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By now it's probably obvious that we approve of Naughty Dog's survival thriller The Last of Us, having lavished it with praise in our original review and then named it among our 10 Games of the Generation. But while most of our affection has been heaped on the single-player campaign, which tells the slow-burning story of Joel and Ellie's journey through a dying North America, there was another aspect to the game.

Gather round, Eurogamers. We're kicking into Christmas overdrive here at Outside Xbox with our best worst games of 2013.

I read a book in between levels of Sang-Froid. Not a long book, granted, but it's not a particularly long game. It is an incredibly exhausting game, though, and that's where the book came in. I needed a breather to break up the periods of vile punishment. I needed time off before heading back out there. For an adventure that trades so heavily in its oppressive atmosphere, that's got to be a good sign, right?

Greetings all.

Hello everyone! As the nights draw longer and Valve prepares to startle our bank managers with the contents of its latest winter sale, it's almost time for Eurogamer to take a break for Christmas. But don't worry! We still have tons of content to publish over the festive period.

Independent UK developer Nyamyam has released a new video for its eye-catching pop-up book video game Tengami that shows how it plays on a touch screen.

Dejobaan Games and Popcannibal's upcoming experimental game Elegy for a Dead World wants you to write. Part video game, part creative writing exercise and part sociological experiment, Elegy casts players as a wandering scribe exploring the remnants of three lost civilisations. There's no combat, puzzles, or obstacles of any sort. The challenge then, is to interpret what happened and string together the most poetic prose you can for others to rate on Steam Workshop.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online is no more. This week EA shut down its servers and in the blink of an eye the five-year-old once would-be World of Warcraft killer was snuffed out of existence.

Yo ho how ya doing? Ian is heading off on his Christmas holidays tonight, so he's planning to stream stuff on YouTube all day to celebrate, starting with festive-themed Xbox Live indie games at 3pm GMT, sledding into a Minecraft Christmas challenge at 5pm and jingling around in Saints Row 4's new Christmas-themed DLC at 7pm.

Microsoft has launched a Zoo Tycoon community challenge to raise money to help endangered animals.

Confirming a leak from last month, Activision has announced the content of the £34.99 Call of Duty: Ghosts season pass.

Steam has launched its winter sale - and there are some eye-catching bargains to be had.

The PC version of Platinum's action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance launches on 9th January 2014, Konami has announced.

Dragon Age: Inquisition developer BioWare has filed its traditional holiday build and with it released a few new screenshots showing off the fantasy role-playing game's environments.

The developer of open world shooter role-playing game The Division has vowed to create the best possible PC version.

Blizzard has delayed the launch of the Hearthstone open beta.

Nordic Games will revive the MX vs. ATV series with a new game set for release in 2014.

Touchscreen stealth gaming. Yeah, I just got a little shiver down my spine as well. Stealth is one of those gameplay styles that is so hard to get right, and so maddening when it's wrong, that far too many games can't even pull it off when using the multiple precision inputs of a joypad. What sort of mad fool would attempt it on a touchscreen?

Namco Bandai has insisted the in-app purchases found in £1.99 mobile game Ridge Racer Slipstream don't ruin the experience.

Last night Ryan Payton worked late. He and his team at independent developer Camouflaj were trying to work out how to get Republique, the £2.99 iOS stealth game, into the hands of the thousands who backed its successful (just!) Kickstarter. Payton discovered, as others have before him, that there's no easy way to do this. Eventually it dawned on him: the only solution is to manually send out codes. To thousands of expectant players. Some at Camouflaj cursed the Republique Kickstarter. "I don't know where we'd be without the Kickstarter, seriously," Payton countered.

Diablo 3 expansion Reaper of Souls launches for PC and Mac on 25th March 2014, Blizzard has announced.

UPDATE: Eurogamer Czech editor Jan Doskocil has been following the game's development more closely and reiterated the company's struggle to find a publisher and funding beyond a $3-$4 million investment by one of the richest people in the Czech Republic, Zdenek Bakala. I mentioned the possibility of funding via Kickstarter below and apparently this is an avenue Warhorse is openly interested in exploring.

Rebellion has released in-engine footage of its first next-gen project: Sniper Elite 3.

Here's another surprise: Max: The Curse of Brotherhood launches on Xbox One tomorrow, 20th December.

When Press Play got its 2.5D physics-based puzzle platformer Max: The Curse of Brotherhood up and running on an Xbox One dev kit for the first time, the Danish developer was jubilant.

Forza Motorsport 5's latest update, which tweaks the in-game economy as well as introducing Drag and Tag multiplayer modes, has just gone live for Xbox One.

So much has changed. For six years they were ants in a colony - three people amongst the hundreds building Star Wars: The Old Republic at BioWare Austin. Then, two years ago, they broke away and followed a dream - an idea for a game that had been buzzing around their heads since childhood. They swapped the security of a corporation for a shed-of-an-office behind a bar and laid down a plan: six months, tiny budget, game. Any more and they'd have to dip into their respective family's savings. This way, if things didn't work out, they could just about shrug it off and get a job again.

Microsoft has announced a documentary about the burial of the Atari 2600 E.T. video game that will debut exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox 360 next year.

Valve's SteamOS could change everything. Based on Linux, it aims to break away from Windows as the go-to place for PC gaming and establish itself as a major platform in its own right. Valve is launching this new operating system in tandem with a range of Steam Machines - PC hardware refactored into a living room-friendly format that could rival the traditional home console. Prototype units were dispatched to a lucky few last week, while SteamOS itself received a beta release last Friday, allowing anyone with a PC to roadtest the operating system on their own systems.

Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Complete Edition launches on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Europe in spring 2014.