Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the standout game of the year, and gets the nod from us as 2025’s best.

Contextualizing R&B's mainstream comeback this year, from it's indie and queer sectors to the Hot 100 domination of Leon Thomas and Kehlani.

Mario Kart World picked up the trophy for Best/Sports Racing Game at The Game Awards 2025, but there were two way better kart racers this year.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is Mario Kart's far more chaotic, perpetually drunk uncle, but it's also perhaps the closest we'll ever get to Nintendo's flagship racer on our humble PCs. It's gimmicky and ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics take place next February in Milano and Cortina, Italy, but you can get a head start with your own virtual Olympics thanks to a Black Friday deal dropping Mario & Sonic at the ...

North Carolina coach Bill Belichick claimed last year that his first words as a baby were "beat Duke," which, unless he was a talking baby like from Rugrats or the Look Who's Talking series, is not ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

Mark Rowlands writes about his father’s memory of watching the second Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali fight on TV (“The Ghosts Within,” Books, Oct. 18). Perhaps that reinforces the author’s premise about ...

2025 has been a strange and unsettling year for a lot of reasons, but few could have predicted that it was a year when people would seriously talk about Sonic the Hedgehog and Digimon outdoing Mario ...