What if the biggest games of 2020 had Christmas spin-offs?

Winter has its cold, hard grasp on those of us in the northern hemisphere, or, er, its warm and loving embrace in the southern hemisphere. Either way, it's Christmas! This means that plenty of games will become temporarily festive with their seasonal winter events, including Fall Guys, Destiny 2, and Fortnite to name a few. It's not a new trend, but rather an evolution of the relatively ancient one of games getting Christmas-themed expansions.

For those of you who weren't born in the 20th century, December usually meant every developer of 'shareware' games (Google it) released holiday versions of their biggest hits. Some of the most famous examples were Holiday Lemmings (Christmas Lemmings in the UK), Duke: Nuclear Winter (a holiday-themed Duke Nukem 3D), and Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare.

These were usually good for some holiday gaming goodness, unlike the completely different standalone Christmas games, which were universally crap. I still have horrible memories of Santa's elves farting and spanking their bare bums in Elf Bowling, which we had on the family computer. It might have been my fault.

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