Catching up with a big week of video game news, we break down the PlayStation State of Play — including the reveal of Saros — and Brodie discusses his review of Avowed. 

00:00 Coming Up
01:42 Avowed Review
15:05 PlayStation State of Play Reactions
40:56 FantasyCritic Check-in
43:45 New Astro Bot Levels
45:22 What The Wiki?!
52:17 Outro

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On this episode, Brodie shares his preview of South of Midnight and we discuss the PlayStation Network, rumoured State of Play, Bloomberg's report of Warner Bros. Games and check in on our FantasyCritic results.

00:00 Coming Up
01:09 Snake vs. Monkey
03:16 Resistance 4 Pitch Rejected By PlayStation
06:31 South of Midnight Preview
14:53 PlayStation Network Outage
17:42 PlayStation State of Play Rumours
25:12 Warner Bros. Games Woes
31:58 Fantasy Critic Check-In
36:57 GTA VI Definitely Coming Out In 2025
38:09 What The Wiki?!
51:27 Outro

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We review Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and unpack the week's news including Forza Horizon 5 coming to P55, Multiversus getting shutdown and PlayStation scrapping console themes.

00:00 Coming Up
00:44 Spiderman On PC
02:05 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Review
19:09 Multiversus Shutdown
28:34 Forza Horizon 5 Coming To PS5
37:04 Themes On PS5
38:05 What The Wiki?!
50:26 Outro

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Xbox's Developer Direct was huge with Ninja Gaiden 4 announced and Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 all getting a release date. Xbox Boss, Phil Spencer, has been busy elaborating on Xbox's strategy in the wake thereafter, and EA and Ubisoft are struggling with AAA games performing worse than expected, giving us plenty to discuss!

00:00 Coming Up
00:58 Fantasy Critic Update
03:19 Xbox Developer Direct Recap
12:00 Xbox Series S Support
18:11 Xbox's Next Console
24:37 Third-Party AAA Publishers Struggling
38:15 Dying Light Updates
41:45 What The Wiki?!

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In this special episode, we complete our Fantasy Critic draft, react to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and discuss the news PlayStation cancelled a live-service God of War game.

00:00 Coming Up
00:53 Nintendo Switch 2 Reactions
12:19 Fantasy Critic Draft
46:24 PlayStation Cancels Live-Service God Of War Game
53:48 Will You Buy A Nintendo Switch 2 Day One?
55:34 What The Wiki?!
59:44 Outro

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The Switch 2 could be revealed before you listen to this episode. We also discuss Assassin's Creed Shadow's delay, the upcoming Xbox Developer Direct and our preview of Kingdom Come Deliverance II.

00:00 Coming Up
00:42 CES Tech Time With Shannon
03:12 Will The Nintendo Switch 2 Be Revealed This Week?
14:31 Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again
22:19 Xbox Developer Direct Announced
27:08 Kingdom Come Deliverance II Preview
40:02 Nintendo Alarmo Coming To Australia
42:44 Outro

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It's our first episode for 2025! After a quick look back at the year that was, unpacking our Top 10 Games of 2024, we discuss the year ahead! We share what games were most excited for, and reveal our 2025 gaming predictions.

00:00 Intro
00:46 What We've Been Playing
09:38 Our Top 10 Games of 2024
19:06 Our Most Anticipated Games of 2025
24:46 Our Predictions for 2025 In Video Games
45:11 What Wins Game Of The Year In 2025
46:57 What The Wiki?!
52:24 Outro

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In our final episode of the year, we review our predictions for 2024 and share our personal picks for Game of the Year 2024.

00:00 Intro
01:00 Secret Level
04:12 Alien: Rogue Incursion Review
13:44 Marvel Rivals First Impressions
21:01 More Switch 2 Leaks
27:48 Reviewing Our 2024 Predictions
36:45 Our Game of the Year 2024 Picks
1:15:25 Most Played Game of 2024
01:17:29 What The Wiki?!
01:23:35 Outro

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The Game Awards 2024 was huge! We react to all the announcements — including The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and Onimush: Way of the Sword — and celebrate all the winners.

00:00 Intro
01:40 The Game Awards Overall Impressions
05:38 The Game Awards Winners
15:50 The Game Awards Announcements
16:13 Split Fiction
18:31 Turok Origins
20:45 Onimusha: Way of the Sword
23:34 Elden Ring: Neightreign
25:52 Dispatch
26:38 Mafia: The Old Country
26:54 Rematch
27:23 Fumito Ueda's New Game
30:32 The Witcher 4
35:01 Borderlands 4
36:51 Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
47:23 Shadow Labyrinth
48:41 The Outer World 2
49:28 Project Country
49:45 Sonic Racer
50:17 Most Anticipated Game
52:26 What The Wiki?!
55:48 Outro

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Adventure calls. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle releases on December 9th on Xbox Series X and S, Game Pass and PC. Pre-order Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Now. Rated M.

We look back on the year 2024 in gaming, reviewing the year in terms of its announcements and quality of releases. We also look at the year ahead, reflect on PlayStation's 30 years of history and Shuhei Yoshida leaving Sony.

00:00 Intro
01:11 Treat Time
04:55 Reviewing 2024
11:51 Xbox's 2024
20:56 Nintendo's 2024
24:54 PlayStation's 2024
32:53 Looking Ahead to 2025
37:31 Celebrating PlayStation's 30th Anniversary
45:29 Shuhei Yoshida Leaving PlayStation
48:59 PlayStation 30th Anniversary Themes
50:33 What The Wiki?!
01:01:05 Outro

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