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The Halfway Point for Games

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Does 2014 seem a little slow to anyone? There have been some nice games for sure, but compared to other years, there just doesn’t seem to be too many of them. Perhaps that is the fact that we have new consoles that developers are still figuring out, or perhaps its because there was so much stuff released over the Christmas holiday. In any case, it’s not a total loss. The indie developers have stepped up in a big way. And some triple-A publishers like Ubisoft have really stepped up with top tier games like Watch Dogs and smaller indie-like titles like Valiant Hearts: The Great War and Child of Light.

So what do you think the future holds for the games of 2014? Are we still going to be subjected to some hits and some misses, or will the release of great games bust wide open. Or, do we have to wait till 2015 to have another blockbuster year?

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.