The Best PC Games (You Should Be Playing)
One of last year's standout gaming stories was the rise of indie hits, proving that while game dev budgets balloon, spectacle matters less than how fun a game is to play.
Too many games, not enough players: the industry's growing challenge
Steam saw 18,626 new games in 2024 – nearly double 2020's total
The takeaway: New technology and democratized development tools have supercharged the way games are created and sold. The result? An explosion of creativity like never before. But there's a catch: a marketplace so overcrowded that even the best games struggle to be seen. For players, this is a golden era. For developers and publishers, it's an escalating arms race where only a few titles manage to break through.
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Taking five wins, including GOTY
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