Welcome to The Nerd Chat Episode #90: Celebrating Our Games of the Year for 2022. This week on #thenerdchat: Should we be concerned with the layoffs at 343i, Bethesda, The Coalition, and all of Microsoft? Is Starfield closer than we think with sights of marketing material on new Xbox Series X boxes? And we finally celebrate our games of the year for 2022. We talk about all of this and more on this week's episode of #TNC. Thank you so much for listening, and as always, #seeyouonline.

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0:00 Hello and welcome to the show

2:40 Shoutouts to ForeignUser

5:20 Calling out Ains from Seasoned Gaming

9:00 XBOX NEWS 1/16/23

9:45 Microsoft Studios are hit with layoffs

23:05 Starfield is beginning to appear on Xbox Series X boxes 

27:25 Xbox consoles will soon be carbon aware

33:00 Nvidia broadcast can now deepfake your eyes

37:00 The Joint Fire Event is live now in Halo Infinite

40:00 Mass Effect director confirms Top Gun tribute

42:50 What have we been playing or watching?

48:55 THE NERD CHAT GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022

54:20 Best gaming snack of 2022

56:15 Best new Xbox hardware peripheral of 2022

59:15 The Nerdfest Award aka the best multiplayer award of 2022

1:02:45 The Herm Edwards Award aka the most fun game award of 2022

1:06:50 Best Indie Game of 2022

1:09:55 Best Art Direction Game of 2022

1:12:25 Best Story Game of 2022

1:17:05 The Good Old Days Award aka the best game we played in 2022 that wasn't released this year

1:21:20 GAME OF THE YEAR 2022 AWARD

1:26:25 5 random fun awards from all of the co-hosts

1:37:45 The best food we had this week

1:41:00 Closing and end of show

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