Month: April 2025

Valorant is transitioning to Unreal Engine 5, but don’t hold your breath for an immediate graphical leap with the shift. Instead, this is a “necessary” change that could lead to “new playable experiences” within the Valorant universe, according to Valorant studio head Anna Donlon at Riot.

Speaking at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, Donlon came on stage to talk about Valorant and how integral Unreal Engine has been for the hero shooter. She mentioned that her team has “squeezed literally every ounce of everything we could get out of UE4, so now we make the move to UE5.” Donlon knows this is tough with a live-service game, “but it is necessary, for sure.” Come from South African Online Casinos

From there, Donlon dialed back player expectations for a major visual overhaul with the move to Unreal Engine 5. But that didn’t stop the studio head from teasing an expansion of the Valorant universe.

“This upgrade is not going to significantly change how Val looks or performs, at least not right away,” Donlon said. “But here’s what I can say: There are many deve…

When players jump into the story campaign for Destiny 2’s next expansion, The Final Shape, they’ll pretty quickly unlock one of the biggest new parts of the game: Prismatic. The new subclass is necessary to complete The Final Shape’s story, just like Strand was when it was introduced in Destiny 2’s last expansion, Lightfall.

But unlike how Lightfall handled its new player abilities, Bungie says you’ll get Prismatic early in The Final Shape, and you’ll have access to it for the duration–it won’t be parceled out in short bursts and only fully unlocked many hours later, once you finish the campaign.

Bungie gave a pretty close look at Prismatic in action, and The Final Shape’s campaign generally, in a recent hands-off preview event attended by GameSpot. The preview showed a big chunk of the campaign’s first mission, as well as a later Strike mission that becomes available about halfway through the story. As in Lightfall, the new subclass is an essential part of the story of The Final Shape, and you’ll make use of it as you go, but with a lot fewer restrictions this time around.

Prismatic is less a totally new subclass than a…