It's a new year and the releases haven't started yet so it's free time! Sean is playing through the first Hades and Little Nightmares. Paul continues, seemingly forever, with Tainted Grail.

We catch up on news by discussing a possible Wolfenstein 3 in the works, Ubisoft closes a recently unionized studio, and the Switch 2 gets its first new joycon colors.

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Another year has passed and that means we've come together (including Nathan) to share our Game of the Year lists. Once again we've swapped some categories to make room for new lists and, of course, the community voted on everything as well. Lastly, we check back on the predictions we made one year ago and make new one for 2026.

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Sean is travelling back home for the holidays and is playing Absolum and Öoo while Paul finished off Shinobi: Art of Vengeance and jumped into the demos for Super Meat Boy 3D and Pragmata.

For news, a bunch of stuff was announced at the Game Awards so we go over the ones we resonated with, Marathon gets a release date and price and Circana gives some bitter news on the financial reality of hardware sales.

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We're quickly approaching Game of the Year time so make sure to fill out our annual TDP Community GotY survey!

Paul is playing Horses and Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Sean's back to talk Sektori, Banishers, and Pipstrello and the Cursed Yoyo.

During news we chat about a possible new Dead Rising game, Far Cry is getting a TV series, and the Prince of Persia remake gets mentioned.

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Sean is away this week so Paul and Claire hold down the fort. Claire has been playing some newer releases such as Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons, Identifile: Desktop Dungeon and a Geometry Wars-style game called Sektori. Paul plays through all the Splatterhouse game and plays Constance, a game very much like Silksong in nature but with it's own little story and quirks.

No real important news this week so we catch up on all the questions missed previously!

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Sean is neck deep into Moonlighter 2's early access, he also plays Call of Duty Black Ops 7 and Goodnight Universe. Claire is going through Everhood.

The Game Award nominees are out so we run through the categories and predict who we think will win each. We also discuss Xbox's Partner Preview and GameStop's insane promotion.

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Paul's played it, Sean is almost done his second run, time to discuss Dispatch. We go way into spoilers and compare all the decisions we made. Do not listen to this if you don't want the story spoiled for you.

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Claire returns to talk Hal-Con. She's been playing Ball x Pit, Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac, and Once Upon a Katamari. Sean plays through ElecHead and Before Your Eyes. Paul is enjoying Dispatch.

We start news off with discussing Valve's 3 hardware announcements. We also talk about Sony's State of Play Japan and the Horizon MMO.

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