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Scoring a goal is the path to many celebrations... some would consider unnatural.

If you'd told me in January that my favourite game of the year would be Batman, I would probably have scoffed in your face. Scoffed. If you'd told me that the game in question wouldn't just be a great superhero game, but simply a great game, I might have even ROFLed with a side order of LMAO. Superhero games, particularly those drawn from the DC Comics properties, just aren't supposed to reach thsse giddy heights.

Thinking back over all the games I've played and reviewed this year, the titles which stand out most are those at the extremes of the spectrum. At one end there's the likes of Velvet Assassin and Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, two games so bad that if someone said I had to play them again I'd staplegun my own fingers to my eyes just to make it impossible. And who could forget Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad? Not anyone who was contractually obliged to play it for more than 12 minutes, that's for sure.

For those of us that like our games khaki and complex, 2009 has to go down as a bit of an Annus Mirablis. We trundled about the Ukrainian countryside in splendid steel coffins courtesy of the best WW2 tank sim since Panzer Elite. We hovered with intent behind Georgian tower blocks in the most detailed fake helo ever fashioned. We foxed Fokkers and forswore parachutes in a great Great War aviation recreation. I could have GOTY-ed any of these gems, but instead ArmA II, the clear victor in this year's battle of the soldier sims, gets the nod.

It's about picking your fights.

The old Japanese adage 'The nail that sticks up will be hammered down' could be the design brief for Demon's Souls. You are the nail. You must be hammered down repeatedly, without mercy, with extreme prejudice, forever. The end.

Few video game titles are as misleading as English Country Tune. It's not a music game, doesn't contain anything even remotely close to a country song (English or otherwise), nor is there any narrative to provide context. Instead, the first commercial release by prolific indie powerhouse Stephen "Increpare" Lavelle is a fiendishly difficult spatial puzzler that switches up its mechanics at a dizzying rate, making it nearly a dozen puzzle games in one.

Back in October 2001, Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto 3 exclusively on PlayStation 2 and everything changed. A genre was defined by a gameplay formula that still persists to this day, many millions of copies were sold, and a megabucks franchise was born. 10 years later, Rockstar has unleashed a celebratory new version of the game for iOS and Android mobile devices - so what better opportunity for Digital Foundry to begin its long-threatened Retro Face-Off coverage?

Microsoft's brand new "Metro"-inspired dashboard highlights how the platform holder now sees the Xbox 360 as a multimedia playback device, just as comfortable at hosting video content as it is at running games. There's just one problem: the video player in the new interface doesn't work properly any more.

Ex-Burnout, Fable and Eight Days developers have joined forces to create an iOS action racing game they believe will revolutionise third-person games on touch devices.

Sony has popped the PlayStation Vita manual online - thanks patch!

How do you play your new selection of Game Boy Advance games from the 3DS Ambassador promotion in their original native resolution?

You may have noticed that my splendid and lovely colleagues Oli Welsh and Martin Robinson have recently become embroiled in what may very well be the most polite argument in the history of the internet, debating whether or not 2011 has been a vintage year for gaming.

Dingalingaling! That's the sound of Eurogamer's 'Actual New Game' bell, which is currently imaginary, but which Tom is adamant that he's going to make a reality soon - I think because he wants a bell on his desk to annoy everyone with. This is cool if he promises to come to work dressed as a town crier. "Hear ye, hear ye, someone is making a game which you haven't played before."

Tongue-twistingly named Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance will include characters from fellow Square Enix role-player The World Ends With You.

Parisian art gallery the Louvre will replace its stock of traditional audio guides with 5000 Nintendo 3DS machines.

New Call of Cthulhu game The Wasted Land launches on iPhone and iPod on 30th January 2012, Bristol-based indie developer Red Wasp Design has announced.

Battlefield 3 was the fifth fastest-rising search on Google in 2011.

Matryoshka doll adventure Stacking will "soon" be getting a release on PC, developer Double Fine has announced.

BioWare has announced a two-day grace period for Star Wars: The Old Republic customers.

Rockstar has revealed why Grand Theft Auto 3 had a silent protagonist - ten years after the ground-breaking open world gangster game launched.

Legendary: The Box developer Spark Unlimited has remained quiet on the suggestion it is making a Resident Evil game for Capcom.

Sony has boosted its initial shipment of PlayStation Vita to 700,000 up from the original 500,000 units planned for Japanese shop shelves, according to a new report.

Valve has announced the second annual Christmas-themed update for free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2.

The PlayStation Vita is limited to one PlayStation Network account per unit, Sony has clarified.

New Tropico 4 DLC is out now.

Infinity Ward has added new gameplay modes to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Eight year old MMO Star Wars Galaxies has been shut down forever by developer Sony Online Entertainment.

APB Reloaded has seen an impressive three million people register to play a week after launching on Steam.

Blizzard has announced BattleTags - unified nicknames that identify players across all of Battle.net.