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THE BEST PC GAMES OF 2020 (SO FAR)

It’s been one hell of a year, eh? Or one hellish year, whichever you’d prefer. This year was already on track to be a weird one for video games, with new consoles just over the horizon. The transition is always awkward, as publishers rush out their last few efforts before the door closes and everyone stops caring about the “old” consoles forever.

But obviously a world in flames has made the release schedule even more volatile than expected. Most of the spring’s big games—Cyberpunk 2077, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, Wasteland 3, Watch Dogs Legion—were pushed to the end of 2020, leaving us to celebrate…Halo 2?

Halo 2 is a hell of a game.

In all seriousness, there have been some good’uns released in the first half of 2020. Not many. Barely enough to put together a top ten list, actually. But there have been some. Below, you’ll find our favorite PC games of 2020 so far, in no particular order.

1. MORTAL KOMBAT 11: AFTERMATH

We don’t typically add expansions to our best-of lists, or if we do we

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