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25 best shooters to play right now
By Josh West last updated
Features From Valorant to Fortnite, the best shooter games will have you racking up points and decimating your foes

The 10 best Spider-Man games of all time
By Josh West last updated
Best List Here's our ranking of the best Spider-Man games, including Marvel's Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac

Mass layoffs, studio closures, and the live-service graveyard are no match for the legally distinct Nightmare Kart arcade cabinet
By Ashley Bardhan published
Features Opinion | Nonprofit Arcade Commons is making arcade magic

I visited a video game archivist trying to preserve some of the world's most forgotten history against all odds, and sometimes even other gamers
By Ashley Bardhan published
Features Interview | The Strong Museum is protecting what even some game companies won't keep

The first FPS from horror publisher Blumhouse is an unexpected blend of Resident Evil, Bloodborne, and mermaid folk horror, and it shouldn't work – but it does
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Hands-on Horror Special | Crisol: Theater of Idols is strange enough to stand out from the crowd of Resident Evil-likes

The best new game I've played all year is a 30-minute demo where I just climbed rocks and ate chocolate bars – and I still care about it more than Borderlands 4 and GTA 6 combined
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Cairn is improbably good

This insomnia simulator has Outlast enemies, Alan Wake dream sequences, and "evil" music by a Nine Inch Nails guitarist, and I already need to watch about 50 lore videos on it
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Just thinking about Sleep Awake makes me tired

Until Dawn studio's first sci-fi game is a body horror fest inspired by John Carpenter with tons of Lethal Company tension, and I've never been so excited to turn into a pile of sludge
By Ashley Bardhan published
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Directive 8020 is my dream nightmare
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