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Game of the Year: Grahams Top 5 PS5, PS4 Games of 2020 Share: Alongside our staff-voted Game of the Year awards, each of our writers have crafted their own personal lists, covering their top five PlayStation 5 and PS4 titles of 2020. Today, its the turn of reviewer Graham Banas. I’ve been on record as having a particular soft spot for rhythm games in VR. But even with that, Pistol Whip is a seriously impressive title. It’s a phenomenal rail shooter completely in isolation from all of the mu...

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The 25 Best Switch Games of 2020 The Switch was more than a videogame machine this year. It quite literally helped many of us stay sane during the earliest days of the pandemic, when most of society was shut down tight and the only human contact many of us had was with the decidedly not human (and, yes, not remotely real) critters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That may not be our favorite Switch game of the year—scroll down to find out what takes the crown—but it’s hard to argue aga...

The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2020 It’s hard to imagine what the state of the Nintendo Switch would look like right now if 2020 hadn’t been so horrible. What could have been one of the hardware’s more stagnant years turned into one of its most memorable, when the soothing escapism of Animal Crossing met a world desperately in need of a soothing escape. Advertisement 2019 was a very good year for the Switch. There was a constant stream of excellent first-party games, along with a ro...

I graduated from college in 2008, and after 60 cover letters, five phone screeners, and two interviews, secured an entry-level role at a forgotten entertainment website. Four months later, the U.S. entered the Great Recession. Dozens of my co-workers had lost their jobs by November, and in December, the office’s secretary had a panic attack that ended with her weeping through prophecies about the end of the world as paramedics strapped her onto a gurney and wheeled her out the front door. Mos...

Best Narrative Final Fantasy VII Remake (written by Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroaki Iwaki, and Sachie Hirano) Ghost of Tsushima (written by Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, and Jordan Lemos) Hades (written by Greg Kasavin) The Last of Us Part II (written by Neil Druckmann and Haley Gross) Best Art Direction Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Hades (Supergiant Games) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Best Scor...