Портал Metro GameCentral представил свой топ-20 лучших игр 2020 года. В заметке говорится, что при составлении списка самой сложной задачей стал выбор проекта на первое место, куда изначально метил приключенческий экшен The Last Of Us Part II. Однако с учетом того, что редакция сайта все еще продолжает увлеченно играть в Animal Crossing: New Horizons, тайтлы в списке поменялись местами.
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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The Hades Yule log will warm your home with infernal flames
Журналист издания Bloomberg и бывший редактор портала Kotaku Джейсон Шрайер поделился с читателями в своей предновогодней заметке собственным рейтингом лучших игр уходящего 2020 года.
Следом за своими коллегами из профильных игровых порталов авторитетное британское издание The Guardian также подвело итоги 2020 года, составив список из 15 лучших игр последних двенадцати месяцев по версии редакции.
The winter holidays are upon us, and for me at least, that means it's time for two things: staying warm and thinking about the best games of 2020. Luckily, the folks at Supergiant Games are making it easy to do both at once with the House of Hades Yule log, a 12-hour broadcast straight from the home of Zagreus and the gang.
Okay, yes, it's actually just a 12-hour loop of a lovely little Hades-themed fireplace animation, but after the 13th consecutive workday of enduring Twitter's endless Cyberpunk 2077 discourse, this is exactly what I need. I've yet to watch the whole thing (did I mention it's 12 hours long?), but my fingers are crossed for Cerberus to make an eventual appearance. He's a good boy. You should pet him more.
"Looking ahead, we're excited to be able to stick together as a team, and keep making games," the devs say in a season's greetings blog. "While it's too early to say what's next for us as yet, we're really looking forward to figuring it out. For now, from all of us, we wish you a safe, restful, cozy, happy holiday season, and all the best in the coming year."
RELATED LINKS:
Hades is the best Steam game of 2020, according to user reviews
The PCGamesN Awards 2020
What if the biggest games of 2020 had Christmas spin-offs?