Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Activision tackles out-of-control Call of Duty download sizes, but of course the path to "smaller downloads" starts with "a big one," and 4 freakin' downloads on PS5
News Your Call of Duty install will ultimately be smaller by the time Black Ops 6 gets here, but it's gonna be a rocky road
After 31 years stuck in Japan, the first fighting game from the Tekken studio is finally available worldwide
News Namco's answer to Street Fighter 2 still looks like absolute chaos, and I can't believe how stacked its voice cast is
Dragon Age: The Veilguard collector's edition is $150 and it doesn't even come with the game
News You ever wanted to have 22 inches of Lyrium?
After 10 long years, Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets its release date tomorrow as BioWare details a roadmap with info on "high-level combat" and the PC version
News We're getting a whole lot more Dragon Age info this month
Avowed devs compared notes with Baldur's Gate 3 to make "mercurial" companions with "distinct personalities"
News "I want to take a lot from that and compare that to what we've been doing with companions"
21 years later, one of the most beloved visual novel series ever made is about to turn into a mech-fueled strategy RPG
News Muv-Luv is achieving its final form at last
Helldivers 2 director promises "action, not talk" as the studio aims to fix flamethrowers, "prevent excessive ragdolling," and "rework Chargers" in 60 days
News "We didn’t hit our target with the latest update"
Fallout London devs are making plans to "launch our own indie games company," and with 500,000 downloads they're off to a great start
News "It'll be completely our own thing and we can create a game that we want to"
Marathon development is reportedly facing trouble at Bungie: "There's a reason that it was planned for this year and slipped a whole year"
News "The sentiment I've heard is not great around it"
Steam's latest sale throws a spotlight on great games from tiny teams, including Stardew Valley and a blackjack roguelike with the Balatro dev's seal of approval
News D&D-spoofing blackjack? Sign me up
Hideo Kojima had to delay Metal Gear 2 to go help fix an "emergency situation" on an RPG spin-off of one of his own games
News SD Snatcher had an effect on the development of Metal Gear
After 23 years, Animal Crossing's NES emulator still houses a mystery that comes down to 30 Japanese players nobody's been able to find
News Nintendo once did the unthinkable, providing an emulator that can load external ROMs
Star Wars Outlaws DLC roadmap revealed, and the best part may be the return of a fan favorite who dominated the beloved Clone Wars and Rebels animated series
News Hondo Ohnaka's big comeback is upon us
A new Darksiders game is coming, and after a Zelda-style adventure, a loot-driven ARPG, a Soulslike, and a Diablo-esque hack-and-slash, nobody knows what to expect
News "The Four Horsemen will ride again"
Helldivers 2 is now straight-up threatening players with a new Stratagem they've avoided for months: Kill 1.5 billion enemies ASAP or you get the mines
News How much do you hate mines?
After 10 years, Ubisoft's always-online racing game The Crew has snowballed into a massive consumer rights campaign that's now looking for 1 million EU signatures
News The Stop Killing Games campaign has its "biggest and most ambitious chance" yet
Zelda: Ocarina of Time's fastest speedrun just got its first new route in 3 years, but nobody's sure if wrapping a Wii U gamepad in a rubber band is cheating
News The Wii U comeback we all deserve is here
Avowed reportedly delayed to early 2025 as Xbox moves the Obsidian RPG out of the way of Stalker 2
News Avowed is apparently "in good shape"
4 years after Ark 2 was announced, Xbox announces a playable demo at Gamescom only to immediately un-announce it
News It was as if millions of Ark fans suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly silenced
As EA reiterates Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set to launch this fall, BioWare promises a release date announcement in August
News We're also getting a fresh roadmap
Destiny devs blindsided after another 220 "inexcusable" layoffs are announced publicly: "This is how I’ve found out I’m laid off"
News "I’m so sick and tired of these layoffs. Unionize unionize unionize."
College Football 25 production relied on "the power of AI" - and now that it's had 5 million players in its first week, EA isn't gonna stop
News "In the absence of AI we simply would not have been able to deliver College Football at the level we did"
Legendary Mario Kart 64 speedrunner saves a lost run with a nearly impossible YOLO strat and breaks his own year-old world record
News Setting a world record with style
