Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'
News Would probably be nice if Tottenham could reload their season though.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'
News "We remain committed and focused on delivering a remarkable game for our players to enjoy."
The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'
News "In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time."
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things
News It's also getting a demo just before launch.
Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great
News Read the room.
North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total
News The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.
Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."
I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'
News "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazi party Jeremy. You can't trust people."
Master Chief voice actor says he never wants AI cloning his hunky tones: 'That's where we cross a line… I don't like it, and I would prefer that it not be done'
News Hail to the Chief.
Under pressure from pro-Israel group, Twitch bans several Arab streamers over a month-old TwitchCon panel
Somehow, this starts with hummus.
David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
news Even if an 80s supercar arguing for climate action feels a tad ironic.
The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
news You can no longer Chanel true power.
Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
news The company claims that AI will help solve the AI emissions problem.
Expansions are the best
Packing Heat In this era of bite-sized DLC and season passes, we appreciate giant, game-changing expansions more than ever.
Catholic Church prepares to canonise its first gamer saint—and yep, one of his favourites was Halo
news Carlo Acutis died in 2006 and has been credited with multiple posthumous miracles.
Capcom's somehow come up with the *deep breath* Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Digital Deluxe edition
news Let me be Frank: GOTY.
Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'
news "Another endless W."
GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
news Thoughts are inevitably turning to where the next GTA Online is going with this stuff.
Player laments the fall of Soulcalibur, Tekken director Harada responds with a literal essay about it: 'I don't think the fire of Project Soul has been extinguished'
news And calls Project Soul "an elite group, a sophisticated development team."
FBI puts a $5 million bounty on the missing Cryptoqueen—'We will probably know within a few weeks if it's worked'
news "The FBI are now refocusing their efforts on the people around [Ignatova], trying to tempt her close associates to get in touch."
1980s court documents show Nintendo considered 'Kong Dong' and 'Kong the Kong' before settling on the name Donkey Kong
news Also: Funky Kong is sadly much more canon than we ever realised.
Late Microsoft co-founder's treasure hoard of artefacts to be auctioned, includes a letter Einstein sent to Roosevelt that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project
news As per Allen's wishes, all proceeds will go to philanthropy.
