PSN Goes Down Amid Digital Future Backlash, Marvel Tokon Beta - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.24.26
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
56 min
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4 chapters
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what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for friday july 24th 2026 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside the most famous man in any room he goes into it's world-renowned comedian mike trucker hey hello how's it going it's good mike how are you I'm very good. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming through, Mike. Of course, you're a hard man to book. All right. You got your start writing on Up at Noon. Maybe you worked at Nintendo before then, but it doesn't count. Write on Up at Noon.
Go to The Tonight Show.
You go to Samantha Bee. You're writing the Dice Awards for like a decade now. You've been killing it. But most importantly, you're going to Scotland, Mike.
I am going to Scotland. Uh, if any of you are UK kind of funny fans, I am doing my bad video game show shit arcade at fringe, uh, from the fifth to the 12th and then the 23rd to the 31st. Uh, Greg's done it a bunch of times at different comedy festivals. Uh, each show we have different games, each show we have different comedians. So you can come to one show at fringe and the next will be different.
Awesome. What is shit arcade?
So basically, the way it was created was I've always been a fan of shows like Mystery Science Theater 3000, where people make fun of films. And I know streamers do that with games, but I really love that audience aspect. I love a live crowd. I love the way that a crowd can sort of steer the way you play a game, steer the way. And there is something about a live crowd that's just screaming at you. Like when 100 people are in a room screaming at you to jump something, it's a different feeling. Yeah. Uh, as, as happens with every time I play a Garfield game that can't, the first level can't be beat. And, um, so yeah, it just turned out to be this fun show that I started in LA and have been doing around the North America for a while.
So this is my first time actually taking it out of the continent.
Hell yeah. That's super, super cool. How did this come about? This seems like quite the throw across the pond.
Um, honestly, I, I've been talking to my, uh, my, my reps about doing fringe for a while and I've always wanted to go out there and do that festival, but I never really quite had the show I wanted to bring, you know, like a lot of people bring their one person show. That's kind of like, you know, here's my 45 minutes of standup about my dad dying. And it's, I just didn't have that in me at the moment. Um, and so I was kind of like, you know, why don't I do this show? It's a fun show to do. It's, I could do it in a fun way. It almost works as counter-programming to a lot of the stuff there because it's just sort of a, like a light fun game where we make fun of, you know, Shaq Fu and a bunch of terrible other fighting games.
Um, so yeah, it just seemed like a fun idea to do. And then we booked it and we're working with a promotional company called Gilded Balloon. And we're at a cool place called the Gilded Balloon, uh, Teviot, which has a bunch of different other shows in it. So it's really exciting.
Yeah.
So if you are over in Scotland, aka the UK, why not get over and see Shit Arcade? Where can people go for tickets, Mike?
You should Google a gilded balloon, G I L D E D B A L L or B A L. How would you spell balloon? Oh, and it's been a long week and a shit arcade. You can, you can find tickets on fringe's website, but if you buy through gilded balloon, we get a better cut of the ticket sales. So please do that. And yeah, it's only, it's only like 10 pounds. It's a cheap show. It's ages 13 and up. So bring a kid. It is a super fun.
I love that for you, Mike. And I love that you're going to see so many kind of funny best friends there because we love to support.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–18:37
2
What happened during the PlayStation Network outage and why does it matter for an all-digital future?
18:37–28:42
3
How does the PSN outage fuel the debate over physical vs. digital game ownership?
28:42–55:36
4
What consumer protections and backup options are missing for digital game libraries?
55:36–56:36
Speakers
4 identifiedMore from Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
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