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Kotaku Splitscreen — 384 episodes

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Breaking Down The Biggest Sale In The History Of Video Games

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Splitscreen Judges The Game Awards

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Splitscreen Gives Thanks

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Halo Comes Full-Circle After 20 Years

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Animal Crossing Gets Its Groove Back

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Let's Revisit The Early Aughts Time Capsule That Was GTA

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The Art Of The Spooky Game Is More Than Just Jump Scares

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The Internet Is The Best And Worst Thing To Happen To Gaming Fandom

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New World Feels Like An Old MMORPG (In A Good Way)

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Super Smash Splitscreen Ultimate

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How The Nintendo Direct Became Its Own Metaverse

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Deathloop and Other Significant Time Loops

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Video Game Award Shows Are A Mess (RECAST)

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Spoiler Alert: This Is An Episode About Twists And Spoilers (RECAST)

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Splitscreen Goes Back to School

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What is a Metroidvania Anyway?

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Are We Living in The Sims?

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Video Game Movies And TV Shows Have Stopped Being Terrible (with Brock Wilbur) (RECAST)

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And Just Like That, We're Back! With a Couple of Strays.

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We'll Be Back Soon!
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Game Over. Continue?

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Too Many Games, Too Little Time (RECAST)

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The New Hotness

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"Vagina Bones" And Other Weird Ways Games Have Been Changed For America

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The Splitscreen Snacktaku Special, Not Sponsored By G Fuel (RECAST)

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E3 Is Back And More Disappointing Than Ever

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How Banjo, Kazooie, Ratchet, And Clank Survived The Death Of The Mascot Platformer

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In Honor Of This Year's Weird E3, All The Other Weird E3s

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The Mass Effect Of Moral Choices On Video Games

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A Handful Of Handsome Hands, With Half-Life: Alyx Hand Expert Kerry Davis

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Fuck, Marry, Kill: Mass Effect Party Member Edition

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It Takes a Resident Evil Village

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No Game Lives Forever

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Old Dirty Backlogs

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The Splitscreen Quest for Epic Loot, With Diablo Creators Erich Schaefer and David Brevik

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How Memes Helped Make Video Games Mainstream

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Service Games Killed The Single-Player Star

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The Splitscreen Snacktaku Special, Not Sponsored By G Fuel

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NFTs? No, Fuck That

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Covid-19, One Year Later

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How Valheim Shook Up Survival Games

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Video Game Movies And TV Shows Have Stopped Being Terrible (with Brock Wilbur)

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Gaming’s Best And Worst Bosses (with Stephen Totilo)

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Dragon Age/Sex/Location?

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GameStop Is Dead, Long Live GameStop

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How Licensed Games Died And Came Back And Died Again And Came Back Again

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Most Video Game Presidents Suck, Too

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Spoiler Alert: This Is An Episode About Twists And Spoilers

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No Waluigi In Smash *Ever* And Other 2021 Predictions

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Reboots, Remakes, and Remasters! Oh my! (RECAST)

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In the Land of the Ice and Snow

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Video Game Award Shows Are A Mess

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We’ll Never Talk About Cyberpunk 2077 After This Episode, Probably

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Stop The Cyberpunk 2077 Hype Train, We Want To Get Off

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Beyond Fatherdome

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What If The Only Game To Ever Exist Was Pong?

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Too Many Games, Too Little Time

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Talking Bout My (Console) Generations

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Of Course Cloud Would Be First To Die In A Horror Movie

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Along Came A Slider: Character Creators And Why They Matter

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Splitscreen Goes to Hell

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Reboots, Remakes, and Remasters! Oh my!

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We're Rebooting Splitscreen! (Please be gentle)

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Let's Just Do This Sidequest First (RECAST)

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Animal Crossing (And Other Things Keeping Us Sane) (RECAST)

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They Cancelled E3 (RECAST)

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Keep Your Teraflops Quarantined (RECAST)

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The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo (RECAST)

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Coronavirus And Video Games (RECAST)

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The P.T. Ghost Was Behind Us All Along (RECAST)

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MORE Of The Hardest Things You've Ever Done In A Game (RECAST)

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The Hardest Things We've Ever Done In A Game (RECAST)

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The New TV Show About Video Games Is Actually Pretty Good (RECAST)

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Have We Been Sleeping On Dragon's Dogma? (RECAST)

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Twitch, Mixer, and the Future of Game Streaming (RECAST)

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The Hardest Things YOU'VE Ever Done In A Game (RECAST)

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The Hardest Things We've Ever Done In A Game (RECAST)

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Our 2020 Video Game Predictions (RECAST)

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The Days Are Definitely Gone (RECAST)

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What Happens When School Kids Get Google Stadia? (Mailbag - RECAST)

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How To Not Be A Jerk In Chat (RECAST)

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More Data, More Problems (RECAST)

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What It's Like To Start A Game Studio With No Bosses (RECAST)

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Goodbye Splitscreen, Hello New Thing

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The Final Fantasy VII Remake Is Real, And It's Spectacular

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Mario Remasters And Gearbox Disasters

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Animal Crossing (And Other Things Keeping Us Sane)

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Keep Your Teraflops Quarantined

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They Cancelled E3

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The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo

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Coronavirus And Video Games

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The New TV Show About Video Games Is Actually Pretty Good

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Twitch, Mixer, and the Future of Game Streaming

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Have We Been Sleeping On Dragon's Dogma?

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MORE Of The Hardest Things You've Ever Done In A Game

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The Hardest Things YOU'VE Ever Done In A Game

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The Hardest Things We've Ever Done In A Game

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Our 2020 Video Game Predictions

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All The Games* Of 2019, Part 2

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The Big Star Wars Spoilercast

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All The Games* Of 2019, Part 1

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Three Games That Defined The Decade

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The Two Next-Gen Xboxes (Xboxii?)

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The Mount Rushmore Of Video Games

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The Curse Of Star Wars Is Over

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Disney Plus Everything

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The Death Stranding Episode

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The Outer Worlds and Disco Elysium

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Healthier Living With the Nintendo Switch

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More Of Your Weird Gaming Traditions

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Destiny 2 and Borderlands 3

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Let's Just Do This Sidequest First

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A Horrible Goose

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Gears Of Dark Souls

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The P.T. Ghost Was Behind Us All Along

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Gears 5 Is For Real

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Control Is Great And Telltale Is A Zombie

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Fire Emblem Never Ends

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How To Avoid Internet Distractions

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There's Just No Escaping Fortnite

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How Not To Be A Jerk In Chat

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Are Your Kids Gaming... On Tilt??

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The New Fire Emblem Sounds Great

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Nintendo Lite Switch

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What Happens When School Kids Get Google Stadia? (Mailbag)

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Bad Times In Video Game QA

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Final Fantasy VII, Avengers, And Other Reports From E3 2019

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Gato Roboto Is About A Totally Normal Cat (In A Mech)

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The Quest Design Of Cyberpunk 2077

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How One Big Game Studio Avoids Crunch

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The Outer Worlds Is A Spiritual Successor To Fallout: New Vegas

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Cyberpunk 2077, Crunch, And One Very Ambitious Game

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Everything Is Esports Now

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The Future Of Destiny 2

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How Baldur's Gate 3 Came Together

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Breath of the Wild 2!!! And Other E3 Reactions

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Our E3 2019 Hopes And Predictions

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Death Stranding Looks Chill and Normal

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More Data, More Problems

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Ep6: "The Iron Throne"

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Your Gaming Data, Up For Sale

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Ep5: "The Bells"

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The Government's Coming For Your Loot Boxes

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Ep4: "The Last of the Starks"

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The Excellence Of Avengers: Endgame (with Evan Narcisse)

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Ep3: "The Long Night"

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Eps 1&2: "Winterfell," "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"

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The Days Are Definitely Gone

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You Cheated Not Only the Game, But Yourself

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The Future Of Dragon Age (And Assassin's Creed)

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Anthem's Development And BioWare In Crisis

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Stadia: Streaming Dies Twice

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What It's Like To Start A Game Studio With No Bosses

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The Creators Of Into The Breach Came Very Close To Giving Up On It

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Tim Schafer Talks Unionization, Streaming, And The Future Of Double Fine

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Sacrificing Sleep To Raise The Dead With Jesse Snyder

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Google Stadia Boss Answers (And Dodges) Our Questions

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Devil May Cry 5's Outrageous Cutscenes

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Days Gone Is One AAA-Ass Video Game

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The Nintendo-Microsoft Love Affair

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Anthem Feels Broken And Unfinished

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167: Link's Remakening

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166: Live From New York

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165: The Joy Of Kingdom Hearts

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164: Mailbag: Bloodborne, Dream Assassin's Creed Games, and More

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163: Destiny, Star Wars, And Wild Allegations

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162: Our 2019 Video Game Predictions

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161: Who Won The 2018 Predictions Bet?

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160: Every Game We Played In 2018, Part 2

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159: Every Game We Played In 2018, Part 1

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158: New Challenger Approaching!

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157: The Game Announcements (And Some Awards)

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156: Catching Up On Fall Games

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155: Fallout 76, Red Dead 2 Spoilercast

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154: Stan Lee's Legacy

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153: The Diablo Disaster

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152: Red Dead 2 Is Big And Weird

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BONUS: Kirk's Red Dead Review

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151: Red Dead Redemption 2

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150: 'Working 100-Hour Weeks'

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149: The Big Microtransaction Question

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148: AC Odyssey And Spider-Man Spoilercast

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147: The Death Of Telltale Games

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BONUS: We Finally Played Red Dead Redemption 2

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146: In The Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

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145: The Amazing, Amazing Spider-Man

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144: Spider-Man Is Great And Destiny Is Back

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143: Cyberpunk 2077's Big Debut

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142: What It's Like To Write Final Fantasy XIV

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141: Press Sneak F**ks

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140: Plagiarism At IGN

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139: Summer Mailbag

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138: New Man's Sky

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137: The ArenaNet Debacle

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BONUS: Nathan Fillion Talks Uncharted And Destiny

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136: Octopath Traveler Ain't Great

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135: Why We Play Hard Games

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134: Sony's Sure Bungling Cross-Play

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133: Anthem, Spider-Man, And Other Games We Played At E3

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E3 2018: Bringing Yakuza To The West

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E3 2018: The Big Boss Behind The Witcher And Cyberpunk

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E3 2018: Warren Spector's Return To System Shock

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E3 2018: Let's Talk Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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E3 2018: Designing Quests For Cyberpunk 2077

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E3 2018: Sailing The Seas Of Thieves

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E3 2018: The Triumphant Return Of id Software

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E3 2018: Sony And Nintendo Reactions

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E3 2018: Bethesda, Square Enix, and Ubisoft Reactions

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E3 2018: Xbox And EA Reactions

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132: Rumors And Predictions For E3 2018

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131: Fallout Goes Online

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130: Detroit: Become Bad

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129: Dungeons, Dragons, Diners, And Dives

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128: Why Is The Games Industry So Secretive?

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127: The Avengers' Infinity Pool

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BONUS: God of War Director Cory Barlog

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126: Fortnite's Recipe For Success

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BONUS: Westworld Is Back

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125: Music: The Final Frontier

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124: God of War Is So Freakin' Good

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123: Far Cry 5 And Ni no Kuni II Are Exact Opposites

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122: Far Cry 5 and A Way Out

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GDC 2018: A Delicious Edible Game, with Jenn Sandercock

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GDC 2018: Designing Games for Twitch, with Ian Milham

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GDC 2018: Making Stealth Games, with Nels Anderson and Lyndsey Gallant

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GDC 2018: Spy Party, with Chris Hecker

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GDC 2018: Psychonauts Returns, with Tim Schafer

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GDC 2018: From Call of Duty to Titanfall, with Tina Sanchez

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GDC 2018: Video Game Music, with Matthew Burns

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GDC 2018: Fighting Game Dev Crunch, with Tanya X. Short

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GDC 2018: Life After BioWare, with Aaryn Flynn

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GDC 2018: Video Game Unions, with Jen MacLean

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BONUS: The Leftovers Spoilercast

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121: Storytelling In Games, Live From SXSW

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BONUS: Black Panther and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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BONUS: Guerrilla Games Boss Hermen Hulst

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120: Trump vs. Video Games

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The Secret Hunters of Destiny

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119: Console vs. PC Gaming

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118: Why We Play Video Games

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117: The Director Of Divinity: Original Sin 2

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116: Hunting Monsters And Writing Games

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115: Nintendo Labo Is Brillianto

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Bonus Spoilercast: Assassin's Creed Origins

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114: The Last Of Us Director Bruce Straley

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113: Let's Break RPGs

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112: Our Video Game Predictions For 2018

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111: What We Got Right (And Mostly Wrong) About 2017

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110: Every Game Of 2017, Part 2

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BONUS SPOILERCAST: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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109: Every Game Of 2017, Part 1

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108: Destiny 2 Sure Is A Mess Right Now

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107: Talking Game Awards With Geoff Keighley

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106: Fall Mailbag Spectacular

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105: Let's Get In Shape

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104: The Xbox One X Is A Tough Sell

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103: Super Mario Odyssey Is A Delight

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102: Assassin's Creed Origins, NeoGAF

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101: Come On Down To South Park

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100: Loot Box Madness

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99: M-A-I-L-B-A-G

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98: Video Game Writing With Tom Bissell

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97: Metroid Returns, Destiny 2 Spoilercast

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96: Why Some Fonts Are Better Than Others

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BONUS: Early Thoughts On Destiny 2

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95: Live From Seattle

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94: Twelve Straight Hours Of Video Games

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 7: 'The Dragon and the Wolf'

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93: The Great SNES Classic Preorder Disaster

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 6: 'Beyond the Wall"

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92: Meatsports vs. Esports

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 5: 'Eastwatch'

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91: Finding Love In Splatoon 2

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 4: 'The Spoils of War'

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90: Adam Ruins Video Games

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 3: 'The Queen's Justice'

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89: Oxenfree's Director, Persona 5 Spoilercast

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 2: 'Stormborn'

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88: It's Destiny 2 Beta Time

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BONUS: Game of Thrones Season 7, Ep 1: 'Dragonstone'

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87: Red Dead Redemption, Nintendo's Future, And More Reader Questions

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86: Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIV, And... More

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85: The SNES Classic Is Real, And It's Spectacular

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84: We Survived E3 2017

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E3 2017 Episode 6: The Best And Worst Of E3

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E3 2017 Episode 5: South Park, Pillars Of Eternity 2

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E3 Episode 4 (UPDATED): Luke Smith On Destiny 2, John Garvin On Days Gone

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E3 2017 Episode 3: Nintendo, Super Mario Odyssey

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E3 2017 Episode 2: Sony, Bethesda, Ubisoft

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E3 2017 Episode 1: Microsoft, EA, Xbox One X

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83: Hopes And Predictions For E3 2017

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82: The Plural Of Anime

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81: Taco Bell Weddings

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Bonus Ep: Destiny 2 Reactions

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80: Eat, Prey, Chris Avellone

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79: The Zelda: Breath of the Wild Spoilercast

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78: Zelda DLC, Destiny Dreams, And Reader Q&A

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77: Stories From LucasArts And Bethesda

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76: Switch, Nier: Automata, and The West Wing

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75: Horizon Zero Dawn With Ashly Burch

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74: Doing Destiny With Datto

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73: Point-N-Click Adventuring With Ron Gilbert

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72: Revisiting The Nintendo Switch

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71: Early Thoughts On Mass Effect: Andromeda

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70: Let's Gush About Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Extra Special Bonus Episode: Nintendo Switch

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GDC 2017, Day 3: Tim Schafer, Kim Swift, Frank Cifaldi

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GDC 2017, Day 2: Chris Avellone, Anna Kipnis, Meg Jayanth

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GDC 2017, Day 1: Matthew Burns, Tina Amini, Nathan Grayson

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69: Horizon Zero Duh

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68: Final Fantasy XV Spoilercast

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67: The Circle of Life

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66: Questions N' Answers

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65: It's Raining Games From Japan

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64: Nintendo Switch Reactions

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63: Every Game Of 2016*: Part 2

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62: Every Game Of 2016*: Part 1

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61: AAA vs. Indie Development

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60: Run, Mario, Run

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59: Revisiting Our 2016 Predictions

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58: The Second-To-Last Guardian

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Bonus Episode: All About Westworld

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57: Final Fantasy Road Trip

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56: Honored 2: Dishonored

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55: We All Need Some Distractions

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54: The Skyrim's The Limit

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53: Nintendo's Swift Switch

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52: Fallout For Fallout 4

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51: And The Gunslinger Followed

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50: PlayStephen VR

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49: INSIDE Destiny 2

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Episode 48: Our Iron Has Risen

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Episode 47: Mailbagging

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Episode 46: PlayStation Fro

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Episode 45: Paxtravaganza!

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Episode 44: Deus Ex: Kirk Divided

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Episode 43: No Man's Sky Vs. Punting In The NFL

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Episode 42: No Man's Day-One Patch

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Episode 41: Console Wars Suck

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Episode 40: Ask Us Anything

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Episode 39: What Makes A Classic JRPG?

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Episode 38: Final Fanservice

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Episode 37: How To Build A PC

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BONUS EPISODE: Game of Thrones Season 6 Finale

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Episode 36: Overwatch Is Fun As Hell

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E3 Day Three: So Many Final Fantasys

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E3 Day Two: Zelda, Final Fantasy XV, Teraflops

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E3 Day One: Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony

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E3 Day Zero: EA And Bethesda

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Episode 35: Buckle Up For E3

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Episode 34: Xbox Hank Scorpio

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Episode 33: Charting Uncharted 4

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Episode 32: 'Censorship' And Localization

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Episode 31: Talking Games Journalism

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Episode 30: Nintendo Is Bumming Us Out

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Episode 29: 80-Hour Work Weeks

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Episode 28: A Taste Of Final Fantasy XV

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Episode 27: It's Like Jazz, Man

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Episode 26: No Crying In Virtual Reality

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Episode 25: The Future Of Gaming Hardware

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Episode 24: The Year In StarCraft II

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Episode 23: Tim Schafer

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Episode 22: Rachel Bloom: From YouTube Star To Golden Globe Winner

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Episode 21: Kirk Loves Anime Girls

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Episode 20: Playing All The Wrong Games

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Episode 19: Hot Take Corner

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Episode 18: Tom Clancy's The Witness

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Episode 17: Big Predictions For 2016

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Episode 16: The Great Destiny Malaise

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Episode 15: Learning To Love Speedrunning

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Episode 14: The Year That A Lot Of VR Headsets Come Out

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Episode 13: Every Single Game* Of 2015

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Episode 12: The Kojima Awakens

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Episode 11: Let's Remake Final Fantasy VII

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Episode 10: Too Many Video Games

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Episode 9: Fallout 4 Extravaganza Part 2

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Episode 8: Fallout 4 Extravaganza

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Episode 7: The Worst Game Marketing Ever

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Episode 6: What It's Really Like To Work At Kotaku

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Episode 5: Spilling Secrets

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Episode 4: The Best Mario Maker Player Ever

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Kotaku SplitScreen Episode 3: When Should You Back A Kickstarter?

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Kotaku SplitScreen Episode 2: Destiny Director Luke Smith

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Kotaku SplitScreen Episode 1

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