Hold on to your butts 'cause it's a long one. We talk about the Activision Blizzard/Microsoft acquisition (a lot), Wordle windfall, Battlefield 2042 rumor, Lego game crunch, and the state of the industry. Trent graces us with a brilliant song (written by JD, performed by Trent, stuck in the head of Peterson). Peterson gives us his gaming resolutions, we talk about Activision IPs Microsoft should revive, and Peterson reviews Project Zomboid.

Phil Spencer channels his inner sigma energy, Logan Paul drops $3.5 million on fraudulent Pokemon cards, Lego drops Blizzard, and gaming has infiltrated the makeup space. Later, we talk about foods we got addicted to during the pandemic, make some gaming New Year's resolutions, and things take a dark turn into The Road territory.

It's time to wrap up 2021 with a bow, so we reveal our BLURSTIES winners for last year, review how accurate our predictions were, and talk about our gaming highlights for 2021. Then we make some new predictions for 2022 and JD fantasizes about the new Fallout TV series.

JD delivers some heartbreaking Star Wars Eclipse news, Henry Cavill wants to play Commander Shepard, and we figure out that NFTs are bad. We talk about what real-world achievements we unlocked in 2021, which debuffs we picked up, and what new skills we upgraded. Later, Jenna gives her First Impression Rose to Biomutant, and then we roll some fresh Dice of Destiny.

It's the Bobby Complex episode.

In Blursties part 2 we cover nominations for: Most Overrated, Least Favorite Character, Worst Decision, Worst Writing, Worst Bug, and Worst Feature. Make sure to go to our website to vote for your favorite nominees!

It's that time of year again, when we run through our annual Worst in Gaming awards!!

For part one, we're submitting nominations for Worst Studio, Worst Launch, Worst Sequel, Worst Name, Worst Gamer Rage, and Biggest Disappointment.

Peterson and Trent join JD to talk about all the games that were announced at the VGAs, including Wonder Woman, Alan Wake 2, Star Wars Eclipse, and of course, Sonic Frontier. JD gets tricked by a tech demo. We finally figure out a way to limit how much we talk about Activision (thank goodness), but there's still GameStop news. Later, we wrap up by pondering which game IPs need an open world treatment.

This week is only bad news, but the one bit of good news is that Peterson is here to help soften the blow. We talk yet more Activision Blizzard nonsense and dig into PlayStation's Game Pass. Later, JD asks which game series you'd want to end after its first entry, and then we play Crew Carry Kill with Christmas movie characters.

Peterson gives a First Impression Rose to Forza Horizon 5 and JD gives kudos to White Castle.

Jackson is back with JD and Trent to break down a small slate of news from Thanksgiving weekend, including a trucker in Japan who stole a truckload of PS5s. Then, we talk about Christmas gifts we couldn't live without and finish up by turning Christmas movies into tabletop games.

Oh and Trent finally gets around to his Dice of Destiny review of Deathloop!

Peterson returns! Joining Aaron and JD, the indomitable Peterson dives right back into the mess that is the gaming industry by breaking down the latest Activision drama from Bobby Kotick.

We also dig more into the GTA remaster debacle and talk about what Warner Bros. properties we want to see in the Smash Bros.-esque Multiversus. Then we wrap up with foodio games straight outta the 7-Eleven - stick around for JD's ICEE mind bender.