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The end and hello everyone my name is Jonathan Dornbush and this is podcast beyond IGN's weekly PlayStation show where we cover all the latest and greatest in the world of PlayStation and maybe provide a couple laughs along the way but that's not a guarantee because sometimes we're very serious.

Very serious but maybe not this week we'll find out what happens because I'm joined this week by Jada Griffin.

Hello, hello, hello, yeah happy to have you back. Thank you. Thank you for joining us after your week off last week for your birthday. Happy birthday to you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Of course I'm good. Good. I know.

And we're also joined this week by Mark Medina.

Mark serious Medina. Yeah, no jokes today. Yeah, this is a serious episode. Mark you've never you've never tried to make a joke in your life. I've never I've never joked in my life. I've never smiled. I'm smiling right now.

We all took. Yeah, I was going to say yeah, you never laugh but you laughed immediately. So I couldn't even.

Yeah, I can't stick to anything. We all took the week off last week. It was thanksgiving in America. Yeah, the week before that. So yeah, we're I'm two weeks back. I don't know what time is anymore. I feel like we.

Yeah, I feel like I haven't worked in forever. I've been on vacation since last Tuesday, which like isn't the longest amount of time but still it feels weird but I'm glad to be back. Yeah, we're back.

This is the first thing I'm doing as I'm back. This is my first order of business. So it's perfect. Well, it's going to be quite an episode to have you back first for and of course, yeah, we'll be we're back this week. There will be some time off toward the end of the year that we'll we'll let you know in the in the next week or two to confirm.

But obviously with the Christmas and new years holidays coming up, we will be a little quiet around the end of this year. But we've got a few more episodes before you wrap up this year.

And before we get into that, you know, what's to come there might be some announcements at the game awards and whatnot that we'll dive into after that show happens. But for now, you know, we are last episode.

We took a look forward to the future of what might be with PlayStation Studios and the potential 25 games on the horizon. But so what better way to compliment that then after looking to the future to look to the past because that's how time works.

And so this week we're going to be jumping into trying to decide what the best PlayStation 5 games are so far.

I'm sure we will all agree very easily very quickly. There will be no contention whatsoever. It will be just fine.

I know we thought, you know, as sort of continued look back at the the first year of the PS5 and also, you know, a lot of cross-jump games in there.

We want to take a look back and celebrate all that stuff and sort of figure out what our our combined sort of favorite games are the PS5 so far. I think it's worth noting, of course, like we do do a feature like this on IGN.

This is not a duplication of that. There will be that own sort of list probably early next year that will will produce and everything because that will be my job to do.

But we're going to all hash it out here and see what tops are combined podcast beyond best PS5 games list so far.

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