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Xbox 2026 Predictions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Stop it, Gary! Stop it, Gary! What's up, everybody? Welcome to kind of funny games daily for Wednesday, January 7th, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside the rogue one at Gary Witta. Hello. Hello, Gary. How are you?
Chapter 2: What are the predictions for Xbox in 2026?
I'm very well. Happy new year.
Happy new year to you too.
I feel like there is a cutoff on Happy New Year, but when it's like special friends and people that you like, if it's your first time seeing them. Yeah. Like if it was the first time seeing you in like July or something, then obviously. Yeah. Like as long as you're still in early January.
I think if you're in single digits, like you caught me off guard in the parking lot. In the parking lot when you said Happy New Year, I was like, yes, Happy New Year. I don't know. There's a blur of things going on. I feel I was in the car.
There is a cutoff. I think it's about the same time that the Christmas tree comes down. I mean, when do you take your tree down?
Last weekend.
yeah out the door yeah yeah it was right away yeah i if it were up to me i would take it down like new year's day that to me is a good cut off because like once christmas is over the tree just kind of says i think we usually let it go till that that weekend after new year's is that what we did this week yeah this past weekend was tearing everything apart yeah as fun as it is to put the tree up i always find it kind of equally sad taking it
taking all the ornaments off.
Oh, I mean, it is infinitely worse taking the tree down than putting it up. Putting it up is the excitement of the season. We're doing it. This year, we bought a tree. I have never had a tree die faster. Oh, really? And then become the cartoon, like, you touch it, pines fall.
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Chapter 3: What are the expectations for Xbox's first-party games in 2026?
We're looking into all avenues to fight for the rights of our members, end quote. Gary, you're historically anti-union.
Yeah, you know me. More rights for billionaires. Yeah, exactly. Won't someone think of the poor billionaires?
We protect them. This one sucks, as always. Every layoff story here on Enclosure Studio, story sucks here on Kind of Funny Games Daily, but we keep doing a lot of them. And, of course, really interesting timing to close this whole studio.
Yeah, I mean, one of the first questions that comes out of this, and I see it in the chat, and that's a valid question. Did... forming a union, hasten their demise. Yeah. Right? And I think the smart money is most likely, yeah. Yeah.
Because the reality is... Here's a headache we don't need. This game is not making money already. We probably were already on the cutting block.
I know there's another headache we don't need on top of that, a fucking union. Yeah. Now we have to treat them like human beings? Fuck off. Yeah, exactly. What are we doing here? Um... I'm historically a union guy. I come from a country that's very union. I mean, America's the fucking, I mean, unions built this country.
Yeah. I'm a union guy. Yeah.
I'm a proud union member. I've stood on picket lines more than once. Unions are, well, here's the thing. So when you fall, and this is why there's so much, we've seen it at Starbucks. You see it all over the place.
Anytime someone, if you try, if you form a union or even try to form a union, like, you know, go, like go off into the supply closet with a couple of coworkers and go like, should we, should we, Well, you know, but to have a conversation about unions. It's so telling that that's where you went, like, immediately. What am I doing in the supply closet with an employee? I'm like, workers' rights.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Xbox face in the current gaming landscape?
That's funny. Does this all have to go down the tubes now? But no, I like Chris a lot, but it was really funny because he was signing, and obviously he had a massive line because he was Chris Claremont, and I didn't because I'm not. You had space rocks. Yeah, I had space rocks, which we sold out of, by the way. I know. Thank you very much. Fuck you.
And he's got this massive line literally around the block, and there's me with, like, occasionally someone I'll wander over. And he's charging. Again, I... I'm not making any judgment. Most people do it. He's charging whatever it is, $20 for an autograph or something.
And, and, and like, I, I never, I've always said like, if you ever catch me at a convention or anywhere charging you money for an autograph or a photograph, punch me in the fucking face. Cause I will never, ever do it ever. And again, that's not to say that people that do it shouldn't do it. It's just not my bag.
But I was saying, without realizing it, people come up to me and say, how much for an autograph? I say, oh, nothing. I would never charge you for anything. And Chris is over there like, fuck you. Wait, maybe I'm the chump. He's the guy with the big box of money. I'm not fucking nothing over here.
You're the one putting out audio dramas trying to save your life.
maybe maybe it's a maybe it's a thing that's like if i put up 20 somebody said once if you really get rid of a piece of furniture like you leave it out front with a sticker that says free on it no one will take it yeah put a thing on it that says 50 bucks it'll be gone the next day yeah right people think it's worth something they'll take it so i should do like autographs 50 bucks but like he must be somebody exactly that's the thing it's all fucking mind games jason or you know create the x-men my idea sounds easier hey man you created rogue one
I didn't create it. They stole your idea and they made Andor. You must be pissed all the time. Don't talk to me about that one. Jason says birthday tax turning 31 and get to hang out with you all while I work from home today. Happy birthday. Congratulations on 11 years of kind of funny. I've been listening and watching for a while. I look forward to many more years.
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Chapter 5: How is AI influencing the future of gaming and Xbox?
Is this a Hatton spot?
Oh, so actually somebody, I mean, I understand why you wouldn't do it. I don't think it would really fit, but like somebody suggested kind of footy.
I know that would just tank.
I would a hundred percent host it though. I kind of, maybe I just want to do it myself. I watch a lot of these YouTube of these football YouTubers, these fan channels. And I kind of, I don't have the time, but I would love to do it myself. I would love to do one of those. Thomas Frank is the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur football club, which is obviously my longstanding club.
And it's not, the vibes are not great right now, but I mean, they haven't been basically my entire life. So I don't know what's going to, I don't know what's going to happen next. Could be worse. Could be Liverpool. Could be Manchester United. Yeah. Could be West Ham. West Ham are going to get fucking relegated.
I fucking love it.
Anyway, sorry. You started, you asked me about it.
I know. I'm letting you go. I just have nothing to contribute to the conversation. And that is another episode of kind of funny games daily in the bank. Remember our programming day is far from done. We're going to do a games cast after this about everything we played over Christmas break. Then we're streaming video games and having fun.
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