Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
This sci-fi co-op game about vehicular Legos has left Steam early access with 96% overwhelmingly positive reviews laser-targeted at sickos like me: "If you liked Death Stranding but wished it were chiller and let you build roads ANYWHERE"
News Stop, stop, I'm already sold!
The Witcher 3's "one more patch" has been delayed, so you'll have to wait until 2026 to get your dream RPG mods on console
News "We apologize for the delay"
After 6 years at the top of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser is retiring to make room for the company's first female president, Devon Pritchard: "It's time for the next generation of leadership"
News "Devon's track record speaks for itself"
As Hades 2 hits 1.0, roguelike powerhouse Supergiant says it's about to "return to shadows for a while and plan our next move"
News "We'll likely take some time to reflect and recharge"
After 24 years as lost media, a legendary cutscene from a PS1 Spider-Man game that was delayed and censored in the wake of 9/11 has finally been found and preserved online
News Thank you, Bobbyfan85
Marvel's Wolverine box art "doesn't look like our past games," according to Spider-Man studio Insomniac, which worked with a comic artist who has a brutal history with the character for the cover
News The devs wanted "the expressive energy of comics" to shine through
A "genre-defining visual novel" for Super Nintendo in Japan is making a comeback as a Street Fighter 6 bonus, and I hope we've got a Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros situation on our hands
News C. Viper isn't the only big addition to Street Fighter 6 in October
As Palworld gears up for another indie collab, dev says "it's a dream come true to be trusted by the developers of our favorite games" and the Terraria and Ultrakill crossovers happened because "we like them"
News "We are massive Terraria and Ultrakill fans"
Larian boss Swen Vincke says "a single engineer" kickstarted Baldur's Gate 3's dedicated Steam Deck port "working on it after hours," and ultimately won over the whole studio
News Larian, you didn't need to do this
If you got Ghost of Tsushima's platinum trophy, congratulations – PlayStation would now like $70 for your commemorative merch, but I remember this kind of thing being free when I played GTA 4 in 2008
News "We've got something special to share"
With GTA 6 looming, Rockstar is "excited to support" nopixel as "the future of GTA RP"
News "Coming soon to the Rockstar Games Launcher and other PC platforms"
Hideo Kojima wants to "scan a ghost" into OD, but he already recorded the ghost in his studio and "that's why we went to the shrine together with Microsoft" to make sure the game isn't haunted
News "I want to scan a ghost for the first time and I want to get an award for that"
Nintendo devs were so obsessed with Konami's legendary 1994 dating sim that they filled Super Mario 64's code with references to it
News Maybe this is why the N64 classic ended with a kiss
GTA 5's Trevor actor feels "nothing inside" for GTA 6 and tells gamers to go "read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment," while Franklin's actor says "f*** that book"
News "I'm not a gamer. I've never played video games."
Undertale fans raised over $330,000 for charity at the RPG's 10th anniversary event, where someone paid $11,000 for a "one-of-a-kind" giant Toriel plush
News The 10th anniversary stream wasn't just cryptic Undertale and Deltarune teasers
"I knew the PlayStation was much better": Programmer behind legendary PS1 horror game tried to duck out of Virtual Boy development because he knew the VR console "wasn't going to sell well"
News "I was half-expecting to get fired"
2TB Xbox Series X will soon be $800 as Microsoft ups US console prices for the second time in 5 months, making a PS5 Pro look downright affordable
News "We understand that these changes are challenging"
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is adding another set of Gokus, which will bring us to either 9, 24, 29, 30, or 39.375 total Gokus depending on who you ask, and at this point I'm concerned Bandai is running out
News That's a lotta Gokus
Cyberpunk 2 multiplayer seems all but confirmed as CD Projekt Red looks to hire an engineer to build "high-performance online experiences" and "optimize multiplayer systems"
News 4 years after canceling Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer spin-off, CD Projekt is back on the horse
If you play a pirated Super Smash Bros exactly 69 times on N64, Nintendo's "sneaky" anti-piracy measure will "lull the illegitimate user into a false sense of security" and trap you as Mario forever
News Not so nice
"The most broken weapon in Borderlands 4" is a purple shotgun that makes damage numbers go brrr: "Nothing's going to take really more than one shot"
News Gearbox's loot shooter has "literally infinity possibilities, and this particular possibility seems to break the game"
Silksong is harder than Hollow Knight because "Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight," Team Cherry says, and you can use Elden Ring logic to get around the difficulty anyway
news Hornet's just too cool
"That's the way Nintendo is": Tetris legend says Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi "made Nintendo's game business, for chrissakes" but that still didn't save him when "Virtual Boy was dead on arrival"
News "Somebody has to take responsibility"
Geralt returns for another "blood soaked tale" in The Witcher: Blood Stone, a new comic that'll send him monster-hunting in deadly dwarven mines
News Writer Daniel Freedman says "Geralt and I share a lot of the same sensibilities," which is both terrifying and the perfect thing to hear about the upcoming comic
Palworld dev says a Dark Souls 3 mod invalidates Nintendo's Pokeball patent, Nintendo says mods don't count as real games, and an expert worries prior art precedents could see a modder's work "used against them"
News "Modders would become 'fair game' as their ideas could be patented by someone else"
