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1. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

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   Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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2. Albums of 2010: Recovery, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Suburbs - Eminem's comeback, Kanye's masterpiece, and Arcade Fire's Grammy

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   Eminem's Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released in November after his weekly G.O.O.D....

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3. Xbox 360 S - The slim, glossy 360 with built-in Wi-Fi

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   Announced at E3 in June 2010 and in stores days later, the redesigned Xbox 360 S was slimmer, quieter, had built-in Wi-Fi and a 250 GB drive, and included a port for...

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4. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

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   Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...

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5. Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned

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   Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...

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6. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

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   LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...

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7. 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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8. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

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   Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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9. 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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10. Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark

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    Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...

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11. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

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    Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...

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12. Webcomics: xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half - The comics that lived in Google Reader

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    xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...

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13. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

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    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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14. 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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15. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

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    Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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16. Windows Phone 7 - Metro live tiles and a fresh start for Microsoft

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    Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...

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17. 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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18. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

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    In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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19. Roku (2010 models) - The little box that made Netflix streaming a habit

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    Roku's 2010 line, the HD, XD and XDS at $59.99 to $99.99, were the cheapest way to get Netflix Watch Instantly, Hulu Plus, Pandora and Amazon on a TV. With the Wii, Xbox...

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20. Fallout: New Vegas - Obsidian's beloved, buggy Mojave

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    Fallout: New Vegas, released in October 2010, was Obsidian's cult follow-up to Fallout 3: deeper factions and choices, and famously unstable at launch. It sold millions...

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21. Mass Effect 2 - The suicide mission

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    BioWare's Mass Effect 2, released on 26 January 2010, opened the year with one of its most acclaimed games: a squad-recruiting space opera whose final mission could kill...

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22. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

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    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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23. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

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    Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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24. Firefox 3.6 - The alternative browser with a thousand extensions

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    Firefox 3.6, released on 21 January 2010, was the browser of choice for people who cared, with about 30 percent of worldwide usage. It added Personas skins, plugin-crash...

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25. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

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    Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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26. Microsoft Office 2010 - The Ribbon everywhere, and Office Web Apps in the browser

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    Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...

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27. The Walking Dead premieres - AMC's zombie drama arrives on Halloween 2010

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    The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on 31 October 2010 to 5.3 million viewers, a cable record for a series premiere, and went on to become the most-watched drama on...

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28. 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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29. Like a Boss - From a Lonely Island song to a caption for everything

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    "Like a Boss", from The Lonely Island's 2009 SNL Digital Short with Seth Rogen, became a 2010 catchphrase and image macro: any mundane act, captioned "like a boss". It...

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30. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

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    Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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