With the Switch 2 having launched in June, 2025 marked the beginning of a whole new console generation for Nintendo. The more powerful hybrid console has seen an extremely busy first six months, ...

Grab your mouse and get clicking, because it's been a great year for games, and the PC has seen nearly all of them cross its path. The IGN staff has rounded up the best PC gaming had to offer in 2025 ...

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which title should be named ...

Editor’s note: Variety was part of the jury for The Game Awards 2025.

Images, clockwise from top left: Zenith (PlayPunk); Duel for Cardia (Asmodee); The White Castle Duel (Devir); Iliad (Bitewing). Finspan box image: Stonemaier Games. 2025 is going to go down as a good ...

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The Game Awards keeps getting bigger each year. When the annual kudofest recognizing the best of the video-game industry kicked off in 2014, it registered 1.9 million livestreams. It has exploded ...

When you boil them down to their most basic essence, games are about combat. So are lists. The A.V. Club‘s regular roster of game critics entered into the arena of debate and after long, hard, ...

The truth about Game of the Year season is that it’s near-impossible to consider everything. No list could ever be thorough enough. No ranking could ever account for a full calendar year. With the ...

The Game Awards 2025 crowned Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as top winner. What did the voters get right and wrong? Veteran gaming writer HC Green shares his takes. Share your thoughts in the comments ...

It’s time for the biggest event of 2025, The Game Awards, and we already know that there will be plenty for PS5 players to look forward to. While some of the announcements have already been revealed ...

Each year The Game Awards sees its fair share of viral moments both cringe and heartwarming, but none have persisted through the years quite so much as orchestra member Pedro Eustache--better known as ...