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the season's greetings and welcome to giant bombs a game of the year

dolderation podcasts 2018 how's everybody feeling great great yeah

liberal ready for video game everybody rare in to talk about the games of the year

mm-hmm oh I thought we were getting food uh they'll come oh yeah okay at the end of this

25 hour time okay we're going for food for thought yeah oh I hope you ate a big

bright food for discussion right yeah it's gonna be days I had not see I'll go bagel here they

don't have those in New York I found huh I miss them really I'm sure some places do but it's

very hard to find we can't derail game of the year this early if it's got to get on the bag

okay bagel of the year than go what bagel of the year go oh I see I go okay if it was a

New York one mm okay well it's the water the way um we're trying some new stuff with format this

year yeah changing things up we've traditionally done somewhere in the ballpark of 20

categories throughout the week mm-hmm uh we're shuffling some things around we are reducing the

number of categories to 10 yes uh in uh in favor of just talking about the game that's right the

game more discussion I mean more celebration of if you think about it like yeah the the the secret

not secret important part about game of the year every year was always like those games that never

stayed into category but someone had something to say about it I mean the ones that didn't hang

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