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Thu, 09 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What happened with Assassin's Creed Shadows?
Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed again! A new Xbox developer underscore direct is happening, and a lot of productions you're looking forward to have been halted due to the LA fires. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily!
what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for thursday january 9th 2025 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside ign.com stella chung well actually you don't have to put that last part or that yeah you don't have to put the ign yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what happened there again
So I can't talk about it too much publicly because we're still in like a legal thing with them. But yeah, basically, they decided to part ways with me. And you know what? I appreciate a lot of the idea. Yeah. So there's stuff that's ongoing. So hopefully we can talk more about it soon. But yeah, now I'm here hanging out with you.
Freelancer, Stella Chung. Hello, Stella. How are you?
Good. How are you?
I'm excellent. I'm so happy to have you. You've been hanging out with us all week.
Yeah, it's been so fun. You know, I guess I bothered Nick off of playing Marvel Rivals yesterday. He saw how much energy I had and he was like, I need to take a nap.
As someone who has a lot of energy, me and Kevin drive Nick crazy. So to have somebody else here to drive Nick crazy is always a pleasure. How has independent life been going for you?
Well, it happened in December where there's not really a lot happening. So it's really starting to pick up this month, which, you know, hopefully we have something really cool to talk about tomorrow.
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Chapter 2: Why was Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again?
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What's that supposed to mean? I'm 31. You're old too then.
You're old too. You're not connected with the youth anymore, all right?
Yes, I am. I'm on TikTok.
See, I'm siphoning my son's youth. So that's how I'm like, I'm more connected with the youth than any of you. That's why you had him. That's why, exactly. Oh, wow. Now he, of course, is my little sleeper cell. He tells me what's popular.
Does he? What's popular? According to him, what's popular?
People like Sonic a lot right now.
True.
He's into Sonic, so now I'm into Sonic. Now I know a lot about Sonic. You want to talk about Nine? I know who Nine is, everybody. I'm watching Sonic Prime. No big deal. We're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. After kind of funny games daily today, you're going to get a games cast. It's Blessing and Snowbike Mike reacting to Rolling Stone's top 50 games of all time.
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Chapter 3: What are the concerns about Ubisoft's direction?
Uh, number one on the report, Assassin's Creed shadows has been delayed again. This time by another month. This is Wesley in pool at IGN.com. Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed shadows yet again, this time by another month. Assassin's Creed shadows was due out February 14th, 2025, but will now launch on March 20th. Instead.
This is the game's second delay after an initial release date of November 12th, 2024, uh, was pushed back to this year. Uh, I want, of course, to go keep reading this, get the quotes from Ubisoft. But first, Super Chats, youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames. It's your way to be part of the show and the news as we go.
When do you think you'll actually be playing Assassin's Creed Shadow and or will it be good? I want Super Chat questions and responses on that. Quote, as part of the renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging day one experiences, it has been decided to provide an additional month of development to Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft said.
This additional time will allow the team to better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage closely with the increasingly positive Assassin's Creed community. The game is now scheduled for March 20th. End quote. Who just walks over to the AI machine and is like, tell me how to delay this thing.
What would you say, AI? God damn. Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot added, quote, we are all behind our team's efforts to create the most ambitious Assassin's Creed opus of the franchise and made the decision to provide an extra month of development to Shadows in order to better incorporate the
player feedback gathered over the past three months that will enable us to fully deliver on the potential of the game and finish the year on a strong note, end quote. You might say, finish the year? Fiscal year, everybody. Fiscal year as Ubisoft struggles to stay afloat, try to be sold. They are talking about their fiscal year.
Speaking of, of course, Jason Schreier has a little bit here on Blue Sky News. Assassin's Creed Shadow is delayed again now to March 20th. Ubisoft says, as the company pursues, quote, various transformational, strategic, and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders, end quote. Parentheses, looks for a potential sale.
Ubisoft CEO Yves says in a press statement, quote, we are convinced that there are several potential paths to generate value from Ubisoft's assets and franchises.
a lot of words it's a lot of words yeah yeah that's a lot of words uh stella take it from however you want to take it the delay the quality of this game or the they're just trying to sell this company and get out yeah i mean it's so funny though because they were like no we're not going to sell the company we're gonna we're gonna hold on to it but it's it's
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the upcoming Xbox Developer Direct?
Everything, all the vibes that are coming out of Ubisoft about this game make it feel like they think it's underwhelming, which makes me think I'm going to be super underwhelmed.
Yeah, in saying nothing, they've kind of set the bar already for people on what to expect. So, yeah, I don't know. I want this to be good, too, because a lot of Assassin's Creed players were like, oh, my God. It feels like we're going back to the core, especially with Mirage.
So then, Stella, when do you think... Ubisoft is officially sold to Tencent, to whoever else is going to come in and get it. The military giant that is Tencent.
Yeah, that's right. I don't know. Have they said anything after that one statement where they're like, yeah, we're going to stay...
Well, there's a whole bunch of weird stuff of them saying they're looking into it. You know what I mean? Yeah. How it would go.
Maybe, I don't know, mid to end year.
Yeah.
See how this goes. See how sales go after a couple months. If they actually release in March.
And that's the thing. You got to get this out, right? Yeah. We'll see what's up. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's just crazy how this is gone. Like the entire journey of Assassin's Creed, sure. But I mean, Ubisoft in general, they fight off of Vendy. They're the good guys. Everyone's excited. They're not going to shove Assassin's Creed down your throat.
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Chapter 5: What new games can we expect from Xbox this year?
They make some great Assassin's Creed games, right? With Origins and Odyssey. Valhalla wasn't my cup of tea. I mean, we're getting to a cup of tea thing versus like, they're good games. They're big games, whatever. And everyone should be so stoked. This should be such a slam dunk. Home run. Easy. And here we are, like, delayed again, and we just, I don't know. I don't know about this one.
We will wait and see, everybody, and keep you posted. In better news, number two on the Roper Report, the Xbox developer underscore direct returns on January 23rd. I'm reading from Xbox Wire, which I believe was written by the one and only Joe Scrabbles. It's time to get a look at what's next. Developer Underscore Direct is back on Thursday, January 23rd at 10 a.m. Pacific.
Fans will get an inside look at a selection of highly anticipated games coming to Xbox Series X, S, PC, and Game Pass players this year. Presented by the game creators themselves, Developer Direct offers an in-depth look at upcoming titles, how they'll be created, how they're being created, and who's creating them.
We'll visit Compulsion Games in Montreal, Canada to learn more about South of Midnight. We'll head to France to see Sandfall Interactive and take a look at Claire Obscure Expedition 33, stop by the legendary Id Studios in Richardson, Texas to check in on Doom the Dark Ages, and... And visit a surprise location to see another studio's brand new game.
If we're talking about Xbox, we're throwing up the green and we're inviting in the one, the only Snowbike Mike.
Big Mike. Hello. Oh.
mic for me that's so nice uh stella let's talk a little xbox you and i because of course you were a prominent member on the ign unlocked podcast which i love so much i loved hearing your voice on it so let's talk all things xbox let's also highlight the big one here games coming to xbox and game pass this year from another studio with a brand new game. What does that mean, Greg?
What does that mean, Stella? I'm so deep right now in a chat. I've been going through my notes. I've been going through all the studios I know about. I've got pages front to back. I'm losing my mind. Do you want me to get you a chair? I'll get you a chair. You got the notes? Sure, we can talk about it. No, I like sitting here. We'll get a third chair.
Greg, you just want to sit on my lap?
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