Before we crown IGN’s Best Game of 2023, let’s first acknowledge what an amazing year it has been for game releases. There were great games almost every month, and every nominee — from ...

But 2023 will stand out ... delivering on their potential. Smaller games that created flash-in-the-pan hype fizzled out. Even some of the year’s best games started strong, only to falter ...

Anyway, let’s get to it. Here are the best games of 2023 so far. Tchia probably flew under your radar when it launched a few months ago. It’s not too late to fix that mistake. This modestly ...

It's also been a tumultuous year for the people who make games. SAG-AFTRA union actors authorized a strike against the industry's largest companies. Microsoft closed the deal to buy Activision ...

In 2023, many of those delays finally expired ... These two trends make it difficult to narrow this year’s best games down to just 20 titles. The “shortlist” we assembled during the ...

the best games of 2023 consciously placed attention on the far-reaching consequences of the personal decisions made by the characters we play as—and, by extension, ourselves. Here are TIME’s ...

I wish I could say that 2023 was a fantastic year for video games, but that wouldn’t tell the full story. But any discussion of the fantastic games we played this year comes with a sobering caveat.