Quinns: It's that time again! With a magnanimous gesture to the orchestra pit and deep bow to our incredible Gold Club members sat in the balconies, SU&SD exits stage left, pursued by a pear.

If you enjoyed literally anything we did this year, don't thank us. Thank the people who support SU&SD's ad-free status with donations and make our work possible. Or better yet, join the Gold Club yourself with that big button on the right! Every dollar makes a difference, and guarantees a uniquely British encounter if you meet us at a convention as we thank you profusely without managing any eye contact.

Following in the tradition of 2014's roundup, after the jump you can enjoy a look back on the best, brightest and silliest work we did this year. Also, a tease of what to look forward to in 2016!

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[We've told the story of a Netrunner tournament, but what about Fantasy Flight's biggest-selling title, the excellent X-Wing Miniatures Game? PC Gamer magazine's Chris Thursten has just started playing, and below shares the awesome journey of his first ever tourney.]

Chris: The TIE Interceptor is everything sexy about the Galactic Empire. It's a jagged little wedge with wings like unsheathed claws. It's front-heavy, like a drag racer, and its hard angles make it look like a TIE Fighter that has narrowed its eyes. Like its sibling, it's entirely without shields or life support. An Interceptor pilot is both completely powerful and completely exposed. They are also, given their Imperial provenance, completely a British character actor. That's what I like so much about Interceptors, I think. I like to imagine the pilot wandering out of a regional repertory theatre company some time in the early 1960s before spending a couple of years slumming around the Mediterranean playing Roman officers in technicolour epics. By the late 1970s they're wandering Elstree Studios in a sharp grey uniform and by 1980 they're screaming into the firing line of a rebel turbolaser battery in a ship designed only to kill or to die.

You could never tell, through those unreadable insectoid black flight helmets, but every TIE pilot's triumphant final thoughts are this: thank god I will never do a panto.

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Paul: Aha! Did you think we were done? Did you think it was all over? The sad truth is that, in assembling our gigantic Top 50 list, so many games don't quite make the cut. We shift them up and down. We debate their inclusion. We resign ourselves to seeing favourites fail to break the Top 50 by the tiniest of margins. That's how it is, though. You stick in a Codenames and the whole list shifts. Someone has to be number 51.

All the games that follow are good games. We don't want you think we've lost our love for them because they weren't featured last week. These are our Honourable Mentions.

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Operator: I WANT TO LOOK AWAY

Quinns: DON'T LOOK AWAY

Operator: IT'S... TOO... BEAUUUTIFUUUL

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Quinns: We are entering the teens! Steady as she goes, operator.

Operator: Sir, the site was never built for this! She's going to buckle under the pressure!

Quinns: There's no turning back now. We'd never make it. The only way out... is through.

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Quinns: Alright, we're proceeding into the twenties. Keep your arms and legs inside the article at all times. If you feel sick stop reading immediately, make a cup of tea and add the Forgetful Mixture we taught you how to make in your induction.

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Quinns: It looks like our Top 50 is maintaining its structural integrity, for now. At the first sign of trouble, it is of utmost importance that you all evacuate the website immediately.

I refuse to have any more dead on my hands.

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Quinns: RETRIEVE YOUR OFFICIAL SU&SD-BRANDED MOIST TOWELETTES! It's about to get hot in here.

Last year we presented something never-before-seen in board games. Our Top 25 Board Games, Ever was a list of our most favourite games ordered from least-most favourite to most-most favourite. Ever since then, the SU&SD Supercomputer has been calculating a method by which we could possibly top this. Last week, it provided a schematic for something... incredible.

The science behind the following Top 50 is complicated, but in layman's terms we'll be "publishing" "instalments" every day this week, and beyond(!).

Enjoy, everybody.

NOTE: A few game descriptions in this list will be unchanged from last year! Writing 10,000 words for 2014's list was a herculean effort, so we decided to see what we could manage in 2015 rather than committing to 20,000 words.

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