Brandon Sanderson is one of this decade’s most prominent epic fantasy writers. He has several well-known and beloved series on the market, including the long-running Mistborn, which began in 2006. As ...
If there’s a single trend that’s dominated all of media in the last decade, it’s trying to harness nostalgia. Disney has endlessly pursued the idea with live-action remakes and trying to recapture ...
Clockwise from top left: Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo); Despelote (Panic); Baby Steps (Devolver Digital); Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Kepler Interactive); Skate Story (Devolver Digital) Like so much ...
Nearly a decade after consumer VR took its first real steps—driven by headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the medium has outgrown its novelty phase. Those early platforms ...
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 ...
The long, dark stretch of winter break is the perfect moment to crack open the game cabinet or dust off your console for some quality game time. In honor of the Year of Games—a yearlong celebration of ...
With the Switch 2 having launched in June, 2025 marked the beginning of a whole new console generation for Nintendo. The more powerful hybrid console has seen an extremely busy first six months, ...
We got a lot of great games in 2025. Some big, some small. But not every game released over the last 12 months was good. Some were meh. And others, well, others were downright terrible. As we’ve said ...
Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...
Oui! Oui! It’s time to break out the baguettes. Sandfall and Kepler Interactive’s French action adventure game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 staked claim on the Game of the Year prize at the 12th Game ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won nine trophies at 2025's The Game Awards ceremony on Thursday, including the coveted title of Game of the Year. The tally of wins breaks the record of seven wins set by ...
Editor’s note: Variety was part of the jury for The Game Awards 2025.
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