It's Christmastime, mistletoe and wine children singing christian rhymes. We kick off this bumper show introducing our guest presenter and a quick run down on what we have been playing before we dive into our recap of the gaming year, with talk of the Cranky awards scattered throughout.

We have a few codes to give away a sack full of listeners questions from ranging from cooking tips to new years resolutions and plenty of  fun and frolics along side the occasional  Christmas cracker joke thrown in, this is the last show of the year.  Wishing all our listeners and web site visitors a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year thank you for all your support, your reviews your feedback and questions each week.

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The penultimate show before the Christmas special and we get into the festive mood with talk of films and shopping and Toz eyeing up his presents under the tree trying to work out what the packages are.

What we have been playing has Toz going back to 2006 for this classic title but does it stand the test of time, I bring you details of Clan Ops and restarting Hitman after my save game corruption and a tip for Fifa 13 if your looking to revamp your Ultimate team. With a good sprinkling of gaming news including details on the Xbox marketplace sale a varied stocking full of listeners questions and the usual and finally this is the show to do your Christmas wrapping to.

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Only 2 more podcasts left till Christmas over in Cranky Towers the gaming is being done at a more leisurely pace, I have had my feet up most of the week recuperating and Toz has dug out a couple of oldies (and I don't mean the presenters).

Toz's Unfinished Swan is now finished  and  I am slowly closing in on Prestige 1 with Black Ops II, we have details on the Clan Ops and a PS3 retro night in the Clubs and Clans section, some news on Bioshock Infinite again being delayed and the Guitar Hero sequel that got cancelled. The and finally is all about the Hitman Absolution promo that went a bit too far.......... or did it? and a smorgasbord of listeners questions all wrapped up in a Christmas selection box that is show 183.

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Well this week got off to a false start with my cancelled operation so what should have been a busy gaming week didn't really happen, and with a catastrophe on one of my games (find out which in my WWBP).

Toz it seems has done all the gaming that I had hoped to do with more on F1 Race Starts and finishing Black Ops 2 (Yes he has finished it).

With more details on the end of year Cranky Gamers awards a bumper week of news with some Wii U chat and plenty of dlc info makes up for a lack of listeners questions this week, but still makes for a fun packed show 182.

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