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The 15 best games of 2017

Still from the Nintendo Switch game THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD

Brand new properties stunned us with their fresh ideas, sequels were refined (or redefined), and more than one old series was brought back to relevance in 2017.

Xbox One X offers true 4K gaming on a console

Xbox One X.

Much more powerful, but somehow smaller, than the Xbox One S released last year, the Xbox One X is a marvel of technology and engineering that provides the most technically impressive console gaming experience you can get, especially if you're running a 4K TV.

Hand-drawn shooter is a surreal, superb game

Most bosses are fought on the ground, but occasionally Cuphead takes to the sky in a plane.

Looking and sounding like a coloured Fleischer animation from the 1930s, but playing more like a tough '80s run-and-gun, Cuphead is an inventive, surprising game centred on a number of boss battles that need to be studied and replayed to overcome.

Xbox, Porsche announce 'performance gamewear'

Professional driver Chelsea Angelo, and Porsche junior driver Matt Campbell, in Forza onesies.

To celebrate the launch of racing simulation game Forza Motorsport 7, Xbox Australia is today taking the wraps off limited edition "gamewear" that "offers gamers unparalleled coziness and functionality as they hit the virtual track".