Latest articles by Austin Wood
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
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?
