While we await the Nintendo Switch 2 and the new slate of games it may bring this year, studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and ...

The gaming obsessives at CNET and its sibling sites ZDNET, PCMag, Lifehacker and Mashable put their heads together and chose ...

We're officially past the halfway point of the year, and 2025 has been an incredible year for high-quality video games — though less so for the games industry itself, especially after Microsoft's mass ...

We've also seen a crossover with Halo 3: ODST, which feels like seeing McDonald's open up in Moscow circa 1990, as well as new cave systems riddled with Terminids to explore and conquer. It's a whole ...

We blew right through the month of April. While the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers,” this month threw down some heavy storms for gamers. From surprised RPG hits, beloved titles finally ...

If there’s a narrative winding through our list of the 10 best games of 2025 so far, it’s one of behemoths being outdone by far fleeter, and younger, creatures moving underfoot. Big-budget gaming has ...