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Austin freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree, and he's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize that his position as a staff writer is just a cover up for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a focus on news and the occasional feature.

Articles by: Austin Wood

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Idris Elba

As Phantom Liberty cements Cyberpunk 2077's comeback, CDPR gets candid about its horrible launch: "We repeated a lot of mistakes we got away with on Witcher 3"

By Austin Wood published 22 September 23

news CDPR leads reflect on Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous debut as it finally delivers the RPG fans wanted to begin with

Final Fantasy 14 gets its own tabletop RPG as MMOs and D&D collide

By Austin Wood published 21 September 23

news The Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG is available for pre-order now

You can finally redo your character's look in Baldur's Gate 3

By Austin Wood last updated 22 September 23

news Patch 3 brings a Magic Mirror to help you fix your style

Armored Core 6 has hidden dialogue for its dirtiest boss kill and it's the funniest thing FromSoftware's written since Patches

By Austin Wood published 20 September 23

news Take that, Swinburne

Months after declaring Tomb Raider unaffected by layoffs, Tomb Raider dev hit with wave of layoffs

By Austin Wood last updated 20 September 23

news Embracer Group's bloodbath continues as Tomb Raider dev Crystal Dynamics reports layoffs

The latest Kickstarter success to watch is an RPG inspired by a wild mix of classics, from Celeste and Metroidvanias to Doom and Studio Ghibli

By Austin Wood published 20 September 23

news Put me down as intrigued by Lucid, which has music from the legendary David Wise

Update: Heading off a wild goose chase, Larian explains what 'secret' Baldur's Gate 3 content Astarion's actor was talking about

By Hirun Cryer last updated 21 September 23

News Oh, so that's what he meant

This "reverse tower defense" JRPG is also a coffee shop sim, and it's got some of the best art I've seen all year

By Austin Wood published 19 September 23

news I'm instantly smitten with Affogato's bizarre genre mash-up and gorgeous style

Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0 is so big that the devs advise starting a new playthrough

By Austin Wood published 19 September 23

news It really is a whole new game

What comes after Xbox Series X? Microsoft's 2028 next-gen console plans revealed

By Austin Wood published 19 September 23

news Microsoft leak shows ambitious plans for cloud integration in next Xbox console

Open-world Soulslike goes viral for kicking so much butt that it lets you parry nuclear bombs

By Austin Wood last updated 19 September 23

news V.A Proxy looks like my kind of game

Hopes for Titanfall 2 burn brighter than ever as "???" playlist suddenly appears in-game

By Austin Wood published 18 September 23

news Respawn is definitely up to something

Bungie patched Destiny 2's weapon crafting glitch after a weekend of game-breaking chaos, but players have already found new "funny guns"

By Austin Wood published 18 September 23

news Bungie let players have their fun for the weekend, and now it's trying to get a hold of the weapon crafting glitch

SFW sex game dev says Unity pushed new fee by dismissing Planned Parenthood charity as a "political group": "You wanna f*** us, but we are not bending over"

By Austin Wood published 18 September 23

news The maker of *checks notes* Orgynizer is not happy with Unity

I'm still playing Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield, and now State of Play and Nintendo Direct have delivered mountains of RPGs and JRPGs

By Austin Wood published 15 September 23

feature Not to mention the appropriately named unicorn strategy RPG

After a classic D&D dice roll, Astarion kills Astarion's actor in the funniest Baldur's Gate 3 stream yet: "Oh I got a natural 1"

By Austin Wood published 15 September 23

news Actor Neil Newbon tried to be nice to Astarion, and this is how he repays him

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director promises "nearly 100 hours of adventure" for the JRPG

By Austin Wood published 14 September 23

news Naoki Hamaguchi says Rebirth offers "free exploration" and a variety of discoveries

The Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Collector's Edition is here and you can get 19 inches of Sephiroth for $350

By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published 14 September 23

news Now you, too, can hold Sephiroth in your very own hands

After 6 years of dupes and complaints, Bungie's removing Legendary Shards from Destiny 2 – which could be amazing, or the MMO's next currency disaster

By Austin Wood published 14 September 23

news Legendary Shards will be slowly phased out in coming updates, and totally gone in the next expansion

My favorite JRPG of the Nintendo Direct promises "the rebirth of tactical fantasy RPGs," and I actually think it could pull it off

By Austin Wood published 14 September 23

news Vanillaware's next game is also coming to Xbox and PlayStation

Super Mario RPG remake shows off new features that make for an even more interesting JRPG

By Austin Wood published 14 September 23

news Nintendo's taken lessons from modern JRPGs

Filthy Starfield get-rich-quick trick lets you steal mountains of supplies and credits that Bethesda tried to hide in plain sight

By Austin Wood published 14 September 23

news You can seriously just walk up, crouch down, and plunder a fortune with no risk

Game devs say Unity's new install fee is a threat to everyone, including gamers, and there's no going back: "I don't want to sell my house because my game was too popular"

By Austin Wood published 13 September 23

news "I've never seen this level of unanimous agreement between developers that something is really bad," says Rami Ismail

Valve celebrates 20 years of Steam with the top releases of every year, assembling an airtight list of some of the best games in every genre

By Austin Wood published 12 September 23

news See also: a sexy Steam Deck

Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 remake, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage are all coming to a new platform: phones

By Austin Wood published 12 September 23

news Game devs praise the iPhone 15 Pro and its A17 Pro GPU

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