Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the standout game of the year, and gets the nod from us as 2025’s best.

After years of fatalities and bizarre incidents, the Georgia reservoir has spawned countless ghost stories. Are they merely legend or the after-effects of a history steeped in racial trauma?

That changed my headset. I’d been quite rude to [wife and synth player] Mrs Fiend not long before, saying, 'All that weird stuff is shit – I don’t wanna hear it!’ When I came back I said, ‘Can you ...

Games like ARC Raiders absolutely dominated the gaming sphere, while experiences like Blue Prince and Dispatch seemingly came ...

Drag superstar The Vivienne, musicians Ozzy Osbourne, D'Angelo and Brian Wison and Oscar winners Diane Keaton and Robert ...

And so despite everything, here we are, with another year of sensational, joyous video games across genres, sizes, platforms, ...

Scottish pop culture from Lewis Capaldi, Calvin Harris, Young Fathers and Franz Ferdinand to good old Deacon Blue, Idlewild, Mogwai and Garbage. But will they over the next four days feature in this ...

There is this wonderful scene in Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz in which Roy Scheider’s character, Joe Gideon, an obvious caricature of Fosse himself, wakes up each morning, presses play on his tape ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...