Steam is experiencing an outage that’s impacting users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve hasn’t acknowledged the outage publicly, but SteamDB’s unofficial Steam Status page reports that the Steam Store,

Ritual of the Night for free, but be quick, as it's only available for free at the Epic Games Store for 24 hours.

An Epic Game Store account is free. For that you have to visit the Epic Games Store website, click "Sign In" on the upper right side of the page and select "Create an account" on the next page. All that's needed is an email address and date of birth.

That’s another year of video games down, and I don’t know about you, but my fingers are sore from all the button-mashing and joystick rotations. Games seem to be getting longer, sprawling between 60 and more than 100 hours.

Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — seen both in the best games of the year and in the culture around them. The industry-wide layoffs that started in 2023 showed no sign of slowing down.

Nintendo is in a giving state of mind this season, offering some holiday deals on games in the eShop, including a few recent Switch 2 titles. For instance, the Switch 2 version of Ball x Pit, which was one of our staff's favorite games of 2025,

The 2025-26 NFL season is winding down, with the penultimate week of the regular season set to kick off with a triple-header on Christmas Day. Week 17 will be do-or-die for several teams that are clinging to their playoff hopes.

On Monday, BYU announced a home-and-home series with Notre Dame. The series with Notre Dame will begin in Provo next year and will finish in 2027 with the Couga