Latest articles by Austin Wood
Capcom fuels hopes for Monster Hunter Wilds launching in very early 2025 by giving it the same video treatment Monster Hunter World got 6 months before its launch
news Monster Hunter Rise followed a similar pattern
Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3, so this new Japan-inspired platformer has taken matters into its own hands
news Kitsune Tails is filling a niche I didn't know existed
Destiny 2 reportedly moving away from annual expansions after The Final Shape amid declining sales, Bungie apparently planning more Into the Light-style free updates
news Destiny 2 is seemingly gearing up for more big changes to its business model
Baldur's Gate 3 dev shares Larian boss Swen Vincke's response to the RPG's explosive launch: 'You know what this means? It means we get to do it again'
news "We were looking at the Steam numbers, seeing the numbers going up and up and up"
Out of things to do in a game? Manor Lords dev has a good idea: "Enjoy other games for a while" and come back "when there's new fun stuff"
news Sometimes you just have to put a game down
"Help us understand," pleads MMO dev as Old School RuneScape players vote on infamously loud monsters and decide they should be louder, actually
news Old School RuneScape's Nail Beasts are basically a protected species now
My favorite Star Wars game gets an HD re-release after 22 years, and thankfully it's miles ahead of the janky Star Wars Battlefront collection
News Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is back, baby
Bungie reportedly shelving "the next Destiny" indefinitely following another brutal wave of layoffs
news Update: Conflicting reports suggest the shelved project is unrelated to Bungie's recent layoffs
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List The best roguelikes and roguelites that will keep you coming back for one more round
The 25 best Metroidvania games you can explore today
Best List Jump, slash, and shoot through the best Metroidvanias to play right now
Humble Games confirms layoffs amid "restructuring," but says Humble Bundle and "ongoing projects and upcoming releases" aren't affected
news One employee said this was "my entire team's last day"
One of the new mission types in Helldivers 2's massive update is basically Death Stranding except you're transporting a kidnapped bug baby
news Bug Lou, is that you?
Helldivers 2's big update revealed: "Escalation of Freedom" adds new and returning bots and bugs, more missions, bigger outposts, and difficulty 10 "Super Helldive"
News Escalation of Freedom is coming for free on August 6
Baldur's Gate 3 dev explains in painstaking detail how and why players get to break the game: "The easy thing would be to block players ... but we don't like that at Larian"
news "Just allow players to have fun," says Larian's Mihail Kostov
After 8 years and more than 30 volumes, one of my favorite slice of life manga is entering its final arc and I don't know how to feel
News Komi Can't Communicate is approaching the end
With the determination that makes MMOs special, Old School RuneScape player kills 16,000 chickens by hand for a week because "I like my feathers covered in blood"
news Clucktastrophe
Larian finally throws its hands up as one 1,400-hour Baldur's Gate 3 player beats every backup possible, including a magic fish, to doom the world and find new content
news RPG investigators are digging deep in search of Baldur's Gate 3 secrets
25 years later, Counter-Strike co-creator says Valve has "done a great job" with the FPS icon, and he still regrets "not balancing some of the weapons, such as the AWP"
news He was surprised y'all liked DE_Dust so much, too
Legendary MMO speedrunner "can finally play the game again" after a 1,758-hour record for one of Old School RuneScape's most brutal challenges
news He box jonge has done it again
Gamers have been voting with their wallet for years – that's why 82% of US players reportedly made freemium in-game purchases last year
news A new report also found 62% of adults over 18 are gamers
Even after the Baldur's Gate RPGs, BioWare vet says Dragon Age: The Veilguard was when the dev "finally said out loud" it's best at "telling stories through characters"
news "You literally cannot save the world without these characters," adds Veilguard's creative director
Manor Lords publisher announces a new city builder that sounds like a Disney movie turned into a colony and automation sim where "verticality is key"
news It's raining cats and mice in Whiskerwood
No Man's Sky update 5.0 promises variety "that just wasn't possible before" and "things the community has almost given up hope on," still with "much more to come"
news With Worlds Part 1, Hello Games is "almost bringing this technology back from the future"
