October 3, 2025 • 16 mins
Jayden Grimes gives his 8-Bit Update in the video game world, including the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta players running into big launch bugs, gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55 Billion deal to Saudi Arabia, Game Pass gets a major price hike, and more.
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Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's game time on real Radio. Ready for the loveday
your quick hit on Gaming News reviews and a little
chaos as Pop Pomp tries. Gaming update with Jayden starts.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, what's up, j Money?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It feels good to see you again. I missed you
last week, dude. I got dragged into therapy without you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh you're here. Your old man was here. I totally forgot.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, I got family therapy.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah it was nice a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Guess what the best enough segment?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, it's really I actually even talked to your dad.
I was texting your dad back and forth because they
were like on their way to a cruise already there,
and I was telling them I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm going on my next week. And then he told me.
I said, you know you're to be in here with
your boy, and he's like yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I was looking for it all week. I thought it
was the week before last week, so I got all
excited and I realized it wasn't that week.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And a man Yeah for people who do not know,
his father is Brian Grimes from XL one of six
point seven the Morning Show. There.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We just we've had half their morning showing today. So
Jakin comes in for eight Bit Update. This is a
video gaming segment as we try to kind of acclimate
me to the video gaming world. I am still playing RoboCop,
and I don't want another game right now. I'm still
conquering RoboCop. I'm gonna wind up beating it. I'm telling you,
I'm finally getting a hold of this controller a little bit,
and it's way more fun, dude, it is way more fun.
(03:17):
I've probably put about six more hours into the game.
That's a lot for me. WHOA, yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was expecting like thirty minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
No, no, no, Now.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
We're here thirty minutes there, Like, I don't have a
little bit of downtime where I would do something else.
I'll just bring the game up because I have a
have it right there in my studio, so it's easy
for me to acclimate too. And I just love it. It
is a lot of fun. It's a real you nailed
that one. That's a good ass game.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I'm so proud. He's like a real gamer now everyone.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, no, no, not even close.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We're getting there though, a lot of news this week, Yes,
so much has happened. I got to start off with
this one. My favorite game of all time probably Nights
of the Old Republic or kotor If you want to
shorten it. It's a Star Wars game, the best Star
Wars game that's ever came out. It came out in
the two thousands. It's an open world RPG. You pick
every single decision. Everyone's story is different because everyone's picking
(04:05):
something different. I explained RPG role playing game.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's you know, you really immerse yourself in the world.
But it's this Star Wars game. You make decisions on
your story. And it was supposed to get a remake
because it came out in the two thousands. It looks horrible.
It did not age well well. It got canceled out
of nowhere. PlayStation just took off the trailer, just silently
off their YouTube one day and no explanation whatsoever. They're like, hey, Aspires,
(04:33):
not making this game anymore. It's at some new gaming
studio and we haven't heard anything since. Really, Yeah, it's
just out of the water.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
So you thought they were going to kind of update it,
make the graphics cleaner, or add more to it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They dropped the teaser trailer for it. It looked like it
was coming out. It was one of the main reasons
I bought my PlayStation in the first place that sucks.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And that's the very first one.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
So they would do that like they would do the GTA,
they would just create another version of it. Would it
be like that game two or three? Or are they
just kind of update the game with new characters.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They just update the game. They don't change anything from it. Yeah,
it's just newer graphics, better audio, stuff like that. But
they canceled it out of nowhere, and the pictures of
it today leaked for this is the first time. Yeah,
this is the first time we're even seeing this game
anything gameplay wise, just a small picture of Kashik the
Wookie world. But it looked really nice and I wish
(05:24):
it came out. It broke my heart. So I had
to talk about that for yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
But truthfully, you don't know that it's not They just
pulled the trailer down. Is that usually a sign that
they've canceled it.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It's been about six years?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh has it? Yeah? So they.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, it's not coming.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You say this, I'm sorry, I talked it all right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We got a lot. There's so much news that's like,
who cares about this news? But I have to mention it.
The new Call of Duty beta came out and it's
the worst beta numbers we've seen on a Call of
Duty and.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Really, again, let me help it. So, beta is when
they release the game to a certain group of people
to play it. Yeah, its like a testing mode.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, and this is the least amount of players that
have ever played a beta. Right now, it is just
pre orders and everything, so it's not an open beta yet,
but is it?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Because that game's been around for a while and people
have kind of felt like it's played a little bit
like it's tired, like the story's tired or anything.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Or Call of Duty is mostly multiplayer. The multiplayers haven't
been good for a pretty long time. Honestly, Call of
Duty hasn't been what it should be since the Xbox
three sixty. Many people have just fallen off of it,
and it's just plastered with micro transactions. Oh really yeah,
buy these Ninja Turtle skins.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah. I mean it's like the pop up ad of
video games.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yes, essentially, and it's it's just not fun anymore. So
it's not doing well, and especially with Battlefield six coming
out this month, I know, I don't think anyone's going
to buy this new Call of Duty hot take. My
first hot take of this segment. Oh, it's gonna be
the worst selling Call of Duty of all time. Oh really,
without a doubt, There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What iteration is this?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
This is Black Ops seven?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh really?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
So this is the seventh and that Black Ops.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Used to be the game?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Right when when that first when that thing first hit?
That's that's all anybody played, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Pretty much. They've been begging for Black Ops two remastered
for I don't know how long, and if they that
came out, Call of Duty probably would be alive again,
but they'll probably never do.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What is the number one competitor, Like, if you're not
playing one of these multiplayer games and it's not Call
of Duty, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Battlefield Battlefield?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, and the and the New Battlefield's gonna blow this
game out of the water.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Does the Battlefield Battlefield games set itself in a certain
war or does it have its own world?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Every every game is a different world war? Yeah, every
game is different. They have a lot of World War
two ones, they have modern ones, they have futuristic ones.
Really Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How many do they have?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
This is six? Six of them really, but I think
there's like eight total. I think there's like some spin
off game Jack.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Have you played any of those games? The multiplayer games?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, But I played that, like the Call
of Duty. I think I played the World War two
one because you know, I wanted to shoot Germans. Yeah, sure,
who doesn't, right, But you know, I haven't played the
new ones. I'm still you know, I get hooked on
one game and I'll play that till the end.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I can't bounce around like yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
The thing is, isn't that the one that Ross played
when he was doing the World War one or two stuff.
He was into that for a little while. And do
they have a Confederate or a Civil War one as well?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
No, I don't think there's ever been a civil war game. Yeah,
I mean that could be our money maker right there,
if you want to get into this. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Maybe now's not a good time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, maybe maybe you got Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The environment's weird for that right now? Yeah, good point.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, Yeah, let's just wait a bed. Yeah, you got
three years or so and a lot broader. Huge news
EA was bought this week by the Saudi Arabia government.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, basically there what are they called the paf or
whatever it is, the public fund or something like that.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Yeah, fifty five billion dollars. That is insanity.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I don't know business. I don't know how all
that works. But EA is now twenty billion dollars in debt. Yeah,
because of that sale. How does that work?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You guys know, I do not have any idea because
I read that same thing today. I'm like, how did
they spend fifty five bill on it?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And it's still twenty twenty billion in debt?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I don't understand how that works. I would. I've been
trying to find everything about it, and I couldn't find
anything about it today. But with them being twenty billion
dollars in debt and them going to a private company,
because you could buy EA stocks like it was nothing
last week and now it's a private company, you can't
buy any of their stocks. Unbelievable, dude, out of nowhere. Crazy.
There was no news like prior to this, like like
(09:32):
speculating they're going to sell or nothing just happened. Which,
by the way, Saudi Arabia also owns a lot of
the esports team. Really, oh yeah, they're pretty big in esports.
They have their own competition out there, So they're really
taking over gaming a little bit, all the sales golf,
com comedy games. But with them being twenty billion dollars
(09:54):
in the hole, now you expect a lot of layoffs.
A lot of gaming studios are shutting down because they
can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
But why would they buy it?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Then?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Why would they buy it and then pinch the production
of it? I mean is because the brand itself is
worth money and there can be something else.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I mean, think about it. They now own every single matten,
they own every single college football, They own so many
games because EA produces so many games, They have the
Star Wars IP, they have so many things they can do.
Now interesting, Yeah, it's so much deeper. Then they're gonna
cut all these studios because they have so many ips
they can use. But with them cutting down these studios,
(10:28):
this also means probably more micro transactions because you got
to find a way to make every dollar you can make.
That right, twenty billion dollars in the hole.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
And you got to remember that's probably when they look
at you know, games like Roadblocks and things like that,
where they can see these kids spending you know, hundreds
of dollars a month or a year on these skins
or other things like that. I mean, when you look
at that, you have to think for yourself. God, dang man,
you know if I have this many users and I
can get an extra five hundred bucks a year out
of these guys, I mean, you think about much money
that could be. Again, we're talking billions of dollars. That's
(10:57):
a lot of cash. But they have to have some
kind of playing.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh, there's definitely a point.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
And I wonder if because it's owned by the by
the Arabs, I wonder if they will factor that into
the design, like if they if they will change the
mode or theme of some of these games.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
That's what a lot of people are worried about. That is,
Like one of the number one things I've seen is
how much stuff is going to change with these these
sequels coming out, these remakes, Like how much are they
actually going to play a part into this? But that's
not the only thing that's happened. I told you guys
how Xbox up their sale and the actual consoles right right, Yeah,
you're gonna get very upset about this. Game Pass has
(11:33):
gone up in price and has gone up a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, so I have game Pass and I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah, because you're now paying thirty dollars a month for
game Pass.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh I'm paying only fifteen right now though.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Right, No, you're paying thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm paying thirty right now.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
They just uped it like two days ago or yesterday.
Oh right, double thirty dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
What was nineteen ninety nine? Then you you have Core,
which is cheaper, right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, but they those don't even matter at this point.
You get like nothing with those subscriptions compared to what
you get with Ultimate, Like you you get half of
the games. You don't get any of the other like
EA Play and stuff like that with it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I thought mine was fifteen ninety nine a month. It
was oh really.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah it was at one point ninetymore.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh yeah, so I haven't yeah, yeah, I need to
log on, I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yah, see how much is this?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I mean, if you have it on your credit card,
you're getting a monthly. They're just gonna boot it. It doesn't matter.
They would have sent me a thing saying it's up.
Yeah they car.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, yeah, they're just going to charge it. Then I
can't tell you they're raising the price.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh they got to do it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, they make They probably sent you an email.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Is gone. Yeah I didn't see the email either, so
you're not the only one. But this Dustin Blackwell, he's
the director of Gaming in the Platform Communications at Microsoft.
He has he has to say an xbox and you
want to know what he said about this, this price change.
Price increases are never fun for anybody. This man is
(12:57):
a multi millionaire and you're telling me the price chasing,
the price changes affect you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
No, they don't. What he should say is this, we've
got you. You're not going anywhere. Here's how much it
costs now.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Yeah, I mean, but that's exactly what you do when
you have leverage like that. You just go, hey, guys,
I'm sorry, this is the new price because this is
the product we have.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
But that's the problem. They never want to come out
and be the dick. Yeah, they always want to come
out and just be like, hey, you know, this is
tough times for everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, we're wondering you exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Exactly, especially when everything else is more expensive.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
But they keep buying these all these gaming studios and
you know that ain't cheap.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I mean, yeah, I mean I'm going to pay thirty
dollars a month. If we're gonna be real with each other,
I'm gonna do it, but I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. They don't care about your tears.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You can you can send your tiar ridden money right over.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Its had me thinking, though, Microsoft is kind of worse
than Nintendo at this point. I told you guys, like
a month ago, Nintendo's the worst company in gaming. Microsoft's
not far behind them. They both gouge everyone for every
penny they can possibly have.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but when you're the biggest thing in the I mean,
is Nintendo almost an monopoly?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I mean at this point it kind of is monopoly.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Do they control like seventy percent or something of the
gaming industry or some ridiculous numbers like that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, there's only three big dogs in gaming. You could
say it's monopoly between those three people, and now they're
pretty much all working together.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So it's Sony with a PlayStation.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Microsoft with Xbox, and Nintendo with the Switch. And then
that's all you got.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, No one else is going to make a decent
gaming console and get a platform like these companies.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Not even Atari, yeah thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And yeah, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We should we you should get like Atari games for
me to play, and I could play Atari games.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Have you have you ever played that?
Speaker 7 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Never in my life, you've never played like Galaga?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Wow, I can see the disgust in your face.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm gonna buy you one of those. And it's one
of these things. It's just got a joystick and a
button and you just basically plug the USB into your
into your TV and that's it.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's that's the entire console. There's no logging on, none
of that. You just kind of turn it on and
there it is on your television. You choose it as
a source and you have access like two hundred classic
games like a mine, was it Mindfinder?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Or Galaga? Mister and Miss pac Man id that one? Asteroids?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know what that? What's the asteroids?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh but oh man, this hurts.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Hey there's an age gaf. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Asteroids. Imagine twenty year old, I know, a big age gap.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Imagine paying twenty five cents to look into an arcade
game and the screen is black and there's only line
drawn like asteroids, and you're a little you're a ship
and you have to fly around and shoot and break
the asteroids up, and when you shoot them, they actually
shoot off into different areas. And the farther you get
in the game, the more asteroids and the faster they move.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Wow, I wish I could pay twenty five cents for
a video game right now. That's that's really all I
took from that. I got caught up on the twenty
five keeping it real, Jaen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I wish he could turned a quarter and he said
he's in.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I'm in. I'll do it for twenty five dogs. There
it is right there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Jack has it up here right there at look here
on the screen. That's asteroids right there. Oh wait, right there,
that's the field. I mean, he's not showing.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Your Your ship is right in the center there, but
you can fly it around.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Stunning graphics, Jayden. Yeah, these might be the best graphics
I have.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Shut up, Nobody cares about your dopey opinion. Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
That's what we had, Son, that's what we had.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I spoke them like an angry old man.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Keep your ball was really on the front edge of
video It was you had pong, you know, there was
a line to play that. Yeah, there was a line
to play, and there was this and then there were
space invaders and Donkey Kong and you know, and then
it just after that
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Hey guys, big out from Castleburry on the crackers with
the chili. Absolutely agree, but now Salteams make a small cracker.
They're not an oyster cracker. They are little tiny square
is about maybe a third of a size of a
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for chili and soups. Just by two cents, you guys
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have an awesome weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Thank you too, I'm says I haven't heard anybody mentioned.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Fredo's in Chili yet. Oh man, a Freedo at chili
pie recipe. You guys should try it out. It is
freaking awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And they had one of my favorite things is that
walking taco and they do it in a Freedo's bag.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, let's go ageah bro. They had those big scoops,
those big Freedo.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Scoops, and man, you fill those things up with chili
with some kilipinos a little bit of sour cream.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's a party.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
That is a party.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
And Island h two oh is the one who did
the walking taco last year.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, join us tomorrow Sunset Walk. We're doing it again.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
It's chili time, that's right, only twenty dollars ten servings,
four ounces apiece, ten completely unique different chilis, and we're
gonna be out there tomorrow from twelve until four. Grab
your tickets at Sunset Walk dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
All three of our winning contestants have confirmed that they
will be there.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Hell yeah, Remy, Jim and Eric will be there cooking
for us, vying for the best chili from our listener challenge.
Not only will they get a package from the radio
station for just getting involved, but Mark Ritaville and those
guys over at Sunset Walking the Promenade are gonna throw
together something as well on top of the trophy. So again,
tomorrow is gonna be really fun. Hope you join us
Sunset Walk dot com. Grab your tickets and if you
(01:45):
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We'll have some room for you to come in and
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there's deb Hello, Jackie's here as well. Word let's do
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Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's game time on real Radio. Ready for the loveday
your quick hit on Gaming News reviews and a little
chaos as Pop Pomp tries. Gaming update with Jayden starts.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, what's up, j Money?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It feels good to see you again. I missed you
last week, dude. I got dragged into therapy without you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh you're here. Your old man was here. I totally forgot.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, I got family therapy.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah it was nice a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Guess what the best enough segment?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, it's really I actually even talked to your dad.
I was texting your dad back and forth because they
were like on their way to a cruise already there,
and I was telling them I'm jealous.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm going on my next week. And then he told me.
I said, you know you're to be in here with
your boy, and he's like yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I was looking for it all week. I thought it
was the week before last week, so I got all
excited and I realized it wasn't that week.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And a man Yeah for people who do not know,
his father is Brian Grimes from XL one of six
point seven the Morning Show. There.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We just we've had half their morning showing today. So
Jakin comes in for eight Bit Update. This is a
video gaming segment as we try to kind of acclimate
me to the video gaming world. I am still playing RoboCop,
and I don't want another game right now. I'm still
conquering RoboCop. I'm gonna wind up beating it. I'm telling you,
I'm finally getting a hold of this controller a little bit,
and it's way more fun, dude, it is way more fun.
(03:17):
I've probably put about six more hours into the game.
That's a lot for me. WHOA, yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was expecting like thirty minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
No, no, no, Now.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
We're here thirty minutes there, Like, I don't have a
little bit of downtime where I would do something else.
I'll just bring the game up because I have a
have it right there in my studio, so it's easy
for me to acclimate too. And I just love it. It
is a lot of fun. It's a real you nailed
that one. That's a good ass game.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I'm so proud. He's like a real gamer now everyone.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, no, no, not even close.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We're getting there though, a lot of news this week, Yes,
so much has happened. I got to start off with
this one. My favorite game of all time probably Nights
of the Old Republic or kotor If you want to
shorten it. It's a Star Wars game, the best Star
Wars game that's ever came out. It came out in
the two thousands. It's an open world RPG. You pick
every single decision. Everyone's story is different because everyone's picking
(04:05):
something different. I explained RPG role playing game.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's you know, you really immerse yourself in the world.
But it's this Star Wars game. You make decisions on
your story. And it was supposed to get a remake
because it came out in the two thousands. It looks horrible.
It did not age well well. It got canceled out
of nowhere. PlayStation just took off the trailer, just silently
off their YouTube one day and no explanation whatsoever. They're like, hey, Aspires,
(04:33):
not making this game anymore. It's at some new gaming
studio and we haven't heard anything since. Really, Yeah, it's
just out of the water.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
So you thought they were going to kind of update it,
make the graphics cleaner, or add more to it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They dropped the teaser trailer for it. It looked like it
was coming out. It was one of the main reasons
I bought my PlayStation in the first place that sucks.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And that's the very first one.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
So they would do that like they would do the GTA,
they would just create another version of it. Would it
be like that game two or three? Or are they
just kind of update the game with new characters.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They just update the game. They don't change anything from it. Yeah,
it's just newer graphics, better audio, stuff like that. But
they canceled it out of nowhere, and the pictures of
it today leaked for this is the first time. Yeah,
this is the first time we're even seeing this game
anything gameplay wise, just a small picture of Kashik the
Wookie world. But it looked really nice and I wish
(05:24):
it came out. It broke my heart. So I had
to talk about that for yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
But truthfully, you don't know that it's not They just
pulled the trailer down. Is that usually a sign that
they've canceled it.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It's been about six years?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh has it? Yeah? So they.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, it's not coming.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You say this, I'm sorry, I talked it all right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We got a lot. There's so much news that's like,
who cares about this news? But I have to mention it.
The new Call of Duty beta came out and it's
the worst beta numbers we've seen on a Call of
Duty and.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Really, again, let me help it. So, beta is when
they release the game to a certain group of people
to play it. Yeah, its like a testing mode.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, and this is the least amount of players that
have ever played a beta. Right now, it is just
pre orders and everything, so it's not an open beta yet,
but is it?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Because that game's been around for a while and people
have kind of felt like it's played a little bit
like it's tired, like the story's tired or anything.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Or Call of Duty is mostly multiplayer. The multiplayers haven't
been good for a pretty long time. Honestly, Call of
Duty hasn't been what it should be since the Xbox
three sixty. Many people have just fallen off of it,
and it's just plastered with micro transactions. Oh really yeah,
buy these Ninja Turtle skins.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah. I mean it's like the pop up ad of
video games.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yes, essentially, and it's it's just not fun anymore. So
it's not doing well, and especially with Battlefield six coming
out this month, I know, I don't think anyone's going
to buy this new Call of Duty hot take. My
first hot take of this segment. Oh, it's gonna be
the worst selling Call of Duty of all time. Oh really,
without a doubt, There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What iteration is this?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
This is Black Ops seven?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh really?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
So this is the seventh and that Black Ops.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Used to be the game?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Right when when that first when that thing first hit?
That's that's all anybody played, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Pretty much. They've been begging for Black Ops two remastered
for I don't know how long, and if they that
came out, Call of Duty probably would be alive again,
but they'll probably never do.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What is the number one competitor, Like, if you're not
playing one of these multiplayer games and it's not Call
of Duty, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Battlefield Battlefield?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, and the and the New Battlefield's gonna blow this
game out of the water.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Does the Battlefield Battlefield games set itself in a certain
war or does it have its own world?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Every every game is a different world war? Yeah, every
game is different. They have a lot of World War
two ones, they have modern ones, they have futuristic ones.
Really Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How many do they have?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
This is six? Six of them really, but I think
there's like eight total. I think there's like some spin
off game Jack.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Have you played any of those games? The multiplayer games?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, But I played that, like the Call
of Duty. I think I played the World War two
one because you know, I wanted to shoot Germans. Yeah, sure,
who doesn't, right, But you know, I haven't played the
new ones. I'm still you know, I get hooked on
one game and I'll play that till the end.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I can't bounce around like yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
The thing is, isn't that the one that Ross played
when he was doing the World War one or two stuff.
He was into that for a little while. And do
they have a Confederate or a Civil War one as well?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
No, I don't think there's ever been a civil war game. Yeah,
I mean that could be our money maker right there,
if you want to get into this. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Maybe now's not a good time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, maybe maybe you got Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The environment's weird for that right now? Yeah, good point.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, Yeah, let's just wait a bed. Yeah, you got
three years or so and a lot broader. Huge news
EA was bought this week by the Saudi Arabia government.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, basically there what are they called the paf or
whatever it is, the public fund or something like that.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Yeah, fifty five billion dollars. That is insanity.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I don't know business. I don't know how all
that works. But EA is now twenty billion dollars in debt. Yeah,
because of that sale. How does that work?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You guys know, I do not have any idea because
I read that same thing today. I'm like, how did
they spend fifty five bill on it?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And it's still twenty twenty billion in debt?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I don't understand how that works. I would. I've been
trying to find everything about it, and I couldn't find
anything about it today. But with them being twenty billion
dollars in debt and them going to a private company,
because you could buy EA stocks like it was nothing
last week and now it's a private company, you can't
buy any of their stocks. Unbelievable, dude, out of nowhere. Crazy.
There was no news like prior to this, like like
(09:32):
speculating they're going to sell or nothing just happened. Which,
by the way, Saudi Arabia also owns a lot of
the esports team. Really, oh yeah, they're pretty big in esports.
They have their own competition out there, So they're really
taking over gaming a little bit, all the sales golf,
com comedy games. But with them being twenty billion dollars
(09:54):
in the hole, now you expect a lot of layoffs.
A lot of gaming studios are shutting down because they
can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
But why would they buy it?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Then?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Why would they buy it and then pinch the production
of it? I mean is because the brand itself is
worth money and there can be something else.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I mean, think about it. They now own every single matten,
they own every single college football, They own so many
games because EA produces so many games, They have the
Star Wars IP, they have so many things they can do.
Now interesting, Yeah, it's so much deeper. Then they're gonna
cut all these studios because they have so many ips
they can use. But with them cutting down these studios,
(10:28):
this also means probably more micro transactions because you got
to find a way to make every dollar you can make.
That right, twenty billion dollars in the hole.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
And you got to remember that's probably when they look
at you know, games like Roadblocks and things like that,
where they can see these kids spending you know, hundreds
of dollars a month or a year on these skins
or other things like that. I mean, when you look
at that, you have to think for yourself. God, dang man,
you know if I have this many users and I
can get an extra five hundred bucks a year out
of these guys, I mean, you think about much money
that could be. Again, we're talking billions of dollars. That's
(10:57):
a lot of cash. But they have to have some
kind of playing.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh, there's definitely a point.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
And I wonder if because it's owned by the by
the Arabs, I wonder if they will factor that into
the design, like if they if they will change the
mode or theme of some of these games.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
That's what a lot of people are worried about. That is,
Like one of the number one things I've seen is
how much stuff is going to change with these these
sequels coming out, these remakes, Like how much are they
actually going to play a part into this? But that's
not the only thing that's happened. I told you guys
how Xbox up their sale and the actual consoles right right, Yeah,
you're gonna get very upset about this. Game Pass has
(11:33):
gone up in price and has gone up a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, so I have game Pass and I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah, because you're now paying thirty dollars a month for
game Pass.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh I'm paying only fifteen right now though.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Right, No, you're paying thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm paying thirty right now.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
They just uped it like two days ago or yesterday.
Oh right, double thirty dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
What was nineteen ninety nine? Then you you have Core,
which is cheaper, right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, but they those don't even matter at this point.
You get like nothing with those subscriptions compared to what
you get with Ultimate, Like you you get half of
the games. You don't get any of the other like
EA Play and stuff like that with it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I thought mine was fifteen ninety nine a month. It
was oh really.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah it was at one point ninetymore.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh yeah, so I haven't yeah, yeah, I need to
log on, I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yah, see how much is this?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I mean, if you have it on your credit card,
you're getting a monthly. They're just gonna boot it. It doesn't matter.
They would have sent me a thing saying it's up.
Yeah they car.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, yeah, they're just going to charge it. Then I
can't tell you they're raising the price.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh they got to do it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, they make They probably sent you an email.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Is gone. Yeah I didn't see the email either, so
you're not the only one. But this Dustin Blackwell, he's
the director of Gaming in the Platform Communications at Microsoft.
He has he has to say an xbox and you
want to know what he said about this, this price change.
Price increases are never fun for anybody. This man is
(12:57):
a multi millionaire and you're telling me the price chasing,
the price changes affect you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
No, they don't. What he should say is this, we've
got you. You're not going anywhere. Here's how much it
costs now.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Yeah, I mean, but that's exactly what you do when
you have leverage like that. You just go, hey, guys,
I'm sorry, this is the new price because this is
the product we have.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
But that's the problem. They never want to come out
and be the dick. Yeah, they always want to come
out and just be like, hey, you know, this is
tough times for everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, we're wondering you exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Exactly, especially when everything else is more expensive.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
But they keep buying these all these gaming studios and
you know that ain't cheap.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I mean, yeah, I mean I'm going to pay thirty
dollars a month. If we're gonna be real with each other,
I'm gonna do it, but I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. They don't care about your tears.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You can you can send your tiar ridden money right over.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Its had me thinking, though, Microsoft is kind of worse
than Nintendo at this point. I told you guys, like
a month ago, Nintendo's the worst company in gaming. Microsoft's
not far behind them. They both gouge everyone for every
penny they can possibly have.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but when you're the biggest thing in the I mean,
is Nintendo almost an monopoly?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I mean at this point it kind of is monopoly.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Do they control like seventy percent or something of the
gaming industry or some ridiculous numbers like that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, there's only three big dogs in gaming. You could
say it's monopoly between those three people, and now they're
pretty much all working together.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So it's Sony with a PlayStation.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Microsoft with Xbox, and Nintendo with the Switch. And then
that's all you got.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, No one else is going to make a decent
gaming console and get a platform like these companies.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Not even Atari, yeah thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And yeah, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We should we you should get like Atari games for
me to play, and I could play Atari games.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Have you have you ever played that?
Speaker 7 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Never in my life, you've never played like Galaga?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Wow, I can see the disgust in your face.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm gonna buy you one of those. And it's one
of these things. It's just got a joystick and a
button and you just basically plug the USB into your
into your TV and that's it.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's that's the entire console. There's no logging on, none
of that. You just kind of turn it on and
there it is on your television. You choose it as
a source and you have access like two hundred classic
games like a mine, was it Mindfinder?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Or Galaga? Mister and Miss pac Man id that one? Asteroids?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know what that? What's the asteroids?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh but oh man, this hurts.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Hey there's an age gaf. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Asteroids. Imagine twenty year old, I know, a big age gap.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Imagine paying twenty five cents to look into an arcade
game and the screen is black and there's only line
drawn like asteroids, and you're a little you're a ship
and you have to fly around and shoot and break
the asteroids up, and when you shoot them, they actually
shoot off into different areas. And the farther you get
in the game, the more asteroids and the faster they move.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Wow, I wish I could pay twenty five cents for
a video game right now. That's that's really all I
took from that. I got caught up on the twenty
five keeping it real, Jaen.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I wish he could turned a quarter and he said
he's in.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I'm in. I'll do it for twenty five dogs. There
it is right there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Jack has it up here right there at look here
on the screen. That's asteroids right there. Oh wait, right there,
that's the field. I mean, he's not showing.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Your Your ship is right in the center there, but
you can fly it around.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Stunning graphics, Jayden. Yeah, these might be the best graphics
I have.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Shut up, Nobody cares about your dopey opinion. Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
That's what we had, Son, that's what we had.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I spoke them like an angry old man.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Keep your ball was really on the front edge of
video It was you had pong, you know, there was
a line to play that. Yeah, there was a line
to play, and there was this and then there were
space invaders and Donkey Kong and you know, and then
it just after that
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