Michael Leri

Michael Leri

Contributor

Michael Leri is a contributor at GamesRadar+. He prides himself on playing and finishing as many video games as he can in all sorts of genres from shooters to platformers to weird indie experiments. There’s always something to learn from rolling credits, and that thirst for knowledge — and perhaps strange obsession with collecting Platinum trophies — is mostly what drives him. He’s also written for a handful of websites including Game Informer, ComicBook, GameRevolution, PlayStation LifeStyle, ComingSoon, Game Rant, and USgamer.

Latest articles by Michael Leri

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead Gustave faces a gommage
"You can't build clever little games anymore" unless you're Expedition 33, RPG legend says

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "For each of the big publishers, how many years has it been since they had a major new IP?"

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An orc from World of Warcraft roars at the screen
Ex-Blizzard exec commands others to stop taking devs for granted as EA, Ubisoft, and more drown the industry in layoffs

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News "Treasure that team, nurture that team"

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Ghost of Yotei reveal screenshot for Ps5
Ghost of Yotei isn't bigger than Ghost of Tsushima, but "it feels larger" because the devs tricked you into thinking so

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News It's all about how you move through the world

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Hades 2 character Dora, a feminine appearing shade with a grey face and long teal hair, smirking
Hades 2 studio doesn't want to make bigger and better games, but titles that might "be someone's favorite game from us"

By Scott McCrae Published

News Except Hades 2, I guess?

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A lady looks shocked.
55-year industry vet made the first CRPG, got laid off, went bankrupt, but "I don't care": "Business does not love you"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Neverwinter Nights designer Don Daglow is riding the wave

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Death Stranding Norman Reedus and baby
RPG legend advises new devs to be like Hideo Kojima and create their own style – or just "have a rich daddy"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "If you play a Kojima game, you recognize pretty quickly it's Kojima"

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A Mega Absol in Pokemon Legends ZA
Pokemon Legends: Z-A hands-on: With overhauled battles and denser exploration, I'm shocked at how fundamentally fresh this could feel

By Michael Leri Published

Hands-on Hands-on | Pokemon Legends: Z-A builds on Arceus' foundations to deliver the series' biggest departure yet

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Warhammer's most overlooked strategy game was a "huge touchpoint" for Civilization 7's all-new narratives

By Kaan Serin Published

News FTL was another big source of inspiration

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"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 – that wounds me personally"

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After 14 years at Bethesda, Skyrim and Fallout veteran made his final settlement in just 2 days – but only because he'd made some rough ones before that

By Issy van der Velde Published

News I think they're all neat

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Fallout 76's art director "had to fight really hard" so Bethesda would make the MMO's map bigger than Skyrim's

By Scott McCrae Published

News "It was kind of nice to hear 'hey, that game sucks, but the map's pretty cool'. I did my job."

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Thank Goodness You're Here's developer says it was trying to design a game normally before realizing "we're s**t at video game design"

By Scott McCrae Published

News "So why put funny first? What does that mean? Well, it's all we knew how to do"

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"Balatro was a pain in the ass to market," but it started getting better once players started cracking open the demo so they could play forever

By Iain Harris Published

News Publisher Playstack "knew it was so good because we couldn't stop playing it internally"

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Balatro's first big update is still on track for 2025, but it'll be "done when it's done, because it's got to be good before it's fast"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News The poker roguelike's first major gameplay update is still on track

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This indie mashup of Zelda and Studio Ghibli is gorgeous, though its creator didn't want to "mimic" the iconic animation studio, but to "find out what makes it special, and recreate those watercolor movies in a game"

By Catherine Lewis Published

News Europa director Helder Pinto says it was "very important" to have references like Ghibli movies to work from

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Skyrim and Fallout veteran left Bethesda after 14 years because he'd already made 3 runaway GotY winners: "That's a really hard thing to top"

By Anna Koselke Published

News "I didn't really feel the need to do another big AAA project"

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"Even if The Elder Scrolls 6 is great," Skyrim veteran thinks Bethesda developers will face harassment and "death threats" anyway

By Kaan Serin Published

News No matter what happens, "the internet is going to treat you like you're clubbing baby seals"

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Silent Hill 2 Remake devs spent many hours "watching, reading, discussing" fan theories about the iconic Labyrinth level and wanted to "incorporate as many" of them as possible

By Jordan Gerblick Published

News "I don't like everything I found" on the internet, says one Silent Hill 2 Remake dev

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Silent Hill 2 remake dev says Bloober played up the original's iconic toilet scene to punish its protagonist for being a bad husband: "The theme here is disgust"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Get your hand out of there, James

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Silent Hill 2 remake director had no choice but to make Pyramid Head "more aggressive and faster" during his iconic fight: "We've been losing something, but we've been gaining something, too"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News He's coming for you!

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Helldivers 2 only had 20 devs working on it when development began, but High Command is now over 6 times larger and has continued to expand since launch

By Catherine Lewis Published

News The team is now home to around 130 people

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Silent Hill 2 remake dev says he was "afraid there might be no good way" to rebuild the classic game without "archaic solutions and mechanics"

By Scott McCrae Published

News "We quickly realized that we are dealing with the memory of the game"

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Dragon Age The Veilguard's playtesters were initially confused about almost every aspect of the game's combat: "It's OK, sometimes we have to let it go"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News They figured it out eventually

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