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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks so much!

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 16h

Getting off work? Finally have time to read a 10,000-word story? Or perhaps you live overseas... 👀

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 16h

Getting off work? Finally have time to read a 10,000-word story? Or perhaps you live overseas... 👀

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 18h

For the evening crowd... I launched a new oral histories site today. It's very good.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

And third: A look behind the scenes at how we worked with Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga on the cover art for our Shadow of the Colossus story.

The making of our Shadow of the Colossus cover art

We hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover art for our Shadow of the Colossus oral history, then we talked to him about the process.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

Second: We talked to six former Sony employees about The Last Guardian’s decade in development, and how one of them didn’t like moving it from PS3 to PS4.

Shawn Layden and others on The Last Guardian's 10+-year dev cycle

We talk to six former Sony employees about the long development cycle, the technical challenges, and the move from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside today’s big Shadow of the Colossus oral history, we have three bonus stories for paid subscribers. First up: Our full interview with Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, talking about Wander’s character design, Warp’s influence on Team Ico, and why Ueda feels conflicted about the game’s ending.

Extended Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido interview

Parts of our interview with Shadow of the Colossus' director and line producer ended up on the cutting room floor, so we put together an extended cut for those who want to read the full thing.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Credit to @asawallander.bsky.social!

Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, using Ghost. And paid subscriptions are open!

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Polygon Exit Interview is with @mattleone.bsky.social , whose new site @designroom.bsky.social launched today! pvguide.ghost.io/polygon-exit...

Polygon Exit Interview: Matt Leone, Special Projects Editor

Polygon's former special projects editor has a new site devoted to video game oral histories

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you sir!

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1d

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Wren McDonald @wrenmcdonald.bsky.social · 5d

STRAND TYPE ZINE: A Death Stranding Fanzine for NYCC this weekend! 👍 In honor of our fav post-apocalyptic, BB toting, cross country delivery man hiking, Dooms level two repatriating, Monster Energy drinking, poo and pee grenade throwing, strand type games from @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp

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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 6d

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
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Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

YouTube video by One Million Power

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Ryan Gilliam @rygilliam.bsky.social · 6d

Come listen to @mattleone.bsky.social talk about his new project on this week's Rogue Signal!

Rogue @roguesite.bsky.social · 6d

Episode 6 of Rogue Signal, our weekly podcast, is here!

This week, the crew chats about a variety of new games, like Ghost of Yotei.

And we end the show with an interview with former Polygoner @mattleone.bsky.social about his new project: @designroom.bsky.social

www.rogue.site/podcasts/rog...

Rogue Signal ep. 6: The arrival of Canadian Thanksgiving (featuring Matt Leone)

The one where we talk about Ghost of Yotei, CloverPit, and more

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing thread!

RetrogamerDaz @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social · 15d

November marks my 20th year on the magazine. I think that deserves a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
For every like this receives I'll try and recall one anecdote (interesting or otherwise) about my time on the mag.
(this is one of my favourite covers by armyoftrolls)

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 12d

Hey everyone. I’ll be honest, I’ve run out of rope on this “being a writer” business, to the point where my site either takes off, now, or I start applying for whatever local shop/cleaning jobs are available. This isn’t a “threat”, just an honest statement of where I am. Sorry.

ko-fi.com/kimimi

Support Kimimi

Videogame archaeologist and explorer: Player of the untranslated. Lifter-upper of the unloved and misunderstood.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 16d

Phenomenal-looking new book, as you'd expect from @readonlymemory.com.

Read-Only Memory @readonlymemory.com · 16d

30 years of PlayStation® history.
Never-before-seen prototypes.
Exclusive stories from the creators.
PlayStation: The First 30 Years.

Shipping Spring 2026.
Pre-order now, only from ROM: readonlymemory.com/pages/playst...

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16d

Possibly the last one of these posts repromoting old Polygon oral histories -- looking back on the time we talked to the team behind Street Fighter: The Movie (the game).

Street Fighter: The Movie: The game: An oral history

Our Street Fighter history series continues with a look at the time Capcom copied the copycats

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 22d

We're running low on Polygon stories to repromote, which is probably a good sign. Here's one on Capcom vs. SNK that bookended our Street Fighter series, with art from @humanmgn.bsky.social. web.archive.org/web/20211017...

Capcom vs. SNK: An oral history

We continue our Street Fighter history series with a look at the time Capcom partnered with its crosstown rival

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