Christmas and New Year 2025. How did developers and publishers wished players a happy holiday?

Firstly, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas too, whether it's already here or coming up! It's going to be a big weekend: the best time to relax, shop at sales and play your favourite games. But how did developers and publishers congratulate this year? Now we'll tell and show you.

Let's start with PlayStation. In addition to discounting its shop and reposting other congratulations, it posted a card with DualSense and asking if players got something from its Wishlist as a gift.

Microsoft didn't distinguish itself with congratulations this year, but Windows did publish a card. Sure, it's not exactly a developer or publisher, but it has a huge impact on gamers too.

The ultimate pranksters of 2024 are the Xbox Game Pass account, which has decided to remake its games with New Year's memes. It's probably even better for some people.

Note from us: Hallmark is known for its Christmas films, which have become an integral part of Christmas celebrations for many viewers. Each year, the company releases a series of new festive films that air on the Hallmark Channel as part of their Countdown to Christmas special.

Blizzard Entertainment's official account is pretty stingy on congratulations this year, but the World of Warcraft and Diablo teams were happy to congratulate players with cards. Diablo's is particularly creepy.

At CD PROJEKT RED everything is expected: the guys are preparing for the release of The Witcher 4, where the main character will be an adult, but the new witch Cyrilla, so they congratulate in the mood of the upcoming release.

This year Hideo Kojima decided to congratulate in a truly brilliant way: he showed how the holiday of a true genius should look like. Well, let's take it as a note.

Bethesda's official account has posted a music video in the vein of The Elder Scrolls Online.

And Bethesda Game Studios limited themselves to a short video of congratulations from members of the development team.

The Dragon Age account surprised this year, and not at all with a gif of Lucanis. Imagine, they gave a 40% discount on the new Dragon Age: The Veilguard. That's in honour of the holidays, right? Right?

Konami, of course, congratulated in the mood of Silent Hill 2, but that makes sense: they didn't have any other such high-profile releases in the past year.

SEGA posted the cutest postcard with characters from their games. So, it's very warm.

The flashmob of cards was supported by the Dead Rising team, posting a rather warm greeting in the mood of their game.

Resident Evil greeting card with Ada Wong, which makes sense.

The Street Fighter account also congratulated in the style of their game, and was not alone in this, because their initiative was supported by many other developers.

For example, Ace Attorney. No ‘’Objection!‘’ will be accepted!

Larian Studios have actually done some really cool content this year, and we're not talking about postcards right now, which are also coolly done. It wasn't enough to have good discounts on its games, so the company published a full-fledged Advent calendar for its games, where each slot contained a full-fledged gift: a short story about Minthara from Baldur's Gate 3, a wallpaper for your smartphone or PC, or previously unreleased soundtracks from the same game. Swen Vincke also congratulated in his official account.

And the company also very opaquely hinted at the development of a new game in its holiday video.

Rockstar Games has distinguished itself by giving players a lot of discounts and in-game items in its online projects. Basically, that's it. It would be better to show a new trailer GTA 6.

Nintendo of America posted a cute picture of their products that hints at absolutely nothing. But it's pretty.

Naughty Dog shared a postcard featuring some of the characters from their games — both released and upcoming — and a very nice wish.

Assassin's Creed was, naturally, congratulated in the style of Assassin's Creed: Shadows, the release of which will definitely not be postponed again. Or will they?

Hogwarts Legacy shared a cute snowman to equally cute music. What more do you need for some festive cheer?

DOOM stays in their repertoire, giving us an epic card and a humorous wish.

Square Enix is most interested in the hug theme this year. Basically, it's something we all miss from time to time, so we're in full support.

Russian developers, who gave us Atomic Heart, also congratulated us on holidays — and quite verbosely.

Thanks for the heads up, Little Nightmares team. Of course, everything in their congratulations hints at the imminent release of Little Nightmares 3, which is just about to be released in 2025.

PAC-MAN also did not stay aside and did not leave players without cards and wishes. What's interesting is that on her account for some reason the official tick has disappeared.

The Crash Bandicoot team have shared a hilarious festive artwork with an equally hilarious caption, but we totally get them.

Well very warmly congratulated Obsidian, presenting a card with the characters of the upcoming Avowed. We hope that the game will evoke the same emotions as this wish.

Owlcat Games seems to have forgotten that it actually has other games, but we don't mind. Still, Warhammer is really on point this year (albeit a slightly different one).

The official GOG account didn't care much, so it attached a picture that we've all seen a million times already. But the text is heartwarming, so we can turn a blind eye to it.

The creators of inZOI, "the killer of The Sims’" didn't stay away and congratulated with the cutest kitties, which they are very proud of both in and out of the game.