Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
Latest articles by Dustin Bailey

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?"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Kaan Serin last updated
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
News But hey, at least we're getting PC games on the lower tiers now, right?

Palworld dev is "worried many of you haven’t played" Core Keeper, "one of the best games on Steam," so now the two survival games are bundled together and even cheaper in the Steam Autumn Sale
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs are "just big fans"

Toby Fox says the "smart" way to make games is reusing what you can, but the way he makes Deltarune is "stupid": "Everything in the game is simply a container for a never-before-seen gimmick"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The method that I have chosen is not very efficient for development"

Just in time for Halloween, Grounded 2 puts its arachnophobia mode to the test with an update starring a giant tarantula and teases the one thing that could be scarier than that: candy corn
By Dustin Bailey published
News Can't get enough of those "new spooky ambiances"

World of Warcraft: Midnight release date reportedly set for February as Collector's Edition details leak
By Dustin Bailey published
News Looks like Midnight's coming soon
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