Today in Gaming News – January 30, 2025

The gaming industry has delivered some more interesting gaming news today including another major Microsoft game making its way to Sony’s PS5

Here at Simulation Daily, we publish roundups with more gaming news that couldn’t be covered in individual articles, to keep you up to date with the work and games from a wider variety of developers than we otherwise could.

Before we get into the news here are handy links to gaming news that did get its own separate coverage.

• Civilization VII Reveals Post-Release DLC Roadmap Including Great Britain, Carthage, and Much More
• Farming Simulator VR Announced
• American Truck Simulator Shows the Fields of the Iowa DLC
• VRChat Update 2025.1.1 Squashes Bugs, Fixes Avatar Scaling, & More
• Sniper Sim Sniper at Work Announced
• Global Esports Dispute Resolution Body Unveiled: The International Games and Esports Tribunal

You can check out all the news below. Incidentally, if you’re interested specifically in flight simulation news, we have a dedicated roundup.

Forza Horizon 5 Announced for PS5

Microsoft is continuing its quest to release a number of its top games on PS5 and the next on the menu is Forza Horizon 5.

According to the announcement, it will be released on Sony’s console in the spring of 2025. It’ll have the same content as thee Xbox and PC versions, with  released Car Packs available for purchase on top of the Hot Wheels and Rally Adventure expansions.

Honkai: Star Rail Showcases Aglaia

HoYoverse revealed a trailer featuring the upcoming new character for Honkai: Star Rail, Aglaea. On top of the trailer, we also get a longer video showing off her moves.

Aglaea will be released with the next major update on January 15. If you’d rather hear the trailer with the Japanese voice-overs, you can find that version on the official YouTube channel.

Vein Developers Provide a Development Update Video

The developers of the zombie survival game Vein released another of their devlog videos in which they showcase what they have been working on in January.

As usual, it’s quite extensive and detailed, showing plenty of upcoming changes and improvements to the growing open-world game.

If you’re unfamiliar with Vein, it’s a first-person zombie survival game that could be considered roughly as a fully 3D version of the popular Project Zomboid.

It’s coming for PC on Steam, and an extensive demo is already playable for free. It’s constantly updated and it comes with enough content to be enjoyed and played extensively even before the full release. After the game is released, it’ll also come to Xbox Series X|S.