Sunday Special: The Year in Gaming
The Daily
11/02/25
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This year has been a banner year for video games, with an abundance of surprise releases and unexpected hits.
On this week’s Sunday Special, Gilbert Cruz talks with two fellow gamers — Zachary Small, a culture reporter, and Jason Bailey, an editor on The Times’s culture desk — about the state of the industry, the biggest releases and the games they loved playing in 2025. They also share their predictions for Game of the Year.
On Today’s Episode
Zachary Small is a culture reporter for The Times.
Jason M. Bailey is an editor on the culture desk, and oversees The Times’s video game coverage.
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Photo: Emily Kask for The New York Times
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