Time Magazine’s Lev Grossman and Peter Ha have compiled their list of top ten videogames of 2009.  It s one component of an extensive and nifty online series featuring The Top Ten of Everything 2009 for news, arts and entertainment, business, technology, sports and pop culture.

Grossman and Ha come across as having done their homework.  There are plenty of references to game play being a factor with the games that made the list, rather than defferring to sales, critical reviews or strength of IP as one would expect from a mainstream mag.  That might explain the order in which the games appear, which bucks any usual industry measurements like sales, critical reviews and strength of IP.  Check out the list at Time.