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Hi, split-screen listeners.

We just felt it necessary to say that the episode you're about to listen to was recorded mere hours before the Wednesday attack on the Capitol took place.

We want to make it clear that we do not take the events on Wednesday lately, and that the joking you hear at the start of today's episode is not in any way related.

Thanks, as always, for listening, and we hope this episode can provide a little escape

from what's going on in the news right now.

On with the show.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Kotaku Split Screen, the podcast that tackles video games one excruciatingly specific topic at a time.

I am one of your hosts, Kotaku Senior Reporter Nathan Grayson, and I am joined, as always, by Mike Fahey and Ash Parrish.

Say hi, folks.

Hi. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year. Happy 2021.

Yeah, 2020. I thought this was actually 2020-2, like a kind of Final Fantasy.

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