Are you a seasoned video gamer or a board-game geek looking to expand your repertoire? Or are you more of a game-hesitant newbie overwhelmed by the options (and scarred by a childhood Monopoly ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

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

Every year, The Game Awards brings its fair share of big game reveals, new trailers, and unexpected announcements. The 2025 version has teased some big things already, with that cryptic obelisk teaser ...

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive on stage at The Game Awards 2025 (MICHAEL TRAN via Getty Images) This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, ...

If you didn't stay up to watch The Game Awards 2025, here's the complete rundown of the hottest sci-fi and space games that appeared at the show. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The role-playing game won nine prizes, including game of the year. By Zachary Small A role-playing game featuring a mythical paintress, demonic mimes and an orchestral soundtrack earned the top prize ...

Every year when we look back at all the games that dropped, trends reveal themselves. For 2025, you might boil it down to a year of innovation. Yes, there were many big, anticipated games that ...

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 ...

We’re almost at the end of 2025, giving us another fantastic year of gaming. As we round into the final months of the year, there’s little left other than to talk about Game of the Year, and Geoff ...

Nominations for the 2025 Game Awards, which honor the year’s most innovative, unique and impactful story-driven narratives in the gaming industry, were announced Monday. Leading the pack is the ...