Austin Wood
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

Lies of P DLC Overture is coming this summer and almost sounds like a full prequel: "I wonder if we subconsciously aimed to create a 'developers’ cut' of Lies of P"
By Austin Wood published
News Overture takes us back to the start of the puppet massacre

Former GTA 5 lead properly shows off his new city-sized action game coming this summer, and yep, it looks like Cyberpunk 2077 meets GTA
By Austin Wood published
News MindsEye, the latest from Rockstar North's Leslie Benzies, is due this year

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake release date confirms the PlayStation leak: Snake returns this August
By Austin Wood published
News Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater gets a new (also leaked) trailer

Monster Hunter Wilds has already revealed its first free update, and it's adding one of my all-time favorite monsters this spring
By Austin Wood published
News Monster Hunter Wilds starts its post-launch journey with Mizutsune

All Elden Ring Nightreign characters, classes, and abilities
By Will Sawyer published
Guide Elden Ring Nightreign has a selection of characters with unique abilities that you can choose from before starting a run

All Elden Ring Nightreign bosses so far
By Will Sawyer published
Guide It wouldn't be a FromSoft game without bosses, and Elden Ring Nightreign has plenty from the Elden Ring and Dark Souls catalogue

I played Elden Ring Nightreign for over 3 hours – it feels like a mod in the best way, and I think FromSoftware can actually pull off this roguelike pivot
By Austin Wood published
Feature Preview | Hands-on with Elden Ring Nightreign, FromSoftware's weirdest game yet

Elden Ring Nightreign launches this May, costs $40, and already has DLC cooking
By Iain Harris published
News The Elden Ring Nightreign release date is closer than expected

Elden Ring Nightreign collector's edition revealed: $200 gets you 24 centimeters of hero and a proper artbook, or drop $190 for another fancy helmet
By Austin Wood published
News The digital deluxe edition also comes with the DLC and a bunch of other goodies

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the RPG is a "welcoming" hardcore game, and he "can never understand" how people play Elden Ring: "I'm just not good at the combat"
By Austin Wood published
News "It doesn't really matter how long a game is" as long as it has enough unique ideas

Monster Hunter Wilds devs know players love the beta's buggy origami monsters: "It was a nice thing to see that people were enjoying it in a way that they were having fun"
By Austin Wood published
News The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is back, and so are the low-poly monsters

Days after EA CEO suggests players crave live service guff, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss says their single-player RPG made all its money back in one day
By Austin Wood published
News Amid Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformance, Andrew Wilson reckoned players seek "shared-world" features

Best Monster Hunter Wilds weapons and tier list for the Beta
By Joel Franey last updated
Guide Our weapon tier list for the MH Wilds Beta has all the best options for hunters

Destiny 2's new Episode suggested the upcoming Apollo expansion will launch on July 15, but that date has mysteriously been scrubbed from the game
By Austin Wood published
news The Episode 3: Heresy season pass screen previously clocked 161 days to go

A 13-year WoW veteran formed his own studio to make an RPG that plays like "World PvP: The Game" and feels like a mini MMO channeling "early Blizzard"
By Austin Wood published
Feature Legacy: Steel & Sorcery can't fight its MMO blood, so it's embracing it

Bungie yanked Destiny 2 servers offline for emergency maintenance as Episode 3: Heresy got off to a rocky start, but it looks like we're back in business
By Austin Wood published
News I blame Oryx

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 trades Skyrim stealth archers for stinky smelly archers: you can get so filthy that NPCs catch you "broadcasting" body odor, so "wash your hands, kids"
By Austin Wood published
News What a way to throw a stealth attempt

After backlash over Pokemon TCG Pocket's titular feature – you know, trading – devs say they're working on improvements and "multiple ways to obtain trade tokens"
By Austin Wood published
News "Received a large number of comments," did ya

"Oryx is back": Destiny 2's final Episode takes the MMO to the site of the iconic Taken King expansion for a Coil-inspired roguelite mode, and also Star Wars armor
By Austin Wood published
News Destiny 2 Episode 3: Heresy is out February 4

One of the oldest ongoing JRPG series adds its divisive gacha spinoff to the live service graveyard after barely a year
By Austin Wood published
News Atelier Resleriana will shut down in March, but a full-fat follow-up still seems planned

"I am so mad at the overlords I cannot even find the words": Dauntless dev lays off "majority of the studio" 2 years after a blockchain company bought it out
By Austin Wood published
News Ex-dev impacted by a previous wave of layoffs lamented the studio's fate

Gears of War: E-day will be co-developed by the 20-year shooter powerhouse that helped bring Gears, Fortnite, and one of the OG boomer shooters to life
By Austin Wood published
News People Can Fly helped with the Gears of War trilogy and co-developed Judgment

Tragedy in Marvel Rivals as the calmest healer almost hits Celestial rank without dealing damage, but accidentally loses their pacifist cred: "I guess I'm 22DmgRocketNow"
By Austin Wood published
News "A Cloak passed through" at the worst time for Rocket
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