Guild Wars 2 comes in at #1 on TIME's top 10 games of 2012

Guild Wars 2 has taken out the top spot in Time Magazine's top 10 games of 2012.

Chosen by Time's technology and games writer, Matt Peckham, the complete list is below:

1. Guild Wars 2
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
4. Dishonored
5. Assassin's Creed III
6. Papo & Yo
7. The Last Story
8. LittleBigPlanet
9. Halo 4
10. Torchlight 2

Writing about Guild Wars 2, Peckhams says: "Guild Wars 2 is one of those rare games that unexpectedly knocks your life off-kilter, like a meteoroid banging into a satellite. Call it the pinball machine of MMOs, devoted to keeping you entertained by the minute, whatever you're doing."

Peckham says that all the elements of Guild Wars 2 — from the scavenger hunts to defending homesteads to protecting towns from bear hordes — give the game the "feel of a living world" and describes it as "the sort of compulsive anywhere-you-go playability other MMOs only dream of."

Polygon's own game of the year list will be published in the coming weeks.