Latest articles by Austin Wood
Square Enix reveals another classic JRPG getting a remake: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced, coming February 2026 to consoles and PC
News Surprise, the Dragon Quest 7 remake is real
It isn't a sequel to the best Mario game, but Nintendo announced Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for Switch 2 and it looks pretty good
News The Switch 2 is finally a real Nintendo console now that it's getting a Yoshi game
Borderlands 4 Steam reviews start at 41% positive as early players report performance issues and crashes: “Randy I sold my car for this”
News Some people aren't having any problems, but a good chunk of early buyers say they've had issues
"When I explained to her that everyone at Zeke was a real player who came to pay their respects, she burst out in tears": Parents of late baby son overwhelmed by huge in-game MMO tribute
News Old School RuneScape players give humanity a much-needed win
Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
News Even Gabe Newell isn't immune to being flamed in MOBAs
Team Cherry decided an early Silksong boss wants a nerf, so of course players are debating if it actually needs one while also claiming their 'I beat it pre-nerf' trophies
News I think I've heard this song before
Hundreds of MMO players show up to support a father mourning his infant son, who shares a name with an NPC in Old School RuneScape: "We have such an incredible community with the biggest hearts"
News "So nice seeing people plant flowers for him"
Elden Ring Nightreign's Deep of Night mode is out today, and it's "high-difficulty" even by FromSoftware standards: new red-tier gear, 3 more relic slots, and uber-buffed enemies
News Deep of Night also has an endless mode for the true sickos
Elden Ring Nightreign just got its biggest patch ever, and it's probably the most generous batch of buffs FromSoftware has ever given – even if the community's favorite OP legendaries got wrecked
News Basically every Nightfarer got a buff, and so did a ton of relics
"I'm here to interrupt the Silksong": Peak devs echo Team Cherry by telling players the game is just "that evil," tease "the next biome" already in the works
News To misquote Hornet: "Git gud"
Deep Silver, you cannot just tease Dead Island 3 in a tiny Steam post on a random afternoon
News Well, there it is
Bungie remembers Destiny 2 is an MMO just in time for Star Wars expansion Renegades: "Destiny's feeling lonely right now because all you do is spend time in the mines"
News Bungie is making big changes to some unpopular elements in Destiny 2, from loot to nerfs
Arrowhead CEO says he wasn't talking about Helldivers 3 in recent tease, but "our next game" – which raises a whole other question
News "This was about our next game," CEO clarifies
I gotta admit, the Borderlands 4 endgame actually sounds pretty darn good: Gearbox showed a bunch of raid boss and loot details, and my RPG brain is locked in
News "Loot farming has been improved"
Hideo Kojima reveals secret Death Stranding 2 cutscene was only half of the motion capture shoot, which ended with him surprising Elle Fanning with a cake on her actual birthday
News The cake is real, it turns out
The most popular Silksong mods tone down Team Cherry's cruelty, and this Elden Ring-inspired solution to ridiculous boss runbacks makes a very fair point
News "Respawn at the scene entrance instead of at a bench miles away"
The good news is Silksong has a true cheat code for a different difficulty setting, the bad news is it makes the whole game exponentially harder
News Hollow Knight: Silksong should be harder, actually, said nobody at all
Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it
Features Opinion | The Hollow Knight: Silksong difficulty jump has thrown me for a loop
Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I've followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button into dust
News False Princess Iruruu finally approaches
Wizards of the Coast boss and ex WoW dev would love a new D&D MMO, but says "the traditional model" Blizzard used "could use updating"
News "We'll want to rethink what an MMO is in this day and age"
Helldivers 2 has a new and brutal meat grinder: Oshaune has killed over 156 million Divers so far with one of the worst mission failure rates in the game's history
News Oshaune expeditions have come at "significant cost"
Destiny 2 is a mess right now but it's still one of the best-feeling shooters ever, so I'm encouraged to hear it was a "guiding light" for The Outer Worlds 2 gunplay
News If you're gonna follow gunplay, follow Bungie's
"Silksong's price is Team Cherry being cool and giving their game away": Metroidvania devs wonder if $20 is unrealistic for their games after Silksong, but "can't afford" to go super low
News "What should we price it at now?"
