What a year for gaming it’s been. And what a year for thegaming over at TheGamer it’s been. You button mashers and thumbstick flickers visited TheGamer a whole bunch this year, and we love you for it. To show our appreciation, we’ve decided tojoin in on the trendthat only works for Spotify andmaybe Letterboxdand yet every other app in your life decides to do by bringing you the biggest stats of the year.
Check out some of the stories you read the most in 2024, and see if you can guess whichGame of the Yearnominee generated the most interest from TheGamer’s adoring fans this year.
Most Popular Guide
How To Unlock Every Zombies Mastery Combo In Black Ops 6
Call of Dutyhas long replacedMarioas the video game non-gamers think of when they hear the word ‘video game’. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Being atthe epicentre of the court caseconcerningthe Activision Blizzard acquisition, the teething problems through the shift intoWarzone, and the fear the series was growing stale made Call of Duty’s position at The Video Game precarious.
Black Ops 6has been hailed as a much needed return to form, and a big part of that is how much fun it is to kill things that are already dead.
In July, Your Mood Was Double Chunk Skibidi Rizz
In a move that had scientists everywhere stunned, the summer break for schools corresponded with a rise in traffic forRobloxandFortnite. It was also the montha Skibidi Toilet movie was announced.
Most Popular Feature
Thanks, Xbox, I’m Never Subscribing To Game Pass Again
Game Pass lost some of its lustre this year asXboxmixed up the tiers in a way that seemed designed to make it worse value for money. Worse, it did this against a background ofselling off exclusive flagships to other consolesandshutting down teamslike the one behindHi-Fi Rush. That meant Xbox’s once industry-leading business model had taken a lend of players one too many times, and some walked away.
The comments were all reasonable and showed excellent reading comprehension having carefully considered the overall point the article was making aboutMicrosoft’slack of fairness to its loyal customers, not to mention its developers.
Second top was PC Gaming Now Looks Cheaper And More Convenient Than Consoles, which was about thePS5 Pro. We all really fell out of love with consoles this year, huh?
Most Popular Game Of The Year Nominee
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Even up againstElden Ring’sexpansion, Final Fantasy is easily the most iconic of the six nominees this year, with a fresh faced PlayStation mascot, loose literary adaptation, and two new IPs also in the running. Add in the massive open world and roughly 2.7 million minigames (I counted), it’s no surprise that everyone wanted to read about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The most read article on Cloud’s escapades though wasthe confirmation of a canon romance with Tifa. I want it noted for the record that I reject this reality andwill continue to love Aerith dearly.
Most Popular List
The Best Breed Combos In Palworld
For one brief week,Palworldwas the biggest game in the world. Its small studio, inexperience with global popularity, and small matter ofbeing sued by Nintendo and Pokemonhave made for a rocky trail beneath the game’s roadmap, but few games capture the spirit of 2024 (starting strong, promising a lot, ultimately fading awayafter a body blow from Nintendo) like Palworld.
This was actually third in the charts, beaten by two legacy lists (Best Horse Breeds In RDR2- aw, andEvery Genshin Impact Character’s Age- ew), but we’re here to celebrate 2024, so Palworld takes the crown.
Someone Has A Message For You
753,262 Of You Still Cared About Baldur’s Gate 3’s Owlbear
This was our biggest guide of 2023, whenBaldur’s Gate 3was king of the universe. All things must end, but 753,262 of you werestill looking for that evasive (and incredibly cute) camp companionthis year.11,164 of you had to settle for Shovel. I bet at least two of those searchescame from The Vatican.
Most Popular News Story
Helldivers 2 Players Lose Super Earth, Nothing Happens
Few games may capture 2024 like Palworld, butHelldivers 2is one of those few. A refreshing multiplayer experience in a year that suffered throughSuicide SquadandConcord, what was most interesting as an outsider was often it let us peek behind the curtain. Itpersonified its ‘game master’, gave players control over the narrative direction, and played into the satire of the story by blending when it talked to players as if they were players sitting at home on the couch and when it gave orders as if they werereal child soldiers in humanity’s army. Maybe this anticlimax was an ironic masterstroke.
Most Page Where I Don’t Really Understand How It Works
Monopoly GO Free Dice Rolls
It’s like a live-service, mobile, single player Monopoly? You know what, don’t explain it. If you’re happy, I’m happy. I hope you got the best hotel or whatever the objective is in this game.
Most Popular Review
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
This surprised me too. A lot of people think reviews are the things everyone reads at websites (and also call everything ever published a ‘review’, which may explain the confusion), but the numbers tend to show that’s not true. In a damning indictment of the industry, the top four articles featuring ‘Review’ were actually news stories onHelldivers 2,Space Marine 2,Dragon Age: The Veilguard, andThe First Descendant being review bombedfor various reasons.
Other top reviews wereStellaris: The Machine Age,TMNT: Splintered Fate,EA Sports FC 25,Throne And Liberty, andStill Wakes The Deep. Our readers are made of multitudes.
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