By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties ...

Curious about the games dropping this year? Check out our month-by-month breakdown of the hottest titles coming to the PC, PlayStation 5, Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S. In 2014, I began my ...

Artificial intelligence and its promise to revolutionize programming—and possibly overthrow human sovereignty—is a central story of the post-Covid world. But for JavaScript developers, it is only one ...

Clockwise from top left: Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo); Despelote (Panic); Baby Steps (Devolver Digital); Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Kepler Interactive); Skate Story (Devolver Digital) Like so much ...

Nearly a decade after consumer VR took its first real steps—driven by headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the medium has outgrown its novelty phase. Those early platforms ...

Com2uS has announced GACHIAKUTA: The Game, a “survival action RPG” based on the anime GACHIAKUTA. It will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. A release date was not ...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was just stripped of its Game of the Year award from the Indie Game Awards due to AI use. AI has become a super touchy subject in the gaming community. So much so that I ...

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 ...

The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron’s Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, ...

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.

Oui! Oui! It’s time to break out the baguettes. Sandfall and Kepler Interactive’s French action adventure game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 staked claim on the Game of the Year prize at the 12th Game ...