It's our first episode of 2025 and the beats crew are taking a look back at all the games we played in 2024! It's a packed episode kicked off with our annual award show and picks for best games of the year. We also reflect on our favorite gaming moments and run down the stats for all the games we played. Want more? We also unveil our new rating system that will take affect for 2025 as well as the winner from our Nintendo Switch online giveaway. More??? As if that wasn't enough, we then choose the ultimate game of the year award from all of the past Game Award winners. WOW!

Thanks to everyone for listening in 2024 - we've got a bunch of fun episodes planned for 2025! Just a reminder that if you want us to pick a certain theme or ask us a question to please send us an email at beatofthemonth@gmail.com. We hope to hear from you!

Here at Beat of the Month we vote on a theme of the month each and every month (hence the title of the show) and then we play games on that theme. For this month the votes were tallied and the winner was...Dickcember. What exactly is Dickcember do you ask? Well that's a great question since even the people who voted for it don't know!

What I do know, is we played games such as Sonic X Shadow Generations, Cyberpunk, The Grinch that stole Christmas, Alan Wake 2 - and more! We also talked a bit about The Game Awards to kick things off since we recorded shortly after the show aired.

Join us next episode for our own award show where we talk about all the games we played in 2024 as well as our most memorable gaming moments, our year in review stats, and a special segment where we rank the past Game Award winners. We look forward to another year of great themes in 2025!

It's back to back bangers here at Beat of the Month with another deep dive for a highly successful game of 2024 - this time taking a look at Balatro! With an average playtime for each of our crew exceeding 50 hours, we take a look at what keeps bringing us back to play more of this poker themed rougelike. From jokers that radically change the way you play every game, leveling up your hands with planet cards, altering your deck with tarot cards, boss blinds that apply restrictions - there's a ton to talk about.

We also recap an in-person poker night we had where the stakes were big and the trash talk was bigger. Who of the Beats crew came out on top? As usual, we round things out with some card based trivia - will you ace the questions or end up a joker? So roll up your sleeves, grab your sunglasses, and join us - for this deep dive on Balatro!