Thanks to a heatwave zapping parts of the United States, some of this weekend's Fourth of July celebrations may have fewer fireworks due to issues like burn bans. That's as good an opportunity as any to enjoy the kind of virtual pyrotechnics that video games can afford—all in air-conditioned rooms with no annoying mosquitos or in-laws buzzing around, at that.
As such, we're taking this mid-year opportunity to pick out our favorite video games of 2015's first half, but in Ars tradition, our list comes with an asterisk. We've asked our staffers, most of whom aren't dedicated games writers, to list any favorite game they played this year, and we've broken the answers down into two lists: games published in 2015 and games published at any point in time.
This isn't necessarily a "best of" list, but rather a list of the games we've made time to play while reporting on the wider world of tech. In many cases, the results include a serious helping of comfort food and old franchises, and they're all games that have survived repeat playthroughs as opposed to being propped up by nostalgia alone.
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