May 16, 2026
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Ousted Subnautica studio co-founder says it was a ‘shock’ to get fired, Subnautica 2 is ‘ready’ for early access release, and no longer working ‘at the company I started stings’

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Last week, Krafton gutted the leadership level of Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds, and in a notably robust press release said that studio needed “renewed energy and leadership” to deliver the long-awaited Subnautica 2. The fan reaction was generally speaking one of total dismay, so much so that Unknown Worlds released an open letter over the…

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is ‘from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad’

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I’m always very skeptical of attempts to tie particular themes in literature and film to some sort of ineffable national character. Surely nations are too strange, large and varied to be reduced to something quintessential and eternal. Surely they’re too much changeable beasts of history to possess any attribute that can endure and speak across…

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Charge into EA Sports College Football 26 with EA Play Now

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Category: Games July 7, 2025 Charge into EA Sports College Football 26 with EA Play Now Charlie FortescueDirector, Global Corporate Communications, EA Summary EA Sports College Football 26 is available to try for 10 hours with the EA Play trial. Members can save 10% off EA digital purchases including the full version of the game…

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The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a ‘bog hound’

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RimWorld‘s latest expansion, Odyssey, promises to add a pretty amazing amount of stuff to the game’s already deeply layered space colony simulation. Between the customisable spaceship, orbital exploration, new biomes, quest system, and a whole machine hive mind threat to deal with, on paper it seems like the biggest expansion yet. What’s piqued my interest,…

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Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that’s what people want: ”I didn’t want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, this isn’t your daddy’s elf’

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Pillars of Eternity might be Obsidian’s baby, but the series that most recently spawned Avowed is still inextricably tied to established fantasy fare, particularly D&D and the Forgotten Realms. It’s a setting that’s closely linked with Obsidian, despite it never designing an official D&D adaptation—the studio was founded by Black Isle veterans, after all. But…

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I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it’s clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion

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I’m sure I’m not the only person who watched Squid Game and naively thought to themselves “yeah, I could probably do that one” about any of the challenges. From the comfort of my own couch, practically anything seems possible. Jumping over a skipping rope with a broken ankle? Done. Carving out a shape from dalgona?…

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Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with ‘Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns’ and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer

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Activision has pulled a specific PC version of Call of Duty: WW2 just days after release, following reports that the game suffers from a remote code execution (RCE) exploit. This affects the so-called “Xbox PC” version of COD: WW2 that was just released on PC Game Pass: the game remains available on Steam and through…

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