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Dec 24, 2020 · Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone reading this. Despite it all it was a pretty good year for games and that’s something at least. Purple Ranger
- Gamecentral
Terms like "wakeup game" would be a little more ambiguous to English speakers. The term comes from the Japanese fighting game community who seem to be the first to define and name it, so we adopted it from them. It's no different to how English adopts a ton of loan words from other languages all the time. Reply reply.
- The Escapists: Santa's Shakedown/Sweatshop
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
- Alone in The Dark 2
- Bully - Chapter Three
- Home Alone
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Bayonetta 2
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Dead Rising 4
- Duke Nukem: Nuclear Winter
Santa and the overall holiday season are meant to bring feelings of comfort and joy, but that isn't the case in these two add-ons for The Escapists and its sequel. Here, the prison escape games take on a festive flair as players are put into the jingling shoes of Buddy the elf (with no official connection to the famous Buddy from the classic movie ...
Tom Clancy’s The Divisiondoesn't technically take place on Christmas, but its version of Manhattan has been practically frozen in time with Christmas decorations adorning streets and buildings. In the game, a viral outbreak on Black Friday brings society to a crumbling halt, and everything descends into chaos. The streets of New York City are a bea...
The Alone in the Dark name has largely lost its positive brand recognition due to a poor modern video game rebootand a similarly poor film adaptation, but the franchise was synonymous with horror in the 1990s. This sequel saw supernatural investigator Edward Carnby solving a disappearance and murder in a spooky, "abandoned" mansion on Christmas. Wh...
Though they're best known for the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, Rockstar has several IPs that deserve sequels. Among them is Bully, a game that sees players guide protagonist Jimmy Hopkins through a year at a new prep school as he attempts to rise through the social ranks and earn the respect (or control) of the school's various ...
Movie tie-in games aren't releasing with the consistency that they were a decade or more ago, but the holiday classic Home Alonereceived several games on different platforms that take place as Kevin McCallister is left home alone on Christmas. Each version of the game is different, but they all center around making one's way through the McCallister...
Batman stars in some of the best superhero games of all time, and the Arkham series is largely considered the Dark Knight's finest virtual representation. Unfortunately, Batman: Arkham Origins is often considered the black sheep of the Arkhamfamily. The only game in the series not developed by Rocksteady, this prequel goes back to early in Batman's...
The original Bayonetta was a surprise hit of an action game, and its sequel, Bayonetta 2, was also released to critical and commercial acclaim. However, due to this second game being exclusive to the Nintendo Wii U (and later ported to the Switch), it wasn't quite able to reach the same audience as its predecessor. That being the case, many gamers ...
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales may not be the full sequel that fans have been waiting for, but it's still one of the best Spider-Man games available to play. This entry in the beloved open-world franchise shifts its focus from Peter Parker to Miles Morales, and it's set in New York City during the holiday season. The game opens on Christmas, an...
The holidays may typically be a time for family and togetherness, but Dead Rising 4 uses Christmas as a backdrop for fighting near-endless waves of the undead. Every game in the now-seemingly-defunct franchise has emphasized using unconventional items as weapons, and Dead Rising 4lets players utilize plenty of Christmas decorations as they help pro...
Duke Nukem Forever may be one of the biggest video game flops from a major developer, but the franchise was once a respectable (if crude) shooter series. Duke Nukem: Nuclear Winter is a 1997 expansion game that added several Christmas-themed levels to Duke Nukem 3D. In this game, aliens have kidnapped Santa, and Duke needs to go to the North Pole t...
- Quinn Levandoski
- Superheroes Editor
The Darkside Detective. Daze Before Christmas. Dead Rising 4. Deathsmiles II. Diddy Kong Racing. Die Hard (video game) Die Hard Trilogy. Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
Dec 22, 2023 · Whether Santa remembered to unbox the console, organise the settings, and install all the games first, is another question. And it's not like video games as gifts are a thing of the past - this year we've bought my little cousins the Mario Kart Live racers with Mario and Luigi, gifting their parents a Christmas Day fight over who gets to be ...
- Stacey Henley
- Editor-In-Chief
Arkham Origin's open world was littered with fairy lights and giant neon statues devoted to its Christmas theme, it felt like a classic 90's Christmas film, and absolutely delivered in every area that counts. It's a shame that this particular game got swept so far under the radar, but I wanted to give it a shout-out here and now.
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Dec 24, 2021 · Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble. There’s not much Christmassy about monkeys and tropical islands, but there is a neat little Easter Egg in this game if you ever play it over ...
