Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
The coolest new battle royale is this Zelda-inspired indie with the cutest Link's Awakening remake-style visuals
News Scramble Knights Royale is offering an early taste
Sci-fi grand strategy game from the devs behind beloved XCOM mod launches in 1.0 to 87% "Very Positive" Steam reviews
News Terra Invicta is finally ready for launch
A week before BioWare's worst game meets its final end, Anthem players gather to mourn what might have been
News It's time to say goodbye
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined gets a 3-hour demo where your progress carries into the full JRPG
News The demo doesn't quite match the Dragon Quest 11 S precedent, but it's a nice preview
Hytale lead declares "fundamental shift" in how artists and game designers tackle Minecraft-style worlds
News "Hytale's vision is to feel carefully handcrafted while remaining infinitely procedural"
Brandon Sanderson says AAA studios "who I like a lot" are interested in a Mistborn game
News "I've started talking to some AAA developers"
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ditched the series' overworld theme because Koji Kondo thought it'd "get boring"
News "I've always kind of wanted to shake up the music a little bit"
Banjo-Kazooie composer as shocked as everyone else to hear the Bubblegloop Swamp theme on a national NFL broadcast
News Yes, Sunday Night football really did just feature Banjo-Kazooie music
15 years later, after 700 hours of grinding, speedrunner finally beats all of Super Meat Boy without dying
News "I know I had to get at least like 100k deaths to be able to beat it with 0"
AGDQ 2026 has everything from a Clair Obscur: Expedition race to a 70-player Super Mario 64 relay
News For those who run after
New PS5 and PS4 jailbreak exploits trigger a 1,000% surge in prices for Star Wars Racer Revenge
News Now this is jailbreaking
After 44 years as second banana, Donkey Kong Bananza makes Nintendo's first star a mascot to rival Mario and Link in the Switch 2 era
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Donkey Kong Bananza once again shows that Nintendo's greatest strength is its knack for reinvention
Death Stranding 2 is the purest expression of "a Hideo Kojima game" yet, and it's got nothing to do with the long cutscenes or esoteric plot
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Don't let Kojima's movie buff reputation fool you – these games have always been about the play
Skin Deep is "an immersive sim for sickos," a Die Hard-inspired stealth game where you're not a "walking pile of guns that just shoots down everything, you are this fragile bag of meat"
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Mashing up Far Cry 2, Mark of the Ninja, No One Lives Forever, and Die Hard
Capcom says Uncle Leon gives Resident Evil Requiem "the dry wit and subtle sarcasm that only an older guy can bring"
News Leon himself is just about ready for bingo night
"I wish I had the Katamari Damacy IP": To a T was meant to counter the "downer" vibes of 2019 America, but Keita Takahashi says it "didn't sell well" and fears it "just wasn't a good fit"
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | To a T is a wonderful, joyful story about not fitting in – but it also illustrates why it's "definitely getting harder" to create experimental games
That is Sebulba in the Star Wars: Galactic Racer trailer, and Anakin's original antagonist gets the last laugh
News The last laugh wasn't at the Boonta Eve Classic
Disco Elysium devs built the RPG's visual style as a "cover band" for Obsidian's "great comeback game," Pillars of Eternity
News "We were like, 'we should steal that'"
Saros gets a new trailer confirming delayed April release date
News The devs want to make sure Saros "exceeds our vision"
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 revealed at The Game Awards, and it looks spectacular with or without David Harbour
News Creative Assembly unveiled its new sci-fi Total War game today
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight release date confirmed at The Game Awards after early leak
News Surprise?
First Street Fighter movie trailer is so campy, I'm starting to think it might actually work
News The Game Awards brought us our first proper look at the new Street Fighter movie
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic looks like the KOTOR 3, and the original RPG's director is returning to lead it
News The Game Awards opened with a massive bit of news for Star Wars fans
