Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
SnowRunner fans think RoadCraft's Steam Next Fest demo isn't hardcore enough, but I just moved 3 logs 500 meters and it's one of my proudest gaming accomplishments ever
News It took about five minutes for me to get an SUV flipped upside down in 10 feet of mud
Open-world Wonder Woman and Lord of the Rings studio shut down alongside MultiVersus dev, Warner Bros insists it wants to focus on DC even as it kills a DC game
News Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego have all been shut down
PvP shooter Mecha Break is dominating Steam Next Fest with player numbers matching Marvel Rivals and GTA 5 even as it suffers mostly negative reviews
News Mecha Break is dominating every category at Steam Next Fest - almost
Original Fallout creator says he "pushed" for a happy ending with "cake and balloons" instead of the RPG's downbeat finale
News "At the time I was like 'I don't know if people are going to buy this'"
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 rumors have just been upgraded from podcast mentions and Call of Duty map teasers to a full countdown on the official Activision website
News The wait might finally be coming to an end
NetEase denies report that its CEO tried to cut Marvel from Marvel Rivals because he didn't want to pay Disney for the license
News NetEase also says its decision to cut ties with multiple global studios is not a "wide scale layoff"
A week after suffering webcam tragedy, blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner casually breaks 3 world records in 4 days: "Another day in the office, another world record"
News "I'm popping off these days"
A new Batman #1 from Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez launches this September with a "revamped aesthetic," a throwback costume, and a new Batmobile
News "Jorge and I have a very superhero-forward kind of take on Batman"
Hades 2 devs say "we have not recast any of our characters" in the roguelike amid concerns during the ongoing SAG-AFTRA video game strike
News "We have respected and will continue to respect any actor needing to pause work"
Fortnite attempts to harness the power of Kendrick's diss tracks with "fermented freestyler" Big Dill, a hip-hop pickle who alleges T-Pain ate his family
News "He starts dropping diss tracks with my own beats"
"A really sad day for speedrunning": The world's fastest gamers brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"
News "PSA to all speedrunners - PLEASE download and upload all highlights to YouTube"
Xbox has officially opened the generative AI floodgates, and Phil Spencer wants to use it for game preservation and save titles that "were maybe tied to unique pieces of hardware"
News Gaming historians are pretty skeptical
Super Mario 64 speedrunners thought a trick that requires landing on a spot "the width of a red blood cell" was virtually impossible - now it's been done blindfolded
News "Visual speedrunners have NO excuse anymore"
Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam
News "We're already preparing for the porting efforts and a potential Steam release now that we've been legally enabled to pursue that," according to one mod dev
Marvel Rivals devs are trying to curb the triple-support meta starting with Cloak & Dagger nerfs and buffs to Venom and Magik
News But the devs don't want to "completely shatter that three-Strategist playstyle"
Behold, Super Mario 64 speedrunners can do "an absurdly lengthy and precise series" of 41 button presses to make Mario stand underwater: "This has no known practical purpose"
News Not every speedrunning trick is actually going to be useful
Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner gets near world record pace, doesn't realize the run's been invalidated by a broken webcam until it's already over
News The community was low-key willing him to fail
The Sims has always been a little broken, and the Legacy Collections are preserving the experience of '00s PC gaming warts and all
Now Playing Now Playing | I'm afraid the issues with the Legacy Collections might just be the cost of Maxis' old ambition
Punch-Out speedrunner "took 75,000 attempts over nearly 5 years" landing 1-in-10,000 luck and 21 frame-perfect punches to finally beat Mike Tyson in under 2 minutes
News "I have no plans to ever improve this time"
Monster Hunter lead producer agrees PC gaming is key for Japanese games: "There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan"
News Monster Hunter Wilds hits PC the same day as its console counterparts
Bayonetta and Okami director "would love to see the Virtual Console rebooted" on Switch 2: "That's something that I would really want to ask Nintendo for"
News The Virtual Console died alongside the Wii U and 3DS eShops
Honor Among Thieves 2 still isn't happening, but a Dungeons & Dragons Netflix series is reportedly in the works from the Deadpool and Wolverine director
News Netflix is reportedly bringing us The Forgotten Realms
The first script for The Witcher 3's best quest was 40 pages long before a single line of dialog was even added
News The Bloody Baron was quest designer Paweł Sasko's first job on the RPG
