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Meow Rangers is an idle RPG game where players auto-battle through evil invaders to restore peace to Cat Village, while assembling the titular rangers and building Meow Town.
The Steam summer sale is approaching, and Valve is hosting the Summer 2025 Next Fest, showcasing various indie games. Notable titles include:
- Dead as Disco: A beat 'em up game where players control Charlie Disco in a rhythmic combat system. Release date is not announced. Platforms: PC.
- Voidbreaker: A first-person shooter focused on environmental destruction, set to launch on August 20. Platforms: PC.
- Morsels: A twin-stick shooter roguelike featuring magical cards and strategic combat, set to release in 2025. Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch.
- Dragon March: An arcade adventure with a mecha-dragon protagonist, release date unconfirmed. Platforms: PC.
- House of Necrosis: A survival horror game with a turn-based system, release date not revealed. Platforms: PC, Linux.
- DuneCrawl: A cooperative hack-and-slash game for up to four players, set for release in 2025. Platforms: PC.
- Hell Clock: An action RPG based on Brazil's War of Canudos, launching on July 22. Platforms: PC.
- 1000 Deaths: A platforming game exploring pivotal life moments, set to release on August 7. Platforms: PC.
- Passant: A chess roguelike with unique mechanics, available on August 11. Platforms: PC.
- Under The Island: A 2D RPG hack-and-slash game inspired by Zelda, release date unannounced. Platforms: PC.
Players in Minecraft face challenges such as food shortages and resource scarcity during the early stages of survival. Early-game farms are essential for providing resources and improving gameplay.
1. A basic crop farm can be established by planting wheat, carrots, or potatoes on well-tilled soil with a water source and sunlight. Fencing can protect crops from mobs, and villagers can help automate the process.
2. An animal breeding pen can be created by attracting cows, sheep, and chickens using wheat or seeds. Each animal provides unique resources, and a breeding cycle of about five minutes allows for a steady food supply.
3. A sugar cane farm is important for crafting paper and trading with villagers. It can be set up along a riverbank or with irrigation ditches, and can be automated with observers and pistons.
4. An XP and mob drop farm can be built around a dungeon with a skeleton or zombie spawner. A funnel system using water flows and trap doors can direct mobs for XP farming and valuable drops.
5. An iron farm can be established near a village using three villagers, beds, workstations, and a zombie to spawn Iron Golems. A kill chamber can provide a consistent source of iron ingots.
Failbetter Games has announced a new rural life simulation game called Mandrake, set in the village of Chandley, where horticulture is forbidden. Players will assume the role of the last horticultural sorcerer returning to their family's abandoned home. The game features typical activities like gardening, fishing, foraging, cooking, and crafting, while also incorporating elements of British history and folklore. Players will interact with a unique cast of villagers and explore various environments. The game includes darker themes, such as trading mundane crops for peculiar seeds and encountering otherworldly beings. A specific release date has not been announced, but the studio plans to conduct playtests and encourages players to wishlist Mandrake on Steam.
The PC Gaming Show 2025 featured over 60 trailers in a nearly three-hour livestream, showcasing new titles and updates on previously announced games. Major reveals included world premieres of titles such as Ambrosia Sky, Ratatan, and The Alters, covering a variety of genres like roguelikes, co-op shooters, and survival sims.
Key titles highlighted include:
- Ambrosia Sky: A first-person sci-fi game where players confront an alien fungus in a space colony.
- Far Far West: A co-op game where players are robo-bounty hunters in a Wild West setting.
- Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition: Revives classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures with new features.
- Fresh Tracks: A skiing adventure game with music elements.
- Terminull Brigade: A co-op hero shooter set in a digital realm.
- Ratatan: A rhythm-action game featuring online co-op battles.
- Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth: A narrative-driven game about friendship and resilience.
- Necesse: A sandbox action-adventure game focused on building and exploration.
- Den of Wolves: A session-based shooter involving cooperative heists.
- All Systems Dance: A game that combines dance battles with a dystopian narrative.
- Spooky Express: A management simulation game set in a monster-themed theme park.
- The Rogue Prince of Persia: A roguelite experience featuring acrobatics.
- Enginefall: A multiplayer social sandbox aboard a mega-train.
- EVE Frontier: A player-driven sandbox in a harsh cosmic environment.
- Skyrig: A game focused on building rigs to extract gases in a stormy atmosphere.
- Kaizen: A Factory Story: A factory design game set in 1980s Japan.
- Dawn Apart: A colony simulation game on a destructible voxel planet.
- Modulus: A factory-building game with customizable modules.
- Generation Exile: A turn-based city-builder aboard a generation starship.
- Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults: A co-op hack-and-slash ARPG.
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault: Continues the story of its predecessor with action-RPG elements.
- Barotrauma – Home & Harbor: An expansion for managing a deep-sea outpost.
- No, I'm Not A Human: A narrative-driven game set in a dying world.
- Botsu: A physics-based competitive gaming title.
- No More Room In Hell 2: A co-op survival game in zombie-infested zones.
- Farever: An online co-op action RPG in a fantasy world.
- Mandrake: A narrative game about uncovering family mysteries.
- Pizza Bandit: A cooking and shooting game.
- Demonschool: A tactics RPG combining university life with battles.
- The Last Caretaker: A survival game set in a flooded world.
- Railborn: A game about building trains and managing resources.
- Voyagers of Nera: A cooperative survival-crafting game in a magical ocean world.
- Icarus: Great Hunts Campaigns: Offers nonlinear missions with unique stories.
- Garbage Country: An exploration sim in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- DarkSwitch: A vertical city builder around a great tree.
- Sprint X Strike: A chaotic battle game in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- Worship: A multiplayer roguelite about cultists performing rituals.
- Stars of Icarus: A starship combat game emphasizing teamwork.
- 007 First Light: A game featuring a young Bond's journey.
- goblinAmerica: A game where players possess U.S. presidents to correct historical mistakes.
- EverSiege: Untold Ages: A rogue-lite action-strategy game.
- Pigface: A narrative-driven game about confronting the past.
- TerraTech: An open-world sandbox adventure game.
- Paralives: A life simulation game focused on building and managing lives.
- Lost Rift: A cooperative survival game on an archipelago.
- Hell Clock: A roguelike ARPG.
- Militsioner: A narrative-driven escape game.
- Arcane Eats: A roguelike deckbuilder.
- Guntouchables: A cooperative survival game against mutants.
- Ultrakill – Layer 8: Fraud: Details are yet to be revealed.
- Stario: Heaven Tower: A game about building ecosystems.
- Dispatch: A superhero workplace comedy.
- Wheel World: An open-world mission game.
- FBC: Firebreak: A cooperative FPS in a federal agency.
- Anno 117: Pax Romana: A historical city-building game.
- Baby Steps: A walking simulator exploring self-discovery.
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide – Arbites: Players enforce law in a Warhammer universe.
- Endless Legend 2: A fantasy strategy game.
- Berserk or Die: A survival game against overwhelming odds.
- Mycopunk: A game about uncovering a fungal catastrophe.
- Bippo Plus: An interactive experience for Playdate owners.
- Morbid Metal: A roguelike with simultaneous character control.
- Love Eternal: A psychological horror platformer.
- Bus Bound: A public bus service management game.
- Atmosfar: A survival and co-op road trip adventure set for early access in 2026.
- Void/Breaker: A sci-fi FPS with destructible environments.
- Grave Seasons: A farming simulation with a mystery element.
- Eyes of Hellfire: A multiplayer horror game with puzzles.
- Deadwire: An action game with hacking elements.
- Dinkum: A life simulation game on islands.
- Void Martyrs: An action game set in a grimdark world.
- CloverPit: A unique gameplay experience set to release in summer.
- Eclipsium: A title with intense visuals and gameplay elements.
- Abyssus: A cooperative FPS adventure.
- Ascendant: A multiplayer shooter with chaotic gameplay.
- Mewgenics: An endless cat breeding RPG set for release on February 10, 2026.
- Dead Reset: A sci-fi horror FMV adventure.
- Bernband: A lighthearted cyberpunk game.
- Wanderburg: A roguelike adventure with a castle on wheels.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has diminished in significance, with the Summer Game Fest now showcasing upcoming games. Resident Evil Requiem, also known as Resident Evil 9, features a character named Grace Ashcroft, an FBI agent investigating her mother Alyssa's murder at the Wrenwood Hotel. Alyssa Ashcroft is a character from Resident Evil: Outbreak, which was released in 2004. The trailer suggests a return to Raccoon City, a key setting in the franchise. The last two mainline games introduced Ethan Winters, but Chris Redfield returned, and there is speculation that Leon Kennedy may appear in Resident Evil Requiem. The game is set to launch on February 27, 2026, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with details on its availability for the Switch 2 yet to be announced.
Skycrab1, a speedrunner in Minecraft, was close to achieving a world record by completing a random seed run in under seven minutes. They spawned near a ruined portal and village, quickly gathered necessary items, and defeated the Ender Dragon using a strategy involving exploding beds. However, just before reaching the finish line, an Enderman teleported behind them and delivered a fatal blow, resulting in a near-victory. Observers noted that skycrab1 had looked at the Enderman for only 15 frames (0.25 seconds) before the incident. Despite their impressive performance, the world record remains unachieved.
Peter Molyneux is known for games like Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park, Populous, Fable, and Black & White. A new VR game called "How to God" combines virtual pet training mechanics, village building, strategy, and an alchemy system. The game is set to launch as a single-player experience with the potential for multiplayer in the future.
USOPP has added three new partners: Saatva, Archer, and Pennymac, bringing its total agreements to six since the start of 2024. These partnerships are in the lower tier of USOPP's sponsorship levels. Earlier in the year, USOPP announced a second-tier partnership with AECOM.
M&T Bank Stadium will undergo a three-year renovation project with a budget of million, which includes the installation of over 12,000 square feet of LED displays. ANC is managing this installation, with work starting this summer to complete it before the 2025 NFL season. Key upgrades include a 216-foot video display at Gate A, fine-pitch signage in field-level clubs, new signage for the Hospitality Village, and the replacement of over a hundred TVs with larger screens. After the 2025 season, a 2,300-square-foot transparent mesh LED display will be added to the stadium's northwest plaza, along with additional high-resolution displays at various locations.
Mojang is set to launch a new tabletop role-playing game titled Minecraft: Roll for Adventure – The Temple of the Charged Creeper on July 8th. This game will include a hardcover book with a character sheet, essential rules, and four green dice. Players will take on the role of heroes tasked with defending a village from an invading group of illagers by crafting items, surviving mob encounters, and destroying the Temple of the Charged Creeper. The game features iconic weapons and armor from Minecraft, spans 224 pages, and is recommended for players aged 10 and up. Preorders are available on Amazon. The potential for future installments in the series depends on the success of this initial release.
