Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting a new mountain next month and a whole bunch more throughout the year, including a game editor

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting lots of new content in 2025, studio Megagon Industries announced today. The wait won’t be long either: a new mountain will be added on April 9 in a free update, bringing the total to four. Like the existing slopes it’ll boast four trails, each with harder variations and challenges….

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‘The Middle East’s answer to Marvel Rivals’ is an ‘AI-powered’, crypto-infused hero shooter that looks like hot garbage

If Farcana is “the Middle East’s answer to the acclaimed Marvel Rivals,” as its developer claims, I don’t see Disney quivering in its boots anytime soon. Developed by 160-person Abu Dhabi-based studio Dizzaract—which apparently makes it the largest game studio in the region—Farcana is a 5v5 hero shooter packing the noxious double whammy of AI…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director was ‘starving for new turn-based RPGs,’ and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who’d want to play his game

I had the chance to talk to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer François Meurisse during the 2025 Game Developers Conference, and the Sandfall Interactive COO got down to brass tacks about how the game draws on JRPG history, the types of stories that can be told with these mechanics, and how the ambitious Expedition 33…

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In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: ‘The hubris of man’

Sometime in the first or second century AD, the ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria invented the world’s first steam engine. In Echoes of Elysium, an upcoming survival game from Loric Games, Heron didn’t stop there: He’s punched a hole into Elysium, the mythic paradise of Greco-Roman mythology, where he’s harvesting the souls…

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Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy’s new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and ‘joyful discoveries’

For nearly 30 years—ever since the release of its second ever game, Max Payne—developer Remedy Entertainment has been in the business of making narrative-driven singleplayer games. Recent releases have even taken that focus further, tying together the studio’s games into one connected universe of stories. All of which ensures that, however you slice it, the…

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