Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Hi-Fi Rush director says "don't panic" as the soundtrack gets delisted and the rhythm action game disappears from third-party PC stores: "This is likely publisher transition related"
News Haven't Hi-Fi Rush fans been through enough already?
Union leader says fired GTA 6 devs weren't leaking Rockstar secrets, they were talking about working conditions on a private Discord: "They should be legally protected to do that"
News The employees "weren't on these big, open, public forums spouting secrets on the company"
Don't expect Switch 2 emulation to hit as fast as it did for Switch 1, as fan devs are already warning "THIS PROJECT WILL NOT BE READY FOR A DECADE MINIMUM"
News Switch 2 emulators are in very, very early development
Finally, Battlefield 6 is putting an end to drone-surfing with sledgehammers as EA fixes "an exploit allowing players to ascend and access unintended areas"
News It just took a few weeks
Todd Howard "hadn't had a break in 20 years" when Fallout 4 came out, so he took a 3-month sabbatical to "go touch some grass"
News "You get to a point in life where you spend more time in the fantasy world than with real people"
Death Stranding 2 art director helps turn a real-life $1,500 exoskeleton into "something Sam Porter Bridges himself might wear," and you can buy it for yourself
News "Wearing it feels as if the world of Death Stranding has come to life"
Unless GTA 6 "comes out and it's terrible" no open-world dev can hope to top Rockstar, original Saints Row design lead says – but "there's nothing wrong with trying to be a #2"
News If Rockstar's latest is terrible, it'll be "E.T. all over again, but worse because the budgets"
Fans find Mass Effect 5 art of a Krogan civil war hidden in BioWare's N7 Day post, studio lead says "I want you to see stuff. But it's not the time…yet"
News "Has it been years since announce? Yes. Have we been busy? Yes. Are we NOW 100% on mass effect? Also yes"
Konami's $26 million lawsuit against Umamusume devs settled for an undisclosed sum, but Cygames still says it never infringed any patents
News "Through this settlement, we will once again strive for the further development of the game industry"
Mass Effect 5 remains in development amid $55 billion EA buyout, and BioWare is now "heads-down and focused exclusively on" the RPG, with "lots of romances to figure out"
News And what's this Krogan teaser all about?
"Of course, you must be on Steam. But Steam isn't the entire world": CEO of game distribution company says yes, some PC gamers prefer "local" stores to Valve's mega-shop, and China is a huge factor
News "There are very big markets – China, Eastern Europe, Latin America – where local platforms are simply stronger in trust, in loyalty, in payment behaviour"
GTA 6 delayed 6 more months as Rockstar commits to November 2026 and says “sorry”
News We're about to get so many more things before GTA 6
Super Mario World, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8, and more return to Japan's biggest speedrun event after Nintendo cited "unauthorized use"
News Permission granted, I guess
inZOI takes a page from The Sims' most beloved expansions with a store management system that'll let you "open stores anywhere"
News "It will gradually improve over time"
Assassin's Creed Shadows devs only found the confidence to rally against its "loudest haters" when Ubisoft realized "We had to stop focusing on those who hated us"
News "Our goal is really to be able to ensure that our fans discover and defend what they expect from our games"
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3
News "When anyone ever says, 'Well, this is at DM's discretion,' you have to decide right then what your discretion is"
Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem will finally let you give your horse the armor it deserves: a top-tier Netherite suit
News Netherite horse armor is upon us
Nintendo has done the impossible: release a Metroid Prime 4 trailer that actually looks good, and coincidentally includes the Akira slide
News Now this is more like it
John Romero awards John Romero "the most satisfying weapon in gaming history" award for Doom's Super Shotgun, and he's right
News The Doom 2 icon is undefeated
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"
