Subnautica 2 chief says Krafton is still messing with him, because the May release date announcement was news to him and he’s not happy about it

The twisting tale of Krafton, Unknown Worlds, and Subnautica 2 has taken a hard left turn as Game File reports that newly restored Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill has “serious concerns” about Subnautica’s early access release in May. All of this will make more sense if you know what’s happened previously, so let’s cover that…

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Major industry survey finds that, surprise surprise, 9/10 game devs think generative AI use should be more fully disclosed on Steam

A major new survey by GamesIndustry.biz has found, among many other things, that almost nine out of ten workers in the games industry (88.4%) believe Valve should force developers to declare any generative AI usage. This comes shortly after Valve updated Steam’s AI disclosure policy in January to specify a focus on AI-generated content that…

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Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to ‘work to make improvements quickly’

Crimson Desert’s launch hasn’t been met with universal acclaim, as frustrations with the hypermanic open world’s bizarre control scheme and design oversights like its bafflingly restrictive inventory system have earned an early “Mixed” rating on Steam. Those complaints, however, don’t seem to have slowed its launch day sales. Just over 16 hours after its Steam…

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Grab 8 Warhammer ebooks and audiobooks for free just by downloading the new Black Library app—and listen to the glorious sound of Brian Blessed playing the universe’s angriest dwarf

In the grim darkness of the present day, everything has to be an app. So it is that after many long years of service, Games Workshop’s Black Library website—home of its wide range of Warhammer novels—is being replaced with something a little more high tech. Some scepticism is understandable, particularly because this means you now…

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Gaming mouse software should stay out of your way and it’s the smaller manufacturers that seem to have received that memo

What do you want from gaming mouse software? If you’re anything like me, your immediate reaction to that question is probably ‘not much.’ But over the years, I’ve noticed that asking for ‘not much’ actually seems to be quite a lot to ask for, judging from over-bloated and over-complicated software that we’re often served up….

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‘We’re honoured to share the same name’: Two indie devs accidentally released games with the same name only days apart and it ended in the most wholesome way possible

Over 19,000 new games were released on Steam last year, almost an unimaginable amount. So it doesn’t really come as a surprise that a few of all the new releases would share some similarities and even possibly the same name. But there’s Piece by Piece and Piece by Piece, two games from indie devs that…

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The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China

Three Chinese businessmen have been charged by the US government for allegedly diverting “high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated US artificial intelligence technology to China.” The three are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, co-founder of Supermicro; Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan; and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a contractor of…

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