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Today's stories include Marvel Rivals North American devs are hit with layoffs, why Dark

Souls wasn't a PlayStation exclusive, and Xbox takes a large step into the world of AI.

We'll have all this and more, because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

What's up, everybody, and welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, February 19, 2025.

I'm one of your show host, Snowbike, Mike, and today I am joined by Aftermaps, Nathan Grayson.

Nathan, how are you today?

I'm doing well.

Good.

How about you?

Fantastic to have you. Of course, we're very excited to talk

some game news with you, but Nathan, I have two books in front of me, and you're here today to promote

your book. This book right here, of course, stream big, the triumphs and turmoils of Twitch

with the stars behind the screen. And you wrote this book.

Yeah, I very much did.

Also, I like that you have two of them for like symmetry.

You know that.

I wanted to go big for you because it's about stream big.

And it's about the behind the scenes of Twitch.

And, you know, I love Twitch.

I bleed purple as you talk about in this book. And so, yeah, I really wanted to go all out for you and kind of talk with you about it. And that's how we're going to kind of kick off today's show. We're going to have a nice introduction of Nathan. Then we're going to talk about your books. So first off, Nathan, where are you from? Where do you write? What do you cover? Why do you love video games?

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