| 1. | Right, right, the Xbox One and Playstation 4 launched this year. Nintendo also released something as well. What was it called? | ||
| Wii Too | |||
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Nintendo 2DS | ||
| Wii U | |||
| Nintendo 3DS XL | |||
| 2. | If you visited Columbia at any point this year, you were playing this game. | ||
| Grand Theft Auto V | |||
| Tomb Raider | |||
| The Last of Us | |||
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Bioshock Infinite | ||
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By way of explanation.....
If you haven't played Bioshock Infinite yet then God, Jed, we don't even want to know you. |
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| 3. | This game surprisingly celebrated its 20th anniversary this year: | ||
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Magic: The Gathering | ||
| Metroid | |||
| Sonic the Hedgehog | |||
| Mortal Kombat | |||
| 4. | Nintendo declared 2013 to be the year of this character: | ||
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Luigi | ||
| Link | |||
| Zelda | |||
| Samus Aran | |||
| 5. | The gaming world mourned the sudden death of a personality from this gaming site: | ||
| Gamespot | |||
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Giant Bomb | ||
| IGN | |||
| Kotaku | |||
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By way of explanation.....
RIP Ryan Davis |
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| 6. | Apple bestowed their Gaming App of the Year award on this time suck: | ||
| Candy Crush Saga | |||
| Minecraft: Pocket Edition | |||
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Ridiculous Fishing | ||
| Angry Birds Star Wars II | |||
| 7. | Which game tells the tale of Franklin, Michael and Trevor? | ||
| Call of Duty: Ghosts | |||
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Grand Theft Auto V | ||
| The Last of Us | |||
| Bioshock Infinite | |||
| 8. | The Year in Nolan North: It was another stellar year for the hardest working man in video game voice acting. He's even branched out into non-games, appearing in Star Trek Into Darkness. Anyway, for which of these games did he not provide his dulcet tones? | ||
| Batman: Arkham Origins | |||
| Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag | |||
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Call of Duty: Ghosts | ||
| Saints Row IV | |||
| 9. | In one of the year's worst PR blunders, Microsoft announced and then backtracked on a few claims regarding the XBox One. Which of these was not among them? | ||
| It would always require an internet connection. | |||
| It would not be backwards compatible with the XBox 360 | |||
| Used games would not be playable on the console. | |||
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The Kinect unit is entirely optional and does not need to be connected. | ||
| 10. | Blizzard, who likes to take their sweet time with things, managed to officially release one game this year. Which one is it? | ||
| Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft | |||
| Diablo III: Reaper of Souls | |||
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Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm | ||
| World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor | |||
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By way of explanation.....
(Sorry, Hearthstone is still in beta, so it was not technically released.) |
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| 11. | For Madden 25 (what are they going to do in 11 years?), EA went with this Hall of Famer for their cover on the XBox 360 and Playstation 3 editions: | ||
| Joe Montana | |||
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Barry Sanders | ||
| Jerry Rice | |||
| Emmitt Smith | |||
| 12. | In things that sound completely made up, the United States announced that professional players of this game are considered professional athletes: | ||
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League of Legends | ||
| Dota 2 | |||
| StarCraft 2 | |||
| Halo 4 | |||
| 13. | The much anticipated new edition of this game was marred by horrific server issues, preventing many players from logging in and playing the game: | ||
| Gran Turismo | |||
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SimCity | ||
| MLB 13 | |||
| Dead or Alive | |||
| 14. | Buy your tickets now: a film adaptation of this game series is now slated for 2016: | ||
| Uncharted | |||
| Saint's Row | |||
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World of Warcraft | ||
| Grand Theft Auto | |||
| 15. | If you partook in a game of Bunkers and Badasses, you were in the depths of DLC for this 2012 game: | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 | |||
| XCOM: Enemy Unknown | |||
| Lollipop Chainsaw | |||
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Borderlands 2 | ||