Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
Latest articles by Dustin Bailey

New MMO rebuilding 2008's AdventureQuest Worlds asks for $1 on Kickstarter and raises $1.6 million
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We are building this game no matter what"

Nintendo court document reveal shows Shigeru Miyamoto saw Donkey Kong as a man in a gorilla suit
By Dustin Bailey published
News 1.3 gigabytes of Nintendo history just dropped

After 40 years, Super Mario Bros speedrunners discover "the Holy Grail of glitches"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "You can basically make the game do whatever you want"

The best PS3 emulator is getting massive improvements on PC handhelds
By Dustin Bailey published
News "As handhelds become better and more accessible RPCS3 also becomes more authentic and seamless"

"Fortnite's cultural moment is starting to fade," games analyst says amid mass layoffs
By Dustin Bailey published
News "It's in the nature of empires to destroy themselves"

Pokemon Home compatibility finally lets you offload your shiny-stuffed Pokemon Legends: Z-A boxes
By Dustin Bailey published
News Plus, you'll get a trio of Alpha starters for your trouble

Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
By Dustin Bailey published
News Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"

Nintendo's physical price split is "a pro-consumer move," says ex-sales lead
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Generally, Nintendo tries to do right by their consumers, and I think they do"

Nintendo's Pokemon battling claim is too "obvious" to stand, US patent office says
By Dustin Bailey published
News Old patents from Nintendo are working against the company here

Jeff Kaplan has "over 5,000 hours" in Rust, which is "the pinnacle of PvP games"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The game that we're making is not like Rust in many ways"

Square Enix announces "Nier: Cosmic Horror" on April 1, chaos ensues, Yoko Taro eats pho noodles
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Announcing a new game on April Fools is exactly the kind of s**t Yoko Taro would do…"

Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen devs found that "the programming sucks" in the original RPGs
By Dustin Bailey published
News Game Freak "desperately needed" Nintendo's help to get the GBA remakes done

Undertale's Toby Fox doesn't want to do translations in languages he doesn't speak
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I want to make it clear that this isn’t because I have a grudge against other countries"

The real-life F1 car's new boosting feature is "like the mushroom in Mario Kart," drivers say
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The blue shell is a bit more difficult, but I'm working on it"

Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal lays off 124 devs and 12-year studio head departs
By Dustin Bailey published
News That marks 296 layoffs since the studio was acquired by Embracer Group in 2022

Baldur's Gate 3 keeps 4 invisible, naked clones of Gale in your camp just in case
By Dustin Bailey published
News "They're all hiding right here in your camp every time you play"

Even Crimson Desert's lead actor knows you're not here for the story
By Dustin Bailey published
News Alec Newman worked on Crimson Desert for 2 years before he started "recording in earnest," and even then the devs "kept moving the focus"

"You can't build clever little games anymore" unless you're Expedition 33, RPG legend says
By Dustin Bailey published
News "For each of the big publishers, how many years has it been since they had a major new IP?"

Nintendo 64 gets a Skyrim-sized open-world game as dev busts the console's infamous fog problem
By Dustin Bailey published
News Somehow it's got a "good, and even sometimes great, frame rate"

Star Wars Zero Company exists because late CoD co-creator asked about XCOM vet's dream game
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I'm thinking, 'This is insane, right? Like, this is crazy. It's Star Wars.'"

Slay the Spire 2 devs walk back the nerf that sparked 10,000 negative Steam reviews
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I read countless pieces of player feedback and it has been instrumental in helping guide our process"

Legendary fan translator now helping bring back a mascot platformer that couldn't escape the '90s
By Dustin Bailey published
News Yes, "Zool is back"

Jeff Kaplan wants to put "Rust-like mechanics" in his new survival game "someday" but not right now
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The building is more focused on utility, progression, aesthetics, and customization, rather than defending your stuff"
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