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Subnautica 2 Dev Addresses ‘Misunderstanding’ Around Decision Not to Let Players Kill Predators
Subnautica 2 design lead Anthony Gallegos has opened up about the reaction to Unknown Worlds’ decision to prevent players from killing predators in the underwater survival game, explaining the developers’ true intent….
The Simpsons Arrives in Monopoly Go for a Wild Mobile Crossover Event
For as massive and ever-present a franchise as The Simpsons is, it doesn’t have the foothold in the video game arena you might expect. The wildly popular mobile game The Simpsons: Tapped…
Fortnite Fans Are at War Over a Controversial Streamer’s Inclusion, and the Toxic Backlash It’s Created
As Fortnite’s latest season wraps up, its community isn’t focused on whether The Ice King or the Foundation will win its current conflict. Instead, its players are warring online over a collaboration…
Medieval Survival Game Bellwright Is Coming to IGN Live
IGN Live is coming up on June 6–7, and it’s going to be full of announcements, interviews, in-person events, and more from across the gaming industry. And one of the featured games…
Proton Mail now lets you send and receive Gmail, with one big catch
Proton recently launched a new feature that allows users to access and send emails from their Gmail account directly within Proton Mail. This new feature imports the user’s latest Gmail messages and…
007 First Light Budget Reportedly More Than $200 Million
Developer IO Interactive’s 007 First Light reportedly had a budget of more than $200 million and took seven years to make. Behind-the-scenes details on the Denmark-based studio’s latest were shared in a…
Best PCIe 4.0 SSDs 2026: 5 top picks from experts
Recent computing equipment typically supports the 16Gbps PCIe 4.0 protocol as its baseline data transfer/SSD storage technology. While Gen 4 is slowly being supplanted by 32Gbps PCIe 5.0 (most computers mix the…
No Windows 12 at Build, but Microsoft has something else up its sleeve
Ahead of Microsoft Build 2026, which begins tomorrow, Microsoft has officially stated that it will not be unveiling Windows 12. For months now, rumors have been circulating that Microsoft might soon unveil…
Nvidia RTX Spark vs. Gemini Spark: Which is the real future of AI?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is nothing if not passionate, and as he rattled off the impressive specs for the RTX Spark—a system-on-a-chip that’s powerful enough to run an army of AI agents…