2010 in video games

Numerous video games were released in 2010. Many awards went to games such as Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2, God of War III and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Kinect from Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 was also released this year.

Series with new installments in 2010 include Ace Attorney, Alien vs. Predator, Army of Two, Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, BioShock, Call of Duty, Castlevania, Civilization, Crackdown, Donkey Kong, Darksiders, Dead Rising, Fable, Fallout, God of War, Gran Turismo, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Just Cause, Kane and Lynch, Lost Planet, Mafia, Mass Effect, Medal of Honor, Mega Man, Metroid, Need for Speed, Pokémon, Prince of Persia, Red Dead, Red Steel, Resident Evil, Skate, StarCraft, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Super Monkey Ball, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Total War.

In addition, 2010 saw the introduction of several new properties, including Alan Wake, Darksiders, Deadly Premonition, Heavy Rain, and Metro.

DS	Nintendo DS, DSiWare, iQue DS	DSiWare	Term not found	iOS	iOS, iPadOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod
LIN	Linux	OSX	macOS	PS2	PlayStation 2
PS3	PlayStation 3	PSN	PlayStation Network	PSP	PlayStation Portable
Wii	Wii, WiiWare, Wii Virtual Console	WiiWare	Term not found	WIN	Microsoft Windows, all versions Windows 95 and up
X360	Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Live Arcade	XBLA	Term not found

Datey	Console	Ref.
June 18	Xbox 360 S^NA	^{[citation needed]}
September 15	PlayStation Move^EU	^{[citation needed]}
October 28	Wii Remote Plus^AU	^{[citation needed]}
November 4	Kinect^NA	^{[citation needed]}

Rank	Title	Platform(s)	Publisher	Sales
1	Wii Sports	Wii	Nintendo	16,600,000
2	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Wii	Nintendo	11,300,000
2	Wii Sports Resort	Wii	Nintendo	11,300,000
4	Wii Fit Plus	Wii	Nintendo	8,900,000
5	FIFA 11		EA Sports	8,400,000

Game	Publisher	Release Date	Platform	MC score	GR score
Super Mario Galaxy 2	Nintendo	May 23, 2010	Wii	97/100	97.35%
Mass Effect 2	Electronic Arts	January 26, 2010	X360	96/100	95.77%
Red Dead Redemption	Rockstar Games	May 18, 2010	PS3	95/100	94.66%
Red Dead Redemption	Rockstar Games	May 18, 2010	X360	95/100	94.12%
Mass Effect 2	Electronic Arts	January 26, 2010	WIN	94/100	94.52%
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty	Blizzard Entertainment	July 27, 2010	WIN	93/100	92.44%
Rock Band 3	MTV Games	October 26, 2010	X360	93/100	92.44%
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX	Namco Bandai Games	November 17, 2010	X360	93/100	90.88%
God of War III	Sony Computer Entertainment	March 16, 2010	PS3	92/100	92.07%
Xenoblade Chronicles	Nintendo	June 10, 2010	Wii	92/100^[4]	91.74%^[5]
Super Street Fighter IV	Capcom	April 27, 2010	PS3	92/100	91.23%
Halo: Reach	Microsoft Game Studios	September 14, 2010	X360	91/100	91.79%
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm	Blizzard Entertainment	December 7, 2010	WIN	90/100	91.45%
Super Street Fighter IV	Capcom	April 27, 2010	X360	91/100	91.39%
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX	Namco Bandai Games	November 17, 2010	PS3	91/100	91.06%
Rock Band 3	MTV Games	October 26, 2010	PS3	91/100	90.94%
Rock Band 3	MTV Games	October 26, 2010	Wii	91/100	90.67%
MLB 10: The Show	Sony Computer Entertainment	March 2, 2010	PS3	91/100	90.53%
Limbo	Microsoft Game Studios	July 21, 2010	X360	90/100	90.68%
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood	Ubisoft	November 16, 2010	X360	89/100	90.62%
Super Meat Boy	Team Meat	October 20, 2010	X360	90/100	90.51%
Cave Story	Nicalis	March 22, 2010	Wii	89/100	90.31%
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood	Ubisoft	November 16, 2010	PS3	90/100	89.92%
Civilization V	2K	September 21, 2010	WIN	90/100	89.17%

Category/Organization		28th Golden Joystick Awards October 29, 2010	VGA December 11, 2010		14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards February 11, 2011			11th Game Developers Choice Awards March 2, 2011	7th British Academy Games Awards March 16, 2011
Game of the Year		Mass Effect 2	Red Dead Redemption		Mass Effect 2			Red Dead Redemption	Mass Effect 2
Independent / Debut^[i]		—	Limbo		—			Minecraft	—
Downloadable		Plants vs. Zombies	Costume Quest		—			Minecraft	—
Mobile/Handheld		Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver	God of War: Ghost of Sparta					Cut the Rope
Innovation		—			Heavy Rain			Minecraft	Heavy Rain
Artistic Achievement or Graphics^[i]	Animation	—	God of War III		God of War III			Limbo	God of War III
Artistic Achievement or Graphics^[i]	Art Direction	—	God of War III		Red Dead Redemption			Limbo	God of War III
Audio^[i]	Music	—	Red Dead Redemption		Heavy Rain			Red Dead Redemption	Heavy Rain
	Sound Design	—	—		Limbo				Battlefield: Bad Company 2
	Soundtrack	Final Fantasy XIII	DJ Hero 2		Rock Band 3				—
Character or Performance^[i]	Actor	—	Neil Patrick Harris as Peter Parker/Spider-Man Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension	Sgt. Frank Woods Call of Duty: Black Ops	Rob Wiethoff as John Marston Red Dead Redemption			—
Character or Performance^[i]	Actress	—	Tricia Helfer as Sarah Kerrigan StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty	Sgt. Frank Woods Call of Duty: Black Ops	Rob Wiethoff as John Marston Red Dead Redemption			—
Game Direction or Design		—			Red Dead Redemption				Super Mario Galaxy 2
Narrative		—			Mass Effect 2				Heavy Rain
Technical Achievement^[i]	Gameplay Engineering	—			Red Dead Redemption			Red Dead Redemption	—
Technical Achievement^[i]	Visual Engineering	—			Heavy Rain			Red Dead Redemption	—
Multiplayer/Online^[i]		League of Legends	Halo: Reach		StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty			—	Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Action/Adventure	Action/Shooter	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Call of Duty: Black Ops		Red Dead Redemption			—	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Action/Adventure	Adventure	Assassin's Creed II	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood		Limbo			—	Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Casual/Family or Rhythm	Casual	—	Rock Band 3		Angry Birds HD			—	Kinect Sports
Casual/Family or Rhythm	Family	—	Rock Band 3		Dance Central			—	Kinect Sports
Fighting		Street Fighter IV	—		Super Street Fighter IV			—
Role-Playing		Mass Effect 2						—
Sports	Individual	FIFA 10	Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11		FIFA 11			—	F1 2010
Sports	Team	FIFA 10	NBA 2K11		FIFA 11			—	F1 2010
Racing		Forza Motorsport 3	Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit					—
Strategy/Simulation		Plants vs. Zombies	—		StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty			—	Civilization V
Special Award		—	Strongest Heroes of All Time		Hall of Fame	Lifetime Achievement Award	Pioneer Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award	Academy Fellowship
Special Award		—	Master Chief of the Halo series, Samus Aran of the Metroid series, Marcus Fenix of the Gears of War series		Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk	Bing Gordon	Bill Budge	Peter Molyneux

2010 in video games

Legend

Hardware releases

Best-selling family video games

Critically acclaimed titles

Major awards

Video game-based film and television releases

Events

Notable deaths

Games released in 2010

See also

References

Wikiwand - on

Date	Event	Ref.
January 7–10	International Consumer Electronics Show 2010 was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.	^[15]
February 11–14	Microsoft X10 held in San Francisco.	^[16]
February 24–27	Nintendo World Summit held in San Francisco.	^[17]
March 9–13	Game Developers Conference 2010 held in San Francisco, CA.	^[18]
March 26–28	First PAX East Coast at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA.	^{[citation needed]}
April 15	Xbox Live for original Xbox console and games discontinued.	^[19]
April 20–23	Captivate, Capcom's annual tradeshow was held in Honolulu, Hawaii.	^[20]
May 4–7	The Humble Indie Bundle, an experiment into indie, charitable, cross-platform, DRM-free digital game distribution, is first released to great success.	^{[citation needed]}
May 30	Esports organization FaZe Clan is founded.	^{[citation needed]}
June 15–17	E3 2010 is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.	^[21]
June 17–19	OnLive released.	^{[citation needed]}
August 12–15	QuakeCon was held in the Hotel Hilton Anatole, in Dallas, Texas, USA.	^{[citation needed]}
August 16–18	Game Developers Conference was held in Europe in Cologne.	^{[citation needed]}
August 18–22	Gamescom 2010 was held at Cologne, Germany.	^{[citation needed]}
September 3–5	Penny Arcade Expo 2010 was held at Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.	^{[citation needed]}
September 15–21	PlayStation Move was launched in North America, Europe and various Asian countries.	^{[citation needed]}
September 16–19	Tokyo Game Show 2010 was held at Makuhari Messe in Japan.	^{[citation needed]}
September 30–October 3	The 2010 World Cyber Games take place.	^{[citation needed]}
October 22–23	BlizzCon 2010 was held at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.	^{[citation needed]}
November 4–7	Microsoft's Kinect launched worldwide, starting in North America.	^{[citation needed]}
December 11	The 2010 Spike Video Game Awards were held.	^[22]