Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Assassin's Creed Shadows reverses roles to show off Naoe's combat and Yasuke's stealth, and I'm suddenly sold on playing Yasuke like a clumsy Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3
News "Yasuke, try to remember the basics of CQC"
2025's first standout GOTY contenders, Monster Hunter Wilds, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and Split Fiction, are coming to GeForce Now
News 2025 already has more bangers than I can keep up with
A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
News "The answer was always no"
With another "thank you," Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone brings an update arc to a close with "the Switch patch to fix the last Switch patch"
News The nightmare is over
The other devs behind the best retro beat-em-up in recent memory are making a co-op roguelike brawler that "channels the spirit" of Capcom's classic D&D games
News Absolum is coming from two-thirds of Streets of Rage 4 devs
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is still on track for 2025, Black Panther actor claims: "We're thinking like a Christmas situation"
News "We want people to play this game and have their entire family sit on the sofa and watch it like they're watching Game of Thrones"
Some GTA 5 players can't bring their characters to the new PC upgrade, and the open-world game's mixed Steam reviews are hammering FPS caps and a lack of text chat
News There's a price to pay for ray tracing
Marvel Rivals' new Clone Rumble mode sounds like the kind of absolute chaos multiplayer games need more of
News Picture 12 Groots proclaiming "I am Groot" simultaneously and you might start to understand the chaotic delight of Clone Rumble
Cult text-based zombie MMO Urban Dead is shutting down after "a full 19 years, 8 months and 11 days" because of new UK legislation
News "I've reluctantly concluded that it doesn't look feasible for Urban Dead to be able to continue operating"
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches this July with new parks for "for the first time in 10 years," and you can pre-order to get a demo in June
News It also launches day one on Xbox Game Pass
"Both Marvel Rivals and Overwatch are excellent superhero shooters" says the Chinese publisher behind both games as they make the move to China: "The market is large enough to accommodate both games"
News Do too many shooters spoil the broth?
Sonic fans are leading the charge on a new preservation tool that can help give any Xbox 360 game a native PC port
News This could be just the start of a whole new era for Xbox 360 preservation
"You are incorrect": John Romero has been correcting Doom history for the past 4 years, and he's not about to stop now
News "Hi Sandy, hope you’re doing well"
"We got heel Cena before GTA 6": Even John Cena himself is comparing the 20-year wait for his WWE heel turn to the 12-year wait for the next Grand Theft Auto
News The WWE superstar himself is in on the memes
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't the classic turn-based RPG I've been longing for, but its combat is somehow even better than what I wanted
Preview Preview | This gorgeous tribute to classic Final Fantasy defied my expectations, but I can't wait to play more
After 32 years, Mortal Kombat 2 has finally been ported to the one hyper-expensive '90s console that could actually do it justice
News The 3DO shows its muscle
I went from "I hope this is good" to "this might be GOTY" within 5 minutes of picking up the Steam Next Fest demo for this ridiculous stealth game
News Skin Deep is like a slapstick Dishonored and it's suddenly one of my most-anticipated games of 2025
Monster Hunter Wilds PC players make Steam reviews their 15th weapon as Capcom's RE Engine delivers another Dragon's Dogma 2-sized disaster: "Very immersive game. You can cook a well-done steak on your GPU"
News "This game is absolutely amazing - but has the worst optimisation I've ever seen"
The Terminator 2 game we should've got in 1991 is now coming from one of the best retro studios around, complete with a buff Sarah Connor and a fully nude playable Arnold
News James Cameron's sci-fi classic gets the action game "we should've had back in our youth" with the best pieces of Contra, Metal Gear, and Battletoads
Dwarf Fortress devs "apologize for destroying your food-based economies" after nerfing meal prices: "Didn't realize so many of you were living that way"
News In Dwarf Fortress food can be more valuable than gold
Metroid Dread dev channels that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow energy in a new action game with "almost infinite" ways to build your own weapon
News Blades of Fire will have you constantly forging new weapons to overcome "tactical combat"
This slick roguelike deckbuilder is shoulder-to-shoulder with Balatro and Slay the Spire on Steam top sellers, and its dev is feeling the pressure: "The definition of walking among giants"
News "We couldn't have asked for a better launch, thank you!!"
EA is "releasing the fully recovered source code" for 4 classic Command & Conquer titles, and it's the best thing a major publisher can do for game preservation
News 5 years after part of the Command & Conquer and Red Alert source code was made public, it's now been "fully recovered" and released alongside the code for Generals and Renegade
