Bungie Layoffs, Xbox Price Increase - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.25.26
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
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Today's gaming news stories include Bungie announces layoffs, the price of the Xbox is going up, and could GTA 6 get a physical disc later on? We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.
Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Thursday, June 25th, 2026. I'm your host, Blessing Adeoye Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez.
The first two things you mentioned in that cold open.
Mm-hmm.
I thought, like, am I in early 2025? Like, late 2024 again? Bunch of layoffs. Xbox price increase. Price of the box going up. But it wasn't until the third thing that I was like, oh, actually.
Yeah, was I reading off an old doc?
Yeah. I accidentally pulled up the doc.
You may have had the wrong thing open there. June 25th, 2025. Can I say something about all this? Please. We will be. Nintendo fans, y'all got to shut the fuck up, man. Because, like, y'all over here, when a Nintendo fan gets mad, it's because we didn't see enough of Ocarina at the time. It's because, oh, man, they closed the Direct with only Kingdom Hearts 4 and a new Zelda Ocarina remake. Meanwhile, I look at these other companies. Bungie, they laid off the entire Destiny team and some of the Marathon team. The fucking Xbox is going up by $100. What? The Series S is $500. The Series S is $500. You know how Nintendo fans are like, oh yeah, man, where's my, I want Mario. I want more Mario. I get five a year, but I want more.
I want another fire emblem. Do they say that? I don't think they say that.
Well, they're getting a new fire. I think they say that if they didn't know.
Right, right, right.
Oh, they should have turned on Bluetooth earlier.
And you're right.
All valid complaints. All valid complaints. Yeah, all valid, yeah. But damn, dude. It's a rough one, Blessing. I really couldn't believe my eyes this morning. I thought like, no, this is surely an old, I'm looking at an old article. I'm looking at something older. And then you see the scuttlebutt on social and you go, no, oh, this is happening right now. Perfect time to, I mean, honestly, for both companies, you know, you go, oh, the other people are putting out bad news. Let's put out our bad news as well. And it really just becomes like, here's all of the bad news that we get to showcase today. Are we ever going to have like an awesome show here? What's some, I mean, what's some personal good news you have going on?
Well, I was going to say some good news. Some really, really good news. for the city of Charlotte, the Charlotte Hornets. LaMelo Ball has been traded to Minnesota, so he can no longer terrorize the streets with his reckless driving. He will be in Minnesota now. And sometimes it snows in Minnesota, so you can't even drive. He might try.
You think that's going to stop him?
Damn, that might be even more dangerous.
He's going to be like, oh, I can drift even better now.
That's what I did in high school. I was really, really shocked, though, that Nas... You know, I'm sad that Nas Reid is leaving Minnesota. I feel like he was such a staple to the Minnesota Timberwolves team. I love Nas Reid. I would have loved him to be a Spur. But he's going off to greener pastures. No, not greener pastures. Greener pastures. No, no. He's going to the Hornets, and that's not necessarily greener pastures. You don't want to really be with the Hornets. Yeah.
I hate that.
Yeah. Me too.
Yeah. I'm trying to think of some personal good news for me. My birthday's next week.
That's fun. Happy early birthday. Thank you. What do you want? What's your number one wish? My number one wish for my birthday... If you don't see World Peace, I'm canceling you.
Can't see the first one. I'll say... I don't know.
World Peace. World Peace, yeah. I want the wars to end.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–36:25
2
What is Bungie announcing about layoffs and why did Destiny 2 'fall short of expectations'?
36:25–43:49
3
What details did Bungie and PlayStation share about which teams and roles were affected?
43:49–49:41
4
Why are game development costs and industry trends driving layoffs across studios?
49:41–1:15:03
Speakers
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