Austin Wood
Austin freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree, and he's been with 12DOVE since 2019. They've yet to realize that his position as a senior writer is just a cover up for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a focus on news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.
Latest articles by Austin Wood
It's taken 10 years, but Destiny 2 is finally getting the most important feature for any MMO: character customization that lets you tweak your appearance anytime
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news You'll be able to redo your Guardian's look before The Final Shape
MMO player commits 500,000 counts of pickpocketing but fails to find the thing they actually wanted, insists they're doing "fine" mentally as they prepare for 1 million
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news Old School RuneScape player hunting priceless scrolls fleeces local cult
Rockstar says GTA Online is approaching "the limits of what's possible" on PS4 and Xbox One, plans to disable clips editor next month
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news The Rockstar Editor will remain available on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
After it kicked a bunch of JRPGs out the door with near-zero hype, Square Enix president admits the company needs to get better at marketing
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news Who remembers Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai?
Dev of chill sailing game "blown away" as player count jumps over 282,000% following 2.4 million downloads as Epic Games Store freebie
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news Sail Forth catches a second wind
Bethesda finally announces new Elder Scrolls game that soft-launched 3 months ago
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news The Elder Scrolls: Castles is now available, kind of
Payday 3 isn't dead: devs discuss new plans after disastrous release and commit to delivering "the heisting experience you expect from a Payday sequel"
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news Starbreeze assembles a "strike team of veteran developers" to set things right
Promising action RPG goes viral as a "capoeira Soulslike" where spinning kicks beat magic, dev explains why the Afro-Brazilian martial art is so important
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news Deathbound draws on a range of fighting styles and countries
In a seismic update, Overwatch 2 pulls back from "team strategy and mechanics" by giving every hero in the game built-in healing
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news From "I need healing" to "I need more healing"
My Lethal Company crew struggles with 1,000 quota, but these great assets have managed 10,501 across 13 hours in an apparent world record
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news That's a lot of big bolts
The "biggest Starfield update yet" is coming next week with over 100 fixes plus graphical improvements for NPCs and space sightseeing
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news The update arrives in Steam beta on January 17
A top-ranked MMO player with 20,000 hours played is on 90 Day Fiancé, and the game's community is hanging on every word – words like "I'm effectively living as a virgin"
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news Old School RuneScape players are having a lot of fun with this one
Mages in RPGs have been the same for too long, but Dragon's Dogma 2 has the solution: a Trickster class that can taunt enemies straight off cliffs
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news Dragon's Dogma 2's Trickster is officially the coolest mage class I've seen from an RPG in ages
The Sword Art Online studio's hot new anime Solo Leveling feels like fantasy John Wick – and it's a must-watch
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Feature Opinion | Solo Leveling is looking like a great adaptation of a fabulous comic
In pursuit of a priceless raccoon, MMO player spends 149 hours stealing over 14,000 fruit while dodging XP gains like landmines
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news Old School RuneScape pets are serious business
Baldur's Gate 3 was criticized for being unlike the original RPGs and more of a 'Divinity 3,' but one Larian designer says the games are just about the same things
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news It all comes down to the systems supporting a central narrative
Todd Howard said Starfield was a much harder RPG pre-release, and this early Starmap reportedly found in the game files makes that even clearer
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news An old version of Starfield's Starmap seemingly hints at cut features and hazards
Despite withdrawing from acting, Marvel's Spider-Man MJ model clarifies she isn't done with the role: "I will be MJ as long as the game creators will have me"
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news "MJ is the only role I was open to being a part of," says Stephanie Tyler Jones
Diablo 4 shows off ray tracing in new trailer, and I'm really trying here folks but I cannot tell a big difference
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news Is the ray tracing in the room with us right now?
Two of Steam's most-wishlisted survival games launch this month just 5 days apart: Pokemon-like open-world Palworld, and Valheim-like RPG Enshrouded
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news Palworld is hard to look away from, and Enshrouded was a Steam Next Fest highlight
Intimidated by RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3? Larian designer says stop obsessing over the "full experience," because "you don't need that, you just need to roll with it"
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news "You fail? That's okay, that's also part of the story," says Anna Guxens
Xbox teases first Indiana Jones gameplay, plus Avowed and Hellblade 2 showcases for first Developer Direct of 2024, coming this month
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news The January 2024 Xbox Developer Direct brings out some heavy-hitters
Finally, an answer to the biggest FromSoftware mystery: how long would it take to climb an Empire State Building-sized ladder in Demon's Souls?
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news What a thrill