
Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a S🎶taff 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

GameCube classics finally arrive on Switch 2, including absolute hits like Zelda: The Wind Waker and cult classic collector's items like Pokemon XD and Chibi-Robo
By Dustin Bailey published
News At long last, GameCube is back

Switch 2 doesn't have an OLED screen, but its 1080p 120fps LCD with "approximately double the pixels" of Switch 1 might be worth the trade-off
By Dustin Bailey published
News Nintendo gave us some details on the Switc🔯h 2 screen

Mario Kart World takes the racing series open-world, and it launches day one exclusively on Switch 2
By Dustin Bailey published
News The Swꦓitch 2 presentation opened with a wide-ranging ♔look at the new Mario Kart

Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Who among th𝓀ese executives is stepping down? Or slashing their sal🌜aries?"

Not for the first time, workers at Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls parent ZeniMax threaten strike at Microsoft: "Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Microsoft says it's☂ "deeply committed to reaching a fair and equitable resolution that acknowledges the teams' contributions"

After 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
By Dustin Bailey published
News The team behind this new Capcom vs. SNK 2 translation has gone ab♈ove and beyoꦯnd

The Switch 2 Pro Controller seemingly adds a headphone jack, and that's such a godsend I'm almost willing to forgive Nintendo for being 12 years behind PlayStation and Xbox
By Dustin Bailey published
News Another early detail arrives from an FCC filing

Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We really tried to push back ⛦on the AI stuff specificꦆally"

Super Mario Bros 2 player crashes the game, casually posts the clip online, and accidentally makes "the biggest 2D Mario speedrun discovery in years"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I genuinely can’t believe a random crash I had ♚with this game actually helped discover a new speed run trick"

The Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod that Larian boss Swen Vincke called "amazing" gets DMCA'd by D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast
By Dustin Bailey published
News Clearly, Baldur's Village was too well-loved for the IP owner ☂to let people enjoy it

"Should JRPGs be considered a distinct genre?": Lunar icon Kei Shigema reflects on the genre with new remasters on the way and how RPGs have changed 33 years later
By Dustin Bailey published
Interview Interview | "The time I spent working on this game was the happ🎶ie💧st and most fulfilling period of my life"

The PS5 stutter issue is real, and players are still begging Sony for a fix months later as even more extensive testing proves it
By Dustin Bailey published
News Elden Ring, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and b𝕴oth parts of The Last of Us are among the m♌any games affected

"30 years of history reside in our tape backups": PlayStation's building a game preservation mineshaft vault with 200 million files going back to a 1994 build of PS1 JRPG Arc the Lad
By Dustin Bailey published
News "There's people who probably don't know what Gex is – 🐼൲that wounds me personally"

"Are the 8-year-olds and 10-year-olds dreaming of owning a PlayStation 6?": Netflix gaming boss thinks consoles and controllers will "restrain us"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I'm not wanting to quote Marshall McLuhan s🐈aying 'the medium is the content'"

Nintendo Today just told me how to beat World 1 of Super Mario Bros 40 years too late
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Goombas and Koopa Troopas staꦆnd in yo🎀ur way in challenging courses above and below ground"

The surprise theme of today's Nintendo Direct was classic PlayStation franchises getting a comeback without Sony's involvement
By Dustin Bailey published
News Bandai Namco, I'm beg☂ging you: please do Tokyo Jungle next

Unannounced Hogwarts Legacy DLC reportedly canceled, partly because the studio wasn't sure it'd be worth players' money
By Dustin Bailey published
News The expansion was repor🌟tedly being co-developed by Batman and Suicide Squad studio Rocksteady

Ubisoft reaches deal with Tencent to create $4.3 billion mini-Ubisoft subsidiary to "spearhead development" on new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six games
By Dustin Bailey published
News The new subsidiary will "remain 🎃exclusively controlled and consolidated by Ubisoft"

Rhythm Heaven Groove has one of Nintendo's longest-suffering fandoms absolutely feasting: "AFTER 10 YEARS WE FINALLY WON"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "F*** SWITCH 2 – ALL I CARE ABOUT I🍷S RHYTHM HEAVEN GROOVE"

There's a Nintendo Direct app now: Miyamoto himself reveals Nintendo Today to beam "daily" Switch 2 news straight into your eyeballs, and it's out today
By Dustin Bailey published
News The pu♓blisher's mobileꩵ dreams weren't limited to Nintendo Music and a handful of games

10 years later, in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed world, Obsidian is giving its own throwback CRPG Pillars of Eternity a turn-based combat mode
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We’ve been hard at work delving⛎ deep into the code grimoire"

5 years after Avengers, 2 years after its last layoffs, and who knows how long before Perfect Dark and Tomb Raider return, Crystal Dynamics announces another round of layoffs
By Dustin Bailey published
News The news "does not alte༺r our current project pl💙ans"

"AI is not as effective as it might appear": Dev of AI-focused Soulslike RPG says they didn't use any AI-generated content and it can't match "genuine creativity"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "The copyright issue🐎s associated with AI tools remain a highly contentious issue"
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