Now is the best possible time to get into Destiny.

You might have heard about all of the issues players had with the game after it launched. You might have heard that it features a garbled story, mindless grinding, and a community of players that seem to love to hate it. You might have even played it yourself and thrown it aside in frustration for another game, wondering just how Bungie made so many wrongheaded decisions along the way. 

I’m here to tell you that all these concerns are valid, but they’ve all been fixed. It just took a year for Destiny to figure out what kind of game it is. 

From fantastical new adventures to critters getting smashed, the conclusion to this week's Film Friday has it all. Enjoy these videos from Broken Sword 5, Cute Things Dying Violently, Destiny, Endless Legend, Guild Wars 2, Hitman, and Skyforge.

Gamescom Day 1 has come to a close, with reveals from Electronic Arts, Square Enix, and Ubisoft making the headlines. We've gathered the latest screenshots and videos from several games for you to enjoy: Destiny, Dream, The Crew, AER, Mega Man, Mafia III, Unravel, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, StarCraft II, Final Fantasy XV, and Project Daedalus - The Long Journey Home.

Welcome to the last piece of today's E3 coverage here on ZAM!

Today's final media briefing (4 of 4) was from PlayStation. It was another great event, so let's get straight to it!

All Events: Bethesda, Xbox, EA, Ubisoft, Playstation, Nintendo, Square Enix, PC Gaming

Eighteen New Videos (Part One)

Another busy week, another jam-packed Film Friday! So many landed in our inbox this week that we had to be picky, and still ended up with 18 great videos to kick off your weekend. In the first half, enjoy flicks from Age of Wonders III, Defiance, Destiny, Dungeon Travelers 2, Echo of Soul, Final Fantasy XIV, Hearthstone, Masters of the Masks and Tales of Zestiria.

The DICE Awards aired its 18th annual show on Twitch last night, celebrating another successful year in gaming. A wide variety of categories were presented, with Dragon Age: Inquisition scoring the top prize, Destiny snagging four of its own and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor dominating, landing eight awards in total. Winners were:

This week we awarded our top gaming picks of 2014. It wasn't easy; there were many stand-outs this year!

Our Expansion of the Year award went to World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. ZAM's VP of Technology, Michael "Argo" Ender, said that "World of Warcraft fell off my radar a bit after Wrath. With WoD they made the WoW game I've always wanted to play. Thank you Blizzard!" President Cody "Micajah" Bye added that the release of Draenor "revitalized an entire game." Check out contributing writer Michael "Ragar" Branham's story about how Warlords drew him back to Warcraft in our Expansion of the Year article.

Consoles saw a lot of new titles this year, but Destiny took the prize home for our Console Game of the Year award. Bungie reached for excellence and delivered on many levels with the title that has half of our staff hopelessly addicted. It may not be all roses, as ZAM Deputy Editor Colt "ShdwFlm" Casey mentions in our Console Game of the Year article, but at its core Destiny is a fun experience with room to improve.

PC gamers were treated to a plethora of excellent titles this year, with BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition landing our PC Game of the Year award. The in-depth story and replayability ultimately won many of us over as we took the Qunari by the horns and laid waste to all who stood to oppose Thedas. Managing Editor Ann "Cyliena" Hosler talked about how DAI excelled on every level in our PC Game of the Year article.

Finally, we looked forward to what next year will bring and agreed that Overwatch, which Blizzard unveiled during this year's BlizzCon, is our Most Anticipated Game of 2015. Project Manager Katie Welka teared up at the epic cinematic trailer, while Colt admitted that he gets the feels every time he watches it. ZAM's Brand Ambassador, Lindsay "Geektr0n" Ferguson, teamed up with Ann to explain why Overwatch is the game we all should be eagerly awaiting in our Most Anticipated Game of 2015 article.

Thanks for joining us for another fantastic year in gaming! We hope everyone is having a great holiday week and look forward to seeing what 2015 will bring!

Destiny

We love Destiny. Finding rare gear, upgrading talents, Public Events with strangers, dancing in the Tower. It blends an FPS and RPG as expertly as we could reasonably expect. It fills a niche in gaming we've always wanted. We forget how easily Destiny could simply not exist – but we're very glad it's real.

Individually, we've spent hundreds of hours acquiring new Exotics to laugh gleefully at their effects. Collectively, we've spent thousands of hours stomping the Fallen and fellow Guardians. When we're not playing Destiny, we're talking about it: our favorite Subclass, gear we're hoping to get, trash-talking the Cryptarch, or linking each other to items on DestinyDB (our Destiny site).

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Lindsay "geektr0n" Ferguson hosts ZAM's latest installment of Friday Update Arcade! Topics discussed are:

• Goblins vs Gnomes news
• Destiny expansion news
• Dean Hall leaves DayZ
• H1Z1 Early Access is announced
• The Witcher is delayed
• New Zelda footage!
• New gameplay footage for Metal Gear Online and Uncharted 4
• Steam Holiday Sale details