Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World were easily the best and most exciting games in hands-on play during a preview of the Switch 2 console.

MLB: The Show 25 offers players a choice: Do you go directly to the league after high school? Or, do you enroll in college? No matter what you decide, the option to play college ball is a fresh addition to the title.

Nintendo’s new edition of one of the decade’s most quietly influential RPGs has become one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences ever.

With Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft has made a visually stunning, mechanically uneven entry — including its best stealth gameplay in years.

At first glance, Atomfall may remind players of Fallout. The comparisons are undeniable. Both take place in the first person and seemingly have post-apocalyptic environments. They feature retro-looking robots and scavenging elements, but Atomfall carries a distinctly British vibe and a different premise.

Split Fiction is a bewitching, action-packed roller coaster that plays with camera perspective, with two players on screen at the same time, using the same controls.

For the first several hours of Avowed, I was properly transported to its world. Then I stopped caring about the characters. My story choices didn’t matter much, either to the narrative or, more fatally, to myself.

The latest entry in the Sniper Elite series, Sniper Elite: Resistance, takes place in German-occupied France before the D-Day invasion and stars a new main protagonist named Harry Hawker, a British special operations executive.

Although most word games are deceptively simple, they have room for depth. The app game Lok explores those wider frontiers. Based on the critically acclaimed puzzle book, the project introduces players to a mysterious language that uses a 26-letter Latin alphabet.

The list of games auteur David Lynch has inspired seems endless. Lynch never delved completely into horror, but his DNA is all over the genre, particularly in video games.