It's that time of the year so Matty and Sandy have sat down to discuss their personal five favourite Games of the Year. Or, games they've played this year. Some of us are still a little behind on that backlog, you understand right?

We're all about Smashing this week, with Nintendo's big new "Everybody's Here" fighter releasing on Switch. Matty and Sandy discuss who they're favourite Smash fighters are, while also briefly discussing Battlefield V and Pokemon GO.

King K. Rool ain't got nothing on this podcast.

Without getting that Ducktales theme song stuck in your head (too late), Matty and Sandy discuss how Cat Tales isn't really just Stardew Valley with cats. Sandy then praises Pokemon Let's Go (and only calls Eevee shit once), while also washing out the taste of Fallout 76 with a return to Fallout 4.

This week on Checkpoint Chat, Sandy waxes lyrical about Beat Saber for PSVR, and recounts all the calories he's burnt playing it. The pair then discuss the imminent Game Awards at length, making bold predictions on who will take home the most honours. We round things out as always with weekly news and questions!

In this week's controversial episode of Checkpoint Chat, Sandy discusses his disdain for Eevee while enjoying the murderous trappings of Hitman 2. Matty dives back into Horizon Zero Dawn and comes back unsurprised at how great The Frozen Wilds is, and the pair discuss Sony's plans to skip E3 2019 and what it means for the show.

Eevee is garbage and you can't make us change our minds about it.

This week on Checkpoint Chat, Matty boasts about how great he is at Soul Calibur VI, Sandy gushes over Tetris Effect again and the pair discuss how bad Overkill's The Walking Dead is after so many years in development.

If the undead could listen to a podcast, it would be this one.

This week's jam-packed episode of Checkpoint Chat dives deep into Diablo III on Switch, Fallout 76's Beta, Tetris Effect and how a hacker helped Matty progress in Fortnite.

Just be careful of sneaky spiders crawling through any open air vents. It happens.

Checkpoint Chat is back and busier than ever, as Sandy checks in on both Gwent and the incredible Thronebreaker from The Witcher universe and praises its great storytelling. Matty finally dives deep into his time with Horizon Zero Dawn, and Sandy explains how Red Dead Redemption 2 feels rather boring right now.

Never try revive your dead pet robots. It doesn't end well.

Matty returns on this week's episode of Checkpoint Chat, just to tell everyone how done he is with Dead Cells after finishing it on Hard Mode. Sandy explains the random bullshit that powers Super Mario Party, before the pair celebrate Sony finally announcing PSN name changes.

Don't ever take StArKiLlEr_360 friends. It's cursed.