Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Luis Carlos Rúa arrived at the 2026 TIME100 Next Gala dressed in his full white elephant costume, which he later shed in favor of an all-black suit. In his hand, he held a stuffed white elephant instead, a symbolic mascot representing the incomplete public infrastructure projects in Colombia, the country in which he ran an unconventional anti-corruption focused Senate campaign this year, and won.

Concept art showing the in-development Sea Emperor, the largest known fauna currently in the game. After playing, at length, a few of the game's early access builds over the years, I can say that Unknown Worlds Entertainment's Subnautica probably is the best survival game ever made. It's certainly the best one I've ever played, and I've spent many hours in countless survival games mining and farming, building self-sustaining bases, and being incredibly frustrated with losing all of my hard-earned raw materials when I stupidly die somewhere far away from home base. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild recently released to glowing praise (and with the excitement of a new console, no less), Blizzard finally seems to be trying to fix Hearthstone, and a brand new installment in the Mass Effect franchise just dropped, but I'd trade it all for Subnautica to magically leave early access right now instead of in the fall. Unknown Worlds' first game, Natural Selection, released way back in 2002 -- a free Half-Life mod that was something the gaming world hadn't really seen before, a hybrid of a first-person shooter and real-time strategy game.

It may have been a difficult year for the wider world, but 2016 did at least see a lot of excellent video games, from the glossy action movie thrills of Uncharted 4 to the agenda-setting multiplayer fun of Overwatch and the solemn dystopian vision of Inside. But we wanted to know what the industry itself thinks were the best games to come out in the past 12 months. To find out, we asked 50 of our favourite developers, including 30-year veterans, Bafta award winners and rising indie stars. We've split the list into categories, and at the end we have a list of the most popular titles of them all. Karla Zimonja (Fullbright) Known for: BioShock 2, Gone Home Working on: Tacoma My favorite game this year is Dishonored 2, which I am still in the midst of. I love stealth games, so I'm taking my time with this one! Emily's powers are super satisfying to combine in entertaining ways. Anne Lewis (Bethesda Softworks) Known for: Doom, Dishonored 2 Working on: Prey It might sound like I'm shilling for my company when I say this, but Dishonored 2 is my favorite game of 2016. Dishonored is one of the reasons I wanted to work for Bethesda.