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The New York Game Awards 2024 has arrived and, alongside honoring Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, the show saw Astro Bot become the big winner of the night as it took home Game of the Year, Best Music, and Best Kids Game.
While Astro Bot led the way with three wins, there were many other incredible games and people honored in the other 10 categories, including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. The highly praised DLC for Elden Ring was the only other game to win multiple awards as it emerged victorious in the Best World and Best DLC categories.
Other highlights included Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley winning the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism (The same one IGN’s Rebekah Valentine won in 2022!) for their work on The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft, Troy Baker winning Best Acting in a Game for his performance as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and UFO 50 winning Best Indie Game.
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What are the best Sims 4 mods? The Sims became a must-have simulation game on the PC when it was first released in 2000, and over 20 years later, the series is still going strong with a new Sims game on the horizon. You only need to look at the game’s strong library of user-generated content to see where all this success coming from.

The Sims 4 modding scene is thriving, with plenty of weird and wonderful additions to one of the best PC games for living your alternate virtual life. If you’re looking to shake things up before the Sims 5 release date, the mods below all offer varying degrees of change. We’ve compiled a list of just some of the best Sims 4 mods, accompanied with links to all the download pages. Be sure to read the install instructions for each mod.

The 23 best Sims 4 mods in 2025 are:

Nintendo Switch
It always seems strange when your Sims go to relax after a hard day, they settle down on the sofa to play some weird excuse for a video game. The Nintendo Switch mod from ..

A new Exoborne playtest will give you a chance to try the tactical extraction shooter ahead of its full release. Developer Sharkmob has been cooking up something special, blending the high stakes of Tarkov with the hyper-mobility of Warframe. If that sounds up your alley, a new playtest has just been announced that will let you experience the upcoming PC game ahead of launch and give feedback to help make it even better.

Exoborne brings the tense extraction-based PvPvE gameplay of FPS games such as Escape from Tarkov into a twisted United States that’s been transformed by natural disasters. Complementing that are its highly mobile exosuits, which accelerate the pace of the typical extraction shooter, and make Exoborne feel closer to the likes of Warframe or Titanfall 2.

The deadly rainstorms, lightning, and tornadoes juxtaposed against your character’s impressive mobility mean that Exoborne is shaping up to be one of the most high-octane extraction shooters we’ve seen to date. The go..

What are the best racing games on PC? Whether mastering muddy tracks in Dirt Rally 2 or embracing Forza Horizon 5’s magnificent Mexico, these are the best racers around. Before you hop into the driver’s seat, we recommend plugging in a controller instead of using a mouse and keyboard – or, even better, getting yourself a wheel.

While a couple of these could be contenders for our list of the best PC games overall, there are plenty of options here if you consider yourself a speed demon. While the likes of Gran Turismo 7 may not be available on PC just yet – fingers crossed it arrives eventually – there are plenty of excellent racing games here, no matter your taste.

The best racing games on PC in 2025 are:

Disney Speedstorm
When it comes to Mario Kart-like games on PC, there aren’t many options out there to pick from, especially when you factor in a lively online community. Fortunately, Disney Speedstorm is here to fill that void, bringing in the talents of Gameloft, the developers be..

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)The problem with the term ‘Metroidvania’ is that it’s a far broader genre classification than some give it credit for. Depending on where they fall on the spectrum between the exploration-heavy Metroid series and the combat-centric Castlevania series, it’s possible for two games to both be considered Metroidvanias while playing, looking, and sounding nothing alike. Neither extreme is more valid than the other. What’s important is understanding which portions of the genre a given title is committed to, and whether it’s successful.

It’s not enough to simply call Blade Chimera a great Metroidvania and leave it at that. What Team Ladybug (Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, Drainus) has cooked up here is a game that is impressively clear-eyed in identifying its priorities — which just so happen to mirror many of the tenets of Konami’s legendary vampire hunting series — and executing on them to incredible effect. It doesn’t do e..

It’s not unfair to say that the gaming landscape was somewhat different when Donkey Kong Country Returns first fell into our laps in 2010; 2D platformers were a rare breed, and ol’ DK himself hadn’t arguably had a mainline entry in his series since 2004’s Jungle Beat. Back then, the title said it all: not only was Donkey Kong back, but Donkey Kong Country had indeed returned. That’s not quite the world we’re living in 15 years later.

Having said that, just like the original, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD explains everything you need to know about it in the title: it’s Donkey Kong Country Returns in HD, and unfortunately, it’s not much more than that. This is that same great game from the Wii era tarted up a bit here and there.

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)
The Tiki Tak Tribe – a set of manipulative, sentient instruments, naturally – have stolen DK’s beloved banana horde for their own purposes, and have hypnotised the local fauna into turning on our simian superhero. Either th..

GHUNTER sees you helping a gnome with some cooking. Except all of your meals are alive and put up a fight.

I have played a large number of cooking games in my life, but none have ever had cooking in the same way that this game requires you to. You work as a cooking gnome that needs to create food for a local tavern, but cooking isn’t actually done in the tavern at all.

Here, you are actually cooking your prey alive through setting traps and killing them using specific methods, creating a dish as they die. You do need to finish off all of the enemies the same way, though – using your melee weapon. Your main weapon actually needs ammo (which is found when hunting your prey), and loading up your weapon will change how your prey is cooked.

You can also set traps and otherwise work the prey down to low health before slicing them up into a dish. If you aren’t careful or just don’t want to deal with a specific enemy, you can actually fully kill them, though. You’re going to need to pay att..

Kitsune Tails delivers some solid platforming challenges, great power-ups through adorable costumes, and a challenging romantic situation.

Yuzu is charged with delivering messages for a Goddess, a job that gets her into trouble just moments after starting the game. This puts her in contact with a kind sorceress, though, so maybe the trouble isn’t so bad? And she seems to like you a whole lot. Except you’ve got a childhood friend who also has a thing for you. While being popular with these gals might seem nice, it does cause some trouble that you’ll unravel over the course of a lot of vibrant, varied platforming worlds.

When you’re not dealing with your relationship woes, you’ll be running and leaping across an array of different places in all kinds of helpful outfits. The platforming feels solid and precise as you collect coins and smash through blocks. If you bump into any of the wildlife or creatures born from Japanese mythology, you’ll power down into a tiny fox until you can find..