@creepywelps: "Their competency came into question, people don't like that very much." It occurs to me that I may have misinterpreted this as directed at us, not the devs. In that case, let me apologize.

As for personal lists, we won't be publishing our Top 10s this year, but we will have a special thing later in the week. Cuphead is on our best Xbox Games list, however.

@creepywelps: Just wanted to offer you proof since you asked. Joey handled our gameplay footage so I just played the game on my time for fun.

@creepywelps: If you need to verify that badly, feel free to check my Steam account to see I completed the game: ID is chaingunpope

@creepywelps: Yeah, our series of expert level S-rank runs of all the bosses clearly shows our incompetence. Got us there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vowv1kVXdCc

@gotrekfabian: Let's just say you shouldn't stop checking the GOTY hub until the week is out ;)

@gotrekfabian: Sadly, that was our cutoff -- the expansion had to require the base game to qualify for this :/

@ello432: A totally fair outlook, and I appreciate your level-headed response. I hope this passage at least keeps your chin up for next year's stuff:

"PUBG will obviously be eligible next year, and before you worry that we will forget about the game if it should come and go in the meantime, we won't. In recent years, games like Bravely Default and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker won GameSpot awards in the year following their initial release."

EA games playable at previews (or in the "play 4 days early!" category on Origin, etc.) are generally the exact same game everyone will be playing at launch; we merely get hands on ahead of time. But you'll see a clear, massive difference from PUBG's initial March release to the December 20th 1.0 version.

And yes, had PUBG left Early Access prior to our Dec 1 cutoff for awards (which is, frankly, the only reason we need), we would certainly have reviewed it.

@merwanor: PUBG has certainly thrown a lot of us--and other sites for that matter--for a loop this year. Keep an eye out, though; we just might have something to say about it.

@timmyp1982: I don't know, I could buy cards packs all day, almost like candy or something.