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
Star Wars Outlaws is "removing forced stealth from almost all quest objectives"
By Dustin Bailey published
News You'll soon be able to shoot your way out of just about everything in the open-world game
As Stalker 2 bug reports roll in, dev warns "there may still be rough edges" because "we literally haven't released anything of this scale before"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Stalker 2's having a wobbly first day
Kingdom Hearts 2 streamer spends 2 hours grinding a 9999-hit combo, gets enough cash for 1.2 healing potions: "This is possibly the most stressful thing I've ever done"
By Dustin Bailey published
Two hours for 50 munny is one of the less efficient ways to grind in an RPG
Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies
By Dustin Bailey published
News Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too
Black Friday TV deals 2024: early gaming display discounts now live
By Phil Hayton last updated
Black Friday Black Friday TV deals are over for now, but if you're saving your pennies for the 2024 event, we're here to help you get the best deal when the time comes.
3 months after launch, Star Wars Outlaws' next big update is starting to sound like a whole new open-world game
By Dustin Bailey published
News I'm staring at this Star Wars Outlaws update in disbelief
After 7 years, a forgotten Team Fortress 2 taunt is in the spotlight as the ultimate meme expression of FPS dominance: "You either Yeti cancel or the Yeti cancels you"
By Dustin Bailey published
"It is a moment of pure grandeur, an orchestration of terror, and an amalgamation of dominance"
The Game Awards nominees prove that 2024 is the year of the JRPG, with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Metaphor ReFantazio leading the field
By Dustin Bailey published
News Astro Bot is no slouch, either
Black Friday Meta Quest deals 2024: Offers are in, and we've found the best ones
By Duncan Robertson last updated
Black Friday 2024 Black Friday Meta Quest deals have already begun, and we're rounding up the best offers that come in on headsets and accessories before the big day arrives.
Stalker 2 has finally gone gold after a 14-year saga where it was announced, canceled, reannounced, and delayed 5 times amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine
By Dustin Bailey published
News November 20 can't come soon enough
After 29 years, Donkey Kong Country 2 players have just discovered a brand-new cheat code in the SNES classic
By Dustin Bailey published
News All it took was "casually scrolling through some disassembled code"
Multiversus significantly underperformed, Warner Bros admits, but maybe its dedicated "Goth Girl Season" will be enough to pull everyone back
By Dustin Bailey published
News Save me goth girl
PS5 Pro support in No Man's Sky was a "tough gig" for the small team, dev says: "I spent around 4-5 months of my time spread over the last year"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We are one of smallest teams releasing today"
RG's minigun is the perfect Fortnite weapon: an OP monster that rapid-fires Eminem's most famous Rap God rhymes
By Dustin Bailey published
News I'm beginning to feel like a Fortnite god
Out of nowhere after 14 years, Sega's killing off one of the only sources of legal ROMs on the entire internet as it delists 60 classic games
By Dustin Bailey published
News You've got one month
After the success of Fallout, Amazon's next big video game TV show is Mass Effect
By Dustin Bailey published
News I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite show on Amazon
After 3 years, No Man's Sky brings back an "overhauled version" of its Mass Effect crossover for N7 Day, and you've got 14 days to grab the Normandy
By Dustin Bailey published
News "A love-letter from one science fiction game to another"
The Borderlands movie's $90m box office failure "was indeed disappointing," but it did still help sell some old Borderlands games
By Dustin Bailey last updated
News The publisher's CEO has washed his hands of the commercial failure
Warcraft 2 Remastered has apparently leaked, and I sure hope it's more Diablo 2 Resurrected than Warcraft 3 Reforged
By Dustin Bailey published
News Blizzard's got an up and down history with remasters
Konami finally confirms that Metal Gear Solid 3's Eva is the same actor as The Little Mermaid, who kept this "deep, dark secret" for 20 years to protect her family-friendly image
By Dustin Bailey published
News The run-up to Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has unraveled a decades-old mystery
Forget $2 million Super Mario Bros carts - in 1994 retro game collectors were trading price guides advertising the "Holy Grail of the game industry" at a whopping $100
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Tired of the same old Street Fighter clones? Collect classic cartridges!"
Hogwarts Legacy 2 is "coordinating" its plot with the HBO Harry Potter series as WB says the open-world game helped "unlock" the franchise after Fantastic Beasts flops
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The rest of the company was very curious about what we helped to unlock with Hogwarts Legacy last year"
After 5 years, Apex Legends is going back to the beginning with a Fortnite-style mode letting you experience the launch version of the battle royale FPS
By Dustin Bailey published
News Launch Royale is here to let you drop like it's 2019
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