Hacker challenges the kids and their friends to solve a series of puzzles. To prove once and for all that he's smarter than the CyberSquad, Hacker challenges the kids and their friends to solve a ...

Images, clockwise from top left: Zenith (PlayPunk); Duel for Cardia (Asmodee); The White Castle Duel (Devir); Iliad (Bitewing). Finspan box image: Stonemaier Games. 2025 is going to go down as a good ...

Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...

Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...

The past year brought no shortage of stellar fragrance launches, and after 12 months of testing, wearing, and tracking the best colognes of 2025, a few clear themes emerged. In case you didn't know, ...

Every year, I try a few hundred different whiskeys in all categories, including single malt scotch, cask-finished rye, Japanese rice whisky, Irish single malts, and affordable craft bourbons. It’s a ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

This year, for the first time since 2015, I’m not doing a “best graphic novels of the year” list. There are too many great works out there to read, too many ways to evaluate how they are “best,” and ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

The best film of 2025 has been revealed by the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. First launched back in August 1998 by University of California, Berkeley students Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Our critics picked their favorite moments, not necessarily from their favorite shows of the year — a certain “South Park” episode, for example. By James Poniewozik and Mike Hale The television critics ...