In a wild turn for the Subnautica 2 lawsuit, a judge orders Krafton to restore fired Unknown Worlds CEO and gives them 9 more months to earn $250 million bonus

In a wild turn for the Subnautica 2 lawsuit, a judge orders Krafton to restore fired Unknown Worlds CEO and gives them 9 more months to earn $250 million bonus

Nine months after Krafton gutted the leadership of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, leading to an acrimonious legal dispute, a judge has ordered that former CEO Ted Gill be reinstated, and that control over the game’s early access release schedule be returned to him. The judge also extended the $250 million earnout period that was…

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Digg, which just relaunched in January, lays off staff and shuts down, but promises it’s going to ‘rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack’

Remember Digg? You might if you’re of a particular online vintage. Launched in 2004, it was basically Hot or Not but for websites: Users would submit links to websites, and others would vote them up or down as they saw fit. It was a good way to find cool content stuff, and for a brief…

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Deus Ex’s maligned sequel was the most 2026 game of 2003⁠: It clocked the 21st century even harder than Metal Gear Solid 2

Picture it: a crumbling world in the wake of a great collapse, filled with pornographic inequality and quotidian violence. A world where the uttermost limit of respectable politics seems to be presiding over—sometimes slowing, sometimes hastening, never reversing—a process of inexorable decline. What am I talking about? Oh, you read the headline? That’s cheating. Yes,…

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Nvidia GTC live: Jen-Hsun lays out ‘the future of real-time rendering’ in today’s keynote and potentially ‘it’s gonna blow your mind’

Okay, that’s some bombastic headlining right there, but when one of the people behind the success of Nvidia’s DLSS feature reckons a new AI innovation in gaming is “gonna blow your mind” I’m prepared to listen. The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference starts today, with Jen-Hsun Huang hitting the stage at 11am PDT (6pm GMT) for…

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YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed ‘The Fanhattan Project’, performs pretty much the same as a standard fan

Have you ever thought, ‘There aren’t enough fans in my fan?’ That’s what I can only assume is the thought process of YouTuber Major Hardware, who has replaced one Noctua fan with 15 mini ones. The inspiration for this project is a tiny ‘flying UFO’ toy that their kids were playing with. Major Hardware says,…

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Bleem Creator Says Sega Was “Thrilled” At PlayStation Games On Dreamcast, But Didn’t Want “A Big Legal Battle With Sony”

“They loaned us a Dreamcast hardware development system”. Bleem! was a really unique product for its time, allowing users to run PlayStation games on non-PlayStation hardware. Originally created with Windows-based PCs in mind, Bleem! would later come to the Sega Dreamcast as Bleemcast – a move which Sega was covertly in favour of. Randy Linden,…

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