The ongoing covid-19 pandemic placed a brighter-than-usual spotlight on gaming in 2020, with an isolated population looking for entertainment they could enjoy from the safety of home. How fortunate then that alongside the year's many maladies, 2020 also delivered some of the most memorable games in recent years.
How fortunate we were to spend so much time with such admirable titles. And how fitting, with January nearly here, that Launcher's 2020 Game of the Year centers on an escape from hell.
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Cyberpunk 2077 review: A stunning achievement, if you can overlook the glitches
Video game firms' obsession with building ever more expansive, content-rich worlds has led to many recent blockbusters feeling like they were rolled off a factory production line.
The pressure to deliver 50+ hour games, while keeping production costs under control, has increasingly seen open-world titles, in particular, dilute their best content with hours of filler, with systems designed specifically to maximise time played, rather than deliver the most unique experience.
OPINION | Is it time to abandon physical video games and go digital-only?
While I don't have glass cases full of rare items or a complete set of every game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, I do consider myself a bit of a video game collector. I have thousands of games from across the decades, ranging from the Atari 2600 and Intellivision all the way up to the current era with the Nintendo Switch. It's materialistic, but I take pride in my shelves full of games.
And yet, with the release of the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox, I can't tell you with any certainty that I will ever buy a physical game disc for these new systems.
After Grand Theft Auto and Minecraft, Balenciaga: The Video Game? - The New York Times
The year is 2031. Cities are concrete jungles crossed by flying buses that can twist in space and populated by avatars in oversize puffers and shredded jeans that resemble antique draperies over windows to interior worlds. They gesture toward posters promoting a secret rave in a watery wood that leads to a red rock desert where a woman in silver armor pulls a sword from a stone.
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A Look at Swimming in Video Games
For years, sports like soccer, baseball, football, and hockey release a video game every year with improved graphics, updated players, squads, and new features. However for sports like swimming and diving, they only come out every four years in a video game based on the Olympics for that year.
Some games that have come out in the past that are known are the Olympic Games for 2008, 2012, and 2020. While swimming and diving might not be the main part of the game because it's the Olympics, both are an event that you can play whether it be on PC or console.
The 10 best video games of 2020, according to critics - Business Insider
Whether you were carefully outfitting a tropical island, exploring City 17 as Gordon Freeman, or something else entirely, there were a ton of great games to play in 2020.
Hitting the Books: An analog computer ushered in the video game era | Engadget
Long disparaged by the Baby Boomer generation as either a childish distraction or a l eading cause for the downfall of civilization , video games have weathered that criticism and grown into the dominant storytelling medium of the modern world — not to mention a $136 billion industry.
Once upon a time there was an early hominid. And possibly, at some point, this Early Hominid threw a rock at a mastodon he was hunting, or at a saber-tooth tiger, or at another Early Hominid, and missed; instead the rock hit a hollow tree, and it made a funny sound. “Ha, ha!” said Early Hominid, forgetting about the mastodon. And so he picked up another rock and threw it at the tree. This time he missed. And he tried again, and again, until he was out of rocks.
Eat, drink, play: the recipe for memorable food in video games | Games | The Guardian
F ood has always played a vital role in video games. From Pac-Man's bonus fruits to Mario's magical mushrooms, it has provided everything from sustenance to supernatural abilities – and in games such as Cooking Mama and Overcooked, food preparation became a genre in its own right. Game developers, like the creators of cooking programmes and recipe books, have discovered that well-presented food is irresistible – even when we can't eat it.
In the modern games industry, where detail and authenticity are paramount, the depiction of food has become an art form. Kaname Fujioka, executive director on Capcom's fantasy adventure, Monster Hunter: World, says: "We design the ingredients and recipes based around the grade of the food, as well as any seasonal events it may be tied to.
Happening on Twitter
Hades has been named Game of the Year by @washingtonpost, which is all the more amazing when you consider all the f… https://t.co/byBOzmrjOt SupergiantGames (from San Francisco, CA) Mon Dec 07 16:59:51 +0000 2020
From the LEGO Batman series to the Arkham series, which video game Joker is your favorite? https://t.co/fD4fKmlU63 https://t.co/VhoR6UJxgK IGN Mon Dec 07 09:00:16 +0000 2020
Congrats once again to @SupergiantGames for winning The Washington Post's first Game of the Year! "Hades" is a game… https://t.co/Bp2x36X7Nj GenePark (from Washington, DC) Tue Dec 08 00:30:45 +0000 2020
"When reality plunged us into chaos this year, so many of the best interactive experiences offered us respite." Pre… https://t.co/2odHmlJigD Slant_Magazine (from United States) Mon Dec 07 15:11:28 +0000 2020
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