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Last year Battlefield 4 fanatic Jackfrags discovered a secret hidden megalodon hidden in DICE's multiplayer shooter, and now the dedicated sleuth has cracked what must surely be Battlefield 4's most cryptic Easter egg.

Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country developer Rare is currently working on the Xbox One and PC pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, but it almost made a completely different pirate adventure nearly two decades ago with a game called Dream: Land of Giants.

Autobiographical family drama, That Dragon, Cancer, is slated for a 12th January release, developer Numinous Games has announced.

It's been a funny few years for Epic Games. A generation ago it was firing on all cylinders: Gears of War struck like a thunderbolt in 2006, followed by everyone and their dog licensing Unreal Engine 3. Then there was the incredible success of Infinity Blade on mobile devices. I, and probably you, sat eager for what big new game would come next.

Ubisoft has begun teasing next year's Assassin's Creed film by releasing the business card for fictional Abstergo boss Alan Rikkin, soon to be played by Jeremy Irons.

A few new screenshots and pieces of art from Rockstar's mysterious spy game Agent have appeared. They come from an artist who worked on the game in 2009/2010, which means the assets old and not indicative of any renewed development on the project, but they do at least confirm that some meaningful work was originally carried out. Reddit dug them up and also linked to a similar batch of Agent assets excavated in 2011. I've embedded a few of the most screenshot-looking shots here.

How large is the external processing box set to ship with PlayStation VR - and what does it actually do? Recent reports suggest that it's quite a meaty piece of kit, "about the size of a Wii" according to Polygon's Brian Crecente. We thought we'd look into this, sourcing full dimensions for the device, a complete list of the inputs and outputs, along with other new information on the PSVR hardware.

Ubisoft's announcement that it would adapt the murders of Jack the Ripper into a rip-roaring epilogue for Assassin's Creed Syndicate rose some eyebrows. How would the developer handle the gruesome murders? Would you play as Jack during them? After Syndicate's solid main storyline and well-written cast of characters, it was a risky swansong to take on.

Happy New Year to you! Having had a little time to recover, I hope your head's all fine and dandy - we're still druuuuuuuuuuuuunk, but that's pretty standard for a Friday morning.

UPDATE 22/12/15 10.25am: GameCube classic Tales of Symphonia now has a Steam release date - 2nd February 2016.

Killer Instinct will headline Microsoft's January Games with Gold offering of free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers.

As we wind down towards the end of the year, we get in a reflective mood and inevitably start thinking back to some of the best games of 2015. Eurogamer will be running through its favourite games of 2015 shortly, but before then we thought we'd highlight some of the interesting games you may have missed this year.

Konami's former worldwide technology director Julien Merceron - the architect behind Metal Gear Solid 5's Fox Engine - has found a new home at Bandai Namco where he'll serve the same role, the publisher has announced.

Final Fantasy 7's remake will feature full voice-acting, director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed in an interview with Dengeki PlayStation (translated via Gematsu).

One of Bloodborne's most common criticisms - the inability to max out multiple weapons per playthrough - has finally been addressed in its latest v1.09 patch.

Batman: Arkham Knight's final DLC episode, Season of Infamy, is due tomorrow.

Call of Duty is, once again, the UK's Christmas all formats video game chart number one.

SNES classic Super Mario RPG will get a re-release this week on Wii U, Nintendo has announced.

UPDATE 21ST DECEMBER: Bethesda PR has refuted the report by local news source Connacht Tribune. Bethesda said only approximately 50 jobs had been cut at the customer service centre as part of routine manoeuvring mid-August after the console Elder Scrolls Online launch.

Xbox One owners who haven't already picked up timed-exclusive adventure Rise of the Tomb Raider can now get a free trial of the game.

Ubisoft expressly forbade any posting of footage from the closed beta of Tom Clancy's The Division. Which, of course, means that gameplay has popped up online anyway.

As we wind down towards the end of the year, we get in a reflective mood and inevitably start thinking back to some of the best games of 2015. Eurogamer will be running through its favourite games of 2015 shortly, but before then we thought we'd highlight some of the more interesting games you may have missed this year.

History is written by the winners, and there are few pieces of revisionism more blatant than Star Wars: A New Hope.

Apple followers have had over 12 months to become accustomed to the larger 4.7-inch screen of the iPhone 6, but there are still some who have fought the desire to upgrade because they genuinely prefer the smaller 4-inch screen of the 5S. Those same people will no doubt be anxiously gazing at the freshly-released 6S and feeling their resolve slowly weakening - and with good reason. Apple's latest handset might be larger than some long-time customers are used to (best not to mention the iPhone 6S Plus), but - as Android followers have known for quite some time - it proves that bigger is indeed better. Not only that, but the traditional bi-yearly 'S' enhancement supplies some notable improvements over 2014's iPhone 6, making the upgrade process even easier to stomach.

2007's BioShock blew everyone away with its momentous second-act twist. The scene in which you finally encounter Andrew Ryan, your body buzzing with adrenaline after the rigmarole you've gone through to find this megalomaniac, only to be delivered the debilitating narrative gut-punch that you've been guided like a puppet the entire time, is often considered one of gaming's greatest feats of storytelling. In fact, so successful is this scene that it ends up hurting the remainder of the game. The flurry of half-baked ideas that follow - your plasmids don't work, you're sort of a Big Daddy - fail to rebuild the momentum which leads up to that clarifying moment.

Mafia 3 developer Hangar 13 has premiered 12 minutes of in-game footage via a developer walkthrough with IGN.

Hello you lot! With most of the Eurogamer team off on their Christmas holidays this week, Johnny and I thought it might be nice to look back at 2015 and talk about some of our favourite bits. From interviewing Miyamoto to playing our first missions of XCOM 2, it's been one hell of a year to join the team.

In 2007, game developer Clint Hocking wrote a hugely influential essay about the problem with video games. Entitled Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock, the article looked at Irrational's classic shooter and saw in it a terrible contradiction. While the interactive (or 'ludic') sections of the game require the player to be selfish and powerful, the story sequences seek to cast your character as a selfless aid to the revolutionary leader, Atlas. As Hocking wrote, "By throwing the narrative and ludic elements of the work into opposition, the game seems to openly mock the player for having believed in the fiction of the game at all." Openly mocking the player is... not considered good form.

Mobile puzzler Threes! is now available as a free-to-play ad-supported browser game.

Dark Souls 3's PC system requirements have been revealed as the following: