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New year, new Switch 2 leaks. While Nintendo's plans for its Switch successor remain officially under wraps, a patent from the company has surfaced detailing plans to use upscaling technology to cram games with up to 4K textures onto physical game cartridges.

Happy New Year to you all! Here we are, in 2025, and Sony is kicking things off with its first batch of PlayStation Plus monthly games for the year.

It's rare that a game released in the last gasp of December manages to not just make a lasting impression on almost a dozen-odd members of staff, but a big enough one to almost instantly supplant the last dozen months' worth of equally excellent video games they've all been playing. But that's precisely what Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has done to the Eurogamer team over these last few weeks, stealing in with hushed footsteps to lift this year's most coveted prize before any of us really knew it was happening.

What a year, huh? 2024 has been brutal for video games, a medium which has taken a bludgeoning from seemingly all angles. It's been one of the quietest years for triple-A games in recent memory and the toughest for studios of just about all sizes too.

Releasing just prior to the PlayStation 5 Pro hardware launch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 features a set of unique enhancements over base PS5 - where we have equally unique insights thanks to a recent trip to meet the series' Principal Rendering Engineer, Michal Drobot, and the talented team at Infinity Ward Poland. Black Ops 6 is developed by multiple studios – chiefly Treyarch and Raven Software - but at IW's Poland office I was able to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the tools used to make the game. So in essence, this piece serves two purposes: to discuss the Pro upgrades with input from the developers - and to talk about some of the wider enhancements made to the engine.

2024 is done - and you have made your choices. The branching narrative of this year has been decided, your dialogue options have been locked in, and your ending is ready.

Every year, the Digital Foundry team share their notes about the most technologically impressive games of the year - and in a wide-ranging 108-minute discussion, John Linneman, Alex Battaglia and Oliver Mackenzie share their honorable mentions and a top ten list of titles that caught their attention. However, just like last year, it's the top three games that truly stand apart and once again, deciding which game takes champion standing was the subject of intense debate.

Ho-ho-hello! And welcome to our annual Newscast quiz for the festive season: Eurogamer's big News Quiz of the Year 2024.

As we're talking about games from 2024 that did something really well, for me, one game stood high above the rest (and is also a game I remember playing this year that actually released this year - sorry, Resident Evil 4 Remake, my brain forgot you released in 2023!). Astro Bot got me right in the feels this year. Other games undoubtedly had more affecting storylines and characters, but as someone who obviously loves video games a great deal, Sony's PS5 nostalgia-fest drilled right into whichever part of my brain processes joy. And let's be honest, that part has been used less and less in recent years.

When you think back to every Indiana Jones movie, at one point or another Indy has had to be stealthy. Whether it's donning a disguise in The Last Crusade to get his father’s Holy Grail diary back, or sneaking onto a submarine to follow the Ark when it slipped out of his grasp, there's always a time he needs to be silent and sneaky - though whether Indy actually pulls this off without being caught is another matter entirely. He's not always the subtlest of human beings, which is precisely one of the reasons I feel stealth in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle works so well.

Black Myth Wukong was a phenomenon. The UE5-powered action epic sold millions of copies when it launched earlier this year, impressing with its fast gameplay and sophisticated visuals. However, its configuration on PS5 left something to be desired, employing bizarre frame-rate locks and frame generation with a 30fps base frame-rate. Developer Game Science has addressed at least some of those issues as of the latest patch - and the studio has also added PS5 Pro support, using PSSR to improve image quality for Pro players. So is the console version finally in reasonable shape? And should we expect any issues from the Pro upgrade?

2024 has been both a fun and maddening year to cover PC games, with some fantastic releases that push graphics tech and gameplay systems in exciting and often unexpected directions, as well as some truly disappointing efforts blighted with major technical failings. Today we're focusing on the highlights though, with a roundup of eight technically accomplished titles, sponsored by Asus and its range of GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards.

Growing up I was afraid there was something living in our garage. I can't tell where this fear came from. I can't even tell you what my child self thought it was - the exact creature was boringly undefined, labelled simply as 'Very Bad' (and it certainly didn't help that my Dad kept one of his old wetsuits hanging from the rafters like a piece of eternally damp shedded skin).

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week it's all about Christmas presents and video game memories we associate with the festive season - what we've unwrapped, gifted, or otherwise been somehow involved with at Christmas time over the years.

Phew. You know how people say 'I can't believe it's been a year since...' Well, this year it really feels like it's been a year.

UPDATE 10.40pm UK: Epic Games has now returned the Xbox-exclusive Master Chief design and apologised for confusion after previously stating it would no longer be available. A Christmas miracle!

I've never really been one for card games, both in and out of video games. Beyond collecting a few Pokémon cards in the school playground, I used to play Gin Rummy with my grandad but he taught me such peculiar Devonshire rules I could never play with anyone else. The odd game of Uno at Christmas is about my limit.

Nintendo will have been watching the recent stream of Switch 2 design leaks and is likely now keen to unveil its under-wraps new console as soon as possible, an analyst has said.

Wahoo! Etc. You can now listen to tunes from Nintendo's seminal Super Mario 64 via the Nintendo Music app.

As more characters join the Sonic the Hedgehog movie series, fans have been curious when their favourite big cat - Big the Cat - will pop up.

Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has hit out at Warner Bros. for allegedly using audio from his viral internet short in a MultiVersus advertisement "without permission".

Alan Wake 2 is a graphical showcase on both PC and consoles, so it was disappointing to see the game's PS5 Pro patch leave the game looking and running worse in some areas than on base PS5. Thankfully, developers Remedy have lived up to their name with a fix for the situation: a new PS5 Pro patch that adds in a toggle for the problematic PSSR upscaling as well as some other nice changes and additions.

This article heavily spoils the plot of Sonic 3 and its post-credits scene, read at your peril!

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Naoe is "the fastest Assassin" in the storied franchise's history.

Another copycat video game has popped up on Nintendo's eShop in China, this time a Black Myth: Wukong imitation.

Mention the words "water in games" and nine times out of ten the conversation will immediately turn to how good that water looks in said game, and whether it ripples and sploshes nicely as you attempt to wade through it or not. It rarely gets people talking about how clever that water might be, or how it completely shakes up your approach to moving and travelling through a game's landscape.

Keanu Reeves' Johnny Silverhand and Cyberpunk 2077's female V are both set to join Fortnite.

EA reportedly rejected proposals to create a brand new Dead Space game.

Sometimes, you don't quite know what makes something work until you experience another version of it that doesn't. This is, unfortunately, my experience of Marvel Rivals, a team battler that is eminently playable and moreish, but also never quite properly good.

Just 15 percent of Steam players spent time with new releases - defined as games released in 2024 - this year.