Welcome back to the official PlayStation podcast.

I am joined by none other than the illustrious Kristen Zatani.

Welcome, Kristen.

Hello.

I guess I should introduce myself too.

I'm Sid Jimman.

Who is that voice into the ether?

Everyone else is like traveling or super busy heading home for the holidays.

I was going to say we were trying to rally the troops, get everybody to get

other for like the final, you know, we always tried to do an end of the year

show, talk about game of the year and such.

But and Tim was supposed to join, but there is a snow storm going where he is

traveling for the holidays.

So he had to get out of here early to avoid the snow,

spread also out of town.

So like it just, it's me and Sid, we're going to work.

That's right.

The troops not a lot of troops this time, but that's okay because we're going to be

talking about some of our favorite games of the year as well as some of your

favorite games of the year as evidence through the PlayStation blog game of

the year winners put out a poll every year in December asking folks what their

favorite games of the year were across the host of categories.

...