Folks. Hello. What? Mike. You made eye contact with me again while you did.

I'm sorry. Yeah, that's the rule with Mike. You don't make eye contact. Hi, everyone. I'm Dan.

We are fire escape. And by we, I mean me, Dan. I mean Mike Mahardi, I mean Mary Kish. Yop. We will explain this other entity in just a moment here. And it's a gizmo just walking around. I know that's Razor. Folks, we are here for Game of the Year 2025. One of the best years in gaming, I think, since we have started this podcast. It's a big one. I think it's going to be contentious. Number one, this is, we were talking to dinner last night. I think this might be the most unpredictable top 10. I think in the past, we've, oh, look, we got a lot to talk about, but first, definitely have to introduce the fourth member of Fire Escape, the coolest member of Fire Escape.

It's that time of year, folks. It's cool. Judge Jake, look at that guy. There is. Looking

cooler than things on track here. No rants. If you talk too long, I'm going to hit you in the head with

my gavel. Oh, we're just getting an assault at this point now.

Okay, great.

This is salt this year.

Excellent.

Wow.

Fresh out of cryosleep where we keep him all year until we need them for game of year. Well, then we wake him up to edit the podcast and social clips and stuff like that. That is one dirty, dirty wig. That is. to think where it's been.

I think that's the Super Dan 64 wig that I wore when I was playing Superman 64.

So it's just my bald head. There's not a lot of, you know, hair. There's no hair going on. So you're good. Folks, what are we doing? I'm sorry, I made eye contact with the Mike. No, it's not that you can make eye contact. It was that when you did it twice and remember one, folks. Looked right at me, point blank. We're here to explain like the loose format.

Yeah. eye contact. It was that when you did it twice and remember, we went, folks, looked right at me,

point blank. You want to explain like the loose format? Yeah. So if you have not seen our game

of the year before, are we on, are we on here, table cam now? Okay. Hello everyone. Hi. This is the

cam we'll be working with most of the time. We have 25 categories, you know, some favorites, some new.

And then we will end with the top 10 games of the year ordered.

And we will be debating each and every one of these.

We can see the nominees here.

We will be having picture and picture for you folks watching the video version.

And we're going to whittle every one of these categories down to a winner and then two runners up. And

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