Numerous video games were released in 2010. Many awards went to games such as Red Dead Redemption, ', 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, ', 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, ', 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.
This is a list of all the game hardware released in 2010.
This year saw the release of Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Kinect, which are Motion controller peripherals made to compete with Nintendo's Wii. In addition, Nintendo also released the Wii Remote Plus, which was a Wii Remote with a built-in MotionPlus.
Two consoles revisions were also released this year, the Nintendo DSi XL (which initially launched in Japan last year) and the Xbox 360 S.
The following titles were the top five best-selling family video games worldwide in 2010.
Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.