Dustin Bailey

Dustin Bailey

Staff Writer

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

Jason appears with a messy mullet and facial hair in GTA 6 Ultimate Edition
I'm glad GTA 6's pre-order bonuses and Ultimate Edition add-ons aren't breaking the game

By Dustin Bailey Published

Features Opinion | At least the Ultimate Edition won't ruin the game itself

Features
Blood message game promotional image showing two characters fist bumping
Blood Message is a cinematic action showstopper, and after 20 minutes hands-on, it plays great too

By Dustin Bailey Published

Hands-on Summer Preview 2026 | I was already sold on Blood Message's linear action sales pitch, but it turns out the combat's great too

Hands-on
Star Wars: Galactic Racer
Star Wars: Galactic Racer proves that roguelikes and racing are "a match made in heaven"

By Dustin Bailey Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | I'm already hooked on the roguelike campaign and deadly podracing

Summer Preview
Link looks shocked in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Shigeru Miyamoto decided Zelda dungeons aren't "really that much fun" while making Ocarina of Time

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "I don't think those are very appropriate to a 3D game"

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News
Sonic Boom key art
10 years ago, Sega said "we're done with Sonic," and it was up to Takashi Iizuka to save the series

By Scott McCrae Published

News Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric was just over 11 years ago, for context

News
A wide shot of Vice City in GTA 6
Feeling generous after making GTA 6 fans wait a year, Rockstar shows off Vice City in greater detail than ever

By Dustin Bailey Published

News Those boats and helicopters are mighty enticing

News
Spider-Man stretches in Brand New Day
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets its first update in over a year as Brand New Day suit hits PS5 and PC

By Dustin Bailey Published

News The suit arrives "at no additional cost"

News
Yukiko and her Persona from Persona 4 Revival
Persona 4 Yukiko actor passes the torch to her replacement as Atlus reveals Revival cast

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "My cast and I stand on the shoulders of giants"

News
Rayman, Barbara, and Grand Minimus appear perplexed in one of Rayman Legends Retold's new cutscenes
EU rules against Stop Killing Games, but after a 2-year campaign founder insists change is coming

By Dustin Bailey Published

News The EU Commission "is no longer the deciding factor"

12 Comments
News
Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonist Yasuke in a pirate outfit
Assassin's Creed Shadows' "real ending" lands with a free update prepping for Black Flag Resynced

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "A new threat washes ashore"

News
Protagonist Miyamoto Musashi grips his blade in Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom is "quite confident" Onimusha: Way of the Sword will give players a challenge after the demo was "too easy"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News There will "definitely" be options for players craving a greater challenge, too

News
Sonic the Hedgehog holding chilidogs
Sonic lead says AAA studios can learn from indies in the same way movies should take notes from Backrooms and Obsession

By Kaan Serin Published

News "You really need to sell a lot of units in order to survive in the industry," Takashi Iizuka says

News
Lara Croft explores a snowy mountain in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and walks towards a wooden bridge
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis brings back the separate difficulty options from Shadow of the Tomb Raider

By Kaan Serin Published

News Players can "customize their challenge to their liking"

News
Stuntman: Hollywood
Stuntman: Hollywood was the best 15 minutes of my Summer Game Fest

By Dustin Bailey Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview 2026 | This revival of a PS2 and Xbox 360 cult classic already had me hooked even before I started driving the Back to the Future DeLorean

Summer Preview
Lara Croft looks into the distance as light shimmers through the jungle behind her in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, with the orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview 2026 frame
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a gorgeous revival of the original's puzzle spirit, but I'm glad it's been delayed

By Dustin Bailey Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | Legacy of Atlantis could be something special, if the control issues during my hands-on can be fixed by launch

Summer Preview
Gears of War E-Day screenshot showing marcus fenix
Major Xbox layoffs reportedly on the way

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "Going forward, this cannot continue"

News
Resident Evil Veronica trailer screenshot
Capcom producer confirms Resident Evil Veronica is fully third-person

By Dustin Bailey Published

News There's no Resident Evil Requiem-style split between protagonists

News
Tifa where's a mage-like outfit as her hand glows green in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, with the orange GamesRadar+ Summer Preview 2026 frame
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's combat "reached its perfected state" by embracing the series' "iconic" job system

By Oscar Taylor-Kent Published

Summer Preview Summer Preview | Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi talks bringing back the job system, why he uses Vincent in his party, and exploring a bigger open world

Summer Preview
Sephiroth in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's story changes based on your choices, but it'll have a "singular ending"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News Square Enix didn't want to limit the final part of the trilogy to a "singular storytelling experience"

News
Lenny Kravitz as Bawma in 007 First Light
007 First Light roadmap includes New Game Plus and more of Lenny Kravitz's Bawma

By Dustin Bailey Published

News IO Interactive is making good on that Hitman: World of Assassination pedigree with more content

News
Gen Atlas
Gen Atlas is a desolate mech game from the director of Shadow of the Colossus

By Dustin Bailey Published

News We've finally gotten a proper look at Fumito Ueda's new game

News
Marvel's Wolverine
Marvel's Wolverine isn't an open-world game like Spider-Man, it's a "linear single-player adventure"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "How do we make the best Wolverine game possible that represents that character?"

News
Strauss Zelnick in WWE 2K26
8 years after Take-Two's CEO went shirtless with his 8% body fat physique, he's now in WWE 2K26

By Dustin Bailey Published

News We really got Zelnick as a playable WWE superstar wrestler before GTA 6

News
GTA Online
GTA 5 is still selling millions a year, letting Rockstar do whatever it wants with GTA 6

By Dustin Bailey Published

News Rockstar's built a runway other developers can only dream of

News
An allosaurus in The Lost Wild
Dinosaur survival horror The Lost Wild emerges to build on director's Alien: Isolation experience

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "Our goal has been to create a world where dinosaurs are not framed as monsters, but as believable animals"

News
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