Here are TIME’s best video games of 2020, according to our group of resident gamers. Also read TIME’s lists of the 10 best fiction books of 2020 and the 100 must-read books of 2020.

Normally a free game on a console doesn’t make many, if any, waves. Astro’s Playroom, the preloaded title on every PS5, is the exception. It not only showcases all the potential of the ...

I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. At long last, my Best Games of 2020 list. Better late than never, I suppose. February 2021 isn’t that late . . . I mean ...

Video games get a bad reputation, but with more than three billion people around the world actively playing games, they're ...

This is our winner for the Best Video Game Story of 2020. Winner: The Last of Us Part 2 On the surface, The Last of Us Part II is another tale of how an eye for an eye leaves the world blind.

Now, I play on my Switch. Then, on my Nintendo 64. Maybe you were new to video games in 2020, each day of social distancing nudging you closer to an alternate reality. (You wouldn’t be alone ...

Nominated for Game of the Year 2020. Hades is a critically acclaimed roguelike video game developed by Supergiant Games, ...

The world may not have been funny this year, but thankfully video games were. Here’s a look at the top three side-splitters of 2020 that had our readers in stitches. Honestly, what can’t Hades do?

The Last of Us 2 Developer: Naughty Dog This game caught a lot of flack because of how they handled [redacted]'s death, but even if you want to use that as a knock, the storytelling here is ...

For now, here are the video games you need to play in 2020: While we figured that Animal Crossing: New Horizons would be a success, few could have predicted what a cultural phenomenon the game has ...

There's been a lot to be unhappy about in 2020. Not video games, though. If you reduced Genshin Impact to a list of bullet points, you couldn’t pay me enough to play it. Sure, it looks and plays ...

Squeaking in right at the end of the year, CD Projekt Red's massive and ambitious futuristic RPG doesn't quite live up to its unstoppable hype machine, but it's still a staggering accomplishment.