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

Borderlands 4 update adds FOV slider for PS5 and Xbox Series X, Gearbox immediately warns using it could cause "some dips in performance"
By Austin Wood published
News All players including the PC crowd also got a suite of performance, UI, and gun fixes

Ghost of Yotei is reviewing 4 points higher than Ghost of Tsushima, but 2025 has been so amazing for games that it's barely top 20 for the year
By Austin Wood published
News Ghost of Yotei looks like another open-world triumph for Sucker Punch

Returnal is still one of my favorite PS5 games, and its successor Saros looks even better thanks to the "permanent progression" my brain craves
By Austin Wood published
News Saros looks like another Housemarque special

Nioh 3 devs confirm the release date Amazon leaked, adding another must-play action RPG to my 2026 to-do list
By Austin Wood, Ashley Bardhan published
News Nioh 3 is coming in February

Marvel's Wolverine reappears with a 2026 release date on PS5, and gameplay that we're actually supposed to see
By Austin Wood published
News Insomniac's Wolverine game is coming next fall

Essential Silksong mod rights Team Cherry's greatest wrong by giving Hornet her iconic Hollow Knight voice lines, including and especially "Shaw!"
By Austin Wood published
News Adino!

The Pokemon Company says the US government did not have permission to use Pokemon art and theme song in ICE promotional video
By Austin Wood published
News Nintendo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Valve gave the Steam store a new look, and oh no, I hate it
By Austin Wood published
News Et tu, Valve?

Adding to $354 of DLC, Capcom presses emergency bikini button again and lets players pay to have a sexy shot of Monster Hunter Wilds smith Gemma as a quest complete animation
By Austin Wood published
News You can't say people didn't ask for it

Capcom adds full-on MMO mechanics to Monster Hunter Wilds in absurd Final Fantasy 14 collab, brings back Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate icon Gogmazios after 10 long years
By Austin Wood published
News Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4 is ready to upstage Title Update 3

Steam history has been made: account worth over $250,000 is the first to own 40,000 games on Valve's store, still has over 26,000 games on their wishlist that they will surely play
By Austin Wood last updated
News One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Dev looks at every hit open-world game from the past 10 years and decides to do all of them at once, creating anime GTA where you're Spider-Man and also it's Yakuza with a bunny girl
By Austin Wood published
News Ananta is one of the video games of all time

Indie Metroidvania marketed as "purple Silksong" and "your next game after Silksong" gets flak for banging the Silksong drum so hard, dev says "I'm sorry but this is how the algorithm works" and it's actually pretty different
By Austin Wood published
News Constance looks promising, and fairly distinct from Silksong

"The French make wine and the Germans make cars and Jagex makes RuneScape": In 5 years, new CEO wants RuneScape to be at least "the second biggest MMO" in the West behind World of Warcraft, and says "we're already very close to that"
By Austin Wood published
News Old School RuneScape is currently doing the majority of that heavy lifting

The biggest problem with Silksong, and the reason its Steam reviews are this low, is getting a fix: Team Cherry says terrible Chinese translation has a new script coming, recommends using a mod for now
By Austin Wood published
News Hollow Knight: Silksong's famously bad Chinese version will be replaced

Palworld devs announce Palfarm, a multiplayer farming life sim with less survival game grit and more Stardew Valley energy, days after Nintendo reveals Pokemon farming and crafting game Pokopia
By Austin Wood published
News Palworld: Palfarm is exactly what it sounds like

Fans waited 7 years for season 2 of this anime, but luckily Grand Blue Dreaming season 3 has already been announced
By Austin Wood published
News Grand Blue anime season 3 was announced on a buttcheek

Silksong patch 2 is out, and it fixes a bug that nearly caused me to roll back my save file by 3 miserable hours
By Austin Wood published
News Getting cursed is no joke in Hollow Knight: Silksong

If you somehow reach Silksong's Citadel or even Act 3 without buying the game-changing map quill from Shakra, Team Cherry rewards you with a secret cosmetic that does nothing
By Austin Wood published
News Thank you, Team Cherry, for this Hollow Knight: Silksong gift

Illegal MMO gold seller earns nearly $500,000, becomes a tax issue, and days later devs announce plans to curb real-world trading
By Austin Wood published
News Old School RuneScape Lithuanian gold farmers aren't tax exempt, it appears, while RuneScape law is pretty clear about it

Silksong player clears Team Cherry's smokescreen and calculates the damage of every Crest, proving I was absolutely right to stick with Wanderer the whole game
By Austin Wood published
News The Architect Crest also packs a surprising combo

I finally finished Silksong 100%, so now I'm positive: I like Hollow Knight more
By Austin Wood published
Feature Opinion | But only a little bit

Dev says Steam bug ruined "more than 10 years" of work and tanked their game's 1.0 launch, Valve says oops and offers a Daily Deal slot "to help make up for lost visibility"
By Austin Wood published
News Sandbox game Planet Centauri stumbled out of the gate

Silksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"
By Austin Wood published
News But not too soft

"I'm definitely in the camp of not having an easy mode": As Silksong crushes players and Team Cherry nerfs it, veteran designer says some games have to be difficult because that's the whole point
By Austin Wood published
News Baby Steps co-developer Gabe Cuzzillo reckons challenge can be inseparable
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