2010 Search

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1. The Game

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   The Game: A mind game everyone is playing; thinking about it means you just lost. Posting "I lost the game" made everyone else lose. Example: "I just lost the game"

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2. FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for

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   FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...

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3. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

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   Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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4. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

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   Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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5. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

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   hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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6. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

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   Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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7. CityVille - Zynga's fastest-growing game ever, December 2010

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   CityVille launched on Facebook on 2 December 2010 and passed 20 million monthly users within two weeks, faster than any Facebook game before it. It was FarmVille with a...

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8. The Impossible Quiz - The trick-question Flash game every classroom knew

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   Splapp-me-do's The Impossible Quiz, from 2007, was still one of the most-played Flash games on school computers in 2010: 110 trick questions, three lives, and skips. It...

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9. Pixel Dash (playable recreation) - An original one-button runner in the style of 2010 Flash games

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   Pixel Dash is this exhibit's own, original browser game, written for the time machine to show what playing a Flash game felt like in 2010: a fake preloader, a sponsor...

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10. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

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    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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11. Super Meat Boy - From Newgrounds Flash game to indie hit

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    Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million...

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12. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

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    Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...

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13. Happy Wheels - Ragdoll physics and a level editor, born in 2010

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    Jim Bonacci's Happy Wheels, released in June 2010, was a gory ragdoll physics game with a level editor that let players share courses. It spread through Flash portals in...

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14. Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites

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    Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...

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15. Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world

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    In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...

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16. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

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    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

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17. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

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    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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18. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

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    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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19. Halo: Reach - $200 million on day one

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    Bungie's last Halo game launched on 14 September 2010 and made $200 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch of the year until Black Ops. Its...

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20. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

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    Miniclip was where school computer labs went to play 8 Ball Pool, Club Penguin's ancestors and hundreds of other Flash games. In 2010 it claimed tens of millions of...

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21. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

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    RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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22. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

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    PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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23. Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper

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    Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...

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24. Bloons Tower Defense 4 - Monkeys, darts and the tower-defence craze

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    Ninja Kiwi's Bloons TD 4, released in late 2009, was one of the most-played Flash games of 2010 on Kongregate, Newgrounds and Ninja Kiwi's own site. Tower defence was...

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25. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

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    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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26. Line Rider - Draw a line, watch the sledder ride it

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    Line Rider, the 2006 Flash toy where you draw slopes for a tiny sledder, was still a school-computer staple in 2010, and elaborate Line Rider tracks synchronised to...

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27. afk - Away from keyboard; the gamer's brb.

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    afk: Away from keyboard; the gamer's brb. Example: "afk 5 min, pizza's here"

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28. Kongregate - Flash games with achievements, bought by GameStop

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    Kongregate hosted thousands of free browser games with badges, chat rooms beside every game and a levelling system for players. GameStop bought it in July 2010, betting...

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29. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

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    Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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30. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

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    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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