NO SERIOUSLY PLEASE COME BACK WE'VE GOT HOT NEW GAMES TO TALK ABOUT LIKE 007 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. No controller pak detected.

• Discussing Nico's five-hour stream of dumb N64 games (archive available at http://twitch.tv/gamestewlive)
• Yes, Hamish did actually play a bit of Horizon Zero Dawn
• Nico outs himself as an anime boy in God Eater
• Night in the Woods isn't perfect, but it hits hard at times
• Hamish finally finished Yakuza 0
• The verdict on the Nintendo console you've all been waiting for—the Wii U
• Nioh's boss fights don't play to the strengths of the game's combat
• Oh dear! It's Oh Deer
• Video game preservation is cool
• That Shadow of Mordor sequel has a really boring name but more nemesis system is the best thing
• Xbox One has its equivalent of Playstation Now, I guess?
• Your questions! Donkey Kong, PSP and why we play games

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Let's take a break from salty YouTube comments to talk shite about video games for three hours!

• Hamish cancelled his Switch pre-order and Nico can't abide by it
• For Honor can actually be pretty great at times (contrary to last week's podcast)
• Nico has been playing more LA Noire
• Night in the Woods is a slow burn
• Nico messed around with the Yooka-Laylee Toy Room
• The Digital Homicide vs. Jim Sterling lawsuit is finally over
• That Final Fantasy XV PS4 Pro patch came out and is... worse
• Nintendo takes illegal early sales of its consoles fucking seriously
• Suda51 wants to make a dumb Mario road trip game and apparently this is news
• And a first... listener questions! Including the story of how Nico and Hamish met

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We took a week off due to Nico's cowardice and have forgotten how to podcast. Let's podcast.

• For Honor is a fucking weird mess
• Nioh is a really great game that Hamish will probably never finish
• Yakuza 0 is still some of the most fun you can have in a video game
• Nico explains anime talking about Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
• LA Noire still holds up and is filled with Mad Men
• Hamish finally got spooked by the first hour of Resident Evil 7 
• Circles is a really neat little indie puzzle game that you should totally check out
• Steam Greenlight is dead and that's fine
• Castlevania's TV show might end up like Underworld and that's bad
• CUP NOODLES CUP NOODLES CUP NOODLES
• E3 finally opens its doors to the public as Hamish and Nico plot to get press passes
• We must be dumb because we wade into THAT PewDiePie thing (and reference Skrewdriver for fuck sake)
• HOW DID THAT APOCALYPSE NOW KICKSTARTER SOMEHOW BECOME EVEN MORE OF A MESS
• Hamish loses his mind talking about Mads Mikkelsen on Hideo Tube

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The world is fucked. Let's do a podcast.

• Resident Evil 7 is still spooking Nico
• Yakuza 0 is bringing Hamish untold amounts of joy
• SWAT 4 has the pacing of a great horror game
• Hamish played Deadly Premonition for the first time
• AAA games aren't selling well, apparently
• After working relentlessly on an hour-long Hitman video, Hamish decided to play some Hitman
• That Apocalypse Now Kickstarter is somehow even more of a mess than we thought
• The Benz is back, baybee! Also, is it Benzies or Bingus?! WRONG IT'S BENZEYES
• That Zenimax/Oculus lawsuit concluded
• Is #skate4 in development?! No
• Is another Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in development? Yes
• Konami is making far more money now they aren't making Kojima games, whodathunkit?!
• Hamish and Nico's Powerviolence Minute

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It's Burns Night, so let's make one mention of it at the very start then never mention it again because we've got so many SICK VIDEO GAMES to talk about.

• Nico has been a wee scared boy because of Resident Evil 7
• Hamish has been singing karaoke to Japanese gangsters in Yakuza 0
• Hamish gave a talk to actual, living, breathing game devs about mechanics-as-narrative
• The channel hit 25000 subscribers!
• Another Hitman update because that game is really good
• Nico shouts at civilians in recently re-released SWAT 4
• Some of the worst news segways we've ever uttered
• Dark Souls 3's final DLC is announced
• Overwatch's CTF mode needs some work
• Kevin Smith is in Call of Duty for some fuckin reason
• There's an Apocalypse Now video game being Kickstarted and it's a fucking mess?
• Final Fantasy XV lets you time travel through a dog (or pet the dog)
• Playdead's latest game will shock you! Only kidding it's a small kid moving right
• You can now play the worst part of one of the worst Deus Ex games for free!
• I hate video games

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Did you know that the Wet Nurse isn't a glitch? Because it's not a glitch! Anyway, let's SWITCH the subject over to nearly three hours of DAMN FINE PODCASTIN'. 

• How Nintendo created so much hype around the Switch and piece-by-piece stripped that excitement away
• Why we're still excited anyway
• Zelda looks fucking GREAT
• Mario looks fucking WEIRD and he kills people in New Donk City
• Hamish reads the fucking insane transcript of Suda51's spot at the presentation—you should feel sorry for that translator
• One by Metallica is a terrible song
• Nico played The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and has mixed feelings on it
• Hamish gave Dark Souls 2 another chance and hasn't changed his mind that it's a baaaad Dark Souls game
• Hamish's beautiful big-nosed boy in Bloodborne
• Did you know the Wet Nurse isn't a glitch?
• It's not a glitch
• Pony Island is interesting, but ultimately unsuccessful
• Nico loves the Shantae series
• Hamish revisits old Hitman games
• Overwatch comes close to being a game about hate crimes
• Swery65 is back, baybee!
• The confusing mess that is the Zenimax/Facebook/Oculus lawsuit
• Titanfall's cancelled mobile game
• Awesome Games Done Quick recap
• Last but not least... HOW DOES GABE NEWELL LIKE HIS STEAK?!

Hamish has had next to no sleep working on his next video, Nico had his 3DS stolen by Henry Rollins, so get ready for some prime delirious podcasting! 

• We check in with Nico's experience playing Tomato Way
• Hamish adores the depth of Frog Fractions 2
• Oxenfree looks and sounds beautiful and its characters suck real ass
• Don't eat lots of pot brownies at once, ya dummy
• Nico is playing Watch Dogs 2 and doesn't know what to make of it
• Hamish tries out Playstation Now because he can't be arsed plugging in his PS3
• Discussing Ninja Gaiden 2 in a post-Dark Souls world
• Revisiting Shadow of the Colossus post-The Last Guardian
• Sometimes microtransactions can be OK
• Our favourite anime visual novel, Dingenrinbinstin
• Oh yeah, Scalebound is cancelled, I guess
• Hideki Kamiya joins The Smiths and has probably blocked us
• That Halo Mega Bloks game looked dope
• Shovel Knight's expansion plan is probably pretty good
• Aliens in Elite Dangerous makes us want to re-install Elite Dangerous
• Is Star Citizen even a game anymore? Was it ever a game?
• Nico is going to play Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh on a controller
• Deconstructing Itagaki's Devil's Third and its messy demise
• Guy uses PT puzzle logic to prove he's Cole Train

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! We're here to talk to you about all the... numerous... happenings... in the game... is there anything? Hello? Games industry? Anyone there?! Well, I guess we'll just talk a bunch of shit about some games we've been playing then aimlessly scroll through Gamespot's news section to see if anything catches our eye (hint: there isn't). GAMES ARE GREAT.

• Nico tires of Pokemon Sun/Moon
• Nico has also played some board games
• Hamish checks in on... No Man's Sky
• Hamish is slowly but surely getting into Overwatch
• Skins are dumb, SPRAYS RULE
• Main Bastion in all modes on all maps
• Ariana Grande is STEALING OUR FINAL FANTASY GAMES
• "Popular pop singer" is ENTIRELY REDUNDANT
• Hamish's Tekken Card Tournament Minute™

Hope you had a great New Year and thanks for listening!

We just uploaded five and a half hours of Game of the Year deliberations and there's feck all happening in terms of industry news but hey, we couldn't resist giving you one more podcast before the year is out!

• Jak and Daxter is not a good Vita game
• PS2 emulation still has a long way to go
• Hamish wants to play Rachet and Clank again
• Telltale's Batman series is apparently pretty good
• Telltale's most recent Walking Dead series is too reliant on plot conveniences
• Telltale's engine is still a fucking pile of burning trash that leads to bad nightmares that Nico thought were racist and nearly made their games unplayable
• Hamish enjoys Overwatch but doesn't give a fuck about the meta, whatever the fuck that is
• Loot boxes and the cosmetic items within them are fuckin' dumb as hell
• FROG FRACTIONS 2 IS A THING
• YOU CAN IMPORT YOUR MASS EFFECT 2 SAVE INTO FROG FRACTIONS 2
• Video game news is a hell fire
• THERE IS ANOTHER TOMATO-THEMED GAME ON STEAM AND IT SOUNDS AMAZING

Thank you to everyone who has listened to and subscribed to the Writing on GamesCast! Have a blast over New Year and we'll see you in 2017!

Well, here it is—the conclusion of our collaborative GotY deliberations. This is our longest podcast yet, but it's a fun one. Come hear us discuss and create lists for:

• Biggest Surprise
• Worst Game
• Game of the Year

How will the lists here differ from Hamish's own GotY list? Is Nico a bad influence? Will we see some HOT GAMER RAGE?! Will Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh come out of nowhere to clinch the ultimate award?! All this and more answered in part two of our Game of the Year podcast!