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The Best Video Games of 2025
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…
Live-Action Tomb Raider Series Will Interconnect With The Video Games
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…
8 Video Game Franchises That Will NEVER Be The Same
Every now and then, changing things up is for the best. While most video game franchises have a well-established formula that they stick to both for the sake of their developers and because it's what their fans expect, sometimes, that formula grows…
Every Moment Matters In These Pitch-Perfect Video Games
It's easy to miss sometimes, but a lot of video games (even some of the industry's very best) are split into chapters or episodes. Needless to say, this particular structuring style can be a double-edged sword, as it can either ruin or enhance a…
The 10 Greatest Video Games of 2025, Ranked (and We Can't Wait To See Them as Movies)
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…
2026 video game release calendar: All new games coming out next year
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…
Promising Video Game Stocks To Watch Today - December 2nd
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…
Fortnite Has Once Again Proven Why It Is The Future Of Video Games
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…
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Adding A Map With Portals
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…
Will Middle Eastern oil nations end up owning part of CBS, HBO, CNN - and Hollywood?
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…
UK Games Industry Shadow Council forms to address 'good and poor practices' in sector
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…
Report: Netflix to sell Spry Fox back to founders
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…
India's E&M industry projected to grow to $47.2bn by 2029 at 7.8% CAGR: PwC
India's momentum is fuelled by rising digital participation, a large youth base, expanding broadband access, and deeper consumption of online content. This is reshaping audience behaviour across formats and creating new opportunities for platforms…
Instead of toys or cash, children are wishing for in-game currency under the tree this holiday season
As gaming platforms Roblox and Fortnite have exploded in popularity with Gen Alpha, it's no surprise that more than half of children in the U.S. are putting video games high on their holiday wish lists. Entertainment Software Association (ESA)…
Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA after buyout
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…
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