Episode #98: The Phantom Burp: The 2023 Year-End GamesCast
Featuring: Merve Science is Bad Wolfman Jew The Kappa LittleMac Bloomed Wings 3rdstringhero Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 3:05 – The Game Awards 2023: Discourse 32:25 – The Game Awards 2023: Announcements 1:02:20 – Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry 1:30:25 – LittleMac’s Top 3 1:38:05 – Bloomed Wings’s Top 3 1:40:35 – 3rdstringhero’s Top 3 1:45:05 – Our Favourites: Honourable Mentions 1:52:25 – Our Favourites: #5 2:05:05 – Our Favourites: #4 2:23:35 – Our Favourites: #3 2:56:25 – Our Favourites: #2 3:14:20 – Our Favourites: #1 3:52:15 – Our Disappointments and Least Favourite Games 4:49:00 – Our Surprises 5:07:20 – Conclusion Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep98 Podcast header image from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora . Major spoiler warning for Viewfinder . Minor spoiler warning for Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo . Linkdump, including specific segments with spoiler warnings, after the jump. Introduction (0:15) itch.io page for Butterfly Soup . Steam store page for Wilmot’s Warehouse . The Game Awards 2023: Discourse (3:05) Official website for The Game Awards . Grant Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 . (Source: Rockstar Games on YouTube) Official webpage for the D.I.C.E. Awards . (Source: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences) The Game Awards 2023: Announcements (32:25) Announcement trailer for Marvel’s Blade . (Source: Marvel Entertainment on YouTube) Teaser trailer for Kemuri . Clarification: The description on the YouTube video does provide some information concerning what the game is about, but this information was not delivered at The Game Awards. (Source: UNSEEN on YouTube) Official trailer for the Dave the Diver / Dredge crossover DLC . (Source: MINTROCKET on YouTube) Official reveal trailer for No Rest for the Wicked . (Source: Private Division on YouTube) Power Surge: Sega reveal trailer – TGA 2023. (Source: SEGA on YouTube) Pony Island 2: Panda Circus announcement trailer. (Source: GameSpot Trailers on YouTube) The character whom SungWon Cho played in Lost Judgment is Tesso. (Source: Wikipedia) Reveal trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone . (Source: Behaviour Interactive on YouTube) Reveal trailer for Jurassic Park Survival . (Source: IGN on YouTube) Community Wiki article on the episode “Investigative Journalism.” (Source: Fandom) Wikipedia article on The X-Files episode “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.” Official release date trailer for Black Myth: Wukong . (Source: IGN on YouTube) Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan’s report on sexism at Game Science , the developers of Black Myth: Wukong . (Source: IGN) Announcement trailer for The Rise of the Golden Idol . (Source: PlayStation on YouTube) Light No Fire announcement trailer. (Source: HelloGamesTube on YouTube) Cinematic trailer for Exodus . (Source: Archetype Entertainment on YouTube) Reveal teaser for Lost Records: Bloom & Rage . (Source: PlayStation on YouTube) Announce trailer for Visions of Mana . (Source: Square Enix on YouTube) Trailer for Usual June . (Source: Finji on YouTube) Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry (1:02:20) A list of video game layoffs in 2023 . (Source: Game Industry Layoffs) Wikipedia article on PM Entertainment . Report on layoffs and their circumstances at Bungie . (Source: IGN) LittleMac’s Top 3 (1:30:25) Nintendo Store page for Disney Illusion Island . Nintendo Store page for F-Zero 99 . Steam store page for Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons . #3: Chants of Sennaar . (Source: Steam) #2: Super Mario Bros. Wonder . (Source: Nintendo Store) #1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . (Source: Nintendo Store) Bloomed Wings’s Top 3 (1:38:05) First pick: Let’s! Revolution! (Source: Steam) Second pick: Birth . (Source: Steam) Game of the year: Against the Storm . (Source: Steam) 3rdstringhero’s Top 3 (1:40:35) #1: Baldur’s Gate 3 . (Source: Steam) #2: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon . (Source: Steam) #3: Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader . (Source: Steam) A list