The PCGN Awards 2018

It’s been a funny old year for PC gamers. We’ve enjoyed some colossal releases in 2018: heavyweights such as Battlefield V, Forza Horizon 4, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 have collectively set a new high-water mark for production values. These are projects on the grandest of scales which push more envelopes than a postperson. Fallout 76 took a slightly different tack, of course, but let’s skim over that for now. Meanwhile, the likes of Monster Hunter: World, Far Cry 5, Hitman 2, and Just Cause 4 delivered remarkable open-world experiences. Artifact and Battle for Azeroth divided audiences with the revisions they brought to their respective genres. And then, hovering over all of this like some sort of government-sanctioned, human-engineered fake moon, was Fortnite, somehow still dominating games - let alone PC games - despite having launched last year. But for all of this high-impact, big-budget bluster, 2018 was also the year that triple-A projects were outshone by indie developers. Iteration, slick user experiences, and cinematic grandiosity are all very well, but the real gameplay innovations were born from much smaller budgets.

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