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More success for EA's street racer as market continues to decline through quiet January.

A full and frank exclusive interview with Team 17's Martyn Brown on the realities of modern game development in Britain. With a few words on Worms 4: Mayhem thrown in for good measure.

Part Three: The Big One, Beat-'em-ups, Shooters, Platformers, Strategy games, RPGs/slashers, and all the rest.

Part Two: Sports, Extreme Sports and Puzzlers. Lots of these too.

Part One: Racing games. You'd be surprised at just how many there are, and you'll probably be surprised that most of them sound like more than ports, too...

EA hold the top spot as Underground 2 cleans up yet again.

Your thoughts on Final Fantasy X-2, Amplitude, Deus Ex and Metroid: Zero Mission.

Part One: The Stuff That's Finished. With so many DS games to get through, we've split this one in two. First up, the games we've played. Join us this afternoon for all the rest.

Part Two: The Ones We Know Things About and the Wow-Them-With-Names Brigade. In other words, virtually every other DS game of any note...

Major drop in sales for the top 40 titles, but EA's racer is still the UK's best seller.

Some of them you can play too! System requirements: Chocolate Boasters: XP Edition, 1x Tea SP2, Eyes, Brain (optional).

The exclusives, the ports and the multiformat titles and the biscuits you almost certainly need in your life.

We have an irrational discussion with the man behind the superheroes...

Pole position for EA's street racer in Christmas week.

Street racing sequel keeps the motor running as the charts wrap up for 2004.

The exclusives, the ports and the multiformat titles to keep an eye on. Come back soon for more 2005 previews. In fact, you might as well stay here. We've got biscuits.

We already go to the gym, and last year we lost more weight than the entire congregation of the Church of Atkins, but if any developers are looking for some possible resolutions, here's a few they might consider trying on...

Shin Megami Tensei III, Zoids Legacy, Yoshi's Island, Rise of the Robots and the Nintendo DS give you a pre-Christmas thumb workout.

Part one of our five-part countdown of our favourite games based on titles released in Europe during 2004.

The next ten games in our countdown of Eurogamer's favourite games of 2004, with more commentary (and back-biting) from Kristan, Tom, Rob, Kieron and Ronan.

We're getting closer to the biggest and bestest games of 2004, and it's safe to say that between them these ones could keep you going until next year's roundup.

Not quite the top ten, but the favourite-but-ten games of 2004 according to our panel. Don't forget to come back tomorrow for our top ten...

So, after all that, we're here: Eurogamer's top ten favourite games of 2004.

Halo 2, F-Zero: GP Legend, Zelda: Minish Cap, Super Mario 64 DS and FIFA 2005 in the last instalment of the year. Give us more for 2005!

EA holds off Rockstar for coveted Xmas slot.