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17 December 2014

The Games of the Year 2014

There haven't been any all-time classics in 2014, but the industry as a whole has made some promising innovations.

By Phil Hartup

2014 in video games felt like a year of experimentation – a year where many brilliant things happened in the overall field of game development, but where few of those innovations happened within any specific individual games, meaning that actual greats were somewhat thin on the ground.

But instead of focusing on the negatives, this will be a look at what these rough diamonds brought to the medium, as well as the best game of the year overall:

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