NYT Games says more than 11bn puzzles were solved on its platform in 2025. Crossplay is a turn-based word game where players build words on a shared board to score points. Matches are decided once all ...

The makers of a smart Rubik's Cube-like puzzle have upped the ante with their game technology with a special-edition Harry Potter-themed chess board, complete with character pieces. But can AI help ...

How do you join other players in Hytale multiplayer? Survival games are nothing without the support of a burgeoning community of players working together towards a common goal, which is why it's so ...

For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...

Panoptic (2020) is an innovative ‘PC vs. VR’ game that plays out like a game of 1v1 hide-and-seek, with one VR player seeking out a flatscreen PC player who tries to blend into the crowd. Now the ...

Best co-op games continue drawing millions of players long after release due to enduring gameplay, teamwork, and community engagement. Titles like "Left 4 Dead 2" still peak at 50,000 concurrent Steam ...

The PlayStation 5 continues to set the standard for interactive social gaming, offering some of the best PS5 multiplayer titles ever released. With lightning-fast loading, responsive controls, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, PEAK, a cooperative climbing game, has won the award for the best multiplayer game.

Over the past couple of weeks, friends and colleagues have made me aware of multiple ingeniously implemented, browser-based ways to play classic MS-DOS and Windows games with other people on basically ...

It’s been four years since the wonderful Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and, especially given the rate at which developer Insomniac churns out great games, I had hoped we wouldn’t have to wait too much ...

Details and images of Sony's canceled live-service multiplayer God of War game have leaked online. At the beginning of the year, Sony canceled two unannounced live-service games that were in ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the COVID-19 pandemic, died over the weekend and leaves behind a legacy as one of the greats ...