Abstract: Reading acquisition is one the main keys for school success and a crucial component for empowering individuals to participate meaningfully in society. Yet, it is still a challenging skill to ...

When you make a purchase using a link on this page, we may receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The New Yorker. I’ll start with a caveat: the games in this guide are mostly screenless. Video ...

Today at The Game Awards Order of the Sinking Star, the new title from Jonathan Blow (The Witness, Braid) and Thekla Inc, was announced. This new puzzle game takes the idea of classic moving box ...

From Street Fighter 6 to Tekken 8 to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the fighting games of 2025 continue to grow in popularity — but it’s not really due to complex, competitive gameplay. While that ...

Everything you need to know about this year’s special print puzzle section. By New York Times Games What is Puzzle Mania? Puzzle Mania is an annual special puzzle section in the print edition of the ...

Puzzle games are perhaps one of the best genres for co-op, as you can bond with someone easily over both trying to work out how you'll make progress. There's a massive variety of multiplayer puzzle ...

If your interests lie in the fairly specific cross-section of Soviet-inspired utopia/dystopia, tinkering with stuff, and techno-goop, then you’ll need to set eyes on The Lift (that’s an elevator, for ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Bracket City is a fun word puzzle game where you need to solve nested brackets from the innermost pairs outward. Here's how ...

Despite that, or perhaps because of it, The Times only occasionally releases new game offerings—typically one per year. So that makes Monday’s release of Pips, the latest permanent addition to the ...