Austin Wood
Au🏅stin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.
Latest articles by Austin Wood
"They pressed the AI button, it might have been a bad idea, but in truth there's no un-pressing that button," says Epic CEO, immediately after Epic shows a "conversation" with an AI that embarrasses us all
News "When the world's on fire, we like to back up and r🌌emember our aims as game developers," Tim Sweeney says
Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
News The Epic Games Store is just now pushing𝔉 preloading and gifting
The Witcher 4 is targeting 60 FPS on current-gen consoles and will "bring in a new generation of open-world RPGs" with its Unreal Engine 5 tech, CDPR says
News The Witcher 4 Unreal showcase was running on🍌 a standard PS5 ꦗwith raytracing
Stellar Blade already has mods thanks to its Steam demo, and you simply won't believe this: the top 3 are all nude mods
News I stand here stunned, surprised, and shell-𒅌shocked
"600 Deaths & 54 Hours spent on this mod": Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her takes on "lore accurate Promised Consort Radahn," the most absurd boss FromSoftware never made
News Inner Consort, a modded v♓ersion of Rad🅷ahn, is an absolutely monstrous "superboss"
"Has that been announced?": Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake seemingly leaked by statue maker who said "you should be aware that there is something going on with Edward"
News And so the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake goes up a notch on th༺e rumor tier list
Stellar Blade dev's game reveal sparks AI art accusations, sounds like its own take on Genshin Impact, and surprises nobody with art so horny I can't show you the whole thing here
News P♊roject Witches is now 𝓰Project Spirits, and looks about as you'd expect
Defying the British dev behind their MMO's "casual doubling of our taxes," Old School RuneScape player recreates the Boston Tea Party: "You think the British would have learned by now"
News We got 'em again, patriots
Stardew Valley creator can only say "interesting, thanks for the info" as he's presumably stunned, as I am, by one fan's devotion to accurate trains in games: "PLEASE add a tender to the locomotive in Stardew Valley"
Newsಞ Sometimes you just gotta get four posts about trains out of your system
Marathon and Elden Ring Nightreign have a common problem: the solo experience is way worse, and I can't help but think nailing your game to teams of 3 is a mistake in 2025
Feature Time for some matchmaking roulette, or maybe just a different game instead𓄧
Fantasy Life i, the sequel to a life sim RPG that boldly asked 'What if Animal Crossing was a Zelda game?,' was more than worth the 11-year wait – it might be my GOTY
Feature Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is everything I wanted and then some, and then mor💟e still
Turns out 'Rocket League without cars' is a good idea: Rematch beta test from Sifu devs flies past 150k players on Steam, suggesting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher could have another hit on its hands
News The final Rematch beta test has🎐 been a pret▨ty big hit
Helldivers 2 sees over 2,600 negative Steam reviews in one day, a 40x increase from 2 days ago, as players accuse Arrowhead of forging the Galactic War narrative and apparently forget how war works
News The whole mess may have be🌟en sparked by a translation error
Elden Ring Nightreign is an extension of FromSoftware's philosophy, director says, not a revision: "We're always looking to make something valuable in our games, something that feels worthwhile"
Feature The immediate fut✨ure of FromSoftware just has a little more multiplayer in it
Elden Ring Nightreign patch 1.01 is out even if the game isn't – and welcome back FromSoftware, these patch notes don't tell us a darn thing
News Have no fear, character scenarios added
In a 557-word post to end all posts, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford fully lays out the "misunderstanding" over Borderlands 4 $80 comments: "I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should"
News "Whꦑat I was trying 🅘to do was explain that it wasn't my call," Pitchford says
The longest Switch 2 launch leak yet shows the console setup process, its catchy startup jingle, and slick UI – at least until it gets nuked
News The countdown to DMCA starts right about now
Dark Souls bosses are about to terrorize Elden Ring Nightreign players because the director wanted to "really embrace" the "chaos" of The Lands Between
News "Why don't we extend that a little bit to the Dark Souls series as well🧔?"
Bleed builds dominated Elden Ring at launch, and now FromSoftware has specifically nerfed bleed and frost in Nightreign after they were "way too strong" in the network test
News Rivers of Blood sends its regards
Update: it's already gone – Early "Nintendo Switch 2 unboxing" video is literally 7 seconds of some dude opening the box, and later claiming the console is bricked until June 5 anyway
News More of an in-boxing video, really
The director of Elden Ring Nightreign has been thinking about this game since Dark Souls 3, and "seeing the scope of Elden Ring" finally made it click in his mind
News "In the future, I'd love to try maybe ♒a different a🌸pproach going forward," says Junya Ishizaki
After waiting over 20 years for Bloodlines 2, ex Dragon Age writer says "the hope is that we would get a new Vampire game in the same line as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3"
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodline💯s 2 has enormous potential even after many setbacks
Elden Ring Nightreign leads say FromSoftware is bracing servers for launch and working to "improve our multiplayer game" – "In the worst case, we want players to be able to keep playing"
News 🌜"We have a lot of good points of reference to gauge relatively accuraಌtely where we'll be at launch," says director Junya Ishizaki
