Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Playing Arc Raiders solo is shockingly chill for any PvP game, let alone an extraction shooter, players say: "They'll even take me there like I can't find the eggs in the supermarket"
News "The chill solo community gives me big Sea of Thieves vibes"
After 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form
News Splatterworld lives!
OG Sims dev says it's "critical" the series embrace diversity during today's "reactionary cycle" echoing '00s censorship efforts: "We will always go through this"
News "When we are in reactionary periods, to have stalwart, beloved brands that are capable of sending this message is critical to society"
Legendary programmer behind Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES had no idea how popular it had become until EA wanted to hire him: "Everyone here knows me"
News "I just thought, oh, maybe a few thousand people used it"
Arc Raiders roadmap confirms new map Stella Montis, expanded quests, 2 new Arcs to fight in November, and a new Raider Deck battle pass for December
News "This is only the beginning"
Square Enix finally says the words Final Fantasy 14's MMO fashion devotees have waited years to hear: "From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job!"
News That glass you heard break was Square Enix pressing the big red button
Dressed in their best digital pigeon cosplay, Fall Guys devs reunite after Epic layoffs to serve up REPO and Peak-style "tasty friendslop"
News "Games should be funnier and they should be stupider"
Helldivers 2's 150GB PC install is "unacceptably large," and Arrowhead hopes to work out a solution that could "theoretically slice the size in half"
News "There's real options here to do quite big improvements in just reducing PC install size"
Arc Raiders launches to over 260,000 concurrent players and 88% positive early reviews on Steam, outdoing The Finals even at $40
News Being free isn't everything, I guess
Assassin's Creed 3's controversial, hours-long opening was meant to solve a classic game narrative problem, but the team didn't realize it was "too long" until "the last two months" of development
News "You're always taught you have to conquer this villain, but you really don't care about the villain"
After 23 years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons brings back the feature old-school Nintendo nerds like me have missed since the GameCube – retro games
News NES, Famicom, Game Boy, and Super NES, and even older Nintendo relics are on the way
Microsoft reports Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and 1% growth in content and services like Game Pass blunted by "a decline in first-party content"
News Don't worry, though, AI is still making the numbers go up
Japanese patent office casts doubt on 2 Nintendo Pokemon-catching patents in the Palworld lawsuit, saying Monster Hunter, Ark, and Pocketpair's own Craftopia all did it before
News The prior art is stacking up
The Outer Worlds 2 director is already watching streamers create bad character builds, but that's part of the "true RPG" experience that "the Baldur's Gate 3s of the world" are helping bring back
News On the Radar | Game director Brandon Adler tells GR+ that fans are "relearning how RPGs" can offer real player choice
Take-Two CEO says AI is "going to be really, really bad" at making video games and probably couldn't even come up with the GTA 6 marketing plan
News "You end up with something pretty derivative"
TimeSplitters revival died because "bigger forces were in play," co-creator of the classic FPS says: "I'm not up for it any more"
News "I don't think it was our fault it didn't work out"
26 years later, stunning PS1 cult classic gets an official English launch with help from a legendary fan translator, making it a lot cheaper than tracking down the original
News Milano's Odd Job Collection is finally coming soon
Once an icon of intrusive EA DRM, The Sims studio's classic life sim Spore will "live forever" in the GOG Preservation Program alongside Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider 2013, and more
News If only Darkspore would follow suit
As the PS2 turns 25, its top 20 best-selling US games are revealed: GTA is still on top, and Kingdom Hearts beats Final Fantasy 10
News Here we go again...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the team could do a "completely new IP" or maybe "something new within the Final Fantasy series" after finishing Part 3 of the JRPG remake
News "I'm really looking forward to it"
Yet another PlayStation icon that Sony is content to leave in its grave is getting revived by an entirely different publisher
News Cult fighting game Battle Arena Toshinden is making a comeback
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says defying industry norms and keeping the dev team together for the whole RPG trilogy was key to its success: "That's quite a rare thing"
News "Our experience really has grown as we work on each new game"
Halo co-creator says Campaign Evolved "looks and feels genuine": "It's gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it originally back in 2001"
News "It warms my heart to see Halo CE like this"
