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Clockwise from top left: Monster Hunter: Rise (Image: Capcom), Resident Evil: Village (Image: Capcom), Returnal (Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment), Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (Image: Electronic Arts), It Takes Two (Image: Electronic Arts), Hitman 3 (Image: IO Interactive)
Graphic: Natalie Peeples
2021 has been a bit of a ghost town for video games—and not just because one of the most prominent titles of the year took place in an escalating series of themed haunted houses. Although the steady rain of remakes, reissues, re-releases, and other all-purpose retreads continues to fall on the industry’s head, the slowdowns imposed by the COVID-19 lockdowns have led to a certain lightness on the medium’s release schedules in the first half of this year. Not even the ramping up of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 (now sporting