Control Resonant Goes Gold! Physical Release Delayed - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.18.26

**Tim Gettys** (0:00)
Today's gaming news stories include CONTROL Resonant goes gold, workers fired by Rockstar saying don't boycott GTA 6, and Warren Spector is retiring from game development. We'll have all this and more, because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up, and welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 Of course, I'm your host Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by the Nitro rifle, Andy Cortez.

**Andy Cortez** (0:28)
Good morning, Tim.

**Tim Gettys** (0:29)
How you doing?

**Andy Cortez** (0:30)
I feel like throwing up on the right end.

**Tim Gettys** (0:31)
Wow.

**Andy Cortez** (0:32)
I don't know why.

**Tim Gettys** (0:33)
Like, just like out of nowhere, hit a nausea?

**Andy Cortez** (0:36)
I think it was probably like the final medicine that I took without eating, or like I took way too long to eat. I was like, I gotta get something to eat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was unfortunate. But on the right end, I was like, oh, this might happen.

**Tim Gettys** (0:51)
This might happen.

**Andy Cortez** (0:52)
Yeah, it got really scary. That's terrifying. Because I haven't had that feeling in, man, close to two decades, maybe?

**Tim Gettys** (0:58)
Yeah, just being nauseous in the car.

**Andy Cortez** (0:59)
Not just being nauseous, period.

**Tim Gettys** (1:01)
Period.

**Andy Cortez** (1:01)
To the point of wanting to vomit in a really, no, I guess I got really sick a couple of years ago. But anyway, it's so rare. It's so rare, you know?

**Tim Gettys** (1:10)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (1:11)
Some people that haven't vomited in their whole lives.

**Tim Gettys** (1:13)
Their whole lives?

**Andy Cortez** (1:14)
Yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (1:15)
I don't know about that.

**Andy Cortez** (1:16)
You can look it up.

**Tim Gettys** (1:17)
Yeah, it's been a very long time for me. Once in the last 25 years.

**Andy Cortez** (1:25)
Once?

**Tim Gettys** (1:26)
Just once.

**Andy Cortez** (1:27)
Wow.

**Tim Gettys** (1:27)
It was a lot of times that one time.

**Andy Cortez** (1:29)
21st birthday?

**Tim Gettys** (1:30)
No, it was food poisoning in Japan Town, ramen, 2016

**Andy Cortez** (1:34)
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Oh, there was no... So you weren't having an issue the one time that Greg called a person to your house to go sing for you?

**Tim Gettys** (1:47)
That was from a different...

**Andy Cortez** (1:48)
Oh, okay.

**Tim Gettys** (1:50)
You don't even...

**Andy Cortez** (1:50)
Different exit.

**Tim Gettys** (1:51)
A different exit. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do this. Yeah. Didn't mean to do this to anybody.
Andy, a lot of stuff's been happening in video games.

**Andy Cortez** (1:59)
Oh, yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (1:59)
So much stuff that we don't even have at all on the run of show. Yeah. Last night, something happened. What happened?

**Andy Cortez** (2:04)
The Phantom Blades, your state of play at 7 p.m. PT. It was lovely.

**Tim Gettys** (2:09)
Yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (2:10)
I was like, I got home and I was like, all right, you know, I'm going to play some Mortal Shell. And I was like, oh, my God, that's tonight.

**Tim Gettys** (2:17)
Sweet little treat.

**Andy Cortez** (2:18)
Very cool.

**Tim Gettys** (2:19)
An extended look. Yeah. I already got a lot of this game, but now they're just like they're treating this thing like it is their their holy grail.

**Andy Cortez** (2:26)
Yeah. I mean, this one was, you know, the gameplay deep dive. And it's like, you know, let's show off kind of what the map looks like. Let's show off different weapons and upgrading and things of that nature.

**Tim Gettys** (2:38)
Yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (2:38)
In addition to one of the craziest boss fights, multiple state of place, though.

**Tim Gettys** (2:43)
Right. That's not isn't. Didn't they just do one like last week?

**Andy Cortez** (2:47)
Oh, wrong. It wasn't a state of play, though.

**Tim Gettys** (2:50)
Oh, was that just a trailer?

**Andy Cortez** (2:51)
Yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (2:51)
Kind of promoting that there was a state of play as well.

**Andy Cortez** (2:54)
Well, it was an 11 minute.

**Tim Gettys** (2:56)
Yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (2:57)
You know, here's a big ass chunk of stuff.

**Tim Gettys** (2:59)
Yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (3:00)
But yeah, this was a.
It was a good final, like, get them pre orders out. Yeah. Donnie Yen in the trailer. So in this state of play going pre order now. And you're like, I want to threaten you. Yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (3:13)
Yeah.

**Andy Cortez** (3:14)
Yeah.

**Tim Gettys** (3:15)
So cool. Now he's in a video game.

**Andy Cortez** (3:17)
Boss fight near the end is just absolutely bonkers.