Latest articles by Austin Wood
Alarms must be blaring at Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds dropped from 10 million sales in a month to under 500k in 3 months, falling behind years-old games as the PC port remains busted
News Capcom admits sales are "soft"
The new Borderlands 4 trailer feels like an extreme parody of the 2025 games industry: a (literal) bloodbath caused by board members killing cool ideas to save money
News New Vault Hunter Rafa gets one of Gearbox's bloodiest trailers yet
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update removes immortality, finally adds the "Battle Retry" option I want in literally every JRPG from now on
News The Pictos and Lumina menu also got a nice little tweak
"Thinks he's playing Assassin's Creed": Elden Ring Nightreign's absurd parkour tech sees one player scale a fort in seconds, so I guess it's time to update my routing cheat sheet
News That Revenant can move
In an hour, Grounded 2 has already beaten the original survival game's all-time Steam player peak by 50%
News Grounded 2 is off to a roaring start
Battlefield 6 leaks are so widespread that scammers are now apparently sending Steam phishing links disguised as playtest invites
News Don't click one, obviously
$1.1 billion worth of Minecraft accounts have played the Hypixel Minecraft server in the past 13 years, founder says, and it's "still growing"
news "An estimated half of players who bought this version of Minecraft played once on Hypixel!"
"We actually won": Helldivers 2 players pull off a miracle at the 11th hour, killing 47 million enemies of Democracy in a week and earning 3 cities that sound like terrible places to live
News "Vigorous, spirited efforts by the Helldivers" have paid off
A naked WoW Classic hardcore player has spent 292 hours punching everything in the MMO to reach level 55 as the One Punch Warrior: "What am I doing with my life"
News The One Punch Warrior cannot be stopped, or at least hasn't been stopped yet
Hollow Knight "was so underpriced" that a fellow Metroidvania dev was nervous to go higher than $15 and bought Team Cherry's masterpiece "multiple times because I'm just like, take my money, please"
News "I took a little bit of a risk, what I felt like was a bit of a risk, and just bumped up the price," says Rusty's Retirement dev
Sony sues Tencent over open-world survival game it calls a "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, which was apparently announced after PlayStation refused a collab offer
News Light of Motiram has officially attracted Sony's attention
Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "AI sucks" and "doesn't work very well," and even if it didn't suck, "so what? Why not make it with people? Why not have more fun?"
News "Even if it comes to a point where you can't tell the difference, so what?" asks Neil Newbon
Xbox tries again, says Hollow Knight: Silksong will have a Gamescom 2025 demo, its first public showcase in 6 years, and suggests it's coming "this holiday"
News Silksong actually real, confirmed?
1,769 hours into Destiny 2 on Steam, The Edge of Fate has killed my interest in playing with one of the worst leveling systems I've seen in an MMO
Feature Destiny 2 feels worse than it did three weeks ago
Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove "a better approach to game design" at a time where "there were more people using Doom than using Windows"
News "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft"
"They're not even hiding it": Advancements in gooner technology inflict humanity with a Zenless Zone Zero short rivaling Quentin Tarantino's obsession with feet
News Subtle as a brick to the windshield
This is what MMOs were made for: dev declares "there has been a calamity at the Crab" after 3 hardcore players who purposely gave their characters one life somehow die to a harmless crab boss
News There have been advancements in crab technology in Old School RuneScape
Duos come to Elden Ring Nightreign as FromSoftware announces two-player mode way sooner than I expected, and "more Relics filtering options" are also coming next week
News Patch 1.02 brings several highly requested changes for Nightreign
"It might be porn games now, but they won't stop there": Game devs join players and artists rallying against credit card companies after mass NSFW game delisting
News Meanwhile, Itch posts and hastily deletes an endorsement of AI-generated messaging
Leaked Battlefield 6 release date semi-confirmed in standard and Phantom Edition post, and it looks like the threat of $80 games persists
News $80 games persist, but so do I
He made a viral horror game in 2 months – it sold 6 million copies, and now he can make whatever he wants for the rest of his life: "My final theory is that gambling is very fun"
News Buckshot Roulette creator Mike Klubnika has a new horror game out today
MMO history has been made after 21 years: all the blank spaces in the Old School RuneScape map have been filled in for the first time, right as the game hits player count highs
News "Enough to make a grown man cry"
Microsoft caved to pressure over $80 games in less than 3 months, but I don't think the fight for sensibly priced games ends here
Feature $80 games simply do not make sense
