Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Insomniac is "actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5" but won't share news just because you ask: "Things take time, resources, and the greenlight to share them"
News "That will always be our answer"
For the first time since Super Mario Kart 33 years ago, Mario Kart World brings the feather back to actual races and it seems like it can even stop the dreaded blue shell
News What's a Mario game without jumping?
Metroid Prime 4's Star Wars-style opening space battle has the 14-year-old Metroid nerd in me absolutely screaming
News The galaxy is not at peace
Nintendo Switch 2 officially has the Nvidia DLSS tech that's become essential for PC gaming, promising "10x the graphics performance" of Switch 1
News The Switch 2's screen also supports VRR through G-Sync in handheld mode
Nintendo heads off the Zelda lore debate that surrounded Age of Calamity by preemptively confirming that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is "canonical"
News That's one debate that's over before it's even begun
Nintendo says Switch 2's Discord-like GameChat is a "defining feature" of the new console that was partially shaped by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and a cult puzzle game
News "We spent about two hours every day playing various games while sharing screens via GameChat"
Switch 2's producer made requests "in great detail and great amounts" to make sure the eShop is as good as the Wii Shop Channel
News The Switch 2 eShop has been revamped for a "smooth experience"
Nintendo Switch 2 Direct live: all the Switch 2 reveals as they happen
Live The latest Switch 2 news as it happens from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation
The Switch 2 Direct broke just in time for me to nearly miss a revival of a 26-year-old Konami cult classic I obsessed over in Nintendo Power
News I can't believe a stream glitch nearly made me miss the return of Survival Kids
As Hollow Knight Silksong makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reemergence for Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox reminds everyone the Metroidvania is still day one on Game Pass
News Microsoft doesn't want you to forget
Switch 2 plays Switch 1 games through something "in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility," so don't expect the same backward compatibility we got on 3DS and Wii U
News "Switch 2 doesn't contain any Switch hardware"
Nintendo shows off Switch 2 mouse capabilities with a 3-on-3 basketball game that's basically Rocket League with robot wheelchairs
News Drag x Drive somehow feels like an Arms and Rocket League successor all at once
Donkey Kong Bananza launches on Switch 2 this July as just the second 3D platformer in the character's 44-year history
News He's finally back to kick some tail
The Duskbloods is Hidetaka Miyazaki's next game, coming exclusively to Switch 2 in 2026, and it looks like it is to Bloodborne as Elden Ring was to Dark Souls
News Never mind Bloodborne, FromSoftware is making what sure looks like a spiritual successor on Switch 2
GameCube classics finally arrive on Switch 2, including absolute hits like Zelda: The Wind Waker and cult classic collector's items like Pokemon XD and Chibi-Robo
News At long last, GameCube is back
Switch 2 doesn't have an OLED screen, but its 1080p 120fps LCD with "approximately double the pixels" of Switch 1 might be worth the trade-off
News Nintendo gave us some details on the Switch 2 screen
Mario Kart World takes the racing series open-world, and it launches day one exclusively on Switch 2
News The Switch 2 presentation opened with a wide-ranging look at the new Mario Kart
Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"
News "Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?"
Not for the first time, workers at Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls parent ZeniMax threaten strike at Microsoft: "Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing"
News Microsoft says it's "deeply committed to reaching a fair and equitable resolution that acknowledges the teams' contributions"
After 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
News The team behind this new Capcom vs. SNK 2 translation has gone above and beyond
The Switch 2 Pro Controller seemingly adds a headphone jack, and that's such a godsend I'm almost willing to forgive Nintendo for being 12 years behind PlayStation and Xbox
News Another early detail arrives from an FCC filing
Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
News "We really tried to push back on the AI stuff specifically"
Super Mario Bros 2 player crashes the game, casually posts the clip online, and accidentally makes "the biggest 2D Mario speedrun discovery in years"
News "I genuinely can’t believe a random crash I had with this game actually helped discover a new speed run trick"
