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I am currently reading a book (the telly's broken) titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It's the autobiographical account of one woman's attempt to raise her Western-born children according to "the Chinese model". This involves banning all television, playdates and sleepovers, and insisting on hours of academic drilling and violin practice. The aim is to produce prodigiously talented and successful adults who are ultimately grateful for being forced to work so hard.

I didn't think it was ever going to happen. The games industry isn't Hollywood and they don't toss out another remake of an old classic every other year. Sure, there are an increasing number of games inspired by fondly remembered oldies, usually produced by enthusiastic indie developers, but flat-out remakes are as rare as shamrocks and not nearly so lucky.

Those of you who enjoy the moving picture as well as the word on the page may have noticed that our YouTube channel has been more active than usual over the last couple of weeks. That's because we've brought on somebody to update it more frequently! His name is Ian Higton and from now on he will be posting Let's Play videos (gameplay capture with commentary), news snippets, interviews, live streams of new games and other bits and pieces to serve the audience that follows us on YouTube.

It's been a hell of a year for sneaky bastards. From Mark of the Ninja, which purists might even argue was the high point, to Far Cry 3, where I spent many a fabulous hour creeping up on STD-obsessed mercenaries - sometimes just to watch them being mauled by a passing tiger - everyone was at it. So much so, in fact, that we needn't mourn Assassin's Creed 3's relocation to the action-adventure genre, or the disappointment of Hitman: Absolution, which had its moments but ultimately satisfied neither fans of the series nor those who crouch worshipfully behind low walls. There was more than enough going on elsewhere to make up for them both.

Merry Christmas everyone! The Eurogamer team will be taking a well-earned break between now and the start of 2013, but in the meantime we've prepared a ton of content for you to read while we're away.

The new Star Trek made by Digital Extremes (The Darkness 2) now has a firm release date: 26th April 2013.

Dark Souls had the best art. The bosses were imaginative, scary and bloody massive, not to mention tough. Gravelord Nito was a giant Grim Reaper, built from skeletons, shrouded in a cape of darkness and wielding a great scythe. Totally boss.

So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having four pints at lunchtime then trying not to be sick while racing round Poundland in search of a last minute Secret Santa present for someone about whom they know nothing except name and gender. And at least one of those is in doubt. Ho ho ho!

Update: Blaze told me this morning there will be enough NeoGeo X Gold stock for everyone who has already pre-ordered, plus "a limited stock beyond that to cover orders up to Christmas".

The Christmas sale on mothership Steam has begun.

Oh right so motorbikes cut it but Camaros don't?

Apparently the release of Trials Evolution's latest DLC pack has been timed to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar. Hence "Riders of Doom". All of which points to Ubisoft having supreme confidence in developer RedLynx's production scheduling, if you ask me. After all, you couldn't exactly say "it's not the end of the world" if they missed the release date.

Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, the next batch of Borderlands 2 DLC, has a release date, price and details.

Last night Peter Molyneux got a good night's sleep for the first time since the Project Godus Kickstarter began a month ago.

It is one of the most bizarre - and for many, infuriating - product releases in recent years. During the October unveiling of the iPad mini, Apple also chose to reveal an upgrade to its existing third-gen tablet, replacing it after just seven months with a newer slate boasting a significant performance bump. While iPad 2 continued to be offered to the public, its successor was quietly discontinued - a swift and embarrassing end to a product that Apple described as its most successful tablet launch ever. And yet the fourth generation tablet didn't receive much of a marketing push from Apple, with almost all of the focus centring on the mini.

"Can a game create a better world?" asks the (THRED) video. "We believe it can."

This is a weird one.

Frontier Developments has released the first Elite: Dangerous teaser trailer and added a PayPal pledging option to its crowd-funding drive.

The THQ bankruptcy and sale document (via Polygon) has revealed four unannounced games.

A new trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 has been released.

The Steam for Linux beta has been rolled out like mince pie pastry for everyone to enjoy.

Games have a habit of distorting language. Take the word “survival”, for instance. Maybe it makes you think of survival horror, a genre that is different from standard horror in only most hair-splitting semantic ways. Perhaps it calls to mind the idea of a survival mode, in which you gun down waves of enemies in the shooter of your choice. Again, you're only really doing what you'd be doing anyway. Survival in games is always on the agenda. In Miasmata, however, survival is the only item on the agenda.

The humblest of bundles has returned after its THQ-based excursion outside of indieville last month for another round of overlooked games at a great value to benefit charity. You know, for the holidays and all.

The long missing entry in the cult favourite Shin Megami Tensei RPG series, Devil Summoner: Souls Hackers, is finally coming to North America on 3DS this spring, publisher Atlus has announced.

Update: Godus has just crept over the finish line with a current tally of £450,677 pledged of its £450,000 goal. It's got 44 more hours to go before the 5:50 p.m. GMT deadline on Friday.

Saints Row and Darksiders publisher THQ has filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, the company announced.

Following a cavalcade of false advertising and questionable PR, Hammerpoint Interactive's zombie themed MMO The War Z has been removed from sale on Steam, despite it having been the top-selling game on the service upon its release on Monday.

Youtube user ShadowZack is recreating fan favourite multiplayer maps from Counter-Strike, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Battlefield 3 in Far Cry 3.

Pre-ordering Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry reboot on Steam just got more enticing as Capcom has added the option to pre-purchase the DmC Complete Pack that includes DMC3: Special Edition and DMC4. This collection costs £39.99, only £10 more than just buying the reboot.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that the company is working on a fix for the system's obscenely long load times when switching between applications.