School kicked my butt this past term, but that’s all over. While I get to spend this grace period after finals and before summer work doing responsible things like doing extensive spring cleaning, managing my finances, and actually finding a summer job (gulp!), I also get to play some goddamn video games again! And do some writing! Mostly writing about video games!

So, while I could just work through my Most Anticipated Games of 2014 list that I was going to write at the start of January and pretend a good 1/3rd of them aren’t already out, I’m instead going to just write a feature that is just a big ball of excitement for video games of 2014, past, present, and future.

I’ll still be doing a most anticipated list, expanded to 30 titles that are not yet released as of this time (to cover my butt on releases that are happening very, very soon). I’ll also be talking about 20 more titles: 18 titles that have been gnawing at my very soul while I ignored them to work through the school term and 2 titles that were unfortunately delayed into 2015 that I was so eagerly looking forward to at the start of the year.

All in all, that will amount to me writing about 50 games and gushing about how excited I am to play them. So uhh….. look forward to that, if you’re into that. Not gonna lie, I write these mostly for myself to just get my excitement on paper (errr… on…. computer?) so it doesn’t distract me later. Also, the time capsule element of looking back on how wrong or right I was about a game has always been fun for me.

Anyway, on Giant Bomb I'll be posting the lists in six giant chunks: 3 posts for the 30 Anticipated Games for (the rest of) 2014, 2 posts for the 18 Games of 2014 I Am Dying To Play, and another post for the two delayed games, which I imagine will be lot longer than the average post. I'll be posting the first 10 of the Anticipated games this evening. I'll also be using this blog post as a hub for all those lists, so click on the links below to jump to the appropriate posts.

And after all that is done? I'll get around to finally writing my Top Ten Games of 2013 list. Finally.

Enjoy!

• Top 30 Most Anticipated Games for (the rest of) 2014 - #30 - #21
• Top 30 Most Anticipated Games for (the rest of) 2014 - #20 - #11
• Top 30 Most Anticipated Games for (the rest of) 2014 - #10 - #1
• Summer Time Backlog 2014