This week is all about the most under appreciated part of video games - animation! We invite on Ubisoft Sr. Gameplay Animator Tyler Hamill to learn us all about what goes into animation in games. We talk about falling off brooms in The Sims and why Hamill spends so much time staring at his hands. And JD makes a Dice of Destiny MOBA pick!

This week we prepare for the new year by talking about our 2018 GOTYs and our 2019 New Years resolutions. JD reviews Last of Us after beating it in under a week, and Peterson gushes over his Dice of Destiny game.

This week we wrap up our annual worst of the year awards show with our nominations for worst studio, sequel, decision, writing, launch, and gamer rage. Peterson gets kudos for a new cereal recommendation, Spencer puts the podcast on blast, and JD sings Smash Mouth - it's the perfect way to end 2018.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, so of course we've gotta talk about the worst of the year in our annual Blursties awards. For part 1, we invite on comedian Jay Whittaker, who tries valiantly to resist our natural negativity. We nominate our biggest disappointments, worst names, most overrated games, and our least favorite characters of 2018.

This week we sit down with Aaron Walth of Tasty Minstrel Games to chat about Battlefield V and his holiday tabletop game gift guide. We also discuss weather in games and Peterson reveals his Dice of Destiny RTS pick.

If you haven't gotten gifts for all the gamers in your life just yet, this sode is for you. We play a very special Reindeer Games: Christmas Edition, Be Kind Rewind back to our favorite gaming childhood Christmas gifts, and Peterson reviews his latest obsession, Streets of Rogue.

This week is all about one of the most delicious treats in video games - easter eggs! We talk the Good, Bad, and Ugly of easter eggs, Be Kind, Rewind back to our first easter eggs, and JD quizzes Peterson and Spencer on their hidden gaming knowledge.

This week we pay homage to the legendary Stan Lee, father of Marvel Comics. We reminisce about our introduction to Marvel, beg game developers to make our favorite comics into a game, and play JD's latest version of 2 Deets and a Deceit. Oh and we finally get to Spencer's CoD Black Ops 4 review.

This week is all about status effects and drugs in video games. We talk about the good, bad, and ugly of status effects and then wonder which game characters we would be better off high. Oh and of course we talk about McDonald's Q3 earnings call and their new Triple Breakfast Stacks.

This week is all about open world games. We give our burning hot Red Dead Redemption 2 first impressions, talk about what we love and hate about open world games, and reminisce about our first experience with an entirely open video game. And we also argue about the definition of sandwich, which you don't want to miss!