Hey everyone, welcome to the patch.

This week we got Gus, Bernie, and Ray over there.

Yep. We're here to talk about video games for the next hour. I get the center seat now so people can't creep on my laptop screen. Now you're Ray, our love child. I have to admit, I did see it. Did you? Yeah. People were saying after the last time we were on the podcast together that you looked like our love child. That's actually why I'm sitting here now, right? So you don't have to hear it anymore?

Well, no, now we're like the parents giving you a talking to.

That's good. You'm sitting here now right so you don't have to hear it anymore well no now we're like the parents give me you a talking to that's good you're the minority now we did it turn the tables so um a lot of stuff still happening uh with games i felt like there's a lot of news still this week yeah why wouldn't there be i mean i like there's lulls, especially post-E-3.

Yeah.

Like everyone saves up their news and then they...

The first week after E-3 is still busy and then it kind of like dies back down, I guess.

Until the holidays.

Yeah, yeah.

And then like in September you'll start seeing things pick back up.

You know, I got to say, E3 went away for a little while and where it became a smaller event and I don't necessarily think

that that was a bad idea. I think that a lot of developers just kind of interrupt their process

to make something to show at E3 and they go into rehearsal times and everything else. If all

that time was spent still in development, I mean, it could

just make the game that much better. Yeah, but E3s come back. There's just as much, if not more resources dedicated to it. Yeah. So it's like, what was the point of the break? No, yeah, I just, I don't know. I know what happened that made it different that it came back. I mean, they had it for a couple years like in hotel

like uh be those big dining

halls or whatever what are those things called? Like conference rooms? Yeah, like, function space. Yeah, and it's like they're headed in places like that. And I guess it's just people who are like, yeah, let's go back to the big spectacle. Yeah, this isn't nearly as cool as going to the convention center. I saw, I guess Conan O'Brien finally released a video where he went to E3 and talked to a bunch of people.

It's weird seeing, like, late... going to the convention center. I saw, I guess Conan O'Brien finally released a video where he went to

E3 and talked to a bunch of people. It's weird seeing, like, late-night talk show people. If anything, I would think, like, Jimmy Fallon would do something like that. But, I mean, he's doing like his gaming week, but he wasn't at the event, I don't think. Right, yeah. What he does, I think, where like the week after E3, he changes his intro to be...

Oh, really?

I know he changes his intro.

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