Rise of Industry 2, the innovative sequel to the hit indie business tycoon game, will officially launch on June 3rd, 2025 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation®5.
Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing 1980s USA — an era of innovation, globalization, and unprecedented profits — Rise of Industry 2 offers a rich and immersive tycoon experience that challenges budding entrepreneurs to establish thriving and intricate production chains, forge relationships with powerful CEOs, and build a corporate empire from the ground up.
Pushing the boundaries from its predecessor, Rise of Industry 2brings fresh ideas to the boardroom, including a stylish new art direction, expanded gameplay mechanics, and exciting new features designed for both casual tycoon fans and veteran CEOs alike.
Features:
All-New Campaign Mode: Conquer 15 unique and exciting scenarios as you rise through the corporate ranks.
Expanded Sandbox Mode: Build the industrial empire of your dreams with complete freedom.
Dynamic Social Connections: Network with CEOs, trade materials, and gain introductions to powerful industry leaders.
Stylized 1980s Visuals: A vibrant, reimagined art style that captures the spirit of the decade.
Multi-Platform Release: For the first time, players can build their empires either PC or consoles.
Players can wishlist Rise of Industry 2 today on their chosen platform and prepare to embark on their journey to business magnate status.
The EVE keynote at Fanfest was packed with exciting news about EVE’s upcoming Legion expansion, the limited-time open pre-alpha access event for Vanguard in September, exciting summer news for EVE Frontier and a variety of other updates. You can watch the keynote on Twitch or catch up on all of today’s events over on CCP TV.
Legion expansion is imminent
The highlight of the Fanfest keynote was the announcement of EVE’s next expansion – Legion – releasing on 27 May!
Legion ushers in a new era in New Eden – one built on unity, ambition, influence, and the strength of capsuleers working together. Make your mark through Freelance Jobs that connect you to legendary players who have made EVE Online what it is today, and to those that are creating the New Eden of tomorrow. Reach beyond the ranks of your corporation and harness the talent of eager recruits! Fly as legion, under one banner, commanding devastating new warships that redefine battlefield power and leverage new sovereignty upgrades to strategically customize your space for maximum control.
Whether rising as an independent pilot or building an empire, this is your time to lead, inspire, and redefine the future.
More details will be revealed during the expansion keynote at 12:30 UTC on 3 May, which you can watch live on CCP TV.
Connect. Collaborate. Conquer.
A revolution in capsuleer collaboration, Freelance Jobs empower corporations to reach beyond their ranks and harness the talent of capsuleers eager to prove themselves!
Corporations can expand their operations, give purpose to potential recruits, and fuel their momentum and reputation. Whether you’re building an industrial empire or wielding formidable fleets, you can lead with conviction and scale with confidence.
New pilots can directly impact a living universe from day one! Freelance Jobs offer meaningful, player-created opportunities that reward curiosity, commitment, and courage. Earn ISK while building a reputation, gain priceless experience, and discover the many paths open to you. Connect with real corporations and real ambitions when taking your first steps or returning with something to prove.
Your Brand. Your Colors. Your Legacy.
Legion also introduces the Corporation Palette, allowing corporations to craft a visual identity as bold and distinctive as their ambition through full-spectrum color selection to represent their vision. Your colors are a statement of unity and boost pride, cohesion, and recognition as your influence grows across the cluster. Whether you want to broadcast your philosophy, rally your members, or simply stand apart, your palette is yours to define.
Amass Firepower, Command Destruction
Two fearsome new warships bring ultimate firepower and resilience, designed to dominate the battlefield and inspire awe.
The Babaroga, a Triglavian marauder, delivers brutal entropic disintegrator damage and its bastion module unleashes record-breaking subcap DPS.
The Sarathiel, an agile and fierce Angel Cartel dreadnought, unleashes fast, long-range capital-class destruction, enjoys big bonuses to capital projectile damage and falloff, and the unique ability to use a capital micro jump drive (CJMD) in siege mode!
Shape Your Space
New sovereignty upgrades will bring more control and dynamism to your nullsec territories. Mold your space and expand your strategies with powerful new sovereignty upgrades that provide new exploration opportunities and even greater leverage over your resources.
Firstly, new upgrades are being introduced that let you generate new colony resources by utilizing existing ones. Each one comes in three tiers, allowing for more flexibility when shaping your space to match the activities and ambitions of you and your corpmates.
Four new upgrades that consist of paired bonuses are also being added, allowing sovereignty owners to tailor their systems to fit their preferred combat styles, ships, and modules. For example, one of the system modifiers will apply a gamma effect to benefit your shield doctrines and capacitor capacity. Another plasma effect system modifier will benefit your armor comp and module overheating.
Finally, an improved version of the exploration upgrades that spawn data and relic sites are being re-introduced, complete with a new distribution system that will affect the spawn rate of these sites for several systems instead of just one. These upgrades will also have a guaranteed spawn rate upon installation and a chance at an escalation path across each of the tiers with new rewards.
Furthermore, orbital skyhook conquest costs will be greatly reduced with the ability to capture existing skyhooks, making your road to conquest more streamlined.
These upgrades will bring greater flexibility and opportunity to nullsec, enabling alliances to invest in infrastructure that reflects their ambitions and adapt more rapidly to changing circumstances.
The result is a more dynamic, rewarding sovereignty system that offers corporations new ways to support their members, compete on equal footing, and build a lasting legacy.
But wait, there is more!
Legion will also bring sweeping balance changes to cruisers and capital ships, along with a range of quality-of-life updates. check out the EVE Legion keynote tomorrow to learn more.
ELDEN RING™ Nightreign, the standalone multiplayer co-op action survival game by FromSoftware, Inc. and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., unveiled a new trailer to showcase an overview of the systems at players’ disposal to conquer the game’s various challenges in its harsh and unforgiving world. The network test was just a glimpse of the surface of the game’s malleability, as the world of Limveld can twist and change with each run.
Discover what awaits players when ELDEN RING Nightreign launches later this month by watching the new Gameplay Overview trailer here:
In ELDEN RING Nightreign, players must make split-second decisions about combat and exploration across a map that can fluctuate with different biomes, weapons, and enemies in order to become stronger, and outrun the encroaching circle of fire to be able to take on terrifying bosses at the end of each day. This culminates on the third day, where if players were successful in surviving the night must take on one of the Nightlords – new bosses for this version. Nightfarers must learn to cooperate to take down these challenges, combining their unique abilities together for an unparalleled experience in the ELDEN RING universe. All is not lost for those who fall in defeat. Unsuccessful runs will grant players relics to allow them to customize and upgrade their characters tailored to their personal play styles.
ELDEN RING Nightreign launches for PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam® on May 30. Find out more about the game and the editions available to pre-order on the game’s official website: nightreign.com
Dune: Awakening, developed by Funcom, is an open world, multiplayer survival game on a massive scale, where base building is a key part of the player’s survival and rise to power on Arrakis, the most dangerous planet in the universe. In today’s new video showcase, learn the various ways Dune: Awakening’s building system lets you claim your piece of the desert, and develop it into a wonder, piece by piece.
Start out by raising a small shelter as protection against the sun and bandits, and as a place to expand your crafting capabilities, even letting you refine blood into drinkable water. Expand your base, explore, build additional bases, and eventually, choose a Great House to align with. Once you have earned a place among the Atreides or the Harkonnen, you can begin to build with their unique architecture, visually inspired by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary’s award-winning blockbuster movies. From imposing and intricate fortresses, you will control the flow of spice.
For Dune: Awakening, Funcom has drawn on many years of experience designing building systems – pushing it to new heights with things like the Blueprint system, letting you copy any build into a Blueprint which can be placed anywhere in an instant, given to other players, or even sold. And with Solido Projections, co-op building has never been easier.
See more of Dune: Awakening’s building in action in the recent livestream, and dive even deeper into the mechanics of building in the recent blog, where you can discover more about building progression and mechanics.
Players will be able to carve their piece of Arrakis themselves on May 9 in the large-scale Beta weekend. For a chance to enter the Beta before it ends on May 12, they can watch the Global LAN Party Broadcast, where tens of thousands of Beta keys will be handed out to viewers.
Dune: Awakening releases on June 10. Pre-order now to get the Terrarium of Muad’dib and choose the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition for a 5-day head start and exclusive in-game items.
Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment (Monster Train, Dicefolk) and developer Violet Saint have officially released Moroi, a dark fantasy hack-and-slash adventure inspired by Romanian folklore, heavy metal and the profound works of David Lynch, on Steam for $14.99. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518410/Moroi/).
See all-new gameplay straight from the darkest corners of Moroi in today’s launch trailer:
Explore the theater of torment unfolding around you within the depths of Moroi’s Cosmic Engine, a personalized hellscape of twisting corridors, rusted gears, and rotting flesh. Brave the surreal horrors ahead without any knowledge of your name, your sins, or your past. Claw your way through this realm and encounter grotesque inhabitants whose morbid humor offers the only flicker of light in this dark world. Cling to your sanity in an otherwise deteriorating existence styled as grimdark fantasy, a subgenre of fiction distinguished by bleak, dystopian settings and scenarios.
In this place, violence seems like a currency. Moroi’s battalions of mages, golden guards, and the cursed dead all march to the rhythm of a nightmare, and you are caught in the tempo. Survive by wielding unorthodox weaponry such as attaching the vicious teeth of a talking duck to your sword, or shower enemies with added projectiles thanks to the aid of a powerful moon. Every step forward unveils something new, and something even farther from god.
Once your body is soaked in blood from combat, the Cosmic Engine confronts your mind with stomach-churning puzzles. Drink blood to open a door, induce regurgitation to reveal a new path, or dig through the insides of some poor soul to earn your passage. Every answer is a sacrifice, every solution a wound. Engage with this twisted world’s eccentric, absurd, and damned denizens, uncovering the reality of its cruel nature while grasping at fleeting moments of laughter amid the darkness.
Escape is your only hope in Moroi, but it won’t come easy. Tread carefully as the choices you make will carve your path toward one of multiple endings, shaping a fate that may prove worse than the nightmares you are trying to flee.
Stay up to date on the macabre reality of Moroi by following Good Shepherd Entertainment on social media.
Polish developer Image Power proudly announces that its long-awaited title, Haunted House Renovator is available on Steam! Released on Wednesday, April 30, the game invites players into a unique world where renovation meets the supernatural. Following the warm reception of the demo version, which was among the 50 most played games during last year’s Steam Next Fest, it’s time for the full game release. As a professional interior renovator, you’ll not only face challenges typical for this profession but also unwelcome tenants – ghosts, gremlins, and other supernatural beings that will try to sabotage your work at all costs.
Haunted House Renovator is not just about renovating old properties, it’s also:
Immersive FPP gameplay – first-person paranormal renovator simulator with magical tools and emphasis on banishing hauntings
Spooky, not scary – it’s all about the atmosphere rather than actual fear
Rich bestiary of paranormal phenomena – face various hauntings and curses
Moral choices – exorcise ghosts gently or use more radical methods
Unrestricted creativity – decorate and renovate according to your vision
Unique supernatural entities – discover new types of ghosts, including a characteristic mischievous gremlin, a “sociable” Shiba Inu ghost, and Fantasioom Broom
Expansive upgrade system – for your tools and abilities
Making companions – if you manage to tame a haunting, it will stay by your side and assist you in your missions
Help for inexperienced players – press the middle mouse button to automatically equip the right tool or use the Camera to photograph hauntings and learn how to deal with them
Dark, suggestive audiovisual setting – feel the unease flowing from every corner
Diverse storyline – influence the course of the story with your choices
Today, Ubisoft revealed its Year 1 Post Launch Roadmap for Assassin’s Creed® Shadows, highlighting a series of regular updates that will expand the live game experience over time. These updates will contain free content for all players, including additional story content, special collaborations, updates made in response to community feedback, new rewards, and more.
The roadmap outlines specific details for the first few updates coming in May and June, introducing exciting additions to the game such as highly anticipated parkour improvements based on community feedback.
Launching later in 2025, the ‘Claws of Awaji’ expansion will introduce a brand-new open world region with over 10 hours of additional content. Details on the exact release date and pricing will be provided at another time.
Back in the latter part of January, the team at Creepy Jar revealed an all-new look at gameplay of their sophomore title, StarRupture. Today, the developer invites players back not for a mere trailer, but almost 10 minutes of footage taken from the latest build of the game showcasing the depth and detail of the world they’re building. Why tease you with a couple of minutes when they can simply show you what they’re working on? Join Creepy Jar as they put all of their collected experience from the development of their first hit, Green Hell, into practice on an all-new survival and base-building adventure.
See the beauty and lush landscapes of Arcadia-7, the stunning yet perilous planet where you, the player, are a prisoner, indebted to serving your sentence and gathering resources for a global corporation that doesn’t care if you live or die, but only if you deliver profit. You are nothing more than an asset. Built in Unreal Engine 5, StarRupture will stun players with its panoramic vistas, keep them on their toes in frantic combat with deadly monsters, and offer them the smooth satisfaction of expanding their factories across the planet’s surface. Playing solo or with up to four players in co-op, StarRupture pits players against the ruthless law of nature as the planet’s very own life-giving—and taking—star, Ruptura, counts down to its next catastrophic, fiery death.
KEY FEATURES:
Explore a Deadly Planet – Explore this vast open world, rich in resources, places, and secrets to be found. Discover the beauty of this constantly reborn dangerous world torn apart by repeated cataclysms.
Build to Thrive – Search, mine, and process resources to develop your complex industrial system. Unlock new technologies that will allow you and your base to survive the harsh conditions on the planet.
Fight to Survive – The planet will surprise you at every turn. Extreme temperatures are not the only things you’ll be challenged with. Get ready to defend yourself, your team, and your base from a horde of aggressive alien creatures.
Alone or with Friends – Experience and survive everything you encounter on this harsh planet. Do it alone or in a group of up to 4 friends. This world is waiting for you to discover.
Get in touch with nature and discover the magic of gardening with REKA’s brand new ‘Roots & Remedies Update’, coming to the beloved witchcraft adventure later this month.
Available as a free content update to all REKA players from May 12th, the Roots & Remedies Update gives budding witches all the tools they need to grow a blossoming garden. Plant seeds to grow pumpkin patches, cabbages, garlic, grain, sage, wolfsbane, poppy fields and more, using your new, trusty Old Watering Can to help your garden bloom.
Once harvested, head over to the new Herbalist Workshop to craft a very special potion that grants players the power to speak to animals. Become a witch capable of communicating with the wildlife of REKA’s woodlands: every animal in the game can be spoken to, including cats, goats, crows, deer, chickens, donkeys and more.
Also introduced in the Roots & Remedies Update, discover new challenges with the addition of ‘Lost Places’, hidden points of interest located across the game world that reward players with loot for successfully solving puzzles or navigating platforming sequences. Keep an eye out for intriguing-looking paintings and explore ruined buildings for a chance to discover hidden chests – you never know where Lost Places may be hiding.
Discover new equipment and wield the new Oil Lantern to help light up your surroundings, hold Swarog’s Torch to ignite small flames, and select the new Mortar and Pestle Talisman to quickly teleport home to your walking chicken-legged cottage. Plus, look out for more quality-of-life improvements, along with a new outfit, new trinkets, new interactable NPCs, and much more when the Roots & Remedies Update launches on May 12th.
REKA is available now on Steam Early Access. To keep up with the latest updates, join the community on Discord, follow @emberstorm_de on X, follow @emberstorm_entertainment on TikTok, and visit fireshinegames.co.uk.
iRacing has debuted a new developer diary for NASCAR 25, NASCAR’s flagship racing title releasing on PC and consoles this fall. The new “Sights and Sounds of Race Day” video shines a light on the authentic presentation of NASCAR 25, where you’ll experience a full day at the race track from a driver’s perspective – from the pits to the garage to the speedway. Check out the video to hear from racing legend and Executive Producer Dale Earnhardt Jr., as well as NASCAR Cup Series spotters TJ Majors and Josh Williams, both featured in-game. Learn how the game captures the sport’s sounds and emotions, and discover how NASCAR 25 is creating the most immersive NASCAR video game experience yet.
NASCAR 25 will feature all four premier NASCAR series – the NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series, Craftsman Truck Series, and, appearing along NASCAR series in a standalone title for the first time, the ARCA Menards Series. All four series, along with real drivers from each, will feature extensively in NASCAR 25’s Career Mode, where you’ll customize your own driver and vehicles, manage contracts, money, facility, and staff, and make strategic choices on and off the track that play a pivotal role in your journey to becoming a NASCAR Cup Series champion. The four series are also playable in other gameplay modes such as quick races, seasons, and online multiplayer.
NASCAR 25 is the first standalone NASCAR console title produced by iRacing, the developers behind the most authentic motorsport racing simulation in the world. iRacing is bringing decades of racing expertise to NASCAR 25, including developers who worked on fan-favorite NASCAR games like NASCAR Racing 2003, NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona, and entries from the NASCAR Thunder series.
