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

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intermission Intergrade
Final Fantasy 7's Materia almost had a very different name before series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi stepped in

By Scott McCrae Published

News Spheres would have their day in Final Fantasy 10

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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined characters.
Final Fantasy's Yoshinori Kitase and Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii are both on board with Square Enix's multiplatform push

By Kaan Serin Published

News "The motivation to allow as many people as possible to play is higher than the development hurdles"

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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined
Final Fantasy legend Yoshinori Kitase thinks marriage makes Dragon Quest 5 the best in the series

By George Young Published

News "I don't want to take the easy route by choosing my childhood friend"

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Two players outside a house with a dragon during the upcoming PS5 game, FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time.
After 16 rocky years and a terrible attempt to crowdfund a Mega Man successor, troubled Japanese studio shuts down

By Dustin Bailey Published

News Pour one out for what might have been with Comcept

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Resident Evil Requiem gameplay reveal
Resident Evil Requiem director wants you to think "what's wrong with you Leon?" when he swings "his bloody ax"

By George Young Published

News "He has a world-weary attitude and exudes a ruthless anger"

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The clown character Hugh Morris doing a coquettish pose in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream gets April release date to round off 20-minute fever dream of a Nintendo Direct

By George Young Published

News It is everything we both wanted and feared

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A Hytale character prepares to enter a glowing blue portal
Hytale devs looking to "speed up production" with weekly pre-release updates and aims to be "more adventurous"

By George Young Published

News Updates to the game are going to ramp up going forward

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Best Tom Clancy Games Ever
Following Ubisoft Paris redundancy proposal, unions threaten to walk out if Yves Guillemot "steps foot in our offices"

By George Young Published

News "Perhaps he needs a reminder that it's his employees who make the games"

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A closeup of Grace Ashford in Resident Evil Requiem from the first key art of her
Resident Evil Requiem director claims development began 6 years ago but the final version "came to be" 3 years later

By George Young Published

News The story will continue from the one developed through the first six games in the series

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Arc Raiders character holding golden sledgehammer on dark blue starry background
Arc Raiders hit with "extensive, coordinated DDoS attacks" causing server and matchmaking issues, Embark says

By George Young Published

News Discord will be updated when the servers are fully functional again

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Monster Hunter Wilds screenshot of a man with his mouth open.
Monster Hunter Wilds players were right; buying $500 of DLC made the game run better, so Capcom has fixed it

By George Young Published

News "This is an unintended bug and will be resolved with this update"

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Peak screenshot of pink and orange characters on a massive tree
Peak patch finally lets you kick other players, but be warned – scouts can't be "un-kicked"

By George Young Published

News Snowballs can be rolled around to make them bigger

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Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Requiem director says you can thank the "strict" women at Capcom for "hot uncle" Leon Kennedy

By George Young Published

News "They would point out and comment on even the finest details like the wrinkles on his neck"

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Helldivers 2 Siege Breakers Warbond Helldivers standing in bubble shield from new grenade
Helldivers 2's next premium Warbond comes with a reloadable, exploding hammer and potential returning faction

By George Young Published

News Helldivers fans will be quaking by the trailer's end

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Heroes of Might and Magic
Manor Lords, Might and Magic publisher says "we will f**k it up," but will try and "guard against" AI

By George Young Published

News "Players don't, by and large, want gen AI"

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Tomodachi Life: living the Dream
Former Nintendo of America marketing lead says higher ups "chided" them for not selling as many casual games as Europe

By George Young Published

News Europe is apparently the home of the casual Nintendo gamer

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Fable 4
Studio head behind Fable reboot and Forza Horizon says "there are lots of commonalities" between racing games and RPGs

By George Young Published

News "But there are lots and lots of points of divergence as well"

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Key art for Resident Evil Requiem showing Grace with a flashlight, with a larger image of Leon in shadow behind her against rainy streets
"We're the 'inventors of sushi'": Resident Evil Requiem director says Grace and Leon pair together like fish and rice

By George Young Published

News "Even if you think you want one style, the 'flavor' of this game comes from the combination of the two styles"

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Emma stands alone in key art for Beast of Reincarnation among huge trees in a forest
Game Freak's new action RPG Beast of Reincarnation is not open-world and has difficulty settings unlike soulslikes

By George Young Published

News You pet the dog 10/10

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Looking over the countryside in Assassin's Creed Shadows
"DEI only improved things" at Ubisoft, says former employee, and isn't to blame for drop in share prices

By Catherine Lewis Published

News He thinks it'd be bad news for Ubisoft if the company decided to use "DEI advocates as scapegoats"

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Emma sleeps on a wooden floor with thin sheets, her ivy hair sprawling near her head in Beast of Reincarnation
Pokemon dev Game Freak wasn't trying to make an anti-Pokemon game with its flashy new action RPG Beast of Reincarnation

By George Young Published

News "We never had a strong feeling like, 'let's make something in a different genre and style to what we've done before'"

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
After 40 years of bangers, legendary Mario Kart and Luigi's Mansion director seems to have left Nintendo

By George Young Published

News He has not revealed where he will be working next

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Key art for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, showing fighters including Mario, Link, Bowser, and Inkling.
Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai says "it can be really frustrating" working on massive games with hundreds of devs: "There is work that clearly shows your results and work that doesn't"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "The sense of fulfillment gained from making something by yourself is different to something made as part of a group"

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Kirby Air Riders key art showing Kirby blazing along on a warp star as spear waddle dee and metaknight are ahead
Despite creating all-timer hits Kirby and Super Smash Bros, Masahiro Sakurai still doesn't think he's a "hit maker"

By George Young Published

News Even industry legends can suffer from imposter syndrome, apparently

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A close up of Laezel in the Baldur's Gate 3 evil ending for the character
Baldur's Gate 3 devs had "all the freedom we needed" to make the RPG, aside from tabletop "limitations"

By George Young Published

News Wizards of the Coast was apparently not precious with its legendary tabletop game

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