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Wuthering Waves doles out free Astrite to celebrate The Game Awards 2024 nomination

Kuro Games is losing no time to thank the community

Marco Wutz

Kuro Games

Players of Wuthering Waves should check their in-game mail, because Kuro Games has sent out a gift of 1,000 Astrites to all players to celebrate its nomination as Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2024. Astrites can be used to purchase character and weapon pulls in the game, so this is a great addition to players’ war chests – especially if they haven’t got their Camellya yet.

It’s basically a tradition at this point for gacha game developers to celebrate such nominations with some freebies – HoYoverse has done it in the last couple of years for its own games and may do so again for Zenless Zone Zero, as it was nominated alongside Wuthering Waves.

Unfortunately for both Chinese developers, their chances of taking home the win this year look a bit slim with Balatro and Pokémon TCG Pocket having been nominated for the same award. The poker-inspired roguelike will likely appeal more to the core gamers of the jury, while TCG Pocket is living in everyone’s heads rent-free and is bound to get votes for the virtue of being Pokémon. This means that HoYoverse’s win-streak – both Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail won this category in their debut years – will likely come to an end as well.

Still, a nomination in the year’s biggest industry awards is nothing to scoff at, especially as the start for Wuthering Waves was rougher than the studio would have liked. It would have been a perfect day for the open-world RPG, had not The Game Awards’ social media editor made a little typo in the social media post announcing the nomination, calling the game “Withering Waves” by mistake. A harmless error, but fans naturally ran with it online – it’s not the best sub-narrative to have going on for your game at such an occasion.

Wuthering Waves is currently on version 1.4 and is gearing up for the release of update 2.0 at the start of 2025, which will see a new playable region released for the game.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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