Our Annual Video Game Awards show is here! We give out awards, for Game of the Year, Biggest Flop, Best Open World, and many more. We finish the show with our overall impressions of 2018! Happy Holidays!

Sonic Live action movie poster, Fallout 76 controversy, and a recap of 2018 The Game Awards and announcements for news. Then we take a deep dive into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate! Impressions on the characters, single-player, online and new modes and more!

In honor of a new Smash Bros game releasing this week, we share our all-time favorite characters, stages, reveals and what we are excited for about Ultimate. We even answer some listener questions!

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Today's episode brings you news on Sony skipping E3 for the first time in 24 years, Joystick awards, and a Telltale update. We finish with a discussion on what we are thankful for when it comes to video games here in 2018.

We celebrate Veteran's day with a discussion on war in video games! We also share impressions of the Detective Pikachu trailer, XO18 announcments, Activision's earnings call and more!

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had it's final Direct, Blizzcon angered hardcore fans, Red Dead Redemption made an incredible amount of money and more in news. Then Jeff and Nathan talk about what makes a strategy video game fun, and recommend their favorite games.

Fun-sized mini episode about what we've been playing. Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Yoku's Island Express, Halo Wars 2 and more! Thanks for your understanding. We'll be back next week with a full episode!

Rockstar has had employees working 100-hour work weeks for Red Dead Redemption 2. We chat about the industry-wide crunch that is so prevalent in today's video game development. Then we answer listener questions about Nintendo Switch, open world games, backlogs, and more!

Microsoft has unveiled their xcloud streaming service coming in 2018, Sony has confirmed their next-gen plans. We also played a ton of new games this week, including Super Smash Bros Ultimate!

Sony is finally allowing Cross Play on PS4, There's a rumored Harry Potter RPG, a new Oculus rig? We talk about all this news and more on this episode the show. Then we play, Video Game Bracketology! You can participate in the show, by voting on our video game bracket, just click the link on our Twitter!