Latest articles by Austin Wood
Gearbox is "avoiding nerfs" for Borderlands 4: "I wholeheartedly want to avoid ruining someone's countless hours"
News Ultimate Vault Hunter levels will increase dedicated loot drops going forward
Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap revealed: exclusive matchmaking for lvl 40+ players, "new large Arc," beach map teased
News As well as a Scrappy update, player projects, and a Raider Deck
Everything in Arc Raiders' Escalation and 2026 Roadmap
Guide The Escalation roadmap in Arc Raiders covers everything coming in January, February, March and April 2026
Minecraft creative lead plays Hytale and decides "I'd rather just play Minecraft," Hytale dev says he's "probably right"
News "In the coming years, you will see a major shift between Minecraft and Hytale"
New Fable developer Playground "got a treasure trove of documents" from original creator Lionhead "in storage"
News Fable is very different today, but Playground studied the old ways
Double Fine's next game is a PvP brawler with pottery-powered team battles and a full social hub, out this spring
News Kiln is secretly a mech game, I'm convinced
Arc Raiders devs have discussed special raids like high-value rounds where you have to bring in good gear, but "don't want to segment the player base too much"
News This is the high ante table, so pay up
Prince of Persia remake dev comments on its cancellation: "We know this is deeply disappointing"
News The long-delayed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is dead
Ubisoft hits "major reset" button, cancels 6 games, delays 7 more, and confirms 4 new IP
News Ubisoft also closed two studios in sweeping cost cuts
Ex MMO dev allegedly hacked 68 players for in-game gold worth over $700,000 and sold it for Bitcoin, UK court finds the gold legally counts as "property" and can be stolen
News A previous ruling on this person's alleged MMO gold theft was reversed in an appeal
Arc Raiders lead responds to complaints about late spawns, says late joiners are important and "profit way more"
News Joining raids late is more profitable on average, says Embark
Comparisons to Concord didn't feel great, says ex Marathon art director, but haters "can't take the thing I care about the most"
News Marathon's certainly got style
Palworld dev "couldn't believe" the state of publisher deals in games and wanted to be "much fairer" with devs
News Pocketpair Publishing doesn't backload recoup terms
"Will this blow up the server?": Arc Raiders players are so good at killing Arc that Embark eyes ways to "escalate" PvE
News By the Emperor
Arc Raiders devs are looking at buffs for terrible skills: "We know. There's certain skills I don't choose"
News Cough, flyswatter, cough
Arc Raiders had an auction house-style trade system at one point, but Embark removed it because it ruined loot
News But the devs do want to make trading more social and fun
RuneScape CEO says players were "16-year-olds listening to Breaking Benjamin. Now it's 33-year-old accountants and CEOs"
News This is a callout post
Arc Raiders dev teases 2026 roadmap, and maybe some new maps "even grander than what we've got now"
News Embark has big plans for Arc Raiders in 2026
Elder Scrolls lore keeper says he left over Bethesda's "bureaucratic" baggage and a broken promise from Todd Howard
News Kurt Kuhlmann, the keeper of the tomes, says he couldn't do the work he wanted at Bethesda
Bungie shows off Marathon's reworked "Runner Shell" classes, and I'm still worried about invisibility and wall hacks
News Bungie has been in the kitchen, I'll give it that
"The highest PvE damage output of any weapon" in Arc Raiders was from the Bettina, and that was before its buff
News Not counting the bugged and overpowered Hullcracker, of course
6 years ago, an MMO player of focus, commitment, and sheer will demanded custom sandals in-game – they're finally here
News The Holy Moleys! At last!
Arc Raiders dev admits "we're definitely a bit off on some of the cost to benefit ratios" for guns like the Bobcat
News "If we're way under-shooting how people feel about that, then that'll take some adjustment"
