Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Beloved Mario RPG hides a secret "'Toads ramming each other rapidly' test room"
News What if... we were Toads and we rammed each other rapidly in the Toads ramming each other rapidly test room? Aha ha, just kidding... Unless?
Unofficial Animal Crossing PC port is here, offering a widescreen 4K experience
News Finally, Tom Nook in 4K
Arc Raiders dev Embark Studios confirms co-founder is gone after allegations of misconduct
News Embark says an external legal investigation "did not substantiate the allegations"
GTA Wiki splits from Fandom citing "a reportedly pro-AI CEO," "terrible" ads, and censorship
News Ahead of GTA 6, the series wiki has split from Fandom hosting
Subnautica 2 owner constantly relied on ChatGPT for legal strategy, judge says in scathing order
News Don't use AI for legal advice, kids
PSSR 2 is finally here, and the tech promises a big PS5 Pro upgrade for Crimson Desert this week
News Patches for Assassin's Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077 are on the way
Donkey Kong Bananza devs want to make sure Mario and DK's games feel different
News "What sort of things could Mario not do?"
"Some ideas from Donkey Kong Bananza" may inform Nintendo's next big project, producer says
News "Probably, we'll see the same sort of phenomenon as we did when going from Super Mario Odyssey to Donkey Kong Bananza"
Overwatch director celebrates no longer being "the lowest-rated game on Steam" but he's not sure how to reach positive
News "We're only a few percentage points away from 'mixed'"
Crimson Desert dev says PC preview builds already had Denuvo and are "representative of the final consumer's experience"
News "The benchmark videos and performance specs we released were all created with the exact same implementation of denuvo that is in the launch build"
We asked Nintendo point-blank about Donkey Kong Bananza's biggest mystery: They wouldn't tell us who Pauline really is
News Pauline's true identity will have to be left to our collective "imagination"
Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year
News "We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"
Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale" or "a co-op Soul game"
News "Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"
"Typical hubris" led to one of WoW's "s**ttiest" quests, admits creator Jeff Kaplan
News Jeff from the Overwatch team, how could you?
Crimson Desert's first PS5 Pro footage looks promising but Steam suddenly warns of Denuvo DRM
News There's hope that this won't be another Cyberpunk 2077-style launch on console, but PC gamers are forced to wail and gnash
Dispatch leads faced down publishers telling them single-player narrative games were "niche, or worse, dead"
News "Just because we can make an open-world action RPG, doesn't mean we should"
Xbox teases "some iconic games from the past" to be re-released in 2026 from its "game preservation team"
News "Being one of the largest publishers in the industry, one of the largest platforms in the industry, we feel a deep responsibility to preserve the games from the past"
With Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo learned "it is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful"
News "To give you a sense of how much voxel data there is, the rather big Canyon layer actually has about 340 million voxels"
Early Xbox Project Helix specs promise "next-generation" AI upscaling as Microsoft tries to win the next-gen console war
News Xbox is also responding "the massive increases in storage prices and memory prices" with new compression tech
Valve says loot boxes are like "Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu" as it pushes back against New York lawsuit
News "It may have been easier and cheaper for Valve to make a deal," the company says, but that "would have been bad for users and other game developers"
There's a "TV apocalypse" in video game preservation as CRTs go extinct, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
News CRTs are just one of the essential bits of retro tech that historians and "the community" need to preserve
"F***ing Colonel Shepard dies in Mass Effect 3, and that makes us the Worst Company in America," former EA exec laments
News Peter Moore might not remember Commander Shepard's title, but he's still sore about that award
RPG legend advises new devs to be like Hideo Kojima and create their own style – or just "have a rich daddy"
News "If you play a Kojima game, you recognize pretty quickly it's Kojima"
