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 Gear൲ 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
Mario Kart's infamous Baby Park was inspired by the 2002 Olympic ice skating track, and Nintendo knew it was going to be "a love-it-or-hate-it kind of course" even during development
News "I saw the short track they'd prepared for the ice skating and thought, 'We should make a track like that!♏'"
Blizzard details full Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025 with teasers for seasons 9 and 10, reconfirms a new expansion for 2026, and hints at multiple "new IP collabs"
News The devs seem keen to make sure you know 🎀Diablo 🐻4 won't turn into Fortnite
22 years ago, the worst game of all time launched to a Metacritic score of just 8, and now it's on Steam with 83% positive reviews from a whole new generation of garbage lovers
News "You're winner!"
The man who brought Tetris to the world was "p***ed off" when Nintendo made Dr. Mario: "It's not as good"
News "Dr. Mario is sort of ꦡa blatant attempt at making another Tetris"
2003's Kirby Air Ride was "ahead of its time," Nintendo exec says, and the Switch 2 sequel might finally let people appreciate "the genius of Masahiro Sakurai"
News It's been 22 years since Kirby 🐼Air Ride launched to a 61 Metacritic
"I did lick it once, but never again": Nintendo Switch 2 devs confirm the new game cartridges still taste bad, and they "can't believe" you sickos are taste-testing them
News "We have inde🌌ed made it so that if it enters your mouth, you'll spit it out"
Schedule 1 fans review bomb Drug Dealer Simulator as its publisher launches an apparent copyright investigation: "Suing a lone indie dev for making a superior game is laughable"
News "I liked the game up untജil they became greedy and jealous that a solo game developer, who created a game 10 times greater than theirs is so 🌺successful"
Assassin's Creed Shadows patch fixes my 2 biggest annoyances, tedious dismantling and the hideout FPS cap, right as I've nearly finished this open-world RPG
News I've 💟wanted these fixes since the day I launched th🀅e game
Nintendo confirms Switch 2's new Joy-Con 2 controllers are "not Hall effect sticks," and all our fears about Joy-Con drift are still here
News "They're no𒅌t Hall Effect sticks, but the🍒y feel really good"
Nintendo Switch 2 upgrades of Switch 1 games are getting physical releases, but nobody's sure if these are Switch 2 cartridges or old games repackaged with digital upgrade codes
Switch 2 versions Metroid Prime 4, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 🔴and more are all making us ask the same question
Super Mario All-Stars speedrunner sets triumphant world record only to suffer SNES cart tragedy 90 seconds later: "I guess it's not safe to do any more runs until I give it a good clean"
News "What if massive Wo꧒rld Record pace but the universe said no🧜"
Hidetaka Miyazaki can't help himself and now The Duskbloods sounds even more like a Bloodborne successor: "The Bloodsworn are competing for something known as First Blood"
News If this isn't Miyazaki making a Bloodborne su🦋ccessor I don't know what is
Insomniac is "actively working on Marvel's Wolverine for PS5" but won't share news just because you ask: "Things take time, resources, and the greenlight to share them"
News "That will always be our answer"
For the first time since Super Mario Kart 33 years ago, Mario Kart World brings the feather back to actual races and it seems like it can even stop the dreaded blue shell
News What's a Mario game without jumping?
Metroid Prime 4's Star Wars-style opening space battle has the 14-year-old Metroid nerd in me absolutely screaming
News The galaxy is not at peace
Nintendo Switch 2 officially has the Nvidia DLSS tech that's become essential for PC gaming, promising "10x the graphics performance" of Switch 1
News The Switch 2's scree꧒n also supports VRR through G-Sync in handheld mode
Nintendo heads off the Zelda lore debate that surrounded Age of Calamity by preemptively confirming that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is "canonical"
News That's one debate that's over b♕efore it's𓃲 even begun
Nintendo says Switch 2's Discord-like GameChat is a "defining feature" of the new console that was partially shaped by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and a cult puzzle game
News "We spent about two hours every day playing var꧂ious games while sharing🐎 screens via GameChat"
Switch 2's producer made requests "in great detail and great amounts" to make sure the eShop is as good as the Wii Shop Channel
News The Switch 2 eShop has been revamped f🍷or a "smooth experience"♚
Nintendo Switch 2 Direct live: all the Switch 2 reveals as they happen
Live The latest Switch 2 news as it happens from the Nintendo Switch 2 Diꦇrect presentation
The Switch 2 Direct broke just in time for me to nearly miss a revival of a 26-year-old Konami cult classic I obsessed over in Nintendo Power
News I can't believe a stream gli♛tch nearly made me miss the re🎉turn of Survival Kids
As Hollow Knight Silksong makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reemergence for Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox reminds everyone the Metroidvania is still day one on Game Pass
News Microsoft doesn't want you to forget
Switch 2 plays Switch 1 games through something "in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility," so don't expect the same backward compatibility we got on 3DS and Wii U
News "Switch 2 doesn't contain any Switch hardware"
