Eight years. It’s a little hard to believe that it’s already been that long since our current generation of consoles first debuted. So much has happened in this generation, the longest one yet. So many technologies and practices have come into being, things that we now can hardly imagine gaming being about. This was the generation that saw the rise of DLC. This is the generation that witnessed the closure of longstanding publishers like THQ, and this is the generation that saw the explosion of “casual” gaming and the advent of crowd-funding. All of these were huge developments in gaming, all of these and much more we saw over the course of a few short years. Still, as incredible as these things were and still are, they don’t hold a candle to the true stars, the games.
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