Pokemon Pokopia's Success SURGES Nintendo's Share Price - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.26

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**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (0:01)
Today's gaming news stories include Pokemon Pocopias doing wonders for Nintendo, Pocket Pair talks the future of Power World, and Jake Baldino from Gameranx joins us on the show. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up, welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 I'm one of your hosts, Blessing Adeoye Jr. Joining me is the one and only Jake Baldino from Gameranx, Friends Per Second, and the Jake Baldino YouTube channel.

**Jake Baldino** (0:37)
That's me, yeah. Hey, thanks for having me. This is crazy, we're finally doing something. You and I specifically.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (0:42)
Yeah, I mean, I've been on Friends Per Second, and so we've done content, but I've never done a one-on-one.

**Jake Baldino** (0:47)
Not in person either.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (0:49)
In person thing with you. It's really cool to see you in the flesh.

**Jake Baldino** (0:51)
You as well. I mean, I see you in the flesh enough. I'm already like, I got you. But it's just kinda funny being here. It's crazy. I've been a fan since like before, like when everybody was at IGN still. Oh, yeah. It's crazy to be here and see this like insane setup. It's so cool.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:05)
Of course, you're in town for GDC.

**Jake Baldino** (1:07)
GDC, yeah, my baby's first.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:09)
Which is crazy to me because I view you as an OG. Thank you. I look at Jake Baldino as somebody who's like old head. That's an old head right there, man. You've been making games content for as long as I remember.

**Jake Baldino** (1:18)
Yeah, 15 years. I just checked actually.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:21)
Oh my God.

**Jake Baldino** (1:21)
15 years, yeah. But GDC was something I just never ever considered because Game Developers Conference. I was like, oh, that's not for me. Yeah. I'm not allowed there. But more and more people suggested that I go and I was like, maybe I can learn something. There's definitely some games to check out here. So, oh yeah, I just got here. So, I don't know how it is yet, but so far so good.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:40)
Welcome to the Bay Area. You've been to the Bay though, right? Yeah, it's cool here.

**Jake Baldino** (1:43)
Good weather. You got good air. It's nice.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:45)
You've come during a good week. Yeah, this is a week of really good weather in the Bay Area.

**Jake Baldino** (1:49)
It feels like summer.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (1:50)
Yeah, which it doesn't always feel like summer here. In fact, most of the time, it does not feel like summer. There's always a weird chill. I've heard New York is also very nice currently.

**Jake Baldino** (1:58)
Yeah, it just got warm. We just had like two feet of snow and it's finally all melted. So now it's like everything's coming back. Everybody's going outside.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (2:05)
I was gonna say like two weeks ago, I remember seeing a video of Zoran and Donnie being like, yo, grab a shovel. Yeah, like we're about to shovel the snow.

**Jake Baldino** (2:11)
It was crazy. I had like pipes freezing in my house. Like we had like negative weather. Like it was it was nuts. But we're here. We survived. And now I'm in sunny Bay Area, California.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (2:21)
Exactly.

**Jake Baldino** (2:21)
Pretty good.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (2:22)
How you been? What games have you been playing?

**Jake Baldino** (2:23)
Oh, man. Toxic Commando. I just finished up before you buy should be going live. What time is it in? It's 10 in one. It's mark goes up now officially. It's pretty good. I like it. It is the elevator pitch is it's based on like the vibe of John Carpenter movies. It's not based on a movie specifically, but it's a Left 4 Dead like with all the saber interactive stuff they've done in their previous games that kind of all come together. So interest Left 4 Dead on a big open map where you drive trucks and then you deal with mud runner physics so you can drive your truck through the mud and use a winch to pull yourself out. But you're dealing with hordes of zombies at the same time.

**Blessing Adeoye Jr.** (3:03)
Interesting.

**Jake Baldino** (3:04)
And then you're so you're and you're doing like the objectives and the Left 4 Dead type thing, that type of progression. But then you're also dealing with like all this crazy shit, like the budget. It feels like an expensive game.
The characters are awful, cringe worthy. But the presentation, the music, the sound design, the explosions, the amount of blood on screen, thousands of zombies on screen, like they have that World War Z tech where they're all like running up and like filling up the walls and stuff. And then it also has all the kind of saber progression stuff you've seen in like World War Z or Space Marine 2, where you're just grinding and leveling up weapons and getting attachments and it's a good loop. It's fun.