Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka has had something of a varied career since leaving Sega, initially focusing on his own company Prope before teaming up with Square Enix to direct the ill-fated Balan Wonderworld. The latter wasn't a great game, and ever since release Naka and the publisher have been engaged in something of, as well as a wider war of words sparked by an insider trading case brought against Naka and two other Square Enix employees in 2022.
Miyake was in charge of Dragon Quest, and his new role will be overseeing a newly established studio focusing on smartphones. So one could choose to see this as a demotion, as Naka certainly does. But it's the accusation of lying that makes it clear Naka's bitterness about the insider trading case, and his time at Square Enix more widely, persists. Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
Naka also apologised to players for the state the game released in, and ended of course with another backhand aimed towards Square Enix:
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