Category: Ranks
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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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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Game Boy Advance Games
Welcome to the next edition of my top 10 lists, as I work towards eventually dropping my top 25 games of all time in one list. Today, I am ranking my top 10 Game Boy Advance games. The reason I’m doing it this way is that it’s a lot easier to parse through all the…
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My Top 11 Winners of Gamescom Week
I’ve always loved a good video game showcase. Back in the heyday of E3, I would build my entire week around watching all of the showcases. It’s a little tougher to do that now, but whenever I can, I am seated for things like The Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and all of the various…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games Of The 2020s
When people talk about gaming in the 2020s, there’s a lot of doom and gloom these days. Development takes longer than ever, so it takes 4-5 years to get games in the same franchise. Developers are facing a level of layoffs that probably hasn’t been seen since the 1983 gaming crash. The increased costs have…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Indie Games of the 2020s
I always want to stipulate something before I highlight indie games. I don’t ever have indie game liste because indie games are “lesser than” and need their own category to stand out. I do it because indie games just existing is always an incredible accomplishment. We have teams of 100s pouring years and millions upon…
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The Top 10 Games That I Didn’t Expect To Like, But Did
Even if you truly love video games, we all have games or genres that are in our blind spots. These are usually games that we don’t have an interest in because we’ve had bad experiences in the past, or they just don’t seem appealing for one reason or another. I think it’s easy to put…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of the First Half of 2025
Every time I complete a game, one of the first things I do is head to a notepad file on my computer and update my ranks for the year based on how I feel. I do this for a few reasons. First off, I just find it fun. But also, by doing this as I…
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The 2025 BigNerdGaming Mid-Year Game Awards
Here’s the thing. I love ranking stuff. A lot. I started this blog for a lot of reasons, but the biggest of all was just that I wanted to have more of a platform for a bunch of ranks I was literally doing for myself. The ranks that excite me the most for this blog…
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My Top 10 Games Enhanced By Fatherhood
When you become a parent, there’s a whole lot of things that people don’t tell you. Mostly, people have a hard time describing exactly how hard it can be. They don’t tell you about how difficult it is to do all the things you have to do on a given day, but with way less…
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