- LittleBigPlanet is full of wonder. It did for me this year what Mario Galaxy did last year; it made me feel like a little kid.
- Despite Left4Dead’s frustrating server system, a good game of L4D is the best multiplayer experience money can buy, and tearing into a survivors soon-to-be-corpse is completely intoxicating.
- WipeOut HD was a perfect introduction to the series. Everything about it is intensexy.
- Castle Crashers is catharsis, baby. Four players, one screen and pure joy.
- World of Goo is perfectly suited to the Wii and its sense of humor is beautifully subtle.
- Rhythm Heaven is so strangely Japanese and unsurprisingly fun.
- Braid struck a chord with me. The puzzles were mind bending and the delivery of character was emotional.
- Professor Layton is too smart for me but it’s designed it in such a way that I can still enjoy it.
- Mario Kart Wii has done something amazing. It has made some Drifting intuitive enough for your mom. I wonder how many drifters of the future are training in Mario Kart right now.
- Rolando found its way on my iPhone just in time to be part of 2008. Like Braid and Goo, Rolando carefully layers on the mechanics and is chock full of flavor.