Latest articles by Austin Wood
My favorite isekai anime is back after 4 years, and Ascendance of A Bookworm season 4 is an upgrade
News The anime adaptation of Ascendance of a Bookworm is better than ever
"Elder Scrolls 6 is taking so long that we're just making our own," RPG devs tell Todd Howard
News "Everyone's making a Soulslike. We're making a Scrolls-like"
Police visit 91-year-old woman who missed check-in calls only to find her "playing video games"
News The game is on
"Go try that s*** in Red Dead Redemption 2": Nobody makes games like Bethesda, says vet Pete Hines
News "Who else out in the world allows you to just stack up one quest after another on the fly"
Rust 2, free-to-play sequel to one of the biggest survival games ever, appears in odd Steam teaser
News Update: Act surprised
The First Berserker Khazan dev restructure "not related to workforce reduction or team dissolution"
News "Neople has reorganized its team"
Gearbox provided "creative guidance" on the new Borderlands game, which isn't Borderlands Mobile
News Borderlands Mobile is still untitled, Zynga says
"SteamGPT" mentions in Valve's code flagged by online sleuth, sparking fears of an AI Steam chatbot
News Valve hasn't commented on the nature or validity of "SteamGPT"
Despite good reviews, The First Berserker Khazan development team reportedly dissolved
News The team at Khazan developer Neople has apparently been reassigned
Steam charts rocked by Road to Vostok, a "single player Tarkov" FPS by a solo ex-military dev
News Road to Vostok is a "hardcore" post-apocalyptic survival shooter
Valve admits it's "time to make some bigger improvements" to Steam's mod system in massive update
News The Steam Workshop should look and run a lot better
Publisher head says "it doesn't matter" how many of us hate gen AI, Pandora's box has opened
News "Kinda gives me the ick to look at gen AI art"
"We had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert," ex Just Cause boss says of cancelled game
News AionGuard "would have been Crimson Desert"
An open-world RPG is "better played on high-end PCs," says Arknights: Endfield dev
News PC gaming is becoming increasingly important for games coming out of Asia, especially
Ignoring Valve's Half-Life lessons, Baby Steps dev says trolling players with level design is good
News "Why are we intentionally creating this experience that Half-Life is going to such great lengths to avoid?"
The hottest new sim on Steam is a love letter to Blockbuster stores and everyone who remembers VHS
News Retro Rewind has found its people
Arc Raiders devs would love to have machine takedowns "like the Hoth invasion scene in Star Wars"
News All I want is to knock a Queen to the ground with a tripwire
Arknights: Endfield dev says launching a new gacha RPG in a post-Genshin Impact world is tough
News Turning your RPG into a factory building sim is one way to stand out
FromSoftware experts find evidence Hidetaka Miyazaki's breakout RPG deleted some truly evil enemies
News Demon's Souls world 4-1 was once crueler than we could imagine, it seems
Persona 3 Reload fans are redoing every cutscene just to add forgotten Portable female MC Kotone
News "This is the perfection Atlus denied us"
"Gabe really had a great vision": Steam became a PC icon because Valve built community, dev says
News "What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community"
Arknights Endfield lead says good gacha systems don't hurt "player's ability to enjoy the gameplay"
News "We are also calculating how many pulls players can get every version"
Slay the Spire 2 dev teases 3 new modes, including something "very competitive"
News "We don't want to just make a bunch of things and be like, 'Here's 25 game modes.'"
