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

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"Just because you can order at a restaurant doesn’t mean you’re a chef," lawyer says of AI vibe code

By Austin Wood Published

News Game code delivered to a client was killed after the programmer admitted knowing nothing about it

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Phantom Blade Zero release date trailer screenshots
Phantom Blade Zero dev tells players to "reserve at least 300GB of free disk space" for PC pre-load

By Austin Wood Published

News A game shouldn't require 300 GB of anything

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Steam sale: a screenshot of a collection games in a Steam library
Steam "loading user data" error causing major issues – Valve's store down a second time in a week

By Austin Wood Published

News It's possible that installing is fueling errors on Steam

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Arc Raiders: Frozen Trail
After asking "how am I not banned," Arc Raiders streamer gets hardware banned for aimbotting

By Austin Wood Published

News Quote from man banned

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Fortnite
Still mad at Valve for Steam's AI disclosures, Epic Games boss criticizes "forcing developers"

By Austin Wood Published

News "Abhorrent," rules Tim Sweeney

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GTA 3 main character walking down airport runway
"For most of development, GTA 3 was in a sorry state": Rockstar veteran reflects ahead of GTA 6

By Austin Wood Published

News "If they were fun, they were in. The story was secondary."

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Black pixel art Jono avatar next to a wood door and red spike
Only one person on Earth can play this Steam game at a time: "You control it for one minute"

By Austin Wood Published

News The original Angry Birds artist's new game is oddly social

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Gordon Freeman in Half-Life on orange background
Valve dev mentions rumored Half-Life game HLX, coworker immediately calls him out: "Nice work"

By Austin Wood Published

News Half-Life 3, is that you?

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What appears to be Liara appearing in the first teaser for the Next Mass Effect game
Rumored Mass Effect 5 trailer leaks just hours after apparent EA employee claimed BioWare had one

By Austin Wood Published

News Supposed Mass Effect: Universe trailer implies a very different approach

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Arc Raiders player holding grenade launcher
Arc Raiders player says Embark used ChatGPT to respond to them, sent messages intended for others

By Austin Wood Published

News "ChatGPT said: Writing," the reported messages repeatedly read

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Baldur's Gate 2
The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 devs join creators mourning BioWare

By Austin Wood Published

News "Truly this is a terrible time," says Xbox's Seamus Blackley

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot of Solas
Standing on BioWare's grave, EA says "we should be proud" to be top "publisher in Western HD gaming"

By Austin Wood Published

News "Saying no to some things we're passionate about allows us to focus our teams and resources"

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Mass Effect 5
EA cancels new Mass Effect, closes BioWare after being bought by Saudi Arabia

By Austin Wood Published

News EA only just found new owners in a deal to go private

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Probably Stolen pixel art showing shopkeep behind table of goods
In a Steam Next Fest plagued by AI slop, the biggest single-player demo is a game about fighting AI

By Austin Wood Published

News You simply will not guess the nature of Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

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Steam store error goblin
The Steam store goes down as Valve seemingly joins the whole internet struggling amid PHP issues

By Austin Wood Published

News Error E502 L2 spread on Steam

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Old School RuneScape characters in black and blue armor exchanging coins
I've been covering MMOs for 13 years, and this is by far the most disgusting grind I've ever seen

By Austin Wood Published

News It takes a lot to stun Old School RuneScape players

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Red Dead Redemption 2 screenshot showing the silhouette of a man with a cowboy hat on horseback, a glowing sun seen behind him
Not even Rockstar heads know everything that's in GTA 6 because devs will just add stuff

By Austin Wood Published

News Expect a lot of unhinged detailing in GTA 6 similar to Red Dead Redemption 2

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Elon Musk in black shirt on black background at Tesla Roadster event
"Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something": Art legend calls out AI billionaires

By Austin Wood Published

News Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney backs an AI-first push across the company

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Arc Raiders character in cutscene with pensive expression
Arc Raiders TV and movie adaptations can do what the game doesn't: "All kinds of different stories"

By Austin Wood Published

News "I think it's really interesting to try to explore that"

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RimWorld
"Our industry is rotting" and AI made it worse, so DayZ creator wants to change how games are made

By Austin Wood Published

News Kerbal Space Program creator is also on board for his next game

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Drunken Goddess Reflux demon girl with pink hair and black-and-pink odd eyes
Devs are canceling their demos to stop AI users from stealing their games

By Austin Wood Published

News Drunken Goddess Reflux will run a private test instead

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Family Time wolf girl surrounded by wolf children
Viral wolf girl colony sim Family Time enters Steam's top 50 most-wishlisted, immediately ripped off

By Austin Wood Published

News Genuine Family Time developer sgthale has filed a DMCA

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Yu-Gi-Oh character in red hood grimacing
Konami takes emergency action as Yu-Gi-Oh hits a rare low – ban list sees "34 newly Forbidden cards"

By Austin Wood last updated

News Yu-Gi-Oh needs help ahead of Magnificent Maestros

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Tim Sweeney on stage in a black jacket
Ex-Valve dev not impressed by Epic's updated Steam rival or Tim Sweeney's latest dig at Gabe Newell

By Austin Wood Published

News Epic Games could instead talk about what makes its store good

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RuneScape developer Mod Ryan in brown shirt
Jagex cancels MMO reset RuneScape Reignited after player backlash

By Austin Wood Published

News The new version of RuneScape would have launched new worlds with exclusive, fresh characters

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