Kojima & Xbox Reveal Physint Lead Actor! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.17.26
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What is the new lead casting announcement for Kojima's Physant game?
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Today's gaming news stories include Xbox's physant has cast its lead role, Media Molecules New Game isn't what you'd expect, and we now have the answers to those GTA six music artist teases while all this and more because this is kinda funny games daily.
Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Thursday, September 17th, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing, Addie OEA Jr. Joining me is LaCroix Poppy, Tim Mo.
Boy, getties. It's been a couple days since I've been on Games Daily, and I was excited. I saw in the calendar I'm on today, and I'm like, please give me some fun stuff to talk about. And they listened. We got some really fun stuff. Very excited. I watched your games daily yesterday. You got me even more hyped. Yeah. So yeah, very excited for this. Uh the plan is for us to do a screencast review of it uh early next week. So a couple more people are gonna try to watch it over the weekend. I I can't wait the other
side. I legitimately like I said on KHD this might be one of my favorite video game movies. And as I've been sitting with it, I'm I feel that feeling more and more good man. That's good. I d I can't tell if I'm crazy. I can't I can't wait for more people to watch this movie to see where other people land. Yeah. 'Cause it's such a fun time. Um it's just a fun like, hey, sit back, relax, enjoy the ride sort of movie. Relax. Relax as much as you can during a resume movie. Zach Gregor movie, yeah. Yeah. Now before The show, Tim, you mentioned that there's a speaking of video game movies. Speaking of Capcom. Speaking of Capcom, a red uh not research, it was Street Fighter Popcorn Bucket. The
Street Fighter popcorn bucket has been revealed. Uh I was teasing you with it. I was you haven't seen it and I was like you were trying to guess what it was. You were like, Is it like a beat up car?
Beat up car. I think I said what? Ryu's glove.
What are the details of Media Molecule's upcoming 2027 game reveal?
And you said And then I gave you the hint that you can wear it. Which eliminates so many guesses for me because I would have said like a Hadukin. Mm-hmm. Something that you can wear, I have no idea what that could be in Street Fighter.
So You don't just wear you don't just wear things a bandana. No, that's it. You wear things on your head, exactly. Exactly. Head. Uh-huh.
Is it like a bl a blanca mask or like a
blanca head? No. No.
Is it Gyle's hair? Can we
see
the picture? Is it Gyle's hair? No way. Oh my god. There's popcorn. That's fucking awesome. It's funny 'cause I said it and I couldn't picture how they would make it. But actually you know what? And I love that they have Cody Rhodes actually modeling the thing. That's so good. That's so funny.
What a world we live in. I know. I can't wait. Man. How what when does it come out? Is that next month? Is that during top hundred? It's during top hundred. It's during that week. Yeah. It's gonna be a good time. It's gonna be a good time.
Tim, we're gonna have a really good time talking about video game news today. Cause remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show too by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny. So thank you to Omega Buster, Delaney the Som Twining, and Michael Pesavento. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have
seven stories today. Uh bigger
dozen. Starting with our number one. Bill Skarsgard is the star in Kojima's physant video game from Xbox, which is a sentence that if you went back in time just a year. Yeah. If you went back in time just three weeks ago, our rain our brains would explode. You'd be like, Oh,
someone fucked up.
Man, this is from Jennifer Moss at Variety. Bill Skarsgard will star as the lead in Kojima's upcoming action espionage video game Phizzant. The casting news comes on the heels of last week's announcement that Phizzant would now be published by Xbox after being scrapped at Kojima Productions longtime partner publisher, PlayStation.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the new lead casting announcement for Kojima's Physant game?
0:00–2:01
2
What are the details of Media Molecule's upcoming 2027 game reveal?
2:01–7:46
3
How is the Hyper Light Studio Heart Machine layoff affecting the industry?
7:46–14:48
4
What is the status of the MindsEye studio closure?
14:48–17:37
5
How is Valor Mortis pricing at $39.99 being received?
17:37–21:32
6
What new soundtrack is coming for GTA 6 and which artists are featured?
21:32–24:54
7
What are the latest indie game news and upcoming releases discussed?
24:54–29:44
8
What super chats and community feedback were highlighted at the end of the show?
29:44–1:08:04
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