Time magazine has released its list of the top ten videogames of the year. Can you take a guess at what made their number one spot? If you guessed “Halo 3″ you don’t win a prize. “Like a pebble that has been rounded over the centuries by the gentle splashing of the ocean waves, ‘Halo 3′ has become the perfect hardcore first-person combat simulator,” said Time in their idol worship of the Xbox 360 killer app. “By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss.” Who knew that the editors at Time were down with playing some Master Chief deathmatches?

Of the titles that made Time’s best of 2007 list six are exclusive to one videogame system, of which three are for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and one each for Sony’s PlayStation 2, Nintendo’s DS and Wii console systems. Why didn’t at least one PlayStation 3 exclusive title make it on Time’s list? And no “Guitar Hero III” (or is that game now redundant that “Rock Band” is out and lets you play drums as well as guitar?)

Here are the best game titles as chosen by Time magazine for 2007:

1. Halo 3 (360)
2. The Orange Box (PC, 360, PS3)
3. Rock Band (360, PS2, PS3)
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
5. Bioshock (360, PC)
6. Call of Duty 4 (PC, 360, DS, PS3)
7. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
8. Mass Effect (360)
9. Air Combat: Fires of Liberation (360)
10. God of War II (PS2)

via Time