What NPR does for books (curated, filter-tagged staff picks), it also does for video games! Among the "highlighted popular favorites and under-recognized gems": Perfect Tides: Station to Station Titanium Court Mixtape TR-49
The best games of 2026 so far, picked by NPR's staffTitans like Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert dominated in the first half of the gaming year, with early-access sequels like Slay the Spire 2 and Subnautica 2 not far behind.www.npr.org