Guardians of The Galaxy, Deus Ex Studio in Trouble - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.25
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What are the major layoffs happening at Eidos-Montreal?
Today's stories include Eidos Montreal lays off staff, Kojima is giving a keynote at GDC, and Saudi Arabia will own 93% of EA.
What is Hideo Kojima's keynote about at GDC?
We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.
How will Saudi Arabia's ownership impact EA?
Yo, what's up?
What factors are contributing to Call of Duty's underperformance in 2025?
Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025.
What was the resolution of the Marathon art issue?
I'm your host, Blessing, and Eddie Oye Jr.
What game announcements were made in the We News segment?
Joining me is the LaCroix Poppy, Tim, Mo, Boi, and Geddes.
How is the gaming industry evolving with new releases?
It's been one of them ones, Bless.
What are the implications of changing review scores in gaming journalism?
Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's just crazy. It's been one of those mornings where, as I've been building KFGD... I was like, oh, no, here we go.
It's got worse and worse. It's just a lot of bad news. It's just like, what are we doing here? At least Kojima's doing something cool, I guess. A keynote. Go right in with your super chats. That's what I need. Give us something to talk about here. Give us stuff to talk about. There was a... A positive-negative discussion I do want to have real quick. And it's something that happens often in our field of work, but I feel like there are certain lightning rod tentpole moments when certain games come out from certain publishers that just cause people to go insane. Maybe it's just because I reviewed Metroid Prime 4 yesterday that my entire life's algorithm has just been the most insane people with the most insane thoughts left, right, and center.
I don't understand. I don't understand how... People can not get that everyone has a different opinion. And, like, I didn't see a single Metroid Prime 4 review yesterday. Not a single one. And I read a ton of them. I watched a ton of videos. I didn't see a single one that I was like, they're off base. Yeah. Whether it was high, whether it was low, I think... The numbers just drive people insane. And it's like Eurogamer gave it a 3 out of 5. VGC gave it a 3 out of 5. But then people call them that a 60 out of 100, which feels so different. You know? Giant Bomb gave it a 100 out of 100. No, they didn't. They gave it a 5 out of 5.
Hey, that's perfect. It's a perfect video game. No, it's not.
It's a 10 out of 10.
It's a million out of... They give it a million out of a million. Tim, are you saying we should abolish numbers and math? Because I'm with you. I'll be behind that. Just blow it all up. You know what I mean?
It's just funny, man. There's just always... There has to be conversation on conversation. And look, we're literally having the conversation here. I get it. We're part of it. But I just think that there's a due diligence to playing a game and putting your opinion into a way that people can understand how you feel about the thing that all the people that reviewed the game yesterday did. And an 8 out of 10 is a great score.
Oh, dude. It was fun. It was so fun watching chat as Logan gave it an 8 out of 10. You gave it a 9 out of 10. Two very close scores. Like, closest you can be without being the same score. And we would have swore Logan hated the game. Exactly.
And it's crazy, too, because it's like, I get it. Like, I understand that a Metroid Prime game getting an 8 is a big deal. And it's like, the difference between an 8 and a 9 there for a Metroid Prime game is... sizable like and it's something it's a we're talking about that's what we did yeah we talked about it right like and it's it's just so funny and i you know overall i feel like people have been uh pretty cool about our review but seemingly every other review out there like the crazies are out the crazies are on the internet the crazies are always out i know i noticed this with like every review where i'm like man where are people on if you're watching a review or here's my thing here's what i'll say
You don't have to watch reviews, guys. You don't have to care about reviews. If you don't like hearing other people's opinion or hearing numbers or whatever, you don't even need to look at Metacritic. You don't need to care what anybody else thinks about a video game but yourself. The thing that, like...
really confuses me is i understand people wanting to listen this because they're excited for these games or interested in these games whatever it is i love this like i just said i probably listened to three hours worth of metroid prime 4 reviews yesterday like i and i beat i myself played it but i was interested in hearing other people's thoughts like there is so much value in entertainment in the content people are making there but the amount of people that legitimately think
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the major layoffs happening at Eidos-Montreal?
0:00–0:23
2
What is Hideo Kojima's keynote about at GDC?
0:23–0:37
3
How will Saudi Arabia's ownership impact EA?
0:37–0:38
4
What factors are contributing to Call of Duty's underperformance in 2025?
0:38–0:42
5
What was the resolution of the Marathon art issue?
0:42–0:45
6
What game announcements were made in the We News segment?
0:45–0:50
7
How is the gaming industry evolving with new releases?
0:50–0:52
8
What are the implications of changing review scores in gaming journalism?
0:52–1:11:33
Speakers
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