Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.28.25
Wed, 28 May 2025
Go to https://mood.com and use code KINDAFUNNY to get 20% off your first order. 00:00:00 - Start00:02:12 - Housekeeping You already got our Elden Ring Nightreign review on GAMESCAST After this, the STREAM is Nick and Doom the Dark Ages! If you’re a Kinda Funny Member: Today’s Gregway is 15 minutes about What Triggers Greg? (And Two Parenting Qs). The Roper Report - 00:05:59 - Pokemon Legends: Z-A Release Date!00:19:23 - Apple to Debut Dedicated Gaming App Within Days of Switch 2’s Arrival00:34:13 - Ad00:35:25 - BREAKING: EA’s Black Panther Game Cancelled00:54:46 - Elden Ring Review Round-Up00:57:46 - To a T Review Round-Up01:01:40 - SURPRISE: Animal Crossing Updated for the first time in three years01:03:00 - Speaking of Nintendo Surprises, let’s see what features they’re adding to N64 Classics01:05:00 - Wee News!01:14:28 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What announcements are made in the podcast?
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Chapter 2: What updates are shared about Pokemon Legends?
Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, we have a Pokemon release date, Apple's getting serious about video games and Elden Ring Night Rain reviews are in. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, May 28th, 2025.
I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 Under 30, aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco, aka Game Showdown Season... 3. 2. Tim Geddes. How can I torture Roger? That's why you make those weird sounds. I see you over there sitting in your desk. Yeah, I know what I mean. As soon as I come through, a little door explains a lot.
I forgot that you, me and the girls going out tonight. Getting wild on the streets. Getting crazy on a Wednesday night. And start breaking that to bed today. Are you going to be here when I go to sleep? You'll be asleep. It's a whole thing, yeah. I screwed up yesterday. I mentioned an upcoming trip. He's like, tonight? I'm like, not tonight. I'm like, don't ask about tomorrow.
Oh, it's a reservation, yeah. We have a house of prime room reservation we made for next month, you know, like three months ago. Oh, yeah. But now we got to kind of... But now it's tomorrow? No, no, no. We got to add somebody to it. Don't worry about the tomorrow thing. How are you? I'm fantastic. Worry about the tomorrow war. Remember that movie?
What a great movie. Great movie. I love how that's the thing that everyone always goes back to of like... Can I spoil something for you?
Yeah. I don't want to talk about it. Because I want to do a kind of funny podcast about the Tor. Just about the Tor. Because I fucking love that film.
Fuck you people on Reddit trying to throw it in my face. Fuck you. It was a fun idea. It was a good movie. I digress. Tim, you're good. You're well. I'm Vielen Dank.
Auf dem Körper. Auf allen Höhlen. Okay. Lass mich in deine Ohren.
Oh Mann. Pipistrello, Pipistrello. ZeldaVania87 on OpenCritic. Barrett, it's my first link there. The PR for this has been fantastic. I think they were on one of our shows, one of the indie mixes we had done. And they have been really great about keeping me posted about its progress. It is out apparently 87 on OpenCritic. I have a code, I haven't touched it. Not necessarily my type of game.
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Chapter 3: What is the news about EA's Black Panther game?
Das Pokemon-Company-Internet.
Du hast gesagt, es ist ein wunderschöner Cover. Und ich kann nicht mit dir unterscheiden, dass die Kunst wunderschön ist. Ich bin ein großer Fan davon. Ich finde es cool, dass viele Mega-Evolution-Fights in den Straßen von Kalos stattfinden. Dope Sachen. Lumiose City, wir sind in dieser Scheiße. Aber warum gibt es so viel Text? So viel Text. So much text. Okay, I'm with you. Oh my god.
I agree.
It's disgusting.
Includes the Nintendo Switch game and the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack. Upgrade Pack also available separately for a details visit. And they gotta do it.
They gotta fucking do it because it's complicated. We're in this world where it's like, I have to explain all these things. Thank god this isn't a freaking game, keycard, whatever the hell, game. Sonst wäre es noch mehr Text und noch mehr Sachen. Aber warum ist der Top so groß? Und ist any of this matter fully? No, it doesn't. Does it bother me? Yes, it does.
And I on a video game show talk about what I like and dislike about video games. Yes, I am Greg. And I dislike this. I dislike how much of the borders...
I don't like that all of a sudden you're stepping in trying to justify your opinion on this. This is what the show is all about.
You let your freak flag fly. I only do it because I'm sitting next to somebody that at any chance tries to shut me down and say that I'm wrong for buying physical games. But then you compare it to this. Look at this. Look at the Switch One version.
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Chapter 4: What are the latest reviews and updates on Elden Ring?
Their new version. They're trying to really make it clear to people that this is a different system. And I get it.
A year, two, three, and they'll redesign boxes all the time. There's a way to make it clear that it's a different system without it making... It look like ass.
This absolute ass. I just get a notification from Slack that's Greg asking, please break out me threatening to kill Mario. Bring his fucking neck.
Blessing in the chat when that happened said we definitely just got put on a blacklist just now.
Oh man. I go to the news. The Pokemon Company International. That's T-P-C-I. Players who purchase either the physical or digital version of Pokémon Legends Za for Nintendo Switch will have the option to upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition by purchasing an Upgrade Pack. Upgrade Packs will be available on the Nintendo eShop and my Nintendo Store.
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Chapter 5: What surprises were revealed in the Animal Crossing update?
Timothy, wir wissen, wie du dich über den Boxstart fühlst. Wie fühlst du dich über Oktober 16?
Ich fühle mich wirklich gut darüber. Das fühlt sich sehr in Ordnung mit dem, was ich von dem erwartet habe. Das große Ding war, was ist Nintendos größtes Spiel im Sommer? Und die Antwort ist klar Pokémon ZA und Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. Also war die Frage, wird es Oktober im November oder dieses November und das Oktober sein?
Maybe you throw in a December in there because every once in a while they get a little crazy. I don't think that's going to be the case with this. Pokemon tend to tend to be around that, like, pre-Black Friday. The weeks leading into Black Friday is normally when they launch their biggest products.
Chapter 6: What features are coming to N64 Classics?
This is Pokémon Legends, which is technically... I don't want to call it a spin-off, but it is not in the exact main line of the core games. But I think that Nintendo is now trying to position Legends as a...
alternative core path yeah right yeah um and i think that the everything that we're seeing from the game definitely does seem like this is a much bigger step closer to scarlet and violet style than legends rcs was sure um it's kind of i would say it's meeting in the middle it's probably a better way to say it um So, yeah, very excited for this game.
Incredibly excited that we now are past the questions of how Nintendo's gonna handle its upgrade paths and all that stuff. And they're handling it, in my opinion, beyond what I expected from them. Absolutely. But knowing we're getting a Switch 2 version this day one, I don't need to fucking worry about it. Thank God. Yeah, October 16th, I think that's great.
I think that there's also a lot to glean here from the other information we get. July 22nd, getting a Pokémon Presents. Das ist ziemlich früh. Das könnte der früheste sein, den wir von Pokémon Präsentation bekommen haben. Und ich frage mich, warum? Ich frage mich, ob sie nur versuchen, zu sagen, yo, wir wissen, dass Summer Game Fest jetzt stattfindet.
Wir bekommen die Datei-Informationen hier raus, aber erwartet nicht viel von Pokémon während dieser Zeit. Ich meine, die große Frage ist, ob Nintendo überhaupt etwas tun wird, irgendeine Showcase oder irgendetwas in diesem Stil im Juni. Wahrscheinlich nicht, weil das, wann der Switch 2 startet. Ja, du musst nicht, richtig?
And they've done a very good job of kind of laying out the next couple of months, especially now with this October date. Because working from next week, right? Next week, June 5th, we get Switch 2 launch. We get Mario Kart World being the big new game. Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom being the two kind of...
switch 2 edition upgrades um that they're pushing there then july 17th we're getting donkey kong bonanza july 20 something 23rd i want to say is uh mario party jamboree switch 2 edition okay with the the new mode that they have with all the camera support stuff and then in august 28th i think we're getting kirby in the forgotten land Switch 2 Edition with the Star-Crossed World.
So, these Switch 2 Editions with, like, the substantial new content updates, right? That Nintendo's clearly positioning as essentially new games for people to play, and, like, they're positioning them that way. And then we don't know a big September thing. We get here to October for this. I imagine Metroid Prime is going to be November.
There's still a bunch of games that Nintendo announced as direct as 2025. Dragon Drive, um... Legend of Zelda, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Imprisonment, no. You guys know what I'm talking about.
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Chapter 7: What are the reactions to EA's studio closures?
Aber wir sehen so eine große Menge von Leuten, die das in verschiedenen Formen und Formen ausprobieren und es absolut für sie funktioniert und die Hauptweise ist, dass sie viele dieser Spiele spielen oder nur eine zusätzliche Weise, dass sie Spiele spielen und das ist auch gut.
Apple is a leader when it comes to hardware in homes in a bunch of different ways, whether it's phones, MacBooks, all of this. And if they're not a leader, they have a very sizable part of the pie chart, right? The biggest issues is Macs can't play games. And over the years, that's been changing little by little by little. Mac has Steam, but it doesn't have full Steam.
Sie müssen einen Weg finden, um Steam auf iPads zu bekommen. Um Steam auf iPhones zu bekommen. Um diese Art von Erweiterung zu ermöglichen, die wir in so vielen verschiedenen Wegen gesehen haben. Und wenn wir über SteamOS sprechen, über verschiedene Handheld-Gaming-PC-basierte Geräte oder Linux-basierte Geräte. Apple muss es schaffen, das zu halten.
Und das größte versteckte Waffen hier ist die Apple TV. Die echte Hardware-Geräte Apple TV. Ja. Which is undeniably the best stream box there is, period. What's second place? Nvidia Shield. The Nvidia Shield is fantastic. And in some ways better than the Apple TV. But Nvidia hasn't updated their Shield product in years. I think 2019 was the last time they put out... ein Update zu dem Hardware.
Wir sind definitiv für das überwältigt. Und natürlich ist es eine sehr ähnliche Sache wie Android versus iOS, wo es verschiedene Pros und Cons auf jeder Seite gibt. Natürlich. Aber die Realität ist, dass die Anzahl der Leute, es ist immer noch niedrig, was alle Dinge betrifft. Die meisten Leute benutzen einfach nur die Apps auf ihren TVs oder so.
Dann gibt es viel mehr Leute, die Amazon Firesticks benutzen, weil sie teuer sind. Die Apple TV ist ein Investment. Aber für jemanden, der ernsthaft über diese Dinge ist, ernsthaft über Gaming ist, If you're serious about TV and home theater experiences and all of that stuff, the Apple TV is a no-brainer purchase.
It's something that I personally would recommend to anybody wanting to take a home theater thing seriously. You need an Apple TV.
So stop right there and talk a little bit about the Apple TV box and why this is a great starting point. Why, if you're serious, you should do it. We were already talking about how it does streaming better than anything else.
So the Apple TV has the same processor that I think iPhone 14 or if not 14 Pro has, which is very, very, very, very strong, very fast, very powerful. The just sheer UI of the Apple TV, like the way it presents streaming apps, Disney Plus and Netflix and YouTube and all that. Es ist unvergesslich besser als jeder, der es macht. Es gibt null Ads. Es ist so schnell. Es ist so schnell.
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Chapter 8: How does the podcast address the future of gaming and studios?
homepage while you do that i'll bring in tricky tricky kappa who super chat and said i'm playing through death stranding on my ipad right now and i can't believe how well it works that again has been the feedback from the limited number of people who are playing their games on apple uh you know i have the latest uh apple uh jesus iphone i don't even know it's sorry like an image of like what it shows for the yeah you know what don't even worry about it and i and i
Als der letzte Resident Evil angetreten ist, habe ich es dort gedownloadet und gespielt und es funktioniert unglaublich gut, besonders mit dem Hintergrund, was jemand genannt hat, der Hintergrund, wenn man sich an die Hintergrund-App gewöhnt, wenn man sich in den Hintergrund schnappt, das ist ein bisschen wie Apple TV, dass es all diese Sachen in einem Ort drückt.
Also in deinem Hintergrund, wenn du die App öffnest, hat es Xbox Cloud, es hat Playstation Remote Play, etc. etc. etc.
I saw somebody in the chat say, well, we all know Tim's an Apple fanboy. Like, I am so clearly not an Apple fanboy. I'm a tech fanboy. And Apple just in a lot of ways tends to do the things that I want better than the other products. I'm telling you, I was an Nvidia Shield guy forever. And I still love the Shield for what it is.
But undeniably, the Apple TV is better for 99% of things that you're doing. Like, if you're trying to play emulated games and stuff, yeah. The Nvidia is better. If you're trying to play GeForce Now, something that Apple TV can't do, the Nvidia is better. But if Apple could do it, it would be better.
Lucid Dream says, include a controller with Apple TV and maybe. Well, remember, in the store, they're selling the DualSense. That was a big news item in the grand scheme of things not too long ago. They're selling controllers at the Apple Store saying, hey, you can play our games and this is the controller we recommend. So, go for it that way. Yeah. Real quick, I just want to address this.
No, no, it's not getting to me.
Tim just admitted, I'm a tech guy and I don't like Apple stuff. Put a sticker on it. It's like, well, okay, cool. Then you're not a universal tech guy. Sounds like you're a fanboy of another thing. I love good Apple products. I love good Android products. I love good Microsoft products. Like, I have so many of these things. And the thing is... If you commit to one lane, it tends to work better.
So the more Apple stuff, it works better. My house is Google. My house is 95% Google. And it fucking doesn't work 90% of the time.
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