Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
The best retro collection ever made is getting a massive expansion all about the game industry's first console war
News Atari 50 set a new bar for retro collections, and that bar's about to get even higher
Xbox 360 classic Dead Rising is back with a "Deluxe Remaster," but nobody's sure how to feel about the new look and sound of iconic protagonist Frank West
News He's covered wars, you know
The new Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch buffs are way smaller than you'd think, but they let me instantly defeat a boss I'd been stuck on for hours
News Did I get good or did FromSoftware carry me?
GTA Online just locked a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for ages behind the GTA+ paywall, and fans worry it sets a dangerous precedent for GTA 6
News A long-awaited quality of life tweak isn't going down well
SteamWorld Heist 2 plays like a perfect follow-up to a great XCOM-style tactics game, and it's borrowing from Final Fantasy to add even more depth
News Summer Preview | The 9-year wait for this sequel looks to be paying off in a big way
Final Fantasy 14's MMO account sign-up process is an "endless labyrinth and rube goldberg machine," and one fan's built a tool to save you from all the hassle
News This tool finally makes it make sense
Shadow of the Erdtree is somehow easier than Elden Ring for me, but I'm worried that's only because I fixed my awful build that almost made me quit this RPG 2 years ago
News After two years, did I suddenly... get good? Nah, it's probably the build
After dev of cult classic NES platformer reveals nobody talked to him about the follow-up, sequel studio apologizes: "we should've done better"
News Gimmick's original director says the sequel's announcement was "a surprise to me"
I spent an evening stuck in Elden Ring's Fog Rift Catacombs and experienced the purest despair I've ever felt in a FromSoftware game
News Shadow of the Erdtree players want to "cage fight" the designers of the Fog Rift Catacombs, and after hours stuck there I understand why
"Yes, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in development," Ubisoft confirms after 4 years of silence
News The 16-year development cycle continues
Director of hit JRPG Shin Megami Tensei 5 echoes FromSoftware's stance on hard games: "Our intent was never to make things difficult for difficulty’s sake"
News Elden Ring and Shin Megami Tensei have some surprising similarities in difficulty design
That mystery Star Wars strategy game is actually a tactics game from a bunch of XCOM veterans, and suddenly I'm a lot more excited for it
News "It bums me out that more people don't play these types of games"
After 32 years, the cult classic NES platformer that goes for thousands on eBay is getting a sequel
News Gimmick lives!
The big monster FromSoftware teased for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a normal enemy gatekeeping the DLC, and it's kicking peoples' butts
News "Turn back, yo. You’re not ready for this content yet"
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero lets you witness Goku's death in first-person: "That's a special experience"
News "We really want people to immerse themselves into the character that they're playing"
16 years since its reveal, Ubisoft insists Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still alive: A remaster of the original arrives next week with a "narrative link" to the now-prequel
News A new mission in the remaster "reveals more about the narrative link to Beyond Good & Evil 2, showing Ubisoft’s enduring commitment to the franchise"
Ahead of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can get the entire RPG trilogy for just $10 thanks to this Steam sale
News Truly, this is the age of dragons
Final Fantasy Tactics was originally an RTS RPG inspired by the director's cult classic Super Nintendo game, but his boss said "NOT THIS ONE!"
These gorgeous sample images have me obsessed with what might have been
Dune Awakening is a truly massive survival MMO, and it manages to make sandworms the terror they should be
Preview Summer Preview | Dune Awakening still has a lot to prove, but I was blown away by its massive scope at Summer Game Fest
Tales of the Shire is more than Lord of the Rings-branded Stardew Valley, and it fixes one of the genre's biggest problems
Preview Summer Preview | The way to a Hobbit's heart is still through their stomach
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is the highest-rated release of 2024 so far, beating JRPG hit Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and roguelike darling Hades 2
News Metacritic says Shadow of the Erdtree is one of the best gaming releases of all time, and you can't argue with Metacritic
Nintendo has apparently been teasing the big villain of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for 17 years
News The character in the trailer builds on a 17-year-old cliffhanger and Metroid's most controversial spin-off
The father of Final Fantasy says it's a "blessing" working with Square Enix and Yoshi-P to rebuild the JRPG he made "thinking it could become my final work"
News Hironobu Sakaguchi says Fantasian "has a special place in my heart"
