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Blizzard has confirmed that it’s making changes to Overwatch 2’s Mercy following fan feedback during the beta test. As we explained at the time the beta went live, fans over on the Overwatch and Mercy Mains subreddits complained that the healer now feels clunky and awkward to play (opens in …

Ever fancied playing Super Mario Odyssey with nine of your pals? Well, you’re in luck – a new, and very unofficial, fan-made mod now lets you do exactly that. While you’ll need a modded Nintendo Switch to pull it off – not to mention a ROM of Super Mario Odyssey …

EA has confirmed that The Sims 4 Werewolves Game Pack will release on June 16. The new expansion – which has been teased by developer Maxis for ages and brings nocturnal doggos back into the game for the first time since The Sim 3’s supernatural pack – introduces “unique temperaments …

Arenas mode has finally arrived in New World. Amazon Games revealed the 2022 roadmap for its fantasy MMO, New World (opens in new tab), back in March. The roadmap said that spring 2022 (or Q2 for our friends in the southern hemisphere) would bring the Tempest’s Heart expedition, the Blunderbuss, …

Eight years after its successful Kickstarter campaign, the survival game The Long Dark is introducing its first paid update path for its survival mode “later this year”. Besides a fee to purchase its soundtracks, this is the first paid content Hinterland Studio has added to The Long Dark, and while …

Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy 14, has apologized after it was discovered that the game’s new housing lottery system was broken and promised that the team was “prioritizing our investigation into the matter”. It became apparent that the new feature – which came into the game as …

The fastest Elden Ring speedrun is currently sitting below nine minutes, but Twitch streamer Distortion2 wants to cut it down even further.  When Distortion2 completed Elden Ring in under 30 minutes (opens in new tab), it was already an impressive achievement. Now that the talented streamer has cut that time …

Activision Blizzard says its blockbuster Call of Duty franchise is no longer an annual contender, but part of an “always on” model.  In announcing that all of its US-based QA testers would be converted to full-time employees, Activision Blizzard highlighted this viewpoint in its accompanying statement shared to GamesRadar. “During …

SIE President and CEO Jim Ryan has confirmed that the company has more game studio acquisitions planned. The news comes courtesy of the latest edition of the official PlayStation podcast (opens in new tab), and follows several high-profile acquisitions, including Destiny creator Bungie (opens in new tab), Bluepoint Games (opens …

A quadriplegic Chinese man named Zhu Mingjun completed Elden Ring using only a modified mouth controller.  According to Superpixel (opens in new tab), Mingjun is a former fireman who was injured in the line of duty, an event that left him able to only move his head and part of …