On the IGN UK podcast this week, we'll be looking forward to everything we're going to play and watch in 2026.

Hello and welcome to the IGN UK podcast show, all about the latest video games, movies and TV shows.

I'm Simon Cardi and with me today is Dale Driver.

Happy New Year!

We and Matt Jones.

And I hope you have a great time.

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What starts in a year with just so full of energy, aren't we to get the year going? Sorry to miss a week last week, but, you know, we needed some rest. And I don't know if that works because I don't feel rested at all. But that problem where you have too much sleep, right? And then you feel more tired. You need to... It's a luxury problems, lads. You go into, like, student mode for a week'm speaking on your behalf, by the way, because nursery was off during Christmas, so I had a hell of a time, look after child full time. So less sleep, if anything. This week on the podcast, we will be, as per usual. Looking forward to all the biggest games, all the the biggest movies and a few TV shows coming this

year some of the I've got a long list here some of them will spend about five seconds on

some of them we might spend up to five minutes who knows that's the urgent guarantee you know

some I've just got mentioned otherwise people would be like why didn't why didn't you talk about

that one but I know none of us three are really into them if you know what I mean

for we look forward though let's have a little look about.

What's the best thing you played or watched over Christmas? What stuck out the most? I finally finished Clare Obscure Expedition 33. Good game, I know. Shockingly, it's a brilliant game. Who knew? No one was talking about it before. but I didn't play it for the longest time

because I think it's

I don't know. You don't like French people. Yeah, French people. I just hate them, really. You also have a distrust when everyone says signs good, right? I do. Yeah. How do you remember that about me? Have I said that before? No, I generally do. like if if people tell me things are good, it makes me, it makes me what want to do it.

Yeah. But what a fantastic game. The best Final Fantasy game I've played in 20 years, I think,

is absolutely superb. Love the ending, loved the storytelling. And I'm also still playing

it now, like trying to do all like the hidden bosses and the super high-level stuff and everything.

So, yeah, that was literally the only game I played over Christmas.

It's all-consuming.

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