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From Dispatch to Spilled and Peak, covering indie games every week in 2025 has been packed full of welcome surprises

Year in Review | The indie scene has delivered some of the most innovative and memorable releases

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From Andor's shocking massacre to Pluribus's strange invasion, these are the best TV episodes of 2025

Year in Review | In an exceptional year for the small screen, these six episodes stood out as 2025 must-sees

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After 44 years as second banana, Donkey Kong Bananza makes Nintendo's first star a mascot to rival Mario and Link in the Switch 2 era

Year in Review 2025 | Donkey Kong Bananza once again shows that Nintendo's greatest strength is its knack for reinvention

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From Metal Gear Solid Delta to Silksong, the best action-adventure games of 2025 are a rollicking good time

Year in Review 2025 | Like a fantastic action film, these titles kept our pulses pounding

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28 Years Later's Alfie Williams is 2025's newcomer of the year, as the star talks about the "life-changing" breakout role

Year in Review 2025 | We sat down and chatted with 28 Years Later star Alfie Williams following the biggest year in his career so far

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Peacemaker season 2 delivered the best joke of 2025 — and solidified Vigilante as DC’s answer to Deadpool

Year in Review 2025 | Vigilante meeting Vigilante is one of the best things to happen on TV in 2025

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Peak put friendslop on the map in 2025, but neither of its 2 studios expected it to blow up: "We were ready to hit the launch button and go into vacation mode"

Year in Review 2025 | "We didn't launch with so so much of what we thought was required to make a hit"

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If Marvel wants to stay the House of Ideas, it needs to come up with some new ones

Year in Review 2025 | Examining the state of Marvel Comics

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After a 10-year silence, Ninja Gaiden 4 "continues the legacy" of an arcade classic while revitalizing it for the modern world: "It's not a Ninja Gaiden game without Ryu"

Year in Review 2025 | Ninja Gaiden 4 delivers "new action" and "new essence", but is the same series you know and love

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Many have tried to dethrone it, but Sinners' time-travelling juke joint scene is still 2025's best set-piece

Year in Review 2025 | Ryan Cooger and cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw's ambitious, musical "one-shot" in vampire horror Sinners is an all-timer

Total Film

The Long Walk is one of the best Stephen King adaptations of all time – and the saddest movie of 2025

Year in Review 2025 | Francis Lawrence's Stephen King adaptation is a knife to the heart (in the best way possible)

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"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"

Year in Review 2025 | Split Fiction carried the couch co-op torch in a jam-packed 2025, but Hazelight is already "all hands on deck on our new project"

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Weapons' Aunt Gladys is an instant horror icon – and 2025's best villain

Year in Review 2025 | Amy Madigan's performance as the sinister spell-caster at the heart of Weapons was hilarious and terrifying

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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"

Year in Review 2025 | Mashing up Far Cry 2, Mark of the Ninja, No One Lives Forever, and Die Hard

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2025 was anime's biggest year yet – and may have provided the blueprint for a decade of domination

Year in Review 2025 | 2025 was anime's year, but could 2026 be even better?

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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"

Year in Review 2025 | Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros thought it would be "niche of niche"

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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

Year in Review 2025 | Even with 3 Obsidian games in one year, Xbox's 2025 felt like the calm before the storm.

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It: Welcome to Derry features the scariest scene of the year, and Pennywise is only part of the horrors

Year in Review 2025 | For all its supernatural zaniness, It: Welcome to Derry's most lastingly terrifying moment is one that's rooted in reality

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"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

Year in Review 2025 | A game of two halves

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Squid Game season 3 only needed two words to deliver the most moving line of dialogue of 2025

Year in Review 2025 | The best line of the year is only two words long

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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'"

Year in Review 2025 | Warhorse chats to GamesRadar+ about sticking to the studio's guns and what comes next

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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

Year in Review 2025 | The best remakes of 2025 focused on modernizing rather than totally overhauling the original blueprints

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"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"

Year in Review 2025 | To a T is a wonderful, joyful story about not fitting in – but it also illustrates why it's "definitely getting harder" to create experimental games

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Superman captured my heart as the 2025 movie of the year with its hopeful rejection of cynicism

Year in Review 2025 | James Gunn's Superman is the movie of the year

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From Despelote to Ooo, the best games under 2 hours of 2025 are truly timely

Year in Review 2025 | Strapped for time? You can play any of these in a single evening

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