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Semir edits and writes at AltChar where he covers the latest news from the video games industry. He also likes to drop an opinion piece about the hot topics here and there. Semir is a PC gamer at heart but loves a short couch session on his console every once in a while.
Semir mainly covers exciting news and rumours from the video games industry, and often writes about Xbox and PlayStation Studios. He also loves writing reviews for the games.
Semir was a gamer from his early childhood. While games like the original Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were his early childhood occupations, he leans more towards addictive strategies, smaller narrative-driven adventures like Pentiment and exploration-focused RPGs these days.
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Indie studio Argunov Games announce Supreme Experiment, an atmospheric first-person immersive-sim set in a bleak world where humanity lives in towering spire cities while evolved machine civilisations rule the toxic surface below.
DECEMBER 19
We don't typically do Game of the Year awards at AltChar, but Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 left such an impression on our team that we couldn't let 2025 end without celebrating it.
DECEMBER 18
Funcom have just announced Chapter 3 for Dune: Awakening, which they say is the largest free update for the game yet, focusing on expanded endgame progression alongside the paid Raiders of the Broken Lands DLC featuring 74 new building pieces.
DECEMBER 18
Norwegian indie studio Filiokus has announced Talystro, a roguelite deckbuilder that uses mathematics as its core combat mechanic, tasking players with matching exact enemy values through strategic dice rolls and card calculations.
DECEMBER 18
Bethesda is reportedly developing Starfield's largest content update yet for 2026, which will significantly reduce loading screens and improve exploration according to a report from Windows Central.
DECEMBER 18
Warner Bros. Games has announced that Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 40 million units worldwide, making it the biggest game release in the publisher's history and placing it among the best-selling games of all time.
DECEMBER 18
Turn 10 Studios has announced it will cease active development on Forza Motorsport, ending new content updates and bug fixes as the team shifts focus entirely to Forza Horizon 6 for a 2026 release.
DECEMBER 17
The upcoming open-world shooter Terminator: Survivors will miss its 2025 release window and will no longer feature cooperative multiplayer, it's been announced today.
DECEMBER 16
Poncle drop a new gameplay trailer for Vampire Crawlers, the turn-based dungeon crawler spin-off of Vampire Survivors, and reveal that the game has already accumulated over 170,000 wishlists on Steam.
DECEMBER 16
Reanimal, the spooky co-op adventure from the creators of Little Nightmares, has gone gold and is confirmed for release on February 13, 2026, across Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
DECEMBER 16
GSC Game World has announced a two-day delay for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl's Stories Untold content update, which will now launch on December 18 instead of the originally planned December 16 release date.
DECEMBER 16
Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has confirmed that Divinity will be a turn-based RPG launching in early access, with the developer targeting a significantly shorter development cycle than Baldur's Gate 3's six-year production.
DECEMBER 16
