Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
32 years after Star Fox hit the SNES, one of the shooter's original creators is building an indie spiritual successor
News Wild Blue comes complete with animal pilots and off-brand barrel rolls
Picking up where Chrono Trigger left off 30 years later, this love letter to the classic JRPG has me in awe of its stunning pixel art – and now there's even a sky pirate
News I can't think of a better way to celebrate Chrono Trigger's 30th birthday than with an updated trailer for Threads of Time
The $5 roguelike banger that turned Terraria into a sci-fi tower defense game is getting a bigger, deeper sequel
News After Dome Keeper proved "Terraria but tower defense" could be a whole genre, Wall World 2 is coming to prove the concept has legs
Stardew Valley Expanded creator is building an "even more ambitious" mod with a whole new city and "dungeons inspired by The Legend of Zelda"
News Not content with getting a job working on Stardew Valley proper, FlashShifter is continuing to mod in his spare time
Hideo Kojima says "it was very difficult to direct" Death Stranding 2's big kiss scene, but Norman Reedus thinks "it was niiice" locking lips with Léa Seydoux
News The big kiss between Sam and Fragile reminded Norman Reedus of going "face-to-face" with Mads Mikkelsen
BlizzCon 2026 is official, and after missing 4 BlizzCons in 6 years, Blizzard aims to "meaningfully elevate" the event
News The gathering for fans of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, and more returns to the LA area
Despite Monster Hunter Wilds suffering monstrous performance problems on PC, it still outsold the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in the US
News "Launch week dollar sales were the largest for a title since the debut of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6"
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "a game about faith and religion," which Neil Druckmann jokes will surely get less hate than The Last of Us 2
News "You know what, let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PS5 release date reportedly set for April after ESRB leak
News Indy's excellent Xbox game might finally be imminent on PlayStation
Hideo Kojima says he'll "apologize beforehand" for Death Stranding 2 moments with Troy Baker's Higgs which are "so ridiculous" that "you'll probably throw the controller"
News "Higgs is not like twice or thrice better – it's 100 times better than DS1"
Death Stranding 2 packs on a third obvious Metal Gear Solid reference with cover art throwing back to MGS2's bizarre box art featuring Japanese pop superstar Gackt
News Kojima's still passing down those memes
As Suikoden returns from the dead, Konami wants the cult JRPG classic to "become a huge title that can rival other AAA" games
News "I do hope we can expand the series beyond where it ended"
"I was in super crunch mode": Balatro creator opens up on the toll the stress of indie development took on his "physical and mental health"
News "I really struggled with my physical and mental health"
New Nintendo Switch 2 filing answers my prayers: both USB-C ports can charge, and NFC support suggests those 223 Amiibo are about to have new friends
News I don't need to shove my dozens of Amiibo in the closet after all
Forget Pokemon Red and Blue, Nintendo's finally brought the secret best Game Boy game to Switch: an expanded version of Donkey Kong with 2425% more levels
News Donkey Kong '94 and Mario's Picross are one heck of a pairing
A GTA streamer is trying to beat every single 3D entry without dying, and in 33 hours he's made it as far as San Andreas but keeps getting caught in Vice City purgatory
News Those 60 FPS mods could be a killer
Monster Hunter Wilds players are so obsessed with Palico armor that turns your cute cat into a freaky little octopus that even Capcom is sharing fan art of it
News Nobody suspects a thing
Assassin's Creed Shadows reverses roles to show off Naoe's combat and Yasuke's stealth, and I'm suddenly sold on playing Yasuke like a clumsy Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3
News "Yasuke, try to remember the basics of CQC"
2025's first standout GOTY contenders, Monster Hunter Wilds, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and Split Fiction, are coming to GeForce Now
News 2025 already has more bangers than I can keep up with
A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
News "The answer was always no"
With another "thank you," Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone brings an update arc to a close with "the Switch patch to fix the last Switch patch"
News The nightmare is over
The other devs behind the best retro beat-em-up in recent memory are making a co-op roguelike brawler that "channels the spirit" of Capcom's classic D&D games
News Absolum is coming from two-thirds of Streets of Rage 4 devs
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is still on track for 2025, Black Panther actor claims: "We're thinking like a Christmas situation"
News "We want people to play this game and have their entire family sit on the sofa and watch it like they're watching Game of Thrones"
