Interviews - GAMINGTREND

We Interview: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Director of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Spoiler Alert: that "law for lower classes" meme isn't real. But Maehiro-san loves it anyway.

By Anthony Pelone

/ 2 Sep 2025

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director Kazutoyo Maehiro

Miles Leslie from Treyarch and Natalie Pohorski from Raven Software take us through bringing back David Mason in Black Ops 7 after thirteen years and more!

A lot of thought has gone into which ending for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is canon

By David Burdette

/ 21 Aug 2025

Miles Leslie from Treyarch and Natalie Pohorski from Raven Software take us through bringing back David Mason in Black Ops 7 after thirteen years and more!

Check out our Summer Game Fest interview with Game Director Mike Kayatta of FBC: Firebreak

Mike joins us to talk about how the team is feeling, tips and tricks, and more

By David Burdette

/ 11 Jun 2025

Check out our Summer Game Fest interview with Game Director Mike Kayatta of FBC: Firebreak

We Interview: FBC: Firebreak Game Director Mike Kayatt & Communications Director Thomas Puha

Remedy's new team takes on the FPS & live-service genre

By David Burdette

/ 21 Mar 2025

We Interview: FBC: Firebreak Game Director Mike Kayatt & Communications Director Thomas Puha

Dying Light: The Beast interview — Chat with Franchise Director Tymon Smektała

Dying Light has quickly become a favorite series of mine. After reviewing Dying Light 2 Stay Human, it’s clear Techland has an understanding of not just a great zombie

By David Burdette

/ 6 Jan 2025

Dying Light: The Beast interview — Chat with Franchise Director Tymon Smektała

We interview Jordon Reese, Product Manager at Aspyr on Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

Recently we sat down with Jordon Reese, Product Manager at Aspyr, to talk about the freshly-released Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered. First off, thanks for taking

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Dec 2024

We interview Jordon Reese, Product Manager at Aspyr on Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

We Interview: Call of Duty Endowment President Dan Goldenberg

If you don’t know anything about the Call of Duty Endowment, it’s about time you did. This organization is usually recognized by their abbreviation, C.O.D.E.

By David Burdette

/ 6 Sep 2024

We Interview: Call of Duty Endowment President Dan Goldenberg

COD NEXT interview — Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Associate Director, Design Matt Scronce and Director of Production Yale Miller

Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 both at Call of Duty: NEXT and during the beta period has been awesome. While there is still a lot to take in

By David Burdette

/ 5 Sep 2024

COD NEXT interview — Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Associate Director, Design Matt Scronce and Director of Production Yale Miller

We Interview: Drew Morris (NotTheExpert) about his YouTube journey, inspirations, and College Football 25!

I had the chance to catch up with Drew Morris, BigOleDrewsky, NotTheExpert while playing College Football 25 recently! We met back during the College Football 25/Madden NFL 25 preview

By Adam Moreno

/ 8 Aug 2024

We Interview: Drew Morris (NotTheExpert) about his YouTube journey, inspirations, and College Football 25!

We Interview: Madden NFL 25’s Franchise Mode lead Josh Looman about the new Franchise Mode Deep Dive and more!

You’ve heard from Josh Looman once before on GamingTrend from the preview event a few months ago! With the release of the “Franchise and Presentation Deep Dive Gridiron Notes”

By Adam Moreno

/ 31 Jul 2024

We Interview: Madden NFL 25’s Franchise Mode lead Josh Looman about the new Franchise Mode Deep Dive and more!

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

XDefiant is finally here, but the team isn’t slowing down. We posted our initial impressions of the pre-season, but Season 1 is right around the corner. We had the

By David Burdette

/ 16 Jun 2024

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

We Interview: Connor Dougan + Josh Looman (Creative Director + Lead Designer) about their work with Madden NFL 25 and Franchise Mode!

We once again had the chance to talk to Connor Dougan about Madden this year, a lot of the things we discussed in last year’s interview about Madden NFL

By Adam Moreno

/ 14 Jun 2024

We Interview: Connor Dougan + Josh Looman (Creative Director + Lead Designer) about their work with Madden NFL 25 and Franchise Mode!

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