R-Type Dimensions III! Sektori! Perfect Tides: Station to Station! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch…
What if survival weren’t optional? That is both a useful way to explain why you can respawn in a videogame, and one of two central questions in Subnautica 2. The other is: Would morphing into some weird alien thing really be so bad? The highly-anticipated survival game is out in early access today, and after…
Subnautica 2 has just released into early access, and I’m already shaking in my boots. Despite having a deep distrust of the sea (and all the terrible things that live in it), I’ve been a very brave boy and spent some time testing the game’s performance using two modern graphics cards: an 8 GB tiddler…
You grip your controller until your thumbs go numb. You’re just gonna go on one more run. Hypnotic waves of colorful bullets fill the screen as you weave through the chaos, locked into an adrenaline-pumped flow state. But beneath that audiovisual and technical excellence, there are narrative reasons to explore the hostile alien world of…
A dream of a Golden Week. Famitsu‘s weekly physical hardware and software charts are in, and it’s a bumper one as we’re covering two weeks worth of sales thanks to Golden Week (via Gematsu). Starting with the games, as you can probably tell from the headline, number one hasn’t changed at all: Tomodachi Life: Living…
Finding an Acidic Raion Pouch is one of your first goals in Subnautica 2, since you’ll need it to make the basic battery required for a scanner. And the scanner is arguably your most important tool, since it’s used to unlock more blueprints, like the Wakemaker and Sonic Resonator. Luckily, you don’t actually have to…
Early on in Subnautica 2, you’ll be grabbing ore by hand. It’s painfully slow, and you can’t mine the big ore veins you’ll come across with your basic tools—it’ll say an “unknown tool is required”. That’s where the Sonic Resonator comes in. This heavy-duty mining tool can blast large ore deposits like titanium, silver, and…
You start with just 20 inventory slots and five hotbar spaces in Subnautica 2, which you’ll fill up in a matter of minutes. After that, you’ll be juggling storage chests and trying to find any nook and cranny to stow all your junk. So, finding out how to increase your inventory size is a high…
Quartz is one of the first and most important materials you’ll need to find in Subnautica 2, since it’s used to make some vital tools. This includes the Scanner, which is how you unlock basically every major blueprint, from the Sonic Resonator to the Wakemaker and Tadpole. But finding quartz isn’t easy when you’re thrust…
Tracking down silver in Subnautica 2 is your first challenge where crafting materials are concerned. You’ll need this metal to craft the air tank, which will let you stay underwater longer, and as you’ve likely surmised, breathing is kind of important in this game—I guess it’s always important, but especially so in this game. You…