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With a brief lull in new games on their plates, Jeff and J.D. are scrambling to get caught up on their backlogs. That means looking back on Conker's Fur Day, cleaning up some aliens in XCOM 2, and bracing in fear for the coming months. Will J.D. have time for the Division? Will Jeff have time to live? In between debates on the matter of free time, expect an update on Street Fighter V's missing Arcade Mode, next month's Games with Gold, and a reboot of a series that by all rights should not succeed and apparently has a huge budget.

To figure out what it is Jeff has not shut up, J.D. has taken it upon himself to dive into the tactical horror game of XCOM. In the realm of games that aren't going on four years old, both Dark Souls 3 and Quantum Break are offering fun incentives to preorder them on Xbox One, Fallout 4's first wave of DLC has been announced, and a big fan reboot is almost definitely going to be killed off.

The upcoming weeks appear to be full beta season as the big multiplayer games of the year do their best to test servers and patience. Jeff and J.D. are ready to keep you notified, as soon as Jeff can be pulled away from XCOM 2. A lot of sad or worrisome news this week, too, for fans of GameTrailers or Mad Catz products. You know, the three of you.

Jeff and J.D. spent a little bit of intimate time with the Division this weekend and are ready to tell you all about its RPG-y, Mass Effect-y, PvP-y gaminess and if they look forward to it. After that there's a brief debate on if Dark Souls is open world, what Nintendo's planning in March for the rest of the world, and a brief PSA that you're probably very familiar with on the effectiveness of reviews.

I have no idea how this episode about such silly things as Five Nights at Freddy's World, a silly indie Steam game, and a not-quite-well reviewed Final Fantasy spinoff stretched out so long. Was it the discussion on Uncharted's past with Jeff? JD's neverending love of all things turtle and ninja? A discussion on Pikachu's manly voice?

The well is dry, citizens, and the news is being squeezed from the stones. This week Jeff and J.D. discuss some updates to the Xbox One dashboard that are coming, well, eventually. They talk about the EA Access program and why it's silly. They discuss an upcoming DLC for Cities: Skyline! And there are absolutely no tangents about anything.

2016 is here, ready to mess up every check you need to write and form you need to sign. With a whole year behind them, Jeff and J.D. look back at their favorite games and pick one (or two) for particular remembrance. Once that's out of the way, it's on to the Big Ol' List of games for the next year. And man, there are a lot.

This last week has been more than a little Nintendo-y, besides the expected, giant robot reasons: the final Smash Bros Nintendo Direct dropped two more DLC characters into our laps just yesterday, while last week there was the drama about Rare Replay that came from nowhere, and the revelations about Minecraft for Wii U. Don't worry, there's stuff in here for everyone else; Hideo Kojima's finally officially left Konami, after all, and Harmonix is being coolly open about where Rock Band is going.

With a total of around 46 hours total played of Xenoblade Chronicles X, Jeff and J.D. are going to inundate you with opinions, facts, and gameplay details of the Wii U's latest huge openworld JRPG. Or were you hoping for a breakdown of the awards, announcements, and events of the Game Awards 2015? Or maybe Sony Experience? That Nintendo announcement from Monday? THERE'S TOO MUCH AAAAAAH

Things get silly in the PSTS recording booth this episode when Jeff and J.D. give you a brief rundown of all of the one-sentence news that's parading around today: hirings, rumors, and half-stated announcements. Along the way are yet more things to expect at tomorrow's Game Awards, and what J.D. thinks of the Great War in Valiant Hearts.

With Turkey Day on the horizon, that means one thing on Friday: a ton of things going on sale. To prep themselves, Jeff and J.D. have been trying to tear through games (besides Fallout) and mostly failing to finish them--but that doesn't mean discussions on psychic games, lovable companions, and maybe a game or two around the corner isn't in store.

There's been a lot of controversy about Bethesda's latest glitchy game, and Jeff spends the first bit of this episode telling you that it doesn't really matter because Fallout 4 is fun. After that expect a lot of detail from the Nintendo Direct last week, the first one since Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's death. So there's a lot.

Autumn is in full force which means games are coming out along with excitement over the ensuing holiday season. Nintendo's making announcements again, Bethesda's making glitchy games, and Take Two is taking down EULA-breaking mods. Plus Jeff and J.D. discuss what censorship is, the full list of backward-compatible Xbox One games, and which Shep is CanonShep.

Subscribers to WoW is down, a movie is coming out, and Activision/Blizzard still have more money than God. That's the theme in today's podcast, between discussion on that Metroid short film going around, why talking simulators are just nice if you have a cup of tea or something, and seriously I swear we talked about Pokemon Go before J.D., come on!

Hot off of the presses, this upcoming November holds more excitement than originally anticipated (what with Fallout 4, Battlefront, Need for Speed and everything else) because mostly Jeff and J.D. will be able to make better Mario Maker levels. There are a couple of Halloween events, a few big franchises whose released just popped out, and quite a few teases and tastes from Paris Game Week. Which is a thing.

A bunch of new games were started this week by your intrepid duo, and while it's too early for full reviews, they sure are ready to talk about their experiences and first looks at last year's scary games d'être, Alien Isolation and the Evil Within. Then there's some fresh Payday 2 drama (but isn't there always?) and maybe a little light that can be shed on this whole Hideo Kojima thing. They round off the night as any good night ends: with a long reading of every single DLC coming to Arkham Knight.

Against all odds, Jeff and J.D. managed to hammer out quite a few games in the past week, with the most important one involving a number of plastic instruments and an annoyed wife. In between songs they'll talk about the Star Wars Battlefront beta and why people are weird for not liking it, an overall round-up of Demon's Souls, and lightly touch on Georgia O'Kiefer Sutherland. Then it's on to a substantiated rumor that has both of your heroes excited, and, somehow even more.

You won't have to worry about hearing of the bloody exploits of Jeff and J.D. in Bloodborne ever again after this podcast--until the DLC come out, of course. While J.D. was busy fighting a final boss to remember, Jeff was testing out a bunch of new things: Metal Gear Online, Rock Band 4, and even the Need for Speed beta. In the news world there's a journalist who made herself the story, a Wii U exclusive coming to PC, and a new expansion to Far Cry 4 that got leaked from Turkish. Or whatever.

This past week Jeff has managed to peel himself off of the Metal Gear teat, but don't think that he's done with things to say about it. Meanwhile J.D. has still been tooling around with the greatest set of level-editing tools, with more to say on THAT. And of course the world has kept turning, bad games have come out, odd remakes have been released to non-acclaim, and Hitman has a proper release date and more caveats than a TV ad for pills.

It's been two weeks since the last podcast, meaning two weeks of time with Big Boss, with Mario and his little wrench, and with the news hounds. Luckily there hasn't been much news, apart from a few delays, an odd Nintendo patent, and something a-brewing with the voice actors' union, but there is a lot to talk about when it comes to the final "proper" Metal Gear game (for the last time, we swear), and especially when it comes to a game that lets you make your own Mario levels. Your own levels!