Beat Hazard

This is a game for the PC. You play as a battle ship in space defeating the invaders, sort of like the old arcade game alien invaders, except they come in waves to the beat of the music. You can link your music from your computer and put them into the games. Depending on how fast the beat of the music is how fast the enemy come in and how many. You can play single player or multiplayer, multiplayer you both have to have the same songs to play them. As you clear songs, you level up and as you level, you can add buffs to help you out at the start of the game so you don't start out with nothing. This can be a fun way to pass the time while you listen to your favorite songs.

Assassins creed

This game is becoming very popular among teens and up. You play as a wanted man named Desmond and go into his past to play as his ancestors and learn about his history as an assassin. Each different game has many different endings and you play through to find out more about yourself and past self. The game play is very smooth and fairly easy to catch on to. You have to go through and complete the different quests and assassinate different people using a variety of strategies you pick up along the way from allies you meet.

Pokemon

I'm sure you are all familiar with this game. Pokemon is a game with powerful creatures running around that you can capture and train to defeat other trainers. The goal is to increase their level to become the strongest in the game and defeat the best of the best (the elite 4) and your rival. There are many different versions, 5 currently and I'm sure with their high popularity, there will be much more to come. One of my favorites is the second version, and more specifically the remake of the second version and my favorite type of pokemon is dragon :)

Harvest Moon

This has been one of my and my sisters oldest favorites. You play as a farmer in a new town with nothing but a house, a barn, and some land for crops. You have to work hard to produce crops and healthy animal products to sell and support a good farm. As you play, you interact with the other villagers and gain their friendships. you can also find your soul mate within the village and get married. Originally, in the first games you could only play as a male, not long after a female character became available to play. There have been many versions of the game in many different villages with many different people. It is a very addictive game that kept me entertained for a long time.

Kid Icarus Uprising

This is a new game that recently came out for the nintendo 3ds. Unlike the other games I recommended, this is not one I would suggest you play. You play as an angel trying to defeat the evil Medusa and her minions along the way. The game would not be bad if it weren't for the game play. It is difficult to move the character and look in different directions and attack at the same time (which is required in the game if you wish to live). The game comes with a stand you can set the 3ds on so that you can have your hands available to attack and what not and not have to hold the device which, I think, defeats the purpose of a hand held device. Again, if it wasn't so hard to play, it would be a decent game, but due to the difficulty, the rating for the game has decreased greatly.

Aion

This is a typical mmorpg game that I used to play a lot. It is for the pc and is very much like world of warcraft, but without the pay as it recently became free to play. You can customize your characters looks and skills. You go through the game defeating monsters and completing quests to level up. It requires patience for a lot of the leveling can take a while and a lot of monster killing. You can buy new gear and equipment and even pets to accompany you.

Moonbase Alpha

This is a free game on steam for the pc. It is not too advance and the game play is not too great, but it can be pretty entertaining when played with friends. You play as an astronaut who has landed on the moon and is setting up a base there. You find there is a leak in the oxygen tanks and have to use your tools and robots to fix the leaks. What I have found more amusing is the text to speech usage. In the game, you can enable text to speech which when you type in chat, a voice tries to pronounce what you typed in a Stephen Hawkings computerized voice. Just joining games with friends and spamming the chat has provided a lot of entertainment for me. It has managed to kill a few hours so if you are bored and just feel like goofing off, this can be a good game for you.

Killing floor

This is another popular zombie game for the pc, well the zombies in this game are actually called mutants, but its the same basic concept as zombies. This is slightly different from left 4 dead because there is no destination point. The point is just to survive. The mutants come in waves, more and more come as the waves pass. You can play alone or online. As you play, you level up different skills depending on the weapon you use and as you level, you can begin playing on harder difficulties. When you reach the final wave, you have to face the boss. This is a huge mutant with a machine gun as an arm and many other scary qualities. He is also a huge powerhouse, can deal a lot of damage, turn himself invisible, and can slowly heal himself over time which can be a pain to defeat. This can provide a lot of entertainment when played with friends.

Left 4 Dead

This is one of the many zombie apocalypse games out there. There are many different places you can play at, hospitals, schools, etc. It is a big multiplayer game with a few different characters to play from. You spawn in a building watching a helicopter fly away and zombies begin to advance towards you, as in you are "left for dead". You receive a radio signal from the copter saying they will double back and are given a location to meet up, but the challenge is getting there alive. You have to fend off the many zombies that are coming after you as you and your team advances towards the rescue point.

Skyrim

This is a new game from the Elder Scrolls. You play as the chosen one called the "dragon born" which gives you the power to shout commands learned by the dragons, each shout giving a different power. You can customize your characters looks and skills as you like. This game is basically a huge sandbox game where you can do as you please. You can do anything from playing along the plot and completing the quests to attacking everything in site and becoming the best thief/assassin in the game. It is available for pc, ps3, and xbox. If bought for the pc, there are many different mods you can download for the game to change it up and personalize it even more.

Little Big Planet

This is a very fun family game. You play as a sack person running through levels with your friends trying to complete each one. As you go, there are accessories that you can collect and equip to personalize your person. This game is a lot of fun when playing with friends. After you complete the levels, you can play online and customize your own levels that others can play on too.

ICO

I am still in progress of finishing this game. You are a child born as a demon. The village deems you dangerous and tries to offer you as a sacrifice by placing you in a cage within a huge castle and leaving you to die. You break free of the cage and have to find a way to escape. As you play, you find another caged person who you find out is a princess who is sought after by a bunch of shadow demons. You must now bring her along and protect her from the shadow demons that try to kidnap her. There is a sequel to ICO called Shadow of the Colossus. In the near future there will be a second sequel to ICO as well.

Amnesia

If you are looking for a crazy scary game, then this is the game for you. It is for the pc. I actually have yet to see this game to the end. You start out in a room with no knowledge as to how you got there, but a note from your former self. Before you got amnesia you wrote a note to yourself to help guide you out. Something happened that ended with you giving yourself amnesia because the memories were too painful to keep. You go through the game trying to recall your memories and escape the mysterious dungeon/house. You are terrified and cannot stay in the dark too long or you will lose your sanity. As you play, you find there is a monster roaming the place and attacks when he find you and all you can do is run. If you look at the monster or even while you are running, your sanity goes down and your sight gets all blurry. If you stay in the light too long or keep your lantern lit too long, the monster is more likely to find you, but you cannot stay in the dark or else you can die from insanity so you must be able to use both in equal amounts. Depending on your actions, the ending can change and a number of people that are trapped with you can be saved if you play right, but you can also escape alone with you as the only survivor.

Portal 2

Due to the success of Portal, they decided to make a sequel. Originally in portal, you ended on the outside of the facility, free to leave, but the ending was changed to the character being dragged back into the lab by one of the computers former minions. You awake in a bedroom to a mans voice telling you to awake for nerve testing, but not long after you fall asleep and don't awaken again for ~9 years until a lesser computer (Wheatley) comes knocking on your door. He helps you as you go, trying to help you find a way back to the outside. The only way out is through the main computers room that you shut down in the previous game. As you are about to leave, she re-awakens and, with a clear grudge against you, returns you to continue testing. Wheatley appears once in a while throughout the tests trying to help you find a way out of her control and eventually brings you to her control room. When you arrive, Wheatley convinces you to put him in power instead of her and then he will help you escape so you do as he says. Unfortunately, these circumstances always end the same way and Wheatley goes mad with power. He puts you back into the testing chambers with the former head computer and you and her must now work together to defeat Wheatley.
This game also added in a multiplayer so that you can solve test chambers with friends, and even added a couple new levels after the multiplayer was finished. Now it is adding even more where you play as the test creator and can make your own tests that other people can solve. This game can provide endless entertainment for you and your friends. Portal and Portal 2 were both a huge hit with its fans and many are hoping for a Portal 3, but I am not sure if this will be.

Okami

This is my favorite game, it is for the ps2 and recently the wii. It is based off of Japanese mythology, but all of the gods are in the form of animals. You play as the sun goddess Amaterasu, who is in the form of a white wolf. You are sealed within stone and are released by a spirit when a dark evil has covered the earth to help restore balance. As you play, you must defeat different bosses and learn the divine powers of the other gods then eventually find your way back to the heavens. The graphics are not amazing, but are meant to be an old style form of Japanese ink art. The fighting style is also incredibly smooth and easy to use.

Team Fortress 2

This is a fairly old game like the previously mentioned counterstrike, but can still be a lot of fun. There are many different game modes and classes you can choose to play as. The most popular game mode is similar to a capture the flag style. You must infiltrate the enemy base, retrieve their intel, and bring it back to your base. There are many different classes to play as, pyro (fire based), engineer (builder), medic (healer), heavy (machine gun/tank), etc. Within the last few years, this game became free to play on steam so the number of players has increased dramatically as as well. For some reason, what this game is most known for is the accessories you can find. There are many different hats and gear you can acquire just by playing that give different buffs to the characters. This helped create many other mods for other games to add in hats and skins.

Portal

The original game of Portal was a computer game available with the purchase of the "orange box" (a box you could buy which had 3 games in it, Portal, Half life, and Team Fortress) originally for the pc and xbox. Portal starts the main character, Chell, off in a small room from which you awaken from a long sleep. You are not aware as to how you got there. A voice projects giving you information on your purpose little by little. In all, you are brought there as a test subject to complete different tests created by a group of scientists in an organization called "Aperature". The head computer gives you a portal gun which fires 2 portals, a orange and a blue one. When you fire both onto a wall, you can go in one and come out the other. You use this device to complete tests that get progressively harder as you go. As you complete more and more tests, you begin to become suspicious as to what the computer has in store for you after she has finished with the testing. You learn you must find a way to defeat the head computer and escape the lab to freedom.
This game was not thought to be as huge of a hit as it was and because of its success, the creators decided to create a sequel.