Latest articles by Austin Wood
Police confirm Arc Raiders fan got a visit from officers in real life after a concerned motel guest heard him plead for a revive: "I got shot, please get me up!"
News When Arc Raiders proximity chat gets a little too real
Hytale early access release date set for January 2026 just weeks after it's reacquired by original founders, following 5 years and cancellation at Riot: "If you don’t feel comfortable pre-ordering, please don't"
News Hytale is finally coming out, for real
MMO player endures "heavy chest pains" and struggles "to stay awake" as his girlfriend brings him food during 4-day grind to become first in the world to reach max level
News Get some sleep, Runescape fans
Arc Raiders gear tiers get even messier as one gunsmith finds low-rarity mods are by far the best bang for your buck, and suddenly I don't feel bad about my uncommon blueprints
News Bury me with my Vertical Grip II
Destiny 2 game director says "we don't want to be a dead live game" as Renegades arrives at a low for the MMO, admits "relatively few [new] people come" in and Edge of Fate pivot "didn't work"
News Tyson Green weighs in on the state of Destiny 2
The backbone of Arc Raiders, Scrappy the rooster, is based on a real bird who crashed a dev Zoom meeting and was photoscanned in as something "we'll definitely replace later"
News All hail Scrappy the crafting king
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
News Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
Arc Raiders dev answers one big question about what counts toward bonus skill points for Expeditions, but Embark still won't say how much cash you actually need
News How much loot you need for how many skill points is still anyone's guess
"There was only 1 game on all of Steam with more reviews than us at 100%," roguelike dev says, and now 54 clown emojis adorn the troll who broke the streak: "Game is amazing. I just like to be different"
News "I haven't reported it myself nor do I expect it to be taken down"
Arc Raiders has a weird problem for a shooter: the worst guns in the game are really good
Features Opinion | Which is probably a good thing
Genshin Impact fans rush to defend femboy god Venti and crop-topped male lead Aether after they're criticized on Turkish news channel: "They think he is a girl lmao"
News Venti did nothing wrong, as ever
Christmas comes early for Helldivers 2 players as Arrowhead adds a minigun, flamethrower drone, and a chain sword all in one glorious Warbond
News Helldivers 2 players have been very good soldiers
Team Cherry demonstrates the evolution between Hollow Knight and Silksong: "If the Last Judge had existed in the previous game, it would have probably been more of a big, round blob"
News Hornet's original move set was the basis for a normal enemy
Presumably praying people have room for another extraction shooter after Arc Raiders, Bungie opens Marathon signups for December playtest
News Marathon: still in the works, as a reminder
The median price of best-selling new games on Steam has dropped in the past 2 years, research finds: "Charging >$25 is getting trickier, as players compare value to the $10-$15 indie titles"
News The average has barely changed, but the median suggests a rise in cheap games
Silksong is shockingly cheap at just $20, but Team Cherry says it just tries to "price the games at a reasonable level for people," man
News So that's why Silksong is so cheap – that, and Hollow Knight money
After 4 years, Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail dev's mystery game seemingly revealed to be the open-world game Varsapura, in a trailer that screams Control so loud I'd bet Remedy heard it in Finland
news Varsapura looks to be the AAA open-world action-adventure game teased years ago
Ubisoft makes a big bet on "generative AI-driven gameplay" leading to "more interactive and engaging games," CEO says "this work reflects the direction we want to take"
News Ubisoft is integrating gen AI at all its studios and offices
Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"
News Ubisoft is using generative AI "in all our studios and offices"
Arrowhead creative lead agrees with Helldivers 2 players, calls the game "a never-ending ping pong between 'it's so over' and 'we're so back,'" but says "we're trying to get better with each update"
News Johan Pilestedt tips his hat to the Helldivers 2 community's definition
Compared to Hollow Knight, Silksong "reworked how the bosses pick their attacks," and suddenly I realize why I got crushed so often
News Silksong is a different animal under the hood
Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter
News Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3
MMO players get a sailing skill, immediately become pirates channeling a famous 2006 disaster: "Piracy as emergent gameplay is honestly perfect"
News Old School RuneScape also added pirates, it turns out
