Ubisoft Shuts Down XDefiant, Closes Multiple Studios - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.04.24
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What are the major news stories discussed?
Today's stories include Ubisoft is pulling the plug on X-Defiant, and Avatar The Last Airbender Game has been cancelled, and the Game Awards Players Voice Award nominees have been revealed. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, November 4th, 2024. No, December 4th, 2024. God, we're in December. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing. Addy Oye Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez.
Good morning, BlessingJr.bisky.social. .bisky?
What's a bit? Blue Sky. Oh, Blue Sky.
B-S-K-Y.
I see, I see, yeah. .bisky.app. Did you wake up and post your rap today on Blue Sky? Yeah. No. Like the streets are doing?
No.
You're Spotify-wrapped?
No. Oh, shoot. Yeah, I should check that. Yeah. I should check that. What are your predictions? Who would be your top artist? It's always Levitar. Oh, music-wise, I don't listen to music. I don't do music that way anymore. You don't listen to music? No, you do. When there's a new album, I will. It's very rare that I'm like, I'll do the hyper fixation thing, listen to Kendrick's album a bunch for a 48-hour period and then move back to my podcasts and then just do that. When Coheed and Cambria, my favorite band, releases their new song, I'll listen to that for a full day and then go back to podcasts. Damn. I just don't really listen to music like that anymore. Once podcasts became the sort of main thing in my life, where that's taken up all my free time.
See, I will say, like, on the drive home every once in a while, I'll get a ride home from Andy. And now that I'm thinking about it, yeah, like, one out of ten times, we're listening to music.
Wow.
The other nine out of ten times, it's Levitard Show.
Yeah. For me, it's... Y'all just dropped your phone. For me, it's, like, the... Depending on what I'm doing, I have to either listen to music or listen to podcasts. Like, if I'm prepping KHT, it's music. Because if I'm listening to a podcast, I can't read and listen to the podcast at the same time. Um, if I'm like cleaning an apartment, I feel like, or if I'm doing laundry or something, I feel like then podcasts help the time move faster. Like if I'm doing grocery shopping or something, I'll bury you. I'll bury you right now. Showing off my Spotify rap for artists. Of course I got number one is childish Gambino for me. Of course he dropped two albums. So it has to be number one. Kendrick Lamar is my number two. I feel like he would be number one if Spotify counted more of the November numbers, but I think they drop off after October. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, my number three is Serena Carpenter. Of course, man, that album short and sweet.
sure yeah it's right there it says right there Sabrina Carpenter uh number four uh J. Cole and number five number five Nas I don't remember listening to that much Nas uh this year but he made my number five but yeah I feel like I remember you listening to Nas you talking to Roger about like man Nas never lost it like yeah he's the old guy that everybody assumes he's always gonna fall off and he just but like I didn't feel like that was this that was like last year like late last year Pal World was this year too man you know that's crazy you know what I mean that's nuts
Podcast for me, number one, Dan Levitar Show. Number two, Pablo Torre Finds Out. Number three, The Mina Kime Show featuring Lenny. Number four, The Besties. And number five, The Greg Cody Show with Greg Cody.
The thing with my Spotify rap is music is usually where I have to hide certain things. As you can see, right? It's been a tradition every year where there's one artist where I'm like, damn, I can't show this artist anymore. Something happened in the middle of the year where I can't show them off anymore. Yeah.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the major news stories discussed?
0:20–20:17
2
Why did Ubisoft shut down XDefiant?
20:17–21:05
3
What impact do studio closures have on the gaming industry?
21:05–31:51
4
How does the gaming community react to game cancellations?
31:51–33:44
5
What lessons can Ubisoft learn from Rainbow Six Siege?
33:44–38:19
6
Could XDefiant have succeeded with more time?
38:19–45:05
7
What are the future prospects for Ubisoft games?
45:05–1:16:05
Speakers
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