Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Lord of the Rings finally meets Stardew Valley in March as Tales of the Shire sets a new release date
News The cozy Hobbit game had been delayed from a fall 2024 release date
Ice Truckers is an open-world truck sim that might as well be a horror game judging by the levels of anxiety this frigid screenshot is giving me
News You want me to drive over a solid sheet of ice?
Minecraft is finally coming to PS5 a year after Xbox boss Phil Spencer told the FTC Sony was "reluctant" to send them dev kits
News Xbox certainly isn't lacking the ability to make PS5 games these days
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii actually leaked months ago, but it was so ridiculous nobody believed it was real
News Madlantis was right in front of us the whole time
Nintendo's Pokeball patent could be at the heart of its Palworld lawsuit, and judging by a 29-year-old precedent it could change monster-collecting RPGs for decades
News "Is this good? Well, it's good for Nintendo"
Metaphor: ReFantazio devs say the JRPG's high-stakes elections are just like driving a race car, which is why they're sponsoring F1's most lovable losers
News Yes, they're putting Hulkenberg on Nico Hülkenburg's car
It's taken a week for the PS5 disc drive to sell out for real, but with PS5 Pro on the horizon I fear scalper mania is only beginning
News Don't let the scalpers win, folks
Spelunky legend's 50-game collection of roguelikes, JRPGs, and more launches to 91% reviews and the sudden revelation that it's hiding far more than 50 games
News UFO 50? More like UFO 52 and counting
PS5 Pro is getting a gorgeous PS1 gray 30th anniversary edition in a "highly limited supply" of 12,300 units, and there's no way it's going to be less than $1,000
News Oh, this thing is going to be EXPENSIVE
Tetsuya Nomura acknowledges that Kingdom Hearts 4 is more like Kingdom Hearts 13, but the story's gotten a "reset" to keep new players from getting confused
News The next round of Kingdom Hearts games are "being made with a stronger focus on being new titles rather than sequels"
After completely revamping how Minecraft does updates, the devs will unveil the first features of the new era this month
News The first Minecraft Live of the post-mob vote era is upon us
PS5 Pro tech analysis shows "huge image quality improvements" to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's awful 60 FPS mode
News The results are "basically exactly as Mark Cerny claimed"
Helldivers 2's new major order tells players to take their newly buffed weapons and let 'em rip to "expand the net quantity of freedom" across the galaxy
News Put all those buffs to work
A year later, barely any of Cities: Skylines 2's first-year DLC has actually launched and now it's all been delayed again
News "Our goal is to ensure the community is satisfied with the state of the game"
Scalpers are already profiting off PS5 Pro disc drives on eBay because people don't seem to realize they never actually sold out at retail
News The disc drive ain't that hard to come by yet
Red Dead Redemption 1 PC hopium is reaching unprecedented levels, and after 14 years this time it looks like the Steam release might actually be real
News Could it finally happen this time?
Respawn and Battlefield boss says the PS5 Pro's $700 price tag is "actually not that bad," and "if you get a $700 PC, you're not getting the same performance"
News "Would it be better if it was cheaper? Sure"
Battlefield boss says the next game is ditching Specialists and returning to modern day because 3 and 4 were the "pinnacle of Battlefield"
News "We want it to be good out of the gate"
12,000 consoles with 47 million pirated games seized by Italian police in $52 million retro game trafficking bust leaving 9 pirates facing up to 8 years in prison
News "Mario Bros, Street Fighter, and Star Wars" were among the pirated franchises
An all-star team of indie devs turned the idea of a retro compilation into "an open-world game," and it's a rare gem that understands one secret joy of retro gaming
Feature Feature | UFO 50 is "an open-world game in its own right" - a rare indie '80s tribute that understands retro gaming isn't about the games themselves, but how you discover them
Helldivers 2 dev rates the next patch "a strong 7 or an 8" out of 10 because it's going to be "evolutionary rather than revolutionary"
News "A solid patch with a bunch of changes"
Outrageously stylish speedrun FPS launches to near-unanimous praise except exactly 1 negative Steam review, which the the devs are already promising a patch to address
News "God this game is good"
The Prince of Persia Metroidvania adds a skin from the Prince of Persia roguelike: "Please, stop copying us, people are starting to notice it"
News Metroidvanias and roguelikes living together, mass hysteria
