Welcome to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen. It's near the end of the year, and it's time for Jason and me to revisit our predictions from the beginning of the year and see who was right, who was wrong, and who has to buy whom a steak

dinner. We're also going to go back through five years' worth of best surprises and biggest

disappointments posts from the history of Kataku to look back at what game surprised us and what

things disappointed us over the past five years. You might be surprised by some of the surprises

and disappointed by some of our past disappointments,

but either way, it's gonna be a pretty fun chat.

Let's crank up the Wayback Machine

and take it back to 2011.

Here we go.

We are back for another episode of this show.

Thank you, as always, for being here.

My name is Jason Schreier.

I am here with my lovely co-host, Kirk Hamilton.

Hi, Kirk.

I'm just lovely this week.

I'm not inimitable.

That's too bad. No, just lovely. I like to

keep up, I like to spice up the adjectives and keep people on their toes. A couple quick show notes

before we get started. First of all, we are very behind on reader questions, but we will soon

be doing a mailbag episode, probably at some point in January.

So keep sending them in.

We will pick the best, the most interesting ones to read on the show.

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