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President Donald Trump announced that 'one young man and one young woman from each state and territory' will compete in the 'Patriot Games' in 2026, which sounds an awful lot like a real-life 'Hunger Games.

The gaming obsessives at CNET and its sibling sites ZDNET, PCMag, Lifehacker and Mashable put their heads together and chose their absolute faves that were released this year.

Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — seen both in the best games of the year and in the culture around them. The industry-wide layoffs that started in 2023 showed no sign of slowing down.

That’s another year of video games down, and I don’t know about you, but my fingers are sore from all the button-mashing and joystick rotations. Games seem to be getting longer, sprawling between 60 and more than 100 hours.

There are more than seven million teen athletes across the country, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, meaning your teen would most likely need to be a gifted standout athlete for Patriot Games consideration.

That leaves the Bears one game up on the Lions entering Week 17, when Chicago faces another potential playoff team in the 49ers. Even at 10-4 and second in the NFC, Chicago is in a precarious position given the difficulty of its schedule, which concludes with ...