Steam is experiencing an outage that’s impacting users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve hasn’t acknowledged the outage publicly, but SteamDB’s unofficial Steam Status page reports that the Steam Store,

Ritual of the Night for free, but be quick, as it's only available for free at the Epic Games Store for 24 hours.

Grand Theft Auto VI, probably the most anticipated game of all time at this point, didn’t come out this year (I called that one right!), but that doesn’t mean 2025 was hurting for amazing games to play.

Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, and more! We list the top best Nintendo Switch games to play right now. The best Nintendo Switch games will be playable on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Find all of our “Best of 2025” lists here. It’s been a big year for video games, from couch co-ops to grand, story-driven blockbusters. PBS News Hour’s Jeffrey Brown sat down with James Mastromarino, NPR’s gaming editor and producer for the show “Here & Now,” to talk about the releases that really stood out.

Here's a list of all the games that have been made free on the Epic Games Store. You have until December 19 to get the current mystery game.

In mid-December 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump announced the "Patriot Games," a four-day athletics competition between young men and women from all U.S. states and territories.

By playing video games, “people are practicing complex skills in simulated environments,” said Aaron Seitz, a professor of psychology and the director of the Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well - being at Northeastern University, unlike traditional “brain games,” which tend to be as “simple as possible.”

The 2025-26 NFL season is winding down, with the penultimate week of the regular season set to kick off with a triple-header on Christmas Day. Week 17 will be do-or-die for several teams that are clinging to their playoff hopes.