Pickax.

Five, four, three, two.

Michelle.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to episode 917 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.

I'm one of your host, Michelle Madison.

And I, of course, am your John Jacobson.

And I am Generation Rye.

What's going on?

What's up?

A lot.

So today was the big thing, Michelle. A lot. It was. You know, Gamescom happened, the opening night, the two-hour thing, I watched it. I thought it was funny because Jeff Keely sort of opened up by saying, E3 didn't die. It just moved to Germany. So he literally like announced everybody that that's how he views what he's doing as the new E3.

What do you guys think about that? die. It just moved to Germany. So he literally like announced everybody that that's how he views

what he's doing as the new E3. What do you guys think about that? Very different, but I guess in a way

he's right. It's kind of accurate. I mean, they don't need like a big trade show with booths and

stuff anymore, right? They just need to get the word out, right? With these stage events and videos and premieres, that's all they need, right? Yeah, he also opened by saying that Peake sold 10 million copies, and right now it's all about the small teams with big ideas that are changing the industry. So he kind of did that last time with the game awards. He kind of went in with the whole, you know, Claire Obscure thing and everything. Hi, J-Row. And Generation Rye is saying he lost us. Oh, there he's back. Sorry. I don't know what happened. I was still in the chat there. That's okay. I was just talking about how Jeff Keely sort of said that gamescom is the new E3. I definitely feel that it is. Yeah, because tomorrow we've got Xbox stuff.

I know I'm waiting

for Path of Exile two announcements from grinding gear. I think some stuff just leaked today. So there's

two more days of this. I did watch the whole event. We'll get into that a little bit in the news.

But did anything stand out that you've been hearing about to either of you before we get going?

Nothing crazy standard. Black Op 7 was definitely... Well, that's what... Yeah. It was almost... People were too crazy. But yeah, like that's the Black Op. Like, that's the Black Op. Like, right? If we're going to get into this now... Well, we could get in a little bit. What do you think? Why is it, why is it not modern

warfare? What are we doing? Why is they doing in twos, John? They did modern warfare for two

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