I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places, recorder and notebook in hand. That’s how, in the summer of 2005, I found myself in Mae Sot, a small city in Thailand near the border with Myanmar, tasked with contributing […]

Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood.  Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs blood every few seconds in the US. While the average red blood cell transfusion is about three units, […]

Financial Times:
Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024  —  Low-profile group has quickly emerged as a top developer of image generation technology  —  German start-up Black Forest Labs …

Update, 12/1/25:

The polls are now closed! Thanks for voting and look out for the results in the next issue of the magazine!

Original story, 11/13/25:

The year is coming to a close, which means it's time yell at each other over Discord and decide the best game of 2025 to crown the ultimate champion. Will it be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Or maybe Hades II? What about Shadow Labyrinth, the Pac-Man search action game? We will be sharing our picks for game of the year and other end-of-year awards in the next issue of Game Informer magazine with (you really think I would spoil it here?) on the cover, but we also want to hear from our readers and share your favorites of 2025.

To do that, we ask that you fill out the poll below. Send us your personal list of 2025's five best games, and we will gather everyone's information and share the result in the next issue. We use ranked positional voting – the Borda count method – to gather the results. You have until the end of November to submit your list. We can't wait to see how your picks compare to ours!

Note: Google has been reporting some intermittent issues, so if you're having trouble seeing the form, please check back later. The poll will be live until the end of November.

Cyber Monday is here in full force. It brings with it many of the same deals as we saw during Black Friday, along with a handful of new, limited-time sale prices on Verge-approved tech products. It’s a great time to save on laptops, OLED TVs, noise-eliminating headphones, robot vacuums, and everything in between. If you […]