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The Top 10 Xbox Series X Games
If you're the proud owner of an Xbox Series X, chances are, you are in the same boat as us: constantly pursuing the best games available for the platform. The team at Game Informer worked together to...
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Ranking The Entire Assassin’s Creed Series
The Assassin’s Creed series debuted in 2007, and since then, the series has become a fixture in the gaming landscape. It received reliable annual installments (or more!) for several years; that cadence...
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Game Informer's Best Of 2023: Category Winners
Before the year concluded, discussions were already percolating about whether 2023 was the best year for video game releases ever. It was a challenging year for the industry as a whole, but in terms of...
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The Head Of Harmonix Talks About The Future Of Fortnite, The Metaverse, And...
A few weeks ago, I went to a Fortnite event where developer-publisher Epic Games unveiled its plan for the near future of its game: a Lego survival game, a racing game, and a music gameà la Rock Band...
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Why It Was So Important To Have An Explorable World Map In Final Fantasy VII...
When Final Fantasy X exploded onto the PlayStation 2 in 2001, it revolutionized not just the Final Fantasy series but the role-playing genre as a whole. The tuned-to-perfection turn-based combat, the...
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Vomit And Ginger Candy: Inside The VR QA Process
Climbing a skyscraper for the 25th time in a day quickly erodes the novelty of virtual reality.For over three years, Attila Kardos was one of the quality assurance testers at PlayStation Liverpool, one...
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Game Informer's Best Of 2023: Editors' Personal Top 10 Lists
We've already published our staff-wide list of the best games of 2023, but every editor had a few games they wish could have received some praise. This is where we have the opportunity to shout out...
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Game Informer Reader Vote 2023 Results
This year represented one of the most difficult game of the year discussions we’ve had in some time; 2023 was overflowing with fantastic games. But our opinions are not the only ones (you can read Game...
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Two Decades Later, Silent Hill 2 Is Still The Scariest Game Of All Time
James Sunderland is not going to survive this.By the end of his journey through Silent Hill, everything will be chaos – his mind and even the world around him, a violent cacophony of anguish.But in the...
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The Best Board Games of 2023
Incredible gaming was not limited to the screen this year. A wealth of fantastic board, card, and miniature games found their way to tables, bringing friends and families together for evenings of...
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Why Were There So Many Throwback RPGs and Remakes In 2023?
The quality of video game releases in 2023 has been discussed in detail by many, and it will absolutely go down as one of the best years the medium has experienced, strictly in terms of the excellent...
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Persona 5 Tactica Producer On The Game's Chibi Style And The Challenges Of...
More than six years after the original Persona 5 arrived on U.S. store shelves, the RPG is still spitting out successors and spin-offs that capitalize on how beloved that title is to this day. The 2020...
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The Trials And Tribulations Of An Acquisition: A Look At Microsoft's Journey...
Xbox’s first-party studio lineup in 2017 consisted of five studios and a publishing arm: Rare, Turn 10, 343 Industries, The Coalition, Mojang Studios, and Xbox Game Studios Publishing. Today, six years...
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The Best Tabletop RPGs Of 2023
Whether you’re new to the scene or you’ve been rolling dice and crafting adventures for years, 2023 had no shortage of wonderful games to pull you into other worlds. It’s an excellent time to get...
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The 10 Biggest Gaming Stories Of 2023
With the year almost behind us, it's hard not to look back at 2023 with conflicted feelings. It was a fantastic year for gamers at home with great tentpole releases from PlayStation, Xbox, and...
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Why It's Okay That Someone Hasn't Played Your Favorite Game
At the end of every year, gamers are faced with an undeniable fact: far too many video games are released in a 12-month span for anyone to reasonably play them all. It's literally my job to play video...
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40 Years Later, Nintendo's Famicom Is Still Ahead Of Its Time
As 1983 came into focus, the future of video games in North America looked bleak. Store shelves were crowded with poorly made games, and consumer interest waned substantially. Developers that ushered...
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Spoiling The Game Awards Winners Of 2025
Happy New Year! Now that 2024 is here, it’s time to push it the hell out of the way and look ahead to 2025. At least, that’s what it feels like the game industry is increasingly saying I should do. A...
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An Impenetrable Cage of Bureaucracy
Before we read and wrote, we moved. Stories of people moving – migrating – have been told since time immemorial. The Mexica journey to central Mexico; Moses leading the Jewish people across the desert;...
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Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown – Time Is An Ocean In A Storm
Beginning in 1989, the Prince of Persia series enjoyed consistent attention, with its longest break between releases being six years between Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame and the...
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