It's our Annual Year in Review Show! We discuss all our favourite games from 2017 and bring you some new Lost Treasure segments as we go back into GOTY titles from years past.

Categories Discussed include:

• The Future of Gaming

GAMES DISCUSSED:

• Destiny 2: The Curse of Osiris

IN THE NEWS:

• The Game Awards

http://games4kids.ca : Games 4 Kids allows people to donate their old video games and they will be matched up with kids in our community that might not otherwise get a game or a game console this holiday season.

GAMES PLAYED:

• Destiny 2: The Curse of Osiris

IN THE NEWS:

• US lawmaker who called out Star Wars Battlefront 2 lays out plans for anti-loot box law

Fun Fact #5 - Tycko is actually an anagram for “World’s most handsome gamer”. You might not think so at first, but spend ten minutes looking into his deep, hazel eyes and you’ll understand.

Fun Fact #6 - In Super Mario Bros 4 for the NES, Tycko got a high score so high it caused a rupture in the space time continuum, completely wiping the the game out of time itself. That’s why you don’t remember it.

Fun Fact #7 - In order to design the perfect shape for the Xbox controller, MS laser scanned Tycko's hands to ensure the perfect fit. While they do care about market share... pleasing Tycko is always their top priority.

GAMES PLAYED/REVIEWED:

• Letter Quest Remastered [NSW]

IN THE NEWS:

• Bungie cancels Destiny 2 livestream as tensions with community rise
  

• Destiny 2 misrepresented XP gains to its players until the devs got caught

GAMES PLAYED/DISCUSSED:

• Mantis Burn Racing

NEWS:

• UPDATE: Marvel Heroes Developer Gazillion Apparently Lays Off Everyone On Thanksgiving Eve

GAMES PLAYED/DISCUSSED

• Farming Simulator 17 [PS4]

NEWS

• The Game Awards - Voting now Open
  

• Tycko for Trending Gamer 2017

• EA slashes Battlefront 2 unlock hero costs after backlash

• Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris to Feature First Raid Lair

GAMES REVIEWED/DISCUSSED:

• Just Dance 2018 [NSW]

NEWS:

• Xbox 360 Games Being Enhanced for Xbox One X

GAMES DISCUSSED/REVIEWED:
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- Professional Farmer: American Dream
- Slayaway Camp

NEWS:
- TheOMGHour GamerScore Update: We Won!!
- Super Mario Odyssey is selling even faster than 'Zelda'
- Super Mario Odyssey sold 2 million copies already, says Nintendo
- Super Mario Odyssey never punishes the player
- Nintendo Switch closing in on 8M sales worldwide
- Paris Games Week
- Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris launches Dec. 5
- Far Cry 5 Co-op Announcement

GAMES PLAYED/REVIEWED:

• Middle Earth: Shadow of War

NEWS:

PSVR 1 year anniversary discussion

• Radial-G [PSVR]

Are single player games really dead?

• EA’s Star Wars ‘pivot’ is a vote of no confidence in single-player games

LEGO Dimensions Reportedly Ending a Year Early

It's been an incredibly busy week for both Sean and Tycko. We cover some industry events we've been to this week including Hamilton Comic Con, support Extra Life, the Canadian Launch event for Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and a new exhibit by our Gaming Archaeologist, Syd Bolton, called Interplay.

We still play some games too! We cover the newly launched Cuphead, The Hunted: Call of the Wild, Let them Come, and Pinball FX3.

IN GAMING NEWS:
- New PlayStation VR hardware includes small but welcome changes
- PlayStation VR: Over 100 Games and Counting
- Mixed Reality headsets to start flooding the market
- Xbox One Game Gifting Now Possible For Some
- Test drive ‘Gran Turismo Sport’ on PS4 next week
- PUBG Dev: "In Talks" About a PlayStation 4 Version
- ‘Overwatch’ Halloween bash begins on October 10th

*DISCLAIMER: Cuphead was reviewed using a 'retail' download code provided by Microsoft.