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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This will be our last What We've Been Playing of the year - of 2023 - which means when we come back in January, we'll be able to talk about what we played, or what we did not manage to play, during the end of year break. That's exciting isn't it? Anyway! This week, it's a mixture of Indonesian coming of age stories, retro remade Zeldas, and small lakeside towns.

Death Stranding's iPhone, iPad and Mac release has been delayed.

If you find yourself thinking, "you know what, I feel more like grazing a big Smörgåsbord of culinary delights rather than taking on a herd of Grazers with Aloy right now", then I have good news. There is an official Horizon cookery book in the works.

Epic Games Store has relaxed its content guidelines for publishers to allow games which have been rated Adults Only by the ESRB, so long as the rating has only been applied due to the presence of blockchain technology.

Super Mario Run, Nintendo's first mobile game to feature its moustachioed mascot, has been updated with a tie-in to recent Switch game Super Bros. Mario Wonder.

A Plague Tale: Requiem was one of my favourite games of last year. You might have noticed I recorded - and wrote - a whole Making Of A Plague Tale feature earlier this year. Well, I also spoke to the standout star of it - Charlotte McBurney - who plays Amicia in the game. We spoke shortly before she found out whether she'd won the Performer in a Lead Role BAFTA, which sadly she didn't - Kratos' Christopher Judge did. Nor did I manage to publish our conversation, because this year has been very busy. But now there's a bit of quiet, I'm returning to it, to release it as something of a Christmas gift.

Yesterday, The Pokémon Company announced it will add an epilogue to the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero next month.

War Thunder players are back at it, posting more restricted military documents on the game's forums when discussing the game's vehicles.

Rocksteady has now confirmed the return of iconic DC Comics character Poison Ivy in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Can you believe it, but it is nearly the end of 2023. We made it guys! While many of us will likely be setting our sights on a bottle of Baileys and novelty Christmas pudding shaped confectionery, Bethesda is still all business, and has laid out its Starfield plans for 2024.

UPDATE 21/12/23: Suica developer Aladdin X has confirmed it is not involved with The Suika Game, which appeared on the PlayStation Store recently.

Come, take a flick through World of Horror's rolodex of nightmares; see faces flayed by vengeful wives, wild-eyed teachers with rictus grins, soul-bartering telemarketers, trypophobia-inducing latticework rendered across human skin, and other lurid things.

Controversial Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick will depart the company on 29th December, it's been announced.

Avatar is a beautiful game that pushes technology hard to enable some truly amazing visuals - but how can we scale that experience down to a solid 60fps experience that still looks good on older and slower PCs? To figure out optimised settings, I'll discuss the game's PC user experience, compare the game against the PS5 version for some performance optimisation hints and evaluate some of those 'Unobtainium' settings intended for future hardware.

Layers of Fear and The Medium developer Bloober Team is set to develop a game based on an IP owned by Skybound Entertainment, after a licensing and publishing agreement was signed by the two companies.

UPDATE 20/12/23: Embark Studios has released patch 1.4.0 for The Finals, which addresses the previously reported issues with anti-cheat measures.

PlayStation 5 has now sold over 50m consoles worldwide since its launch in November 2020.

BioWare and Mass Effect veteran Mac Walters has discussed his reasons for departing the studio after 19 years to begin work with a fresh team on a new sci-fi franchise.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has received another delay, but only for the Epic Games Store version.

Blizzard has laid out its 2024 roadmap for World of Warcraft, nailing down a launch window for upcoming expansion The War Within, plus other updates and seasonal content.

We're doing things slightly differently today with Five of the Best. Instead of talking about a particular part of a game we like, we're going to talk about what we always talk about at this time of year it seems - the games we're going to play during the end of year break. And we're opening it up to everyone, not just Eurogamer Supporters.

Video game fundraising initiative Jingle Jam has now raised over £25m since it began in 2011.

As 2023 comes to a close, I think it's fair to say that the fighting game genre is in a great spot. Capcom and NetherRealm both launched stellar new entries in their respective franchises this year, with Street Fighter 6 in particular righting the wrongs of the previous numbered entry. In January of 2024, Bandi-Namco will unleash Tekken 8 - and I've played a near-final version of the game at an event, so I wanted to share my initial thoughts. This the first new fighting game to ship on Unreal Engine 5 while also skipping last-gen consoles and the Switch - so how does it fare thus far?

UPDATE 19/12/23: Activision has today provided Eurogamer with a statement discussing the end of hybrid working for the company's QA testing teams - which it says work better together in person - as well a statement discussing the company's support for accomodating employee needs.

EA is rebranding its in-house engine Frostbite to reflect its "renewed focus on partnership" with its studios, but also says its teams are "free to develop on any engine they choose".

Sony has privately described Microsoft's $68.7bn takeover of Activision Blizzard as a potential "leapfrog" moment for its long-term console rival to take the lead, via presentation slides included in the many files stolen from Insomniac Games by ransomware hackers who have now released them publicly online.

When you kill someone in The Finals, they explode in a shower of coins, their body scattering across the ground like a tub of popcorn dropped by King Midas. As with much else about the Finals, this wowed me when I first saw it. What an ingenious way to depict death in a multiplayer shooter, I thought. It's spectacular without being grisly, satisfying without being gross. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sicko for virtual gore. But this seemed like a smart, clean alternative.

Detailed plans revealing the future projects of PlayStation-owned Spider-Man developer Insomniac have been published online, stolen from the company by hackers.

UPDATE 10pm UK: Developer Rocksteady has released a statement regarding the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League leaks, calling the situation "disappointing" to witness.

James McCaffrey, best known for his voice work as Max Payne, has passed away at the age of 65.