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 ...

Even as some parts of the world start to open back up, 2021 has given us plenty of good reasons to stay inside and play video games. Those lucky enough to nab a PS5 or Xbox Series X over the past year ...

Each month, many funny videos are posted to every corner of the internet — from Twitter and Instagram to Vimeo and sometimes other weird places we’ll have trouble embedding. Because you’re busy living ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The Activision case wasn’t unusual. It followed a trade-union investigation, in Singapore, of the French giant Ubisoft, after reports of sexual ...

We surveyed staffers and contributors for their favorite games this year and below are the top five. They run from the humorous to the horrific (sometimes, both at once!), from tight single-player ...

YouTube has wracked up hundreds, if not thousands of billions of views over the last year. But which videos were the most popular? It’s no surprise that the world has been switched onto YouTube during ...

The total number of video games released in 2021 grew substantially compared to 2020, and the percentage of games that had a physical version continued to fall as the industry overall pushes further ...