Double Fine Announces Layoffs After Xbox Split - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.29.26
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
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there's a lot going on everybody wow the monitor uh the tv out here that we normally look at to see ourselves is uh having no signal and uh there was just an accident there and so then barrett was like oh we're going to the cold open and i was like i guess i'm going and then it wasn't the cold open and then yeah it was a case of none of us paying attention i did i don't know if it was loud for y'all but then the intro was very very loud uh but but here we are here we are how are you i'm startled I'm a little bit scared. We can reset right now. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, July 29th, 2026. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes. I am joined today by Blessing Adeoye Jr.
I kid you not. Like, the screen not being on the right channel is something I would have noticed. I've been so distracted this morning because I'm just looking up Magic cards.
Yeah. What's going on? Is there any new drops?
No, it's nothing new. I'm just trying to make a new deck. And I'm trying to figure... I want to make a deck that's going to... Make people hate me. We've reached that point. This is your era now. We've reached that point in Magic, and specifically my Magic friend group, where I'm like, I need to make waves. I need to become a dominant force. I need to push people to the next level.
I had that moment back in somewhere around the summer of eighth grade with Yu-Gi-Oh, where me and my friends, we all played. And it was like a fairly balanced time. win rate between us. Like I'd say there was like five or six of us and like, there was no one person that won more than other people. And then my friend Vince got a summer job before anyone else did. What's that mean? He gets to buy all the nice cards he wants. So then all of a sudden his deck was just dominant and that it wasn't fun anymore. It's like, oh, it's just, you just paid to win literally, you know? So I schemed and I was like, I need to come up with a strategy to outwit, outplay, outlast like Survivor, this motherfucker. And I came up with an idea that didn't work forever, but it worked really well for a while.
the, with Yu-Gi-Oh, if I remember correctly, and it was a long time ago, we also, give me some grace here, your deck could be as big as you want it to be. So, a lot of people, maybe there's some limit, but like, you could have a lot of cards. And so like, my friend Curran, he would just have all his dope cards in there, and like, there was some level of strategy, but really, it's just like, luck of the draw. The minimum amount of cards you had to have, I think, was 40. And so I was like, I'm gonna have exactly 40 cards. I want to know exactly how close I am to my fucking fighters. You know what I mean? And that strategy worked for me so well. I think that's supposed to be the optimal way to play. At least Magic is that way.
Again, I'm not saying I came up with some mind-blowing thing. It was when I was 13.
against my friends. I mean, funny enough, that's how Magic started for me, where in standard, I think it's a 60 card deck. And for me, I was like, oh, I'm going to put 90 cards in here because I'm just going to put all the best cards in one deck. And I started playing, I started streaming my games and people were like, Bless, why do you have 90 cards in your deck? You got to get that down to 60 because that's, optimally, you want to have like,
You want control.
You want control. You want to be able to draw the exact cards that you're looking for. And so you're trying to get like four repeats of the same card, get down to 60, all this shit, right? To like, if you're trying to play the optimal play. And so really you were just thinking about it the way the pros were thinking about it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–23:42
2
What happened with Double Fine layoffs after its Xbox separation?
23:42–24:42
3
How did Xbox and Double Fine describe the studio’s transition and runway?
24:42–29:01
4
Why might Double Fine struggle as an independent studio post-acquisition?
29:01–41:10
5
Will Double Fine lean on Psychonauts or pursue new experimental projects?
41:10–56:51
6
Is Clair Obscur planning a Switch 2 port and what technical hurdles exist?
56:51–1:03:57
Speakers
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