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TIME Names Top 10 Video Games of 2008
GamePolitics News — TIME has cranked out a feature which serves up Top 10 lists for just about everything you can think of (breakups, foot trends, open mic moments), including video games. Lev Grossman penned TIME's list, which starts with GTA IV and ends with Spore. Here's what Grossman had to say about R*'s controversial, runaway hit: It's ironic that GTA became a football in the debate over sex and violence in video games, because where it belongs is in the debate over whether video games count as art... It's a grade-A ...

TIME Take A Stab At 2008's Ten Best Games [Time]
Kotaku — ... Grossman". And Lev...you did OK, son. The ten games Grossman selected were: 1. Grand Theft Auto IV 2. Braid 3. LittleBigPlanet 4. Rock Band 2 5. Gears of War 2 6. Dead Space 7. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 8. Hunted Forever 9. Fieldrunners 10. Spore Yup, that's Braid at #2. Curious about some of the others? Hunted Forever you actually know about. Fieldrunners is for the iPhone. And yup, that's Braid at #2. Top 10 Video Games [TIME] ...

Time Magazine Publishes Top Ten Games Of 2008 List
The Escapist : Latest News — ... doesn't? Despite a few misgivings, this looks like not a bad Top Ten Games of 2008 list, and a decent kick-off to the inevitable end-of-the-year torrent of "Year's Best" lists. But the important thing, as the holiday seasons approaches and the hopes and fears of a new year loom large, is that lists like this give us something to argue about. Check out Time's Top Ten Videogames of 2008 list here . (If you want to have a peek at a few others while you're at it, like the Top Ten TV Series, Gadgets or Scientific Discoveries, the full list of Lists is available ...

Time Magazine lists 'Top 10 Video Games' of 2008
Joystiq — ... the Flash-based Hunted Forever. Climb through the list and come back to discuss the placement. Grand Theft Auto IV in the top spot? Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in the Top 10? Isn't Braid just for "people who smoke and people who drink"? Discuss! Time Magazine lists 'Top 10 Video Games' of 2008 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.   Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...

Time Magazine’s fails with “Ten Best Games”
Sarcastic Gamer — ... If it weren’t for the mainstream press I don’t know what any of us would do.  Today, Time magazine, long recognized as one of the leading publications for information on video games and gaming culture, released its 10 Best Games of 2008.  The list is simply perfect in every way…  If you’re setting up a  joke. ...

GTA IV, LBP and Home amongst TIME's top picks of the year
Joystiq [PlayStation] — ... Time, the renowned weekly newsmagazine, has named its picks for top 10 games of year. Grand Theft Auto IV takes the top spot, while the only PS3 exclusive to make the list is LittleBigPlanet, which sits at third place. Other PS3 multiplatform titles on the list include Rock Band 2, Dead Space and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (really?). Want to know where those games are ranked and what else made the list? Check them out after the jump. ...

Time Picks GTA IV as Best Video Game of 2008
Evil Avatar - News Items — ... their "The Top 10 Everything of 2008" list. Among the many lists is their picks for the top ten video games. Their pick for number one was Rockstar's smash hit action game, Grand Theft Auto IV. ...

The freebie Hunted Forever makes Time's top 10 games for 2008
Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — ... " lists in its latest dead-tree issue - but its top 10 video games list does correctly identify one of 2008's stunners. Among the otherwise humdrum list (GTA IV at number one ... fancy that), down at number eight is the fabulastic ...

12/15/2008 Flash Game Forever Hunted Num. 8 in Time Magazine Top Games For 2008
8bitrocket.com Blog — [image] he Flash game Forever Hunted, by Canadian university student, Evan Miller, has been named one of the Top Video Games of 2008 by Time Magazine . Most of the other games on the list were developed by teams of people and appeared on Major consoles of PC platforms. Nestled in between ...

The 2008 GOTY GOTYs: The Best of the Best [Gotygoty]
Kotaku — ... Times agreed with us. Fable II: (4) Joystiq, PETA, The Telegraph and X-Play Fallout 3: (7) The Associated Press, Crispy Gamer, Gamasutra, GamesRadar, Gamespy, UGO and Yahoo Games Grand Theft Auto IV: (7) GameTrailers, Giant Bomb, Kotaku, The New York Times, Play, Spike TV's VGAs and Time Magazine Left 4 Dead: (1) Destructoid ...