The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released the nominations list for the 2021 edition of its BAFTA Games Awards, which will be taking place later in March. The Last of Us Part II has received a record-breaking 13 no...

It's easy to say that 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. So I'll do just that. 2020 was a hell of a troubling year. Not only did we have the hell of another US presidential election to deal with, but on top of that, there was a pandemic a...

While not explicitly my "game of the year" list, what follows does actually include two of my top three games of the year. The rest? Incredible games that I genuinely think everyone should play. Games that appeal to those beyond their ...

So, this past year kind of sucked! But it didn't suck for games. Let's escape for a minute down 2020 memory lane together.

Here's a blast from the past: I began my 2019 Game of the Year rundown with the following phrase: "2019 sure was a year, and if I do say so myself, it felt like a pretty strong one for games." Oof. If 2019 was a year, then 2020. Was. A. God...

You've already heard from the Destructoid staff regarding our favorite games that came out of the hellscape year 2020, but now it's time for your voice to be heard, Dtoid readers. That's right, it's time for the annual Community Game of the...

Around this time, everybody starts reflecting on the past year and what it meant. What memories will we keep from it, and specifically for us, what games were our favorites? Top ten lists go up across Twitter, and we call the game in the nu...

Overall Best Game of the Year. The big trophy. The gold medal. It's a lot of pressure! Over the years, many polished AAA titles earn that honor due to their sheer popularity (notice how I added polish in that as a qualifier, sorry Cyberpunk...

I'm going to be honest with you: this wasn't even a close vote. While mobile platforms saw a large variety of great games throughout 2020, there was just no topping the worldwide phenomenon that is Genshin Impact. Dismissed as a mere Breath...

On paper, it shouldn't have worked. In fact, it should have been a rose-tinted disaster. For many years, fans clamored for a remake of 1997 PlayStation classic Final Fantasy VII – a title so beloved by the people and so deeply embedde...

This year was mostly bad for everyone -- and that's a thing that's usually said very hyperbolically because a couple celebrities died or whatever, but in 2020 it feels appropriate for once -- but it wasn't without its silver linings. We got...

2020 has been a tough year, and it required a lot of self-care and little opportunities to escape here and there. No single game epitomized that better than Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It was a tough race between New Horizons and Ha...

As the saying goes: Where there's a will, there's a wisp. And as the other saying goes: Where there's an Ori, there's excellence. Maybe neither of those are quite household phrases, but the latter is undeniable. A full five years after Ori ...

2020 was another memorable year for PlayStation, to the point where, at least for some of us, there wasn't necessarily a clear-cut list-topper – more like a few "favorites" to rattle off and reflect on. That said, one game, in particu...

For the past three years, I've posted the nominees for Destructoid's annual Best Remaster/Remake award of the given year. While it's fair to suggest that the category is hardly considered a "leading" topic in the annual GOTY discourse, it's...

It honestly didn't make a lot of sense to engage in mobile gaming this year. After all, the appeal of gaming on your iPhone or Android device ties into the fact you can play wherever you are. At the office, on the train, in the waiting room...

2020 was a weird – and for many people, at times frustrating – year for PC gaming. That sentiment goes for plenty of people who tried to secure a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S at launch, and it definitely also goes for PC gamers. You m...

Looking back on 2020, I'm having a hard time fathoming that Dreams and Spider-Man: Miles Morales – to say nothing of the PS5 in general – all came out in the same year. It's been a long one. Too long. Even if there is a new cons...

The degree to which the Switch has bounced back from the troubles of the Wii U is nothing short of impressive. In under a year, the Switch outsold the Wii U from a hardware perspective. In a little over a year, the Switch surpassed the tota...

This, broadly speaking, has been a year of silver linings. It's the only way you can stay sane. If you focus exclusively on all the ways our lives have been upended in 2020, you'll doom and gloom yourself into sleeping 18 hours a day. Every...

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 ...