It’s challenging to sum up in a few words the year of gaming in 2021. There was a familiar and comforting feeling as we saw games we’d anticipated for years finally launch. Yet this was also a year in ...

The Game Awards isn’t like other award shows. It isn’t so much a celebration of the year’s best games as it is a marketing platform. Sure, golden statues are handed out at the show, but the show’s ...

There's never enough time in the year for all the games I want to play. Sound familiar? Video game fans of all types can relate to the simple premise of there not being enough hours in the day to play ...

That’s it, 2021 is pretty much done. Another year where the world is on fire, but at least we still have video games. Considering they’ve all been partially developed during the Hell Times, it’s been ...

2022 is set to be a great year for gaming, although it would be unfair to say 2021 has been bad. Despite delays, both PlayStation and Xbox have brought out a slew of new releases for players. For Xbox ...

As 2021 comes to a merciful end, the Shacknews staff has assembled our annual list of awards. The Shacknews Awards spent the first few weeks of December debating some of the finer video games to be ...

Board games have exploded in popularity, appearing everywhere from South Park to The New York Times. But their most fascinating impact is on a recent surge of excellent video games. This current ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. It’s that time of year again and 2021, despite all its innumerable ...

As 2021 draws to a close, Valve has published Steam’s annual best of lists, revealing this year’s top sellers, top new releases, most-played games, and more. Valve’s data shows that many of Steam’s ...

In the world of video games, 2021 may forever be remembered as the year of COVID’s great reckoning. 2020 was already rough, but many of its biggest games were mostly completed in a normal development ...

2021 was a great year to be a video game company, or at least it was if you had a big existing franchise to repackage and make tons of money off of. A surprising number of 2021's best-selling games ...

2021 was a year of self-reckoning for video games. Sometimes, that simply meant revisiting classic franchises, with Ratchet & Clank reviving itself after nearly a decade of hibernation, and Resident ...