Open-world games are consistently released, meaning there’s always a new world to explore. 2025 brought us excellent titles like Where Winds Meet, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – games that really satisfy your desire to wander and let you focus on exploration over story if you prefer. Now, let’s highlight some of the best games for taking your time and discovering everything they have to offer.
So, I was checking out the Game of the Year nominees for The Game Awards 2025, and it looks like you can actually play four of them on my PS5! Even better, Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a PS5 exclusive, which is awesome. I was also really into Ghost of Yotei this year – it’s a beautiful open-world samurai game that got some great reviews, though it didn’t quite make the GOTY cut.
Jackbox Games, a company based in Chicago, has been creating The Jackbox Party Pack series of party games since 2014. The first pack was given away for free on the Epic Games Store in January 2019, but none of the later installments have been offered as freebies—until now.
Zoro is one of the strongest members of the Straw Hat crew, alongside Luffy and Sanji, and he’s consistently proven his amazing abilities. Here are a few examples of just how powerful he can be.
Xbox Game Pass has had a fantastic 2025, with a strong lineup of day one releases. The first six months of the year featured critically praised titles like Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The latter half of the year brought highly anticipated indie hit Hollow Knight: Silksong, alongside major releases such as Ninja Gaiden 4, The Outer Worlds 2, and the recently launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
A new error mitigation technique boosts the performance of complex quantum algorithms on near-term hardware.
TopMob has put together a list of great Nintendo Switch and Switch 3 games to consider as gifts in 2025. It includes both new releases and popular classics from Nintendo’s collection.
In Season 2 of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the rewards for ranked play were updated to include Greninjite at Rank Y and Delphoxite at Rank S, making these Mega Stones easier to obtain. Unfortunately, a bug was accidentally released that prevented some players from receiving either Stone. While Greninjite was available to players from Season 1, it was also affected by the bug for those still trying to unlock it in Season 2. The issue didn’t impact everyone, but a new patch released today resolves it for affected players.
There’s a lot of debate within the gaming industry about how to use artificial intelligence in game development. While some companies, like Ubisoft, are heavily investing in AI research, others worry about its impact on creativity. For example, the director of The Witcher 3 believes games made only with AI would lack artistic depth. Now, Tim Sweeney, of Epic Games, has also shared his thoughts on using AI in game development and whether or not to disclose its use to customers.
Originally released in Japan in 1991 as Final Fantasy 4 for the Super Famicom, the game has a confusing history for Western audiences. By the time it was ready for release outside of Japan in late 1991, only the first Final Fantasy had been released in the West. The second and third games had already come out in Japan, but weren’t available elsewhere. Because of this, when Final Fantasy 4 arrived on the SNES in the West, it was renamed Final Fantasy 2. Despite the confusing naming, Final Fantasy 4 was a landmark game as it introduced the Active Time Battle system, which would become a staple of the series.