
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

Death Stranding 2 is actually Australian Truck Simulator in disguise, and it's because Sam Porter Bridges is not a man: he's a truck
By Dustin Bailey published
Opinion Opinion | Death Stranding 2 is a trucking game, and it can't be a trucking game without a playable truck

Mecha Break's $47 skin packs and gameplay-boosting auction house drag user reviews down to "mixed" even as the shooter's concurrent player count hits 132k on Steam
By Dustin Bailey published
News Mecha Break has some players feeling mega broke

Stop Killing Games reaches its 1 million signature goal after a desperate month where it seemed doomed to fail, but it's looking for more because "there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them!"

Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann is leaving HBO's The Last of Us season 3 to turn his "complete focus" to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and the studio's "future projects"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects"

After 11 years of development, 6 years of marketing, and a full reboot, Rare's Everwild has been canceled amid mass Xbox layoffs – 5 months after Phil Spencer's assurances it's making "progress"
By Dustin Bailey published
News A decade-long development story is coming to an end

25 years after launch and 15 years after its last Evo appearance, the legendary Marvel vs Capcom 2 is back on the big stage and we're set for "the largest MvC2 tournament of all time"
By Dustin Bailey published
News When's Mahvel? Not that far off now

Minecraft is finally making copper useful with a new tier of tools bridging the gap from stone to iron, and a long-lost mob returning as the automatic item sorter fans have wanted for years
By Dustin Bailey published
News The copper golem is finally bouncing back from the mob vote of 2021

"A new low": The Final Fantasy 14 cash shop just got a $42 outfit set, more expensive than anything that's come before and even pricier than the MMO's latest expansion
By Dustin Bailey published
News "This is a new low when it comes to the cash shop"

If you gaze at the night sky in Death Stranding 2 while taking a bath, you might see a constellation shaped like Hideo Kojima's face looking back at you
By Dustin Bailey published
News Kojima Productions' Death Stranding 2, a Hideo Kojima game written by Hideo Kojima, directed by Hideo Kojima, produced by Hideo Kojima, and also featuring Hideo Kojima

Hideo Kojima was "so bummed" Death Stranding 2 Easter eggs were "revealed on social media right away," but "I'm retweeting all these things so the blame is on me"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Pizza man continues to make an impression

Amazon's missing out on that sweet Switch 2 money because Nintendo's mad about "unauthorized sales," new report suggests
By Dustin Bailey published
News The mystery of the Amazon Nintendo beef may have finally been explained

Nintendo warns Switch 1 consoles, games, accessories, amiibo, and more will "experience price changes" in Canada, and it's tough to imagine the rest of the world escaping
By Dustin Bailey published
News The publisher blames "market conditions"

After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout's source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we're losing game history because companies "take authority but not responsibility" for preservation
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I think more companies need to step up and take that responsibility more seriously"

As if the usual Marvel Rivals leaks weren't enough, Twitch has accidentally confirmed that Phoenix and Blade are your new Season 3 heroes alongside new "sizzling summer events"
By Dustin Bailey published
News We're definitely getting swimsuit costumes, too

Palworld has a gigantic new Terraria collab because creator Redigit got a Hail Mary DM from Pocketpair: "Let this be a lesson to always shoot your shot"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "There’s always that chance that it might turn into something amazing!"

13 years ago, Mojang canceled its Lego Minecraft game amid frustrations with the toy company's brand restrictions - now the original prototype has been found and preserved online
By Dustin Bailey published
News After all these years, Brickcraft lives

The biggest unofficial Xbox 360 emulator "is by no means associated with, nor working alongside Microsoft in any capacity" despite rumors about Xbox's preservation efforts
By Dustin Bailey published
News The secret is that Xbox's official emulation is so much better that it probably wouldn't be worth it anyway

Hytale studio founder says he was "burning" up to $400,000 a month on its development at one point, and turned down "way more money" before partnering with Riot
By Dustin Bailey last updated
News They walked away from another deal at the very last minute

Xbox 360 dashboard tweak adds insult to injury a year after the shutdown of the classic marketplace: would you like to buy an Xbox Series X instead?
By Dustin Bailey published
News All I really want are my beloved blades back

Fortnite player allegedly cheated to win $6k in a competitive tournament - now he owes Epic $175k and is banned from the game "forever"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The player is required to pay $175,000 and we’ll donate what we collect to charity"

Before it was Square Enix, Square "collapsed" when Final Fantasy boss Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, says composer Nobuo Uematsu: "The situation at Square was awful after he quit"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Maybe Sakaguchi isn’t aware of this, but the situation at Square was awful after he quit"

A permanent Switch 2 console ban has apparently stranded Twink Link in Nintendo support hell: "The guy over the phone was laughing at the username"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I am fully prevented from accessing any Nintendo services at all on the system"

Wind Waker on Nintendo Switch 2 made two tiny changes that break it wide open for Zelda speedrunners – a strategy so hard "only a few people in the whole world can do it" is suddenly a lot easier
By Dustin Bailey published
News Wind Waker speedruns are about to look a lot different
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