2020 winners & losers in geek

The year of ‘Rona meant a lot of changes in the way we do things hence the term “new normal”, and Geekdom wasn’t left unscathed. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was all bad. There are things we enjoyed watching this year with all the time we had on our hands and fan events that we “attended” right in the comfort of our own home that we wouldn’t be able to normally attend. At the same time, there were some things that sadly suffered because of the pandemic and a certain something that fell flat despite all the hype. Here’s the winners and losers of 2020 in geek.

LOSER

Cyberpunk 2077

Slick marketing and well-curated gameplay footage made us all hype for Cyberpunk 2077 with more than eight million pre-orders. We waited anxiously and patiently as the release dates got moved back, and now that it’s out, we realise that it would have been better if it was…