Category: Ranks
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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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My 15 Most Anticipated Games For The Rest of 2025
When I look at 2025 so far, I’d honestly say that this year has fallen just a touch short of 2023 and 2024. That isn’t a big knock at all. I thought 2023 and 2024 were historic, and 2025 is just a little behind. Despite this, I still constantly feel overwhelmed with the number of…
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My 29 Biggest Winners From The 2025 Summer Game Fest
The beautiful thing if you truly love video games it that there are almost no bad showcases ever. There are just some that are better than others. There have been several showcases in the past few years that have absolutely blown me away. This past Game Awards had one incredible trailer after another for example.…
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My Top 10 Video Game Launch Lineups Ever
Video game console launches can be a beautiful thing. As my friend Paul wrote about this week, there can be a magic in the air at midnight when there is a line full of “caffeinated nerds” ready to bring their newest electronic baby home. There’s a palpable buzz and excitement on those nights that is…
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My 10 Biggest Winners From The Six One Indie Showcase
One thing that I’ve really enjoyed about this blog is that it has pushed me to go past my comfort zone on several occasions. While I’m open to almost any genre out there, I’ve played enough video games over the years where I can usually tell if I’m not going to like a game. Even…
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My Four Favorite Aspects of the Steam Deck OLED So Far
A few weeks back, I wrote about how after the Switch 2 presentation, I decided to go ahead and buy a Steam Deck OLED. I wasn’t sure when I was going to make the move, but tariff news spooked me into buying it almost immediately after that article. I have been playing my Steam Deck…
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My 10 Biggest Winners From The 2025 Triple-i Initiative Showcase
Indie games continue to be on fire. They are one of the biggest reasons that I love video games so much. I have completed five different indie games this year. One was a cozy game that turned the conventions of the genre on its head. One was a narrative game with heavy RPG elements. One…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Playstation 2 Games
Welcome to another BigNerdGaming top 10 list! This is the next list in my somewhat chronological journey through every system I’ve ever owned. This is all building up to me doing an overall top 50 games of all time list at the end. I’ve always wanted to do a top 50 games of all time…
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My Top 10 Video Game IPs That I Wish Were In Different Hands
Last week, I read an interesting article with rumors that Ubisoft was looking to sell some of its IPs to help keep its struggling business afloat. It does not appear that this was true. It looks more like Ubisoft wants to spin off its business into two separate entities, with one holding its more prominent…
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