Austin Wood
@woodwould.bsky.social
12-year game journalist. Senior writer at GamesRadar+. Previously: PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer. austin(dot)wood(at)futurenet(dot)com
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this interview is essential reading for SILENT HILL fans 🐜🦟🦗 i know i wrote it 🤧 but 😇😈 silent hill f producer motoi okamoto and scriptwriter ryukishi07 were just so honest with me about their vision for the franchise, and what they need from you...
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
Silent Hill f writer knows you don't really want to see "a happily ever after," and the game's horrific portrayal of young womanhood makes it my GOTY
Year in Review 2025 | Konami returns to Silent Hill with a steel pipe and a wedding veil
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December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
this interview is essential reading for SILENT HILL fans 🐜🦟🦗 i know i wrote it 🤧 but 😇😈 silent hill f producer motoi okamoto and scriptwriter ryukishi07 were just so honest with me about their vision for the franchise, and what they need from you...
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
Thanks for the love on this piece. I'm glad the sickos found it
One of my last and favorite interviews of the year. Ryuichi Nishizawa might be my hero? www.gamesradar.com/games/i-feel...
"I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games
"If we create what only we can create, the world will gladly accept it"
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December 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Thanks for the love on this piece. I'm glad the sickos found it
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2025 was a helluva year. Published some of the best work I’ve ever done, but still going into 2026 on the job market.
So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com
So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
2025 was a helluva year. Published some of the best work I’ve ever done, but still going into 2026 on the job market.
So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com
So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com
Before I (try to) vanish from social media for the holidays, I wanted to re-share my favorite story from 2025. I'd wanted to write this developer roundtable for years, and dozens of great devs gave it tons of life. I hope and plan to do more things like it.
www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...
www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...
"We cough up a chunk of our soul": 32 game devs, from Doom's John Romero to Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads, explain what people get wrong about games
Sam Barlow, Metaphor: ReFantazio leads, ConcernedApe's business head, indie legends, and many more weigh in
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December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Before I (try to) vanish from social media for the holidays, I wanted to re-share my favorite story from 2025. I'd wanted to write this developer roundtable for years, and dozens of great devs gave it tons of life. I hope and plan to do more things like it.
www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...
www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...
"Who among us has not played the pigs eating vomit card, thought, 'Damn, that hits,' and immediately played it again? Who hasn't enjoyed Bring Your Child To Execution day?"
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as...
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as...
As Larian disgusts and excites with Divinity trailer, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer says "it is wild what people will get upset about in games" and then cheer "Wicker Man x Event Horizon"
The Divinity reveal is far more graphic than Baldur's Gate 3's gruesome trailers
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December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Who among us has not played the pigs eating vomit card, thought, 'Damn, that hits,' and immediately played it again? Who hasn't enjoyed Bring Your Child To Execution day?"
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as...
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as...
The highest praise a GOTY list can possibly receive is this comment: "Pretty decent list"
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The highest praise a GOTY list can possibly receive is this comment: "Pretty decent list"
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after years of resisting medication for my incapacitating OCD, i finally changed my life in 2024 🍪 i was facedown in the dirt before lexapro, fluvoxamine, gabapentin, and trazodone saved me
that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰
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that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
Silent Hill f turned my personal mental health journey into the most evil plot twist of 2025, and I’m not even angry
Opinion | Red capsules aren't Hinako's enemy – the world is
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December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
after years of resisting medication for my incapacitating OCD, i finally changed my life in 2024 🍪 i was facedown in the dirt before lexapro, fluvoxamine, gabapentin, and trazodone saved me
that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
that's why i love eating yummy pills with hinako in silent hill f yay 🥰
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
You will never be as oblivious as this man who came in My Bush in Arc Raiders (solo lobby, Blue Gate)
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
You will never be as oblivious as this man who came in My Bush in Arc Raiders (solo lobby, Blue Gate)
Three times this year I've spoken to various combinations of the Baby Steps team: Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch. In my last big interview of 2025, we chat in a post-Baby Steps world about the joy of doing things yourself and of people getting it.
www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
For the creators of Baby Steps, one of 2025's best and weirdest games, there's no room or reason to surrender creativity to AI: "The player is in communion with a human designer"
Year in Review 2025 | "It feels like a very pivotal time right now in terms of what games are gonna look like going forward"
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December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Three times this year I've spoken to various combinations of the Baby Steps team: Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch. In my last big interview of 2025, we chat in a post-Baby Steps world about the joy of doing things yourself and of people getting it.
www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
One of my last and favorite interviews of the year. Ryuichi Nishizawa might be my hero? www.gamesradar.com/games/i-feel...
"I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games
"If we create what only we can create, the world will gladly accept it"
www.gamesradar.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One of my last and favorite interviews of the year. Ryuichi Nishizawa might be my hero? www.gamesradar.com/games/i-feel...
It's like one of my Japanese animes
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's like one of my Japanese animes
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And we've, of course, kicked things off with a bang.
GamesRadar+ Game of the Year:
GamesRadar+ Game of the Year:
GamesRadar+ GOTY: The 25 Best Games of 2025
In a year absolutely packed with incredible games, we've determined the very best
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December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
And we've, of course, kicked things off with a bang.
GamesRadar+ Game of the Year:
GamesRadar+ Game of the Year:
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GamesRadar+ presents Year in Review: The Best of 2025!
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Year in Review: The Best of 2025
With exclusive interviews and features, we're here to celebrate what made this year great
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December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
GamesRadar+ presents Year in Review: The Best of 2025!
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
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This is absolutely heartbreaking news.
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is absolutely heartbreaking news.
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
In what might be the strongest endorsement of the tension Arc Raiders creates, I spoke to a California police records dept to confirm a report of one player having officers show up at his motel room after a concerned guest heard him pleading on proximity chat.
www.gamesradar.com/games/third-...
www.gamesradar.com/games/third-...
Police confirm Arc Raiders fan got a visit from officers in real life after a concerned motel guest heard him plead for a revive: "I got shot, please get me up!"
When Arc Raiders proximity chat gets a little too real
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November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In what might be the strongest endorsement of the tension Arc Raiders creates, I spoke to a California police records dept to confirm a report of one player having officers show up at his motel room after a concerned guest heard him pleading on proximity chat.
www.gamesradar.com/games/third-...
www.gamesradar.com/games/third-...
"The biggest proponents, who often have the most to gain, treat an imagined AI future as today's reality and incredulously question why everyone else hasn't had the same, almost religious vision."
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
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November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"The biggest proponents, who often have the most to gain, treat an imagined AI future as today's reality and incredulously question why everyone else hasn't had the same, almost religious vision."
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
I studied journalism for four years www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
Genshin Impact fans rush to defend femboy god Venti and crop-topped male lead Aether after they're criticized on Turkish news channel: "They think he is a girl lmao"
Venti did nothing wrong, as ever
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November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I studied journalism for four years www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
To the Arc Raiders trio that I killed with only a hammer after you killed my teammates: 1) I'm sorry, and 2) get fucking dumpstered
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
To the Arc Raiders trio that I killed with only a hammer after you killed my teammates: 1) I'm sorry, and 2) get fucking dumpstered
That Roblox interview is mind-melting stuff. So far past the point of putting your foot in your mouth and into the territory of somebody actively swallowing his own legs like some executive-brained ouroboros.
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
That Roblox interview is mind-melting stuff. So far past the point of putting your foot in your mouth and into the territory of somebody actively swallowing his own legs like some executive-brained ouroboros.
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We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
Guides Writer, GamesRadar+ - Future Publishing
Future's Games group creates international, market-leading content, delivered through scale websites GamesRadar and PC Gamer, award-winning print brands, and Events that reach millions of gamers.The g...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
big fan of the comment, "why is shadowheart in call of duty"
Finally slapped a score on my Black Ops 7 review and got it all tidied up (thanks @mroscartk.bsky.social!) and the campaign is uhhh… certainly something.
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www.gamesradar.com/games/call-o...
I respect the attempt to make the weirdest Call of Duty possible with Black Ops 7, but it results in a campaign misfire and multiplayer that's hardly revolutionary
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is a highly ambitious FPS that delivers on its promise to be the biggest Black Ops ever, wearing its psy-op weirdness proudly, but is an uneven package overall.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
big fan of the comment, "why is shadowheart in call of duty"
"Like a man who snuck into a baking contest judging panel, I find myself uninterested in the competition and just happy to have two cakes."
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/ki...
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/ki...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hands The Outer Worlds 2 a "7/10," hopes Obsidian spends "all of Microsoft's money" on RPGs more like Fallout New Vegas and, also, like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
"I would bet that budget for KCD2 was WAY LOWER than Outer Worlds 2"
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November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Like a man who snuck into a baking contest judging panel, I find myself uninterested in the competition and just happy to have two cakes."
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/ki...
www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/ki...
Extremely rare Anime FeatureTM
"One page of the manga – carved so clearly onto my brain that I would see it if I rolled my eyes back – beautifully depicts Marin's unspoken demand of the author. She is undeniable."
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"One page of the manga – carved so clearly onto my brain that I would see it if I rolled my eyes back – beautifully depicts Marin's unspoken demand of the author. She is undeniable."
www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
In decades of watching anime, I have never wanted a season 3 more: My Dress-Up Darling season 2 was a huge step up, and the manga has so much more to give
Opinion | My kingdom for My Dress-Up Darling season 3
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November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Extremely rare Anime FeatureTM
"One page of the manga – carved so clearly onto my brain that I would see it if I rolled my eyes back – beautifully depicts Marin's unspoken demand of the author. She is undeniable."
www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
"One page of the manga – carved so clearly onto my brain that I would see it if I rolled my eyes back – beautifully depicts Marin's unspoken demand of the author. She is undeniable."
www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
Bucket list interview checked off www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
Life after Lethal Company: solo creator Zeekerss says "weirdly, not a lot has changed" after one of the biggest indie hits in recent memory, and he still has "a good handful of ideas for games"
Interview | Lethal Company 2 is just one of many ideas for Zeekerss
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November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Bucket list interview checked off www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...