Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
A staggering 52% of US Xbox Series X|S players launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 the Monday after release, analyst says: "Bonkers engagement"
News "Over HALF of all daily active players on a platform playing one game is bonkers engagement"
The Witcher's original Geralt actor is "really sad to see" Henry Cavill leave the Netflix show, but he's "excited" to see what Liam Hemsworth brings to the table
News "I think it's really sad to see Henry go, because I really liked his performance, and I liked the guy as well"
Remember how Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was playing all coy about Nuketown? Well, Nuketown's coming just a week after launch
News Built with care, blown up with flare
Mass Effect and Dragon Age vet explains the origins of the infamous "BioWare turn"
News You might not think you know the BioWare turn, but you definitely do
Hideo Kojima shows 9 seconds of Death Stranding 2 title screen footage and warns that it's "very much temporary"
News Just how long is this "recap of Death Stranding" going to be?
MultiVersus has $60 worth of FOMO-inducing DC skins that'll be gone forever once its Halloween event is over
News Perhaps these skins are a little too 'elusive'
Dragon Age: The Veilguard tech analysis calls BioWare's latest RPG the best AAA multi-platform PC release "in a long, long time"
News "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a radical departure from the current AAA norm" of broken PC ports
32 years after a failed pilot for a cartoon adaptation of NES classic Battletoads meant to rival TMNT, somebody's trying to sell the animation cels for $35,000
News One of the show's producers reckons the show barely cost that much to animate in the first place
Rumored Warzone 2025 map Avalon appears to be fully explorable in Black Ops 6 spectator mode, and with it comes a classic Call of Duty: World at War map
News Boundary breaking in a big way
Forgotten JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X is finally getting a Nintendo Switch remaster after 10 years, and it's only a few months away
News Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition will feature "newly added story elements"
After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
News "Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?"
Baldur's Gate 3 dev says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is "the first Dragon Age game that truly knows what it wants to be" and absolutely "compatible with my experience during BG3"
News It's also a "giga-brain genius" combination of Xenoblade Chronicles and Hogwarts Legacy
After 28 years, N64 emulation is still a nightmare even for Nintendo – Banjo-Tooie on Switch runs its opening demo at goofy double speed
News Nintendo Switch is simply too powerful to handle the Banjo-Kazooie sequel
Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation
News "This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"
Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner sets new world record in a disastrous attempt where he died 7 times and declared "this run sucks"
News "I'm not saying this to make the speedrun meme. This run literally sucks"
Overwatch 2 devs say a "world where both 5v5 and 6v6 exist permanently" is on the table as they experiment with a return to 12-player modes
News "We know our players can want more than one experience"
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered tech analysis says it's almost more remake than remaster, rivaling the fantastic Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes
News You can split hairs over the difference between a remake and a remaster, but this is looking like a good one
Remastered Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Replaylee is pointedly not saying it's coming to Switch 2, but it's definitely letting fans think that it is
News Just "Nintendo," huh?
After dropping 5 of the best platformers ever made and taking an 11-year hiatus, Ubisoft is finally considering a Rayman revival
News Rayman lives?
Anti-piracy company Denuvo is tired of gamers saying its DRM is bad for games: "It's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit"
News "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"
A bizarre PS2 tie-in to a disastrous French CG movie has held the final performance of Harry Potter's original Dumbledore captive for 20 years, and it's finally been preserved
News The bizarre story of Kaena is coming back around
Monster Hunter Wilds open beta starts next week with crossplay across all platforms, but PS5 players can get in early through PS Plus
News It even features the full character creator so you can spend a dozen hours perfecting your look now instead of February
After 15 years in development, this infamously deep D&D-inspired roguelike finally goes 1.0 in December
News Caves of Qud is finally upon us
