The 2018 Gimmick Awards have begun! We kicked off with Ryan and Allen's year in music, and now we're here with the awards themselves! Six, Jen, and Harri assemble for category one: the Best Fighting Game of 2018!

Our Game of the Year podcasts for 2018, the Gimmick Awards, begin now! We're opening with a guest podcast by friends Ryan and Allen!

Ryan and Allen take a trip down memory lane to discuss their favorite music of 2018. From hip hop to K-Pop and everything in between, this episode is one giant music appreciation post in podcast form!

Six and Jen have played a lot of Red Dead Redemption. 1, 2, and online. And frankly? They can't play another minute without recording some thoughts about the experience, because these games are a lot. Boy howdy, Rockstar games usually are, huh? This podcast is full of SPOILERS so consider yourself warned.

The title up there says this is The GachaPod. Listen... that's not the real name. That's the name we can say and use on services like iTunes without a stern talking to. You'll hear the real name of this show at the start of the podcast. We'll have a rotating cast across this sporadically updated podcast where we talk about gacha games and why we play them.

On this episode, Six, Allen, and Molly come together to discuss Dragalia Lost, Nintendo's second foray into the world of gacha as made by Cygames, the makers of the massive Granblue Fantasy. How much Granblue is in Dragalia, and what does it have to make it stand apart from its cousin? Join us as we take a look.

Welcome back to Ill-Gotten Games: I'm sorry that we had to have you back. It's not that we're not glad to see you, it's that if we're on this show, it means capitalism's at it again, being shitty to folks in the video game industry. This time, it's Telltale Games, or more specifically, its management, misusing and abusing its over two hundred employees in disgusting fashion. Join us as we break down just how cruelly that studio was run.

We're really not sure when there will be another one of these episodes: if we get mad at video game capitalism again, we'll be back!

The intro music for this episode is the main menu music from The Wolf Among Us by Telltale Games. The music is written and performed by Jared Emerson-Johnson.