After an inauspicious start to the year, toons rebounded big time to propel the box office... and the awards conversation.

We pay tribute to the animation artists, guardians, and innovators whose work shaped the medium and continues to inspire.

The Apothecary Diaries was quite easily 2025’s highest-rated TV anime series, and no other anime has been able to surpass it ...

Animation has always enjoyed a devoted following, but 2025’s releases revealed that its audience is bigger and broader than most of us thought. In a tough year for most live-action releases, one of ...

Two of the year’s top IMAX performers were animated features, neither coming from Hollywood. China’s Ne Zha 2 led all titles ...

Peppa Pig managed to overtake Demon Slayer with 269 million hours streamed last year, proving animation is still a force to ...

Yes, “KPop Demon Hunters” makes the list. But that was just one of the standouts in a great year. By Maya Phillips My list of favorite animation this year includes time-traveling rainbow people, ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

It’s time to test how well you recognize some of the defining personalities of 2025. We’ll show you photos of 52 people; you tell us their names. Two tips: Use the hints; they’re there to help you.

Four ways to think about this year's reckoning. Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and ...