Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that’s you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, ...

Blending real-time strategy and a strategic world map, the best Total War games have, over the last two decades, become a deeply iconic strategy format. Starting as little more than wargames, they now ...

Face front, True Believers! With Tribute Games’ side-scrolling beat 'em up Marvel Cosmic Invasion launching onto every system under the sun, we thought it would be the perfect time to look back on the ...

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 ...

What are your plans for Christmas this year? Here's a suggestion! Why don't you play the Roblox games that we have specially handpicked for you?

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

Last week we published our annual list of 100 Notable Books; today, we winnow that list to the 10 Best Books of 2025. And now, we’re ready to discuss them. In this week’s episode, the Book Review ...

For almost as long as there have been films, there have been Christmas movies to go with them. But it wasn’t until television came along that watching Christmas movies became a true holiday tradition.

Autobiographical stories and mystery games resonated in a chaotic year. By Yussef Cole In its struggle to understand and make sense of life, art has a way of remaining relevant even when, in chaotic ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With the latest Roblox craze, The Forge, there is just so much content to dig into that it’s tough to know where to begin. Thankfully, we’re here to ...