2019 has come and gone, and it's time to remember it with some of my favorite games of the year. In case you're wondering, that's not 2017's NieR: Automata in the header. It's Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers' NieR-themed raid. Yeah, FFXIV...

What a year 2019 was! It's been a while since I've seen so many diverse entries come up as real contenders for game of the year. From an Estonian police RPG, to a game about a mischievous goose, if you couldn't find something to love in 201...

2019 sure was a year, and if I do say so myself, it felt like a pretty strong one for games. Strong enough that I actually had genuine trouble just narrowing down the entries that stuck out in my mind, where usually the struggle is in bendi...

Last year was my first year collating the community vote for game of the year, and ever since then, I've been looking forward to doing it again as it warms my heart to see all the passion and love this community has for games. That be...

For years, we begged Bethesda to just give us another New Vegas. Fallout 4 wasn't it. 76 definitely wasn't it. So Obsidian rolled up its sleeves and said "screw it, we'll do it ourselves." It's fitting, too, because Obsidian ...

It's a bit fitting, isn't it, that Destructoid's final award for portable gaming should go to a developer well known for its support of video game devices long after they've been replaced. Over the last 12 calendar months, Atlus has given V...

Revisiting Resident Evil 2 was both a risky and dubious undertaking. After all, many people cite the 1998 survival horror sequel as one of the greatest video games of all-time. That's not an acclaim tossed around recklessly, either. The cha...

I feel like we're running out of adjectives adequate enough to properly describe GRIS. When it released for PC and Switch in December of last year, it struck a chord with anyone willing to give it a shot, taking them on a journey through so...

Obsidian traded one wasteland for another, from the post-nuclear apocalypse to the intergalactic mess caused by mega-corporate mega-greed. Truth be told, Obsidian has never really had trouble diversifying. Obsidian has pulled out the best i...

The first time I beat Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, more than anything, I was relieved. I felt free. Difficulty is a near-endless talking point in conversations about From Software games, and everyone's had their say by now. It's a matter of p...

All heaven, no hell. That's one vague way to describe Devil May Cry 5. There are so many more possible descriptions, each one ratcheting up the peculiarity and ridiculousness in step with the level of detail given. But pulling all the way b...

I know, I know! As we discussed at length last December, we have an annual cutoff date for Game of the Year nominations of December 1. That's to prevent hasty choices where a project hasn't had enough time to marinate yet; to really sit in ...

Dearly beloved. We are gathered here to celebrate this thing called handheld gaming. Since they first popped up on the scene in the late 1970s, portable gaming devices have allowed millions of people to enjoy a little bit of fun no matter w...

Mobile gaming was difficult to get excited about at the beginning of 2019. Most of the titles I booted up in the first few months were hits from 2018 -- or Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic -- as everything new for the year just didn't sta...

For some, the mere concept of a remaster or remake is dirty by design. For these critics, revisiting a title is often chided as a sign of creative bankruptcy, an affront to the game it replicates, or an easy exploitation of fan nostalgia. I...

It's been a wild year for the Switch: perhaps the best one yet. "The little portable console that could" completely dispelled the notion of financial failure from the Wii U era, and catapulted Nintendo back into the spotlight. As of today t...

We're at that point again where console players and PC players are divergent in their hopes for the future. Console folks are like astronauts strapped in and sitting on the launch pad, eager to blast off into the new worlds of PlayStation a...

This is...this is probably the last time we do this, right? At least, it's the last time we do it in this exact way. By December of next year, the Xbox Series X will have ushered in the next generation of Xbox, leaving our 2020 list as...

What a year it's been for PlayStation 4. What a year it's been period. Let's take a moment to reflect. As much as we're curious about PlayStation 5 and next-gen – is there any chance Sony can maintain its momentum? – there's no ...

It's a tale as old as time, eternally retold. Halfway through the year, it's easy to look back on what we've played to date and possibly use it as a measuring stick against what we expect from the rest of the year. There are still major rel...

You can’t always win. That’s a lesson I learned early in life when my parents taught me how to bet on the ponies. I was never good at picking which horse would finish first, but I was basically a savant at picking which one woul...

Another year is in the books and what an amazing year for games it was. Across all genres, it seemed like there was a hit for everyone. From AAA releases to indie darlings, there was truly something for all types of players in 2018, and if ...

This was a weird year. I think I played the same amount of games I usually do (around 200) but I didn't necessarily have the time for as many long-form experiences as usual due to the appearance of our first kid. Still, a lot of games came ...

[You've got less than 24 hours to get your vote in so get to it! -Anthony] Alright, we've all had a full day to begin the healing process of knowing that Into the Breach was not Destructoid Staff's Game of the Year, so now it's time for you...

Two years ago, I decided to gimmick up my annual Game of the Year list by comparing my choices for that year to JoJo Stands. Back then, I was a neophyte at JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and JoJo shitposting. But after two long years, I have beco...