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The year ends for AMD with the release of the Radeon RX 5500 XT and its annual software revamp - and this year's Adrenalin 2020 is rather fascinating upgrade to the UI. It seeks to increase the usability, accessibility and speed of the interface, while adding some important new features. What I'm particularly interested in, however, is Radeon Boost - an AMD-developed method of scaling performance and resolution in real-time for supported games with frame-rate boosts of up to 23 per cent promised by Team Red.

Remedy's brutalist slice of supernatural bureaucracy, Control, is already pretty damn spectacular, but now there's even more to enjoy, thanks to the game's free Expeditions update, which arrives today on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

A third game in the Bravely Default series has been announced, and a little confusingly it's named Bravely Default 2.

I played the demo for The Drifter right after I played the demo for Roki, and I think it was the perfect lead-in. Both games are point-and-click adventures, but while Roki's demo is gentle and quiet, an adventure laid across a bucolic world glittering with snow, The Drifter is fast and loud and not, as they say, screwing around.

Each week, Five of the Best gives love to the overlooked parts of games. The things you don't notice when you're playing because you're too busy doing more important things. But you remember them. They're there in your memory all the same. So much so that when someone says something like, "Which are the best caves in games?" Some immediately spring to mind.

Microsoft has just announced the final name of its next Xbox live at The Game Awards 2019. It's named Xbox Series X.

Roki has really lovely snow. This is a point and click adventure based around Scandinavian folklore, so I guess snow was a given, but still: look at it. It bunches around doorways and buries houses, it gives shape to the individual stones used to make an old bridge. And sometimes it glitters, a layer of ice crystals reflecting light and offering a sense of depth, a chill within a chill.

Chicory is a bunny with a paintbrush whose job is to keep her little kingdom fully coloured. Sadly, she's gone missing, and some kind of nasty force is turning everything to black and white. Luckily here comes a lovely little dog who picks up the paintbrush and sets off to fix everything.

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

Thank the heavens. It is over.

Amazon's big foray into gaming begins May 2020 with the release of online PC game New World (which you might remember from a leak last year). It's a massively-multiplayer game inspired by the Age of Exploration, hence the name, taking place on a magical island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima will launch for PlayStation 4 in summer 2020.

The Game Awards' latest reveal is Naraka: Bladepoint, a multiplayer melee combat game due out in 2020 on Steam.

It's here at last: announced during the Game Awards, Warframe's spaceship co-op expansion is now live for PC players - all for free, though you might need to do some of the grunt work if you want to catch a ride on someone else's Railjack.

Ninja Theory has offered a first tease of the follow-up to its critically acclaimed action-adventure Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at here, but PUBG Corp has unveiled a new game - and it's called Prologue.

Godfall is the first officially-announced PlayStation 5 game.

Amplitude Studios, the developer behind the likes of Endless Space and Endless Legend, has unveiled the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming historical strategy game Humankind.

Developer Simogo's sublime music game Sayonara Wild Hearts has - after a couple of months on Switch, PlayStation 4, and iOS - finally launched on PC.

Acclaimed, if notoriously impenetrable, exploratory platformers La-Mulana 1 and 2 finally have a release date on consoles; they'll be coming to Xbox One, PS4, and Switch in March next year.

UPDATE 5.05PM: In a surprise move, Epic has cancelled its recently-revealed plans to release a Fortnite Annual Pass.

The photo mode camera in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has the power to destroy explosives.

UPDATE 12/12/19: Here's our first look at Capcom's sneaky Resident Evil 3 Easter egg, due to be added very soon to Resident Evil 2.

Martin Sandwich. What a guy.

Lizzie Carmine gets some amazing new lines in Gears 5, one of which has provided plenty of speculation about the Carmine family at large.

Planet Zoo is getting a festive update next week to bring in the holiday season.

Editor's note: Shenmue's a game that can do funny things to people. First time round I was obsessed with AM2's detail-rich world, and its take on a place that seemed oh-so-real - Japan in the mid-80s, specifically life in the unremarkable town of Yokosuka. So obsessed was I that when I first made it over to Japan some years later, the first thing I did was drag my partner to the location that inspired it all - a short hour's ride from Tokyo itself - and was impressed how Shenmue had captured the place.

Developer Bloober Team's wonderfully surreal first-person horror game Layers of Fear has been given the VR treatment and is now available on Steam and the Oculus Store.

According to new figures released by Capcom, this year's superb Resident Evil 2 remake has now sold more copies than the PlayStation original's lifetime sales.

Tomorrow marks the return of the annual Game Awards and, as part of the accompanying festivities, it'll be possible to play demos of 13 upcoming indie games, including the long-awaited System Shock remake, Skatebird, Carrion, and more.