Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Dragon Age: The Veilguard tech analysis calls BioWare's latest RPG the best AAA multi-platform PC release "in a long, long time"
News "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a radical departure from the current AAA norm" of broken PC ports
32 years after a failed pilot for a cartoon adaptation of NES classic Battletoads meant to rival TMNT, somebody's trying to sell the animation cels for $35,000
News One of the show's producers reckons the show barely cost that much to animate in the first place
Rumored Warzone 2025 map Avalon appears to be fully explorable in Black Ops 6 spectator mode, and with it comes a classic Call of Duty: World at War map
News Boundary breaking in a big way
Forgotten JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X is finally getting a Nintendo Switch remaster after 10 years, and it's only a few months away
News Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition will feature "newly added story elements"
Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2024: what to expect this year
Black Friday We're rounding up everything we can expect from Black Friday gaming laptop deals in 2024
After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
News "Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?"
Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is "the first Dragon Age game that truly knows what it wants to be" and absolutely "compatible with my experience during BG3"
News It's also a "giga-brain genius" combination of Xenoblade Chronicles and Hogwarts Legacy
After 28 years, N64 emulation is still a nightmare even for Nintendo – Banjo-Tooie on Switch runs its opening demo at goofy double speed
News Nintendo Switch is simply too powerful to handle the Banjo-Kazooie sequel
Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation
News "This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"
Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner sets new world record in a disastrous attempt where he died 7 times and declared "this run sucks"
News "I'm not saying this to make the speedrun meme. This run literally sucks"
Overwatch 2 devs say a "world where both 5v5 and 6v6 exist permanently" is on the table as they experiment with a return to 12-player modes
News "We know our players can want more than one experience"
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered tech analysis says it's almost more remake than remaster, rivaling the fantastic Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes
News You can split hairs over the difference between a remake and a remaster, but this is looking like a good one
Remastered Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Replaylee is pointedly not saying it's coming to Switch 2, but it's definitely letting fans think that it is
News Just "Nintendo," huh?
After dropping 5 of the best platformers ever made and taking an 11-year hiatus, Ubisoft is finally considering a Rayman revival
News Rayman lives?
Anti-piracy company Denuvo is tired of gamers saying its DRM is bad for games: "It's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit"
News "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"
A bizarre PS2 tie-in to a disastrous French CG movie has held the final performance of Harry Potter's original Dumbledore captive for 20 years, and it's finally been preserved
News The bizarre story of Kaena is coming back around
Monster Hunter Wilds open beta starts next week with crossplay across all platforms, but PS5 players can get in early through PS Plus
News It even features the full character creator so you can spend a dozen hours perfecting your look now instead of February
After 15 years in development, this infamously deep D&D-inspired roguelike finally goes 1.0 in December
News Caves of Qud is finally upon us
The team behind the excellent Prince of Persia Metroidvania has reportedly been disbanded because Ubisoft wants those devs on games with better sales potential
News Making a great game can't save you from the game industry, apparently
Shigeru Miyamoto thought Banjo-Kazooie was so great it helped convince him to delay Zelda: Ocarina of Time - "It's so amazing that we don't want to be outdone"
News Miyamoto was a Banjo fan before any of us
Naughty Dog's next game is reportedly all about "player freedom," and it might just make good on the original idea for The Last of Us 2
News "You are all not ready for how amazing this thing is going to be"
This Steam Next Fest action-RPG is a delightful throwback to '90s anime and SNES classics, even if it is also marketing for a much bigger and hornier deckbuilder JRPG
News Divine Dynamo Flamefrit looks like much more than a bonus game
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 devs confirm the FPS is launching without the controversial Riot Shield
News 33 weapons but the Riot Shield is nowhere to be found
