Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
The Terminator 2 game we should've got in 1991 is now coming from one of the best retro studios around, complete with a buff Sarah Connor and a fully nude playable Arnold
News James Cameron's sci-fi classic gets the action game "we should've had back in our youth" with the best pieces of Contra, Metal Gear, and Battletoads
Dwarf Fortress devs "apologize for destroying your food-based economies" after nerfing meal prices: "Didn't realize so many of you were living that way"
News In Dwarf Fortress food can be more valuable than gold
Metroid Dread dev channels that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow energy in a new action game with "almost infinite" ways to build your own weapon
News Blades of Fire will have you constantly forging new weapons to overcome "tactical combat"
This slick roguelike deckbuilder is shoulder-to-shoulder with Balatro and Slay the Spire on Steam top sellers, and its dev is feeling the pressure: "The definition of walking among giants"
News "We couldn't have asked for a better launch, thank you!!"
EA is "releasing the fully recovered source code" for 4 classic Command & Conquer titles, and it's the best thing a major publisher can do for game preservation
News 5 years after part of the Command & Conquer and Red Alert source code was made public, it's now been "fully recovered" and released alongside the code for Generals and Renegade
The spirit of Burnout Paradise lives on in this fabulous bicycle racing game from the makers of my favorite indie fighting game – a true Steam Next Fest gem
News Wheel World is an immediate delight
Pokemon Legends Z-A launches "late 2025" on Switch, and Mega Evolutions are returning for the first time in 7 years
News Your Pokemon can even dodge out of the way of enemy attacks
SnowRunner fans think RoadCraft's Steam Next Fest demo isn't hardcore enough, but I just moved 3 logs 500 meters and it's one of my proudest gaming accomplishments ever
News It took about five minutes for me to get an SUV flipped upside down in 10 feet of mud
Open-world Wonder Woman and Lord of the Rings studio shut down alongside MultiVersus dev, Warner Bros insists it wants to focus on DC even as it kills a DC game
News Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego have all been shut down
PvP shooter Mecha Break is dominating Steam Next Fest with player numbers matching Marvel Rivals and GTA 5 even as it suffers mostly negative reviews
News Mecha Break is dominating every category at Steam Next Fest - almost
Original Fallout creator says he "pushed" for a happy ending with "cake and balloons" instead of the RPG's downbeat finale
News "At the time I was like 'I don't know if people are going to buy this'"
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 rumors have just been upgraded from podcast mentions and Call of Duty map teasers to a full countdown on the official Activision website
News The wait might finally be coming to an end
NetEase denies report that its CEO tried to cut Marvel from Marvel Rivals because he didn't want to pay Disney for the license
News NetEase also says its decision to cut ties with multiple global studios is not a "wide scale layoff"
A week after suffering webcam tragedy, blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner casually breaks 3 world records in 4 days: "Another day in the office, another world record"
News "I'm popping off these days"
A new Batman #1 from Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez launches this September with a "revamped aesthetic," a throwback costume, and a new Batmobile
News "Jorge and I have a very superhero-forward kind of take on Batman"
Hades 2 devs say "we have not recast any of our characters" in the roguelike amid concerns during the ongoing SAG-AFTRA video game strike
News "We have respected and will continue to respect any actor needing to pause work"
Fortnite attempts to harness the power of Kendrick's diss tracks with "fermented freestyler" Big Dill, a hip-hop pickle who alleges T-Pain ate his family
News "He starts dropping diss tracks with my own beats"
"A really sad day for speedrunning": The world's fastest gamers brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"
News "PSA to all speedrunners - PLEASE download and upload all highlights to YouTube"
Xbox has officially opened the generative AI floodgates, and Phil Spencer wants to use it for game preservation and save titles that "were maybe tied to unique pieces of hardware"
News Gaming historians are pretty skeptical
Super Mario 64 speedrunners thought a trick that requires landing on a spot "the width of a red blood cell" was virtually impossible - now it's been done blindfolded
News "Visual speedrunners have NO excuse anymore"
Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam
News "We're already preparing for the porting efforts and a potential Steam release now that we've been legally enabled to pursue that," according to one mod dev
Marvel Rivals devs are trying to curb the triple-support meta starting with Cloak & Dagger nerfs and buffs to Venom and Magik
News But the devs don't want to "completely shatter that three-Strategist playstyle"
Behold, Super Mario 64 speedrunners can do "an absurdly lengthy and precise series" of 41 button presses to make Mario stand underwater: "This has no known practical purpose"
News Not every speedrunning trick is actually going to be useful
