Subnautica 2's latest 1.2 update is friend focused—finally adding the key mechanic to any great multiplayer game

Subnautica 2’s latest 1.2 update is friend focused—finally adding the key mechanic to any great multiplayer game

I’m not sure there’s been a better invention for multiplayer games than proximity chat. Whether it be friends screaming vengeance down the side of a mountain after you abandon them in Peak, or the wails of one of your fellow workers fall suspiciously silent in Lethal Company. Proximity chat offers up fertile ground for hilariously…

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This ‘physics-based survival city builder’ stuffed all my favorite words into its title so I’m automatically psyched

All Will Fall—going by the full legal name “All Will Fall: Physics-Based Survival City Builder” on Steam—is nearly all of my favorite videogame things. I’m a build mode girl at heart with a survival game fixation and a fondness for Valheim’s physics-lite building. It was designed with me in mind. Despite the dropshipper style keyword-stuffed…

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GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4’s map nuked after 6 years of work because people noticed, and Rockstar insisted on a ‘friendly takedown’, if you know what I mean

The GTA 5 Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP) was released this month after six years of work, recreating GTA 4’s unforgettable Liberty City within GTA 5’s game world. This was a seriously impressive piece of work, managing to bring over the entirety of Rockstar’s skewed New York and show it all off with GTA 5’s…

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