Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
"Unforgivable" Stranger Things season 5 NES blooper has retro game fans fuming, albeit mostly jokingly
News As The Simpsons would put it: "Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Amazon's God of War TV show enlists veteran director of Shogun, The Boys, and Fallout as it starts casting Kratos and Atreus
News Frederick E.O. Toye is directing the first two episodes of the live-action God of War adaptation
Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert had big plans for a retro Zelda-style open-world RPG, but publishers said no: "They didn’t look at it as 'we're gonna make $100 million and it’s worth investing in'"
News His new roguelike's satirical setting is based out of the feeling that "capitalism has just taken over, and it really is the thing that’s causing the most pain for people"
Battlefield 6 revives Labs playtest program, reminds the inevitable leakers they are under NDA, and teases tests for "map layouts, pacing, and alternative team compositions such as smaller player counts"
News Battlefield Labs is back
The US government "nearly shut us down," former GTA lead says: "They decided we were the only people on the internet peddling pornography, apparently"
News Here we go again
Pokemon archeologist travels 12 hours to reunite a 17-year-old Diamond save file with the player who was forced to sell the barely functional, chewed cartridge after his partner's car wreck
News "What dumbass travels 12 hours to meet a guy they don't know to talk about a 20-year-old Pokemon game?"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors Ben Starr and Jennifer English worry the J’RPG wouldn’t be “as sexy” if it wasn’t French: “French people are just sexier”
News "Everyone was so sexy"
Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable"
News For those who skong after
Old copy of Fortnite from before it went free-to-play sells for $42,500, and while you might think that's weird, remember that the person who bought it probably won't play it anyway
News The worst part is nobody's going to crack it open to get that Founder's Pack code
The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"
News "I'll say, to Microsoft's benefit, or to kind of put them in a good light here, they didn't ever say anything to us"
Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people"
News "I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise"
After 25 years, an unreleased Star Fox-style N64 shooter has been saved from the fires of lost media hell
News Viewpoint 2064 lives
New speedrun discovery "will change Super Mario 64 forever" by making "one of the hardest tricks in the entire game" completely trivial to pull off
News "Oh f***, blindfolded 1-star is dead"
Ubisoft turned a new Splinter Cell game into the failed live-service shooter xDefiant in an effort to chase live service hits and Call of Duty, former devs say
News "You realize that all of the things you care about, they don't anymore"
After 17 years, Bethesda finally seems to be making good on Fallout 3's disappointing collector's edition with a "fully functional" $300 Pip-Boy replica
News It's "not only fully functional, but wearable, and exhibition-grade displayable"
After 26 years, modders give PS1 racing game classic Gran Turismo 2 the overhaul it deserves, replacing all the race cars with minivans and used car dealerships
News Finally, Gran Turismo 2: Beige Edition gets rid of all those awful racing machines and replaces them with "the unexceptional cars of the world"
Paralives devs say the life sim "isn't up to the standard we wanted it to meet" for Early Access, so it's delayed 6 months into the new GTA 6 void
News "We are so proud of what we have built, but now, we just need a bit more time to polish the simulation part of the game"
Battlefield 6 devs say map size is "under review," and for now it looks like they're already cutting player counts on some of the biggest meat grinders
News "Battlefield is at its best when maps offer different ways to play and constant action around every corner"
Microsoft's seemingly first IP crossover with Activision Blizzard is giving a Minecraft spinoff to the Candy Crush dev
News Mojang and King announced a brand-new Minecraft game in the most low-key way possible
Final Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 DLC launches to a "mixed" response on Steam: "I really, really hope Warhorse doesn't leave this game on such a poor finishing note"
News "It's basically a one-shot side quest for you to complete"
Battlefield Redsec devs are "watching all the videos" to figure out what to patch, and there are some "things that caught us by surprise"
News "I've been trying to keep up on YouTube, and we're always monitoring and seeing how people are getting on"
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask art director was a fan of the series since he was a student: "I have fond memories of working hard with my friends to beat the 'Second Quest'"
News "I've been a fan of The Legend of Zelda since my student days!"
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida "canceled so many games," including a new IP from God of War dev Santa Monica Studio: "These days, a $25 million cancellation is nothing special"
News "No one knows most of the games, because we canceled early enough"
