This is already a great year for fighting game fans. Street Fighter V is finally closer to the game it should have been all along, and Dragon Ball FighterZ is one of the best takes on a seminal, but terrible anime game. It’s also the year that sees Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, the arcade-brawler released in Japan in 2015 finally hit consoles. to celeberate, we're giving away its Ultimate Collector's Edition.

You can get properly smashed on a few glasses of Scotland’s greatest contribution to modern society since they invented an instrument that sounds like a bag of cats being strangled: Whisky! Specifically, Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

Final Fantasy XV is getting the rumoured Royal Edition treatement, which is packed to the brim with new content. Better still, the ambitious adventure is also arriving on PC on the same day.

Loot boxes and microtransactions are still major talking points, and for very good reason. While some games have managed to implement them in ways that aren’t shady, there are many more that are predatory, cleverly using psychology to prey on addictive personalities. It’s the ol’ carrot-and-stick, dialled up to 11.

The third standalone episode for Final Fantasy XV follows charismatic chef Ignis through a troubling period of a story you might already know.

Final Fantasy XV's long awaited multiplayer expansion, Comrades, is launching properly at the end of next month. And it's giving you the chance to make your own adventures in XV's massive world.

It’s official: Final Fantasy XV is coming to PC next year. Or in the parlance of those trendy tweens, FF XV ASAP 2015 on PC.

Six months in, and 2017 has been a fantastic year so far for gaming yet again. Mind you, it isn’t pulling another 2016 in terms of releases, but I’m not complaining so far. So which games are the very best then? Which new releases have been well worth the financial and chronal investment required to own and complete them?