“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Prince, Polygon's 2025 GOTY, is getting its own invitational tournament with a $20,000 prize pool.

When you boil them down to their most basic essence, games are about combat. So are lists. The A.V. Club‘s regular roster of game critics entered into the arena of debate and after long, hard, ...

From Critical Role’s Daggerheart to an epic and expansive new D&D adventure, these are the best tabletop games of 2025. 2025 was another impressively busy year for the tabletop world. From big ...

TearyHand Studio is a Japanese developer that specializes in games with strong narratives. Its 2025 release, and Roger, certainly fits within the studio’s motif. The game is filled with emotive ...

2025: strange year! For Polygon and society at large. Familiar grounds shifted and the internet continued its chaotic transformation into becoming something else entirely. But if there’s one thing ...

Images, clockwise from top left: Zenith (PlayPunk); Duel for Cardia (Asmodee); The White Castle Duel (Devir); Iliad (Bitewing). Finspan box image: Stonemaier Games. 2025 is going to go down as a good ...

It's tough to really wrap your head around 2025 for Xbox. There were some real hits from Xbox Game Studios, fantastic day-one, third-party launches on Game Pass… and then a whole lot of baffling moves ...