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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Matt James share their instant reactions to gaming's annual awards show/trailer fest! First they discuss the dominance of ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33,’ Matt’s experience attending the show in person, and the award winners that made them happiest and saltiest. Then they count down their respective top 10 lists of exciting announcements about upcoming games. Intro (0:00)Reactions to the Game Awards (2:20)Top 10 highlights (18:36)Outro (1:01:26) Host: Ben LindberghGuest: Matt JamesProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Danny Hyphitz here from the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:02.8	We're coming to you multiple times per week to tell you who to draft, who not to draft.
0:06.0	Honestly, that's kind of most of it.
0:08.0	The Ringer Fantasy Football Show, YouTube, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast, the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.
0:35.5	I am Ben Minberg, senior editor at the Ringer.
0:37.9	Some call me the Jeff Keeley of Button Mesh.
0:40.6	Some is me.
0:41.9	I just called myself that.
0:43.2	No one else ever has.
0:44.5	With me is the winner of Best Button Mesh co-host,
0:48.1	who was willing to stay up and record a podcast immediately after the game awards.
0:52.9	He's back like Leon Kennedy. It's Ringer deputy Art Lead. Matt James. Hi, Matt. Hey, I thought I was going to get the Miss Piggy comparison, but I'll take Leon Kennedy. He's badass, too. Did you hook up with Miss Piggy, too? Or was that only, Jeff? You got to come to the Game Awards if you want to find out what really goes down. Yeah, unlike him. You don't kiss Muppets and tell, man, find yourself someone who loves anything like Jeff Keeley loves the Muppets. It's one of his most redeeming qualities. I like it. Well, Matt, tomorrow comes, or in fact, has already come in my time zone.
1:28.3	Indeed.
1:28.6	Who are the real midnight boys, I ask you?
1:31.9	Those other guys get screeners now.
1:34.1	They recorded a reasonable hour.
1:35.8	But there are no screeners for the Game Awards.
1:39.4	Yeah, they do it live, we do it live.
1:41.9	You've got to tune in live to find out whether Claire Obscure would win anything. Nobody knew beforehand. No one. Spoilers. It did. It won a few things. I was watching at home in New York, one of what I'm sure will be announced as 11 billion people streaming the show. One of these years, Kiwi's just going to announce that the
2:01.5	streaming audience is larger than the number of people on Earth and we'll all just accept it.
2:06.3	But you were in the room where it happened. You have just walked in the door after returning
2:11.2	home from Peacock Theater. You attended the Game Awards. You're still wearing your red beret and
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