Author: Ed Nightingale

UPDATE 5PM UK: Wuthering Waves developer Kuro Games has detailed its improvement plan for the game following a shaky launch. Major improvements include redesigning the skip function and increasing the number of skippable scenes, plus optimising combat with better controller use and feedback. These points and more are outlined in a new blog post. As…

The developer of MultiVersus has gone “above and beyond” to ensure the game is protected from dataminers. The free-to-play fighter is out next week and includes villains like The Joker and Agent Smith from The Matrix, both of which were rumoured long before their reveals. Now, it seems the developer has put…

Avalanche founder Christofer Sundberg has hit back at Mad Max film director George Miller for claiming the studio’s game “wasn’t as good as [he] wanted it to be”. During promotion for the new Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga film, Miller was asked by GamingBible about whether a new game was considered alongside the…

Atari has purchased the Intellivision brand, ending what Atari claims to be the “longest running console war in history”. Atari’s home consoles went head-to-head with Mattel’s Intellivision in the late 1970s and 1980s, long before Nintendo and Sega competed in the 1990s. Intellivision even enlisted actor George Plimpton for an infamous series of…

Blizzard is removing the Hero Mastery Gauntles PvE mode from Overwatch three months after it launched as “it hasn’t resonated with players”. The mode will no longer be available to play from Season 11 on 18th June, after it launched in March this year. Players therefore have until then, during Season…

Nightingale now has an offline mode as part of its latest update. The early access survival crafting game’s update 0.3 also introduces new quest NPCs Joan of Arc and Edgar Allan Poe among others, as well as new tiered creatures, Bound enemies, and questlines. Developer Inflexion stated earlier this year that offline…

Smash Bros. fighters have an almost equal chance of winning a match, creator Masahiro Sakurai has said. Sakurai’s YouTube series is still going strong, with his latest video discussing balance in fighting games – something the Smash Bros. games have seen their fair share of controversy around. The video includes win rate data…

Twitch will now let users filter out or blur unwanted content. Last year, Twitch introduced Content Classification Labels for streamers to tag their streams accordingly. Now these can be used to filter out streams that include mature content, sexual themes, gambling, drug use, and more. Further, there’s now an option to blur…

MultiVersus beta players will be given a free premium battle pass for the fighting game’s first season. Last year’s open beta was shut down until the game’s full launch, with no refunds given to players, although progress and content will carry over. Now, in a new blog post, developer Player First…

The Kingdom Hearts series is coming to Steam, following PC exclusivity on the Epic store. The games will be available from 13th June in four different bundles, essentially covering the main games in the series comprising the Dark Seeker Saga. The first of these bundles, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX…