We’re winding down another big year for video games, and our lists feature the top games and the games we enjoyed the most, so you can read them at your leisure.

Our previous Game of the Year winners were God of War Ragnarök, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 deserves every single accolade it’s sure to win this year, and then some. It’s a generational RPG that captures everything special about the genre and then pushes even harder. The combat is tight and electric, with so much depth and customization potential that building craft is its own time sink. The story and characters are some of the best in video games, with moments that will truly stay with you.

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(02:00) Top News Stories of the Week

(15:38) Console Creature' GOTY 2026

(20:18) Steve's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review

(43:20) Outro

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War Never Changes. As Prime Video's Fallout Season 2 heads to New Vegas and the Mojave Desert, Steve and Bobby return to recap the hit series from Graham Wagner, Geneva Robertson-Dworet⁠, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.With the television series shifting to a weekly episodic scheduler, we’re discussing the first three episodes now and will return to cover the series in batches. The second season sees Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean join Wlton Goggin’s The Ghoul as they work together to find Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank MacLean.Meanwhile, the series shakes things up as Aaron Moten’s Brotherhood of Steel character Maximus faces an internal struggle with his allegiances. (0:00) Intro(3:30) Fallout Season 2 Episode 1-3 recap(43:50) OutroLike and follow us on Social Media:Bluesky: @consolecreatures.comYouTube: ⁠⁠⁠@ConsoleCreaturesTwitter: @ConsoleCreature⁠⁠⁠Facebook: @RealConsoleCreatureInstagram: @ConsoleCreaturesThreads: ⁠ @Consolecreatures⁠Intro music provided by Mad Seedling. Check his work on Spotify!

Steve, Bobby, and Dave are closing out the last few weeks of 2025 with our Top Games of 2025 list.

We've got a pretty exhaustive list of the best games launched this year, so we're discussing our favourites that stood out this year.

(0:00) Intro to Top Games of 2025

(3:30) Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

(6:00) Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

(12:15) Outer Worlds 2

(17:16) Powerwash Simulator 2

(21:46) Ghost of Yotei

(32:05) Drop Duchy

(35:30) Mainframes

(39:00) Arc Raiders

(49:32) Hades 2

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Almost a year since the last Game Awards, since we last discussed all the announcements, and now we're back to it with this year's edition that once again celebrated the biggest games from this year.

Join Steve and Bobby as they go over what stood out at the three-and-a-half-hour annual show and what they're looking forward to in 2026 and beyond.

(0:00) Intro

(04:00) The Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sweep

(17:30) Metroid Prime 4

(27:38) The Game Awards Reactions

(31:45) Top Announcements

(58:30) Outro

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The latest extraction shooter, ARC Raiders, is popular with hundreds of thousands of players flocking to the PvPvE title. Steve's been raiding nightly online while Bobby's focused on the unsatisfying yearly Call of Duty title, Black Ops 7.

Join us this week on Creature Cast, where Steve and Bobby discuss the two major shooters of Fall 2025.

Which game are you playing?

(0:00) Intro(1:30) Arc Raiders(23:44) Call of Duty: Black Ops 7(42:55) Outro

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Kirby Air Riders shares a lot of the same DNA as its predecessor, and it’s a sequel that belongs in this era. The simplistic controls might not be for everyone, but if you can look past that, you’ve got a competent racer that does its own thing instead of attempting to battle it out against Mario Kart World. Air Riders’ penchant for speed and chaos unfolds dramatically at times as races’ unpredictable outcomes unravel in humorous ways. I fully expect Air Riders to be divisive just like its predecessor, but as a sequel, you’re getting something unique. All of this might sound familiar, and it is, but it’s built on the foundation established two decades ago and delivers a fully realized vision from Sakurai.

Plus, Bobby is back from Japan, where he visited Universal Osaka and checked out Super Nintendo World!

(0:00) Intro

(3:30) Kirby Air Riders Review

(25:35) Bobby's Trip to Japan

(54:15) Outro

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Obsidian Entertainment has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Of course, being acquired by Microsoft has been helpful. The studio has launched some of my favourite games in the past few years, including Pentiment and Avowed. In 2018, though, we saw The Outer Worlds land, and it reminded me of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas. To say I was enamoured would undersell the grip the original had on me.

How does the sequel, The Outer Worlds 2, hold up? Is it a bigger and better sequel, or does it stumble to the finish line?

(0:00) Intro

(1:30) Top-level impressions

(12:45) Customizing characters

(29:45) Breath and length of gameplay

(39:40) Combat, Gameplay, modding

(48:00) Performance

(1:01:00) Final thoughts

(1:11:43) Outro

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Steve and Bobby are back this week to review the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, which launches on October 16. It brings the renewed Xbox Game Bar, all-in-one storefronts, support for Game Pass games and cloud streaming! It can play your favourite games on the go while looking good, but is the $1300 CAD price point too much?(0:00) Intro(1:30) ROG Xbox Ally X Review(57:50) Outro

Ghost of Yotei Art Director Joanna Wang joins Steve and Bobby on Creature Cast this week to discuss the game's ambition, innovations in developing for the PlayStation 5, and how art direction helps when considering scope during development.

If you're curious how Tsushima differentiates from mainland Japan, how much work goes into the Director Modes, how the seamless open-world transition between biomes works, and the subtle changes made in Ghost of Tsushima, check out the complete interview!

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Ghost of Yōtei is an incredible sequel, filled with moments that will stay with me for a long time. It feels like the first party exclusive we've been waiting for, with Sucker Punch continuing to hit its stride at delivering console-selling exclusives. The combat, despite minor issues, is a blast. Atsu is a whirlwind of death, each weapon playing entirely differently from the others. The narrative is dark and thrilling, with the side content being more meaningfully tied in to the core experience than before. It's one of the most graphically stunning games I've ever seen, with the PS5 Pro's Ray Tracing Pro really packing a punch. While there were minor technical issues along the way, they never affected gameplay and were more distracting than anything else.

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