Ego Nwodim will host the ceremony, with shows from Amy Poehler, Alex Cooper, Mel Robbins and more in competition for podcast ...

The nominees for best music are The Bobby Bones Show, Song Exploder, Switched On Pop, All Songs Considered and One Song.

HeartMedia announced nominations for the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards in partnership with South by Southwest, to be hosted by ...

StarRupture is a compelling FPS you take control of one of four characters — alone or in up-to-4-player co-op - as you build ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which title should be named ...

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

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, ...

Every year, more and more outlets are paying attention to The Game Awards, and for good reason. The organization launched in 2014 to honor the year’s best innovations in video games, and they cover a ...

The role-playing game won nine prizes, including game of the year. By Zachary Small A role-playing game featuring a mythical paintress, demonic mimes and an orchestral soundtrack earned the top prize ...

The gaming obsessives at CNET and its sibling sites ZDNET, PCMag, Lifehacker and Mashable put their heads together and chose their absolute faves that were released this year. As Senior Video Producer ...

Autobiographical stories and mystery games resonated in a chaotic year. By Yussef Cole In its struggle to understand and make sense of life, art has a way of remaining relevant even when, in chaotic ...