Best Downloadable Console Game

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.

Special Achievement

As more developers dip their toes into downloadable games, the Best Downloadable Console Game category gets more competitive. And while these bite-size games come in small packages, they can pack as much of a wallop as their full retail counterparts do. This category celebrates the best and the brightest of this year's downloadable games.

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

Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy's sharp controls, excellent level design, and challenging gameplay set it apart from this year's already-excellent crop of downloadable console games.

Readers' Choice Voting

Winner
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And the winner is…

Super Meat Boy

Publisher: Team Meat
Developer: Team Meat

GameSpot's Best Games of 2010 Readers' Choice Winner

Super Meat Boy is a tough-as-nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus wearing a tux who lives in a jar. Leap from walls, jump over seas of buzz saws, and run through crumbling caves and pools of old needles. Super Meat Boy relives the old school difficulty of classic retro platformers and streamlines it down to the essentials, no BS, just straight-forward twitch reflex platforming, and all while sacrificing his own well-being to save his damsel in distress.

Title	% of Votes	# of Votes
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light	21%	6,368
LIMBO	27%	8,201
Monday Night Combat	5%	1,558
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX	10%	2,921
Super Meat Boy	28%	8,699
Chime	1%	159
DeathSpank	5%	1,675
Hydro Thunder Hurricane	1%	281
Planet Minigolf	1%	156
Toy Soldiers	2%	698