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It is, without exception, always difficult to pin down a Game of the Year. Each year there are so many quality titles released, and you could make a case for so many of them to be the “Best of the Best." How the heck do you settle on just one? Well, in the case of Genshin Impact, while I won’t say it was an easy choice to arrive at, I will say that it instantly felt right and deserving of being the Game of the Year for 2020. There is just nothing on mobile that even approaches what Genshin Impact has to offer. Developer miHoYo’s Genshin Impact is an action adventure game that takes place in a huge open world, and the team behind it has stated that their main source of inspiration was The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild. Indeed, the games look extremely similar at a glance, and there are a number of systems in Genshin Impact that feel maybe a little TOO close to those in Nintendo’s masterpiece. But, the more you play, the more you realize just how different these two game...

Here it is, folks. We finally get to say goodbye to the year that was 2020! This has obviously been an unprecedented year for most of us due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but if you were to try and pull some sort of silver lining out of everything you could say that being forced to spend so much time at home this year has also given many people more time to spend playing video games. And despite being a pandemic-stricken year, 2020 has had an unbelievable amount of great game releases on mobile. It seems like every year when we do this post we’re saying “Wow! I can’t believe how many great games released this year!" and 2020 has been no different. Before we get into that though, I need to talk about the health and status of TouchArcade. As many long-time readers are aware of already, our financial situation hasn’t been the greatest for the past several years. A lot of factors have contributed to this, such as traditional online advertising tanking and Apple killing their affiliate pr...