Austin Wood

Austin Wood

Senior writer

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 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

Destiny 2 Forsaken
Bungie shuts down leak claiming Destiny will be revived through a merger with Marathon

By Austin Wood Published

News Marathon is becoming more like Destiny, but it's not becoming Destiny

News
Sony PS5 unboxing
PS5 Linux dev abandons the project as AI "slop kiddies" ruin open-source mods ahead of GTA 6

By Austin Wood Published

News "I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out," says Andy Nguyen

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Minecraft character with wide eyes and mouth agape
9-year-old kid spends $118,000 on YouTube ads for Minecraft videos using his dad's company credit card

By Austin Wood Published

News Unsupervised YouTube advertisements for the Roblox and Minecraft channel racked up enormous fees in just weeks

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Destiny 2
Bungie's mantra was "I love playing Destiny. I hate that it’s not better" in the MMO's early years

By Austin Wood Published

News Destiny: The Taken King marked the series' first major comeback

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Warlock character holding a purple magic rune
Open-world D&D game Warlock doesn't have AAA-standard waypoints as the devs want players to explore

By Austin Wood Published

News Warlock comes from former Ubisoft devs with Watch Dogs experience

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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered gameplay showing the emperor looking at the player in their prison cell
Laying off the people making The Elder Scrolls 6 "doesn't make any sense," says former Bethesda dev

By Austin Wood Published

News "The best people you can imagine" were laid off

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Old School RuneScape carrying treasure
Crypto traders rigged the market of classic MMO Old School RuneScape, sparking "zero-tolerance" rule

By Austin Wood Published

News "Recently, we've seen cryptocurrencies and meme coins appear"

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Arc Raiders raider on blue and red background
After ending Expeditions until 2027, Arc Raiders may "scrap the whole system altogether"

By Austin Wood Published

News Arc Raiders Expeditions are going back to the drawing board one way or another

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Marathon shell with orange and black visor
Bungie ends Marathon's seasonal schedule, delays September update, and makes it more like Destiny 2

By Austin Wood Published

News Marathon is getting a social space, a firing range, and team deathmatch

News
Gabe Newell in black shirt sitting at white desk for 2013 university talk
The internet’s new obsession: Gabe Newell explaining why Valve defied big tech as a private company

By Austin Wood Published

News For example, a Half-Life dev who was "shipping 4,000 lines of code per day" without AI

News
Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic - the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil art showing Reimu in red
One of the most influential Japanese games becomes one of the highest-rated Steam games of 2026

By Austin Wood Published

News Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic's nearly 3,000 reviews are averaging 98% positive

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God of War
Fed up with Sony, PlayStation fans compile a list of times the company said "you own" your games

By Austin Wood Published

News For no particular reason

24 Comments
News
Hideo Kojima
Sony reportedly axed Physint because Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear successor is over budget, years away

By Austin Wood Published

News PlayStation executives close with Kojima have also departed

News
Marvel's Wolverine
Sony has topped a generational run of self-owns by abandoning Hideo Kojima's next Metal Gear

By Austin Wood Published

Features All the live services are coming home to roost

Features
The Sims 4 character with bemused expression
A month after buying EA, Saudi Arabia is reportedly looking to merge EA into a new mega-corporation

By Austin Wood Published

News EA could be paired with mobile giant Scopely under Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games

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News
Old School RuneScape player character crying
ChatGPT employee makes a "RuneScape clone," immediately gets slapped by Jagex lawyers

By Austin Wood Published

News Elderwood died as it lived: quickly

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Stage Tour screenshot showing guitar in avatar's hands
Tired of digital, more people are buying physical media: CD sales are up 58%, says new report

By Austin Wood Published

News Younger generations have shown increasing interest in discs

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Elden Ring screenshot of Fire Giant eyeball
4,000 hours into Elden Ring, streamer commissions a custom mod so he can beat it another 726 times

By Austin Wood Published

News Every last weapon, spell, and skill must be tested

News
Palworld 1.0 trailer screenshot of huge green pal
Palworld lead worries Steam early access "lost its meaning," players treat it as "a normal game"

By Austin Wood Published

News "It's getting harder on Steam, sadly"

25 Comments
News
No Man's Sky explorer looking at a star
No Man's Sky Cosmos update says screw it, build your own space station and destroy "space hulks"

By Austin Wood Published

News You can also form player alliances to conquer the stars

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Light No Fire dragon mount soaring over mountains
Light No Fire shows signs of life: No Man's Sky Cosmos uses shared tech, teases huge alliances

By Austin Wood Published

News "All of this is tech we get to test now"

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Todd Howard Starfield reveal
"Most people wanted" to make The Elder Scrolls 6 after Fallout 4, says Skyrim co-lead

By Austin Wood Published

News Fallout 76 also ended up eating a lot of Bethesda's time

6 Comments
News
Ocarina of Time remake Link
Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake release date set for November as Nintendo joins GTA 6 in the fall

By Austin Wood Published

News Nintendo and Rockstar fill out the fall

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Palworld creature with white snakes for hair
Palworld 1.1 is "something players have been screaming at us to do" after "soft prologue" of 1.0

By Austin Wood Published

News Palworld 1.1 has a surprise in store

13 Comments
News
Old School RuneScape character in pirate outfit
Court sentences Old School RuneScape dev who stole players' gold and "banked more than £364,829"

By Austin Wood Published

News Mod Jed, accused of hacking players and selling their gold, pled guilty

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