Matt Leone

@mattleone.bsky.social

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I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.

A photo of The Addams Family pinball at Pacific Pinball Museum
A photo shows the CD jewel case for the Prop Cycle soundtrack.
An illustration shows two characters fighting in a futuristic tournament.
Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido stand near a blue screen to show their game Ico to European media outlets.
A sketch shows Ico and Yorda holding hands while looking out at the sea in front of them.
A screen capture from Design Room's Shadow of the Colossus oral history, showing various screenshots from the game.
The cover for 1UP Presents issue number three, with a Fumito Ueda sketch of Trico from The Last Guardian on the front.
An illustration shows two girls playing games in the foreground while orange and brown smoke fills the background.
A screen capture shows the Design Room homepage, with three Shadow of the Colossus stories featured prominently.
A screen capture shows a quote from Fumito Ueda talking about the endings of his games, with Ueda wondering what it says about a game designer if players focus on an ending rather than a game's core gameplay.
A photograph shows old preview code of Shadow of the Colossus, a copy of Edge magazine with the game on its cover, and two old promotional DVDs for the game.
A screen capture shows Polygon's X-Men: Children of the Atom story with a replaced header image.
A screen capture shows a 404 error where Polygon's Final Fantasy 7 oral history used to be.