Here's our official list of the 10 best video games that 2025 had to offer, spanning nearly every available platform.

J. Scott Thurlow is a Senior Contributor based in the NYC Metropolitan Area. While he is not actually Alan Wake, Scott has been ranting about games since falling in love with them at a young age.

As artificial intelligence has seeped more into daily life, it’s been met with a mix of acceptance and repulsion. The ...

To that end, Kotaku ‘s top games of 2025 list this year will go back to straddling the Goldilocks GOTY middle ground of 12 best games. We are still ranking them and describing why each made the cut, ...

It’s been an incredible year for gaming, with something for every taste: cinematic historical and fantasy epics, casual co-op experiences, inventive titles with bizarre premises, and shooters where ...

Unable to restrain our list to a top 10, we've rounded up the Shacknews top 25 indie games of 2025.

Unlike in year's past, there was no clear frontrunner for my favorite game of 2025, but plenty of good options ...

With 2026 almost here, it’s a good time to look back on the year that was in gaming, and today I’ll be listing my 10 favorite ...

That’s another year of video games down, and I don’t know about you, but my fingers are sore from all the button-mashing and joystick rotations. Games seem to be getting longer, sprawling between 60 ...