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

Donkey Kong Bananza programmer suggests using the Switch 2 platformer as destructive meditation
By Dustin Bailey published
News Pounding dirt is good for when "you've got something to think through"

Marathon's Cryo Archive is a weekends-only "raid-style" PvPvE map: "So please, do scream"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Bungie promises "brutal" stakes

The Witcher 4 is "steaming ahead" as CD Projekt expands with 220 new developers in the past year
By Dustin Bailey published
News Most of the new devs "are working on The Witcher 4"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs bet on the Metacritic score, but bet too low so "everybody lost"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "One person had to eat a chicken, a roast chicken in one sitting within a certain amount of time while another person beatboxes"

Ubisoft guts OG Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon studio, laying off 105 developers
By Dustin Bailey published
News Red Storm Entertainment was founded in 1996

Nintendo has finally fixed the Switch 2 GameCube emulator's terrible analog stick mapping
By Dustin Bailey published
News Finally, "the stick range has been improved and is now much closer to how it is on a real Gamecube"

Deltarune Chapter 5 is closer than ever as Toby Fox says "most of the development team has moved on"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "That'll be all from me on this subject for a while"

Mass Effect veterans roll out gameplay teases for new RPG Exodus ahead of a big summer reveal
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs know you want "uninterrupted footage that shows what it looks like to play," and more is coming

Hollow Knight: Silksong patch 5 is is "the last significant update" before Sea of Sorrow DLC
By Dustin Bailey published
News The free expansion is set to launch in 2026

Solo dev breaks down in tears after opening Steam and learning his game made $250,000 in a week
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I don't know why people are so nice. I don't get it, man"

Subnautica 2 early access release date set for May despite lawsuit disaster
By Dustin Bailey published
News "That effort has resulted in a game we are truly proud of, one that each of us and our partners at KRAFTON unanimously determined is ready for Early Access release in May"

Beloved Mario RPG hides a secret "'Toads ramming each other rapidly' test room"
By Dustin Bailey published
News What if... we were Toads and we rammed each other rapidly in the Toads ramming each other rapidly test room? Aha ha, just kidding... Unless?

Unofficial Animal Crossing PC port is here, offering a widescreen 4K experience
By Dustin Bailey published
News Finally, Tom Nook in 4K

Arc Raiders dev Embark Studios confirms co-founder is gone after allegations of misconduct
By Dustin Bailey published
News Embark says an external legal investigation "did not substantiate the allegations"

GTA Wiki splits from Fandom citing "a reportedly pro-AI CEO," "terrible" ads, and censorship
By Dustin Bailey published
News Ahead of GTA 6, the series wiki has split from Fandom hosting

Subnautica 2 owner constantly relied on ChatGPT for legal strategy, judge says in scathing order
By Dustin Bailey published
News Don't use AI for legal advice, kids

PSSR 2 is finally here, and the tech promises a big PS5 Pro upgrade for Crimson Desert this week
By Dustin Bailey published
News Patches for Assassin's Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077 are on the way

Donkey Kong Bananza devs want to make sure Mario and DK's games feel different
By Dustin Bailey published
News "What sort of things could Mario not do?"

"Some ideas from Donkey Kong Bananza" may inform Nintendo's next big project, producer says
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Probably, we'll see the same sort of phenomenon as we did when going from Super Mario Odyssey to Donkey Kong Bananza"

Overwatch director celebrates no longer being "the lowest-rated game on Steam" but he's not sure how to reach positive
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We're only a few percentage points away from 'mixed'"

Crimson Desert dev says PC preview builds already had Denuvo and are "representative of the final consumer's experience"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The benchmark videos and performance specs we released were all created with the exact same implementation of denuvo that is in the launch build"

We asked Nintendo point-blank about Donkey Kong Bananza's biggest mystery: They wouldn't tell us who Pauline really is
By Dustin Bailey published
News Pauline's true identity will have to be left to our collective "imagination"

Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"
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