2020 may have been a terrible year for…well, everyone, but for the games industry it was one of the best trips around the sun ever recorded. With people stuck at home and desperate for entertainment, video games proved to be a perfect respite. Over on Metacritic, the review aggregation website had a look at which game publishers were the most critically successful and went through the entire 2020 library of games to find the biggest winners of the year.

Allegedly set in the 1950s and in an alternate timeline where World War II is still raging on, this would mark a return to the World War II-ish settings that Sledgehammer games worked on in 2017’s Call of Duty: WWII.

Fortnite’s back with not only a new season, but a rather cool crossover that celebrates 25 years of one of the biggest icons in video games. Lara Croft’s looking better than ever, and if you’d like to spend some time in her stately manor then now’s the time to head on down to Fortnite’s Creative mode for some classy exploration.

It’s time once again, to finally settle the debate over which Destiny 2 class is the best. Will you side with the nimble Hunters who can conjure murder-knives out of thin air and fling them into your face? Will you join your fellow Titans as human tanks that can smash their way through actual paracausal gods from beyond mortal reckoning? Or will you be with me in Warlock club, crying about how Bungie keeps nerfing the space wizards whenever they finally get a cool toy?

Capcom has a big year ahead of it, as Monster Hunter Rise is out in a few days and will then be followed shortly by Tall Vampire Lady Fan Art Generator 3000 aka Resident Evil Village. Anticipation is building up for the latest entry in Capcom’s undead series, and in a world where video games are the best escape from all too real horrors, it’ll probably sell gangbusters as well.

The best app these days for sharing words, audio, and video is easily Discord. I know it, you know it, and Microsoft definitely knows it as the company is looking to grab the video-game chat community in a deal valued at $10 billion.

In a game that includes a green steroid rage machine, a god of thunder, and a living World War 2 legend flinging a giant frisbee around, it’s amazing how a regular dude lobbing pointed sticks at murder machines might just be one of the most powerful characters around.

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?