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The first half of 2026 has already dropped a stack of strong releases, and with GTA 6 and Marvel's Wolverine still to come, there's plenty to keep you busy in the meantime. This is our running list of the best games to play right now across PC, PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch 2 — some brand-new, others a few years old but still at the top of their genre thanks to regular updates. We've split everything by genre, so jump to whatever you're in the mood for. One thing to set straight up front: this is a "what to play now" list, not a "came out this year" one. A few entries are older, but they keep pulling players back with new seasons, expansions and patches.

Let’s take a closer look at whether there really are more women in video games, why the industry has changed, and who is responsible for the fact that it seems to us as if the “narrative” is to blame for everything.

Looking for the best open-world games? Our TOP-100 features only current hits and proven classics for PC and consoles. Updated with the latest 2026 releases! "An open world isn't just kilometers of roads — it's a feeling of total freedom. In this list we've gathered 100 projects that proved there's always something interesting beyond the horizon. We regularly update this ranking, adding fresh releases and keeping only games where the world is packed with events. From fantasy sagas to harsh post-apocalypse — choose your next world."

Stealth is a genre where patience and observation beat firepower and brute force. Instead of rushing in guns blazing, players hide in shadows, study patrol routes, distract guards, and plan every move — whether slipping into a target's mansion or sabotaging an enemy installation deep behind enemy lines. Over thirty-plus years, the genre has grown from a niche experiment into a rich cluster of sub-genres: social stealth built on disguises and social engineering, immersive sims with full freedom of approach, real-time tactical stealth with active pause, stealth horror, and clever indie experiments. This list brings together the best stealth games of all time on PC and consoles — 35 games grouped by sub-genre.

The year has barely begun, yet news of large-scale layoffs and project cancellations in the games industry has surfaced once again. Unfortunately, this bleak trend of recent years shows no sign of fading. This time, Ubisoft employees have been hit: the company has decided to undergo a full-scale restructuring in an attempt to halt the financial decline that one of the industry’s former key publishers has been experiencing for several years now. Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on.

22 most beautiful games with ray tracing share one thing: an RTX graphics card finally shows what it can really do, because lighting, reflections, and shadows are calculated with physical accuracy instead of being faked through rasterization. We've rounded up 22 of the best — from titles where RT can't be switched off at all, to flagships with full path tracing, to classics that ray tracing transformed beyond recognition. When the technology first showed up in 2018, plenty of people wrote it off as a marketing gimmick — dozens of games on this list prove they were wrong.

Assassin's Creed Shadows — Ubisoft's swan song. This game is the company's last chance to stay afloat. After numerous failures and scandals, the studio's bosses made an unusual decision for themselves — to give developers time for polishing. The result was an unprecedented event — the delay of a fully ready-to-release game. After the release, prominent representatives of the higher internet unanimously declared that we have the "best Assassin" before us, and the project completely outshines its closest ideological competitor — Ghost of Tsushima. Among our editorial team, there is an author who has played absolutely all the games in the Assassin's Creed series. Moreover, he is a big fan of the story of Jin Sakai from the island of Tsushima, so who better than him to responsibly answer the question — is Assassin's Creed Shadows really the breakthrough everyone was waiting for? Let's begin.

For many years, players have been asking Ubisoft to make Assassin's Creed about Medieval Japan. Their dreams have come true — the action of the new part with the subtitle Shadows unfolds in the Land of the Rising Sun. However, there are still many eras that have never been revealed within the series. This article is dedicated to them.

It so happens that the theme of samurai and ninja in modern cinema and TV series is not particularly popular. The unique culture and the Japanese people’s meticulous attention to historical accuracy deter filmmakers who are used to sacrificing authenticity for the sake of an impressive shot. However, today, March 20, 2025, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is being released—a major new installment in the series about stealthy assassins, dedicated specifically to feudal Japan. This event has naturally sparked renewed public interest in the topic. Gamers and general audiences are looking for books and movies about samurai, ninja, and their cultural peculiarities. We’ve decided to compile our own list of films that we consider among the best on this subject. Since Assassin’s Creed Shadows promises to tell a serious story, we have deliberately excluded comedies like Beverly Hills Ninja. A samurai has no time for smiles—only pain, revenge, and the path.

Some particularly successful virtual entertainment titles leave a lasting impression not only on gamers but also on developers. When an excellent game pushes an entire genre forward, it sometimes sets trends for the industry, inspires studios, and becomes a model for imitation. This article will focus on such projects — those that have influenced many modern games.

The announcement of a console from one of the market leaders is always an exciting event that sparks heated discussions online. Everyone talks about the device's design, specs, and features. However, gamers primarily purchase gaming platforms not for their looks, screen size, or special buttons, but for the games. Unfortunately, there’s little official information about future titles for the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s unlikely we’ll learn much before April. So, while we wait, let’s analyze the situation and speculate about what we might play on this highly anticipated hybrid console in the coming years.

In this article, we have compiled a list of the most anticipated games on PS4 and PS5. First, we will talk about exclusive projects from Sony, and then smoothly transition to multiplatform.

The most demanding PC games aren't poorly optimized games — they're projects that honestly load powerful hardware in the name of real technology and real visuals. The difference is fundamental, and this top sticks to it strictly. A demanding game taxes a top-tier graphics card and CPU because it's showing off expensive tech: path tracing and full ray tracing, Nanite and Lumen on Unreal Engine 5, dense world simulation, the streaming of vast open spaces with no loading screens. For every frame it spends, it pays you back in a picture you can actually see — on a flagship system these projects work as a showcase of what a PC can do, and they're also the best-looking games around right now. Crysis once set the bar, and "but can it run it?" became a meme for years. Today there are dozens of such games. As for the ones that drop frames equally on any hardware and give you neither photorealism nor a wow factor in return — that's not about being demanding, that's about bad optimization, and we've got a separate top of the most optimized games for them.

Firstly, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas too, whether it's already here or coming up! It's going to be a big weekend: the best time to relax, shop at sales and play your favourite games. But how did developers and publishers congratulate this year? Now we'll tell and show you.