
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 usuall🦄y 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

That Gears of War remaster is also coming to PS5, and it's out this August for $40 – or free for some "longtime fans"
By Dustin Bailey published
News The long-rumored remaster is real and officially called Gear▨s of War: Reloaded

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer was first hired as a voice actor after she "saw a post on Reddit" calling for auditions: "I've never done that, it sounds kinda cool"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Jennifer Svedberg-Yen was originally set to p🐈lay aﷺ "major" character

Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "If you asked꧑ Final Fantasy fans from the late '90s/early '00s what the ideal version of a JRPG should look li꧅ke, it'd be something like this"

Ghost of Yotei is the latest in a long line of Collector's Editions that doesn't come with a physical game, and I'm starting to think nobody understands what game collectors actually want
By Dustin Bailey published
News For $2🅘50, you can't throw a real copy of the game in?

"We really getting Silksong before GTA 6": Hollow Knight fans can hardly believe their eyes as Rockstar's biggest game ever slips past the indie Metroidvania to rule them all
By Dustin Bailey published
News How much more can we get before GTA 6?

GTA 6 delay was reportedly inevitable: "Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Too much work, not enough time"

D&D is the secret ingredient in my new deck-building strategy game obsession, and it's got me going John Wick on evil wizards
By Dustin Bailey published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Knights in Tight Spaces makes me feel brilliant and dumb in equal mea൩sure, but I just can'ꦓt stop smashing heads either way

Epic rushes to dunk on Apple after App Store court ruling, announces Epic Game Store update promising options "where Apple, Google, and others charge exorbitant fees"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "With new legal rulings in place, developers will be able to send players from games to make digital 𝕴purchases from webshops on any platform that allows it"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs admit "we were wrong" about "practice is everything" advice for the RPG's difficult parries: "The true strategy is dying over and over until you land a counter"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "This is the second option"

Hollow Knight: Silksong devs released dozens of Hornet sprites, and of course all anybody can focus on is the nude one: "HORNET PUT YOUR CLOAK BACK ON"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "THE SESBIAN LEX IS ACTUALLY REAL"

Hollow Knight: Silksong is going to be "playable" at an Australian museum in September, but nobody knows what that means for the release date
By Dustin Bailey published
News You🌳 can play Hollow Knight: Silksong in September, but t♐he monkey's paw curls

Gearbox said Borderlands 4 isn't an open-world game, but it sure looks open-world to me: tons of aerial movement, "no need to pick up a mission" for many surprises, and your own vehicle on command
By Dustin Bailey published
News There's even "dynamic weather and events"

"I don’t think anyone will ever make something like this again": Danganronpa creator says his new strategy RPG is "a crazy game," and "even if it doesn't sell well, I'm genuinely glad we made it"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I still want it to sell s🌠o we can keep the company going"

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "started off having no ambitions" for the farming RPG's success, and he was afraid even Harvest Moon fans "would probably hate it"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "When I was ma♌king the game there was m🦂any times where I thought 'This game's awful. It's not fun. No one's going to like this.'"

EA reportedly lays off "between 300 and 400" people, cancels Titanfall extraction shooter: "We've made select changes within our organization [...] in service of driving future growth"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We've made the decision to step away from two early𒐪-stage incubation projects and make some targeted t♈eam adjustments"

Nintendo Direct narrator jokingly threatens to cut ties with anyone who secures a Switch 2, so Smash Bros director Masahiro Sakurai is trying to erase his memory
By Dustin Bailey published
News The only way to squash console𓄧 j🌺ealousy is through Men in Black references

It's "difficult to convince many people" that "your turn-based RPG will sell," Baldur's Gate 3 dev laments as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells 1 million copies in 3 days
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I genuinely think I have minor trauma 𝓀from this"

This Crysis-looking FPS from former Metro devs was supposed to launch today, but it was delayed at the last second amid 4/10 reviews: "We are trying our best"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "It being our first title as꧃ an independent game developer has led to some unforeseen challenges"

REPO dev says "there are no plans to make the game free-to-play" because "we don't want to add microtransactions or have cosmetics that you buy"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Things like cosmetics, you'll get for free by just simply playing 🦩the game"

After months of closed betas, Dune: Awakening is launching a "large-scale beta weekend" with 20 hours of content from the survival MMO
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs 💧will give out "tens of thousands" of beta keys this tiꦬme around

Nintendo warns Switch 2 hopefuls "delivery by June 5 is not guaranteed" even on official pre-orders as retailer stock goes dry
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Your invitation email may arrive 🌃after the Nintenಌdo Switch 2 launch"

With the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign at 437,000 signatures, Ubisoft says "we have been reading your comments" in an update on offline mode for The Crew sequels
By Dustin Bailey published
News Seven months later, Ubisoft's got an update on these𒆙 offline modes

Fallout creator Tim Cain says he was "ordered to destroy" his personal archive of the RPG's development: "Individuals and organizations actively work against preservation"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "There's a lot🔴 of♑ organizations out there that demand to be the archive keeper, and then they do a terrible job at it"

CD Projekt won't say whether Witcher 3 is coming to Switch 2 because the RPG studio is "all in on Cyberpunk 2077" for Nintendo's new console
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs sꦏay the popularity of Witcher 3 on Switch meant the "more powerful Nintendo Switch 2" would be ꦿ"the perfect platform for Cyberpunk 2077"
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