Happy New Year and welcome to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen, the first for 2017. It is January 5th, 2017. My name is Kirk Hamilton, and we have got a very long, very fun show for you this week.

This is part one of our every single video game of 2016 podcast.

We thought maybe we could fit them all into a single show, and then we got kind of halfway

through and realized, nope, we're going to have to cut this thing into two.

So for January through June of 2016, Jason and I go through

every single game that came out this year, talk about the ones we played, talk a little bit about

the ones we didn't play, and generally look at the year in video games. Here we go. Welcome back to the show and a happy new year to all of you listeners out there in video game land.

My name is Kirk Hamilton, and I am joined for a very special episode this week by my co-host, Mr. Jason Schreier.

Hi, Jason. Happy New Year.

Hey, Kirk, are you ready? Are you ready for a marathon?

I'm ready for everything. I'm ready for this episode. I'm ready for 2017. Man, I'm ready. I was born

ready. Okay, I'm glad because this is going to be quite something. We have prepared for you.

Fine listeners, a list of every single video game that came out in 2016.

Every single video game, I do not mean every single video game.

I mean, all the major video games.

You can't exactly have an asterisk appear in spoken conversation, but picture an asterisk next to that.

Hovering over our words.

Yes.

It is, we, this is an annual tradition that we started last year, which is we don't really

like game of the year as a concept.

We think it's kind of dumb.

At Kitako, we have a good system in which we pick our favorite 12 games of the year, which is kind of a cool workaround where we can talk about our favorites without necessarily picking a game of the year.

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