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Pentiment, Pokémon and a browser game are in my top ten from the last year. I won’t lie: when I started thinking about this list a month ago, my first thought was, “oh no, all I’ve played this year is Yakuza.” As you’ll see in the list
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I enjoy putting this list together every year because I love reflecting on the new games that made an impact on me. But I’ve found it increasingly hard to think about a game purely in terms of the year it was released, because I’m spending more time playing
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Screenshots of work-in-progress games let us imagine visions of things we’ll never play. Kamek is coming to Mario Kart Tour. If this news doesn’t move you, well, I get it: here’s a minor Mario character coming to a spinoff mobile game that already has 125 playable characters.
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And a few others worth mentioning. This is probably the part where I should make some deep, sweeping statement about the effect of the pandemic on my psyche in 2020, as told through the lens of my gaming habits. Ah, perhaps games like Miles Morales and Persona 5 demonstrate my
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And also my pick for the best game to play on the toilet. I understand why I didn’t do a list last year, but in hindsight, I’m more than a little sad about it. Last December I left my job of 14 years and flew off to the