Vote for your Game of the Year 2012

This year has been a time of change for the games industry, seeing the focus increasingly fall on independent games such as Hotline Miami even as big publishers such as THQ struggle to stay afloat - but is that a change for the better or worse?

That's what we want you to consider when we ask you to vote on which were your favourite games of the year. Which ones have had a lasting impact on you and changed the way you look at the medium - or is that not what you look for in games at all? This is your chance to tell us what you think - so head to the forums and vote.

Below you can see a list of all the nominees, hand-selected based on acclaim, popularity and actual worth - the three of which don't always go together, unfortunately.

• Alan Wake PC
  
• Assassin's Creed 3
  
• Borderlands 2
  
• Black Mesa
  
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  
• Crusader Kings 2
  
• Dark Souls
  
• Dear Esther
  
• Diablo 3
  
• Dishonored
  
• FTL: Faster Than Light
  
• Halo 4
  
• Hotline Miami
  
• Hitman: Absolution
  
• Jagged Alliance: Back in Action
  
• Journey
  
• Magic: The Gathering 2013
  
• Mass Effect 3
  
• Max Payne 3
  
• Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  
• Natural Selection 2
  
• Reciever
  
• Sleeping Dogs
  
• Spec Ops: The Line
  
• Super Hexagon
  
• Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
  
• The Darkness II
  
• The Legend of Grimrock
  
• The Walking Dead (Episodes One to Five)
  
• The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition
  
• Thomas Was Alone
  
• Torchlight 2
  
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown

You'll need to sign up for a Bit-tech forum account if you don't already have one - but it's free, spamless and only takes a second. Voting will close on December 10th and we'll announce the winners shortly afterward.