extent. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. What it'll be? Who knows? I don't think it'll be the ring, but that is a cool idea.

I sure don't know. Do you know everyone? If you do, let us know in the comments below. Thank you so much for hanging out with us for this fun predictions. If you want more PlayStation predictions, check out Games Daily that we did earlier today. If you want Summer Game Fest predictions, check out our Gamescast. did yesterday. And if you want to hear us talking all about the Witcher 4 tech demo that they showed today, you got to stay tuned to the Twitch. Stay right where you are. If you're on YouTube, make the jump to the next games cast video. We're blessed and Andy are going to break all that down. Until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.