Games you might have missed in 2010

…and I missed everyone on this list!  God of War: Ghosts of Sparta for PSP, Split/Second, Heavy Rain, Bayonetta and Vanquish.

Alan Wake combines gaming with an author lead character!
Alan Wake was a solid, albeit somewhat repetitive third-person action game. Playing as Alan, a mystery novelist, your wife goes missing in the town of Bright Falls, and suddenly the stories you write start to come to life.
As always we have to consider gaming rating/community when choosing library titles (see the drama when the Veterans for Peace protested playing Call of Duty Black Ops in a Sacramento library).  An after hours event, with permission slips, and a title like Halo: Reach- where FPS is more alien than human- could be a better call.  There are so many Teen and E for Everyone games to use for library gaming, we can avoid the landmines of perception that can set back gaming in libraries.