Latest articles by Austin Wood
New Genshin Impact character Emilie revealed for update 4.8 – the first Dendro character to come to the RPG in over a year
news Genshin Impact 4.8 will seemingly add one new five-star Dendro unit
The best Destiny 2 Exotic weapons that all Guardians should get
Guide These are the best Exotic weapons in Destiny 2 that can get you through almost any activity
Monster Hunter Wilds trailer shows off new monsters, updated weapons, the best graphics in the series, and bonuses for World and Iceborne players
news Monster Hunter Wilds looks even better than Monster Hunter World
5v5 competitive shooter Concord reveals July beta and August launch, looks like Overwatch meets Guardians of the Galaxy in new gameplay trailer
news Concord dev Firewalk has several former Destiny veterans on staff
In a stunning commitment to playing RPGs your way, Genshin Impact player spends 3 years min-maxing the worst character: "I usually advise others not to build her"
news Do not play Amber unless you really like Amber
Strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord supposedly takes 60 hours to beat – it took me 240 and is now one of my favorite games of all time
Features Opinion | Why this amazing game took me twice as long as Elden Ring
Hands-on with Destiny 2: The Final Shape: The campaign is way better, and Prismatic feels broken even if Bungie says it isn't
Features The Final Shape makes a great first impression after several hours
Destiny 2's lead gun guy answers our biggest questions about The Final Shape: new weapon mods, the next raid DPS meta, and just "a small amount of power creep"
Features Interview | Weapons lead Chris Proctor on Destiny 2's evolving arsenal
It finally happened: in The Final Shape, Destiny 2 is nerfing the crap out of Well of Radiance, the most overpowered Super in the MMO's history
news Is Well of Radiance dead? Maybe not, but it's a lot worse in The Final Shape
As Helldivers 2's creative director steps down as CEO, he agrees guns are too weak, armor is too boring, and planets are too repetitive
news Johan Pilestedt wants to get his hands dirtier in game design again
Immediately after releasing my new all-time favorite strategy RPG, Japanese juggernaut Vanillaware is hiring for a new action RPG
news Music to my ears
Just 3 known players remain in the Nintendo Network servers as beloved JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X, "known to have the worst netcode on the Wii U," loses its last
news Thankfully, they cleared the online-exclusive challenges beforehand
Dev of open-world RPG hiding a whole base builder is "impressed" by games like Factorio and Satisfactory, but says Arknights: Endfield "will be quite different"
Features Interview | Arknights: Endfield feels like a true base builder RPG
The new Elden Ring DLC story trailer is peak FromSoftware: 3 minutes of messed-up war lore beamed straight into your eyeballs
news Shadow of the Erdtree's latest story trailer doesn't disappoint
Elden Ring player wins $1,000 bet with her husband by beating the RPG after nearly 50 hours of grinding: "It was extremely painful ... I don't play games often"
news The newly crowned Elden Lord says she rage quit "pretty much every day"
FromSoftware producer reappears after 3 months, drops an Elden Ring DLC image that looks exactly like Bloodborne, explains nothing, leaves
News Squint your eyes and we're back in Yharnam
Arise, Tarnished: a new Elden Ring DLC image just dropped, and it looks like a fresh take on an old enemy wielding a cool new weapon type
news I really hope we can steal these chakrams
A 4,000-hour Final Fantasy 14 diehard made his own MMO raid-infused roguelike and it's tearing it up on Steam, beating the 4-year sales of his last game in 24 hours
news Rabbit and Steel delivers another surprise roguelike hit for May
30 million copies later, Stardew Valley creator says "I'm just a dude who made a game" and still spends "all day hunched over the computer"
news Eric Barone says he hasn't done anything "extravagant" with his success
Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead Dan Houser is making an "open-world action-adventure game" of his own at his new studio
news Why yes, that does sound a bit like GTA
Meet the new hero of Helldivers 2: Dremskiy, a player kicked despite insisting "Im frend," who now has a full Steam friends list after even PlayStation shared the love
news Dremskiy have frend now
Helldivers 2 dev threatens to make the hardest difficulties even harder: "I think we might have some things in store for the players who coast through everything"
news Is that Difficulty 10 I smell?
Following Japanese giants like Sony and Capcom, JRPG powerhouse Square Enix says it wants "to win over PC users" as the Final Fantasy 16 port nears completion
news PC is a "growth market," and Square isn't the only that thinks so
