NEW OPEN WORLD ACTION GAME LOOKS INSANE, NEW STAR WARS GAME LEAKED & MORE

(bright music) - Hey folks. Today is Friday, February 23rd, 2024. As usual, my name is Jake Baldino, here to talk about all the video game news that has been going on this week. And if I look a little frazzled, it's 'cause we have a lot of things to talk about. It's been a good week. So let's just jump in with the first story. My game has been found, this is my ideal game. I don't think we need any more video games after this. Feast your eyes on this. This is called "King Makers" and this is som

ething that you would think looks like a boring old kind of Mountain Blade Knights army game. You know, a dad medieval warfare game. Fine, well and good, those are great, but (laughs) you're actually playing as a guy with a gun and a pickup truck, (laughs) and it's you against hoards of medieval army. Again, this is "King Makers." We don't know too much behind it other than that, like it's being published by tinyBuild. So it's definitely like a reputable thing. I'm curious to see how good this r

eally is because I am in love with this concept. It just looks like a ton of dumb fun. It's listed on Steam now and it seems like it's coming 2024 and I just love big, dumb fun, and this looks like it could scratch that itch for me. This made a big blast when it hit social media this week. If you saw it already, I wanna know what you think. If I'm showing it to you for the first time now, what are your first reactions? (laughs) I'm surprised they haven't made more games like this yet. To me it j

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owser. And once again, big thanks to Opera GX for sponsoring this video. Now back to the news. Okay, now with the bills paid, we gotta talk about our next story, a leaked "Star Wars" game. So "Insider Gaming," who has a track record of getting some scoops, also this was previously reported by Jeff Grub, "Mandalorian Star Wars" game. Yes, once again we're getting wind that a "Mandalorian Star Wars" game is in the works, being developed by Respawn, which makes sense because they've had a pretty go

od grip on "Star Wars" lately with "Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order" and "Jedi Survivor." I like those very much. This is apparently going to be a first person Mandalorian adventure where you're going through the galaxy, collecting bounties and stuff. "Star Wars," Lucas Arts, Lucas Games, we've tried this many times before, but I think Respawn could pull it off, if this is true. Take it all with a grain of salt. As of right now, this is still just a rumor, but this is potentially exciting. We don't

know what Mandalorian you're playing as, that's not confirmed, if it's like a Din Djarin, it could be a Boba Fett, because the timeline is going to be during the Galactic Empire, so there's a lot of room for something there. Or it could be a new, original, different Mandalorian. I think there's a lot of potential here. Again, we've tried to do Boba Fett games before, maybe this could be them really doing it. I don't see it being like Mandalorian, like the Disney Plus show because there's kind of

like over-saturation with that at this point. There's a movie coming out as well. Also the source does report that the game is emphasized around action and style and I don't think Din Djarin is like the most stylish bounty hunter. He's cool at first, but then he kind of just like fails upward. (laughs) Like I want someone more badass like Jango Fett or Boba Fett, but I digress. I always can't help myself, but get into the "Star Wars" nerd stuff. But if this is true, I think this is potentially

really exciting. So I linked the reports down in a description below, as well as everything else I talk about. "Star Wars" games, we've been eating good lately, so I just personally hope that trend continues. The other biggest bit of news this week that hit, and I'm sure you're probably like, why haven't you talked about it yet? The "Elden Ring DLC" reveal, we knew "Shadow of the Erdtree" was a thing, but now we got an official gameplay trailer and it looks like more "Elden Ring," and that is no

t a bad thing. But you see some new things, potentially some new character builds and move sets, a new area from self going on record, saying it's about the size, maybe a little bit bigger than "Limgrave." So kind of like the more opening area of "Elden Ring," if you recall. There's some really cool boss battles and like wild shit going on with this. I can't speculate to the lore and story stuff 'cause I'm just not really as versed in that. I just played it. But it seems like people are pretty e

xcited about some of the potential story stuff going on behind the scenes. Still, it just looks like it's gonna be fun to play and probably challenging. I'm already exhausted, (laughs) but we know it's got a release date, June 21st. Yeah, mark your calendars, you're gonna be able to get back into "Elden Ring." This sounds pretty big and the price tag is pretty hefty. It's $40 U.S. Some people are scoffing at that. Other people who are obsessed with "Elden Ring" probably do not care. From Softwar

e, DLCs, in the past, I think have been pretty good, pretty substantial. So yeah man, we'll definitely be talking about this one quite a bit, I'm sure. But just some quick news I wanted to jump in real quick. We got some announcements of some new PS VR2 games, but the biggest thing I wanted to talk about, with that announcement is that Sony is working on enabling the PlayStation VR to headset to work with PC. That is potentially very huge. It's not as easy as just plugging the thing and playing.

There's definitely some software stuff they have to do behind the scenes, but that is a powerful and welcoming move. I think VR should be as open an ecosystem as possible. When places have opened it up in the past, it has proved valuable. You know, I use my Meta Quest with Steam VR. Like I think that's good. So for people in 2024 to possibly be able to use their PS VR2 headset to take advantage of more VR gaming, that's great. As someone who likes VR, the more the merrier. Also, speaking of VR,

in the next week or so, we're going to be doing a video on Apple Vision Pro. It's gonna be dumb, we're gonna try and play games in it. Keep your eyes peeled for that. But (laughs) the the news keeps on going, there's so much. There was a Nintendo Direct this week, centered more around third party, you know, stuff. The whole thing will be linked in the description down below, but the couple of things I wanted to highlight is "Shin Megami Tensei Five Vengeance," got a release date, it's June 21st

. Also "Contra Operation Galuga" is releasing March 12th, but there's also a demo out now. A couple of demos actually came out of this Nintendo Direct, so check that link. But "Epic Mickey" is also getting, like kind of a remaster re-release. I never really played that one and I always wanted to. That is coming sometime in 2024. And last, but certainly not least from this Nintendo Direct, we know that "Grounded" and "Pentiment," formerly Xbox exclusives, are coming to Switch, which leads to the

next story of this week. The next big story (laughs) is that we now know what Xbox games are going multi-platform. We've talked about this lead up for the last couple of weeks, but now from the horse's mouth, here's the deal as of right now. We've got "Sea of Thieves" coming to PlayStation five, April 30th. That's pretty exciting. You know, more player base for a game that, at this point, has a lot of content. It's gotten much better over the years. So PlayStation fans are just jumping into like

a finely tuned thing. And speaking of that, that's also the situation with "Grounded" that is coming April 16th to Nintendo Switch, NPS five, another kind of like big, open, multiplayer game that has really fine tuned and figured out things, at this point, gotten much better. That's the Obsidian one by the way. "Hi-Fi Rush," one of my favorites from last year, is coming March 9th to PlayStation five, and believe it or not, another one of my favorites, "Pentiment" is February 22nd and that is on

Switch and PS5. So there you have it. Xbox has said that they are experimenting, putting a couple of select titles out on other platforms to generate more interest and probably more money. So yeah, there you have it. What are you gonna jump into? If you haven't touched these games yet, let us know. Maybe we'll revisit them in some videos like a, you know, "Sea of Thieves" couple years later or something like that. But there were a lot of gameplay reveals and interesting things to go down this w

eek. I will link all of this into the description down below. A lot of it is just like lengthier gameplay showcases. The first is a new look at "Little Devil Inside." You guys have been asking me for news on this one. The game has gone dark for so, so long. But the developers released a video, just showcasing a lot more gameplay and it still looks really cool. "Traversal" seems like it's kind of on this, like over world map. It seems very open combat. I'm still not convinced on here with what th

ey showed, but the visual style, the adventuring, the questing, all of it just looks really cool and really unique. People have been hanging on this one for a while just because it's different. It's something different and I really wish them the best and I hope we get to see more of this game soon. Also, we got a good extended gameplay look at "Rise of the Ronin." This is the next Team Ninja game and it seems really interesting. I mean they've done Neo, they've done Wolong, they've done so much

at this point, but this does look like a different cut. Visually, graphics-wise, I know it's been getting a lot of flack, it doesn't look the hottest, but from a fun factor gameplay standpoint, I'm really excited to see where this one goes. Also, holy shit, I am so happy about this. I was saying "Star Wars" game fans are eating good and we're getting OG "Battlefront" ported to PC and PlayStation, and this is March 14th. It's the original two "Battlefront" games. I mean the new "Battlefront" has

gotten good, after many years of updates, but I am very much looking forward to jumping in and playing these again. This is from Aspire, the people who have ported many a "Star Wars" game at this point, and they have done mostly a really good job. So I'm excited to see this. You're gonna be able to do 64 player, multiplayer, all the maps, all the things that were sometimes exclusive to other platforms. It's all opened up now and I am definitely gonna be jumping into this. Now, it was a big week

for "Before You Buy Videos" as well. We put out a lot. The first, the biggest one is for "Final Fantasy VII, Rebirth." I didn't do this "Before You Buy," you guys know I typically do most of the big game releases, but (chuckles) there are too many games. So over the last year I've kind of been taking on help, more with Falcon and Eric behind the scenes covering these. So they've done a great job, it's a big city. I can't be everywhere, I can't cover every game, but check out this video, they abs

olutely crushed it. And I'm really dying to get some time to play it myself. Also, "Nightingale" is in early access now. This is the survival game with kind of like a fun little, you know, Dick Kenzie and Steampunk take from former BioWare developers. We got a, "Before You Buy" on that. It's not really scratching my itch, but yeah, check it out and see for yourself. But also I did a "Before You Buy" on "Pacific Drive." This is that PC, PS5, first person car RPG, science adventure. I absolutely l

ove it. It is for a very specific type of player. It's got a lot of annoyances, but I still just was genuinely hooked. So I'm very proud of that video, check it out. Let me know what you think. We were very busy with "Before You Buy" this week, like I said, but there's a bunch of other gameplay reveals that went down. The biggest thing for me was "Mortal Kombat One" first look at "Peacemaker." It is the John Cena "Peacemaker" from the "Peacemaker Show" and it's got all the stuff from that awesom

e show. If you watched it, it's got his voice activated helmet, like all the moves he's saying it out loud, Eagly shows up. There's a really good fatality. I mean at this point, Another Realm just does such good character revealed trailers. They've been crushing it lately. I love what they did with Avani, man. So yeah, that just continues here. But also we got a new look at "Flintlock Siege of Dawn." This is that third person action adventure, RPG that was revealed a while back. Hadn't seen too

much of it and I'm curious to see how this one is gonna be because despite some of the generic title and presentation, there might be some good combat gameplay stuff going on here. But I linked that if you want to judge it for yourself. And along with that, if you were looking for an update for "Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League," either you're the small group playing it and having fun with it, I've seen you guys out there, or you're a lot of the people that just really didn't like it. Warn

er Brothers has now come out and said that the game has fallen short of their expectations and they expect that it's just going to be a tough year for the game business, year over year. And yeah, Rock Steady hasn't like come out and said that they canceled their plans for like a year of content and DLC, they're probably still going to be working on that. So we'll see where that goes. But yeah, Warner Brothers and their head, saying this fell short of expectations and it's gonna be a tough year.

I mean, they're sitting on a pile of money from "Hogwarts Legacy," so I don't have too much sympathy. That was like the biggest selling game of last year. But we're just gonna have to see where this stuff goes. And I really am curious to see how the "Wonder Woman" game is gonna pan out. That was announced a while ago, we haven't heard much. So yeah, also, we got a trailer for the "Borderlands" movie. This movie has been in the works for so long, it's got like a pretty stacked cast. Eli Roth is d

irecting it, the trailer is out, judge for yourself. I think everybody kind of has a little bit of a different feel for "Borderland." So it's hard to gauge reactions on this one. I am not the biggest Borderlands guy, so whatever. But I will say Kate Blanchet, just, excellent, just, God, I love her. But anyway, yeah, if you're looking for something we watch now instead of wait for the "Borderlands" movie, the documentary on Hideo Kojima is out now. It's like a Kojima Productions directed document

ary. Like I don't know how much of a puff piece this is, but it is "Hideo Kojima, Connecting Worlds." In most territories, it is on Disney Plus, which is the weirdest place in the world for a Hideo Kojima documentary. (laughs) But I think in the United States, it's on Hulu, and yeah, check that out. I'm gonna be watching that this weekend 'cause I'm a Kojima fanboy, but we'll just have to see where this goes. That's probably a better watch than the Halo show right now. But that's just me, not du

nking on it. (laughs) But let's wrap it up. We've talked about a lot, so I wanna know what you guys think in the comments about everything going on this week, from the Xbox Games coming to other platforms. Is there a game that you've been waiting to try that you're finally gonna check out? Is it "Hi-Fi Rush," "Pentiment?" Let's talk. Also, what do you think about "King Makers?" Are you as hyped as me? I just love dumb, stupid video game fun, video game ass video games, (laughs) if you will. Let

me know what you think about that. The potential "Star Wars Mandalorian" game. Shouldn't it just be about Mandalor from "Knights of the Old Republic?" I would pay $100 for a game about that dude. "Elden ring, DLC," let's talk anything video games from this week down in the comments. Big thank you to our sponsor, Opera GX, this week for having our back, but let us know anything in the comments, of course. We'll be down there as much as possible. But if you want to yell at us directly, you could f

ind me on Twitter, Instagram, and my other YouTube channel and threads. Just look up my name, Jake Baldino, that's really it. Thank you guys for coming around here every Friday to get caught up on the news, we really appreciate it. Have a great weekend, be safe, be well. Play some video games if you can. I'm Jake Baldino. See you guys next time, pizza's on me.