DATING AND DRAMA IN TINSELTOWN CONVERGE ON STEAM

Los Angeles, California – August 21, 2025 – Lights, camera, drama! Interactive Films LLC today announced that their narrative-driven dating sim, The Fame Game: Welcome to Hollywood is strutting onto Steam September 4, and it’s already stealing the spotlight overseas. 

Since its reveal, the narrative-driven FMV dating sim has shot to #1 on HeyBox’s Hot Game Discussion list and landed #3 on the HeyBox Game News Hot List, outranking  AAA giants  like Battlefield 6 and Black Myth: Wukong. Dubbed “China’s Steam community,” HeyBox reaches millions of players every month, making The Fame Game’s chart-topping buzz a clear sign this Hollywood drama is building blockbuster hype worldwide.

Wishlist The Fame Game: Welcome to Hollywood on Steam

Players take on the role of Jonathan, a well-meaning but naive actor who lands his first starring role and must now navigate fame, flirting, and the pressures of Hollywood – an industry built on illusion. Through branching dialogue, meaningful choices, and a cast of distinct personalities, players are invited to explore not just romance, but the complicated stories behind the people they meet. From introverted creatives to career-driven dreamers, every relationship offers a different path to explore, each character brings a different lens to the world and challenges the player to rethink what they think they know.

The Fame Game: Welcome to Hollywood is about connection, conflict, and choices that actually matter. With a branching narrative and multiple possible endings, it invites players to replay and rethink the consequences of each decision. Who do you trust? Who do you really know? And how far are you willing to go to find authentic connections in a world built on fantasy?

This one-of-a-kind dating sim features:

• Choose your romance: Meet seven unique women, each with their own personality, backstory, and path to a potential happily-ever-after. Your dialogue and choices determine who falls for you and who walks away.
• Full Motion Video: Enjoy a cinematic experience with hundreds of filmed segments. Every choice is acted out in real time, giving you a movie-like adventure to control.
• Multiple endings: Will you become a Hollywood legend or a has-been? With countless branches and relationship dynamics, no two playthroughs are the same!
• Drama on and off screen: Rivals, producers, paparazzi, fame, flirtation, and fallout as your every decision shapes your public image, career success, and romantic fate.
• Your story, your way: Impress co-stars, win affection points, dodge scandals, and find your voice in a world where fame is fleeting and love can be scripted.

About Interactive Films LLC

Interactive Films (IF), a film and media subsidiary of Snail, Inc., was founded with the goal of reaching new audiences, engaging enthusiastic viewers, and telling stories across multiple formats. IF is also the catalyst behind SaltyTV, a specialized film application designed to produce and showcase compelling short-form vertical content. The SaltyTV app is available for download from the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store.

Get ready to enter the Zone on PS5 this November, with pre-orders open now.

KYIV, UKRAINE — August 21, 2025 – GSC Game World is pleased to announce that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl will be released on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro on November 20, 2025 — exactly one year after the PC and Xbox Series X/S versions. Get ready to enter the Zone with a range of fully optimized features, including Adaptive Triggers, Haptic Feedback Support, Tempest 3D Audio, and much more. 

This version of the game is fully optimized for PlayStation 5, including, but not limited to:

• Adaptive Triggers and Haptic Feedback Support
• Gyro Aiming through Motion Sensor
• Speakers, Lightbar, and Touchpad Gesture Utilization
• Tempest 3D Audio
• Trophies

PlayStation 5 Pro-specific features include, among others:

• Improved shadow quality and resolution
• Enhanced global illumination
• Higher-quality reflections
• Improved volumetric fog
• Enhanced volumetric cloud rendering

Thanks to these changes, Skif’s journey through the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone will feel immersive and authentic for all players — whether you’re returning to the Zone or venturing in for the first time. 

Pre-orders are open through this link digitally, with three editions to choose from — Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate. Among other exciting offers, pre-order bonuses include new weapon and costume skins for PlayStation players.

A physical Standard Edition of the game will also be available at launch, with additional collector’s boxes to follow in 2026. You can find details about these on our website.

The game is developed amid Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, and the war continues. GSC Game World has been supporting their homeland in every possible way. For those wishing to contribute, we recommend visiting the official charity fund of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

About GSC Game World

Founded in 1995, GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer known for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Cossacks series. The studio is dedicated to delivering exceptional gaming experiences and recently launched S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

New gameplay trailer has just premiered on Future Game Show

Gaijin Entertainment and Matter Team are happy to announce that Active Matter preorders have already started at Gaijin Store. There are three editions (Advanced, Premium and Elite Squad) to choose from, each of them including access to the closed version of the game and an initial arsenal of weapons, gear and other content to start your adventure with – ranging from sniper rifles, special ammo and armor plates to scout drones and robo-dogs. The closed version of Active Matter will become available to the purchasers of any of the editions on September, 9th at Gaijin Store. There will also be a Standard edition of the game that will be sold on September 9th and beyond. The Steam and console versions will come in 2026.

Active Matter is a hardcore military online PvPvE, PvE and PvP shooter set in a multiverse shattered by a quantum catastrophe. Each player controls an operative stuck in a time loop, always brought back from the dead to the same point, and enters quantum unstable zones rich with active matter – a substance capable of warping and ripping the very fabric of space and time. The new Active Matter trailer premiered at Future Games Show on August 20th showcases the typical gameplay situations that players will encounter in the multiverse.

The closed version of Active Matter at Gaijin Store is an exclusive opportunity to play the game before the official launch on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox. This special version includes work-in-progress content for those who would like to try it before anyone else and influence the game development by providing feedback to the developers. There is also a preorder-exclusive bonus: an extra unique skin available only for those who preorder one of the game editions before September, 9th.

The game price and the exact list of the content included in each edition is available at the official website.

About Gaijin Entertainment

Gaijin Entertainment is the developer and publisher of the online games War Thunder, Crossout, Enlisted, CRSED: F.O.A.D. and Star Conflict as well as other PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, iOS and Android titles across several genres. The company’s diverse portfolio has received a range of mass media and game industry awards including such as Gamescom Award and many more. Official website: http://gaijinent.com/

Step into its starship-themed sci-fi showcase at gamescom!

August 21 – Veteran Chinese studio Pixel Software has partnered with publisher Tencent to reveal their open-world sandbox MMORPG Interstellar Utopia. Featuring an expansive, original sci-fi universe full of starships, cyborgs, intergalactic exploration and resource gathering, Interstellar Utopia offers the next wondrous sci-fi universe to get lost in!

While Interstellar Utopia is planned for a 2026 launch, you can see it for yourselves right now at gamescom! Its can’t-miss starship-themed booth lets players step into a futuristic exhibition space inspired by Interstellar Utopia. Featuring game-themed standees, cybernetic character displays, and an array of exclusive giveaways – all celebrating the game’s high-tech, spacefaring aesthetic.

Featuring playable demo booths, you’ll be able to dive headfirst into Interstellar Utopia’s boundless universe well ahead of its launch. Don’t forget to check out the Ultimate Photo Op: the “Mind Upload Terminal”. Based on Interstellar Utopia’s “Neural Upload Station” – where humans upload their consciousness to attain immortality as cyborgs –  this art installation lets visitors “digitize” their essence and view themselves reborn as cyborgs – embodying the game’s mantra: “Everything Can Be Cyberized!”

Set over 400 years in the future, Interstellar Utopia follows humanity’s last exodus after an alien invasion forced Earth’s survivors to flee as digital consciousnesses into the cosmic void. Now, diverse civilizations with their own varied histories and cultures are spread throughout the galaxy, just waiting to be explored.

Interstellar Utopia lets players explore a vast, living universe where you can travel through ecologically diverse seamless maps with no loading screens. Play as multiple Cyborg races, each with their own unique traits and tech. Arm yourself with a robust sci-fi arsenal of customizable future-tech gadgets, modifiable mechs, and interstellar vessels. Offering true freedom with crafting and building, players are able to reshape worlds. Open-ended progression means players are free to choose their own path through this boundless universe as they forge alliances or rivalries across a unified global server.

“At the heart of Interstellar Utopia’s design lies one core principle: putting players in control,” said Kun Liu, Producer at Pixel Software. “Will you be a lone gunslinger piloting a mech across the stars? A trader forging alliances to monopolize the galactic tech tree? A pioneer terraforming barren worlds into thriving multi-species colonies? Or a warlord igniting faction wars on the fringes of known space? Every choice matters, with players shaping unique civilizations. That’s why we included “Utopia” in the title: it’s a promise of infinite possibilities, everywhere.”

About Pixel Software

Pixel Software is a veteran Chinese game development studio. Their latest seamless open-world MMORPG Chimeraland surpassed 30 million global registrations, proving their mastery of scalable sandbox design.

London (August 21, 2025) Today, Capcom is celebrating the public’s long-awaited first opportunity to go hands-on with PRAGMATA™ at Gamescom 2025. To mark the occasion, Capcom has revealed new intel on the highly anticipated sci-fi adventure title, decrypting more information on the action-packed Hacking gameplay and sharing an assortment of new character and enemy art.

As protagonists Hugh and Diana journey to escape the lunar research station, a variety of threats stand in their way. These foes include the Walkers. Humanoid bots based off the M4 series, they are among Delphi Corporation’s most successful products. The Walkers’ ability to use tools and work alongside humans made them a popular choice for support roles. In lunar environments, the improved M4AM design is capable of handling low-gravity, vacuum-like conditions.

Another powerful enemy players will face is a boss known as the SectorGuard. The SectorGuard, from product line S-35, is a large-sized bot developed by Delphi’s military manufacturing division. It was built mainly to protect sensitive or high-priority installations. The spherical modules located on both its arms are fitted with guided weaponry and low-gravity ballistics. Players will need to utilize Hugh’s thrusters to dodge its attacks so Diana can Hack its defences.

During the fight against the SectorGuard, players will encounter a new Hacking ability called Overdrive Protocol. As its gauge fills up, Diana unlocks the ability to simultaneously Hack the surrounding enemies, forcibly opening up their armour and temporarily halting their movement. It’s a powerful attack, but it’s also one that is best used carefully at the right moment!

To enhance Diana’s Hacking abilities, players can also collect Hack Nodes from the environment to use in combat. Activated by passing through them in the Hacking Matrix, these consumable nodes temporarily lower enemies’ defences. Hack Nodes add a layer of complexity to the game’s unique combat system and provide more opportunities to make strategic decisions in the heat of battle. One of these Hack Nodes, the Decode Node, can lower enemies’ defences for a limited time. Stay tuned to learn more about how the gameplay experience will continue to evolve.

Fans can go hands-on with PRAGMATA this week at Gamescom 2025. Players can also get a feel for the Hacking mechanics by visiting the official website and trying a special “Hacking Minigame” that can be played in web browsers.

PRAGMATA launches in 2026 for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam via PC. PRAGMATA is also now available to wishlist on the PlayStation Store and Steam.

About Capcom
Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld, and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including groundbreaking franchises Resident Evil™, Monster Hunter™, Street Fighter™, Mega Man™, Devil May Cry™, and Ace Attorney™. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tokyo, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at www.capcom.com or news.capcomusa.com.

Capcom and the Capcom logo are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. in the U.S. or other countries. Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries, in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

Cologne, August 12th, 2025 – Papercoda Games, an indie women-led studio focused on making impactful games, is thrilled to announce their new project – Media Circus – a unique narrative-strategy game where you launch a newspaper as its editor-in-chief, and try to survive the cutthroat news business in a satirical animal world! 

Media Circus won Best Spiel Award at the Indie Game Fest 2025 based on audience votes, and will be part of the Games for Democracy stall in the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom 2025.

Its early demo has been winning hearts and minds at game festivals and conventions such as A MAZE. / Berlin 2025, DoKomi 2025 and Reboot Develop Blue 2025. Players loved that the game let them “publish anything they want”, tempted them to “sell their soul” and even allowed them to “do propaganda”.

Media Circus is inspired by the designer’s personal experience working on news desks and her disillusionment due to the industry’s attenuation. “We made this game because we want to remind everyone what’s at stake when the Fourth Estate falters,” said the team at Papercoda, “But we also want to do it in a way that’s engaging, thought-provoking, and — above all — fun.”

About the Game

Media Circus – Control the Story, Control the World!

Launch your newspaper and sway the masses in a unique animal world! Direct reporters, plan stories, blow up Headlines for Impact and throw in Ads for Profit. With every faction gunning for a piece of your front page, how far will you go to keep your paper in print — and yourself out of trouble?

• Steam Page Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3868010/Media_Circus

Key Features:

• Plan your Newspaper – Choose what becomes News! – creative newspaper designing mechanics let you control what becomes news and how much it impacts your fictional world.
• Grow your Influence – your newspaper is a business. Attract readers, secure profits and beat your competition to grow your influence and bank balance.
• Manipulate a funny animal world – an innovative modular narrative system ensures the world reacts minutely to your editorial, narrative & financial choices and strategies, resulting in high replayability!
• Forge your Identity – Will you be a money-spinning tabloid, serious investigative journal, a propaganda mouthpiece, or something in between? Your actions and impact will result in hundreds of unique stories and endings.

About Papercoda Games:

With the motto ‘Decoding our World through Play’, Papercoda Games was founded by three diverse multimedia artists with a shared mission: to create fun, accessible games that address complex real-world issues and offer mindful entertainment to engage with our times.

Our studio has been supported by The Game Starter Foundry and Mediengründerzentrum NRW and the concept and prototype for our game Media Circus was funded by Film-und Medienstiftung NRW.

From the creators of Critically Acclaimed and Barrier Breaking Management Simulation, City Bus Manager, PeDePe raises the stakes with Global Rescue

Paderborn, Germany, 21st August 2025: Aerosoft and PeDePe are proud to finally reveal their next major project together: Global Rescue, an all-new emergency services management game coming to PC, ready for wishlisting on Steam today!

Global Rescue mixes map-management play and top down 3D worlds, players will build and operate their own emergency services bases, taking control of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations in real world locations. Using detailed real world map data, playing Global Rescue will allow you to start your bases anywhere in the real world, choosing to manage global capitals or small towns, you’ll be in charge of managing all operations related to your chosen location’s emergency teams. 

Be ambitious and experience densely populated centres, where the emergency line answers hundreds of calls a day, or take a more community centered approach in villages! Battle fires big and small, conduct speed trap tests, reduce ambulance waiting times or direct high-risk SWAT operations, you must keep your teams prepared for any occasion and the citizens safe.

Featuring an extensive research tree, customizable vehicles and a mission editor, players will experience almost limitless possibilities for strategic planning and creativity. Global Rescue was developed to consider a vast and authentic set of management tasks, including the recruitment and training of specialised personnel, coordinated multi-department operations in a living 3D world, upkeep and maintenance of the base and its vehicles and facilities, and so much more.

List of Key Features:

• Play anywhere in the world using real-world map data
• Build and customize your emergency base
• Control four departments: Police, SWAT, EMS, and Fire
• Hire, train, and manage staff across all units
• Operate 19 different vehicles with maintenance systems and custom paint
• Respond to dynamic, authentic emergency missions
• Handle extra duties like traffic checks and witness interviews
• Unlock upgrades via an extensive research tree
• Create and share your own missions using the built-in mission editor

Remember to wishlist Global Rescue on Steam today!

About Aerosoft

Aerosoft GmbH was founded in 1991 at Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport and develops add-on software for Microsoft Flight Simulator. From 2002 onwards, add-ons for Train Simulator were also developed. Since 2007, Aerosoft has expanded its spectrum to include other simulations, including On the Road, OMSI 2, Autobahn Police Simulator, and City Bus Manager. In 2016, Aerosoft published the two successful simulators, Fernbus Coach Simulator in cooperation with FlixBus and Emergency Call 112 – The Fire Fighting Simulation. Aerosoft is also responsible for the flight simulators Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and XPlane 12 exclusively in Europe. With over 40 permanent employees, Aerosoft GmbH is one of the leading software publishers in the field of traffic simulations worldwide.

About PeDePe

PeDePe GbR was founded in 2015 in a small town by Lake Constance, Germany, initially developing add-ons for bus simulation games. Ten years on, the three brothers have grown into a fully fledged professional game development studio. As experienced software engineers and architects, the brothers pooled their skills together to create realistic economy systems in games, focusing on enhancing reality on Bus Simulation games. Starting their successful career with add-ons to OMSI 2, including the Bus Company Simulator, OmniNavigation and Control Centre Simulation, the team quickly became a favourite amongst fans. Since 2022, PeDePe set their sights onto something even bigger, with the release of their first full game, City Bus Manager, which took the Bus Management world by storm. Today, the studio announced Global Rescue, an emergency operations management simulator, putting players in charge of fundamental emergency services in any city or town in the real world.

Cognition Europe unveils an adventure & exploration sci-fi game that’s out of this world.

Zaventem, Belgium – Thursday, 21st August 2025 — Independent studio, Cognition Europe, has announced its debut title, Lunar Strike, a sci-fi narrative adventure and exploration game set on the hostile environment of the Moon’s south pole. Launching on Steam and consoles in 2026 (with wishlisting now available)  Lunar Strike is set in 2119 on humanity’s final lunar colony, as it faces an impending, catastrophic threat from the heavens…

Revealed in a teaser trailer as part of FGS Live at gamescom, Lunar Strike blends speculative fiction with a game world grounded in hard science – including orbital dynamics and applied astrophysics – and ethical decision making, as players try to archive humanity’s scientific and cultural legacy before it’s lost forever.

Watch the extended announcement trailer

Lunar Strike focuses on compelling survival and character-driven storytelling over combat, as the protagonist – a tech-augmented archivist – races against time to preserve the evidence of humanity’s presence on the Moon before its inevitable collapse and destruction. As players navigate the increasingly deteriorating base in lunar gravity, they will have to prioritise what real-world historical space artefacts are saved, and what is lost… forever.

Developed with ethical questions of legacy, memory, and responsibility at its heart, players will face increasingly difficult challenges to build and preserve the archive, with multiple outcomes driven by their decisions and values.

Lunar Strike Key Features

• Rich, multi-faceted narrative: Preserve the culture of the last lunar colony while making game-altering decisions that impact the story unravelling a new future for humanity.
• No Combat: Lunar Strike focuses on survival, scanning, puzzle solving, and decision-making. The gameplay unfolds under time pressures, environmental degradation, and mounting ethical tension.
• Grounded in Hard Science: Developed in collaboration with space researchers, the game incorporates realistic systems and hazards, including 1/6th lunar gravity, toxic Moon dust, and real-world physics.
• Cultural Heritage as Gameplay: Preserve humanity’s story on the Moon. Through 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and archival logic, capture the final traces of lunar life before its collapse.
• Rooted in Real Ethics and Science Fiction: Inspired by real-life heritage efforts, built by creators with backgrounds in cultural preservation and storytelling, Lunar Strike invites thoughtful engagement with space exploration.

Brian Pope, Creative Director, Cognition Europe, said: “Lunar Strike has been developed from the outset to be grounded in real-world science and lunar research, while delivering a branching, character-driven narrative where every item preserved (or lost) by the player moulds the future record of humanity’s presence on our only natural satellite.

“Lunar Strike is our way of making a call to action that we should be looking to safeguard humanity’s heritage while embracing technological advancements, including AI, as positive forces for our collective future,” he added.

About Cognition Europe

Cognition Europe is an independent studio based in Belgium, focused on narrative design, speculative science, and system-based storytelling. The team includes developers, researchers, sound designers, and advisors from across the space science and cultural heritage sectors. Lunar Strike is the studio’s debut title.

Survive, Build and Forge Your Legend as a leader

Oberhaching, Germany, August 21, 2025 – The wait is over. Development team Digital Daredevils and German publisher Toplitz Productions are proud to lift the curtain on their highly anticipated life simulation roleplaying game Vikings Dynasty. Prepared for this year’s gamescom and premiered at Gamestar’s prestigious ‘Show Your Next Game’ event, the gameplay trailer gives a first peek into the unforgiving world of Vikings and the player’s slow rise to success in the unforgiving Steineyjar archipelago. Starting as a survivor, it is a long and dangerous way to become a jarl and take responsibility not only for your followers, but eventually a family as well.

Surviving, hunting, exploring the open and unforgiving world up to building your first house: The gameplay premiere showcases some of the trademark elements the community knows, loves and expects from a new entry to this beloved franchise – and then some.

The first in a series of gameplay trailers serves as a preview to the sneak peek presentation available to content creators, media and editors when they visit Toplitz Productions at their booth in Hall 4.1 Booth D-038g – C-029g.

Yet this is only the beginning. In the weeks and months after gamescom, Toplitz Productions will not only release further videos in this gameplay series but will also keep you updated with additional gameplay insights and themed deep dives across their channels from social media to YouTube.

About Digital Daredevils

Gameplay, story and a player experience supported by fabulous art are the branches that Digital Daredevils combine every day, while they work on their debut game in their headquarters in Wrocław, constantly forging new elements in a game world that will surprise and absorb you for many hours. The foundation of the work of all studio departments is passion and a deep understanding of the needs of the modern player.

About Toplitz Productions:

The German-Austrian publisher, whose name originates from the mysterious Toplitz Lake in the heart of Austria, develops and publishes games with “heart & soul” for all platforms. The company consists of a healthy mix of experienced industry veterans and young talents, all of whom are passionate gamers. They enjoy working with creative developers on many exciting titles, such as those from the “Dynasty” and “Giant” series.

Stay up to date and learn everything worth knowing about Toplitz Productions by following the company on X, Facebook, the official website and Instagram.

Global game publisher GRYPHLINE is honored to share that Arknights: Endfield, its upcoming real-time 3D RPG with strategic gameplay elements currently in development for PC, PlayStation®5, and mobile platforms, has been nominated for Best Mobile Game at this year’s gamescom award. Fans can submit their votes for the title between Aug. 20–21. Arknights: Endfield will also be playable on-site at the GRYPHLINE booth located in Hall 8.1, Booth B021 in Koelnmesse, Cologne. 

To ring in the start of gamescom, GRYPHLINE also shared a new trailer for Arknights: Endfield during Opening Night Live:

The booth will be bustling with interactive activities including special stage events, exclusive giveaways, cosplayers and real life AIC installations.

Attendees can collect a stamp card, complete tasks, and redeem exclusive gifts, including swag bags, holographic fans, AR boards, and postcards. Quantities are limited so early participation is recommended. Attendees must obtain all four stamps to earn a raffle ticket and enter the daily lucky draw at 6 p.m. local time between Aug. 21–24 at the stage. Prizes include an RTX 5080 graphics card, a €500 Amazon gift card, and an Arknights: Endfield Deluxe Merch Pack.

Cosplayers & Photo Ops:

Eight professional cosplayers will bring Arknights: Endfield characters to life, including Endministrator, Perlica, Chen Qianyu, Wulfgard, Ember, Laevatain, and Yvonne. They will be available throughout the day for photo opportunities at the booth.

Stage Events & Special Guests:

From Aug. 21–24, join GRYPHLINE for special stage events featuring influencers Bonjwa on Aug. 21, RvNxMango on Aug. 22, KingChris on Aug. 23, and Honeypuu on Aug. 24. Players can watch live gameplay of Arknights: Endfield, take photos with their favourite influencers, and participate in gameplay on stage to win special prizes.

Published by GRYPHLINE in North America and Europe, Arknights: Endfield is set in the world of the wildly successful mobile tower defense RPG hybrid Arknights, which has received 100M downloads since its 2020 launch.

Find out more about Arknights: Endfield on the game’s official website. For more information about GRYPHLINE, please visit the company’s official website.