Games of the Year 2010

Kirby's Epic Yarn is a running and jumping game starring Nintendo's Kirby character who can absorb enemies to gain their abilities and powers.

Kirby's Epic Yarn is a running and jumping game starring Nintendo's Kirby character who can absorb enemies to gain their abilities and powers. It's set in Patch Land, a world made completely out of fabric.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens.

Mario Party is an interactive board game.

Mario Party is an interactive board game. Players roll dice to move around a board and then compete in different mini-games to earn the chance to throw again or earn points.

Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts.

Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is gained you can encounter dolphins, huge whales, underwater wrecks and deep-sea trenches.

Heavy Rain is from the same Quantic Dream studio who made Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human.

Heavy Rain is from the same Quantic Dream studio who made Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human. It preceded these games but shared the same branching narrative and photo-realistic aspirations.

Triple Town is a puzzle game where you expand an empire by building cities in a limited space.

Triple Town is a puzzle game where you expand an empire by building cities in a limited space. You combine lower value pieces into better ones to improve your city and make best use of available space.

Alan Wake is a shooting game with a horror tone where you must survive the darkness and the terrors that dwell within it.

Alan Wake is a shooting game with a horror tone where you must survive the darkness and the terrors that dwell within it. You use your torch to weaken the monsters that hunt you, then switch over to conventional weapons to dispatch them.

Sonic Racing is the latest kart racing game in a series featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and other Sega characters.

Fruit Ninja is a game where an array of brightly coloured fruit fly into the screen area and you need to slice each piece in two before it falls to the floor.

Fruit Ninja is a game where an array of brightly coloured fruit fly into the screen area and you need to slice each piece in two before it falls to the floor. The technicolour action combines with simple interactive taps and swipes to make it accessible to all ages.

Scott Pilgrim vs.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is an arcade-style fighting game.

Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child where you encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling.

Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child where you encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling. You travel the neighbourhood collecting items for your costume, candy and fellow children as companions in order to face the monster and rescue the sibling.

Blur is a four-player racing game with many Mario Kart-style features but with customisable real-model cars.

Blur is a four-player racing game with many Mario Kart-style features but with customisable real-model cars. The combination of such cars as the Dodge Viper, Ford Transit and Lotus Exige (to name a few) with weapons, stunts and power-ups is both unusual and exhilarating.

Donkey Kong Country Returns is a running, jumping and bashing game where you play Donkey Kong and other characters trying to reclaim their island from the Tiki Tak Tribe.

Donkey Kong Country Returns is a running, jumping and bashing game where you play Donkey Kong and other characters trying to reclaim their island from the Tiki Tak Tribe. It's a return to the side-on platforming of the classic Donkey Kong 64 in 1999.

Xenoblade Chronicles is a series of open-world role-play games.

Xenoblade Chronicles is a series of open-world role-play games. They take place on the frozen bodies of two warring titans, the Bionis and the Mechonis.

Skate is a skateboarding series with innovative controls.

Skate is a skateboarding series with innovative controls. One stick is used to control the skater's body and the other his feet.

QWOP is a sports game with a difference.

QWOP is a sports game with a difference. You have to control each limb of your virtual athlete.

Dance Central is a dancing rhythm game you play by moving your body in front of the Xbox Kinect camera.

Dance Central is a dancing rhythm game you play by moving your body in front of the Xbox Kinect camera. The focus on full body movement celebrates accurate, well-timed and energetic moves.

Bioshock 2 is a horror shooting game.

Wii Party is a party game that offers a variety of challenges that each use the Wii Remote motion controls.

Wii Party is a party game that offers a variety of challenges that each use the Wii Remote motion controls. These 80 mini-game challenges are organised through three sections of the game: Party Games, House Party Games, and Pair Games.

World of Tanks is a multiplayer tank simulation shooting game.

World of Tanks is a multiplayer tank simulation shooting game. You control a tank in a war zone and try and destroy enemy tanks in online matches in a race for supremacy and points.

Anki Overdrive is a physical slot-car racing game you control with your smartphone.

Anki Overdrive is a physical slot-car racing game you control with your smartphone. The cars are intelligent and follow the track so you can focus on steering them round the best racing line and triggering virtual weapons.

Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.

Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller. You use the ball character to smash your way across eight worlds, collecting medals and taking on boss fights.

Red Dead Redemption is an adventure game set in a vast wild west open world.

Red Dead Redemption is an adventure game set in a vast wild west open world. As you play, you meet characters, engage in shootouts and heists, and define your character's legacy in the twilight of the cowboy era.

Chime is a block-dropping music puzzle game where you control a single shape to move, rotate, and then place it onto a grid.

Chime is a block-dropping music puzzle game where you control a single shape to move, rotate, and then place it onto a grid. A beat line moves across the grid in time with the music, setting off events when it hits placed shapes.

PixelJunk Racers is racing game where the circuit is viewed from above.

PixelJunk Racers is racing game where the circuit is viewed from above. Like a slot car game (Anki Overdrive or Scalextrics) you race round the in one of the five separate lanes.

VVVVVV is a running and jumping game, without the jumping.

VVVVVV is a running and jumping game, without the jumping. Not having the ability to jump may seem like a disadvantage, but instead you can flip gravity to get around the various rooms of the abandoned space station.

Super Meat Boy is a running and jumping game where you complete tough platforming challenges to rescue your girlfriend.

Super Meat Boy is a running and jumping game where you complete tough platforming challenges to rescue your girlfriend. You play a small pixilated cube of meat and use your momentum to jump over sawblades, traverse deadly pits, and reach the goal.