The summer game ends when I say that

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Ben Jun has passed in fog of air travel, moderate diseases, protests and pride, and it is official time to close the book at Fest Summer Game 2025. We have published more than 80 stories About this year’s offer and all deserve to be read, but before moving forever, I wanted to highlight a last group of games that I could not stop thinking about. This week I offer three mini -mini -screened signs from SGF 2025 – only two of horror games, which is a tremendous growth on my side.

Crisole: I idolatry theater

Crisole: I idolatry theater I was not on Radari until I sat and played it in the Blumhouse booth, but now it becomes noisy and clear, as if the mutations were directly emitted from the intestine that is sunken in the blood. It is a alive movement game from the first person who has been appointed in a copy stored from Spain full of modern folklore monsters. Marionettes and giant skeletons, decorated decorated, hunting you in the dark streets and towering Gothic buildings, shining from all the total 3D details. I felt the entire experimental offer as if it was lost in a terrifying carnival, and I enjoyed every part of it.

in CrisoleBlood is your source of ammunition, and you drain the bodies of humans and chicken to supply your health bar as well as your guns. Crisole Tense and wonderful, remind us Dishonored or The village of evil residingAnd enemies are both strong and difficult to evade. Crisole It is a game for the first time from the independent Spanish Fermella Studios, which receives Megagrant epic For the project in 2020, it is published by BlumHouse and is scheduled to come out this year steamAnd PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Dangerous seasons

There is a very wrong thing in Ashenridge, the ideal rural village where Dangerous seasons It was appointed. At first glance, Dangerous seasons It is a nice narrative game with a detailed pixel art, juice romance options and home maintenance mechanics. You spend time in agriculture, irrigation, harvesting, formulating the elements, picking garbage and chatting with the villagers – then dig a cut hand. Paylar, your fluorine neighbor, who runs a tailor on the road, says something fateful about the fate of your former home owner. Vapi transformations. The shadows begin to look evil. Night unleashed, sudden, violent, and more traumatized horror in such a peaceful place. Super serial killer is in a loose state in Ashnridge, and between crop cultivation, it is up to you for the investigation (and perhaps the date) of the killer.

Dangerous seasons It is a game that will live or die because of its accent, and until now, the ideal developer has completely drained the tanning of creeping dread. Ashenridge is a beautiful small city with many people to meet and activities to complete, and the symbolic characters are sexy, kind and interesting. The investigation of the murder is simply cherry at the top of a specialized cultivation and dating game, and I am keen to take a bite of the full game. In SGF 2025, the complete developers said Dangerous seasons Experience should take about 20 hours. Dangerous seasons It is published by Blumhouse, and it is scheduled to strike steam And control units in 2026.

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Escape 2: Back 2 School

Academy He is One of the favorite players During the past five years, it has been unusually neglected for completion, which turns the school into an open world of puzzles, puzzles and pun. with Escape 2: Back 2 SchoolThe mineral crew is running the developers on the atmosphere of playing roles, and the entire campus is full of puzzles. It is also operating as a cooperative for the sofa, which is one of the greatest strengths in the series. The solutions that scream in a feverish in your friend feel more personally than inviting the dispute, do you know?

I played the original Academy With a local partner, thus tried the sequel in SGF 2025. The Engadget Eic Aaron Soupouris has been conducted to the iam8bit booth we, from the classroom covered with an infiltrated environmental embodiment. in Escape Academy 2The task is simple – the exit – but the implementation is complex, and soon we throw names, dates and mathematics problems, and we try to solve a series of difficult, interconnected puzzles and leave the room. After getting only one hint of developers, we made our way to the hallway, which lined up with the treasury -based puzzles, and finally reached the school principal’s office, which was a professional puzzle stadium. We had to use a pen and a piece of paper to follow some sections, and in general, our reactions were new. Coin Crew does not raise the same problems with different solutions for sequel, and the new puzzles were smart, innovative and very satisfactory. (The same cannot be said about all the pun, but this is part of magic.)

Escape 2: Back 2 School Both local cooperative and online are distinguished, so you will be free to scream on your friends in any way. Coin Crew is still working on the game and there is no release date yet, but it is now available Steam’s wish list.

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News

I left 11 -bit studios of artificial intelligence

The only worse thing is to not reveal the use of artificial intelligence in creating a video that does not reveal and then publish it smoothly that the players notice it immediately. The Indie and Publisher 11 Bit Studios developer learned this lesson directly with ChangeThe game of building the future base starring a pioneer and reproduction of alternative reality. Within a week of release of the game on June 13, the publications started She appeared on Redit and Blouse Show the text created by artificial intelligence in the game, through multiple languages. On June 30, 11 bits issued a statement confirming its use of Amnesty International in Development ChangeSaying that it was used only in the text of the background and to help the efforts of the last minute.

“Regardless of what we decided, we should have taught you simply,” the studio wrote.

Xbox hairstyles

I really like to stop writing newspaper titles like this. Microsoft is preparing to remove a large number of Xbox employees this week, as part of 3 percent reduced employees throughout the company. This is a loss of approximately 7,000 jobs in total, according to BloombergXbox leaders expect “great discounts across the entire group.” The shooting is followed by a tour of 10,900 workers’ demobilization At Xbox in January 2024, another 650 workers’ demobilization in SeptemberAnd the past year ending From the corners of Austin, Alvia Games for Dogs and Tango Games (which the latter lives under Crafton’s leadership). Meanwhile, Microsoft reported net revenues of $ 25.8 billion in the first three months of 2025, with an annual increase of 8 percent in revenue from the content and services of Xbox. congratulations?

Netflix is ​​executing the game menu

Netflix started strengthening the video game section around 2021, with acquisition Oxenfree Studio Night school and launch a gaming library within the app offers famous portable addresses without any additional fees for subscribers. Netflix currently supports more than 100 games, including The door of deathfor Hadesfor The state of the golden idolfor The rise of the golden idolfor The anniversary braidfor Katana zero And the Souvenir Valley series – but this disappears in July. A total of 22 games of Netflix will be deleted at different times in July, and the execution will follow similar discounts in the interactive section of the company, including the last closure of A. AAA AAA Studio.

league of legends and Brown Electronic sports are now betting

Riot control games open league of legends and Brown Esports scenes to bet on, enable professional gambling at the highest level in the Americas and EMEA. Riot head of publishing and electronic sports John Nidham Advertise the new allowance On June 27, on the pretext that the bet is already outside the books and that the official market allows regulation. It also allows Riot to consume a piece of this flavor, but Needham does not say that directly in his note. Whatever the catalyst, prepare to see Draftks and Fanduel alongside Red Bull and MasterCard during your advertising rest periods.

Sell ​​Summer is sold here to take your money

Because we know that you will get Something What do you take in Steam Summer Sale this year? Share your spoils in the comments! If you are steeped, allow me to suggest humility Blue Princefor Home Safety Hotlinefor Look abroad or Claire mysterious: Campaign 33.

In a related note, do not forget to check (almost full) Playdate Season 2.

once upon a time, Resident Evil: Mass It was the open world game

… but it is certainly no longer. Resident Evil: Mass Producer Massachika Cata and director Koshi Nakanishi explained In video Their new game is the experience of one player in a non -communication mode, but they said that it was early in development, the team thought seriously to make it online and open the world. This experiment feeds rumors about mass Enter a new direction for the Resident Evil concession, but it turns out that the final product will be a Familiar, terrifying self -horror With the ability to swap between the views of the first and third person. Spooooky.