We’re now officially in 2011, which will no doubt bring many great games into gamers hands, and hopefully, we’ll see a few surprises as well. For the 2010 year in gaming, we saw lots of great games, here’s out Best of 2010 at DigitalBattle:

Best shooter: Battlefield Bad Company 2

The shooter category has been packed in 2010, with lots of games coming out, including yet another Call of Duty, a reboot of Medal of Honor, and Halo Reach. But for us, the best shooter was Bad Company 2, with an improved campaign over the previous Bad Company and by far the most fun multiplayer shooter of the bunch, even though Halo and CoD fanboys might disagree.

Best Indie game: Limbo

Limbo took many by surprise with its dark nature and creepy atmosphere. While there have been many indie games in 2010, and many good ones, Limbo stood out the most. Check out our Limbo review.

Best Xbox 360 game: Halo Reach

Xbox 360 saw a relatively quiet year compared to 2009, but it still had the last Halo game made by Bungie, and it lived up to all the expectation fans had. Read our Halo Reach review.

Best PS3 game: Heavy Rain

It was a close race between Heavy Rain and God of War 3, and we chose Heavy Rain because of its uniqueness and story. And for being a game that’s hard to find these days, a game with a sense of mystery. Read our Heavy Rain review.

Best Wii game: Super Mario Galaxy 2

Without a doubt, it’s the best Mario game ever made, and took the already awesome Super Mario Galaxy to new heights. It offers everything a platformer should have, and it’s a game all future Mario games will be judged against. Read our Super Mario Galaxy 2 review.

Best sports game: NBA 2K11

It’s widely considered the best NBA Basketball game of all time, including from our review. It helps that there was no competition from NBA Live/NBA Elite this year.

Best DLC: Bad Company 2 Vietnam

The $15 DLC added a whole new dimension to the hectic multiplayer of Bad Company 2, taking its talents to the Vietnam era, with new maps, vehicles and lots of guns. Read our BC2 Vietnam review.

Best racing game: Gran Turismo 5

It was years in development, costing close to $80 million, and yet, we kinda felt disappointed by GT5. Despite that, it’s still a good racing game, and there wasn’t much competition in the racing scene in 2010. However, GT5 was also…

Most overhyped game: Gran Turismo 5

While it’s still the best racing game of 2010, the years leading up to it made us expect the greatest racing game ever, which it unfortunately wasn’t. There were a lot of things that felt dated in GT5, like the AI. For more, read our Gran Turismo 5 review.

Biggest disappointment: APB

What’s there to say about APB? Much anticipated, it came out as a dud, and it seems developer Realtime World’s blew $50 million to create great customization for characters. And not much else. Read our full disappointment in our APB review.

Best game of 2010: Super Mario Galaxy 2

It takes an already great concept and perfects it to the bone. Best Wii game of all time, best Mario game of all time, and best game of 2010.

Runners up: Mass Effect 2, Heavy Rain, Red Dead Redemption, God of War 3, Bad Company 2, Halo Reach.

Heavy Rain is a beautifully developed game but due to its unusual game play many wondered whether it would manage to produce high sales numbers or not. Well, those who doubted the game can now lay that doubt to rest as it was just announced that it has surpassed 1,000,000 copies sold worldwide since its February release.

What’s even better is David Cage, the mastermind behind Heavy Rain, estimates an additional 500,000 copies will be sold by years end.

I think it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing a Heavy Rain 2.

Heavy Rain was released for the PS3 on February 23rd of this year and was received generally well with most critics praising its unique style of game play. DLC for Heavy Rain is planned but many have been speculating what the studio’s next game will be. Well, despite just releasing Heavy Rain, Proder David Cage has said that he has already” written the next game”.

He doesn’t have the entire thing written but he does know exactly where he wants to go with the game.

Any bets on what the game will be? Heavy Rain 2 perhaps?

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Heavy Rain made it onto store shelves about a month ago on February 23rd but already Sony is announcing some new DLC. The pack will be called The Taxidermist and will be released on April 1st  for $4.99.

This pack will feature a new chapter for players to voyage through which you can get a glimpse at in the above video.

Late last month we let you know that Heavy Rain would be getting some DLC that would allow players to control other characters. Unfortunately, GameStop has just let us know that the DLC will in fact be getting delayed. Previously included as a pre-order bonus, GameStop says due to problems with the publisher, the DLC won’t be made available until March 4th.

However, those of you over in the UK will still be getting Heavy Rain Chronicles on launch day. Lucky you.

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Developer Quantic Dream has always made deep, involved games, their last of which was Indigo Prophecy (otherwise known as Fahrenheit), and if you loved that kind of game and storytelling, you’ll most certainly love their next offering. Heavy Rain was one of the most anticipated PS3 games for years, and it’s certainly lives up to most of the hype.

Without digging too much into the story — and we won’t, because we certainly don’t want to give away anything — Heavy Rain is a deep game which centers around characters and relies a lot on the choices the player makes. However, when reading this review, keep in mind that since the game relies on the story a lot, and since we won’t give you any spoilers, it’s a bit tricky to do a review. But we’ll try anyway. Read the rest of the Heavy Rain review

One of the most anticipated PS3 games of the year, Heavy Rain, has finally gone gold and is on track for its February 23 release date. Furthermore, a demo of the game has been confirmed for February 11, so make sure you got enough free space on your PS3. The demo will include two chapters from the game, certainly enough to showcase its full potential.

Yesterday we let you know the future of Heavy Rain in terms of DLC as detailed by one of the game’s developers. However, until we actually get our hands on it we can’t possibly know if we’ll even want the DLC.

Luckily, Sony has just let us know that a demo for the game will be hitting the European Playstation Store on February 11th. Now, North American gamers need not get too upset as our sources tell us that Sony is likely to release a demo for our Playstation Store on the same day.

However, if the demo doesn’t drop on North American shores you can always wait until the game gets released on February 23rd.

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Earlier today we let you see the Heavy Rain PS3 bundle which is to include the game and a 250GB console. That bundle, along with the game itself, won’t be on store shelves until February 23rd. However, a French site called GameBlog TV has already sat down with Quantic Games’ own David Cage to discuss future DLC.

Cage let us know that the future pack will be called Heavy Rain: Chronicles and include new playable characters like a durg-addicted FBI agent Norman Jayden and the game’s main protagnist the Origami Killer.

Unfortunately there is no word on when this DLC pack is out but hell let’s get through the game before we start thinking about more content.

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Sony, or rather, Amazon Europe, has revealed new PS3 bundles which will feature the highly anticipated Heavy Rain and God of War 3, each in their own bundles. The games will be shipped with a PS3 slim sporting a 250 GB harddrive. The new bundles were unveiled on Amazon Europe, and so far there is no indication that the bundles will find their way to North America.