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At gamescom asia 2025, VGTimes spoke with the Russian studio Antifreeze Games, currently developing the dark sci-fi horror Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter, inspired by the aesthetics of Soviet retrofuturism. Game director Sergey Karetnikov shared exclusive details about the project and revealed its creative influences — including Resident Evil, Bioshock, and Prey.

The combined gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2025 event wrapped up with a record-breaking 206,000 attendees over four days. The highlight of the show was the award ceremony, where French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took home the top honor.

At gamescom asia 2025, VGTimes caught up with the Russian indie team Antifreeze Games — creators of last year’s adventure thriller Satellite Odyssey: Prologue. The studio is now hard at work on its sequel, Satellite Odyssey: Jupiter. Game director Sergey Karetnikov shared exclusive details about what to expect.

Our editor-in-chief, Rodion Ilin, continues his coverage of one of the largest gaming exhibitions of the year, gamescom asia. At the event, a representative of the publisher ESDigital Games spoke about the specifics of localization work.

Since last year, Germany’s gamescom has been held not only in Cologne, but also in Southeast Asia. This time, in 2025, Europe’s largest gaming expo has temporarily migrated to the hot capital of Thailand. From October 16 to 19, gamescom asia is taking place at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, together with the Thailand Game Show. Rodion Ilyin couldn’t stay home during these days, so he quickly packed his camera, microphone, and a couple of socks into his backpack and rushed off to Bangkok… The first photos from the scene are in this article.

At Gamescom 2025, Zotac unveiled an updated version of its Zone Pro handheld. In a shift from the norm, the device runs on Manjaro Linux instead of Windows, a move the company claims delivers up to a 20% performance boost. It's slated to go on sale in October.

Following the gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live, a ranking of the most-viewed trailers has surfaced online. The list was compiled by user @Okami13_, with numbers current as of August 28.

The YouTube channel GameRiot has released a gameplay video of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl running on PS5 Pro. The creator got hands-on with the demo version at gamescom 2025 and said he was “very impressed” with this build of the game.

A trailer for the role-playing game ZERO PARADES (formerly known as C4) was presented at gamescom Opening Night Live 2025. The project is being developed by the Estonian studio ZA/UM, which released the non-trivial RPG Disco Elysium in 2019. Since then, ZA/UM has lost key developers and cancelled several projects. Now the fate of the studio directly depends on the success of ZERO PARADES, which has been in development for more than three years. In this article, we have collected everything that we know about the game at the moment.

YouTuber ElAnalistaDeBits has released a new comparison video, this time highlighting the graphical differences between the upcoming sci-fi action adventure Pragmata on PC and PS5.

A brand-new gameplay video for Routine, a sci-fi first-person horror game in the vein of Alien: Isolation, has surfaced online. Routine was originally announced back in 2012 and has been in development for 13 years.

At gamescom Opening Night Live 2025, Polish studio CI Games presented the first trailer for Lords of the Fallen 2, a soulslike set in a dark, god-forsaken fantasy universe. According to the developers, the project is being created taking into account the criticism of players.

The winners of the Gamescom Award 2025 have been revealed during a livestream held on August 22nd. Resident Evil Requiem emerged as the big winner, taking home the most awards this year.

At the opening ceremony of gamescom 2025, Valor Mortis was announced, a new game from One More Level, the creators of the Ghostrunner duology. This is a first-person soulslike set in the early 19th century, but with elements of dark fantasy. We have collected all the information that is known about the project at the moment.

Fans of Hollow Knight have been waiting for the sequel for almost seven years. During all this time, Team Cherry maintained strict radio silence, as a result of which their next project acquired a semi-mythical status, comparable to Half-Life 3. Gamers endlessly speculated about when Hollow Knight: Silksong would be shown, and actively discussed why development was taking so long, fearing the worst. Finally, the wait is coming to an end — the new Hollow Knight will be released in just a couple of weeks. Ahead of launch, Team Cherry brought a demo to gamescom, and many first impressions of the game have already appeared online. Let’s break down the key details available so far.

During Gamescom 2025, Atari released a new trailer for the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. In the latest trailer, the developers revealed two more games that will be included in the project: Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.

At the very end of the opening ceremony of gamescom 2025, a trailer was shown Black Myth: Zhong Kui. We are talking about an indirect sequel Black Myth: Wukong, in which we will play as a different character. In this article, we have collected all the information about the future project that is currently available.

At the gamescom opening ceremony, Capcom presented trailers for Resident Evil Requiem and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. While there was nothing fundamentally new for RE—the footage shown in Cologne had already been covered in our previous preview—Onimusha: Way of the Sword was more interesting: the Japanese developers showed fresh gameplay footage featuring battles with demons of all kinds. But let's take it step by step.

At gamescom, the fourth entry in the LEGO Batman franchise was announced, subtitled Legacy of the Dark Knight. The project immediately sparked great interest among gamers: it’s actively discussed on social media, and the debut trailer has already gathered hundreds of thousands of views. Why such hype? The reason is that Legacy of the Dark Knight is not just another parody-styled linear LEGO game, but rather an ambitious open-world adventure that strongly resembles Rocksteady Studios’ Arkham trilogy in terms of gameplay.

The second-gen ROG Raikiri II wireless controller leverages rare TMR sensor tech to combat stick drift and boasts a record-breaking 1000 Hz polling rate, even over wireless.