Nathan Walters

Nathan Walters

Contributor

Nathan Walters originally joined Future in February 2022 as a deals writer and is based in Cardiff, Wales. He has covered topics such as graphics cards, mobile phones, and game consoles for sites like TechRadar, TomsGuide, and Tom’s Hardware. He has also written money-saving advice for multiple publications such as Moneynet, NationalWorld, iPaper, Pick Me Up! And My Weekly. Nathan is an avid video game and tabletop player who loves writing, and in his spare time, you can find him playing D&D, grinding in Guild Wars 2 or writing reviews on his website GameReport.

Latest articles by Nathan Walters

Helldivers 2 screenshot showing a squad of four Helldiver soldiers firing guns
Helldivers 2 devs know fans want tougher content, and Arrowhead is "looking for ways to provide more challenge" for Super Earth's finest

By Nathan Walters Published

News Community manager Katherine "Baskinator" Baskin reassures Helldivers 2 fans that Arrowhead is listening

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Borderlands 4 screenshot showing a character in a shootout with a big boss
Borderlands 4 will have a "very ambitious" endgame, but not everyone is happy about having less skill points as creative director argues "you lose build diversity" with too many

By Nathan Walters Published

News Gearbox doubles down on a meaningful endgame and skill customisation, but not all fans are convinced that fewer points mean better builds

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Screenshot from Hytale, showing three warriors with a sword, bow, and staff sighting a big, icy dragon.
Saving Hytale isn't something Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe is "thinking about too much" thanks to Haunted Chocolatier, but "If something were presented to me, I would be open to entertaining the idea"

By Nathan Walters Published

News Eric Barone isn't saving Hytale, but he's not ruling it out either

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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot of the Animaniacs.
'Nearly complete' prototype of cancelled Animaniacs GBA game surfaces online after nearly two decades

By Nathan Walters Published

News Unreleased Animaniacs GBA game uncovered after nearly 20 years, giving fans a rare glimpse of what could have been.

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Rosalina riding the Stellar Sled kart across the snow in Mario Kart World
Mario Kart World player discovers you can defy the laws of gravity in Free Roam with a bug that allows you to float across the map: "I think I broke the game"

By Nathan Walters Published

News Gravity takes a holiday as one player sends their kart drifting above Mario Circuit in a fun new glitch

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Palworld publisher's 2D roguelike Metroidvania that looks like Hollow Knight but plays like Dead Cells is ditching early access and going straight to a full launch thanks to massive Steam demo

By Nathan Walters Published

News Pocketpair ditches early access for full launch of Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse after valuable demo feedback.

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Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles screenshot.
Square Enix finally ported Final Fantasy Tactics after its director played it for the first time in years, then instantly ran into issues because no one had the source code anymore

By Nathan Walters Published

News A classic strategy RPG comes back to life, thanks to nostalgia, ingenuity, and a lot of late nights

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A screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing Maelle fighting an enemy.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is even getting praise from within The Witcher 4 studio CD Projekt Red, as community director says "we NEED more games like this"

By Nathan Walters Published

News Industry veterans can't stop talking about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's story, cast and unforgettable soundtrack.

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Coen looking over the village at night during the trailer for The Blood of Dawnwalker.
Blood of Dawnwalker director says the vampire RPG's story is so non-linear that "you can align with the human rebellion or finish the game without ever meeting them”

By Nathan Walters Published

News The Blood of Dawnwalker director promises a true “narrative sandbox” for Vampire RPG fans.

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007: Last Light
007 First Light leads say James Bond is no Agent 47: "If Hitman is a single-minded killer and basically the bad guy of the game, Bond is the hero"

By Nathan Walters Published

News IO Interactive promises a fresh take on 007, putting real character into the next James Bond game

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Clair Obscur ending
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs held blind auditions, so they didn't know they landed talent from Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate 3 until after they picked them

By Nathan Walters Published

News Because developer Sandfall had blind auditions, the devs didn't even know it was Ben Starr and Jennifer English, but it "turned out they were quite big in the voice acting world"

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The party of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director found something that "makes the game feel 10 times better" mid-development, then painfully realized they had to apply it to "like 1,100" different attacks

By Nathan Walters Published

News A breakthrough moment made Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “feel ten times better” but left its creators facing hours of painstaking fixes

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The Witcher 4 screenshot showing Ciri getting ready for action in a dank cave
Witcher 3 devs "knew it from the get go” that they wanted Ciri as protagonist for Witcher 4 back in 2014

By Nathan Walters Published

News CD Projekt Red’s vision for the next Witcher protagonist has been in place for nearly a decade, and it’s Ciri

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Haunted Chocolatier library screenshot
Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"

By Nathan Walters Published

News "Am I going to ruin the teeth of a whole generation?" Barone jokes as he considers a chocolate limit in Haunted Chocolatier

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MindsEye
GTA veteran's new open-world game uses a camera trick while you drive "to make you feel like you're on the edge of control, almost like you're in a Fast & Furious film"

By Nathan Walters Published

News It sounds like MindsEye has all the racing and care action we love from Grand Theft Auto

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The Witcher 3 screenshot of Geralt
The Witcher 3 performance director can't see AI fully replacing actors, especially not for games wanting to focus on a "strong story" as "It can’t replace that human spark"

By Nathan Walters Published

News "There's too much missing which defines the nebulous 'something' that elevates an 'ok' performance to a brilliant one"

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    Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says the original RPG "is very much enshrined within the story"
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