It would be, but I've heard SotS2 will require DX10.  If so, then it is hard for me to be excited as I have XP and therefore lack access to DX10.

Fallen Enchantress is only free if you bought E:WOM before the cutoff (I pre-ordered long before release, so I don't recall the actual cutoff date).

This!

Also following the dev over at the Kerb forums and I'm kinda 'meh' about it now.  I love SotS1 to death, and while innovation is great, and I respect Kerb tremendously, I need to see it first, before I go hog wild.  They are making some changes, and they are adding a boat load of new features I just don't really know if I'll like.

I'm getting really picky these days, but, hell it's my time, so I want to spend it well.

Sword of the Stars 2 will be the greatest 4x game in existence until Galciv3 comes out...

Everything else is a distant second.

I'm waiting to see if Deus Ex: Human Revolution is going to be good.  However, when the developer lists "Mouse and Keyboard controls" when talking about PC "features", one begins to worry.

Battlefield 3 should also be quite good, however again I'll wait and see.  At least PC Gaming have one FPS series that isn't afraid to maintain some level of PC Focus.

Sword of the Stars 2. There are other games I am looking forward to, but they have not announced a release date or are slated for next year.

It's not on mine because I LOATHE the UI in SotS 1 and it's a constant fight to put up with it. If they improved that, I'll be interested. If not, then not a chance.

Tanafres - You get FE if you bought WoM in 2010.

In no particular order:

Torchlight 2, Might and Magic: Heroes 6, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (won't be released until 2012), Diablo 3 (won't be released until 2012), Mass Effect 3 (won't be released until 2012).

The E3 demo got leaked to the Internet.  From what I've heard of it DX3 actually looks like it will be a good game.

There are so many interesting games coming out in 2011, that it's hard to keep track of them!  My list:

1) Deus Ex: HR  - for the reasons mentioned above.

2) SotS II - ditto

3) Sins: Rebellion - ditto

4) Heroes of Stalingrad - Sure BF3 looks awesome, but I think I am slightly more interested in Tripwire's new WWII shooter.

6) BF3- but of course, but I am worried about system specs.

7) Wargame: European Escalation - Eugen Systems said that this new old-school wargame just might make it out the door in 2011, so fingers crossed!  

8) Xenonauts - screw the new XCOM, this is the only real choice for fans of Microprose's classic game!

9) Starfarer - Don't know if this indie game will make it to v1.0 by the end of the year, but it certainly sounds like it is going to be super-entertaining game of trading and fleet warfare!

I don't actually know mcuh of what's coming up beyond this thread, actually... but here's my list anyways.

BF3

Sins: Rebellion

SotS II

HoMM 6.

I'm kind of suprised with myself; I'm actually looking forward to Battlefield 3. There's so many Call of Duty and CoD-esque games out there that when I see another "modern FPS" I just write it off, but BF3 looks interesting. I'll probably wait for it to go on sale, though.

I'm also looking forward to Sins: Rebellion, but other than that there isn't much. Maybe SotS2, but I couldn't get into the first one.

Fallen Enchantress and Torchlight II.

I think Diablo III will be 2012 and frankly, I don't know about it. It looks great in some areas and not very good in others. Region locking is also super lame.

Crusader Kings II is going to be awesome but I think that's 2012 as well.

EDIT: I checked out that Skyrim. It does look pretty darn cool. Bonus points for the mammoths.

Sword of the Stars 2, although since I just discovered SOTS 1 a few months ago and am still discovering lots of new things with every playthrough, I'll likely wait until the first post-release patch before buying it.

I do intend to check out Skyrim, but my playtime is very limited these days, so may not purchase.

D. None of the above.

Starcraft wouldn't make a very good mmorpg imo, it would lend itself better to being an action-style mmo, maybe akin to planetside? Blizzard has already touched on a lot of the elements that would be in a Diablo mmo with World of Warcraft. So I don't think they'd make an mmo out of that simply because it would be too similiar to WoW. Galactic Civ mmo.. Eve Online with larger corporations? Heh, I'm not sure how'd that work. But anyway, interesting ideas all.

My own list for 2011..

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Fallen Enchantress

Heroes of Might and Magic 6

Should be a good year, as far as games go.