The New Year is already knocking on the window. It's time to create a festive mood: light the garlands, peel the tangerines, uncover the fireworks — and play the appropriate games, of course. In this collection we will tell you about the best projects on the New Year theme.

On January 20, 2021, Hitman 3 was released, where Agent 47 will again have to take the path of cold-blooded murder. Surely, confusing locations, difficult goals and many elegant ways to eliminate them await us. In the meantime, let's remember the best moments in 47's career and get a little nostalgic.

Modern mass culture is full of conventions, that's a fact. We put up with some things, but from time to time we frown with disgust and mentally send sharp words to the creators of the game, film or series. Sometimes conventions really spoil the impression on the viewer or player, and sometimes you can't do without them. These are the important and recognizable features we'll talk about today.

The ending is the most important element of any story. This applies not only to books and films, but also to video games. The ending sums up the results, reveals secrets and gives the final answer whether the game turned out to be worthy or not. Moreover, the ending can be not only good or bad, but also shocking. Most often, it is the last option that leaves the player with the most vivid and complex feelings: resentment, sadness, anxiety, and sometimes real rage. In this material we have collected the most evil, bloody and truly bad endings that caused us the same mixed emotions. Beware, spoilers!

The long-awaited conclusion to the trilogy about the deadly adventures of Agent 47 has been released — Hitman 3. The cold-blooded killer is at his best as always and again deals with his targets in the most unexpected ways. However, the mercenary with a barcode on the back of his head is not the only legend in this profession. It is about the coolest killers in games, films and TV series that we will talk about in this article.

Sometimes real lawlessness is happening in video games, and completely innocent people are punished for far -fetched crimes. It is about the heroes who were behind bars as a result of glaring injustice, that we will tell in this article.

Sometimes developers release potentially excellent projects in a completely indecent form: buggy, unfinished and completely unplayable. Then the fans get to work, correcting errors on their own, returning the cut content and creating their own. It is about the games that the players themselves brought to mind that we will talk about in this article.

Electronic Arts officially acquired the Codemasters studio and took over the rights to DiRT, F1 and other racing simulators. The deal amounted to $1.2 billion, but this is far from the largest purchase in the industry. It is about the most impressive deals of game developers that we will talk about in this article.

Everyone loves BioWare for Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age: Origins and the Mass Effect trilogy. However, the latest projects of the developers can only be called failures. Anthem had hopes of finally realizing its enormous potential, but BioWare recently announced that a reboot was no longer in the works. And this is not the first time this has happened to Canadians. Read more about this and other developer failures in this material.

The gaming industry is the territory of big money, and where you can hear the rustling of banknotes, conflicts cannot be avoided. Another scandal broke out recently: Ukrainian developers from Frogwares announced that the publishing house Nacon had hacked the game The Sinking City and was selling it on Steam. Read more about this and other conflicts in game development in this collection.