State of Decay Studio Splits From Xbox, Suffers Layoffs - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.23.26

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (0:00)

Today's gaming news stories include Undead Labs makes significant layoffs, Xbox has its own Platinum Trophy, and a new Silent Hill movie may be in the works. Well, all this and more, because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily from the lab.

Mike Minotti (0:22)

The lab.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (0:23)

For Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026, I'm your host Blessing Adeoye Jr. And joining me is the legend, Greg Miller.

Greg Miller (0:30)

Hello, Blessing, how are you?

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (0:31)

I'm doing well, Greg, how are you doing?

Greg Miller (0:32)

Good. I know that you are a ravenous Greg Way fan. And you listen to them just constantly.

Mike Minotti (0:39)

Constantly. Nonstop here on top of it. Of course. And I know you've also been busy.

Greg Miller (0:42)

That's why I sub. Yeah, exactly. I know you've been busy. I need you to know that you are the reason Poe got birthday gifts on Monday. No. Yep, I did it because of you, and Poe was not happy.

He said, are we doing gifts now? We're doing gifts for birthdays? And I said, well, Blessing guilted me on Games Daily. I had to do it, and he goes, well, thanks for nothing.

Now I gotta give him gifts.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (1:00)

I remember nothing in the conversation.

Greg Miller (1:02)

You're just a giver. You're just a giver, Blessing.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (1:04)

Which is funny because I feel like a lot of the time I'm not a giver when it comes to my friends' birthdays.

Greg Miller (1:09)

We gotta get on the same page. You're looking at me talking, and I'm looking at you talking.

Mike Minotti (1:14)

Look at the goddamn camera.

Greg Miller (1:15)

Look at each other. What are we doing?

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (1:16)

It's because we're in the lab, because Studio A, as I'm calling it now, we are getting ready for top 100 We're getting ready for top 100

Greg Miller (1:24)

That means breaking everything we already have.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (1:26)

Sometimes you make some improvements to certain things, and sometimes things break, and then you have to figure that out, and we'll figure that out over the day. Shout out to Kevin and Barrett and everybody on the tech side for figuring that out. But we are in the lab for that reason, and I think we just go back and forth.

Greg Miller (1:40)

But you see some of it here, some of it there, some of it here, some of it there.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (1:44)

I feel like it's more natural when we're here, but it's more professional when we're here, but like, fuck being professional, this is kinda funny.

Greg Miller (1:48)

Yeah, I was out there doing the Silent Hill review the other day, and Madeleine Stanley was calling in, and then I had Raj, who doesn't host often, lead host, and then Kurt, who had never been on her stuff before, and Kurt was like, I feel like I should turn around and look at the wall, and then Roger started doing it, and I was like, I'm in the middle of a show, I'm not gonna correct them.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:05)

That's what I did. I think you're one of us being in the studio. I tried to do it.

Mike Minotti (2:09)

Yeah, it doesn't work.

Greg Miller (2:10)

I love you.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:11)

Yeah, but you just need to commit from, commitment from everybody, and also it's just easier for us to look directly at the person that we're talking to.

Mike Minotti (2:17)

I know, it's awesome. That's how human beings work.

Greg Miller (2:19)

I like looking at the audience's eyes.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:20)

Yeah.

Greg Miller (2:21)

What are you wearing right now, Blaster Goblin?

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:24)

Blaster Goblin, what are you wearing? Let us know.

Greg Miller (2:26)

I accidentally closed all the chats, so I don't know who's in chat.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:28)

Oh, okay.

Mike Minotti (2:29)

I was like, I don't see Blaster Goblin's name.

Greg Miller (2:30)

I talked to Blaster Goblin in today's Greg way, which you can find soon.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:33)

I was like, I see Crush Lemons. I see other names. I know Loyal Freak. Greg?

Greg Miller (2:38)

Yeah?

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:38)

Are you ready to talk about some video game news?

Greg Miller (2:39)

I'm very ready to talk about some video game news that I feel like we almost predicted yesterday, as if there's a layoff handbook.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. (2:47)

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