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

97 Super Mario Bros NES cartridges set to be "melted down" turn out to hide a major discovery
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "An undocumented, never before seen variant" of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt has emerged out of nowhere

$9,000 eBay auction might hold a secret Pokemon game that's been lost for 20 years
By Dustin Bailey Published
News PokePark Fishing Rally has been lost media for decades, but that could soon change

EA's $55 billion buyout is officially complete next week
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "All regulatory approvals" standing in the way of the deal are now complete

Wind Waker 2 was in development before Zelda lead was told Toon Link "alienated" American teenagers
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "We knew that we had to create a Zelda game that would live up to the expectations of fans in North America, and that if we didn't, it could mean the end of the franchise"

Capcom expects 95% of its game sales to be digital in the next year
By Dustin Bailey Published
News Capcom sold 1.6 million physical games this quarter, but that's small potatoes next to 22 million digital games

OG Fallout was "entirely different" from RPGs like Ultima because they "expect you to be good"
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "My idea is to explore more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun"

Hideo Kojima had to wait 4 years before finally making Policenauts
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "I first came up with the concept [for Policenauts] when I was 26"

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director wants "some kind of physical edition" for the RPG, but he can't promise it
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "We're still having internal discussions on what the exact SKU product lineup is going to be for Revelation"

After 16 months, Zelda Ocarina of Time expert completes a hitless, randomized run of the game
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "That was the hardest thing I've ever done"

After escaping Xbox, Double Fine lays off 23 people for "the survival of our studio"
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "The people we are losing were all important"

28 years later, Final Fantasy 8's wonderfully awkward E3 reveal has hit the internet
By Dustin Bailey Published
News This is "possibly the only surviving video of the US debut"

Nintendo awakens JRPG hopes as Xenosaga gets a fresh cameo in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch 2
By Dustin Bailey Published
News Momo is back

Mario Kart Wii is being "rebuilt for PC," but the project uses AI vibe coding
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "The first static recompilation of a Wii game" isn't going over well

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced beat Ubisoft's full-year expectations in 2 weeks
By Dustin Bailey Published
News Yves Guillemot "would like to warmly thank the teams whose talent and dedication brought it to life" weeks after Ubisoft laid off many of Resynced's developers

As PlayStation declares nobody wants discs anymore, there's been a 16% surge in US music CD sales
By Dustin Bailey Published
News It's been "a much-discussed physical-media pivot"

Union says Fallout 5 and Elder Scrolls 6 news shouldn't distract you from huge Bethesda layoffs
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "The timing of this kind of press is intentional"

Nintendo of America was so poor in the '80s that it was "bartering" for 2am TV commercials
By Dustin Bailey Published
news "We didn't have a lot of money at Nintendo"

Obsidian returns to Fallout 16 years after New Vegas and Todd Howard "could not be more excited"
By Dustin Bailey Published
News The "timing is right" for Bethsda and Obsidian to work together again

As PlayStation prepares to go all-digital, one PC gamer turns Steam physical with SSD cartridges
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "It's at least something fun and useful to me personally"

"We want physical games": Marvel's Wolverine trailer drops story reveals, draws unexpected comments
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "Can't wait for my PHYSICAL COPY"

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto preferred casual physics sandboxes to cutting-edge graphics even in 1996
By Dustin Bailey Published
News "But you just can't make a game like that when you have to worry about justifying a 9,800 yen price tag"

Blizzard promises Diablo 4's Iconic Mythic drop rate is "being looked into
By Dustin Bailey Published
News The issues are reaching mythic proportions

The terrible weather in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is fixed in a new patch
By Dustin Bailey Published
News More "sun and clear skies" are headed our way
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