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Team Cherry is back with the highly anticipated release of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Team Cherry hide caption
More than 25,000 people gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center in California for the 2025 Pokémon World Championships this year. Jamal Michel hide caption
Flames shoot up during Dimension 20's sold-out Madison Square Garden show in January 2025. Andrew Max Levy/Dropout hide caption
Dungeons & Dragons live shows spawn new fans of the tabletop game
A pair of 1X androids are displayed at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) at ExCel on May 30, 2023, in London. Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe hide caption
Hasan Piker, Twitch streamer and political commentator, poses at NPR's Culver City studios Courtney Theophin / NPR hide caption
Brittany talks with Hasan Piker. NPR hide caption
Joe Musashi, longstanding hero of the Shinobi series, returns in Art of Vengeance. SEGA hide caption
Pac-Man, or PUCK in this instance, is a little less cute and cuddly in the new game Shadow Labyrinth. Bandai Namco hide caption
Resident Evil Requiem generated a lot of hype from its reveal trailer. But it was hardly the most interesting game at this year's Play Days showcase. Capcom/fortyseven communications hide caption
Mario Kart World's golden shell disperses coins to all who follow it. Nintendo hide caption
Striking performers picket outside Disney Character Voices, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, in Burbank, California, in August. Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty hide caption
A phone displaying the App Store page for the mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire. Ryland Barton/NPR hide caption
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser sells a Nintendo Switch 2 system to a Christopher Evangelista, a fan who says he camped out for two months outside Nintendo New York to be first in line for the console. Nintendo of America hide caption
Three heroes face a door to the final boss at the end of a Nightreign run. Bandai Namco/FromSoftware hide caption
Norway's chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen gestures during a game in the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata on Nov. 17, 2024. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Team World manages a draw in marathon chess showdown against grandmaster Carlsen
A still from Keita Takahashi's upcoming game to a T Annapurna interactive/uvula LLC hide caption
Fantapapa is an online video game inspired by fantasy football, where players draft a team of cardinals they think have the best shot at becoming the next pope. Screenshot of a Fantapapa team selection/Adam Bearne hide caption
Italians flock to 'Fantapapa,' a fantasy football-like game to pick next pope
In this screenshot from Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Cristiano Ronaldo prepares to attack his opponent. SNK hide caption
'Fatal Fury' video game to feature curious choice of playable real-world characters
Tracy Chapman performs during the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles. Amy Sussman/Getty Images hide caption
National Recording Registry adds Tracy Chapman, Hamilton and the Minecraft soundtrack
from L to R: Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Sebastian Eugene Hansen star in A Minecraft Movie Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Attendees at a New York City event previewing the Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo hide caption
Screenshot of gameplay in "Beatdown City Survivors" NuChallenger hide caption