PlayStation's Wolverine Release Date FINALLY Revealed! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.24.26

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I didn't include your I forget you have an outlet that you make content with always like to promote that Yeah, I have a twitch twitch TV slash mad exposure. So I stream there we go. Hell. Yeah, so come come over there I have a series called Sunday scaries where we play horror games every Sunday right now It's February where I've been playing Resident Evil all February love that. Oh, yeah, which resident evil's even playing So I finished two at the beginning of the month and did our two remake then I did RE4 remake And then I just started seven this past Sunday. I notice how you skipped RE3. Well, here's the thing Okay, so obviously February is because we have RE9 coming out soon And I I asked fellow resident evil people which ones do I have to like at least get a taste of before nine comes out and A lot of people like three But they didn't say it was like Essential yeah, essential. Yes for the nine experience. So that's what we that's what I decided So so this is your first time playing through the resident evil games. Oh hell. Yeah, do you have any ones that stick out so far? I guess between RE2 and RE4 so I Love them both for different reasons. So I I have always been a resident evil movie person I love the movies even though they're not very good But I will fight for the first one But I never really got into the games, but I've become like a resident evil fanatic like I love them I love the horror of two remake. It's so scary. I screamed so much But I RE4 remake was so fun. I love being Leon just kicking people in the face Yes, so it's like I would love in some worlds where we could merge those two things like horror But Leon kicking people in the face, you know Yeah, I I feel like I resonate with that very greatly like RE2 was my first Resident evil that I played all the way through be and truly loved I remember trying RE4 back in the day multiple times across multiple different platforms and whatever reason I refer it didn't initially stick with me until I played remake and I think part of that was that RE2 was the gateway drug. There's something about just like the pure horror like pacing in the Tensiness of having mr. X just like yeah there in the ether following you and also I will design of the police station everything taking place in this one place for the most part until you get out of there Loved everything about that RE4 got to it and I grew to love it because it is more of a Hyped up like yeah bit more actiony has a bit more going on Leon's doing flips off of walls So like dodge chain saws and shit, right? It's that kind of resident evil but also very very lovable in its own way And of course that's the fan favorite people will say RE4 is one of the greatest games of all time I feel like in between there I have my ideal resident evil and I'm looking forward to resident evil requiem because I feel like it could end up being that Yeah, I feel like everything we've seen hints that way So we'll just have to see what ends up happening with it Yeah, it really fulfills that promise of course this Friday me and Andy I'm so excited for going to lock ourselves into the streaming room. We're gonna play through resident evil requiem Push for a marathon stream. I'm thinking we'll probably go for 24 hours if we're able to push us there And I'm looking forward to it I know I've been I've been sounding like I've been dreading it a little bit and really the only part I'm dreading is the staying up part I love resident evil so much that I am looking forward to playing this game with Andy because if you saw our resident evil 7 Playthrough that was such fun content to be a part of and so looking forward to doing that again I'm worried about Andy Cortez. Well, I love the combo of you too because the way that you respond to horror is so different I feel like it's a fun. It's like a fun balance of of Just yeah terror and excitement and Stress. Yeah, I think I get stressed Andy legitimately gets scared Yes, like Andy does not like doing horror things or playing horror games or watching horror movies And so to lock him in a room with resident evil requiem, which is from the one demo that I've played of it multiple times Seems to be leaning on the way more scarier side of it at least through the grace section that they had in the demo Right where it is the I don't even know what the creature is called But the big creature that chases after you or whatever that shit is fucking scary It is and we're gonna make you play that, you know, Andy's gonna fight against it, but we're gonna have him play it But enough about resident evil remember this is kind of funny games daily If you're watching live you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games Remember we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny So thank you to Carl Jacobs omega buster and Delaney the Psalm twining for now Let's begin with what is and forever will be the rope report It's time for some news we have five stories today Bakers does Starting with our number one Finally some good news PlayStation finally confirms Marvel's Wolverine release date I'm pulling from Andy Robinson at video games Chronicle Insomniac games and PlayStation have confirmed that Marvel's Wolverine will release for ps5 on September 15th 2026 the release date means the much anticipated superhero title will arrive two months before GTA 6 Which most studios are likely attempting to avoid I cut the card article off there because it doesn't go on to say anything else. That's like new details But Madeline I want to know from you. What are your hype levels for Marvel's Wolverine? I'm excited for it. I I want to see more. I think That I always temper my expectations until I see more gameplay, but I'm very excited like I think insomniac's an amazing studio I love the spider-man games. I think Wolverine looks really cool I feel like it will be fun for them to go I think a little bit more in that R rated territory, right? Like yeah spider-man's very like a Superhero for that kids can enjoy whereas Wolverine's definitely more of the rated R version I'm curious to see what they do with that. Yeah, I think there's something to it where Spider-man can almost feel like you're playing with an action figure where it is like Oh, I'm just beating up baddies and throwing them everywhere You know it's not bloody in the way that you expect Wolverine to be it can't go certain places And I say that even though I love the places fireman goes Wolverine I think has the ability to I think stretch insomniac in a way where Between ratchet and Spidey and even Sunset Overdrive. You don't really see them go that crazy with like Blood violence all that shit and that's stuff you expect from Wolverine So yeah, I feel like they're they're gonna take the kid gloves off a little bit And I feel like that will be really interesting to see from a studio that makes amazing games But yeah, where can we push it towards now? Did you see how they announced this release? I didn't they just posted it on social media Really? Yeah, like I should have linked it actually Kevin I can try to find it and drop it in assets for you, but it legitimately was look for it Okay, Kevin's gonna look for it. It legitimately was just like Wolverine's come in, you know, September you know 15th and then it's like a Barely even a trailer like Almost like a teaser with no gameplay that just has the September 15th overlaid on top of it like very unceremonious Yeah, that's so you wonder why it wouldn't be part of a state of play or some other showcase Yeah, which is like kind of the conversation I want to have a little bit is why would they do it this way? Because the state of play was two weeks ago like a week and a half ago Like doesn't feel like it was that long ago one of the things that we kept talking about was that in somnac Oh chat remind me insomniac said that they were going to give us more details on this game in like summer Is that what they said? Yeah, here Kevin has it. This is the Instagram page for insomniac. Okay, so you just a picture and a date Yeah, you just go from the Wolverine key art to then the date and then that's it. That's so strange. They said spring When does spring officially start can you slide your mic over a little to your right the other way? Yeah, I would not consider February spring I was gonna say I'm like what's the why why did we not just put this into the state of play? Which my one theory if I'm trying to think of the most Sound logical reasoning in my brain is that they probably just crossed the milestone Like there was probably some sort of thing where they were like hey We had to hit x milestones so we can comfortably say that this game is gonna come out in September And they just didn't have it done by two weeks ago And now they do have it done and instead of holding it for a summer showcase or something They're like well just post it like we're ready to say it so just post it so we can get more of the marketing roll out going I wondered to like on the flip side of that Do they not have enough done where it's like if you include it in a state of play and all you and you don't want to show anything You can't really just have a state of play and be like hey, and so anyway Wolverine's coming out Here's a picture and here's the date yeah if we watch that in the state of play everyone would be like what is this? Why did you include such a small piece of information? I feel like sometimes maybe you would maybe they didn't have they didn't want to show that much And so they're like okay well we can include it in a big showcase. I guess we have to just do a one-off thing Yeah, maybe like they're like yeah We we don't have the time to pull together an asset for a larger trailer And we don't want to show off this seven second thing in a state of play I don't know if that's beyond them to do because I feel like we've seen it before But I guess when you're this late into the marketing cycle where the game's coming out later in the year Yeah, you don't want to have like a five second seven second asset that is here's the release date Like you save that for when you're first announcing God of War ragged rock You're like people are like oh, what is this and you see this on your Santa Monica logo And then you see God of the God of War logo and you're like oh cool. Let's go. We're getting new God of War That's exciting. I think when you see multiple trailers this already and we've seen the voice actor breaking down the gameplay and all this shit Yeah, it's like you can't then just turn around be like alright. No more gameplay, but here's a date. Yeah, and that's it That's all we're giving you yeah, exactly September how does September feel for you for this game coming out? I think that feels good. I love a good fall game Especially because I think it's obviously smart as you mentioned in the article to like get ahead of GTA I think GTA is gonna take over everyone's life at a certain point And this gives you enough time. I imagine to finish Wolverine So I think that's a I think it's a great place for them Now I want to pull on a super chat if we're gonna bust out a little bit of the tenfold hats here Volk dasher writes in and says looks like this is planned to calm things after blue blue point But God of War 2.5d Soros marathon to con fighting souls cana to Wolverine. That's quite a high level lineup in 2026 for ps5. It's kind of a two-parter there one. Do you believe the idea that this could be them trying to distract people from blue point? That's an interesting theory. It does feel like a bit Tin foil haddie but because of how if it was a more produced thing like we had a Trailer or some some other detail. I would be less I would be more skeptic of that but because it is just a picture and a date It does seem a little bit like it could be hey We need does anyone have anything we can share to kind of get the attention off this news cycle? Like and and some acts like well, I guess we could do a date like we're pretty confident in September 15th But I don't know it does it feels a little too it feels a little tin foil haddie. Yeah, like I I respect the idea of like You know, let's let's let's get into the inner workings of how like, you know Marketing can be used as distractions because I think for sure that happens. I feel like this is not That I I think Wolverine in terms of the audience that Wolverine speaks to and the people paying attention to the blue point news There's a way wider net of people that are that are Invested in Wolverine that probably don't even know that blue point closed as a studio You're talking about a mainstream audience of gamers versus people that listen to kind of funny games daily that are aware that blue point Closed so I think that's one thing and I think of the other thing is that yeah If you really wanted to distract people from that you would have an actual trailer Like you would have something that's bigger than just the release date posted on Instagram and Twitter and YouTube or whatever, right? Like you want something that people that is actually gonna pull people away to talk about it Well, I also think too like everything that happened with Microsoft on Friday Like is that not pulling attention away from the stuff that happened with blue point like that was so much bigger than the blue point Not that they're not both important, but the Microsoft stuff was so huge Obviously y'all had a emergency kind of funny games daily to talk about it Yeah, like if you wanted to pull attention away like congratulations You got some attention someplace else like no one's talking about the blue point stuff right now Yeah, if I was in the PlayStation like the shady offices of the PlayStation, you know marketing thing and I'm like alright guys We need a distraction Alright, we can like we can put out the Wolverine release date and then Friday comes and they announced that their Phil Spencer's retiring Sarah bonds out the AI person is coming out I'd be like hey, we can keep the release date actually like let's just keep us playing We don't have to shift everything to make this happen As far as the second part of the super chat talking about the 2026 slate of PlayStation games I feel like this year is more exciting than Maybe the last few years of PlayStation exclusives when when you really lay it out, right? You have God of War Suns as part of which I know is out to like mixed reviews or whatever But that's a game that released yet Soros Marathon Tocque on cana to Wolverine as woke to actually your lists like for you Is that an exciting lineup when you think about this year in PlayStation? Yeah, I think it's exciting. There's some Revisiting old franchises some new things I Think I think it sounds cool I think having a date on Wolverine makes me very excited because I I feel like once until I get dates Like I said, it's hard to get excited because just the the gaming space is so volatile Yeah, where I'm like, but I feel like it's got a little bit of for a little bit of something for everybody Yeah, again like what I mean? I'm somebody who I loved Returnal Returnal was my game of the year the year that that game came out and so Soros is a follow-up hell Yeah, Wolverine like to your point at the beginning of this conversation talking about insomniac and like, you know insomniac is a such a consistent studio and they consistently put out fun Vibrant games that know exactly what they are and how to be what they are and I have no doubt coming off of playing the amount of Spider-man games that the bit that they've made now and sunset overdrive like a Wolverine game from them I know I know exactly what that is I can see it in my head and even as we watch the last trailer for the game that came out a couple of state of plays ago like Yeah, that looks like the game that I've envisioned in my head This looks like insomniac's Wolverine and so like all that said I think the game's gonna be a blast I think the game's gonna be a hit and so super looking forward to that and then you have a surprise and something like cana to which You know, we didn't know existed before a few weeks ago. Hell. Yeah, let's go Like I love to see them investing in something that was very promising in the first game coming out with Cana Bridges spirits But was something I wanted to see more from you know something I could have seen Growing and improving and from just the trailer we've gotten from cana to that looks like something that is growing and improving You have like these bigger open areas to explore You have a game that continues to look phenomenal in terms of presentation and fidelity I'm excited to get back into that game. It feels like it's been forever since cana one and so yeah I think this this lineup is one that you know really excites me and then marathon also is like a Question mark in a good way in my opinion and that's soon, right? Yeah, that's March 5th. I want to say yeah like next week Yeah Yeah, and like a week and a half two weeks crazy and like, you know, I'll throw this I was holding this for we news But to throw it in there talking about things coming up soon They didn't mention in the super chat super chat, but there's ghost of yote Legends coming out that same week and then they announced today that horizon hunters gathering the closed beta is happening February 27th through March 1st, so that starts in a few days And I forget if they said the release date for that game if that's coming out this year if that's coming out later I don't think they said but regardless regardless. I'm excited for that You know what I mean like that's one that I think in the same way that marathon is kind of a question mark But has the hype of people that like extraction stuff and like bungee Horizon hunters gathering is one that I think could be promising if it hits so yeah horizon has always had a really fun game loop for me I'm not a big multiplayer person, but hunter gatherer looks interesting. Yeah To bring in more super chats here MSV writes in it says they said more info in spring they never said it would release in spring I Guess like to that. Yeah, I mean there still could be more info. Yeah, I still assume Wolverine popping up at the next state of play with some more details Maybe you get a new villain and then also we're talking about Comic-con probably when we're talking about a Wolverine game Like there are so many places that this thing could pop up with more info at this point You could put out a trailer by itself and Then only special features writes in it says we love Madeline Stanley. Ah Love you Mario Another one from Joshy frog comes in and says let's go Madeline. Hi Joshy And then another one from Foxy Steve who writes in it says just showing some love for the Queen of Scream always awesome seeing Madeline on KF. Thanks Foxy Steve. Hell yeah Are there games that you're looking forward to that? feel like they're Further out in the year right like coming out in that second half Range because one of the things that they mentioned in the article that I didn't include here was that I believe Wolverine and GTA are the only games that we have like release dates for yeah That's what I'm gonna say That's such a hard question for me because as soon as you ask me I can't remember a single video game That's coming out this year. I know I mean Chad saying fable. This is a really good one Fable looks really cool. I haven't played any fable games and The last showing that they did with that. I'm very intrigued by the morality system and All of the things they were talking about how the the world sort of responds to you. So fable is definitely on my list Yeah, I can't think of any other games one for me all throughout there and I forget as they even said a date Actually, no, I think we do have a date for this one phantom blade zero. That's one that I know is coming in the fall I've opened their scene page and they have September 8th there. Oh 007 I'm looking forward to that nice. I mean double seven. I believe that's first half of the year Horses first half of the year like I think the first half of the year is filled up quite nicely with release dates Is that second half of the year with GTA looming and now with Wolverine kind of you know, standing its place I'm curious to see how those dates start to fall yeah between those two I it is interesting to me because I know everyone's scared of GTA and I think rightfully so but so Will that not sort of Cannibalized the other games though too. So like if you're avoiding GTA, but everyone's avoiding GTA So are we not gonna have like a crazy? Yeah, except ever is gonna go crazy. Yeah, where all the sudden okay Well, I'm not competing against GTA anymore But I am competing against Wolverine and Sauros and some like a bunch of other really big things as well Yeah, I think for sure that's going to happen. I think for sure we're going to get If we're gonna predict it, right? I think summer game fest season will be very telling as far as what Xbox yeah Jeff Kealey and PlayStation have to say about where the dates land for things or even what they don't say Because I think this might be the one where this summer we get the least release dates out of out of anything Because everybody's just like well, we would have released late fall, but we don't want to try and contend with GTA and Wolverine and what other whatever other big game fable, you know So I think we're gonna get a lot of 20 27s, which doesn't sound like a real year to say it out loud Or maybe we get like those earlier like September release dates already. We have two big ones in September I think we get more of those but then I think as we get closer to September they then delay out of the year Yeah, that's my that's my loose prediction for it I will I do hope that GTA season as I'm gonna call it like that We see a good crop up of indies of people who are just putting out smaller things Like we see more of the of the indie games being like well That's not exactly my audience like I'll just put something out and we get a big Grouping of a lot of really cool indie games. I think we guys I think for sure we can see that Yeah, have you checked out any of the steam next fest? No, I haven't because I've been here and I haven't been at my computer But there's a couple of ones that I'm I have my eye on like what I can't think of any of them anymore But I will I will report back. I so the last few days I guess steam next I still only started yesterday So I played some demos yesterday also played more demos through the weekend last weekend because there are some demos They just went up early yesterday. I played a demo for I played a demo for two for well three different games One of them I didn't like very much But I played the demo for Lucid which came into my email They presented it as a celesteoidvania, which I read and I was like I'll be the judge of that and Started playing it really dug it, but it didn't feel as much like Celeste as it does like Mega man with like more platformy kind of things going on But then also yeah the Metroidvania style of like map design That's one that I'm really interested to see like as we move forward as it gets closer Kevin's bringing up gameplay of it 2d Pixel art right like I think that's kind of where the Celeste kind of vibe comes in because you can see the character kind of like Zooming back and forth because they have so many abilities in this game Like the whole first level that I played during this demo is them being like alright, you can do this Here's a running ability that'll like give you a running start when you do a jump and it will launch you All right now you can press y to then do like your melee But if you're in the air it'll do like a melee dash or whatever There's so many mechanics and it does feel good to play. I really like the way it looks I really yeah, I love the way it looks right and I even love how the menus look in this game Like the starting menu in this game is like feels like it was they spent a lot of time Making sure that like your first impression is going to be a nice art piece of hey this starting menu is fucking beautiful But yeah, really enjoyed my time with this game and then I played a game called croak Have you heard of croak? I have not it sounds frog related it is frog related I think frogs are big right now I mean listen if that's the case croak is about to go crazy because croak is the Celeste like oh, okay Funny enough the art style though kind of reminds me a little bit of a cuphead as far as okay being more of like an Animation like 2d animation looks kind of like a cartoon But the gameplay is so like tight 2d platforming you got to be precise You want to collect all of the coins that are in a level if you're gonna like 100% the game But it's like Celeste where if you remember in Celeste you get the strawberry you have to land with it in order to collect it Same thing with the coins in this game. Okay, so you have all these optional smaller challenges But and the way that in Celeste the dash is like your main mechanic that everything kind of works around here the main mechanic is the Frog they were playing as using his tongue to like Zip towards things and when you hit awful off of a wall it'll then launch you the opposite way which is really Crazy in action, but leads to really fun and really cool platforming sections where I'm like alright jump off turn around Tongue the wall like launch off the wall to get to the other side of the thing And I feel like the coolest person ever whenever I I'm able to pull it off It looks cool. I love the way the little frog is animated like he's like walking around Someone mentioned Dosa divas I was looking at that one and then there I was there was someone who I was watching Neo a she Neo a she stream last night and someone came in it was a solo dev who Showed a hordes of the vi account. I think is that's what it's called someone correct me in the chat If you remember it it looked really cool was like a Gameboy sort of Metroidvania thing as well. Okay. Hell. Yeah Bringing in some more super chats Joshy frog writes in and just says frogs Emory a games rights and it says I'll take your GTA season and raise you Grand Theft Autumn Grand Theft Autumn is really Follow-up way kind of I think already took that I see I see I see Let's see the right. Hologo says check out hordes of this count. Yeah, that's what the hordes of I count Yeah, or by count I see and then mr. Hawk says the gamers are always proud to see Madeline on kf Remember, it's just a prank in it's just a prank. Can oh That's a Untilled on yes God that was such a good stream. Oh, it was so fun And then Joshua Bowen 7000 writes in it says as someone who rolled credits on burning shores last night This might be a hot take but I'm very disappointed the next horizon game is a night rain-esque multiplayer game. I Understand that yeah, I think like I'm I'm gonna try and stop referencing the ship of Theseus Over I over reference it But what I will say to Joshua is that I understand the feeling of hey I'm in this franchise because I like the single-player action adventure game where I'm bow and arrowing and doing the stuff And then you go and make a game that is that looks and is completely different Why does this have the same name to it? Like I that's the thing that will always confuse me about when you're franchising games and trying to speak to the same audience What about horizon hunters gathering is speaking to horizon fans? Like are you are we? Getting that conversion rate that we want you know what I mean So I told I totally understand that that said I'm still curious about it. I'm looking forward to trying it out. I hope it's good because I'm I'm somebody who liked night rain and I'm somebody who likes horizon so yeah I think for me the difference is like if that's something that the Devs are excited about doing because I think sometimes you do the same thing over and you're like I want to try something new Versus like being mandated to make something else Yeah, you know like if it if you're an artist and you're making something the same way for a long time Sometimes you might want to switch it up see what else you can kind of do with your same toolbox If that's what they're excited about then I'll be excited about playing it versus Coming from top down being like you got to make a multiplayer game like then you can really feel that in the game itself I think exactly somebody says that's not the ship of these years That's what that's because I was trying to do something I was trying to separate from the ship of these years I understand that it is like actually I'm not gonna explain it because then I'll get I'll actually get it wrong Madeline yeah, we're gonna move on to story number two But before we do want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games You can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad-free speaking of ads Let us tell you about our sponsors This episode is brought to you by five hour energy Indulge your sweet tooth with a fruity rainbow extra strength five hour energy shot It's basically a candy store in a bottle We're talking juicy berry burst tangy citrus squeezes and a pop of tropical vibes all hitting like your favorite childhood sweets But with an actual boost the sweet treat that you won't feel guilty about packed with B vitamins Nutrients and that all important caffeine to keep you going just as pocket sizes your favorite candy But with zero sugar and zero sugar crash forget boring find the rainbow grab the shot dive into the sweet boost for your sweet tooth Visit five hour energy calm or Amazon today And we're back with story number two Blizzard reveals Overwatch Rush. This is from the Overwatch Rush team over at news blizzard.com Welcome heroes. We've got something new to share But all still early days we want to share updates on our progress throughout the development process today We're introducing overwatch rush a new top-down hero shooter designed specifically for mobile set in the overwatch universe Overwatch rush is being developed by a dedicated team at blizzard separate from team four all of whom have deep mobile experience Team four remains fully focused on overwatch Which will continue to bring exciting and fresh new experiences for PC and console players and it's recently launched season one and beyond Overwatch Rush is an entirely new game not a port built specifically for mobile players as we report for testing overwatch rush in select countries and regions Check out our official discord server for updates on the game While there remains a lot of work to do we're eager to see how players enjoy what we've built so far and to hear from them on What we should focus on in the upcoming phases of development Our mission is to continue to expand the Overwatch universe by bringing fresh new adventures to players across all platforms We'll continue to keep you updated on how things are progressing Madeline as we look at the gameplay here of overwatch rush does this entice you does this do anything for you? Oh? Blessing Nicely no yeah Are you an overwatch person? I'm not I'm curious as someone because you've kind of recently gotten back into overwatch Proper we we took the two away from overwatch Everyone's kind of getting back into the game Yeah Like are you in an overwatch mood where you're like okay? I'm like I want to take in all of the overwatch things I want to give this a try or you're like I have my overwatch I don't need another mobile overwatch I look at the gameplay for this and I also nicely go this is not for me I don't think it looks bad though. I look at this and I'm like I think they've translated the overwatch art style really well To this top-down thing. I'm looking at this and mechanically like I love seeing the different heroes Still maintain their things like we're looking at Reinhardt Reinhardt is using his big shield You have you had mercy that was killing him before you got soldier 76 doing his thing right like reapers there with his two like Dual hand shotguns like doing his thing like every but all the characters here and all the gameplay here looks very much like Overwatch, you know, but just in this top-down Mobile form and I'm not mad at it like if you're going to Adapt something to a different Platform make it make sense for that platform. Yeah, totally Yeah, so like if over if traditional overwatch doesn't work for mobile Make a mobile version of it if you were really trying to get into that market and honestly, I don't think I don't think it looks bad I'm not gonna play it though. No, yeah, I don't I don't think it looks bad either It just looks so not my type of game But I do think there is a big segment of people who are primarily mobile game users And this might really speak to them especially, you know, we talk about Consoles being really expensive PCs being really expensive Lots of people have phones lots people want to be gaming on their phones like it's interesting. I'm glad they're saying it's not a port It's something we made specifically for mobile And hopefully they put a lot of care into bringing the sort of feel of overwatch to a mobile platform And it's they they're calling out here. This is separate from team four Which is the team that works on overwatch This is a you know a different team that has that mobile expertise as you're talking about and we want to make something that is Specific to the platform. So I think that's a good call and honestly the more we watch of this the more I'm like damn This is just straight up just over watch Top-down overwatch which is a thing that I didn't even think could work in the way that it looks like it is working So good for them The only other thing I'll say is that it reminds me so much of the viral moment where Was it Diablo that they were taking the mobile? I was thinking the same thing and everybody at BlizzCon was up in arms about it and then like what you don't have phones Yeah, what you don't have phones quote is the thing that like rings in my brain as I look at this gameplay But like you know this could be I mean we're almost at April So this could be just now to season April Fool's joke and I do think too actually that's a really good point though Right because if I remember correctly when that was happening people were waiting for a new Diablo launch Like they were on baited breath waiting for something new and what they got was a mobile game I think this is a great time to launch this because you just got a bunch of new proper overwatch Everyone's really excited. They just got what they were asking for like Overwatch as a game has been refreshed people are back in and then you get this addendum of the mobile game not a mobile game instead Like imagine if this had come out and we hadn't had all of this new overwatch stuff I think the response would be a lot different 1000% I think that's a really good call I feel like this is an example of seeing a company or a team Learn in real time and be like, ah shit. Let's not do that again. Yeah, like if we're gonna announce a mobile thing Yeah, make sure it comes right after we do the things that people want with the proper main thing So very excited to see other shapes up. I'm excited to see people take to it If this blows up, maybe then I'll give it a shot. Yeah, I'm not I don't I don't have a need in my heart from for a mobile Overwatch, but I'm saying this right now as somebody who has just not tried this But like, you know, if it comes out and people are like, yo, it's kind of nice We'll see. Yeah, we'll see Let's move on to story number three Amazon is shutting down another game Former lionhead devs king of meat. This is coming from Andy Robinson at video games Chronicle King of meat the party platformer published by Amazon is set to shut down six months after it launched Developed by UK based glow made which was founded by former lionhead members the co-op platformer launched for consoles and PC in October as a premium game But seemingly struggled to find an audience with steam concurrence peaking at less than a few hundred players on Monday Amazon games confirmed that King of meat will shut down in April with all players able to receive a refund for their Purchases quote despite the creativity and innovation glow made brought to King of meat The game has unfortunately not found the audience we hoped for it said as a result We have made the difficult decision to conclude our investment in the game and King of meats servers will close on April 9th 2026 quote players will be able to access and play all existing content until then So we encourage you to enjoy your remaining time in the game with your fellow contenders and quote All players who purchased King of meat will receive a full refund in the coming weeks from their platform provider Amazon said This is a crazy one because I Recall so vividly this launching in October and feeling like it came out of nowhere Like one day Mike just came in the studio talking about King of meat and I think mr. Beast in relation to it I forget what the what the mr. Beast connection is, but I'm pretty sure there's like a content creator Like big connection here, but Mike was all about it talking all about it and then I feel like I didn't hear anything about it the next week and Forgot it existed until today when this news popped up It's always crazy to see a game launch in October and then in about what six months Turn around and shut down like this. Yeah, it's so sad. I have never heard of this game, which is Unfortunate because it does look very very cool But it is so sad that you know We know that the threshold for success is a lot higher than then we would like it to be necessarily There I think what did it say like less than a few hundred concurrent players like that's really disappointing because they obviously Created something kind of interesting, but it takes a lot more than that to make it Yeah, and I think this is one thing we talk about often is the amount of games that come out the amount of like time and attention that these games ask for and The amount that's not available from people because you're not only competing against other games that are coming out You're competing against other forms of entertainment or other like tick-tock or you know like I was a fortnight, but yeah like all these basically there are so many things that are taking away our attention And we're these games are fighting for that And so when you're something that's multiplayer and you want to have a certain amount of concurrence. Yeah, like Competition right now is so huge because we read we quote the article all the time of I think those games industry Not bids that was talking about how when you look at the top games being played They're all over six years old Right like the top games being played right now are not games that are coming out in 2026 Well, and it's the same I think when you look year over year, it's the same games that are making the top list Right. It's always fortnight call of duty Yeah, I think Yeah, like it's it's the heavy legends and as we just saw with high guard which was you know more successful than this game That didn't that that didn't hit either. Yeah, and It's such a competition. I think Especially with multiplayer you're not only asking for the time and attention, but you're asking for a Group of people's time and attention like within with an a solo indie game, you know You can download it from steam a demo or whatever play it on your own But with something like this, it's like, okay Well, you also need other people to play with you Yeah, and with how limited attention is across multiple people that that window becomes even smaller Yeah, right and people are throwing out the other big games right you have Counter-strike you have roblox in there and they're these same names of games We've heard about for the last decade, but they have this chokehold on Those player numbers and where people's attentions are going And you mentioned a high guard earlier and like I read a story like this and I'm like, you know like yeah I'm scared for the other games that come out the new multiplayer games where it's like alright Well, your time is coming Yeah, you know like even for marathon which I've been talking highly about as far as what the it feels like the vibes are on Marathon it feels like we're up compared to where we were this time last year even with that I'm like yeah, but is that going to translate when the thing is actually out? You know what I mean like is that going to still get them the player numbers that they are looking for when we're looking at these games Come and go obviously King King of Meat and High Guard are different from the amount of hype That's for marathon right now, but even still like we see games that come out in our good We see games that come out in our promising that still get lost in the ether because there's so much to play right now. Yeah Let's move on to some breaking news this comes from deadline Written by Rosie Cordero Ed screen is to play Balder in prime videos God of War I gotta close all these pop-ups that are coming through from writer showrunner and executive producer Ronald D Who did outlander and for all mankind God of War follows a father and son Kratos and ten-year-old Atreus as they embark on a journey to spread the ashes of their wife and mother They through their adventures Kratos tries to teach his son to be a better God Well, Atreus tries to teach his father how to be a better human Let me jump back in the article because as I was closing the ad I realized it jumped in the middle of the article Ed screen who you know from Jurassic World Rebirth is the latest actor to join the cast of prime videos God of War Sony pictures television and Amazon MGM studios TV adaptation of PlayStation's ancient mythology themed video game Screen will play Balder who may be the youngest son of Odin played by Mandy Pintakin but again petinkan. Thank you, but he's his father's most dangerous weapon charismatic unpredictable Unpredictable and armed with a razor sharp tongue Balder lives by his own rules as a boy as a boy I love the idea that Balder lives by his own rules It sounds like you're like introducing like a fucking jackass character, you know as a boy Balder was cursed This curse denied him the ability to feel pleasure in physical sensation This fuels an insatiable anger and bloodlusts in Balder who favors a brawling fighting style that blends his immense power with the raw Impact of his fists above all else he longs for an opponent that can truly match his prowess in battle an opponent that can finally make Him feel something can I see a picture of this man? Yeah, this is what he looks like So imagine this man, I guess like can we see a picture of Balder from God of War damn? Damn That's a okay percent water body that man is dehydrated. Okay. Oh From Game of Thrones. I recognize him more than from Jurassic World of rebirth Interesting yeah, I what does the character look like again? I mean honestly not far off. I really I mean when you're passing yeah Balder is the character Heaven's bringing it up I Mean he's a Norseman He's a skinny white Norseman with also like when you talk about the that means not been drinking water like That kind of build also this man is not hydrated. Oh, yes. That is a good casting exactly right like I Think the only thing you're looking for there is the beard mm-hmm, which you can make work. Yeah, he can grow beard Man that I'm just thinking about the makeup for these this for the show like those makeup artists are gonna be they've got their work Cut out from them all like runes and tattoos that they all have all over their bodies But I feel like this is like a fun one I give you a makeup artist I feel like this is almost like a dream job where you get to look at like these mythical men and mythical Characters and go all right. How do we translate all of these markings all this rigid? How do we make a Kratos? Yeah, with like ash and like the market like the fucking Spartan markings and all this stuff That's good. It seems like a lot of their castings have been really spot-on I'm really excited for the actor who's playing Kratos was from Sons of Anarchy Yeah, and I loved Sons of Anarchy so and we're gonna see we're gonna see probably an episode either one or two this man Ed screen fight that dude from something They're gonna have a superhero fight. That's gonna be fucking sick. Hell, yeah All right, let's move on to actual story number four Simpsons hit and run in prototype studio radical entertainment is back as new radical games This is Chris Scolian at video games Chronicle The studio behind such titles as the Simpsons hit and run and prototype has returned under a new name new radical games Describes itself as a radical entertainment plus hothead games implying that the new company is a successor to both the funk to studios radical entertainment was founded in 1991 in Vancouver and was acquired by Vivendi in 2005 then by Activision in 2008 by the end of 2013 the studio had essentially closed in all but name with the Canadian government Dissolving its incorporated status and the few remaining staff assisting on other Activision projects Hothead games was a Vancouver based studio which developed such titles as penny arcade adventures and death spank before moving on to mobile games It went bankrupt in late 2024 Now however both studios appear to have been resurrected as new radical games with Ian Wilkinson as CEO and president and Tim Benison as COO Wilkinson was one of radical entertainment's co-founders after the company was sold to Vivendi He left radical in 2008 and moved to hothead where he served as the studio's president for the next 16 years Benison was previously COO and studio director at Capcom Vancouver then joined hothead in 2020 to serve as its COO Although Wilkinson's LinkedIn page states that he started as CEO and president of new radical games in December 2024 around the same time as Hothead games went bankrupt the studios website appears to have only recently gone live The site says the studio is open for work for higher full game development on mobile or console games It also says it's willing to co-develop with another studio or to handle porting or remastering of an existing title as well as the Simpsons hit and run in Prototype radical entertainments other previous titles include the incredible Hulk ultimate destruction Scarface the world is yours crash tag team racing and the NES version of Wayne's world. That's a crazy Interesting collection of games. That's such an insane catalog. I think the only ones are those that I've played our Simpsons hit and run I guess I played crash tag team racing. Yeah, actually no, which one was Nitro fueled do you remember I don't I played one on I think it was either Gamecube or Xbox, but I feel like it was Nitro fueled Yeah, I also I'm thinking that's the one I also played and which is not the tag team racing one Yeah, but also funny enough. I also played scarface the world is yours. You did which was like kind of like a vice city clone Ish kind of game. It was alright. It didn't like set my world on fire or whatever, but Again a weird catalog of games also an interesting Journey through these different studios opening and shutting down and this guy just being like I'm gonna keep doing it I'm gonna open another one and it's gonna be the successor. Yeah, I love the Well, first of all, I love calling it new radical like I think that's a that's a great sort of Reimagining of your old stuff, but what a what a persistence of like gaming is my passion making games my passion Like I will figure out how to do it no matter if I have to beg borrow steel How many studios I need to make I'm gonna game and I'm gonna make games for you guys and I love the idea of like I Yeah, I'm making games my passion I'm gonna make it happen no matter what and listen I'll co-develop all with another studio all remaster an existing title Like let let us do anything which honestly for the ecosystem that we're in right now a games business Not a bad call. No make yourself available You also don't get things that you don't ask for so like him putting this out there There might be another studio that's looking for partnership. That's like, oh shit. Okay, we didn't know That these these group of people were out there. Let's partner on something or there might be an existing IP That's looking for someone to make something unique in it. I think Putting things out into the world is the best way to get something No one's gonna give you something you didn't ask for for the most part so ask for it and see what happens 1000% also the game I was thinking of is crash nitro kart. That's the one I played. Yeah, I think that's when I played as well Um Madeline Then we'll see if the studio ends up doing big big things Like a successor to Simpsons hit and run that'd be huge. That would be huge Probably not gonna happen, but if I wanted something smaller though, say the tiniest news I need to know about where would I go? You'd go to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small items You need to know about story number five is we news mouse PI for hire has been delayed to April 16th 2026 I really want to play that. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. That's about a month and so not a crazy delay Yeah Horizon Hunters Gathering as I mentioned before is having us closed beta test set for February 27th through March 1st From VGC the director behind the Kingdom come deliverance games Daniel Vavra is stepping away from game development developer Warhorse Studios has Announced interesting very interesting. I wonder what the story is there. I feel like there's a story I might be speaking out of turn Was was that the person who was? Subtweeting during the game awards about well, that's a good question about kingdom come deliverance not winning. I'm curious That's a really good question. I'm just gonna type in I'm gonna type in Daniel Vavra controversy Oh Interesting I Don't know if we have the time to get On to the next one from VGC Crafting the South Korean publisher behind such titles as PUBG subnautica and hi-fi rush has created a new executive role Designed to further its AI first strategy Kongwook Lee who has served as Crafting's head of AI since 2022 has been promoted to chief AI officer See AIOs that we're not doing that. We can't be doing that a new executive role designed to oversee the company's AI R&D in mid to long-term innovation strategy Yuck boo earns to that from VGC One of the cinematic animators who worked on the award-winning Claire obscure expedition 33 is now joined CD project red Interesting Lucy Hennet worked at sandfall interactive from May 2023 to the end of 2024 as a cinematic Animator where she refined the raw motion capture by improving the body and facial animations And then finally fields of mystery a fourth major update has been announced You're getting ruins biome a conclusion of some quest lines new secret bachelorette Lost and found box has been added to the game and terrariums had been added Fun I played fields of mystery. I think when it was still in the beta A while back and I really liked it, but I didn't end up sticking with it for very long I feel like Andy was the person who I heard talk about fields of mystery the most but I'm not checked in with them to see If you still if you still log in it every day, you know talking to his girlfriends in there. I don't know you do in that game It's farming. It's like stardew. Ask. Yeah, but ask me what you do in stardew Yeah, you farm you fish you farm you fish you like explore you hang out in the community Yeah, give people gifts. I feel like most of what I know of stardew and fields of mystery is talking to baddies I feel like it's all I hear from these games like oh, yeah, I married somebody yesterday And I'm like, don't you farm like what about your crops go tend to your crops your crops are dying over here marrying Figure out your tomatoes and that's it for we news Uh before we get out of here, let's hop back into superchats. See what people are saying Uh street shadow 20 says on the topic of wolverines release date announcement Didn't the yote date reveal get announced the same way just a blog post Oh, I don't know. I don't remember Let's type in ghost of yote release date Let's do trailer. Let's see if they had a release date trailer I have an announced trailer ghost of yote gets a release date This is from vice on the 23rd Yeah, it looks like it might have been random I think it was a place. Oh, actually, I'm vaguely remembering it now because it might have been a playstation blog with like a bunch more details about what you can do in the game So, yeah, maybe this is their mo. They're just like here you go Yeah, we're like we don't feel pressured to put to announce release date in a showcase like we'll just announce it when we're ready to do it I think that makes sense. Honestly, like I don't think that's a crazy thing. I think release date is like such a sensitive and such a I guess like particular thing when you're talking about how you land on it and like Maybe even the timing of when you want to put it out there that it doesn't surprise me that for a company like playstation They're like, hey, we don't always align Um, the stars don't always align for us as far as announcing our release dates in february or may Like sometimes we just got to announce them at the end of february or like in april or something Well, and I think like you mentioned earlier I would rather them Throw it out randomly and be confident about the date then announce a date too early and then have to move it Exactly And I think playstation has been better about that it's been like the last I'll even say in the last generation I feel like they announced dates way closer to and maybe that's part of the approach right? It's just like, okay Well, we're not going to put them in the showcases because we want to be confident on those dates. We'll just do it when we're ready clawmaster underscore says late we news ad here Ed boon Ed boon Hold on Ed boon on was hinting. I'm reading this verbatim Ed boon on was hinting uh at a possible idea that he might be working on a new killer instinct. Okay. That's not we news That's such a First of all, I don't believe it. Second of all, like him just saying a thing in passive You got to give me a link or something if you're gonna come in with we news link me because I want to I want more proof there I'd love to work on until dawn too. So put that in the we news. Oh, yeah, we got we news A super chat incoming in madeline is gonna work on us with onto your school. That's pretty sick. Congratulations. Thank you We got one from only special features. It says I'm excited for the god of war show Love ronald morris outlander, which is just horny assassin's creed. I think he'll nail god of war cool Um, we got one from gotto poppy underscore He says birthday tax been listening for a little over a year and loving the content. Thanks for the hard work PS blessed the guns looking good today. Thank you so much. Got to poppy and happy birthday. Happy birthday. Got to poppy Shark 89 says with all the games and studios shutting down. I want to shout out apex rush a stunting slash a stunting slash racing game developed and released last week by youtuber g gta stunter hazardous Hold on Kevin. Can we look up apex rush? Because I want to see this because hazardous. Yeah, is it youtube video youtube video? Yeah apex apex rush apex rush It's apparently a new racing game and stunt game because I want to say I used to watch hazardous videos I used to have an era where I was super into just watching people do stunts in gta. Yeah This is who come on come on. Is this one? Yeah, that looks like it. Yeah, this this this for sure is it Go on audio Sure. Yeah, put on audio Whoa Hold on. I kind of messed with this Yeah, for audio listeners. I mean it's a stunt Driving game Art style is a little bit more colorful than you than you'd imagine almost has like an arcadey. Yeah Kind of feel environments look a little bit fortnighty, but like Like fortnight, but like not in like a bad way. What's that one game that like we liked The Hot Wheels one. Yeah. Yeah It looks like that but like not as pretty hold on I fuck with this This looks cool Somebody in chat says trackmania and I think that's such a good one shout out I used to love playing trackmania and this for sure gives you trackmania vibes because there's no rhyme or reason to how the platforms and And the like roads are set out like you just have stuff that's floating in air and the cars like jumping from like track to track That gives super trackmania vibes and it's out february 19th. So that's last week It's out. It's out Yeah, I'm checking that out later Clear blessings afternoon. Clear my afternoon. I'm gonna cancel my dentist appointment that I have this afternoon Jameson Peters Says bless you had a great call out on last friday show and I completely forgot what it was But props to the thing you said that I cannot remember. Yeah props blessing All right. Thank you so much Jason jameson Peters 11 I'm sure not much was said on friday. So I should be able to recall it Just like six hours of talking six hours of talking non-stop about very major video game news um Keegan hill writes in and says my first ever super chat is for you madeline. You're amazing. Thank you keegan. You're amazing Then mob acts you says Honestly, hope gta 6 gets delayed not a rock star games fan. If it releases this year I'll just catch up on my backlog of games that comes out this year Mom that's some hater ass shit right there I would also say you don't want it to delay because every other game that you do like is betting on it coming out at that time Yeah, so that would mess up all of the other games that you actually like and screw with their whole period So we want it to release when it is supposed to so that the other game devs can make their plans accordingly 100% Also, just catch up on your backlog. What's wrong with your back? Like, you know, nobody's forcing you to play gta So like yeah, I I wish I had more time to catch up on my backlog. Yeah, me too. There's too many games way too many games um alva 79 96 says is xbox a ship of theses bless if you ask me everything's a Because like because the way I would look at it, right if I'm using the my definition That's my brain that may have changed over time Who knows is my definition of ship of these yes a ship of these yes because it's not the same thing anymore Think about that's real. That's real shit. Think about it Silver j. Hawkins writes in it says my my top two next fest demos so far are a vampire crawler and everything is a crab Now do you want to hear my hot take? Yes when I said that I played a demo that I didn't enjoy It was vampire crawlers. Oh Which is crazy because I love a card game. I love a card roguelite, you know like Vampire crawlers in theory should be my exact kind of game, but I think it made me realize that The reason I didn't get into vampire survivors and the reason why I'm not digging vampire crawlers also is just that I just don't like looking at it and I know that's with intention Like the art style that they have for those games is very much with intention But it just does not work for me especially with vampire crawlers where that game After a few runs or not because I actually I didn't really get a multiple runs into that game after half a run I'll say was feeling like a casino with the amount of like bells and dings and like you unlock the chest The chest goes crazy and all this shit. It was making my brain unhappy It was just too overstimulating. I don't want to be in a slot machine esque series where there's yeah Yeah, everything and it's that with an art style that is like purposely a little bit ugly And just a lot. It's just a lot happening in that game. I was not enjoying my time with I think aesthetics are an important part of the game and if you're not vibing with it Then there's so many games that you can play that you do vibe. Exactly Um, let's see if we have one more super chat in here No, I think that's it for super chats Let's get into kind of funny.com slash you're wrong Where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong So you can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe kebabs writes in with a history of crash kart racing sequels So we have crash nitro kart in 2003 crash tag team racing in 2005 and then crash team racing Nitro field which was 2019 So there's more context for you and kebabs is the crash band acute guru I believe so. Yes In ratchet. I think I think kebabs loves ratchet kebabs. Let me know. I know kebabs loves crash Or is it sly cooper kebabs likes another platformer? um Let's see here Here we go. I like this one from ejrpg You says the king of meat devs paid mr. Beast to host a tournament for the game having 32 other creators in a custom built stage to play For 250 000 dollar prize all paid for by the devs that's Listen, I respect the effort of like We got to get this game in front of people's eyes. Who do we call mr. Beast? At the same time that seems so expensive. I was thinking the same thing like how much money did they That must have been a lot of money A lot of money unless mr. Beast had I mean from the super chat doesn't sound like it But unless mr. Beast had some sort of steak or something but Yeah, that's kind of crazy And it's like not a good return on your investment there, which is unfortunate because I'm sure they were hoping like Oh, well if we get this in front of the biggest youtuber in the world and a bunch of other creators Like that will get people excited and obviously it did not work the way it was supposed to 100 Madeline that brings us to the end of kind of funny games daily a wonderful time hosting with you Thank you. I had a great time hosting with you too. Bless remind people out there work and they find you They want to see more madeline. Yeah, if you want to see more of me you can find me on twitch at mad exposure Or instagram or blue sky. I'm mad exposure everywhere um, I'll be talking about lots of horror games playing horror games and talking about jigglypuff Oh Yeah, oh, yeah your favorite pokemon my favorite pokemon by far nice Uh, of course, like you just said, uh, you love talking about horror games You might be talking about a horror game this week later on the show I'm kind of funny game cast who can say but tune in to continue to see more of madeline stanley Of course, this has been kind of funny games daily If you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show enjoy The screencast next which I believe is going to be every movie Is it movie and tv show kevin? Do you know or is it just all the movies? It's just movies And I'll be on it I'll be on screencast talking about movies because I love movies too. 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