

Two were announced, but without release dates. In a console release year, it’s strange that we didn’t have a racing game to test drive new consoles with. Ultimate x Minecraft, Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor Retrospective #2 This award is for the piece of content that made the biggest impact on us in 2020. Some games turn around entirely and become something we never thought they would. Thanks to post-game support, the games we love the most can get even better. Runners Up: Phasmophobia, Deep Rock Galactic Best DLC/Expansionĭownloadable content, expansions, and updates are a regular part of video games today. This award is for the game that did something special to unite us, for the game that found a way to get us playing together. Since we played our first game we have found a way to share it with others, even when it wasn’t designed to do so. Runners Up: Phantasy Star Online 2, Tetris Effect Connected Best Multiplayer This year continued to exemplify why Xbox Game Pass is essential for Xbox owners. Microsoft managed to transition into a new generation of consoles with ease and Xbox Game Pass let us stay up with everything published by the first-party. We each felt the pull of exploration and a want for discovery, and we each found our own answers to satisfy the need. Runners Up: Tetris 99, Untitled Goose Game Retrospective #1Ģ020 was the perfect year to get lost in something. While last year, we never landed on a winner, we found ourselves with quite a bit of 2019’s games to choose from this year. Runners Up: Open World Navigation Map Reveal for Halo Infinite, Demon’s Souls Remake Announcement 2020’s 2019 Game of the YearĪs we are highlighting even more this year than previous years, we play a lot more than just what was released in a single year and often find ourselves catching up with something from the year before.
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Winner: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 Reveal While 2020 was a change in the way we typically received video game news, we saw companies find new ways to reach us and we were able to share excitement and hope for something new. One thing that has continually brought us together are those times in the video game industry where developers and publishers get to show off what they have been creating. Runners Up: Nioh 2, Paper Mario: The Origami King Favorite Industry Moment The award goes to the game that we wish we would have played and will hopefully be talking about throughout the next year. For one reason or another the games we nominate slipped through the cracks. While we found ourselves with more time to play games this year, we still have games that we missed out on playing. When we reach Game of the Year, we will read our current list of nominees and deliberate the winner as we would in previous years, eventually crowning a winner. In between rounds of award winners, we’ll each share a game that meant something to us and why. These might not have been released in 2020, but they meant something to us when we played them. We’re going to spend a few minutes throughout the episode to celebrate some of the games that stuck with us the most in 2020. Then, we’ll share some of our experiences with each game and why it deserved the award. We’ve worked behind the scenes using a spreadsheet and some math, with a bit of wiggling one way or another to determine the winners of each category.Īs we read through each category, we’ll name the winner and two runners up. We’re limiting the entire process to a single, shorter episode. This year, we’re changing a bit of how our awards are chosen and announced.
