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

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

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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"

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

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Destiny 2 Episode 3 Heresy screenshot of Eris Morn
Bungie's studio is up for sublease after heavy layoffs, which doesn't bode well

By Austin Wood Published

News Bungie is "exploring options" to sublease its Bellevue headquarters

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Guild Wars 3 concept art of white bear race
Guild Wars 3 wants to solve every MMO's biggest problem and might actually pull it off

By Austin Wood Published

News Will we finally see the fabled approachable MMO?

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Xbox cloud gaming menu showing 5 hours of playtime remaining
Microsoft invents new level of 'own nothing and like it': 15 hours of playtime a month on Xbox cloud

By Austin Wood Published

News We're bringing game rentals back with help from the monkey's paw

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Demon's Souls Maiden in Black with wax-covered eyes
Hidetaka Miyazaki says he has no idea why people think "I have a bit of a thing for feet"

By Austin Wood Published

News I'm just saying, I can imagine why

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Sephiroth design in Final Fantasy Resonance trailer
Final Fantasy Resonance, the JRPG I've wanted for nearly a decade, gets a surprise demo today

By Austin Wood Published

News Final Fantasy Resonance demo arrives ahead of October release date

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave character in royal crown and gold robe
This is your last chance to buy a Switch 2 before Nintendo raises prices to $500

By Austin Wood Published

News A Nintendo Switch 2 price hike hits in September

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword samurai with perplexed face
Capcom delivers its fourth hit of the year with Onimusha: Way of the Sword reviews beating Pragmata

By Austin Wood Published

News Onimusha reviews are looking bright

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Cyberpunk 2077 characters hugging
CD Projekt Red offers to help after police reports are filed at Gamescom over stolen dev equipment

By Austin Wood Published

News "No choom should have to start from zero."

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Stellar Blade female warrior with dark hair
Stellar Blade and Lies of P "made developers in Korea take up the challenge for console games"

By Austin Wood Published

News "And we have Crimson Desert now as well"

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Sekhmet grins with her claws out
People don't understand Steam player numbers, Palworld lead says: "Poor Marathon"

By Austin Wood Published

News "Not to dog on SteamDB, because I love those guys"

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Persona 4 Revival Yosuke in orange glasses
Persona 4 Revival boss knows you want to romance Yosuke, but "that is a lot of work"

By Austin Wood Published

News Scrapped gay romance won't be revived in Persona 4 Revival

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Jason enjoys a beer with the boys, from the GTA 6 extended look
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director not wowed by GTA 6 – "Two uninteresting sociopaths"

By Austin Wood Published

News "Zero story hook for me"

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Jason presses the elevator button
How long is GTA 6? About 80 hours, according to one Rockstar dev's playthrough

By Austin Wood Published

News If you want to dig into side quests, you can expect a lot more

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GTA 6 NPC in silver dress
Rockstar lead says GTA 6 takes NPC interactions "much further" than Red Dead Redemption 2

By Austin Wood Published

News If you liked Red Dead Redemption 2's NPC interactions, I have good news

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Palworld trainer pointing
Pocketpair lead thought if Palworld 1.0 hit 200k players, "that'd be party time" – it passed 900k

By Austin Wood Published

News "Very life changing for the studio"

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GTA 6
Cyberleek's GTA 6 leak flood looks to have ended in a $250,000 crypto grift

By Austin Wood Published

News There are no GTA 6 leaks without the grift

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Elden Ring warrior in gold holy light
Possibly the last big Elden Ring patch buffs a ton of weapons, fixes one of the oldest complaints

By Austin Wood Published

News The Tarnished Edition brings a big patch for everyone

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