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
Miyazaki says Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's map is "probably" bigger than Limgrave, but he also said the base RPG would take about 30 hours and it took me 125
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news Hidetaka Miyazaki has a reputation for underselling things
Temtem CEO says the MMO's audience expects "infinite content" even though "it is not feasible to continue" big updates at all, so the dev's making a new game instead
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news Update: Crema assures fans it is still working on updates for Temtem in parallel with its new spinoff
Baldur's Gate 3 dev pledges "robust, cross-platform plan" to add mod support to the RPG this year
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news Hotfix 19 is out today, and Larian has something much bigger in the oven
The coolest and dumbest weapons and spells in Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC reveal: a machine gun, this stabby shield, and a really big pot
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Opinion Opinion | Big fan of the big pot
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree brings a new map called the Land of Shadow, and Hidetaka Miyazaki says it's at least as big as Limgrave from the base RPG
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news Miyazaki says "it will involve a warp of sorts to get there"
Elden Ring's Shadows of the Erdtree "expansion" looks sequel-sized, and it's got the $40 price tag to match – two-thirds of the base RPG
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news It even has its own premium edition
Granblue Fantasy Relink is what I always wanted from the series: a great RPG with no gacha baggage
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Features Opinion | I see the gacha game that Granblue Fantasy Relink could've been and sigh in relief
I spent 80 hours making the most overpowered JRPG party I've ever had, and then a secret boss kicked my ass for 3 days
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Features Now Playing | Octopath Traveler 2's real final boss, Galdera, is not messing around
After buying many of the biggest publishers on PlayStation and Nintendo, Phil Spencer says Xbox is already one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation and Nintendo
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news Funny how that works
Phil Spencer shuts down multiplatform concerns, says next-gen Xbox console will "respect the investments that people have made" in the platform
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news Microsoft stresses that the Xbox platform isn't going anywhere
4 Xbox games are coming to other consoles, but Starfield and Indiana Jones aren't
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news Xbox is keeping hold of its big exclusives
After 3 years of "a lot of painful work," first-time dev had no idea his game was one of the best-reviewed Steam releases of the year
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news Sheepy: A Short Adventure is a certified, totally free hit
Granblue Fantasy Relink is an early frontrunner for my GOTY after years of development hell, and the hit action RPG has now sold 1 million copies in 11 days
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news Granblue Fantasy Relink was worth the wait
Just when I think it can't get any cooler, the most underrated JRPG of 2022 gets a whole roguelike with a "completely unreasonable difficulty mode"
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news Astlibra Revision is one of Steam's best-rated JRPGs, and now it's a roguelike
Helldivers 2 will "never" add a PvP mode because the dev wants to "reduce toxic elements"
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news Helldivers 2 will remain a cooperative PvE experience
I dropped everything to play the free viral game that's suddenly matching Palworld and Persona 3 Reload as 2024's highest-rated Steam game, and you should too
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news Sheepy is a sublime little game from YouTube music icon MrSuicideSheep
Palworld player turns the survival game into a city builder with a mod-free tribute to Attack on Titan that took 2 weeks to make
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news Palworld players are taking builds far beyond the Palbox sphere
After $90 million driven by Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro says games will be "huge" for D&D and Larian's hit RPG is "just the first of several new video games" to come
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news Baldur's Gate 3 is a "mega hit" that Hasbro expects to pay dividends for years
After Palworld and Enshrouded, Sons of the Forest keeps a year of survival games going with update 1.0 coming this month
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news Sons of the Forest is finally leaving Early Access in just over a week
Total War: Warhammer 3 dev surrenders in game of DLC chicken, says unpopular $25 update "didn't give you enough" and will be expanded alongside "FreeLC"
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news Total War: Warhammer 3's Shadows of Change DLC is getting a big free update
Helldivers 2 creative director says games have to "earn" microtransactions, which is why its purchasable revolver is anti-pay-to-win and "not that good"
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news You can't swipe the difficulty away in Helldivers 2
The Steam Next Fest demo of this bullet hell roguelike has big Risk of Rain energy, and some cool tricks of its own
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news I'm jamming to the soundtrack of Gatekeeper right now, too
The co-op roguelike from indie powerhouse and Don't Starve dev Klei Entertainment is even better than I'd hoped, and a must-play Steam Next Fest demo
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news Rotwood immediately feels polished and compelling