Here you will find Top Picks lists for Xbox and Xbox 360 games so you can easily find out what games are the best of the best.
The Xbox 360 has been around for 4+ years now and has seen hundreds of games released for it. We know what our favorites are, but now we want to know what Xbox 360 games you have liked the best. Retail, Xbox Live Arcade, and Indie games are all acceptable answers. And you don't have to just say popular or even well reviewed games. We want to know what your individual favorites are.
The Xbox 360 has been out for more than four years and has seen hundreds of games released for it in that time. I've played most of those games (90% or so), and like to think that I have a pretty good idea of what games are good, bad, or in between, so I've put together my picks for the Top 100 Xbox 360 Games. This isn't a definitive list, but more of a conversation piece to honor the great game…
The year is nearly over and all the big titles are out, so it is time to share my picks for the best Xbox 360 games of the year. 2009 was a rough year for the 360 (2010 is going to be amazing, though), so it was kind of slim pickings as far as what games to pick from. In the end, I went back to the old standard of "what games did I keep going back to?" for many of my selections, so you'll find …
Just like how some games can come out of nowhere and surprise you since you had low or no expectations for them, hype and high expectations can disappoint you when a game doesn't turn out as good as you had hoped. Our picks for the Most Disappointing Xbox 360 Games of 2009 aren't necessarily bad games (in fact, many of them reviewed quite well), but they are games that we expected to be better a…
Expectations can be cruel. Sometimes you expect greatness and are disappointed, and sometimes you expect nothing and are pleasantly surprised. This list covers the latter instead of the former. We looked through all of the Xbox 360 games that came out this year and focused on the titles we either had low or no expectations for that came out and rocked our world. These are the best off the rad…
October, Halloween, and a Friday the 13th in any month get all the attention when it comes to horror, but horror games are good scary fun all year round. We share our picks for the best horror games the Xbox 360 has to offer right here.
Choosing the right gift for the gamer(s) in your life can be difficult, but with our Xbox 360 Gift Guide, it should be a snap! We’ve listed the absolute best Xbox 360 games in each genre (racing, shooters, action, sports, etc.) so you can be sure to grab the best of the best as well as a list of the best peripherals (controllers, guitars, steering wheels) for those hard to shop for gamer
A little back story – My Dad isn’t much of a gamer. He played a bit during the NES and SNES days, but hasn’t touched a game controller more than a handful of times since then. It got me thinking, what current Xbox 360 games would I buy for him if I wanted to get him back into gaming. I weighed his interests against how easy it would be to get into each game, and came up with the list. H…
The music/rhythm genre is growing larger by the month, and choosing the best games from the increasing pile of Guitar Hero and Rock Band sequels (and soon to be DJ Hero) can pose a problem for casual fans. We offer our picks for the best the genre has to offer here in our Top 5 Music/Rhythm Games list.
The Indie Games (formerly Community Games) section of the Xbox Live Marketplace is overshadowed by the XBLA and rest of Xbox Live, but it has some really great games that you can get for dirt-cheap. We share our picks for the ten best Xbox 360 Indie Games right here. We looked for good gameplay, obviously, but slick graphics and good music and sound also had a big impact on our choices. Note: …
The Xbox 360 has a wide range of games covering every genre and interest level. We list our picks for the best the Xbox 360 has to offer in the following articles.
In the last generation, the PS2 was the undisputed king of role-playing-games, so it is with a fair bit of surprise that here we are three years into the current gen and the Xbox 360, not the PS3, is the RPG king. The Xbox 360 has a good mix of both Western and Japanese-style RPGs as well as both turn-based and real-time varieties. RPG fans, the Xbox 360 has you covered.
Strategy games aren't a genre normally associated with consoles, but the Xbox 360 has had a number of great strategy games represented a few different styles. Real-time, turn-based, card based, and more are all present on the Xbox 360. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Xbox 360 Strategy Games.
The showcase genre on the Xbox 360 is definitely the shooter genre. Whether third-person or first-person, shooters dominate the Xbox Live charts as well as the sales charts for months at a time. It isn't exactly a family friendly genre, however, as 9 of our picks are "M" rated and one is "T" rated by the ESRB. For gamers mature enough to handle them, however, shooters can be a lot of fun. Her…
Sports games give us the opportunity to do things we can't normally do or to take control of our favorite athletes to do things that might not happen in real life. Am I ever going to drive in the winning run for the Mariners in game 7 of the World Series? No. Are the Vikings going to win the Super Bowl anytime soon? Who knows. But sports games give us the opportunity to make these things com…
Just like the first Xbox, the Xbox 360 has a great lineup of racing games and a controller perfectly crafted for the genre. We list our picks for the Top 10 Xbox 360 Racing Games right here.
The Action genre. So wonderfully vague in its description that anything from straight hack and slash to open world sandbox games can fit under its umbrella. We list our picks for the 10 Best Action Games the Xbox 360 has to offer here.
Our Top 10 Xbox 360 Games of 2008 list is out of the way, but the awards don’t stop there. We also have picks for Developer and Publisher of the year, Most Overhyped, Most Underappreciated, and more. We didn’t worry about Best Graphics or Best Music or specific genre awards, however, because those categories would have mostly been identical to our 2008 Top Ten list anyway, so we focused on other categories instead.
The year is just about over and now it is time to make our selections for our favorite Xbox 360 games of 2008. Our picks cover releases from throughout the year and represent a wide range of genres. There are quite a few surprise picks, and a lot of big name titles were not included, but that just shows how great and varied the Xbox 360’s 2008 lineup really was.
Usually after E3, sites do a top 10 list sharing their thoughts on best of show and what will be hot later in the year. What usually happens, though, is that the same big name hyped titles dominate the lists and readers don’t really learn anything new. We wanted to do something different. This list is all about titles that gamers aren't really thinking about now, but could make a big splash …
High-Definition gaming is here, and it is absolutely beautiful. Going hi-def is kind of expensive, though, so in this list we take a look at the ten games that best show off the capabilities of the Xbox 360 and should help justify that expensive new HDTV to your mom or wife or significant other. This isn’t a list of exclusive games; just the best looking games overall.
The Xbox 360 has been out for more than two years now, and while there have been a lot of great games released in that time, the 360 has seen its fair share of bad games as well. There isn't quite anything as epically terrible as Drake of the 99 Dragons or Aquaman like we saw on the original Xbox, where Xbox fans are proud to have them in their collection like a badge of honor, but there are pl…
2007 was a crazy year for the Xbox 360. There were tons of great games scattered all throughout the year in a number of genres. We have our picks for our Top Ten Xbox 360 Games of 2007 right here. There are some surprise games included, and some big name titles excluded, but that shows you how diverse and great the lineup this year really was.
Finding games for kids that have the right balance of difficulty and fun factor can be a challenge. It is also important to find games that you can play with your kids either in co-op, light hearted competition, or by taking turns and passing the controller back and forth. We have put together our list of recommended kids games on the Xbox 360. We tried to avoid licensed games because they ar…
There are a lot of great games out there that get overlooked for one reason or another. Whether it is because they are hard to find, got bad reviews, or just came out at a bad time of year, there are a lot of hidden gems out there that deserve to be played. Here is our list, in no particular order, of the ten best Xbox 360 games you probably haven't played.
This list covers the best local multiplayer (not Xbox Live) games on the Xbox 360. Both competitive and co-op games are included.
2006 was a fantastic year for the Xbox 360. Lots of games were released and, more importantly, lots of good-to-great level games were released. Picking the ten best for this list was quite a challenge to say the least. Here are our picks of the Top 10 Xbox 360 Games of 2006.
Our monthlong feature in October covers the best currently released and upcoming horror-themed games for the Xbox and Xbox 360. In this archive you will find links to each of the 31 blog posts.
The Xbox Live Arcade is one of the best features of the Xbox 360. Lets take a look at some of the best games available for download right now.
The Xbox 360 has only been out for a few months, but there are plenty of great titles available already. Here are our picks for the top 10 Xbox 360 games so far.
Here are our picks for the top magazines that cover the Xbox and Xbox 360.
The Xbox has a lot of great games, but there are some pretty horrible ones out there as well. These are some of the worst of the worst.
Check out our picks for the ten best Xbox games available for the Xbox.
