Picking 2023’s Best Games and 2024’s Most Wanted with PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti

Real Time Strategy

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Game of the Year season — so PC Gamer global editor-in-chief Evan Lahti joins us to break down how PC Gamer picks the best games of every year. He also pulls back the curtain on other PC Gamer projects, including game adaptation coverage, the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase, and the Top 100 PC games list.

Timecodes:

00:00:00 – Intro (Evan’s Holiday Backlog)

00:07:55 – PC Gamer’s Game of the Year Awards

00:14:00 – Creating Genre Awards

00:17:38 – The GOTY Selection Process

00:22:03 – How the Process Has Changed Over 15 Years

00:24:49 – Covering Deep Gaming Communities

00:40:43 – Covering Video Game Adaptations

00:49:08 – PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted

00:51:34 – Building “The Council” Jury Behind the Most Wanted List

01:06:53 – Evan’s Personal Most Wanted List

01:11:40 – PC Gamer’s Top 100 Games List

01:23:21 – Outro

Stories discussed:

PC Gamer – PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2023

PC Gamer – The 25 Most Wanted games, as revealed in PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted

PC Gamer – The top 100 PC games

Media discussed:

Alan Wake 2

Lethal Company

Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action

Jagged Alliance 3

Hunt: Showdown

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Unforetold: Witchstone

Sulfur

Follow Evan on Twitter @ELahti, and find his work at PC Gamer here.

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