The Subnautica 2 lawsuit is getting even messier, with Krafton doing a massive U-turn, confusing both the ousted founders’ lawyer and the judge: ‘This is a little bit bewildering’

It wasn’t all that long ago that we were anticipating the imminent arrival of Subnautica 2. The sequel to the superb underwater survival game has yet to appear, though, and the founders of Unknown Worlds have been ousted by owner Krafton, leading to a messy legal dispute between the two parties. One of the reasons…

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Fortnite will soon let creators earn money peddling items straight from their islands, throws a tomato at Roblox by comparing cuts for good measure

Roblox has slowly (but steadily) cemented itself as one of gaming’s giants, even beating Steam for concurrent users back in late August—which, given the size of Gabe Newell’s videogame empire, sure is something. That’s due in part to the fact people can create and share content for the platform and, crucially, make a bit of…

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End of Windows 10 support might mean a sizeable shrink in the entry-level PC gaming market according to new research

Amidst a more positive prediction that, compared to 2024, the global PC gaming hardware market “will grow 35% in 2025 to $44.5 billion”, Jon Peddie Research also foresees a “significant decrease in entry-level PC gaming over the next five years.” Dr. Jon Peddie, the research centre’s president, explains: “We are forecasting a significant decrease in…

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Nvidia and Intel joining forces could be seen as anti-AMD, but it just serves to highlight AMD’s advantage with Ryzen and Radeon under one roof

You’ve likely heard the news by now: Intel and Nvidia have agreed to build a new range of products together. These co-developed chips will fuse Intel’s x86 architecture with Nvidia’s RTX graphics chiplets. The idea being, if you bring together both companies’ tech, it’s possible to deliver something more flexible, more desirable than either company…

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The Trump administration may have had a hand in the Nvidia/Intel partnership, whether directly or indirectly, despite Jensen’s claims to the contrary

The dust is beginning to settle on yesterday’s Nvidia and Intel announcement, in which the two companies declared a collaboration to make new chips for both the data center and consumer markets. In a press conference yesterday evening, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang firmly stated that the Trump administration “had no involvement in this partnership at…

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Intel’s future might be rosier now that Nvidia is partially on board but at this moment in time, AMD rules every roost in the CPU coop

If there’s one thing that’s predictable about the tech world, it’s that it’s all very unpredictable. I mean, who would have thought a few years ago that Intel would become financially unstable, dropping projects and thousands of staff, and then randomly announce a sizeable investment from Nvidia and a plan to collaborate on new chips?…

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Eye-scanning Orb maker says ‘there is no world where we are not going to have’ biometrics to check we’re human and keep games bot-free

I recently spoke to a number of biometric authentication providers and experts to try and suss out the pros and cons of various ‘proof-of-human’, AKA ‘liveness detection’, technologies, AKA prove you’re flesh and bones and not an agentic AI. One thing I didn’t focus on too much in my piece exploring the tech, but which…

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