Engadget's favorite games of 2025

From indies like Silksong, to AAAs like Ghost of Yotei, and everything in between, 2025 truly had it all, and is likely to go down in the history books as one of the best years in gaming. But these ar [...]

Wildwood featurette lifts the veil on building its stop-motion world

Director Travis Knight is also the creative mind behind 2016's Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings. [...]

Samsung just set the date for its next Galaxy Unpacked — and 'A New Shape Unfolds' could be its biggest clue yet about what to expect

Samsung has officially set July 22, 2026, as the date for its next Galaxy Unpacked event, teasing a new next-generation foldable phone with the tagline "A New Shape Unfolds." [...]

Who is this 'final' six-minute Death Stranding 2 trailer actually for?

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is out today, not counting the early access period. Kojima Productions and publisher Sony couldn't resist putting out one last trailer. I wouldn't be surprise [...]

The gorgeous indie game Death Howl will have a new demo on June 9

A deck-building game with soulslike elements is an odd genre mashup, to say the least. But that's what the three-person Danish studio The Outer Zone is creating with Death Howl. The second demo f [...]

The new Split Fiction trailer shows off some intense co-op gameplay

Swedish indie development studio Hazelight just dropped a new trailer for its forthcoming co-op adventure Split Fiction. This new footage takes a more indepth look at the actual nuts and bolts of the [...]

Patapon's spiritual successor, co-op Lego and other new indie games worth checking out

Some of the year’s biggest blockbuster games have just dropped or are coming very soon. But among the likes of Borderlands 4, EA Sports FC 26 and Battlefield 6, there are a ton of neat indie games p [...]

Steam Next Fest, a different flavor of The Witcher and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It's Steam Next Fest week, with literally thousands of demos for upcoming games for us to dive into. I'm trying [...]

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer confirms Rosalina and Bowser Jr. are in the sequel

Following a teaser in September that confirmed the movie’s title, Nintendo and animation studio Illumination unleashed the first proper trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in a dedicated Ninten [...]