Vidjagame Apocalypse

It's the end of June, which means it's time to sit down and take a hard look at the games that came out over the past six months, and pick our five favorites from the madding crowd. Jorge Albor of rival podcast Experience Points joins us to chat about the games that stole our hearts, plus we'll look at your favorite announcements from E3! (Oh, and uhhh Mikel's back, I guess?)

Since nobody else is doing them, and we know how starved you all must be for E3 2018 content, it's a good thing we're here with our annual Best of E3 show. We're doing things a little differently this year. Matty Allen, Chris Antista, TL "TurboBison" Foster, and first-time guest Marcus "Annoyed Gamer" Beer have chosen their top 5 games of the show, but we've also gathered votes from YOU the fans at the Official Laser Time Facebook Community. We threw all of the results together, mixed them up a bit, sprinkled in some hot takes, and are here to present the official list of the Vidjagame Apocalypse Top 5 Games of E3 2018. Enjoy!

By the time you listen this episode, E3 2018 will have come and gone, and we'll all know a heck of a lot more about this year's upcoming game releases. That includes one of the biggest games of the year: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate! One of this week's most exciting reveals about the game was that it will feature every fighter ever included in Nintendo's brawler series, which fits perfectly with the theme of this week's show. Trav "TurboBison" Foster joins Matty Allen and Chris Antista to discuss five of the most obscure playable characters to ever appear in a Smash Bros. game.

E3 2018 is upon us, and even though the show technically doesn't start until next week, the hype train has already left the station with a payload full of leaks and new game announcements. But not every game announced at E3 sees the light of day. On this week's show, Matty Allen, Chris Antista, and special guest Dylan Tierney discuss five of the biggest games announced at E3 that were eventually cancelled.

What do the new God of War and the YouTube Red series Cobra Kai have in common, other than the fact that they both feature leads with anger management issues? They're both new entries in franchises we thought we'd moved on from, yet turned out way better than we could've hoped -- or even asked for, for that matter. The comeback success of these two dormant franchises got us thinking about some other gaming franchises that came back seemingly from out of nowhere to re-establish themselves as heavy hitters. On this week's show, Alaina Yee joins Matty Allen and Chris to look at the top 5 comebacks in vidjagames.