It's an exciting time to be a videogamer – the mix of big budget and independent titles, the opportunities increasingly offered by a wider variety of devices and streaming content, the sheer processing power developers have to work with. But what does emerge from this list is a lack of innovation in terms of enemy intelligence, emotional depth or narrative complexity. Perhaps we'll have to wait for 2016 for those…
Game of Thrones
Episode one may have had a shaky start but Telltale know their stuff and the seeds have been sown for an epic gaming 'box set'. Stuart Houghton
Bloodborne
The next game from the creators of Dark Souls - a beautiful, savage tale of curses and monsters set in a majestic gothic city. Helen K Parker
Evolve
The next generation of co-operative multi-player? Four people play as an infantry squad up against a fifth person controlling an evolving monster. Simon Munk
No Mans Sky
A free-roaming, shared-world, space exploration game with billions of procedurally-generated planets? Here is my money. Take it all. Stuart Houghton
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
A daringly ambitious open world stealth sandbox, and the biggest Metal Gear to date. Helen K Parker
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
Bigger and better than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? That remains to be seen – but this fantasy role-playing epic is huge and hotly-anticipated. Simon Munk
Minecraft Story Mode
Minecraft developers Mojang working with Telltale Games to produce an episodic, story-based game set in the world of Minecraft. If they can work Kentucky Route Zero in there somewhere I will never leave the house. Stuart Houghton
The Legend Of Zelda
Can this game save the ailing Wii U? Probably not, but given Nintendo's commitment to quality, it's pretty sure to be amazing. Simon Munk
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