Austin Wood
Austin 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 jou🔜rnalism 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
FromSoftware warns "the same strategy won't always work" in Elden Ring Nightreign, which is bad news for me because I used the same strategy in all the Souls games
News What do yo🃏u mean I can't use the saౠme magic sword?
"Oh, you don't like hentai on your Switch?": Dev says Switch 2 needs to fix Nintendo's "pathetic" eShop, and he's not the only one who thinks so
News A Steam-caliber experience the eShop is not
Bungie reveals what's next for Destiny 2: "Multiyear" Fate Saga starts with Edge of Fate expansion in July, "Star Wars-inspired" Renegades expansion with LucasFilm in December
News Plus freeꦕ, Into the Light-sized "major updates𒆙" in between
Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better"
News "It's even more impressive they took the decisꦰion to delay it," s🌟ays Mike Dailly
GTA 6 trailer 2 drops out of nowhere, putting Lucia and Jason in the spotlight once again
News ꦏIn🔯dulge in crime in Rockstar's open-world sandbox
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"
News "We have, I 🌳think, an amazing team mostly of junior people💎," Guillaume Broche said
Nintendo Switch 2 anticipation partly fueled by "palpable desperation" in the world, analyst says, and people wanting "something to bring joy" no matter the launch games
News The world is hard and cold𝄹, but the Nintendo Switch 2 has Mario Kart World
Even John Romero is worried about Joy-Con drift on Nintendo Switch 2, so here's hoping those "not Hall effect sticks" hold up better than the originals
News Please don't rip and tear, analog stick sensors
Naughty Dog won't do it, so this AAA dev and his wife made their own Jak & Daxter-inspired retro platformer – it feels great and crushed its Kickstarter goal
Newsཧ GearGrit is abou♛t as Jak 2 as you can get without digging out your PS2
After nailing his first JRPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio lead UI designer has one piece of advice for his old self: "Your PC is going to break in 2021. Do something about it!"
News 𝕴"I always felt a sense of longing for the gaming industry"
Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"
News "The doub🦂le whammy that was supposed to revitalize the game industry overall is now called off," one analyst says
"We're in kind of unprecedented territory": Analyst says there's hope for a Switch 2 and GTA 6 bump, but "are you going to pick food, or are you going to pick a new game?"
News "The biggest compet✤ition for Switch 2 is going to be Switch 2 supply and the tariffs," says Circana's Mat Piscatella
16 years in, Borderlands 4 just threw a wrench in the loadout I've always used in Gearbox looter-shooters, but the new guns look so cool I'm not even complaining
News Borderlands 4 is♚ basically giving us five gun slots
$80 Switch 2 and now Xbox games aren't a big shock, analyst says, and games haven't really been $70 for a while: "The average price people are paying ... is much higher"
News "Was expected to happen. I𒀰s now happening. Will be hap꧃pening more."
Danganronpa creator says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "an amazing tribute" to classic JRPGs, while his new game is a cult strategy RPG that "will still be here" once you "come back from your expedition"
News ꦗ"Now all that's left is 🌠for it to sell a lot," adds Kazutaka Kodaka
Lethal Company creator considered releasing a "low-key" update "right now" but decided to cook for "another couple weeks and add a creature or two"
News Lethal Com🙈pany's first update in months is coming soon
Metaphor: ReFantazio's superbosses weren't intentionally easier than Persona or Shin Megami Tensei's, but the JRPG's lead says new classes made them feel that way
News You can thank/blame the game's new classes
Hoping to make realistic "simulated players" for his single-player MMO, Erenshor dev accidentally made a naked Leeroy Jenkins who would pull dungeon bosses
News The absolute irony
Marvel Rivals mid-season patch buffs Strategists, nerfs Groot and Spider-Man, and gives Vanguards and Strategists a competitive boost: "We can't guarantee perfection 100% of the time"
News Vanguards and Strateℱgists cou🍌ld "face a slight disadvantage" in competitive performance rating
"Speechless": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the first game from a studio founded by ex-Ubisoft devs, is officially the best-rated game of 2025
News S♛andfall Interactive's debut RPG beats Blue Prince, Split Fiction, and more
5,300 hours into Elden Ring, community hero Let Me Solo Them can beat the final boss almost “with my eyes closed” – and hopes FromSoftware loves her back
News Let Me Solo Them is a jar-headed hero all their ownౠ
Fans worried Oblivion Remastered could drown out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but Bethesda itself is cheering it on with 7 Adoring Fans: "We can't wait to play"
News Clair Obscur seems to be doing just fine
Open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker is pulling me back in with a game-changing update that makes it "easier, better, and ultimately more enjoyable for all players"
News "Making the game easier" was a very necessary step, it seems✅
