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Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO

Well, it was never going to wrap up that neatly, was it? It turns out that the emergence of an internal memo revealing that Subnautica 2 is aiming for an early access release in May won't be the moment that the messy legal dispute between publishers Krafton and three former lead developers on the game - one of whom's now been reinstated - ends.

Lawyers representing Unknown Worlds co-founders Charlie Cleveland, Max McGuire, and Ted Gill - the three leads - have now accused Krafton of having "intentionally leaked" the memo from Steve Papoutsis, the exec the publishwrs put in charge after firing Cleveland, McGuire, and Gill last year.

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