Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Chill shop sim about repairing off-brand PS1s makes $3 million just days after launch
News ReStory sounds like my ideal cozy game
Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games
News "Once Sony stops selling physical games in 2028, you won't have any choice at all"
Hideki Kamiya says he'd make another Devil May Cry game just to clear up some deep-cut lore
News Kamiya's reunion with Capcom for Okami even makes it feel like a real possibility
These devs spent 22 years building the perfect platformer, and the Steam apocalypse won't stop them
Saturday Read For this week's Saturday Read, the devs behind Metanet Software tell us about the decades-long road that's led to N Plus Infinity Times Two
Capcom dev got his dream Zelda game by threatening Shigeru Miyamoto
News At least we got Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages out of the deal
Mario dev burned the handmade diorama he used to pitch a Zelda game because Shigeru Miyamoto said no
News "I burned it"
97 Super Mario Bros NES cartridges set to be "melted down" turn out to hide a major discovery
News "An undocumented, never before seen variant" of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt has emerged out of nowhere
$9,000 eBay auction might hold a secret Pokemon game that's been lost for 20 years
News PokePark Fishing Rally has been lost media for decades, but that could soon change
EA's $55 billion buyout is officially complete next week
News "All regulatory approvals" standing in the way of the deal are now complete
Wind Waker 2 was in development before Zelda lead was told Toon Link "alienated" American teenagers
News "We knew that we had to create a Zelda game that would live up to the expectations of fans in North America, and that if we didn't, it could mean the end of the franchise"
Capcom expects 95% of its game sales to be digital in the next year
News Capcom sold 1.6 million physical games this quarter, but that's small potatoes next to 22 million digital games
OG Fallout was "entirely different" from RPGs like Ultima because they "expect you to be good"
News "My idea is to explore more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun"
Hideo Kojima had to wait 4 years before finally making Policenauts
News "I first came up with the concept [for Policenauts] when I was 26"
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director wants "some kind of physical edition" for the RPG, but he can't promise it
News "We're still having internal discussions on what the exact SKU product lineup is going to be for Revelation"
After 16 months, Zelda Ocarina of Time expert completes a hitless, randomized run of the game
News "That was the hardest thing I've ever done"
After escaping Xbox, Double Fine lays off 23 people for "the survival of our studio"
News "The people we are losing were all important"
28 years later, Final Fantasy 8's wonderfully awkward E3 reveal has hit the internet
News This is "possibly the only surviving video of the US debut"
Nintendo awakens JRPG hopes as Xenosaga gets a fresh cameo in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch 2
News Momo is back
Mario Kart Wii is being "rebuilt for PC," but the project uses AI vibe coding
News "The first static recompilation of a Wii game" isn't going over well
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced beat Ubisoft's full-year expectations in 2 weeks
News Yves Guillemot "would like to warmly thank the teams whose talent and dedication brought it to life" weeks after Ubisoft laid off many of Resynced's developers
As PlayStation declares nobody wants discs anymore, there's been a 16% surge in US music CD sales
News It's been "a much-discussed physical-media pivot"
Union says Fallout 5 and Elder Scrolls 6 news shouldn't distract you from huge Bethesda layoffs
News "The timing of this kind of press is intentional"
Nintendo of America was so poor in the '80s that it was "bartering" for 2am TV commercials
news "We didn't have a lot of money at Nintendo"
