Welp, it's only been a day since we got wind that a judge has ordered Krafton to reinstate the former leads of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds into the same positions, but here we are with the news that the deep sea exploration survival game now has an early access release month.
Update: Arrowhead have just shared a graphic outlining what's coming in the next couple of months of Helldivers 2 updates. April's Terminid-themed update 6.2 will deliver two new biomes, fresh galactic war campaigns, and a new enemy variant. May's update 6.3, meanwhile, will come with a single new biome and its own fresh galactic war twists. Both months'll also boast the usual warbond and bug fixing patches.
Arrowhead have opted against sharing too much in terms of what the future holds in Helldivers 2 so far, ostensibly to avoid galactic war spoilers, but it looks like this sort of roadmap - which is deliberately short on specific details - will be commonplace going forwards.
RAMnarök, the ongoing memory shortage which keeps fuelling price hikes and has had us watching whether Steam Decks are out of stock like hawks, continues to cause headaches. MSI are reportedly planning to hike up the prices of their hardware by 15 to 30% as a result of the shortages.
Marathon's set to see how well it can cater to folks who only have one friend, with Bungie having announced plans to add an experimental duos mode to the extraction shooter. It'll stick around for two weeks or so, be "a bit jank", and hopefully give the studio a firm idea of whether they should put resources into developing a fully fleshed-out version of paired play going forwards.
Last week our resident novelty-guzzling elder god the Maw ate me, as Julian sorrowfully reported. Well, I'm back in the waking world, and not as smelly as I could be, all things considered. I've been eaten by the Maw a few times now, but this is the first time I've managed to escape via one of its mouths, rather than by way of… other orifices.
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED," I bellow, straightening heroically with my shoulders braced against the cyclopean gums, as chunks of rancid Call Of Duty DLC sluice between my ankles. "MY OTHER CAR'S A MOTHRA", I roar, as the other RPS staff hastily gather with a jump net. "HERE ARE SOME NEW PC GAMES," I add, throwing myself into the waiting arms of my brethren.
Warner Bros. Games Montréal, developers of Gotham Knights, look to have laid off an unspecified number of staff late last week. At least three former workers at the studio took to LinkedIn on Friday to post about their departures, with one explicitly mentioning that they'd been cut as part of a round of layoffs.
A chunky Fallout: New Vegas expansion mod which sees the courier set off east to the post-apocalyptic Illinois has released its first demo. No prizes for guessing where this mod - Fallout Chicago - is set. Though, you might want to brush up on your knowledge of Fallout Tactics' lore before you dive in.
