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

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic looks like the KOTOR 3, and the original RPG's director is returning to lead it
By Dustin Bailey published
News The Game Awards opened with a massive bit of news for Star Wars fans

Blizzard announces Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred ahead of The Game Awards
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We just hope the body inside the casket is still dead"

Historians recovered the source code for this never-before-seen NES shooter and finished the game themselves
By Dustin Bailey published
News Xcavator 2025 was rebuilt "using the tools and environments" it would've been developed with in the first place

A gag in Skyrim's Switch 2 trailer sends The Elder Scrolls 6 hopefuls into copium fits
By Dustin Bailey published
News This Elder Scrolls 6 release date theory is a stretch even by video game conspiracy standards

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
By Dustin Bailey published
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?"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Josh West published
News Could this be the rumored Star Wars game?

Future Total War games can come to PlayStation and Xbox, Creative Assembly confirms
By Josh West published
News Total War is soon dropping its PC-exclusive ways

After almost 20 years, Creative Assembly announces the long-awaited Total War: Medieval 3
By Josh West published
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
By Dustin Bailey last updated
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
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'"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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"
By Dustin Bailey published
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
By Dustin Bailey published
News "What dumbass travels 12 hours to meet a guy they don't know to talk about a 20-year-old Pokemon game?"
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