For the very first week of 2012, there was an inordinate amount of interesting news in the videogame world with full game announcements, at least one delay and a good collection of screenshots and trailers making their way out into the wild.

El33tonline did its part to inject some excitement into proceedings with a smattering of features and reviews, acting as the tiniest of tastes of things to come. The tiniest.

What were some of the most exciting and important things to happen in videogames this past week? Let’s take a look:

El33tonline Features!

• Oltman’s Friday Fr33bie: Canabalt

• El33t’s P33k at the games of January: Impostors, Fantasies and Evil

El33tonline Questions of the Day!

• El33t’s Question of the Day: Tell us about your holiday adventures!

• El33t’s Question of the Day: What is your New Year’s resolution?

• El33t’s Question of the Day: What’s your most disappointing game delay?

El33tonline Reviews!

• Blackwater Review (Xbox 360 and Kinect)

• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Review (PC)

• Kingston HyperX 240Gb Solid State Drive Review (PC)

Announcements!

• XCOM: Enemy Unknown unveiled in latest Game Informer

• LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes officially announced

• Sonic 4: Episode II confirmed, debut trailer teases sidekick and villain

H33rsay!

• H33rsay: PlayStation 4 and next Xbox to be revealed at E3 2012

News!

• Xbox LIVE’s top-selling and most popular games of 2011 revealed

• Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo confirmed for Xbox 360 and PS3

• Gotham City Impostors delayed into February

• Microsoft revamps rules for Xbox LIVE Indie Games

• Resident Evil: Revelations demo confirmed for US and Europe

• Media Create Japanese Software Sales for week ending January 1st: 3DS titles dominate

• Media Create Japanese Hardware Sales for week ending January 1st: unstoppable 3DS does it again

• 3DS sales in the US - 2 million in two months

• Japan’s best-selling games and hardware of 2011

Trailers!

• Everyone gushes about SSX in this ‘accolades’ trailer

• Meet your co-op partners in the latest crushing Syndicate trailer

• New Grand Slam Tennis 2 trailer demos Total Racket Control

• See Mass Effect 3’s pre-order bonuses in action in new trailers, screens

Screenshots!

• Fresh Max Payne 3 screenshots mark the beginning of “the barrage”

Join us again tomorrow as we start all over again - look forward to much more news and media this coming week, as well as more El33tonline features and exciting announcements from CES 2012!