The Game Awards 2025 crowns the very best this year had to offer, from Game of the Year and Best Content Creator to Best Indie Game and beyond.

Bradley the Badger stars Evan Peters ( X-Men: Days of Future Past, American Horror Story) in both live-action segments and as the voice of Bradley, who is presented as the former star of a once-popular game series, as he finds himself lost in strange new worlds.

Find all of our “Best of 2025” lists here. It’s been a big year for video games, from couch co-ops to grand, story-driven blockbusters. PBS News Hour’s Jeffrey Brown sat down with James Mastromarino, NPR’s gaming editor and producer for the show “Here & Now,” to talk about the releases that really stood out.

No matter how carefully you play, your avatar will fall countless times, in comically painful-looking ways. The others you meet along the way — sneering would-be guides, alpha-male donkey men with giant dangling members — paint a world of distorted, vicious masculinity that pokes fun at the classic video game power fantasy. (PC, PlayStation 5)

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 and more than 100 hours.

Nineties games focused on skill-building, while today's games test psychological resilience, one expert told Newsweek.

The Day of the Devs 2025 showcase featured dozens of new indie video game reveals Wednesday, including the announcement of a never-before-played NES game.

Video Game History Foundation, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games to bring programmer Chris Oberth’s long-long Nintendo Entertainment System game