Over at Game Girl Advance they've published a year-end write-up of their own. There are no "game of the year" choices here. Instead, they choose to look at the biggest trends of '05. Their top five? "Sex and Games" (ooh, Hot Coffee, it burns), "Wireless Online Gaming", "There's Room for Both of Us" (the DS and PSP can coexist), "Console Indie Development" and Gamers Fight Back Against Critics.

Of those five, the most interesting might be the DS and PSP finding a strange harmony in your hands, or hip mailbag (are those still cool?). Because the two systems are so different in their software and function (i.e., the DS is starting to accumulate an excellent catalog of games, and the PSP is still, uh, really good at playing movies) both will be viable. I hope that 2006 sees the PSP software start to really develop.

The Five Biggest Trends of 2005 [Game Girl Advance]

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