2015’s biggest surprises in gaming

Few years in recent memory have been both as triumphant and as sobering as 2015.

While crowdfunding continued to rise as an alternative to mainstream pitch-making and exciting new opponents got made it to the Super Smash Brothers roster, it also saw a settlement between Machinima and the Federal Trade Commission for not disclosing that some of their content creators were paid to produce pro-Xbox One content. YouTube mounted their counter-offensive to gameplay streaming platforms, and we lost an industry legend decades too early.