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Alex Navarro's Top 11-ish Games of 2020 Thank you to @nomchonks on Twitter for this strange, but wonderful image. Alex Navarro is an editor for Giant Bomb, and doesn't especially feel like writing a jokey bio this year. He's @alex_navarro on Twitter. Trying to care about video games in 2020 felt like trying to eat a nice breakfast in the middle of a bombing campaign. Games are, reflexively, the thing I tend to ensconce myself in when things are not going well, but to say that things were not "going well" in 2020 is an understatement bordering on obscenity. With few exceptions, every time I bo...

Metacritic Reveals Top 50 Highest-Scoring Nintendo Switch Games Of 2020 The Nintendo Switch game of the year, according to Metacritic, goes to the indie-hit Hades by Supergiant games. Ori and the Will of the Wisps received the same score (93). And the highest-rated Switch exclusive of 2020, unsurprisingly goes to Game Microsoft Game Studios Annapurna Interactive BlitWorks DANGEN Entertainment NIS America Capcom XSEED Games Sega Aksys Games Inti Creates Aksys Games Capcom Nintendo Nintendo Persona 5 Royal on the PlayStation 4, with a Metacritic score of Leave a comment down below. About Li...

Are there any games from 2020 that you feel didn't quite get the praise they deserved? We sure do. Come along with us as COGconnected takes you through the list of games from 2020 that you should have played but (probably) didn't.

Kentucky Route Zero ( KR0 for short) in the context of the first Trump-Clinton debate. It’s relevant to that because it’s a tour through coal-country America, and it engages with the desolation there that’s fueling Trump’s support.   As a portrait of the region, it’s a Picasso or maybe a Goya, not a Velázquez. It has moments where it approaches documentary realism, but it mostly traverses an imaginary landscape reflecting its creators’ perceptions, inspired by their real-life travels in Kentucky.   KR0’s medium is a computer game, but “game” is misleading. There’s no el...

Soapbox: Kentucky Route Zero Was a Game Made Specifically For Me Editor's Note: This article contains some spoilers for Kentucky Route Zero's story. The music slowly falls away. The camera pulls out. Let me just wipe my face. Are those tears? The horses have been buried and the funeral is over. While this may not have been the closing moment of Kentucky Route Zero, it’s certainly the emotional peak. Those horses meant a lot to that poor town, and as I’ve discovered in the months since I completed the game, they meant a lot to me too. Even now, writing this, just listening to the song that...