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The Switch 2 Leaks Keep Coming - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.08.25
Wed, 08 Jan 2025
Go to http://rocketmoney.com/kindafunny to cancel your unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money. Switch 2 dummy units appear at CES, Is Oblivion Remake happening, and another PC handheld has entered the mix. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping Today after, KFGD, you’ll get: GAMESCAST - Tim and Andy breaking down the big announcements from CES The STREAM is Marvel Rivals w/ Mike, Nick, and Stella If you’re a Kinda Funny Member: You can get today’s Gregway The Roper Report - - Switch 2 leaks turn into deluge as dummy units shown at CES - Virtuos is making an ‘unannounced Unreal Engine 5 remake’ - Ad - Gaming Therapy - Lenovo Legion Go S is the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld - Stellar Blade Dev has Given All its Staff a PS5 Pro and $3,400 Bonus - Tencent Designated as a Chinese Military Company by US - Wee News! - SuperChats - You‘re Wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest Switch 2 leaks?
Today's stories include Switch 2 dummy units appear at CES.
Yeah, I know a dummy. His name's Tim Geddes.
Am I right, everybody? We saw this at the bank! Is Oblivion remake happening? And another PC handheld has entered the mix. 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, January 8th, 2025. I'm on your host blessing at a junior. Joining me is Mr. Stars in the bank himself, Greg Miller.
I like how you refused to do it with that hand.
You wanted to hit it with your dominant hand. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
End up smacking you in the face on accident, you know?
How are you, Blessing? Three days into the new year. I'm doing pretty good.
I'm doing pretty good. I don't know what it is about. I think it's coming off a break where I keep going to sleep super late. Ah. And now I'm like, waking up is a struggle.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: Is Oblivion Remake happening?
In July 2023, a Reddit user said to be a former Virtuous employee claimed that the studio was working on a remake of Oblivion. They said that the title would make use of a pairing system that would run the game on both Unreal Engine 5 and the Oblivion Engine. Quote, for instance, new graphics are rendered in the Unreal Engine 5 project, but most of the gameplay, physics, etc.
are still done on the Oblivion Engine, they claimed. And later that year, a leaked court document revealed a roadmap of planned Bethesda games from 2020, which included an Oblivion remaster. Greg, do you think this is Oblivion?
Yeah, where there's smokes, there's fire, we always say around here, right? At least Tim does. And I think it would make a lot of sense. You know, you are Microsoft. You have Bethesda under your wing now. You want to make use of their IP, especially for not even a new generation, like two new generations, right? Since Oblivion was hot in the streets.
I think it would make a lot of sense to come out and do this and have it be supported. This is another one last night, like I'm talking about, where I was like, what do I want to play? And I like hovered over Oblivion. Really? Well, I've talked about, like, right before we went on break, I was like, maybe I'm going to restart Skyrim.
I was like, eh, you know, I've been there, done there kind of feel where I'm like, I never did Oblivion. I never played Oblivion. So I was like, maybe I do that. I don't know. Hop around a million things or whatever. But, like, the idea of if they were like, hey, we're dropping a remake of it, it looks modern, I'd be all over that. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I'm with you. Where there's smoke, there's fire, right? Of, like... You're telling me that there were reports already of them working on something in Unreal Engine 5 and it's coming to PS5 and PC and Xbox. And, like, enough of it lines up with the employee from Virtuous.
And I'm not... I think over the years, I've leaned less and less on, like, LinkedIn as a source of news because it's so unreliable. And, like, talking to people in the industry, it's like, there's so many reasons why job hosting might come up. There's so many reasons why, like, XYZ thing could end up being, you know... placed on a profile or whatever.
This just lines up so cleanly and just makes so much sense. And, you know, we're talking about Virtuous, which I believe is also working on MGS3 Delta, right? Like, they're the developer on that. Like, if this is their identity as a studio... I could be a really good identity.
Step aside. Yeah. You're on ice doing whatever the hell you're doing.
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Chapter 3: What handheld gaming devices are emerging?
Small, nice indie game.
Small, nice indie game that I'll play for five hours and might make me cry.
I know there's been a lot of conversation about this and I don't know where you left off and I don't know if we talked about it in content. Gator Mash Potato, great name. Super chat that says mouth-washing. It's incredible. I'm halfway through it. Is it not?
working or no I'm not half I guess I'm an hour into it yeah you are halfway through it okay I am no it's not that it's not working it's just that I started it on stream and I was a little bit tired and so I think I played about an hour and just stopped playing it I want to get back to it because it did get interesting okay I am interested in it that is my next game that I'm gonna finish can I steam deck it
Yes.
One that I really enjoyed from a couple years ago was a game called Islets. I remember talking about this one. It was on my top ten a couple years ago, bless, and it is a Metroidvania where the entire kind of... Loop about it is that you're bringing it like you're kind of the map is all separated and you're pulling it all back together.
So the kind of like a Metroidvania thing that like when you can find new routes is when you put like two chunks of a map back together. It's really fun and cute. But this also leads me to maybe you testing out a game for me because I have not played a game people have been telling me to play, which is Crypt Custodian is one that people have been talking about all year. Same developer.
It just came out back in August. And I have not had the time to actually play it. But I do want to check it out because I really loved Islets. And so this seems like a fun time.
That's cool. This looks really cool.
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