Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Undertale's Toby Fox doesn't want to do translations in languages he doesn't speak
News "I want to make it clear that this isn’t because I have a grudge against other countries"
The real-life F1 car's new boosting feature is "like the mushroom in Mario Kart," drivers say
News "The blue shell is a bit more difficult, but I'm working on it"
Deus Ex studio Eidos Montreal lays off 124 devs and 12-year studio head departs
News That marks 296 layoffs since the studio was acquired by Embracer Group in 2022
Baldur's Gate 3 keeps 4 invisible, naked clones of Gale in your camp just in case
News "They're all hiding right here in your camp every time you play"
Even Crimson Desert's lead actor knows you're not here for the story
News Alec Newman worked on Crimson Desert for 2 years before he started "recording in earnest," and even then the devs "kept moving the focus"
"You can't build clever little games anymore" unless you're Expedition 33, RPG legend says
News "For each of the big publishers, how many years has it been since they had a major new IP?"
Nintendo 64 gets a Skyrim-sized open-world game as dev busts the console's infamous fog problem
News Somehow it's got a "good, and even sometimes great, frame rate"
Star Wars Zero Company exists because late CoD co-creator asked about XCOM vet's dream game
News "I'm thinking, 'This is insane, right? Like, this is crazy. It's Star Wars.'"
Slay the Spire 2 devs walk back the nerf that sparked 10,000 negative Steam reviews
News "I read countless pieces of player feedback and it has been instrumental in helping guide our process"
Legendary fan translator now helping bring back a mascot platformer that couldn't escape the '90s
News Yes, "Zool is back"
Jeff Kaplan wants to put "Rust-like mechanics" in his new survival game "someday" but not right now
News "The building is more focused on utility, progression, aesthetics, and customization, rather than defending your stuff"
Hades 2 getting "bonus content and quality-of-life improvements" alongside PS5 and Xbox ports
News The news was announced in a very on-brand trailer
Crimson Desert's quarry is giving players "PTSD," probably because they keep missing the key secret
News "If it makes people feel better, we all came out the other side way better at combat"
"Thank you, Miyamoto-san": Star Fox designer reacts to Super Mario Galaxy Movie reveal
News If a standalone Star Fox movie happens, Takaya Imamura wants to be a part of it
Star Wars Zero Company devs have spent a lot of time "going on Wookieepedia" to get the lore right
News "I'm just browsing through and going, 'Well, what happened on Bespin at this time, or Lothal at this time?'"
Star Wars Zero Company lets you explore like it's a third-person action game outside of combat
News "The gameplay is what it is about, but depth doesn’t cost you elegance"
Star Wars Zero Company will kill story characters, Fire Emblem-style
News "Star Wars is about loss," after all
Black Ops vet says his mystery PlayStation project wasn't a live-service game
News You'd have to put Jason Blundell "in the goddamn ground" to get him to stop making games
"You lost $40 million": Dev lost Mortal Kombat rights because he went on a family vacation
News "The news that Richard was MIA on holiday was a HUGE issue with my boss"
"We've sportified Steam charts" according to Warframe boss, with gamers becoming "baseball freaks"
News "Every time I see Steam chart discourse, it's like people are voting for their teams in a way that reminds me of checking a MLB player's batting average"
PlayStation reportedly closes another first-party studio weeks after Bluepoint
News PlayStation is apparently also scaling back on mobile development
Epic kills 3 Fortnite modes amid mass layoffs, including one that helped kick off the metaverse era
News "We've built a lot of Fortnite modes, and in some cases we failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base"
Epic Games lays off "over 1,000" people, CEO blames "the downturn in Fortnite engagement"
News "Being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves"
