Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Beefy Borderlands 4 system requirements promise "solid performance on older PC hardware," but after Randy Pitchford's warnings about "realistic expectations" I'm starting to feel a little scared
News Gearbox really was serious about those system requirements, huh?
As PlayStation reaches its 30th anniversary, I probably shouldn't be shocked that 11 of its 20 best-selling games in the US are Call of Duty, topped only by the likes of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2
News Final Fantasy? Ratchet & Clank? Literally any PS1 game? Well, at least a handful of PS2 legends are still on the list
A canceled NES multiplayer game and SNES RTS have been saved "and preserved" from the unflinching incinerator of gaming history, and a new "cart release" might be on the horizon
News Game preservation notches another win – albeit a more obscure one than usual
Nintendo veteran says an "ad agency" created the alternate Princess Peach name that confused US fans for years, and it was only fixed for Super Mario 64 because Miyamoto liked "Peach" so much
News Yours truly, Princess Toadstool
Marvel Rivals loot boxes could be on the way according to datamine, and after nearly 10 years of post-Overwatch controversy you may be stunned to learn some players think it's a good thing
News A new "Mysteries" leak has dropped in the run-up to season 4
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker speedruns just got cut in half by the same kind of massive glitch that revolutionized Ocarina of Time years ago, but now the community's biggest challenge is rewriting the rulebook
News Speedrunning is one thing, but figuring out what a legal run looks like is quite another
Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Stop Killing Games "comes from the same heart that I have" and is "a metaphor, I think, for life" in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe
News Coincidentally, Gearbox's failed live-service shooter Battleborn "was about the last star that would exist" before the end of all life
Bethesda was told "Skyrim can't survive going up against Call of Duty," but Pete Hines knew the RPG could launch against Modern Warfare 3: "They're a big brand, but they're not a better game"
News "Nobody's gonna buy your game"
"We wanted to actually show Hitler's penis," Wolfenstein 2 devs say, but a Bethesda producer said "I don't advise doing that": "We all need to be saved from ourselves sometimes"
News "Uh, do you think there would be a problem if we see Hitler's penis?"
"I hope that we're not done with Wolfenstein yet": MachineGames has plans for BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 3 because the FPS devs "have always seen this as a trilogy"
News "We have a story to tell"
Legendary Japanese racing game dev goes under the radar for 18 years, quietly emerges to drop the best-rated Steam racer of 2025, and gives fans 20 days to grab it at a hefty discount before the price jumps to $50
News Tokyo Xtreme Racer's big comeback is almost complete
Weeks after BioShock layoffs, 2K axes employees at Civilization and XCOM developer Firaxis for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," which is a pretty cold way of acknowledging the reported dozens of job losses
News Another round of layoffs is here
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone voices somebody in Hollow Knight: Silksong, but he won't say who "so as not to spoil any surprises for anyone"
News ConcernedApe has a new gig
Silksong launched two hours ago in the middle of the workday and it's already eclipsed Hollow Knight's all-time concurrent Steam player record
News 111,873 players can't be wrong
For the first time in 4 years, there's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder: "We are now only 15 frames away from a perfect speedrun"
News "This grind was absolutely grueling"
007 First Light is "not a reskin" of Hitman, IO Interactive says again, and the team brought in "amazing fresh talent" including devs with "specific driving expertise" to help build car missions
News It's "about the game first," IO says
007 First Light, the Hitman dev's James Bond game, launches 2 months before GTA 6 with the Deluxe Edition as a pre-order bonus
News The new James Bond game's release date is set for March
For the Hitman devs, 007: First Light felt like "coming home" because James Bond has been an "inspiration" for so long
News 007: First Light "encompasses everything you would expect from the Bond experience"
Nintendo reportedly kept delaying Switch 2 because first-party devs wanted more time to perfect games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza
News The publisher apparently wanted to give its first-party devs time to cook no matter how much it annoyed fans and third-party publishers
Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"
News "Regardless of who's funding it, we're still trying to tell that same message"
An uber-rare Nintendo cartridge worth $1,000 sat in a Las Vegas retro shop for months until it sold for $12, and the store's owners aren't even mad about it: "Score! Our f*** up their gain"
News "Happy this is going to a good home!"
After Ubisoft's shutdown of The Crew spawned the Stop Killing Games movement, a group of fans are finally ready to release a server emulator to keep the racer alive: "No one will ever be able to take this away from you now"
News "Your local server, your local savegames, your game"
Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
News "It was a little bit of a different struggle than what you might expect if you're creating a game from absolutely nothing"
