2021 has been a weird year for games and for how the Happysalad crew played them. As a result we're making the Game of the Year stuff less of a thing. This way we can talk about Halo Infinite some more and with only mild spoilers.

In this episode we pick out the bits that interested us from The Game Awards whilst juggling cats and bad throats. Rob wraps up Backbone, flies away in Exo One and Zac adds some DLC to the usual Oxygen Not Included segment. Oh and a little thing called Halo came out so we checked that out too.

Statistically, from a sample size of this podcast, 2 out of 3 factory games have the word "factory" in the title.

Genre learnings coutesy of the Saladcast.

I got a present for ya, and it's not C4 from Command & Conquer's GDI commando. It's the saladcast one day early! Rejoice!

Rob checks out that new Forza and Zac compares his Aven Colony to colonies of the past. We've also got Scarlet Nexus, Deep Rock Galactic and the other regulars.

Move into the country, don't see no trick or treaters,

There's not much news this week so you should be looking out for Scarlet Nexus, Metroid Dread, Hyrule Warriors and Satisfactory chat.

Be unsaddened my super-acquaintences! We have more pleasing noise for the ensounding of your ears. Come and whelm with us.

There's Nintendo news, Minecraft news, GTA news and more news. There's Artful Escape game, Sable game, Hyrule Warriors game and more games. And of course we have Rob man, Zac man and Dan man (but not more mans).

Zac continues to battle off the threat of the plague child to weigh in on the flurry of news Nintendo brought with them in this unfashionably long episode.

Zac may be under the weather but he has a 100% streak to maintain so casts through the maladies.

It's the 300th episode (give or take) extravaganza in which we do absolutely nothing special. I guess you could celebrate the arrival of 2021's Summer 2 season? Maybe with a game? We've still got those.

In this episode there's some Gamescom news, hot new releases Psychonauts 2 and Twelve Minutes, the not yet released Factory Town and the very released Breath of the Wild.

NERTS sounds like something you can catch. I hope it's not the next pandemic threat. Also in this episode, Rob finishes Horizon Zero Dawn's campaign, Zac finds another space builder thing in Avorion Dan is physically here! We've also got Rock of Ages 3, Dwarf Fortress and Lumines Remastered covered.