Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

Driven by a bright blend of Sorachi Ace hops, lemongrass, and Szechuan pepper, Oedipus Brewing’s flagship saison triumphed over more than 1,700 contenders from 36 countries. Amsterdam-based Oedipus ...

Amsterdam-based Oedipus Brewing’s Mannenliefde saison was named Best of Show at the 2025 Brussels Beer Challenge, rising above more than 1,700 beers from 36 countries. First released in 2012, ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

The best film of 2025 has been revealed by the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. First launched back in August 1998 by University of California, Berkeley students Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, ...

The 2025 Governors Challenge basketball tournament concluded after five days in Salisbury, Maryland. Dylan Haugen won the annual Dunk Contest with a series of creative and difficult dunks. Several ...

This year, for the first time since 2015, I’m not doing a “best graphic novels of the year” list. There are too many great works out there to read, too many ways to evaluate how they are “best,” and ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...