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Is Game Informer Back?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.19.25
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: Is Game Informer making a comeback?
Or there are events that'll have like open bars. And it's like, if there's an open bar...
it's it's it's against the law not to take advantage of it i'm at the mix epic games is sponsoring this thing it's against you know i gotta i gotta show up for fortnight i'm not even a wine drinker i'm like give me two white wines please whoa give me a pinot grigio whoa yeah because they didn't have the cocktails i wanted yeah of course you're walking up and you're like let me go to espresso martini at a fucking outback steakhouse right of course that's what you're going for you're always going for mixed drinks like just you don't have like a beer you don't have like a drink cider
Okay, here's the thing.
Why do I need to like beer?
Why do we all pretend that beer tastes great?
I'm just saying you need to have a drink.
You need to have a drink that is your go-to that you know is going to be at every single event. Why can't everybody make a Moscow Mule? Not every place is going to be mixing drinks.
Yeah. But you know what? Roger's going to judge you for the cider. I won't judge you for the cider. I'm not judging you for the cider.
Cider's good. You always play the game, right? I always see you. You walk up, you're like, do you have a cider? No, we don't have a cider. Do you have a espresso martini?
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Chapter 2: What are Hasbro's plans for Baldur's Gate 4?
nothing ruins my night like a fucking rum and actually I do like a rum and coke but it's like I don't know let's get fancy bring out the copper cup let's make a Moscow meal you bring your own copper cup you're ready to go that's actually fire I might start doing that really quick I know we have a lot of news stories but I want to talk about two games that I saw at day of the devs because I know next gamescast is going to be you guys talking about all the amazing things you saw at GDC I'm not on that gamescast so I want to shout out two games I saw at day of the devs this first game is far away which is an Annapurna published joint
This might be your shit. The idea behind it is that you play as just a ship and it's just like a 2D game. You're going as a ship. There's no left or right. You're not steering the ship. The way that you maneuver is that you have stars and you press X and then you attach to the stars and then you rocket around it. You attach to it and you use the momentum to go left and right.
So it's this very simple game where you're going around and you're trying to connect constellations. Spaceship. Spaceship.
What did I say? You just said ship? Yeah. So I was thinking pirates. I thought we were in the ocean. So when you started saying the stars, I was like, oh, this is interesting. But no, now I see the vision.
Yeah, so you're going around and you're using it to kind of like use the momentum to go through and go around and create constellations. So that was a really nice time. This is really cool. That was a really nice time. I think that's going to be your join. It feels like an afternoon. You play the game. You have enough time with it and you're kind of done with it. I like this. It was a nice time.
The second game, which is a very separate thing, and I feel like this is the generic Roger game because you see it and you're like, oh, Roger would be into this.
Is it a weird? Are you playing as a weird guy? As a weird character? Sort of.
You're shooting weird. Weird guys.
Okay.
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Chapter 3: Why is Hollow Knight: Silksong highly anticipated?
So it's like to the beat, you're shooting these guys, they come at you and you can counter them with a knife. Uh, and then one, one or two hits, I believe you're dead. Uh, the interesting wrinkle to this is that every day the level is redesigned.
Hmm.
So there is a leaderboard and then after that day, it resets and it's a new level. So you're constantly going in and trying to get the new high score. It's hard as shit. And it is one of those ones you look right now as a video watcher and I remember watching the trailer before I played it and I was like, this is not going to...
I don't know how I'm going to play this game for more than two seconds, right? I'm going to throw up. This looks insane. When you play it to actually an action, it works. It works really well. This looks insane. It's insane, and I think it's worth, if you can get your hands on it, it's worth playing for sure. It's super cool.
So yeah, Harmony Corrine's company is publishing this, and their company's name? Edgelord.
which I hate, but I hate. The person who founded the company, Edgelord, also made Spring Breakers.
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Chapter 4: How are video game workers organizing?
Yeah.
It's crazy. Makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. So, yeah, shout out to those two games. I love that. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Yeah, of course. And like you mentioned, on Gamescast after this, we're going to be talking about a lot of the games that we played during this GDC, and I can't wait to share some of the things that I played.
I played some stuff yesterday that had me like, yo, games are cool.
Whoa.
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Chapter 5: What happens to streamers who beat Split Fiction's secret level?
After that is going to be a Daredevil Born Again screencast. And then after that is the stream, which is going to be the Pokemon Nick Locke Continued. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Gregway is X minutes about X. He still hasn't done the thing. All right? He went in. He changed the dock to make sure that we're talking about the Gregways. And he's still not sending me the Gregways. Damn.
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For now, let's begin with what is, and forever will be, the Roper Report.
It's time for some news.
Chapter 6: What are SuperChats and how do they work?
We have six stories today. A baker's dozen! Starting with our number one, Roger. Yeah. Is Game Informer back? What? This morning, as I was prepping KHT, I went on Blue Sky, and I saw a quote tweet from a person very surprised at a tease from GameInformer.com on Blue Sky. It was a video. Bear has it pulled up here. If you're a visual watcher, you can see it.
If you're an audio listener, it is the Game Informer. Kind of like the shutdown website where they just put up the message of Game Informer is gone. But then some code at the bottom that says continued? And then the date from March 25th, 2025. Now, if that's not enough...
I got a post from the one and only, the homie, former member of OKBeast, Alex Van Aken, who worked at Game Informer, where he just put up a GIF that's like a continued screen at the end of an arcade game, right? Continued. You can see a Game Informer magazine in the back there.
And a Metroid, which makes it more exciting, right? Because if this was just GameInformer.com tweeting this thing out or posting this thing, I think a lot of the assumption would be, oh, great, cool. Like they just laid off all these people. Now the corporate overlords at GameStop are going to like make GameInformer a very like a show of what it once was.
The fact that we have the homie Van Aken also teasing.
Yeah, that was my exact reaction, right? Because I saw the Game of Thrones tweet first. I was like, oh, brother, here we go. This is going to be some bullshit. Yeah, exactly. And so now this is very interesting. Are you rehiring everybody? Are you rehiring most of the people?
What form is this going to be? Is this actually going to be in real magazines that we can purchase? Is this an online thing? I'm so interested to see. I mean... Just to jump off of here, right? First things first, I'm very, very thankful that this is not the end of Game Informer, right? Ending it on the entirety of that website, just going to basically what is a glorified 404 page, right?
With, I'm pretty sure, AI General, like oh it's been the last thing blah blah blah blah like such bullshit and I was so I continuously like do not go to GameStop in any way shape or form not even just look around because of Game Informer shutting down like that was the last that was the last thing that broke the back of this whole company for me like I really despise the way that they did this and
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Chapter 7: What did we learn from GDC this year?
Chapter 8: How do ads impact podcast content?
So weird director making weird movies. Now he's making weird games. And his first game is called Tamashika. And just, if you could show up, yeah, people that are watching this, if you are sensitive to flashing lights, turn off right now because it's insane.
Oh. I kept seeing this game.
Yes, this game is basically a dream slash acid trip video game where it's a first person shooter and you're just trying to go through one hit kill and you're going through this Japanese train station and you're shooting these green MS Paint looking guys. Uh, and the whole idea behind it is that it is almost semi-rhythm based, right?
So it's like to the beat, you're shooting these guys, they come at you and you can counter them with a knife. Uh, and then one, one or two hits, I believe you're dead. Uh, the interesting wrinkle to this is that every day the level is redesigned.
Hmm.
So there is a leaderboard and then after that day, it resets and it's a new level. So you're constantly going in and trying to get the new high score. It's hard as shit. And it is one of those ones you look right now as a video watcher and I remember watching the trailer before I played it and I was like, this is not going to...
I don't know how I'm going to play this game for more than two seconds, right? I'm going to throw up. This looks insane. When you play it to actually an action, it works. It works really well. This looks insane. It's insane, and I think it's worth, if you can get your hands on it, it's worth playing for sure. It's super cool.
So yeah, Harmony Corrine's company is publishing this, and their company's name? Edgelord.
which I hate, but I hate. The person who founded the company, Edgelord, also made Spring Breakers.
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