
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

After 50 hours and over 3,000 attempts, Mario Kart speedrunner proves a "humanly impossible" trick is actually doable, and absolutely destroys a 2-year-old world record in the process
By Dustin Bailey published
News "What does it take to be the first person ever to get a world record using an exploit everyone thought was humanly impossible?"

I've spent 32 years dreaming of a game that looks like Jurassic Park: Survival, and this slice of pre-alpha footage and the devs' work on Space Marine 2 have me more hopeful than ever
By Dustin Bailey published
News These game developers are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, but I think there's no question that they definitely should

Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues
By Scott McCrae last updated
News "We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 savant proves parry haters right by beating the RPG on expert with an "all hit" run allowing zero parries or dodges
By Dustin Bailey published
News Maybe Expedition 33 is a secret action game, but not anymore

After 20 years, the $200 Nintendo cult classic that anchored GameCube collectors' retirement plans gets a modern release on Switch 2
By Dustin Bailey published
News Justice for Chibi-Robo!

A month after Death Stranding 2's launch, we're all still trying to figure out the open-world game's deepest mystery: "Why you guys make meaningless bridges?" "Because Sam Porter BRIDGES"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Can Hideo Kojima explain this? Do these bridges have nanomachines? Do they breathe through their skin?

Assassin's Creed has gone a bit off the rails, but Ubisoft says it hasn't forgotten about the whole Assassins versus Templars thing, with a "deep dive" on the conflict coming "in the near future"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Now eventually you do plan to have Templars in your Assassins versus Templars game, right?

REPO devs blown away by world record level 10 speedrun ponder adding "official speedrun seeds" – "I know that Lethal Company did"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "This is a 'would be cool' list, to be clear"

Marvel Rivals devs say those horny skins are based on "classic comic designs," thank you very much, and they're simply glad to "gain players' appreciation"
By Dustin Bailey published
News And yes, Squirrel Girl's Sabrina Carpenter skin does "blend some popular elements from real life"

Marvel Rivals devs say "matchmaking is a complex system" as debates about SBMM versus EOMM rage, but they're going to "talk about all the matchmaking things" in a video this month
By Dustin Bailey published
News Will the question finally be settled?

Pepsi asks if it should make a video game, gets inundated with so many reminders of PS1 cult classic Pepsiman that even Hundred Line director Kotaro Uchikoshi is trying to put the company in touch with the original devs
By Dustin Bailey published
News Pepsiman 2 when?

10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes
By Dustin Bailey published
News I guess the lawsuit has already had some effect

Former Gears of War boss becomes former Diablo boss as Rod Fergusson leaves Microsoft a third time, "sword in hand," after 5 years overseeing the ARPG series: "I'm proud of what we've built"
By Dustin Bailey published
News I look forward to seeing what Fergusson accomplishes at the next studio to be inevitably acquired by Xbox

Fool me 6 times, shame on me, but I think this leaked Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 release date might actually stick
By Dustin Bailey published
News We might get fooled again, but here's hoping

Hideo Kojima is currently "checking the data" on your favorite Death Stranding 2 routes and weapons, and I hope he's personally counting every road I've restored without help from the ceramics-hording jerks I've been paired with
By Dustin Bailey published
News Please just put your resources into the highways, I'm begging you

Battlefield 6 isn't filling servers with bots after all: during the open beta, "AI soldiers" will only appear in training grounds playlists
By Scott McCrae last updated
News Now you're thinking with portals

BioShock 4 has "had some ups and downs along the way," but Take-Two CEO promises "hand on heart, without question" that the immersive sim is "going to come out"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We have very big shoes to fill on BioShock because of the legacy of Ken Levine"

Doom: The Dark Ages update 2 looks like a massive improvement across the board, and a horde mode and slow-motion toggle are just the start: "This ain’t an update… This be a BUFFET!!!"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We are giving you the controls to create your own encounter, allowing players to take on the role of lead combat designer inside of Doom: The Dark Ages"

Microsoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause, and it seems Hideo Kojima's OD is the only thing that's safe
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We're thankful for the excitement we've seen from the community since we announced and will give an update on what's next as soon as we can"

The open-world Star Wars RPG of our dreams might be here in the form of a massive Starfield mod project that fixes the "many, many, many fundamental issues that make it a bad game"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Vanilla Starfield is best described as a bland exploration game with simply nothing out there for you to explore"

Forget Virtual Console, the greatest tribute to NES gaming ever made is giving Nintendo Switch the retro library it deserves
By Dustin Bailey published
News I can't believe they hid the best part of the Indie World Showcase in the sizzle reel

My most anticipated indie game, a Game Boy-style mashup of Zelda, Dark Souls, and Castlevania from the Shovel Knight devs, just brought its excellent demo to Nintendo Switch 2
By Dustin Bailey published
News Mina the Hollower is getting a Switch 2 version and bringing its demo to Nintendo's platform

Battlefield 6 open beta hopefuls are reporting 48,000-player queues before the beta's even started, but Secure Boot errors and shader compilations mean PC players probably should be getting an early start
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process"

This may be the only Super Mario Bros review that landed with the NES launch, and the magazine that called it a "special hall of fame" classic in 1986 is helping set a new standard for game preservation
By Dustin Bailey published
News "No owner of the Nintendo Entertainment System should be without this game – it's a must!"
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