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Behold Subnautica 2's fancy fresh windows that come as part of its new procedural base building system
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Behold Subnautica 2's fancy fresh windows that come as part of its new procedural base building system

Subnautica probably wouldn't be the beloved ocean exploration/survival crafting game that it is without its underwater base building, so of course it's no surprise that it's returning for the impending sequel. But being a sequel, it of course can't just be the same thing with a new coat of paint slapped on, and in a dev log some of the improvements of base building in Subnautica 2 were put on display. Read more

I am going to be playing this rap album that's also a walkthrough of indie classic Cave Story on repeat
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I am going to be playing this rap album that's also a walkthrough of indie classic Cave Story on repeat

What's the best video game guide you've ever used? There's an art to it, knowing what information is imperative to include, how to include it, is it a written guide, or a video? Well, how about a 21 track long rap album? I only ask because, I am so delighted to say, someone has done just that for indie classic Metroidvania Cave Story. Read more

Don’t know your FSR Diamonds from your DirectStorages? Here’s what all that Project Helix tech-speak actually means
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Don’t know your FSR Diamonds from your DirectStorages? Here’s what all that Project Helix tech-speak actually means

A man with a gun stands above the crowd at GDC, the barrel levelled at the words "Next Gen Raytracing Performance & Capabilities." Alas, he is not here to shoot the technojargon out of existence, nor to ballistically punish the unforgivably inappropriate use of title case. He himself is a ray-traced gamething, here to illustrate at least three of the many hardware-based tricks and tools that Microsoft are hyping up for Project Helix: the next, apparently PC game-running Xbox console. Read more

Ex-Overwatch director reveals a multiplayer lovechild of Read Dead and Rust, which I hope boasts nude shootouts
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Ex-Overwatch director reveals a multiplayer lovechild of Read Dead and Rust, which I hope boasts nude shootouts

That's cool, but can I whip out a six-shooter while my private parts dangle in the breeze and cause a rootin' tootin' ruckus that leaves my enemies with chills going up their spine whenever they see bare buttocks? This is the question I've found myself asking of The Legend of California, a multiplayer survival shooter that the studio currently led by former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan are releasing in early access this year. Read more

Co-op Shadow of the Colossus and hero looter shooter: the genres Arc Raiders devs' thought it was during development
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Co-op Shadow of the Colossus and hero looter shooter: the genres Arc Raiders devs' thought it was during development

I think that genres, particularly in the realm of games, are often more used as marketing tools than signifiers of the contents therewithin. Still! Genre labels are a useful thing to quickly ascertain the thing you're doing in a game. Take, for example, Arc Raiders and its specific genre of extraction shooter. You know you'll be shooting, and extracting something, even if it technically isn't that simple in practice, but you get the gist. However, at one point in time, the genre of the game co

A week from its release date, Crimson Desert swallows some Denuvo DRM
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A week from its release date, Crimson Desert swallows some Denuvo DRM

Well, a week out from the gargantuan merging of MMO and RPG bits' release, we finally know what Crimson Desert is. It's a game that's just slurped down some Denuvo DRM (. Yep, the shonky enormity of exploding slippage whose devs reckon they announced it too early has been fed some anti-tamper software at the last minute. Read more