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Subnautica 2 EA update 1.1 is well on the way, promising heaps of new content for those enjoying the early access survival game. While the next few patches and hotfixes be smaller, featuring changes to existing content, the EA 1.1 update is going to change the game altogether, so if you’ve already finished the story so far, there shouldn’t be too long to wait before you can dive right back in. Speaking of which, it’s confirmed that you’ll be able to carry on from where you left off when Subnautica 2 update 1.1 does arrive, so there’s nothing to stop…

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Forza Horizon 6 vending machines are scattered all over the map, and you need to smash five of them to complete a Festival Playlist challenge for the winter and bag a nice new car – the 2023 Lotus Emira. If you want to be done with this challenge as quickly as possible, I’ve laid out some points for destroying vending machine sin FH6 below, including a good place I found that has five of them conveniently close together.Forza Horizon 6 vending machine locations (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)Vending machines can be found all over the Japan map in Forza Horizon…

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Dune: Awakening may be lifting off from PC-only territory and arriving on consoles soon, but you won’t be able to explore Arrakis with just anyone. According to developer Funcom, crossplay won’t be supported because its focus is on finishing the ports and releasing the single-player mode.Funcom acknowledged that players might be disappointed to hear it won’t have crossplay at launch, but suggested that it might be added in the future in a statement to Eurogamer.The studio said it will “address it more in an upcoming livestream,” but that it’s “technically and operationally complex to implement crossplay in Dune: Awakening and…

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Xbox fans, you can apparently blame Series S consoles for making you wait to play No Rest for the Wicked after it launches on PS5 this October.No Rest for the Wicked, the new action RPG from Ori developer Moon Studios, launched on PC in early access in 2024, and during this week’s State of Play, it was revealed that the 1.0 update will launch in tandem with a console port for PS5 in October. Moon Studios soon after announced 1.0 is scheduled to hit Steam at the same time, but the release window for newly confirmed platforms Xbox and Switch…

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Valve has provided an update on its Steam Machine and Steam Frame release schedule, insisting that the devices will release this summer. Since their announcement late last year, Valve’s console-like PC box and VR headset became high-profile victims of the global component price surge, with the company confirming earlier this year this had delayed its announcement of pricing and release details.Previously, both Steam Machine and Steam Frame had vague ‘2026’ release windows. However, on Thursday, Valve narrowed this to summer 2026 with the expansion of its Verified program, which will now incorporate the devices.“Today we are expanding the Verified program…

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Ask a Path of Exile 2 player about the in-game economy a few months ago and you’re guaranteed to hear a lot of complaints about a currency farming strategy involving a temple. The loot was simply too good in the action RPG’s newest activity and anyone who skipped it was completely priced out of buying gear for their characters.Even though developer Grinding Gear Games issued a list of nerfs to the mechanic for the newest league, or season, it wasn’t enough to stop clever players from figuring out how to make bank with temples once again. But after just a…

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Scramble Knights Royale is Scramble Knights Online now. The game was in development at Funktronic Labs as a battle royale, but the developers have completely reversed course and admitted their detractors were right all along. “A live-service Battle Royale was not going to work for us,” the studio says in a Steam update.In an accompanying YouTube video on the official Funktronic channel with a thumbnail displaying the words ‘the haters were right’ in big red text, studio co-founder Eddie Lee says the team had been “cooking this Zelda-inspired battle royale game” against tireless skepticism from people who questioned the idea…

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Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma has reiterated that she is looking “very closely” at the platform’s exclusive content strategy, and suggested her first 100 days in charge have been a success.Speaking during a Bloomberg Live event on Thursday (transcribed by VGC), Sharma was asked about her early lessons in charge of Microsoft’s gaming arm and again pressed on its exclusivity strategy.Sharma previously claimed that Xbox would “reevaluate” its approach to exclusivity, suggesting she was listening to the Xbox players who feel the platform has lost value due to Microsoft’s decision to bring its first-party games to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch…

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The first lesson you learn when reading about mythological gods is that a lot of them are self-centered jerks. God of War is basically an entire series about this fact, and God of War Laufey will be no different.”They’re all assholes,” Sony Santa Monica’s head of creative Cory Barlog told IGN of the gods you’ll meet in the upcoming game. It’s not just the towering Mongolian god of war and his violent Egyptian partner who we saw in the initial footage that will be a thorn in your side. Everyone with a divine past in the Everywhen, God of War…

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Game gets popular, games gets clones, that’s just how the cookie crumbles. Vampire Survivors, Buckshot Roulette, Lethal Company; as soon as those games blew up, derivatives were a guarantee. This is true of Balatro too of course, a game which has produced so many clones that wildly swing between dealing with gambling in a tactful manner and outright just saying that it’s good, actually. So how about a Balatro-like that forgoes the gambling, and asks you to whip out a dictionary instead? That game is Lexispell, a roguelike word game with a dash of physics thrown into the…

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