After a few weeks of deliberation and voting, our top games of 2016 are finally being unveiled! We're starting with titles that garnered honorable mentions; these nominees received a significant amount of votes but fell just short of making the cut. Come back tomorrow to start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2016.

With the development of Mass Effect: Andromeda wrapping up (scheduled for release on March 21, 2017) Bioware has already set it sights on the next project.

Tiger Knight: Empire War is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online tactical combat game combining action gameplay with player-controlled mounted warriors and strategic, large-scale MMO battles.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Hitman - The Complete First Season [PS4/XOne]
• Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers [Vita/PS4]
• Star Wars Pinball: Rogue One [PS4/X360/XOne/PC]
• Resident Evil 7 [PS4] Banned Footage DLC
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare [PS4] Sabotage DLC
• Digimon World: Next Order [PS4]
• Linelight [PS4/PC]

In Neverwinter, players choose to become one of five classic D&D classes and team up with friends or NPCs to form five-person co-op groups. Players also create their own storylines and quests utilizing a user-friendly content generation system.

A true hunting simulation and at the same time a game open to all, Hunting Simulator offers a new gaming experience.

For Honor is a fast-paced, competitive experience mixing skill, strategy, and team play with visceral melee combat.

The Elder Scrolls Online is the first Elder Scrolls game to allow gamers to explore the legendary Elder Scrolls world with others.

Battlecrew Space Pirates is a competitive multiplayer shooter set in a packed and evolving universe.

In The Banner Saga 3, players will embark on their final journey beyond the wall of Darkness to traverse the world unlike anything encountered in previous sagas.

In Final Fantasy XV the armed forces of Niflheim launch a devastating assault upon the Kingdom of Lucis, casting Crown Prince Noctis and his comrades out of their homes and into the fray.

As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.

Set in the sprawling city of Los Santos and the surrounding area,  Grand Theft Auto V delivers a world of unprecedented scale and detail bursting with life, from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean.

Heavy Metal Machines is a one-of-a-kind 4v4 multiplayer arena combat game where you deal devastating destruction to the beat of a raucous heavy metal soundtrack.

Anyone buying a GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070 GPU, PC Gaming System or Laptop can choose either Ubisoft’s For Honor or Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands for free.

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is an HD remake of Final Fantasy XII which first introduced the Zodiac Job System, a 12-job character progression system.

Life is Feudal: MMO is a multiplayer sandbox RPG set in medieval times, featuring free terraforming, a rich crafting system, preset and modular building construction, engaging survival aspects and no-target physics-based combat, and a unique formation system.

Rock Band 4 is the latest installment in the music/rhythm franchise, not only bringing over 2000+ songs from past iterations, but all new tracks, features & modes.

Starpoint Gemini Warlords is a spin-off title from Starpoint Gemini 2, a tactical space simulator with tons of RPG.

Horizon Zero Dawn is a new action role-playing game where you, as main protagonist Aloy, a skilled hunter, explore a vibrant and lush world inhabited by mysterious mechanized creatures.