2010 In Games- Winter

Kinect opened November with a bang, as the hordes flocked to midnight launches despite its £130 price point to get their hardware home and plug it in to change their Xbox 360s forever- and rumour has it, that's exactly what the camera managed to do! Meanwhile Call of Duty: Black Ops and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood hit stores after year-long waits for both franchises, selling phenomenally and both rating well with critics, but also signalling the end for big video game releases in 2010. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part One were released shortly after (the latter proving unbelievably rubbish), then a few other surprising hits came in rapid succession: Epic Mickey; Sonic Colours; Gran Turismo 5; Super Mario All Stars and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare are all available on consoles now just in time for Christmas! In short, Winter contained a couple of huge releases that were backed up by inevitably looked-over yet reportedly great minor titles.