Kole, Ben, Jala, and David talk about the Title of the Year 2016 results, Super Mario Run, and we ask you what games you would use to introduce novices to games.

• Arkham Origins team is making a new Batman Game.

• Steam Awards are all wonky.

• Title of the Year 2016

• Assassin’s Creed movie gets panned.

• What game would you use to introduce people to games?

• Jala: Ghost Trick.

• David: Sunless Sea. Darkest Dungeon.

• Ben: Darkest Dungeon.

• Kole: Dishonored: Knives of Dunwall. Super Mario Run.

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• 2016 Steam Awards finalists go all the way back to 2006 - Polygon — 5

Suffering a horrible accident doesn't immediately make you a cryptid, you insensitive monster.

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• Gnome (Monstrous Manual)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross devour the first half of Mask of the Betrayer, the first expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2.

Guess what... it's the Fireworks Factory! We laid out our case about Neverwinter Nights 2, painting it as a mechanically troubled game that occasionally rose above standard Forgotten Realms fare for some inspired story beats. However, the Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack is all killer, no filler. This episode covers up until midway through Chapter 2.

• Torment Episodes

• Baba Yaga

• Wayne the Skeleton King

• Lobos Jr

• Okami

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We only need one Wes Anderson, no matter how big your package is.

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• Gnoll (Monstrous Manual)

Kris and Kole talk about inventive cocktails, dictators, and survival.

ALSO: Ron Howard. Concession. Risky to defend Duterte. Faces of Def. A Child’s Perspective on the Revolutionary War. Explaining things is my living. Game2. The Yule Dumpster Fire. Police showdown proposal.

It's a double nightmare creature who's on the prowl for boy-spine from the very shadows themselves.

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• Gloomwing (Monstrous Manual)

A small error and Marvel's lack of originality has lead to another classic Abject Suffering book report mix-em-up!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Ashes of Ariandel DLC.

After taking some super easy shots at anime in general, Gary and Jeremy begin answering your questions! Thanks again to all of you who wrote in and gave us prompts or just said some super nice things about the show. If you want to send in stuff for the next feedback episode, which will happen after we finish the second season of the animated series, send ‘em our way! All of our links are below.

SPOILER WARNING: After the main episode, there’s some green room chat that contains spoilers for the first season of Westworld, so WATCH OUT.

Gith Week ends with the most interesting example of these planar mummy men... The Githzerai. Their lives may be shams!

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• Githzerai (Monstrous Manual)