In April, Reggie Fils-Aimé retired as president and CEO of Nintendo of America.
Best single player games 2019 software#
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Credit: From Software Q2: April - June It won Game of the Year at The Game Awards, and very much deserved the honor. Brilliant level design and world-building make this one of 2019’s best games, and certainly my favorite. That makes you hone your skill through a crucible of increasingly insane boss fights as you traverse From’s fantastical feudal Japan. It’s tough, though, and you can’t summon help. Parrying is paramount, and thanks to Sekiro’s various prosthetic tools, you can mix up combat and level traversal in truly awesome ways. Sekiro is definitely in the same vein of action games that From Software is known for-a very specific type of action game we now call “Souls-likes.” Sekiro ditches the multiplayer and many of the other trappings of the Dark Souls titles and takes a different approach. On March 22nd, From Software released its brand new ninja action game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Two weeks after the March 8th release of Devil May Cry 5, my very favorite game of 2019 released. This was just the first of two times Respawn struck gold in 2019. It’s also a battle royale first-person hero shooter, blending elements of a whole bunch of different games, from Fortnite to Overwatch, that’s a genuine blast to play. It’s also just a really terrific video game. The game was surprise-released on February 4th with no warning, but thanks to a savvy streamer-based marketing campaign where EA just paid a bunch of top streamers to play the game for a few days, it caught on quickly. Activision, while putting out two of my favorite games in 2019, ranks as one of my least favorite game publishers of the year (see below for Blizzard’s role in sullying its reputation even further later in the year).Īpex Legendsfrom Titanfall 2 developer Respawn Entertainment. We learned later in the year that despite all of this, the company didn’t even pay federal income tax and actually received money back from the government. In February, Activision-Blizzard announced the layoff of 8% of its workforce, or about 775 positions, despite a record quarter. Resident Evil 2 deserves every bit of praise heaped on it by fans and critics alike, and if you didn’t find time to play it-if it’s sitting there in your backlog as we speak-make time. What a tremendous game, taking a classic and making it even better for modern day consoles.įrightening, challenging, at times pretty silly, filled with ridiculous puzzles and tense encounters with zombies, this was the first sign that Capcom was on the rise in 2019 following a resurgent 2018 and the release of Monster Hunter World. (Which isn’t to say Activision was at fault for all of the issues Destiny and Destiny 2 faced, but rather that at least Bungie could shape its, er, destiny however they wanted going forward).īy far the best game released in January was Resident Evil 2 Remake. It was big news, and probably the best possible news for the game and the future of the franchise. The studio was taking on Destiny 2’s future as an independent studio at long last. January’s big notable video game news item was the announcement that Bungie was hopping off the Activision ship. Let’s take a walk down memory lane, shall we? Q1: January - March
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