Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is "not retiring" after his next JRPG Fantasian Neo Dimension, but taking more time for "the music I want to make"
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News "Everybody calm down!"
This Steam Next Fest RPG about lonely road trips gets my recommendation after I chugged 2 liters of soda to survive an all nighter with an N64 game in my trunk
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News Keep Driving evokes the likes of Oregon Trail 2 and FTL in its tribute to the vibes of summer road trips
Dragon Age: The Veilguard ditches controversial Denuvo DRM because "we trust you"
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News The lack of DRM means "there will be no preload period for PC players"
With Super Mario Party Jamboree, Nintendo's finally letting you cut out the random nonsense that's defined its multiplayer games for decades
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Opinion Opinion | Are we finally seeing the dawn of a new Nintendo?
Witcher and Cyberpunk CEO addresses bogus claim CDPR is in "dire trouble" because it's too "woke" - "Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense"
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News "Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?"
Nintendo planned to open mysterious Switch playtest sign-ups for 5 days, says "registration for this test is now full" after 7 minutes
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News It appeared to take mere seconds for this playtest to completely fill up
24 years later, a new remaster for one of the most forgettable Star Wars games is finally giving Mace Windu the right lightsaber
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News Somehow Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles returned
The spirit of Crash Bandicoot lives on in "the most ruthless indie linear 3D platformer ever made," which has already killed me 71 times in a single level
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News I should've sought out the devs advice before I played the demo for PsiloSybil
Devolver responds to Hotline Miami 2's sudden deletion from Australian PS5s with a single, perfect screenshot
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News Somebody finally realized Hotline Miami 2 is supposed to be banned in Australia
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is already the biggest Steam launch in the franchise's history and it's not even technically out yet
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News It's over 90,000!
After 17 years, the mystery of GTA 4's missing ferries has been solved by one of the original developers: "They were more trouble than they were worth"
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News The classic open-world game still has a few secrets left to reveal
A year after WWE superstar Bray Wyatt's untimely death, his "final creation" is finally getting the spotlight it deserves in WWE 2K24
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News The final version of the Fiend is coming to WWE 2K24
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has the best difficulty settings in the series and it's not close – like a "prevent death" option or an irreversible "nightmare" mode
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News The RPG is offering more options than ever before
This Fire Emblem-inspired open-world tactical RPG fulfills a dream I never knew I had: directing my own "sandbox shonen" cinematic anime mech battles
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News Stop, stop, I'm already sold
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Great Ape Vegeta is wrecking players so hard even Bandai Namco is memeing about it: "This monke got hands"
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News Everybody's reliving their childhood Budokai Tenkaichi trauma
Persona director and JRPG veteran says the amazing menus in Metaphor: ReFantazio were "really annoying" to make, just as Persona 5's were "impossible to read at first"
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News Never underestimate the power of a good menu
As Tekken 8's microtransactions face renewed criticism after $5 stage DLC, one dev explains just how expensive it is to make a fighting game in 2024
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News "Tekken 8 on paper is an astonishingly risky bet"
14 years later, Hideo Kojima reveals why Peace Walker wasn't called Metal Gear Solid 5: "It faced strong opposition from overseas marketing"
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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
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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"
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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
By Dustin Bailey published
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
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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
By Dustin Bailey published
News Bleem is back once again
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