Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
Latest articles by Dustin Bailey

Pokemon TCG Pocket is getting yet another new expansion as the addition of shinies and Gen 9 Pokemon keep free-to-play players drowning in new cards to collect
By Dustin Bailey published
News Shining Revelry launches alongside ranked season one on March 27

Black Friday SSD deals 2025: What to expect from this year's sale
By Duncan Robertson last updated
Deals Black Friday SSD deals are making a comeback, and this year's storage savings could be better than ever.

Even Balatro's publisher doesn't know when LocalThunk will be done with 1.1: "Maybe I should whisper in his ear, like, 'So how's those 200 new jokers coming?'"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I may hear it a couple days before everyone else"

Assassin's Creed Shadows reaches 1 million players on day one, and it sounds like even Ubisoft's having a tough time believing it: "It's not even 4PM here"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this adventure in Feudal Japan"

"Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I knew Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games"

Spyro the Dragon speedrunner caps off a 5-month grind with a legendary world record milestone: "They said it couldn't be done!"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I'm going to be completely honest with you guys, I don't know if I'm ever going to beat this time"

Nintendo history comes full circle as it puts the Switch 2 logo on the baseball team its late president Hiroshi Yamauchi bought 33 years ago
By Dustin Bailey published
News Nintendo played a crucial role in baseball history for the Seattle Mariners

GTA 6 is "definitely gonna be a big economic boost for the games industry" that'll help "bring a lot more people back into the ecosystem," says Day of the Devs' lead curator
By Dustin Bailey last updated
News Rockstar's latest is "going to be the best, awesome, giant game for the year" regardless

Blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner declares "70 Star is DEAD" after he "absolutely obliterated" his old record
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I'm so, so happy with this time. I will take this, and honestly I think I'm done."

Balatro's first big update is still on track for 2025, but it'll be "done when it's done, because it's got to be good before it's fast"
By Dustin Bailey published
News The poker roguelike's first major gameplay update is still on track

Helldivers 2 boss told launch players not to buy until servers calmed down, and it "took 5 minutes until I got a call from the friendly people over at PlayStation asking what the f*** I was smoking"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "'Don't recommend that people do not buy your games' - it's incredibly conventional wisdom"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 builds on a "heritage of JRPGs" like Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, and 10, but it's also "inspired by Sekiro" and taking pieces from deckbuilders
By Dustin Bailey published
News Expedition 33 intentionally ditched the "manga-like or anime-like graphics"

After 28 years, competitive GoldenEye players have documented what happens when you tie in the N64 FPS: "We experienced something that was only theorised"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We both shot and hit at the exact same frame"

A canon spin-off of beloved JRPG series Xenosaga was once feared to be lost media, but 21 years later, it's been preserved and is finally getting a fan translation
By Dustin Bailey published
News Xenosaga: Pied Piper lives

Palworld dev reckons "very few companies could survive" a launch like theirs: "A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure, under the negativity"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Pocketpair really is a very, very friendly place"

No Man's Sky programmer shares the "first 3D world" he co-created at 18 years old, which was "a foundational step for me from there to No Man's Sky"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "It might seem primitive and crude"

World of Warcraft's latest raid race ends in disappointment after 12 days with a final boss so lackluster the team who won was visibly confused to have beaten it
By Dustin Bailey published
News Chrome King Gallywix has fallen

28 years after Final Fantasy 7 introduced a generation to the concept of waifus, Tetsuya Nomura says Tifa's popularity is "not just about appearance"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I believe Tifa’s good qualities are the combination of her character, expressions, voice, movements, combat abilities and all of her other charms"

Ubisoft's surprisingly ambitious King Kong game faced a sudden change because Peter Jackson's son didn't like the ape's face: "I had to rework Kong’s head, alone in the studio"
By Dustin Bailey published
News The team had "less than two years to develop" the game

Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy by pushing for actor protections: "You have to compensate us fairly, and you have to tell us how you're using this AI"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I feel worried about this art form"

God of War's 20th anniversary announcement comes without a remaster, but PlayStation is giving us some sick new God of War Ragnarok skins and a 67-inch Jörmungandr plush
By Dustin Bailey published
News The Dark Odyssey Collection isn't the PS2 and PS3-era remaster you might've been hoping for

Super Nintendo consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years, but it took until 2025 for the SNES fandom to notice
By Dustin Bailey published
News Speedrunners are less excited about the revelation than you might expect

Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way," joining Stardew Valley and Terraria in community wikis with minimal intrusions
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs behind the viral roguelike are directly partnering with the community on this wiki

Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2's Collector's Edition 15-inch Magellan Man is part of his studio's "spirit and soul," so the crew went to China to make sure it's good enough
By Dustin Bailey published
News Hopefully that means $230 (somewhat) well spent

Xbox's new gaming AI aims to "help you get good" at everything from Overwatch 2 to Minecraft by watching you play and giving you advice
By Dustin Bailey published
News This version of Copilot could tell you why you suck in Overwatch 2: "Great picks with your ultimate, but diving straight into Ramattra was a death sentence"
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