Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Legendary Super Mario 64 speedrunner tries to beat the game blindfolded on a dance pad and fails, but not as badly as you or I would
"I knew it was a bad idea and it turned out to be an even worse idea than I initially thought"
Netflix subpoenas Discord to find the Arcane and Squid Game leaker who claimed responsibility for "the worst leak in streaming history"
"I know what I'm doing. I have a plan."
The Simpsons: Hit & Run's own lead designer can't believe the open-world game's speedrunning scene: "I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations"
News "We never imagined it would still be bringing some people happiness 20 years later"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the JRPG's success in year-end awards proves "why it's a good thing to have it as a trilogy"
"Hopefully people are a bit more convinced now"
GTA 6 devs tease that they're working on "absolutely mind-blowing things" and promise "more to come"
"There's an incredible amount of people doing amazing things on Grand Theft Auto 6"
After 25 years we're still only 3 games into Shenmue's 5-game saga, but the game's new publisher says "the story of Shenmue is far from over"
Shenmue 4 when?
Avowed is an RPG that aims to respect your time: "I'm getting older, I got a lot of responsibilities, I don't got time for a 500-hour game"
News "It never feels like a job to play the game"
Star Wars Outlaws is "removing forced stealth from almost all quest objectives"
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"
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"
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
News Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too
3 months after launch, Star Wars Outlaws' next big update is starting to sound like a whole new open-world game
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"
"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
News Astro Bot is no slouch, either
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
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
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
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"
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
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
News You've got one month
After the success of Fallout, Amazon's next big video game TV show is Mass Effect
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
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
News The publisher's CEO has washed his hands of the commercial failure
