Top 10 list of year-end Top 10s lists

IT'S YEAR-END TIME, and that means - yes, lots of lists. Here's a list, ironically, of a couple of alternative Christmas lists, in case the shopping list is driving you a little listless.

The pick of the lists is this video list from top video gaming video blog Playdigital, covering a list of the most anticipated games of 2008. It's a who's-who and what's-what list of '08, with plenty of top titles listed to keep even the most belligerent of gaming fans happy.

If traditional hardware listing is more your thing, then this list with the top bits of enthusiast hardware, from the geeky bods at bit-tech, should do you just right. If you want some more customisable list-making, then they also have a mod of the year competition-stroke-list for you to vote in and/or list your preferences.

For more light-hearted entertainment, they how about this list of three best parody end of year videos/lists, seen here at gossip queens Valleywag?

It's a bit late to start doing Christmas shopping now, but you might get something on next-day delivery if you pick up a bizarre USB gadget from this list at ExtremeTech, which has the top eight strange bus-powered devices, in a list.

Shacknews has a list of the year ahead in PC gaming.

There's an amusing accompanying list, given the recent teaser for Duke Nukem Forever, of things that have happened in the world since DNF was announced in 1997. It's quite amazing how long this list is.

On a slightly more serious front, Lifehacker has a list of the best free software and web applications of 2007 here,

Ars Technica has pulled out the list of the most requested changes for the next version of Windows (better management of linked lists are not on the list).

And if you are fed up with all of this end of year list-making then have a look at this hilarious video which explains, quite succinctly, why everyone loves lists. In the form of a list. µ