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2025 was anime's biggest year yet – and may have provided the blueprint for a decade of domination

Year in Review 2025 | 2025 was anime's year, but could 2026 be even better?

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Blue Prince is a "true hybrid" of video and boardgame genius – the fact that it's an award-winning roguelike was never part of the plan: "Things spiraled way out of control"

Year in Review 2025 | Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros thought it would be "niche of niche"

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As Xbox refuses to play the console wars game in 2025, it's traded exclusivity for a multi-platform future – but its biggest names are still at large

Year in Review 2025 | Even with 3 Obsidian games in one year, Xbox's 2025 felt like the calm before the storm.

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It: Welcome to Derry features the scariest scene of the year, and Pennywise is only part of the horrors

Year in Review 2025 | For all its supernatural zaniness, It: Welcome to Derry's most lastingly terrifying moment is one that's rooted in reality

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"Players are very precise and very demanding": Rematch "was a very strong learning curve" for the Sifu devs, but Sloclap is still working to find the back of the net

Year in Review 2025 | A game of two halves

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Squid Game season 3 only needed two words to deliver the most moving line of dialogue of 2025

Year in Review 2025 | The best line of the year is only two words long

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers made my favorite RPG of 2025 by trusting their original vision: "We had the strength to say, 'Yes, that's what we want'"

Year in Review 2025 | Warhorse chats to GamesRadar+ about sticking to the studio's guns and what comes next

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From Metal Gear Solid Delta to Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, these are the best remakes of 2025 that revived the classics for a new generation

Year in Review 2025 | The best remakes of 2025 focused on modernizing rather than totally overhauling the original blueprints

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"I wish I had the Katamari Damacy IP": To a T was meant to counter the "downer" vibes of 2019 America, but Keita Takahashi says it "didn't sell well" and fears it "just wasn't a good fit"

Year in Review 2025 | To a T is a wonderful, joyful story about not fitting in – but it also illustrates why it's "definitely getting harder" to create experimental games

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Superman captured my heart as the 2025 movie of the year with its hopeful rejection of cynicism

Year in Review 2025 | James Gunn's Superman is the movie of the year

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From Despelote to Ooo, the best games under 2 hours of 2025 are truly timely

Year in Review 2025 | Strapped for time? You can play any of these in a single evening

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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle features cinema's best fight of the year, but only because it swaps out sword strikes for gut punches

Year in Review 2025 | Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle ups the ante with an emotional final fight that revels in doing the unexpected

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From Indiana Jones to Still Wakes the Deep, the best expansions of 2025 gave us new reasons to return to our favorites

Year in Review 2025 | This best expansions of 2025 provide new stories and challenges that make replaying old games feel fresh

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My favorite character of the year was One Battle After Another's beer-drinking karate instructor

Year in Review 2025 | Benicio del Toro's Sensei Sergio was a standout character in one of the year's best movies

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For the creators of Baby Steps, one of 2025's best and weirdest games, there's no room or reason to surrender creativity to AI: "The player is in communion with a human designer"

Year in Review 2025 | "It feels like a very pivotal time right now in terms of what games are gonna look like going forward"

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Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there"

Year in Review 2025 | The Outer Worlds 2 director on the future of the RPG and Obsidian

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Despite censorship woes and the terrifying price of RAM, 2025 was the year I fell back in love with PC gaming

Year in Review 2025 | Reconnecting with the games that brought me to PC in the first place

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When will Nintendo Switch Year in Review 2025 come out? Expected date and more

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The It factor: Why Hollywood can't get enough of adapting the works of Stephen King

Year in Review 2025 | With six movie and TV adaptations released in 2025 alone, Stephen King is a Hollywood obsession

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Life is Strange developers made one of the most beautiful games of 2025, and it’s all because Lost Records: Bloom & Rage understands the magic of childhood

Year in Review 2025 | Don't Nod plays the magician, again

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When will Xbox Year in Review 2025 release? Expected dates and more

Soon, but not live yet.

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From Fortnite to Helldivers 2, the best ongoing games of 2025 have kept themselves fresh

Year in Review 2025 | Whether they're in early access or are live-service titles, these games have seen continued updates

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"Just making a cozy game isn't enough to heal a person": Why Wanderstop and its blend of introspection and tea-making has stayed with me throughout 2025

Year in Review 2025 | Speaking with Ivy Road founder and writer and director Davey Wreden about Wanderstop's comforting, dark infusion

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From Skate to 2XKO, why wait when you can already play the best early access games of 2025

Year in Review 2025 | The year's best early access games are already fun and fueled with potential

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"We are hard to beat": 9 months since Assassin's Creed Shadows, its associate director looks back on what makes this RPG the best in series history

Year in Review 2025 | Ubisoft Quebec's Simon Lemay-Comtois on the intersection between Shadows, Syndicate, and the series' wide-open future

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