According to Circana director Mat Piscatella, the average price of a new unit of video game hardware has risen from around $235 in 2019 to $439 in 2025. That appears to be a major driver in the decline of video game spending, which has dropped to $ 5.9 billion, a 4% decrease from last year's $6.1 billion.

No matter how carefully you play, your avatar will fall countless times, in comically painful-looking ways. The others you meet along the way — sneering would-be guides, alpha-male donkey men with giant dangling members — paint a world of distorted, vicious masculinity that pokes fun at the classic video game power fantasy. (PC, PlayStation 5)

From "A Minecraft Movie" to "The Last of Us" Season 2, some of the year's biggest hits were based on video games. And yet, the medium still feels stuck in place on big and small screens.

Hasbro Inc., the toy and gaming company, is bringing in a new executive to lead the expanding video-game effort under its Wizards of the Coast label.

The game will be made by Delphi Interactive and released in time for the 2026 World Cup.

Check out video games releasing in 2026 including those with unannounced release dates.

Last month, November, was a shockingly terrible month for video game sales in the U.S. While we traditionally think of November as a huge sales month what with Black Friday and all, November 2025 was the worst November in video game hardware unit sales,

UK taxpayer funding for areas such as video games and artificial intelligence will increase by up to 100 per cent as Britain’s research funding agency reprioritises its budget to boost the economy.

Bradley the Badger is a love letter to classic video game mascots and is an exciting new adventure game coming soon.

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Marcus (Death by Lightning, Sunrise on the Reaping) has been cast as a series regular in Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed. In the live-action series based on Ubisoft’s bestselling video game franchise,