Category: Ranks
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My 23 Biggest Winners From Game Awards Week
The 2025 Game Awards are officially in the books! Coming off the 2024 show, which I thought was an all timer, the show had a whole lot to live up to. I had a great time with it, but I would say it fell a bit short of that incredible show. After a first half…
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Andresplays’ Best 15 Moments in Gaming For 2025
Editor’s Note: For the second consecutive year, Andres has been generous enough to contribute an article to the blog for our end of year coverage. I want to thank him for his time and excellent writeups here. Sadly, these moments are not ranked despite my best efforts to convince him to do so. I suppose…
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My Top 8 Games I Abandoned In 2025
Welcome to what looks like it will be a yearly feature for me now. Last year, I wrote about my top seven games that I abandoned. This year it’s eight. And when I compare these lists, I’d consider the games I abandoned in 2025 to be significantly better on the whole than the 2024 games.…
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Fake 2025 Game Awards Betting Odds + My Full Predictions
Welcome to year three of my Game Awards winner predictions and fake betting odds. This idea was born out of a simple and foolish desire. My desire to actually bet on The Game Awards. The betting site “Polymarket” now has odds for “Game of the Year,” but I really wish that I could bet on…
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My 6 Biggest Surprises From The 2025 Game Awards Nominations
We have finally arrived at my favorite time of the year for video games. As much as I love playing games throughout the year, internally debating which are my favorites makes me almost equally happy. It’s a way for me to relive a lot of great memories that I had playing them, and I love…
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My Official 2025 Game Awards Nominee Predictions
If you want to hear me talk about these predictions, check out The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast. As my friend AndresPlays says, we have reached the time of year when I grow the most powerful. All year, I’m cataloguing the games I play, and tracking many games for how good they are in very specific…
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The 10 Worst Game Awards Winner Selections Ever (IMO)
I am sorry for the clickbait-y headline. Saying “The Top 10 Game Awards Winners That I Personally Disagreed With The Most” just didn’t have much of a ring to it. We are coming up very quickly on Game Awards season. Big Nerd Gaming will be one of the most devoted websites in the world to…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Xbox 360 Games
Welcome to the latest edition of my top 10 lists for various consoles! This series is a way for me to segment off my rankings a little bit in preparation for a “top 25 games of all time” list down the road. Today’s list is my top 10 Xbox 360 games. This was a very…
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My Top 10 Games I Abandoned And Need To Play Again
Yes, video games are expensive these days. But I think we still underestimate just how much value a video game can have in terms of the amount of time they can entertain you compared to the amount of money spent on it. If I spend 40 hours with a video game that I spent $70…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Xbox Live Arcade Games
This is a more niche list, but it means a lot to me. I’ve absolutely loved video games for pretty much my entire life. But somehow, my love for the medium grew more than I could have anticipated during the Xbox 360 era. In part, this is because the medium took a big step forward…
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