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After playing well over 200 new releases this year, I am officially closing the book on 2025. My year-end list is published, as is Polygon’s, and I am at peace with the final results, even knowing plenty of excellent games…
Quick-time events, despite everyone’s best efforts to spice them up, remain pretty meh. When you first begin Dispatch, the new episodic superhero adventure game from AdHoc Studio, you’re asked if you want to enable quick-time event prompts as an optional…
2025 finally saw the long-awaited arrival of Nintendo’s next console: the Switch 2. But now, it’s time to turn the page to 2026 and talk about what’s in store for Switch 2’s sophomore year. Nintendo already has a pretty fleshed…
Created at Mattel toys by David Siegel and Joe Galliani, Street Sharks began as a toyline, while the cartoon was merely a way to promote action figure sales. This was common practice at the time, and the same had even…
One of the lingering questions Stranger Things fans having coming out of the Season 5 finale relates to the series’ famous monsters, the demogorgons. Or, perhaps put more accurately, the lack of them. In the final battle (Season 5 Episode…
Here we go again. Another year, another slate of games, movies, and less definable pop culture arriving into a world that somehow feels overstuffed yet starved for meaning. If 2025 we took stock of landscapes in change. 2026 feels like…
Last year, we asked if anything could beat Grand Theft Auto 6 for Game of the Year 2025 — “apart from Rockstar’s ability to finish it in time.” In the end, it was just that that took Rockstar’s game out…
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has confirmed one of the community’s biggest questions since the game came out: it does indeed feature ‘aggression-based matchmaking.’ This means that if you’re big into PvP, you’ll be matched up with players who are…
43.8 million player votes later, the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards have been announced, with Hollow Knight: Silksong securing top prize, Game of the Year. Read more
As of Jan. 1, Pluto TV now has one of the biggest sci-fi series of the 1990s — or, ever, really — streaming for free in its library. Despite its acclaim and it being a cultural landmark, The X-Files, which…