Austin Wood

Austin Wood

Senior writer

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

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Genshin Impact was called a Breath of the Wild ripoff, Nodusfall is accused of copying FromSoftware

By Austin Wood Published

News The Zelda thing did turn out to be kind of correct

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GTA 6
For GTA 6, Rockstar has more than doubled in size since Red Dead Redemption 2

By Austin Wood Published

News "We look back at our previous games with a critical eye"

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GTA 6 leaker turns to story spoilers: Cyberleek uploads 4-minute Lucia prologue clip

By Austin Wood Published

News GTA 6 story spoilers are out in the wild, be warned

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Mihoyo CEO says Monster Hunter-like Nodusfall is very "un-Mihoyo," which hopefully means less gacha

By Austin Wood Published

News Nodusfall's development has been challenging, CEO suggests

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered screenshot
CD Projekt Red snuck 30 improvements into The Witcher 3 Remastered reveal

By Austin Wood Published

News HDR! PS5 Pro support! Raytraced hair!

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Geralt in The Witcher 3 Remastered
The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming next month as a free upgrade for all, free expansions out today

By Austin Wood Published

News CD Projekt Red has a surprise alongside Songs of the Past

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Nodusfall looks more like Monster Hunter and Elden Ring than games from Genshin Impact's Hoyoverse

By Austin Wood Published

News Nodusfall is a new co-op action game about hunting divine beasts, which sounds familiar

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Gordon Freeman in Half-Life on orange background
When Valve killed its Ravenholm game, Arkane founder says "we did not understand" its thinking

By Austin Wood Published

News "It took us a decade to move on from the pain of the Ravenholm project"

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Slay the Spire 2 early access trailer screenshot shows an animated character wearing golden armor, running forward.
For an unhinged 84 minutes, Slay the Spire 2 expert contemplates 1 damage and explains fight solver

By Austin Wood Published

News This is important stuff, folks

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Illustration of Lunarium main character holding a longsword
Sekiro's combat is a "remarkable refinement" of the Souls games, says dev of new action RPG

By Austin Wood Published

News Lunarium has gotten a lot of love on Steam

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Pikachu in Pokemon Winds and Waves trailer against beach window backdrop
The new head of Pokemon designs made one of 2024's prettiest games

By Austin Wood Published

News He also contributed Pokemon designs as far back as Black and White

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The Duskbloods character Zork in an iron suit
The Duskbloods network test was not good between lag, stuttering, and bad PvP

By Austin Wood Published

Features The Duskbloods is the first FromSoftware game I've immediately disliked

Features
GTA 6 reveal trailer screenshot showing a young blonde woman standing near a sunny rooftop pool, wearing a white and gold bikini
Latest GTA 6 leaks see Cyberleek threaten Rockstar with Lucia story spoilers – and examine nude NPCs

By Austin Wood Published

News New GTA 6 leak encourages gamers to visit Take-Two and Rockstar offices

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First Mortal Shell 2 balance patch stacks the deck for players, refunds for wasted Glimpses

By Austin Wood Published

News It's all coming up buffs

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GTA 6
Cyberleek's GTA 6 leaks won't change Rockstar's Netflix reveal plans, report says

By Austin Wood Published

News Rockstar plans to show the game next week

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Arc Raiders is shutting down Expeditions "until early 2027" to make "major improvements"

By Austin Wood Published

News Just as Embark finally fixed a massive problem with Expeditions

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Gabe Newell in Half-Life documentary with a long full beard
Frustrated with GTA 6 leaks, Rockstar fans dig up Gabe Newell's "I play games to have fun" rant

By Austin Wood Published

News "I have never thought to myself that realism is fun. I go play games to have fun," said Newell

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Future? No Thanks protagonist in sunglasses with a long white beard
"Steam is a monopoly with very few precedents," says dev of game flagged as adult-only by Valve

By Austin Wood Published

News Steam has been sued over alleged monopolistic practices more than once

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Elden Ring screenshot showing Ranni, a young woman with pale ice-y blue skin and a large brimmed witch-like hat
Even after Elden Ring exploded, Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware doesn't make games for anyone

By Austin Wood Published

News Miyazaki just makes what he likes, not something for a target demographic

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The Duskbloods character holding a chakram receiving a proposal from a kneeling knight
Hidetaka Miyazaki says The Duskbloods is full of ideas FromSoftware couldn't fit into Dark Souls

By Austin Wood Published

News Even Elden Ring and Nightreign couldn't accommodate The Duskblood's ideas

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Gabe Newell makes a rare public appearance as "New Chad Gabe" and rings in Dota 2's big tournament

By Austin Wood Published

News The International is back, and so is Gabe Newell

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Genshin Impact players do JRPGs proud by fighting gods with guns they stole

By Austin Wood Published

News Genshin Impact 7.0 gave them an inch, and they took a mile

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No Man's Sky
"If people weren't playing No Man's Sky, I don't think we would want to do updates" says Sean Murray

By Austin Wood Published

News "We are in a mindset right now, in the industry, of games just being very consumable"

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Vapor World: Over The Mind character with black medium length hair in a gray jacket
After 25% positive Steam reviews, Soulslike dev realizes people hate AI slop and admits it looks bad

By Austin Wood Published

News They really just came out and said it

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The Sims 4 screenshot showing a young woman with shoulder-length wavy brown hair and an academic green coat, her expression surprised
EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed"

By Austin Wood Published

News "It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"

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