Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
14 years later, Hideo Kojima reveals why Peace Walker wasn't called Metal Gear Solid 5: "It faced strong opposition from overseas marketing"
News "I proposed Peace Walker as a way to evolve MGS horizontally"
The only perfect video game is finally a JRPG thanks to a new indie channeling a 31-year-old cult classic SNES Tetris game that never left Japan
News Tetris Battle Gaiden lives in Flowstone Saga
After a 118-day grind, a blindfolded sub-20 minute Super Mario 64 speedrun is here and the community's in disbelief: "This seemed completely impossible a few years ago"
News "I cannot overstate how mentally taxing this was"
As Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows add to a 54% Ubisoft stock drop, Tencent and the Guillemot brothers reportedly consider a full buyout
News After hitting all-time highs just a few years ago, Ubisoft shares recently dropped to a ten-year low
Ubisoft starts its Star Wars Outlaws redemption tour with a patch addressing every single annoyance I had: a massive stealth revamp, speeder bike fixes, and more
News I am not kidding when I say the ultrawide FOV tweak is massive
The name that proved console emulation is "100% legal" is back for the third time as a '90s nostalgia mall that's also helping remaster retro cult classics
News Bleem is back once again
After the official revival of a cult classic mech FPS spent a year getting skewered by "mostly negative" Steam reviews, fans have relaunched the old game themselves
News "It is a labor of undying love"
Space Marine 2 dev tells rude players to stop being mean, not just because it's common decency, but because "you don’t want to insult Henry Cavill, brother, no you don’t"
News Just imagine everyone you meet online is Henry Cavill and you'll be fine
You might be ready for Diablo 4 DLC, but not as ready as the streamer who hit level 100 and beat a Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon using nothing but gear found at level 1
News "Yeah, rescaling in Vessel Of Hatred seems like a good idea"
First review for Persona devs' new JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio gives it the exact same score as Persona 5 Royal and confirms it's at least 80 hours long
News Another meaty JRPG for an absolutely stacked 2024
Larian's 14 favorite Baldur's Gate 3 mods include everything true D&D sickos could want, like a level 20 cap, 16 character party limit, and excessively pretty dice
News If you've ever wanted to be a little fish guy, your time is now
Following yet more Zelda leaks, Switch emulator Ryujinx has disappeared after Nintendo reportedly "offered an agreement to stop working on the project"
News The other big Switch emulator appears to be no more
Starfield's first story expansion, Shattered Space, launches to 42% positive "mixed" reviews on Steam
News "It's not that it's bad, it's just incredibly mediocre"
"The one thing indies have that giant corporations can't deliver" is an "authentic relationship" with fans, says city builder dev: "You can't put every Star Wars Outlaws developer on Discord"
News "The new reality of this industry is gonna make that much more common"
"Everybody settle down": After a PS5 update dropped ads all over the home screen, dev says it's "it's just a (new) bug with an existing feature"
News We won't be stuck with these ads forever
Minecraft's updates may be getting smaller, but the first game drop of the new era seems plenty big with a cool-as-hell mob paying tribute to Doctor Who's best monster
News "Don't blink"
After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all
News XWine1 is leading the charge
As California forces stores to admit you don't own digital games, GOG reminds PC gamers you can keep DRM-free games: "Your gaming legacy is always in your hands"
News The folks at GOG are taking a free marketing shot, and they're not wrong
"I have only ever thought of Death Stranding as a game": Hideo Kojima has written a movie, but "I don't have the time to direct it, so I won't"
News "Those works are my babies"
The Risk of Rain devs joined Valve less than a month ago, and one of the legendary roguelike's creators is already working on Deadlock
News Valve's hero shooter MOBA hybrid has even more legendary dev talent than we thought
Terraria's sixth final update keeps getting delayed because the devs keep adding more stuff to it: "1.4.5 has turned into quite an update"
News "We admittedly do have a couple of decent-sized ideas we want to discuss"
New Metal Gear Solid Delta footage looks gorgeous and faithful, but the 2004 voice acting just doesn't look right coming out of 2024 character models
News Commencing Virtuous mission
Nobody seems to know why it took 25 years to get the Lunar Remastered Collection, but it might go back to the beloved JRPG's controversial localization
News The legacy of Working Designs lives on
