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"Just one breath, that's all you get": Xbox's Grounded 2 director chats Early Access, the "second launch" on PS5, and the roadmap's Into the Abyss update

The director of Xbox's Grounded 2, Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Parker, says that the game coming to PS5 later this year is like a "second launch."

Windows Central

"Launching on PS5 effectively makes this our second launch": Obsidian legend Chris Parker talks Grounded 2 and its massive Into the Abyss update

Summer Preview | Grounded 2 reaches its next major milestone this August, with the "largest content update" yet and a release on PS5

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Grounded 2 will have less frequent, much larger early access updates

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How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"

Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"

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Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"

Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2

GamesRadar

Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"

Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard

GamesRadar

Grounded 2's best feature is happening because Obsidian left the Xbox One behind

After playing Grounded 2, I talked with game director Chris Parker, who says the game's biggest feature is possible because the team left the Xbox One behind.

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After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up

Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment and Eidos Montreal has found big solutions to the smallest problems

GamesRadar

Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"

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Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"

"When you add a feature like that into a game, it kind of changes a little bit of everything about the world that you're creating"

GamesRadar

Grounded 2 will have an arachnophobia mode, even for its rideable spiders

Making the spider mounts safe for everyone is "tricky," but probably not as bad as you might think.

PC Gamer

US-Australia beef: what you need to know about tariffs and the meat trade war

Donald Trump has singled out Australia for not importing American beef. But do we even need it and what will US tariffs mean for our producers?

The Guardian - AU

Metal makers reinforced as new US tariff threat emerges

The government assures a key export sector of support as a new tariff threat emerges while fresh funding reinforces metal manufacturing against US levies.

AAP

'Wake up': farmers face more pressure on deforestation

Glenn Morris, a farmer and an environmentalist, says crackdowns on deforestation can't come soon enough as the cattle industry faces increased scrutiny.

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Cattle group want exemptions from EU deforestation rule

Australian cattle producers want the deforestation definition changed ahead of new European Union laws which could affect the beef export industry.

The Guardian - AU

Australian cattle industry says clearing bushland grown after 1990 should not count as deforestation

Environmentalists accuse Cattle Australia of trying to use ‘loophole’ in international definitions to gain deforestation-free status

The Guardian - AU

Move to protect Australian beef industry from EU land clearing laws criticised by scientists

Agriculture minister says there’s ‘no risk’ cattle industry is ‘connected to deforestation’, a claim environmental scientists say is ‘patently false’

AAP

Cattle group to fight EU's beefed up deforestation laws

Cattle producers will come up their own version of deforestation ahead of tough new EU laws, but conservationists warn it threatens to exacerbate the problem.

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Women leading the herd in agriculture business

Women in agriculture are making their mark in the sector by driving innovation in an industry that has long been dominated by men.

The Guardian - AU

When people feel hopeless about politics, ‘vote-tripling’ can inspire them. Could it work for New Zealand?

It’s enough for individuals to make a difference but not so ambitious that it puts them off. It achieved results in the US and Brazil, so how about here?

Irish Mirror

RNLI launch search for 'possible missing person' after boat spotted adrift at Lough Derg

A report from a resident on Illaunmore that a speedboat was at an unsafe location north of the island and appeared not to have anyone on board

ABC News

Foot-and-mouth-disease live virus could be imported by CSIRO to test new vaccine

Australia's lead research agency is creating a new foot-and-mouth vaccine but the process is complicated, and checks and balances need to be in place before it can happen.

Birmingham Post

Cornwall’s ICE Trikes becomes employee owned

Recumbent tricycles made by the specialist manufacturer have been used to break world records and for an expedition to the South Pole

ABC News

World's first synthetic foot-and-mouth, lumpy skin disease vaccine in the works in NSW

The government hopes the vaccine, which would also protect against lumpy skin disease, could be developed in the state by August 1 next year.

The Guardian - AU

Chris Parker: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This comedian falls asleep to TikToks each night – so who better to ask for the funniest videos online, including a slippery scene in Parks and Rec and a very amateur Spider-Man

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