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It’s time for us to disappear for a week to eat turkey and chocolate, before returning to write about video games again in 2020 feeling renewed, energetic, and more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
As always, the end of the year is about reflection and we’re looking back at everything we achieved in 2019. It turns out we wrote and commissioned a lot of stuff. We’ve gone through that stuff and put together a list of some of the best features and reviews from the entire year - please have a scan through some of it.
The fast-moving news cycle dictates that our most in-depth work doesn’t hang around on the front page of the site for long, but now’s your chance to dig into some of the wonderful articles we’ve published over the year. Grab yourself some mulled wine.
Before you dive in, though, I just want to personally thank everyone who’s read our site, shared our work, and interacted with us this year. I know our sense of humour sometimes rubs people up the wrong way, but to the people who get it - you are the real MVPs. I hope you have a great Christmas if you celebrate it. If you don’t, at least try to have a good new year, yeah? See you on January 2.
Features:
- An extremely bad interview with Toshihiro Nagoshi.
- An extremely good interview with Elias Toufexis about playing Adam Jensen and the future of Deus Ex.
- Why Final Fantasy 7’s Midgar is still one of the most relevant video game locations.
- How would you split up FF7 Remake?
- A chat about the male ego and the acting process with Red Dead Redemption 2’s Roger Clark.
- Gorgeous ottery twinks in Final Fantasy 7.
- Nuclear self hate with Mike Drucker and Fallout 76.
- Getting our bloody hands on The Last of Us: Part 2.
- A look back at why Dishonored 2 is still the absolute best.
- Why Overwatch’s role queue is bad.
- The story of Toshihiro Kondo, one of Japan’s most beloved niche creators.
- Can video games be apolitical? We asked a bunch of writers and narrative designers.
- How Untitled Goose Game perfectly captures the tense neighbour relations of the United Kingdom.
- Ruminations on the state of fighting game esports.
- Borderlands has a problem with dwarfism.
- How Sekiro uses its mechanics to tell its story.
- Chatting about burnout with Tetris Effect creator and industry legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
- Aliens Crucible was going to be like a terrifying Mass Effect, according to writer Chris Avellone.
- Let characters age.
- Ruminating about the real history of witch hunts and how they’re reflected in The Witcher 3.
- That time we nattered to Stefanie Joosten about playing Quiet in Metal Gear Solid 5.
- An investigation into whether Skyrim really is based on Ireland.
- FF8 IS GREAT.
- How Greedfall’s RPG framework exacerbates its colonialist impulses.
- We broke down some of the most annoying things in video games - 17 of them, in fact.
- An interview with Natsuko Ishikawa about how they wrote the best Final Fantasy in years.
- Musing on a Smash Bros. Reboot.
- A rare and candid interview with Rockstar Games about the future of Red Dead Online.
- A look into Anthem and string theory - no, seriously.
- When we bought Troy Baker and Nolan North a Guinness.
- When we broke the news about Troy Baker not reprising his role as Rhys in Borderlands 3 and the Union responded.
- Greedfall is an RPG where spoken word is actually important.
- The cool Sonic 3 mod/hack.
- Stadia vs game preservation.
- A love letter to Mr. X.
- Fallout 76 is s**t but ESO is great.
- The 14 Pokemon we’d most like to poke, mon.
Reviews:
- Phoenix Point - by Sam White
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - by Sherif Saed
- Shenmue 3 - by Kirk McKeand
- Terminator Resistance - by Matt Martin
- Pokemon Sword & Shield - by Alex Donaldson
- Need for Speed Heat - by Phil Iwaniuk
- Red Dead Redemption 2 - by Kirk McKeand
- Death Stranding - by Kirk McKeand
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare single-player - by Jeremy Peel
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer - by Sherif Saed
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 - by Alex Donaldson
- Ring Fit Adventure - by Alex Donaldson
- The Outer Worlds - by Matt Martin
- Destiny 2 Shadowkeep - by Lauren Aitken
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint - by Kirk McKeand
- Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - by Alex Donaldson
- Code Vein - by Alex Donaldson
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening - by Alex Donaldson
- FIFA 20 - by James Billcliffe
- Borderlands 3 - by Kirk McKeand
- Gears 5 review - by Simon Miller
- WoW Classic review - by Natalie Clayton
- Man of Medan review - by Phil Iwaniuk
- Astral Chain review - by Alex Donaldson
- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey - by Matt Martin
- Control review - by Kirk McKeand
- Erica review - by Jeremy Peel
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses review - by Alex Donaldson
- Wolfenstein Youngblood - by Kirk McKeand
- Dragon Quest Builders 2 - by Kirk McKeand
- Super Mario Maker 2 - by Alex Donaldson
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - by Alex Donaldson
- Blood & Truth review - by Kirk McKeand
- A Plague Tale: Innocence review - by Jeremy Peel
- Rage 2 review - by Kirk McKeand
- Days Gone review - by Kirk McKeand
- Tropico 6 review - by Alex Donaldson
- Sekiro review - by Kirk McKeand
- The Division 2 review - by Kirk McKeand
- Devil May Cry 5 review - by Kirk McKeand
- Anthem review - by Kirk McKeand
- Crackdown 3 review - by Nick Reuben
- Jump Force review - by James Billcliffe
- Metro Exodus review -by Alex Donaldson
- Resident Evil 2 Remake review - by Kirk McKeand
- Team Sonic Racing review - by Alex Donaldson
- Yoshi’s Crafted World review - by Alex Donaldson