Latest articles by Austin Wood
MMO community fears PvP bots have formed a "cartel" using false reports to get you banned if you kill them for their illegal loot, bringing Old School RuneScape's bot problem to a boil
News There's no clean and actionable answer to the bot problem, it seems
Hytale studio founder says he'd spend $25 million buying it back from Riot to get the game finished, and in his eyes it was "maximum 2 years away from a PC release" over 5 years ago: "That's how much I believe in it"
News "I don't know exactly what happened in the past few years," says Simon Collins-Laflamme
Capcom forgot to buff one of the worst and least popular weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds, but the rest of the Title Update 2 balance changes sound pretty good
News Where are my lance buffs, Capcom? I know you're hiding them somewhere
Warren Spector celebrates 25 years of Deus Ex, reiterates he wasn't some sole creator: "The Deus Ex concept may have been mine, but the game itself and all kudos aimed at it belong to the great, great team"
News "Ideas are easy, shipping is hard"
Elden Ring Nightreign players worship a new god: a Relic buff that gives a gigantic damage boost just for killing some pretty easy mini-bosses
News The before-and-after difference with this one Relic is absolutely disgusting
The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live – here are 10 deals we love, from the biggest Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 discount yet to 50% off Lies of P and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
News JRPGs, city builders, open-world games, indies, and everything else are on sale
Nintendo, I am still waiting for a good reason to buy a Switch 2 – there's exactly one launch game I care about, and I ain't paying $500 for a JRPG I played on DS 10 years ago
Feature Donkey Kong is my only hope for now
Blizzard builds a $158 gacha wall in front of a cute pet, tilting Hearthstone players straight off a cliff: "So disappointing for such an adorable boy"
News Hearthstone's first pet could run you the cost of around three new games
Genshin Impact has an actual new endgame mode after 5 years, and it is kicking the crap out of everyone – even whales who've spent thousands of dollars
News Stygian Onslaught brings a steep challenge to Genshin Impact
MMO dev admits egregious microtransactions are "harming" its game, the player base "isn't really growing," and it's time to clean up: "The era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is coming to an end"
News Anti-MTX "Experiments" will start next month with Treasure Hunter being disabled
"Immortal king of speedrunning" can only say "that's a great run, gg" after MMO mad lad beats him in 3-year revenge match with a new world record just minutes ahead
News Ain't no speedrun like an Old School RuneScape speedrun
"You will never lose another '50/50'": Open-world RPG Neverness to Everness takes a sledgehammer to Genshin Impact standards, promising guaranteed characters with better rates and no weapon banner
News The Neverness to Everness Containment Test starts on July 3
Switch 2 stick drift doomers pin their hopes on Nintendo's repair service, which will take a Joy-Con 2 that "doesn't work" for free
News Hey, it's something
Marathon is delayed, but don't worry, Bungie says it just has to work on the AI, loot, combat, graphics, narrative, playlists, prox chat, and oops that's the whole game isn't it?
Feature That seems like quite a lot of changes
After nearly 5 years, Genshin Impact recasts Paimon in English – and I'm definitely not the only one who prefers her new voice
News Keqing also has a new English voice actor, with old voices being replaced on an ongoing basis
2 years ago an MMO player locked himself in a virtual cage of his own making – "after 10,000 hours" he is finally free
News Old School RuneScape challenge modes strike again
Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because the triple-whammy of mentions, no-shows, and clarifications at Summer Game Fest was absolutely brutal
News The Silkposting is coming from outside the Skong
Hades 2 just got a huge update with over 5,000 words of patch notes, and Supergiant says "we're now starting to prepare for our v1.0 launch"
News Hades 2's third major patch, The Unseen Update, is out now
One of the best-rated action RPGs on Steam faced the wrath of furries over a body slider nerf, but the dev says it was a misunderstanding: "I won't write a manifesto"
News Atlyss dodges a bullet which wasn't really there to begin with
Soulslikes are getting easier, and I'm not complaining: The First Berserker Khazan renames "Easy" to "Normal," adds "Beginner" for good measure, and introduces "Hardcore" for sickos
News Some of the top Soulslikes are toning down their difficulty in some way
With over 6,600 hours on PS5 alone, Elden Ring player claims to have more Malenia and Consort Radahn kills than nearly anyone – and has quietly been uploading videos for years
News Meet ShoulderCoffin, a boss killer among boss killers
Hollow Knight: Silksong has its own GTA 6-like release date blast zone – "I hope Silksong will release this year coz we are avoiding them," says boss of lovely JRPG-flavored Metroidvania
News Fallen Tear: The Ascension looks to dodge Hollow Knight: Silksong
One day after launch, the top 30 "adult" Stellar Blade mods have over 350,000 downloads on Nexus Mods, which isn't far off what Nier Automata has after 8 years
News Act surprised, because Stellar Blade is getting a lot of NSFW mods
