For this year's Thumbies awards, we vote on the different categories to come up with consensus picks for our various awards.  Of course, lots of arguements ensue.

We finally get around to doing our spoiler episode for the Walking Dead season 1.  This episode contains SPOILERS and is for those who have already played the Walking Dead, or those who don't care.  Skip to 01:25:00 (one hour, twenty-five minutes) to miss any spoilers from the episode, there we have our nibblebits segment on through the rest of the epsiode. 

We recap the 2013 Spike TV VGX awards in all their...glory, covering all the announcements along with the awards.

We cover some new Nintendo titles this week in the 3D Mario game for the Wii U and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.  We also have Jarad (who we've talked about before, but never had on) to talk about The Wolf Among Us. 

Initially we had only planned on doing Battlefield 4 for this episode, but a strong desire to talk about Assassin's Creed 4 developed part way through the main segment. 

The Athletes, in hangover format, give their brief thoughts on the newest Call of Duty.  Contains SPOILERS from the campaign.

Dan, Will and Eric all (finally) got their shiny new PlayStation 4's and crammed in as much time with the new system as they could in 4 days.  Find out their thoughts on the new controller, system, and launch games in Episode 122.

As a farewell to the generation, the Thumbstick Athletes have a roundtable discussion to decide as a group what was the best game of the 7th generation. 

The Athletes do an episode on Path of Exile now that the full version has been released.

Eric takes the lead during the main segment this week, talking about one of his favorite gaming franchises newest release in Batman: Arkham Origins.

Dan makes his triumphant return to the Pokemon universe (since red and Blue) along with Will, a much more experienced Pokemon veteran. 

I know, I know...we skipped the Sega Genesis, but here's our lists of top PS Ones games.

A dual release episode, with Beyond: Two Souls and Wind Waker HD making up the main segment.  Also, Corey returns!

Valve had a host of announcements last week for their super popular game distribution service Steam.  The Athletes, as usual, break down all the announcements and what they'll mean for gamers.

This week Dan, Eric and guest Billy talk about this year's FIFA release and whether it's an improvement from last year.

It's GTA V.....I don't really need to say anything else. 

Part 2 of our 2013 Fall games preview, covering the release of the Xbox One through the end of the year, and any games coming out this year which don't yet have release dates. 

The new Rayman game from Ubisoft, Legends, was supposed to be a Wii U title only apparently, but came out on some other systems as well.  Find out what we though about the Wii U version as well as the Xbox 360 version of Rayman Legends.

It's that time of the year again, where we do a multi-part rundown of all the games coming out in the fall.....2013 edition.

The greatly anticipated new release of the Saint's Row series, under the guidance of a shiny new publisher.  Dan, Corey and Will share their thoughts on the nutty, over-the-top action of Saint's Row IV.

SPOILERS abound in this episode, as we recap the story of To The Moon and our thoughts on it now that we have all finally played it.  Once again, contains SPOILERS!!!!

The first time we do a new release episode on a Wii U title!  This honor goes to Pikmin 3, the first of a fairly solid late summer/fall lineup for Nintendo's new system.

Since we've been out for two years as of yesterday, we decided to do a listener's choice where we answer any and all questions posed to us by our fans/listeners.

With the title being self-evident, I don't really need to go into any further detail.  Get the skinny on Shadowrun Returns!

This week, the Athletes cover their purchases from the 11 days of the Steam Summer Sales, detailing games bought, played, as well as some buyer's remorse. 

Will takes this episode on his back and carries us through the main segment, discussing the newest release of one of his favorite gaming franchises in Dynasty Warriors 8.

Bad internet and a freezing laptop conspired against us this week, making the recording our Hardest Games episode.....well....hard....

Despite the inherent nerdiness contained in this episode, we discuss the newly released Magic the Gathering 2014 in all its strategic glory.

The title speaks for itself, this week we dicuss the lauded PS3 title The Last of Us and the excellent PC titles Company of Heroes 2.

Episode 100!!  On top of hitting our top 10 lists again, we invited some of our previous guests to join us in studio for an update on what they're playing, looking forward to, and thoughts on the new consoles. 

Our long (3 hours on E3 alone) recap on this year's E3, talking about the new consoles as well as a plethora of new games.

We talk about two new releases this week in the stunning indie puzzle platformer The Swapper and Cyber-punk action adventure game Remember Me.

For this week's episode we pick and talk about our top 5 games that we would use to sway a non gamer over to the good side.

This is the better quality recording of our last episode, which was recorded accidently with the webcam microphone instead of the usual mic/mixer.  It was taken from the livestream audio, so it sounds much better but not as good as usual.  The person responsible has been sacked.

With Microsoft finally having the reveal for their next gen system, we can finally weigh in.

We continue our talks on the Metro game series with the newly release Metro: Last Light.

It's just Dan and Corey this week, pre-empting the Metro: Last Light release by talking about the first game in the Metro series, Metro 2033.

For this week's episode, riddled with technical difficulties, we talk about recent indie releases Monaco and Don't Starve.

We catch up on some of the big news stories in the gaming world this week in lieu of our original idea for a show.

Developer/Publisher LucasArts was unceremoniously shut down after being acquired by Disney, so the Athletes pay homage to some of the better LucasArts games.

This week the Athletes recap a previously streamed multiplayer matchup of a classic RTS they all enjoyed in the past as offering their thoughts on the remake.

At a listener's request the Athletes talk about classic games they want to see remade, and in what way.

This episode contains SPOILERS!!! on the ending of BioShock Infinite, so only listen if you've finished the game or don't care about having it spoiled for you!

The new BioShock Infinite is unanimously well recieved by critics throughout the gaming community, so find out the the Athletes thought of it in this week's episode of the Thumbstick Athletes podcast.

We're hopefully getting back on track with the hangover episodes in discussing the upcoming BioShock Infinite.  Full episode on it later this week. 

In this week's podcast, the Athletes all have a different topic from the gaming world to discuss.  Will wonders what he should do about Sim City, Eric wonders which game he should play next, Dan wonders if $70 games are worth it, and Corey talks about the resignation of EA's CEO.

For this week's episode, we do a rundown of some of the iconic controllers from gaming's past all the way up to the current generation.  (and even talk briefly about the next gen controller we know about)

The episode title says it all.  Tomb Raider and Sim City are the topics of discussion this week, as well as the hot topic of the week....the dreaded always online DRM.

Though it was tough to finally get out, the Athletes recap their month of games they should have beaten in February.

Fresh off the announcement, the Athletes discuss the content of Sony's PS4 press release as well as offer up some insightful commentray on the subject.

In the abscence of Corey due to scheduling conflicts, the remaining Athletes discuss their 5 favorite shooters, first person or otherwise. 

Continuing our Gaming 101 series, we go in-depth with the RPG genre.

At a listener's request each of the Athletes list their top 5 favorite video game villains.

In this week's episode we offer up some predictions for the year 2013 in gaming.

Ouya, Project Shield, PS4 and Xbox 720 are all probably coming out at some point this year, so we run down specs, possible release dates and opinions on the various consoles.

In part 2 of our 2013 games preview, we list the games that are coming out this year that don't yet have a solid release date.

Dan, Corey and Will get a chance to record a hangover episode finally, and it's on The Hobbit!  SPOILERS!!!!!!  Don't listen unless you've seen the movie or don't care about having it spoiled.

The first part of our 2013 video game release schedule and preview.