Why PlayStation Ditched Kojima - Kinda Funny Games Daily 09.11.26

Mike Minotti (0:00)

Today's news stories include PlayStation ditched Kojima because of budget concerns, Fair Games re-emerges, and Switch 2 gets VRR supports. We'll have all this and more, because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up, everybody, and welcome in. Happy Friday. You made it through the week.

Madeline Stanley (0:26)

Happy Friday, Mike.

Mike Minotti (0:26)

Congratulations. Madeline Stanley, you've been killing it here in the spare bedroom. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today.

Madeline Stanley (0:32)

Thanks for having me. I'm so glad I could be here since Tim was bitten by snakes.

Mike Minotti (0:36)

Yes, Tim was bitten by snakes early this morning. Of course, we are bringing you all the nerdy news you need to know about. So welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Friday, September 11th, 2026 I'm, of course, Snow Bike Mike, and that's Madeline Stanley, the queen of screams.

Madeline Stanley (0:53)

Oh, my gosh, it's been so fun playing Halloween this week.

Mike Minotti (0:56)

What a great week it's been.

Madeline Stanley (0:57)

It's here's the thing. I was I was tepid on it playing by myself playing with y'all. I'm back in a lot more fun. Yes.

Mike Minotti (1:04)

Yeah. If I really like Halloween with a four stack going up against a random killer, where you and your squad are talking and working together to have some fun. And then I do really enjoy a five stack where it is, hey, we're teasing the killer or the killer is really good. And we're trying to have some fun. I think it's a great time.

Madeline Stanley (1:22)

Very, very fun.

Mike Minotti (1:23)

Of course. Congratulations to our friends over at Illphonic for the latest game release.

Madeleine Stanley, I'm wearing my Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos t-shirt. And I've busted out the box sets. Okay.

Madeline Stanley (1:35)

Wow. It's BlizzCon BlizzCon weekend.

Mike Minotti (1:38)

Myself and Greg are heading down to Anaheim, California to celebrate BlizzCon 2026 And I'm pumped up because I'm a Blizzard kid. Grew up with Diablo 2, grew up with Starcraft 64, grew up with Warcraft 3 It was a dream.

I thought about it last night when I was, during a shower moment, Madeline Stanley. Take a walk.

Madeline Stanley (1:58)

Deep in thought, deep in thought.

Mike Minotti (1:59)

And there I was as a kid playing Warcraft 3 and loving every moment of it, but dreaming what could be outside of the RTS boundaries, what this game could become.

And I thought back to the schoolyard. You know when you, back in the day you'd play games and you and your friends would meet back at the schoolyard at the cafeteria and there'd be some crazy speculation, some lie, some kid made up like, hey, did you know in GTA Vice City, they're gonna rollerblade. You're gonna be able to rollerblade. And you're like, that would be the craziest thing ever. How cool, right? I remember thinking with Warcraft 3 of like, what would be the next thing? How cool this would be? And I was so young then, I didn't know how to work the internet. I don't think I ever saw speculation or whatever World of Warcraft would become. I just remember someone saying like, it's gonna become an RPG MMO and it's gonna be badass. And I never could wrap my mind around it, but it was the most beautiful thing I could ever think of when I thought about it back in the day.

Madeline Stanley (2:55)

It was your dream.

Mike Minotti (2:56)

And here we are, I'm living my dream.

Madeline Stanley (2:57)

Here we are living the dream.

Mike Minotti (2:59)

Living my dream with of course my Warcraft Battle Chest that came with Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne with the strategy guides. Big deal of course. If you're a Blizzard kid, you love the Battle Chest. Diablo 2 had one with Lord of Destruction and of course Diablo 2 And then my original box set here, Game of the Year Edition. Now they have all four races in the Warcraft world on the cover. I'm missing three of course, Undead, Night Elf, Human.

If you have those, let me know because I'm looking for them.

Madeline Stanley (3:30)

I didn't know you were so deep in the duffy like this, Mike. That you have your OG boxes and everything.

Mike Minotti (3:34)

I have my OG boxes.

Madeline Stanley (3:35)

That's so cool.

Mike Minotti (3:36)

I am a Blizzard kid and I'm also a freak when it comes to the RTS landscape. I love the RTS genre. I'm a big fan of Warcraft 3 in particular, but also the custom games. Many people don't know Warcraft 3 had a lot of user generated content, and the custom games, let me tell you what, were so much fun.