Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
007 First Light, the Hitman dev's James Bond game, launches 2 months before GTA 6 with the Deluxe Edition as a pre-order bonus
News The new James Bond game's release date is set for March
For the Hitman devs, 007: First Light felt like "coming home" because James Bond has been an "inspiration" for so long
News 007: First Light "encompasses everything you would expect from the Bond experience"
Nintendo reportedly kept delaying Switch 2 because first-party devs wanted more time to perfect games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza
News The publisher apparently wanted to give its first-party devs time to cook no matter how much it annoyed fans and third-party publishers
Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"
News "Regardless of who's funding it, we're still trying to tell that same message"
An uber-rare Nintendo cartridge worth $1,000 sat in a Las Vegas retro shop for months until it sold for $12, and the store's owners aren't even mad about it: "Score! Our f*** up their gain"
News "Happy this is going to a good home!"
After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"
News "Your local server, your local savegames, your game"
Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
News "It was a little bit of a different struggle than what you might expect if you're creating a game from absolutely nothing"
Helldivers 2 creative director wishes he could make a sequel to the chaotic co-op game that launched Arrowhead, but returning to it "scares" him: "I would like to do it at some point though"
News Don't expect Magicka 3D anytime soon
After Battlefield 6 beta players spent a week roasting the Netflix-style menus, dev says "we're not going to rebuild our menu from scratch" in time for launch, but "we are looking to improve"
News "It's probably still going to be a little bit clunky when we launch"
Metal Gear Solid Delta replaces the original game's bikini model posters with new pictures and family photos of the same women 21 years later
News Snake Eater's Easter eggs continue to surprise
"It's not just paywalled, IT'S WHALEWALLED!": Genshin Impact's new level 100 cap has players terrified of a pay-to-win endgame even as MiHoYo celebrates its own generosity
News "A lot of our decisions honestly carry a splash of idealism," MiHoYo says
Ghost of Yotei has gone gold, and Sucker Punch is celebrating with 74 seconds of brutal, bloody, John Wick-worthy gun fu
News "We're so excited to finally have reached this milestone"
CD Projekt said ditching game-key cards for Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 was "the right thing to do," and it's apparently paid off because 75% of that version's sales were physical
News Early adopters of Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 are apparently hungry for physical games
You can put Dragon's Dogma 2 alongside Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2 as a sterling example of what happens when you stop trying to make AAA games for everyone: "It’s normal if some people outside that target audience don't like the game"
News "I made the game not like a Nintendo one to be liked by all the people, but for a certain type of audience"
JRPG lovers are "migrating away from Fandom" to unite the Trails and Ys communities in an independent wiki, following in the footsteps of Zelda and Silksong fans before them
News Say hello to the united Falcom Wiki
As Perfect Dark gets canceled and the next Tomb Raider's development stumbles on, Crystal Dynamics lays off even more developers while blaming "evolving business conditions"
News This is the third round of layoffs in two years
Unreasonably good Xbox FPS featuring Vin Diesel was so under the radar, not even the studio noticed when it got canceled: "They basically forced the publisher to restart the game"
News The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay "was cancelled for two weeks, and we didn't know about it"
Retro JRPGs are suddenly getting pulled from the Switch eShop, and it looks like a probably unlicensed version of OG operating system MS-DOS is to blame
News The legacy of Microsoft's old OS still looms
Stardew Valley becomes truly inescapable as it joins the September PlayStation Plus games lineup alongside an impeccable indie puzzler and one of the best platformers of the modern era
News All killer, no filler in this month's PS Plus games
Switch 2 is selling 75% faster than the original Switch in the US, analyst reports, and that's probably because Nintendo actually made enough consoles this time
News Supply is all good, but we don't have answers about demand just yet
High on Life 2 is about to be the only legal way to play notorious NES anti-classic Bible Adventures
News "More than five" other games are included, and I hope they're every bit as good
Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.3 "finished that story" devs wanted to tell with Dawntrail, and Yoshi-P is "kind of glad and relieved" it's over as the MMO once again puts "the fate of the world" on your shoulders
News *stoic nod*
PlayStation refunds are now a bit easier than before, but Sony still won't match the Steam refund policy that should be the minimum for digital game purchases
News New refund process, same refund policy
