What's in a name? A whole damn lot when it looks as if EA and DICE, after promising high and low that they wouldn't do so, may have included lootboxes in Battlefield V but just not called it lootboxes.

Team Ninja's Dead or Alive fighting game franchise is back! However, things are looking a little different this time around as Dead or Alive 6 introduces more realism and maturity into a franchise that was marred by some questionable "sexy" approaches.

Crash is getting his first brand new stage in many a year, thrown directly into the N Sane Trilogy. Called Future Tense, the new stage can be accessed from Crash Warped and features a wholly original design with more challenging elements that were designed to test players of any skill level.

From the mighty melody of even Andrew WK failing to rouse the game journos in attendance into party mode to Todd Howard’s reveal of Skyrim finally coming to a smart fridge near you, Bethesda still had some surprises and even a rare look at the future.

This year, Microsoft kicked some serious ass. While their first-party future will still take some time to be realised, Microsoft’s third-party offerings were incredibly exciting. From Devil May Cry 5 finally emerging from the darkness to a hat trick of Gears of War announcements, Microsoft was throwing punch after punch in their press conference, with knockouts aplenty finding their mark. Did you miss all of that hot action? Well here's a handy round-up for you.

EA’s latest efforts were distracting enough to plaster over old wounds as the likes of Anthem and Unravel 2 earned plenty of love from anyone watching. In case you missed it, here’s the usual handy breakdown of everything that EA had to offer this year.

In their bid to support any and every hardware platform out there, Bethesda have revealed two new VR titles in the worlds of both Wolfenstein and Prey.

One of Bethesda’s more high-profile mobile offerings that was actually really really good, was easily Fallout Shelter. Free, easy to learn and challenging to master, it was a microcosm of Fallout’s best features all rolled into one addictive tapping game of micro-management and survival. Having learnt some valuable lessons from the success of Fallout Shelter, Bethesda is looking to expand their mobile offerings with The Elder Scrolls: Blades.