George Young

George Young

Freelance News Writer

Freelance writer, full-time PlayStation Vita enthusiast, and speaker of some languages. I break up my days by watching people I don't know play Pokemon pretty fast.

Latest articles by George Young

Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 players are suspicious of their Citizen Surveillance Center as divers start getting marked as dissidents after a recent Major Order

By George Young Published

News Dissidents should report to their local democracy officer

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Red Dead Redemption 2
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is making a game set in the same world as his new novel about devs who create a "self-loathing" AI, and is "dabbling" with using real AI in its development

By George Young Published

News But the developer thinks the technology is sometimes overhyped "just to sell AI stock"

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A screenshot of Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox is "thrilled" about his Game Awards nomination, but insists "any credit I get" should go to his character's motion capture actor instead

By George Young Published

News Charlie Cox claims his "voice was just part of that process"

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007: First Light
007 First Light CEO is glad GTA 6 got delayed since now "spring looks really good," but thinks Rockstar could help "the industry as a whole" once it finally ships its masterpiece

By George Young Published

News Hakan Abrak thinks the release will encourage people to return to gaming as a hobby

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Borderlands 4
As Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox decides to make the looter shooter's first DLC pack free for everyone, Deluxe Edition players aren't too happy: "I'm calling bulls**t"

By George Young Published

News Not everyone is getting into the holiday spirit

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Arc Raiders
Arc Raiders is a hit, but the extraction shooter's pitch didn't impress one of the Embark devs' kids years ago: "Sci-fi game? Very original"

By George Young Published

News There's no accounting for taste with some children

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The Blood of Dawnwalker protagonist up close
GTA 6 might be the "massive game with massive marketing," but The Witcher 3 director doesn't mind launching his next RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at the same time: "I'm fine with it"

By George Young Published

News Rebel Wolves' Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the coolest guy in the room

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A crop of Coen looking at his closed fist in The Blood of Dawnwalker
The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes

By George Young Published

News Half-hominid, half-spirit

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The Qianye boss in Where Winds Meet
New MMO on the block Where Winds Meet promises to never become pay-to-win, greeting players with the message "your legend is written by skill and choice, never by wallet size"

By George Young Published

News The new starting screen makes some big promises

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Screenshot from Risk of Rain 2 Alloyed Collective of a new landscape
With an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam, Risk of Rain 2 fans finally get the DLC they deserve after the first Gearbox-led effort put the roguelike "in a really bad place"

By George Young Published

News The team seems to have turned things around following the last broken DLC

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A view of the countryside in Where Winds Meet
Battered and bruised Where Winds Meet players rally together to rid the Wuxia open-world MMO of its demonic geese: "Yeet into the water. Every single one of them"

By George Young Published

News Turns out humans weren't the real monsters all along

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A player in the hub of Arc Raiders
Among millions of Arc Raiders, Embark says 117 legendary players "somehow downed themselves" with rocks in the Breaking New Ground community event

By George Young Published

News What goes up, must come down

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Golden Joystick Awards
Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, hosted by Lady Dimitrescu herself Maggie Robertson

By George Young Published

News This year's Golden Joystick Awards 2025 stream is live at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT on November 20

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Masahiro Sakurai with his bricked Xbox 360
Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai says "it's best to just play games, instead of looking at who made them," so please don't perceive him

By George Young Published

News Despite his fame he wishes to live an "unassuming life"

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Hollow Knight: Silksong screenshot of white rose warrior Lace
Don't worry, former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida also finds Silksong difficult: "I need to quit"

By George Young Published

News Even people who play games for a living are finding it tough

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A screenshot from Hanashi no Hanashi trailer shows a woman holding a book, surrounded by shelves.
Former PlayStation boss says that the indie scene is developing "creative uses for AI" and that it "can only take shape so quickly" thanks to their effort

By George Young Published

News "Both indie and larger studios are using AI in every aspect of game development"

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Escape from Tarkov Steam screenshots
Escape from Tarkov lead admits 1.0 Steam launch was "rough for sure," and problems fixed in the latest version were "not enough"

By George Young Published

News He says the team needs to "finally crack" the game's performance problems

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Assassin's Creed Animus
Assassin's Creed actor only found out his character died in a huge plot twist because he checked Twitter after the game released: "I'm thinking, 'what?'"

By George Young Last updated

News "There's no 'Ahhhhh!' There's nothing that you'd expect from a main character's death"

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Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 drops a cryptic message with its latest patch notes asking us to draw a "'fiery' red circle" around early December for some "'buzzing' updates," immediately sparking speculation

By George Young Published

News What did Arrowhead Studios mean by this?

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Flambee, Prism, Malevola, Invisigal, and Golem at the taco restaurant in Dispatch
As Arc Raiders faces backlash for its AI voices, Dispatch leads call the tech "a production solution, not a creative one," saying it can only offer "something you've heard before"

By George Young Published

News He praises Dispatch's cast for "elevating the material in a way that you're just not going to get [with AI]"

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Persona 5
Fan theory that links Metaphor: ReFantazio, the modern Persona games, and Catherine together is correct but completely unintentional, says director: "I didn't plan it at all"

By George Young Published

News The connection between all of Hashino's games are in the heart of the cards

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Strohl, Gallica, the protagonist, and Hulkenberg in a Metaphor: ReFantazio anime cutscene screenshot.
Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio creator says he wants to create "JRPG 3.0," fundamentally changing the genre's "structure and presentation"

By George Young Published

News JRPGs could see a complete overhaul in the near future

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Where Winds Meet
Open world action RPG Where Winds Meet tops 2 million players in its first weekend, with a concurrent peak of 190,000 on Steam alone as it rakes in Very Positive reviews

By George Young Published

News "It's like a $300m Sony game that randomly dropped one weekend"

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REPO blue robot manning a camera
Co-op horror game REPO gets a new arachnophobia setting as devs say "sorry" to the spider haters, plus plenty of new bug fixes and balance changes

By George Young Published

News Spiders beware, you're in for a scare

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Criminals in GTA Online talking over a desk covered in money
Streamer's GTA 5 mod takes you to court when you hit a pedestrian, and the paperwork asks some suspicious questions

By George Young Published

News Don't give over the last digits of your credit card no matter the charges

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