Video Games

Nightreign shrinks Elden Ring's sprawling map and epic storyline intointense "expeditions" that last around an hour (at most!). With its unrelenting pace, Nightreign makes Elden Ring look like a tea party.

Video game creator Keita Takahashi joins us to talk about how he got into designing video games and how he pitched the idea for his popular game Katamari Damacy to the folks at Namco. He also talks with us about his new game, to a T, which comes out soon.

The newest Fatal Fury fighting game will include a curious choice of playable characters, including soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and Bosnian-Swedish DJ Salvatore Ganacci.

The video game industry is huge. Last year alone it generated an estimated $187 billion dollars in revenue.

Game studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and contributors round up the latest from a promising 2025.

The World Video Hall of Fame is based at The Strong museum in Rochester, and a dozen finalists are competing for this year's honors.

A new video game is on the cutting edge of interactive storytelling, though in some ways its still behind stories written in the 1970s.

Champlain College's Game Studio has over 20 years of experience training students for the video game industry, including at their international campus in Canada.

The original launched in February 2000 and spawned one of the most successful franchises in video game history. NPR's Susan Stone went hands-on with The Sims shortly after its debut.

Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, all regular fixtures atop the Billboard charts, have the biggest songs and albums of the week. But don't sleep on Imogen Heap.