The Gamers Of The Year, 2020
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As many year-end articles will remind you not that you needed reminding 2020’s been rough. That made it harder than usual to pick specific people for our annual list of influential game-players. Anyone who brought a smile to a friend, a loved one, or even a stranger this year by playing a game with them did a wonderful thing.
In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top
A tough year turned out to be good for rescue animals, rotten bananas and more.
Lucky dog: Cleo was adopted by photographer Farah Al Qasimi this year.Credit.Farah Al Qasimi
By The Styles Desk
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 20, 2020
We may think of 2020 as a year of seemingly endless bad news as the pandemic threatened our health, forced us to stay at home and upended most facets of life. But it wasn’t all bad. Here’s a look at some of the things that managed to come out on top.
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The Biggest Video Game Surprises Of 2020
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Every year, we run down the bestannualsurprises from the world of video games. Needless to say, 2020 was not like previous years. That’s why, this year, we’re reorienting our annual tradition to focus on the biggest not necessarily the best ones.
2020 was full of shockers. This was the year Sony held a virtual event where everyone looked like a digital character. Nintendo released a Switch game that did nothing more than simulate the action of jumping rope.
The New York Times
Published: 19 Dec 2020 01:45 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Dec 2020 01:45 PM BdST A posed photo illustrating screen time, one of the things that came out on top in the tough, pandemic-plagued year of 2020, in New York, Oct 28, 2020. Before this year, screen time was a hotly contested parenting topic. Now, even the most organic Montessori toy mom relinquishes the iPad to her child for at least a little while each day to preserve her fraying sanity. Isak Tiner/The New York Times An illustrative photo of an American flag created with cannabis edibles, one of the things that came out on top in the tough, pandemic-plagued year of 2020, in San Francisco, Nov 10, 2020. A steady stream of anxiety-inducing events that could make anyone wish for an escape hatch called for one thing: Marijuana. By late spring of 2020, cannabis stores and medical marijuana dispensaries were deemed essential businesses in more than a dozen states. Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times