What is a great game made of? Of course it’s our game of the year. Cocoon is ingenious, elegant, and thought-provoking. It’s precise, expressive, and generous. It takes game design forward even as it seems to emerge from its deep history. But more than anything, Cocoon is playful. Its puzzles, its tricks, all yield to playfulness. you could be inside something that is inside something else that is inside the thing you are carrying....

There have been a lot of great games this year. Maybe more than in any year we can easily remember. Because of this we’ve handled our top 50 list of our best games a little differently. Below you’ll find two groups of games from 2023. Going backwards, at the bottom you’ll find our top 10 in an ordered list. So here are our favourite 50 games of the year. We hope you might find something in here that passed you by and will make for a lovely discovery....

Free with a Netflix subscription and revised from the existing console versions. The Grand Theft Auto Definitive Edition remasters were highly controversial and to this day, their quality remains contentious. These promise the same updated graphics, paired with considerable lighting improvements. The GTA Definitive Edition titles adopt a very different visual tone from the original games. San Andreas was the most severely affected, lacking the sepia-toned haze that defined the original release....

How to catch Stantlers Hisui evolution in Pokemon Go. Wyrdeer, the Hisui evolution of Stantler, has arrived inPokemon Go. Below you’ll find theWyrdeer counters and weaknessesin Pokemon Go, along with a look atshiny WyrdeerandWyrdeer moveset. you’re free to now catchDynamax PokemonthroughMax Battles. First, however, it’s crucial that you visitPower Spots to collect Max Particlesand complete theTo the Max! What does shiny Wyrdeer look like in Pokemon Go? Compared to Wyrdeer’s traditional look, shiny Wyrdeer has almost sickly looking green fur....

What’s the game you’re going back for? It was that Ubisoft Battle Royale. My memory is terrible and I just had to look up the name. It was Hyper Scape. I had wanted to play it all year - that was the key fact here. Hyper Scape was perfect for this. It also had that mysterious Ubisoft Machine behind it. Who really made this? I remember in one part of the map I found an incredibly detailed Gothic cathedral....

Teases “Tokyo street open world”. “Wariors arise to subdue the demons!” Sega says of Golden Axe. “Defeat your enemies with a variety of attacks with sowrds and magic! The legendary story about the battle axe ‘Golden Axe’ is about to begin.” “Slay the enemies in the silence of the moment,” Sega says of Shinobi. “Run through the world of Shinobi full of monsters and ninja actions. Grab Oborozuki, the legendary sword and slay Evil once more....

The best weapons in The Finals, ranked by tier. Just a few hits with this gun will take down enemies, and it’s pretty accurate to boot. R. 357 (Medium) Another pistol? SA1216 (Heavy) For the Heavy, the best gun here is the SA1216 automatic shotgun. it’s possible for you to run riot, especially with the Heavy’s Charge ‘N’ Slam ability. Opt for this over the M11 if you have someone else on your team also playing that up-close-and-personal role....

Amicia, Final Fantasy 16, and beyond. A Plague Tale: Requiemwas one of my favourite games of last year. You might have noticed I recorded - and wrote - a wholeMaking Of A Plague Talefeature earlier this year. Nor did I manage to publish our conversation, because this year has been very busy. Charlotte McBurney has had an incredible rise to fame. The developer of the game, Asobo, was cautious with McBurney inA Plague Tale: Innocence....

It’s utterly cohesive in its unsettling chaos and entirely appropriate to the game’s inherently fragmentary form. A copy of World of Horror was independently sourced for review by Eurogamer.

Jill Braff will lead ZeniMax/Bethesda’s studios. Controversial Activision Blizzard bossBobby Kotickwill depart the company on 29th December, it’s been announced. Now, we know exactly when Kotick leaves and how the company will be shaped without him. Creative leaders within the Bethesda family of studios - such asTodd Howard- will report in to her. Bobby Kotick signed off to Activision Blizzard employees today in an email now posted to thecompany’s blog....

Plus: how does FSR 3 hold up? Here for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora PC optimised and PS5 equivalent tweaks? We’ve got you. With that said, let’s move onto what these unobtanium tweaks actually do in practice. The biggest visual difference comes primarily in resolution increases. For the RT parameters, the max setting for diffuse lighting primarily upgrades the resolution of the effect. The max setting looks to use the native input resolution here, making for pristine GI....

We’re doing things slightly differently today withFive of the Best. And we’re opening it up to everyone, not justEurogamer Supporters. Whatever the games and whatever the reasons, hey share yours below. Have a lovely break. Regardless, Jedi: Survivor is in my mind the ultimate holiday armchair video game. Which is why Jedi: Survivor is so great. It’s the ultimate brain off, vacant grin on, alarmingly heartwarming paint-the-map mop-up game. With the added bonus of theming that around biffing Storm Troopers with a lightsaber....

UPDATE: Aladdin X confirms it has “no affiliation” with game listed on PS Store. So, the game has nothing to do with our Suika Game!" The game’s original developer is also not mentioned. No price or release date is listed. The Suika Game is not mentioned on Gogame’s website at time of writing. Eurogamer has contacted both Aladdin X and Gogame Console Publisher for confirmation of their involvement with The Suika Game....