Latest articles by Austin Wood
As catastrophic layoffs rattle the games industry, FPS legend John Romero says "I've never seen anything like we're seeing now"
News "I am so sorry to everyone who has lost their jobs," Romero adds
Helldivers 2 players died over 10 million times taking a single planet, Mort, from the Automatons this week – and even then barely pulled it off
news All in the name of democracy, and Mort
Helldivers 2's first balance patch is coming, dev responds to meta-weary fans tired of "underperforming" guns and stratagems
news Hopefully it comes sooner rather than later
MMO community celebrates beloved player's release from hell after a truly filthy 2,500-hour Old School RuneScape grind: "I'm astounded at the sheer willpower"
news OSRS YouTuber Limpwurt has done the improbable once again
Helldivers 2 escort missions are out of control, but we're in this together so the community's desperately trying to help their fellow recruits stay alive
news And maybe, just maybe, the NPCs can survive too
As Helldivers 2 draws Metal Gear Solid 5 comparisons, Obsidian RPG master Josh Sawyer says "more games should just directly copy stuff that feels good"
news And he's right
Nintendo takes Switch emulator Yuzu to court in major lawsuit, alleging it fueled 1 million illegal downloads of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom before release
news Yuzu creator Tropic Haze is the latest target of Nintendo's legal team
Skyrim diehard claims to have the RPG's strongest unmodded character after grinding to level 1,337 by spamming Illusion spells for 43 hours
News Update: In an interview, the now-legendary Skyrim player says it "only" took 387 hours
"The biggest revolution in gaming in decades" is a $180 AI-powered fart box that makes your room smell of blood, gunfire, explosions, and – seriously – "clean air"
news Finally, gamer scents deployed to match what you're currently playing
FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki wants to make more games as big as Elden Ring: "If I am allowed, I want to try"
news No word of Elden Ring 2, but another game like it is at least in the cards
Palworld devs "apologize for inadvertently fixing a bug" that was apparently intentionally left in the survival game so players could have fun with it
news The question is, will Pocketpair add the bug back in as a feature?
PlayStation cancels several unannounced projects amid heavy layoffs and a studio closure: "Sometimes, great ideas don't become great games"
news PlayStation London's online game being the most obvious cancellation
Oh no, here I go again: Genshin Impact dev's new-again action RPG Honkai Impact 3rd gets Part 2 release this week
news Will this Mars chapter finally get me to try this game?
Stardew Valley update 1.6 is coming next month, ConcernedApe confirms: "Now, back to the grind"
news March is going to be a big month for Stardew Valley
Helldivers 2 avoided PvP to reduce toxicity, so of course some players are being toxic anyway by fighting over shared resources and team-killing to steal weapons
News A few bad apples are dragging down even the PvE matchmaking experience
If you like Palworld and Pokemon games, I'm once again asking you to try Monster Hunter Stories as the slept-on creature taming RPG gets a well-deserved remaster
news The original Monster Hunter Stories finally escapes handheld platforms
This manga got 6 amazing chapters and then vanished for over a year, and it's finally coming back next month
News RuriDragon is returning from hiatus and you can read it all for free
One of 2021's best JRPGs escapes the Switch with a Persona 5 Royal-style expansion in Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance, with updates that will eat 80 hours of my life
news Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC too
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
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
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
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
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
news Miyazaki says "it will involve a warp of sorts to get there"
