Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Xbox teases "some iconic games from the past" to be re-released in 2026 from its "game preservation team"
News "Being one of the largest publishers in the industry, one of the largest platforms in the industry, we feel a deep responsibility to preserve the games from the past"
With Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo learned "it is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful"
News "To give you a sense of how much voxel data there is, the rather big Canyon layer actually has about 340 million voxels"
Early Xbox Project Helix specs promise "next-generation" AI upscaling as Microsoft tries to win the next-gen console war
News Xbox is also responding "the massive increases in storage prices and memory prices" with new compression tech
Valve says loot boxes are like "Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu" as it pushes back against New York lawsuit
News "It may have been easier and cheaper for Valve to make a deal," the company says, but that "would have been bad for users and other game developers"
There's a "TV apocalypse" in video game preservation as CRTs go extinct, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
News CRTs are just one of the essential bits of retro tech that historians and "the community" need to preserve
"F***ing Colonel Shepard dies in Mass Effect 3, and that makes us the Worst Company in America," former EA exec laments
News Peter Moore might not remember Commander Shepard's title, but he's still sore about that award
RPG legend advises new devs to be like Hideo Kojima and create their own style – or just "have a rich daddy"
News "If you play a Kojima game, you recognize pretty quickly it's Kojima"
Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices
News "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot"
"The God of War sex mini-games were designed by women," which is why Aphrodite's bed looks "like a labia"
News "It's a little silly the way it was in those games. But again, I think it should still be in those remakes"
Battlefield 6 devs reportedly hit with layoffs after what EA called "the biggest launch in franchise history"
News Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive are all reportedly affected
Bungie doesn't want Marathon to repeat Destiny 2's vaulting controversy: "It doesn't matter when you join"
News "We'll be adding to this foundation over time in the live service environment, depending on our players' response and at a cadence we can support"
Shigeru Miyamoto said Tom and Jerry's cartoon reality was "vital fuel" for Nintendo's early games
News "Animation-heavy games which prioritize visual smoothness over responsiveness" ain't where it's at, according to Miyamoto
Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Overwatch's 69.1% ban rate for Jetpack Cat will surprise "absolutely no one," but Domina haters need to get good
News "Our balance team believes Competitive players might be following the perception that Domina is overpowered, even though her win rate says otherwise"
5 years after the reimagined Star Wars RPG was revealed, KOTOR remake is "still in development," Saber boss confirms
News "That's all I can say"
Slay the Spire 2 flies past 165,000 concurrent Steam players, instantly nearly tripling the original's all-time peak
News Roguelove
Shigeru Miyamoto had to "force" in Super Mario Bros 3's iconic Frog Suit because it was fun even though it sucked
News "There are so many enjoyable things in a game beyond just 'beating' it"
Decades before Dark Souls and Elden Ring, FromSoftware's first dark fantasy RPG was built "from a kind of ignorance"
News FromSoftware can produce mind-boggling games
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto saw games in the '80s becoming like "pornography"
News "It's just people getting bored and looking for stronger and stronger stimulation"
Game Freak can't add hundreds of new Pokemon and more Types every generation or else new games would take too long
News Gotta balance 'em all
Crimson Desert was announced "too early," devs admit, and now has to prove it's not "too good to be true"
News "I don't think anyone would say we should announce the game 6-and-a-half years in advance"
Pokemon Pokopia reveals "special limited-time in-game events" starting with a Gen 2 picnic collection
News "These Pokemon can’t be encountered outside of this event," so hop on it
Historians stop "an aggressive copyright troll" who spent years abusing DMCAs to turn bizarre game into lost media
News "If we care about video games as art and as cultural history, we need to stand up for our legal right to document out-of-print orphan games, and to confront the copyright trolls who stand in the way"
