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“My son always says I look like a supervillain,” James Ohlen says, laughing as he puffs his daily cigar on his porch in Austin, Texas, smoke twirling around his face. “It’s one of the many bad habits that I picked up when I was doing the job. I always told everybody I should never be…
After you reach the surface and get to work making your new aquatic habitat a home, your Subnautica 2 adventure hits a snag: You can’t digest any of this planet’s lifeforms. Whatever fish you catch and gobble up, even if cooked, throw up warnings about “digestive incompatibility.” Mercifully, Subnautica 2 leaves the physical consequences of…
AMD now owns fully 38.1% of overall market revenues for x86 CPUs according to new data from Mercury Research (via HotHardware). That’s up from 35.4% for the previous quarter. But AMD’s desktop CPU market share actually fell. AMD is doing particularly well in the server market, where it won 46.2% of revenues and 33.2% of…
Control Resonant is going to be an RPG—that much we knew, with PCG’s very own Robin Valentine being actively surprised by just how much of a Diablo-like it was when he saw it back in March. But did you know the Control series was always meant to be an RPG? Me either. Per creative director…
AI doesn’t have the best rep. Being the thing responsible for the memory crisis is certainly not great, but concerns over copyright, the environment, and human creativity only make things worse. That’s why it’s a little bit satisfying to watch a crowd of university graduates respond negatively when they’re told it is the future. As…
Subnautica 2 launched into early access today, and at least one new feature makes it an improvement over the original: multiplayer. Up to four players can play Subnautica 2 in co-op, so you can have some company as you plumb the depths of the alien ocean world. We got our hands on Subnautica 2 a…
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…
Finding gold in Subnautica 2 is a key part in crafting both an Advanced Wiring Kit and a System Chip (which the Advanced Wiring Kit is used to make). You’ll also need gold if you want to build a Thermal Plant, one of the more reliable methods of producing for your base alongside the Hydroelectric…
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…