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Ted Gill was fired, reinstated by a judge, and has now voluntarily stepped down as Unknown Worlds CEO. Krafton will pay the entire studio even more than originally promised.
Unknown Worlds is pairing the most requested vehicle from the original Subnautica with what it calls the scariest content the sequel has produced. The first major early access update adds a new region home to the Collector Leviathan.
Subnautica 2's original EULA included a clause barring players from harming publisher Krafton's reputation. Hotfix 2 removes it, along with other restrictive provisions.
Unknown Worlds' underwater survival sequel hit 4 million copies sold in under a week, and the studio is already responding to community pushback on creature encounters.
Fans digging into Subnautica 2's end-user license agreement found clauses capping damage payouts at $50, banning VPN use, and giving Krafton the right to revoke access at any time.
Unknown Worlds sold 2 million copies of Subnautica 2 in half a day, and the studio's lead designer says the game's no-violence philosophy is a hill they're willing to die on.
After delays, legal drama, and a pre-launch leak, Subnautica 2 hits Steam Early Access today as the platform's most wishlisted game with over 5 million players waiting.
Subnautica 2's game design lead says even he can't handle the dark zones he helped build. The sequel hits early access on May 14 with co-op, a mysterious tree, and the same deep-ocean dread that made the original unforgettable.
Subnautica 2's gravitational pull has now forced three games to shift their launches, and a post-layoff MechWarrior 5 expansion just slipped two weeks. May 2026 is reshuffling itself in real time.
Outbound moved to dodge Subnautica 2. That pushed it onto Farm to Table's date. Now the solo dev behind that game has moved too.
Subnautica 2's May 14 Early Access launch has triggered a chain reaction, with two indie games scrambling to move their release dates out of its path.
After ousted founders, a $250 million bonus dispute, and a judge handing control of Unknown Worlds back to its creators, Subnautica 2 finally has a date: May 14.
Subnautica 2 hits early access on May 14, but the question of who's actually publishing it is being answered in the most corporate-evasive way possible.
With Subnautica 2's Early Access launch weeks away, Krafton's name has been quietly stripped from the game's store pages on Steam and Xbox, replaced by Unknown Worlds as sole publisher.
Krafton, the company that owns Unknown Worlds Entertainment, is no longer listed as Subnautica 2's publisher on Steam or the Epic Games Store. The change happened on April 7 and hasn't been reversed.