Well that was 2014. In the land of the internet it'll be remembered as the year of Gamergate, the Fappening (can someone come up with a better name for that, please) and the Sony Picture's hacks, which pales in comparison to the happenings in the real world, where horrific events turned the news into a daily half-hour of demoralisation. Overall popular culture fared a bit better. In cinemas a $200 million film based on a D-List comic starring a small ent and a talking racoon became the hit of the summer and a movie that, on the face of it, is about a superhero actor is an Oscar front-runner, while TV continued its ascension to high-art with HBO's sublime True Detective and an astonishing second season of Hannibal (who knew network TV could be so delightfully dark) being definite stand-outs. Over in gaming things didn't look as great as the industry limped from disappointing release to even more disappointing release; if your AAA game wasn't unplayably broken, it painfully toed the line of mediocrity to a fault. But what's really on everyone's lips as the year draws to a close is what have you been reading here at WhatCulture.com? From the scandalous to the speculative to the genuinely hilarious, here are the ten most read articles from 2014.
