Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Helldivers 2's 150GB PC install is "unacceptably large," and Arrowhead hopes to work out a solution that could "theoretically slice the size in half"
News "There's real options here to do quite big improvements in just reducing PC install size"
Arc Raiders launches to over 260,000 concurrent players and 88% positive early reviews on Steam, outdoing The Finals even at $40
News Being free isn't everything, I guess
Assassin's Creed 3's controversial, hours-long opening was meant to solve a classic game narrative problem, but the team didn't realize it was "too long" until "the last two months" of development
News "You're always taught you have to conquer this villain, but you really don't care about the villain"
After 23 years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons brings back the feature old-school Nintendo nerds like me have missed since the GameCube – retro games
News NES, Famicom, Game Boy, and Super NES, and even older Nintendo relics are on the way
Microsoft reports Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and 1% growth in content and services like Game Pass blunted by "a decline in first-party content"
News Don't worry, though, AI is still making the numbers go up
Japanese patent office casts doubt on 2 Nintendo Pokemon-catching patents in the Palworld lawsuit, saying Monster Hunter, Ark, and Pocketpair's own Craftopia all did it before
News The prior art is stacking up
The Outer Worlds 2 director is already watching streamers create bad character builds, but that's part of the "true RPG" experience that "the Baldur's Gate 3s of the world" are helping bring back
News On the Radar | Game director Brandon Adler tells GR+ that fans are "relearning how RPGs" can offer real player choice
Take-Two CEO says AI is "going to be really, really bad" at making video games and probably couldn't even come up with the GTA 6 marketing plan
News "You end up with something pretty derivative"
TimeSplitters revival died because "bigger forces were in play," co-creator of the classic FPS says: "I'm not up for it any more"
News "I don't think it was our fault it didn't work out"
26 years later, stunning PS1 cult classic gets an official English launch with help from a legendary fan translator, making it a lot cheaper than tracking down the original
News Milano's Odd Job Collection is finally coming soon
Once an icon of intrusive EA DRM, The Sims studio's classic life sim Spore will "live forever" in the GOG Preservation Program alongside Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider 2013, and more
News If only Darkspore would follow suit
As the PS2 turns 25, its top 20 best-selling US games are revealed: GTA is still on top, and Kingdom Hearts beats Final Fantasy 10
News Here we go again...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the team could do a "completely new IP" or maybe "something new within the Final Fantasy series" after finishing Part 3 of the JRPG remake
News "I'm really looking forward to it"
Yet another PlayStation icon that Sony is content to leave in its grave is getting revived by an entirely different publisher
News Cult fighting game Battle Arena Toshinden is making a comeback
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says defying industry norms and keeping the dev team together for the whole RPG trilogy was key to its success: "That's quite a rare thing"
News "Our experience really has grown as we work on each new game"
Halo co-creator says Campaign Evolved "looks and feels genuine": "It's gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it originally back in 2001"
News "It warms my heart to see Halo CE like this"
"A live-service game to me isn't really a game," former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says: "I need a story, I need a character, and I need a world"
News A live-service game is more of a "repetitive action engagement device"
24 years later, Halo's most infamous level is getting fixed as the remake devs try to bring "better wayfinding, navigation, and diversity in enemy encounters" to The Library
News "Yes, we mean The Library"
The Halo remake will reignite the debate that's plagued the series for 15 years, because "you can sprint now"
News This particular can of worms remains open
After 27 years, a new cheat code has been discovered in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's most controversial port, and it might've just created the dumbest speedrun category in Metroidvania history
News That miserable little pile of secrets is getting smaller by the day
As desperate fans lament Fallout 5's no-show during the Fallout Day broadcast, Todd Howard himself promises Bethesda is "working on even more"
News "We're looking forward to the day where we can share that with everybody"
EA triples down on AI tech with $20 billion in debt looming, partnering with the Stable Diffusion devs to "creatively direct the generation of game content"
News "These are just a few examples of what is to come"
Assassin's Creed Shadows finally hits Switch 2 in December, but you can probably already guess the bad news: Ubisoft is sticking with game-key cards over real physical releases
News The Switch 2 port is finally confirmed
