In December 2009, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were still years away. The Nintendo Switch? Further still.
Gaming on the iPhone was barely a year old, and smartphones weren't yet able to power a cultural phenomenon like "Pokémon Go."
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Online gaming was already a staple, even on home game consoles. "Minecraft" had already begun to emerge as a new generation's "Super Mario Bros."
It's been a decade of evolution in gaming, and these are the 10 games that pushed the whole medium forward:
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Harrisburg University's esports team Storm hosted the annual HUE Invitational with 64 teams from across the country competing, September 21, 2019. The Storm plays Maryville in the semifinal round at the Whitaker Center. Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive
A newly announced program at Harrisburg University will allow students to pursue a Bachelors of Science degree in Esports.
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"I hope people ask that question," said program lead Charles Palmer. "Because that's a great way to start a conversation."
Why Control is my game of the year - The Verge
It's not something you'd expect the normally stoic Jesse to let out, given her predicament. Control is a game about navigating a paranormal US government agency in an attempt to find out the truth about what happened to your brother, and things get pretty dark. But it cuts to the core of why this is my favorite game of 2019. Remedy Entertainment didn't just create an exhilarating action sequence; it had the confidence to know that its players would be thinking the exact same thing as Jesse.
How Video Games Discovered Their Humanity | Frieze
Given that, over the past ten years, the medium of video games has ballooned to encompass everything from large-scale industrial projects to homemade experiments, reviewing the last decade in gaming – and the narratives that have emerged within it – is an impossible task. So, let's begin with a proviso: I will make no attempt to weave the corporate powerhouses of blockbuster game releases into some arbitrary, decade-long chronicle of progression.
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A case in point is developer Davey Wreden, who progressed from The Stanley Parable (2012) – a fourth-wall-obliterating comedy, written with William Pugh, which took games themselves to task as works of manipulation and institutionalization – to his deeply personal masterpiece, The Beginner's Guide (2015).
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Scares in the Snow: Seven Games That Embrace the Horrors of Winter - Bloody Disgusting
Many video games capitalize on winter as a form of horror in and of itself, and without further ado, here are 7 of the best winter-set horror video games. I hope you brought a jacket (and maybe a flashlight or a shotgun, depending on the situation).
Dead Space 3 is often seen as the black sheep of EA's seminal third-person survival-horror series. But the bulk of its runtime takes place on a messed up, twisted version of Hoth. And, in the eyes of this writer, it may just be the scariest title in the series. It uses internal horror (the fractured mind of Isaac Clarke) to emphasize the horrific events going on around Isaac.
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