Subnautica 2's next major update adds "the scariest region we've ever done", together with frog mechs and a very welcome tweak for dashing

Subnautica 2 has begun its "voyage to Early Access 2.0", developer Unknown Worlds has said, with the revelation of a new update containing the "scariest" region they've ever made for the underwater game. Delightful. In a video released on the Subnautica YouTube channel, creative director Anthony Gallegos said the new update features multiple new biomes within the spooky region, and includes story additions, new Leviathan behaviors, and a Frog chassis for the tadpole submersible. In short, it's a pilotable mech.

I am not a huge fan of collaboration DLCs, mostly because my curmudgeonly self can only see them as attempts at multiple companies trying to profit off of one another's things. But I do have to admit that yes, the just announced collab between Dave the Diver and Subnautica 2 does make total sense. Certainly more sense than the Godzilla one from a couple of years back. Details are a touch slim on the collab, but a reveal trailer does show off a few details. For one, the titular Dave is able to hop through a portal to Subnautica 2's ocean moon, complete with the alien sealife found in that game. That extends right through to Subnautica 2's cthulhian Leviathan, which doesn't seem best pleased to see Dave. To be fair, Dave probably wants to turn it into a nice filet, so I don't blame it honestly.

Image credit: Mintrocket, Unknown Worlds. At today's Triple-i Showcase, Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket announced a surprisingly obvious, and perfectly fitting, collaboration. The game's final DLC, set for release in early 2027, brings the worlds of Subnautica 2 and Dave the Diver together.

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Sometimes, the people who make movies don’t always get the credit they deserve. Carrie Fisher served as an uncredited script doctor on the 1998 Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer, and Quentin Tarantino did an uncredited rewrite of the Saturday Night Live sketch-turned-movie It’s Pat. This is more common with writers than directors, but it can happen to directors, too. For example, Richard Donner, who helmed the 1979 masterpiece Superman, shot a good deal of the sequel Superman II, but was fired partway through the movie. Richard Lester, who replaced him, received full credit. And while all the details about it still aren’t really known, there’s a certain 1982 horror film that many speculate was directed by someone other than the guy in the credits. Poltergeist, which is currently available to stream on HBO Max, follows an ordinary suburban family who begin to experience strange things in their home. Furniture and toys move on their own, a glass of milk shatters out of nowhere, and the youngest child in the family, five-year-old Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), begins to communicate with beings through the television.

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