Dustin Bailey
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
![Starfield NPC Noelle](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DKXZ9s3nQ5m9PVXSDaw9nA-320-80.jpg)
Todd Howard finally relents after calling out encumbered Starfield hoarders, as the May update will let you buff your carrying capacity without a mod
By Dustin Bailey published
News Those new difficulty options look meaty
![Alex T pours parmesan cheese over his head to celebrate a Tetris world record](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vkmPjHte67d5jQ7zAzWmBo-320-80.jpg)
15-year-old kid demolishes the game of Tetris, obliterating every major world record and pouring cheese over his head to celebrate
By Dustin Bailey published
News Alex T even accurately predicted this very headline
![A teaser image presumed to be for Call of Duty 2024](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/unyvQ5CEdYs7LwwXAhMUd9-320-80.jpg)
Xbox's Starfield-style "Redacted Direct" is almost certainly for Call of Duty
By Dustin Bailey published
News It looks like Call of Duty is the "beloved franchise" Xbox is teasing for a Summer Game Fest deep dive
![Endless Ocean Luminous](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3cLJVDFMZ2TBYciu5E5utS-320-80.jpg)
Endless Ocean Luminous is simultaneously too roguelike and not roguelike enough, and it only manages to capture the genre's worst problems
By Dustin Bailey published
Opinion Opinion | Nintendo's latest is a bit of a dive bomb
![Baldur's Gate 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fihzeYxkzZFSBMGvaRYCki-320-80.jpg)
Todd Howard says Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't some "overnight success" for Larian: "Have you played their previous games?"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Larian didn't spring up out of nowhere
![Starfield](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/opAqsZTMU6qFWqcpMj92WJ-320-80.jpg)
Todd Howard says Starfield's Shattered Space DLC launches this fall, and a "big update that's coming really soon" has city maps and shipbuilding improvements
By Dustin Bailey published
News The update "should be" properly revealed this week
![Iggy's Reckin Balls](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n3pFKaerVjBWYH2XTjqPv6-320-80.jpg)
Nintendo finally recognizes the most hardcore retro gaming sickos with Switch's latest N64 games, which you've probably never heard of
By Dustin Bailey published
News It's time to recognize Iggy's Reckin' Balls
![Fallout 4](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/R7jnvdMCQ26iQ2hMCo753m-320-80.jpg)
Fallout 4's big next-gen patch isn't going over well, especially on PC: "I had very low expectations but this is MUCH less than I expected"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Fallout 4... Fallout 4 never changes
![Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G6TVuC4cmPWfBMNnrARhHo-320-80.jpg)
The wildest kart racer I've ever played might just be this Sonic fan game so mechanically dense it opens with a 45-minute tutorial
By Dustin Bailey published
News Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers pulls no punches
![BlizzCon key art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/84DGDXCmAUTCWTB9WmuXPd-320-80.jpg)
BlizzCon is canceled again, and Blizzard hasn't really explained why - but says it's coming back "in future years"
By Dustin Bailey published
News BlizzCon 2024 is canceled, but the concept of BlizzCon is not
![Super Mario Odyssey - Mario underwater](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fxCJYxSgX3LucWEYBNbfZX-320-80.jpg)
Garry's Mod dev responds to rumors that mass Nintendo takedown is fake: "I have been assured that the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit"
By Catherine Lewis last updated
News Facepunch Studios has investigated reports that the DMCA was fake
![Megaton Musashi W: Wired](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RQVgC8TwMGoXtNsrUQUqNk-320-80.jpg)
After shutting down its American operations, veteran Japanese studio behind beloved JRPGs launches cult action RPG in English to zero buzz and confused fans
By Dustin Bailey published
News This is Square Enix-level marketing
![Balatro](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5uuPqTZFxHMNv7q7xe3wpa-320-80.jpg)
After selling 1 million copies, Balatro creator admits it's "held together with hopes and dreams" as game devs rally around the roguelike's beautifully nightmarish code
By Dustin Bailey published
News "If it's dumb and it works then it's not dumb!"
![Mario](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6wTUdomBM42NotZTGAmfhn-320-80.jpg)
Nintendo issues takedowns against 20 years of Garry's Mod content, devs ask for your help "by deleting your Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo"
![Minecraft](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qGzYzw8Zq2oSdBLDY99Rj3-320-80.jpg)
Minecraft just made an invisible change that might just be a game-changer for mods: "They made modding like 20x easier"
By Dustin Bailey published
News It's not just armadillos and wolf armor
![Gollum](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FxZh7Z2Te9iKPDAdXxmfNk-320-80.jpg)
Inspired by Fallout's TV renaissance, Lord of the Rings franchise owner says there's "amazing" potential for spin-offs based in Middle-earth
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Just the Middle-earth opportunity on its own is just amazing if you think about it"
![Fallout New Vegas](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YJ8pVZZsEVQfkiDA8oq4LZ-320-80.jpg)
Fallout: New Vegas player "kept dying of radiation exposure" researching to build this incredible recreation in Far Cry 5
By Dustin Bailey published
News New Vegas is back... in Far Cry 5 form!
![Splatoon](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8qTQAYGZnaFqwv8jyFL8Un-320-80.jpg)
15 days after Wii U servers were supposed to be shut down, the last surviving Splatoon player is still hanging on as the servers crumble around them
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I still remain online. I repeat, I am STILL online."
![NES](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/64YDFFuSpfXJSbVwe3mjkU-320-80.jpg)
The ESA says its members won't support the one form of game preservation that might actually work
By Dustin Bailey published
News "It's pretty incredible that the ESA's stance is that they won't support copyright reform to help libraries make out-of-print games more accessible to researchers under *any* circumstances"
![Castlevania auction](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DYq7AGriAXVdzrDqMJiu2o-320-80.jpg)
"I kept picturing us stranded on the side of the road with a $100k collectible game": Holy grail Castlevania buyer outlines his daring reverse heist to get the game home
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The less attention you bring the better"
![Mega Man Legends 2 Episode 1](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WDMz9cPCxDdiR89kkPguXL-320-80.jpg)
After 25 years, the long-lost prologue to one of Capcom's most beloved PS1 classics is finally getting an English translation
By Dustin Bailey published
News The lost chapter of the Mega Man Legends story lives on
![Fallout 4](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ftkAZnp2XBCSyPShuXncgK-320-80.jpg)
Fallout mod site says it's like players are downloading Skyrim "twice every second" after Amazon TV series drives fans back to the open-world RPGs
By Dustin Bailey published
News "What we can't do is provide an infinite/fully scalable solution to meet very large, short-term spikes in site traffic"
![The Rogue Prince of Persia](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pGFMt2CYjRjdV4i9PoVG87-320-80.jpg)
"Even Baldur's Gate 3 became so good because of Early Access," which is why the Dead Cells devs are using the same trick for their roguelike Prince of Persia
By Dustin Bailey published
News "This is not a reskin or a clone" of Dead Cells