From imaginative platformers to puzzle games to wildly inventive multiplayer titles, these are the five best video games of 2025.

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.

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)

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Bradley the Badger stars Evan Peters ( X-Men: Days of Future Past, American Horror Story) in both live-action segments and as the voice of Bradley, who is presented as the former star of a once-popular game series, as he finds himself lost in strange new worlds.

Lenny Kravitz is set to appear in the upcoming James Bond action adventure video game 007 First Light, from IO Interactive.Kravitz will play the villain Bawma in the game, which will be a Bond origin story.

Nineties games focused on skill-building, while today's games test psychological resilience, one expert told Newsweek.

Lenny Kravitz will make his gaming debut next year as Bond baddie Bawma in the upcoming '007: First Light' video game.

Jim Ward, a prolific voice actor whose work spans animated shows 'Fairly OddParents,' 'Danny Phantom' and video games including 'Ratchet & Clank,' has died. He was 66.

That’s another year of video games down, and I don’t know about you, but my fingers are sore from all the button-mashing and joystick rotations. Games seem to be getting longer, sprawling between 60 and more than 100 hours.