Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Mario Kart 8 has outsold Mario Kart World for 2 months straight in the US, but since "over 80%" of Switch 2 owners already have World via console bundle, that "kind of makes it impossible" to outdo the 11-year series GOAT
News Not even a new Mario Kart can stop 8's reign of sales supremacy
"Holy s***, jumping is back": After 11 years, Assassin's Creed Mirage brings back the parkour feature fans have been missing since Unity – a jump button
News Free jump returns at long last
Marvel Rivals gives Daredevil next-level wallhacks: true to his character, he can even 'see' invisible enemies
News Daredevil lands in Season 4.5
"This is sacrilegious!": Final Fantasy 7 Remake's new cheat mode is controversial even at Square Enix, but the JRPG's co-director Naoki Hamaguchi believes "the player should have the choice"
News "That's why I pushed for it"
PS1-era Sony nearly fell out with one of its most legendary studios because the "traitors" put Wipeout on Nintendo 64: "What the f*** was Psygnosis doing on the N64?"
News "At one of the E3s when it appeared on Nintendo… it just arrived on the booth"
Digimon Story Time Stranger "is the monster-taming game frustrated Pokémon fans have been waiting for," fans say ahead of Pokemon Legends Z-A, but as always "you can like both"
News "Or better yet, appreciate Digimon as its own thing"
The actual biggest game of October, the Shovel Knight devs' Zelda-like Mina the Hollower, gets delayed as devs say it's "so close to being done"
News "We're playing it from start to finish every day"
After 92 million hours of open beta testing, Battlefield 6 dev says "requests for naval warfare have not gone unnoticed" and it has "over 200 changes" coming in a day one patch
News EA is also teasing that the Little Bird and platoons might make a comeback
Assassin's Creed Mirage's free Valley of Memory DLC has "more than six hours of gameplay," and Ubisoft says making it was a challenge because most of the setting's historical record has been "lost to time"
News "The recreation process is unique, as it is both an artistic and a historical endeavor"
Iconic voice behind Donkey Kong's "oh banana" says he only did it because he "got so sick of asking" others to do the voice acting, and he "never thought" Nintendo would still be using it 25 years later
News "I never thought they’d really use it"
After 13 years, $320 worth of DLC, and also Brexit, Euro Truck Simulator 2 teases long-awaited UK update the only way that seems right: teaching you how to make a "proper cup of tea"
News You need to have "the patience of a true connoisseur"
Donkey Kong 64 composer who went uncredited in the Super Mario Bros Movie was "so pissed" that he still hasn't watched the film, even if he has "seen that bit" with the DK Rap
News "I tell you what, I still haven't watched the movie yet"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs hear your door hate, immediately respond with a list of changes like "forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match"
News "We are closely following the community discussion about doors"
Digimon Story Time Stranger launches to bigger player counts than any Persona or single-player Final Fantasy JRPG in Steam history
News Monstrous numbers
The Rock hasn't cared about a single Donkey Kong game in 44 years because "none of them matter" – it's all about the arcade original that put Nintendo on the map
News Dwayne Johnson doesn't care about Super Nintendo classics like Donkey Kong Country or GOTY 2025 candidates like Donkey Kong Bananza
After one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
News "That means we're now publicly working on TWO GAMES!"
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace game for PS1 was a "nightmare" to make: The PS2 was delayed, the devs got unintelligible blue screen shots from George Lucas, and they "could not compete" with Jedi Knight
News "We had a lot of issues"
Fable lead Peter Molyneux was so excited about selling his first game that he cut a hole in his mailbox so all the orders would fit – it sold 2 copies and "one was almost certainly from my mum"
News "For every game, I've got this belief that it's going to sell unbelievable millions"
"It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
News Is this a promise or a threat?
Discovering new Super Mario Bros levels that have "secretly been accessible" for over 30 years, "legendary Mario scientists" find themselves in a psychedelic cyberpunk hellscape hiding on their childhood SNES cartridges
News A new Minus World is upon us
After the September Silksong Stampede, now October has too many games: dev delays sequel to a lovely roguelike because "it has become too crowded" and "even the most precious gem can be overlooked"
News I'm moonlighting as someone with time to play every video game
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles follows Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart in suffering a major preservation loss – Ramza's ass is too powerful for Square Enix in 2025
News "THAT'S IVALICE'S ASS"
If you want to play Xbox Game Pass games like The Outer Worlds 2 or Black Ops 7 on day one, you're going to have to pay a full $30 a month for Ultimate
News But hey, at least we're getting PC games on the lower tiers now, right?
