Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
"I hope that we're not done with Wolfenstein yet": MachineGames has plans for BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3 because the FPS devs "have always seen this as a trilogy"
News "We have a story to tell"
Legendary Japanese racing game dev goes under the radar for 18 years, quietly emerges to drop the best-rated Steam racer of 2025, and gives fans 20 days to grab it at a hefty discount before the price jumps to $50
News Tokyo Xtreme Racer's big comeback is almost complete
Weeks after BioShock layoffs, 2K axes employees at Civilization and XCOM developer Firaxis for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," which is a pretty cold way of acknowledging the reported dozens of job losses
News Another round of layoffs is here
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone voices somebody in Hollow Knight: Silksong, but he won't say who "so as not to spoil any surprises for anyone"
News ConcernedApe has a new gig
Silksong launched two hours ago in the middle of the workday and it's already eclipsed Hollow Knight's all-time concurrent Steam player record
News 111,873 players can't be wrong
For the first time in 4 years, there's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder: "We are now only 15 frames away from a perfect speedrun"
News "This grind was absolutely grueling"
007 First Light is "not a reskin" of Hitman, IO Interactive says again, and the team brought in "amazing fresh talent" including devs with "specific driving expertise" to help build car missions
News It's "about the game first," IO says
007 First Light, the Hitman dev's James Bond game, launches 2 months before GTA 6 with the Deluxe Edition as a pre-order bonus
News The new James Bond game's release date is set for March
For the Hitman devs, 007: First Light felt like "coming home" because James Bond has been an "inspiration" for so long
News 007: First Light "encompasses everything you would expect from the Bond experience"
Nintendo reportedly kept delaying Switch 2 because first-party devs wanted more time to perfect games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza
News The publisher apparently wanted to give its first-party devs time to cook no matter how much it annoyed fans and third-party publishers
Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"
News "Regardless of who's funding it, we're still trying to tell that same message"
An uber-rare Nintendo cartridge worth $1,000 sat in a Las Vegas retro shop for months until it sold for $12, and the store's owners aren't even mad about it: "Score! Our f*** up their gain"
News "Happy this is going to a good home!"
After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"
News "Your local server, your local savegames, your game"
Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
News "It was a little bit of a different struggle than what you might expect if you're creating a game from absolutely nothing"
Helldivers 2 creative director wishes he could make a sequel to the chaotic co-op game that launched Arrowhead, but returning to it "scares" him: "I would like to do it at some point though"
News Don't expect Magicka 3D anytime soon
After Battlefield 6 beta players spent a week roasting the Netflix-style menus, dev says "we're not going to rebuild our menu from scratch" in time for launch, but "we are looking to improve"
News "It's probably still going to be a little bit clunky when we launch"
Metal Gear Solid Delta replaces the original game's bikini model posters with new pictures and family photos of the same women 21 years later
News Snake Eater's Easter eggs continue to surprise
"It's not just paywalled, IT'S WHALEWALLED!": Genshin Impact's new level 100 cap has players terrified of a pay-to-win endgame even as MiHoYo celebrates its own generosity
News "A lot of our decisions honestly carry a splash of idealism," MiHoYo says
Ghost of Yotei has gone gold, and Sucker Punch is celebrating with 74 seconds of brutal, bloody, John Wick-worthy gun fu
News "We're so excited to finally have reached this milestone"
CD Projekt said ditching game-key cards for Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 was "the right thing to do," and it's apparently paid off because 75% of that version's sales were physical
News Early adopters of Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 are apparently hungry for physical games
You can put Dragon's Dogma 2 alongside Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2 as a sterling example of what happens when you stop trying to make AAA games for everyone: "It’s normal if some people outside that target audience don't like the game"
News "I made the game not like a Nintendo one to be liked by all the people, but for a certain type of audience"
JRPG lovers are "migrating away from Fandom" to unite the Trails and Ys communities in an independent wiki, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Silksong fans before them
News Say hello to the united Falcom Wiki
As Perfect Dark gets canceled and the next Tomb Raider's development stumbles on, Crystal Dynamics lays off even more developers while blaming "evolving business conditions"
News This is the third round of layoffs in two years
