Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Overwatch's 69.1% ban rate for Jetpack Cat will surprise "absolutely no one," but Domina haters need to get good
News "Our balance team believes Competitive players might be following the perception that Domina is overpowered, even though her win rate says otherwise"
5 years after the reimagined Star Wars RPG was revealed, KOTOR remake is "still in development," Saber boss confirms
News "That's all I can say"
Slay the Spire 2 flies past 165,000 concurrent Steam players, instantly nearly tripling the original's all-time peak
News Roguelove
Shigeru Miyamoto had to "force" in Super Mario Bros 3's iconic Frog Suit because it was fun even though it sucked
News "There are so many enjoyable things in a game beyond just 'beating' it"
Decades before Dark Souls and Elden Ring, FromSoftware's first dark fantasy RPG was built "from a kind of ignorance"
News FromSoftware can produce mind-boggling games
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto saw games in the '80s becoming like "pornography"
News "It's just people getting bored and looking for stronger and stronger stimulation"
Game Freak can't add hundreds of new Pokemon and more Types every generation or else new games would take too long
News Gotta balance 'em all
Crimson Desert was announced "too early," devs admit, and now has to prove it's not "too good to be true"
News "I don't think anyone would say we should announce the game 6-and-a-half years in advance"
Pokemon Pokopia reveals "special limited-time in-game events" starting with a Gen 2 picnic collection
News "These Pokemon can’t be encountered outside of this event," so hop on it
Historians stop "an aggressive copyright troll" who spent years abusing DMCAs to turn bizarre game into lost media
News "If we care about video games as art and as cultural history, we need to stand up for our legal right to document out-of-print orphan games, and to confront the copyright trolls who stand in the way"
Bandai Namco teaser gives JRPG fans real hope for a new Tales game as Elden Ring 2 holdouts put their clown makeup on
News "A serenity soon to be disturbed"
Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English
News "I find it all a bit embarrassing and stupid, frankly"
Coming back to Pokemon Yellow 30 years later is like coming home – and playing it in 2026 is even better than when I was a kid
Now Playing Now Playing | I still need to catch 'em all, even now
Infamous Konami producer shocked to learn his 3DS Frogger revival is now a collectible in the high-priced retro market
News This is "one of the most extreeeeme frogger ever"
Warzone gets back-to-basics battle royale dubbed "Blackout 2" by Call of Duty fans
News Black Ops Royale comes to Warzone very soon
Cities: Skylines gets its first proper expansion in 3 years as its disastrous sequel again settles for smaller DLC packs
News Must be the water...
I can't even make jokes about Terraria's final update anymore when the devs are already teasing "long requested items"
News Plus, "a very exciting potential feature for builders" is on the way
FromSoftware shot down a Bloodborne remake from now-dead studio Bluepoint in 2025: report
News The long-demanded Bloodborne remake apparently could've been a reality
Blizzard squashes major World of Warcraft XP exploit less than an hour before the MMO's Midnight early access begins
News "Endeavor XP is temporarily disabled in Midnight Early Access"
Pokemon Winds and Waves have exclusive outfits for you, but all I can see is the hoverboard you seem to be carrying
News Let me surf!
Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe reveals "pretty cool" in-game farm map that was ultimately cut
News When "Stardew Valley hit puberty," it was "more of a simulation" than an RPG, but I still wish this map had survived the transition
Guitar Hero vets return with Stage Tour, a new rhythm game coming this year with a closed alpha playtest launching soon
News "This is not about a sequel treadmill. It is about building something for the long haul."
