The 50 games you can't miss in 2016

It's late April, y'all! The weather is warming. The US presidential election continues to be a circus. So, yes: We are firmly entrenched in 2016.

Some great games have already launched, but there's so much more coming in the next eight months.

For starters, this is is the year that PlayStation VR launches, that Facebook's Oculus VR finally released its Rift headset, and that HTC and Valve released the Vive - the year of VR.

It's also the year that Nintendo closes the book on Wii U with a few final major games before moving on to a new console with the (still codenamed) "NX" project, and Sony and Microsoft are cooking up revisions of their own consoles.

In short: It's a huge year for games, and we're barely scratching the surface with the 50 games below. Here's what to keep an eye on in 2016, in order of release date: