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A 10-year-old with 25 years of experience sounds like what entry-level jobs want you to have on your resume.

This year we are joined by writer at VideoGameUtopia and host of the Player's Club podcast Emmett Watkins Jr. to talk about eight - and a lot more - of our favorite games that came out this year!

THIS IS THE LAST NORMAL EPISODE OF THE YEAR!

If there's any star to come from The Game Awards 2022, it was the absolute king of woodwinds and flutes Pedro Eustache during the final GOTY orchestral medley. The dude absolutely rocking the flute parts for the music of Xenoblade 3? The guy headbanging through the whole thing? Yeah, that dude is a legend. You can hear his performances in the music for films like Dune, Interstellar, The Lion King, and most Pixar movies from the last decade.

Nintendo has effectively placed their very large, money making foot in their mouth for the sake of their brand and control regarding the Smash World Tour and could lead to large ramifications for their esports aspirations with other titles such as Splatoon 3. Also, get the military out of games. 

If someone tweets in a forest, and no servers are up to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Remember when Starfield was supposed to come out today?

IKEA is the perfect place for a horror game. Each visit feels ever so slightly unsettling. The gray voids between these supposedly lived in spaces triggers a feeling of discomfort in me, like the uncanny valley feeling. Perhaps its that same feeling from witnessing liminal spaces, the spooky voids of purportedly lived in spaces that feel very un-lived in. And when it comes to survival in an IKEA, catch me in the food court smacking down Swedish meatballs and lingonberries.

The trailer for Silent Hill F is one of the most effective trailers I've seen in a long time. The atmosphere, the vibes, the imagery, the mushrooms, all very scary. I'm not even particularly into horror games but just the trailer has sold me on the game. Mushrooms in horror games - SO big right now.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer outdid any expectations I had of what the movie would look like. In one shot, there's a little stream near Mario and it's full of Cheap Cheaps! All the little details are there. Despite the reception around them, none of the criticisms around Illumination's other films have to do with the animation. The animation is always absolutely stunning, particularly water. I'm excited to see the rest of the cast as well as get a better idea of what the film will actually be about.