This year’s game of the year, without a doubt, is Portal (remember this awesome trailer?). It’s three hours long and has one of the best endings I’ve ever seen. If you profess you love games, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. To quote the normally hateful Zero Punctuation, if you don’t like it, you’re stupid. (Also, for those who beat it, here is a link to the sublime ending)

As a side note, much of the writing was done by Chet and Erik of Old Man Murray fame. They are possibly most famous for their ranking of games based on time to crate. This is funny, because one of the key ‘characters’ in the game is the Weighted Companion Cube.

 (Incidentally, while working on UO2, I went up to Chet and Erik and told them that, because UO2 players could craft their own crates, they could tailor their own game experience to be as crate-centric as they liked. The pair looked at me like I was from Mars, and told me that perhaps I’d missed the point of their article).

Next year’s game of the year? Early money is on Brutal Legend, a rock and roll adventure game from Tim Schafer and Jack Black. Movie is here. Dude… you had me at ‘hello’.