Latest articles by Austin Wood
"Literally never seen this before in 120 hours": Elden Ring Nightreign player shares hidden castle treasure chests so handy I'm about to boot the game up just to loot them
News Elden Ring Nightreign players continue to remind me how hasty I am
$80 games have retreated for now, but analyst says the old $60 or $70 pricing model is dead in the "Wild West" of 2025: "I know a lot of people don't like it, but people still buy these games at these high price points"
News "There's going to be billions of eyes looking at everything Grand Theft Auto does next year, no matter what it is
After 5 million sales, dev of hit underwater Soulslike tells people to just pirate its new viral mounting climbing game Peak instead of wasting time and money on "microtransaction-riddled Roblox slop" ripoffs where you can buy a win
News Just play Peak
Analyst says "I expect a $100 price point" for GTA 6, estimates Rockstar's development cost is over $1.5 billion, and predicts it will earn "$10 billion lifetime and another $500 million annually from GTA Online"
News Let's hope some of that ends up being wrong
"Are you folks doing okay?" Larian asks the 350 Baldur's Gate 3 players responsible for one of the weirdest class choices I've ever seen in an RPG
News Minsc doesn't strike me as a Death Domain Cleric
With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality
News Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"
Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"
News The Trickery Domain is for squares
"Most players have no idea" how much games cost to make and "everything's more expensive than people think," devs say, as indie hits like Balatro are "the exception"
Feature Dragon Age, Monster Train 2, and more devs reckon costs are misunderstood in game dev – sometimes on both sides
Elden Ring Nightreign's big new challenge is one of the most hated, polarizing bosses in FromSoftware history: "I wish it was longer and he traveled a full zip code away with every attack"
News Some people seem to like Everdark Augur, but its haters are tireless
Original Plants vs Zombies artists say nobody at EA contacted them about the new Replanted remake: "I'd be down to help with it... whatever, I guess"
News "Would've been happy to do those reworks myself"
Analyst says stumbles like Monster Hunter Wilds' PC fiasco are only getting uglier with intense competition: "A prominent streamer or YouTuber can single-handedly, by showing one screenshot, really impact what the perception of a game is"
News "Wilds is a very interesting case, because the fan base was so enthusiastic, so dedicated, so loyal, that they really showed up day one"
Someone actually did it: an Umamusume player got so into horse girls that they "bought a racehorse" for £6,000 a year, says she "mostly reminds me of Gold Ship"
News New horse co-owner Oxijinn says their horse Jax Belle is doing well
Battlefield 6 open beta starts next week, weekend dates and early access revealed – DICE says it's "the most content we've ever dropped in an open beta in Battlefield history"
News You've got three chances to play the Battlefield 6 open beta in August
Echoing Nier's Yoko Taro, Peak devs blast "puritan" group behind recent Steam and Itch game takedowns: "It'd be foolish to assume that any game is safe"
News "It threatens video games' ability to operate as art in any way whatsoever"
Square Enix hasn't abandoned turn-based JRPGs, but the creators of Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default have followed Final Fantasy with a new action RPG – still in the gorgeous HD-2D style
News The Adventures of Elliott: The Millennium Tales has a demo out today
Where Eric Barone used his indie bucks to buy a proper PC, creator of Stardew Valley-inspired hit Rusty's Retirement says he's got the same $1,000 rig after selling half a million copies: "We've literally done nothing else differently"
News How Jordan Morris of Mister Morris Games balances games as an art and business
Pokemon TCG Pocket pulls card art after apologizing for plagiarizing an illustration that an artist posted 4 years ago, leaving us with an unintentionally hilarious placeholder
news Ho-Oh? More like uh-oh
If you're tired of romance anime about school kids afraid to hold hands, I've got good news: one of my favorite manga is getting an anime, and the main characters are exhausted adults
News Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You gets the adaptation it deserves
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
