GTA 6 Online Coming Next Year!? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.18.26

Tim Gettys (0:00)

Today's gaming news stories include Twitch's CEO says Gta 6 Online is coming next year. How the hell does he know? Shoo and Adam Boy show us how to share PlayStation games in 2026 and more insight into Final Fantasy VII Revelations DLC. Well, of all this and more, because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.

What's up and welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Friday, September 18th, 2026 Of course, I am your host, Tim Gettys, and I am joined today by Snowbike Mike. Mike, how are you doing?

Mike (0:36)

It's Friday. We made it to another week, Tim.

Tim Gettys (0:39)

Another week, man.

Mike (0:40)

You crushed it. Thank you. You worked very hard. You and the team, I'll tell you, everybody, Kinda Funny Top 100 gonna be freaking awesome.

Tim Gettys (0:47)

It's gonna be legendary.

Mike (0:48)

The team is doing great. It is wild.

Tim Gettys (0:51)

And I love it because now other members of the team are starting to see the things we've been working on. It's like, whoa, this is freaking cool. The thing about you, Mike, I love you so much. You know that. And I tell you every day. You tell me every day. There's a lot of love going on in this office. I don't like when you say things like you and the team.

You know, like I don't like when you third person yourself away as if you are not one of us.

Mike (1:14)

Well, Tim, you know, I say that because I am one of the members on the outside. I have been in a special role where it's like, Mike, you pick up the slack here so we can do awesome and exciting things. So when it's like, hey, Mike, you go do that stream by yourself. So we can do something awesome. And then it's like, it's time to show Mike. Then it's like, oh, man, now I feel included in the whole team. Yeah, because we saw some awesome stuff.

Tim Gettys (1:35)

Oh, yeah, it's going to be great, man. Less than a month away, everyone kind of funny top 100 games of all time. It is going to be an absolute banger. Hopefully, I'm going to see a lot of you here in the spare bedroom. Otherwise, I'm hoping to see a lot of y'all in chat, because, of course, this will be live streamed to everybody on YouTube and Twitch. And I'm very excited about that. Speaking of those things, if you're watching live, you can be part of the show by super chatting on youtube.com/kindafunnygames. We couldn't do this without our producers on patreon.com/kindafunny.

So thank you to Omega Buster, Delaney, TheSom, Twining, and Michael Pizzavento for now speaking with what is and forever will be the Roper Report.

Mike (2:15)

It's time for some news.

Tim Gettys (2:17)

We got five stories today.

Mike (2:19)

The Beaker's Desert.

Tim Gettys (2:23)

Twitch is not live, Kevin.

That's what the chat is saying. The chat is there, but they're not watching.

Mike (2:32)

They're chatting it up.

Tim Gettys (2:33)

Kev's running. The computer right before we went live, it broke. So Kevin had to reset it, which often caused a bunch of problems. So Kevin, we have our best man on it. Okay, he's running around. Everything's going on.

But it's okay. We can start reading the story.

Be patient with the B-roll. It'll come later, Kevin. You don't need to run. It's okay.

Story number one. Twitch CEO says Gta 6's multiplayer mode will launch next year. This comes from Chris Scullion at VGC. The CEO of Twitch has stated that the multiplayer mode will be released in 2027 In an interview with Bloomberg, Dan Clancy was discussing other game publishers deciding to avoid Gta 6 by either releasing their games in October or holding them back until after the launch period of Rockstar's game cools down. Clancy suggested that publishers who opt for the latter option may have to wait longer than expected because when Gta 6 multiplayer mode arrives, it'll only see Rockstar's game surge in popularity even more. We spend a lot of time talking with Rockstar about their plans and also helping them think about how they can engage our creators. You're going to see this big bump with Gta 6, but then an even bigger one next year when they launch multiplayer. It's not clear whether Clancy was explicitly confirming Gta 6 will be getting multiplayer next year or merely making an educated guess, but his claim that Twitch has been talking with Rockstar about their plans suggests at least some degree of knowledge about what lies in the future. Elsewhere in the interview, Clancy said he was confident that the release of Gta 6 will have a major impact on Twitch viewership, including the return of users who haven't visited in a while. It will absolutely spike the overall viewership meaningfully, he said. How much?