Is Call of Duty Cooked? | Ubisoft's Hilarious Launch | Gamified 174

Gamescom opens, but was it a wow or a whatever? Are we ready to call a bottom on the gamespocalypse? Ubi fumbles the ball once again.

Are we witnessing the end of the Call of Duty empire? And can the Epic Game Store be saved? Welcome back to Gamified.

This is the game show for gamers where our all-star panel of pros and pundits pontificate for the all-important privilege of shameless self-promotion.

Sam is still on assignment in Bali while I do his job.

Let's meet our banger panel.

He was the marketing mind behind Twitch and EA, and now he's making Mako AI.

It's Mr. Tony D.

Hey, Ope.

Nice to meet everyone.

Excited to be here.

Woo! He is the ruler of RuneScape, the co-founder of the DCC, the Digital Collectors Club, and we're breaking the Canadian embargo just to have him here.

It's knock.

Hey, just play some Big

Walk.

I think that's something that we can both agree on on either side of the border.

Great game.

Another Canuck smuggled in through customs.

He is the architect of interstellar battlefields called Parallel, a commander of the card table, and he's not getting the movie segment I promised.

It's Mr. Koji Nagata.

Yeah, it's true.

I almost no-showed you, man.

When I saw the topics and I was like, there's no movie topics here, I was like, I'm just not going to show up and not tell them.

But I love you guys too much to do that.

Thanks for having me.

She's built EA's research department and has studied gamers in their natural habitat for over a quarter of a century.

Now she advises the biggest brands in gaming as the founder of Think Tank.

She is Robin Boyer.

Great to be here.

Quarter of a century, a little scary, but so it is.

He's the man who made Roblox into a business, building the first professional Roblox studio.

With $30 billion, with a B, lifetime visits across Sonic, Barbie, and the NFL.

Platform economics is his love language.

It is Mr. Joe Ferencz.

Thank you for having me.

And Chris, you're doing a great job hosting.

Thank you.

I'm trying, trying to read.

Reading is

always a big deal for me because I have dyslexia.

And last but far from least, he's the detective of discovery, the savant of sentiment.

He studies what gets attention and what disappears in the data.

It is Mr. Colonese.

I'm already, like, picking apart a pattern of why I always lose to Joe, and it's clearly buttering up the host.

So, Chris, you look amazing.

Thank you.

Monrovia's hot, but it doesn't show on you right now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's all about keeping cool demeanor, you know? Let's play good.