Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
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
28 years after his death, Onimusha: Way of the Sword has recast one of Japan's most legendary actors in one of his most iconic roles
News Toshiro Mifune posthumously returns to his role as Miyamoto Musashi
2 years after Dark and Darker was first pulled from Steam, Korean court rules that developer Ironmace must pay Nexon $5.87 million for trade secret infringement
News Dark and Darker has been cleared of copyright infringement, though
Stellar Blade finally hits PC this June alongside the Nikke crossover that's every bit as horny as you'd expect
News Shift Up knows its audience
State of Play's big reveal was Saros, a "new single-player IP that builds on Returnal's award-winning third-person action" from the roguelike maestros at Housemarque
News The announce trailer revealed Rahul Kohli as Arjun Devraj
Over a year after Sega revealed its grand IP revival, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is officially coming this August from the devs behind the incredible brawler Streets of Rage 4
News Details on those Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Crazy Taxi revivals are still to come
Borderlands 4 release date set for September, and Gearbox has a dedicated reveal show coming this spring
News We got some big Borderlands news at State of Play
Assassin's Creed Shadows "will look stunning even on the lowest settings," and if you say you can tell the difference in this PC comparison shot you're a liar
News They're the same picture
"40+ minute" February PlayStation State of Play confirmed with "news and updates on great games coming to PS5"
News The rumored State of Play is real and officially running February 12
Brand-new Resident Evil 5 and 6 ESRB ratings have survival horror fans wondering what the heck Capcom is doing
News Remaster? Remake? Remakester?
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"
News SCS Software still has the "nicest offices" in the Czech Republic: "They've built up their own Silicon Valley kind of thing"
Hideo Kojima quietly reveals 10 seconds of new Death Stranding 2 footage as what looks like the next trailer goes to "main sound mixing"
News A Hideo Kojima teaser
Helldivers 2's new Fallout-grade mini nuke Ultimatum is a 4,500-damage delete button that's already got the community debating whether it's OP
News You really have to angle this thing
