Top 10 games of the year

This year saw Facebook games and hit apps jostling with the usual console franchises - with Angry Birds still worth about 10% of the total gaming market in the UK. But 'hardcore' gamers were well-served as well, with Nintendo's 3DS dishing up an unexpected treat in the form of the superb Resident Evil: Revelations.

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    1. Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2. A return to form for EA’s long-running racing series, Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2 skips out the boring cars – you’re handed the keys to growling monsters such as Lambo
    2. Minecraft. The block-building role-playing strategy game Minecraft swept from its home on PC onto Xbox and phones this year, marking a coming-of-age for ‘indie’ titles. The simple graphics and build-a
    3. Marvel: Avenger
    4. Angry Birds Star Wars. This combination could have really annoyed BOTH Star Wars fans and Angry Birds fans, but it's actually a labour of love. A new flock of birds with Star Wars-style powers – i
    5. FIFA 13. Vastly improved artificial intelligence makes the solo game in this year’s installment far more chewy. The FIFA Ultimate Team mode has been changed to add online leagues and cups to ensure fa
    6. Dishonored. This PC hit wowed gamers with a cinematic steampunk world, and offered a fantastic storyline about a disgraced assassin, made rich with painstaking detail, that offers a refreshing departu
    7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. A welcome return to form for the series, this has a far better single-player game than its predecessor, flipping between Eighties 'dirty wars' in Angola and a grim w
    8. Resident Evil: Revelations. This 3DS hit was easily the best handheld game of the year - and probably of all time. A proper, full-fat haunted-house horror set on a cruise ship infested by watery '
    9. Halo 4. Fans were nervous as the flagship sci fi shooter Halo was handed over to a new studio – but the new team proved more than up to the task, with an epic piece of sci fi storytelling that added j