Latest articles by Austin Wood
Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets the EA special: 23 deluxe-exclusive cosmetics, 2 editions that don't include the game, pre-order armor, and 3 artbook editions alone
news I hope you like Dragon Age Stuff because there's a lot of it
Valve stops laughing, starts ranking your Steam reviews with a new "helpfulness" filter that makes memes, jokes, and beautiful ascii art less visible
news Top-ranked reviews will apparently be more informative now
Valve "didn't like" Steam pages linking to other pages, and it's "enforcing new rules" on what devs can write on its store
news Links to other websites will be automatically removed next month
Blizzard slams the emergency button, shuts down all Diablo 4 trading after a Season 5 dupe exploit lights the economy on fire
news Trading in Diablo 4 is on hold while Blizzard investigates the dupe
It took 4 years but Genshin Impact is finally adding a new world level in update 5.0 that makes character materials easier to farm – plus 1 million free Mora for all
news World Level 9 is coming in update 5.0, guaranteeing three boss mats per kill
Borderlands 3 Amara skill tree and how to perfect the best build
guide What'll it be? Multi-fist beatdown or an elemental meltdown?
The $10,000 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree speedrun tournament is over, and the winner is $4,000 richer after taking first place in "the final hours"
news Another mini-tournament is already ongoing
For 15 years, this MMO player has held on to a letter his late father sent him in World of Warcraft: "He made sure I'd always have something to remind me"
news I'm not crying, you're crying
Risk of Rain 2 lead says new owner Gearbox has done right by the roguelike icon: "What Gearbox has allowed us to do and create has been incredibly exciting and fun"
news The house of Borderlands bought the IP years ago and is handling the new Risk of Rain 2 DLC
Risk of Rain 2, one of our favorite roguelikes, is getting a game-changing character: the Seeker, a team-reviving beast inspired by classic RPG monks and Tai Chi
Features Risk of Rain 2's next DLC, Seekers of the Storm, brings a feature fans have wanted for years
Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold
news Charizard is priceless in the Pokemon TCG, and also in RuneScape
Glen Schofield says The Callisto Protocol cost 4x more than Dead Space, needed 3 more months of work, and wasn't meant to be one-and-done: "The discussion we had was ... look at The Witcher"
news "I was not feeling good" in the final stretch of development, Schofield says of his health
Larian unveils a full year of Baldur's Gate 3 player stats: Astarion is the favorite, Paladin is best class, and "a surprising amount of you enjoy bear sex and tentacles"
news Astarion barely beats Gale as the RPG community's favorite Origin character
Bungie admits Destiny 2's new Pathfinder system isn't working "as we expected," gives out over 3,000 Bright Dust as "a make good to get folks caught up"
news We're getting 350 Bright Dust a week for nine weeks
Genshin Impact 4.8 Emilie release time - Here's when the new 5-star Dendro character comes out and who's on her banner
news The Emilie banner kicks off the second half of Genshin Impact update 4.8
Oops, Diablo 4 accidentally gave Season 5 characters a bunch of extra tempering recipes, but Blizzard is "letting this one slide" for fun
News Enjoy it for Season of the Infernal Hordes, but don't expect it to happen again
As Helldivers 2 players grill Arrowhead over more nerfs, its CEO speaks to the "buff everything" and "it's too easy" crowds: "We are listening and will tweak"
news Escalation of Freedom stokes familiar anti-nerf complaints
Skyrim player begs for help after their Speech apparently drops to -1 mil, making bribes cost 20 million gold: "I think I would fail the Whiterun guard letting me into the city"
news The Skyrim economy is in shambles, it seems
Behind the scenes of the Stardew Valley concert, creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone was living his pre-game dev dream: "Music has always been my primary thing"
news "I always wanted to be a composer," Barone says
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"
