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- December 19
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- Timothée Chalamet achieves greatness with Marty Supreme – a frantic New York odyssey wrapped up in a ping pong sports movie
- Many have tried to dethrone it, but Sinners' time-travelling juke joint scene is still 2025's best set-piece
- The Long Walk is one of the best Stephen King adaptations of all time – and the saddest movie of 2025
- Power up your PC gaming with Xbox Game Pass
- 7 years into the MMO's journey, Fallout 76 has become a living world that connects every point in the series – within reason: "We can't put Lucy in there"
- "As long as the couch is there, there's going to be a need for couch co-op": Split Fiction studio COO on standing out "in a year when every third week, the greatest thing comes out"
- New anime in 2026: the biggest upcoming and ongoing shows, including release dates
- I spent 4 hours scouring the Steam Winter Sale with our expert brand director, these are the 10 best games I'd absolutely get
- Can you guess these famous game creators' weird early jobs?
- GamesRadar+ Hardware Awards 2025: the best gaming gadgets we've tested this year
- Avatar 4 release date, cast, story, news, and everything else you need to know
- Avatar: Fire and Ash ending explained – who dies, what happens to Varang and Quaritch, and does it set up another Avatar movie?
- Is there an Avatar: Fire and Ash post-credits scene?
- December 18
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- From Battlefield 6 to Peak, these are the best multiplayer games of 2025 to play with friends today
- "It's very important for us to feel like we are defining our game": Phantom Blade Zero devs want their kung-fu action game to shake up the genre, and I'm already spellbound by its stylish grace
- Weapons' Aunt Gladys is an instant horror icon – and 2025's best villain
- Bethesda reflects on 10 years of Fallout 4: "You have to accept the creative choices you make on every game, even in retrospect"
- Skin Deep is "an immersive sim for sickos," a Die Hard-inspired stealth game where you're not a "walking pile of guns that just shoots down everything, you are this fragile bag of meat"
- December 17
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- The best Rider and Machine combos in Kirby Air Riders
- 2025 was anime's biggest year yet – and may have provided the blueprint for a decade of domination
- 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"
- Give the gift of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate this Christmas
- “We started with the solid foundation that we inherited from Fallout 3”: How Fallout: New Vegas delivered a bigger, better post-apocalypse by sticking to the script – mostly
- From College Football 26 to WWE 2K25 via Rematch, the best sports games of 2025 kept us playing
- Timothée Chalamet on dreaming big and his “vastly different” roles in Marty Supreme and Dune: Part Three
- Fallout season 2 Easter eggs and cameos: All the nods to New Vegas that you might have missed
- How does Fallout season 2 connect to Fallout: New Vegas?
- December 16
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- I've played every Fallout game, and these are the best Fallout NPCs I want to see in the Amazon show
- 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
- It: Welcome to Derry features the scariest scene of the year, and Pennywise is only part of the horrors
- "Fallout was one of the first games that really shocked:" Our first glimpse of Fallout 3 showed how hard Bethesda worked to inherit and maintain an RPG legacy
- "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
- Pokemon Z-A missed its chance to unravel the franchise's creepiest mystery
- It: Welcome to Derry showrunner breaks down the "Avengers: Endgame of season 1," and explains the final episode's "most hopeful moment": "Sometimes you just gotta tell evil to f*** off"
- December 15
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- From Avowed to Hades 2, the best RPGs of 2025 are the cream of the role-playing crop
- Squid Game season 3 only needed two words to deliver the most moving line of dialogue of 2025
- 007: First Light is "not a role-playing game" because it's James Bond's story, says dev who reveals what to expect from Lenny Kravitz's villain
- Silent Hill f writer knows you don't really want to see "a happily ever after," and the game's horrific portrayal of young womanhood makes it my GOTY
- Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard
- These are the cutest Razer headsets that any cozy gamer would love to see under the tree this Christmas
- Have Your Say: Help us determine what the greatest Fallout game of all time really is
- IT: Welcome to Derry episode 8 ends with a clever twist that simultaneously sets up season 2 and fixes my biggest frustration with other prequels
- It: Welcome to Derry episode 8 explained – Who dies? How does it connect to The Shining?
- December 14
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- From Citizen Sleeper 2 to Hollow Knight: Silksong, the best sequels of 2025 expanded upon their predecessors
- 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'"
- 25 years on, Pokemon Crystal is still the blueprint for modern Pokemon
- December 13
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- My Hero Academia's final episode cements the anime as one of the all-time great superhero stories
- 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
- "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"
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic needs to put being an RPG before being a Star Wars game, but I'm already intrigued by its promises of "player agency and immersion"
- I've watched anime for decades, and these are my top 10 action-anime shows that you need to watch after My Hero Academia ends
- December 12
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- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle isn't just a solid translation of the classic movie franchise, it's one of the greatest action-adventure games of its generation and deserves far more love
- The Shining may be Stephen King's least favorite adaptation of his work, but it's my favorite – and features Shelley Duvall giving one of the best horror performances ever
- The 25 Best Movies of 2025
- Superman captured my heart as the 2025 movie of the year with its hopeful rejection of cynicism
- "RPGs can be divisive": Obsidian chats all things Avowed – how it overcame the Skyrim comparisons, why there's no Baldur's Gate 3-style romance, and what's next for the 2025 gem
- Dogpile is a roguelike deckbuilder with shades of Tetris and Balatro that has me trying to make the biggest dog of all
- How would you rank our picks for the top games of this year? Vote now!
- Larian's new Divinity game might mean a pivot back to classic RPGs, and I can't wait to see the Baldur's Gate 3 devs break their typecast role as turn-based royalty
- Forest 3: Everything we know so far about the upcoming survival horror game
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic – Everything we know so far about the new Star Wars RPG
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wants to be "the seminal Warhammer 40K game," says its devs, who sell me in just 8 words: "You can customize the fingers on Space Marines!"
- Highguard: Everything you need to know about the new F2P shooter
- Everything we know about Total War: Warhammer 40,000
- Control Resonant: Everything we know so far about Control 2
- Tomb Raider: Catalyst – Everything we know so far about the new Lara Croft game
- December 11
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- From Despelote to Ooo, the best games under 2 hours of 2025 are truly timely
- 2025 may have been the year the Hall effect keyboard went mainstream, but 2026 will be the year it flourishes
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle features cinema's best fight of the year, but only because it swaps out sword strikes for gut punches
- Total War's new Warcore engine will power Total War: Medieval 3, bring the strategy series to console, and restore modding: "We want to put these tools in the hands of players"
- "Fallout was always seen as a B project": 28 years since the post-apocalyptic RPG launched, its original creators reflect on a long legacy – starting with that very first bomb
- "We've learned to love and trust the process": How Hades 2 built on Supergiant's Early Access legacy to deliver the best roguelike of 2025
- Amiibo make the perfect stocking presents, here's where to get every Switch 2 figure
- "It felt like a great, natural fit, it was just a matter of tuning the gameplay": How Shogun: Total War marched into new territory and laid the foundations for a strategy game empire
- December 10
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- After 5 years of testing, this is our ultimate Xbox Series X kit list
- From Indiana Jones to Still Wakes the Deep, the best expansions of 2025 gave us new reasons to return to our favorites
- I've fallen in love with It: Welcome to Derry's new Losers, so it kind of sucks that season 2 will be set 15 years before they were born
- Silent Hill f turned my personal mental health journey into the most evil plot twist of 2025, and I’m not even angry
- My favorite character of the year was One Battle After Another's beer-drinking karate instructor
- I've got Samus on the brain and these Metroid gifts are all I want this Christmas
- These are the gaming books you need to read this holiday season, from my shelf to yours
- 5 years on from Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red reveals why making Night City the "main antagonist" created an irresistible RPG: "Exploring the darker side of human nature is exciting"
- Total War: Warhammer 3 devs sell you on their favorite faction and explain why Karl Franz has become Immortal Empires' Doomguy: "It's a testament to him when he does survive"
- 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"
- I highly recommend these Disney ornaments if you want to add a little magic to your Christmas tree
- These Astro Bot gifts are bound to make any fan atomically happy this Christmas
- December 9
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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"
- "I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games
- These are the nerdy ugly Christmas sweaters I would actually wear
- Despite censorship woes and the terrifying price of RAM, 2025 was the year I fell back in love with PC gaming
- 10 predictions for The Game Awards 2025: Half-Life 3, Resident Evil Requiem, and more on Steam Machine please and thank you
- The most influential Total War games, as chosen by 8 of its developers: "The team is incredibly introspective about our successes and failures"
- The It factor: Why Hollywood can't get enough of adapting the works of Stephen King
- December 8
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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
- The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
- Andor creator Tony Gilroy on being named GamesRadar+'s TV Show of 2025, what might tempt him back to Star Wars, and how it feels to have made the year's most politically urgent piece of art
- Lords of the End Times will give Nagash "the podium that he deserves," says Total War: Warhammer 3 devs, but don't expect your campaign to survive the Great Necromancer's arrival
- The best Xbox gifts in 2025 for Christmas and beyond
- It: Welcome to Derry's best episode yet offers up the show's second jaw-dropping bait-and-switch, and simultaneously retcons one of the darkest subplots in Stephen King's novel
- December 7
- December 6
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- From Skate to 2XKO, why wait when you can already play the best early access games of 2025
- Pokemon TCG Phantasmal Flames introduces a couple of tournament-winning cards you need in your deck
- "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
- The turn-based RPG secret sauce is that "you have time to engage on your own terms", Octopath Traveler 0's director tells me, which makes them perfect for "a wider age range"
- The 10 best Total War games to play today ahead of Medieval 3
- Crucial could have been the brand to help consumers with RAM and storage costs, not make them worse
- December 5
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- Explore the future of Total War in the GamesRadar+ Big Preview
- I've watched 1000+ hours of D&D podcasts, here's what Critical Role 4 should learn from Dimension 20 and new DM Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Year in Review: The Best of 2025
- "The real reward in our heart is the emotional response": As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its GOTY domination, the devs and actors are still reeling from its success
- GamesRadar+ GOTY: The 25 Best Games of 2025
- The best twist of the year was the Last of Us season 2 death half the audience saw coming
- Here's how to use mouse controls on Metroid Prime 4, and how to make them even better
- Bryan Fuller's Dust Bunny is a weird and wonderful tale with one important lesson: "Believe children"
- Octopath Traveler 0 fulfils a wish I've had since the first JRPG in the series, but it also loses something that made its predecessors special
- Nearly 10 years later, Doom 2 mod Total Chaos is reborn as a standalone horror FPS I'll be playing all winter, and it makes Silent Hill look like a rom-com
- "Medieval 3 is, in some sense, our Half-Life 3" – Total War: Medieval 3 is finally in the works, and Creative Assembly is leaning on immersion to make it worth the 19-year wait
- Can you A.C.E this Fallout quiz?
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 ending explained: Who dies, what happens to the Marionette, and how does it set up another sequel?
- Is there a Five Nights at Freddy's 2 post credits scene?
- Pluribus' surprise cameo deliberately flips the show's most horrifying scene on its head to chilling effect
- December 4
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- With 25 years of Total War under its belt, the future of Creative Assembly's iconic strategy series looks brighter than ever: "We've got the best roadmap we've ever had"
- Everything announced at the Total War 25th Anniversary Showcase
- Octopath Traveler 0's devs see it as "new game" despite its mobile origins: "We wanted to go back to the beginning – to start from zero"
- Kirby Air Riders is more like Smash Bros. than Mario Kart, and here's why
- Fallout season 2 is "taking some swings", but isn't committing to any canonical ending from New Vegas: "It's what we would want to see as fans"
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