Latest articles by Dustin Bailey
Ubisoft turned a new Splinter Cell game into the failed live-service shooter xDefiant in an effort to chase live service hits and Call of Duty, former devs say
News "You realize that all of the things you care about, they don't anymore"
After 17 years, Bethesda finally seems to be making good on Fallout 3's disappointing collector's edition with a "fully functional" $300 Pip-Boy replica
News It's "not only fully functional, but wearable, and exhibition-grade displayable"
After 26 years, modders give PS1 racing game classic Gran Turismo 2 the overhaul it deserves, replacing all the race cars with minivans and used car dealerships
News Finally, Gran Turismo 2: Beige Edition gets rid of all those awful racing machines and replaces them with "the unexceptional cars of the world"
Paralives devs say the life sim "isn't up to the standard we wanted it to meet" for Early Access, so it's delayed 6 months into the new GTA 6 void
News "We are so proud of what we have built, but now, we just need a bit more time to polish the simulation part of the game"
Battlefield 6 devs say map size is "under review," and for now it looks like they're already cutting player counts on some of the biggest meat grinders
News "Battlefield is at its best when maps offer different ways to play and constant action around every corner"
Microsoft's seemingly first IP crossover with Activision Blizzard is giving a Minecraft spinoff to the Candy Crush dev
News Mojang and King announced a brand-new Minecraft game in the most low-key way possible
Final Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 DLC launches to a "mixed" response on Steam: "I really, really hope Warhorse doesn't leave this game on such a poor finishing note"
News "It's basically a one-shot side quest for you to complete"
Battlefield Redsec devs are "watching all the videos" to figure out what to patch, and there are some "things that caught us by surprise"
News "I've been trying to keep up on YouTube, and we're always monitoring and seeing how people are getting on"
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask art director was a fan of the series since he was a student: "I have fond memories of working hard with my friends to beat the 'Second Quest'"
News "I've been a fan of The Legend of Zelda since my student days!"
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida "canceled so many games," including a new IP from God of War dev Santa Monica Studio: "These days, a $25 million cancellation is nothing special"
News "No one knows most of the games, because we canceled early enough"
Elden Ring Nightreign DLC The Forsaken Hollows adds 2 new characters and 2 more bosses when it launches in December
News The DLC is finally confirmed
Hi-Fi Rush director says "don't panic" as the soundtrack gets delisted and the rhythm action game disappears from third-party PC stores: "This is likely publisher transition related"
News Haven't Hi-Fi Rush fans been through enough already?
Union leader says fired GTA 6 devs weren't leaking Rockstar secrets, they were talking about working conditions on a private Discord: "They should be legally protected to do that"
News The employees "weren't on these big, open, public forums spouting secrets on the company"
Don't expect Switch 2 emulation to hit as fast as it did for Switch 1, as fan devs are already warning "THIS PROJECT WILL NOT BE READY FOR A DECADE MINIMUM"
News Switch 2 emulators are in very, very early development
Finally, Battlefield 6 is putting an end to drone-surfing with sledgehammers as EA fixes "an exploit allowing players to ascend and access unintended areas"
News It just took a few weeks
Todd Howard "hadn't had a break in 20 years" when Fallout 4 came out, so he took a 3-month sabbatical to "go touch some grass"
News "You get to a point in life where you spend more time in the fantasy world than with real people"
Death Stranding 2 art director helps turn a real-life $1,500 exoskeleton into "something Sam Porter Bridges himself might wear," and you can buy it for yourself
News "Wearing it feels as if the world of Death Stranding has come to life"
Unless GTA 6 "comes out and it's terrible" no open-world dev can hope to top Rockstar, original Saints Row design lead says – but "there's nothing wrong with trying to be a #2"
News If Rockstar's latest is terrible, it'll be "E.T. all over again, but worse because the budgets"
Fans find Mass Effect 5 art of a Krogan civil war hidden in BioWare's N7 Day post, studio lead says "I want you to see stuff. But it's not the time…yet"
News "Has it been years since announce? Yes. Have we been busy? Yes. Are we NOW 100% on mass effect? Also yes"
Konami's $26 million lawsuit against Umamusume devs settled for an undisclosed sum, but Cygames still says it never infringed any patents
News "Through this settlement, we will once again strive for the further development of the game industry"
Mass Effect 5 remains in development amid $55 billion EA buyout, and BioWare is now "heads-down and focused exclusively on" the RPG, with "lots of romances to figure out"
News And what's this Krogan teaser all about?
"Of course, you must be on Steam. But Steam isn't the entire world": CEO of game distribution company says yes, some PC gamers prefer "local" stores to Valve's mega-shop, and China is a huge factor
News "There are very big markets – China, Eastern Europe, Latin America – where local platforms are simply stronger in trust, in loyalty, in payment behaviour"
GTA 6 delayed 6 more months as Rockstar commits to November 2026 and says “sorry”
News We're about to get so many more things before GTA 6
