Master Chief and The Weapon AI character in Halo: Infinite.
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Almost two years into the pandemic, it’s hard to look back and see much good that happened this year. But as reality was horrible once again, games gave me a much-needed escape. And so I’m pleased to come up with my eight favorite games of 2021.
They let me maintain social distance while still connecting remotely with friends. I hope you are staying safe during the holidays with your family and friends, and let’s hope you can find the game to play and celebrate your gaming passions.
Newzoo predicted the global game market would shrink for the first time in years in 2021, with a forecast of $175.8 billion for the year. Instead, Newzoo recently said the industry of mobile, console, PC, online, and cloud games grew to $180.3 billion.
Sadly, my list is shorter this year because I didn’t have enough time to play, and I also concentrated on the games that I really enjoyed and played those over and over (Call of Duty: Warzone).
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Last year, I really enjoyed The Last of Us Part II, Call of Duty: Warzone, Ghost of Tsushima, Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, and Doom Eternal. Warzone in particular took most of my free time, and I continue to play it and that’s why I put it on my list as my favorite ongoing game. Like other gamers, my gaming habits have changed to focus on online titles I can play over and over. That bodes well for future versions of the metaverse, where the goal is to keep you coming back every day.
I’m aware that playing Activision Blizzard games is controversial, as the company has been hit with sexual harassment and discrimination allegations. And that weighs on me, as it should for anyone who has to make a personal choice about buying such a game.
For comparison, here are my favorites from 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011. In each story below, the links go to our full reviews or major stories about the games. And be sure to check out the GamesBeat staff’s votes for Game of the Year and best individual favorites soon. (Note: This story has some minor spoilers.) Here’s the list in reverse order.
Best ongoing game: Call of Duty: Warzone
Above: Caldera’s views of the ocean.
Image Credit: Activision
Developer: Raven Software and Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
I spent an awful lot of time in Call of Duty: Warzone since it first debuted in March 2020. The pandemic conditions made it into a perfect escape vehicle for those of us who wanted to stay social with friends, forget about the world, and play a decent battle royale game. When I have some free time, Warzone has been my go-to game to play with friends or strangers.
The game got a restart with the recent launch of the Pacific theater map of Cadera after the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, and I’ve used my leveled up weapons to play some of it lately. The best thing about it remains the rewards of teamwork. If your squad of four communicates well, you can easily beat the teams that aren’t using their microphones at all. It’s still pretty rare for me to win in games with 150 rivals, but the thrill of winning against such odds is amazing.
It has some drawbacks. Communicating on Discord works better than talking in-game. And a lot of players aren’t happy that Caldera makes it highly rewarding to play with leveled up guns from Vanguard, which requires a premium purchase. One day, I hope this leads to a Call of Duty metaverse.
Above: A night battle in the Total War: Rome Remastered game.
Image Credit: Sega/Creative Assembly
Developer: Creative Assembly
Publisher: Sega
Platforms: Windows
I’m a sucker for most Total War games on the PC as I love real-time strategy and history. With Total War: Rome Remastered, I got to play a familiar game about the creation of the Roman empire. Total War games have a strategic “zoom,” where you can send your legions and expand your cities throughout the empire in a map that is akin to the one in the game of Risk, or you can fight tactical 3D real-time battles where the armies meet in the field. I enjoyed playing this again and growing my empire to the breaking point, where I dominated much of the Mediterranean but had trouble holding regions due to constant rebellions. It sends you a message that taking over the world through violent conquest is a bad idea.
I spent most of my time playing auto battles on the campaign map. But every now and then it’s a great reminder to play a tactical battle to appreciate the beautiful landscapes and attention to detail on individual soldiers.
Above: Jason tells his sergeant to pull himself together in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
Image Credit: Supermassive/Bandai Namco
Developer: Supermassive Games
Publisher: Bandai Namco
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Windows
I’ve been a fan of Supermassive Games horror titles ever since Until Dawn, which was my favorite game of 2015. And so I was eager to play the latest title from the developer, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. This is the third game in the choose-your-own-death adventure anthology, coming after 2019’s Man of Medan and 2020’s Little Hope.
This third installment takes us underneath the deserts of Iraq in 2003, just after the end of the initial hostilities of the Iraq War. Each game in the series is built around a legend or myth based on a real-life incident, like the ghost ship in Man of Medan and the Salem Witch Trials in Little Hope. This one revolves around the myths around the ancient Akkadian Empire.
In the gameplay, you have to mash buttons in between story episodes where you’re trying to escape from a creature that will eat you or worse. The other type of choice you make is to respond in dialogue at key points in the relationships between characters. These often involve ethical dilemmas, and they come back to haunt you because just about every choice has a consequence.
I liked the production values in this game and the writing was good. The theme of the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” resonated several times during the gameplay, and it made me think about who was worth saving and who I should jettison.
The title is good as a social game, where you can consult your friends about what decision to make. The stiff gameplay, where characters aren’t as interactive as you want them to be, is getting a bid old. But Supermassive did revamp the system so that 3D movement was much easier and the game characters and action moved faster than in the past.
Above: The Book of Love is a hilarious narrator in It Takes Two.
Image Credit: EA/Hazelight
Developer: Hazelight Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Windows
It Takes Two was a surprisingly good game in the under-used genre of romantic comedy. In the game, you play as a husband and wife who are planning on getting a divorce. Their daughter makes dolls of her parents and magically turns them into the dolls. The couple is trapped in the small world of the dolls, and they are forced to work together — as you are with a fellow human player in co-op play — in order to return to their human forms.
Josef “f*ck the Oscars” Fares came up with some compelling co-op game play yet again as he did with his previous title, A Way Out. To succeed in the game, you have to work together. And that’s not easy when you have a difference of opinion with your partner. It’s like you’re tied together, and your choices are bound by what you can convince the other player to do. You have to solve puzzles like how to beat a vacuum cleaner that has an ax to grind with you. The gameplay isn’t repetitive, and you have to move on from story elements to boss fights over and over.
Platforms: Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Call of Duty storylines are often a weak point. They’re like an excuse to stage a first-person shooter game in a new setting. But this year’s title had some good writing that gave the game good reasons to bounce from one strategic battle to another in a war that spanned the entire globe. We get a series of vignettes in four major theaters of war: the Middle East (with the Battle of El Alamein and more), the Pacific Ocean (with the Battle of Midway and fighting for Bougainville), Berlin, Stalingrad, and Normandy (in the lead up to the D-Day invasion).
These are fun settings on their own, but narrative elements tie them all together. The fictional story tracks the rise of the Special Forces at the end of World War II, and it brings together soldiers from different armies in Rainbow Six fashion. The story pulls elite soldiers like Polina Petrova, a Russian nurse who became a sniper fighting in Stalingrad.
She was modeled after real female soldiers who were the Soviet Union’s best snipers in the war. Petrova has to fight in unconventional ways, climbing the walls of buildings and running on the rooftops as they come under aerial attack. The Nazi villains are also well conceived, giving you just the right amount of motivation to wipe their forces off the planet.
I had occasional glitches playing on the PlayStation 5, but they were minor. The imagery is beautiful for a war game, with realistic environments, lifelike characters, and fast gameplay. The game really shines in multiplayer combat, particularly in modes like Patrol and Team Deathmatch. While it wasn’t the best in the series, I felt it was a well-balanced game across the vectors of historical interest, good gameplay, variety, great multiplayer, and a strong narrative.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Windows, Google Stadia
The Life Is Strange narrative games are celebrations of diversity, with interesting characters who are fleshed out with relationships and emotions. And Life Is Strange: True Colors, hit home for me as the first really high-quality video game where the lead characters are of Asian descent.
The title is a third-person adventure game where the lead character Alex Chen is always on screen. A character like this is validating. And even though the character is a woman, I felt good as the game reflected part of my own identity and culture. It was also nice to see that this representation in True Colors wasn’t stereotypical. Alex and her brother aren’t “model minorities.” They’re far from perfect, as products of a broken family.
As the game combines realistic modern narratives with the supernatural, Alex has the superpower of being able to detect the emotions of those near her. She has a built-in lie detector test when she is talking to people, but she was institutionalized for this ability for being delusional — when she in fact was the one who could see the mental state of others. She uses this power to solve a whodunit mystery in a small Colorado town full of interesting characters.
While this game has the challenge of not being interactive enough, just like House of Ashes, it makes up for it with a compelling story that featured some of the finest acting and writing I’ve seen in a video game.
The realistic nature of the series holds up with this installment. Life Is Strange as a franchise isn’t afraid to tackle controversial issues in its games, including teen suicide, immigration, racism, transphobia, alcoholism, and drug abuse. In this case, it focuses on the loss of family members, the travails of foster care, and standing up against a corporate monster.
2) Age of Empires IV
Developer: Relic Entertainment and World’s Edge
Publisher: Microsoft Xbox Game Studios
Platforms: Windows
I was glad to see Age of Empires return after a hiatus that has lasted since 2005. And Microsoft took its time to get this right, as the developers worked on it since 2017. The result is a title that has a lot of polish for its single-player campaign and lot of fun with multiplayer as well.
Age of Empires and its sequels sold more than 20 million copies, but Microsoft shut down Ensemble Studios in 2009 during the Great Recession after attempts like Halo Wars met with limited success. This title is a successor to Age of Empires II, and the battlefield scenes in 4K HDR look pretty amazing.
Eight civilizations appear in Age of Empires IV. The single-player campaign starts out with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conquerer in 1066. I thought the starter campaign did a great job conveying history — a lot that I didn’t know about — in an interesting and visually appealing way. In attacking or defending fortresses, I constantly felt like the AI was surprising me and forcing me to choose what ground to hold and what ground to give up.
Each battle taught the rock-paper-scissors nature of medieval combat, where the spear soldiers did well against cavalry, which could easily take out archers, which could take out rows of infantry when properly shielded behind a line of sword infantry. Getting hands-on with history — without making it boring — was never so fun.
By the way, I would rate this title as a 5 out of 5.
1) Halo: Infinite
Developer: 343 Industries
Publisher: Microsoft Xbox Game Studios
Platforms: Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Halo: Infinite is a vast open world game that brings the Master Chief back in style. It’s a relief that this game turned out so well, from its stellar multiplayer to the long single-player campaign. The landscape of the new Halo ring is vast and beautiful. The story isn’t quite as twisted as past plots have been, and yet it is intriguing every step of the way. Cortana has been replaced by an AI character known only as The Weapon, and the unfolding of a new relationship between the Master Chief and The Weapon is compelling. This kind of story is why I keep coming back to Halo.
I just finished playing the campaign game on Heroic mode, and it was so satisfying. I played it for tens of hours, and I never got bored with any part of it. Halo: Infinite had so many tough bosses to fight, from the Gravity Hammer-wielding Bassus to the flying robots where you are exposed in a gondola.
I also had a hard time fighting Jega ‘Rdomnai, who wields a Duelist energy sword and can become invisible thanks to his stealth capability. You fight in a confined space and have to switch between your weapons, grapple hook, and threat sensor. Chak ‘Lok was also tough. Hell, they were all tough.
I won’t spoil details on other bosses here, but just when I thought I had gotten through a tough part, another difficult path lay ahead. I also loved the power fantasy of being in a Scorpion Tank and ripping the Banished enemies to shreds as if they were ants.
It game me a real sense of accomplishment when I finally finished. I consider this to be outstanding fan service that is so worth the long wait. I consider this game to be the most polished to date, and it’s also my favorite Halo for its all-around completeness. I rate it as a 5 out of 5.
Honorable mention
On my honorable mention list is Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 2042. If EA’s DICE developers stamp out the bugs and keep refining the title, it could be very rewarding. The game has great joys like environmental destruction and a tornado that rips through the battlefield. So that game is worth keeping an eye on.
Meanwhile, I wish you a merry Christmas and happy holidays. However you celebrate the season, I hope you enjoy it and find time to play.
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Amazon does very well with its online clothing sales, but physical clothes stores still sweep up most of the business.
Keen as ever for a piece of the pie, the e-commerce giant has unveiled plans for its first-ever retail clothing store for men and women, selling garments, shoes, and accessories from well-known brands as well as emerging designers.
The 30,000-square-foot brick-and-mortar store will open at The Americana at Brand — an upmarket shopping complex in Glendale, Los Angeles — later this year.
As you can see in the video below, Amazon Style stores will only have one sample of each item on the store floor. If you want to try something on, you simply use the Amazon Shopping app to scan its QR code, select the size and color, and it’ll be sent directly to the fitting room. Inside the fitting room you’ll find a large-screen tablet that lets you call for more colors or sizes.
You can also scan to buy and collect the item almost immediately from the pickup counter. Scanning items will also prompt Amazon’s algorithms to suggest similar items that you might like to try.
“Customers enjoy doing a mix of online and in-store shopping, and that’s no different in fashion,” Simoina Vasen, the managing director of Amazon Style, told CNN. “There’s so many great brands and designers, but discovering them isn’t always easy.”
Vasen also said Amazon Style will sell “everything from the $10 basic to the designer jeans to the $400 timeless piece” in a bid to meet “every budget and every price point.”
While Amazon made its name with online shopping, in recent years the company has explored the world of physical stores with a range of openings.
It started off with bookstores in 2015 before launching the first of many cashier-free Amazon Go stores that use cameras to track your purchases so you can simply grab and go without having to line up. But it didn’t stop there. Amazon Fresh grocery stores have been popping up in states across the country, while it also launched a store called Amazon 4-star selling products that have received high ratings on its online store.
It also acquired Whole Foods in a $13 billion deal 2017, and last year was reportedly looking into the idea of opening a chain of discount stores, though the pandemic apparently prompted the company to put the idea on hold.
One of the controversial requirements to run Windows 11 is a TPM 2.0 chip. This chip, usually found on your PC’s motherboard, is a security chip that handles encryption for your fingerprint, other biometric data, and even things like Windows BitLocker. It’s usually turned on by default on most PCs, and found in most modern systems purchased in the last few years.
Yet if you’re not sure if TPM 2.0 is turned on (usually the Windows 11 updater will check for you), you can check for it manually and then enable it in a few steps. Here’s how.
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Check for TPM using the Windows Security App
Before diving into our guide, you might want to check for a TPM 2.0 chip on your PC. You can do this manually through the Windows 10 settings. This will let you know if you can continue with the Windows 11 install process.
Step 1: Open Windows 10 settings with Windows Key and I on your keyboard. Then go to Update and Security.
Step 2: From Update and Security click Windows Security followed by Device Security and Security Processor Details. If you don’t see a Security Processor section on this screen, your TPM 2.0 chip might be disabled or unavailable. If you see a spec that’s lower than 2.0, then your device can’t run Windows 11.
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Get to BIOS to enable TPM
Once you verify or confirm that you have a TPM 2.0 chip on your system, then you’ll need to get into your PC’s BIOS to enable it. You can do this directly through Windows without the need for a keyboard combination on boot. Here’s how.
Step 1: Go into Windows 10 Settings. Head to Update and Security, followed by Recovery and then Restart Now. Your system will restart.
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Step 2: On the next screen, you’ll want to choose Troubleshoot, followed by Advanced Options and then UEFI Firmware Settings. Click on the Restart button, and this will boot your PC into the system BIOS to check on TPM 2.0.
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Enable TPM 2.0 in the BIOS
Now that you’re in the System BIOS, you’ll want to look for a specific submenu. On most systems, the TPM settings can be found under settings labeled Advanced Security, Security, or Trusted Computing. Navigate to these menus using either the keyboard combinations listed on the screen or the mouse if your BIOS supports it.
If you’re unsure about which menu to get into, you can visit the links below. Each link will take you to a PC manufacturer’s page with guidance on how to enable TPM 2.0.
Step 1: Once you’re in the respective menu in the BIOS, you can check the box or flip the switch for one of the following options. Sometimes TPM 2.0 can be labeled differently as one of these options: Security Device, Security Device Support, TPM State, AMD fTPM switch, AMD PSP fTPM, Intel PTT, or Intel Platform Trust Technology.
Step 2: If you’re not sure if you’re checking the right box for TPM 2.0 settings, then you might want to check with the support documents for the company that made your PC. We linked to some of those above.
Step 3: Once you enable TPM 2.0, you can exit the BIOS using the commands listed at the bottom of the screen. Usually, the Esc key will do the trick, and you’ll be prompted to Save and Exit. Your system will then restart and boot you back into Windows.
Now that you confirmed that your PC has a TPM 2.0 chip, you can proceed with the Windows 11 installation process. We have a guide on how you can do that, and another piece that explains the differences between Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 has been my daily driver for a while now –and I love it. Unfolding it to get a bigger display still feels futuristic every time I do it. The cameras get the work done, and it is an amazing mobile device for productivity. But despite being the best of its kind, all things can use some improvement, and that’s the case for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 as well.
Here’s what I hope Samsung improves on with the Galaxy Z Fold 4.
A wider cover display … with a caveat
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Front displays on foldables are meant to get things done quickly, without having to go to the next step of unfolding the phone. For instance, replying to that message on WhatsApp, checking the time, swiping through notifications, and anything that requires little effort. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 flies through quick tasks on the slim 6.2-inch display — unless I have to quickly type something on it.
Typing on the cover display of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is a troublesome task. Due to the slimness of the screen, you don’t get the usable width on the keyboard, which results in a lot of typos that end up frustrating me. Making the cover display wider solves the problem of typos, but also leads to a wider foldable display.
Based on my experience with the Oppo Find N, it might not be a good idea despite the usability improvement. The web is built to operate vertically. You scroll down on stuff, be it your Twitter feed, TikTok, Instagram Reels, reading on a browser, or anything else. Personally, I’ve yet to come across an app or a webpage where I prefer a wider aspect ratio to a taller one. I like the taller aspect ratio of the Fold 3 rather than the wider aspect ratio on the Find N.
If Samsung could shrink the size of the left bezel on the cover display and increase its width, while keeping the dimensions the same as the Galaxy Z Fold 3, I’ll be glad. If not, I’ll just unfold the display to type quick replies as I have been doing.
Longer-lasting battery and faster charging
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The Fold 3 battery life is above average, but not the best. If you push it to the limits or have a busy day without access to Wi-Fi, it’ll drain the battery before you get to bed. And unfortunately, the fast-charging support is limited to 25 watts.
With Chinese smartphone manufacturers raising the bar on fast charging to a mind-boggling 120W, I hope to see the Galaxy Z Fold 4 offer up to 45W fast charging at least. I’m fine with a 4,400mAh battery if I get support for fast charging that can get my phone from 10% to 60% within 35 minutes or so. Samsung has done it before with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, so there’s no reason it can’t bring 45W fast-charging support to the Galaxy Z Fold 4.
An upgrade to 11W fast wireless charging would also be much appreciated.
Make it lighter
The first thing you realize when you start using the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is its weight. Depending on how you hold the phone, your pinkie finger could feel strain when using it folded for longer durations. That shouldn’t be the case with any foldable. It unfolds! Use it that way.
A reduction in the current 271-gram would be a welcome change and provide some relief to people’s pinkie fingers. I have had no major issues with the weight on my current Fold 3, but a lighter model would just feel better in the hands.
Better app optimization
An open Galaxy Z Fold 3 with apps on the screen.Andy Boxall/Digital Trends
This one has much more to do with Android app developers than Samsung, but apps could definitely use some optimization. And by app optimization, I don’t mean a full-screen Instagram (although, you can do that in the Samsung Lab in Settings).
Apps like WhatsApp, which is used by billions of people, need to step things up. On the Galaxy Z Fold 3, if I’m clicking a photo from the app, it magnifies everything. The viewfinder doesn’t give you an accurate estimate of what your photo is going to look like. Everything is blown up and magnified – even on video calls! If the user at the other end is holding the smartphone at the usual distance, you’ll see a cropped version on the folding display.
I hope WhatsApp can push out an update that fixes things, especially when its sister app — Instagram — has it all figured out in the Stories section. Instagram Stories don’t crop or magnify your image in the viewfinder.
There’s a decent chance the situation will start to improve with Android 12L, but a lot still rides on app developers implementing these changes.
Creaseless folding display
The crease on the Fold 3 folding display is much like the notch on Apple devices – you stop noticing it after a while. However, it is still noticeable when there’s a dark background, especially when reading something on the Kindle app, which is a common use case for me. Despite the crease bothering me sometimes, I love reading on the Fold 3.
On the other hand, the Oppo Find N‘s foldable display doesn’t have a deep crease like the Fold, though that might change after long-term use. But out of the box, the Find N has a much more seamless foldable display that looks and feels more pleasant to use. I just wish Samsung could figure out a way to minimize the crease to make my reading experience more pleasant.
Better UDC selfie shooter on the inside
When Samsung debuted the 4MP under-display camera (UDC) on the Fold 3, it was making a huge bet by adding an innovative new feature while also sacrificing usability. It’s beautiful to have a 7.6-inch display without any cutout bothering you and makes full-screen content appear more thrilling.
However, the quality of the selfies taken from the UDC isn’t great, as we noted in our review. Fortunately, Samsung is likely already working on a next-gen UDC with better image quality output, and I hope it debuts on the Galaxy Z Fold 4.
Built-in dock for S-Pen
Samsung introduced the capability of S-Pen support from its Note lineup to the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Fold 3. However, both of them missed out on a huge functional design feature that the Note had – a place to keep the S-Pen. If the Galaxy S22 Ultra renders are anything to go by, Samsung is already working on a place you can slot the S Pen without needing to shell out for a special case. That’ll make the S22 Ultra feel much more like the presumably defunct Note series, while the Z Fold 4 could get this slot, too, and serve as a more effective note-taking slate.
When will Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch?
The Galaxy Z Fold 4 has largely replaced the Galaxy Note lineup, which used to serve as the second flagship series lineup for Samsung. Now, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is expected to launch alongside the Galaxy Z Flip 4 toward the end of 2022.
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