Category: Ranks
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The 2025 BigNerdGaming Awards
Welcome to year three of the BigNerdGaming Awards! All year long, every time I complete a game, one of the first things I do is open a “notepad” document on my laptop. From there, I update quite a few things that I track all year, but nothing more than my various BigNerdGaming Awards categories. I…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 20 Moments of 2025
This is probably my second favorite post I do every year. As great as it is talking about the characteristics of different video games, there’s something extra special about diving deep and exploring individual moments from those games. If someone tells me their favorite video games from a year, I think there are things I…
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BigNerdGaming’s 2025 Honorable Mentions
The point of an honorable mention is exactly that, to be a quick mention. When it comes to video game top 10s, the honorable mentions are meant to be a way to briefly remark on a very good game that missed the cut, and then move on from there. But I refuse to do that.…
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The 2025 Nerdys: All Of My Dumbest Video Game Awards
Welcome to part one of six for Big Nerd Gaming’s year-end content! The coming weeks will feature many lists with very serious rankings that I truly poured my heart into. Today, things are a bit less prestigious, but I still put a lot of effort into tracking these all year! The Nerdys are my way…
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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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