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Calendar of Events

  • Monday
    • DEC 13
    • Awards Begin Categories Revealed
  • Monday
    • DEC 20
    • Editors' Choice Awards Special Achievements
  • Tuesday Dec 21 - Dubious Honors
  • Wednesday Dec 22 - Genre Awards
  • Thursday Dec 23 - Platform Awards
  • Friday Dec 24 - Game of the Year
  • Monday
    • JAN 10
    • Readers' Choice Awards Voting Ends

About the Awards

GameSpot's Best of 2010 awards cover special achievements in the field of advancements for games, dubious honors for less-than-admirable qualities, and full awards for individual genres and every major platform. Nominations and awards are the result of rigorous debate among GameSpot's editors, who select up to five finalists and one winner for almost every category (the Game of the Year category includes up to 10 finalists). To qualify for an editorial award, games must have been reviewed by GameSpot between January 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010.

Award categories are intended to call out those games that truly deserve the attention--therefore, while each award is meaningful, it's considered an honor simply to be nominated.

Platform Awards

Best PC Game

The PC had a very strong year in 2010 and offered a great variety of games in different genres. This award recognizes the very best that the platform has to offer.

Watch the video below for more!

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice WinnerAnd the winner is…

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Traditional and fresh in all the right ways, this strategy sequel is an absolute joy for veterans and newcomers alike.

Readers' Choice Voting

  • Winner
  • Results
And the winner is…

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice Winner

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the sequel to Blizzard Entertainment's 1998 hit StarCraft, which has been hailed by players and critics worldwide as one of the top real-time strategy games of all time. Sporting a vibrant 3D-graphics engine, StarCraft II will once again center on the clash between the protoss, terrans, and zerg, with each side deploying legions of veteran, upgraded, and new unit types. Unparalleled online play for StarCraft II will be available through a new version of Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's world-renowned gaming service. Battle.net has been redesigned from the ground up to be the premier online gaming destination for Blizzard gamers, with several enhancements and new features, such as voice communication, cloud file storage, leagues and ladders, achievements, stat-tracking, and more.

Title Vote Result Graph % of Votes # of Votes

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
 
 11% 6,350

Mass Effect 2
 
 31% 17,273

Sid Meier's Civilization V
 
 8% 4,484

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
 
 37% 20,958

Dead Rising 2
 
 2% 1,040

ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead
 
 2% 1,061

Just Cause 2
 
 1% 647

Napoleon: Total War
 
 1% 697

Super Meat Boy
 
 2% 942

Call of Duty: Black Ops
 
 5% 2,954

661 Comments

  • AvatarMan96

    Posted Mar 5, 2011 2:47 pm GMT

    I agree

  • lagendofdoom

    Posted Jan 18, 2011 7:38 am GMT

    Starcraft 2 is truly the top pc game of the year =]

  • Ondoval

    Posted Jan 17, 2011 2:43 am GMT

    I played a lot more BFBC 2; I think it deserves the award, but Starcraft II has also top end production values, so both options are fine.

  • DawnForMe

    Posted Jan 15, 2011 8:46 am GMT

    pff

  • Pumpkinhead3

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 10:07 pm GMT

    Poor Civ 5

  • zymbo

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 7:35 pm GMT

    This could've been the best PC game had the released the other 2/3 of the game.

  • Nodashi

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 8:08 am GMT

    @Tarmac_Hunter Well, I'd agree with you IF SC2 looked great. It doesn't. It could well be a console port, cause it's designed to run in VERY lower end machines anyway.

    I also hate bad ports. But sometimes there's a good one. Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield BC2 are good examples - they look MUCH better on PC.

  • Freynow

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 2:49 am GMT

    Well Starcraft II is great but Mass Effect 2 should have won it

  • Blazers420

    Posted Jan 14, 2011 2:15 am GMT

    Plenty of Fish...now that is a great game

  • raiding_kvatch

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 5:39 pm GMT

    Glad to see most people all agree that really was no other choice

  • smiffy555

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 12:00 pm GMT

    Nope, these results are wrong. Starcraft is not the best PC game of 2010. Fact.

  • sofro94

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 9:58 am GMT

    Best PC? geez

  • Applonee

    Posted Jan 13, 2011 1:09 am GMT

    Nooooooooooooooooo

  • aryeec

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 5:24 pm GMT

    *2 thumbs up*

  • Tarmac_Hunter

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 2:46 pm GMT

    It's nice to see a PC-specific game win this one. Too many crossover games lose something in translation when ported to the PC (usually UI and texture resolution.)

  • sorin_ro

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 1:58 am GMT

    so ..you put that crappy Dead rising 2 in here and you leave behind games like Darksiders...what a disgrace

  • sorin_ro

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 1:57 am GMT

    of course

  • BlueShark1

    Posted Jan 12, 2011 1:15 am GMT

    @ IMPACT_17 I agree, totally, but did you really expect otherwise when you logged in gamespot?

  • Kaldorei

    Posted Jan 11, 2011 7:45 pm GMT

    At least an PC exclusive game won unlike other categories.

  • Kid_Black_Star

    Posted Jan 11, 2011 6:35 pm GMT

    OF Course who wouldn't love this game for the PC XD