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Jeff and Christian welcome Alex Berg from UCB Theatre, Key & Peele, Reno 911, and more back to the show to discuss Call of Duty in China, no Nintendo in Brazil, 2400 MS-DOS games emulated in your browser, the WGA writing awards for video games, Blizzard's Overwatch trademark troubles, WoW's "Veteran Mode" and more!

For the Playlist, Alex is playing The Swapper and Dragon Age: Inquisition, Christian is playing Far Cry 4, and Jeff describes raiding Highmaul in WoW: Warlords of Draenor.

In Tabletop Time, Alex loves cooperative deduction in Hanabi, and Jeff introduces his wife to Caverna, and his nephew to Monza.

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In this very special episode, Jeff and Christian celebrate the 1 Year Anniversary of DLC's debut by looking back and looking forward. They discuss the Playstation Now subscription prices, which were actually the subject of speculation in their very first episode, and some of their predictions from last year.

Then, they look ahead, and pick out some of the most anticipated titles slated for 2015, including No Man's Sky, Legend of Zelda for Wii U, Witcher 3, Evolve, Uncharted 4, The Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, Bloodbourne, Halo 5, and more.

Finally, it is prediction time, as Christian and Jeff make some bold speculation as to what 2015 might have in store for Video Games - and even some downright crazy predictions. Will they be right?

All that, plus YOUR phone calls!

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Jeff and Christian are joined by Rob Keyes from Gamerant and Screenrant to review the year that was 2014. They discuss the biggest stories and trends from the year then launch into their personal top 5 lists for the best games of 2014. Don't miss it!

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Jeff and Christian welcome Kevin Pereira from G4's Attack of the Show and Supercreative.tv's Pointless Podcast to the show this week to discuss the Oculus's new VR acquisitions, a father who made his son play video games in chronological order, Charlie returning to SF5, pre-ordering games, and more.

In the Playlist, Kevin is playing Shadow of Mordor, Bittrip Runner 2, and Destiny, Christian bought Driveclub, and Jeff is thrilled with endgame in Warlords of Draenor.

For Tabletop Time, Kevin and Jeff discuss Mysterium, and Jeff loves Red7 and offers up some more easy board game gift ideas.

All that, plus YOUR phone calls!

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Jeff and Christian welcome Justin McElroy from Polygon.com, My Brother My Brother and Me, Quality Control, and Sawbones to the show to about all the big news from The Game Awards and The Playstattion Experience. Uncharted 4, Zelda for WiiU, No Man's Sky, Hazelight, The Order 1886, Adrift, Drawn to Death and lots more are on on the docket. Plus, Witcher 3 delayed again, Stream Broadcasting changes everything, and the next Assassin's Creed is in Victorian London.

In the Playlist, Justin is playing Dragon Age: Inquisition and Spiderman: Unlimited, Christian is playing Bayonetta 2, and Jeff is level capped in Warlords of Draenor.

For Tabletop TIme, Justin discusses his new adventures in D&D 5th edition, and Jeff talks Splendor and print-and-playing Spyfall.

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Jeff and Christian welcome Andrea Rene from Gametrailers.com and Gamestop TV to the show this week to discuss Unisoft's Assassin's Creed Unity apology, Sony's Vita class action settlement, the new Batman version of Love Letter, Xbox One winning Black Friday, and more!

In the Playlist, Andrea has been playing Far Cry 4 and Geometry Wars 3, Christian has been enjoying couch co-op in Super Smash Bros Wii U, and Jeff threw 40 hours in Dragon Age: Inquisition already.

For Tabletop Time, Jeff and Christian got an early, pre-release play of the much anticipated XCOM: The Boardgame.

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Jeff and Christian welcome Bianna Wu, developer of Revolution 60 and co-host of the Isometric podcast to discuss Dragon Age's lack of hair choices, Christian's attempt to return a broken game to Best Buy, Black Friday deals, WoW and Half-Life 2 turning 10 years old, Game Awards nominees, the world's greatest gaming trailer, and more.

In the Playlist, Briana and Christian test their Amiibos with Super Smash Bros WiiU, and there is much talk of Far Cry 4.

For Tabletop Time, Jeff welcomes very special guest, game designer Rob Daviau direct from BGG Con, to discuss his new publishing project, Funemployed, and his time at the convention

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Jeff and Christian welcome Anthony Taormina from Gamerant.com to the show today to discuss all of the various botched launches that have been happening, Warlords of Draenor, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Assassin's Creed Unity, and Halo Master Chief Collection all have had buggy, broken, shameful launches in the last couple of weeks. What is to be done?

In the Playlist, Anthony has been playing Assassin's Creed Unity and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Christian just got a WiiU, and Jeff played Halo: MCC and is back in WoW with the new expansion.

For Tabletop Time, Jeff talks about King of New York and Among the Stars

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Jeff and Christian welcome Xav De Matos from joystiq.com to the show this week to talk about Blizzcon, Overwatch, first person GTAV, Majora's Mask 3D, a new Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Geoff Keighley's new video game awards, and more.

In the Playlist, we press 'x' to talk about Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

For Tabletop Time, Xav is raving about the deduction game, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Jeff is raving about Northstar Games' Evolution.

All that, plus YOUR phone calls!

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Jeff and Christian welcome Raj Deut from Melbourne, Australia to report on his experience at PAX Australia. Topics include the Star Citizen FPS mode debut, the "Day Zero" release of Call of Duty: Advance Warfare, the Internet Arcade, YouTube supporting 60fps, and Bethesda officially canceling Prey 2.

In the Playlist, everyone has strong opinions about Sunset Overdrive, Christian has a few hours in on COD: AW, Raj has indie picks from PAX, and more!

For a very special Tabletop Time, Jeff welcomes Richard Ha, Rahdo from the Rahdo Runs Through board gaming video series, to discuss his love of board games, and talk about the best new games he saw at Essen Spiel in Germany.

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