The month of May once again brings big releases, among which we find a variety of genres and production values. We review in chronological order all the most relevant video games that land in the coming weeks.

As they say, “in April, a thousand video games”. This month arrives with an especially intense schedule that combines highly anticipated triple-A games with independent projects that stand out for their creativity. We review, in chronological order, the most outstanding releases.

This month we highlight several major releases spanning a wide variety of genres, platforms, and age groups. At the end of the list, however, we also detail a number of expansions. ports and early access releases significant enough to warrant mentioning. To round things off, February ended with a surprise release in CatalanBut March brings us two more studies. indie Catalans.

The major digital platforms (the big techThey dominate the economy. Digital technology has become indispensable, whether for information retrieval, social networking, e-commerce, operating systems, or smartphones. Each of these fields is dominated by a few companies. The leaders are Google with its search engine; Meta in social networking with WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram; Amazon in e-commerce; Microsoft with Windows and applications; and Apple in mobile phones. High fixed costs, network effects, and dynamic economies of scale (e.g., in the learning curve) make these companies increasingly competitive. big tech are dominant. The accumulation of data leads to feedback effects, in which more production and more sales induce more data and more network effects that make the company more efficient, improve products and services, and stay ahead of competitors. They are, therefore, markets that migrate towards a winner that takes the whole market or most of it (winner-takes-alleitherwinner-takes-most).

OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, announced Tuesday that it has completed its restructuring and signed a new deal with Microsoft to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical AI system that surpasses the capabilities of the human brain and that experts say could arrive within the next decade.

The Israeli army's cyberwarfare unit uses Microsoft servers to store a wealth of surveillance data on Palestinians captured from the mobile phones of Palestinians, data it has used to planning deadly military attacks in Gaza and the West Bank. Microsoft has made available to the Israeli army a customized area with almost unlimited capacity within its Azure cloud, allowing the Israeli army's cyberespionage unit, Unit 8200, to build a powerful new tool for mass surveillance: a vast and intrusive system of mobile phones made daily by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is revealed in a joint investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew outlet Local Call.

About a year ago, in June 2024, Nvidia made headlines for having achieved the title of the most valuable company in the world, ahead of Microsoft and Apple. Now, the large American chip manufacturer has reached a new milestone: its capitalization now exceeds 4 trillion dollars – almost three times the GDP of Spain – and sets a new world record. With the current situation of international trade war following the tariff policy of US President Donald Trump, this meteoric rise in the share price of the first American company is even more striking.

As the competition to dominate the future of artificial intelligence (AI) intensifies daily, Google and Microsoft held their respective developer conferences this week, Google I/O 2025 and Microsoft Build 2025, with AI taking center stage. Both digital giants showed their cards in a game where billions of euros and global technological leadership are at stake.

South of Midnight is the latest project from Compulsion Games, a Montreal-based studio best known for the disturbing We Happy FewSince being acquired by Xbox Game Studios in 2018, the team has focused on defining its creative identity and developing this new title, which represents a major leap forward. The studio has never followed trends, instead preferring to create distinct experiences accompanied by a highly stylized aesthetic, in which atmosphere and narrative take center stage. Now they present a new, highly original adventure that combines an unusual setting in fiction, the Deep South of the United States, with a very classic animation technique, yet one that surprises in its medium.stop-motion.

David Bellos acknowledges that if he were to die today, the ideas in his book would still be protected for another seventy years, during which the publisher and his heirs will continue to exploit an essay that criticizes, precisely, the speculative drift of copyright. Copyright, the industry that moves the world (Peninsula, 2025), this professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University analyzes with the intellectual property lawyer Alexandre Montagu how this concept has ended up becoming a tool that benefits a few large multinationals and curbs the creativity it promised to defend.

In the world of video games, this February brings us remakes High-flying games, experimental projects from indie creators, and other interesting offerings like the latest from the creators of Little Nightmares. Interestingly, there's a notable presence of games aimed at an adult audience. We'll review this month's main releases chronologically.

Uncertainties cause insecurities. And insecurities encourage authoritarianism. In the first stage, it seems that there will be a congruence between the economic and power orientations of the White House and the court of business magnates who support it: the Magnificent Seven (The Magnificent Seven) of the new technological imperialism (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla).

Barcelona has become a magnet for international companies' hubs. The latest to announce that it will establish its new development centre in the Catalan capital is pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The hub will focus on accelerating the development of next-generation drugs in the field of rare diseases. The project will create up to 100 specialised R&D jobs over the next two years and has the support of ACCIÓ, the Catalan government's agency for business competitiveness.

Multinational software company Microsoft has chosen Catalonia to set up a new base for its R&D operations. The company announced in a statement on Monday that it will open a centre in the Catalan capital focused on the application of artificial intelligence to improving web user experience. This initiative will initially have a team of 30 people, mainly engineers specialised in this new field of technology, as well as in the areas of machine learning and deep learning. The facility will be part of a network of eight research centres located around the world in Microsoft's web experience division.