Game of the Year 2025 kicks off today! We've got a whole slate of categories to start this year's podcasts straight from our friends at Main Gear! Today we talk about and crown The, "Oh That Feels Cool" Award, Hardware Thing of the Year, Worst Blight, Best Game We Beat Kinda Funny And/Or MinnMax And/Or Game Informer at This Year, the Soulja Boy Award for Best Game For People Who Like To Drink and Get Drunk or Smoke and Get High of the Year, AND Best New Character!

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00:00 - Intro and Bants
04:50 - The "Oh That Feels Cool" Award
31:17 - Hardware Thing of the Year
44:40 - Worst Blight
56:19 - Ad Break!
58:14 - We're back
59:35 - Best Game We Beat Kinda Funny And/Or MinnMax And/Or Game Informer At This Year
01:03:47 - The Soulja Boy Award For Best Game For People Who Like To Drink and Get Drunk or Smoke and Get High of the Year
01:15:35 - Best New Character