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The 25 best Steam games for 2025
Best List Here are the very best Steam games to play in 2025, whether you love RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, extraction shooters, or puzzle games.
Mario Kart World might be the Switch 2's big launch game, but The Duskbloods is Nintendo's real system-seller
Opinion Opinion | A FromSoft exclusive is a huge coup
Nintendo's ditching OLED support for Switch 2 screens in favor of a return to LCD, and I'm not sure I'm 100% convinced by its explanation
News Switch 2 OLED when?
Nintendo won't compare the Switch 2's battery life to the OG Switch, but admits it's got a way bigger battery to make up for its beefier CPU
News But it's almost impossible to compare the two consoles like-for-like
FromSoftware is in its multiplayer arc: After Elden Ring Nightreign, The Duskbloods brings 8-player PvPvE chaos to Nintendo Switch 2
Miyazaki's live-service push is here
Nintendo wants the Switch 2 to "stand the test of time," which is something that the original Switch hasn't really managed
News Looking at you, Scarlet and Violet
Nintendo nearly called the Switch 2 the "Super Nintendo Switch" as a throwback to the NES, but "it didn't feel right"
Nintendo "really struggled to find" the right name
The Nintendo Switch 2 era could be bittersweet, as former staff point out that 40-year veterans like Shigeru Miyamoto and Zelda and Metroid legends are nearing their retirements
news "It may not mean that the games are going to be bad, it's just going to feel different"
League of Legends' take on Balatro is one of its best mini-games yet – and it's also exactly what's wrong with this era of League of Legends
The Demon's Hand is great - but doomed
It's Bloodborne's 10th anniversary, and FromSoftware is celebrating with an Elden Ring patch that "does not contain any game related changes"
News Honestly, I'd hoped for more
Amid Assassin's Creed Shadows' controversies, shrine popularized by Ghost of Tsushima bans all tourists after "unforgivable act of disrespect"
News "Tourists are destroying places, things, and people cherished by the Japanese people"
My newest MMO hero is World of Warcraft Priest 'Chimneytime,' who got an official "warning" from Blizzard for making too many people get trapped inside chimneys
News Further crimes will be punished more harshly - even if they aren't "chimney-related"
Assassin' Creed Shadows' open-world Japan is beautiful, but Ubisoft really makes you work before you can enjoy it
Opinion This is the only Japan trip I can afford this year, so let me enjoy it
Assassin's Creed Shadows dev says "it's not a documentary," and Ubisoft is "not trying to show Japan from a very clinical or an overriding stereotypical view"
News Ubisoft "gets to play with the formula"
Almost no NPC is safe in Atomfall, because its devs were "desperate to avoid" having unkillable quest-givers: "It's been a challenge"
News Challenge accepted
South of Midnight's heroine isn't much of a hero at all, because its devs thought it was "good to not have a Chosen One"
News But Hazel can still handle herself in a pinch
Infinity Nikki brings the spirit of carnival to it's charming open-world with its new update
News Parties never die
This adorable 3D platformer draws from genre greats like Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, and Super Mario Odyssey - and there's a dash of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in there too
News Ruffy and the Riverside is one to watch
Disney's Robin Hood collides with Manor Lords in this charming city-builder where everyone is a fox
News Raev: City on the Distant Shores looks beautiful
