Media & Press
PRESS KIT
Company: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, remote distributed team
Official website: http://www.unknownworlds.com
Press Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/qT_Az
Press, Influencer, & Media Contact: media@unknownworlds.com
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DESCRIPTION
Unknown Worlds (UW) is a globally distributed developer of beloved games across a wide variety of genres and platforms.
HISTORY
Unknown Worlds was founded by Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire in San Francisco California in 2001. The studio was born of the Half-Life modding scene with Natural Selection. Since then, UW has reached world-wide recognition for the hybrid multiplayer strategy/shooter Natural Selection 2 and underwater adventure survival game Subnautica.
Timeline:
- May 2001 – Started full-time on Natural Selection
- October 2002 – Released Natural Selection
- October 2006 – Max and Charlie found Unknown Worlds, start on Natural Selection 2 (NS2)
- November 2006 – Released Zen of Sudoku
- October 2007 – Released Decoda
- April 2008 – Investment received, first office
- July 2008 – Announced custom engine for NS2 (Spark)
- October 2008 – First Spark engine footage shown
- May 2009 – NS2 site and teaser video released
- November 2009 – NS2 pre-alpha released
- April 2010 – NS2 Engine Test released
- July 2010 – NS2 alpha released to ~15,000 players
- November 2010 – Fade movie released, enters closed beta.
- August 2012 – Exosuit revealed.
- September 2012 – NS2 available for pre-order on Steam.
- October 2012 – NS2 launches on Steam!
- February 2013 – NS2 ‘Gorgeous’ Update
- September 2013 – Prototyping of a new underwater game (“Subnautica“) begins
- October 2013 – NS2 ‘Reinforced’ Update
- February 2014 – NS2 ‘Kodiak’ Update
- February 2014 – Subnautica is teased, development team begins to form
- October 2014 – NS2: Combat (Standalone game developed by former NS2 modding team) released
- October 2014 – NS2 ‘Reaper’ Update
- October 2014 – Subnautica Special Edition (Access to development builds) released
- January 2015 – Subnautica Early Access released
- January 2018 – Subnautica released on Steam
- December 2018 – Subnautica released to Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- January 2019 – Subnautica: Below Zero Early Access released on Steam
- May 2021 – Subnautica: Below Zero released to Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows Store, and Nintendo Switch
- May 2021 – Subnautica released to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series
- September 2022 – Moonbreaker Early Access released on Steam
- February 2024 - Moonbreaker released to Steam
- February 2024 - Subnautica 2 is teased
CONTACT
Business & Partnership Contact
Steam & Xbox key requests
media@unknownworlds.com
While we will happily provide keys to media who wish to play our games for the benefit of their audiences, we will not provide keys for giveaways, competitions, or resale.
The rest of the team can be found here.
QUOTES & RECOGNITION
- “[Subnautica] is, without doubt, my favourite game of the last five years.” – Philippa Warr, PC Gamer, January 2018
- “NS2 the Best Indie Game of E3: GameSpy” – June 2012
- “NS2 Nominated for best of PC, best of indie E3: Destructoid” – June 2012
SELECTED ARTICLES
- “Subnautica’s hands off approach to storytelling is brilliant”
– Steven Messner, Andy Kelly, Philipa Warr, PC Gamer - “Subnautica Review: This aquatic survival game is an underwater wonder – 9.1/10”
– TJ Hafer, IGN - “A Team Of Seven Is Making A Game That ‘Shouldn’t Be Possible’”
– Jason Schreier, Kotaku - “NS2 is a genius mash of Counter Strike and Starcraft”
– Tina Amini, Kotaku - “This is getting close to my idea of the ultimate game”
– Mr Sark, Machinima