Unsurprisingly, the best games of 2025 came from the fringes of the industry. Here's what The A.V. Club's games critics loved ...

The God of the Woods in hardcover is available on Amazon for $8.37. This thriller is a New York Times Bestseller, Taylor ...

Taylor Swift 's "Wood" was certainly a hot topic this year. The music database Genius released its year-end statistics earlier this week, and a particularly scandalous lyric from Swift's The Life of a ...

When Episode 6 of Dispatch was released on November 5, 2025, fans were treated to one of the best sequences in a video game ...

And yeah, the presence of two playable characters who both feature their own quests and dialogue options as well as combat styles and skill trees means you basically get two different, but similar ...

The premise is absolutely absurd, so we’re just going to let the press release do the talking for us: “In a world where ...

I began playing World of Warcraft earlier this year and have developed a weekly ritual around it with my boyfriend. But to ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

While I love the look and feel of gacha games like Zenless Zone Zero and Honkai Star Rail, I simply can't get over the 'gacha.' As someone who (thankfully) remains relatively stalwart in her attempts ...

Love them or hate them, gacha games are huge right now, and there’s no sign that’s going to change on a large scale any time soon. By their nature, they exclude players without a lot of disposable ...

Tower of Fantasy is an interesting one: a mashup of gacha and MMO, all of the random monetisation bullshit, plus expecting you to *shudder* work together with strangers. Despite being a sicko for both ...