For now, though, please enjoy our picks for the best games of 2013. Their list of personal selections includes many more very worthwhile games. Even so, we ended up leaving out some of the best-loved games from other members of the Ars staff. It was hard to narrow down this yearвЂ™s offerings to just 20 top games, but Sam and I are happy with the list we ended up with. And of course there were a few stinkers that utterly failed to live up to lofty expectations. Amidst it all, there were plenty of games that were less revolutionary while being incredibly refined and satisfying examples of their genres. 2013 was a year in which many of these professionals showed an incredible comfort and willingness to use the medium in entirely new ways, reinventing genres and also exploring the potential for direct, emotional interactive storytelling. On the other end of the spectrum, indie game developers were busy effectively examining the bounds of what a video game could be this year. Those developers created some of the most epic cinematic gaming ever this year, building on the ambition and false starts of those that came before them to create some of the mediumвЂ™s most memorable experiences. While the encroaching Xbox One and PlayStation 4 ate up a lot of media attention throughout the year, veteran developers with years of experience on older hardware proved that there was still some life in the systems that would technically be вЂњlast generationвЂќ by yearвЂ™s end. The end of a console cycle is always one of the most exciting times for gaming.

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Forget best, here are the 2013 gadgets Ars staff liked the most.This type of games were quite complicated and usually were/are being developed by Big Gaming Companies ( example Valve, Nintendo etc). With the vast improvement on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence people began to stereotype that whatВ constitutesВ a playable and good games is a game with 3D graphics or that one which graphics betterВ mimicВ the reality. One of the most if not the most famous game of all time was Super Mario saga from Nintendo.

It's those 2D games from 19s played on consoles. Old School Games are also known as Retro Games. Indie Game Developers have brought a nostalgia among the gamers with their creative and imaginative titles. Independent Developers have seen a tremendous rise recently and proved wrong most of stereotypes by reviving the old school gaming or so called retro-gaming. We have always had the stereotype and belief that what constitutes a good and playable game is the ones made by big companies and the games with 3D Graphics.

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