Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
A "full remake" of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 with "modern gameplay" and an improved ending is "on the road map," according to Lucasfilm Games exec
The KOTOR 1 remake is apparently now in development at Mad Head Games, the Hellraiser: Revival studio
Tomb Raider reveal confirmed for The Game Awards as devs tease return of iconic dual-pistol Lara Croft: "Did you miss her?"
News "She missed you"
Ex-Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida says Japanese devs likely can't keep up with Chinese games: "They are made in an environment which allows for hiring a large number of personnel who can work long hours"
News "It would be quite difficult for Japanese developers to make games in the same way miHoYo does"
Xbox breaks my heart every day there's no Banjo-Threeie announcement, but this Banjo-Kazooie fan game fills the gap and even has praise from Rare and the OG devs: "Incredible work"
News Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania lives in Dreams
Manor Lords publisher is "very delay-friendly" because "we don't ever want to push a game out too early"
News Hooded Horse wants to "stay private, profitable, and sustainable" in a game industry "where stability is so rare"
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P was inspired by mobile RPGs to lift glamour restrictions: "If you look at any of these games, you won't really see the same restrictions on fashion that FF14 has"
News Yoshi-P abandoned his personal gamer principles to loosen the MMO's fashion restrictions
Baldur's Gate 3 actor reveals Shadowheart's pal Nocturne was more of a "sexy demon" until she "found Nocturne on the spot" in a "girl next door" vibe
News "I must have spent the first hour or so giving sexy demon"
Creative Assembly confirms that a new Total War game will be revealed at The Game Awards 2025
News Could this be the rumored Star Wars game?
Future Total War games can come to PlayStation and Xbox, Creative Assembly confirms
News Total War is soon dropping its PC-exclusive ways
After almost 20 years, Creative Assembly announces the long-awaited Total War: Medieval 3
News Medieval 3 will "empower players to shape realms, rewrite history, and immerse themselves in the Middle Ages like never before"
Red Dead Redemption 2 is "slightly more novelistic" than GTA 5 because Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser "binged on Victorian novels" for inspiration
News "If you look at Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy or any of those authors, there's that feeling of all the world is here – that's what you're trying to get in open world games"
Banned horror game Horses now topping GOG's best-seller charts amid censorship controversy, and it's back on Humble even as Steam and Epic refuse to carry it
News "After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal from their store"
This NES horror JRPG spent 32 years as lost media, but once it was preserved it only took 33 days to get a complete fan translation
News Splatterworld lives... in English!
After an agonizing 7-year wait, Metroid Prime 4 Metacritic score is just barely above black sheep like Other M and Prime Pinball
News Metroid Prime 4's aggregate score is 10 points lower than any entry in the Prime trilogy
"Unforgivable" Stranger Things season 5 NES blooper has retro game fans fuming, albeit mostly jokingly
News As The Simpsons would put it: "Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Amazon's God of War TV show enlists veteran director of Shogun, The Boys, and Fallout as it starts casting Kratos and Atreus
News Frederick E.O. Toye is directing the first two episodes of the live-action God of War adaptation
Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert had big plans for a retro Zelda-style open-world RPG, but publishers said no: "They didn’t look at it as 'we're gonna make $100 million and it’s worth investing in'"
News His new roguelike's satirical setting is based out of the feeling that "capitalism has just taken over, and it really is the thing that’s causing the most pain for people"
Battlefield 6 revives Labs playtest program, reminds the inevitable leakers they are under NDA, and teases tests for "map layouts, pacing, and alternative team compositions such as smaller player counts"
News Battlefield Labs is back
The US government "nearly shut us down," former GTA lead says: "They decided we were the only people on the internet peddling pornography, apparently"
News Here we go again
Pokemon archeologist travels 12 hours to reunite a 17-year-old Diamond save file with the player who was forced to sell the barely functional, chewed cartridge after his partner's car wreck
News "What dumbass travels 12 hours to meet a guy they don't know to talk about a 20-year-old Pokemon game?"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors Ben Starr and Jennifer English worry the J’RPG wouldn’t be “as sexy” if it wasn’t French: “French people are just sexier”
News "Everyone was so sexy"
Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable"
News For those who skong after
Old copy of Fortnite from before it went free-to-play sells for $42,500, and while you might think that's weird, remember that the person who bought it probably won't play it anyway
News The worst part is nobody's going to crack it open to get that Founder's Pack code
The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"
News "I'll say, to Microsoft's benefit, or to kind of put them in a good light here, they didn't ever say anything to us"
