TL;DR: Video game base prices are expected to remain at $70 in 2026, but in-game microtransactions may see price increases as publishers seek higher revenue amid rising costs and market pressures.

The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron’s Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Editor’s note: Variety was part of the jury for The Game Awards 2025.

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive on stage at The Game Awards 2025 (MICHAEL TRAN via Getty Images) This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, ...

With all the reveals, leaks and drama that surround The Game Awards, it's easy to forget about the actual winners themselves. Luckily for you, as well as tracking every big game reveal, announcement ...

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The Game Awards returned in 2025 for a big show celebrating the best games of the past year and an exciting look at the future. You can check out all The Game Awards winners right here, and you can ...

Every year when we look back at all the games that dropped, trends reveal themselves. For 2025, you might boil it down to a year of innovation. Yes, there were many big, anticipated games that ...

Bird Game 3 is all over TikTok, but if you're sitting here wondering why you've never heard of the first or second game, there's a reason for that. Bird Game 3 isn't real, but you wouldn't know that ...