It’s that time of the year again. Time to look back at a full year of gaming and appreciate the biggest hits. Gamers ate well this year, between juggling updates to ongoing titles like Genshin and Honkai Star Rail to feasting on blockbusters nearly a decade in the making. Major publishers from Nintendo and Square Enix to Insomniac and Bethesda delivered on highly anticipated hits, and small indies didn’t disappoint, either. This may very well go down as one of the best years in video game history — at least if it wasn’t for seemingly endless layoffs and controversies that plagued the $200 billion industry.
