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
![Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League](images/kp5uqbdgfec2tgch3c75eu-320-80.jpg)
Two days before launch and a week after its reveal, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League season 2 gets delayed
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Thank you for your patience"
![Star Wars Outlaws gameplay screenshot](images/fhnv2r87bz5tvppbufzmkj-320-80.jpg)
Why is Star Wars Outlaws the first true open-world Star Wars game? Lucasfilm says "there are only so many studios in the world who build games of this scale"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Making Star Wars open-world games is the next level of difficulty"
![Super Mario 64](images/imwc7qej2idogzsfe8p7hw-320-80.jpg)
Seconds after calling his run "sloppy," Super Mario 64 speedrunner sets new world record in one of the game's most notorious levels
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I dunno, it was overall pretty sloppy"
![Crusader of Centy HD/Soleil HD](images/knsjqp3cbzgsisp32smxyd-320-80.jpg)
After 30 years, Sega's beloved Zelda clone gets an overdue fan remake treatment, and while there's only "a few minutes of gameplay" I desperately need a full game
By Dustin Bailey published
News Crusader of Centy - or Soleil, if you prefer - is getting a second stay in the spotlight
![Apex Legends](images/qm35hbxqdzaampgt6cab29-320-80.jpg)
EA announces Apex Legends is getting twice as many battle passes and you can no longer earn them in-game
By Dustin Bailey published
News The season 22 changes are going down about as well as you'd expect
![Satisfactory](images/4paxqa7wasmmbvf7xmn3oh-320-80.jpg)
Satisfactory and Factorio: Space Age are launching 6 weeks apart from each other, and management fans are waving goodbye to months worth of free time
By Dustin Bailey published
News After years of waiting, nobody is prepared for these two massive factory builders to launch so close together
![Bounty Star](images/cggmmsqtjxmssm4em5dp83-320-80.jpg)
Bounty Star feels like Armored Core in the Wild West, and while the combat's great it's the Monster Hunter and Stardew Valley vibes that really grabbed me
By Dustin Bailey published
News This is the mech-infused Cowboy Bebop game I didn't know I needed
![Kanon](images/pq3wsoddxuefro76nb8wpc-320-80.jpg)
After 25 years, one of the OG anime visual novels has finally hit Steam with its first official English translation
By Dustin Bailey published
News Time to uguu like it's 1999
![Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater](images/cjn8bxco5guwqdxxkucjj5-320-80.jpg)
"Metal Gear is dead, and you killed it" - MGS3 remake producer shares the "honest opinions" fans have sent Konami about the revival
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We understand, because we're fans too"
![Concord](images/rcl8ui8t38v2zufzxawt4j-320-80.jpg)
Concord devs defend PSN requirement after Helldivers 2 backlash: "The goal is for players to come together"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "For that cross-play and cross-progression to work, that's a layer that needs to be there"
![A knight bows before Miquella's Golden Cross inElden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree](images/rmdw5quzuwsfuv6xiinsfe-320-80.jpg)
Well scit, we've been pronouncing Elden Ring's Scadutree wrong this whole time
By Dustin Bailey published
News "FROMSOFT YOU LINGUISTIC NERDS I LOVE YOU"
![American Truck Simulator](images/fdant9rnwv5feqgcc7ued6-320-80.jpg)
Steam Summer Sale is here with a special set of 90% "deep discounts" on 22 "all-time greats," including the true GOAT: American Truck Simulator
By Dustin Bailey published
News Another opportunity to sing the praises of ATS? Don't mind if I do
![Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree](images/u5fvh8bccvsj7m5ehvv2gy-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is back up to 'Mostly Positive' Steam reviews after difficulty and performance issues gave it a 'Mixed' reception
By Dustin Bailey published
News The DLC's reputation is improving
![Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree](images/7phdte8zreb59x5ga2kn7n-320-80.jpg)
With 5 million sales in 3 days, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is rivaling the outstanding success of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 DLC
By Dustin Bailey published
News Shadow of the Erdtree is on track to be one of the most successful DLC expansions ever released
![Atari 50](images/8kpxtanbjbzsse2f52v8k9-320-80.jpg)
The best retro collection ever made is getting a massive expansion all about the game industry's first console war
By Dustin Bailey published
News Atari 50 set a new bar for retro collections, and that bar's about to get even higher
![Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster](images/mmwhqozvpozpv9azvdte4f-320-80.jpg)
Xbox 360 classic Dead Rising is back with a "Deluxe Remaster," but nobody's sure how to feel about the new look and sound of iconic protagonist Frank West
By Dustin Bailey published
News He's covered wars, you know
![A knight bows before Miquella's Golden Cross inElden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree](images/rmdw5quzuwsfuv6xiinsfe-320-80.jpg)
The new Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch buffs are way smaller than you'd think, but they let me instantly defeat a boss I'd been stuck on for hours
By Dustin Bailey published
News Did I get good or did FromSoftware carry me?
![GTA Online](images/g9q8glaaork3ydvtbytglr-320-80.jpg)
GTA Online just locked a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for ages behind the GTA+ paywall, and fans worry it sets a dangerous precedent for GTA 6
By Dustin Bailey published
News A long-awaited quality of life tweak isn't going down well
![SteamWorld Heist 2](images/wrv5sa2dpdgxcqb2ncqa8u-320-80.jpg)
SteamWorld Heist 2 plays like a perfect follow-up to a great XCOM-style tactics game, and it's borrowing from Final Fantasy to add even more depth
By Dustin Bailey published
News Summer Preview | The 9-year wait for this sequel looks to be paying off in a big way
![Screenshot from Final Fantasy 14's new graphics update, showing a character in an action pose.](images/iyb3cf8d9j2cd7jfcswmlq-320-80.png)
Final Fantasy 14's MMO account sign-up process is an "endless labyrinth and rube goldberg machine," and one fan's built a tool to save you from all the hassle
By Dustin Bailey published
News This tool finally makes it make sense
![Elden Ring](images/z9e67z2heqtezcqa94tp7c-320-80.jpg)
Shadow of the Erdtree is somehow easier than Elden Ring for me, but I'm worried that's only because I fixed my awful build that almost made me quit this RPG 2 years ago
By Dustin Bailey published
News After two years, did I suddenly... get good? Nah, it's probably the build
![Gimmick 2](images/qlev3bcn6jenjb9uzanu3k-320-80.jpg)
After dev of cult classic NES platformer reveals nobody talked to him about the follow-up, sequel studio apologizes: "we should've done better"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Gimmick's original director says the sequel's announcement was "a surprise to me"
![Elden Ring](images/5pgnvf5y2dqgayybtcysub-320-80.jpg)
I spent an evening stuck in Elden Ring's Fog Rift Catacombs and experienced the purest despair I've ever felt in a FromSoftware game
By Dustin Bailey published
News Shadow of the Erdtree players want to "cage fight" the designers of the Fog Rift Catacombs, and after hours stuck there I understand why