GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. The magazine is published ten issues a year; monthly, except January and June. Each issue contains reviews, articles, Pencilwise (pen-and-paper games), a contest and advertisments - including a fake ad. Periodically, the magazine also has a "Hidden Contest," wherein the rules are concealed somehow in the issue. Annually, one issue includes a compilation of new and noteworthy games in its GAMES 100 list, somewhat akin to an American version of the German Spiel des Jahres.

The Pencilwise section contains: Crossword puzzles, cryptic crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, math and logic puzzles, as well as other regular and periodic puzzles.

GAMES Publications also publishes GAMES World of Puzzles on a bi-monthly basis. This magazine is similar to an extended Pencilwise section of GAMES Magazine. It also contains a contest in every issue.