Subnautica 2 is Steam Deck Verified, as is Forza Horizon 6, Mina the Hollower, and Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
An unusually busy May for game releases is turning into an unusually bounteous month for the Steam Deck, with Valve granting their seal of handheld PC approval – Steam Deck Verified status – to a wave of new and upcoming games. Among these are the early access version of Subnautica 2 , which…
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Unbear-able
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A strange choice with details to follow.
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Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.
"If David Lynch made shooters" is Black Ops veteran David Vondehaar's catchphrase for his new game that isn't a "Call of Duty killer"
Former Call of Duty: Black Ops designer David Vondehaar is making some kind of shooter for GreaterThan Group - the holding company recently founded by a former NetEase executive, who are also funding development of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. What manner of shootybooty might this be? Well,…
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Subnautica 2 release date and launch times
It's nearly time to cannonball into a new underwater survival adventure.
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Build a grotesque mutant and then play to their hideous strengths in a highly-detailed sci-fi dungeon.
"Unofficial builds of Subnautica 2 are currently circulating online," Unknown Worlds confirm, just days before the ocean survival game's early access release
With just a day or two to go till Subnautica 2's early access launch, "unofficial builds" of the ocean survival game have leaked onto the internet. Picture a punctured Cyclops submarine slowly filling with illicit video files and screenshots, while Unknown Worlds staff wade around with their repair…
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Which probably stings for that guy who modded it into the original game from scratch.
The Steam Controller is actually a scream controller, because Valve couldn't resist making it cry out in memey pain when you drop it
We've all heard it. This sound. The infamous Wilhelm scream, famous for cropping up whenever a game or film sound designer fancies a bit of inside jokery. Or, in this case, when Valve want to work an easter egg into their new Steam Controller. Yep, if you drop it in the right way, the controller…
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One step forward, two steps back.
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