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It's Christmas time, and the year is winding down. That means an empty office around here, but boisterous Brit and all-around great guy John Davison drops by to talk about his transition back to hardcore games press. He joins David Ellis to discuss the themes that stood out in 2009, and put on their psychic caps to make some bold predictions for 2010. When will the Wii HD be announced? Will the PSP survive the year? When will Facebook take over the games space?

The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), Davis Ellis, Greg Ford and Andrew Fitch as they shock the world by declaring the Sports Anomaly Game of the Year, shout at each other about general silliness, and basically celebrate the reason for the season: sports video games!

Happy Holidays everyone! For our final podcast of the year, we decided to do things a little differently. We close out the year with the first-ever Oddcast Awards, share our favorite gaming moments of 2009 while also reading listener submissions.

We've checked out for the year, so Sharkey, Tina, and Mike join Jeremy for an aimless, rambling discussion of random holiday gaming memories. Then Sharkey sticks around to talk about Habitat before Justin and Jade hop in to talk about FFVIII's on PSN.

Games, dammit! That's the mantra this week as we talk almost too many titles to list. We go two segments deep with Mass Effect 2 (one spoiler free) and find out if Matt Leone or David Ellis would make a better digital parent. Then we follow that up with exploitation central via No More Heroes and Bayonetta. Finally we round out the show with tales of Splinter Cell Conviction Co-op and Red Dead Redemption.

The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), Davis Ellis, Greg Ford and Andrew Fitch as they discuss the coming of Madden Ultimate Team, reactions to UFC 2010's trailer, the latest Madden roster update, hot stove league's wheeling-and-dealing and the VGA Awards sports games of the year.

Jeremy Parish, Kat Bailey, Travis Williams, and Christian Nutt ask themselves, "What is an RPG?" It's a soul-searching, history-spanning semantics argument for the ages. Also: Talking about Etrian Odyssey III and the rebirth of Nihon Telenet.

1UP's BioShock 2 cover story kicks off today's discussion as Travis and Mike drool over the cover artwork a little bit, Jade tells us about the choo-choo mechanics in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and Paleolithic Bruce Wayne gets our attention in Final Notes.

With the VGA's looming we're recording on the road (pardon our echoes) in not-so-sunny LA. Friend of the show Billy Berghammer joins former Pandemic producer Cory Lewis as we talk about the studio closing and relive memories of the Gamecube launch. Along the way we discuss our favorite games of the year and what the VGA's need to do to become the Academy Awards of video games.

Parish, Barnholt, Haywald, and Kohler discuss the strange resuscitation of Virtual Console, the overlooked legacy of Zelda's portable entries, and the 15th anniversary of PlayStation.

The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), Davis Ellis, Greg Ford and Andrew Fitch as they discuss EA Sports' new game, make their picks in a World Cup preview, announce the schedule for Madden NFL 10's roster updates, along with NBA Live 10 and NBA Unrivaled patches, and finally dig in to Friday Night Lights Season 4!

Our long-delayed fourth chapter arrives at last, with a flashback sequence in which we interrogate members of the World of Warcraft dev team before discussing Dragon Age in alarming detail.

It's a jam-packed show this week as Justin Haywald joins the crew in the studio for the main show to discuss Silent Hill Shattered Memories. In the first after-show segment, Nelson Laut joins Mike to talk with Brandon and Hilary from UGO's TV podcast, Toob Tied. Finally, Mike gets on the line with Bitmob.com's Dan Hsu discuss his team's involvment with the new EGM.

We go a little Hollywood this week as PC Gamer founder turned motion picture writer Gary Whitta joins us to talk about his career transition.

The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), Greg Ford and Andrew Fitch chatting Backbreaker football, FIFA 10's mudhole stomp to sales chart bliss, the latest thoughts on Madden NFL Arcade, the new Madden patch and so much more!

What do bloody sneakers, biker soldiers, crappy videogame movies, sliding block puzzles, Semtex and The Clapper all have in common? I guess you could use them together in some lame new torture technique, but they're also subjects that came up in this week's gaming news. Which we talk about. With our mouths.

Mike has a gripe about PAX East and lets us all in on his complaint. The crew talk a little about the upcoming Game of the Year community poll and delve into the some sketchy practices by online social network game makers. Also: CAT GAME CAT GAME CAT GAME CAT GAME CAT GAME!!!

The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), David Ellis, Greg Ford and Andrew Fitch in a Thankstravaganza where they interview MLB 2K10 cover athlete Evan Longoria, day-and-date review Madden NFL Arcade, discuss each of its Gamebreakers, Fight Night Round 4's latest update, France's place in the World Cup, and The Road hits theaters!

With the holiday season upon us we change things up a bit. Sam Kennedy, Jeremy Parish, and Matt Leone join David Ellis to take a look back at the history of 1UP, from it's early days to this year.

On this week's podcast, we discuss what the founder of the PlayStation is up to, Left 4 Dead 2, PC mods and hacks, and also bring in Ethan Levy (Producer of Dragon Age Journey) for recession gaming.