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Thursday gaming news, part two:

Dune: Awakening studio says sorry for accidentally wiping a bunch of stuff in the last patch, promises to replace everything by the end of the week
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/dune-awakening-studio-says-sorry-for-accidentally-wiping-a-bunch-of-stuff-in-the-last-patch-promises-to-replace-everything-by-the-end-of-the-week/
The fun thing about videogame patches—and I'm using "fun" in the definitely-ironic sense here—is that sometimes they'll cause new, interesting, and entirely unanticipated problems: Fix this, break that, it's the circle of life. Such is the case with a recent update to Funcom's survival MMO Dune: Awakening, which saw several PvE areas of the Deep Desert to become PvP enabled, resulting in "people suffering an unfortunate amount of lost bases and equipment."
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"We’re incredibly sorry that this happened and we want to acknowledge that this should have been handled better," Funcom wrote. "We’ve changed our internal processes as a result of this and will be better in the future.
"We are working to reimburse vehicles and items (to the best of our ability) to players who were impacted by this. You can expect the reimbursed materials, items, and vehicle components to show up in the in-game ‘Claim Rewards’ tab by the end of this week."

The anime horse girl who's terrorizing gacha players in Umamusume is based on a real, chaotic racing horse who once instantly obliterated 12 billion yen in betting losses
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/the-anime-horse-girl-whos-terrorizing-gacha-players-in-umamusume-is-based-on-a-real-chaotic-racing-horse-who-once-instantly-obliterated-12-billion-yen-in-betting-losses/
If you've been on social media at all this week, there's a good chance you've encountered the horse-crazed masses who've succumbed to the absurd siren call of Umamusume: Pretty Derby. It's a gacha game about horse racing, except the horses are anime girls, and it's got a pretty compelling spreadsheet simulator underneath all the gratuitous wobbling and the inherent villainy of its gacha trappings.

Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton confirms 2026 delay, says the change 'was not influenced by any contractual or financial considerations'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/subnautica-2-reportedly-delayed-into-2026-just-months-before-krafton-was-due-to-pay-a-usd250-million-bonus-to-developer-unknown-worlds/
Just a week after gutting the leadership of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, a Bloomberg report says Krafton is going to delay the game's early access release into 2026. The decision comes mere months before the PUBG publisher was slated to pay Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus that developers say hinged on Subnautica 2's release this year.
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Shortly after this story went live, Krafton confirmed that Subnautica 2 has been delayed into 2026, saying that playtests "provided some insight that there are a few areas where we needed to improve before launching the first version of Subnautica 2 to the world. Our community is at the heart of how we develop, so we want to give ourselves a little extra time to respond to more of that feedback before releasing the game into Early Access."

Escape From Tarkov blindsides players with immediately controversial 'Hardcore Wipe' that removes quests and disables most maps
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/escape-from-tarkov-blindsides-players-with-immediately-controversial-hardcore-wipe-that-removes-quests-and-disables-most-maps/
Escape From Tarkov got a new wipe today, and it's not going down too well.
The community is in open revolt in reaction to today's Hardcore Wipe, a sweeping patch that upends the extraction shooter's economy, format, and progression in a bid to slow things down. At least, that's how players are reading the decision to disable all maps but two, limit ammo crafting, and make core features like insurance wildly expensive.

The new 'UK Video Games Council' has announced its members—including reps from Larian Studios, Microsoft, and non-profit advocacy groups UKIE and TIGA
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-development/the-new-uk-video-games-council-has-announced-its-members-including-reps-from-larian-studios-microsoft-and-non-profit-advocacy-groups-ukie-and-tiga/
Despite showing signs of ill health, videogames are still an enormous slice of the worldwide entertainment industry—making more than $100 billion across the globe each year, which is more than the film and music industries combined. The UK government is finally giving us some bloomin' recognition for this fact, announcing the formation of a UK Video Games Council in its creative industry sector plan late last month.