Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
21 years after Doom 3, Doom: The Dark Ages is trying to make good on the controversial sprint option: "You're going to feel like a silverback on a hoverboard with a giant sledgehammer"
News "This is Doom through and through"
The legendary Konami GBA cult classic that sells for $300 a pop on eBay finally gets its long-awaited modern reissue next month
News Ninja Five-O is finally back
After Black Myth: Wukong's "social phenomenon," Final Fantasy creator says new tech like the RTX 5090 can power diverse RPGs, but the "old style" still has a place
News "Another way to look at RPGs in 2025 is this diversity of experiences players have at their fingertips"
The Final Fantasy 7 remake series is "perhaps one of the best interpretations" of an RPG remake, but Hironobu Sakaguchi wants to "continue giving birth to something new"
News "I would like to continue giving birth to something new and bringing these different worlds to life as much as possible before I perish"
9 years after Apple helped create our Bluetooth nightmare, Nintendo Switch 2 is sticking with a real headphone jack and I couldn't be happier
Opinion Opinion | For once I'm glad Nintendo is stuck in the past
136,000 Call of Duty accounts have gotten banned since ranked launched for Black Ops 6: "We’re not slowing down in our mission to shut down cheaters"
News More anti-cheat updates are coming in Season 2
With Assassin's Creed Shadows Ubisoft "didn't want to hold the player's hand too much with icons," so you have to hire scouts to mark the world map for you
News "Information is something you need to look for and earn"
First Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero DLC adds 11 characters from Akira Toriyama's final film, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, including 4 Gohans and 4 Piccolos
News DLC1 lands on January 23
The Switch 2 surprise I'm most excited about is Mario Kart 9's Yoshi-shaped roadside diner named Yoshi's, which appears to tribute a 32-year old classic SNES puzzler
News Get in loser, we're going to Yoshi's
Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet director David Lynch dies at 78
News "There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us"
Nintendo teases that the Switch 2 screen will be around 30% bigger than the original, but I desperately hope they won't make us wait for an OLED option
News Please Nintendo, I want to pay you extra for an OLED screen
Nintendo Switch 2 has an extra USB-C port on top, and I hope that means we don't have to deal with a fiddly dock door for controller chargers and ethernet adapters
News That extra port could help relieve some of the original Switch's minor annoyances
The Pokemon Company addresses Prismatic Evolutions and TCG shortages as scalpers feast: "We are actively working to print more"
News "Some fans may experience difficulties purchasing certain Pokémon Trading Card Game: Scarlet & Violet-Prismatic Evolutions products at launch"
Behold, a Super Mario 64 player discovered that a 34-frame loop repeated 2.8 million times over 36 days can make a log drift through a cliff: "This has no currently known purpose"
News No known purpose... yet
Marvel Rivals devs threaten keyboard and mouse adapter users with permanent bans: "On PC or console, we will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior"
News NetEase doesn't want you getting an "unjust advantage" through XIM or anything similar
Lunar Remastered Collection launches this April for $50, or about $150 less than the original PS1 JRPGs would cost you in 2025
News After 25 years, Lunar is finally back
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 devs boast of a 2.2 million word script that would break Baldur's Gate 3's world record, and Larian's publishing director says "I hope they do!"
News You could bury somebody in this script
It's not the Switch 2, but Nintendo's got hardware news: its $100 alarm clock is coming to retail
News This is definitely the announcement you were hoping for, right?
"Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update," creator says as its 6th final update approaches at long last
News How many final updates can Terraria handle? At least one more, always
Nintendo Switch 2 reveal reportedly coming this week ahead of June launch
News It might finally be time
Metroid Prime 4 pre-orders locked in at a discount at Amazon 8 years ago are getting canceled as the game finally prepares for launch in 2025
News At least it's news on Prime 4?
As Marvel Rivals booms, a former Overwatch pro is begging players to "let me move on" from the C9 meme
News Some memes never die
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail helped players block stalkers, but the problem might get much worse with a backend exploit some mods are already taking advantage of
News The community worries the MMO's harassment problem might soon get much worse
