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

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake screenshot of Link on horseback
A dying man's quest to finish the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake

By Austin Wood Published

News The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is especially meaningful to one player

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Screenshot of RuneScape Dragon Slayer 2 showing AI-generated knight design
RuneScape devs take down trailer, apologize to players for gen AI after promising not to use gen AI

By Austin Wood Published

News Reborn MMO RuneScape's Dragon Slayer 2 trailer didn't even try to hide it

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Satya Nadella in a black shirt
Amid mass Xbox layoffs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the "streamlining" is "great to see"

By Austin Wood Published

News The Xbox reset under new CEO Asha Sharma has seen thousands of jobs eliminated

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Xbox hardware blowout view
"An Xbox that's only good for launching Steam is like subsidizing Valve's cash," says Microsoft vet

By Austin Wood Published

News Project Helix has to be an Xbox, not a third-party publishing device

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Hollow Knight: Silksong
The 25 best Metroidvania games you can play right now

By Austin Wood, Malindy Hetfeld Last updated

Best List Don't backtrack on the best Metroidvanias to download and play today, from Hollow Knight to Metroid Prime

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Best List
Steam calendar four by three grid of multiple games
"Steam is on an absolute historic run": Valve quietly made a huge change that's helping game devs

By Austin Wood Published

News "Steam is the best-in-class store experience and only getting better"

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Asha Sharma in black sweater
At Xbox, "the only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits," says id dev

By Austin Wood Published

News Xbox is down thousands of employees and struggling to release games

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Drawing of Discord monkey crying and giving a thumbs up
Discord admits it's taking gambling sponsors, rushes to fix "extremely popular age assurance update"

By Austin Wood Published

News Discord users have seen ads from the likes of sports betting app FanDuel

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Arc Raiders character grimacing
Arc Raiders will finally let players unlock weapons and items without hunting down blueprints

By Austin Wood Published

News Frozen Trail update addresses one of the oldest RNG complaints

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Genshin Impact fae character Vesna making a peace sign
Genshin Impact's new character Vesna is one of the best 5-stars I've seen in 6 years of this game

By Austin Wood Published

News Genshin Impact 7.1 star Vesna is a game-changer

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Geralt frowning, looking at a fire
CD Projekt Red releases new Witcher 3 Remastered footage side-by-side, and oh no, it looks worse

By Austin Wood Published

News Geralt looks great, but everything else?

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Arc Raiders Frozen Trail screenshots of new player armor
Arc Raiders is adding a battle pass with a paid tier, Embark says don't panic

By Austin Wood Published

News The new Arc Raiders Frozen Trail Reward Pass also has a free tier

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Arc Raiders Frozen Trail screenshots of new player armor
Arc Raiders is adding "weapon amplification" in Frozen Trail to customize weapons for PvP or PvE

By Austin Wood Published

News Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail update lets you put a scope on a Renegade

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Arc Raiders executive producer in white shirt
Frozen Trail is a "2.0" moment for Arc Raiders: "Almost feels like we're shipping the game again"

By Austin Wood Published

News "We haven't really set the dates for our next update yet, but we have planned it out"

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Halo: Campaign Evolved cinematic trailer screenshot of Master Chief behind soldier with visor
Halo cinematic director "promoted and laid off in the same week" amid sweeping Xbox layoffs

By Austin Wood Published

News This Xbox reset feels more like a shutdown

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Halo: Campaign Evolved trailer screenshot of old general wincing
After Microsoft's latest bloodbath, former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra offers "props to Xbox"

By Austin Wood Published

News "The best news in a decade plus," Ybarra says of Halo

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Dear Passengers screenshot showing big-eyed character squinting
A developer with no games on Steam now has the store's third-most-wishlisted game

By Austin Wood Published

News Ukraine dev Flexus's comedy co-op game Dear Passengers has a huge following

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Stellar Blade screenshot showing Eve in Bayonetta skin
Stellar Blade boss offers to help PlatinumGames make Bayonetta 4

By Austin Wood Published

News Hyung-tae Kim hopes to collaborate with Platinum again

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Bungie product head Josh Deane in black jacket
Bungie says "we are not done with Destiny" and promises to restore all that content it deleted

By Austin Wood Published

News Destiny 2 raids, campaigns, and destinations will come out of the Destiny Content Vault, new Bungie leaders say

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Minecraft screenshot showing a character activating an End portal
2 billion years of Minecraft running in a simulation finds the game can roll credits all on its own

By Austin Wood Published

News How Enderman, Creepers, and pumpkins beat Minecraft

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Another Eden Begins male protagonist in yellow jacket
Dev says it's "wonderful" JRPGs like Final Fantasy Resonance will be preserved in premium releases

By Austin Wood Published

News Another Eden Begins improves much of the original game and is built to last

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The Blood of Dawnwalker protagonist Coen staring down at the camera as the sun shines behind him
The Blood of Dawnwalker was made on a budget of $40 million much like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

By Austin Wood Published

News The Witcher 3 director's latest RPG is in the AA space along with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes share a game in Sony instructional video
As Sony kills physical games, former PlayStation execs recreate now-infamous PS4 game-sharing video

By Austin Wood Published

News Now-infamous "PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video" hits different today

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Mortal Shell 2 shell in dark iron armor
The worst experience I've had with a game all year: Bugs in Mortal Shell 2 nearly killed it for me

By Austin Wood Published

Features Opinion | It's not me, it's you

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Gabe Newell photo
Valve's Gabe Newell warns of "one of the biggest mistakes game developers make" in unearthed clip

By Austin Wood Last updated

News Newell called the Lord British assassination "the coolest thing that had ever happened"

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