If you were holding your breath waiting for Valiant Hearts 2, you might want to check your expectations at the door as Ubisoft toils away on pure time-sink sandboxes.

Games publisher Curve Digital want to give you the chance to take on the law and America’s Drug Enforcement Agency, by building your own cartel as you become the Rupert Murdoch of booger sugar. Here’s a trailer for it, which shows off a little bit of the tactical gameplay.

On paper, the formula should be easy enough: You as the Predator, equipped with the best science fiction weaponry ever made and ripping spines out of torsos without ever being seen. That’s kind of the game we’re getting in Predator: Hunting Grounds, but the twist here is that you won’t just have a chance to play as the infamous stalker of Schwarzeneggers. You’ll be teaming up to take on the dread dreadlocked menace as a team of soldiers who have a job to do.

Goku's entire Dragon Ball Z story will be told yet again, as the latest game features the iconic anime hero battling his greatest foes and being the worst dad ever come January 17.

Will you work with your allies as a Survivor, or will you crush their attempt to escape as the vicious Mastermind? The choice is yours in this 4 vs 1 asymmetrical co-op experience.

EA no longer produces rugby games (although in hindsight that may be for the best), with the big egg having been dropped. So who’s picking up the ball this year? None other than Wellington based games developer Sidhe, who’ll be looking to score some points with Rugby Challenge 3. There’s no trailer for it yet, but here’s the list of features!

Control, from Max Payne and Alan Wake maker Remedy, is a lovely game – and one of my favourite games of the years so far. It’s a mind-fuck of a game that blends Metroidvania-styled exploration with tight 3rd person shooter mechanics and super powers, all wrapped up in some intriguing, eyebrow-raising exposition.

In a quick top ten, raise a glass and salute the work of audio wizards who came up with the following bits of sound so good, we can’t help but smile every time we hear them.