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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FF14’s most determined challenge runner finally hits a wall after 1,000 hours, then unveils a backup strategy that took 233 days to prepare in secret: ‘I wanted so badly to tell people’

Final Fantasy 14‘s Solo Only is one of my favourite challenge runs ticking over on YouTube right now—mostly because of how utterly improbable it is. For context, RathGames has been taking on the MMORPG on his own without outside help—no market board, no trading, no parties, and no duty support NPCs. This is a problem,…

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Marathon dev effortlessly bodies haters who say Bungie’s not the studio that made Halo anymore—rattles off 40 Halo OGs who still work there and says he can list more if you want

Everyone’s saying it: things just aren’t what they used to be. Where are the real heroes, you know? The titans who built the games we grew up with? Are they all gone? Are they all departed to Eressëa, never to return? Oh, they’re still here. Well, my mistake. This I have learnt from recent posts…

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Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

Intel has recently spotted a whole host of security vulnerabilities in the UEFI for many of its products, which could allow the escalation of privileges to bad actors. It’s a problem worth updating your device over when updates are available, but for now, just stay vigilant of who is near your rig. The highest severity…

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