Hey, all, welcome back to the official PlayStation podcast for episode 531.

It is our first episode of the year.

Hooray!

You got Kristen, Tim, and Odell here.

Back from, you know, a wonderful holiday of hopefully gaming a lot.

I know I slept a lot.

I did a lot of being horizontal and just moving as little as possible.

But I moved a lot in video gaming worlds and that's what really matters.

But yeah, excited to be back for a new year. I know towards the end of the year, our last episode,

myself, Brett and Sid sort of dove into what our top games were from the year

in terms of our games of the year. We looked at our PlayStation wrap. But folks were already

out for the holidays. So we've grabbed Tim and O'Dell to make sure that we hear what their favorite

games were from 2025. The phone has been ringing off the hook. Sorry. Tim, come back.

Leaving you hanging. I really know that it doesn't really feel like we can move on for 2025 until you hear my...

Until we know. Exactly. Exactly. The people need to know.

We had so many letters come in just saying, where's Tim's game of the year?

Sorry.

But we'll get to that in a bit.

It's a light news week, so it'll probably be a short and sweet episode. We don't really

have any new release highlights, but that's because it's brand spanking new year. So not a ton coming

out just yet. More to come later in the year. But we do have some news that could be used. We do have

some exciting new controllers that we can talk about and such. We have PlayStation Plus monthly

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