Latest articles by Austin Wood
The Ghostrunner devs have cooked up a first-person Soulslike that looks like BioShock meets Bloodborne, and oh yeah, it's set in fictional 19th century Europe during the Napoleonic Wars
News Valor Mortis is the next game from Ghostrunner house One More Level
"Quite often, and which felt very Zelda side-questy, we just have Japanese people who are so welcoming and surprised to see you": How finding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild locations in real life led fans up and down Japan for 2 years
Feature Interview | Two video game investigators find Zelda in Japan, and find Japan in Zelda
Helldivers 2's Halo: ODST crossover is also its first Legendary Warbond, focusing on stealth "for the first time" and adding 4 guns, 2 armor sets, a new armor passive, and cosmetics
News "Because sometimes the best way to enforce Peace is quietly"
How long is Black Myth Wukong?
Guide Black Myth Wukong's length is anywhere between 20 and 50 hours
What is wrong with Monster Hunter Wilds? Another debate burns besides difficulty and PC performance: has Capcom removed too much of the classic charm?
News Even if Monster Hunter Wilds ran perfectly, it would still see heated debates
"This dude’s gonna single-handedly delay GTA 6 for several years": Bold truth seeker asks if GTA 5 street signs are actually legal, commissions a mod that corrects Rockstar's many mistakes
News It turns out Los Santos roads are a death trap even when you're not at the wheel
Battlefield 6 lead responds to complaint it's "not how Battlefield should be," says "I'd urge everyone to go and play some smaller/medium map BF3 and BF4" to get a feel for "the intensity curve"
News "We are very much looking back at our past modern incarnations"
Yeah, Elden Ring Nightreign's new giga-boss Everdark Libra is 100% getting nerfed, and if FromSoftware doesn't do it soon I'll delete my best relic
News I have never seen a FromSoftware boss more obviously asking for a nerf
"Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs
News Jagex says it saw a noticeable spike in new OSRS players and learned a lot from WoW streamers
With censorship swirling, devs of polarizing anime RPG Blue Archive say Steam delay "was unrelated to the game's content" and there were "no modifications or censorship of the content specifically for Steam approval"
News Blue Archive made the jump to Steam unscathed
Bizarre Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch un-murders historical Chinese characters in massive retcon, makes the game way easier, and breaks a whole chapter: "Faint from exhaustion? Are they Pokemon?"
News Many players blame nationalism after update 1.5 dramatically changes Ming Dynasty characters
After promising more re-releases, Bandai Namco seemingly leaks a remaster of one of my all-time favorite JRPGs, which still has some of the best combat in the genre
News Tales of Xillia is still one of my top three Tales games
Dune: Awakening players report disappearing items, devs tell the MMO's community to try standing around for "up to 10 minutes" while they work on an actual fix
News I mean, I guess that works
Original Hytale studio founder "in active discussions with Riot Games about acquiring" the Minecraft-inspired survival game after offering "10x what the true market value is"
News "Thank you for believing in Hytale"
Hideo Kojima excitedly reports another 0.1% growth in Death Stranding 2 players who kept playing after the credits rolled, and I'm really starting to think he just wants y'all to get it to 80%
News "Make the most of the Obon summer holiday and play to your heart’s content"
I've waited literal months for these Monster Hunter Wilds changes, and I don't say this lightly, but I think we might actually be back
News My beloved lance is king of the new balance changes
Helldivers 2 teases Halo 3: ODST crossover as the PlayStation-published hit finally comes to Xbox, studio CEO once again threatens brown trousers: "Please prepare your pants"
News Halo x Helldivers looks like a sure thing
Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless
News Old School RuneScape players have tracked down an extraordinarily rare fishing find
The Black Myth: Wukong vibes are off the charts in the gorgeous and unnerving reveal trailer for this action game from The First Berserker: Khazan's Nexon and the Squid Game composer
News Woochi the Wayfarer is one to watch
Elden Ring does it again: Bandai Namco lights a cigar with digital profits up ¥7 billion partly thanks to 5 million+ Nightreign players, and doubles down on Sony collaboration
News Elden Ring Nightreign has been a boon for Bandai
Finally, The RPG is on Steam – "Minimalistic Skyrim" where you shove bread into open wounds to heal, and the dragon villain "constantly glitches"
News At long last, The RPG is here
Battlefield 6 beta players pray for nerfs as the M87A1 shotgun becomes a sniper rifle, dev says it's already fixed "in a different build"
News The shotgun tearing up the Battlefield 6 beta has already been adjusted, it seems
As the industry waits for GTA 6 to land like a meteor, analyst highlights the widening gap in games: "The winners are winning bigger, and everyone else is scrambling for a smaller piece of the pie"
News "That available pie for those titles and services that aren't the biggest in the market, that pie is shrinking"
