Description

Mike and Ting close the book on 2018 and look forward to 2019.

The "book club" game is: Super Mario Bros. 3.

Pre-Chat

• Cheesy blueberry pie
• What is 5/7 referencing?
• What's the SFW Porn Network?
• YouTube Red is dead: Google renames and raises prices on streaming services
• Gary Vaynerchuk
• WineLibraryTV (YouTube)
• Now Playing at Your Local Multiplex: Torture Porn

Book Club Retrospective

• Torment: Tides of Numenera
• Super Mario Odyssey
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Firewatch
• Minit
• Prey
• Super Mario Bros.
• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Does Have a Run Button
• The Stanley Parable
• Antichamber
• Her Story

Missed in 2018

• God of War on Metacritic
• Red Dead Redemption 2 on Metacritic
• Celeste
• Super Meat Boy
• N and N+
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Papers Please
• Amplitude
• Child of Eden
• Tetris Effect
• Beat Saber
• Ni No Kuni 2
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Persona 5
• The 20 best video games of 2018
• The Game Awards 2018
• Florence
• The Messenger
• Astro Bot Rescue Mission

2019 Look Forward

• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Jan 11)
• Resident Evil 2 (Jan 25)
• Kingdom Hearts 3 (Jan 29)
• Kingdom Hearts 3 community braces itself for spoilers after big gameplay leak
• Yesterday someone commented on the Donald Duck with glock post saying "You mess with the flock, you get the glock." I did my Donald Duck voice, here you go reddit.
• Anthem (Feb 22)
• Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (Mar 15)
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Mar 22)
• Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch Announced
• Dreams
• Pokemon For Nintendo Switch: Here's Everything We Know So Far
• The Last of Us 2
• The Road (2009)
• Blackout: New personal best, 9k chicken dinner (YouTube)
• The Outer Worlds
• Phoenix Point
• System Shock
• Repentance will be The Binding of Isaac's final DLC expansion
• Epic to launch their own Steam-rival store, cutting a better deal for devs
• Discord's game store tries to top Steam and Epic by offering developers more money
• Epic Games Store will offer 'a free game every two weeks' — how does that stack up?

Post-Chat

• Tower of God