Latest articles by Austin Wood
The folks behind some of the best anime-style games of the past 5 years have a cyberpunk game out this week, and it's my first must-try Metroidvania of 2025
News Blade Chimera is the latest from Team Ladybug, Playism, and WSS Playground
The Sims 4 is getting "huge" base game updates for the series' 25th anniversary, including a new main menu and over 70 items
News Base game homes just got updated, too
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs praise and support vampire RPG from former CDPR staff: "These games have shared lineage and shared values"
News As The Blood of Dawnwalker reveals a few early snippets of gameplay
Palworld's multi-million player launch was originally in the hands of just one server guy who was "trying his best"
News Pocketpair wasn't ready for such a huge turnout, and nobody probably could've been
Watch in awe as an Elden Ring master, playing with a saxophone that goes "doot," finally wrecks Malenia in 45 seconds without getting hit
News Sometimes it really is that simple, just takes a little practice
PowerWash Simulator is ending support for VR, "a platform which costs us more than it makes," after just 14 months
News No new updates planned, but the VR version and your saves aren't going away
Metal Gear Solid Delta and Assassin's Creed Mirage reportedly coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as third-party support revs up
News Ubisoft is reportedly preparing "over half a dozen" games for Switch 2
"It's not Escape from Tarkov," but an extraction twist gives open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker an edge – plus it comes with one of the best indie games of 2016
Hyper Light Breaker comes with Hyper Light Drifter for a limited time
The Destiny 2 dev behind Titan's game-changing Banner of War was also on its new Exotic shotgun Slayer's Fang: "I gotta live up to this, especially as my first gun"
News The making of Slayer's Fang, the crown jewel of Kell's Fall
Meet Elden Ring's new community hero, the Elder Lord, a 72-year-old gamer with over 700 hours and New Game+7 beaten: "It was impossible, but I did it anyway"
Feature "Once I beat the Elden Beast and Radagon, I felt like anything was possible"
Why have Nintendo trailers been flooded with water buffalo memes? Thank these Switch 2 leak enthusiasts, who I fear are losing it at this point
News No trailer can escape the buffalo
7 years later, Monster Hunter World player finally beats the whole game without using weapons, mostly with a Street Fighter Hadoken emote dealing 13 damage at a time
News UncleAaronT is a hunter of focus, commitment, and Street Fighter emotes
Ubisoft "won't comment" on reports of Tencent buyout, only says it's "exploring different options" and "will inform the market if and when a transaction materializes"
News Ubisoft repeatedly evaded questions about Tencent's rumored involvement
Official Marvel Rivals stats show Mantis dominates, Magik is a sleeper hit, everyone loves Jeff even if he kind of sucks, and Black Widow is in the dumpster
News The Hero Hot List is here with the best pick rates and win rates from Season 0
Analyst predicts Switch 2 supply will struggle with "significant early demand surge," PS5 will still end up the best-selling hardware for US in 2025
News Circana forecasts 4.3 million units Switch 2 units sold in the US by the end of the year
"If your cake is trash, nobody wants to eat it": At a tough time for Destiny 2, Bungie drops an Exotic mission promising vampire vibes, a cool shotgun, and a finale with bite
Feature Interview | The making of Kell's Fall, the core of Act 3 of Destiny 2's Episode 2: Revenant
Fallout lead Tim Cain wonders if "gamers know what they like" and reckons feedback is much better when it's specific and focuses on what you want
News Feedback like "stop giving us dumb enemies" doesn't help, Cain argues
More layoffs reportedly hit Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League dev Rocksteady, including another cut to QA
news Artists and programmers also reportedly affected
"There's always time to bone": Old School RuneScape players give a big vtuber so many dragon bones that she's nearly maxed one of the MMO's most expensive skills
News hololive's Nerissa Ravencroft nears 99 Prayer thanks to the OSRS fans among her 800K subscribers
Former Starfield lead says "people are fatigued" with huge games, and "I'm sorry" because "part of what happened is the success of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4"
News Will Shen says "before, it was MMOs for that" never-ending experience
Perhaps forgetting his game is a loaded parody of fascism, Helldivers 2 director says, "Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement"
News Helldivers 2 is notably filled with political statements
GTA 6 will double GTA 5 and make $3.2 billion in its first year, analysts say – "The pent-up demand is greater than anything we’ve seen before”
News GTA 6 remains the most anticipated game of 2025
Somehow another roguelike RPG 17 years in the making launched last year, and sitting beside Caves of Qud it's gotten 4,700 glowing Steam reviews in near-total silence
News Elin is the successor to 2007's Elona, and it's had quite the journey already
