Video Games

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.

During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story.

Will GTA6 actually come out this year? Is a new Nintendo console coming? Huge games are creeping on the horizon, including a high-stakes Assassin's Creed title and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

The farming simulation game Stardew Valley came out eight years ago and became a sensation. Developers updated the game last month — making hundreds of changes and adding new content.