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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Steam refunds are "not for people to play games for free," says dev who criticized Valve's system

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News "Many people think that I'm a complete a**hole now"

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Microsoft comms lead says Xbox layoffs "were not made to replace employees with foreign workers"

By Austin Wood Published

News "The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals"

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Palworld 1.0 redesigns multiple Pals and makes them look less like Pokemon

By Austin Wood Published

News Several Pals were brought more in line with the modern Pocketpair style guide

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PlayStation ending physical games is "like Apple removing the CD Drive," says analyst

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News "This time a new laptop will cost $5k and my old one with a disc drive works just fine"

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Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 shadow drop on PS5, you've got a month to get a good price

By Austin Wood Published

News The decade-old games are not cheap, but are cheaper with PlayStation Plus

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Devs don't buy Steam disclosure claiming gen AI is a necessity

By Austin Wood Published

News "I'm happy to reduce AI usage if the game is financially stable enough," RPG dev says

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Microsoft lays off Bethesda vet behind Todd Howard's "crazy" Fallout 4 idea, "many Skyrim weapons"

By Austin Wood Published

News "If you've played a BGS game you've had his art on screen 99% of the time," says dev

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I'm starting to lose track of Arc Raiders dupes at this point, but Embark says it just fixed one

By Austin Wood Published

News "We will continue issuing bans on accounts," says Embark

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Mortal Shell 2 is suddenly one of my most-anticipated Soulslikes and it's out next month

By Austin Wood Published

News Mortal Shell 2 release date set for August

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Magic: The Gathering community stunned as Path of Exile creator shows one of the biggest collections

By Austin Wood Published

News Yes, that is 24 copies of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

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In the ashes of Destiny 2, furious developer creates playable Pete Parsons-themed parody raid

By Austin Wood Published

News The Final Car is here

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Palworld price won't increase as update 1.0 takes it out of early access

By Austin Wood Published

News 40 million players will do that

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Destiny 2 Season of the Wish
Destiny 2 comms manager says devs who weren't laid off may "sneak in" a small fix here or there

By Austin Wood Published

News It's only got nine toes in the grave

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Steam is more than 50% larger than PlayStation according to one expert's estimate

By Austin Wood Published

News PlayStation reported 125 million monthly active users this year

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Id Software veteran of over 20 years absolutely rips and tears into Microsoft after layoffs

By Austin Wood Published

News "Just really sad"

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John Romero has a private collection of "critically important" id Software history

By Austin Wood Published

News Thank goodness someone does

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It feels like PlayStation underestimated the backlash to ending physical games, new post bombarded

By Austin Wood Published

News Physical game enjoyers have not forgotten

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Former Xbox boss wanted Halo 4 to have Diablo 3's most hated feature, dev says

By Austin Wood Last updated

News Don Mattrick oversaw part of the decline that Xbox has yet to truly recover from

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Nirvana and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says Kurt Cobain would've loved this new anime about gay girls

By Austin Wood Published

News Nirvana's song Breed is the opening tune for a beloved yuri series' anime

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Dishonored: Death of the Outsider character with black eyes
Arkane founder asks Xbox CEO "how much" Microsoft wants for the studio: "I'm asking for a friend"

By Austin Wood Published

News Raphael Colantonio is now head of WolfEye Studios

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Xbox acquisitions have been a mess: "In a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar" invested

By Austin Wood Published

News "We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio"

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Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox employees, and half of them will be eliminated today

By Austin Wood Published

News "Today’s decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication," new Xbox CEO says of staff

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Does anyone actually want new consoles?

By Austin Wood Published

Opinion Opinion | We are paying more for less and physical games are underwater

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Destiny 2 community manager calls out "poor decisions" of leaders for industry woes

By Austin Wood Published

News And no, it was not a personal attack

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Rockstar devs allege crunch is so common at the GTA 6 studio that it's "built into" contracts

By Austin Wood Published

News Rockstar has also been accused of unequal pay

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