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Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers podcast. Between Valve diving head first into the console wars and the Game of the Year nominees being made official, we have a packed episode for you. But before we get into all

the new hardware hype and gaming news, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh,

and joining me, I have a feeling he's upset over a certain lack of a certain game being nominated for Game of the Year. It's Ryan. Uh, Josh, uh,

our resident, uh, super editor extraordinaire. I hope you have your bleep button ready.

There may be some stuff coming out with what we got here with the nominees.

So that's all I'm going to say.

We might get our first Ryan rant in this episode.

We'll have to see how spicy Ryan's

feeling. And joining us, he's

feeling a little bittersweet because he loves

most of these indies, but now that they're mainstream

game of the year slop, he can't say

he likes them anymore. It's ace.

I cannot sit idly by and let you call 80s 2 mainstream slop.

You can call peak that all you want, but you cannot call 80s 2.

What is this do to your psyche ace where you're like, I love this game, but it's mainstream

now.

What am I supposed to do?

It's somewhat fulfilling to know I was right about these games before they got popular.

There it is.

The before.

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