The final weekend of the 2025 college football regular season has arrived, bringing an incredible slate of rivalry matchups with far-reaching ramifications. The fun starts Friday when Iowa and ...

The best adventure games draw us into imaginative worlds and sprawling journeys that are often ours to shape. Home to some of the best heroes in video games who we can often take on role of as the ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

We all know that free Android games aren’t always free these days, but many of them are very close if you have a little patience. Most free-to-play bottlenecks occur when players get impatient.

Put down the plastic and pick up a controller to play these top, no-cost PC games for desktop, laptop, or handheld PC. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a freelancer. That blossomed into a ...

There are a ton of free games on PS5, free games on Xbox, and free games on PC, but the ones that stand out offer players a lot of content without charging anything or at least allow you to experience ...

When Noah saw the email, a wave of anxiety hit. It was spring 2023, and the Activision artist was reading a message from the company's then chief technology officer, Michael Vance, about how ...

Every entertainment medium uses genres to help people understand what a game or movie or song will be like before experiencing it. In a sea of nearly limitless content, this is essential for allowing ...

Franchises have become the lifeblood of an entertainment industry obsessed with name recognition and familiarity. That can sometimes be a bad thing. It can be difficult for new ideas, new names, and ...