Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
After 5 years, Apex Legends is going back to the beginning with a Fortnite-style mode letting you experience the launch version of the battle royale FPS
News Launch Royale is here to let you drop like it's 2019
It's been 10 years since Mario Kart 8 launched, and it still managed to outsell every single first-party new Nintendo Switch game in 2024
News 9 new first-party Nintendo games couldn't manage to outdo Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Don't expect a big Mass Effect 5 update on N7 Day: BioWare warns that it's going to "be quieter" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard
News There's always next year, Mass Effect fans
PS5 Pro launch lineup is just like a regular console release: overloaded with sports and free-to-play ports, but the secret biggest addition is Xbox's own new Call of Duty
News Sony also accidentally outed a PS5 Pro version of Arma Reforger that may or may not actually exist
Star Wars Outlaws devs are promising so many good improvements that I'm starting to feel bad about playing and liking this open-world game at launch
News A tale as old as gaming: I should've waited
Stardew Valley 1.6.9 adds The Sims-style cheat codes and a "new friend" who can restore some of the game's rarest items "for a price"
News Plus there's finally a way to put legendary fish to work
Assassin's Creed Shadows aims to "restore the balance" between the series' historical and modern stories
News "The modern day narrative will serve to enhance, rather than overshadow, the historical journey"
Apex Legends was a top 50 Steam Deck game, but EA's dropping Valve's handheld because it can't tell if those players are actually dirty cheating Linux users
News "While the population of Linux users is small, their impact infected a fair amount of players’ games"
Ubisoft stealth drops 9 seconds of new Assassin's Creed Shadows gameplay during Apple's latest Mac presentation
News Naoe's quick and nimble when she needs to be
After 3 years, GTA 5 on PC is finally getting upgraded to match current-gen consoles in 2025
News Finally, PC players don't have to wait much longer
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's $10 upgrade fee would've been a lot easier to swallow if Sony had just showed this 9-second comparison clip in the first place
News If this Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered comparison doesn't sell you on the upgrade, nothing will
After 12 years, a seemingly abandoned fan translation for a lost Japanese action-RPG surfaced out of nowhere, but the original creators say it's "wildly obsolete"
News "This kind of thing is widely considered to be disrespectful and poor etiquette in the game translation scene"
A staggering 52% of US Xbox Series X|S players launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 the Monday after release, analyst says: "Bonkers engagement"
News "Over HALF of all daily active players on a platform playing one game is bonkers engagement"
The Witcher's original Geralt actor is "really sad to see" Henry Cavill leave the Netflix show, but he's "excited" to see what Liam Hemsworth brings to the table
News "I think it's really sad to see Henry go, because I really liked his performance, and I liked the guy as well"
Remember how Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was playing all coy about Nuketown? Well, Nuketown's coming just a week after launch
News Built with care, blown up with flare
Mass Effect and Dragon Age vet explains the origins of the infamous "BioWare turn"
News You might not think you know the BioWare turn, but you definitely do
Hideo Kojima shows 9 seconds of Death Stranding 2 title screen footage and warns that it's "very much temporary"
News Just how long is this "recap of Death Stranding" going to be?
MultiVersus has $60 worth of FOMO-inducing DC skins that'll be gone forever once its Halloween event is over
News Perhaps these skins are a little too 'elusive'
Dragon Age: The Veilguard tech analysis calls BioWare's latest RPG the best AAA multi-platform PC release "in a long, long time"
News "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a radical departure from the current AAA norm" of broken PC ports
32 years after a failed pilot for a cartoon adaptation of NES classic Battletoads meant to rival TMNT, somebody's trying to sell the animation cels for $35,000
News One of the show's producers reckons the show barely cost that much to animate in the first place
Rumored Warzone 2025 map Avalon appears to be fully explorable in Black Ops 6 spectator mode, and with it comes a classic Call of Duty: World at War map
News Boundary breaking in a big way
Forgotten JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X is finally getting a Nintendo Switch remaster after 10 years, and it's only a few months away
News Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition will feature "newly added story elements"
After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
News "Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?"
