Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kris Holt is a writer who covers video games and word games. It’s that time once again, gang. I always wait until the very end of ...

Several major organizations, including the Game Awards, saw fit to name Clair Obscura the Game of the Year. It’s a well-earned title, even if it did eventually start to feel like the success of that ...

Happy New Year, everyone! It is officially January 1, 2026. We made it. The confetti has settled, the champagne headaches are setting in, and we have a whole new calendar ahead of us. But before we ...

It's been a bumper year for FPS games.

The year is winding down, and so it's time to look back at all the games I played in 2025 and pick my 10 favorites. Between new releases and older titles, I played nearly 200 games in 2025, and still ...

As we enter the final hours of 2025, we're resurrecting an erratically-followed tradition: picking out the best games that the team played this year. It's been another twelve months filled with ...

It can be tempting, in an era where there are simply way too many great games coming out every month, to give into list inflation. Top 10s become top 25s. Top 25s become top 50s. By 2030, we might ...

There were plenty of praises sung for Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight: Silksong in 2025, but while it got mountains of recognition, the game didn’t land in the Game of the Year for many events or ...

View post: 1991 Metal Hit Named Among Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time Recaps 2025's most graphically advanced games on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Other standouts include Assassin’s Creed ...

Every year, the Shacknews staff casts our ballots and tabulates votes for the best games of the year. 2025 was such a strong year for games, both AAA and indies, that for the first time in recent ...

From the first-ever champion, Dragon Age: Inquisition, to the most recent one, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is the best ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...