Latest articles by Austin Wood
Steam refunds are "not for people to play games for free," says dev who criticized Valve's system
News "Many people think that I'm a complete a**hole now"
Microsoft comms lead says Xbox layoffs "were not made to replace employees with foreign workers"
News "The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals"
Palworld 1.0 redesigns multiple Pals and makes them look less like Pokemon
News Several Pals were brought more in line with the modern Pocketpair style guide
PlayStation ending physical games is "like Apple removing the CD Drive," says analyst
News "This time a new laptop will cost $5k and my old one with a disc drive works just fine"
Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 shadow drop on PS5, you've got a month to get a good price
News The decade-old games are not cheap, but are cheaper with PlayStation Plus
Devs don't buy Steam disclosure claiming gen AI is a necessity
News "I'm happy to reduce AI usage if the game is financially stable enough," RPG dev says
Microsoft lays off Bethesda vet behind Todd Howard's "crazy" Fallout 4 idea, "many Skyrim weapons"
News "If you've played a BGS game you've had his art on screen 99% of the time," says dev
I'm starting to lose track of Arc Raiders dupes at this point, but Embark says it just fixed one
News "We will continue issuing bans on accounts," says Embark
Mortal Shell 2 is suddenly one of my most-anticipated Soulslikes and it's out next month
News Mortal Shell 2 release date set for August
Magic: The Gathering community stunned as Path of Exile creator shows one of the biggest collections
News Yes, that is 24 copies of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
In the ashes of Destiny 2, furious developer creates playable Pete Parsons-themed parody raid
News The Final Car is here
Palworld price won't increase as update 1.0 takes it out of early access
News 40 million players will do that
Destiny 2 comms manager says devs who weren't laid off may "sneak in" a small fix here or there
News It's only got nine toes in the grave
Steam is more than 50% larger than PlayStation according to one expert's estimate
News PlayStation reported 125 million monthly active users this year
Id Software veteran of over 20 years absolutely rips and tears into Microsoft after layoffs
News "Just really sad"
John Romero has a private collection of "critically important" id Software history
News Thank goodness someone does
It feels like PlayStation underestimated the backlash to ending physical games, new post bombarded
News Physical game enjoyers have not forgotten
Former Xbox boss wanted Halo 4 to have Diablo 3's most hated feature, dev says
News Don Mattrick oversaw part of the decline that Xbox has yet to truly recover from
Nirvana and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says Kurt Cobain would've loved this new anime about gay girls
News Nirvana's song Breed is the opening tune for a beloved yuri series' anime
Arkane founder asks Xbox CEO "how much" Microsoft wants for the studio: "I'm asking for a friend"
News Raphael Colantonio is now head of WolfEye Studios
Xbox acquisitions have been a mess: "In a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar" invested
News "We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio"
Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox employees, and half of them will be eliminated today
News "Today’s decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication," new Xbox CEO says of staff
Does anyone actually want new consoles?
Opinion Opinion | We are paying more for less and physical games are underwater
