Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was just stripped of its Game of the Year award from the Indie Game Awards due to AI use. AI has become a super touchy subject in the gaming community. So much so that I ...

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 ...

The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron’s Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, ...

The cost of new hardware is only going up, too. The cost of new hardware is only going up, too. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two ...

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There’s a reason Warner Bros.' numerous video game studios feel like such an afterthought in the Netflix versus Paramount sweepstakes — because they are. By Tony Maglio As Netflix and Paramount throw ...

Oui! Oui! It’s time to break out the baguettes. Sandfall and Kepler Interactive’s French action adventure game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 staked claim on the Game of the Year prize at the 12th Game ...

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive on stage at The Game Awards 2025 (MICHAEL TRAN via Getty Images) This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, ...

The Game Awards 2025 will stream live on Dec. 11, beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET Anna Webber/Getty The Game Awards are streaming live on Dec. 11 from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles Clair Obscur: ...

The 2025 Game Awards are here, and so is our TGA livestream, bringing fresh news and story updates alongside new trailers, surprise reveals, and the showdown between Game of the Year nominees like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. The Game Awards is currently ongoing as I write this, and ...