Gaming

What follows is not a best-reviewed list. Metacritic can give you that. It’s a list built on time: which games have genuinely held up, which ones delivered a surprise when the launch excitement faded, and which Switch 2 features actually changed how those games felt to play. Some of these titles are exactly what you’d expect. A few won’t be.

If you’re buying VR in 2026, the real question isn’t “what’s the most expensive headset?” It’s “what headset fits the way I’ll actually use VR?” Gaming-only? Mixed reality at home? PCVR obsession? A console setup that just works? Here are the standouts, with the why-you-should-care angle (not a spec dump).

Guerrilla Games has officially done the unexpected. With the reveal of Horizon Hunters Gathering, the studio behind one of PlayStation’s most cinematic single-player franchises is stepping into new territory, and doing it with confidence

Nintendo and Illumination are officially taking Mario where he’s never gone on the big screen before. The latest trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie signals a major escalation in ambition, scale, and technical confidence for Nintendo’s growing cinematic universe.

With WWE 2K25 on the Nintendo Switch 2, Visual Concepts lands closer to that sweet spot than ever before. This is not just the best WWE game on a Nintendo platform in years. It’s one of the strongest entries in the entire modern WWE 2K run, period.