The Chinese Room has created a world and a community that, in its depth and subtlety, feels real. Hopefully you like what you see here, but I wouldn’t be too upset if you really hated it, as long as you still gave us a chance.Īll schmaltz aside, let’s get into it. Thanks for supporting us, as always, whether you check the games page every day or visit occasionally when social media sends you our way. Of course, it also wouldn’t exist without our readers. I don’t want to name names because I’m sure I’d forget somebody, but I want to thank every writer who wrote anything for Paste’s games section this year, from the workhorses who posted regularly, to the writers who only wrote a single piece. Our success here at Paste Games is almost entirely dependent on the contributions of our dedicated crew of freelancers. Some of my favorite writers to work with have found full-time homes with some of the biggest outlets in this industry, from Austin Walker at Giant Bomb to Javy Gwaltney at Game Informer. The inimitable Jenn Frank came on board as our assistant games editor in July, capably filling the shoes of long-time assistant editor Maddy Myers, who moved on to a daily gig at The Mary Sue.
On a personal note, this has been a year of change here at Paste. There are also music games again? 2015 was weird. This might be the most varied “best of” list published during my time here at Paste, with a solid distribution of time-devouring, big-budget epics and smaller, quieter, less commercially driven endeavors, all of them exciting in their own right, and fully deserving of your free time and money. There were no no-brainers in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it was an artistically weak year for videogames. How is 2015 already winding down? Not only has it not been enough time since I last put together one of these lists, but it feels like we’re still waiting for a definitive, prohibitive favorite game to come out, something like Bastion in 2011 or Gone Home in 2013 that stakes a clear claim for the most memorable game of the year.
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