Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op shooter that features B.J. Blazkowicz’s daughters.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op shooter that features B.J. Blazkowicz’s daughters.
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How Wolfenstein: Youngblood takes a lighter approach to killing Nazis

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood carries on the tradition of shooting video game Nazis as the latest two-player co-op shooter game coming from developers Machine Games and Arkane Studios Lyon, with Bethesda publishing the title on July 26.

As BJ Blazkowicz, the hero of the previous two games, has gone missing in Paris, the task of kicking Nazi butt has fallen to a new generation. This title has something earlier games did not have: a swastika in the German version of the game, as well as the global one. Germany changed its laws to allow the use of swastikas in art for educational purposes.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.