Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
After 28 years as a legend among Mortal Kombat fans, "the holy grail of MK lost media" has been preserved and made playable for Legacy Kollection
News The WaveNet version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 finally lives
Premier fighting game tournament Evo has a new co-owner, but Sony's continuing to invest alongside Saudi Arabia's tourism project and WWE's parent company
News It's all about "international expansion"
Hollow Knight: Silksong devs never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but they're aware a community of increasingly desperate Silkposters is out there: "Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game"
News "They’ve obviously formed their own strange or very exciting communities around it"
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"
News "We are always exploring the boundaries"
BioShock 4 layoffs have reportedly hit over 80 people, delaying planned late 2026 or early 2027 release and extending 11 years of development hell
News It's looking like BioShock 4 still has a long, long road ahead
Hideo Kojima is very serious about the Death Stranding harmonica, but with only 1,000 units available worldwide I feel like I need to save my efforts for a Higgs guitar replica
News "The body, made from wood fiber-reinforced resin, delivers a warm, full sound, while the uniquely shaped cover provides excellent resonance and a comfortable grip"
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has "been through a lot," Paradox says as fans revolt against day one DLC, which is "a way to get additional players in that have been asking for that content"
News "It's not uncommon for games to come out with additional content"
After a year in early access, The Rogue Prince of Persia finally hits 1.0 with a surprise shadow drop bringing the roguelike into Xbox Game Pass
News Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake might still be MIA, but the series lives
Under the shadow of the $80 game controversy, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is technically only $60, it’ll cost you $90 for a Premium Edition with two more playable classes
News There's already a bit of backlash to the DLC plan
Monkey Island designer and point-and-click legend Ron Gilbert moving to the roguelike mines feels like my personal hell, but the trailer looks fun enough that I'm trying to keep an open mind
News Gilbert himself admits that Death By Scrolling is "not going to be everybody’s cup of tea"
Sekiro: No Defeat is the FromSoftware anime that's been rumored for years, and it's coming to Crunchyroll as a crimson-soaked trailer details "a tale of loyalty and blood"
News Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is getting a gorgeous adaptation
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 is real, and the devs seem keen to wash the bad taste of the last RTS out of everyone's mouths "with classic Dawn of War gameplay"
News A new studio is taking on a legendary series
They let me play as a radical frog wizard in a roguelike fusion of Golden Axe and Capcom's classic D&D brawlers, and suddenly its October launch is even more exciting
News After a hands-on beatdown, the spirit of classic fantasy beat-'em-ups seems well and truly alive in Absolum
I spent 2 hours making every wrong decision I possibly could in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, and as my fleet burns around me I'm never going to figure out who the Cylon was
Preview Hands-on | My ships are on fire, my workers are rioting, one of my advisors is a Cylon spy, and I've never had a truer Battlestar Galactica experience than in roguelike Scattered Hopes
2K lays off unspecified number of BioShock 4 devs, brings in ex-Diablo boss Rod Fergusson 12 years after he helped save BioShock Infinite to show its "commitment to deliver the best game in franchise history"
News "These changes are rooted in 2K’s firm confidence in BioShock as one of the most beloved franchises"
Japanese gamers vote Final Fantasy 10 the most tear jerking JRPG of all time, but it seems the emotional appeal of Western indies like Undertale and Omori is universal
News It's okay to cry, folks
Battlefield 6 players' complaints about UI are sinking in as devs promise main menu will be "constantly tweaked and refined," plus bigger maps than the beta will definitely arrive at launch
News "It's not a big problem for us to have our ears to the ground and be very dynamic and open with those things"
Former PlayStation boss is convinced more console generations will come, but doesn't know if Microsoft will be part of them: "Watching what Xbox has been doing recently, I do get Dreamcast flashbacks"
News 24 years after the Dreamcast's demise, Shawn Layden says Xbox is giving him flashbacks to Sega's exit from the console business
Monster Hunter Wilds 1.021 is already getting a second hotfix just days after launch, as Capcom confirms that stealth Long Sword nerf was accidental
News Another hotfix is on the way
After 50 hours and over 3,000 attempts, Mario Kart speedrunner proves a "humanly impossible" trick is actually doable, and absolutely destroys a 2-year-old world record in the process
News "What does it take to be the first person ever to get a world record using an exploit everyone thought was humanly impossible?"
I've spent 32 years dreaming of a game that looks like Jurassic Park: Survival, and this slice of pre-alpha footage and the devs' work on Space Marine 2 have me more hopeful than ever
News These game developers are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, but I think there's no question that they definitely should
Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues
News "We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 savant proves parry haters right by beating the RPG on expert with an "all hit" run allowing zero parries or dodges
News Maybe Expedition 33 is a secret action game, but not anymore
After 20 years, the $200 Nintendo cult classic that anchored GameCube collectors' retirement plans gets a modern release on Switch 2
News Justice for Chibi-Robo!
A month after Death Stranding 2's launch, we're all still trying to figure out the open-world game's deepest mystery: "Why you guys make meaningless bridges?" "Because Sam Porter BRIDGES"
News Can Hideo Kojima explain this? Do these bridges have nanomachines? Do they breathe through their skin?
