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Sundays are a great day for reflection. They're also a great day for washing down a packet of ginger nuts with a few pints of tea while idly wandering the internet. So we thought we'd start bringing you some selections from Eurogamer's archive for your pleasure, starting with this retrospective look back at Heavy Rain originally published as part of our Games of 2010 series.

While the next generation of consoles are finally set to deliver 1080p gaming to the masses, the consumer electronics industry is rapidly gearing up for a full-scale push towards 4K - the next standard in high definition viewing. 4K, or 3840x2160 Ultra High Definition as it is officially called, delivers four times the resolution contained in the current standard of 1080p, approaching the maximum amount of video information resolved in a high-quality 35mm film print. The result is not only the potential for a staggering increase in detail, but also a smoother image and the complete elimination of the screen door effect visible when sitting closely to large HDTVs and PC monitors.

2002 was a bad time to be a Star Wars fan. Three years earlier The Phantom Menace had delivered a crippling body-blow to the franchise's credibility, and despite assurances of a more coherent story and less Jar-Jar Binks, the upcoming Attack of the Clones was winding up for the knockout. Meanwhile, the interceding years had seen a slew of prequel-based games that proved to be even more mediocre than the films. Put it this way, the best Star Wars game released at the time was Galactic Battlegrounds - which was essentially Age of Empires 2 wearing a Jedi robe.

Greetings, Eurogamers! Here is your weekly despatch from the land of Outside Xbox. If you watch only three videos about video games this week, make them these.

It's an indication of just how much the handheld gaming arena has changed in the past few years that Nintendo's shock announcement of the 2DS was greeted with such mirth and derision by the general public; once upon a time, the allure of new hardware from the Kyoto veteran would have been utterly irresistible to anyone who had experienced the joys of playing Tetris or Pokémon on their monochrome Game Boy, but these days Nintendo's dominance of the market it once ruled with an iron fist is under fire from all sides. The 3DS has more than proven its worth with some superb titles in 2013, but in terms of pure sales figures it's not the successor to the DS (still the world's best-selling handheld) the company would have wanted. Many gamers are ditching dedicated portable consoles in favour of convergent devices like smartphones and tablets, and the revenue generated by the likes of the App Store and Google Play market now eclipses sales of handheld software.

Woody Allen once wrote that life doesn't imitate art, it just imitates bad television. (Astonishingly, I believe he realised this before he married his girlfriend's daughter.) I was thinking about this quote the other day when I was watching Storage Hunters on catch-up. I suddenly thought, "Hey, I wish more games imitated bad television too."

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag director Ashraf Ismail has expressed a desire to take the time-and-space-hopping series to ancient Egypt.

Double Fine's Halloween-themed RPG Costume Quest has launched on iPhone and iPad just in time for the holiday.

Before WayForward made the isometric multiplayer dungeon crawler, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, it had actually attempted to make a far more traditional Silent Hill adventure on DS.

A new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds reveals that the game's second "dark world" will be entitled "Lorule."

Valve has released a video showing how its upcoming dual trackpad-based Steam Controller will work with a variety of games.

Beenox's open-world superhero affair The Amazing Spider-Man is coming to Vita later this year, only a year and a half late.

UPDATE 2: Hyper Light Drifter has now been confirmed for Wii U after surpassing its $550K stretch goal.

Shadow Warrior publisher Devolver Digital has teamed up with Viscera Cleanup Detail developer RuneStorm to bring us the amazing crossover Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior.

Velocity developer Futurlab has announced that its releasing an enhanced version of its PS Mobile puzzler Surge to Vita with Surge Deluxe.

Xbox One is hitting the road! SMASH! Bits and pieces everywhere - snap-chat your way out of that.

Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne is available to buy from Steam Early Access for £9.99.

Rockstar will give GTA Online players half a million in-game dollars to make up for the game's troubled launch.

Amnesia developer Frictional Games has unveiled its new horror game SOMA, due out in 2015 for PC and PlayStation 4.

PlayStation Plus members get Platinum's action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in November, Sony has announced.

Telltale Games has been trying to reinvent the point-and-click adventure since 2005, when it first adapted Jeff Smith's wonderful Bone comic book. Over the intervening years many licenses have come and gone - CSI, Back to the Future, Wallace & Gromit - and each had their pluses and minuses.

Yui Tanimura has a degree in psychology, which, in the context of his childhood dream to become a professional baseball player, could be considered a failure and, in the context of his subsequent career as a video game designer, could be considered irrelevant. And yet, it's training that has served him well in his current task: crafting the sequel to From Software's unlikely 2011 hit, Dark Souls. For one, his background has provided him a few theories on why that curious game, which so forcefully eschewed mainstream fashions with unrelenting challenge, unfashionable style and a mere whisper of a storyline, has sold more than 2.3 million copies to date.

Toki Tori 2 developer Two Tribes has shelved plans to release a level editor for the Wii U version of the side-scrolling platformer.

Now here's a mash-up: F1 commentary on Mario Kart 8.

Video game voice actor Jennifer Hale has joined The Long Dark, developer Hinterland has announced.

Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct is a fighting game and so it has an official arcade stick. And here it is.

It's been a long console generation but the end is in sight with the release of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One set for this November. But the PS3/360 legacy lives on - the sheer size of their combined installed base means that publishers can't leave the old machines behind just yet. Hence the arrival of "cross-gen" games; titles developed for current and next generation consoles simultaneously. Battlefield 4 is, perhaps, the most anticipated of these releases, with the promise of delivering the full PC experience on both next generation consoles at 60fps. Expectations are high for the new platforms but what of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 experience? Does Frostbite 3 bring anything new to the table for these ageing consoles? How do these versions compare to Battlefield 4 running on a more powerful PC? And with the arrival of last week's beta test, can we extrapolate anything about the next-gen console versions from the PC game?

The remake of Davey Wreden's masterful Half-Life 2 mod, The Stanley Parable, is coming out 17th October for PC on Steam. A Mac port will follow shortly.

EA were in talks to buy publisher THQ before it went bust, court documents published by Polygon have revealed.

The Saints Row 4 Enter the Dominatrix DLC launches on 23rd October 2013, Deep Silver has announced.