When you've finished playing the big-name video games, try,,, and some of our other favorites from 2025. It's hard to keep track of every game launch. While a handful of titles like,, or are sure to top the year's Best Of lists, many more will go unrecognized for their brilliance, fun, or sheer absurdity. The good news is we've got you covered. Whether you're stuck at home for the holidays and itching for something to play, or you just want to make sure you don't let any hidden gems slip under your radar, here are five games from this year's slate you should not miss.

While Barbenheimer was undoubtedly the biggest movie story of 2023, the year in film was one jam-packed with dozens of truly great movies--not all of which managed to generate the nonstop headlines or mainstream traction that an iconic doll and the "father of the atomic bomb" did. It was a stellar year for first-time directors as well, as evidenced by films like Emily, The Unknown Country, and A Thousand and One. If you've seen Barbie, Oppenheimer, and many of the year's higher-profile movies, here are 15 that you maybe haven't seen that are definitely worth your time. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism.

Even if you believe, as some do, that the world has moved from Peak TV to Trough TV, there are still more shows released in any given year than any one person could consume (trust us, we tried). Between major networks, cable television channels, and streaming services, there's just too much to watch. You're bound to miss your new favorite binge-watch. Below are our picks for the best TV shows you might have missed in 2023. If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism.

When the pandemic lockdowns started, I predicted bad things for art. Stuck in quarantine, the art commentariat flocked to every digital craze under the sun. What else were we going to talk about but pixels and bits? After all, digital utopians thrive on institutional collapse. 'Art as we know it will be fundamentally disrupted by blockchain', was a common refrain.

World-renowned semiconductor producer Nvidia is widely regarded as a pioneering force behind artificial intelligence (AI), and it remains a leader in the field today. But AI is a rapidly growing industry with plenty of room for other contributors, and in fact, some experts predict the majority of companies will be using AI by 2030, adding $13 trillion in value to the global economy. Therefore, while Nvidia is a $413 billion giant today, three Motley Fool contributors think C3ai (AI -0.70%), Riskified (RSKD 0.69%), and CrowdStrike (CRWD 0.83%) are artificial intelligence powerhouses of the future. Anthony Di Pizio (C3ai): One thing the artificial intelligence industry is missing is accessibility. Typically, only large technology companies with the financial resources and the ability to attract talented developers have been able to use AI in a meaningful capacity.

Over the past decade, indie developers introduced us to the voices (and hamsters) living inside their heads. In 2021, they demonstrated how complete bodies of work can hit new highs in innovation when everything clicks. This year alone, Kena: Bridge Of Spirits traced the growth of a young Balinese heroine, Tarsier Studios delivered the perfect sequel in Little Nightmares II, Valheim blessed Norse mythology with the justice it so desperately needed, and Hazelight's It Takes Two snagged Game of rhe Year--all thanks to a genre-breaking tale of co-op adventure (and that one elephant scene). And to be completely honest, indie games are just getting started. The next year is looking like it will be a definitive showcase of the art styles and narratives that couldn't quite make it out of the cycles of anxiety we sometimes find ourselves in, and their stories will pick up where others left off: providing comfort and inspiration.

Indie developers deserve their flowers. Not only are they responsible for amplifying fiction (and nonfiction) with immeasurable swells of immersion and creativity, but they are also proficient at submerging us in tiny pockets of humor, curiosity, and affection when we find ourselves at our worst. This year was no different. In the age of social distancing, Hades found love in a hopeless place, Among Us sussed out social anxieties via long tasks and emergency meetings, and Fall Guys filled the Mario Party–size void in our hearts by introducing humanoid jellybeans to the concept of "drip" and yeeting them through randomized elements of Takeshi's Castle. And that's just a brief synopsis of what went down in 2020. A multitude of directors, producers, animators, level designers, composers, and the like remodeled the limitations of the medium to introduce us to worlds and protagonists we never dreamed possible.

Over the past several years, artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly become part of our daily lives. The smart replies generated by your email or smartphone, the tagging of photos on social media, product recommendations on e-commerce sites, the directions provided by mapping apps, and the music and video recommendations on streaming services all use the predictive power of AI. Graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) were the early beneficiary of the trend, resulting in staggering growth since the dawn of AI. The massive parallel processing capability of GPUs to render images also turned out the be the best available solution for AI systems. The company's rivals have been scrambling to build a better mousetrap in an effort to seize control of the lucrative AI chipset market.

Ah, the Electronics Entertainment Expo, or E3 for short -- that time of the year when the video game industry gathers to tell us all about the incredible games and projects it's working on. From a Breath of the Wild sequel to Keanu Reeves taking the stage and calling us all "breathtaking," this year's E3 has been a whirlwind of stellar moments and exciting announcements. The biggest moment and the coolest game of E3 came courtesy of Polish developer CD Projekt Red's first-person shooter RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. Set in Night City, California, Cyberpunk 2077 is an open world sandbox where players fight against evil mega-corporations using body augmentation. That's cool, but CD Projekt Red delivered the best moment of E3 when it revealed Keanu Reeves is in the game.

It's a short holiday week, which means we've got to mix it up. This week, we're thankful for you, dear readers, who follow us through the strange vicissitudes of the car business. You are curious; you are tolerant; you are mostly kind, at least on Twitter. So please be gentle with me as I introduce the theme of this car roundup, which is holiday plane travel. For this greatest of travel weeks, we're reviewing all the juicy, fun here-to-there stories we wrote in the last year or so, about building the most audacious flying machine ever, about staying healthy on your next flight, and about surprisingly safe airport Wi-Fi.