Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2019 - Pocket Gamer edition
2019 is dead and buried, and the new year, 2020, still has that cotton-fresh smell to it. How better to celebrate seeing off a ram-packed year than by flexing our collective brain-muscles back into activity after all that turkey and downtime? It's Pocket Gamer's big quiz of the year - 2019 edition.
This year Pocket Gamer is partaking in the great British tradition of the pub quiz. Well, except that we're not going down the pub, we're posting it online. You can feel free to crack open a beer if you like, or you can even use this to prop up your first new year's office meeting or to pad out your local pub quiz. We're not proud, and you're very welcome.
For our big quiz we've chosen twenty moments from throughout the last year to focus on. They're all stories that we've covered here on the website, as and when they happened, so regular readers should breeze it. There's a couple of tricky ones in there, so it won't be a walk in the park, but the majority of them are just plain and simple questions, with plain and simple answers. The perfect way to prove that you've been paying attention all along.
You can find the start of the questions through the big blue button below, and if you're stuck, curious or finished then you can find all of the answers on the very last page of the post.
If you've found it all a little bit too easy, or far too hard, then let us know down in the comments - or tell us on Twitter. If this is something that you enjoy then we can definitely run them more often. They're certainly a lot of fun to put together, and they give us the chance to talk about some of our favourite stories from the year.
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Questions 1 - 5
Question 1) Which Mobile MMO received an update called 'Kebos Lowlands' in January of 2019?
Question 2) Which Warner Bros game was removed from mobile storefronts in January as a result of legal action related to its similarities to Fallout Shelter?
Question 3) Which major publisher laid off 800 employees in February 2019 despite record revenues?
Question 4) Battle Royale had its big moment in 2018, but which legendary puzzle-game-meets-battle-royale released on Switch in February of 2019?
Question 5) In March of 2019, which new service, already available on Xbox, Windows PC and more was confirmed as coming to mobile and Switch?
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Questions 6 - 10
Question 6) Which award-winning first-person shooter series had its next, full-scale mobile entry announced in March?
Question 7) Which remake of a 2009, classic iPhone platformer released in April of 2019?
Question 8) Which game, which we referred to as "Clash Royale has a game of football in the park", released in April 2019?
Question 9) Which award-winning, metroidvania platformer was announced for iOS and Android in early May, releasing for iOS in late August.
Question 10) Which limited edition Pokemon was added to Pokemon Go. Removed May 17th
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Questions 11 - 15
Question 11) Which new genre sprung into action in June and dominated headlines through to the end of July?
Question 12) You might be feeling a bit under the weather, or down in the dumps, but what's the name of Bart Bonte's June-released puzzler.
Question 13) What is the name of Capcom's card-battler series which released in July, staring the likes of Mega Man, Wesker and Dante?
Question 14) ThatGameCompany released their latest masterpiece in July of this year, what's its full name?
Question 15) Devolver Digital surprised everybody by publishing a mobile-only title in August of 2019, what was its name?
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Questions 16 - 20
Question 16) Rovio's slightly forgotten Angry Birds kart racer, Angry Birds Go!, saw a revival as Angry Birds Go! Turbo Edition exclusive to which mobile cloud gaming service?
Question 17) What is the name of the premium subscription service which launched on the 15th of September, and how much is it per month?
Question 18) Zynga owned Gram Games are notorious for their match-'em-all title Merge Dragons. What's the name of their next title, released in mid September?
Question 19) Paradox Interactive finally announced one of their grand strategy titles would be getting a mobile iteration, what is the IP? There's a bonus point in it for getting the full name.
Question 20) What is the name of the DJ who has taken up residence in massively successful battle royale game, Garena Free Fire?
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Answers 1 - 5
Answer 1) Old School RuneScape (Runescape is accepted)
Answer 2) Westworld, interestingly our own coverage of it was brought up by the litigants.
Answer 3) Activision Blizzard
Answer 4) Tetris 99. Undeniably the battle royale of choice for tetromino fanatics.
Answer 5) Xbox Live, and I don't think anybody was as shocked as editor Ric.
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Answers 6 -10
Answer 6) Call of Duty Mobile
Answer 7) Rolando: Royal Edition (Rolando is accepted)
Answer 8) Rumble Stars Soccer
Answer 9) Dead Cells
Answer 10) Detective Pikachu, although really it was just a Pikachu in a hat. Hey, it's a start.
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Answer 11 - 15
Answer 11) Auto Chess, we had Auto Chess, Dota Underlords and Chess Rush.
Answer 12) Blue, the latest in his colour-themed puzzle series.
Answer 13) It's Teppen, who would have expected a card collection game from Capcom?
Answer 14) Sky: Children of the Light
Answer 15) Witcheye
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Answers 16 - 20
Answer 16) Ironically, for a series about stolen eggs, it's 'Hatch'
Answer 17) Apple Arcade (1 Point), £4.99/$4.99 (1 Point)
Answer 18) Merge Magic
Answer 19) Stellaris: Galaxy Command, and it's available in certain regions as soft launch (1 point for Stellaris, an extra point for the full name).
Answer 20) DJ Alok, who can now be both heard and played as in the game.