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It's that time of year ladies and gentlemen, Game of the Year, our season finale and year end festival of arguments. Join this year's panel of Dave ( @daveryaniv ), Mark ( @lithiumproject ) , and special guests Jack Layzell ( @JackLayzell ) and Barry Murphy ( @TheBarrylad ) as they dissect the best and worst of 2017. In part 1:

The Konami Korner Award for Ineptitude in Video Games

Disappointment of the Year

Best Looking Game

Old Game of the Year

Join us on the 30th for Part 2 and New Years Day for Part 3 as we have MUCH more to discuss!

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So here it is, merry (belated) podmas! Link to the Cast is back a few days late and many dollars short, with the last regular episode of 2017 for you fine people. On the show this week:

*The saga of Dave's PS4 takes another cruel turn

*The Game Awards (AKA The Keighleys) have happened, we discuss the winners and losers

*The Game Awards also featured a trailer bonanza for the lads to break down

*WTF was that Death Stranding trailer?

Our Book club this week covers a game that revitalised Nintendo, and brought motion controls to every living room: Wii Sports!

Next week's episode will be a shorter episode covering the incredible story of Nintendo in 2017, then over the Xmas period we'll be posting our annual GOTY extravaganza so stay tuned for plenty of LTTC content!

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With the boys staring down the barrel of our annual Game of The Year Spectacular, Link to the Cast is here to talk all the news that's fit to print. This week:

Mark's been tussling with The New Colossus

UFC 3 is the latest to fall prey to the loot box craze

Mega Man 11??

Dave's thoughts on The Fractured But Whole

The Book Club this week features a mobile gaming classic that took the world by storm. No, not the NGage, Angry Birds!

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Another day, another dollar, and Link to the Cast is back with all the latest in video games and nerdy miscellany. This week Dave and Mark have much to discuss:

*A brief review of the new Brass Eye doc 'Oxide Ghosts'

*Dave has been tussling with AC: Origins, Mark is off the Stardew

wagon

*More bad news for EA

*SANIC

In our Book Club this week we have a bona fide classic of an FPS in Wolfenstein 3D!

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How do you do, fellow Shields? 

The Grap Up has returned once more before the end of the year to sit back and spout nonsense about professional wrestling. Join Dave, Mark, and Jack as they talk about:

Mark's thoughts on New Japan of late

Jack's recent Progress thoughts.

Dave gives a brief preview of OTT's big end of year extravaganza in the National Stadium.

NXT Takeover War Games

Survivor Series 2018

We will return again when there is enough to talk about, in the meantime stay tuned to Link to the Cast, our normal new episode for the week drops Thursday, with Wolfenstein 3D in the Book Club!

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Another week, another pod, as Link to the Cast returns to talk all the latest rumblings in games:

*Dave revisits Pokémon Moon and tries to figure out why it didn't leave a great impression.

*The Battlefront 2 pay to win fiasco gets even worse.

*The FUT community are getting woke in light of Battlefront, but is it too little too late?

*CD Projekt Red attempts to insulate themselves from MTS rumours.

In our Book Club, Mark returns to the legendary XBLA Summer of Arcade to hack and slash with the best of them in Castle Crashers.

[Dave's note: Don't forget, this is a two podcast week! Stay tuned tomorrow for the latest edition of our occasional pro wrestling podcast, The Grap Up, talking Survivor Series, Takeover, the indies, and some new ideas for Big Barry Banter.]

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Futures made of virtual insanity now. Always seem to, be governed by this love we have.

Anyway, Link to the Cast is back for another episode, talking all the latest and greatest in gaming:

*Mark Robinson, Super Mario Odyssey's personal Statler & Waldorf, has an addendum to last week's impressions.

*Dave is lost in Picross

*A very busy week for EA's PR people

*Our Lord and Saviour ARMs gets a content update.

In the book club this week we talk about a game that may be the most important stepping stone on the way to eventually creating the best pro wrestling game ever made: it's WCW/nWo Revenge!

[Note: For fans of the graps, don't forget to subscribe before next week's return of our once in a while wrestling pod The Grap Up]

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Link to the Cast is here, and Mark has returned from assignment as we get into all the big stories this week:

*Mark shares his impressions on Super Mario Odyssey

*Dave is shook after beating Wolfenstein

*The XBox One X has some horrendous file sizes

*Could the ongoing financial trouble at Funko have a knock on effect on games retailers?

In the book club this week we talk about a franchise that became a staple of drunken student nights for quite some time: Guitar Hero!

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A day late and a dollar short, our cursed recording of Link to the Cast has survived and landed in your ears once more! Listen in as Dave and returning co-host Jack Layzell talk you through a huge week in games:

*Wolfenstein II is swinging for the damn fences.

*Super Mario Odyssey is a truly special game.

*Guacamelee and Spelunky are getting sequels?

*Sony Paris Games Week offers a mix of whimsical trailers, nightmarish violence, with a side of nihilism.

Our Book Club this week covers a game which stole many many hours of our childhood away: Pokémon Gold & Silver!

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With Mark away on assignment, Dave is joined on the show this week by friend of the show Jack Layzell to talk everything in games this week:

*NeoGAF's owner engulfed in sexual misconduct allegations.

*Lego Dimensions is officially dead.

*Argos plots ambitious delivery schedule for the XBox One X

*Original XBox games arrive on XBox One this week.

In our book club this week, we talk about one of the greatest games of its time, and one with a better theme song than most Bond movies, it's the sublime Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

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