The games that really shined 2019 weren't sequels to well-established series, they were new worlds with new characters making their marks for the first time. Sure, there were a couple remakes and sequels that were fantastic, but the majority of the best games of the year brought something completely new to the table.
Some of the games that had the biggest hype in 2019, like Kingdom Hearts 3 , fizzled out of the zeitgeist shortly after release because they didn't really do anything interesting. Meanwhile, dark horses like Control and My Friend Pedro proved that there's plenty of space in video games for new properties that do what they do incredibly well.
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SuperMash is a video game that makes video games - Polygon
Nintendo held a 20-minute Indie World showcase today, where the Japanese publisher revealed SuperMash , a new game by studio Digital Continue. As the name implies, SuperMash will allow the player to blend together different types of games in a way that makes every play through unique.
The premise has two siblings who run a shop discovering a game console with special powers. Sheenanigans ensue. Some of the genres you'll be able to mash together include stealth games, platformers, and RPGs, among others — though the process only allows for two genres at a time. The results look wild based on the trailer showcased today. It's almost as if you're creating entirely new types of video games, depending on what you throw together.
How video game storytelling both is and is not like literature — Quartzy
Some years ago, tired of scrolling through Netflix in search of something we hadn't seen yet, I suggested to my partner that we play a video game instead. Not the gaming type, she wasn't too keen on the idea, but I promised something where she didn't have to "aimlessly collect things." The game we played was Dear Esther, which is part of the burgeoning trend in "literary video games."
The suggestion proved successful. She enjoyed the experience and, compelled by immersion and the story, progressed right through the two-hour play-time in one sitting. I knew that Dear Esther would be the perfect game for someone who doesn't like games. All the hallmarks of gamification are absent: you don't have clear objectives, you don't have to overcome obstacles, collect anything, battle anyone, and you can't really die. In Dear Esther, all you really do is walk.
Redbox no longer lets you rent video games - CNET
Redbox was one of the few remaining options for people looking to rent physical copies of games. In several tweets since Sunday, Redbox's customer service account responded to people asking about being unable to rent games, saying they've decided to "shift more focus into physical media with movies, streaming On Demand & new exclusive content."
After considering various factors like changes in the industry, we've decided to shift more focus into physical media with movies, streaming On Demand & new exclusive content moving forward.
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29 Video Games Families Loved Playing This Year, Arranged By ESRB Age Rating
At this time of year we turn our attention to picking the video game of the year. Which, of all the games we have played over the last 12 months, is the one game that stands out above all the others?
Although it can be reduced to checking scores to see which game came out on top, it's actually an opportunity to escape the habit of rating games with numbers and consider which games would work for different family members regardless of what score that have on Metacritic.
How video games can reunite a divided world | World Economic Forum
Inside the weird, wild, and wondrous world of quantum video games | Digital Trends
Bennett's aim wasn't to create a game-playing machine for the sake of it; the reason that somebody might build a games PC today. As writer Tristan Donovan observed in Replay , his superlative 2010 history of video games: "Despite suggesting Ferranti create a game-playing computer, Bennett's aim was not to entertain but to show off the ability of computers to do [math]."
Jump forward almost 70 years and a physicist and computer scientist named Dr. James Robin Wootton is using games to demonstrate the capabilities of another new, and equally large, experimental computer. The computer in this question is a quantum computer , a dream of scientists since the 1980s, now finally becoming a scientific reality.
Chance the Rapper makes 'SuperMe' video game coded by CPS students official music video
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