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

Embark slaps Arc Raiders dupers with bans and drains their vaults
By Austin Wood Published
News Arc Raiders dupe exploits continue to shake the economy

Sony's attack on physical goods spreads to Crunchyroll with sub requirement to access its store
By Austin Wood Published
News The new Crunchyroll store will be exclusive to Mega and Ultimate subs

Xbox is officially so low that it's got ex PlayStation head Shawn Layden rooting for Microsoft
By Austin Wood Published
News "Innovation" and "differentiation" between platforms benefit games as a whole

Dev defends short games after criticizing Steam for making it easy to refund them
By Austin Wood Published
News Sub-two-hour games may face a bit of added risk

After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger
By Austin Wood Published
News Wouldn't want that, would we?

Dragon's Dogma 2 fans had given up, but Capcom says Dark Arisen began six months after launch
By Austin Wood Published
News "Sorry to keep everyone waiting"

Capcom returns to divisive RPG Dragon's Dogma 2 in Dark Arisen, lead dev says the friction is key
By Austin Wood Published
News "We were aware of the passionate feedback from players"

Steam refunds are "not for people to play games for free," says dev who criticized Valve's system
By Austin Wood Published
News "Many people think that I'm a complete a**hole now"

Microsoft comms lead says Xbox layoffs "were not made to replace employees with foreign workers"
By Austin Wood Published
News "The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals"

Palworld 1.0 redesigns multiple Pals and makes them look less like Pokemon
By Austin Wood Published
News Several Pals were brought more in line with the modern Pocketpair style guide

PlayStation ending physical games is "like Apple removing the CD Drive," says analyst
By Austin Wood Published
News "This time a new laptop will cost $5k and my old one with a disc drive works just fine"

Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 shadow drop on PS5, you've got a month to get a good price
By Austin Wood Published
News The decade-old games are not cheap, but are cheaper with PlayStation Plus

Devs don't buy Steam disclosure claiming gen AI is a necessity
By Austin Wood Published
News "I'm happy to reduce AI usage if the game is financially stable enough," RPG dev says

Microsoft lays off Bethesda vet behind Todd Howard's "crazy" Fallout 4 idea, "many Skyrim weapons"
By Austin Wood Published
News "If you've played a BGS game you've had his art on screen 99% of the time," says dev

I'm starting to lose track of Arc Raiders dupes at this point, but Embark says it just fixed one
By Austin Wood Published
News "We will continue issuing bans on accounts," says Embark

Mortal Shell 2 is suddenly one of my most-anticipated Soulslikes and it's out next month
By Austin Wood Published
News Mortal Shell 2 release date set for August

Magic: The Gathering community stunned as Path of Exile creator shows one of the biggest collections
By Austin Wood Published
News Yes, that is 24 copies of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

In the ashes of Destiny 2, furious developer creates playable Pete Parsons-themed parody raid
By Austin Wood Published
News The Final Car is here

Palworld price won't increase as update 1.0 takes it out of early access
By Austin Wood Published
News 40 million players will do that

Destiny 2 comms manager says devs who weren't laid off may "sneak in" a small fix here or there
By Austin Wood Published
News It's only got nine toes in the grave

Steam is more than 50% larger than PlayStation according to one expert's estimate
By Austin Wood Published
News PlayStation reported 125 million monthly active users this year

Id Software veteran of over 20 years absolutely rips and tears into Microsoft after layoffs
By Austin Wood Published
News "Just really sad"

John Romero has a private collection of "critically important" id Software history
By Austin Wood Published
News Thank goodness someone does
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