Jeff Grubb
Appearances
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Hey, hey, hey, hey, if you're gonna call me and get through on my hotline, I only let that out to folks that work with you. Ich habe keine Ahnung, warum man so große Balls haben würde, um auf den Telefon zu kommen, mich anzunehmen. Lass uns diese Konversation anfangen. Kann ich etwas zu den Effekten bringen? Hey Jeff, Glückwunsch. Glückwunsch auf die Erkennung.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Glückwunsch, dass du auf der Bühne bist. Glückwunsch, was du für die Spielindustrie machst. Greg, können wir anfangen?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Greg, Greg, Greg, just stop.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
I gave you the rub.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Nein, nein.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Top of Belgong.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Der legendärste Tony-Honk-Rebel jemals.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yep. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking forward to. And it's I think what we've all realized over these last 10 years, really, since you guys made it happen, is the idea of competing websites is gone. It is very much a like I'm sure you see this where or maybe even it's happened to you.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Like I've listened to podcasts and content creators, and then I sort of just like find myself phasing away from them and go and like looking for somewhere else to go. And then eventually I'll phase back into them.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And being able to have a large community of people making kind of similar content, content where it's like, oh, here's a different vibe, a different flavor, where people can bounce back and forth between, I think that's healthy and good for everybody. So I'm ready just to support everyone in the scene and keep us all going as best as we possibly can.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, it's definitely, that was one of the reasons I was almost late to the show was in a meeting about exactly that. Yeah, other shows like, hey, yeah, Blight Club's back on Wednesday. There's a new season with Mike Minotti starting the next Bad Game. It's our Bad Game show where me, Dan Reichert, and Mike Minotti take turns. The other two pick the bad game for the third person who's playing.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And we take turns playing through the entirety of the bad game. We've done Bubsy 3D, Daikatana. We've done, Mike's done several more. Mortal Kombat games, including... Superman 64 is a standout as well. Yes, Dan did Superman 64. Lots of great episodes of that, and it's one of our favorite things to do. That's back on Wednesday with a new season, so tune into that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
That'll be in the afternoon sometime. I hear Minotti is going to look real cool. Dude, he's going to look so cool. Oh, we're going to wear costumes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The person who's playing has to dress up as one of the characters from the game as well. So there will be a costume reveal and a game reveal all in the new season. But you're right. Summer Game Fest is coming up fast.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And when I first joined Giant Bomb, the future of doing a nightly show at E3, Summer Game Fest, whatever we were calling it at the time, was in question. Because it was definitely something that Ryan Davis started in a lot of ways. Yes, absolutely. And then Jeff Gerstmann carried that forward in such an awesome way. Also great, but not late. Yeah. Exactly.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And I would watch those things and just be like, yeah, man, this is it. Like just getting all these cool people from the industry in a place where they can just be real with one another and talk. I always super respected it. So when I got a chance to go there and say, and then people say, hey, what do you want to do? What's important to you? I'm like, well, I think we should keep doing the couch.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And they're like, well, if you want to do it, make it happen.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
and being empowered to do that was great and now it's like okay it's on our own and it's going to be even more challenging because we're we're kind of figuring things out without this the back this is the you know the bad thing of not having a corporation with a corporate credit card where we just swipe and figure out the money later we're gonna have to do this on our own but it's still important to me i still want to make it happen yeah jesse fatali is going to bring the inflatable hammock and uh maybe i'll just lay a hammock that's the word we're going to call this thing
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I think that's how it's marketed on Amazon. I'm 42. I've looked for all kinds of hammocks, man.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I need a lot of things. We'll see what we can make happen.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Uh, and then I'm going to play that among us 3d. We were like looking for a chance to play that. That would be a good time. That happened the next couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Mike doesn't like that joke, and yet he went to Disney and couldn't help himself. As soon as he saw one, he's like, this will get me attention. It took multiple pictures in front of a rainforest cafe.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
That's been the biggest challenge because the Giant Bomb was founded originally because there was this technology that they had to build a website and build a wiki and all this stuff. But It's been, you know, it's been in the fridge for a while and now a lot of stuff is built on top of it. So there's going to be some issues with us getting the dot com to work in the ways we need it to.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And yeah, so that that's going to be the biggest headache we have. In fact, if anyone has engineers or ideas, let me know. But yeah, so we're still working with fandom on that side of things. They are helping us out like by hosting the website and they're going to continue. They're going to continue to help us with that for a while. That is like there is a little bit of a ticking time bomb there.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, we love Fantasy Critic. We think you guys did an excellent job on that, too. So I think when I heard you guys, I'm like, we're doing that for sure. I think we would kill you. I think we would trounce you. I think you guys would be done.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
No way. I think me and Barrett both got a volatile last year for like a dollar each. And I was like, yeah, that's my deal right there.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I'm waiting for it, but yes, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I actually do have two ordered and I think I still, can I still buy the one Nintendo offered to send me? Cause I do have a niece and a nephew that are graduating. I was thinking about getting them a switch too. Did you get the email this weekend? I did not. Yes. I got the email.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Oh, You got to play your Switch enough, all right? I mean, just be a real gamer.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, so, look, we are definitely still fucked on a lot of this stuff. I think we're about to get the shelves being empty for a lot of products here in the next couple of weeks. So we're fucked in a lot of ways. When it comes to the Switch 2 and Nintendo's concerns...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
things continue to change fast and the the uncertainty certainly is one of the major problems for a company like nintendo as they try to plan for a launch of a console and try to like uh create messaging to consumers so they can feel good about selling a product at a certain price and they know how they need to frame that and all that stuff it's impossible to do when when things aren't certain and things have changed again so uh i think was announced earlier today
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
that uh china and the united states are pausing uh the the tariffs now that doesn't mean they're going all the way down to zero or anything like that uh in fact really this is wild because the markets are like thrilled about this they're very excited and yet the tariffs on china for the next 90 days are going to be 30 which is kind of around the number we were talking about when like the campaign was ending it's like well he's going to do tariffs it could be as much as 30 that's about
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
you know, it really cuts into the profit margin for a company like Nintendo still. So they will still have to deal with that, but 30% is way better than 145%. 1,000%, right?
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
We've been worked into this a little bit for sure. Yeah, but still, that's where we're at where this is something that feels at least workable. Like a company can work with that. Now, the problem is it's still only a 90-day pause. This dude loves tariffs. So he's going to come back to them if he gets bored with something else. But in the moment, it does feel like
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
It does feel like the market reaction and a lot of the fears that happen, I won't go into it with like, you know, the U.S. dollar being, you know, deprecated by a lot of organizations around the world and how that's a very scary thing for a federal government in the United States.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
But that does feel like he had that explained to him, and at least he found out that that stove he touched that everyone told him was hot actually is hot. He's not going to remember it for very long, but maybe that buys us some time.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I mean, the Nintendo Switch 1 didn't go down in price, and the reality of that market is very different than this one. And none of those realities have changed, really. The component costs, people lining up to get those components for a variety of different consumer products, keeping those prices high for a very long time, challenging labor markets around the world, whatever.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
All those reasons are still there. And then this is on top of that. And then on top of that being tariffs, and then on top of the tariffs, the certainty is out the window. So it's just so hard to be in this situation. I agree.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I feel really bad for anyone trying to launch a product, especially something as high profile as the Switch 2, which everyone's going to have an opinion on and not everyone's going to understand all the nuance, nor should they have to, of course. So yeah, people are mad about the high price. I get it. But boy, I feel bad for everyone involved.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
To be fair, that's Donato's. That's Ohio grown. That's actually not bad pizza.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
You know, it's tough because media has changed in terms of how you consume TV so much over time. And it's like, I think at one point, I would have been like, man, you should try to get to seven every time. A good show should be like, if it can, go to seven seasons. But that's definitely not been the case recently. I think... a bunch of really good episodes over five to six seasons.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I think five, honestly, is where I would be. So you don't have to drag things on. You don't have to try to, you know, I hate the use of the term filler for TV show. Everything matters to these characters. All of it is character development. It all fills in something in the end. But you don't want to try to elongate when you don't have something else to actually back that up.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
So if they have enough for five to six seasons, I think they should just go to five and really just pack it in there and make it as good as possible.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, you're right. There's so much lore to pull from and so many fun things. I mean, just the vault experiments themselves. They've done a lot with that already, but that is kind of an endless well at a certain point for a TV show. So yeah, I really hope they get a chance to lock onto the ones that they think are the best for telling their story and then do the most with those as possible.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
What did you think of the first season?
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
i really enjoyed the first season it was uh it's definitely something where i was um i had relatively high expectations actually because i i think i was as i was watching the trailers i was looking at it like this looks like it should actually work yeah finding a tone but that like my high expectations for tv these days is is pretty low overall so it's like you
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
As long as you're just entertaining, we're going to be good. And then I think it did enough to get me to be like, oh, no, these are characters you're actually going to care about, which is if you get there, I'll watch your TV show. That's all I really need is characters I can care about. And they did that. They really nailed that.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Or they say JK. When I was talking about art, I don't mean anime, of course. Come on, everybody. No, no. Listen, watch that Jeff Jeffs Bizarre Adventure panel from PAX as well that Jeff Bacalar and the crew over there did. And then come back to me and defend anime.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Give me Tim Getty so that I can talk to a real gamer. Come on, let's go. Tim! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been like, I think when I first played the first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, I'm like, oh, this is what a video game should be. And I don't think my opinion has changed ever since. Wow. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, 3. These are like perfect video games to me.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I continue to like the series, and Thug is great as well. Hey, Tim Geddes, come on, man. How good is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater?
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
You know, I needed to talk to someone who really gets Tony Hawk. I couldn't just go through Greg. So I needed to just get you here and you tell me, hey, how good is Tony Hawk?
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Thanks. Thank you, Tim. You said all the things I was going to say, but even better.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Well, that's right. I can't take that away from you.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
They couldn't do it. He's right. The thug will have to be reworked. I think a thug pro sort of, like, obviously thug pro is a mod thing where people go online and play with each other. Yeah. Not like that. And I think kind of taking inspiration from that and being like, okay, we did one, two, we did three and four.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Now let's just rework it for maybe a more online hangout version of this game where then you can go do the thug stuff separately. I think that could work.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I've enjoyed Skate in the past, but I'm like, it was definitely, I was weird because I liked Tony Hawk better than Skate, and then I like 1080 more than SSX, 1080 snowboarding, which is actually more technical, a little bit more similar to Skate. Oh yeah, Barrett? Do you like Guitar Hero more than you like Rock Band? I do, yes. So it's, like, weird. There's no consistency there.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, but that's why, like, for snowboarding, I like the more simmy one. Tenny's a little bit more simulated than SSX. But I'm excited for this new skate Greg, because they are going to go with that hangout online session. Like you are a bunch of bums skating all day.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And one friend can be doing the Mario maker of like creating a level for you while you guys try some tricks and they can get off the board and, and just fall at any point and make some just fun madness. I think that's a really good idea for a skateboarding game in 2025.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Well, you'd go to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah. Come on. Let the freaks be their freaks.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
I started it, and then all this started to happen, so I haven't had much time to actually play video games, but I really like that game. I think it's really cool.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
You're right. I'm a bad person. That's so good.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Giant bomb face on Unicron from that Transformers movie. Yeah, we'll do that. Yeah.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Very kind. We really appreciate it.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, it's OJ's number one. I guess if you separate pulp or no pulp, those can just be one and two, honestly.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, grapefruit juice probably is the one. I was going to go apple juice, but for breakfast, people go grapefruit. I guess maybe you make your own juice with some celery and shit.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, maybe they just go smoothie, not a juice.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And then you had dental coverage, right? Because that just sounds like all sugar.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Thanks, man. I appreciate that. We'll do our best. You're right. We should take a moment. I'm going to do that.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
That's right. Well, I'm here. Let's make it happen. I am one of the co-owners of Giant Bomb.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
God, there's like 50. It's crazy. There's too many. We've got to do something about that. Yeah, we made this happen. Fandom really helped us make it happen. We are now independent. And yeah, we signed an agreement to make it all happen, basically. It's in the works. But yeah, no, you're looking at us. We have everything. It's all in our hands now. And that means we're going to be...
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I mean, I was there for all of it, and I don't really know. It was such a blur. You know, the possibility of this was something that was floated around the time that I was leaving fandom, but, you know, the exact details of how it go down, we can't talk about a lot of the specifics, but the general sort of timeline there was, I think we realized on both sides we had the same...
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
about the way to solve our various problems with like, okay, giant bomb, how do we make this work? Or how do we make sure that the people who love this site and the people on there are happy? Because that is what everyone seemed to want. And it would never have been possible had everyone on each side not identified that as a common issue.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
important theme of, hey, let's do what's right for this audience. So with that in mind, and sort of with that PAX panel looming as a real timeline, a marker of being like, hey, if we announce there, this will be best for everybody. It really forced us to get a deal done very fast. So I was in meetings all day, every day for the entirety of last week, even in
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Boston, flew into Boston for PAX, and I spent most of that time in a hotel room talking to other people. But it was worth it. We got it done. And it was quite amazing to be able to go into that room and tell people that, hey, just like, you know, 24 hours earlier, we made this happen.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I think I said this during the PAX panel, but it's true. I lived it. Their instinct for what should we do when we are faced with a situation like this, what is it that we should do? And their instinct was to turn toward, well, what is the most fan-supporting solution? And this is what they spotted. This is a possibility. They asked us. We said, let's see if we can make this happen.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And now here we are. So, yeah, I agree. Fandom should get credit. I've heard from some other friends who have been in similar situations. I saw publicly Andy Robinson talking about how CVG got shut down. They asked for a similar scenario, and they were denied that from, I think, a future that owned them.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
So, yeah, these people have been through this a number of times before, and they don't get the opportunity to do this. So, yes, you're right. A shout out to Fandom for making that possible.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Out in front of people making stuff and asking for support once again. So I don't know. I'm just really, I have a ton of energy. I'm ready to get to work.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah, I think if people watch that PAX panel, you might be able to see it on my face. I really have no idea. But I had been sort of in this situation of locking away feelings and emotion over here so I could just do the work. And it had been like that for, you know, more than a week, 10 days. And like, you know, people do that all the time. You go, you want to like,
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
it wasn't something that people aren't familiar with but i was doing this in a very hard way for a very long time and what felt like a long time to me so in this moment when it was like this catharsis of actually getting to say it and it happening it was like difficult to like go into the moment and it like i was actually working on that throughout the entire panel just like look into the audience like actually look at the people's faces instead of like sort of
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Being like, oh, if I look in their faces, their emotions will reflect my emotions, and I'll have to deal with that. Like, well, now's the time I actually should and get to deal with that. So it was a process. Like, I was actually struggling with that a little bit. And it's still a process of just being like, oh, can I sit here and think, oh, we did something.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
And yes, it has begun to happen in a very basic way. But of course, now it's Monday. We are having meetings. It's time to get to work. And I think... When I go to do a show, we did a game this morning, and it was great to be back. And just seeing the chat there, that's the part where it's like, oh, yeah, there's the familiar faces.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Those are the names of people that, you know, I know watch the show. Here's a ton of new people. But the vibes are there, and I can latch onto that and be like, this is the ground I get to stand on. And now let's build something even bigger here. I'm ready to do that.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yep. Yeah. And it's like I said, it's it's a very North Star thing to have to be able to turn to them, be like, all right, when I say something dumb and I wouldn't be crazy if we did that. And then 50 or 50 of you are shouting back. Don't just say that. Go make it. It's like, well, now now's the time. And I'm very ready to do that.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
Yeah. Yeah. Well, we do a bomb cast on Tuesday. So Monday and then Wednesday through Friday, but yes, that's right.
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Giant Bomb is Saved! w/ Jeff Grubb - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.25
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yeah, it's, you know, Take-Two's got plenty of games coming out this year. They'll figure it out, whatever. But they do have to kind of explain this. They have, you know, remember, like, this money that they were putting on the books was something that they were promising last fiscal year. They've been kind of, like, just gesturing to investors for a while now that this, hey, this is happening.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And then, like, that's shifted to this fiscal year, the one we're currently in. And they were making a lot of big promises because, like, we have Civ VII, and we got...
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uh borderlands is back and uh we have uh the mafia we got a new mafia game and then and then you know the crown jewel is gonna be there to like you know really put put a spice on top of everything and and you know well things change they're gonna have to explain that to investors uh and their stock price did you know did take a hit Uh, but this game's going to come.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And if, if you're going to want to like get on the take two train as an investor, well then now's the time because Grand Theft, no, no matter what happens with Grand Theft Auto, even if like we were talking about that catastrophic launch that hypothetically could have happened if they rushed the game or whatever, even in that case, it was going to make all the money.
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It was going to be the biggest entertainment launch in the history of the world. So, you know, that money is on its way. And I get investors being spooked. They are the most frightened people in the world. But at a certain point, it's like, what do you think is actually going to happen here? And they're just they want those short term gains. So that's what this is about.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I mean, I got to ask, how are you doing? I'm doing okay. You know, it's very scary in the moment, right? When it's, you know, when the panic starts to set in, it's like, actually, you know what? I could just do stuff. I could just take action here and, you know, kind of did minimal. It was like, hey, let's, I'm going to focus more on some personal stuff.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yeah, I mean, I think they really do have the leeway to do it however they want. So I wonder how they even game that out internally when they try to figure out what is best. I think that it... They probably want to launch them at the same time if possible.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
But I think if they came up with a game plan to launch it later in the year, the online component with promises, you know, when you buy the game and it's like, hey, it's coming, just hang in there. They could make that work as well. People are going to want to spend a few weeks to months really playing the hell out of that single player game.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And then if online comes later, they can make that work. I bet, though, that they do try to launch everything all at once to really make that package. Well, a big part of it is they're going to probably charge $100 for this game. And one way you can justify that is it's got everything in there right now when you come to buy it.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And so I bet that's a big part of them, of the thing that is forcing their thinking here of we got to make sure this package feels valuable. Although Grand Theft Auto 6 will sell a ton at $100, even if it is just the single player at first. And that's my bet. Yeah. Is that what you're thinking?
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
But who knows?
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
i mean i've like so many questions about like what the business model looks like is this um going to be exactly like gta online was how do you are you what happens to gta online uh are we going free to play and the shark cards is the whole business model now is um like do you need to go free to play clearly you don't but like if you do does that make does that change things they have and i'm really i bet they have so many questions themselves about like what is the best way to handle this and there is probably no one right answer there's just like
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
different paths for them to take I imagine though that they go the route up front that like gives them the mostly way to like change things later which is you include it at a premium price in the package and then if you want to go free to play later you always can true so that's probably the route they go but boy they have a lot to explain about how all of this works and now we're further away than ever from finding out those answers yeah
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
real quick when you mentioned like the biggest entertainment launch ever and we were talking about the most expensive thing ever i do i would like to see someone like take the like expected cost of this game and not like compare it to other pieces of media but like other like how much did like the sistine chapel cost at the time yeah dude yeah this is expensive as like building a pyramid like like in real terms uh probably not but i would like to see that comparison
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Oh yeah, there are people who have waited on the sideline for a justification to themselves to spend the money they need to spend on a console, and... GTA 6 will be that for a huge number of people who have been waiting for a price decrease, which, sorry, or have been waiting for just this specific game. You know, a lot of people jumped on board with EA College football.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Like here's Patreon that I have had set up for quite some time. Would be great if you could support that because I'm going to keep doing a lot more stuff there. And people came through and it really reminded me, it's like, oh no, I got this. When I said at the end of each Game Mess Mornings and then Game Breaking News that the Giant Bomb audience is the best audience in gaming, it was true.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
That was like the moment for a huge portion of that slightly more casual audience. It's like, that's the game for me. I've been waiting for 10 years. Here it is. And we saw what that could do. That like just ran through the industry, was a massive thing, was this inflection point for selling consoles again. This will definitely be that, but even bigger.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
It will be even larger in terms of its impact. Now, does that help other people who make games? I'm pretty skeptical of that. It feels like this is money that goes to Take-Two and Rockstar, and sure, more people have consoles, but they're going to spend all that time playing GTA and GTA Online. And I don't know how many more other games they're going to buy. They'll probably go play more Fortnite.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
So I guess that's the other game that benefits from this.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
we're definitely at a point where it's like, they can come out and kind of tell us whatever they want. And we're going to be hanging on every word. Cause I just want to see what the, what this team can do real quick in the chat, the super chat from Tyler paid about what's better Skyrim's release of 11, 11, 11, or GTA six is six, two, six, two, six. I'm like, Oh, that is pretty good.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And it was like, it's coming out in may, not June. I'm like, Oh yeah. I also forgot the number there. So it's five, 26, 26, six, it's, you know, GTA six, GT online too. That's really clever, but, No, it's Skyrim.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I counterpicked GTA 6 in our fantasy draft, so I'm all good over here.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yeah, I do expect GTA 6 to be the key game that really makes the PS5 Pro feel necessary in some ways. And a lot of other games that are taking advantage of the PS5 Pro don't maybe feel that same exact way. But yeah, I don't think PS5 Pro is necessarily hurting all that much. It's probably selling right around what PS4 Pro did.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And they've come through and now it's the Jeff Grubb audience. And I am ecstatic to sort of take that and run with it.
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And there's not much that's going to change that, even GTA 6, which when that comes out... It's also going to sell a lot of standard PS5s. In fact, it'll sell a lot more standard PS5s.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
So kind of feeling a little bit on top of everything today, where a little bit, you know, not invincible, but like, oh, that armor I've built up of having, like surrounding myself with great people and doing the job the way that I have always said I was going to do the job, which is I'm going to But the people I write for first, the people I'm making content for first.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yeah, you know, I can only speak for myself and even then can only really say so much. But I'll say that I really loved working at Giant Bomb and it was it was a privilege. It was something that I did dream about. It was it was awesome to make it happen. It was never, never perfect. But, you know, I've never worked a perfect job. So what am I even talking about?
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And, you know, sure, other people saw my paychecks, but I work for this audience and that has paid off repeatedly now. And I think that's where I'm at, where it's like, OK, that was the right choice. And I feel really good about it.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
It was really awesome to be a part of. A big part of that was getting to work with the people I got to work with, who I continue to just think the world of. These things, they happen. And I don't think it's out of pocket to say corporations do struggle to figure out what they want from their media businesses. That's a pretty common thing. I don't think that's unique to fandom.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I think that's across the board. It's a weird space to be in right now. And, um, I, I, I don't envy them having to try to figure that out. And so, uh, part of me is like, Hey, cool. I don't have to now you guys can go do that on your own. And I will go do a Jeff grub stuff. Um, and, and that's been where I'm, that's where I'm at right now, where, uh, you know, it was.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
you know, difficult to kind of go, go explain things to my friends at first. And then when, when I got a chance to talk to my wife, explain things to her. And, you know, the thing is like, everyone's like immediate, like really supportive because it turns out like a lot of people believe in, in me more than I even believed in myself. And that is, um, everything. It really is. It's huge.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And then, you know, explaining things to the kids and having them like, oh, you're sick, so you're not going to care about this. And she's like, no, I'm going to cry now that you've told me you don't have a job. And I'm like, okay, listen, let's just talk about this. This is, you know, bad things happen, but it's also like an opportunity and I'm going to be fine.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And I promise you're going to be fine. And it was this moment like, okay, when I started having to explain it to a six-year-old, it's like, oh, I've got this. I got plans. I got ideas. I got people who love me and, and we're going to go out there and we're going to get this done. And, uh, It's just kind of exciting at this point. I'm really happy to be where I'm at.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And I love being a part of games. There are a lot of dweebs out there that try to make it suck. And we kind of all stand against that. We have. We've beaten them back so many times now.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
that standing around with uh with the cool people the people that get it the people that want to make it fun and want to focus on that or don't even want to make it fun they want to think about it and have something to say about it and and those people are out there every day and they are looking for their community and i just want to keep building that and providing one more little pocket of of a space for them to do exactly that and that's that's the plan
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yeah, he's a good dude. He's, you know... Immediately just saying all the things I needed to hear. And yeah, he's a real one.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Metroidvanias. There are dozens of us.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Yep. Hey, the developers, free advice. Just make it a Metroidvania. It won't sell, but boy, am I going to love it.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I'm sorry. Subtle nods to France. I'm sorry.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I am, and I played the preview build that they sent out a few months ago, and immediately I was like, yep. Yep, this is it. This is people are going to lose their minds for this game. It is one of the reasons why when all the sort of concern around Oblivion launching, this is going to bury this game. I'm like... Don't worry, y'all. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be just fine.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
In fact, it's going to break through. I was like, it'll sell a million copies in two weeks. Took a day or something like that for it to hit a million copies. It just has the juice. It is a game that fully understands what it is, and then when it understood what it is, and we know how to get the most out of that. The combat is so exquisitely designed. Everything flows into everything else.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
Everything pops off the screen. Everything feels so good to do. And I mean, everything. And it's like, I'm so excited to just get back into combat. And then it turns out, great story, great writing, great performances, a really great look. All of the overt... the Francophile-ness of it. I guess it's not Francophile if they're actually French.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
So the overt proud heritage that they put into their game is also fantastic. I'm like, I can't wait to see what they're going to do next. Oh my God, a mime? Are you serious? It's so, so cool to see this game really find an audience. And I think it's... The kind of thing that expands the genre.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I think that there is the JRPG, which I think I get technically not Japanese, but this is a game very much inspired by those other games. So let's give it a little bit of respect and say it's trying to be a JRPG. I'm going to call it a JRPG. And the fact that they can be like, okay, we're going to do that, but we're going to do it in our own way.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I think it's going to open a lot of people's eyes to be like, oh, I do like this. Why was I so standoffish with this genre before? And I think it's going to open the eyes of the people that have been working in that space for a long time. I think they're going to feel more emboldened to make games that have a different vibe and a different flavor. It really is just a singular game.
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It's special, man.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I'm sorry I wasn't familiar with your game, France. Like, for real. It's all that, right? And it's... I think it's a wake-up call that while we are having all these conversations about what is the future of games and can these publishers that are massive make this make sense? Ubisoft employs 14,000 people plus, and they make less money than they've made in a very long time.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
This thing is just waiting to implode. What's going to happen to these big games that we expect from these big companies in And it's like, look, the reality has changed on the ground. The engines are there and they are, they're mature and people know how to work with them and they can get more out of them than they've ever gotten before. The democratization of the tools has happened.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And now there are several genres where we've seen this happen, where they go away and then indie teams or smaller teams or, you know, just nothing compared to the 500, 600 to a thousand people that make a Ubisoft game or whatever. These smaller teams can, enter these genres and plant their flag and say, we're doing this now. We don't need the biggest teams in the world to do it.
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And it's this breadth of fresh air. It's this relief of, oh, these games aren't going to go away. They're just going to come from the bottom instead of from the top. And that's like, oh, my hobby is safe. We're good here. They're charging less money than for games that should be this price. They're actually hitting this price. Yeah, and it's on Game Pass, right?
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It's just got everything going for it. And it's, yeah, I think it's going to be special long-term. We're going to look back at this as a moment in gaming.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
And people in chat pointed out this game got a lot of help from outside studios, and that's true, but that's true of big teams as well. When you read the credits of something like, oh, 1,000 people worked on this game, then you'll get to the point where, and also we got help from this studio, and that's an external team.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
That happens on every game of every size, so it's like still working with a core team of around 30 people and then getting contractual help from the outside. It's still a very different thing. Yeah. than a thousand plus people working on a game that are all employed by Ubisoft. Yeah, I'm super impressed by this.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
I mean, they are de-emphasizing Sackboy for sure. I mean, that's the studio media molecule, right? I can't remember the exact fate of them, but are they still a going concern? They're still going. Right. The dreams? Right. Okay.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
The dreams is done, and I think that there is no evidence that they are like, all right, and that's because we're returning back to LittleBigPlanet or Sackboy or anything like that. Yeah. Yeah, I think they have maybe moved on a little bit, and that doesn't mean Sackboy is, like, done for good or fired and never coming back or will never show up again. I mean, it was in Astro.
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GTA 6 Delayed Until 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.02.25
No, good point as well. Yes, they found ways to bring Sackboy back even without Media Molecule. But I just don't think that that is what PlayStation is right now. They are a different company. They are focused on more mature games, more broadly appealing games in their opinion. And I think Sackboy just doesn't necessarily factor into that.
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Again, that doesn't mean that they're going to toss them out. It just means when they're spending money building an intro... And they got to pick the characters you're going to put in there. I think sack boy is in like that lower tier now. I think that's all that means.
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Is this your, like, you also don't like the Astro Boy, Astro Bot design, right?
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I wouldn't ask him to watch my laptop at a coffee shop. You're right. I would be like, Sackboy, please. No, thank you. My kids love Sackboy. They hate that big adventure game. They love that. They love dressing him up. So my one kid thought he's a meep and wanted me to get a Sackboy doll and all this stuff. So there is some love for Sackboy in this house.
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Thanks, man. Yeah. And it's, you know, I really appreciate you saying that it was a summer game fest. The, you know, doing the giant bomb couch was something very special for me. So being able to pull that off and getting endless kind words from people who are really appreciative of what we were doing there has been the best part of the job for sure. Really was happy to keep that going.
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Not for me. I was never a LittleBigPlanet guy, so I'm all right with this, too. It's weird how they decide this. There was...
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a like a banner that they would have on the playstation website like a couple years ago long after bloodborne was uh came out and it was like deep into the hey they should do something with bloodborne and they put the the hunter from bloodborne back into that image at one point it's like are you doing something with bloodborne and like i knew they weren't doing anything with bloodborne it's like this is weird but it's like well they still want people to know we were the bloodborne company uh and i just think that's like oh well sackboy i don't think they care if people consider them the sackboy company anymore
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I mean, let me check my watch. I mean, it's like any minute now, right? I just think that they were waiting to find the stabilization of the tariffs so they knew how much to raise the prices by in the United States.
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Yeah, it sings and stuff, yeah. Fun. I think what's the name comes on and says, Happy Christmas, Xbox. I think you get that when you press the button.
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There you go. Thank you for doing that. I appreciate that.
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And then, you know,
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talking about games you know it's it's easy because we're we're you know we're all kind of having a conversation with each other even we're not even if we're doing a little asynchronous asynchronously like you're doing your show and i'm like all right they made some good points when i go to do my show i'll build on that and then i'll have a conversation i'll say something that causes people to talk and then i hear you guys kind of responding to that on your shows and we're all doing this in this ecosystem because it's like i think we realized a few years ago
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How is it bad? They come out and insult the audience and talk about Xbox instead? How do you mess this up?
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I want to see live musicians play live music. Yeah.
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Jesus, who's always nice to me.
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Yeah, I think that's right. Astros kind of usurped his position.
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I mean, like I did talk about a few weeks ago that what I had heard was they were debating internally between a state of play versus a showcase, you know, and I know this audience understands the distinction there. And they had not decided a few weeks ago, and I have not heard anything. I've also not asked, you know, now that I've got a little bit more time, maybe I'll do exactly that.
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We are getting pretty close where I bet they have made a decision there. And, you know, I don't have full, like, transparency into that process or what that looks like. That's just kind of how it was phrased to me. But to me, what that says is they have stuff to talk about. Do they have the time and bandwidth for their teams to build an asset for a showcase?
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Like, that is a big ask these days for these teams who have so many moving parts. Like, make a build of the game that we can just, like... shoot a trailer, a gameplay trailer inside of? Or can you do like a meeting twice a week with this external vendor who's going to make a CGI trailer for your stuff and you're going to have to guide them through that?
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Can you, you know, take hours out of your day? And it's very time consuming. So I bet that is the hang up there. But I think the good news is they probably will have stuff to talk about one way or another at some point.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's discussions about like what the benefits would be of putting on a big mind blowing showcase if they could at this point. And you're right. I bet there's some conversation of like, do we need that in this moment? We have games to sell people that will get people to buy PS5. So I think they I would probably lean towards a state of play in this moment.
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But that's just me guessing. I'll try to I'll ask. I'll ask around.
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uh and i mean yeah it's just talking about summer game fest season like it's it's gonna be a weird one because i don't expect we're gonna get much from nintendo because we just got their big uh blowout i mean not only that like you know we're gonna go to summer game fest right i should be there i'm planning to be there and do you expect like a lot of developers from outside of the country to want to travel to the united states i bet a lot of them like like i might not even want to do that
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Oh, we're not competing with each other. No one's competing in this space. It's all kind of building each other. It's all, it's a, yeah, it is this space where the more people who care about the way that we talk about games, the better for everybody. So it, it is, it has been a very special thing to be like, to feel like I've become a part of, and you guys have been a huge part of that.
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On the plane, playing Mario Kart.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
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I wouldn't be surprised if we do get a Nintendo Direct. BanderSN in chat says that. In June, to set up the second half of this year with a few more games... I've heard a lot of people speculate, people who I think have a good head on their shoulders, that they think Nintendo has one more big game for this holiday. I know a lot of people are like, 3D Mario. I'm not there.
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But I do think they probably have like one more thing for this holiday. And then they could set up the early part of 2026. I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly how it goes down.
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Definitely the Odyssey. Yeah.
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Yeah, it feels like it. Right? Yeah, it feels like it for sure. Yeah.
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There's the Zelda Warriors game again. There's a new one of those. So, yeah, they do have games that they have to find a slot for. I think when I was listening to Kit and Chris to talk about it, they were kind of gaming it out. And they're like, hey, there's maybe a room. I would put this here and this there. And maybe there's room in November for something. Or even December. It's Pokemon. Yeah.
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Yeah. Pokemon, yes, that's probably actually the November game for me.
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Is it 2020? I think so.
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So thank you so much, Tim.
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Jeff, thank you. That's right. The Zelda game is winter. Quote, unquote, winter. So that gives them the leverage to do either the holiday or the earlier part of 2026. Okay.
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Yeah, if you want to support, I would appreciate it. It's patreon.com slash gamemess, G-A-M-E-S-S. That is the primary way to do it. We're going to keep making stuff over there. I have a YouTube channel, all that stuff. I'll be streaming on Twitch. If you want to get me on social media, I'm on Blue Sky, just grub.wtf. Uh, but yeah, uh, really, I appreciate everybody.
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Everyone kind of funny community has always been so cool. So nice. And that's because you guys have really fostered that. So shout outs to y'all. Thanks for having me on Tim. I really appreciate it, man.
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Hey, Tim. Thanks for having me on, man. I appreciate it. How are you? You know, I'm fantastic. Never been better. What's been going on? Anything crazy lately? No, nothing. Normal. Totally normal. Yeah, yeah. I have left fandom, and I am looking forward to future opportunities. That's where I'm at. It is... a thing that I won't be able to talk too much about like what happened.
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Greg sent it to me and he gave me, I requested access. Took him a long time to do that. Just a lazy, lazy man.
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No, no. I mean, there's multiple factors, right, where it's I think the simplest one, the Occam's razor here is you look at the history and Rockstar delays games. They delay games multiple times. And I just feel like this is mostly that even, you know, taking into consideration the desire to avoid crunch, which is something I've heard as well.
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And, you know, there's the obvious reasons for that. Like, you know, when a person leaves a company, there are agreements and stuff like that. And I'm ready to kind of move on. Anyhow, I'm ready to like, see what's next. Also. It's like, you know, I have a lot of friends that still work there and, And I don't need anything I say being used to make their jobs, their lives more difficult.
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And it's you know, it's like, OK, well, we'll see when it comes down to it. They're going to have to like sprint a little bit to get this thing out. Um, but there are other factors too. Like this is, you know, the game they're going to release.
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And when I say that, I mean like for the next 10 to 15 years, this is the game, you know, they might have a red dead three at some point, but the thing that's going to print money for them is going to be whatever grand theft auto online two looks like. And, uh, They can make a lot more money if that has a smooth start, a smooth launch.
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They want that thing to be making a billion dollars a year every year for the next 10 to 20 years. And if you're like, that sounds crazy, 20 years for Grand Theft Auto 6, it's not. They've acquired... That role-playing company that was doing role-playing servers for Grand Theft Auto 5.
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They acquired UGC companies, user-generated content companies, to help them basically build a platform so people can build stuff inside of Grand Theft Auto. They're making Roblox here. Roblox is a game that's 20 years old. That game came out in 2006. Did it really? Roblox for adults. Yeah, 2006 for Roblox. Wow, I did not know that.
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I know. Right. But it's been around for forever. And, you know, that was from a time when that was a weird thing. Now it's pretty normally, you know, Grand Theft Auto online one and Grand Theft Auto five been running for more than 10 years now. So the the idea here is let's make sure this has a smooth launch, because if it's catastrophic, that is going to hurt us big time in the long run.
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Obviously, they'll be able to push it, like bring it back. Like it is too big to fail at a certain point, but they don't want to fail. They want to get it right because that is more money in their pockets right away, and they don't have to spend years sort of fixing something when they could have just got it right in the first place.
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So I think that's a big motivating factor here beyond what I believe is a pretty honest desire to avoid crunch.
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No, no. I don't think any sort of delay with this game would really surprise me at any point. It is just so massive. And, you know, it's going to be the most expensive piece of media ever made, right? Like, by the time it's done. Yeah.
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And, I mean, at a certain point, you just got to, like, recognize the bet you're making is so massive that you have to, you know, cross all your T's, dot all your I's. And in that case, there are a lot of T's and I's to dot and cross. So it's going to just take... A lot of effort here. And, you know, it is at this point a year from now. And really, they were planning to maybe release it this fall.
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So I guess we can call it a six month delay. But of course, internally, the people actually doing the work never believed it was coming out this year. but okay. An extra six months. Let's just call it that for the sake of the conversation. What can they really do? It's just about making sure everything is that they have is good. They're not changing this game.
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It's just going to be like, let's make it as good as possible. We've heard many times stories of games coming together in the last six months to a year and really finding the fun at that point.
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And I'm sure they've got a good idea of what this game should be, but I bet they're like, if we just had that extra time, we really could make this what it needs to be to set us up for the next 10 to 15 years.
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They're still going to do really good work. They're still going to try to make things happen there. And I think they have a really good shot of doing exactly that because they are so talented. They're so dedicated. They love their audience. They love their work. And I'm just... Real excited to see what what what like the GameSpot team can do going forward.
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Yeah, they're trying to make it clear, like, listen, we understand you weren't expecting a delay. So when we give you the delay, let's give you the information that you do want. Here's an exact date so you can plan on us, you know, for the stockholders making that revenue in this window. And, yeah, that's, you know, them definitely throwing a bone while they are giving the bad news.
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So that helps a little bit. It is pretty wild for them to put a specific date on it. I was, like, reading it. And even as I was reading the date, I'm like, well, they're just saying May 2026. And I kind of had to, like, blink a couple times and see. Like, no, there's a number next to May right there, May 26th. And that was pretty weird to see. Yeah. I do wonder, though.
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I mean, you know, they're going to have people in their ear that they do partner with. Rockstar doesn't need anybody, but that doesn't mean they don't actually partner with anybody. And there's likely a co-marketing deal, probably with PlayStation, maybe with Microsoft, but I would bet it's with PlayStation.
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And when those conversations happen, there's probably someone, you know, up high who talks to people that go in those meetings and say, hey, if you could, can you get us a goddamn date for when this thing's coming out just to help us out over here? And when we started getting some dates in the last couple of weeks with like those take two games, picking a date and then go see, okay. Yes.
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It's like, okay, I bet they've gotten some news. And to me it sounded like, well, they're all kind of bunching up here in the earlier part of, you know, before fall really so that they can get out of the way of Grand Theft Auto six launching this fall. That's kind of how I was reading it. So I like, that's only the reason I'm a little bit surprised. It's like, oh, they are just picking the dates.
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They probably wanted anyhow. Cause they did get word that this game is very likely getting delayed to 2026 and And yeah, so them giving a date now and saying, hey, the rest of the industry, here's what we're really aiming for. And we're getting very specific so you can to let you know we're pretty confident. So if you do want to work around us, here you go. Stop bothering us.
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You know, it's a nice gesture.
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It's going to be I think it can be special. And because because I've been talking to them and they really do care. And they've said, you know, really nice things to me. Everyone has. I really appreciate that. So, yeah, just kind of ready to go see what happens when Jeff Grubb can just go be Jeff Grubb. And I'm very excited about that.