Category: Ranks
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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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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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