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- Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) And so we have ourselves a tie. You might say we wimped out, but we’d prefer to consider the near-impossible task of separating two games that may well be the two greatest videogames of all time testament to what a pioneering decade it’s been for the medium.
- The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild (2017)
- The Witcher 3: Wildhunt (2015) Developed and published by Polish studio CD Projekt and based on The Witcher series of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher 3: Wildhunt is another example of a game that rivals film, TV and other forms of drama for its emotional impact.
- The Last Of Us (2013) Videogames have long cemented their position as the globe’s most beloved form of entertainment, and yet how often can we say – genuinely, not just posturing, but where we actually believe it – that we’ve ever played a videogame that has made us feel the way a great movie has, or grasped at our heart like our favourite song does, or fills our head with inspiration like we get when we immerse ourselves in a classic piece of literature.
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1. Occupy Wall Street Around 1,000 people marched through the streets of New York City’s Financial District in September 2011 under an “Occupy Wall Street” banner. The protesters condemned income inequality and the influence of money in politics and called for an overhaul of what they saw as a failing financial system. Like the Arab Spring, a wave ...
6. Haiti Earthquake The deadliest natural disaster of the decade happened in the first month of 2010, when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struckthe West Indian island of Hispaniola on the afternoon of January 12. Followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks, the quake hit hardest in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, killing an estimat...
10. Advances in LGBTQ Rights The decade saw key advancesfor LGBTQ people around the world, with the legalization of same-sex marriagein 18 countries, including Argentina, France, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, Germany and the United States (via the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges). Meanwhile, anti-gay laws passed in Russia and ...
13. Chicago Cubs Win the World Series In 2016, the Chicago Cubs ended the longest drought in baseball by defeating the Cleveland Guardians(then known as the Cleveland Indians) 8-7 in the 10th inning of Game 7 to win the World Series. Before this historic victory, the last time the Cubs won a World Series was in 1908, 108 years earlier. Cleveland, w...
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- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Developer: CD Projekt Red | Release Date: May 19th, 2015 | Game Page. You saw this coming. We all saw this coming. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was, and honestly still is, the RPG that defined the decade.
- Dark Souls. Developer: FromSoftware | Release Date: October 4th, 2011 | Game Page. Very few games have had as much impact on how games are made and played than Dark Souls has had.
- God of War (2018) Developer: Sony Santa Monica Studios | Release Date: April 20th, 2018 | Game Page. There really is no reason God of War should be as good as it is.
- Journey. Developer: Thatgamecompany | Release Date: March 13th, 2012. There's something to be said about art style and what it can do to a game. In the case of Journey, the answer is "make it."
- 2010: Minecraft. Advertisement. The first version of Minecraft, a barebones set of virtual Lego pieces, was released to the public in 2009. But the version that came out in 2010 was the one that became a huge hit.
- 2011: Dark Souls. Japanese developer From Software had been pursuing the themes at the core of its breakout hit Dark Souls—obscurity, deliberation, and a deep, conversation-driving sense of mystery—for years before Lordran finally made the big time.
- 2012: Telltale’s The Walking Dead. Game developers have been hunting the ideal of “playable movies” since the days when Dana Plato was still trying to stay out of the Night Trap, often to disastrous, embarrassing, and pixelated effect.
- 2013: Bioshock: Infinite. The legacy of Bioshock: Infinite—which appeared almost instantly—will forever be as much about the impact on gaming theory and criticism as about B:I itself.
- NieR Automata. If NieR Automata were just a straight-forward open-world action title, one that could be completed in approximately 10 hours, stretching from the first line of dialogue until Ending A, it would still stand tall this decade for being a fundamentally odd game about machines pondering their own humanity, ending on a quaintly sentimental but earned grace note.
- Disco Elysium. It’s a common and well-documented complaint that role-playing games don’t always do the greatest job at truly letting players play a role.
- Super Mario Odyssey. The joy of Super Mario Odyssey is in your self-made journey. This is a game that invites you to dwell within and interact with both the old and the new.
- Mass Effect 2. The Mass Effect universe was too big to stay confined to one platform, and with Mass Effect 2, Bioware finally let PS3 owners explore the galaxy on their system of choice.
Dec 19, 2019 · From 'Grand Theft Auto V' to 'Minecraft,' it's been a busy decade for video games. Here's TIME's list of the best video games of the 2010s.
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Dec 13, 2019 · Beginning in 2011 and ending this year, Game of Thrones was a true pop culture phenomenon – referenced in film, books and even other TV shows, dissected by rappers and loved by presidents.
