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Gary and Greg talk about the new Switch rumors, Xbox Live dying, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:00 - Housekeeping SnyderCut In Review is done and there’s a new KF Podcast on youtube.com/kindafunny Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie, & Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:09:20 - More Switch Pro Rumors, Takashi Mochizuki and Ian King @ Bloomberg 00:19:45 - Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord, Dina Bass and Katie Roof @ Bloomberg 00:31:30 - Xbox Live is Dead, Long Live Xbox Network, Tom Warren at the Verge 00:34:50 -DrinkBox Reveal at Friday’s ID@Xbox Showcase, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:37:30 - Ad 00:41:15 - Monster Hunter Rise Review Round-Up 00:45:49 - Niantic and Nintendo working on a Pikmin App, Niantic 00:49:50 - Studio Openings and Acquisitions! 00:53:00 - Out today 01:01:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Blessing and Janet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing and Tim talk about PlayStation Store closing its doors on PS3, Vita, and PSP, Resident Evil's 25th anniversary, and more! Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:05:04 - Housekeeping PSILY XOXO is recording later today. Remember if you’re on Patreon you can catch that live at noon, otherwise you can catch that everywhere: Tuesday on Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames and Podcast Services around the globe. Thank you to our Patreon Producers:Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:05:45 - PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores could Be Permanently Closed In A Few Months - Kirk Mckeand @ The Gamer 00:07:30 - When will people realize that the value of backwards compatibility goes beyond the idea of a small section of fans wanting to play 'old games'? - Best Friends Q:Dee-Kej 00:17:20 - Capcom is celebrating Resident Evil’s 25th anniversary - Blog post 00:23:15 - ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Sees 5x Player Increase After Hawkeye’s Release - Paul Tassi @ Forbes 00:27:28 - Tech news: A shortage

Greg and Bless talk about the rumor that the Rock is in Fortnite, PlayStation buying EVO, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:00 - Housekeeping The Kinda Funny Wild Aces are in the FCF Championship. Come call the plays as we take on the Glacier boys this Saturday on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames at 6:30 p.m. PT! If the MCU and DCEU are more your things, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Ep. 1 Reactions AND Part 1 -- 2 hours and 40 minutes -- of Snydercut In Review are up on youtube.com/kindafunny and podcast services. Falcon is on Screencast. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:05:04 - The Rock’s in Fortnite? Tom Phillips @ EuroGamer 00:19:20 - PlayStation Buys EVO, SIE Statement 00:31:45 - Gotham Knights delayed 00:36:12 - Avengers: Spider-Man IS coming, FTP isn’t, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:47:20 - Ad 00:51:33 - Disco Elysium Banned in AU, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:56:30 - Next Big Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Will Fix Cops And Cars - Ethan Gach

Blessing is joined by Kinda Funny Xcast's Parris Lily to talk PlayStation VR 2, Square Enix, a new Life is Strange, and much more! Time Stamps - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to http://burrow.com/games to get $75 off your first order! Blessing and Andy unite to talk about a bunch of PlayStation Indies announcements, EA Game Pass coming to PC, and more! Donate to stop Anti-Asian violence: https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:12 - Housekeeping A new episode of The Blessing Show is up and this week, thanks to your support on Patreon, GREG MILLER takes over. Go check out the latest episode to see Greg break down how to save Marvel’s Avengers. Up now on Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:07:44 - PlayStation is doing their indie spotlight today! 00:20:15 - EA Play is Coming to PC Game Pass - News.Xbox.Com 00:26: - Activision Fires Dozens Amid Shift Away From Live Events - Jason Schreier @ Bloomberg 00:39:20 - Ad 00:44:20 - A fun one: Rockstar has paid a modder $10,000 for fixing GTA Load Times - Cass Marshall @ Polygon 00:49:00 - Sta

IT'S A WEIRD WHITTA-LESS (NON)WEDNESDAY EPISODE. Greg and Bless talk about Jade Raymond's PlayStation game, Fortnite's changes, and a giant mole. IT'S WEIRD. Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:10:00 - Housekeeping There’s a new PSILY live RIGHT NOW! My spoiler-free Snyder Cut Review The Kinda Funny Wild Aces are in the FCF Championship. Come call the plays as we take on the Glacier boys this Saturday on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames at 5 pm PT! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:12:00 - Jade Raymond Starts a Studio, Making a PlayStation IP! 00:28:20 - What are the odds that this new project will have similar threads to her previous works that didn't end up in Google Stadia? - Best Friends Q:Mitch Krassin 00:31:00 - Fortnite’s New Season is Live, and it’s Primal 00:36:36 - Big Ol’ ACNH Update Coming, Kevin Knezevic @ GameSpot 00:39:50 - Ad 00:45:20 - 2K Snaps Up Tiger Woods and a Studio, Brendan Sinclair @ GIB 00:47:40 - Assas

Game Informer's Liana Ruppert joins Blessing to talk about Outriders coming to Game Pass, Nintendo's possible biggest fiscal year, and more! Follow Liana: https://twitter.com/DirtyEffinHippy Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:05:28 - Housekeeping The Kinda Funny Wild Aces are in the FCF Championship. Come call the plays as we take on the Glacier boys this Saturday on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames at 6:30 p.m. PT! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:07:15 - Outriders is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One - New.Xbox.Com 00:16:40 - Why is it getting compared to games like Destiny and other live service games? - Best Friends Q:DJBradChill 00:26:20 - Speaking of Xbox: Five Bethesda Titles are getting the FPS Boost Treatment on Xbox Series X|S Today - news.Xbox.com 00:33:25 - Could this next year possibly be Nintendo’s best year in Software sales? 00:41:50 - Ad 00:46:26 - Fall Guys is Getting Among Us Costumes With 'Unique' Featu

Irrational Passions' Alex O'Neill joins us to dive into HELLA Xbox news, and Parris Lilly joins us to gloat about how right he was! Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/ALFighter27 Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:07:50 - Housekeeping SEND ANDREA THE SWEET NASTY LOVE: You may have noticed I’ve been quiet here: well it’s because I’m on Day 3 of my hospital visit. My medical team is trying to figure out what is causing me excruciating abdominal pain. A coupe leads so far, but this is not how I thought this week was going to go! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson Black Jack Trent Berrie Black Jack Today, we’re brought to you by Logitech and HelloFresh but I’ll tell you about that later. The Roper Report - 00:09:05 - Parris was Right: Xbox, Bethesda, and Exclusives 00:18:43 - “Greg, How does it feel to be so wrong about the Bethesda deal?” - The Nano Biologist 00:24:16 - 20 Bethesda Games Came to Game Pass Today 00:30:27 - Xbox Summer Event Coming 00:31:56 - “Does Bethesda st

GameSpot's Tamoor Hussain joins Tim for another TimTam KFGD! They talk all about Bethesda, Square Enix, Soul Reaver, tiny Nintendos, and more! Follow Tamoor: https://twitter.com/TamoorH 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:00 - Housekeeping Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, Trent Berrie, Black Jack The Roper Report - 0003:05: - Resident Evil PSA (luke Plunkett at Kotaku) 00:08:50 - Bethesda Joins Xbox Roundtable Happening Right Now 00:14:50 - I’ve seen a lot of people get excited about the potential of the Bethesda’s acquisition. I’d like to know why this excites so many people? - Best Friends Q:Ignacio Rojas 00:24:25 - Square Enix Presents Spring 2021 00:25:30 - Tomb Raider, Square Enix says it will have announcements about the “ongoing celebration for the 25th anniversary” of the series. - Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat 00:36:35 - Loop Hero, the Surprisingly Addictive Endless RPG, Sells Half a Million Copies in One Week (Rebekah Valanetine IGN) 00:38:25 - Mortal Kombat m

Blessing is joined by Janet Garcia for Mario Day 2021 to discuss Mario memories, a new TMNT brawler, Animal Crossing Build-a-bears, and more! Follow Janet: https://twitter.com/Gameonysus 00:00:00 - Start 00:12:49 - Housekeeping There’s no FCF Draft tonight, but remember that the playoffs start THIS Saturday! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:13:33 - We’re getting a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game! - Michael McWhertor @ Polygon 00:22:24 - Do you want to see more games done in this retro style but the game itself is brand new. Or keep seeing old remakes of games we already know like the Duck Tales game a few years ago? - Best Friends Q:Jordan Vickers 00:26:10 - Animal Crossing & Build-a-Bear are having a crossover - Rebekah Valentine @ IGN 00:31:35 - Don’t expect Elden Ring news in March - Francesco De Meo @ WCCFTech 00:37:15 - PS5 Developers Can Now Add Denuvo Anti-Cheat to Their Games - Jordan Oloman @ IGN 00:42:20

Gary and Greg delve into the reality of Xbox owning Bethesda. 00:00:00 - Start 00:06:00 - Housekeeping Godzilla In Review starts today! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:07:10 - Xbox Buys Bethesda 00:27:02 - COD About to go BOOM? Steven T. Wright @ GameSpot 00:31:50 - Fortnite getting its first SIngle Player Mode, Matt Purslow @ IGN 00:36:45 - Apex on Switch Runs at 30, Emma Kent @ Eurogamer 00:40:55 - Walt Williams Hired at Insom, Eddie @ GameSpot 00:43:10 - Hope for TLOU Factions, Eddie AGAIN 00:46:00 - Ad 00:49:00 - Out today 00:52:50 - Squad Up:Lal (PSN and PC) - lallysup 00:55:52 - ONE OF THEM ROTATIN’ SEGMENTS (This is optional) PARAGON LIVES! Dean @ GamesBeat 00:57:40 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Blessing and Janet Garcia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Guardian's Keza MacDonald joins Greg to talk about Xbox/Bethesda, Super Nintendo World, and more! Follow Keza: https://twitter.com/kezamacdonald Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:08:24 - Housekeeping The Kinda Funny Podcast is live; come here about when I almost lost my eye to a parrot: youtube.com/kindafunny Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:43 - Microsoft/Bethesda Deal Inching Closer, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:24:40 - Watch Dogs Legion MP Indefinitely delayed on PC 00:31:18 - Super Nintendo World Opening, Marie Dealessandri at GIB 00:34:02 - Ad 00:36:50 - Avengers Devs Respond to XP Issue via Reddit 00:42:20 - Division 2 Update 00:49:10 - Tomb Raider Collection Spotted, Gabe Gurwin @ GameSpot 00:53:35 - Out today 00:54:15 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg and Gary Whitta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blessing is joined by Gamespot's Michael Higham to talk about Hogwarts Legacy losing its lead designer, Artifact support coming to an end, and more. Follow Michael: https://twitter.com/michaelphigham 00:00:00 - Start 00:08:07 - Housekeeping Right after this live episode of KFGD, we’re streaming Super Mario 3D World in collaboration with Rooster Teeth to raise money for a good cause. That’ll be me, Tim, Andy, Snowbike Mike, and Alfredo Diaz right here on Twitch.tv/KindaFunnyGames. We revealed the new MCU In Review intro yesterday: https://twitter.com/KindaFunnyVids/status/1367892752420147200 In case you missed it: There’s a brand new episode of The Blessing Show up right now where I break down “What makes a good puzzle game”. I interviewed the dev behind one of my favorite puzzle games “Manifold Garden” and it has some of Roger’s best editing work to date. You can catch that on Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames right now. The Roper Report - 00:12:01 - A Hogwarts Legacy lead designer quits Avalanche following pu

Parris Lilly joins Greg to talk about Bloomberg's report on the new Switch, Avengers making some dumb and smart decisions, and more! Follow Parris: https://twitter.com/vicious696 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:15 - Housekeeping The Blessing Show has a new episode on youtube.com/kindafunnygames! It’s all about puzzle games! The Kinda Funny Podcast is live with the new voice of Cleveland on Family Guy, Arif Zahir. MCU IN REVIEW RETURNS TOMORROW! WandaVision Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:39 - New Nintendo Switch Details, Takashi Mochizuki and Sohee Kim 00:17:45 - With the news of a Switch 2 potentially releasing this year, I have to ask, will Horizon get positioned against BOTW again? - Best Friends Q:Branddnh 00:21:39 - Super Nintendo World on Hold for 2 Years, Joe Skrebbels @ IGN 00:24:38 - Avengers is making dumb and smart decisions XP Rework 00:40:46 - Guilty Gear Strive Delayed 00:46:30 - Ad 00:51:03 - Out today 00:56:

Tim and Andy breakdown the latest PSVR news, PS2 texture swaps, Valheim sales, dope beats, and more! Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:44 - Housekeeping New Gamescast Is up Come Draft the FINAL REGULAR SEASON squad for the Wild Aces tonight! 5:30 p.m. pt twitch.tv/kindafunnygames Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:00 - PSVR Spotlight (PlayStation BLOG)PS VR Spotlight 00:25:15 - Sony's controller tech is literally bananas | Patent Trawling (Brendan Sinclair at Games Industry.biz) 00:29:45 - PS2 Emulation Gets Even Nicer With Custom Textures 00:33:04 - Ad 00:37:02 - Valheim's Success Continues, Passing 5 Million Copies Sold [Updated] 00:40:10 - AMD Announces Its Mid-Range Radeon RX 6700 XT, Costs $479 - (Kevin Lee IGN) 00:43:40 - Out today Reader mail - 00:45:30 - There's a lot of people on the internet saying Gears 5 is the best looking game of the generation. What do you think? - Richard Oliver Bray 00:50:20 - Wh

It's a huge Whitta Wednesday on Tuesday! Gary and Greg talk about Epic buying Tonic Games Group, Nick reports in on Aliens: Fireteam, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:07:50 - Housekeeping On top of that, PSILY is live, it has my Maquette review! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mick @DaNanoBiologist Abrahamson, Black Jack, & Trent Berrie The Roper Report - 00:09:10 - BREAKING: Epic Games is buying Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, @olgakharif and I have learned. Story hitting shortly 00:20:00 - Aliens: Fireteam Announced 00:32:09 - Harry Potter Game allows Trans Characters, Jason @ Bloomberg 00:44:30 - Why So Many Cutscenes in Outriders? Wesley Yin-Poole @ EuroGamer 00:47:35 - Ad 00:52:12 - TLOU 2 Cleans Up on BAFTA Noms, Matthew Handrahan @GIB 00:54:00 - Goodbye PlayStation Store Movie and TV purchases, PS Blog 00:55:00 - Layoffs reported at Hardsuit Labs, Marie Dealessandri @ GIB 00:55:35 - SDCC Canceled Again, Shocking No One 01:00:40 - Out today 01:05:20 - Squad Up:Chris(PSN/Xbox) - PSN- twitch373, xbl-

Blessing and Tim talk about E3's live event being cancelled, Elden Ring leaks, possible Square Enix remakes, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:.30 - Housekeeping PS I Love You XOXO is recording live later today on Patreon then as always it’s out for everyone on Tuesday morning. It’s been a HUGE week of PlayStation news so you don’t want to miss this week’s episode. Then, as always Kinda Funny Xcast went live over the weekend. You can join Snow Bichael Michael, Gary Whitta, and Parris Lilly as they go back and forth about Bethesda and what to expect from them. This Month’s Patreon Platinum Tier Print is….https://twitter.com/KindaFunnyVids/status/1366440599985942530 Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis, David Meintel, Mohammed Mohammed,The Nano Biologist, Frankfurter, Shiraz Razak, Patrick Higgins,Travis Gajkowski,Drew Gardiner, Dominic Shorter,Ginny Berndt,Joseph Soler,Katie Gallacher, &Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:04:30 - E3 2021's Live Event Has Been Cancelled... According to LA City

Greg and Bless talk about the rumor that we're FINALLY getting extra storage on PS5, open-world Pokemon, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:20 - Housekeeping Our Pokemon Direct reactions are up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames! Did you know that Kinda Funny Best Friend Belinda Garcia wrote her first video game?! Stonefly was announced today, Belinda worked on it, and you should check it out at twitter.com/stoneflygame. It’s from Flight School -- Creature in the Well and Island Time VR devs -- and it’s sick as hell. Wild Aces take on the Zipper tomorrow! Coverage starts at 4:30 p.m. PT on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames The Roper Report - 00:07:41 - Expandable PS5 Storage Coming this Summer 00:16:26 - PlayStation’s Japan Studio is being re-organized 00:22:42 - “Does legacy really not mean anything anymore in a gaming industry that seems to be pushing more towards pleasing Western and European audiences?” - Nathan Choquette 00:31:06 - “Do you think that we will get a version of Astro that is more game focused and less

Iron Galaxy Co-CEO Chelsea Blasko joins Greg to talk about the death of Anthem Next, Halo coming to TV, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:30 - Housekeeping There’s a PlayStation State of Play TODAY. We’ll be live and reacting to it at 2 pm PT on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames, but if you’re watching later, those reactions will be on youtube.com/kindafunnygames. We drafted a new FCF Team last night, and Saturday we take on the Zippers! Coverage starts at 4:30 p.m. pt on twitch.tv/kindafunnygames! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: GrahamOfLegend, David Meintel, Trent Berrie, Black Jack, Luiz Aguiar (@8bitLuiz), James Davis (@JamesDavisMakes), &The Nano Biologist The Roper Report - 00:05:45 - Anthem Next Is Dead, Christian Dailey @ BioWare 00:16:18 - What’s Henry Cavill Doing with Mass Effect? Karol Laska @ Game Pressure 00:21:50 - It’s Real Bad over at CD Projekt, Jason @ Bloomberg 00:30:30 - Ad 00:35:32 - Bravely Default 2 Review Round-up 00:38:55 - Amazon Luna Boss Bounces, @Tom Warren @ The Verge 00:40:20 -

What's Good Games' Andrea Rene joins Tim to talk about PlayStation's State of Play, Cyberpunk's delay, and more! Follow Andrea: http://www.twitter.com/andrearene 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:30 - Housekeeping Kinda Funny Contracts are now live in Hitman 3! Go play and see if you can kill the people in-game that Greg wants you to! Blessing is playing Among Us on IGN’s Black History month stream today at 2 pm PT! Our 3rd FCF draft is tonight! 5:30 p.m. PT join Greg, Snowbikemike, and many more as we have a beer and draft the team that will face off against Johnny Football and the Zappers this Saturday! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: GrahamOfLegend, David Meintel, Trent Berrie, Black Jack, Luiz Aguiar (@8bitLuiz), James Davis (@JamesDavisMakes), &The Nano Biologist The Roper Report - 00:05:50 - PlayStation State of Play Tomorrow! Sid Shuman @ the PlayStation Blog 00:18:15 - Have we considered that this strategy is Sony's "response" to gamepass vs. making their own gamepass alternative (Ps Now + day and date