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The Spark engine is designed to enable small teams to make immersive games. As a tiny team ourselves, having tools that let us iterate extremely quickly is an absolute must.

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Return to Eclipse in Natural Selection 2

Return to Eclipse in Natural Selection 2

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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

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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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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...

MODJAM – AFTER ACTION REPORT

MODJAM – AFTER ACTION REPORT

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Year in Review Quarter 04 October through till November 2012.

Blanace Process & Patches

Blanace Process & Patches

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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...

Friday Night Match Show & Patch Notes

Friday Night Match Show & Patch Notes

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What are you up to on Friday night? Listening to the WasabiGorge, surely! Tune in to twitch.tv/naturalselection2 for the very first Friday Night Show...

Build 229 Beta Released on Steam

Build 229 Beta Released on Steam

Natural Selection 2

You can now opt-in to NS2 Steam Betas and help us find bugs before each patch goes live.

Natural Selection 2 - European Sports League

Natural Selection 2 - European Sports League

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we're all going to get the chance to enjoy the biggest competitive event in Natural Selection 2 history.

Post-Launch Post-Mortem & Patch Notes

Post-Launch Post-Mortem & Patch Notes

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Natural Selection 2 Build 228 is now live on Steam. This patch fixes crash issues some players are experiencing, especially those during the "pre-caching...

Natural Selection 2 v1.0 released on Steam

Natural Selection 2 v1.0 released on Steam

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Alert to all Frontiersmen. Alert to all Frontiersmen. Ready your Rifles!

Refinery Reveal

Refinery Reveal

Natural Selection 2

NS2 will be released on Steam in five days, smack bang on Halloween.

Where in the World & Build 224

Where in the World & Build 224

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We spend 99% of our time working to make Natural Selection 2 awesome, so we do not often think about 'corporate' stuff. We do however have an Unknown...

ESL Launch Tournament

ESL Launch Tournament

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What is the one thing that has been missing from competitive NS2 so far in the beta? The teams, casters, streams, prizes, and audience: They are all there...

Builds 222/223 & a Logitech Beta Tournament???

Builds 222/223 & a Logitech Beta Tournament???

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Patches, Tournaments & Prizes, Big read up, The weekend is here and some cool stuff is going on...

Natural Selection 2 Release Date

Natural Selection 2 Release Date

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As the old saying goes, you've bitten off more than you can chew.' To which we reply: 'swallow it whole.'

Update 221, The Lockdown & Eurogamer

Update 221, The Lockdown & Eurogamer

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We have hit lock-down mode but what does that even mean? It means the team is working super hard on fixing bugs and doing optimization, no more features...