Latest articles by Austin Wood
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
Marvel Rivals officially confirms first new characters: The Fantastic Four are coming soon
News "Get ready to welcome Marvel’s First family in Marvel Rivals"
"Issues encountered during the initial launch are a genuine part of the game’s history": Wuthering Waves producer on the road to 2.0 and the open-world action RPG's biggest update yet
Feature Interview | Wuthering Waves developer Kuro Games reflects on the game's launch recovery
How long is Black Myth Wukong?
Guide Black Myth Wukong's length is anywhere between 20 and 50 hours.
Unicorn Overlord is my GOTY, so I had to talk to its director about how the devs ran out of money, what makes strategy RPGs fun, and hopes for DLC or a PC port
Feature Interview | How Unicorn Overlord survived and thrived "far out of the mainstream"
Hololive boss "Yagoo" on getting vtubers into more games, building a Fortnite-style open-world game, recent graduations, the 10-year plan, and his famous "dream"
Interview Interview | Cover CEO Motoaki "Yagoo" Tanigo on the future of hololive in games and beyond
Elden Ring Nightreign network test coming in February, giving players an early "portion" of the unexpected "survival action" roguelike
news The next Elden Ring, sort of, is maybe the last thing anyone expected
The action roguelike I want most in 2025 is coming sooner than I thought: open-world game Hyper Light Breaker launches in January with 3-player co-op
News Hyper Light Breaker starts its early access journey in a month
"We never would have made decisions that are so blatantly not player-focused": Ex-Dauntless dev "can't be silent" after an update under the dev's new owner "gutted the core gameplay and crafting"
News Original associate producer weighs in on Dauntless patch controversy
Analyst says 2025's GTA 6 and Nintendo Switch 2 combo is almost unprecedented: "I don't remember a year like this where so much of what's going to happen is focused on just two products"
News "My expectation for the year is going to be determined by if and when new Nintendo hardware and Grand Theft Auto 6 show up and how successful they are"
The 25 best Metroidvania games you can explore today
Best List Jump, slash, and shoot through the best Metroidvanias to play right now
Zenless Zone Zero 1.4 is giving out a free S-Rank Agent and taking another swing at its divisive TV mode: "We are neither surprised by nor dismissive of any feedback"
News It's got Miyabi, Harumasa, and PS5 Pro ray tracing support, too
