Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
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
Japanese government auction for used Nintendo DS listing suddenly disappears as the internet realizes, oops, those bundled games are actually flash carts and likely packed with pirated titles
News The government probably doesn't want to get into the R4 business
Rockstar veteran says GTA 4 PS5 port wouldn't "be easy," but the effort "would be tiny compared to building a new game"
News Please, Rockstar, I just want to go bowling with my cousin again
I've been playing Super Mario 64 for nearly 30 years and I somehow never noticed the 1/256 Easter egg when Mario jumps out of the water, which at one point in development created a "bountiful fountain of fish"
News I just think that's beautiful
After 20 years, the Japan-only PS2 adaptation of legendary anime Cowboy Bebop has finally gotten an English translation from the modder known as SONICMAN69
news I think it's time to blow this scene
Borderlands 4 writers say the previous game "sometimes felt like parody," and while there's at least one meme in the new loot shooter "it does not involve a Skibidi Toilet"
News "If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat"
Battlefield 6 beta beat Counter-Strike 2, Peak, Marvel Rivals, and Helldivers 2 to be the biggest game on Steam in North America, but it couldn't top Call of Duty on console
News Battlefield 6 has some massive early interest
Pokemon Go level cap increases to 80 in October with huge "rebalance," so you've got less than 2 months to get the level 50 legacy rewards
News There's a bonanza of XP bonuses to help you get there, at least
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance review: "So close to being to a pitch-perfect revival of a classic series, but just can't quite line up the killing blow"
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Atari aims to be "best in the world at retro games," CEO says, which is why it's put its money into keeping brilliant retro studios like Nightdive and Digital Eclipse from having to worry about making payroll
News But "the brand deserves to be something more" so it can plaster neon Atari signs on every building "like in Blade Runner"
