With the Switch 2 having launched in June, 2025 marked the beginning of a whole new console generation for Nintendo. The more powerful hybrid console has seen an extremely busy first six months, ...

The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

148 critics from six different continents voted on the best films of the year. These films were their 50 favorites. As the credits roll on 2025, we’re left with a slate of movies that will almost ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Dear Alison, Bilge, and Justin, For ...

2025 wasn't just a good year for JRPGs. It was a year where the genre stretched in every direction at once without losing sight of where it came from. Sure, it helps that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

2025 has been a great year for movies in general, but it’s been an absolutely fantastic year for cinematography. The range of approaches and power of the images in this year’s best movies has made ...

Every year is a great year for movies if you’re willing to look for them. Sure, some of the biggest and most celebrated films deserve their acclaim, while many films with microscopic releases, or from ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. The year of 2025 delivered some ...