Whether you play solo or with friends, Farever encourages cooperative play. You can assemble a party to tackle enemies, clear dungeons, and face dynamic world events like Rift Invasions, where hordes of foes test your teamwork. Content scales with group size and roles, ensuring balanced and engaging battles against bosses or invasions.

Farever’s combat is fast and highly customizable, launching with 10 character classes (four in Early Access) across tank, support, and DPS roles. With over 100 weapons, each tied to unique skills, you can create countless personalized builds.

The game also offers non-combat activities. You can take on jobs like blacksmithing or cooking, gathering rare resources across Siagarta to craft powerful gear, accessories, and unique weapons. Exploration is equally rewarding, with platforming challenges, environmental puzzles, and dangerous dungeons scattered across the world.

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Corden clarified that the console’s chip is designed to support native games from Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, specifically titles already part of Microsoft’s backward compatibility program. This allows players to simply use their old discs or digital libraries and enjoy them seamlessly on the new hardware.

Microsoft also promises that the next Xbox will deliver a traditional console experience, staying true to the “plug-and-play” principle fans value. Despite social media rumors about a shift toward PC features, Corden confirmed the console won’t integrate Steam. Instead, the focus remains on building a powerful, standalone gaming device that “pushes technical boundaries.”

Beyond the console, Microsoft is exploring ways to expand the Xbox ecosystem. At the recent Xbox Games Showcase during Summer Game Fest, they introduced third-party handheld devices: the Xbox ROG Ally X and ROG Ally, developed in partnership with ASUS. These devices, closer to PC gaming, offer portable ways to play Xbox titles. However, the next-gen console remains central to their “This is an Xbox” strategy.

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In A Gentlemen’s Dispute, you fight to be the last gentleman standing in a wild brawl. Fun is key here, and the game lets you toss your floppy characters as weapons to hit others. Everything around you can break, and you can grab anything, from sticks to bear traps, to secure victory. Between fights, you can pick upgrades that stack, like dropping bombs when hit or gaining an extra jump. Up to four players can join on one screen, or eight can play online.

What makes A Gentlemen’s Dispute so appealing is its focus on wackiness over intense competition. Unlike many party games, it prioritizes fun and randomness above all. The demo, available on Steam, lets you try various moves, so gather your crew for a wild multiplayer experience.

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The core fun of Buckle Up! lies in competing with two to six players per lobby. Matches unfold on dynamic maps with rotating, objective-based mini-games, where the player with the most points wins. The game stands out for its weapon flexibility, you’ll find new weapons during play or choose from several available ones whenever you want, while also collecting their attachments. Plus, you can headbutt opponents to stun them for easier eliminations.

Buckle Up! also offers deep character customization with hats, masks, and various cosmetic items. Behind the game is Chunky Pixel Games, a small but passionate team from Rijeka. They created the game as a “love letter” to the party genre: “We wanted to make something that’s pure fun”, the studio duo told us in Opatija.

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POPUCOM

Release Date: June 2, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Multiplayer / Platformer

POPUCOM is a multiplayer co-op platform adventure game. As an adventurer, you are summoned to an unknown planet to embark on an exoplanet expedition with your friends. Face various enemies and use engaging items and techniques to eliminate threats and restore the world to its former glory. The game features two main modes: a narrative-driven story mode designed for two players, and “Party Mode” for three to four players, perfect for chaotic fun and shared laughter.

DELTARUNE

Release Date: June 4, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2

Genre: RPG

DELTARUNE is an episodic RPG by Toby Fox, a spin-off from Undertale, set in a parallel universe. You control Kris, a human teenager in a monster-filled town, who enters the “Dark World” with classmates Susie and Ralsei to seal Dark Fountains and save the world. The game blends turn-based combat with bullet hell mechanics, allowing you to fight or spare enemies. Unlike Undertale, it has one ending, emphasizing limited player choice. Chapters 1-2 are free on PC, Mac, Switch, and PS4, with Chapters 3-4 set for a paid release.

The Alters

Release Date: June 13, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Survival

The Alters is a sci-fi survival game. You play as Jan Dolski, a miner stranded on a hostile planet, piloting a mobile base to escape deadly solar radiation. Using Rapidium, you create “Alters”—alternate versions of Jan with unique skills based on different life choices. The game blends base-building, resource management, and exploration with a branching narrative, where choices shape Jan’s relationships with his Alters and lead to multiple endings.

Date Everything!

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Dating Sim

Date Everything! is a sandbox dating sim by Sassy Chap Games. After losing your job to AI, you receive magical “Dateviator” glasses that transform household objects like your bed, fridge, or even existential dread into 100 fully voice-acted dateable characters. With branching narratives and at least three endings per character, you can romance, befriend, or feud, crafting unique stories in a vibrant, pun-filled world.

Crown Gambit

Release Date: June 18, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Tactical RPG

Crown Gambit is a narrative-driven tactical RPG. Set in the dark fantasy kingdom of Meodred, you guide three paladins – Aliza, Hael, and Rollo – through a chaotic capital torn by a war of succession. Choose a side among throne contenders, wielding ancestral relics in card-based combat against knights, nobles, and rebels. Your choices shape the story, paladin personalities, and multiple endings, blending strategy, visual novel elements, and Celtic-inspired art by Gobert.

Broken Arrow

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Strategy / Tactical

Broken Arrow is a large-scale, real-time modern warfare tactics game by Slitherine. Set in a fictional Eastern European conflict, it features U.S. and Russian factions with over 300 customizable units across six categories, offering 1,500+ combinations. You build armies, deploy via land, sea, and air, and engage in strategic battles on realistic, large maps like cities and refineries. With deep unit customization, a scenario editor, and 5v5 multiplayer, it blends Company of Heroes-style action with Arma-like realism.

REMATCH

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Football / Multiplayer

REMATCH is a fast-paced, arcade-style 5v5 multiplayer football game by Sloclap. You control a single character in a third-person perspective, with no fouls or offsides, ensuring non-stop action in futuristic VR arenas. Emphasizing skill-based gameplay and teamwork, it features manual passing, shooting, and dribbling, with modes like 3v3 and 4v4 alongside competitive 5v5. Customization options include cosmetics, and the game, priced at 30 €, avoids pay-to-win mechanics.

Star Overdrive

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Action-Adventure

Star Overdrive is an open-world sci-fi action-adventure, in which you play as Bios, a spacefarer stranded on the alien planet Cebete, searching for your lost lover, Nous. Using a hoverboard and keytar, you speed through diverse biomes, solve puzzles, and battle enemies. The game blends Zelda: Breath of the Wild-style exploration with Tony Hawk-inspired traversal, featuring a retro-futuristic aesthetic and synth-rock soundtrack.

BitCraft Online

Release Date: June 20, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: MMORPG

BitCraft Online is a sandbox MMORPG. Set in a single, procedurally generated world, you are awaken as mystical beings, building shelters to survive. The game emphasizes crafting, farming, hunting, and city-building over combat, with a freeform skill system where you master abilities through practice. You can create towns, trade, or unite cities into empires, shaping a dynamic, player-driven world.

Shuffle Tactics

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Deckbuilding

Shuffle Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilding tactical RPG. Set in the cursed kingdom of Asteria, you battle the Glimmer Curse as heroes like Doberknight or Catalina, using strategic card combos and grid-based positioning. With 500+ cards, 20 sidekicks, and diverse biomes, it blends Final Fantasy Tactics and Slay the Spire for deep, replayable combat.

DREADZONE

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Survival

DREADZONE is a survival game by Eshed, set in a post-apocalyptic quarantine zone ravaged by the Zeno-29 virus. Players scavenge resources, craft tools, build shelters, and fight zombies, mutants, animals, and rival survivors in a gritty open-world. With first-person combat, base-building, and co-op multiplayer, it offers a tense, atmospheric experience.

Ruffy and the Riverside

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Platformer

Ruffy and the Riverside is a open-world 3D platformer. You play as Ruffy, a bear with the magical SWAP ability to copy and paste textures, for example, turning ice into lava to solve puzzles and explore Riverside. Joined by friends like Pip the bee, you battle villain Groll to save the World Core. With hand-drawn art, playful side quests, and collectibles, it blends Banjo-Kazooie-style charm with innovative mechanics.

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First-party game prices will remain unchanged for now but are set to rise from $70 to $80 starting with the holiday season, though international pricing details are still unclear. Existing game prices will not be affected. In the US, the standard disc-based Xbox Series X will increase from $499.99 to $599.99, marking its first price hike since the console’s launch nearly five years ago.

The disc-free Series X model will rise from $449.99 to $549.99, and the 2TB model will jump by $130, from $599.99 to $729.99. The Xbox Series S will see an $80 increase for both its 512GB model, now $380, and 1TB model, now $450. In Europe, the Series X disc edition will climb by £20/€50 to £499.99/€599.99, following a previous increase in 2023, while the 2TB model rises by £40/€50 to £589.99/€699.99. The 512GB Series S in Europe will increase by £50/€50 to £349.99/€349.99.

Accessories are also affected, with Xbox controllers seeing global price increases. In the US and Canada, headsets will cost more, though specific figures were not disclosed. Microsoft acknowledged that these changes are “challenging” but necessary to address economic pressures.

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Grandma, No! is a physics-based, laugh-out-loud adventure where you step into the worn-out slippers of a grandma in way over her head. Forget ordinary chores, these “simple” tasks go off the rails fast. Taking out the trash may lead you somewhere unexpected, and cooking dinner could end up with more fire than flavour. Just when things start to calm down, BOOM — something weirder crashes the party.

Try to survive the day without burning the house down, or maybe you’ll prefer to let it all hang out and embrace the mayhem. Get ready to enter hyper interactive playground where your actions may have permanent consequences. From freaky twists to guest appearances, there’s always something bizarre waiting to derail your plans.

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Originally scheduled for April 9, 2025, preorders were delayed after the Trump administration announced significant tariffs on the same day the Switch 2 was fully revealed. These tariffs have led to price adjustments of roughly 5-6 percent for most accessories. The Pro Controller’s price has risen from $79.99 to $84.99, and a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers now costs $94.99, up from $89.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 dock faces a 9 percent increase, moving from $109.99 to $119.99, while the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera sees a 10 percent hike, jumping from $49.99 to $54.99.

The camera’s price increase could affect Nintendo’s plans for its new “GameChat” feature, designed to make the Switch 2 a social hub where players can chat across different games. While Nintendo confirmed USB-C support for third-party cameras, which could offset the price hike, manufacturers of those devices may also raise prices due to the tariffs.

Although the Trump administration paused most of its announced tariffs on April 9 for 90 days, the 145 percent tariff on goods made in China remains in place. Recent messaging from the administration has been unclear, with exemptions granted for devices like smartphones and monitors on April 11, but video game consoles were not included. Officials later clarified that these devices were re-categorized rather than exempted, adding uncertainty.

If the tariffs take full effect after the 90-day pause, Nintendo’s current price adjustments may not cover the additional costs for devices entering the U.S. To prepare, the company may be rushing to move consoles from its manufacturing hubs in China and Vietnam to the United States. Nintendo also warned that further price increases for the Switch 2, physical games, or other products could occur depending on future market conditions.

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Despite the sales success, 2024 proved to be a challenging year for 11 Bit. The revenue increase did not lead to higher profit margins, and the company recorded an operating loss of $753,000. Net profit reached $1.8 million, buoyed by a deferred tax asset. A significant setback came in December when 11 Bit canceled Project 8, a narrative-driven console game, resulting in a non-cash impairment loss of $12.105 million and layoffs at the studio.

The decision was driven by a tough market for the game’s genre, prolonged development timelines, and rising costs that made a positive return unlikely. The company also recognized non-cash impairment losses on published titles The Thaumaturge and Creatures of Ava.

Przemysław Marszał, president of 11 Bit’s management board, acknowledged the difficulties, stating that 2024 was a year of hard work, tough decisions, and lessons learned. He expressed pride in the studio’s achievements while emphasizing the need to adapt to a rapidly changing industry. To ensure future success, 11 Bit plans to diversify its project scales and timelines, focusing on financially promising opportunities.

Looking forward, the studio has begun production on a new Frostpunk project slated for release in 2027 and has greenlit a larger-scale title for 2029. Marszał highlighted the company’s strong financial position, expressing confidence that cash reserves will grow significantly by the end of 2025 despite investments in new proprietary and third-party games.

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In Demonschool, you step into the shoes of Faye, a bold freshman and the last demon hunter from a legendary family, navigating a haunted island university. Faye and her allies investigate supernatural threats, battle possessed humans, demons, and other eerie creatures in grid-based combat, and work to seal away monsters to save the human world.

Combat unfolds on a chess-like tactical board, inspired by Into the Breach, where you strategize to defeat Hell’s deadliest foes. During the Planning phase, you map out moves and use classmates’ unique strengths. Actions can be adjusted to perfect each turn before transitioning to the Action phase, where attacks, heals, and special abilities trigger simultaneously.

Outside of combat, you can befriend, romance, and recruit 15 distinct playable characters, each bringing unique skills to the team. Balancing class schedules, training, extracurriculars, and side quests boosts the party’s abilities, all while Faye strives to maintain a strong GPA amidst the chaos of demon hunting.

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