Latest articles by George Young
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
News Hakan Abrak thinks the release will encourage people to return to gaming as a hobby
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"
News Not everyone is getting into the holiday spirit
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"
News There's no accounting for taste with some children
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"
News Rebel Wolves' Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the coolest guy in the room
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
News Half-hominid, half-spirit
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"
News The new starting screen makes some big promises
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"
News The team seems to have turned things around following the last broken DLC
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"
News Turns out humans weren't the real monsters all along
Among millions of Arc Raiders, Embark says 117 legendary players "somehow downed themselves" with rocks in the Breaking New Ground community event
News What goes up, must come down
Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, hosted by Lady Dimitrescu herself Maggie Robertson
News This year's Golden Joystick Awards 2025 stream is live at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT on November 20
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
News Despite his fame he wishes to live an "unassuming life"
Don't worry, former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida also finds Silksong difficult: "I need to quit"
News Even people who play games for a living are finding it tough
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
News "Both indie and larger studios are using AI in every aspect of game development"
Escape from Tarkov lead admits 1.0 Steam launch was "rough for sure," and problems fixed in the latest version were "not enough"
News He says the team needs to "finally crack" the game's performance problems
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?'"
News "There's no 'Ahhhhh!' There's nothing that you'd expect from a main character's death"
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
News What did Arrowhead Studios mean by this?
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"
News He praises Dispatch's cast for "elevating the material in a way that you're just not going to get [with AI]"
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"
News The connection between all of Hashino's games are in the heart of the cards
Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio creator says he wants to create "JRPG 3.0," fundamentally changing the genre's "structure and presentation"
News JRPGs could see a complete overhaul in the near future
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
News "It's like a $300m Sony game that randomly dropped one weekend"
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
News Spiders beware, you're in for a scare
Streamer's GTA 5 mod takes you to court when you hit a pedestrian, and the paperwork asks some suspicious questions
News Don't give over the last digits of your credit card no matter the charges
Red Dead Redemption 2 modders unveil "ambitious recreation of the Mexican territory from RDR1" that "stays true to the canon" of Rockstar's sequel – and it's basically "a full-fledged DLC"
News And you don't need to use any exploits to get there
Helldivers 2 boss says GTA 6 is "going to blot out the sun in a way that is unimaginable for everyone else," and its latest delay means "6 more months of uninterrupted work" without Rockstar's game "looming over us"
News "My suggestion to anyone who's afraid of GTA is to change your line of business"
