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Breaking Down Game Informer’s 300 Greatest Games Of All Time By The Numbers
If you've read the most recent issue of Game Informer, you know that we celebrated our 300th issue by ranking the 300 greatest games of all time. It's an enormous list that can take hours to read through and took weeks for us to make. If you read that giant list and wondered how certain developers performed or which genres were most prevalent, then wonder no more!
I've combed through the list of 300 games with excruciating detail to spot some of the more interesting trends on the list. Check out some of my findings below, and if you haven't done so already, check out our full list of the top 300 games of all time in our current issue.
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*Games that released prior to the ESRB, but received rating upon re-release have been included.
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