It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
2025 was bursting with really cool new game releases : Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yōtei, Blue Prince, Donkey Kong Bananza, I could go on. And yet...
Larian Studios head Swen Vincke said the upcoming RPG Divinity will not use generative AI art, though the studio still sees benefits to the tech....
It may only be January, but I say it’s never too early to look towards the future and try to predict what the best games of 2026 will end up being. I don’t have a crystal ball or some sort of undiagno...
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong , took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the "Best Game You Suck At" award, whic...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Pudgy Party is a mobile battle royale developed by Pudgy Penguins. ✓ It was named GG's 2025 Game of the Year. ...
Reed Duchscher, CEO and founder of Night. JASSIEUO (Jasmine Durhal). Reed Duchscher, MrBeast's former manager, says we won't see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on indiv...
In the fall of 2025, I had the great pleasure of attending Tokyo Game Show, a trip that also naturally included a few pit stops to meet local developers and see what they were up to. On the very last ...
The Legend of Zelda is one of the most iconic video game series of all time. Starting on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986, The Legend of Zelda follows various incarnations of Princess Zelda a...
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/26/ai_is_like_adventure_games/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411040 Points: 4 # Comments: 1...
Everyone likes to be feel special and game developers are no different, so congratulations to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Ghost of Yotei, the two games absolutely d...
2025 proved to be a fairly quiet year for the Star Wars franchise, although it’s hard to sniff at something as great as Andor Season 2. Still, it’s safe to say fans are jonesing for new Star Wars cont...
Firdaus Hashim has spent nearly two decades breathing life into the impossible. The Malaysian visual effects (VFX) artist has won multiple accolades for his painstaking, frame-by-frame artistry and ev...
Last year, IO Interactive revealed that musician and singer Lenny Kravitz would be making his video game debut in 007: First Light – not as the singer of a film-like Bond Theme, but as an actual chara...
Travis Kelce at Allegiant Stadium on January 4. Candice Ward/Getty Images Travis Kelce's gameday outfits have recently gotten as much attention as his athletic performances. His best looks this season...
📋 Key Facts ✓ John Walker published his Top 10 Games of 2025 on December 22, 2025. ✓ The list falls under the entertainment category. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Game Key Cards for Switch 2 lack data storage and enable downloads, causing ownership access worries. ✓ Publishers prefer...
Critical Role's chief creative officer, Matthew Mercer. Valerie Terranova/Getty Images for Prime Video Matt Mercer gave up the seat of game master for Critical Role's Campaign Four this year. That cam...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...