T. Welcome back to PlayStation blogcast. I've been informed I use the word robust too much in these

intros. A very special listener told me that. So I will refrain from describing today's

show as a robust episode. I think we just need to start every

episode with you mentioning a word you say too much and slowly like culling

your vocabulary till there's nothing left basically. We're not going to say that this

episode is not robust. It's not not robust, but robust is not the word I'll be using.

Apparently I have the bad habit of using the word robust for every show opener and I never

realized that. I think it's just because I have nothing better to say

happy new year well yep that's our first blog cast of 2013 I notice and you don't

not excited about it I'm I'm you know I think probably 50% of my bloodstream is still comprised of

champagne champagne actually champagne you sound pensive a little bit a little bit

pensive it's our first day back here at PlayStation HQ actually quite a busy little

half the company is out sick so I'm certainly getting over it I had a horrible chest cold over the

break I mean I was coughing up all the colors of the rainbow was pretty wild

Tell us about it. That was good. I haven't caught anything yet, but everybody else in the department seems to be coughing over there so I'm just waiting. Oh, you're doomed. You're doomed. Cool. So I guess today's show we're going to kind of keep it a little on the lighter side.

We've got Nick Suttoner, he's from downstairs.

He's a developer relation, something or another, and we've got Justin Massingale here who works on PlayStation blog.

I am your illustrious host since you may.

Yeah, I like that word.

So today we're going to just kind of get back into the swing of things here.

We're going to talk a little bit about some of that great

game of the year talk that was coming out the week prior to the holidays. PlayStation blog users were able

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