Kirsten Carey

Every year I have written this list, I say something like, “It's been a banner year for anime! Every year's been better than the last!” While that sentiment is true in 2024, it's also an understatement.

After the last few years, packed with the likes of Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 , critics went into 2024 thinking it would be a “quiet year.” How wrong we all were.

Another year has come and gone. We all hope that 2025 will be a healthier year for the games industry over all—less layoffs, less coyly side-eying AI, more development and growth. As the industry as a whole seems to be at a turning point, it's interesting to consider what kinds of games are getting hype coming into 2025.

Dave Eggers' new take on Nosferatu is, quite on its face, a film about sexuality—and female sexuality in particular.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a decidedly family-friendly film , as it should be. But once you step outside Pixar's embrace, family-friendly American media has a bizarre habit of underestimating its audience.

For many reasons, Atlus' sprawling epic Metaphor: ReFantazio was one of the best surprises of 2024 . It's not that Atlus is new at creating sprawling

For years—YEARS—Nintendo fans have been craving the announcement to the successor of the Nintendo Switch. Pining for it, even. The Nintendo Switch is on track to become the best-selling gaming system of all time, after all. Its successor is bound to be a huge deal. It got so intense, for the last year, Nintendo has felt the need to say ahead of time that their Directs wouldn't have information about the successor to the Switch.

Today, on January 16, 2025, we learned the absolutely heartbreaking news that David Lynch—the visionary director and writer behind Twin

Ranking the best David Lynch films is a decidedly un-Lynchian thing to do. I can hear Lynch's distinctive voice in my head saying, “You can't rank art!” My brain's fictional Lynch is right, of course. Art is subjective, especially

Disney XD comes up with an absolute banger of a series every year or so. First, it was Gravity Falls . Then, it was Star vs. the Forces of Evil . Most