Alongside an ever-growing library of great games, the Epic Games Store’s news team continues to celebrate the developers that make those games possible. This year we published almost 500 stories, all hand-crafted by real people, and uncovered the incredible stories behind the games you love.

So, while you’re waiting for Borderlands 4 to download, why not read about how they made a game with 30 billion guns. Or see what it takes to make a kung fu MMO? Or discover what Peter Molyneux puts in his chilli? 

Here’s just some of our coverage from 2025. 

 

The big stories

This year we talked about reviving a decades-old series, uncovered what makes a cozy game so cozy, and a developer remaking the beginnings of the Earth itself. 

• The surprising revival of the Delta Force series, decades after the previous title. 
• The lovely community behind the Farming Sim series.
• How sword-crafting RPG Blades of Fire was forged.
• Why PUBG creator Brendan Greene’s next game is “a decade-long plan to create a virtual space the size and complexity of Earth itself.”
• The first big interview with the makers of Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement.
• How Borderlands 4 manages over 30 billion weapons.
• Your next monster-taming obsession could be Mongil: Star Dive.
• Inside Silent Hill f’s radical new take on the series. 
• Multiple cozy game developers tell us what makes their games so nice.
• Phantom Blade Zero’s kung fu is a love letter to wuxia.

History lessons

Classic games are making a comeback. Love remakes, reboots, remasters? Read these.

• You won’t believe what Peter Molyneux put in his chilli while making Dungeon Keeper.
• 2025’s Tomb Raider remasters even restored cut content.
• Sonic CrossWorld’s maps are Easter egg-filled history lessons.
• Blood’s second remaster happened after Nightdive uncovered the source code.
• How The Sims’ speech evolved from grunts into a proper language, a.k.a. Simlish.
• System Shock 2’s remaster polished up the most influential immersive sim.
• The Zone returned to life with the Enhanced Editions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy. 
• Terminator 2 finally got the pixel-perfect game it deserves. 

Events

We were on the floor of the biggest events of the year, covering the newest titles and biggest updates as they were revealed. 

• SGF: Relooted wowed everyone as a game about repatriating lost history through heists. 
• SGF: A wordless, hand-crafted platform game left us Out of Words.
• SGF: The gorgeous and daunting Infinitesimals shrink you down to battle among blades of grass and insects.
• SGF: How the darkly brooding and deeply atmospheric End of Abyss started out as something less grim.
• SGF: Whales fly and sand is the ocean in the gorgeous Sword of the Sea.
• SGF: IOI’s James Bond finally came in from the cold.
• TGA: And we then followed up with a look at Bond’s bad guy: Lenny Kravitz’s Bawma.
• TGA: All the news that flowed from The Game Awards.
• TGA: And we once again marveled at Out of Words. 

So many interviews

We chatted to everyone we could, and we heard so many stories. 

• Skin Deep’s developer turned Looney Tunes and Die Hard into an immersive sim.
• The colors and culture of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.
• How Half Sword’s detailed fighting is brutal and hilarious.
• Why Supraworld’s developer wants you to break the game.
• Aerial_Knight’s Dropshot and its unabashed “rule of cool” design.
• Open-world cycling game Wheel World’s real-world roots.
• Hollywood’s power and paranoia is exposed in Dead Take.
• Sports Interactive explained why Football Manager needed extra time.
• Why nearly everything in Hirogami is made out of paper. 
• The surprising impact Kingdom Come: Deliverance II had on Czech culture.
• LEGO Voyagers asks “What does it feel like to be a one-by-one brick?”
• Hollow Ponds talks about turning their warehouse shelf stacker job into a puzzle game series.
• Kapih’s a love letter to Indian language, art, and folklore.
• We uncovered the many future plans for ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK 2.

We played some games 

That’s not true. We played lots of games. But we can only list some. 

• Repose dragged us into a two-tone dungeon crawler.
• We kicked a football around the streets of Ecuador in Despelote.
• We found out just how real The Sims can look.
• And we turned Infinity Nikki into a fashionable photo shoot.
• Train Sim World’s incredible details wowed us.
• Herded some Herdlings, they’re so fluffy!
• We discovered how GTA Online carries on Grand Theft Auto V’s storylines.
• And we also took a tour around the ray-traced streets in Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced.
• We played a game within a game in Them, a hybrid 2D/3D horror game.
• Like a lot of you, we played some Borderlands 4 with family and friends.
• See Through My Eyes let us explore how visual impairment affects everyday life.
• We raised a Nanomon Virtual Pet at the bottom of our screen.
• And we braved the scariest games to take incredible virtual photography. 

There’s more—so much more—over on the Epic Game store’s newsfeed, and we have big plans for 2026! See you in the new year, and thanks for reading.