Over the past decade, the cultural cache of video games has grown and its profits are now greater than movies, television or music.
The tension between art and commerce isn’t the same in video games as it is in movies.
Here are the games that defined the decade and don’t forget to read TIME’s list of the best songs, TV shows, miniseries, movies, movie performances, nonfiction books, fiction books, gadgets and albums of the decade.
It’s been the center of multiple lawsuits, a focus for parents worried about violent video games and the subject of made-for-TV dramatizations.
With The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo proved it could make a modern open world game.
It marked the beginning of a decade where Valve stopped doing what made it so famous: making incredible video games.
Released just months before the start of the 2020s, Disco Elysium is the perfect punctuation mark on a decade of excellent games. »