Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
For 33 years, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past fans have chased a mystery man named in the SNES classic – turns out he's some guy with "very little interest or excitement about having his name in a video game"
News "Chris Houlihan is real"
Metroid Prime 4 is starting to look like an open-world game, and that release date trailer is building as much concern as excitement: "Samus bike will either be incredible or the worst decision they've ever made. No in between"
News "This was not what I was expecting at all and not in a good way"
After 30 years, Nintendo's celebrating its most famous failure with zero irony as Virtual Boy comes to Switch complete with a full console replica
News Finally, a new generation gets to enjoy the eye strain of '90s VR
Mario Tennis Fever brings Nintendo's sports series back with some Super Mario Bros Wonder flavor and a story mode worthy of Dragon Ball spin-off
News Oops, all babies
The perfect video game still hasn't reached its final form, and Drop Duchy shows that "Tetris as a Civilization roguelike" is one heck of a twist
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | That "one more turn" feeling has quickly gone "one more run" for me
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says the one thing he'd like to see from the series moving forward is an "actual good faction": "Fallout trains you that everything's gray"
News "Almost every other faction we've seen in Fallout has either been a mix – which I like, I like gray factions – or just pure evil"
Ubisoft CEO says AI will make open-world games "your world" with fewer "pre-scripted things," and screw it, maybe for Assassin's Creed an AI Socrates that will definitely give you a historically accurate philosophy lesson maybe
News Wow, yes, Socrates in a Ubisoft game, truly an innovation we could only reach with the power of AI
Ubisoft says it has creative control over the Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which is set in Saudi Arabia, was announced in Saudi Arabia, and which even employees fear might be funded by Saudi Arabia
News "This title update to Assassin’s Creed Mirage was made possible thanks to the support of local and international organizations"
Daily Silksong News is dead, long live Daily Silksong DLC News: "This individual is quite familiar, don't you think?"
News The suffering never ends
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 TTK is similar to Black Ops 6 to stop it "feeling overly spongy," devs "hope to" have Cold War-style health bars ready for the beta
News "We like where that has settled as not too fast and not too slow"
"I never stop thinking about adventure games," Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert says, but as his roguelike nears release he doesn't want to make another point-and-click simply "for nostalgic reasons"
News "If I'm going to do another adventure game, I want it to be a really interesting and unique and different game"
BioWare veteran says "flying is Anthem's best feature" but also its "worst feature" because it broke the game, and reckons Monster Hunter is a great example of how to add "really crazy things" without the broken part
News "innovation does have consequence"
Beefy Borderlands 4 system requirements promise "solid performance on older PC hardware," but after Randy Pitchford's warnings about "realistic expectations" I'm starting to feel a little scared
News Gearbox really was serious about those system requirements, huh?
As PlayStation reaches its 30th anniversary, I probably shouldn't be shocked that 11 of its 20 best-selling games in the US are Call of Duty, topped only by the likes of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2
News Final Fantasy? Ratchet & Clank? Literally any PS1 game? Well, at least a handful of PS2 legends are still on the list
A canceled NES multiplayer game and SNES RTS have been saved "and preserved" from the unflinching incinerator of gaming history, and a new "cart release" might be on the horizon
News Game preservation notches another win – albeit a more obscure one than usual
Nintendo veteran says an "ad agency" created the alternate Princess Peach name that confused US fans for years, and it was only fixed for Super Mario 64 because Miyamoto liked "Peach" so much
News Yours truly, Princess Toadstool
Marvel Rivals loot boxes could be on the way according to datamine, and after nearly 10 years of post-Overwatch controversy you may be stunned to learn some players think it's a good thing
News A new "Mysteries" leak has dropped in the run-up to season 4
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker speedruns just got cut in half by the same kind of massive glitch that revolutionized Ocarina of Time years ago, but now the community's biggest challenge is rewriting the rulebook
News Speedrunning is one thing, but figuring out what a legal run looks like is quite another
Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games "comes from the same heart that I have" and is "a metaphor, I think, for life" in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe
News Coincidentally, Gearbox's failed live-service shooter Battleborn "was about the last star that would exist" before the end of all life
Bethesda was told "Skyrim can't survive going up against Call of Duty," but Pete Hines knew the RPG could launch against Modern Warfare 3: "They're a big brand, but they're not a better game"
News "Nobody's gonna buy your game"
"We wanted to actually show Hitler's penis," Wolfenstein 2 devs say, but a Bethesda producer said "I don't advise doing that": "We all need to be saved from ourselves sometimes"
News "Uh, do you think there would be a problem if we see Hitler's penis?"
"I hope that we're not done with Wolfenstein yet": MachineGames has plans for BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3 because the FPS devs "have always seen this as a trilogy"
News "We have a story to tell"
Legendary Japanese racing game dev goes under the radar for 18 years, quietly emerges to drop the best-rated Steam racer of 2025, and gives fans 20 days to grab it at a hefty discount before the price jumps to $50
News Tokyo Xtreme Racer's big comeback is almost complete
