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Marathon Finally Has a Release Date - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.19.26
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Today's gaming news stories include Marathon finally has a release date, another rumored Resident Evil remake, and an explosion goes off at Rockstar offices. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, January 19th, 2026. I'm your host, Blessing, Addy Oye Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez.
What a tease with that Rockstar story.
You know, story number three, you would think that Rockstar exploding would make it to story number one, but it was a small explosion.
They figured it out. You show that before an episode, and then you hit with the intro song of the TV show, and you're like, whoa, I'm here.
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Chapter 2: What is the release date for Marathon?
I'm sat for the next hour. What happened?
It was a boiler room, apparently. It happens. Have you ever experienced an explosion? Like in your vicinity or heard one go off?
No, when me and Mike were riding Lime scooters in LA after Summer Game Fest and people were popping fireworks, but we thought we were being bombed.
Chapter 3: What rumors are there about a new Resident Evil remake?
We thought LA was under attack. It was that loud with how much the sound reverberated around the tall buildings. And it was legitimately horrifying. Yeah. And then we saw like people running from the scene. We're like, what is going on? It was very scary.
There's nothing scarier than the sound of like a legit explosion.
It was a deep rumble. This wasn't like a pat, pat, pat, like a high treble hype. It was like a like one of those things.
When I lived in Seattle, maybe the first month or two of living in Seattle, there was a gas leak explosion that happened down the street from me, like in a restaurant down the street from me at like 2 or 3 a.m. in the morning. It was one of those ones where like it woke me up. I heard it. It was like when I wake up and like I can kind of like feel the house like rumble a little bit.
I was like, what was that? At first I was like, was that lightning? Like did something get...
struck or something and then i was like maybe it was a car accident because i started hearing uh police sirens come through i'm like what the fuck is happening and then like i opened up twitter and people that were neighborhoods away like miles away were like yo did y'all did y'all hear that like what happened i didn't know until the morning app pops up like i came into work the next morning they're like y'all hear about the restaurant that exploded i was like did i hear about it y'all motherfuckers i heard it that shit was crazy i experienced quite the explosion of emotions over the weekend beating your automata ending b
This game is so much better, and it was already hyped up more than I could have imagined. Yeah. This game is so much better than what the hype was. There's a reason why I ride or die for Nier Automata. And there was people in the chat that were like, finally, somebody had kind of funny Yoko Taro pill. Then I was like, no, no, no, no, no.
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Chapter 4: What happened at Rockstar North recently?
Blessing loves Nier Automata.
I get shamed, though, for loving Nier Automata, because y'all think I like it because of the titties. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. There's a story here.
He likes it for the booty. Yeah, no.
I like it for... One, I like it for the gameplay. But then, like...
the fucking stories i texted tim more than i've ever texted in my life about this video game it's like i told you to delay things a couple weeks or whatever we need you to like you will love your automata this video game oh my god man i cannot believe it tim will love it i knew you would love it barrett would love this game yeah barrett would absolutely adore started it so many times i just need i need to get past that like first three hours again
Just kidding.
So good. Andy was hyping this up to me yesterday after his come down from ending B, and I told him, I was like, hey, I'll put it next on the list because right now, over the weekend, I started Control.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Listen, we all play Nier Automata, and then we all play Nier Replicant as well.
Let's all play Nier Replicant. Dude, this shit's going to be top 20 easy on my list. Really? Yeah. Oh, you love it that much? Dude, I am so fucking enamored with this video game. It is so impressive and creative. Do you know what I'm enamored with?
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Chapter 5: What criticisms were made about Anthem's development?
Where you and your homies are walking around, but you're so locked into the story, and you could show that in a video and make it go like, wow, that could be me and my friends. But that's not going to be the case. You know, even in something like Destiny, when the cutscene is playing, you know, you're usually just fucking around and, like, making jokes or whatever. And I...
I think I got kind of pumped up for hearing about what the end game of this is, where there will be moments where there is some puzzle solving and there is some sort of raid mechanics, but not quite there. I would say more like, you know, I'm not trying to say expect a Destiny raid, but I love the idea of them getting more creative with the world and kind of making the most out of it.
Because I don't... At the end of the day, it's still like... alright, I'm going to get third-partied by some random squad, and I'm going to get annoyed, and then that one robot that I was fighting is going to be shooting me too, and I'm just going to be like, fuck this. The frustration sets in there. So this is something I want to try out, and I will be playing.
I just don't think I'll be playing it for that much. Do you think the world's going to play it?
Do you think this is a game that's going to hit for the general audience?
I... I think that... I think Ark Raiders has really opened up people to the idea of this being a genre that's here to stay. I think that the timing's also pretty decent. I think Ark Raiders is still hot, but you may... if you release the month after arc Raiders releases and it's the hottest thing on the planet, awful idea.
I think if I'm looking at this from the optimist perspective, you've had some time where, you know, our credit is still coming out with content, but there may still be things that the community goes, man, they never fixed this, or this is still broken. What the hell, you know, like there may be some frustration there, uh,
And that's me looking at it from the most optimistic standpoint, because I still think Ark Raiders will dominate this game in terms of numbers.
Ark Raiders feels like the number one.
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Chapter 6: Why was Nintendo unhappy with Sega's artwork for Mario & Sonic?
If I'm looking at it as a hierarchy, right? Ark Raiders, I guess, is prime PUBG games. and this might come through and be Apex Legends. Like, I think that might be kind of the comparison there. And like, honestly, that's fucking fantastic if this game ends up being that. That's me being generous to Marathon.
It's Battlefield to Warzone, where I think...
when call of duty black ops 7 is struggling and battlefield comes out and it's his breath of fresh air and everybody goes oh my god yes this is what we wanted and we're catching call of duty at their weak point at their weakest right now this is you know one of the weakest entries they've done a lot of people are unhappy with it people are doing graphics comparisons saying man black ops 2 looks just as good you know there's like a lot of negativity on cod
And then eventually things start going back to COD anyway. And you see the player count drop off of Battlefield 6 a bit more. And then more people are playing art creators than Battlefield 6, which is really, really surprising on platforms like Steam and stuff like that. But I do think that there will be the hardcore, dedicated Bungie audience that will play this.
And I think someone like Bungie is the only one who could even try to... you know, get a... I'm thinking of the Backstreet Boys documentary where they're like, you know... Backstreet Specs? If somebody's going to make the second Backstreet Boys, you want it to be you. So the same person made NSYNC, like... you don't want Pepsi to come along and sort of take shit from you. Why not?
You be the competitor sort of thing. Yeah. And I feel like, uh, at this moment you could kind of get the close, you could be the Pepsi to what, um, our creators, you know, Coca-Cola.
Um, I want to bring in some super chats for you. We got one from Marcus Daniels. It says Ben star out here, gunning for Kevin Conroy's throne. I feel like Ben star is out here gunning for Nolan Northen in Troy Baker's throne. This man's everywhere.
Shout out everywhere. Can't avoid them.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the We News segment?
Can't avoid them. I'm trying to see if there's any more marathon related things. Now, we got some birthday taxes, though. Shout out to Ace Boogie Games who writes in and says, birthday tax turned 40, boys. Had a good run. Damn. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Listen, it's not over here. I mean, it's over soon for you, but it's not over now. You know what I mean? You got a couple years left.
Oh, yeah, one that just came in from Clawmaster who says, I would argue that thanks to Arc Raiders that people are open to play games like Marathon and other shooters of the ilk. A rising tide lifts all ships. And I agree with that, right? That's to the point you're making, Andy, and I totally agree that. I think Arc Raiders has made extraction shooter not... As bad of a word.
It hasn't made it this weird niche game genre anymore. This thing that is unfamiliar to everybody. Shout out to Micah Parsons, formerly of the Cowboys, now on the Packers, who tweeted out recently. Like, man, it kind of sucks that you can't just go into the Ark Raider store and, like, buy stuff. Like, the way you could buy, like, 2K coins or whatever, you know what I mean?
Like, he was just trying to, you know, let me just pay to win. I don't got a whole lot of time to play. I just want to get in there and be competitive. But, yeah, I think that it's the game that has finally made the genre, like, this... I wouldn't say household name, but it's getting there.
It's the same way where... I think when we announce... I say we, as in I'm out here announcing games. But when a new game is announced, and it's a multiplayer, either free-to-play, or it has one of the buzzwords, right? Extraction, or whatever words they use to describe High Guard. People automatically want to hate the thing. Asymmetrical. Asymmetrical. People... like, want to jump to hate.
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Chapter 8: What are the latest updates on upcoming video game releases?
And, like, I understand parts of that, right? Because we associate that with being money-grubbing, right? We associate that with microtransactions and all this stuff that we absolutely hate, and I totally understand that. But I will say, like, I think to the extraction thing, It is very much everybody will put whatever game is in the same bucket.
Or at least pre-Arc Raiders, it was, if you announce an extraction shooter, for some reason, I won't even say for some reason, people will just say, hey, this thing is going to work out. It's going to fail. It's going to suck. We don't want this. Take it back. Stomp it on the ground. Fucking tear it into a million pieces and make Uncharted or something.
Yeah, I think Arc Raiders is one of those surprises like Helldivers 2, where when we previewed Helldivers 2, it was like, hey, this is kind of cool, but... it feels like another one of these so far. And it wasn't until the game came out and exploded. You're like, Oh shit, this is a big deal.
And it isn't just aliens of rogue incursion or whatever the fuck I get, you know, whenever one of these sort of co-op shooters comes out and it's just another one of those and hell divers ends up breaking the mold and like, Hey, we're a new game. That's kind of here to stay. Um,
I would have predicted that our creators would not have succeeded because of 40 bucks, genre that isn't crazy popular right now. This isn't something people are used to. They might turn people off. And the free-to-play market is still so dominant.
Yeah. My thing is I hope Marathon is... I hope it's great. I hope like I'm hoping for like the over of it comes out and it does enough of what it needs to do. I think, I don't think there's any way that it does everything it needs to do both because of the kind of game that it is, but then also it's bungee.
And I feel like bungee always has to like stumble a little bit at launch and then get their shit together through updates and figuring things out. And so I think that's going to, that's going to happen with marathon, but I hope they're able to get to a place where it's like, all right, this is good enough that we can get to the place to get to the the taking king of whatever marathon is.
You know what I mean? And I hope the same for High Guard. I hope High Guard comes out and surprises. That game's out like next week.
I think it's like 10 days or something.
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