Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Donkey Kong 64 composer who went uncredited in the Super Mario Bros Movie was "so pissed" that he still hasn't watched the film, even if he has "seen that bit" with the DK Rap
News "I tell you what, I still haven't watched the movie yet"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs hear your door hate, immediately respond with a list of changes like "forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match"
News "We are closely following the community discussion about doors"
Digimon Story Time Stranger launches to bigger player counts than any Persona or single-player Final Fantasy JRPG in Steam history
News Monstrous numbers
The Rock hasn't cared about a single Donkey Kong game in 44 years because "none of them matter" – it's all about the arcade original that put Nintendo on the map
News Dwayne Johnson doesn't care about Super Nintendo classics like Donkey Kong Country or GOTY 2025 candidates like Donkey Kong Bananza
After one of 2025's biggest surprise hits, Peak devs announce a new co-op online game: "Peak is still being worked on internally but now it's time to glaze Crashout Crew"
News "That means we're now publicly working on TWO GAMES!"
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace game for PS1 was a "nightmare" to make: The PS2 was delayed, the devs got unintelligible blue screen shots from George Lucas, and they "could not compete" with Jedi Knight
News "We had a lot of issues"
Fable lead Peter Molyneux was so excited about selling his first game that he cut a hole in his mailbox so all the orders would fit – it sold 2 copies and "one was almost certainly from my mum"
News "For every game, I've got this belief that it's going to sell unbelievable millions"
"It's not over yet": As the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster reaches 208 characters, Bandai Namco teases that "the next DLC is already in the pipeline" with details to come in January
News Is this a promise or a threat?
Discovering new Super Mario Bros levels that have "secretly been accessible" for over 30 years, "legendary Mario scientists" find themselves in a psychedelic cyberpunk hellscape hiding on their childhood SNES cartridges
News A new Minus World is upon us
After the September Silksong Stampede, now October has too many games: dev delays sequel to a lovely roguelike because "it has become too crowded" and "even the most precious gem can be overlooked"
News I'm moonlighting as someone with time to play every video game
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles follows Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart in suffering a major preservation loss – Ramza's ass is too powerful for Square Enix in 2025
News "THAT'S IVALICE'S ASS"
If you want to play Xbox Game Pass games like The Outer Worlds 2 or Black Ops 7 on day one, you're going to have to pay a full $30 a month for Ultimate
News But hey, at least we're getting PC games on the lower tiers now, right?
Palworld dev is "worried many of you haven’t played" Core Keeper, "one of the best games on Steam," so now the two survival games are bundled together and even cheaper in the Steam Autumn Sale
News The devs are "just big fans"
Toby Fox says the "smart" way to make games is reusing what you can, but the way he makes Deltarune is "stupid": "Everything in the game is simply a container for a never-before-seen gimmick"
News "The method that I have chosen is not very efficient for development"
Just in time for Halloween, Grounded 2 puts its arachnophobia mode to the test with an update starring a giant tarantula and teases the one thing that could be scarier than that: candy corn
News Can't get enough of those "new spooky ambiances"
World of Warcraft: Midnight release date reportedly set for February as Collector's Edition details leak
News Looks like Midnight's coming soon
"It's going to get worse before it gets better": $55 billion buyout has EA employees worried, and "nothing feels great" as "layoffs usually follow those type of acquisitions"
News "If better is even possible"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta will have the same Secure Boot requirements that derailed some FPS fans from Battlefield 6 on PC
News The devs promise "the most advanced and robust anti-cheat protections players will find in gaming"
Todd Howard was trying to pitch Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for years, but even the devs don't know if he ever wanted to direct it himself at Bethesda: "I don't know if he had actually thought about it"
News "I don't think he felt that the studio was the right studio for it"
EA goes $20 billion in debt as part of its $55 billion buyout, and the BioWare fans who've already waited 8 years for Mass Effect 5 are terrified of how the company might cut costs
News "It's over, Commander"
Magic: The Gathering publisher says "it's no secret" the Final Fantasy crossover sold like mad, so here's the next logical step – a Commander deck with a copy of the OG Final Fantasy 7 inside
News That Final Fantasy crossover is still going
EA reportedly nearing $50 billion deal to go private with money from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment fund and a private equity firm, which would "likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time"
News The deal could be announced as soon as next week
Pokemon Legends: Z-A's weirdest but best marketing stunt yet sees real wrestlers, cosplaying as Pokemon, duking it out while Pikachu and Eevee cheer on the violence in the background
News ¡Hawlucha libre!
