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20 winners of Mod of the Year

20 winners of Mod of the Year

Euro Truck Simulator 2 Multiplayer 16 comments

Celebrating the past 20* winners of Mod of the Year!

Steam’s 2016 Top 100 Sellers Include Indie Hits

Steam’s 2016 Top 100 Sellers Include Indie Hits

News 4 comments

The best-selling games on Steam last year aren’t just the triple-A juggernauts.

Subnautica Revealed

Subnautica Revealed

Subnautica 3 comments

Subnautica is an underwater open world adventure game in development at Unknown Worlds, the creators of Natural Selection 2. Today, we are releasing the...

Subnautica Concept Art: Lava Zone 2

Subnautica Concept Art: Lava Zone 2

Subnautica 1 comment

Welcome back to the Subnautica blog – It is time for a special piece of Cory’s concept art, Lava Zone 2. Here it is accompanied by Simon’s latest...

Subnautica Concept Art: Coral Reef 3

Subnautica Concept Art: Coral Reef 3

Subnautica 1 comment

Diversity of environments is a key design feature of Subnautica. We want Subnautica players to be able to experience vastly different and beautiful ‘biomes’...

Subnautica Concept Art: Cave Thing

Subnautica Concept Art: Cave Thing

Subnautica 2 comments

Subnautica will take you to diverse environments: From lava, to ice, to coral, and more. In these environments, you will encounter all sorts of creatures...

Subnautica Concept Art: Interior Sketch

Subnautica Concept Art: Interior Sketch

Subnautica 4 comments

Over the past three weeks, we here at Unknown Worlds have released five pieces of concept art. Until today, each one was accompanied by a piece of ambient...

Subnautica Concept Art: Kelp Forest

Subnautica Concept Art: Kelp Forest

Subnautica 3 comments

Here on Earth, the underwater realm is rich in life and mystery. Only a small proportion of the planet’s oceans have ever been explored, and it is thought...

Subnautica Concept: Exterior Sketch

Subnautica Concept: Exterior Sketch

Subnautica

One week ago, we revealed that Unknown Worlds is working on a new game: Subnautica. We want to share Subnautica with you from its earliest moments, bringing...

Return to Eclipse in Natural Selection 2

Return to Eclipse in Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2 2 comments

Something must be in the air at Unknown Worlds. Not only are we announcing new games, we’ve also started hitting deadlines! We promised you Eclipse...

NATURAL SELECTION 2 ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

NATURAL SELECTION 2 ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Natural Selection 2 2 comments

On this day, Halloween 2012, Natural Selection 2 was launched on Steam. The following year has blown our minds at Unknown Worlds. More people have purchased...

REINFORCED EXPANSION RELEASED!

REINFORCED EXPANSION RELEASED!

Natural Selection 2 6 comments

In February, NS2 was Gorgeous. Now, it is Reinforced. The culmination of nearly six months of development, Reinforced takes Natural Selection 2 to new...

BUILD 251 IS NOW LIVE ON STEAM!

BUILD 251 IS NOW LIVE ON STEAM!

Natural Selection 2 19 comments

Some builds just want to watch the world burn. Build 251 has been in the works for quite some time – Unlike the new heir to the British throne, it did...

STATE OF DEVELOPMENT: JUNE 2013

STATE OF DEVELOPMENT: JUNE 2013

Natural Selection 2 5 comments

Another month has passed in the Unknown Worlds office, and Natural Selection 2 continues to be improved, tinkered with, and polished. Continuing on from...

TIME TO MAKE MODS

TIME TO MAKE MODS

Natural Selection 2 Starting a mod 4 comments

In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a new mod for Natural Selection 2 and uploading it to the Steam Workshop. This tutorial assumes...

Last Stand Released

Last Stand Released

NS2:Last Stand 1 comment

The Last stand is a Natural Selection 2 mod created by the official developers of Natural Selection 2.

A day in the Development of Last Stand

A day in the Development of Last Stand

NS2:Last Stand

‘Dushan was dead. A skulk got him near the shuttle doors, and now Steve and I were the only ones left. “Get to the control room!” I called out...

MODJAM – AFTER ACTION REPORT

MODJAM – AFTER ACTION REPORT

Natural Selection 2 3 comments

Last week, UWE held a ModJam. Five days, three teams, three games: All using the Spark Engine.

FREE Weekend & 50% OFF

FREE Weekend & 50% OFF

Natural Selection 2 6 comments

A Natural Selection 2 Free Weekend will take place between Thursday, 21 March and Sunday, 24 March. During this free weekend, which is PAX week, NS2 will...

GORGEOUS CONTENT UPDATE

GORGEOUS CONTENT UPDATE

Natural Selection 2 9 comments

We have built Extractors together, run through Phase Gates together, fought against against the darkness, scampered through ventilation shafts, and ambushed...

238 & 239 News Round-Up

238 & 239 News Round-Up

Natural Selection 2

Build 238 and 239 Hot fix Released this week. Some more from a new map coming soon this month of Feb! and a brand new website.

Mapping: Descent

Mapping: Descent

Natural Selection 2 3 comments

Yes, that is actually a screenshot of the map Descent. Yes, we are teasing. Descent is in active playtesting, and will arrive for your fragging pleasure...

Build 236 is now live on Steam!

Build 236 is now live on Steam!

Natural Selection 2 8 comments

Build 236 is out in the wild! Over the next few hours, official and community servers will roll over to the new, shinier version of the game.

Indie of the Year 2012

Indie of the Year 2012

Feature 23 comments

Ho ho ho Merry Christmas and merry Indie of the Year!

IOTY Editors Choice 2012

IOTY Editors Choice 2012

Feature 4 comments

Welcome to the Editors Choice award for Indie of the Year 2012.

IOTY Genre Award 2012

IOTY Genre Award 2012

Feature 17 comments

Introducing the Genre Awards, a staff selected category to define our editors most memorable selections from five different genres including Action, Adventure...

State of the Game - Build 234 Patch Notes

State of the Game - Build 234 Patch Notes

Natural Selection 2 1 comment

Looking at the future of NS before the holidays. Our seventh post launch update is now live! It includes some fairly aggressive redecoration of all Ready-Rooms...

UWE @ Unloud, Childs Play and Patch Notes

UWE @ Unloud, Childs Play and Patch Notes

Natural Selection 2 2 comments

uild 233 is up and running! Servers should now be updated. This is a bug-fixing, performance and stability patch, with some big improvements to Spark...

IOTY Year in Review 2012 Quarter 04

IOTY Year in Review 2012 Quarter 04

Feature 2 comments

Year in Review Quarter 04 October through till November 2012.

Blanace Process & Patches

Blanace Process & Patches

Natural Selection 2 5 comments

Now that we have thousands of games played on every patch, and we have so many new players joining the game every day, we really need to make sure that...