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PlayStation Now is a subscription service that lets you play PlayStation games on the PS4, PS3, PS Vita, PS TV and soon Sony TVs via online streaming. Choose from over 100 PS3 games, with more coming soon. $20/mo or $45/3mo.

The esteemed game player and critic TotalBiscuit singles out the year’s best games and calls out a couple of the industry’s black sheep. A polished and straightforward retrospective and recommendation of the year’s video games.

You won’t be able to get the theme from Pac-Man out of your head after listening to D Wave’s quirky video game medley, which consists entirely of the 1980 arcade game’s music played in 10 different styles.

The latest Naruto Shippuden fighting game series takes on the manga’s final arc. If you’ve read those issues, then you know just how crazy things have gotten. And if you haven’t? Watch the trailer.

Telltale Games’ recent and upcoming point-and-click adventures in one bundle. It includes the entire The Walking Dead 1 & 2 and The Wolf Among Us 1, as well as Season Passes for Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands.

Exclusively bundled in the Xbox One Halo Master Chief Collection, the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta will feature 4-on-4 Arena battles. Try out the new weapons, abilities and maps from 12/29/14 to 1/18/15.

The hype is real. The latest trailer for Star Citizen goes for the jugular with an inspirational slant and a visual showcase that will hook even casual sci-fi fans. It’s as if it hasn’t already raised enough money.

Composer Giovanni Rotondo always wondered what it might sound like if 21st century video game music was made on 20th century hardware, so he’s making an album of tracks from games like Angry Birds, Destiny, and Portal as chiptunes.

The new English trailer for Final Fantasy XV gives hints of the game’s plot, introduces new characters – including a foxy mechanic named Cidney – and ends with an elemental tease of the game’s summons. More on Kotaku.

Cities: Skylines could be for SimCity fans what Endless Legend is for Civ fans, with welcome additions such as city policies and districts, taxation and modding tools. Drops Q1 2015 for Windows, Mac and Linux via Steam.

Achievement Hunter community members remade the classic board game on Grand Theft Auto V‘s Online Content Creator. Use a chopper to try to pick up vehicles in a human-shaped gas tank maze. Mess up and the “man” explodes.

Infiniti’s contribution to Gran Turismo 6’s growing collection of concept cars. The Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo is a hybrid with a naturally aspirated V8 and a mean, viper-like design. Available for download this week.

Papers, Please in perhaps its best version yet. Become a border inspector in a wartorn communist country, exerting a massive influence on many people’s lives while struggling to keep your own. Glory to Arstotzka.

The trailer for Heists, the much-awaited free update to GTA V’s online multiplayer. It consists of five different capers for four players, with each player taking on a different role. Available early 2015. More at IGN.

An upcoming 16-bit style RPG from Zeboyd Games, featuring 11 playable characters, a unique charge-based battle system and a great soundtrack. Drops on Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4 & PS Vita (Crossbuy). More here.

(Gore) Eight friends are trapped with a masked killer in a mountain retreat. Exclusive to the PS4, Until Dawn is essentially an interactive slasher flick, filled with quicktime events and jump scares. Starring Hayden Panettiere.

Exclusive to the PS4 and PC, Street Fighter V promises more character-specific moves – including what appear to be elemental boosts – guard breaks, air combos, destructible stages and more. Gameplay demo here.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney but with birds and other animals. Aviary Attorney is a comedy visual novel with art based on or taken directly from 19th century French books. Also there’s a horse called Neighthan in it. Heheh. Neighthan.

Video game system customizer Oskunk shows off more of his amazing painting skills as he takes an ordinary Nintendo Game Boy and transforms it into the ultimate Pokémon handheld. Check out his online shop for more awesome artwork.

2014 has seen everything from great indie games like Broken Age to giant, bug-filled blockbusters like Assassin’s Creed Unity. Along the way, some thrilled and others disappointed. Malcolm Klock recaps the gaming memories of the past year.

Play the world’s largest game of Yahtzee – or replicate The Price is Right’s Dice Game with these oversize wooden dice. Each 3.5″ is crafted from solid pine, with hot-iron branded pips. Sold as a set of six. Giant dominoes also available.

Our latest look at No Man’s Sky sees a player exploring planets in different star systems within a few seconds. With 18 quintillion planets in the game, we really hope those worlds are all diverse and worth visiting. Best watched in 1080p60.

Never count the big N out. The Legend of Zelda co-creators Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aounuma show off the beautiful and vast world of the series’ upcoming Wii U game. You might also be doing a barrel roll by the end of the clip.