As a new year begins, we have a whole bunch of 10-year anniversaries to celebrate over the next 12 months (taken from the first full year of the Xbox One generation), including some true classics that we're still enjoying to this day!
Looking through the list, there are some obvious highlights. Titanfall was one of the most important Xbox exclusives of the early Xbox One period, Forza Horizon 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Sunset Overdrive were major first-party titles, and there were some massive third-party releases such as Destiny and CoD: Advanced Warfare.
This isn't the full selection of Xbox games from 2014 by any means, but here are some of the biggest:
- Titanfall (March 11, 2014)
- Kinect Sports Rivals (April 8, 2014)
- Wolfenstein: The New Order (May 20, 2014)
- Watch Dogs (May 27, 2014)
- Destiny (September 9, 2014)
- Forza Horizon 2 (September 30, 2014)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (September 30, 2014)
- Alien: Isolation (October 7, 2014)
- The Evil Within (October 14, 2014)
- Sunset Overdrive (October 28, 2014)
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (November 4, 2014)
- Assassin's Creed: Unity (November 11, 2014)
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection (November 11, 2014)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (November 18, 2014)
- Far Cry 4 (November 18, 2014)
There are other 10-year anniversaries to celebrate this year as well, such as Phil Spencer's decade as Xbox boss, having been appointed to the role back in March of 2014. The Xbox One ended up releasing in over 25 markets that year too, such as in Japan and China, and it even ended up outselling the PS4 in the final two months of that year.
Back to the games though, and there's so much else we could highlight - from The Crew to Tales from the Borderlands. Despite all the negativity that surrounded the Xbox One at the time, the games themselves were really good, and plenty of Xbox 360 titles were continuing to prove popular as well. 10 years, eh... where does the time go?!