Hi everyone :)

In the festive spirit we're back with the gift of a **special episode** of Aches & Games for your holiday listening pleasure.

In a fast-becoming annual tradition we cut straight to the gaming and take turns to run though each of our 5 favourite games we played during 2025.

*Five picks each (with some crossover perhaps?)

*“Honourable mentions”

*PLUS what 2026 game we’re most looking forward to playing.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro & overall thoughts on 2025

04:09 Our top 5s

60:15 Looking ahead to 2026

66:00 Wrapping up & big thank you!

We'll be back in January for our next normal monthly show - though for one month only it'll be the second Friday of the month. So in the meantime, enjoy and we hope you have a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year.

As always, we'd love to hear from you via our socials@achesandgames, our Facebook page or by emailing achesandgamespod@gmail.com - hey, why not share your own top 5s and we'll read them out on January's show.

And please check out the website at www.achesandgames.co.uk where you'll alsofind some great written reviews of the games we play.

Cheers!

In this month's episode: we review Double Fine's Keeper, Alan Wake 2, Motorsport Manager and more. We discuss what else we've been playing and watching, plus James dices with death at a fireworks display and I embrace the festivities with some Christmas activities. All that and more in December's Aches & Games!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intros

02:25 What we've been up to

19:24 Keeper

33:51 Other games we've been playing

65:37 Next Month's Sub Club pick is...

67:04 Newsbytes

74:37 Wrapping up

As always, we'd love to hear from you via our socials @achesandgames, our Facebook page or by emailing achesandgamespod@gmail.com. And please check out the website at www.achesandgames.co.uk where you'll also find some great written reviews of the games we play.

Cheers!

In this month's epic episode: we each go on a journey of discovery with Indika; James drops into the Simpsons season of Fortnite and completes one of his new favourite games of all time; and I get suitably spooky with Ghost Town on the Meta Quest and Alan Wake 2. Plus we discuss the recent (ish) changes to Xbox Game Pass, Halo coming to PlayStation and some upcoming releases that have caught our eye.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intros

03:46 What we've been up to

25:04 Indika (last month's "Sub Club" pick)

33:49 Other games we've been playing

80:51 Next Month's Sub Club pick is...

82:24 Newsbytes

95:37 Wrapping up

As always, we'd love to hear from you via our socials@achesandgames, our Facebook page or by emailing achesandgamespod@gmail.com. And please check out the website at www.achesandgames.co.uk where you'll also find some great written reviews of the games we play.

Cheers!