Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 follows Baldur's Gate 3 as it wins all five major GOTY awards
News The GOTY sweep is real
Lost Nintendo game Wild Gunman lives thanks to ancient film reels and Wii-style tech
News "This is not quite a replica," but it's the closest thing you'll find to the real thing in 2026
Doom co-designer still has the real chainsaw that inspired the OG FPS's iconic weapon
News "Tom Hall's Eager Beaver chainsaw" has a heck of a legacy
RuneScape creators asked their mom to help design the MMO's first enemies
News "The whole family got involved"
Elder Scrolls co-creator believed bugs were a necessary evil for Bethesda's massive RPGs
News "This kind of game is difficult to test because you simply cannot duplicate every test instance"
Xenosaga shows signs of life for the first time in 20 years as spin-off JRPG gets modern port
News Xenosaga: Pied Piper lives again
Solo dev livestreams the moment his wife learns his 4-year project made $600k on Steam in a month
News "She's proud of me"
Solo dev ports "Super Mario 64 meets Pokemon" game to PS1, N64, Dreamcast, and more all at once
News "They are all challenging for different reasons"
Ratchet & Clank speedrunners can now beat Up Your Arsenal "in under 1 second"
News "This is not a joke"
Prince of Persia fans attempt to do what Ubisoft couldn't – release a Sands of Time remake
News No, no, no, that's not how it happened
Take-Two stock jumps $1 billion after leak as investors learn how much money GTA Online is making
News Just imagine what these share prices would look like if they realized AI can't yet generate whole video games
Disney delists 14 Steam games without warning, including a Star Wars strategy game whose scale has never been duplicated
News G-Force fans are despondent while I mourn the maligned Star Wars: Rebellion
Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix
News "Even Wii U was interesting and cool," Seamus Blackley argues
Xbox Game Pass "has become too expensive for players," new CEO reportedly admits in leaked memo
News Asha Sharma apparently knows that players "need a better value equation"
Nobody can touch the $10,000 Super Mario 64 speedrunning bounty except for the guy who started it
News Suigi is still begging for somebody, anybody to beat his records, but he's setting new times too fast for anybody to catch up
WoW didn't scare the RuneScape devs when "tens of thousands" of players were signing up daily
News "Update frequency and accessibility were still our trump cards and actually our audience weren't that interested in WoW"
Half-Life writer was surprised how few FPS games followed Valve's approach to story
News You see bits of Half-Life's narrative design in Call of Duty, but much of Valve's influence came in other forms
Disney extraction shooter like Arc Raiders reportedly coming from Fortnite maker Epic in November
News I think the Heartless are starting to win
Broken Sword 2 remaster showered in $400,000 after dropping AI upscaling to hand-draw 55,000 frames
News Revolution Software's previous remaster used AI upscaling, but "in the end it was a lot of work that could have frankly been spent directly on the game"
After spending $45,000 on an "unheard of" Nintendo prototype, collector releases the ROM for free
News "The prototype cartridge allegedly belonged to a former Nintendo of America employee who had sold it in a garage sale"
Bethesda was so indie when the Elder Scrolls launched that the devs packaged the RPG themselves
News "We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves"
Decades ago, Steam god Gabe Newell revealed that he was way better at Super Mario 64 than Half-Life
News Newell figured somebody needed to "add a deathmatch mode to Mario 64" so he could prove his chops at Valve
PlayStation legend Mark Cerny tried to kick off the Spyro the Dragon speedrunning scene in 1998
News "If anyone can beat that, please send me your time"
