When Microsoft announced a revamped tier system for Xbox Game Pass in October 2025, it unleashed a whole lot of grumbling about what was once fondly regarded as “the best deal in games.” The service’s ...

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 ...

Games Industry Africa has announced the winners of this year's Games Industry Africa Awards (GIAA), with Free Lives' Stick It to the Stickman winning Game of the Year and PC Game of the Year. The ...

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

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

The gaming obsessives at CNET and its sibling sites ZDNET, PCMag, Lifehacker and Mashable put their heads together and chose their absolute faves that were released this year. As Senior Video Producer ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Sometimes a developer reveals a game and shadow drops immediately, while others reveal a game a ...

In news we didn’t see coming, a 2016 PS4 console exclusive hack-and-slash game is getting a free offline version, taking players by surprise. GungHo Online Entertainment’s Let It Die is a free-to-play ...

The 2025 SEC Championship Game is set as the Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide meet for the fifth time for the conference title. Here’s what to know. The Georgia Bulldogs will play in their ...

Bird Game 3 is all over TikTok, but if you're sitting here wondering why you've never heard of the first or second game, there's a reason for that. Bird Game 3 isn't real, but you wouldn't know that ...

CD Projekt’s PC game storefront GOG is getting behind indie game Horses after Valve banned it from Steam. Horses is an indie first-person horror game with live-action sequences set in a horse farm.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's a free new Minecraft game being developed for mobile in partnership with King--the creators of Candy Crush Saga--but most players won't be ...