Give the Gift of Gaming
December 27, 2010

Give the Gift of Gaming

Video games are a hot item this season, with some hotter than others
Chances are great that at least one person in your house will find a video game tucked under the Christmas tree. Recently, IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation, and the global leader in game technology, released its annual Holiday Buyers Guide, and—no surprise—games and gaming technology (consoles, peripherals, and so forth) are extremely popular items (see the story at www.cgw.com/CGW-Blog/2010/November/Make-it-a-very-interactive-holiday.aspx).



IGN Entertainment, however, got more specific about this shopping statistic with us here at CGW. Here goes:

Top 3 trends this holiday:
  1. Motion Gaming
  2. Portable/Mobile Gaming
  3. Return to the Classics (Nintendo)


Hottest Games by Platform:

Top Xbox 360 games of 2010
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Fable III
  • Halo: Reach
  • Alan Wake


Top PS3 games of 2010
  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • God of War III
  • Heavy Rain
  • 3D Dot Game Heroes


Top Nintendo Wii games of 2010
  • GoldenEye 007
  • Kirby’s Epic Yarn
  • Monster Hunter Tri
  • NBA Jam
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns


Top PC games of 2010
  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  • BioShock 2
  • Civilization V
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent


Top Nintendo DS games of 2010
  • America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking
  • Dementium 2
  • Mega Man Zero Collection
  • Picross3D
  • Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies


Top iPhone, iPad, or Android games of 2010
  • Assassin’s Creed (Android)
  • Chaos Rings (iPhone)
  • Cut the Rope (iPhone)
  • Let’s Golf (Android)
  • Mirror’s Edge (iPhone)