Thumbstick Athletes

Dan takes blurbs from episodes on Octopath Traveler, Life is Strange 2, Monster Hunter World and of course Red Dead Redemption 2 for this year's second half recap leading up to the Thumbies.

We cover the newest Pokemon games for this week's episode, which Will has played a lot of and Dan....watched on YouTube.  (Thanks ZackScottGames!)  It's a lovely remaster of the originals with some new mechanics thrown in.  During "What We Played" we of course talk some more Smash Bros. Ultimate!

Smash is here, and Dan, Corey, Eric and Will relate their experiences with it after spending most of the weekend together playing it.  We also cover some of the announcements from The Game Awards and Eric talks about Fallout 76.

Two and a half years after release, Pokemon GO has morphed into a pretty good AR mobile game.  Dan and Will cover some of the new features added since launch and why now is a good time to pick it back up.

We have another "Just the News" main segment, where we cover gaming's hottest news, and also some boring news too.  No nibblebits this week, since the entire main segment was news....and during "What We Played" Will talks more Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Dan and Will hash out how this year's Thumbies Awards will go down...the categories, the format.....and who will be invited.  During "What We Played" Will talks more Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Will covers the complete remaster of one of our favorite games of all time in Spyro The Dragon and it's subsequent sequels.  Find out if it holds up to our modern day scrutiny.  We also cover the nominees for this year's Game Awards.

For this week we cover the over the top backlash against the Smash Ultimate full roster reveal and announcement of Diablo Immortal.  Everyone needs to just chill a bit!  During "What We Played" Will talks about his brief experience with Red Dead Redemption 2 and Dan tries a little Destiny 2.

Eric and Corey return this week to talk about Rockstar's newest masterpiece in Red Dead Redemption 2, which some have called the greatest western of all time.  High praise....but it may just live up to it.  We also give Will's thoughts on the last Smash Direct before the release of Smash Brothers Ultimate, and Val recaps the games she played for Rookie Camp in October.

We relive the old days with one of the best strategy games of all time, AoE2.  It was one of the first games Will ever played, and one of the first online games Dan played with friends.