Xbox Buys Activision Blizzard: The Aftermath - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.19.22

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Blessing and Andy talk about the follow-ups and fallout from yesterday's news of Microsoft acquiring activision including Sony shares dropping, Bobby Kotick wanting to buy Kotaku, and more. Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:27 - Housekeeping A new Kinda Funny Gamescast is up right now and it’s our predictions for how we see this Activision-Blizzard acquisition going. It’s a free-form conversation with me, Tim, Greg, and Andy. A lot of debate and back and forth on whether this is all a good or bad thing. Check that out now. In case you missed it: PS I Love You XOXO is up and it’s our Re-Review of Horizon Zero Dawn. We talk about what it’s been like revisiting the game and our hopes for Horizon Forbidden West. That is up right now on Youtube and podcast services around the globe. And lastly! Help us out by filling out the RT Podcast survey about all the Kinda Funny Podcasts -- it only says "Kinda Funny Podcast" but they mean all of our podcasts. It takes just a few minutes and helps our network understand what you like about us! kindafunny.com/podcastsurvey Thank you to our Patreon Producers: James Davis (@JamesDavisMakes), Black Jack, &Pranksy The Roper Report - 00:06:30 - Sony shares fell 13% following news of Xbox’s Activision Blizzard deal - Tom Ivan @ VGC 00:13:10 - Does this signal the end for AAA 3rd Party Game Development? If so, how long do they have? - Best Friends Q: Nolan Daniels 00:19:08 - Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Kotaku - Tom Phillips @ Eurogamer 00:29:00 - Labor organizers say Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard won’t stop them - Charlie Hall @ Polygon 00:34:00 - Ad 00:36:15 - Call Of Duty Vanguard And Black Ops Cold War Were No. 1 And 2 Best-Selling Games Of 2021 In The US - Eddie @ Gamespot 00:46:59 - Rainbow Six Extraction Review Round Up 00:54:00 - There’s a new Horizon Forbidden West story trailer - Jonathan Dornbush @ IGN 00:58:50 - Out today 01:02:20 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts:Greg and Tim

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0:00.0	Yeah, what's up? Welcome to kind of funny games daily for Wednesday, January 19th, 2022.
0:14.4	I'm in your host, blessing Adi O.A. Junior. Joining me is twitch.tv slash Andy Cortez.
0:20.8	My camera is finally clear. More clear than it has been in the last, I don't know, two
0:25.5	weeks or something like that. It's been so blurry and a lot of people have been wondering
0:29.6	if it's a little bit more blurry.
0:31.6	Does blessing have a better camera than everybody? Or does Greg's camera looks better than
0:36.6	everybody's? No, it's just a discord connection issue. I guess it looks better now.
0:40.6	I keep saying we can we can switch to Google Hangouts. There's no reason why we can't switch.
0:44.6	Isn't that right, Kevin? With wall is worse.
0:48.6	No, okay. This morning is the worst.
0:52.6	What are you getting?
0:54.6	Some granola and some yogurt. Getting the getting the getting the belly health up right
1:01.6	there. Yeah, we're going on that but got no gut biome.
1:06.6	Yeah, we got mixed it up.
1:09.6	You got there in the end. You got there in the end. It's funny because like this morning,
1:12.6	I was thinking about breakfast and usually what I do. I think we talked about this literally
1:15.6	last week that I do my starbucks run where I'm looking mad, trusting in that starbucks,
1:19.6	I'm looking all there to get the ice coffee and the warmed butter croissant.
1:24.6	And this morning as I was putting together the show, there's so much news and so we should
1:27.6	probably get there sooner than later. But there's so much news today that as I was putting
1:30.6	shit together, I was like, I'm not going to have time to go to the starbucks to actually
1:34.6	get my breakfast. And so what I did, instead of going to starbucks, I opened up my fridge.
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