PlayStation

Kotaku’s 2010 Game Of The Year

It was a contentious fight: Which game of 2010 was the absolute best of the year. But we’ve reached a conclusion and have, at last, a clear winner.


PlayStation

Game Of The Year 2010: The Readers’ Choice Award

Capturing more than 12,000 of the nearly 30,000 votes cast in our Game of the Year poll, this cross-platform game captured Kotaku’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Award.


January 21, 2011
PlayStation

2010 Game Of The Year Finalist Debate: Mass Effect 2

Because I tried to please everyone, my Commander Shepard didn’t get laid the first time I played Mass Effect 2. Because BioWare tried to please everyone, Mass Effect 2 could be our Game of the Year.


January 20, 2011
Xbox

2010 Game Of The Year Finalist Debate: Call Of Duty: Black Ops

What makes a game a game of the year? Not innovation. Not graphics. Not gameplay. Not even a combination of all three.


January 19, 2011
PlayStation

2010 Game Of The Year Finalist Debate: Red Dead Redemption

In another universe, they made a box containing Red Dead Redemption that’s just for me. The front is familiar. The back, though, boasts the kind of bullet points I might demand of a great video game: