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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Death to Loot Boxes - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.07.19

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Kinda Funny

Tech News, News, Leisure, Video Games

4.54.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Get your trial month of Hims for just $5 today http://forhims.com/GAMESDAILY. Go to http://buyraycon.com/KFGAMES to get 15% off your order! Gary Whitta and Greg talk about Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox's new take on loot boxes, Ducktales disappearing, and more! Time Stamps - 00:02:11 - Housekeeping We’re going to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto next week! August 16-18, Greg, Tim, and Andy will be hosting two panels a day in the Gaming Garage! kindafunny.com/events Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Black Jack and Mohammed Mohammed The Roper Report - 00:06:15 - Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony commit to disclose drop rates for loot boxes, Mekena Kelly @ The Verge 00:09:25 - Rocket League Dumps Loot Boxes 00:12:59 Best Friend Q. - The craziest story of this console generation has to be Rocket League, what with their release as free on PS+ and on Windows all the way back in July 2015. Since then, it has sold over 6 million units, has become a major eSports staple, and is continuously improved upon today by Psyonix. Now, they're removing lootboxes?! We have NEVER heard of this before in a multiplayer game! Could this be a sign that sales are dropping so they want to get good PR now and bump them up? Or is this just the continuation of the Cinderella story? Also, do you think other developers will take the same approach with lootboxes if they see this plan really take off? - The Nano Biologist 00:21:00 - Death Stranding coming to PC? Sherif Saed @ VG247 00:22:29 Best Friend Q. - The official PS4 exclusives page has removed Death Stranding for it's page, this coming off the back of yesterdays new that about an "exclusive new look'" about the game is coming at GamesCom, makes it seem like maybe the "exclusive new look'" is that it's not "exclusive" anymore. My Only question, "Does it matter? - Dapper Stephen With a PH 00:26:36 - DuckTales leaving Digital Storefronts 00:32:00 - Yukes and 2K Breakup, Andy Robinson @ VideoGameChronicle.com 00:36:32 - Borderlands Bump, RV @ GIB 00:40:05 - Out today 00:42:28 - HIMS 00:43:48 - RAYCON Reader mail - 00:44:50 - Do you think this year's been a bit of a dud for game release - Stooge 00:49:40 - Do you think crunch will continue to be an issue in the industry? - David Scott 00:54:15 - Does Greg truly have a problem pronouncing any word not written in English (or sometimes written in English too) or is it just a part of the Greg Miller fun character? - Dark pilsen 00:59:05 - On KFGD, you guys talk about console games, PC games, and mobile games. What do you think about board games? - JBR 01:07:00 - Squad Up: Alex Russ (Zero Syndicate) twitter - @ZeroSyndicate 01:08:50 - REQUIRED READING: Video games do not cause violence – but makers do need to think about it https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/07/video-games-do-not-cause-violence-but-makers-do-need-to-think-about-it 01:09:30 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s host: Greg and Andrea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What's up everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, August 7th, 2019.

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I'm one of your host Greg Miller alongside the Rogue One at Gary Whittah.

0:48.0

You're lucky to get me to die. Oh, here we go.

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We're so lucky. Why am I lucky today?

0:54.0

Someone's just to be your friend. Someone here showing some love.

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I'm going to LA right now. Literally, as soon as I'm done here straight out,

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they'll straight to LA. I've got meetings all week. You know, Hollywood stuff.

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Literally, I literally was on the meeting.

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I literally was on the bus.

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I was on the bus just animated film, Spider-Verse 2.

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I was literally doing MCU movie. Do you know Kevin?

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He had up Kevin, not that Kevin. The Kevin, the Kevin, the Feige down there.

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Kevin Feige. It's so easy to get the two mixed up because they both wear the baseball hats.

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They do. That's why I get confused all the time.

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I was literally on the phone last night with the president of show business.

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