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Falling blocks may be ubiquitous in gaming, but Q Entertainment always manages to do something interesting with them. In Lumines, players rotate tumbling groups of four to organise overlapping square-edged shapes, which are then rubbed away for points by a sweeping vertical line. In Meteos, individual blocks tumble from the heavens and have to be sent back there by arranging them into horizontal or vertical lines of matching threes, which are then rocket-boosted upwards.

Some top industry executives have been talking to the BBC about what gamers can look forward to this year.

Activision is preparing a third Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS subtitled "Modern Hits" according to an ESRB game rating.

US gamers spent more time playing PS2 last year than any other home console, according to research firm Nielsen.

Talking to Kotaku in a video podcast, Valve's Chet Faliszek as good as confirmed that downloadable content is in the works for Left 4 Dead.

Sales of FIFA 09 surged this week in the UK to give EA its sixth Christmas No. 1 in eight years, just a week after Call of Duty: World at War outsold it by 27,000 units.

AQ Interactive has announced that Xbox 360 title Cry On has been thrown in the bin.

The western version of Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online, the MMO spin-off from the cult Japanese RPG series, has gone into open beta.

And we're back! And so's Petri Purho, the one-man developer band composing potential PC darling Crayon Physics Deluxe, who has announced that it will be released on Wednesday, 7th January.

Nintendo is to launch a new television channel designed for viewing via the Wii.

Playing Street Fighter IV on Xbox 360, we're trying to recall the last time we were so hyped about the release of a fighter. Enthusiasm grew during the build-up to Soul Calibur IV, as did our anticipation for Virtua Fighter 5 a year prior, but it's an age since a fighter has been so prevalent in actual office banter. With the console release of Street Fighter IV weeks away, the trash talk about who's going to rush down who has started to turn nasty. How we've missed it.

The last time we saw Project Origin was in Monolith's Seattle headquarters early last year. What was on display then was two scenes from very different levels. The first showed you fighting against Abominations - Armacham's failed attempts at creating a psychic army. They couldn't stand up straight, but what they lacked in spinal integrity they made up for in the ability to grease around the walls and pop up for a quick nibble on your face. They could flip themselves up the walls like over-perky pancakes, and fold over themselves in a slightly nauseating and undignified display. It was righteously grim.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Dynasty Warriors. Remember, instead, the days of the Dreamcast, and the first time you ever played Phantasy Star Online. Remember the sheer logistical improbability of it all - the trouble you had getting hold of a keyboard and trailing your phone line across your house just so you could meet up with friends online. Remember meeting up and dancing in the lobbies, before heading out, just the four of you. Remember the way that everybody was so nice and friendly, and how higher-level characters (or everybody on the Japanese servers) would drop gifts on the floor before nannying you through the difficult bits.

Welcome back! Here's what you missed:

Welcome to the third instalment in Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008! Make sure to check out 50-41 and 40-31 for additional opportunities to swear at us, and remember, we know X is not better than Y. Each travesty is best explained by the Editor's blog detailing the setup. If you want to a straight list of what's better than what, which makes sense, you're better off with the Eurogamer Readers' Top 50 Games of 2008, to which thousands contributed. Thanks!

Finally! It's the Eurogamer Top 50 Games of 2008, with this instalment taking us from 50-41. Check out the Editor's blog to find out how it works, but in brief: we're wrong. Enjoy!

The Top 50 continues! Check out 50-41 from yesterday, and look out for the next three parts over the next three days.

Every year, we put up our Top 50 Games over the course of a week at Christmas. Then a few weeks later, we put up yours, based on the same voting system. This year, we thought we'd let you go first for a change. So here it is: your Top 50 Games of 2008. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and sorry if we were unable to use your comments on the winning games, but there are hundreds, and we've only got so much webspace. Enjoy!

We don't really do lists on Eurogamer. We've done them before (all this week, for example), and they do get the hits, but I've always thought them a bit desperate (all this week, for example). With this in mind, here's my favourite features on Eurogamer this year, in no particular order. That ought to fill some space.

Did you enjoy part 1 of our look back at the year's news headlines? Well, we've done part 2 anyway. Read on for a reminder of all the biggest stories from July to December, and a rehash of all the jokes we used when they first broke. Merry Christmas!

Yes, it's that time of year again. As Cliff Richard would say, a time for forgiving, a time for forgetting, a time for looking back on all the events of the past 12 months and making snide comments about them.

Prince of Persia producer Ben Mattes has said he was surprised how reluctant fans, developers and critics were to support new ideas trying to "shake up the industry and push things forward".

Microsoft reckons 2008 was a pretty good year for Xbox Live Arcade thanks to some of the highest-rated games ever on the service.

NCsoft has decided to make doomed MMO Tabula Rasa free-to-play right now, up until servers shut down on 28th February 2009.

Eidos will be offering jigsaw game Puzzle Arcade on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, because the two are a perfect fit. Boom boom.

Capcom has released a downloadable demo of MotoGP 08 on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Electronic Arts and Valve now claim that a number of the former's games are available "to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam".

A PC version of sumptuous platform-puzzler Braid will be with us between February and March 2009.

Electronic Arts has added several of its games to Steam in the US, but there's no word yet on when the likes of Spore will be available through the service in Europe.

Harmonix and MTV have gone festive with a special Rock Band 2 Christmas song pack, and even plan to add some Foo Fighters music tomorrow.