Main topic of this episode is to sit down and pick ONLY four gaming franchises to play for the rest of our lives. Is this hard? You bet! Only four, the choice is difficult. Not only that, we'll also pick four gaming franchises for the rest of the world and lastly only pick one franchise. How will it look?! Well take a listen won't you?

We also talk about how our holiday has been, the weather condition which is currently Winter Wonderland, and what we have played over the holiday season. 

On the news front; God of War is officially confirmed for a live-action series at Amazon Prime Video, CES 2023 news from Sony, finally getting a accesibility controller and more. Marvel's Spider- Man 2 gets a release window and lasty Epic is scamming children with in-game purchases and not giving out refunds. 

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00:00:22 - 00:09:02 Back at it again, 2023. Dreamed that this would not happen. How has our holiday been?

00:09:02 - 00:13:17 Currently in a Winter Wonderland.

00:13:17 - 00:17:19 We played games! Remnant: From the Ashes is super sweet!

00:17:19 - 00:27:14 Deep Rock had an amazing event, Yuletide. Jens also played; Hades, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Death Stranding!

00:27:14 - 00:31:30 Patreon updates, more streamlined, better. Also introducing a new Patreon show; Norderlanders Deep Dives!

00:31:30 - 00:47:41 Main topic, choose four gaming franchises for us to play for the rest of our lives.

00:47:41 - 00:53:14 Four gaming franchises for the rest of world (everyone).

00:53:14 - 00:56:39 Only one franchise to play for the rest of our lives.

00:56:39 - 01:00:37 News; God of War Live-action series officially confirmed by Amazon Prime Video.

01:00:37 - 01:02:34 Sony Playstation news from CES 2023. New accesibility controller, 30 million units sold and so many games for PS VR 2.

01:02:34 - 01:04:08 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets a release window.

01:04:08 - 01:07:18 Epic is in trouble with two lawsuits. Exposing children with in-game purchases and no refunds.

01:07:18 - 01:11:55 Rapido Fire News (Over the Holidays and Week 1).

01:11:55 - 01:13:32 Only one noteworthy game that is out now. But we'll talk about January's biggest releases.

01:13:32 - 01:18:57 Steam replay! How does our Steam playtime look from 2022.