Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
After 15 years, the ridiculous Guitar Hero DS fret grip accessory has made an unlikely comeback for Fortnite Festival
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The same US Copyright Office decision that struck down a major game preservation effort also quietly reversed a historic DMCA win for accessibility advocates
A DMCA exemption letting people hack games for accessibility was quietly killed because nobody came forward to support it
Official Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero tournament ends in disaster as finalists fly up and down for 10 minutes straight, which some fans insist is peak performance
News "After the match, we were told to stop and to 'really play'"
Star Fox 64 joins Mario and Zelda as the latest Nintendo 64 classic to get a native PC port
News Starship brings Star Fox 64 into the widescreen 60 FPS club
The Witcher 4 has "entered the full-scale production phase," CD Projekt Red confirms: "Stay tuned for what’s on the other side of the coin"
News "No stopping now!"
Mass Effect director's new studio shuts down before it can even reveal its first game after an "unexpected shortfall of funding"
News "We’re heartbroken that we will not be able to bring our new science-fiction universe to completion"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is "by far" the "biggest and longest game that MachineGames have ever done" with nearly 4 hours of cutscenes
News That's like two free Indiana Jones movies with your Indiana Jones game
Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is "helping on Avowed," but he's "more interested in doing original IP" when he directs his next game
"We'll see where the future takes me"
After 3 years, Arcane's now responsible for a second League of Legends character revamp - this time it's a new Viktor
Riot is "better aligning him to the Viktor fans were shown in Arcane"
Naughty Dog's next game will feature Joel actor Troy Baker, and suddenly I'm no longer convinced it's going to be The Last of Us 3
News "In a heartbeat I would always work with Troy"
Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto always knew that Navi was the "biggest weakpoint of Ocarina of Time" and once said "I wanted to remove the entire system"
Hey! Listen!
Legendary Super Mario 64 speedrunner tries to beat the game blindfolded on a dance pad and fails, but not as badly as you or I would
"I knew it was a bad idea and it turned out to be an even worse idea than I initially thought"
Netflix subpoenas Discord to find the Arcane and Squid Game leaker who claimed responsibility for "the worst leak in streaming history"
"I know what I'm doing. I have a plan."
The Simpsons: Hit & Run's own lead designer can't believe the open-world game's speedrunning scene: "I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations"
News "We never imagined it would still be bringing some people happiness 20 years later"
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the JRPG's success in year-end awards proves "why it's a good thing to have it as a trilogy"
"Hopefully people are a bit more convinced now"
GTA 6 devs tease that they're working on "absolutely mind-blowing things" and promise "more to come"
"There's an incredible amount of people doing amazing things on Grand Theft Auto 6"
After 25 years we're still only 3 games into Shenmue's 5-game saga, but the game's new publisher says "the story of Shenmue is far from over"
Shenmue 4 when?
Avowed is an RPG that aims to respect your time: "I'm getting older, I got a lot of responsibilities, I don't got time for a 500-hour game"
News "It never feels like a job to play the game"
Star Wars Outlaws is "removing forced stealth from almost all quest objectives"
News You'll soon be able to shoot your way out of just about everything in the open-world game
As Stalker 2 bug reports roll in, dev warns "there may still be rough edges" because "we literally haven't released anything of this scale before"
News Stalker 2's having a wobbly first day
Kingdom Hearts 2 streamer spends 2 hours grinding a 9999-hit combo, gets enough cash for 1.2 healing potions: "This is possibly the most stressful thing I've ever done"
Two hours for 50 munny is one of the less efficient ways to grind in an RPG
Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies
News Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too
3 months after launch, Star Wars Outlaws' next big update is starting to sound like a whole new open-world game
News I'm staring at this Star Wars Outlaws update in disbelief
