Hello and welcome to the Video Gamer Podcast.

Game of the year, 2018.

My name is Column Ahern and with me this week,

lads there is no bullshit cultural reference.

It is, to my right, Josh Wise.

Straight in front of me, Mike Harrodentz.

Howdy.

And to my left, Rich Walker.

Hello.

It is a four-man podcast to decide videogamer.com's Game of the Year, which we spoke about this very briefly on last week's

episode, where we said it was going to be ever so slightly different to 2017. So what we are

going to do, myself, Josh, Mike and Rich have all brought four video games to the table.

We, well, basically, I'll, hang on, I have a fucking list of things here, I'll go through this.

Right, so, the game here, the rules for 2018.

Rule 1, each of us have brought four new games to the table that were released in 2018, so no remasters, 16 games in total.

Rule 2, we will be making cases for each of these games as video gamers Gotti of the year.

Rule 3, we each chose a number of games before recording that we gave to an independent adjudicator

who then assigned three of the, or four of those games, to every participant,

and was careful that we wouldn't cross over and be fighting for the same games,

because that would be just silly.

Rule four, we will be arguing the case for each of our games in four separate rounds,

starting with 16, then down to 12, down to four, and then down to, or down to eight,

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