Steam shares which titles released in 2025 were the best-selling games of the year by revenue, with a few surprising results.

To that end, Kotaku ‘s top games of 2025 list this year will go back to straddling the Goldilocks GOTY middle ground of 12 best games. We are still ranking them and describing why each made the cut, ...

Steam has revealed its best-selling games of 2025, as well as a number of other fun statistics about games being played on ...

Despite those setbacks, 2024 wasn’t just a good year for games but a turning point. With few AAA marketing campaigns, the rest of the industry had room to bloom. Smaller projects, AA experiments, and ...

It's hard to believe that it was only in late 2021 that Wordle blew up. The social aspect of sharing results and stickiness of the one-round-per-day format proved to be a winning formula. So it's ...

2025 finally brought the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 and blockbuster exclusives like Mario Kart World. But the year has also seen a parade of indie breakouts, from Blue Prince to Clair Obscur: ...

Rie Takumi is a freelance list writer. Aside from budgeting for gacha and vtuber superchats, they watch hockey and crochet to relax, which is ironic but that's how it goes. Many online games offer a ...

The term “free-to-play” has slowly lost the negative connotation it once held, thanks to the rise of high-quality titles like Fortnite, Rocket League, and Apex Legends. Free-to-play games have come to ...

2025 remained a stellar year for new games despite GTA VI being moved into 2026. The year gave us AAA hits like Black Ops 7 and Ghost of Yotei alongside standout indies like Hollow Knight: Silksong, ...