2010 has been a huge year for the industry with titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Castlevania: Lords of Shdow, and God of War 3 delighting gamers across the world. We've spent countless hours playing each of these titles and have come up with a list for our Game of the Year nominees. We've included polls so that you can include your input in the voting process. The winners will be revealed on December 17th. Hit the break to view our nominees.

Once in a while, we at PS3Vault like to treat our dedicated fan base to something amusing – after all, gaming websites don’t have to be about cutting-edge industry news all the time, do they?

Last night I decided to venture online with Call of Duty: Black Ops. At about 19:00 GMT there were 724,598 players connected across the globe, so I was open to the possibility that my experience might be a little, ahem, ‘temperamental’ (and it was, though given I retired from my session with a respectable Kill/Death Ratio I wasn’t too disappointed). However, the technical team at Treyarch have a lot of work ahead of them judging by what I’ve read recently on the Call of Duty forums.

Visited N4G recently? Yes? Then chances are you’ve seen an article which states that the PS3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops does not incorporate regional matchmaking to support the stability of its online multiplayer mode.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrng! Wrong.