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
FromSoftware producer reappears after 3 months, drops an Elden Ring DLC image that looks exactly like Bloodborne, explains nothing, leaves
By Austin Wood published
News Squint your eyes and we're back in Yharnam
Arise, Tarnished: a new Elden Ring DLC image just dropped, and it looks like a fresh take on an old enemy wielding a cool new weapon type
By Austin Wood published
news I really hope we can steal these chakrams
A 4,000-hour Final Fantasy 14 diehard made his own MMO raid-infused roguelike and it's tearing it up on Steam, beating the 4-year sales of his last game in 24 hours
By Austin Wood published
news Rabbit and Steel delivers another surprise roguelike hit for May
30 million copies later, Stardew Valley creator says "I'm just a dude who made a game" and still spends "all day hunched over the computer"
By Austin Wood published
news Eric Barone says he hasn't done anything "extravagant" with his success
Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead Dan Houser is making an "open-world action-adventure game" of his own at his new studio
By Austin Wood published
news Why yes, that does sound a bit like GTA
Meet the new hero of Helldivers 2: Dremskiy, a player kicked despite insisting "Im frend," who now has a full Steam friends list after even PlayStation shared the love
By Austin Wood published
news Dremskiy have frend now
Helldivers 2 dev threatens to make the hardest difficulties even harder: "I think we might have some things in store for the players who coast through everything"
By Austin Wood published
news Is that Difficulty 10 I smell?
Following Japanese giants like Sony and Capcom, JRPG powerhouse Square Enix says it wants "to win over PC users" as the Final Fantasy 16 port nears completion
By Austin Wood last updated
news PC is a "growth market," and Square isn't the only that thinks so
Fortnite shop updated as Epic gets fined over microtransactions once again, this time for $1.2 million amid claims "children’s vulnerabilities were exploited"
By Austin Wood published
news The Dutch were not happy
Stardew Valley creator says he's "doing everything within my power" to get update 1.6 out for console and mobile players, and a new PC patch is coming too
By Austin Wood published
news The upcoming patch is "mainly some bug fixes"
Hades 2's first patch is in the works, Supergiant wants to improve the roguelike's dash, sprint, and resource gathering but "don't expect too many" balance changes
By Austin Wood published
news Hades 2 patch 1 should arrive "later this month"
Bethesda adds the Fallout 4 graphics settings the community wanted from the first next-gen update, but the devs "highly recommend" you don't use them
By Austin Wood published
News Thanks, I guess?
Helldivers 2 might get its review bomb cape after all, whether Sony likes it or not: CEO teases a wearable tribute as the game recovers to "Mostly Positive" on Steam
By Austin Wood published
news Operation Clean Up is in full effect
All Destiny 2 Exotic Class Item perks for Prismatic builds
By Will Sawyer published
Guide The Final Shape introduces an Exotic Class Item to Destiny 2 that lets you combine Exotic armor perks
Helldivers 2 devs remind players "it's Sony's decision, not ours" amid PSN backlash: "We always knew this day would get here, and it's going about how I expected"
By Austin Wood published
news Sony does what Arrowheadon't
An incredible roguelike and fighting game pushed one of the biggest companies in vtubing to make its own game publisher, and now hololive's buried in over 50 ideas
By Austin Wood published
Features Interview | hololive's gaming arm holo Indie hopes to put out around 10 games a year
My next Metroidvania kick is an ingenious mix of Zelda-like exploration, twin-stick combat, and pitch-perfect controls – with 97% positive Steam user reviews
By Austin Wood published
news Minishoot' Adventures absolutely nails an odd combination
Stellar Blade keeps fixing things that bothered me when I reviewed it – now including "input time for basic attacks, as well as the timing of blocking and parrying"
By Austin Wood published
news Stellar Blade's day-one update is a pretty big deal, it turns out
Hades 2 technical test "winding down" in a few days, but don't be too sad – Supergiant says the roguelike's early access launch is "relatively soon after that"
By Austin Wood published
news Hades 2's technical test will "start winding down on Monday"
After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream
By Austin Wood published
news He's now playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on stream
Destiny 2 is un-sunsetting every gun in the MMO with The Final Shape's massive Power changes – but Bungie says "we have no recovery mechanism" for deleted ones
By Austin Wood published
news Legacy gear will be brought up, and widely re-released in the future
In a rare extreme for monetization, Escape from Tarkov dev doubles down on locking new PvE mode behind $250 edition as players chant "this cannot be tolerated"
By Austin Wood last updated
news Tarkov's new Unheard Edition has not gone down well
I wish Stellar Blade's New Game+ was added before my first playthrough, because it sounds like a whole new action RPG with 34 new outfits and a bigger skill tree
By Austin Wood published
news New Game+ is starting to look like the second half of the game