#934 - New Year's Eve Game of the Year Awards Special! Best of 2025, plus Gaming News!

Video Game Outsiders

Pickaxe

Leisure, News, Tech News, Games, Video Games

4.1 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

John, Michelle, and Game Store owner CCgamesCEO, (and Ry) share their favorite games and hardware from 2025, and we go over your winners! Plus Terminator 2D: No Fate, Diablo IV Paladin, PBA Pro Bowling 2026, Samus Amiibo and Metroid, new Bond is "modern", lobsters are missing, prices are up, and COD COD COD vs Clair Obscur! Support us and get weekly bonus shows, the 20 year VGO back catalog, and ad free VGO eps on http://videogameoutsiders.supercast.com/ and listen in the player of YOUR choice like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more! Head to our Discord on https://discord.gg/Ab6pxpT to chat, support, or win games weekly from Loaded.com. For show notes and more info visit videogameoutsiders.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pickax.
0:07.0	Five, four, three, two, live from Hollywood, California.
0:12.5	Michelle.
0:13.5	Hello, everybody.
0:14.2	Welcome to episode 934 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast, our New Year's Eve Eve, Game of the Year award special.
0:22.6	That's right. Welcome to the annual Video Game Outsiders Award show, where we choose.
0:29.9	Would you?
0:31.0	What?
0:31.3	Don't walk on me.
0:32.7	I'm doing.
0:33.5	It's New Year's.
0:34.6	No, this is our annual award show.
0:37.3	I got to set this up.
0:39.2	Should we restart?
0:40.2	I don't like this.
0:43.0	All right.
0:43.6	Listen, we do an annual award show.
0:45.8	We're going to pick our favorite games and we have categories and stuff like that.
0:50.6	And best of all, Ryan's not here.
1:29.2	Ryan, the intern's not here. Yeah, he's in a cabin somewhere like in an orgy. He was like posting pictures. He's a stabbing cabin. But we got CC Game CEO, the game store guy is here. Yes, bring me some authority to our show. That's right. This is the first time I'm back since you traded in your old Canadian for the new model. Yeah, we do that sometimes. We had a mid-show crisis. We swapped in a new Canadian. That's right. And there'll be no leaks because Kevin's here. That's right. So Kevin, actually, you're going to bring a cool angle to this. Yes. Right? Because you see what people buy, right?
1:29.9	I do.
1:30.4	I do.
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