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How to get Axum Bacterial Culture in Subnautica 2

Axum Bacterial Culture is a very pesky material to find and harvest in Subnautica 2. It’s very well-hidden and protected, but you’ll need to risk it if you want to craft a Metal Farm. As the name hints at, these handy little devices duplicate valuable metals so you don’t need to keep trekking back and…

8 Ball X codes (May 2026)

Chalk up that cue and find the white ball; it’s time for new 8 Ball X codes. And while you won’t need to pull off quite so many trick shots if you claim them, the rewards will soon run dry if you don’t learn your angles. 8 Ball X isn’t some Roblox riff on Ball…

Save up to $129 on my favorite gaming chair and desk in this early Memorial Day sale

Memorial Day might still be a week away, but Secretlab is kicking off its Memorial Day sale early with significant savings on both its gaming chairs and gaming desks. From now until June 2, you can save up to $129 on gaming desks and $100 on gaming chairs, and if you order now you should…

How to reach the Alien Ruins in Subnautica 2

Reaching the Alien Ruins in Subnautica 2 is like transitioning from the tutorial to the real deal. You’ve got to cross an open expanse, which a terrifying sea monster (the Collector Leviathan) calls home, and then you’re let loose in a new, even more difficult location. Before you travel to the Alien Ruins, there are…

Samsung workers could be about to strike, potentially making GPUs, memory, and SSDs even more expensive

As if the chip supply situation wasn’t bad enough already, there could be a new twist in the tale, as Samsung – one of the world’s largest memory and NAND manufacturers – could soon be facing factory shutdowns, reducing global production capacity and driving up prices. A threatened strike involving over 43,000 workers in Korea…

All Will Rise devs ‘definitely expect some pushback from Western audiences’ over its depiction of violent resistance and ecoterrorism

All Will Rise is a narrative-driven deckbuilder where you debate and explore ideas through the cards you’ve unlocked and upgraded. It’s also a passionate story about the murder of a river, activism, about holding the powerful to account—using both the law, but also ecoterrorism and violent action. It’s a topic that’s more important than ever,…

Where to find Conduit Crystals in Subnautica 2

A lot of resources in Subnautica 2 are simply off-limits because of their location; some are too far from what you would call a base, whereas some are tantalizingly nearby, but far too deep to gain access to without some significant upgrades. Conduit Crystals are part of the latter group, and can only be mined…

The Steam Controller no longer needs Steam to get the most from it

Steam Controller owners could find they can now make the most of everything the new Valve hardware can do, even in games not running on Steam. Thanks to the new controller’s new features being added to Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), the device’s full range of controls can now be accessed by application developers who use…

How to get Atacamite in Subnautica 2

Finding Atacamite in Subnautica 2 might not seem that important at first, but it’s a key ingredient in one very important item, the Mangalloy Ingot. You’ll need this refined material to craft invaluable Metal Farms once you unlock the blueprint, and you also require ten Mangalloy Ingots to repair the Alien Power Plant, so it’s…

Path of Exile 2 just shattered its biggest barrier to entry, even leapfrogging Diablo 4

After more than a decade of being the enthusiasts’ champion, Grinding Gear Games has planted its flag for Path of Exile 2 to become just as approachable as rivals like Diablo 4, if not more so. The biggest caveat for trying PoE has always been how immediately intimidating its sheer size and scope is, from…