Pat returns to tell us about his time with Yakuza 6, James has spent more time with Dyson Sphere Program, and Hope shares her tale of Genshin Impact's latest event as well as Hades.

Then there's news about Nintendo's impending direct, controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah's reannouncement, and more.

Pat's Vtuber recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxIaegrWkGg&ab_channel=AkaihaatoCh.%E8%B5%A4%E4%BA%95%E3%81%AF%E3%81%82%E3%81%A8&t=10m53s

Pat is out this week, so Matt Sainsbury from digitallydownloaded.net joins James and Hope to chat about his early time with Bravely Default 2, Persona 5 Strikers, The Nioh Collection and Super Mario Bros 3d + Bowsers Fury, while Hope has finally spent some good time with Hades, and James blasts off with another space buildy game, Dyson Sphere Program. Plus we go over the CD Projekt Red hack, and the GoldenEye 007 remake leak.

Hope returns and shares her time with Sackboy: A Big Adventure, while the group discusses Hitman 3 some more now that they've all had a chance to spend some time with it. There's also a truck load of news with GameStonks continuing, corporate takeovers galore, and Nintendo's impressive financials.

Chris Button from Byteside joins James and Pat this week to talk Hitman 3, Atelier Ryza 2 and Picross. James muses about sports games and how far they've come over the years, and Pat does his best to breakdown whatever the heck is going on with GameStop stocks.

While Hitman 3 has just landed, we only got code the day of recording, so we'll talk Hitman next week. This week, James shares his PES 2021 season progress, Pat has been diving back into Half-Life 2 and Hope went to a warehouse to shoot VR zombies called Zero Latency. Then there's news on Hitman 3's PC release, CD Projekt Red being sued - again - and we ponder how New Pokemon Snap will modernise itself over its Nintendo 64 counterpart.

The team are back and dive right into chatting about a bunch of games they were playing over the Xmas break, including Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Accounting+, Butterfly Soup, Phoenix Point, Lobotomy Corporation, Tohou: Luna Nights, They are Billions and Genshin Impact. Plus news and a look ahead at what might or might not be coming in 2021!

It's the final VGST for 2020, and to celebrate the end of the longest year in living memory James, Pat and Hope spend a whopping two hours handing out awards to and chatting about their favourite games from this year.

Awards highlights include: meatiest game, best game to sip tea and vibe to, games to play high off your tits, legendariest car award, and many, many more.

James is joined by his old friend, writer and musician Joseph Guthrie (@TheAuracl3) to discuss, break down the science, and answer one of the oldest questions in video games; which football game is better? FIFA or PES?

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Patrick ropes in a panel of guests to talk spoilers about Vanillaware's latest mind-bending epic, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Joined by Chris Button of Byteside (@bibbybhoy) and Jamie Galea from NewGamePlus (@jamiemgalea), we delve into the unfathomable mysteries of kaiju, time travel and yakisoba pan. It's video game spoiler talk.

This week the team chat The Pathless on PS5, Yakuza: Like A Dragon and more 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. There's also Cyberpunk 2077 news, a new Halo Infinite release window and more!