Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're talking news with drops about Wheel
Speaker 1: of Time, about the upcoming elden Ring Night Rain edition,
Speaker 1: and more. Hello, my name is Jason Septio and I'm
Speaker 1: Joe Money, and welcome back to x Ravdio the podcast
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Speaker 2: We'll bring you.
Speaker 1: Three episodes a week every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2: Plus news. This Day's happening, It's happening. It's been a
Speaker 2: weird week.
Speaker 3: In video releases, Chris Hensworth dropped a tribute to Thor
Speaker 3: We're gonna speculate on why now.
Speaker 2: Plus elden Ring Night Rain.
Speaker 3: Released a trailer with a newly popular Evan essence jam
Speaker 3: bring Me to Life.
Speaker 2: Talk about that song.
Speaker 3: Plus leave George our Our Martin alone. Okay, he can do
Speaker 3: things in his own time. Don't be mean. And then
Speaker 3: we've got some sad news about the Black Panther video
Speaker 3: game not come in to light?
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on with that?
Speaker 1: First up? Amazon has canceled Wheel of Time after three seasons.
Speaker 1: The show starring Rosmund Pike, got off to a pretty
Speaker 1: strong start but has slipped of late and I think
Speaker 1: kind of bodes ill for this era of Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones knockoffs, if it can even be said to have
Speaker 1: ever started. The series, of course, was an adaptation of
Speaker 1: the famous You Know ten plus book series by Robert Jordan,
Speaker 1: finished by other authors when the original or author passed away,
Speaker 1: and You Know is one of the most beloved high
Speaker 1: fantasy book series ever, but sadly could not make a
Speaker 1: dent and cut through in the Postgame of Thrones world.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts about Wheel of Time make.
Speaker 3: Me a little nervous about Rings of Power. Yeah, we're
Speaker 3: in a very strange time for fantasy. Obviously, we're fantasy
Speaker 3: lovers over here. Fantasy costs a lot of money. It's
Speaker 3: also hard to adapt. You spend a lot of time
Speaker 3: in your head with fantasy. It has a very specific look, vibe, pace,
Speaker 3: which can kind of differ for everybody, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's also an entering time for Amazon.
Speaker 3: You know, we have time with sort of one of
Speaker 3: their first big gets, both as an acquisition and then
Speaker 3: as a series, and for it to sort of fall
Speaker 3: off so early, and it's adaptation, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping we see.
Speaker 3: Some straightening out, but it also just might be time
Speaker 3: to pause on fantasy series. Let's really pace out, think
Speaker 3: about it. I'm hoping and or changes hearts and minds
Speaker 3: about how we can do TV shows. Well, give people
Speaker 3: time to actually write these things. Let's get whole teams
Speaker 3: and editing. Let's let directors do whole arcst's really nail
Speaker 3: it down and focus. I think there's hope, but obviously
Speaker 3: some restructuring needs to happen.
Speaker 1: Next up sad news, EA Electronic Arts is canceling its
Speaker 1: upcoming Black Panther third person open world video game and
Speaker 1: shutting down the developer that was working on at Cliffhanger Games.
Speaker 1: EA Entertainment president Laura Miiel said an email, the cancelation
Speaker 1: of the laps are done to quote sharpen our focus
Speaker 1: and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.
Speaker 1: She continued, the companies focusing on a handful of really
Speaker 1: ongoing and vital franchises going forward. The Battlefield franchise was
Speaker 1: looking towards another game in that series, very popular long
Speaker 1: running series The Sims, which is of course now almost
Speaker 1: three decade ongoing series, Skate the Skate franchise and Apex Legends,
Speaker 1: one of its much Valuyhood free to play action games.
Speaker 1: She continued that EA will continue to invest in its
Speaker 1: Iron Man game at Motive and other Star Wars games
Speaker 1: that it's working on. But this is sad news. This
Speaker 1: game was, from what I understand, pretty far along and
Speaker 1: was going to be very very exciting, with a rich
Speaker 1: map that encompassed all the various regions of Wakanda and
Speaker 1: its culture. And this sucks.
Speaker 2: This really does suck. This blows, dude. If you can't
Speaker 2: here's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's different because it's Black Panther, But if you can't
Speaker 3: finish it, don't start. It is really where I'm at, Like,
Speaker 3: Black Panther means so much to so many people. We had,
Speaker 3: you know, an incredible, like genre altering film and then
Speaker 3: an absolute like devastation and loss. I just feel like,
Speaker 3: stop messing with this character, leave him alone if you
Speaker 3: can't do it. And it sounded so cool, and you know,
Speaker 3: we've heard from different writers, you know, throughout the process.
Speaker 3: I think they had them at Disney D twenty three
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, they did a whole.
Speaker 2: Panel on it.
Speaker 3: It just sounded so thrilling and to hear that they're
Speaker 3: gonna get Hitty with Marvel and then to use Here's
Speaker 3: where I really ping against what Mel had to say.
Speaker 3: Battlefield the game you just constantly kind of redo and
Speaker 3: polish up a little bit. The same thing with the SIMS.
Speaker 3: The SIMS is my favorite video game. I have sunk
Speaker 3: too much money in the SIMS. I love the SIMS.
Speaker 3: But you're not designing a new game. You're just releasing packs,
Speaker 3: and a lot of these packs you're going to, like
Speaker 3: the mods, giving them pennies and asking them to bring
Speaker 3: some of the best like updates to the game that
Speaker 3: we've seen so far. So it's like, what are you
Speaker 3: EA doing as a company to support these games outside
Speaker 3: of just you know, these cute little polish ups that
Speaker 3: you make a ton of money on. It's just very
Speaker 3: I'm so confused by the video game industry and how
Speaker 3: it spends its money. All these things keep collapsing, and
Speaker 3: yet the largest entertainment like arm available right now is
Speaker 3: the strongest earner is video games right now, And so
Speaker 3: I just can't understand why Fox can't make it to shelves.
Speaker 1: It is, you know, very disconcerting. Now these cuts come
Speaker 1: in the context of many other cuts at EA and
Speaker 1: across the industry. EA laid off three hundred people in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, including around one hundred at Respawn, which
Speaker 1: was the developer behind titan Fall. EA restructured BioWare recently
Speaker 1: moving various developers. Around six hundred and seventy workers were
Speaker 1: laid off in twenty twenty four, including many at Respawn.
Speaker 1: I think part of the thing that really frustrates me
Speaker 1: is that Cliffhanger comes from the DNA of comes with
Speaker 1: a lot of the personnel that helped create Middle Earth
Speaker 1: Shadow of Mortar, which the Mortar games, the Shadow games
Speaker 1: are some of my favorite games ever, which with an
Speaker 1: incredible battle system and this rivalry system where if you're
Speaker 1: defeated by an enemy, that enemy gets stronger and now
Speaker 1: you have a feud going with them, and the idea
Speaker 1: that some of that DNA would be behind the mechanics
Speaker 1: of a open world Black Panther game. It's really just.
Speaker 2: Pointing we're not getting that game up. Next.
Speaker 1: Chris Hemsworth drops a tribute to Thor. It's May in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Why is Chris Hemsworth acting like Thor
Speaker 1: is dead and that he's never gonna play him anymore?
Speaker 1: Leading many to wonder Jesus Christ Thor gonna die in
Speaker 1: one of these?
Speaker 2: I mean that's where my mind went.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Joe, what's strange just about it ends like Thor,
Speaker 3: Love and Thunder, a movie that came out what three
Speaker 3: four years ago?
Speaker 2: I was like, I just it looks.
Speaker 3: Like somebody opened up a thumb drive and was like,
Speaker 3: oh shit, we have this, Yes, we just drop it now.
Speaker 2: Very confusing.
Speaker 3: I do think it pinned for me the Wolverine Deadpool
Speaker 3: little caption we get with him that still has not
Speaker 3: paid off in the MCU. We know we're getting big
Speaker 3: crossover events. Shortly, I was like, Okay, he's crying in
Speaker 3: the thing we see in the Deadpool Wolverine movie. Maybe
Speaker 3: maybe he is coming to an end, and you know what,
Speaker 3: that's okay. Chris has given us a lot of time
Speaker 3: with this character. And also so I'm of two minds. One,
Speaker 3: it's totally fine if you want to leave, Chris, you
Speaker 3: were one of the best iconic role really nailed it.
Speaker 3: Took you some time, but once you figured it out,
Speaker 3: wow spectacular. The other mine is Disney is a vampire
Speaker 3: and it's never letting go of anybody. Apparently everyone is
Speaker 3: available to come back at any time. Do we have
Speaker 3: to ever really truly say goodbye? It seems silly at
Speaker 3: this point. I know that even if Chris leaves in
Speaker 3: twenty years, they'll be like, we got him back. Guys,
Speaker 3: don't even worry about it.
Speaker 2: You can have more. We found another universe. Don't even worry.
Speaker 3: Like it's change, it's weird, it's goofy. But it was
Speaker 3: a lovely tribute.
Speaker 1: It was a lovely tribute.
Speaker 2: What is happening?
Speaker 1: Because you know, here's the other thing. Disney is not
Speaker 1: gonna let Chris Hemsworth drop anything about their IP without
Speaker 1: there being something behind it or getting the okay, so
Speaker 1: what this bodes tbd? But it's something something. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more.
Speaker 2: And where we're at. Georgia R.
Speaker 1: Martin is being bullied what is why? On his blog
Speaker 1: not a blog. Recently, George was promoting a new animated
Speaker 1: feature that is on the way from the studio Lion
Speaker 1: Forge with writing by him, adapting stories with writing adaptions
Speaker 1: by him, And in this blog he mentions that people
Speaker 1: are going to be mad at him for not working
Speaker 1: on Wins of Winner quote. I know, I know, some
Speaker 1: of you will be pissed off by this, as you
Speaker 1: are by everything I announce here that is not about
Speaker 1: Westrus or the Wins of Winter. You have given up
Speaker 1: on me or on the book. I will never finish
Speaker 1: Wins if I do. I will never finish a dream
Speaker 1: of spring. If I do, it won't be any good.
Speaker 1: I had to get some other right to pinch hit
Speaker 1: for me. I'm gonna die soon anyway, because I'm so
Speaker 1: old lost the interested Song of Ice and Fire decades ago,
Speaker 1: and he goes.
Speaker 4: On and on and on.
Speaker 1: Listen. We have talked here about things that ways that
Speaker 1: this property could finish. But one thing that is I
Speaker 1: think we've been clear about. And if not, I want
Speaker 1: to reiterate, George is done enough. The world's create that
Speaker 1: he's created is so vital and rich and detailed, with
Speaker 1: the history that goes back thousands of years that you
Speaker 1: can examine almost on a year to year basis, that
Speaker 1: just that is a huge contribution to sci fi storytelling,
Speaker 1: to excuse me, to fantasy storytelling, to fantasy literature, and
Speaker 1: has been hugely influential to many storytellers coming up in
Speaker 1: his way. Don't if you have stuff gripes that you're
Speaker 1: griping within the community to each other about things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine, don't direct those to George.
Speaker 2: He's done enough. We don't go leave him alone. He's trying.
Speaker 1: He's trying, you know, like any kind of things you
Speaker 1: need to tell you want to discuss your frustrations.
Speaker 2: About that, Yeah, do that, but don't don't.
Speaker 1: Direct them to George.
Speaker 2: I have two notes. So I know too many.
Speaker 3: Very successful in the spotlight performers, creators who can't help themselves,
Speaker 3: but tiptoe into reddits and onto the twitters and stuff,
Speaker 3: and they're like, what are people saying? So George, I
Speaker 3: just first like say, if you're doing this, don't do that, buddy,
Speaker 3: that's not fun for anybody. Stay off the reddit. But two, yeah,
Speaker 3: going directly to George's is dumb. The man gets to
Speaker 3: make his own choices. He's incredibly creative, and well he's
Speaker 3: doing that. I think a lot of people don't really
Speaker 3: acknowledge it. He supports so many fantasy writers. But if
Speaker 3: he lends his name to whatever project exactly, and that
Speaker 3: can only be good for us as like a fantasy
Speaker 3: loving community.
Speaker 2: So that's really beautiful of him. I will all so say.
Speaker 3: I get listen because the Boks we're not finished. We
Speaker 3: got the ending of Game of Thrones that we got,
Speaker 3: and I just feel like on some level we are, like,
Speaker 3: it's very challenging as fans who love the series, and
Speaker 3: if you've ever do you know how many trilogies dualogy
Speaker 3: where I'm like, I have to wait how long for
Speaker 3: the book? I what happens to these characters I've grown
Speaker 3: connected to and love. So I totally hear fans being like,
Speaker 3: this is exhausting. I don't want to hear about another title.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go. But I also think this is
Speaker 3: a living human being who's given us so so so
Speaker 3: much to him to his face, please just be gracious
Speaker 3: and have gratitude, like we're very lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're absolutely appreciative here and extra vision, and we
Speaker 1: are very fortunate to live in the world that he
Speaker 1: also lives in. Up next, in kind of associated George R.
Speaker 1: Martin News, let's bring in our resident Night Ring Lover
Speaker 1: super producer Aaron to talk about the new elden Ring
Speaker 1: Night Rain edition who trailer just recently dropped.
Speaker 4: That's right, the final trailer for night Rain dropped earlier
Speaker 4: this week, set to classic classic song, a Banger, Evanescence,
Speaker 4: bring Me to Life. Now those three.
Speaker 1: Other songs that they do you think that they considered
Speaker 1: because I feel like they just kind of were like, just.
Speaker 2: Do bring me to Life?
Speaker 4: Then I think they were like, we got two finalists,
Speaker 4: it's it takes two to make the thing go right
Speaker 4: or bring me to Life, and they decided on So
Speaker 4: this trailer is like an anime music video. Basically, there's
Speaker 4: no it's just the song and footage from the game
Speaker 4: that looks amazing and as well put together. They're Boston Fandragons,
Speaker 4: it's set to like the lyrics when they hit are
Speaker 4: when you know bring Me to Life is when the
Speaker 4: character raises the spirits to help them fight. This feels
Speaker 4: like fans are loving this, whether that is because of
Speaker 4: the recent rise in popularity of this song thanks to
Speaker 4: Nathan Fielder unclear. Bandy namco representatives did say Nathan had
Speaker 4: nothing to do with this trailer soundtrack, so he did
Speaker 4: not come in to advise on it. But in honor
Speaker 4: of this, I would like to make a proposal of
Speaker 4: more new metal songs in video game trailers. So I
Speaker 4: just want to pitch a couple of things to the
Speaker 4: two of you. You let me know if this works
Speaker 4: for you or not. So my first one, I think
Speaker 4: you know New Mario Kart World. Everyone's excited and tend
Speaker 4: to switch to set it to Olympus get rolling boom
Speaker 4: it number two, number two, the Last of Us. I
Speaker 4: don't know if this is Last of Us one or
Speaker 4: Last of Us two or Jason's proposal of Last of
Speaker 4: Us three. All about the infected boom trailer set to
Speaker 4: disturbed down with the Sickness. Number three, the game that
Speaker 4: I think I've probably the most kills that everyone does.
Speaker 4: We're not all, you know, good at this game, but
Speaker 4: there are lots of kills in this game Halo. Instead
Speaker 4: of those those operatic vocals, Trailer hits Boom drowning, Let
Speaker 4: the bodies hit the floor. Next up Fallout. You know
Speaker 4: this is like a nuclear wasteland trailer hits for the
Speaker 4: next fallout or a remake system of a down toxicity.
Speaker 4: Next Snipper Clips A great game where you cut up
Speaker 4: all these little pieces of paper Lincoln Park paper cut Boom.
Speaker 4: Next Animal Crossing. You got your bug catching net, You're
Speaker 4: catching all these little bugs. Crazy Town Butterfly Boom. Next
Speaker 4: Pokemon snack, butterfly Pokemon snacks. You're taking pictures of all
Speaker 4: the cute little Pokemon trailer hits, boom Nickelback photograph and
Speaker 4: Minecraft Minecraft get Out, Please say so. Elden Ring Night
Speaker 4: Rain is incredibly fun. It is a Souls like roguelike,
Speaker 4: mostly multiplayer game, third person enemy mobs, loot, roaming, bosses,
Speaker 4: and environmental events. It is a meant to be like
Speaker 4: played in forty minute chunks, so it does not have
Speaker 4: the contemplative nature that previous Souls like have. It is
Speaker 4: like you drop in and it is a frantic run.
Speaker 4: You have to go find items fine souls to level up,
Speaker 4: and then at the end you fight a boss. On
Speaker 4: day one. If you survive day one, you go into
Speaker 4: day two do the same thing. It's a smaller map
Speaker 4: than elden Ring, which had a huge map. But this
Speaker 4: is a smaller map, but because things are randomized within it,
Speaker 4: I didn't I played three runs this morning and it
Speaker 4: didn't feel too small by any means. I never crossed
Speaker 4: over the entire map in a single playthrough, which was good.
Speaker 4: I will say the game is forty dollars. It is
Speaker 4: not your typical like sixty or eighty dollars game right
Speaker 4: now on launch day today, over two million players already. Damn.
Speaker 4: I will say. Reviews on Steam are mixed, mostly because
Speaker 4: people are complaining the game doesn't have good balance for
Speaker 4: solo play. There's not really strong duo support, and there's
Speaker 4: no voice chat, so when you're trying to coordinate with
Speaker 4: the other people, you can't talk to them unless you're
Speaker 4: like friends with them on PlayStation and you already are
Speaker 4: in a group of or Discord or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it is a lot of fun. But reach out,
Speaker 4: you know, if you're on Discord and you want someone
Speaker 4: to play with, let me know, because I'll be I'll
Speaker 4: be jumping into the night rain ring.
Speaker 1: Well that was that was news. Little evanescence. Amy Lee,
Speaker 1: anecdota friend of mine, was in Nashville at a karaoke
Speaker 1: place and Amy Lee was there and her husband got
Speaker 1: up and started to do started to do, uh what
Speaker 1: is the fucking song? Wake be uh?
Speaker 4: Bring me to Life?
Speaker 1: Started to do with her do her version, and she
Speaker 1: got so disgusted by him doing it that she just finished.
Speaker 1: She got up, took the micromim and finished the song
Speaker 1: say Up.
Speaker 2: And Wake Me Up. On the next episode of x Revision.
Speaker 1: We're diving into a Nintendo Switch send off Tuesday as
Speaker 1: speed recap of the John Wick franchise. On Wednesday, four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine Bodies accounting another episode of Your
Speaker 1: Wrong Friend on Thursday, in which we debate Skyrim vers Oblivion. Finally, Friday,
Speaker 1: we're talking live action remakes as we react to the
Speaker 1: knew How to Train Your Dragon movie. That's it for
Speaker 1: this episode.
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