It’s the time of year when waistline-attacking gift baskets invade our offices and holiday cards fill up our mailboxes. Since it’s Christmas, we’re in a generous mood — here are the season’s greetings that the video game industry has sent our way, so you can share in the cheer. (What, did you think we were going to part with our edible treats? Fat chance!)

We scanned in physical cards or took screenshots of virtual ones and then removed key logos or text with a fancy, high-tech program called MS Paint. Can you guess which companies sent these? The answers (along with the original images) are below this gallery, along with a scoring key.

OK, this one isn’t so hard to figure out, but we liked the artwork, wanted to include it, and didn’t have a good way to hide the main clue.

The answers:

Makers of: PlayStation consoles, Gran Turismo, God of War
Makers of: Halo 4
Makers of: Broken Age, Psychonauts, Iron Brigade
Makers of: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls
Makers of: Guacamelee
Makers of: Tetris
Makers of: Wii and 3DS systems, Mario, Pokemon
Makers of: new video-streaming celebrities
Makers of: Basement Crawl
Makers of: Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo
Makers of: Dragon Realms, Call to Arms, Kingdom Age
Makers of: Saints Row, Dead Island
Makers of: Batman: Arkham, Scribblenauts, Injustice
Makers of: Harvest Moon, Hometown Story
Makers of: Defense Grid, Windborne
Makers of: Call of Duty, Skylanders
Makers of: Hyperdimension Neptunia, Danganronpa
Makers of: Grave Mania, Cave Quest
Makers of: money for game developers
Makers of: Dragon’s Crown, Shin Megami Tensei

How many correct did you get?

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20: Liar! Don’t make Baby You-Know-Who cry.

19-15: Pretty damn good! You’re a little obsessed with the game industry, aren’t you?

14-10: Not bad! You’re definitely smarter than your friends say you are.

9-5: This is about what we had expected from you. It’s not your fault — some of these are tough.

4-1: You are bad at this, and you should feel bad.

0: What, you didn’t even get “Atlus”?

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