Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
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today in the nerdy news you need to know about naughty dog has been working on an unannounced game and it's been claimed that's not what it says it just says why why do you put it's been claimed in there you know rumorly rumored not naughty dog has been no i guess it's been claimed was needed the zelda movie has a release date and a hogwarts legacy expansion has been canceled 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 Friday, March 28th, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Comedian. writer, and the man who made Greg Miller what he is, Mike Drucker. Hello, Mike.
Hello. Hello. I don't think that last part's true, but hello.
Up at Noon changed the game for me. All right. That changed the game for who Greg Miller is and what people thought of him. It's all because you, of course, were the writer of Up at Noon. Mike, how are you? I'm doing very well. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Of course, after you left up at noon, your career went downhill. Yeah. You know what I mean? What did you do? The Tonight Show? Sure. Whatever. Tonight Show. Samantha Bee. Samantha Bee.
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Emmy-nominated writer is what it says here. I don't know. But after you left and you quit IGN, you were just dead to me. Until right now, where, of course, you have your own memoir coming out April 1st. Good game. No rematch. A life made of video games. Tell me all about it, Mike.
Sure thing. So basically, during the 2023 writer's strike, I wasn't allowed to write movies or TV shows or at least pitch them. And so I wanted to write something that I knew I could like sell and like focus on during the strike. And so I had a few ideas for books and this was the one I was most excited about. So I pitched it to my agent who then helped me put together a pitch. We pitched to HarperCollins and they bought it. So what it basically is, was. I've been reading a lot of books about movies and music where people write about how they influence their lives, like Patton Oswalt's Silver Screen Fiend, you know, a lot of like, I don't know, even like Chuck Klosterman stuff that we all used to like.
And people just don't really do that about games, or at least there's no like book where it's just sort of like about a very on the ground, how it influenced my life in a funny way book. And it's not that I saw a hole in the market that I wanted to fill. It was more like, oh, this is something that I want to talk about. If other people aren't doing it, I would love to do it. And so I wrote this book, which is a series of comedy essays about events in my life where I've humiliated myself in some form with video games. The stories about like crushes that failed, bad cosplay, a time at Nintendo when I got shot, shot during a paintball gunfight. It's just it's kind of it's supposed to be a very, very fun light book about video games and how much we all love them.
I love that. Of course, you sent me a copy of it. I got to read about it. I was selfish and jumped right to the IGN chapter. I wanted to know what you thought. It's a lovely book, Mike. You should be very proud of yourself. I hope you are. I know you're usually so self-deprecating. You did good here. You did really, really good here.
Thank you very much. I think the fact that I sent one person at Nintendo a PDF and then I think everyone at Nintendo got that PDF. And the fact that they've been very nice about it is very nice.
If you want a non-PDF version, maybe a hardcover, maybe Mike narrated the audiobook on Audible, you can go to kindoffunny.com slash Drucker. That'll take you to the Amazon page. You can pick up Good Game, No Rematch, A Life Made in Video Games. I do have bad news, though. When you sent me the PDF... I sent it over to Nick Scarpino on Slack, and I said, hey, Nick, Drucker wrote an autobiography. There's a chapter on IGN slash Up at Noon. It's very sweet. Thought you might like to look at it. The book is out in April. And then Nick immediately responded, I don't live in the past, and we've never talked about it again. So I don't know if Nick ever looked at the PDF, but, you know, probably not enough mentions of him. Plenty of mentions of me, which I appreciate.
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