Jason, Kirk, and Maddy revisit last year's predictions to see what game they'll be playing this year, then go through some new predictions for 2025, from the Nintendo Switch 2 to... new Half-Life?
One More Thing:
Kirk: Interviewing your friends & family / StoryCorps
Maddy: Scorcese double feature (Taxi Driver + King of Comedy)
Jason: Encanto (2021)
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2025 PREDICTIONS
KIRK
- At least one game will be released and then un-released within the year
- Hollow Knight: Silksong will actually come out
- Valve will announce a new non-VR Half-Life game
- The new Nintendo console will have the word "Switch" in the name
- Conan O'Brien or Geoff Keighley will appear in Death Stranding 2 (either/both)
- Valve will announce a new Steam controller that's on par with Steam Deck
- You will be able to "pet the dog" in The Game Awards' GOTY, i.e. the game will have a "pet animal" interact prompt
- At least two TGA GOTY nominees will be for a studio's first game
- In the new Fable, you will be able to plant an acorn and have it grow into a tree
- Square Enix will announce Final Fantasy VII.... Return
Bonus: Nintendo will announce they're bringing games to Steam
Game: SOMA
MADDY
- A Deadpool video game will get announced
- The Guillemot family will get pushed out of controlling Ubisoft
- Metroid Prime 2 + 3 will get remasters released on a Switch in 2025
- A full-length film will be screened in Fortnite
- A game made on Roblox will become a huge hit/phenomenon on the scale of Pokemon Go or Among Us
- Microsoft/Xbox will remove the requirement for new Xbox games to be able to also run on Xbox Series S
- Half-Life 3 will be announced
- Silksong will get a release date announcement that will be “it’s out right now” (which means I am also implicitly predicting Silksong comes out in 2025)
- There will be two more prominent live service game failures in 2025 in the style of Concord and Suicide Squad
- Waluigi will figure into a new Mario game
Bonus: Half-Life 4 will be announced
Game: Super Metroid
JASON
- Ubisoft will be sold
- An Xbox studios game will be nominated for GOTY at The Game Awards (it's never happened before!)
- A non-VR Half-Life game will be announced
- A single player playstation game will be announced for PC within 3 months of its PS5 release
- Ace Attorney 7 will be announced
- Bobby Kotick will get involved with the Trump administration in some way
- EA CEO Andrew Wilson will step down
- Switch 2 will have an availability crisis
- Metroid Prime 4 will launch on Switch and Switch 2 - day one of Switch 2
- There will be fewer industry layoffs than last year
Bonus: Amazon will pull out of the video game industry
Game: Chrono Trigger
