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The Game Awards, The Games At The Game Awards And The Games I Played On My New 5070ti - The Cleanup 17/12/25

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Gamer Christmas has come and gone and with nothing left in the year but weird ports and whatever HEART of CROWN Online is, it's time to not only reflect on the year gone by but what to expect in the coming year. With that said... Geoff Keighley's Gacha Game and Muppet Showcase Spectacular! Another year, another mildly embarrassing Game Awards show. I watch this stupid thing every year and it always disappoints, not just in announcements but also in how the awards are presented. If they aren’t just rapidly awarded in bulk on the pre-show, they’re given 30 seconds of speech time before being played off. Now, it wasn’t an absolute disaster like prior years, but it still had its cringe moments between Geoff implying physical relations with a pig puppet and the cast of Street Fighter clearly hitting the bar before presenting. Still, there were some announcements of note, and so I thought I’d give my… uh, thoughts on some of the biggest and more interesting reveals. Divinity Probably...
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Games of the Year List Archive (2010 - 2021)

Please note this is more or less copies directly from the old Giant Bomb lists and auto-formatted so there might be some oddness but this is essentially my Games of the Year lists in their entirety.   Game of the Year 2010 2010 is a very important year for me in regards to video games. It's really the first year I had a regular flow of money. Seeing how video games are my number 1 hobby naturally a nice big chunk of my paycheck went to that. So actually buying and playing more than 10 current video games this year I am actually capable of making a top 10 list for the year. Thinking about this list is really hard. Some of these games I loved but are completely absent from the list which breaks my heart but that just shows you how awesome 2010 was so let's get started. 1. Mass Effect 2 While I had high expectation for Dead Rising 2 that Dead Rising 2 met, Mass Effect 2 had high expectation and it completely blew it out of the water. When I was writing this list the first thing...
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