Happy New Year, Party People! This week, Jeff and Lakan recap the year that was and look forward to all the happenings of 2026. They go through their favorite games, movies, shows, and more from 2025, and discuss their favorite episodes from the year.

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Happy Holidays, Party People! Jeff and Lakan have a two-fer for the people. First, they recap the 2025 Game Awards and determine who won this year's contest. Then, Jeff F joins the guys for our holiday gift guide, perfect for the techie or gamer in your life!

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The guys are back to normalcy with an annual tradition – handicapping The Game Awards! Lakan and Jeff walk through each category and give their favorites plus who they think will win. We'll see who wins soon enough when The Game Awards air on Dec. 11!

We have officially made it to Episode 100, Party People! To celebrate the milestone, Jeff and Lakan have opened up the proverbial phonelines and asked you all to give us questions to answer on the show. Here's to 100 more episodes and beyond!

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In this week's episode, Jeff and Lakan discuss Katanaut, the Acclaim-published 2D action platformer roguelike from solo developer VoidMaw. The guys chat about the game, its unique body horror aesthetic, and how it compares to other games in the genre like Dead Cells and Hades.

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Jeff is riding solo this week and naturally takes the show away from its normal good-natured shenanigans and gets real. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's recent decisions, including investments into AI military startup Helsing and running ICE recruitment ads, have forced Jeff to reconsider the show's use of Spotify as its primary platform, while acknowledging that there's a reason Spotify has been the home base for the show's entire run - it's where most of you listen to it. If you're considering switching as well, check out some of the links below to find us elsewhere:

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The guys have had a hell of a September and October, so it's time for another Just Chatting episode! This week, Jeff and Lakan plop down on the couch for an NFL Sunday and chat about sports, life, games, and whatever else comes to mind. Sundays are a lazy river - you just let the water take you wherever!

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Lakan and Jon are back to chat about a beloved indie classic - the Stanley Parable. This time, it's Lakan who's diving into a game he's had sitting in his Steam library for years but never booted up. The guys discuss games being meta, what is a game, learning how to play within a game's systems, and how they approach games due to our knowledge base of playing other games. TheEndIsNeverTheEndTheEndIsNeverTheEndTheEndIsNeverTheEndTheEndIsNeverTheEndTheEndIsNeverTheEndTheEndIsNeverTheEnd

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Jeff returns to Party XP and immediately gets another roguelike to play. This week, Jeff plays Empty Shell, the top-down isometric shooter roguelike that's set on an abandoned island home to empty laboratories and frightening experiments come to life. The guys chat about their winning runs, the game's overarching motifs, the secrets they uncovered along the way, and how it stacks up to the countless other roguelikes that have appeared on the show.

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Jon makes his triumphant return to Party XP! This week, he and Lakan climb the summit with their tiny ballast friend in the cozy 2023 puzzle platform game, Jusant. The guys chat about the themes and beats of the game, video games as art, and dive into how their experience with video games changed as they got older. Grab your shell, take a deep breath, and let's get artsy fartsy in this episode!