Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
The Captain America and Black Panther WW2 game is officially Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, and it's out next year
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News The Marvel game from Uncharted veteran Amy Hennig is looking impressive
After 5 years dead due to bad licensing deals, Fallout: New Vegas dev's underrated spy RPG gets a second life on PC
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News Alpha Protocol finally emerges from the shadows
The creator of Stardew Valley's best mod worked with Eric Barone on update 1.6, and has already released a compatibility patch
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News Stardew Valley Expanded's creator was in on 1.6
Ubisoft talks up AI-powered NPCs, only sounds kinda weird until we get to the "soul" and a female character that was reprogrammed for being too "flirtatious and seductive"
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News You could simply choose not to tell people about something they'll probably hate
Nintendo knows it can't prove emulation is illegal, but its latest tactic is very effective at knocking out sources of Switch piracy
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News Nintendo's lawyers really want you to believe that Switch emulation is illegal, but that's not what they're saying in court
Dragon's Dogma 2 devs waited 12 years to bring you the furry playable race that the PS3 generation couldn't handle: "Now, we can finally realize our vision"
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News "The technology at the time made it difficult"
ConcernedApe shares Stardew Valley mod workaround ahead of update 1.6, says "I recommend trying out 1.6 without mods, but it's up to you"
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News "A ton of mods are already updated for 1.6"
The most infamous challenge in Mario speedrunning has a new strat that cuts one level from 26 hours to 59 seconds
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News No more parallel universes
Multiple indie devs "blindsided" after multi-year passion projects get immediately buried by EA's Command & Conquer Steam onslaught: "Maybe I'm just cursed"
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News "All of the built-up marketing and momentum squashed in an instant"
Helldivers 2 boss explains how new Stratagems get made: "We play the game and get bored by the current selection, so we add another one"
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News "Generally, Stratagems are based on real world examples"
The hardest level in Super Mario Maker is only 17 seconds long, and in the final days before servers die it's crushing players even after 43,000 attempts
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News This is too many Piranha Plants
After 16 years, the canceled FPS TimeSplitters 4 gets saved and preserved through a seemingly unremarkable eBay listing for a PS3 test console
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News "This is exactly the kind of nonsense that wasn’t interested in back in 2008"
The Dragon's Dogma 2 character creator is already the ultimate RPG crossover, with incredibly convincing takes on The Witcher, Elden Ring, and Baldur's Gate 3
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News This character creator has already produced everything from Pokemon nightmares to one of the most wholesome stories I've ever seen
Lego Fortnite finally has new sets to build, but players are balking at the $20 price tags
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News "That is a blatant slap in the face to the players"
Nintendo keeps refusing to say who makes its games, and with Princess Peach Showtime seemingly developed by a beloved studio nobody's sure why
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News "The development team will be credited in the game credits", Nintendo says, and not before
Warner Bros is going full Coyote vs. Acme delisting a host of indie games, and nobody's more shocked than the original developers: "It's kind of depressing"
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News "When you're working with purely digital products nothing is going to stay around for very long"
Spider-Man 2 PS5 patch accidentally lets players view dev menu revealing DLC plans, fans call it the "best part of the update" as Insomniac warns it could corrupt saves
By Dustin Bailey published
News I guess a bug in a Spider-Man game shouldn't be too shocking
The horror of Getting Over It is about to take over Twitch again with a new rage game from a solo dev who "took it upon myself" to revive the masochist genre
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News "I hate this game. 10/10"
Berserk Boy is a 16-bit throwback that improves on the likes of Mega Man and Sonic with "Metroidvania elements," and I see why it's got 97% positive Steam reviews
By Dustin Bailey published
News I've been back to the '90s and I think I could love Sonic and Mega Man again
In frankly hilarious corporate emails, Apple gets mad about being called "hot garbage" and terminates Epic's dev account right as Fortnite charts a return to iOS
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News Update: Epic says Apple has reinstated its account already
Final Fantasy 14 finally launches on Xbox this month, and while the MMO is free on Game Pass there's a massive caveat
By Dustin Bailey published
News The Starter Edition isn't all it's cracked up to be
After complex legal battle, Lovecraftian detective game gets a full survival horror sequel, and its Ukrainian developer is taking to Kickstarter because of the war
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The ongoing war adds an ominous layer of uncertainty"
After 26 years, Ghost of Tsushima is about to be Sucker Punch's first PC game
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News "Now excuse me as I go order a Super Ultra Wide monitor!"
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P explains 3 big reasons behind the MMO's first graphical overhaul in over 10 years - and it's not just "to constantly get new players in"
By Dustin Bailey published
News The update serves in part as a promise that the devs will "continue driving forward to the future and take on new challenges"