Here are our picks for the best video game characters of 2025.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Ken Levine's Judas has been in development for a very long time, and it will be his first major project since BioShock Infinite's Burial At Sea DLC in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A game industry legend, Rebecca Heineman, has passed away due to cancer on November 17, 2025. She was 62 years old. Friends of Heineman have mourned ...

You know what they say: “Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it.” This internet rule posits that every fictional character has lewd art of them somewhere online, and there’s a website called Rule ...

The platform blends small language models and reinforcement learning to create human-like behaviour. Backers include Patron, Y Combinator, Accel, Boost VC, and angels from Coinbase, DeepMind, and ...

The LEGO Game Boy set immediately sparked my interest when it was first announced. It combines two of my very favorite things: LEGO and video games. By every metric we have at IGN, it’s been an ...

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The USPTO granted patent 12,403,397 to Nintendo on September 2, 2025. The patent covers scenarios where a summoned character fights, follows, or engages in auto-battles. Critics warn that the patent ...

Nintendo has secured a new patent that protects a common gameplay mechanic wherein an in-game character to summon another sub-character to support it in battle. As noted by Games Fray, the United ...

Azur Lane is heading into its eighth year and has just had its seventh anniversary. During that entire time, the player character, dubbed “Commander,” has only ever really been represented through ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

The heart of video game storytelling is almost always more about its characters than anything else, including worldbuilding and combat dynamics. The greatest games tell straightforward albeit ...