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vulture.com - Lewis Gordon - The Best Video Games of 2025
The Best Video Games of 2025
Vulture

Like the TV and movie industries, video games navigated choppy waters in 2025. There were yet more immiserating layoffs amid painful, executive-led pushes for AI. Yet the games themselves bore few traces of such hardship, sparkling from our screens…

gameranx.com - Dennis Patrick - Live-Action Tomb Raider Series Will Interconnect With The Video Games
Live-Action Tomb Raider Series Will Interconnect With The Video Games
Gameranx

Tomb Raider fans know more content is coming their way. It's been a bit of a hiatus when it comes to brand-new installments for the beloved video game franchise. The last major new release came in 2018 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, finishing the…

collider.com - Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck - The 10 Greatest Video Games of 2025, Ranked (and We Can't Wait To See Them as Movies)
The 10 Greatest Video Games of 2025, Ranked (and We Can't Wait To See Them as Movies)
Collider

Every year is excellent for video games nowadays, but 2025 was especially fantastic. From the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 and many new Nintendo first-party games to new studios breaking out with fantastic games to greatly anticipated sequels…

dexerto.com - Brad Norton - 2026 video game release calendar: All new games coming out next year
2026 video game release calendar: All new games coming out next year
Dexerto

2025 has been an incredibly stacked year for video games, with almost too many Game of the Year caliber titles to even get through. From the sunny outback in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach to the heartwrenching twists of Clair Obscur: Expedition…

marketbeat.com - Promising Video Game Stocks To Watch Today - December 2nd
Promising Video Game Stocks To Watch Today - December 2nd
MarketBeat

Turtle Beach, Alliance Entertainment, Allied Gaming & Entertainment, and Motorsport Games are the seven Video Game stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. 'Video game stocks' are shares of publicly traded companies…

thegamer.com - Jade King - Fortnite Has Once Again Proven Why It Is The Future Of Video Games
Fortnite Has Once Again Proven Why It Is The Future Of Video Games
TheGamer

They destroyed the Battle Bus. I repeat, they destroyed the Battle Bus. Following the excellent Zero Hour live event, Fortnite Chapter 7 opened with The Dark Voyager showing up to blow the iconic vehicle to smithereens, leaving its many parts…

gamespot.com - Eddie Makuch - Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Adding A Map With Portals
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Adding A Map With Portals
GameSpot

One of the new maps coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in Season 1 includes Splitgate-like portals that allow players to instantly transport themselves from one area of the arena to another. The map, Fate, is set inside David Mason's mind, taking…

businessinsider.com - Peter Kafka - Will Middle Eastern oil nations end up owning part of CBS, HBO, CNN - and Hollywood?
Will Middle Eastern oil nations end up owning part of CBS, HBO, CNN - and Hollywood?
Business Insider

A deal to combine Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery would create a media behemoth. And that behemoth could be partially owned by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. So says Variety, reporting that David and Larry Ellison, who…

gamesindustry.biz - Sophie McEvoy - UK Games Industry Shadow Council forms to address 'good and poor practices' in sector
UK Games Industry Shadow Council forms to address 'good and poor practices' in sector
GamesIndustry.biz

A temporary independent body has launched to address 'transparency, accountability, and ethical reform' in the UK games sector. The UK Games Industry Shadow Council (UKGISC) is 'a group of likeminded people who have given their personal time to…

gamedeveloper.com - Danielle Riendeau - Report: Netflix to sell Spry Fox back to founders
Report: Netflix to sell Spry Fox back to founders
Game Developer

Spry Fox, the studio behind the Cozy Grove series and in-alpha Spirit Crossing, will soon land back in the hands of co-founders Daniel Cook and David Edery. According to Game File, the move appears in keeping with Netflix's changing priorities…

gamedeveloper.com - Chris Kerr - Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA after buyout
Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA after buyout
Game Developer

Saudi Arabia's sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF) is poised to become the majority owner of EA as part of a $55 billon take-private that will see an investor consortium take control of the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher. The deal was…

eurogamer.net - Connor Makar - 'Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before' Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough?
'Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before' Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough?
Eurogamer.net

There's been a lot of chatter surrounding Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 since its launch. The latest release in a juggernaut franchise, some are seeing cracks in the armour due to a mixed reception to various parts of the game, as well as the little…

gamesindustry.biz - Sophie McEvoy - EA makes eight new accessibility patents free to all
EA makes eight new accessibility patents free to all
GamesIndustry.biz

Electronic Arts has added eight more patents to its Accessibility First Patent Pledge, including grapple assist technology, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text size and contrast tool Fonttik. One of the patents is…

searchengineland.com - Olivier de Segonzac - Google Daily Hub: Anatomy of an overambitious system shaping the future of search
Google Daily Hub: Anatomy of an overambitious system shaping the future of search
Search Engine Land

Google's Daily Hub is more complex than it first appears. It's part of the broader acceleration toward hyperpersonalization we've been seeing in recent months – Preferred Sources, Profile Pages with followable elements in Discover, Brand…

theamericanreporter.com - Jennifer Ross - Rifles of World War II: Matthew Pothoff's Insights on the Weapons that Shaped History
Rifles of World War II: Matthew Pothoff's Insights on the Weapons that Shaped History
The American Reporter

World War II was not only defined by strategy, alliances, and vast theaters of combat, but also by the tools of war that shaped battles on the ground. Among the most critical of these tools were infantry rifles. The war marked a turning point in…

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