Were this year's Game Awards a success? Is there really only so much that an awards show can do for a form of entertainment that insists on presenting itself as an "industry" rather than something more artistic? And what was up with the weird robot razor blade? John Davison, Rachel Weber and Simon Cox argue about whether any problems you might have with The Game Awards might actually be the fault of something larger.

What this year's Game Awards got right (and very wrong)

Join John Davison, Simon Cox, Rachel Weber and Miguel Lopez from Glixel – the new games site from the makers of Rolling Stone – as they talk about the biggest video games stories of the week.

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We've seen SO many games this week – so in the space of just one hour, we each try and narrow things down to a small handful of games that really stayed with us. Everything from big blockbusters like God of War to indies like Donut County and The Artful Escape or Miguel's favorite – Sea of Thieves. We're joined by our writers Luke Winkie and Steven T. Wright for this episode, so there are six of us to listen to.

E3 2017: Our favorite games of E3

John enthuses about Call of Duty: WWII, Miguel recounts his experiences as a pirate in Skull & Bones, Simon realizes he actually really likes Shadow of War – in part thanks to the accents – and Luke describes his time with the new Monster Hunter. Also some updates on Assassin's Creed Origins, That's You, Ashen, Destiny 2, The Artful Escape and a bunch of other stuff.

E3 2017: Call of Duty WWII, Skull & Bones, Monster Hunter and Shadow of War

Luke enthuses about Mario + Rabbids, John and Miguel give their impressions of Super Mario Odyssey and Rachel fills us in on Doom VFR, Fallout 4 VR and her playthrough of the Wolfenstein 2 demo.

E3 2017: Super Mario Odyssey, Doom VFR, Spider-Man and more

There's a lot to go over since last night's podcast, and tonight the usual crew is joined by our writer Luke Winkie. In a little over an hour we tackle Bethesda's quick 40 minute showcase that included VR versions of Doom and Fallout 4 as well as a glimpse of Link in Skyrim and a brand new Wolfenstein game. Then we hit Ubisoft's phenomenal lineup, with everything from the surprising Mario + Rabbids game, the beautiful Assassin's Creed Origins, climaxing with the (new) reveal of Beyond Good & Evil 2. Then we work our way through Sony's lineup, which included DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, a new look at God of War, and a lengthy look at Insomniac's stunning Spider-Man game.

E3 2017: Wolfenstein, Spider-Man, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and More

42 Xbox games at E3 – 22 of them are some flavor of "exclusive" for Xbox One (although Microsoft's interpretation of that word might be different than yours) – we go through the whole list on the second of our daily podcasts from E3 2017.

What this year's Game Awards got right (and very wrong)

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