Austin Wood
Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IജGN, 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
Ex Dragon Age writer worries more fans are tying their identity to games and hoping to see games fail to prove a point: "See what happened to them? See how their game sold?"
News "They're very💙 determined suddenly to see your game fail as a sort of a lesson to other൲s who would make games of the same type," says David Gaider
"A new island in Palworld, that's half a year's work": Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads agree people can "misunderstand how long it takes to make things," and you can't just "add this or do that"
News "I understand that need for more content quickly," says 🌄Palworld's 🍸John Buckley
Millions recoil as Zenless Zone Zero tells Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and Honkai Star Rail to hold my beer, giving out free S-rank characters and weapons for its anniversary
News The anniversary Olympics continue
"We cough up a chunk of our soul": 32 game devs, from Doom's John Romero to Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads, explain what people get wrong about games
Interview Sam Bꦕarlow, Metapho⭕r: ReFantazio leads, ConcernedApe's business head, indie legends, and many more weigh in
In its 3-player push, Elden Ring Nightreign boss admits FromSoftware "kind of overlooked and neglected the duos aspect," but is considering it for "post-launch support"
News Solo and thr▨ee-player setups were the focus, but duos aren't off the table
3 years later, Sony kills PlayStation Stars loyalty program where redeeming a single 'free' game could require over $1,000 in other purchases: "We've learned a lot"
News "This versio♌n of the program" is dead as a doornail, but Sony's considering o👍ther ideas
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List Settle down for one more round of the best roguel꧋ikes 2025 🐎has to offer
"The games industry is on fire" so this open-world game with witch "motorbroom" drifting has turned to Kickstarter for a 2026 launch: "Please don't get delayed again GTA 6"
News Drift a broom and kiss your homies
Ex Dragon Age writer says Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 prove publishers wrong on how successful RPGs can be "when the game is good," and "what's possible when a game is given time to cook"
News "They appeal very, very strongly to that one audience, but it's so stron𝄹g that it e🐻nds up growing that audience," says David Gaider
The 25 best Metroidvania games you can explore today
Best List Jump, slash, and shoot through the best Metroidvanias to play rig♎ht now
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the studio itself is "like an RPG party" of people who came together randomly, and treating "stupid ideas" seriously is essential
News I love it when a plan comes together
Former Dragon Age lead David Gaider would love to make an RPG at his new home, but "our last hope to keep the studio alive" comes first – and it looks like a very promising roguelike
Feature Malys is a slick roguelike deckbuilder from folks who can't help but put a little RPG in eve🍸rything
I saw the dirty little secrets of Crimson Desert's open-world engine, and I'd kill to do it with games like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Red Dead Redemption 2
Interview A date with the🙈 BlackSpace Engine reveals promising tech
Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel
News If that is Lune, boy has she changed a lot
Baldur's Gate 3 companions got official $50 D&D minis, and I am casting Vicious Mockery because what in the Nine Hells is this
News Gale, you feeling all right?
Assassin's Creed Shadows "has clearly outperformed Assassin's Creed Odyssey" in sales and player count, Ubisoft says
News Assꦡassin's Creed Shadows may not be an earth-shattering win, but it's a win
After God of War's success, the overlords said "you're gonna make the second one and you're gonna do it in half the time and it's gonna be twice as long with more bosses and enemies"
News God of War did so well that the higher-ups wanted secon✤ds, and fast
Leaked Stellar Blade PC trailer shows June 11 release date, every graphics setting I could ask for, a new boss fight, and 25 new costumes that look pretty good
News Stellar Blade PC release date finally narrowed by apparent PlayStation leaꩵk🗹
I play all the big action RPGs every year, and the 'PS2 Golden Age' approach of Phantom Blade Zero is exactly what I want right now
Feature And so Phantom🐽 Blade Zero goes up a few ranks on my list of anticipated games
"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games
News Borderlands 4 cost way more to make than Borderlands 3, says Randy🌺 Pitchford, but he can't say how much it will cost pꦿlayers
Borderlands 4 boss raises Todd Howard's 'you can climb that mountain' Skyrim promise: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there"
News Forget mountains, we can go꧒ anywhere on the screen𝄹
Destiny 2 lead insists divisive Star Wars-inspired expansion Renegades "is in-canon for the Destiny universe" as players worry the MMO is pulling a Fortnite
News Some Destiny 2 p🌸layers aren't vibing with the idea of folding in another universe
Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says
News Circana's Mat Piscꦯatella reckons third-party support is one of the most interesting a𒈔spects of Switch 2
